This beautiful, passionate, and forceful response by a Democrat to a question about the shutdown: Let's post it everywhere. This is the blueprint for how Democrats can communicate with the press, state their viewpoints, and take back the country:
There is no humor in being under nazi control. None. Wait 'til Orange Hitler starts sending troops into Venezuela. Will he restart the draft? Will American soldiers die once again on foreign soil? We shall see.
I love how you admonish the fuckwits to recognize that George Orwell and Len Deighton wrote cautionary tales, not instruction manuals.
Someone needs to write a novel about a fictitious Donald Trump who was a partisan liberal harboring a desire in 2016 to take the country far to the left, ultimately favoring the model of Stalin running the Soviet Union, while having all the character flaws and authoritarian tendencies and social media behaviors of the actual Donald Trump. Such a person might have gotten 20% of the Dem vote in some primaries, but ultimately the best he could have done would have been to fracture the Democratic Party because most Liberals in this country DON’T ABIDE AUTHORITARIANISM. Never have, never will
Put it ALL toward anger for now. Take a day off and play games, take a walk etc. We’re here to cover for each other, then join back in! And keep remembering…there are more of us and many things for Orange Felon are backfiring!
There's no way not to be incandescently furious about this--the idea that the January 6th goons who call themselves "ICE agents" deliberately target children......there are no words.
It's reminiscent of Stephen Miller's family separation policy - kidnapping children and not even telling their parents where they are, using them as pawns in his terrorizing immigrants so they just go away campaign.
It's been Donnie Demento's (and his cadre of sickos) policies since his first term: go after the children, as it's the most effective way of punishing everyone. Make the children suffer, and make sure everyone sees them suffer. Best of all, children generally cry instead of fighting back.
President Biden did his best, but In January 2025, it was estimated that 1,000 families separated under the first Trump administration had not yet been reunited. I shudder to think where those “lost children” are today. 😢
No, it's Bob Walkenhorst, long time lead singer/songwriter for The Rainmakers. But he sure looks a lot like a certain scribe we all come here to read. His lyrics are quite witty too. Odd similarities, these two. ;)
We could start referring to Jeff as Bob and see if he finally breaks, I guess. But considering Bob is from Missouri and lives in Kansas now, I'm sort of doubting it.
I have a dream, (my apologies to MLK), that one day (soon) the ICC will issue charges against Preznut, Kegstand, et al., for the bombing of the fishing boats in the Caribbean. Trial set in the Hague, prosecuted by, wait for it, Jack Smith!
In my lifetime I never imagined American society at such an evil and life threatening point. To realize some of my fellow citizens are cool with this…. 😭😭😭
Susan, we WILL see it. I’d like it to be tomorrow but it will be another delayed justice. However, there are many fails that show signs of defeat for the fascists. 7 of 9 Univs refused to be bullied by felon’s demands, his poll numbers are dropping steeply, we still have Epstein Files to get to!, the fed troops in cities is turning off some MAGAts but the most hard core, MAGA farmers and MAGA rural people are suffering and losing hospitals. They know who is responsible! Medicaid and SNAP are used most by red states! And more.
Yes, thank you for presenting a brighter (?) side or at least an optimistic one. It gets so dang gut wrenching to see all these horrid people doing such horrid things and smirking about it. I live for the day karma arrives for these fucking people.
Bovino is just a little guy with a Napoleon complex. He’s short, so he has to make up for that by being an asshole. His “costume” looks ridiculous on anyone in today’s world. He definitely has some kind of mental illness.
Donnie Demento, who is about as mentally damaged as someone can possibly be, has demonstrated his one, true talent: he has managed to find the greatest collection of personality disorders ever witnessed on Earth and they are currently in charge of the US government.
It’s a look (long coat) been used in many Westerns the bad guy is most likely to wear a long coat, if you ride a horse a do sheriffin’ a hundred and fifty years ago you might need that protection I’m thinking this Bovino cosplay is more like Van Cleave in an old Clint shoot ‘em up movie. Or a Nazi.
Jeff as bad as things are today they will get worse with this crew. By the way, why are the Millers, Rubio, Noem and others moving into military bases? Something going on or something is about to happen IMHO. Eyes wide open fellow travelers.
I’m glad they are getting a lot of first-hand feedback about just how much most Americans revile their cruel, fascist tactics. From MSN: “…Noem, who is also central to Trump’s immigration policies, was still paying rent at her Navy Yard residence in D.C. but had been “so horribly doxxed and targeted that she is no longer able to safely live in her own apartment.” “
I really don't know how you make this from ever happening again and how you hold them accountable now. Everyone glibly mentions the 2A solution. Thing is you'll eventually get caught by employing such measures. And it will be damn unpleasant until a Dem President gets in and pardons you. And that is one hell of an if with the current profiles in courage Dems. I just don't see any solution. We truly are fucked.
Actions have consequences. If you live by being an asshat, you should reasonably expect asshat pushback from decent people. And if a person is too big a wussy & pansy to accept that, maybe they should take a lesson by it. -snort-
Probably the original sin of not holding people accountable - the, "let's forget about the past and just look to the future" bullshit - happened after the Civil War. Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, et al should have been tried, convicted, and hanged for treason against the United States. The states that seceded needed to be occupied by federal troops until they renounced the Confederacy before they were admitted back into the Union.
Those guys were considered ‘gentlemen’ and things were very civilized at the signing of complete surrender but they could keep their guns as was insisted by Lee and agreed to by Grant. They met in a small house that they all knew about and at that point they were all pretty tired of killing. So that kind of tells you there was a lot of respect since they had both beaten the shit out of eachother already.
One of those “what ifs” is what if Lincoln hadn’t been assassinated. Because Andrew Johnson was against holding the Confederates accountable & was impeached & almost convicted because of it.
Yes, but the anger against him was initially stirred up by his blanket pardons of the Confederates. The nation was in no mood for mass executions but it was expected that their plantations would be confiscated so the freedmen could be given 40 acres and a mule. The pardons made it impossible for there to be any just redistribution.
True, I just wanted to keep things accurate. Johnson wanted to follow Lincoln's plan. The Radical Republicans didn't want to, in particular after Lincoln's death.
Yes, and when the Democrats are in the majority they will caution revenge and ask that we let the laws work. If plans are not made before the Democrat becomes President then all will be lost. The Democratic President needs to start proceedings on DAY ONE. Forget the parties and the Donor Balls. Get to work dismantling the Trump Regime.
Yeah--I fear that, if normal people ever regain control of the US, there will, immediately, be the campaign not to alienate the other side.....And I want them alienated. I want them alienated all the way to hell.
Also, restore the rose garden and tear down the Nazi ballroom. Oh, and pry the bordello gold off the walls. The good news is that this will provide a lot of work for people.
The laws, actually, do work. The problem is that the *people* whose responsibility is to *enforce* them completely abrogated that responsibility out of fear of being primaried by the orange toddler & his hoi polloi.
The judges (many? most?) are following them. LDFF is ignoring them until it gets to the Kangaroo Court, and they promptly allow him to do whatever he bloody well wants.
Well, even if the laws work, there's that little thing called the "Constitution", wherein our founders forgot to put any teeth into anything having to do with the separation of powers. "Oversight" doesn't exactly cut it, especially with a hand-picked SCOTUS bent on putting the theory of a unitary executive into practice.
The work needs to start before then. We need to start planning NOW what acDemocratic House & hopefully Senate needs to do, starting 1/4/26 (I’ll allow them 1 day for swearing in & stuff), to undo what Trump has done. We have enough democratic-aligned orgs to work this. & all the DoJ attorneys he’s firing? They can work on the lawsuits on every freaking law he’s broken, starting with the fiscal laws.
THEN they start working on 1/20/28. Start drafting EOs to undo everyone of Trump’s EOs. They do need to be prioritized, but the new prez needs to get writer’s cramp that evening. Line up all the interim US attorneys, cabinet secretaries, etc. don’t wait for confirmations. Get those Trump people out of there & Dems in. And there’s a big HR project to keep Trumpers from “burrowing in.” Take advantage of the probationary period & fire their asses. Let ‘em sue. I bet it won’t be hard to find cause with those clowns.
And that's why we're in hell right now---Dems have had that totally counterproductive mindset for over 40 years. They coined the saying about taking a knife to a gun fight. Only with them, it's become more like a wet noodle.
People so horribly deranged that their idea is to threaten to blast MORE children with tear gas! Absolutely, Jeff, when this Nazi nightmare comes to an end, we must create stronger laws that prevent these atrocities from ever happening again.
When I think of trump and all the shit he has gotten away with, and all the twisted fucks he now has in his press-board cabinet, I just want to scream.
Personally, I would like Jack Smith to be the next Attorney General. And we need to toss out every single MAGA nut that has been stuffed into all our government positions.
Whomever wins must stop all this horror. That will take a Democratic House and Senate. The Supreme Court is lost in the Nazi regime until the grim reaper takes some of those 18th century minds out of their gutter and to whatever hellhole they rightly deserve.
In all ways possible, we must play hard ball before the crooks, Nazis, broken minds, and oligarchs imprison, or kill is all. This taxation without representation is not working for the country. Puerto Rico and DC certainly should have a seat at Court and SCOTUS.
Happy Halloween everyone. I have cat ears to wear tonight, because I’d rather be eaten by the law-abiding Haitians living in JD’s head than shot in the face by ICE Barbie & her Nazi rejects.
I'm dressing up as an old hag. No costume or makeup required! My cat, Mr. Peanut, will be dressed up as my familiar, again. We've been doing this for a decade, and get more convincing every year! 🧙♀️🐈⬛
On my usual drive there is a section by the lakeshore where I always see joggers. Today there was a jogger looking to be about 30 or 40 with a beard and the start of a dad gut jogging in his sweats and cat ears. Made me smile.
I just completed a scrapbook of my dad's experiences in WWII. His scrapbook was falling apart, and I had never taken the time to read through it. Wow. He went through so much at the tender ages of 21-22. He would be 102 today. He was definitely ANTIFA.
I truly despise these MFers who are America's Nazis.
"when our current national nightmare finally runs its course, and relatively sane people are in charge again, there needs to be a reckoning. there needs to be a serious discussion about how all this happened, and real measures need to be taken to ensure it doesn’t happen again. and, this time, there needs to be real accountability."
This, Cousin Jeff, is what I live for. Not for my cat - or, not ONLY for my cat, and not to see my 12 year old granddaughter graduate High School. I'm staying alive - against the odds - to see the End of MAGA, the restoration of democracy, and the arrests of every one of those treasonous Nazis. Hopefully, some other country is still conducting research on the cure for Alzheimers and dementia, and finds it very soon...both for my sake and tRump's, because I want him to be fully aware of his downfall. The fucking fuck.
Not only arrested, but prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned for life... preferably, on some remote island where they can all live together and practice their inhumane atrocities on one another until death do they part.
If your rhetorical questions were actual questions, I would answer thusly: this is entirely consistent for them. Sacrificing children on the great pyre of our erstwhile democracy has been their go-to since before trump. Was it Charlie Kirk who noted that a few dead kids in mass shootings was just a price we had to pay for *freedom*?
I'm getting a real "we had to bomb the village to save the village" vibe here, but then again, I am a child of the 60s. There are things about the Viet Nam war that will never vacate my brain.
I recently read The Women. That was a tough read about those times that we lived through. I remember them clearly. I'm afraid that Drumpf feels he is entitled to his "war" because so many other presidents got theirs. He wants to kill the young ones who are strong and virile because he is not. Eventually, the dominant male is overtaken by a younger one. It is the way of nature.
Who are the Appeals Court Judges in Chicago that issued a Stay of Judge Ellis's order. We vote for Appellate Judges. We have a right to know who they are and what decisions they make. I have searched but all I can find is the names and pictures of the Judges. Unfortunately they are elected for 10 years. But enough people knowing who they are and how they did not help the Chicago people would be helpful. Shame them into early retirement. The courts need to be for the People, not the Bovinos of the world.
sorry, Angry Jeff shoved Funny Jeff into a locker and wrote this post all by himself
back in the earliest days of this substack I used to regularly have a 'not funny Friday.' maybe that needs to be a thing again
There is nothing funny about the cruelty of these pieces of shit
agree….Jeff’s vocabulary describing these jerks helps a bit!
I call it, "eloquence in profanity" and Jeff is a master at it!
Haven't seen anything like it since the character of Al Swearengen on "Deadwood."
Trixie’s profane poetry was top notch as well!
I Agree!
I refer to him as the "maestro of of profanity" but yours flows better!
Bi-lingual
This beautiful, passionate, and forceful response by a Democrat to a question about the shutdown: Let's post it everywhere. This is the blueprint for how Democrats can communicate with the press, state their viewpoints, and take back the country:
https://bsky.app/profile/abbij1961.bsky.social/post/3m4iqhae2tk2v
He’s brilliant.
Yes, that is Joe Neguse, right? I have seen videos of him on other subjects too, and he’s very passionate and eloquent.
SO glad to hear someone correct the inane question of a media rep -- and so forcefully. A joy to hear. Thanks so much for this, Will.
Thank you Will!!
yes!!!!!!!!
From clowns to clowns with weapons.
Sadism is a plus when hired on to this fascist bunch
There is no humor in being under nazi control. None. Wait 'til Orange Hitler starts sending troops into Venezuela. Will he restart the draft? Will American soldiers die once again on foreign soil? We shall see.
Yes, and a whole lot of them will be Republicans.
Or starts nuking blue cities he doesn't like-i heard the evil imbecile wants to start play with the nukes 😡.
Likely. 🤬
I’m here for it. Been too angry to post clever replies lately. Maybe we need that moment to let the void scream back.
Well as bad as this is getting…it’s nice to have a little humor everyday!
I think it's absolutely NECESSARY to have a little humor everyday, Tess🤓 Thank you Jeff and Andy🖖
Since we absolutely live in the shittiest possible timeline, it is surprising angry Jeff doesn’t show up more often.
We appreciate both versions - you keep us sane.
I love how you admonish the fuckwits to recognize that George Orwell and Len Deighton wrote cautionary tales, not instruction manuals.
Someone needs to write a novel about a fictitious Donald Trump who was a partisan liberal harboring a desire in 2016 to take the country far to the left, ultimately favoring the model of Stalin running the Soviet Union, while having all the character flaws and authoritarian tendencies and social media behaviors of the actual Donald Trump. Such a person might have gotten 20% of the Dem vote in some primaries, but ultimately the best he could have done would have been to fracture the Democratic Party because most Liberals in this country DON’T ABIDE AUTHORITARIANISM. Never have, never will
But if you call it "not funny Friday" then the execrable vice president is going to star in almost all of them!
I'm all for F-bomb Fridays
Underfukinstood....
No need to apologize. The cruelty of this ICE shitshow speaks for itself.
And the arrogance of these fascist fucks is enough to piss off the Pope!
From this creep to Tom Homan to Mike Waltz to Bessent to the Wit sisters, Dim, Half and Nit- otherwise known as Bondi, Leavitt and Noem.
Every glance at any of them starts my blood to boil and I thirst for their comeuppance.
I think the pope IS pissed off!
The 3 were obviously hatched from the same clutch in Hades. As well as the rest of the shitshow.
Cuba gave signal Waltz the what for yesterday! Called him out as a liar! It was stupendous!🖐️🖐️👏👏👏👏
Yes, and I put aside all my nonjudgmentalness & respect for human nature to look forward to schadenfreude at their comeuppance, preferably soon
I like Angry Jeff. He needs to come out and play more.
I dunno Jeff, it has become nearly impossible to not be angry at this continuing nightmare
I'm so fucking depressed.
Put it ALL toward anger for now. Take a day off and play games, take a walk etc. We’re here to cover for each other, then join back in! And keep remembering…there are more of us and many things for Orange Felon are backfiring!
There's no way not to be incandescently furious about this--the idea that the January 6th goons who call themselves "ICE agents" deliberately target children......there are no words.
It's reminiscent of Stephen Miller's family separation policy - kidnapping children and not even telling their parents where they are, using them as pawns in his terrorizing immigrants so they just go away campaign.
It's been Donnie Demento's (and his cadre of sickos) policies since his first term: go after the children, as it's the most effective way of punishing everyone. Make the children suffer, and make sure everyone sees them suffer. Best of all, children generally cry instead of fighting back.
President Biden did his best, but In January 2025, it was estimated that 1,000 families separated under the first Trump administration had not yet been reunited. I shudder to think where those “lost children” are today. 😢
Miller's wife had a meltdown on Piers Morgan's show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5MuRatp4ms&t=600s
I love the comment that says "Prove to me that isn't Stephen Miller in a wig.."
Hey Joyce, I’ve got some words wanna hear em?
I know those words, too--but they still can't reach the depths these "people" occupy.
Joyce 🎯🎯
None of this is funny. It’s fucking horrifying!
Bovino looks like he’s trying to emulate Ralph Fiennes’ character Amos Goeth in ‘Schindler’s List’. I couldn’t sleep right after watching that movie.
Our country is turning into a horror movie. 😭
Yes! As a Chicagoan I am particularly angry that Halloween is being ruined for children.
Say NO TO ICE and have a HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
After the toppling of the Orange Felon Seditionist regime, it won’t just be their Halloween ruined…it will be their lives!
It's okay.
Angry Claudia can't stop posting about the ICE raid on the children's Halloween parade.
Halloween is my favorite holiday. I cannot stand it that Trump's Gestapo goons turned it into trauma for kids.
It feels like we need to keep talking about it. It's the answer to the question, How low will they go?
#ETTD EVERYTHING TRUMP TOUCHES DIES—INCLUDING KIDDIE PARADES.
fwiw, I'm not complaining.
Appropriate response for the chilling times we live in.
Does Angry Jeff agree that Gaseous Greg is using lifts in those boots?
Heels, too. Shitheels.
when our current national nightmare finally runs its course, and relatively sane people are in charge again, ...
This is my favorite Jeff Tiedrich line for the last 6 months!
WE SHALL OVERCOME !!!
We’ve been in trouble ever since ‘adulting’ became optional imo… (everything is one big cosplay / joke, amirite?) 😒
very little is even amusing anymore....
Anytime you get like this, Jeff, I just think back to when you were the lead singer for The Rainmakers. Even then, you had a way with words.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3rIDVAYdU4
Is that really him? He's GREAT!
No, it's Bob Walkenhorst, long time lead singer/songwriter for The Rainmakers. But he sure looks a lot like a certain scribe we all come here to read. His lyrics are quite witty too. Odd similarities, these two. ;)
We could start referring to Jeff as Bob and see if he finally breaks, I guess. But considering Bob is from Missouri and lives in Kansas now, I'm sort of doubting it.
Angry Jeff has been much more prominent lately - and deservedly so. There is nothing funny about these fucking fascist assholes.
I'm just a mite angry with you, sorry, but the joke about Cricket made me laugh, and now I'm embarrassed ...
Even Angry Jeff is still 20% funny, and Funny Jeff is 40% angry.
I want to live long enough to see these evil assholes tried at The Hague - it’s so out of control. They’re animals.
I hate it here. But try to have a decent weekend. 🤷♀️
My sentiments exactly.I want a Nuremberg -style trial with Nuremberg-style punishments and accountability.
These sick people deserve nothing less. America needs to wake the hell up!
Let’s have the trials in the new ballroom.
Great idea!!😂😂
Set up the scaffold there too!
But not for us, for them.
I have a dream, (my apologies to MLK), that one day (soon) the ICC will issue charges against Preznut, Kegstand, et al., for the bombing of the fishing boats in the Caribbean. Trial set in the Hague, prosecuted by, wait for it, Jack Smith!
I think we all share your dream. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
There's a new movie out today called ...Nuremberg
My feelings exactly.
In my lifetime I never imagined American society at such an evil and life threatening point. To realize some of my fellow citizens are cool with this…. 😭😭😭
Yes, I underestimated how many mean demented damaged Creeps we have.
right. I didn’t realize how many selfish hateful people are in this country…
Susan, we WILL see it. I’d like it to be tomorrow but it will be another delayed justice. However, there are many fails that show signs of defeat for the fascists. 7 of 9 Univs refused to be bullied by felon’s demands, his poll numbers are dropping steeply, we still have Epstein Files to get to!, the fed troops in cities is turning off some MAGAts but the most hard core, MAGA farmers and MAGA rural people are suffering and losing hospitals. They know who is responsible! Medicaid and SNAP are used most by red states! And more.
👏👏👏. Thank you!
Yes, thank you for presenting a brighter (?) side or at least an optimistic one. It gets so dang gut wrenching to see all these horrid people doing such horrid things and smirking about it. I live for the day karma arrives for these fucking people.
As long as the gallows are lined up on our National Mall. The Orange Blob will have the bestest ratings of his career!
😄👍🏼absolutely! We’ll be his biggest crowd ever!
I agree with you 100%!
You and me both, Susan. Those trials will be poetic justice. Hope I’m alive to watch.
Preach, Susan. I just did that way-too-hip-for-me-to-carry-off fist bump twice, kiss fingers, shoot a peace sign gesture in solidarity. ✌🏼
😂✌️💙. Love ya lady!!!
“Stay. Hold your ground like a Ukrainian”. - @tristan snell
To Hell with trials. Meat hooks and piano wire!?😈😡
I like the way you think! 😂😂
Bovino is just a little guy with a Napoleon complex. He’s short, so he has to make up for that by being an asshole. His “costume” looks ridiculous on anyone in today’s world. He definitely has some kind of mental illness.
Donnie Demento, who is about as mentally damaged as someone can possibly be, has demonstrated his one, true talent: he has managed to find the greatest collection of personality disorders ever witnessed on Earth and they are currently in charge of the US government.
Well, at least he's made them easy to find when we get our country back!
Super LIKE
His personnel director is Russian. Seems everyone they hire has kompromat on them.
I think that it isn’t just his stature..his other “endowments “ must be teensy-weensy as well….
That goes without saying . . .
😂
It’s a look (long coat) been used in many Westerns the bad guy is most likely to wear a long coat, if you ride a horse a do sheriffin’ a hundred and fifty years ago you might need that protection I’m thinking this Bovino cosplay is more like Van Cleave in an old Clint shoot ‘em up movie. Or a Nazi.
Nazi. It's a Nazi. Definitely a little, rabid Nazi who needs to have his ass dragged into a dark alley for a "discussion about his tactics."
😂
The Columbine killers,in long black trench coats, boys will boys 🤬
Another small-dick wonder.
The whole Regime is made up of diseased mental misfits.
He has assholiness!
😆😆😆😆
Sad thing is I don’t think it’s a costume.
Jeff as bad as things are today they will get worse with this crew. By the way, why are the Millers, Rubio, Noem and others moving into military bases? Something going on or something is about to happen IMHO. Eyes wide open fellow travelers.
I’m glad they are getting a lot of first-hand feedback about just how much most Americans revile their cruel, fascist tactics. From MSN: “…Noem, who is also central to Trump’s immigration policies, was still paying rent at her Navy Yard residence in D.C. but had been “so horribly doxxed and targeted that she is no longer able to safely live in her own apartment.” “
Ha, ha, ha. Fuuuuck her and her fuck boy. Soorry you're scared. Imagine how your puppy felt you sick woman.
And Corey Lewandowski ? 🤮 Noted misogynist, banging the canine killer ?
That's some sadist/masochist shit.
Oh, too bad...
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
IOW, they are confined to base to be safe from the dangerous situations they themselves have created.
Because they feel they need protection from their fellow Americans, as they're aware that the majority of us loathe everything about them.
Nice to know we're getting through to them, anyway.
This crew feels they will never be held accountable…. Just like fascists all over the world.
The bad thing is that right now the odds seem to be that they WON'T ever be..... -growl-
I really don't know how you make this from ever happening again and how you hold them accountable now. Everyone glibly mentions the 2A solution. Thing is you'll eventually get caught by employing such measures. And it will be damn unpleasant until a Dem President gets in and pardons you. And that is one hell of an if with the current profiles in courage Dems. I just don't see any solution. We truly are fucked.
“for their safety” I read…..seriously…?!
Actions have consequences. If you live by being an asshat, you should reasonably expect asshat pushback from decent people. And if a person is too big a wussy & pansy to accept that, maybe they should take a lesson by it. -snort-
They’re scared shitless of We the People. Good! 😈
I heard that they feel that living on bases does afford them another level of security.
Until the soldiers also begin to hate them.
Read about that. It's causing a housing shortage for actual military officers.
Fredo- free housing?
Probably the original sin of not holding people accountable - the, "let's forget about the past and just look to the future" bullshit - happened after the Civil War. Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, et al should have been tried, convicted, and hanged for treason against the United States. The states that seceded needed to be occupied by federal troops until they renounced the Confederacy before they were admitted back into the Union.
that's a good point, and I think I'll edit the post to add "we tried that after the Civil War."
thanks!
Those guys were considered ‘gentlemen’ and things were very civilized at the signing of complete surrender but they could keep their guns as was insisted by Lee and agreed to by Grant. They met in a small house that they all knew about and at that point they were all pretty tired of killing. So that kind of tells you there was a lot of respect since they had both beaten the shit out of eachother already.
One of those “what ifs” is what if Lincoln hadn’t been assassinated. Because Andrew Johnson was against holding the Confederates accountable & was impeached & almost convicted because of it.
Actually, Johnson was impeached primarily for violating the Tenure of Office Act when he dismissed Secretary of War Edwin Stanton.
Yes, but the anger against him was initially stirred up by his blanket pardons of the Confederates. The nation was in no mood for mass executions but it was expected that their plantations would be confiscated so the freedmen could be given 40 acres and a mule. The pardons made it impossible for there to be any just redistribution.
True, I just wanted to keep things accurate. Johnson wanted to follow Lincoln's plan. The Radical Republicans didn't want to, in particular after Lincoln's death.
Yes, and when the Democrats are in the majority they will caution revenge and ask that we let the laws work. If plans are not made before the Democrat becomes President then all will be lost. The Democratic President needs to start proceedings on DAY ONE. Forget the parties and the Donor Balls. Get to work dismantling the Trump Regime.
Yeah--I fear that, if normal people ever regain control of the US, there will, immediately, be the campaign not to alienate the other side.....And I want them alienated. I want them alienated all the way to hell.
👊
Yeah!
Also, restore the rose garden and tear down the Nazi ballroom. Oh, and pry the bordello gold off the walls. The good news is that this will provide a lot of work for people.
I like the idea of keeping the ballroom and using it for the trials.
THEN we tear the fucking thing down.
But the "Rose Garden Club" can be torn up, and the tacky fake-gold shit removed from the Oval Office, on Inauguration Day.
And tear down those obscenely phallic flag poles.
I just heard that LDFF has now renovated one of the bathrooms in the “People’s House.” The bullshit never ends with this mf’er!
If the laws worked we wouldn't be in the mess we're in today. Or they might work if the judges actually followed them anymore.
The laws, actually, do work. The problem is that the *people* whose responsibility is to *enforce* them completely abrogated that responsibility out of fear of being primaried by the orange toddler & his hoi polloi.
The judges (many? most?) are following them. LDFF is ignoring them until it gets to the Kangaroo Court, and they promptly allow him to do whatever he bloody well wants.
Well, even if the laws work, there's that little thing called the "Constitution", wherein our founders forgot to put any teeth into anything having to do with the separation of powers. "Oversight" doesn't exactly cut it, especially with a hand-picked SCOTUS bent on putting the theory of a unitary executive into practice.
Yes, we are going to have to do something about Supreme Court.
The work needs to start before then. We need to start planning NOW what acDemocratic House & hopefully Senate needs to do, starting 1/4/26 (I’ll allow them 1 day for swearing in & stuff), to undo what Trump has done. We have enough democratic-aligned orgs to work this. & all the DoJ attorneys he’s firing? They can work on the lawsuits on every freaking law he’s broken, starting with the fiscal laws.
THEN they start working on 1/20/28. Start drafting EOs to undo everyone of Trump’s EOs. They do need to be prioritized, but the new prez needs to get writer’s cramp that evening. Line up all the interim US attorneys, cabinet secretaries, etc. don’t wait for confirmations. Get those Trump people out of there & Dems in. And there’s a big HR project to keep Trumpers from “burrowing in.” Take advantage of the probationary period & fire their asses. Let ‘em sue. I bet it won’t be hard to find cause with those clowns.
I've thought about that. They could draft an EO simply listing all of Trump's EOs and declare them null and void. Would only require one signature.
And to add insult to injury, it should be signed with the autopen.
Daniel, your last sentence is great!!
Project 2029!
A good start will be to appoint someone like Malcolm Nance as AG.
Or Kamala.
No, Steve's suggestion is an act of genius. Nance for Attorney General.
I thought they had plans to fight back on Jan. 20 2025 but instead the Dems looked like they had never considered the matter.
Mary: this may sound radical, but I think we will need a benevolent dictator for a year or so to get all this done.
Mary Trump's book "The Reckoning" is all about this.
Aimed squarely at white readers, it's painful and accurate and a topic we need to keep in the back of our minds at all times. There will be a day....
The original "When they go low, we go high" nonsense. Didn't work then, doesn't work now.
And that's why we're in hell right now---Dems have had that totally counterproductive mindset for over 40 years. They coined the saying about taking a knife to a gun fight. Only with them, it's become more like a wet noodle.
I'd argue that it's more like a tray of cupcakes 🧁🧁🧁
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Maybe I'll change my name to "elf in NorCal".
If only we could just kick them out now, along with the additional currently red states.
People so horribly deranged that their idea is to threaten to blast MORE children with tear gas! Absolutely, Jeff, when this Nazi nightmare comes to an end, we must create stronger laws that prevent these atrocities from ever happening again.
When I think of trump and all the shit he has gotten away with, and all the twisted fucks he now has in his press-board cabinet, I just want to scream.
Personally, I would like Jack Smith to be the next Attorney General. And we need to toss out every single MAGA nut that has been stuffed into all our government positions.
I think that Newsome will clean house. He hates Trump and will not let him go quietly.
Whomever wins must stop all this horror. That will take a Democratic House and Senate. The Supreme Court is lost in the Nazi regime until the grim reaper takes some of those 18th century minds out of their gutter and to whatever hellhole they rightly deserve.
It wouldn't require a Constitutional amendment to expand the Court to 15 seats and then appoint six new justices.
In all ways possible, we must play hard ball before the crooks, Nazis, broken minds, and oligarchs imprison, or kill is all. This taxation without representation is not working for the country. Puerto Rico and DC certainly should have a seat at Court and SCOTUS.
Yes! Wish Biden had done it.
Newsome will have to do that. It's insane to keep it as it is.
Not Newsome. He wants to play footsie with the Trumpers and will throw anybody under the bus for temporary political advantage.
Happy Halloween everyone. I have cat ears to wear tonight, because I’d rather be eaten by the law-abiding Haitians living in JD’s head than shot in the face by ICE Barbie & her Nazi rejects.
I'm dressing up as an old hag. No costume or makeup required! My cat, Mr. Peanut, will be dressed up as my familiar, again. We've been doing this for a decade, and get more convincing every year! 🧙♀️🐈⬛
OMG I love it. A lady I did housework for as a kid had a witch costume and would scare the shit out of kids when she opened the door😂
Me too, minus the kitty! 🤣🤣🤣
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Well said!
On my usual drive there is a section by the lakeshore where I always see joggers. Today there was a jogger looking to be about 30 or 40 with a beard and the start of a dad gut jogging in his sweats and cat ears. Made me smile.
I just completed a scrapbook of my dad's experiences in WWII. His scrapbook was falling apart, and I had never taken the time to read through it. Wow. He went through so much at the tender ages of 21-22. He would be 102 today. He was definitely ANTIFA.
I truly despise these MFers who are America's Nazis.
"when our current national nightmare finally runs its course, and relatively sane people are in charge again, there needs to be a reckoning. there needs to be a serious discussion about how all this happened, and real measures need to be taken to ensure it doesn’t happen again. and, this time, there needs to be real accountability."
This, Cousin Jeff, is what I live for. Not for my cat - or, not ONLY for my cat, and not to see my 12 year old granddaughter graduate High School. I'm staying alive - against the odds - to see the End of MAGA, the restoration of democracy, and the arrests of every one of those treasonous Nazis. Hopefully, some other country is still conducting research on the cure for Alzheimers and dementia, and finds it very soon...both for my sake and tRump's, because I want him to be fully aware of his downfall. The fucking fuck.
Well stated outrage which I share in its entirety. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Not only arrested, but prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned for life... preferably, on some remote island where they can all live together and practice their inhumane atrocities on one another until death do they part.
If your rhetorical questions were actual questions, I would answer thusly: this is entirely consistent for them. Sacrificing children on the great pyre of our erstwhile democracy has been their go-to since before trump. Was it Charlie Kirk who noted that a few dead kids in mass shootings was just a price we had to pay for *freedom*?
Put him on the dead kids list.
Sad.
The puppykiller wears her human being costume all year long. I don't use ice much because it hurts my teeth, but when I do, I like it crushed.
Crushed ICE is the best!
I hope Noem gets a bad batch of Botox.
uh, she already has.
Her face looks like a plastic bag of walnuts.
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zing! i am just shocked that the orange anus, who places such a premium on physical appearance, chose women with such obvious facial skin problems.
You've disrespected plastic bags and walnuts in one go.
Anybody who has kids and supports this cruelty and insanity is an unfit parent.
What a terrible excuse for a human being Noem is. No wonder her side piece is Lewandowski, another piece of shit
Easy to be bold w/that kind of backing from ‘management’ just sayin
I'm getting a real "we had to bomb the village to save the village" vibe here, but then again, I am a child of the 60s. There are things about the Viet Nam war that will never vacate my brain.
I recently read The Women. That was a tough read about those times that we lived through. I remember them clearly. I'm afraid that Drumpf feels he is entitled to his "war" because so many other presidents got theirs. He wants to kill the young ones who are strong and virile because he is not. Eventually, the dominant male is overtaken by a younger one. It is the way of nature.
That book you mentioned is one of the best I've read 📚.
Who are the Appeals Court Judges in Chicago that issued a Stay of Judge Ellis's order. We vote for Appellate Judges. We have a right to know who they are and what decisions they make. I have searched but all I can find is the names and pictures of the Judges. Unfortunately they are elected for 10 years. But enough people knowing who they are and how they did not help the Chicago people would be helpful. Shame them into early retirement. The courts need to be for the People, not the Bovinos of the world.
It was probably a FEDERAL appelate judge. & they are appointed by the prez, not elected