Ms Spouse is under the weather this morning (don't worry, nothing serious) and wasn't available to proofread this post, so apologies for there probably being more typos than usual
Thou art a braver soul than I, since I don't let my wife proofread anything of mine any longer, because the laughter from another room is too much for my thin skin.
Hope she's better soon, and now I understand why you missed the anti-AfD demonstration in Munich last Saturday that drew 250,000 - 320,000 participants. (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Monday, page 1). From what I hear Couchfuck wasn't there.
Last weekend over here in Germany, anti-AfD demonstrations didn't just manifest in Berlin and Munich, but all over the country, and in numerous cities, bigger ones down to smaller ones. It is still plain unbelievable how all of this could ever happen again around here. And then again, how all of this could ever happen again all around the globe which is currently going on everywhere. I was born in 1959, I have always trusted in and voted for democratic (social liberal) parties, and up until about 10 years ago, I firmly believed this world becoming a better place for everyone, well, at least for most of the people. But today, the future ahead is just a s***thole to look into.
I'm with you. It's the only system that provides for the greater good. I vote with Democrats, but they are way too centrist and only really support people who fall into their narrow perspective.
Take heart. I was born in 1945 (USA). I have witnessed the sturm and drang over the decades. I too am taken by the latest trend MAGA embraces. I still believe as MLK intoned the arc of history bends toward justice. Sometimes it just doesn’t seem apparent.
Exactly. I was at a demo in a Northern German City-State of around half a million and we had around 50,000 at our demo. Until around 10 years ago the world was getting better. Putin has been working hard since 1989 to make the world a worse place. Somehow he does not get that living in a shitty country that he has sucked all the wealth out of with no family around him and trusting no one, is a shitty life, not one to be envied. Trump does not understand this either. Of course Trump has lots of family around him and he does not understand anything anyway, except how to be a dictator. That is his superpower. He is not good a real estate, thus Greenland, Panama, Canada.
The Munich Security Conference was a hopeful note for me in some ways, and in other ways I felt worried it was all talk and no do. On the other hand, because the political conversation was intelligent, something one is not getting enough of in the US right now, like Zelenskyy, or Mark Rutte, or the PM of Iceland, so many, that I just hope that when those who spoke positively of Trump did so, it was because they were being politic and not what they really think.
Also, here are the Starbucks demographics according to them. Seems that the "White" women are working in greater numbers than the "White" men, but as a group they outnumber other demographics.
Only stupid people do not understand that we are all the same race, with variation in skin color, eye size and color, hair color and texture, ear attach or detached lobes, longer first or second toe, eye shape, skin dryness, vision, hearing etc... It makes us interesting. Cloning everyone to look the same is a terribly boring idea, and I cannot imagine why people would want that.
Sending some cosmic chicken soup her way, along with good wishes.
After reading this post, I felt (momentarily) ashamed to be an American. Then, I realized I'm just ashamed of those nazis who have tarnished our good name and are destroying our good deeds.
I hope all real Americans stand against this nightmare, everyday and everywhere.
Hope she feels better soon. Honestly I don’t care about grammatical errors. The fact that you can follow this fuckery at all is impressive. I have to just skim over posts because I can’t take it.
No! No desire to touch him, but expect Usra to use a muzzle and a whip on him after chaining him to a dank wall. Let the children stay with her parents.
Would've loved to have heard about it. Another blatant failure of the media not doing their jobs and sweeping more shit under the rug. As our so-called VP praises the Nazi dialog, it's safe to say he could never be a spokesman for Ashley Furniture. The whole world is watching in horror as Smuk, Dump and that couch fucking guy keep insane goals at record speed. Thanks for the info Mike.
Absofkinglutely! I have been saying for decades that when the autopsy is written on America the media will be found as the cause of death, expecially with the advent of Fux News, et. al. They are order-taking (rhymes with "doors"). We're fked.
I did not hear Scholz' speech in anger against JD Vance, yesterday morning, but in essence he said, we stayed out of your elections, you stay out of ours. One could also read that to mean stay out of our country too. There was a hate attack in Munich on Friday morning or Thursday, where some crazed radicalized person drove his car into a demonstration killing a mother and child and the US legacy media keeps talking about how this happened before Vance arrived as if his well being were the only thing that counted in this situation. It was really sickening the way that the bully boy in the school yard has his suck ups. That is how the legacy media is reporting on this administration. Yeech!
Our VP, and 2 Ps are all Nazis in their thinking. Keep an eye on their Concentration camp on Guantanamo.
Me too. Instead, I have been one of the people demonstrating against the AfD in Germany. Actually, my latest sign was a protest against Musk, and the AfD, or Weidel the AfD chancellor candidate who is living in a major form of denial. I rhymed Musk with Migrationshass, which is immigrant hate, even though it is not a perfect rhyme it works well enough. "Keine Weidel, Kein Musk, Kein Merz, Kein Migrationshass!" "No Weidel, No Musk, No Merz, no Immigrant hate!)
I loved that there were several speeches against JD Vance in the Munich Security Conference this weekend, and some were crying for a wake up call to Europe to get its shit together and stop depending on the US as an ally. This is made even more clear by Donald Trump sending Rubio and some other of his flunkies to Saudi Arabia next week, to meet with Russia and negotiate a peace deal for Ukraine. As if Europe is just going to let Donald Trump do this. I am waiting to see how long the European Diplomats carefully choose their words when referring to Trump. JDV is already been shat on by a bunch of people by inference about him telling people to be willing to work with the AfD who see that immigration is Germany's biggest problem. Right now I would say Musk and his billions are a far bigger problem as he illegally funnels them to the AfD so they and Putin can. put misleading ads into the election. What is knows as hybrid warfare.
Yesterday Senator Lindsay Graham was a speaker in a session where he suggested 2 main things. 1) That Russia be told that if they break any peace with Ukraine, Ukraine will automatically be accepted into NATO. 2) That if Zelenskyy gives Trump Billions of dollars worth of valuable minerals then he can go back to the American people and tell them how much they need to now protect their own assets in Ukraine, thus in go American troops. Problems with these ideas? It was suggested that if a peace that was broken led to automatic NATO admission for Ukraine, Putin would have no impetus for peace, because then he would not be able to continue with his bid to recreate the Soviet Union. Secondly, it is hardly clear that the US has given as much to Ukraine in dollars, as Trump is trying to get in minerals. We also did not hear why it was a good idea for Trump and Putin to plan a peace without Europeans at the table who will be expected to help maintain any peace or ceasefire deal, or Ukraine, who has to agree to these things. Of course the threat will be that if Zelenskyy does not accept the deal that Trump makes, Trump will give Putin the go ahead to do what he wants. Isn't that what Putin is doing anyway?
European leaders are meeting tomorrow in France to discuss what they want from the Ukrainian situation. Let us see if they can follow their words with actions. We know that for Trump it is hard to sustain anything. We shall see what happens. More and more people have his number. JD Vance is no Donald Trump, he is also not welcome in Germany or Britain. There, they are up in arms about some abortion clinic reference he made because it was disinformation as usual. He loves to spread that, like his buddy Musk. They don't even say Oops! when it is pointed out. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c87d9j17pjqo
I hope that JDV ends up on the outs with the Donster, and Donny does everything in his power to ruin JDVs political career.
Thank you, Linda Weide, for more. I’m still trying to wrap my head around all the anti Communist sentiment from the GOP for years & now the embrace by MAGA. Nazis and the ideology in the US & abroad never went away. It is all triggering fears from which my grand and great-grand parents escaped. Tho I’ve experienced hate and ignorance (playground comment in the ‘50s: “you’re a Christ killer”) I’m terrified at the anti-immigrant hate.
Couchfuck is nattering on about Free Speech in another country, while his capo is doing everything he can to suppress Free Speech in this one (see the banning of AP from the WH press pool).
The orange shit stain got a smattering of Boos yesterday at the Daytona 500. I found that encouraging as the crowd makeup of a NASCAR race is most definitely skewed white and Maggot
These shit-stains never ever ever tire of beclowning themselves and humiliating the rest of the country. Dunno about you but I had no idea we had so many truly awful people claiming to be christians . Fuck. Them. All.
These people have always been here, and the hate has always been bubbling under the surface. Trump didn't inject poison into the American bloodstream; it's been here since the beginning. He just gave permission and made it fashionable.
My grandfather always told me that the US was fill of Nazi bastards because the US allowed them to emigrate here after the war without vetting them. Turns out he was right.
We allowed a hell of a lot of Nazi war criminals to emigrate here. The CIA was complicit in Klaus Barbie's escape to Bolivia. There has always been a powerful fascist strain in this country, and after WWII it was disguised as fighting communism. What's happening now makes Joe McCarthy and Nixon look like sheer amateurs.
Oh yes, the biggest should-have-been scandal. Let's not forget Werner Von Braun and his rocket boys - never held accountable for their use of slave labor and mass murder to manufacture the V weapons.
Sometimes it's even more maddening to think about the role non-voters played in putting The Orange One in power. Millions who voted for Biden in 2020, for whatever petty reasons, couldn't find it in themselves to get off their asses to head out and get Kamala - and our democracy - over the finish line.
I know. It was just agonizing to realize how lazy and entitled we've become so that otherwise sane people would just not bother to show up and vote when the republicans were saying out loud they are going to end democracy and the constitution.
The British Island Empire and previous geographical isolation has made for xenophobia. The French were racist but less so, closer to Africa, Arabian influences along the Mediterranean so more familiar with different colored races...when the French colonized Canada and the Mississippian New Orleans and St. Louis, they inter-married with Native Americans and Blacks. Racism typically stems from fear of invasion, and in the last generations of Americans that they want to erase history for, racism is due to squelched anxiety "guilt" of black retribution and vengeance for enslaving and oppressing millions of Africans that has been passed down generation to generation.
Unspeakable wars from the earliest days of civilization…all in the name of specific religions at odds with the idiosyncrasies of their opposition’s theology. To this day I don’t think anything has been learned, it goes on and on.
I was raised evangelical, but got out because the church wasn't able to beat the critical thinking out of me and it failed to turn me into a fucking sociopath like it does to most Christians to one degree or another.
Hanging around New Orleans, being a jazz and blues fan, I know of what you speak Lynn. The racist term redbone, was carved into my grey matter years ago!!
Supremist fuckfaces for sure! I’m so sorry Greta Thunberg has been scolding you about climate change—-oh and she fired tons of federal workers, gathered immigrants to deport, she’s claiming lands that do not belong to her…..yada yada yada. Someone please make all this shit go away!! I love Greta Thunberg-fyi!
Actually glad Couchfuck gave her a plug. Reminded me of the title of her little book, "No one is too small to make a difference", which appeared in German as "Ich will, dass ihr in Panik geratet!"
I can't wait for Donny to drop dead, for Vance to ascend to the Oval and promptly be ground into mulch as the MAGA cult, the tech bros and the bankers fight for control.
How can she even look at that POS? Oh honey, you know just was just joking about immigrants, you know I didn't mean you, your family or our kids! Now go make me a sammich. Nauseating.
So let me get this straight: you can’t criticize Nazis because they’re only expressing their opinions. But speaking out against Trump could you fired, arrested, or possibly killed by Trump’s “well-regulated militia.” So free speech is now only for Nazis.
Yep, Stephanie, it seems so. All the “cultural” events gone bec well being Black, Asian, LGBTI, etc, are all a choice & regularly discussed in US classrooms. <- you know not I’m sure!
Being from Missouri, I am beyond embarrassed at how the state has devolved into its current stupidness. Farmers are waking up, starting to realize they've been conned. JFC! And Europe, Canada, Mexico...we're sorry.
Make your calls... www.5calls.org is an excellent resource. We cant get tired or complacent. This shit has got to stop...I dont know how, but it does.
I was wondering if this could be due to the people who are seeking those jobs? Maybe part-timers or flex-schedulers? Maybe it boils down to the average wage - $17/hour? Maybe their idiot AG should go work one of those jobs and be forced to live on those wages for a while?
Jess is an amazing role model for rural America. When all of our souls were crushed on Election Day, sending millions of us into a death spiral (that certainly includes me) Jess never missed a beat. Spittin’ the truth and always upbeat. She’s amazing.
Truly sad to see. I went through the same process, Susan, born and raised a Buckeye. Were we TOO NICE? Is that why the Republicons successfully targeted our states for takeover?
Actually, as a Californian, when I meet someone like you, I always say, "I'm so glad you're here." And I really mean it. I don't care where you're from, I just want you to be safe and have a chance at opportunity.
VERY, VERY INTERESTING and VERY, VERY DISTURBING that White Supremacist Hegseth - Trump's pick for, and now our current, U.S. Secretary of Defense - INVITED White Supremacist, Racist, Scumbag, Antisemite, Neo-Nazi Jack Psobiec to accompany him on his trip to Europe.
Hegseth loves the tattoos, medallions, Christo-fascist one-liners, and gratuitous power of being a stupid, meaty white oaf with a brain like a chuck roast. He's eager to kill and rape things. That's the entirety of his philosophy.
An Oaf! Haven’t heard that forever. Scandinavian for sure like King Nimrod in his own damn mind, there is a town in MN named after him! A statue too huge concrete King of Nimrods!
all the members of this Maladministration look shifty, grifty and exactly like slimy scumsucking slugs. Apologies to honest slugs who actually have a purpose in Nature, unlike the slimy scumsucking slugs newly rampaging through our government.
I first saw that on a Substack column TAFM by TCinLA and it so perfectly describes the clowncar full of idiots, phonies and toadies that Trump has recruited for his 'government of misrule' that I couldn't help but use it.
So what's up with Usha, JD's wife? As a very educated woman, she's actually on board with this Nazi bullshit? What the hell is wrong with the shameless wives of these smegma slatherers?! Why are they breeding with these obviously deeply defective males? Melania and Barron are another example of the bizarre acceptance of puke-o-rama breeders and their not-quite-with-it spawn.
Usha is upper-caste Hindu, thinks herself above all those other people from India, does not seem to realize that Indian-haters especially hate people from India who think they're as good as white people.
You know the haters look at Usha Vance and don’t see an upper caste Indian. They see brown skin. Period. She’s not special t5o these people as she thinks she is.
Education has nothing to do with whether or not a person is a doormat. You see smart, educated, successful women all the time be married to abusers and worse. What kind of culture was she raised in? Her parents were immigrants from a misogynistic culture. Not saying they were themselves, but who knows? When you still have honor killings in the 21st century within some cultures, you know that women are not treated equally across the globe. What role models did she have in the women in her family? She's been married to him long enough that she knows exactly who he is. Apparently it's ok with her or she would have left him a long time ago. Just an observation, but it's your emotional IQ that is the telling point on whether or not you take abuse, not your scholastic IQ. It's all about neediness. The higher the level, the more you will tolerate. Many times you can't see it in the open with a person. You just know it's there when you see the partner they pick and what level of bad behavior they are willing to put up with. I identify with this because this was me years ago.
I want NYU students to surround him constantly but unfortunately he has the Secret Service to protect him. I don’t want him physically harmed because he can’t help it that his parents and siblings are the worst fucking people!
Destiny has dealt him what I would call a mixed hand: enormous ill-gotten wealth, but two terrible exemplars of morality and values as parents, self obsessed and greedy. The odds of him becoming a decent person are slim to none
I can't make up my mind whether the Democrats should shut down the government by refusing to raise the debt ceiling (which is based on a poor understanding of money and debt anyway), which will further injure the civil service, or not. The plus side is that the Space Nazi and the Space Dick, as well as Zuck, etc., will lose billions in the ensuing market crash and credit downgrade. The down side is that people's 401ks will also be similarly impacted.
I’ll accept the pain. We are clearly at a decision point in our Republic. To rid us of MAGA/Trump requires a cathartic event. The failure must be graphic, inescapable, and not dismissed by bumper stickers and gaslighting.
I'm with you. Let people see what they voted for. My husband and I are old enough that we'll have fewer years to scrape by. For younger people, there will be years (decades?) of hard work without traditional rewards. Tragic.
Interesting points, but, can the poorest among us withstand that economic pressure when they already live on the razors edge? Most of our country lives “paycheck to paycheck” now.
Look, if people ask me for money, and I have some, I give some to them. If I'm at the local bakery, I get something for the security guard too (one cinnamon bread for me, one for him.) If I can get away with it, I will tip the baggers at the grocery store. We watch out for our favorite checker, who is transgender. My husband tips at least $5 at his Starbucks, and is close friends with one of the managers and another employee. The lady who has an autistic son knows she can always bring her son over to the group my husband plays with on Tuesday, because he likes to sing Summertime Blues with them. We're on Social Security, so there's a limit to what we can do, but we do what we can.
I've adopted the MAGA mindset(temporarily). I want them to feel pain for their choice of president. I want them to feel pain for their demonizing of women, gays, Jews, immigrants, POC, indigenous people. This is what they wanted and now they're getting it and it will be painful. Unfortunately the poor that didn't vote for this destruction will suffer also. If Medicaid is gutted people are going to die. I just wish it was only the MAGA's.
That's why I can't make up my mind whether they should go for it or not. It would only be a temporary solution, because of legislative legerdemain, and it would hurt many people. Given the current private debt crisis, private debt is 145.54 % of GDP in Sep 2024, whereas public debt is 123%. The former is very dangerous to the economy, and impedes growth, but the later is no danger whatsoever, since it is held by the US Government. The risk is that this disparity puts us in a situation very similar to 2008, where private debt was in excess of the public debt to a very high degree. We always can count on the GOP to crash the economy, and this "adminstration", if you can call it that, will be no different.
Since they are in the minority in Congress would they even be able to shut down the government or will that actually be much worse for the country? CF47 would call up his guards & round everyone up is my fear!!!
I think they can. There is a batch of republicans in congress who always vote against raising the debt ceiling because they do not understand money, how it is made, sovereign debt, and why, when properly managed, the latter is never a problem. Sovereign debt is only a problem when a) one does not control one's own currency (as in the EU bloc), b) there is too much debt, leading to inflation, or too little, leading to a recession.
Conceivably, yes. The Freedom Caucus is very resistant to passing a budget that includes tax cuts without cuts in spending. Firing a bunch of people will not significantly reduce the budget. The debt ceiling has to be raised. Right now, Congress has been lurching from Continuing Resolution to Continuing Resolution, with the Democrats pulling the Republicans’ nuts out of the fire.
Time for the Democrats to draw a line in the sand and say, No. Shut it down, if there is no agreement on sunsetting the billionaires’ tax cuts. IIRC, the round of tax cuts that passed the first time that thing was in office are due to sunset. Time to let them go.
Jeff, I need to be banned from holding coffee anywhere near my iPad when I read your articles. Jesus. Today I almost spit coffee laughing so hard at the “Susan Collins award for ‘Deeply Concerned’” right at the one spot where liquid can actually get IN the damn thing. No more coffee holding and reading your work at the same time for me. Bad Rick.
I’m just an old dude with very limited makeup skills, so I am not knowing.
When did these macho MAGATS decide that wearing eyeliner was cool? Is the Bloated Yam of Scam their fashion plate? Can we expect the Proud Boys to start sporting eyeliner?
I’m an old dudette! It’s an odd day when I use makeup but I have tons of it.
Walt sometimes the mascara or Manscara for now, when you use the brush to apply it sometimes it hits the line right above or below on the eye and use a Q-Tip to smudge it, you can get a decent looking eyeliner or the dude gets black pencil liner from Woolworth’ for like $1 or 1.50 and it’s a red pencil so you can see it quickly…
The 1930’s in Germany saw the rise of Adolf Hitler. Hitler was one of the most, if not the most, despicable people in the recorded history of Planet Earth. With a ruthless, unrelenting, lie-ridden program of propaganda, he managed to turn “normal” people into cult-like zombies. He created an atmosphere of hatred and rage. Citizens of Germany turned against other German citizens. Estimates for the total death count of the Second World War generally range somewhere between 70 and 85 million people.
In 2016, we saw the election of Donald Trump to the Office of President of the United States of America. Donald Trump is the most despicable person ever to rise to power in the USA. I have no doubt that Russia’s behind-the-scenes support of Trump’s campaign was a crucial reason why Trump was elected President. I refer to Donald Trump as “America’s Disgrace and Presidential Accident.” He was also elected because many, many Americans did not take the time to educate themselves as to the despicable nature of Trump, did not hold him accountable for his constant, unending tirade of lies and propaganda, and did not understand that apathy (in this case, not voting) can lead to terrible consequences.
When one takes the time to think carefully about the menace to American society Donald Trump is, one can easily, as I’ve done, list out Donald Trump’s “firsts”:
• First exxx-President to have his company convicted for fraud
• First Presidential candidate to have bankrupted a casino business (three, in fact)
• First Presidential candidate to have had to pay $25 million to settle the lawsuit against him for his university scam (Trump University)
• First US citizen to be elected to US President with the assistance and support of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin
• First US President to refer to White Supremacists (neo-NAZI’s and KKK’ers) as “fine” people
• First serial liar to be elected to US President
• First Grifter to be elected to US President
• First US President to divide US citizens, sowing and encouraging anger and hate
• First US President to attempt the extortion of the leader of friendly nation
• First US President to have a family member receive a $2 Billion payoff from a foreign government (the Saudi’s)
• First US President to bilk the US Treasury for millions of dollars (which he did by authorizing US Government agencies to purchase services from his solely-owned company)
• First President to be impeached twice
• First US President on whom the dictator of a foreign nation has damaging Kompromat
• First US President to incite an insurrection
• First US President to attempt the overturn of an election
• First exxx-President to be INDICTED
• First exxx-President to be INDICTED TWICE
Donald Trump will achieve additional “firsts”, including:
• First exxx-President to be convicted of a felony
• First exxx-President to be sentenced to prison
Trump issued pardons to many of his insiders who committed crimes against the American People – to name some of those, Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Steve Bannon. Trump has also said he will issue pardons to those who were convicted of criminal acts committed during the storming the U.S. Capitol on January 6th.
Steve Bannon and two of his associates created a “Build the Wall” scam to bilk millions of dollars from thousands of Trump supporters. Two of Bannon’s associates were found guilty of that scam. Bannon was pardoned by Trump!
Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthy and his incompetent, inept, ignorant handling of Covid caused all of the inflation our country is experiencing. Let that sink in. Fraud Trump called Covid “a hoax”…. and, then, over 1 million Americans died. Let that sink in.
Donald Trump said in 2016 that a president under indictment would "cripple the operations of our government" and create an "unprecedented constitutional crisis" -- years before he himself was indicted on federal charges while running for a second term as president.
Donald Trump made the decision to enter the 2024 Presidential race for only one reason – Trump thinks that entering the race for President will enable him to avoid accountability for the crimes he’s been (and will be) indicted for.
Going further, “I just don’t get it!” It is truly mind-boggling to me - how can ANY reasonable, educated American fall for a liar, con, fraud, fascist like Donald Trump?
That said, at least 30-35 million American voters have become members of the cult of Donald Trump. You could say the same exact thing about the ignorant, despicable people in Germany who aided and supported despicable Hitler’s rise to power.
THERE IS ONLY (please excuse the language) ONE GOD DAMN WAY to stop Donald Trump from totally destroying our democratic republic. VOTE. AND, VOTE ONLY FOR DEMOCRATS. WE MUST TAKE BACK CONTROL OF THE HOUSE, WE MUST TAKE BACK CONTROL OF THE SENATE AND WE MUST RETAIN CONTROL OF THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT. AND, WE MUST NOT ONLY VOTE, WE MUST DO EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER TO ENSURE THAT EVERYONE REGISTERS TO VOTE and GETS OUT TO VOTE. VOTER APATHY WILL LEAD TO ONLY ONE THING – THE COMPLETE AND UTTER DESTRUCTION OF OUR DEMOCRACY.
Excellent and heartbreaking. What bothers me the most is the fact that people that I know and care for voted for him. There will always be a-holes in public life, but I've never seen anything like this. I had so much more faith in my fellow citizens before Trump. Not anymore.
It's amazing how many people I misjudged including some in my own family. I've lost faith in them and no longer care about them. Their hatefulness and ugliness once it was revealed destroyed our relationship.
He's definitely a history maker. It would be interesting to see how this era in American history, assuming our nation survives, is viewed decades or centuries from now.
“You guys can survive a few months of Elon Musk”? WTF does this mean? JDVance thinks he and The Thing are going to “you’re fired!” Elon once all the Fascism is in place?
Not sure we can survive months more of this. President Elmo is using blitzkrieg, sans weaponry. Terrible things are happening as we drink our morning coffee. Elmo’s plan must certainly be to do his damage as fast as “inhumanly possible,” before the sluggish Dems can do a damn thing about it.
Ms Spouse is under the weather this morning (don't worry, nothing serious) and wasn't available to proofread this post, so apologies for there probably being more typos than usual
Hope she feels better soon. Here are some get well flowers for her. 🌼🌸💐
Ditto!
Ha! Like typos and misspellings are gonna make me stop reading JT! WTAF!
Hahaha!! I hear ya there!
Thou art a braver soul than I, since I don't let my wife proofread anything of mine any longer, because the laughter from another room is too much for my thin skin.
🤣😂
Hope she's on the mend soon! <3
Hope she's better soon, and now I understand why you missed the anti-AfD demonstration in Munich last Saturday that drew 250,000 - 320,000 participants. (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Monday, page 1). From what I hear Couchfuck wasn't there.
Last weekend over here in Germany, anti-AfD demonstrations didn't just manifest in Berlin and Munich, but all over the country, and in numerous cities, bigger ones down to smaller ones. It is still plain unbelievable how all of this could ever happen again around here. And then again, how all of this could ever happen again all around the globe which is currently going on everywhere. I was born in 1959, I have always trusted in and voted for democratic (social liberal) parties, and up until about 10 years ago, I firmly believed this world becoming a better place for everyone, well, at least for most of the people. But today, the future ahead is just a s***thole to look into.
Democratic socialism is by far the kindest and fairest system. Wish like hell our lives had more of both of those. Bernie would have won.
I'm with you. It's the only system that provides for the greater good. I vote with Democrats, but they are way too centrist and only really support people who fall into their narrow perspective.
Not to mention corporatists.
Take heart. I was born in 1945 (USA). I have witnessed the sturm and drang over the decades. I too am taken by the latest trend MAGA embraces. I still believe as MLK intoned the arc of history bends toward justice. Sometimes it just doesn’t seem apparent.
1945, me, too!
Exactly. I was at a demo in a Northern German City-State of around half a million and we had around 50,000 at our demo. Until around 10 years ago the world was getting better. Putin has been working hard since 1989 to make the world a worse place. Somehow he does not get that living in a shitty country that he has sucked all the wealth out of with no family around him and trusting no one, is a shitty life, not one to be envied. Trump does not understand this either. Of course Trump has lots of family around him and he does not understand anything anyway, except how to be a dictator. That is his superpower. He is not good a real estate, thus Greenland, Panama, Canada.
The Munich Security Conference was a hopeful note for me in some ways, and in other ways I felt worried it was all talk and no do. On the other hand, because the political conversation was intelligent, something one is not getting enough of in the US right now, like Zelenskyy, or Mark Rutte, or the PM of Iceland, so many, that I just hope that when those who spoke positively of Trump did so, it was because they were being politic and not what they really think.
Also, here are the Starbucks demographics according to them. Seems that the "White" women are working in greater numbers than the "White" men, but as a group they outnumber other demographics.
https://about.starbucks.com/uploads/2020/10/Starbucks-Workforce-Demographics-Data-Description-August-2020.pdf
Only stupid people do not understand that we are all the same race, with variation in skin color, eye size and color, hair color and texture, ear attach or detached lobes, longer first or second toe, eye shape, skin dryness, vision, hearing etc... It makes us interesting. Cloning everyone to look the same is a terribly boring idea, and I cannot imagine why people would want that.
Hallo Rüdiger, fellow 1959er! 😉 Excellent post, thank you.
Feel better soon, Ms. Spouse!
Hope she feels better soon!!
🍵 Here's a cup of chicken soup for Mrs. Spouse. Hope it helos.
Get well Ms Spouse!
Can't live with them, can't live without them. You are too much.
Hope she’s feeling better very soon.
Sending heal8ng to Ms Spouse
Sending some cosmic chicken soup her way, along with good wishes.
After reading this post, I felt (momentarily) ashamed to be an American. Then, I realized I'm just ashamed of those nazis who have tarnished our good name and are destroying our good deeds.
I hope all real Americans stand against this nightmare, everyday and everywhere.
Didn’t see a one Jeff. My eyes tend to miss such frivolities anyway. Hope your Mrs feels better soon.
No typos detected. Best wishes to The Spouse for a speedy recovery.
Hope she feels better soon. Honestly I don’t care about grammatical errors. The fact that you can follow this fuckery at all is impressive. I have to just skim over posts because I can’t take it.
Apparently hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside couchfuck’s hotel and chanted lots of not nice stuff. Would have loved to be there!
oh, I missed that in the accounts I read. nice!
Fick ditch means fuck you in German so I’ll bet there’s lots of that!
"fick dich," to be accurate.
(three years of German in high school fifty years ago, but this isn't one of the words we learned)
German here, danke!
I will be using this on twitter
I'll use it in daily life! 🤣😂🤣❤️
𝔽𝕚𝕔𝕜 𝔻𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙! 𝔽𝕚𝕔𝕜 𝔻𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙!
┗(•ˇ_ˇ•)―→ all ficking day long
just make sure to use the corrected version - fick dich - so as not to be inaccurate!
Gotta say DICH with the sou d a cat makes coughing up a hairball
SOUND
Very astute but the cat might be telling us something catch it on video and share it would be something like an emoji for us or a gif over and over.
Guttural. Don’t speak German but had those sounds in Arabic.
I’m sure autocorrect will try to fix it so beware.
fix it to fish dick
Oh good…another term I can use! lol
Don’t ya’ just wanna squeeze Couchfuck until his cheeks explode? Not that I would want to touch his nasty body…
No! No desire to touch him, but expect Usra to use a muzzle and a whip on him after chaining him to a dank wall. Let the children stay with her parents.
I just want to punch him.
Thanks! I’ll be using this phrase from now on.
Fick dich to Couchfuck!
Hopefully!!!
Would've loved to have heard about it. Another blatant failure of the media not doing their jobs and sweeping more shit under the rug. As our so-called VP praises the Nazi dialog, it's safe to say he could never be a spokesman for Ashley Furniture. The whole world is watching in horror as Smuk, Dump and that couch fucking guy keep insane goals at record speed. Thanks for the info Mike.
Isn't the utter failure of the media the most dispairing aspect of this whole shit show?
Absofkinglutely! I have been saying for decades that when the autopsy is written on America the media will be found as the cause of death, expecially with the advent of Fux News, et. al. They are order-taking (rhymes with "doors"). We're fked.
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I did not hear Scholz' speech in anger against JD Vance, yesterday morning, but in essence he said, we stayed out of your elections, you stay out of ours. One could also read that to mean stay out of our country too. There was a hate attack in Munich on Friday morning or Thursday, where some crazed radicalized person drove his car into a demonstration killing a mother and child and the US legacy media keeps talking about how this happened before Vance arrived as if his well being were the only thing that counted in this situation. It was really sickening the way that the bully boy in the school yard has his suck ups. That is how the legacy media is reporting on this administration. Yeech!
Our VP, and 2 Ps are all Nazis in their thinking. Keep an eye on their Concentration camp on Guantanamo.
Me too. Instead, I have been one of the people demonstrating against the AfD in Germany. Actually, my latest sign was a protest against Musk, and the AfD, or Weidel the AfD chancellor candidate who is living in a major form of denial. I rhymed Musk with Migrationshass, which is immigrant hate, even though it is not a perfect rhyme it works well enough. "Keine Weidel, Kein Musk, Kein Merz, Kein Migrationshass!" "No Weidel, No Musk, No Merz, no Immigrant hate!)
I loved that there were several speeches against JD Vance in the Munich Security Conference this weekend, and some were crying for a wake up call to Europe to get its shit together and stop depending on the US as an ally. This is made even more clear by Donald Trump sending Rubio and some other of his flunkies to Saudi Arabia next week, to meet with Russia and negotiate a peace deal for Ukraine. As if Europe is just going to let Donald Trump do this. I am waiting to see how long the European Diplomats carefully choose their words when referring to Trump. JDV is already been shat on by a bunch of people by inference about him telling people to be willing to work with the AfD who see that immigration is Germany's biggest problem. Right now I would say Musk and his billions are a far bigger problem as he illegally funnels them to the AfD so they and Putin can. put misleading ads into the election. What is knows as hybrid warfare.
Yesterday Senator Lindsay Graham was a speaker in a session where he suggested 2 main things. 1) That Russia be told that if they break any peace with Ukraine, Ukraine will automatically be accepted into NATO. 2) That if Zelenskyy gives Trump Billions of dollars worth of valuable minerals then he can go back to the American people and tell them how much they need to now protect their own assets in Ukraine, thus in go American troops. Problems with these ideas? It was suggested that if a peace that was broken led to automatic NATO admission for Ukraine, Putin would have no impetus for peace, because then he would not be able to continue with his bid to recreate the Soviet Union. Secondly, it is hardly clear that the US has given as much to Ukraine in dollars, as Trump is trying to get in minerals. We also did not hear why it was a good idea for Trump and Putin to plan a peace without Europeans at the table who will be expected to help maintain any peace or ceasefire deal, or Ukraine, who has to agree to these things. Of course the threat will be that if Zelenskyy does not accept the deal that Trump makes, Trump will give Putin the go ahead to do what he wants. Isn't that what Putin is doing anyway?
European leaders are meeting tomorrow in France to discuss what they want from the Ukrainian situation. Let us see if they can follow their words with actions. We know that for Trump it is hard to sustain anything. We shall see what happens. More and more people have his number. JD Vance is no Donald Trump, he is also not welcome in Germany or Britain. There, they are up in arms about some abortion clinic reference he made because it was disinformation as usual. He loves to spread that, like his buddy Musk. They don't even say Oops! when it is pointed out. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c87d9j17pjqo
I hope that JDV ends up on the outs with the Donster, and Donny does everything in his power to ruin JDVs political career.
Thank you, Linda Weide, for more. I’m still trying to wrap my head around all the anti Communist sentiment from the GOP for years & now the embrace by MAGA. Nazis and the ideology in the US & abroad never went away. It is all triggering fears from which my grand and great-grand parents escaped. Tho I’ve experienced hate and ignorance (playground comment in the ‘50s: “you’re a Christ killer”) I’m terrified at the anti-immigrant hate.
Danke, Linda! Excellent analysis. 😃
What political career?
To quote Greta Thunberg "small dick energy"
Christ on a razor sharp katana Mike, I would have as well!!
That's good! I'm sure Vance was very pleased with them and commended them for their exercise of free speech, which he values so highly!
Right? Right?
Somebody cue the Irony Fairy.
Couchfuck is nattering on about Free Speech in another country, while his capo is doing everything he can to suppress Free Speech in this one (see the banning of AP from the WH press pool).
The orange shit stain got a smattering of Boos yesterday at the Daytona 500. I found that encouraging as the crowd makeup of a NASCAR race is most definitely skewed white and Maggot
Oh, the poor dear. I bet he was triggered and hereby demanded a safe space!
These shit-stains never ever ever tire of beclowning themselves and humiliating the rest of the country. Dunno about you but I had no idea we had so many truly awful people claiming to be christians . Fuck. Them. All.
These people have always been here, and the hate has always been bubbling under the surface. Trump didn't inject poison into the American bloodstream; it's been here since the beginning. He just gave permission and made it fashionable.
My grandfather always told me that the US was fill of Nazi bastards because the US allowed them to emigrate here after the war without vetting them. Turns out he was right.
We allowed a hell of a lot of Nazi war criminals to emigrate here. The CIA was complicit in Klaus Barbie's escape to Bolivia. There has always been a powerful fascist strain in this country, and after WWII it was disguised as fighting communism. What's happening now makes Joe McCarthy and Nixon look like sheer amateurs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
Oh yes, the biggest should-have-been scandal. Let's not forget Werner Von Braun and his rocket boys - never held accountable for their use of slave labor and mass murder to manufacture the V weapons.
Trump lineage.
Usually the voters get rid of the wanna be fascists. They did in the 1930’s & 40’s. This time, voters put them in power
Sometimes it's even more maddening to think about the role non-voters played in putting The Orange One in power. Millions who voted for Biden in 2020, for whatever petty reasons, couldn't find it in themselves to get off their asses to head out and get Kamala - and our democracy - over the finish line.
I know. It was just agonizing to realize how lazy and entitled we've become so that otherwise sane people would just not bother to show up and vote when the republicans were saying out loud they are going to end democracy and the constitution.
More than under the surface - it’s been out for years. The Southern Poverty Las Center has tracked it.
Fashionable, if you like to wear filthy stinky clothes.
Sad truth Linda!!
The British Island Empire and previous geographical isolation has made for xenophobia. The French were racist but less so, closer to Africa, Arabian influences along the Mediterranean so more familiar with different colored races...when the French colonized Canada and the Mississippian New Orleans and St. Louis, they inter-married with Native Americans and Blacks. Racism typically stems from fear of invasion, and in the last generations of Americans that they want to erase history for, racism is due to squelched anxiety "guilt" of black retribution and vengeance for enslaving and oppressing millions of Africans that has been passed down generation to generation.
They *are* Christians. Being evil doesn't change that.
Hell, they're acting the same exact way most Christians have acted for the past two thousand years.
No one knows and practices man's inhumanity to man better than evangelical, far right, self righteous christians.
Religion is the root of all evil
(money & greed a close second)
It is often a source of aggressive self righteousness and oppression, as well as outright murder
Not all of it, but a lot. Christianity in particular is almost uniquely toxic.
And omnicidal to boot.
Unspeakable wars from the earliest days of civilization…all in the name of specific religions at odds with the idiosyncrasies of their opposition’s theology. To this day I don’t think anything has been learned, it goes on and on.
And now MAGAt co-king has established an office of faith IN the WH to protect against “anti-Christian bias.” Aaaargg.
Paraphrasing Tom Robbins (RIP): ‘Organized religion is the single greatest obstacle to peace and understanding’.
There is no hate quite as vicious as Christian love. (I speak from experience, as a former Christian.)
Yup.
I was raised evangelical, but got out because the church wasn't able to beat the critical thinking out of me and it failed to turn me into a fucking sociopath like it does to most Christians to one degree or another.
TO LYNN:
YES YES YES YES YES
I refer to them as Xtians. Nothing remotely Christ-like about them
It’s truly as if they’ve never heard the words of Christ
They did, but it’s just an all you can eat buffet to them. They leave out all the dishes they don’t like
And I call them religists. Rotten to the core. Talk only about religion but don’t practice it.
My new credo: Don't accept Christ as your savior - accept him as your role model and act accordimgly.
At least that would NOT be hypocritical. Hypocrisy is the default setting for MAGAroons and they're only barely capable of recognizing it in others.
I’m not of the little fairies in the sky ilk, but appreciate your sentiment Edith!!
Agreed 👍
Hanging around New Orleans, being a jazz and blues fan, I know of what you speak Lynn. The racist term redbone, was carved into my grey matter years ago!!
Supremist fuckfaces for sure! I’m so sorry Greta Thunberg has been scolding you about climate change—-oh and she fired tons of federal workers, gathered immigrants to deport, she’s claiming lands that do not belong to her…..yada yada yada. Someone please make all this shit go away!! I love Greta Thunberg-fyi!
if only Thunberg had the kind of power and influence that musk has.......
Wouldn’t it be a much better world?!?!
It would help if the money didn't corrupt her.
Greta has more intelligence and street cred than any dozen Republicons currently running what remains of our country.
Actually glad Couchfuck gave her a plug. Reminded me of the title of her little book, "No one is too small to make a difference", which appeared in German as "Ich will, dass ihr in Panik geratet!"
Let's follow her advice!
I can't wait for Donny to drop dead, for Vance to ascend to the Oval and promptly be ground into mulch as the MAGA cult, the tech bros and the bankers fight for control.
I second your wish. I cannot wait for Grouchy Couchy to be sweating in the spotlight, the greatest charisma-fail since Millard Fillmore
"the greatest charisma fail since Millard Fillmore" 🤣😂🤣 - I love this!
or a Ron deSantis presser.
Richard, he HAD charisma?
Grouchy Couchy-🤣
I can't wait for Vontz's wife to finally realize what a POS he is and hammer his melon with a skillet while he sleeps
Go, Team Skillet!
The heavy black cast iron type
How can she even look at that POS? Oh honey, you know just was just joking about immigrants, you know I didn't mean you, your family or our kids! Now go make me a sammich. Nauseating.
She went to fucking Yale Law, so she’s an elitist too
So let me get this straight: you can’t criticize Nazis because they’re only expressing their opinions. But speaking out against Trump could you fired, arrested, or possibly killed by Trump’s “well-regulated militia.” So free speech is now only for Nazis.
We are in it now, Stephanie.
Yep, Stephanie, it seems so. All the “cultural” events gone bec well being Black, Asian, LGBTI, etc, are all a choice & regularly discussed in US classrooms. <- you know not I’m sure!
Being from Missouri, I am beyond embarrassed at how the state has devolved into its current stupidness. Farmers are waking up, starting to realize they've been conned. JFC! And Europe, Canada, Mexico...we're sorry.
Make your calls... www.5calls.org is an excellent resource. We cant get tired or complacent. This shit has got to stop...I dont know how, but it does.
I was wondering if this could be due to the people who are seeking those jobs? Maybe part-timers or flex-schedulers? Maybe it boils down to the average wage - $17/hour? Maybe their idiot AG should go work one of those jobs and be forced to live on those wages for a while?
And you know that unqualified white men will be demanding to get paid more than the women and "less white" people.
The best part of Missouri, Susan, is Jess Piper. She has worked her tush off informing rural America.
Jess is an amazing role model for rural America. When all of our souls were crushed on Election Day, sending millions of us into a death spiral (that certainly includes me) Jess never missed a beat. Spittin’ the truth and always upbeat. She’s amazing.
Oh yes...I'm familiar. She is a force to be reckoned with. Rural America is in for some tough times, I'm afraid.
As a Californian, they did it to themselves. And that includes rural Californians. Abe Lincoln lived in a different time.
Missouri used to be such a nice, friendly state.
It really did. My grandparents were long time Democrats and would be appalled at whats happening now.
Truly sad to see. I went through the same process, Susan, born and raised a Buckeye. Were we TOO NICE? Is that why the Republicons successfully targeted our states for takeover?
Claire McCaskill was great but the last good one as of 2019.
Mark Twain was born in Missouri.
He was! In Florida, Missouri. Crazy!
Maybe on the surface, but they may as well be a deep southern state with all the " friendy" racism.
‘Bless Your Heart’.
Southern for saying in a sweet as molasses- " As a loving christian, I hate you, fuck off "
FRIENDLY
Hear you all the way here in ice cold ‘Sota Kristy!!
Remind me when Walt?
Back in the 60’s, early 70’s. Ohio was normal then, too.
I'm from Missouri originally, too, Susan, and am loathe to admit it anymore. I just say "the midwest". 😔
I’m from Ohio, gone since ‘78 & I too am horrified at what they’ve done.
Actually, as a Californian, when I meet someone like you, I always say, "I'm so glad you're here." And I really mean it. I don't care where you're from, I just want you to be safe and have a chance at opportunity.
This! Should become the norm Ellen, however…
Me too.
It’s tough isn’t it?
Same here... UGH.
MN for me not anymore but most people there are geniuses compared to Iowa then Missouri straight south could get there in half a day by car but why?
You’re right Susan calls, letters and organized protests are our best assets!!
I am originally from the Deep South in NC where the gerrymandering is high and mighty right now. Glad I am in CA, for over 50 years now.
VERY, VERY INTERESTING and VERY, VERY DISTURBING that White Supremacist Hegseth - Trump's pick for, and now our current, U.S. Secretary of Defense - INVITED White Supremacist, Racist, Scumbag, Antisemite, Neo-Nazi Jack Psobiec to accompany him on his trip to Europe.
Because, at his heart, Hegseth is a philosophical Nazi.
Hegseth loves the tattoos, medallions, Christo-fascist one-liners, and gratuitous power of being a stupid, meaty white oaf with a brain like a chuck roast. He's eager to kill and rape things. That's the entirety of his philosophy.
Brain like a Chuck roast. 😂
An Oaf! Haven’t heard that forever. Scandinavian for sure like King Nimrod in his own damn mind, there is a town in MN named after him! A statue too huge concrete King of Nimrods!
He even looks like a shifty scumbag
all the members of this Maladministration look shifty, grifty and exactly like slimy scumsucking slugs. Apologies to honest slugs who actually have a purpose in Nature, unlike the slimy scumsucking slugs newly rampaging through our government.
"Maladministration": love it!
I first saw that on a Substack column TAFM by TCinLA and it so perfectly describes the clowncar full of idiots, phonies and toadies that Trump has recruited for his 'government of misrule' that I couldn't help but use it.
Love the : slimy scumsucking slugs…
will use that!
His hideous TATTOOS prove it.
They are all Nazis.
😡🤬😡🤬
So what's up with Usha, JD's wife? As a very educated woman, she's actually on board with this Nazi bullshit? What the hell is wrong with the shameless wives of these smegma slatherers?! Why are they breeding with these obviously deeply defective males? Melania and Barron are another example of the bizarre acceptance of puke-o-rama breeders and their not-quite-with-it spawn.
sad to say, there are women as ghastly as the husbands and eager to produce mini-ghastlies
Not sure about a brown skinned immigrant-daughter but we know Melanie is all about money. Sure pays better than escorting
Russian spy.
Usha is upper-caste Hindu, thinks herself above all those other people from India, does not seem to realize that Indian-haters especially hate people from India who think they're as good as white people.
You know the haters look at Usha Vance and don’t see an upper caste Indian. They see brown skin. Period. She’s not special t5o these people as she thinks she is.
She’s just another sell-out.
Education has nothing to do with whether or not a person is a doormat. You see smart, educated, successful women all the time be married to abusers and worse. What kind of culture was she raised in? Her parents were immigrants from a misogynistic culture. Not saying they were themselves, but who knows? When you still have honor killings in the 21st century within some cultures, you know that women are not treated equally across the globe. What role models did she have in the women in her family? She's been married to him long enough that she knows exactly who he is. Apparently it's ok with her or she would have left him a long time ago. Just an observation, but it's your emotional IQ that is the telling point on whether or not you take abuse, not your scholastic IQ. It's all about neediness. The higher the level, the more you will tolerate. Many times you can't see it in the open with a person. You just know it's there when you see the partner they pick and what level of bad behavior they are willing to put up with. I identify with this because this was me years ago.
Many women prefer to be ‘power adjacent’, with whoever promises the most power, rather than claim their own sovereignty.
Castes.
Usha has INTERNALIZED MISOGYNY, &
RACISM.
“Smegma slatherers” 😂
I'm not sure. Maybe she's a serious caste believer.
I want NYU students to surround him constantly but unfortunately he has the Secret Service to protect him. I don’t want him physically harmed because he can’t help it that his parents and siblings are the worst fucking people!
Destiny has dealt him what I would call a mixed hand: enormous ill-gotten wealth, but two terrible exemplars of morality and values as parents, self obsessed and greedy. The odds of him becoming a decent person are slim to none
Yeah, but just look at what that putrefaction-oozing imbecilic genetic line has produced so far. It will only worsen.
Edroso was claiming she isn’t living with him, that she has a separate place.
New sitcom idea: "I Love Douchy" starring Vivek Vance
Gold diggers? 🤨
Because, as proved over and over again, women are notoriousiy poor judges of character.
Excuse me?
And BTW, it’s not women’s fault that so many men out there are such lousy choices.
Indubitably. Our 27 year old daughter is fairly disgusted with the men she’s met
WTAF? Your misogyny and ignorance are showing.
I looked at his feed. He is not a MAGA. Not sure why he would say that
Beats me.
"their aspirations" oh you mean how they aspire to kill all the Jews, yeah super cool aspiration that we should definitely respect
The ADL would be "very concerned" as these nazis hand out yellow stars. They really don't mean it...you're overreacting. Dumb asses.
I can't make up my mind whether the Democrats should shut down the government by refusing to raise the debt ceiling (which is based on a poor understanding of money and debt anyway), which will further injure the civil service, or not. The plus side is that the Space Nazi and the Space Dick, as well as Zuck, etc., will lose billions in the ensuing market crash and credit downgrade. The down side is that people's 401ks will also be similarly impacted.
I’ll accept the pain. We are clearly at a decision point in our Republic. To rid us of MAGA/Trump requires a cathartic event. The failure must be graphic, inescapable, and not dismissed by bumper stickers and gaslighting.
I'm with you. Let people see what they voted for. My husband and I are old enough that we'll have fewer years to scrape by. For younger people, there will be years (decades?) of hard work without traditional rewards. Tragic.
A cathartic event? Is that anything like a revolution?
Interesting points, but, can the poorest among us withstand that economic pressure when they already live on the razors edge? Most of our country lives “paycheck to paycheck” now.
Look, if people ask me for money, and I have some, I give some to them. If I'm at the local bakery, I get something for the security guard too (one cinnamon bread for me, one for him.) If I can get away with it, I will tip the baggers at the grocery store. We watch out for our favorite checker, who is transgender. My husband tips at least $5 at his Starbucks, and is close friends with one of the managers and another employee. The lady who has an autistic son knows she can always bring her son over to the group my husband plays with on Tuesday, because he likes to sing Summertime Blues with them. We're on Social Security, so there's a limit to what we can do, but we do what we can.
Simple acts of kindness make the world go ‘round, Ellen.
Hey Ellen, you just went onto my Heroes (SHeroes) List.
I've adopted the MAGA mindset(temporarily). I want them to feel pain for their choice of president. I want them to feel pain for their demonizing of women, gays, Jews, immigrants, POC, indigenous people. This is what they wanted and now they're getting it and it will be painful. Unfortunately the poor that didn't vote for this destruction will suffer also. If Medicaid is gutted people are going to die. I just wish it was only the MAGA's.
That's why I can't make up my mind whether they should go for it or not. It would only be a temporary solution, because of legislative legerdemain, and it would hurt many people. Given the current private debt crisis, private debt is 145.54 % of GDP in Sep 2024, whereas public debt is 123%. The former is very dangerous to the economy, and impedes growth, but the later is no danger whatsoever, since it is held by the US Government. The risk is that this disparity puts us in a situation very similar to 2008, where private debt was in excess of the public debt to a very high degree. We always can count on the GOP to crash the economy, and this "adminstration", if you can call it that, will be no different.
It would be a definite sign that Dems can play hardball
I think the Dems need to step up & do this. They will get smeared by right wing media but it may be the only way to stop this bs
Since they are in the minority in Congress would they even be able to shut down the government or will that actually be much worse for the country? CF47 would call up his guards & round everyone up is my fear!!!
I think they can. There is a batch of republicans in congress who always vote against raising the debt ceiling because they do not understand money, how it is made, sovereign debt, and why, when properly managed, the latter is never a problem. Sovereign debt is only a problem when a) one does not control one's own currency (as in the EU bloc), b) there is too much debt, leading to inflation, or too little, leading to a recession.
We are many, they are few. If we just stick together there's nothing they can do. Okay, pretty optimistic, but makes sense.
Conceivably, yes. The Freedom Caucus is very resistant to passing a budget that includes tax cuts without cuts in spending. Firing a bunch of people will not significantly reduce the budget. The debt ceiling has to be raised. Right now, Congress has been lurching from Continuing Resolution to Continuing Resolution, with the Democrats pulling the Republicans’ nuts out of the fire.
Time for the Democrats to draw a line in the sand and say, No. Shut it down, if there is no agreement on sunsetting the billionaires’ tax cuts. IIRC, the round of tax cuts that passed the first time that thing was in office are due to sunset. Time to let them go.
If you can get out of equities ASAP. That will help you to retain your savings when the crash happens.
Shut it down. I'm poorer than shit in a pond, but I'll manage. My husband can work extra hours. I'm willing to walk the streets. 🤣
Seriously, shut it down and make sure all the blame lands on Trump and the GOP.
Jeff, I need to be banned from holding coffee anywhere near my iPad when I read your articles. Jesus. Today I almost spit coffee laughing so hard at the “Susan Collins award for ‘Deeply Concerned’” right at the one spot where liquid can actually get IN the damn thing. No more coffee holding and reading your work at the same time for me. Bad Rick.
Rick, might I suggest a lid for your cup when reading JT…. just saying 😆
LOL!!
Boy, I would never try that!
Fuck the rootin' tootin' futon molester and his eyeliner. 😡
It’s Manscara he puts on his lashes, too…
I’m just an old dude with very limited makeup skills, so I am not knowing.
When did these macho MAGATS decide that wearing eyeliner was cool? Is the Bloated Yam of Scam their fashion plate? Can we expect the Proud Boys to start sporting eyeliner?
Only Goths and Keith Richards look good in eyeliner. Proud Boys and other lost puds are into performative masculinity and shaving off their eyelashes.
That one, the shaving off of eyelashes, is bizarro world. I watched a video of an idiot having it done. What will they think of next!?
And Jack Sparrow. 🤣
And I forgot to mention drag queens. Nobody wears it better!
Just when you think it can’t happen, no way, then they do it a lot! Remember Rudy’s full on dame make-over ugh!
I’m an old dudette! It’s an odd day when I use makeup but I have tons of it.
Walt sometimes the mascara or Manscara for now, when you use the brush to apply it sometimes it hits the line right above or below on the eye and use a Q-Tip to smudge it, you can get a decent looking eyeliner or the dude gets black pencil liner from Woolworth’ for like $1 or 1.50 and it’s a red pencil so you can see it quickly…
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Unfortunately, “History Repeats Itself”.
The 1930’s in Germany saw the rise of Adolf Hitler. Hitler was one of the most, if not the most, despicable people in the recorded history of Planet Earth. With a ruthless, unrelenting, lie-ridden program of propaganda, he managed to turn “normal” people into cult-like zombies. He created an atmosphere of hatred and rage. Citizens of Germany turned against other German citizens. Estimates for the total death count of the Second World War generally range somewhere between 70 and 85 million people.
In 2016, we saw the election of Donald Trump to the Office of President of the United States of America. Donald Trump is the most despicable person ever to rise to power in the USA. I have no doubt that Russia’s behind-the-scenes support of Trump’s campaign was a crucial reason why Trump was elected President. I refer to Donald Trump as “America’s Disgrace and Presidential Accident.” He was also elected because many, many Americans did not take the time to educate themselves as to the despicable nature of Trump, did not hold him accountable for his constant, unending tirade of lies and propaganda, and did not understand that apathy (in this case, not voting) can lead to terrible consequences.
When one takes the time to think carefully about the menace to American society Donald Trump is, one can easily, as I’ve done, list out Donald Trump’s “firsts”:
• First exxx-President to have his company convicted for fraud
• First Presidential candidate to have bankrupted a casino business (three, in fact)
• First Presidential candidate to have had to pay $25 million to settle the lawsuit against him for his university scam (Trump University)
• First US citizen to be elected to US President with the assistance and support of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin
• First US President to refer to White Supremacists (neo-NAZI’s and KKK’ers) as “fine” people
• First serial liar to be elected to US President
• First Grifter to be elected to US President
• First US President to divide US citizens, sowing and encouraging anger and hate
• First US President to attempt the extortion of the leader of friendly nation
• First US President to have a family member receive a $2 Billion payoff from a foreign government (the Saudi’s)
• First US President to bilk the US Treasury for millions of dollars (which he did by authorizing US Government agencies to purchase services from his solely-owned company)
• First President to be impeached twice
• First US President on whom the dictator of a foreign nation has damaging Kompromat
• First US President to incite an insurrection
• First US President to attempt the overturn of an election
• First exxx-President to be INDICTED
• First exxx-President to be INDICTED TWICE
Donald Trump will achieve additional “firsts”, including:
• First exxx-President to be convicted of a felony
• First exxx-President to be sentenced to prison
Trump issued pardons to many of his insiders who committed crimes against the American People – to name some of those, Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Steve Bannon. Trump has also said he will issue pardons to those who were convicted of criminal acts committed during the storming the U.S. Capitol on January 6th.
Steve Bannon and two of his associates created a “Build the Wall” scam to bilk millions of dollars from thousands of Trump supporters. Two of Bannon’s associates were found guilty of that scam. Bannon was pardoned by Trump!
Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthy and his incompetent, inept, ignorant handling of Covid caused all of the inflation our country is experiencing. Let that sink in. Fraud Trump called Covid “a hoax”…. and, then, over 1 million Americans died. Let that sink in.
Donald Trump said in 2016 that a president under indictment would "cripple the operations of our government" and create an "unprecedented constitutional crisis" -- years before he himself was indicted on federal charges while running for a second term as president.
Donald Trump made the decision to enter the 2024 Presidential race for only one reason – Trump thinks that entering the race for President will enable him to avoid accountability for the crimes he’s been (and will be) indicted for.
Going further, “I just don’t get it!” It is truly mind-boggling to me - how can ANY reasonable, educated American fall for a liar, con, fraud, fascist like Donald Trump?
That said, at least 30-35 million American voters have become members of the cult of Donald Trump. You could say the same exact thing about the ignorant, despicable people in Germany who aided and supported despicable Hitler’s rise to power.
THERE IS ONLY (please excuse the language) ONE GOD DAMN WAY to stop Donald Trump from totally destroying our democratic republic. VOTE. AND, VOTE ONLY FOR DEMOCRATS. WE MUST TAKE BACK CONTROL OF THE HOUSE, WE MUST TAKE BACK CONTROL OF THE SENATE AND WE MUST RETAIN CONTROL OF THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT. AND, WE MUST NOT ONLY VOTE, WE MUST DO EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER TO ENSURE THAT EVERYONE REGISTERS TO VOTE and GETS OUT TO VOTE. VOTER APATHY WILL LEAD TO ONLY ONE THING – THE COMPLETE AND UTTER DESTRUCTION OF OUR DEMOCRACY.
Excellent and heartbreaking. What bothers me the most is the fact that people that I know and care for voted for him. There will always be a-holes in public life, but I've never seen anything like this. I had so much more faith in my fellow citizens before Trump. Not anymore.
It's amazing how many people I misjudged including some in my own family. I've lost faith in them and no longer care about them. Their hatefulness and ugliness once it was revealed destroyed our relationship.
It’s the same for me. My best friend voted for Trump and I was shocked. 😢
Unbelievable how many stupid, hateful people in murikkka.
It’s embedded racism and poor education.
SPOT ON, Susan!
He's definitely a history maker. It would be interesting to see how this era in American history, assuming our nation survives, is viewed decades or centuries from now.
“You guys can survive a few months of Elon Musk”? WTF does this mean? JDVance thinks he and The Thing are going to “you’re fired!” Elon once all the Fascism is in place?
Not sure we can survive months more of this. President Elmo is using blitzkrieg, sans weaponry. Terrible things are happening as we drink our morning coffee. Elmo’s plan must certainly be to do his damage as fast as “inhumanly possible,” before the sluggish Dems can do a damn thing about it.
This is absolutely priceless. Thank you, Jeff!
‘the Susan Collins award for their “deep concern”’
Let’s give Susan Collins the attention she deserves!