How can we forget the ugly (greedy, envious) stepsisters who had to cut off their toes or heels to fit. A metaphor for the Mar-a-lago ladies of our day who have to cut off their noses into little tilted pig snouts, lift their wrinkles so they look like they fell out of a plane at 35,000 ft., bleach their hair or get hair extensions for half their lower pay than male wanna be alpha apes, wear stilletto heels to throw their backs out, then stay on their backs or on knees to serve our master's pleasure all day, get boob jobs for B-59s to rival Dolly's doozies, and wear decollete to the waist, and of course, never say the word No or I.......
Of course this is just a personal response, but I think Crockett speaks much more directly and without a filter. I always saw Harris as choosing her words and crafting a message rather than speaking directly. I was seldom certain what Harris really thought about issues, although she was much superior to Trump in every way.
Point taken. The biggest criticism of Harris I ever heard was she was ‘too cozy with corporate interests’… That said, CA has the biggest Dem donors($) and in the Age of Citizen’s United… what can you do? But still, ppl are craving authenticity I get it. They always ‘want’ a breath of fresh air, then they get mad when the person can’t ’play the game’ like a pro. GEEZus
One was a VP, the other a Congresswoman. Besides a generational difference, you can't run your mouth (unless your JD) as VP like you can when you sit in the House. Both have their place in the party. Harris would use the honey approach, and Jasmine would go after you with vinegar mist. Loved her description of MT Greene. That was a classic. There's a fine line between diplomacy and aggressiveness.
Deborah: This is the #1 complaint about Dems. Why can’t the VP talk like Jasmine? Taco man’s pottymouth is based on greed & cruelty. Not so with Jasmine or Jeff. I think the population can tell the difference.
Comer Fudd is the spiritual embodiment of Wile E. Coyote with a subpoena — careening off cliffs, detonating ACME scandals, and somehow still thinking the 83-year-old cancer survivor is the real threat to democracy.
Meanwhile, Donny's out here drafting executive orders in crayon, trying to retroactively revoke reality, because his feelings got hurt by a pardon.
You can’t parody this anymore.
We’ve hit full Mad Libs governance.
The rake-to-the-face is now a policy position.
And yeah… I’ll take that taco now. Preferably with a side of congressional term limits.
Your question reminds me of an episode from the 70's comedy show "Soap." The filthy rich lead guy and his wife go to see a psychiatrist and ask him "Why are we so worried and anxious all the time? We have everything we want!" and the psych. replies " Not enough Indians." - then explains that when you really DO have something to worry about - like getting an arrow in your throat - you're to busy figuring out how to fix THAT to worry about imaginary things. . .
You know, somewhere I did read: “Democracy Needs An Enemy”. Could be that simple. All pulling in the same direction against a common foe. Love that ‘Soap’ reference, thx!
I hadn't thought about it in that context, but this so accurate. The fall of the Berlin Wall also coincides with the rise of people like Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gringrich who gleeflully fanned the flames and the debut of Faux News in the mid-90s.
All of them had and continue to have one overarching point — your fellow Americans who hold more liberal views (eventually including immigrants, LBGTQ people, etc. until it became basically anyone outside their "tribe") are literal devils who must be destroyed at all costs.
I think that flyover Americans are overwhelmed by the complexity and fluidity of the modern world. What we call reality feels like a fun house to them. They are looking for simple solutions to excruciatingly complex problems. They have chosen a false but simple Messiah.
Social media is a fun house and has been for about a decade or more. So, it's okay for All of reality to be a fun house. In the 50s the John Birchers had really bizarre concepts of current events (Eisenhower is a Soviet agent). That continued with JFK Conspiracy theories, intensified with the 9/11 theorists, reached the peak with Q Anon. So, if Trump tries to recreate government with the President as a dictator, it's actually kind of mild distortion of reality, although it's not mild for us.
Trump's promise is: “I will control reality and make it one that is comfortable for you. Modernity will no longer control reality."
That goes without saying. Every generality has exceptions. I assume people knows that. There is not a single county in the United States where everyone voted for Trump.
There are so many exceptions to your generality as to make it meaningless, Kathleen. Deliberately or not, you come across as contemptuous of "flyover country," as did Hillary, and it cost her the 2016 election. Your comment smacks of coastal elitism, of which it seems many Dems are rightfully accused.
As one example, Illinois is considered a "flyover state," yet it's thoroughly blue, as are Minnesota and Colorado. Wisconsin is getting there, as is Michigan. By contrast, Florida is not considered flyover, but is deep red. New Hampshire also leans that way.
I keep hearing the ghost of H.L. Mencken, his things about the taste of the American public and the ultimate mentality of our leadership. We must remember that around 45% of our citizens think the Orange Turd is cool and smart and handsome and and and, and that of the other 55%, 90% can't be bothered to get off their asses and protest, even write a fucking letter.
The solution, most unfortunately, is for the Democrats to stoop to the level of the MAGAts and MAGAettes, and start shoveling shit at them. Enough of this fucking decorum! Put a clothes pin on your nose and cotton in your ears, if you must, but DO SOMETHING.
Yes!! Get out and march!!! We had on last night for Miguel Alvarez who was snatched by ICE while he was going to get his citizenship in San Francisco. I wrote about this earlier this week.
We had a gathering last night in our town square. Terrific response. 200 or more.
Most in tears. These are our people. We love them. Hard working reliable good good people. They do everything. They are excellent citizens builders of our community.
I am sick of our leaders not having backbone. They NEED TO MOVE. DONT OVER THINK IT. FIGHT THE HELL BACK.
You don't even have to march! Go to the site and just sit! I can't march anymore so I go with a chair and a sign. And I cheer a lot. I'm always surrounded by supportive people and it's always fun.
Absolutely! Our local protest spot is at a shopping center next to a busy street, so it's not even a march. At our last protest on April 19th, even though it was raining, we still had over 400 people show up in our small town, and there were 500 people in the next town over. It was so fun to read everyone's clever, grammatically correct signs and meet so many like-minded people. There are many more of US then there are of "them".
I'm afraid MAGA like to be entertained as well as informed. So when you have one guy quietly and sensibly saying "This new bill of trump's is going to take Medicaid away from you." and another guy with bulging muscles and barbed wire tattooed all round his neck screaming "THE IMMIGRANTS ARE COMING TO GET YOUR WIVES! THEY WILL EAT YOUR PETS AND THEN YOUR CHILDREN! THEY ARE ALL RAPISTS AND MURDERERS!" - that's what they listen to. Much more amusing than " You know, your health could be at risk because of that bill."
Joni Ernst proved it - she knows her base well. "Look what Joni posted! Haw! Haw! Haw! - She sure made them libs mad!"
Seems simple to us who sit on the sidelines, but the Dems don’t look ready to tackle the ineptitude of the GOP circus, except for the wonderful Ms Crockett and her oft active colleague Moskowitz.
Quiet gets no headlines. The TACO tag was brilliant. Really pissed him off I've read and will stick on him forever. That's not being quiet. Remember the wedding pictures of him and Musk all over social media? No one likes to be made fun of. Especially men. Go after his weak points. We have some really smart people on our side. We need to use their command of the English language and ramp it up.
Well, first, said interviewer isn't going to let the interviewee hijack the conversation like that, unless the interviewer is already in support of the interviewee's cause. In which case, it's not a question of "forcing" the press to tell the truth.
And if it's a panel, depending on what the set-up is, the Dem may never have a chance to get two sentences out.
As others have pointed out, quietly speaking the truth isn't entertaining or engaging to the people who need to hear the truth. By the time the Dem gets as far as, "Your comment/question is based on a lie...," nobody is watching anymore. Sad but true, in these times.
Demented Donnie uses Crayolas for his little hands but he's so damn petty and weak, that he also wants to go after Biden for using auto pens. And the biggest peckerwood in Congress along with his sick, sweaty, wrestling coach sidekick will gladly oblige. The mid terms can't happen soon enough so maybe we take back the House and investigate the multiple crimes being committed by that felonious brainless turd and his enabling evil cronies.
I really hope the Dems have a positive attitude about the midterms and have started behind closed doors recon to hit the ground running with investigations first order of business.
Trouble is, Wile E. Coyote is very ‘entertaining’. So instead of a gigantic eye-roll, Comer becomes ‘harmless’, mildly distracting background noise… a sideshow for the circus. wow He’s lucky the Press has been defanged srsly
He's like that good old Southern boy you see at the Piggly Wiggly whose mama was your grade school teacher. He doesn't have a punchable face like Miller has. The look on his face though that day Crockett called MTG the blonde thing, was one for the books.
As a physician, I can tell you that President Biden‘s prostate cancer with a Gleason score of 9 indicates a very aggressive form of prostate cancer. Although Trump and his idiotic son said that Biden‘s cancer was stage 9 and wondered how anybody could hide a stage nine, the Gleason score only refers to the aggressiveness of the tumor. I have seen patients literally with no symptoms less than a year earlier present with widely metastatic disease. That by the way is stage 4. There is no such thing as a stage 9. It is also recommended that patients over the age of 70 do not necessarily need regular prostate exams or PSA testing. Biden, now 82 said that he didn’t have a prostate exam for a number of years. One could argue with that recommendation but there is no conspiracy here to see. What we need today is a full medical report by an independent physician on Trump with a real psychiatric battery of tests. Bring that on Comer Fudd!
It would be fun to watch Comer Fudd try to keep the two Bidens in mind at the same time. I think he would melt into a blob of blubbering confusion. Did Clone Biden do it or did cancerous Biden do it?
Real Biden has been executed: Fudd's going for the robot. Proof that Biden's a robot? Well how about his middle name: "Robinette," huh? huh? It's a clue!!!
Jeff's right--put this horseshit on TV and fill the bed of an F-150 with popcorn.
From our morning coffee to our evening glass of wine (or gin) we are being fed ridiculous shit about Joe Biden Joe Biden Joe Biden. It's about focus, people. When we are being force fed Joe Biden Joe Biden Joe Biden we take our eyes off what's really going on: Miller, Musk, and what's left of the shriveled squash inside of the orange plague's pinhead, systematically dismantling what's left of the so-called American government. And be assured: Muskox is not gone yet. And Miller, our very own 21st century Adolf Eichmann, IS the most dangerous man in the world right now. Thanks, Wendy the Druid.
That's what I read before. Don't believe it. A four year old gives you a black eye like that? More like someone deliberately put their fist in your eye.
I know! What is their goal? Death? Apparently not since they won everything and are still bitching. We know this is true because they are drudging Kennedy up from 60 years ago. It is sick demented thinking.
PLEASE let Democrats take back the House in the 2026 midterms, and House Democrats select my legislative girlfriend, Rep. Jasmine Crockett, as Chair of the Oversight Committee.
I don’t ask for much, but I fucking need this to happen. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
No, Colorado officially found that he was an insurrectionist and ineligible to run again. The Supreme Court overruled: the Constitution specifically reserves the power to overrule such a finding to Congress, so the Supreme Court, once again, was usurping a political power it was not entitled to.
Diversions will not work Donny Dork! Our eyes are on the draconian CR bill. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) errs greatly in its analysis of the Big Beautiful Bill. They fudge where you can’t argue (future interest and inflation). First of all, their starting point misses $1.5 trillion in the first 2 years. 1) First CBO overlooks that the first 2 years will be impacted by budget additions with no offset until the 2028 tax year. The current CBO-projected annual deficit? $1.9 trillion, and we are over budget $200 billion right now! Because of huge CR add ons, the annual deficit will be $2.5 trillion over each of the next 2 years. CBO had estimated those 2026?and 2027 deficits to be $1.8 and 1.7 trillion, instead of $5 trillion—that must be borrowed at higher interest rates than CBO uses. 2) CBO uses 3.5% interest on Treasury bonds. That is far below the 4.91% that we current “enjoy” due to falling worldwide buyer-investor confidence. 3) CBO says inflation will be calculated at 2% when it now 2.4%. Tariffs will hit inflation hard! 4) That is how they get to saying hogwash like $2 trillion ADDED over 10 years. 5) CBO did not tell you they are talking about ADDED to their $52 Trillion estimate for 2035. 6) They see $54 trillion as our total outstanding deficit in 2035. I see $56 trillion if Republicans cut $13 trillion with the Big Beautiful Bill. We need a tax cut like we need a hole in the head. The fiscal irresponsibility is unfathomable. Republicans have lost their minds. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/the-25-trillion-annual-deficit-plan?r=3m1bs
I’m old enough to remember McConnell, lying with a straight face, that the 2017 tax scam would result in 5% GDP growth & no adding to the deficit. We are hearing the same bs again
Hell, I'm old enough to remember when George HW Bush called St. Ronny Raygun's "trickle down" economic policies 'voodoo economics.' Then Raygun made him his VP and suddenly, GHWB thought it was a great idea. Fking Rethuglicans have been ripping off Americans for over 40 years!
Meanwhile, Donny Two Dolls is busy signing pardons for white collar criminals & forgiving their fines owed to the US government to the tune of over $1 billion
The Hays Code was why this was a thing. Gay / Queer characters were supposed to be coded as evil and villainous in that time. This was done entirely on purpose.
It's not pleasant knowing that we have these dickwads sitting in Congress "investigating" stupid shit when they should be doing their jobs. Sick and tired doesn't even begin to describe how most of us feel right now.
Let’s talk about what’s really important. Donnie is definitely part lizard. That’s how he was able to grow back his ear, and not give a fuck about the people who died that day.
Also gets a pass on getting states emergency FEMA funds, or acknowledging dead Americans. (Guess that stuff is just ho-hum when you’re ‘colorful’?!?) 😐
Murc's Law is an amazing thing; it means there are no consequences when you are of the unreconstructed party and get to waste everyone's time.
That said, there's new kinds of Democrats on these committees, so I expect there'll at least be some entertaining, quotable work as the useless post turtle gets clowned again and again.
I am so very tired of this ridiculous shit show from the GOP. Groan. Same old recycled lies, distractions, and BS legislation designed to make America ever more impoverished except for the oligarchs.
Here in Olympia, Washington, every young person I know is on food stamps. Don Don's Tariff madness killed the seafood importing-to-Japan industry, and jobs are hard to find.
Can they start working on drone technology? After the other day, and my recollection of Vietnam, Afghanistan, and post invasion Iraq, I'm more clear on what needs to happen. Who won these wars? It wasn't the heavily armed US military, it was the guerrillas who didn't have a lot of heavy weaponry. I'm hoping southern California's defense industry (what's left of it) looks at cheap effective ideas. It might be more effective if Silicon Valley looks at this--not the Peter Thiel bros, but normal people, the (Jobs) Woz types. If I were the Russians, I'd be checking out their nuclear stuff, bombs and bombers, because they might be the next to go.
His ear was not "blown to bits", cartilage heals fairly quickly, and there is a scar - it looks like a white bump. That said, yeah...I'd like to see his cholesterol levels, a stress test, and a full psychiatric evaluation.
Can we PLEASE put Jasmine Crockett in charge?
Yes, a sharp lady representative with a quick wit and a law degree? Absolutely.
Kinda like Kamala, right?
Starting to think electing the woman has a ‘glass slipper syndrome’ - gotta fit perfectly 😣
How can we forget the ugly (greedy, envious) stepsisters who had to cut off their toes or heels to fit. A metaphor for the Mar-a-lago ladies of our day who have to cut off their noses into little tilted pig snouts, lift their wrinkles so they look like they fell out of a plane at 35,000 ft., bleach their hair or get hair extensions for half their lower pay than male wanna be alpha apes, wear stilletto heels to throw their backs out, then stay on their backs or on knees to serve our master's pleasure all day, get boob jobs for B-59s to rival Dolly's doozies, and wear decollete to the waist, and of course, never say the word No or I.......
you forgot the puffer fish lips
Yes. There is an official name for it "Trout-pout."
Much sharper than Kamala and way more forceful.
Might be more a difference in generational-style? I thought Kamala had the chops, myself…
Of course this is just a personal response, but I think Crockett speaks much more directly and without a filter. I always saw Harris as choosing her words and crafting a message rather than speaking directly. I was seldom certain what Harris really thought about issues, although she was much superior to Trump in every way.
Probably from her years as the AG of California. Had to choose her words VERY CAREFULLY.
Point taken. The biggest criticism of Harris I ever heard was she was ‘too cozy with corporate interests’… That said, CA has the biggest Dem donors($) and in the Age of Citizen’s United… what can you do? But still, ppl are craving authenticity I get it. They always ‘want’ a breath of fresh air, then they get mad when the person can’t ’play the game’ like a pro. GEEZus
One was a VP, the other a Congresswoman. Besides a generational difference, you can't run your mouth (unless your JD) as VP like you can when you sit in the House. Both have their place in the party. Harris would use the honey approach, and Jasmine would go after you with vinegar mist. Loved her description of MT Greene. That was a classic. There's a fine line between diplomacy and aggressiveness.
Deborah: This is the #1 complaint about Dems. Why can’t the VP talk like Jasmine? Taco man’s pottymouth is based on greed & cruelty. Not so with Jasmine or Jeff. I think the population can tell the difference.
🎯🎯🎯
Yes.
NASA just announced there is no evidence of intelligent life in the Republican universe
I'm surprised there were enough workers left to do a scientific study.
They kept one guy because he cuts the checks to Elon
And P.S. you don’t have to do any science to say you lack evidence of something, a neat loophole!
Bob, well said!
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I LOVE THAT WOMAN !!!
I also like this one! Bleach blond bad bitch body. Jasmine...I love you!
I thought it was butch body, but bitch works.
butch is more accurate and definitely more insulting.
you are correct! and she is a bitch!
"Bleached blonde bad-built butch body"
It was "butch", because she is a gym rat, although "bitch" does come to mind when you think of her.
GMTA.
Jeff’s on fire with this one.
Comer Fudd is the spiritual embodiment of Wile E. Coyote with a subpoena — careening off cliffs, detonating ACME scandals, and somehow still thinking the 83-year-old cancer survivor is the real threat to democracy.
Meanwhile, Donny's out here drafting executive orders in crayon, trying to retroactively revoke reality, because his feelings got hurt by a pardon.
You can’t parody this anymore.
We’ve hit full Mad Libs governance.
The rake-to-the-face is now a policy position.
And yeah… I’ll take that taco now. Preferably with a side of congressional term limits.
When I was young there were Fun Houses. Places where reality was distorted by mirrors and stuff jumped out at you unexpectedly.
At some point, everyday reality turned into a Fun House. Every day something weird and impossible happens. I did not see this coming.
It’s more like a bad acid trip.
that just doesn't let you come down!!!
Remember them well especially the Santa Cruz beach boardwalk and Playland at the Beach in SF.
Aw, I love your comment. I was born in Santa Cruz County and worked in San Francisco for 30 years.
Thanks Colleen.
Kathleen - Do you think it’s bc Americans are comfortable/bored? Serious Q
Your question reminds me of an episode from the 70's comedy show "Soap." The filthy rich lead guy and his wife go to see a psychiatrist and ask him "Why are we so worried and anxious all the time? We have everything we want!" and the psych. replies " Not enough Indians." - then explains that when you really DO have something to worry about - like getting an arrow in your throat - you're to busy figuring out how to fix THAT to worry about imaginary things. . .
You know, somewhere I did read: “Democracy Needs An Enemy”. Could be that simple. All pulling in the same direction against a common foe. Love that ‘Soap’ reference, thx!
I remember wondering who we were going to hate when the Berlin Wall came down. Turns out, we looked at each other and said “I’ll hate you!”
I hadn't thought about it in that context, but this so accurate. The fall of the Berlin Wall also coincides with the rise of people like Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gringrich who gleeflully fanned the flames and the debut of Faux News in the mid-90s.
All of them had and continue to have one overarching point — your fellow Americans who hold more liberal views (eventually including immigrants, LBGTQ people, etc. until it became basically anyone outside their "tribe") are literal devils who must be destroyed at all costs.
A couple decades of that later? Here we are.
Perfect storm of tech meeting / conspiracy theories/ meeting the perfect ‘salesman’… each one blurring the lines so to speak
Agreed.
I think that flyover Americans are overwhelmed by the complexity and fluidity of the modern world. What we call reality feels like a fun house to them. They are looking for simple solutions to excruciatingly complex problems. They have chosen a false but simple Messiah.
Social media is a fun house and has been for about a decade or more. So, it's okay for All of reality to be a fun house. In the 50s the John Birchers had really bizarre concepts of current events (Eisenhower is a Soviet agent). That continued with JFK Conspiracy theories, intensified with the 9/11 theorists, reached the peak with Q Anon. So, if Trump tries to recreate government with the President as a dictator, it's actually kind of mild distortion of reality, although it's not mild for us.
Trump's promise is: “I will control reality and make it one that is comfortable for you. Modernity will no longer control reality."
[deep sigh]
*not all “flyover Americans”*
That goes without saying. Every generality has exceptions. I assume people knows that. There is not a single county in the United States where everyone voted for Trump.
There are so many exceptions to your generality as to make it meaningless, Kathleen. Deliberately or not, you come across as contemptuous of "flyover country," as did Hillary, and it cost her the 2016 election. Your comment smacks of coastal elitism, of which it seems many Dems are rightfully accused.
As one example, Illinois is considered a "flyover state," yet it's thoroughly blue, as are Minnesota and Colorado. Wisconsin is getting there, as is Michigan. By contrast, Florida is not considered flyover, but is deep red. New Hampshire also leans that way.
It’s only a generality until it becomes a stereotype. Also, you know what they say about generalizations? Same goes for generalities.
Are we having fun yet?
I'm sure not having fun..
Unfun Houses.
I keep hearing the ghost of H.L. Mencken, his things about the taste of the American public and the ultimate mentality of our leadership. We must remember that around 45% of our citizens think the Orange Turd is cool and smart and handsome and and and, and that of the other 55%, 90% can't be bothered to get off their asses and protest, even write a fucking letter.
The solution, most unfortunately, is for the Democrats to stoop to the level of the MAGAts and MAGAettes, and start shoveling shit at them. Enough of this fucking decorum! Put a clothes pin on your nose and cotton in your ears, if you must, but DO SOMETHING.
NATIONWIDE PROTESTS on June 14th -- make a sign, find your local tribe, and show up -- www.nokings.org. You will have a great time -- I guarantee it!
Yes!! Get out and march!!! We had on last night for Miguel Alvarez who was snatched by ICE while he was going to get his citizenship in San Francisco. I wrote about this earlier this week.
We had a gathering last night in our town square. Terrific response. 200 or more.
Most in tears. These are our people. We love them. Hard working reliable good good people. They do everything. They are excellent citizens builders of our community.
I am sick of our leaders not having backbone. They NEED TO MOVE. DONT OVER THINK IT. FIGHT THE HELL BACK.
You don't even have to march! Go to the site and just sit! I can't march anymore so I go with a chair and a sign. And I cheer a lot. I'm always surrounded by supportive people and it's always fun.
Absolutely! Our local protest spot is at a shopping center next to a busy street, so it's not even a march. At our last protest on April 19th, even though it was raining, we still had over 400 people show up in our small town, and there were 500 people in the next town over. It was so fun to read everyone's clever, grammatically correct signs and meet so many like-minded people. There are many more of US then there are of "them".
I love to hear this! Thanks for the good news!
It will be "wild"....
right?
I'm afraid MAGA like to be entertained as well as informed. So when you have one guy quietly and sensibly saying "This new bill of trump's is going to take Medicaid away from you." and another guy with bulging muscles and barbed wire tattooed all round his neck screaming "THE IMMIGRANTS ARE COMING TO GET YOUR WIVES! THEY WILL EAT YOUR PETS AND THEN YOUR CHILDREN! THEY ARE ALL RAPISTS AND MURDERERS!" - that's what they listen to. Much more amusing than " You know, your health could be at risk because of that bill."
Joni Ernst proved it - she knows her base well. "Look what Joni posted! Haw! Haw! Haw! - She sure made them libs mad!"
She also gave the Dems free advertising for her Senate campaign next year. I'm sure Midas can make a cute little video about that remark.
Seems simple to us who sit on the sidelines, but the Dems don’t look ready to tackle the ineptitude of the GOP circus, except for the wonderful Ms Crockett and her oft active colleague Moskowitz.
We need to scream. Like Jasmine Crockett. We need to full on charge and not stop. Whispering our truths is just what they want.
I honor your words but my life experiences taught me well. You are quiet patient follow all rules- they love it. Sucker is what they see.
WE ARE IN THE RIGHT. That means nothing to them. You play by the rules. They love that.
So, as I go over all this with every waking moment, what do we do?
Think back to how other people in like circumstances won and preserved their freedom and their countries.
Think Revolutionary War. WWII. How did we win. And we did win. 👍🙂
Quiet gets no headlines. The TACO tag was brilliant. Really pissed him off I've read and will stick on him forever. That's not being quiet. Remember the wedding pictures of him and Musk all over social media? No one likes to be made fun of. Especially men. Go after his weak points. We have some really smart people on our side. We need to use their command of the English language and ramp it up.
The press isn't going to do shit! There are very few true journalists left.
How does one force the press to tell the truth?
And "quietly telling the truth" gets us nowhere, as the MAGAs use bullhorns and bully pulpits.
Being polite and decorous is what got us into this debacle.
Well, first, said interviewer isn't going to let the interviewee hijack the conversation like that, unless the interviewer is already in support of the interviewee's cause. In which case, it's not a question of "forcing" the press to tell the truth.
And if it's a panel, depending on what the set-up is, the Dem may never have a chance to get two sentences out.
As others have pointed out, quietly speaking the truth isn't entertaining or engaging to the people who need to hear the truth. By the time the Dem gets as far as, "Your comment/question is based on a lie...," nobody is watching anymore. Sad but true, in these times.
Demented Donnie uses Crayolas for his little hands but he's so damn petty and weak, that he also wants to go after Biden for using auto pens. And the biggest peckerwood in Congress along with his sick, sweaty, wrestling coach sidekick will gladly oblige. The mid terms can't happen soon enough so maybe we take back the House and investigate the multiple crimes being committed by that felonious brainless turd and his enabling evil cronies.
Funny how no one ever mentions the cost in ‘taxpayer dollars’ for this endless kabuki? Be great to have a true Oppo Party :/
I really hope the Dems have a positive attitude about the midterms and have started behind closed doors recon to hit the ground running with investigations first order of business.
Can’t even kick the PARODY can down the road?… What’s a white collar corporate congresscritter TO DO? 😏
Well stated, Aleksander!
Trouble is, Wile E. Coyote is very ‘entertaining’. So instead of a gigantic eye-roll, Comer becomes ‘harmless’, mildly distracting background noise… a sideshow for the circus. wow He’s lucky the Press has been defanged srsly
He's like that good old Southern boy you see at the Piggly Wiggly whose mama was your grade school teacher. He doesn't have a punchable face like Miller has. The look on his face though that day Crockett called MTG the blonde thing, was one for the books.
As a physician, I can tell you that President Biden‘s prostate cancer with a Gleason score of 9 indicates a very aggressive form of prostate cancer. Although Trump and his idiotic son said that Biden‘s cancer was stage 9 and wondered how anybody could hide a stage nine, the Gleason score only refers to the aggressiveness of the tumor. I have seen patients literally with no symptoms less than a year earlier present with widely metastatic disease. That by the way is stage 4. There is no such thing as a stage 9. It is also recommended that patients over the age of 70 do not necessarily need regular prostate exams or PSA testing. Biden, now 82 said that he didn’t have a prostate exam for a number of years. One could argue with that recommendation but there is no conspiracy here to see. What we need today is a full medical report by an independent physician on Trump with a real psychiatric battery of tests. Bring that on Comer Fudd!
AMEN x A ZILLION
Are we investigating real Biden or clone Biden?
Why not both? They’ve got plenty of time to waste on bullshit, instead of, you know, real business.
It would be fun to watch Comer Fudd try to keep the two Bidens in mind at the same time. I think he would melt into a blob of blubbering confusion. Did Clone Biden do it or did cancerous Biden do it?
Don't they always waste time and money on bullshit?
I don't know why their voters can't see that.
Seriously? Their voters only want Democrats to suffer. They're to stupid to see it.
Real Biden has been executed: Fudd's going for the robot. Proof that Biden's a robot? Well how about his middle name: "Robinette," huh? huh? It's a clue!!!
Jeff's right--put this horseshit on TV and fill the bed of an F-150 with popcorn.
Robinette... hmm. Maybe he's a female robot cross dressing.
😂😂😂
L to the O to the L!!!
😎🤖?
and a robot named Biden
It's time to leave Joe Biden the fuck alone.
From our morning coffee to our evening glass of wine (or gin) we are being fed ridiculous shit about Joe Biden Joe Biden Joe Biden. It's about focus, people. When we are being force fed Joe Biden Joe Biden Joe Biden we take our eyes off what's really going on: Miller, Musk, and what's left of the shriveled squash inside of the orange plague's pinhead, systematically dismantling what's left of the so-called American government. And be assured: Muskox is not gone yet. And Miller, our very own 21st century Adolf Eichmann, IS the most dangerous man in the world right now. Thanks, Wendy the Druid.
Welp
Benghazi Benghazi Benghazi
Her emails Her emails Her emails Hunter’s laptop laptop laptop too old too old too old
All worked… normalized the technique now. Faux Noise there with the assist. We just move on. It’s WEIRD
I want to know who gave Musk a black eye. I need to put that person on my Xmas list. Considering it was his right eye, who in the WH is a lefty?
Supposedly it was his kid Snotty
That's what I read before. Don't believe it. A four year old gives you a black eye like that? More like someone deliberately put their fist in your eye.
Agree on all your points, Jan, but especially about Muck. I don't buy it, either, that he’s been ousted. I think it's all a performance.
I know! What is their goal? Death? Apparently not since they won everything and are still bitching. We know this is true because they are drudging Kennedy up from 60 years ago. It is sick demented thinking.
Yeah, it's been time to leave Biden the fuck alone since he left office. Jake Tapper ignored the fucking memo on that.
PLEASE let Democrats take back the House in the 2026 midterms, and House Democrats select my legislative girlfriend, Rep. Jasmine Crockett, as Chair of the Oversight Committee.
I don’t ask for much, but I fucking need this to happen. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
I wish I could vote for her, but sadly I can't force myself to move to Texas to do it. She's a hoot - she will go places in the party.
I don't assume that there will BE midterms. Or at least, any that will actually be real.
Shouldn’t have EVER let 🟧 touch the Presidency. Twice.
#ETTD
He is in office illegitimately. He incited Sedition!!! And he’s a CONVICTED criminal!!!
No one challenged it…🦗🦗🦗
Still picking my jaw off the floor, but I’m just Joe Schmo🙄
No, Colorado officially found that he was an insurrectionist and ineligible to run again. The Supreme Court overruled: the Constitution specifically reserves the power to overrule such a finding to Congress, so the Supreme Court, once again, was usurping a political power it was not entitled to.
https://bsky.app/profile/momazonrises.bsky.social/post/3lqt6yxw7fs2d
Diversions will not work Donny Dork! Our eyes are on the draconian CR bill. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) errs greatly in its analysis of the Big Beautiful Bill. They fudge where you can’t argue (future interest and inflation). First of all, their starting point misses $1.5 trillion in the first 2 years. 1) First CBO overlooks that the first 2 years will be impacted by budget additions with no offset until the 2028 tax year. The current CBO-projected annual deficit? $1.9 trillion, and we are over budget $200 billion right now! Because of huge CR add ons, the annual deficit will be $2.5 trillion over each of the next 2 years. CBO had estimated those 2026?and 2027 deficits to be $1.8 and 1.7 trillion, instead of $5 trillion—that must be borrowed at higher interest rates than CBO uses. 2) CBO uses 3.5% interest on Treasury bonds. That is far below the 4.91% that we current “enjoy” due to falling worldwide buyer-investor confidence. 3) CBO says inflation will be calculated at 2% when it now 2.4%. Tariffs will hit inflation hard! 4) That is how they get to saying hogwash like $2 trillion ADDED over 10 years. 5) CBO did not tell you they are talking about ADDED to their $52 Trillion estimate for 2035. 6) They see $54 trillion as our total outstanding deficit in 2035. I see $56 trillion if Republicans cut $13 trillion with the Big Beautiful Bill. We need a tax cut like we need a hole in the head. The fiscal irresponsibility is unfathomable. Republicans have lost their minds. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/the-25-trillion-annual-deficit-plan?r=3m1bs
I’m old enough to remember McConnell, lying with a straight face, that the 2017 tax scam would result in 5% GDP growth & no adding to the deficit. We are hearing the same bs again
Hell, I'm old enough to remember when George HW Bush called St. Ronny Raygun's "trickle down" economic policies 'voodoo economics.' Then Raygun made him his VP and suddenly, GHWB thought it was a great idea. Fking Rethuglicans have been ripping off Americans for over 40 years!
I'm old enough to remember when Nixon lost in 1960 and said we wouldn't have him again to kick around.
But the powers-that-be fixed that for us, didn't they? Only took three assassinations.
Dark, but yeah.
When the music stopped.
Good way to put it, Hannah (got chills there). That's when the music did stop. And it has never started again.
Meanwhile, Donny Two Dolls is busy signing pardons for white collar criminals & forgiving their fines owed to the US government to the tune of over $1 billion
Anyone hear from jake tapper lately? I'm sure he's hot on the trail of Biden's body double and other important stuff.
That SOB is going down in flames.
One can only hope.
And now we have Karine Jean-Pierre to add to the mix. Sigh.
Was it an expose of Joe, or the Dem party elites that pushed him out?
What I’ve read about KJP’s book is that it’s the latter.
Hey Jeff, do you think he says secretly behind closed doors - "You sure do got a purdy mouth....."
As always jeff, Liked, Restacked, Quoted, and X-posted.
Also, can we talk about who is the actual engineer on the trainwreck, because Im pretty sure its not Floyd @ Petticoat Junction (yes, Im that old).
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/who-is-really-the-engineer-on-this
You use your tongue prettier than a $20 whore 🤣
Smile.
"You gonna' do some prayin' fo' me, boy."
Squeal boy, squeal like a pig.
Funny part about that, They adlibed that bit in the film. (wasnt in Dickey's novel), because they thought it would make it more "horiffying"
It traumatized me, and I was a kid who didn't quite get it, but I knew they were hurting Ned Beatty's character.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/queer-history-113-the-hays-code?utm_source=publication-search
The Hays Code was why this was a thing. Gay / Queer characters were supposed to be coded as evil and villainous in that time. This was done entirely on purpose.
It's not pleasant knowing that we have these dickwads sitting in Congress "investigating" stupid shit when they should be doing their jobs. Sick and tired doesn't even begin to describe how most of us feel right now.
Why do we continue to pay them for performative bs?
Because we who dwell in reality aren't the ones that elect the dipshits. Other dipshits elect them.
Let’s talk about what’s really important. Donnie is definitely part lizard. That’s how he was able to grow back his ear, and not give a fuck about the people who died that day.
HA! Didn’t think about that but you’re probably right.
Also gets a pass on getting states emergency FEMA funds, or acknowledging dead Americans. (Guess that stuff is just ho-hum when you’re ‘colorful’?!?) 😐
Murc's Law is an amazing thing; it means there are no consequences when you are of the unreconstructed party and get to waste everyone's time.
That said, there's new kinds of Democrats on these committees, so I expect there'll at least be some entertaining, quotable work as the useless post turtle gets clowned again and again.
I am so very tired of this ridiculous shit show from the GOP. Groan. Same old recycled lies, distractions, and BS legislation designed to make America ever more impoverished except for the oligarchs.
Here in Olympia, Washington, every young person I know is on food stamps. Don Don's Tariff madness killed the seafood importing-to-Japan industry, and jobs are hard to find.
I'm sure they will cut their assistance as soon as they figure out people need it. The cruelty is the point.
Can they start working on drone technology? After the other day, and my recollection of Vietnam, Afghanistan, and post invasion Iraq, I'm more clear on what needs to happen. Who won these wars? It wasn't the heavily armed US military, it was the guerrillas who didn't have a lot of heavy weaponry. I'm hoping southern California's defense industry (what's left of it) looks at cheap effective ideas. It might be more effective if Silicon Valley looks at this--not the Peter Thiel bros, but normal people, the (Jobs) Woz types. If I were the Russians, I'd be checking out their nuclear stuff, bombs and bombers, because they might be the next to go.
His ear was not "blown to bits", cartilage heals fairly quickly, and there is a scar - it looks like a white bump. That said, yeah...I'd like to see his cholesterol levels, a stress test, and a full psychiatric evaluation.