This is past funny now…not that it ever really was...this old fuck is destroying everything he gets involved in. HOLY SHIT! Whats it gonna take to get him outta there? With the ELON thing, people are freaking out. When do we take to the streets??????
First, it would be nice for someone in Dem or GOP leadership, who has a brain, to get in front of a camera and tell the truth about Donny.
"Donny, you screwed up the water system in California with a dumb order to the Corps of Engineers. This was WRONG Donny!"
"Donny, you gave the Treasury checkbook to Elon and his teenage assistants. You fired the FBI and Inspectors General who protect this country from thieves. Elon is a thief. This was WRONG Donny!"
"Donny, you are raising product prices on your MAGA followers. You think, wrongly, tht tariff money is paid by the country you are attacking. It doesn't, Donny. Tariff taxes are paid by the buyer. The MAGAs will eventually rise up and tell you this was wrong. I'm here to tell you today, this is WRONG!"
It's ironic as hell that the area dumbfuck Donnie chose to flood is a major MAGA stronghold. It's also where numb nuts lapdog Devin Nunes comes from. Having done citrus survey work in Tulare County when I worked for CA Dept. of Food and Ag., we heard about the water shortage issues these folks had to deal with. Hard to believe the ACoE went along with this stupidity and carried it out. No matter how destructive his ideas are, people are still scared shitless to stand up to his Dumbness.
I'm not so sure this wasn't an act of pure subversion. Think about it. Who gets the heat and the bad name? Not the ACoE. They're not in charge, they're just doing what they were ordered to do by their boss.
And anyone who starts to press them on it will only get the "Ask the White House why this was done." as an answer, and it's a damn good one.
I think it's more likely that when a major summer drought hits, trump will be able to scream about bad water management again and blame it on California. It's not like the press is ever going to call him on it.
I am wondering why the ACoE went along with the order. They should know its wrong. Just pretend to do it, he wouldn't know the difference. Why is everyone just blindly following?
And that just complicates everything. If even one person, ONE PERSON, stood up to him, publicly, some of this nonsense would stop. But no one stands up to him. (The president of Colombia did, but only on X, which most of us didn't see. It needs to be done very publicly.) To keep letting him screw everything up and destroy our entire country without saying a word, just hoping he'll eventually see the errors in his decision making, truly is the definition of insanity. He won't change until we make him change.
Instead we get DNC leaders who want to spend time analyzing why we lost the election. WTF? That doesn't matter in this moment. Stop analyzing and start fighting!
The election was lost because of voter suppression, case closed! The latest head of DNC held the title in my state, and won’t be receiving one penny until resistance to the fuckery they appear complicit in occurs Carol!!
Not bullshit. Several reputable articles have shown that people who stayed home because of Harris keeping in lockstep with Biden on the Gaza war caused the loss of all swing states to Trump.
My Democrat Senator Patty Murray is out there every day fighting back. I got a long letter from her today about the scam buyout offer. It was detailed and instructive. Others are fighting back. You have to take the time to seek it out.
You are correct, Hannah Olufs. I'm from CT and quite proud of my state's response. But I was commenting on the Democratic National Convention. At his installation, the new DNC Chair, Ken Martin, told ABC News his first three priorities are setting up a rapid response "war room" to message against Trump and define the party's agenda, beginning the process of reviewing the party's strategy that led to its losses in the White House and Congress and conducting a review of the party's finances.
There is no time to get bogged down with standard Party business of counting coin and re-hashing how we got here.
Waiting for the 1940 French Generals watching uncomprehendingly as the panzers cross the Meuse River to destroy the Third Republic, er, I mean the "Democratic establishment" is like pissing into a hurricane's wind: you'll get very wet and it might not be enough to wash off the smell. These people have been completely fucking useless going back to when I came home from the war wanting to do something to end it and they all said "but we have to respect our president..." They've been six feet behind the 8-ball on every important issue since. I'm reminded of the final scene in "1900" when DeNiro's landowner says to his old friend the communist that he'll lie down on the train tracks like they did as kids - only instead of lying between the tracks, he flops down across the tracks. That's Shumer & Co. today. Yesterday they put a clone of the last one in at the DNC, able to barrage us with emails begging for money they'll spend again to no good result.
Time for a campaigne to retire Shumer. He is feckless in this hour of greatest need. We have a deep bench of talent on the blue side of the aisle. Make room and have a seat Chuck.
Time for the lawyers in both parties to work to impeach all of the corrupt lawyers and judges who violate our constitution before Trump gets rid of it. Listen to this podcast discussing the legal changes and how to manage it.
I wondered if he understands what climate change is and that's why he voted against someone who will do everything he can to make climate change worse. That's a plus in my book.
Exactly. Churchill was denigrated as a warmonger while the panzers rolled and the criminals in Berlin murdered millions of innocents. The idiots in Congress today are "six feet behind the 8 ball" (right on). Political "leaders" who can't lead. Elected representatives and appointed department managers without the mental reasoning capacity to determine real vs fantasy. "Honor whores" who sold out their constituents for money and power. They allow the criminals and their enablers to run wild, without opposition. Marching Morons on Parade.
What their behavior tells me is that they will personally and financially benefit under Trump. This is the reason for that fecklessness. But fuck me, how much money do they need when they're 80 years old? Greed and fear are the two strongest triggers in the human brain.
Schumer is one of my senators. Yesterday I called his office and demanded that he resign. I'm going to keep on calling. Fuck this guy. I also called my House rep, Joe Morelle, and demanded he file articles of impeachment over the air collision that occurred because Trump filed the safety people. I think it's time for people to take to the streets like they did in Egypt in 2011.
He got what he wanted: an end to his Federal prosecutions. Beyond that, except for getting even and pulling stunts to make himself NOT look like dumbfuck loser, he doesn't care.
Andy gave his campaign over $300,000.00. Surprise, no one knows where it came. Since he was fucking broke. This guy is embarrassingly stupid. The lowest hanging fruit possible. I can say more. He's so easy. But I'm resisting. 🤭
The last time there was a recall against Newsom, he got more votes than he did in the general election. Besides, what would be the point? Newsom is term-limited. He can't run for re-election, so why try to recall him with a year+ to go on his last term? Never mind the pointless expense, which we can ill afford, given the devastating fires here in SoCal.
Next year's race for Governor here is shaping up to be the usual clusterfuck. The Republicans have no candidates (so far) because the GOP in CA is so far out of touch with what the state wants and needs, it's pathetic. Yes, there are Republicans here, but they're unorganized and poorly disciplined.
I’m sorry, but side eyes and pithy comments never helps when the other side uses over the top brutality and wins. We need some veins in the teeth warriors and all we have are Marquis de Queensbury boxers. It’s past time to meet the, on the battlefield. I feel like I’ve gotten my teeth kicked in, and I’m offered side eyes and pithy comments.
Absolutely. That's my new tactic, as of this morning. I know some people who have mobility issues who must buy from Amazon, or their new property, Whole Paycheck, but read labels, make notes, buy product from blue states, or friendly countries. I'm sorry if you live somewhere where Walmart is the only game in the area, but boycott it too. Read your cookbooks and look for a section on saving money (beans!) No fast foods if you can help it, unless they are local. Heavily patronize thrift shops and resale shops if you can. About 2008, Alternet commenters shared ways to save money and it was very helpful. Let's shut the red state economy, such as it is, down. Patronize public transportation, if you have it.
I hope to see my governor, Newsom, stand up and say that T can no longer interfere in California. Of course, the people he screwed voted for T, now they and their congresspeople can eat what they can find. If I have anything to say about it (probably not,) the 17th largest economy in the world won't be sending any food to them.
Space Nazi has the Social Security database now. It is not just screwing up the system - he has everyone’s bank information. If that gets out, it could shut down the whole banking system. We are so totally fucked…
Well, just call the Inspector General of the Treasury. Oh, yeah. Donny fired him.
Well, call the Treasury Secretary. Oh, he's the one who gave Elon full admin access to the Treasury checkbook?
Well, call the head of the FBI. Oops. The proposed FBI head is a stupid Qanon MAGA cult conspiracy guy. He won't stop Elon from stealing.
How about the Attorney General? What, she's a lackey of Elon and Donny?
How about the Supreme Court? No, they gave Donny full immunity from committing crimes in the White House. And Donny will protect Elon because Elon got him elected. Payback time!
So Elon controls the government. What could go wrong?
Exactly Stephan, having everyone’s bank routing digits, should scare the fuck out of any sane person… what could possibly go wrong when a career criminal is immune from prosecution, no matter how much money he funnels to himself and his Uber wealthy buddies!!
I feel exactly the same as you! WHEN??????!!! (I was so overwhelmed with the nightmare happening in D.C. starting 1/20 that, in an attempt to keep track of the insanity, I wanted to write it down as it happened. I figured that a "substack" would be a good empty place to start, and I could add my own notes to events. It has been extremely useful. Because I know pretty much everything that's going on, it has given me the ability to tell F&F information which they -- as working people and/or non-obsessives -- otherwise would not know, as well as the opportunity to completely freak out.) Today's report is about a relatively minor issue. Please not the use of the word "relatively". In a real world, not the Through the Looking Glass World in which we all are currently forced to live -- it would be shocking, horrifying, really. But in this Terrible New World, it's such a tiny blip that it would pass by if not for the work of courageous journalists like Teidrich. For that, we are grateful.
The woman in video screaming at nazi man children made my day. I need one of those bullhorns. I'd love it! 😅 Ya know what's funny, all that money spent on Ivy league educations, and they've proven a buttplug is smarter in the right places. The functionally illiterate have to stop breeding. ✋️
Who will blow the bugle? Who will issue the marching orders? There must be a leader out there! How about Ben Wikler, who should have been the leader of the Dems? Or Kamala? AOC? I WANT to take to the streets. But when? Where?
I am not a lawyer, but the lawyers should be disbarring the Trump law cadre the moment they do things that warrant it. So, while they can be fighting the illegal actions of these lawyers on behalf of Trump, they should be getting people other than Giuliani disbarred.
Here is Law Prof. Scheppele who has lived in Hungary and Russia to tell us how the US rapid turn to authoritarianism from democracy parallels what happened in those countries.
I understood the presidential immunity as being designed for only Trump. We need to get rid of illiberal lawyers who do not follow the law. We can expect that our constitution will be rewritten.
I got truly terrified when I read about Musk taking over the Treasury along with a 19 year old and a 21 year old. Now I understand the stressing of Project 2025 that the civilian corp will not require college degrees.
I've loved my country, I've been angry at my country, in the Vietnam era I was afraid of my country (I was sure I wouldn't live to 20, but I was too young, it ended before I got to draftable age), and I've been proud of my country, but never before 2016 did I feel ashamed of my country.
The treasonous Reagan administration was my point of no return for Amerkka Robert… The Vietnam false flag,, Gulf of Tonkin incident came damn close though!!
Vienam, the Gulf of Tonkin...that was LBJ, not Reagan. I know, I lived through it.
I hated LBJ with the fire of 1000 white hot suns. I wanted to go to Texas to hold a mirror under his nose to make sure he was really, really dead--that's how much I hated him.
But...
I hate that Orange Shitstain by a magnitude of 1000s more. I feel diminished by how much I hate him. The mere sight of him sends me into paroxysms of rage. Forget the sound.
Now. We go now! Start with every and any elected government officials you can think of. I plan on visiting my county commissioners this week. Every person in the country will suffer from the egregious acts of illegal activity in our government that up to now has been unchecked. It doesn’t matter who voted for who any longer. It’s our responsibility as the people of this country to stop Musk and Trump from tearing it down and turning us into an oppressed nation.
Not just the water, but I read in the Bulwark that potentially we could potentially have a set up where all Government communication runs through X, and where all banking runs through a Musk set up bank and no other US banks exist.
Since California voted for Kamala Harris, it's a double win for Trump to steal their water. He gets to claim he saved California and give California the shaft at the same time.
Well, he’s done that with his idiotic deportation mandate and looney-tunes like Homan and Noem out dragging anyone who isn’t WASP off the streets and threatening to send them to Gitmo so no one is showing up to pick their produce anyway. That came out just the other day.
As for eggs, I just got home from the store and I made it a point to check the prices here. A dozen of large regular eggs was $2.23. The fancier ones were all of $3.61. At Pricemart(very much like Costco)30 eggs were just under $5.00. So life is currently very good but with everything that’s going on with Musk, y’all are definitely under attack. By the way, did you know that Musk spelled sideways spells scuM? Thank you Bluesky.
100% he's doing it to punish the dem pleebs in CA and undermine the 5th largest economy in the world so they have zero leverage against him. I'd like to see Newsom explain how this will affect food prices next yr. It's too late for CA to secede. All of this is like biblical proportion shit. Uugh.
Replace fragrant with malodorous and your point is well taken Richard! The blue states should band together again and allow the imbecilic red ones their much wanted Confederacy Richard!!
Tulare County has been in a drought for 6 of the past 10 years, so water conservation is essential to its survival. Add atmospheric river-level storms due to hit California this coming Wednesday plus the full channel situation from opening the reservoirs. How great is Trump at managing floods? Sending big, beautiful paper towels? Thoughts and prayers to the fucking dumbfucks who voted for him and sorrow shared with those who didn't.
S'okay, we're all at risk for a decent case of scurvy once the people who pick the citrus crops are deported. I dunno 'bout you, but I'm too damn old to be climbing ladders to pick stuff off trees. :(
I have a semi-dwarf Meyer lemon tree with at least 750 lemons left (I already picked 250 or so of them). C'mon over, bring a couple of 5-gallon buckets with you 😉🍋
My sister’s tree is unbelievable , it’s a mad producer. I used to take bags home as my tree at the time was old and still produced, but not like it used to.
If I still lived in SoCal I’d take you up on that. Mine is a Meyer as well.
Mine is about 30 y.o. and is producing more than ever. I put in a lime, tangerine, and a couple of orange trees at the same time which are long since gone. I put in another tangerine tree but it will be a few years before it gets going, it only produced 15 or so last December.
I have a small one in my mud room, but our orchids have taken up residence, they love it and I hate to evict them. I bought a table top starter one with a grow light and can’t wait to try it.
Sorry I had to laugh, one thing we can calm down about is scurvy, there are plenty of sources for a small amount regularly. Who knows that flood could be tomorrow with that river at capacity, they voted for him, unbelievable.
"farmers were depending on that water to grow crops this summer" but there's no point in growing crops this summer since there will be no-one to pick them in the fall.
Then they did run! I hadn’t heard that story but yes send the bullhorn lady to congress “Stand up bitches when I say stand you stand Tom Cotton!” Yeah I like it.
Hire that person with the bullhorn. Full time job and training academy. Hey, congresspeople, this is how you do it. And start with those Muskovites wreaking havoc on the government.
You've just defined our " stable genius " of a President - a man who went bankrupt 6 times, once while owning a casino, for God's sake. And to top it off, the guy is a malignant narcissist in bed with other narcissists like Musk. What could possibly go wrong?
If Republicans can't apply systems thinking or scientific evidence to decision-making, I wouldn't recommend hiring them. They themselves aren't fit to pick fruit. And "just following orders" won't cover their asses in the long game.
Now, now, the classic definition of today's republican (we don't need to capitalize it any more) is "someone who does not understand the consequences of his or her action."
Trump probably thinks the benediction is, "In the name of the Father (for Fred Trump), the Son (for himself), and the Holy Spigot."
Seriously, fuck these assholes. The only hope we have right now is that they'll fuck shit up so bad that even some of the MAGA cult will snap out of it.
I turned 73 last Sunday. I've been through JFK, RFK, and MLK assassinations, Vietnam, Nixon, and so much more. I have always been aware that America is an imperfect experiment in democracy. But, it has never been this imperfect.
I am of the same generation and would add it has never been this imperfect in my lifetime. The civil war was the collapse of a very imperfect nation. The constitution failed and hundreds of thousands died to try to put what had failed back together. And they did that imperfectly too.
Trump is constitutionally ineligible to hold the Presidency (or any other federal office), so the Presidency is vacant at present (the Supreme Court's decision that he could run was inconsistent with the text, original intent, or precedent of prior applications of the insurrection clause of the 14th amendment, so it should not be respected as a "judicial" ruling at all, but as a usurpation of political power that Article III does not grant to the courts). If a plurality of voters is content with ending the constitutional republic, then the republic is dead. Whether it can be resurrected remains to be seen. After the Senate granted dictatorial powers to Julius Caesar in 46 BC, there wasn't republican government in Rome again until 1946 AD.
Jeff, 2 items you may have missed this am.. #1 The bottle bleach blond PR woman commenting on the trade war with Canada and the possibility of power, electric power from Canada to the US being reduced or cut off.. “well Jesus didn’t have power and look at what he accomplished”🤮Next up a letter to the editor in todays AZ Republic talks about how people should not criticize Donald or any member of his cabinet, if they do they should be prosecuted, imprisoned and put up on charges of being a traitor.. Try and have a better day than these folks…
Fredo, I cancelled my subscription to the AZ Repuke when on MLK day they put Chump on the front page and a short column on page 8 about MLK. Guess that makes me a traitor. If you see anybody in your travels wearing MAGA gear, ask them why they're dressed like Nazis.
I don’t consider u a traitor, just a difference. Heck, I have read the Peking Review for over 30 years.. I think I know a little bit about propaganda and BS. Some would call my reading habits treasonous, heck watch Russian TV on Julia Davis site, it’s crazier than The 5 on FAUX.. Best to you Mingo
The Jesus quote is too good to be true, and we have to be very aware of what is too good to be true on our social media feed. I fell for a fake Eric Trump tweet last week, and I'm going to be a lot more careful
It’s always been easy to get fooled. I’ve done it, too. Anytime I see an unsourced quote like this, I ask for a citation. If I get one, that’s swell, I check it out from there. If the quote poster gets huffy and/or doesn’t provide one, I unfollow. In our haste for confirmation bias, we tend to automatically repost something we think COULD be true, whether it is or not. That’s part of the reason we’re where we are now.
My notmother was in one of those facilities briefly, all elegant window dressing and crappy care. Because as bad as she’d been I was tasked with assuring that she had the best care and pulled her out with no notice. Would hope that Rump would end up in one of those, coloring in children’s coloring books and not being fed.
It makes me sick to think of all that wasted water. Of course, the MAGA idiots believe that their beloved asshole saved California even though California is mean and doesn't deserve help, but that's what a great president their beloved asshole is. You can't reason with them.
Just shaking my head at the level of stupidity. Magnets, water. Maybe someone should suggest to Trump that sticking your finger in a wall socket will make you look thirty years younger.
We’re p*ssed off, really p*ssed off. After 2 centuries, the Trumpet has undone the greatest alliance between 2 countries. How anyone this dumb is actually sitting behind the Resolute Desk making these effing decisions is f*ucking mind boggling. Yes, we’re retaliating against his rediculous call for tariffs. The real endgame is to annex Canada, drain us of all of our minerals, metals, potash and water and provide him with a northern gateway to access Greenland. Beware, when the Trumpet says anything, it’s a preview of his real intentions. So to my American family and friends, I’m sorry to have to retaliate in the only manner that we can right now. But we must as our freedom, honour and way of life depends on it.
No, they may not now, but when Canada launches its tariffs in retaliation to the American ones, they’ll feel the outcome. Then the anger will set in. All you had to see at the senators hockey game last night were angry spectators booing once the American anthem was played. This is not our usual way of dealing with issues, but it was the first outburst from ordinary peeps angry that an oligarch president would dare mess with our economic wellbeing and sovereignty.
It will only be the idiot cultists who will be angry because they won't be able to understand (and won't listen to) the reasoning behind Canada's actions—which, by the way, is the only next step available for your country. The majority of people who hate That Fucking Felon know what is happening and, while they may feel the pinch, will most likely blame him and not Canada.
Again, it's understandable. Who WOULDN'T boo the national anthem of an aggressor country? I'm guessing there are a lot of people in the States who want to boo it right now as well...
Yes, it may be understandable but it doesn’t minimize the impact this will have. On Nov 5th, everyone knew what your guy was all about, yet he won 49.9% of the votes. I’ve been calling this guy out since he came down the escalator in 2015.
Yes! Canadians, the American "so-called govt" right now is NOT the vast majority of the American people! CF this Mon. am delayed or dropped 🇲🇽 tariffs. Maybe he's playing a toddler's game of chicken. Either way, there are no words strong enough to condemn what he's doing. I am embarrassed to be an American right now.
Cam 🇨🇦, now our 🇨🇦 and 🇲🇽 neighbors and allies must do everything they can to stand up to the Convicted Felon. The American people are ashamed. Trying to combat this insanity too. No words. 😭
The only thing that we’re capable of at this point is the tariff call. As individuals we can speak with our wallet - purchasing only Canadian or European products and refusing to holiday in the US. The latter would decimate Florida’s tourism business, as well potentially Arizona’s.
Until we see the list of products that will affect the retaliatory tariffs, it’s hard to gauge how it will affect both countries. I agree if we do stuff like maple syrup, it wouldn’t make one iota to the Americans. But I still maintain that our biggest stick is your tourism industry. When our dollar falls below its current low of 68 cents US and the exchange rate grows close to $1.50, Canadians will think twice about spending 6 months in Florida, Arizona or any other southern state.
Cam, if 🇨🇦 wants maple syrup, can we make quiet lists. I for one will be happy to mail items you want. Shhh. Seriously, time to brainstorm solutions. Anyone else want to join?
Cam, Canada must do as you see fit. The Convicted Felon might think twice if you shoot down his drones (unproven), defend yourselves. 🇨🇦. Maybe an ass kicking is what he needs. No one "died and made him king".
The stupidity of the Orange Menace knows no bounds. He seems to think if you look at a map on the wall, since Southern California is below Northern California, water just flows down south after you open the ginormous faucet. No pumping required. He is unteachable and unlearnable.
I am stuck in Missouri and am seething at the inaction of the dems. Why keep playing that this entire situation needs some sort of understanding the other side? The Ds keep playing by rules and law, instead of fighting fire with fire. THERE ARE NO LONGER ANY RULES. YOU WERE ELECTED TO FIGHT FOR YOUR CONSTITUENTS.
This is past funny now…not that it ever really was...this old fuck is destroying everything he gets involved in. HOLY SHIT! Whats it gonna take to get him outta there? With the ELON thing, people are freaking out. When do we take to the streets??????
First, it would be nice for someone in Dem or GOP leadership, who has a brain, to get in front of a camera and tell the truth about Donny.
"Donny, you screwed up the water system in California with a dumb order to the Corps of Engineers. This was WRONG Donny!"
"Donny, you gave the Treasury checkbook to Elon and his teenage assistants. You fired the FBI and Inspectors General who protect this country from thieves. Elon is a thief. This was WRONG Donny!"
"Donny, you are raising product prices on your MAGA followers. You think, wrongly, tht tariff money is paid by the country you are attacking. It doesn't, Donny. Tariff taxes are paid by the buyer. The MAGAs will eventually rise up and tell you this was wrong. I'm here to tell you today, this is WRONG!"
It's ironic as hell that the area dumbfuck Donnie chose to flood is a major MAGA stronghold. It's also where numb nuts lapdog Devin Nunes comes from. Having done citrus survey work in Tulare County when I worked for CA Dept. of Food and Ag., we heard about the water shortage issues these folks had to deal with. Hard to believe the ACoE went along with this stupidity and carried it out. No matter how destructive his ideas are, people are still scared shitless to stand up to his Dumbness.
I'm not so sure this wasn't an act of pure subversion. Think about it. Who gets the heat and the bad name? Not the ACoE. They're not in charge, they're just doing what they were ordered to do by their boss.
And anyone who starts to press them on it will only get the "Ask the White House why this was done." as an answer, and it's a damn good one.
I think it's more likely that when a major summer drought hits, trump will be able to scream about bad water management again and blame it on California. It's not like the press is ever going to call him on it.
I am wondering why the ACoE went along with the order. They should know its wrong. Just pretend to do it, he wouldn't know the difference. Why is everyone just blindly following?
exactly the question/reaction i had, too!
Great post Rick, water only goes down hill even when magnetized. Stupid is so dangerous.
Thanks Douglas.
But if no one stands up there is a dictatorship. Listen here to what Victor Orban did since his second poorest country in Europe is the model for it.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/amicus-with-dahlia-lithwick-law-justice-and-the-courts/id928790786?i=1000687599740
Thanks Linda!!
There is anyway. It's already happened.
Well all people need to get over their scariness of confrontation.
And that just complicates everything. If even one person, ONE PERSON, stood up to him, publicly, some of this nonsense would stop. But no one stands up to him. (The president of Colombia did, but only on X, which most of us didn't see. It needs to be done very publicly.) To keep letting him screw everything up and destroy our entire country without saying a word, just hoping he'll eventually see the errors in his decision making, truly is the definition of insanity. He won't change until we make him change.
Instead we get DNC leaders who want to spend time analyzing why we lost the election. WTF? That doesn't matter in this moment. Stop analyzing and start fighting!
The election was lost because of voter suppression, case closed! The latest head of DNC held the title in my state, and won’t be receiving one penny until resistance to the fuckery they appear complicit in occurs Carol!!
Lazy, stupid, apathetic non-voters.
Nope. It was the Gaza war that the Democrats happily funded and supplied with weapons.
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/the-role-of-the-gaza-genocide-in-kamala-harriss-loss/
Oh, what total bullshit.
1) Biden was President, not Kamala
2) If she acted any more pro-Gaza, the scoundrels at AIPAC would have pulled a "Cori Bush" on her
Not bullshit. Several reputable articles have shown that people who stayed home because of Harris keeping in lockstep with Biden on the Gaza war caused the loss of all swing states to Trump.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/11/election-harris-gaza-policy
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/03/democrats-opposition-trump
My Democrat Senator Patty Murray is out there every day fighting back. I got a long letter from her today about the scam buyout offer. It was detailed and instructive. Others are fighting back. You have to take the time to seek it out.
You are correct, Hannah Olufs. I'm from CT and quite proud of my state's response. But I was commenting on the Democratic National Convention. At his installation, the new DNC Chair, Ken Martin, told ABC News his first three priorities are setting up a rapid response "war room" to message against Trump and define the party's agenda, beginning the process of reviewing the party's strategy that led to its losses in the White House and Congress and conducting a review of the party's finances.
There is no time to get bogged down with standard Party business of counting coin and re-hashing how we got here.
Winning elections--their own, mainly-- is all that matter to them. That's why they are so "busy" rehashing 2024.
Waiting for the 1940 French Generals watching uncomprehendingly as the panzers cross the Meuse River to destroy the Third Republic, er, I mean the "Democratic establishment" is like pissing into a hurricane's wind: you'll get very wet and it might not be enough to wash off the smell. These people have been completely fucking useless going back to when I came home from the war wanting to do something to end it and they all said "but we have to respect our president..." They've been six feet behind the 8-ball on every important issue since. I'm reminded of the final scene in "1900" when DeNiro's landowner says to his old friend the communist that he'll lie down on the train tracks like they did as kids - only instead of lying between the tracks, he flops down across the tracks. That's Shumer & Co. today. Yesterday they put a clone of the last one in at the DNC, able to barrage us with emails begging for money they'll spend again to no good result.
Time for a campaigne to retire Shumer. He is feckless in this hour of greatest need. We have a deep bench of talent on the blue side of the aisle. Make room and have a seat Chuck.
Time for the lawyers in both parties to work to impeach all of the corrupt lawyers and judges who violate our constitution before Trump gets rid of it. Listen to this podcast discussing the legal changes and how to manage it.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/amicus-with-dahlia-lithwick-law-justice-and-the-courts/id928790786?i=1000687599740
Ah, Dahlia, the best!
He did vote against Burgum's confirmation.
That's a positive, but you gotta admit it's a low bar
So what?
I wondered if he understands what climate change is and that's why he voted against someone who will do everything he can to make climate change worse. That's a plus in my book.
Exactly. Churchill was denigrated as a warmonger while the panzers rolled and the criminals in Berlin murdered millions of innocents. The idiots in Congress today are "six feet behind the 8 ball" (right on). Political "leaders" who can't lead. Elected representatives and appointed department managers without the mental reasoning capacity to determine real vs fantasy. "Honor whores" who sold out their constituents for money and power. They allow the criminals and their enablers to run wild, without opposition. Marching Morons on Parade.
What their behavior tells me is that they will personally and financially benefit under Trump. This is the reason for that fecklessness. But fuck me, how much money do they need when they're 80 years old? Greed and fear are the two strongest triggers in the human brain.
This Marycat!! Here’s something you might open your eyes to the election:
https://open.substack.com/pub/gregpalastinvestigates/p/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won?r=qvheo&utm_medium=ios
ONE HUNDRED PERCENT!!!
Right On Tom!!
Schumer is one of my senators. Yesterday I called his office and demanded that he resign. I'm going to keep on calling. Fuck this guy. I also called my House rep, Joe Morelle, and demanded he file articles of impeachment over the air collision that occurred because Trump filed the safety people. I think it's time for people to take to the streets like they did in Egypt in 2011.
You're going to go with Gillebrand, one of Burgum's votes? I wouldn't.
He got what he wanted: an end to his Federal prosecutions. Beyond that, except for getting even and pulling stunts to make himself NOT look like dumbfuck loser, he doesn't care.
He’ll always be the mobbed up career criminal “dumb fuck loser Susan!!
Not arguing. You can't polish that turd, no matter how much gold spray paint you put on it.
He is a criminal and should be in jail. Our “law makers”
Are cowards. We are reaping the results.
We need the full Mueller Report!
And the entire Smith report too!
Forgot self-enrichment.
Given the effect on his state, Newsom needs to put his pretty face in front of a camera and go nuts.
I honestly would love to see private citizen Kamala Harris provide a side eye and a pithy comment.
I hear there's a "recall Newsom" petition going. I do not doubt that Dump is behind it.
Oh, and he stopped an investigation into Rep Andy Ogles for election interference. The guy who proposed he gets a third time.
Well, the last recall Newsom campaign was a big flop.
Andy gave his campaign over $300,000.00. Surprise, no one knows where it came. Since he was fucking broke. This guy is embarrassingly stupid. The lowest hanging fruit possible. I can say more. He's so easy. But I'm resisting. 🤭
The last time there was a recall against Newsom, he got more votes than he did in the general election. Besides, what would be the point? Newsom is term-limited. He can't run for re-election, so why try to recall him with a year+ to go on his last term? Never mind the pointless expense, which we can ill afford, given the devastating fires here in SoCal.
Next year's race for Governor here is shaping up to be the usual clusterfuck. The Republicans have no candidates (so far) because the GOP in CA is so far out of touch with what the state wants and needs, it's pathetic. Yes, there are Republicans here, but they're unorganized and poorly disciplined.
I’m sorry, but side eyes and pithy comments never helps when the other side uses over the top brutality and wins. We need some veins in the teeth warriors and all we have are Marquis de Queensbury boxers. It’s past time to meet the, on the battlefield. I feel like I’ve gotten my teeth kicked in, and I’m offered side eyes and pithy comments.
What do you want us to do right now? This minute.
Maybe someone could ask some WHY questions? Why did Elon want access to the Treasury checkbook?
BOYCOTT
Absolutely. That's my new tactic, as of this morning. I know some people who have mobility issues who must buy from Amazon, or their new property, Whole Paycheck, but read labels, make notes, buy product from blue states, or friendly countries. I'm sorry if you live somewhere where Walmart is the only game in the area, but boycott it too. Read your cookbooks and look for a section on saving money (beans!) No fast foods if you can help it, unless they are local. Heavily patronize thrift shops and resale shops if you can. About 2008, Alternet commenters shared ways to save money and it was very helpful. Let's shut the red state economy, such as it is, down. Patronize public transportation, if you have it.
Don't pith in my Thterrios.
Absolutely right!
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I hope to see my governor, Newsom, stand up and say that T can no longer interfere in California. Of course, the people he screwed voted for T, now they and their congresspeople can eat what they can find. If I have anything to say about it (probably not,) the 17th largest economy in the world won't be sending any food to them.
Exactly, Burke. There should be a daily reality brief. Is someone trying to tell us no networks would show up for it?
I'm so sick of invertebrate politicians.
Grow a pair or grow a spine or get the fuck out of the way if you can't lend a hand, for the times, they are a-change'n.
Fuck the Democrats. For what little it's worth, tomorrow I'm officially quitting the Democratic party. Feckless idiots.
This is not going to happen. They are so behind. This podcast is explaining the legal ramifications of this situation.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/amicus-with-dahlia-lithwick-law-justice-and-the-courts/id928790786?i=1000687599740
Space Nazi has the Social Security database now. It is not just screwing up the system - he has everyone’s bank information. If that gets out, it could shut down the whole banking system. We are so totally fucked…
Well, just call the Inspector General of the Treasury. Oh, yeah. Donny fired him.
Well, call the Treasury Secretary. Oh, he's the one who gave Elon full admin access to the Treasury checkbook?
Well, call the head of the FBI. Oops. The proposed FBI head is a stupid Qanon MAGA cult conspiracy guy. He won't stop Elon from stealing.
How about the Attorney General? What, she's a lackey of Elon and Donny?
How about the Supreme Court? No, they gave Donny full immunity from committing crimes in the White House. And Donny will protect Elon because Elon got him elected. Payback time!
So Elon controls the government. What could go wrong?
Holy shit.
Indeed Burke, posting Asha’s excellent Substack article explains further! Her FBI background is all anyone needs to know:
https://open.substack.com/pub/asharangappa/p/class-syllabus?r=qvheo&utm_medium=ios
Fabulous addition. A zillion thanks!!!
You are right as rain! A government of Foxes can now pick off the hens in the henhouse at their leisure.
Exactly Stephan, having everyone’s bank routing digits, should scare the fuck out of any sane person… what could possibly go wrong when a career criminal is immune from prosecution, no matter how much money he funnels to himself and his Uber wealthy buddies!!
I feel exactly the same as you! WHEN??????!!! (I was so overwhelmed with the nightmare happening in D.C. starting 1/20 that, in an attempt to keep track of the insanity, I wanted to write it down as it happened. I figured that a "substack" would be a good empty place to start, and I could add my own notes to events. It has been extremely useful. Because I know pretty much everything that's going on, it has given me the ability to tell F&F information which they -- as working people and/or non-obsessives -- otherwise would not know, as well as the opportunity to completely freak out.) Today's report is about a relatively minor issue. Please not the use of the word "relatively". In a real world, not the Through the Looking Glass World in which we all are currently forced to live -- it would be shocking, horrifying, really. But in this Terrible New World, it's such a tiny blip that it would pass by if not for the work of courageous journalists like Teidrich. For that, we are grateful.
I'm ready!!!!!
The woman in video screaming at nazi man children made my day. I need one of those bullhorns. I'd love it! 😅 Ya know what's funny, all that money spent on Ivy league educations, and they've proven a buttplug is smarter in the right places. The functionally illiterate have to stop breeding. ✋️
LOL!!!
It’s getting much worse in a very short amount of time.
https://open.substack.com/pub/deadder/p/trump-cartoons-from-2017?r=cwjl&utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=90492748
They’re working hard to beat Hitlers timeline Susan!!
Who will blow the bugle? Who will issue the marching orders? There must be a leader out there! How about Ben Wikler, who should have been the leader of the Dems? Or Kamala? AOC? I WANT to take to the streets. But when? Where?
Let's go!
I am not a lawyer, but the lawyers should be disbarring the Trump law cadre the moment they do things that warrant it. So, while they can be fighting the illegal actions of these lawyers on behalf of Trump, they should be getting people other than Giuliani disbarred.
Here is Law Prof. Scheppele who has lived in Hungary and Russia to tell us how the US rapid turn to authoritarianism from democracy parallels what happened in those countries.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/amicus-with-dahlia-lithwick-law-justice-and-the-courts/id928790786?i=1000687599740
I understood the presidential immunity as being designed for only Trump. We need to get rid of illiberal lawyers who do not follow the law. We can expect that our constitution will be rewritten.
I got truly terrified when I read about Musk taking over the Treasury along with a 19 year old and a 21 year old. Now I understand the stressing of Project 2025 that the civilian corp will not require college degrees.
NOW!!!
https://youtu.be/2rxWPEdYCnI
Not really a Doobies fan, but this is right on. Perhaps I can even buy the record up the street.
Two weeks ago Susan, cudgels and torches in hand!!
Soon I hope. He is truly the dumbass who will destroy our good country. Makes me want to join the Canadians who boo us.
I've loved my country, I've been angry at my country, in the Vietnam era I was afraid of my country (I was sure I wouldn't live to 20, but I was too young, it ended before I got to draftable age), and I've been proud of my country, but never before 2016 did I feel ashamed of my country.
The treasonous Reagan administration was my point of no return for Amerkka Robert… The Vietnam false flag,, Gulf of Tonkin incident came damn close though!!
Vienam, the Gulf of Tonkin...that was LBJ, not Reagan. I know, I lived through it.
I hated LBJ with the fire of 1000 white hot suns. I wanted to go to Texas to hold a mirror under his nose to make sure he was really, really dead--that's how much I hated him.
But...
I hate that Orange Shitstain by a magnitude of 1000s more. I feel diminished by how much I hate him. The mere sight of him sends me into paroxysms of rage. Forget the sound.
Trump Delenda Est.
Feb 5 12:00 pm your statehouse
Now. We go now! Start with every and any elected government officials you can think of. I plan on visiting my county commissioners this week. Every person in the country will suffer from the egregious acts of illegal activity in our government that up to now has been unchecked. It doesn’t matter who voted for who any longer. It’s our responsibility as the people of this country to stop Musk and Trump from tearing it down and turning us into an oppressed nation.
Not just the water, but I read in the Bulwark that potentially we could potentially have a set up where all Government communication runs through X, and where all banking runs through a Musk set up bank and no other US banks exist.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/follow-the-money-trump-musk-market-reaction-tariffs-canada-mexico-nyse-dow-sp500-treasury?r=f0qfn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Water, water everywhere but none for those who grow our food. I hope the fucking asshats in government all get scurvy.
Since California voted for Kamala Harris, it's a double win for Trump to steal their water. He gets to claim he saved California and give California the shaft at the same time.
But he actually fucked over the people who voted for him.
No worries. They actually enjoy it. Apparently.
Well, he’s done that with his idiotic deportation mandate and looney-tunes like Homan and Noem out dragging anyone who isn’t WASP off the streets and threatening to send them to Gitmo so no one is showing up to pick their produce anyway. That came out just the other day.
As for eggs, I just got home from the store and I made it a point to check the prices here. A dozen of large regular eggs was $2.23. The fancier ones were all of $3.61. At Pricemart(very much like Costco)30 eggs were just under $5.00. So life is currently very good but with everything that’s going on with Musk, y’all are definitely under attack. By the way, did you know that Musk spelled sideways spells scuM? Thank you Bluesky.
They don't fucking care. Collateral damage.
100% he's doing it to punish the dem pleebs in CA and undermine the 5th largest economy in the world so they have zero leverage against him. I'd like to see Newsom explain how this will affect food prices next yr. It's too late for CA to secede. All of this is like biblical proportion shit. Uugh.
This is all about how California refuses to kiss his yuge and fragrant ass.
Replace fragrant with malodorous and your point is well taken Richard! The blue states should band together again and allow the imbecilic red ones their much wanted Confederacy Richard!!
You nailed it Kathleen!
California also gave Trump his third-highest vote total after TX and FL
Tulare County has been in a drought for 6 of the past 10 years, so water conservation is essential to its survival. Add atmospheric river-level storms due to hit California this coming Wednesday plus the full channel situation from opening the reservoirs. How great is Trump at managing floods? Sending big, beautiful paper towels? Thoughts and prayers to the fucking dumbfucks who voted for him and sorrow shared with those who didn't.
Hopefully, the weather coming into California this week will restore what trump just wasted.
It should help. We're also suppose to get here in SoCal for two days.
He'd say what am I supposed to do, go swimming?
Feast or famine, amiright? It's been a crazy few years water-wise. Tulare Lake flooded last year, an infrequent occurrence.
Yes, as I recall, they didn't know there was a lake there until it flooded last year, first time in about 30 or 40 years.
Like
I was just thinking it's time to add vitamin C to our survival stash.
I take a vitamin B complex every day that has C in it. WebMD has a list of other foods that have C besides oranges: https://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/ss/slideshow-vitamin-c-sources
I already did that. Daily now.
S'okay, we're all at risk for a decent case of scurvy once the people who pick the citrus crops are deported. I dunno 'bout you, but I'm too damn old to be climbing ladders to pick stuff off trees. :(
I have a dwarf lemon tree that I’m hoping will produce this year.
That tree is a DEI hire 😉
Lol, shhhhhh, don’t say that or someone will arrest it
I have a semi-dwarf Meyer lemon tree with at least 750 lemons left (I already picked 250 or so of them). C'mon over, bring a couple of 5-gallon buckets with you 😉🍋
My sister’s tree is unbelievable , it’s a mad producer. I used to take bags home as my tree at the time was old and still produced, but not like it used to.
If I still lived in SoCal I’d take you up on that. Mine is a Meyer as well.
Mine is about 30 y.o. and is producing more than ever. I put in a lime, tangerine, and a couple of orange trees at the same time which are long since gone. I put in another tangerine tree but it will be a few years before it gets going, it only produced 15 or so last December.
Mine was 60 and I was amazed it still produced as much as it did.
I have lemon, orange, and satsuma trees. The satsuma is done, we ate them all. I'm looking forward to lemons and oranges again.
Guess it's past time to put that greenhouse in!
O.o
I have a small one in my mud room, but our orchids have taken up residence, they love it and I hate to evict them. I bought a table top starter one with a grow light and can’t wait to try it.
Sorry I had to laugh, one thing we can calm down about is scurvy, there are plenty of sources for a small amount regularly. Who knows that flood could be tomorrow with that river at capacity, they voted for him, unbelievable.
You’re supposed to laugh, it was a joke.😉
There was lots of toilet paper in 2019.
"farmers were depending on that water to grow crops this summer" but there's no point in growing crops this summer since there will be no-one to pick them in the fall.
That is a good point.
“YOU BETTER RUN, BITCHES,” should be the shout of the fucking Dems in Congress elected to fight for us. Put that mom in Congress!
AGREE!!
Then they did run! I hadn’t heard that story but yes send the bullhorn lady to congress “Stand up bitches when I say stand you stand Tom Cotton!” Yeah I like it.
I’m getting a bullhorn today!
She can't be any worse than the insipid cowards, on both sides of the aisle, who are "serving" now. With a few, notable exceptions, of course.
👍👍👍
Well I guess now the farmers don’t have to worry about who’s going to pick their crops, since there won’t be any.
I can't wait til all the folks living in their gated communities start complaining that no one has been around to mow their lawns & trim their shrubs.
We are in a gated community but are absolutely unlike that condemnation of people in gated communities.
#GeneralizingDoesntHelp
Yes. The orange genius killed two birds with one stone. No fruit and no one to pick it. Brilliant work.
All part of that 4D chess, I suppose...
Another self-inflicted problem solved by the President savant.
Yeah, having the migrant workers kidnaped and sent to Guantanamo really won't matter anymore. At least not to us.
Sad truth Stephanie!!
Damn, made me laugh, the irony of it.
Hire that person with the bullhorn. Full time job and training academy. Hey, congresspeople, this is how you do it. And start with those Muskovites wreaking havoc on the government.
“Muskovites” — perfect.
Speaking of Muscovites, Putin must be pissing himself laughing at what his orange acolyte has been doing.
To think he spent most of his years trying to destroy democracy, Donnie will do it in weeks dros!!
Thanks.
I prefer the title of "Muskolini", and his Swastikars. This is so outrageous!
Beautiful!
Certainly fatal to the economy and democracy Ellen… I guess the muckraker side of me appreciates the sentiment!!
She needs more than a bullhorn.
Perhaps a RAGING BULL ?
“This decision was clearly made by someone with no understanding of the system or the impacts that come from knee-jerk political actions.” So fitting.
You've just defined our " stable genius " of a President - a man who went bankrupt 6 times, once while owning a casino, for God's sake. And to top it off, the guy is a malignant narcissist in bed with other narcissists like Musk. What could possibly go wrong?
Four casinos!
1991: Trump Taj Mahal
1992: Trump Castle Hotel & Casino
1992: Trump Plaza Casino
2004: Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts
If Republicans can't apply systems thinking or scientific evidence to decision-making, I wouldn't recommend hiring them. They themselves aren't fit to pick fruit. And "just following orders" won't cover their asses in the long game.
Now, now, the classic definition of today's republican (we don't need to capitalize it any more) is "someone who does not understand the consequences of his or her action."
Dunno. Was it deliberate or was he just being stupid again?
Stupid, he just can't understand the concept of consequences.
AS if they don't know who "someone" is.
Trump probably thinks the benediction is, "In the name of the Father (for Fred Trump), the Son (for himself), and the Holy Spigot."
Seriously, fuck these assholes. The only hope we have right now is that they'll fuck shit up so bad that even some of the MAGA cult will snap out of it.
"...the Holy Spigot.” 😂😂😂😂
Saint Spigoteer the moist
😂😂😂😂
I turned 73 last Sunday. I've been through JFK, RFK, and MLK assassinations, Vietnam, Nixon, and so much more. I have always been aware that America is an imperfect experiment in democracy. But, it has never been this imperfect.
I am of the same generation and would add it has never been this imperfect in my lifetime. The civil war was the collapse of a very imperfect nation. The constitution failed and hundreds of thousands died to try to put what had failed back together. And they did that imperfectly too.
Trump is constitutionally ineligible to hold the Presidency (or any other federal office), so the Presidency is vacant at present (the Supreme Court's decision that he could run was inconsistent with the text, original intent, or precedent of prior applications of the insurrection clause of the 14th amendment, so it should not be respected as a "judicial" ruling at all, but as a usurpation of political power that Article III does not grant to the courts). If a plurality of voters is content with ending the constitutional republic, then the republic is dead. Whether it can be resurrected remains to be seen. After the Senate granted dictatorial powers to Julius Caesar in 46 BC, there wasn't republican government in Rome again until 1946 AD.
Harry Truman, Doris Day
Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific
Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon
Studebaker, Television
North Korea, South Korea
Marilyn Monroe
Rosenbergs, H-Bomb
Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, The King And I,
And The Catcher In The Rye
Eisenhower, Vaccine
England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace
Santayana goodbye.
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov
Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella
Communist Bloc
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron
Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu Falls,
"Rock Around the Clock"
Einstein, James Dean
Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan
Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place
Trouble in the Suez
Little Rock, Pasternak
Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Zhou En-lai
Bridge On The River Kwai
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle
California baseball
Starkweather Homicide
Children of Thalidomide
Buddy Holly, Ben-Hur
Space Monkey, Mafia
Hula Hoops, Castro
Edsel is a no-go,
U-2, Syngman Rhee
Payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho
Belgians in the Congo
Hemingway, Eichmann
Stranger in a Strange Land
Dylan, Berlin
Bay of Pigs invasion
Lawrence of Arabia
British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn
Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul, Malcolm X
British Politician sex
J.F.K. blown away
What else do I have to say?
Richard Nixon, back again
Moonshot, Woodstock
Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine,
Terror on the airline
Ayatollahs in Iran
Russians in Afghanistan.
Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride
Heavy metal suicide
Foreign debts, homeless Vets
AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores,
China's under martial law
Rock and Roller cola wars
I can't take it anymore.
You should credit Billy Joel. He sure as shootin' was right.
Oops, you’re right- I figured everyone knew that. Consider it done.
https://youtu.be/eFTLKWw542g
Jeff, 2 items you may have missed this am.. #1 The bottle bleach blond PR woman commenting on the trade war with Canada and the possibility of power, electric power from Canada to the US being reduced or cut off.. “well Jesus didn’t have power and look at what he accomplished”🤮Next up a letter to the editor in todays AZ Republic talks about how people should not criticize Donald or any member of his cabinet, if they do they should be prosecuted, imprisoned and put up on charges of being a traitor.. Try and have a better day than these folks…
that Jesus quote is fake. Leavitt didn't say it. if she did, it would have been in yesterday's 'week in stupid'
Poe's Law has become an understatement lately.
Oooohhhhh....
Fredo, I cancelled my subscription to the AZ Repuke when on MLK day they put Chump on the front page and a short column on page 8 about MLK. Guess that makes me a traitor. If you see anybody in your travels wearing MAGA gear, ask them why they're dressed like Nazis.
I don’t consider u a traitor, just a difference. Heck, I have read the Peking Review for over 30 years.. I think I know a little bit about propaganda and BS. Some would call my reading habits treasonous, heck watch Russian TV on Julia Davis site, it’s crazier than The 5 on FAUX.. Best to you Mingo
sick
Part II. WTF???!!!!! This is a joke. Right???
Maine, where I live, gets 1/4 of its electricity from Canada!
Y'all better invest in porta potties or out houses. Sorry.
Good time to get solar.
The Jesus quote is too good to be true, and we have to be very aware of what is too good to be true on our social media feed. I fell for a fake Eric Trump tweet last week, and I'm going to be a lot more careful
It’s always been easy to get fooled. I’ve done it, too. Anytime I see an unsourced quote like this, I ask for a citation. If I get one, that’s swell, I check it out from there. If the quote poster gets huffy and/or doesn’t provide one, I unfollow. In our haste for confirmation bias, we tend to automatically repost something we think COULD be true, whether it is or not. That’s part of the reason we’re where we are now.
Trump is a mentally ill person. He should be in a “facility “. Locked facility. He will destroy us.
My notmother was in one of those facilities briefly, all elegant window dressing and crappy care. Because as bad as she’d been I was tasked with assuring that she had the best care and pulled her out with no notice. Would hope that Rump would end up in one of those, coloring in children’s coloring books and not being fed.
It makes me sick to think of all that wasted water. Of course, the MAGA idiots believe that their beloved asshole saved California even though California is mean and doesn't deserve help, but that's what a great president their beloved asshole is. You can't reason with them.
Just shaking my head at the level of stupidity. Magnets, water. Maybe someone should suggest to Trump that sticking your finger in a wall socket will make you look thirty years younger.
Use a small shrimp fork, get the ends wet, insert into wall socket. Then your wet magnets will work.
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Or, it will help grow his hair back!
Ooh! Good thought!
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Great idea!!
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We’re p*ssed off, really p*ssed off. After 2 centuries, the Trumpet has undone the greatest alliance between 2 countries. How anyone this dumb is actually sitting behind the Resolute Desk making these effing decisions is f*ucking mind boggling. Yes, we’re retaliating against his rediculous call for tariffs. The real endgame is to annex Canada, drain us of all of our minerals, metals, potash and water and provide him with a northern gateway to access Greenland. Beware, when the Trumpet says anything, it’s a preview of his real intentions. So to my American family and friends, I’m sorry to have to retaliate in the only manner that we can right now. But we must as our freedom, honour and way of life depends on it.
I don't think there are many holding any ill will toward Canada right now.
No, they may not now, but when Canada launches its tariffs in retaliation to the American ones, they’ll feel the outcome. Then the anger will set in. All you had to see at the senators hockey game last night were angry spectators booing once the American anthem was played. This is not our usual way of dealing with issues, but it was the first outburst from ordinary peeps angry that an oligarch president would dare mess with our economic wellbeing and sovereignty.
It will only be the idiot cultists who will be angry because they won't be able to understand (and won't listen to) the reasoning behind Canada's actions—which, by the way, is the only next step available for your country. The majority of people who hate That Fucking Felon know what is happening and, while they may feel the pinch, will most likely blame him and not Canada.
One would hope, that is.
I hope you’re correct. I sure didn’t like what I saw at the Senators game last night coming from my compatriots.
Again, it's understandable. Who WOULDN'T boo the national anthem of an aggressor country? I'm guessing there are a lot of people in the States who want to boo it right now as well...
Yes, it may be understandable but it doesn’t minimize the impact this will have. On Nov 5th, everyone knew what your guy was all about, yet he won 49.9% of the votes. I’ve been calling this guy out since he came down the escalator in 2015.
This!!! ☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️
I would do the same as a Canadian after CF's disrespectful comments towards Canada of late. You don't have to apologize.
Yes! Canadians, the American "so-called govt" right now is NOT the vast majority of the American people! CF this Mon. am delayed or dropped 🇲🇽 tariffs. Maybe he's playing a toddler's game of chicken. Either way, there are no words strong enough to condemn what he's doing. I am embarrassed to be an American right now.
Believe us when we say this: The American people do not want this upon
Canada or Mexico. It’s one JERKOFF who doesn’t understand anything about Economics or International relations.
He’s a 7 year old child given the keys to the car. Nobody here believes in tariffs
and they will screw up both of economies
Well said.
Cam 🇨🇦, now our 🇨🇦 and 🇲🇽 neighbors and allies must do everything they can to stand up to the Convicted Felon. The American people are ashamed. Trying to combat this insanity too. No words. 😭
The only thing that we’re capable of at this point is the tariff call. As individuals we can speak with our wallet - purchasing only Canadian or European products and refusing to holiday in the US. The latter would decimate Florida’s tourism business, as well potentially Arizona’s.
Your country is being threatened. Do what you gotta do. The American people are still with u & Mexico. It's the govt gone insane.
No ill will at all, in fact I applaud targeting your tariffs on products from red states - look out Makers Mark of Kentucky!!
So far only BC has targeted its tariffs to the red States. I haven’t yet seen the list of the products affected by the tariffs.
Retaliatory tariffs are for show only. It is the US tariffs that will hurt Americans, in states of both colours.
Until we see the list of products that will affect the retaliatory tariffs, it’s hard to gauge how it will affect both countries. I agree if we do stuff like maple syrup, it wouldn’t make one iota to the Americans. But I still maintain that our biggest stick is your tourism industry. When our dollar falls below its current low of 68 cents US and the exchange rate grows close to $1.50, Canadians will think twice about spending 6 months in Florida, Arizona or any other southern state.
CAM, I'm up in the Great White North with you. Didn't you see the way I spelled colour? ;)
😆 and here I thought you had spelled it the Canadian way to assuage my ire. Well done.
Cam, if 🇨🇦 wants maple syrup, can we make quiet lists. I for one will be happy to mail items you want. Shhh. Seriously, time to brainstorm solutions. Anyone else want to join?
I will happily pay for the product and postage as a show of goodwill toward our countries' centuries long close relationship. 🇨🇦
Cam, Canada must do as you see fit. The Convicted Felon might think twice if you shoot down his drones (unproven), defend yourselves. 🇨🇦. Maybe an ass kicking is what he needs. No one "died and made him king".
Somebody…anybody…is there a brain in that administration/congress…anywhere???? HELLO??!!!
*crickets*
The stupidity of the Orange Menace knows no bounds. He seems to think if you look at a map on the wall, since Southern California is below Northern California, water just flows down south after you open the ginormous faucet. No pumping required. He is unteachable and unlearnable.
He is both willfully ignorant and low IQ. So, dangerously stupid.
Don't forget, he changed the path of a hurricane. He can do anything. Except be human.
I am stuck in Missouri and am seething at the inaction of the dems. Why keep playing that this entire situation needs some sort of understanding the other side? The Ds keep playing by rules and law, instead of fighting fire with fire. THERE ARE NO LONGER ANY RULES. YOU WERE ELECTED TO FIGHT FOR YOUR CONSTITUENTS.
YES!!!!!
Complicity is all I can think of Elizabeth!!