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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

I chose not to write about the fuckery with the unconstitutional disappearing of the Venezuelan immigrants, because once again I didn't want my head to explode. but that doesn't mean you can't discuss it down here in the comments. it's evil shit.

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Kay-El's avatar

That is just horrific. The prison they were sent to is worse than Guantanamo. My heart hurts for them and their families. Fuck Trump.

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arne link's avatar

They shaved their fucking heads! Nazi much? God, how I hate these times we live in.

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Kip McSherry's avatar

And the whole thing was staged to be dramatically theatrical ... for social media consumption everywhere. Looked like a horror movie to me.

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Keith's avatar

everything trump does is for the camera ... scripted bullshit

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Cat Cafe's avatar

This one has the stench of Stephen Miller, though. I can smell the sulfur from here.

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Chris Hierholzer's avatar

Me too

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Bonnie Council's avatar

Stephen Miller is the reincarnation of something really evil. I don't know what, or who, but the evil emanates from him. Creepy.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

Keith: in donny demento's brain he STILL imagines that he's a 'star' (the kind 'they let you do it if you're one' - grab 'em by the p*ssy), etc. He THINKS he's a reality 'star' deserving of the Oscar (just wait, that'll be on a list right after the 'noble' prize, after all he's now the head of the Kennedy Center! I'm positive it's why he refers to 'trump' as a separate individual in his babbling. He knows HE is really drumpf and 'trump' is a fake-azz creation of Mark Burnett.

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Cathy 98280's avatar

Good point! I hadn’t thought about that. 👍👍

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Keith's avatar

that makes him a TOOL?

i said TOOL! hahahahaha!

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Stupid Fuckers doing what they do best, stupid fuckery Kip!!

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J.R.'s avatar

The humiliation looked remarkably like the manner in which Russians treat their inmates. The cultural appropriation of fascism—Nazi salutes, subversion of civil rights, demonization of minorities, etc—continues unabated. Fuuuuuuuck

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T L Mills's avatar

It also is very particularly timed to take media attention away from the outrageous bullshittery that Smuk is pulling and the tanking of the economy and the incredibly stupid asshholes such as Buttlick and Bessent assuring the masses that the 'stock market was over-heated', or 'there might be a little pain but it will be worth it' or some other such ridiculous pablum.

Fellas, you all are millionaires--OF FUCKING COURSE a recession won't bother any of you--you'll be busy buying up failed businesses by the dozen and collecting homes that the banks have had to take back. Krasnov and company are SCUM.

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R Bobby 🇨🇦❤️'s avatar

And what was with the hoods so you can’t see the faces of the “guards”. Nazi much?! Disgusting!

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Keith's avatar

shaving their heads is the least of their problems

the prisoners are ONLY ALLOWED to wear white boxer shorts

NO TALKING MUST KEEP THEIR HEADS FACING THE FLOOR

HEAD COUNTS INVOLVE EVEYONE SITTING LIKE THEY ARE TOBOGGAN RIDERS ONE TIGHTLY AGAINST THE ONE IN FRONT OF THEM

and multiple beatings solitary confinement ZERO OUTSIDE CONTACT

24/7/365 humiliation harassment many beatings

returning is a DEATH SENTENCE!

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

the shaving of the heads is what occurred in Nazi Death Camps. Women's hair was then SOLD, but the humiliation and demeaning was also done to destroy individuality and also IF anyone escaped they would be easily recognizable. It's all a part of the torture.

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CAM from 🇨🇦's avatar

Horrific is the only word that comes to mind. I just hope the wannabe king gets his comeuppance one sweet day.

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Cheri Collins's avatar

🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

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Maureen Okonski's avatar

And put them in identical uniforms and wouldn't let their faces be seen. Because NONE of them are gang members!

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Ole Anderson's avatar

Many of them with zero tattoos. Impossible for a gang member.

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Morgan's avatar

I’m so sickened that Stupid people voted for him.. thinking that “I voted for him he can’t be talking about me”. I will NEVER vote for an authoritarian FASCIST government. And they are power hungry.. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM. They’re high on their power and now the economy is tanking.. their hubris is gonna bite them in the ass.. tick tock Orange Sh*tstain tick Fvcking Tock

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

I hate the people we have to live with.

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Zija Pulp's avatar

In my mind, I gleefully imagine this happening to Trump (and now Musk). Heads shaven and thrown in a dirty cell. It might open his mind.

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Elizabeth Ellis's avatar

And dressed them in fucked up “uniforms” so they likely wouldn’t be recognizable. This is unacceptable!

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Christine's avatar

I hear you!!

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Linda Weide's avatar

This is Trump exercising his Nazi! I do not want to return to the US but have to at some point. We are headed into state sanctioned mass killings. People go in in El Salvador and don't come out alive. The fact that this is paraded on TV, and giving the KKK running our country a hard on is sickening me.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Couldn’t agree more Linda… this country is toast without a well engineered revolution… blow the damn thing up and hit the reset button!!

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

that's what magats wanted when they chose the orange baboon and we're seeing how well that's working! They literally TALKED about 'blowing it all up'!

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DuduLovesBubu's avatar

That's what I say! Fuck Luigi. We need a McVeigh.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

NO, we don't! McVeigh murdered an entire room full of kindergartners, or don't you remember 'that' part? Yes, we need to fight back and it will involve SELF sacrifice - but blowing up a building with children is NOT anything to remotely accept even if it's THEIR playbook.

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Stranger Than Friction's avatar

Beware of trolls attempting to move you to the dark side of history's ledger. They want ANY excuse to repeat the violence of Charlottesville against citizens protesting the christo-fascist takeover, and they want Trump to suspend civil rights for everyone (authoritarian control). Devolving to violence against MAGAs is exactly the kind of justification they're looking for.

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Kay's avatar

The footage shown on news media was a propaganda film. I have no proof except my gut. Think about it as you maybe watch again; 100’s of soldiers in perfect lockstep in their absolute perfect uniforms, the drone pictures showing the entire operation, razors ready, white t-shirts, undies and booties provided. Three airplanes for 200-250 people, numerous busses and the prison inside was spotless. Even the shackles they wore were new and shiny. And what camera man could get as close as they got to the head shaving, inside the prison where the prisoner’s are lined up perfectly and then lead to a cell. This was all a hocus pocus action thriller that diaper daddy would think he was the superhero. MAGA is proud, we are pissed as hell, judges are losing their minds - mission accomplished! Forgive me if I am wrong and it took me a few days to figure it out but then the light came on. Correction: lights, camera, action! 🎥📣💡

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Ole Anderson's avatar

No, Kay. You are absolutely correct. This was a propaganda film no question. It smells of some WWF style of hype. He probably got McMahon to produce it

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Zija Pulp's avatar

Kay, I only saw a part of it but I did think there was something odd about it. You got what was odd about it for me. Should have known. Nothing T does works out right: everything is a rush job. Everything done on the cheap. Nothing worse than a pseudo-tyrant. 😏

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Steve Kelly's avatar

I call this the Amerikkkan Dark Age.

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Eva Porter's avatar

They’re claiming the prisoners are “gang members “ but so they really know? Couldn’t ANYONE get disappeared this way? Shouldn’t they just be in facility then deported to their home country ?

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

There has been ZERO evidence of any wrongdoing by the Venezuelans. Accusing them of being gang members is just a cheap and illegal trick to indict them all en masse. I don’t even recognize our country anymore.

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Kay-El's avatar

They don’t know anything because there was no due process; yes, technically anyone could (my understanding is that even green card holders are in danger and if all you have is your application in the process, good luck); the fear, cruelty and “let this be a warning”.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

They could, considering their past decisions…separating kids in kennels, while sending their parents back to countries they never came from. These agents of chaos need to be punished up against a wall with a firing squad!

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Cathy Wray's avatar

Patrick, and add to the wall trump and nazi friends.

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Patty Mooney's avatar

A Canadian woman named Jasmine Mooney was incarcerated by ICE for 12 days, and then flown to Vancouver.

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CAM from 🇨🇦's avatar

A warning to all Canadians snowbirds to get back home and make other plan for the next 4 + years.

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

I saw that! Horrible!

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Rick Calegari's avatar

What the hell happened to due process? Heinrich Holman continues with his barbaric and inhumane quest and claims he won't listen to any of the judge's rulings. Holman is another MAGA fuck who believes he's above the law. Don't remember him getting any kind of immunity.

Can't wait until this ruthless bastard ends up in a courtroom and says this shit to a judge. Hopefully it would a FAFO scenario for heartless Holman.

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Joan Eisenstodt's avatar

Evidently 4 young men from the suburbs of DC were taken. All parents say their kids are good. What I read was believable about the 4 friends. They are ambushing people. Like Khalil and all those accused and deported without due process. How much hate and why do all those who work with and encourage Drumpf have?

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

People of color, Joan, POC.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

This is precisely the heart of the dispute with the judge. The judge is one of those old-fashioned sorts who thinks that before someone is deported as a violent gang member of whatever, there should be a showing that this is actually true.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

‘merikka has evolved into one of the “shit hole countries” the bumbling old racist connard tried to ban from coming here! Providing “we the Serfs” good reason to either revolt, or get the fuck out of here Kay-EI!!

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Kay-El's avatar

I’ve got my pitchfork ready, Patrick

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Rosemary Orlandi's avatar

ditto, kay-el

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

To ram it up a few asses?

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Sharon C Storm's avatar

They were stacked up to the ceiling in what looked like the concentration camps in Germany. It’s inhuman to treat people that way.

There was no due process, no courts or lawyers involved. It is horrific!

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Chris Hierholzer's avatar

I've read several articles about that prison. Really fucked up place. They want to do that kind of shit in the states with all the private prisons. Cruelty is the whole point.

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nancy's avatar

Not that it matters much but we have laws against that treatment on US soil. Which is why they were being shipped Guantanamo prior to this 6 billion dollar contract with El Salvador. Those men will never be heard from again.

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

I really hope that’s not what happens.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

Laws? What does that even mean any more?

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

They are using a law from the 1700s yeah the merika was great then because I can buy Supreme jerk-off Thomas as my slave tie to a post and and whip the snot out of him. Now that’s what MAGA a is all about.

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David A Pitock's avatar

Me too Kay-El. FOTUS is a despicable POS.

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Terry's avatar

I'm awash in empathy, so here goes.

I think of all those men, rounded up randomly and flown to one of the most violent prisons in South America, lambs to the slaughter.

Homan and Noem won't divulge their names, or any details.

My guess is, these were ordinary immigrants, guilty of nothing outside of, 'accident of birth.'

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Jan Moon's avatar

Random being the operative word. And it can apply to anybody. Standing in a check out line with your imported oranges? Good heavens, they're from Chile! Arrest her! Talking to your Muslim friend at the library. Arrest them both! There is no law any more. There are no guarantees. There is no hope. And while we're at it, has anyone seen what happened to the Iwo Jima website? No words.

This comment is stream of consciousness but the best I can do today. Furthermore, why does a Pride flag piss off so many people and give them permission to display their hatred? MAGA hats piss me off but so far I haven't gotten violent about it. Maybe I should.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Your oranges should come from California. Don't they source your food where you shop?

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Jan Moon's avatar

The comment was theoretical. My oranges might come from South Africa, California, or Chile, depending on the week, or month, or day.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Really? Well, Hannah and Ole will complain about this, but I make sure that I buy things from places I consider acceptable. That's why I never knowingly buy anything from China, India, Bangladesh, etc. unless I know it has been produced by people making a living wage and treated fairly, usually organic farmers whom I know.

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Doc Blase''s avatar

Oh FFS.

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DuduLovesBubu's avatar

That fucking judge should be telling Trump's goons you need to get their fucking asses back here right fucking now. I've had it with this fucking shit thinking you can ignore my fucking orders (I'm paraphrasing).

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Dave Drell's avatar

Problem is - whose going to stop them?

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Stranger Than Friction's avatar

Other than U.S. Marshals? The military. Who leads the military? The "Commander in Chief." The FBI? Executive branch. The state police? Local police? National Guard? Coast Guard? Same branch. All of these brave executive branch employees will have to decide for themselves whether they will follow illegal orders.

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The Nazi Bar theory is illustratively a good one: keep nazis and fascists and confederate sympathizers out of your society because they are operating outside of social norms, but expect to be treated as if they are not. The problem is, we as a society have not been coming down on them like a LEGAL ton of bricks early and often, have we?

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We let them build statues to and name military bases after confederate bigots. We let them act like political bosses from within their houses of worship. We let them pit religion against science. We let them teach one another and their offspring that females must be controlled to be considered "good" men and parents, giving all of them a religious excuse for their attitudes and behaviors, which should have been over and done with many centuries ago. It does look like we're hurdling toward a war on U.S. soil.

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Maureen Okonski's avatar

I think a large number were green card holders and US citizens.

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Joan Eisenstodt's avatar

Yes. I think so. The hate from Noem & the others. And I too am awash with empathy and tho were encouraged to do self-care, it’s tough when so many are suffering.

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Wendy's avatar

Dont feel bad jeff, I went and fucked up and did a read through of the Project 2025 handbook, and all the fuck I got out of it was an 8 part ass fuck for which it begins here (https://thistleandmoss.com/p/wendy-the-druid-step-by-step-dissection) and will end eventually. But I felt so fucking dirty after having to write about it, that I drowned myself in Knob Creek Bourbon, and a hot mustard seed bath to get all the fucking impurities I had just exposed msyelf to , the fuck out of me.

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Lisa59's avatar

I read it. They've completed 30% of their intended goals in 30 days. They refer to anyone who is not a MAGA Republican as a Marxist Leftist. They would love it if we all just died. I'm excited to see how the public will respond to their goal of mandating 18 yrs old to the the military for two years. Social Security will be used to pay off the National Debt. Social security was needed to keep the poorest of poor in cat food. For them, it serves no other purpose than that. MAGA voters are willingly clueless.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

You’ve likely invested time in Yarvin’s butterfly revolution as well Lisa… both are fascist propagandist/ eugenic dreams of a world sans democracy!

As I watch the upheaval in Budapest and Belgrade, I can’t help but wonder if Russia won’t likely be lagging far behind… what then, will become of this criminally engineered plot by the billionaire class??

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Lisa59's avatar

Yarvin, a paper intellectual piece of shit. Another one who thinks he's a hero in his own mind. The loss of empathy, is loss of humanity as we know it. Jesus fucking Christ, malignant narcissist psychopaths!!! Personality disorders are destroying democratic ideals throughout the world.

Fighting for humanity will never end. In Budapest and Belgrade, they are fighting for it. The Russian people will have to make that decision. Risking their own lives. Just like here. Will this country rise up to the oligarchs? This is how change happens. It's the people's war now.

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

Yarvin & his ilk are disgusting. One of them, a guy called Belagi, even said the non productive people could just be made into biofuel in an interview. He then said that he was joking, but I actually think he wasn’t. The other resolution to what to do with those kinds of people, was to “contain” them somehow, so they wouldn’t be in the way. Huge prisons/work houses???

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Charles Austin's avatar

We'll see who dies!

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D.Allen's avatar

I think the MAGGOTS have had no voice (they probably have not had anything intelligent to say except “the ck is in the mail” to their landlords after they have spent the rent & grocery $ on booze and gambling.)

Now their TV star hero is leading the country & making them feel important. They feel special cause frump wears a hat like theirs and tries to make them feel like he is one of them, with his rhetoric of a poor dude without a say in American politics.

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Lisa59's avatar

You're right. They belong to a “special” group. The President validated their low intelligent biases. He told them they were special and he loved him. Even though he's incapable of empathy. This demographic seems to think they know something we don't. They can't pass up a single conspiracy theory. They accept the dehumanizing as normal. Maybe they don't recognize it in their own lives. They have a hard time resisting the abusers in their own relationships. Shitpants is familiar. Obviously, too familiar. They didn't lift bar very high. They unfortunately thrive on victimization. In a sad way, really.

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Joan Eisenstodt's avatar

They are forcing death on those of us fortunate to not be deported. Medicaid will be decimated. Beg 4/1, NO Medicare coverage for televisits. The impact for a whole bunch of us is close to catastrophic medically & financially & physically for those of us with disabilities. I’m not willing to die or be unhoused for these cruel, lawless morons. I may be forced to.

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Eva Porter's avatar

It’s just all too much. It’s actually affecting my ability to function at work.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

It’s been brutal for 70% of our country, Eva. When did the U.S. become a minority ruled country?

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Doc Blase''s avatar

About 1963.

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Kay-El's avatar

If I was still working, I’d be right there with you, see also January 6.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

The design is simply meant to cause chaos, confusion and disfunction… appears to be working Eva!!

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Wendymae's avatar

Me too. I just lost a major client and a big chunk of my income but I'm not even going to try to replace them because I'm at the end of my tether emotionally and cannot commit to the level of functioning I've enjoyed the past few years.

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BJTS's avatar

It’s affecting my ability to live any kind of normal life! I’m just sick at heart that this is happening here.

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Joan Eisenstodt's avatar

Mine too. I have really horrific long covid. My many docs tell me to destress! Grateful they share my politics and values and understand why I can’t.

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

❤️❤️

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Keith's avatar

makes Mien Kampf read like 'see dik see jane'

the most frightening words i have ever read!

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Irascible Ink's avatar

I look forward to reading it, Wendy. I'm stocked up on Canadian Club whiskey, so I *should* be okay...

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Lisa59's avatar

I took gummy breaks. My the handful.

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Wendy's avatar

I mean, I was about to break out my Macalllans 16. But then I said fuck it, and stayed with Knob Creek.

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Ole Anderson's avatar

Price should be dropping on the Knob Creek when all the cases they used to send tonCanada and Europe start piling up in the warehouse.

Or the price will jump as they try to make up those lost profits here at home.

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CAM from 🇨🇦's avatar

I hope you’ve got enough to last you 4 years.

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Lisa59's avatar

I do. Not a problem on my end. I'm in a weed legal state. I've got seeds. 😁

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Irascible Ink's avatar

I'm in Canada. I get mine delivered to my front door. 😎

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

It’s a long, mind numbing, thoroughly disgusting, read Ink! Expect a good amount of anger towards its authors!

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Irascible Ink's avatar

No probs. I have a punching bag in the workout room. And a hip flask.

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Joanne Filipo's avatar

Knob Creek! 😋

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amdancks's avatar

It's OK to take a short break now and then from the depravities of President Dimwit Jackass Turd and his minions. This was delightful. Thank you!

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Elaine the Mean Old Feminist's avatar

Jeff, this story was the second greatest thing that's happened to me in the year 2025. The first greatest was seeing an anti-abortion protester get knocked on his ass by a patient's husband when he wouldn't stop yelling at the wife who was walking into Planned Parenthood. 😁

Like the Trump dumb shits in your story, abortion clinic protesters like to play the victim when my group insults, screams at, and generally are dicks to them In response to their overtures toward patients. We don't intend for them to enjoy their time harassing strangers. Even though I know they get off on their Christian persecution complex, I still stand toe to toe with the bastards and scream my lungs out. And as long as I've got breath in those lungs and the strength to stand, that's what I'll be doing.

Thanks for all you've done the last few months to keep me and the people I love sane. 💜

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Tamara Spagnola's avatar

I read just last night that 48 residents of New Mexico, my home state were disappeared over the weekend. There are fewer people in the whole of New Mexico than in New York City. Many of us have a mixture of Spanish and Native American DNA, my mother was a quarter Native, and we have 23 federally recognized reservations. I guess my point is that in an area of lower population with a large proportion of people who wouldn't pass for being white, the kidnapping of 48 people leaves you reeling.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

Only one tiny ray of 'hope' (not the right word) from Roberts, after frump ranted about wanting to impeach the Judge who ordered the return of the planes - which he and his thugs ignored of course. Roberts issued a terse statement making it clear that 'impeachment' of a Judge is off the table, and they can feel free to 'appeal' the decision (exactly what the judge had told them). It doesn't help those already removed, but perhaps good lawyers can force them to be returned for due process which NONE of these people got? IN fact, there's a possibility that some might be bona fide American Citizens.

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Gina's avatar

hopefully there will be lawsuits...at least as long as the courts are still operating

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Mary Hall's avatar

As of a couple of days ago, I heard there were 225 lawsuits filed against the Shitler administration. Seems like a low number.

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Toni Ballard's avatar

There are over a hundred lawsuits. Sadly they would need Federal Marshalls to enforce the rulings — and Pam Bondi (Bondage Barbie) oversees the Federal Marshalls.

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Charles Austin's avatar

Judges have the power to deputize citizens as Marshalls. I'd love to arrest these Nazis.

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Rosemary Orlandi's avatar

bondage barbie ! I love it ...

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James Starr's avatar

If anyone deserves to be in a shithole prison with their head shaved it is Fucking

D☭Иald TЯUM₽, Nazi Musk and Nazi Vance. No one will step up and put them in their place for war crimes

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Maui Wahine's avatar

Today Chief Justice John Roberts had to take Trump to the woodshed for whining about Judge Boasberg and threatening impeachment. However, the Robertsʻ Court ruling on presidential immunity has put us in a very very dangerous position. Robertʻs statement about impeachment is also self-protective of SCOTUS because some MAGA have already gone after Justice Barrett. There isnʻt much Roberts can do now to save his legacy - he is complicit in the authoritarian takeover.

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George in Atlanta's avatar

Please preserve your head, Jeff. We got this.

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Dave the Spot-on Moron's avatar

Orange Anus Mouth and his Nazi shithead regime violated due process and the very foundational concept of our legal system of Habeas Corpus, simply meaning that a person charged with a crime has to be brought before a judge, told what the fuck they’re being charged with and to make sure they have not been whisked away to some dungeon. This goes back to the Magna Carta, written in 1215! This document also establishes that kings are not above the law! SCOTUS overturned that for very special shithead Donnie Drumpf! This is huge! This is possibly the most serious constitutional violation they could have committed. They can whisk away any of us to Guantanamo Bay or ship us off to a federal prison without so much as allowing us to enter a plea of guilty or not guilty!

Arm yourselves now, before they overturn the 2nd Amendment! Seriously.

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

this clip was originally intended to be the short "hero of the day" closer that I like to end my posts with, but when I learned the facts I realized that no, this is a whole story that needs to be told

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David Olson's avatar

Well done, the Chatterbox incident needs to be told.

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Keith's avatar

you did the right thing!

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Ole Anderson's avatar

There are more important things that demand your attention, Jeff.

The comments today show that.

But it’s your column.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

"could you just fucking well leave people alone? they just want to live their lives in peace."

This is what we all want. Leave each other alone! It doesn't affect you in any way!

I remember when gay marriage became legal and my ex and his buddy were ranting about how awful it was. I got so pissed I slammed my hand on the table and yelled " Just STOP IT! This decision in NO WAY affects you or your life. Who the hell are you to even judge this? Just STFU!" I think I scared them. LOL And then not long after I divorced his ass. 😂 True story.

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Lynn Van Haren's avatar

Tim Walz’s “ Mind your own damn business” struck a cord with me

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insert_something_creative's avatar

It really should be the Democrats new rallying cry, make it clear what freedom actually means: the ability to live your life as you see fit as long as you're not hurting anyone else.

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Janan Broadbent's avatar

💯💯💯

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Charles Austin's avatar

👍👍

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247kath's avatar

Susan you are awesome✊🏼❤️

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Susan Niemann's avatar

The question is...why did I ever marry him in the first place? Now he's in Naples with his overweight and rich girlfriend and brags about voting for Dump. He's just not very smart. 🤦‍♀️

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Tess's avatar

Good call! lol ❤️❤️

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George in Atlanta's avatar

Happening more every day, in every town in 'murrica. But, no, I no longer just want to live in peace. I want to fuck something up. We've been getting their "warnings" for 20 years that "patriots" will begin slaughtering us if we don't bow down before their greatness. Well, where is it, Cletus? Oh, you're too occupied trying to find another job and pay for insulin for your grandma. You don't have time to wipe out the vermin. Pansies.

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

If they need something to do, they could go to Tesla dealers and scrape the graffiti off the cars. Just a thought.

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

You go, girl. One of MAGAS goals in life is to put their nose in everyone else's business that in no way affects them. They need to concentrate on growing more teeth, sweeping out their double wide and making sure they have enough Donald Diapers.

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Mingo's avatar

There's a MAGA assclown in my HOA that has 4 black rotted stumps in his mouth he tries to pass off as teeth. I think he has brain rot too from all that putrid oral bacteria. Matches his blackened heart that already has stents and a pacemaker.

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K Pop's avatar

Let me guess... stents and a pacemaker, courtesy of incredibly advanced medical science, but "does his own research" for vaccines and fluoridated water?

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D.Allen's avatar

😂😂😂

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

Dang…you gave me quite a visual!

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Mingo's avatar

This past Saturday I was protesting again in front of a Tesla dealership. Some MAGA assclown drove his duel wheel pickup truck into the ingress/egress lane, parked there and started flipping protesters off and yelling fuck you to all 250 of us. Many people pointed and laughed at him, so he drove off in a manner the cops would say was aggressive acceleration. I don't understand why they are so triggered over what other people are doing that in no way affects them. As Tim Walz says, mind your own damn business.

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Cyndi Merrill's avatar

Because any and all of it reminds them that they are no longer the group in charge of the country.

Because they loved and benefited from the Antebellum South circa 1850.

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Susan Keefer's avatar

Good for you, Susan!!

As my late husband would always say: “Fuck the fucking fuckers!” 💖

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Dave Drell's avatar

Maybe your ex later married his buddy?

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Susan Niemann's avatar

I’m pretty sure he didn’t marry her. She can have him.

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Dave Drell's avatar

Good riddance to bad garbage

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Maryann Boyd's avatar

Susan, good for you! You deserve much better.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Well, thanks...I had no idea it would up like it did....so I wont do anymore! 😂

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

BRAVO, Susan!!👏🏼

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Charles Austin's avatar

Good move.

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Carl Babcock's avatar

I can't say enough good things about the way the staff handled that situation. Having tended bar for 15 years, in my younger days, I can say that you do learn to recognize the shit stirrers as soon as they walk in the door. I'd see them walk I, comment to a coworker "we're gonna be throwing them out in about 20 minutes", and almost always be dead on. I could have tossed them immediately, and sometimes did; but found it to be more effective to let them show their true colors for a second then toss them. You gain a reputation for not taking any shit, and cut down on this crap in the future. In this case, they handled it perfectly

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

If you live in a city, you know exactly where the gay bars are. No accident they ended up there. And it's not right downtown where the hotels/bars are either. I really think that for some (usually men), this obsession with gays is projection.

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Mary Hall's avatar

It's been scientifically proven that homophobes are often closeted self-loathing homosexuals themselves. They are just too cowardly to be who they are, so they hate on those who have the courage to come out. Looking at you Lindsey Graham.

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Dana Jae Labrecque's avatar

Holy Mike Johnson

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WillHotkiss's avatar

Yep. Apparently JK Rowling is a closeted trans person 🤷‍♂️ explains a lot.

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Doc Blase''s avatar

They remind me of the Monty Python Spanish Inquisition sketch,

"Our two weapons are surprise, fear, and ruthless efficiency. Three.

Our three weapons are fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency and a fanatical devotion to our leader; four. Our four weapons..."

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Dave Drell's avatar

Indianapolis is hardly the gay capital of the USA, and Indiana is thru and thru rot-gut MAGA country… so hopefully the Birchers and Klaners leave that bar alone.

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Doc Blase''s avatar

The Birch society is having a (almost said "comeback") revival. If ever there was a perfect time for that bunch, this is it.

Thanks, Republicans and phony Conservatives, fuck you very much.

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Wendy's avatar

I watched this video easily 100 times, and enjoyed every fucking minute of it. Fuck MAGA and their shit. Because honsetly, I sullied myself to read through all of the Project 2025 manual, to start this eight part trainwreck, that begins here (https://thistleandmoss.com/p/wendy-the-druid-step-by-step-dissection), and if those MAGAs wanted this shit, they deserve to be kicked out of every public place that NOBODY wants them in.

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Lucius's avatar

They deserve to be kicked in every sense of the word.

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Wendy's avatar

Kicked....in the nads you mean? Because yes, I agree.

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Lucius's avatar

Nads. Kneecaps. Ribs. Skulls. Off bridges. Through high rise windows. Through *closed* high rise windows. Into coke furnaces. The whole nine. I encourage creativity.

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George in Atlanta's avatar

*Giggles hysterically*

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Charles Austin's avatar

Up and down 20 flights of stairs.(The Chicago way!)😂

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Wendy's avatar

Nods

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Karlene Escriba's avatar

Can I help?😜

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Lucius's avatar

The more the merrier.

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Stephen Schiff's avatar

You become what you hate

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Lucius's avatar

By that logic the allied soldiers in WWII were just as Nazi as the actual Nazis. Spare me the equivocating bullshit. The fascists literally want me dead, and being nice to fascists has worked exactly zero times in all of history.

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Wendymae's avatar

I usually skip the videos and just read the text but this one was so satisfying!

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Wendy's avatar

As a fellow Wendy, I should point out Wendy, that doing like Wendy did (me), you should totally watch that video over and over. :) its good for the soul.

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Alison Parker's avatar

Also LOL forever that ALL OF A SUDDEN maga assholes are concerned with "discrimination".

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Kip McSherry's avatar

There IS discrimination; they legally chose to throw them out for their behavior and disrespect in their privately held bar.

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George in Atlanta's avatar

AND, maybe, their physical safety. Hey, shouldn't the patriots have wiped us all out by now? Y'know, will all their gunz and one trigger finger?

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Janan Broadbent's avatar

Yes!!! Always ready to project what they have been practicing all along

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Susan P Thatcher's avatar

Did you notice that the background music was "You're No Good" by Linda Ronstadt? Just perfect.

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Carla Burns's avatar

I'm an old white woman - straight. But I have to tell you... that bartender is my spirit animal.

Fuck around and find out indeed. Play stupid games, get a goddamned baseball bat upside the head.

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Rebecca Brents's avatar

I'm your clone. Age / attitude / orientation / sentiment / spicy comments / all of it.

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arne link's avatar

You are my Sistahs!

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Cheri Collins's avatar

And mine! Got my bat at the ready!

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Kay-El's avatar

Same. Actually it’s a table leg now, but really heavy and just as deadly.

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Brenda Ball's avatar

Mind if I join? ✅ over 65, white, straight and tired of all the BS.

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Carla Burns's avatar

Brenda Ball.... COME ON DOWN to the RESISTANCE IS RIGHT, with your host, Carla Burns!

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

Me too. I'm 75 and I want to use a 2x4.

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Cyndi Merrill's avatar

I'm only 56, but I'm with you on the Bat Brigade. My 85-year-old mother prefers her cast iron frying pan. My 86-year-old father prefers to use his fists, just like his uncle did in Normandy.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

You go, Carla!

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Maryann Boyd's avatar

Oh yeah Carla, there are a lot of us here that totally stand with you!

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Kay-El's avatar

Hooray for the bartender taking no shit from MAGA loonies. No, decent people don’t want that “dirty” money. It has a distinctive Trump taint to it.

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Liz and Max the No. 1 Cat's avatar

When they cry that they're the victim, remind them that they're the same people who fervently support the right of businesses to refuse to bake a cake for a same sex wedding or take photographs, or whatever. If your going to dish it out, learn to take it.

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Kay-El's avatar

Exactly why the bartender was sarcastically boo-hooing them. It wasn’t discrimination, it was just desserts

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Irascible Ink's avatar

Trump taint...eeeewww!!! *shiver*

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Ole Anderson's avatar

Not that taint. Like in a slight smell, not the sewage treatment plant blast you would experience if subjected to dear leader’s prodigious wrinkly Butt.

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Irascible Ink's avatar

😂😂😵

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Merrill's avatar

Let's take that bartender national. It's exactly how MAGA should be treated.

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George in Atlanta's avatar

Anybody noticed how whiney their overall tone has become? The Fox talking anuses have started sounding pretty pitiful of late, what with getting squeezed between the destruction of TrumpMusk to everything, and the lack of tolerance they're getting from the Non-Fuckwit portion of society (not even just the Left). They are getting very surprised with increasing regularity when a tatted-up, non-binary-ish (what the fuck ever) bartender is not whimpering about wanting to just get along but is QUITE ready to fuck them up. They're not expecting that. They're getting a LOT of boo-fucking-hoo.

I'm very happy to see no noticeable leftish bleating here about how *dangerous* all this was. Too late to defuse it, it's already lit.

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Doc Blase''s avatar

Listen to Dumpty! His whole schtick is grievance and complaining in that grating, whiny little bitch voice. So of course, the Cult mimics him.

They have no plan to help anyone, nothing, it's all bad, it's all negative, it's all woe is us, poor us, America is terrible, we're all put upon.

William F Buckley would have a heart attack if he could see what a disaster his beloved "conservatives" have become.

I'm reading Charlie Syke's book "How The Right Lost Its Mind" for a background on "conservatism" beginning in the Eisenhower administration, highly recommended:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250199539/howtherightlostitsmind/

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Tess's avatar

As Barney Fife would say…”NIP IT, NIP IT, NIP IT IN THE BUD!”. There is no place in US for that behavior. Can we please make all nazi magas go back to school and get educated or at least learn how to get along with others. What the hell………….

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Holy crap...I remember that episode, Tess! 😂😂😂😂

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

Have you always been a Barney Fife fan, Susan? Ah, the days when Opie had hair. 😂

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Ah yes! I watched as a kid….loved that show. 👍🏻

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Mary Hall's avatar

Me too -- still do! There is a wonderful book called "Aunt Bee's Mayberry Cookbook" that has really good recipies, script excerpts, background stories, and tons of photos. You can get it on Amazon but fuck them.

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Richard's avatar

I do as well!

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Cheri Collins's avatar

🤣

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Ole Anderson's avatar

My big sister swears Opie got his name from me! Andy Griffith used to come to the Hotel on the Outer Banks my aunts and uncles owned. My cousin and I had the run of the place and were always underfoot everywhere. We were accepted and loved. I would be proud if the story is true. Lots of respect for Ron Howard and he was the perfect Opie.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

What’s not to like? Ya got your Goober, a Gomer and Otis is always shit faced! That’s entertainment!

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Charles Austin's avatar

😂😂😂

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Linda Weide's avatar

Send them to Antarctica.

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George in Atlanta's avatar

Penguins have rights.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

Anybody that stands up for the penguinos 🐧 is all right by me, George.

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

Yeah, let ‘em freeze their tiny balls off!

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Mary Hall's avatar

They should have learned that shit in kindergarten.

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Rhesus's avatar

I'm wondering if there's any video of the original confrontation. That would speak for itself.

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Lucius's avatar

Those bartenders showed more spine than Schumer has ever fucking had in his entire life.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Yes! Watching the Chatterbox clip clarified the moral failure of Schumer's mushy capitulation without a fight over the CR.

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Lucius's avatar

I'm tempted to go add his picture to the Wikipedia article for Quisling.

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Ole Anderson's avatar

Schumer realized a shutdown would stop all activity in the Courts and that is about the only effective tool we have right now. I understand his reasoning; this was not the hill to die on- trump would have used it to his advantage.

The battle which must be won is the Budget with its $4.5 Trillion in tax cuts for his plutocrat buddies.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Everyone is questioning whether Schumer has the killer instinct to lead the resistance against the GOP. The Democratic Party is hemorrhaging supporters and funding more than ever now.

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

Decided yesterday that I'm going to register as an independent. Not giving a dime to the Dems anymore since they as a group have no spine. My senator voted yes on that bill and going to write her one of "my Debby letters" and let her know I won't be voting for her again. My other senator voted no. Think Schumer will get a letter too, not that he cares. And writing the new head of the Dem party.

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Mary Hall's avatar

Yes, my lifelong Democratic affiliation is now changed to "unaffiliated."

Just a side note that sending a postcard is preferable to a letter in an envelope, since they have to go through a process to make sure there isn't any anthrax, etc. in the envelope, which takes time.

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

I was able to email my Senator with my unhappiness about her vote.

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

Good hint. I was actually going to email them. I've never written my government officials before so don't even know if you can email them.

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

Yes, it's easy. Just google or whatever the name and you will get contact info including email address.

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Charles Austin's avatar

Yeah, you wouldn't want Scott Ian jumping out of an envelope.😂😂

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Blue Dawg's avatar

Left wing, right wing, same bird. They're all pampered millionaires.

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Fastball Fredo's avatar

Jeff, the red hat is a symbol just like a Nazi armband, fuck them both along with white hoods. Autopen signatures? MAGA wants to hang their hat on that? So MAGA…. convince me that your king signed 1500 pardons by hand or a wet signature.. MAGA can go fuck themselves, the stupid burns.

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Richard B D's avatar

I am a jazz musician and I live in Indy and play and hang at the Chatterbox often. Met my wife there actually. Thank you for highlighting this cowardly act of bullshit MAGA assholery. What’s even worse is that they attempted to doxx the bartender and mistakenly doxxed an innocent local musician who is not a bartender at The Box or anywhere else. The community is circling the wagons around the Chatterbox and I assume they will be busy for many weeks to come!

Here’s a beautiful thing, when these nazi maga fucks came back into the establishment after being kicked out the first time, they were committing a criminal act. In Indiana, criminal trespass, as defined by Indiana Code § 35-43-2-2, involves knowingly or intentionally entering or remaining on someone else's property without permission or after being asked to leave.

Supreme Court has ruled that a business can deny any customer service for any reason which was something Republicans fought for when bakers were being asked to make cakes for gay weddings. They are not victims. They are committing a crime.

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Joyce B's avatar

Thanks for adding the clarifying piece of the puzzle - these red-hatted sh*theads were asked to leave and then *came back* in to film an interaction. The bartender deserves a medal.

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Mark Marderosian's avatar

The part that always surprises me is how much the oppressors never miss the opportunity to play the “victim.” Dear Leader uses this tactic all the time.

All to distract us and pit us against each other while they raid the Treasury. Watch Die Hard 3. Seriously.

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