and a huge thank you to the Nobel Committee for making the announcement at 5:02 this morning — the exact moment I got out of bed — so I didn't have to sit around and wait to find out what I was going to write about
because we live in the shittiest timeline, I half expected Donny might actually win the damned thing, which I think is leftover PTSD from Kamala losing the election
This is the exact reason we must remain peaceful especially on 10/18. Trump wants to declare martial law so there will be no mid-terms - because we're winning them left and left.
Lois, I don’t have to check or google it Hitler never got one either. Dopey don is never going to make peace happen for anybody anywhere, unless he pays off the committee he has probably tried it since that is the way he rolls.
I thought the same - he believes everything has a Price, and he has access to plenty of OPM to buy whatever his tiny heart desires. Except that one thing!
How in the world was his name submitted in the first place? He reminds me every day of the possibility that he’s the reincarnation of Adolph Hitler on steroids! He is just so awful, how does he attract so many sancaphants ?sp?
I just read that this will give her power to get him to stop bombing Venezuelan fishermen, and to lower their 25% tariff to zero, maybe? The big question is: will she have to give him the award so he can hang it in mard-a-lego? Didn't he force some sports team to do that recently? Will she have to give him half of the money? (And don't think he hasn't already thought of that.)
I suspect that she tried to 'make nice' about HER win and, as usual he entirely misunderstood with his friend-banana brain and imagined she was saying that HE deserved it. The speech I heard her give she dedicated it to her PEOPLE!
DID she? OR did he just claim she did? OR--alternative theory: is she playing him like the cheap-azz fiddle he's always been? (fake=gold-sprayed paint), of course. I'm actually surprised that orange shit he spackles on isn't literally coloured 'gold' since that's how he 'really' sees himself.
Particularly since Trump has been helping Argentinian farmers sell soy beans to China, while the soy bean industry here is reeling from a lack of export requests. Trump helps Argentinian fascist on his tanked economy and a true peace activist get the Nobel Peace prize. Yay!
I think Paul Krugman wrote a little at his substack about the American billionaires, among others, who will benefit from those BEELYONS of American taxpayer dollars going to Argentina. It will help those "investors" get out before the collapse. The rich get richer while the rest of us get sicker, thus as it ever was.
He is so very stupid yes let’s threaten another country if I don’t get a prize The words of a 3 year old. He’s been a bully his entire life how to win friends and influence people! I am just so sick of his presence after this past decade. I was so looking forward to a break from Trump every day. He never matured beyond age 3.
like the North Atlantic? We could float carpet/fake grass or something similar on the water - drop him off after convincing him it's a new type of BILLION DOLLAR golf course. Oh, sad....no boats or ferries OR helicopters for another few years. Make do you 'big alpha male'. Look at the upside, you have little goebbels/stevie-batshit with you so you can cheat all you want and no one will GAF..
I was having nightmares and sleepless nights worrying he might actually win the damned thing. Now the nightmares are probably going to involve the radical right repuglies giving him a fake one. Cuz sadly you can't make this stuff up.
Oh, I had faith in the peace prize committee. I was certain trump wouldn’t get it. They didn’t want to look ridiculous to the world for giving it to him and they knew they would have.
The right wing is RELENTLESS in all matters...ridiculous are semi-serious. It's what makes them dangerous.....their insatiable desire to bend reality to their will
Same here!! I was worried that the overeager capitulation to the senile, nappy-sharting overgrown-toddler-in-chief had metastasized beyond our borders and that would actually happen. So relieved that it didn't!
I feel the same. Every goddamned day it's more bullshit. Living in Mexico now I find it oh so very karma-esque that not only did Norway snub that cruel piece of shit jackass, they gave it to a Latina!!!!!!! xoxoxoxo
If his crew had any brains or subtlety, they could play this well: Trump is obviously itching for war with Maduro. Machado was an opposition leader against Maduro, so Trump could claim they are on the same side. Of course (1) Trump won't admit he's itching for war with Maduro, and (2) Trump doesn't have the slightest qualm about suppressing opposition figures himself, so he can't celebrate somebody who stands up to authoritarians.
Feel the same. Propaganda about this guy is a disease that hopefully doesn't spread too far beyond our borders -- and that is eventually cured. Slightly reassuring that there's sanity out there.
Edit for clarity: I really mean, "propaganda FROM this guy..." But it's both from and about.
oh god oh god, the whirled is so nuts and there was all that nonsense in the news that oh god oh god...but it wasn't decided last night but prob months ago, and by sane people
The decision was ANNOUNCED Monday, but I am sure they had the short list of people to consider narrowed down to two or three, if they had not already decided, weeks or months ago.
I thought I was the only one traumatized by her loss. I'm still in full-blown PTSD over Clinton losing after winning the popular vote by approx. 3.7 million.
I shared your fears. The Nobel Committee has nobody to blame but themselves, for having awarded Obama a Peace Prize for what amounted to a speech. That would not have been so bad, but for the fact that it gave the Orange Turd another target for his infantile obsessiveness.
Seriously, you're equating Obama receiving a Nobel Peace Prize to this? While you can certainly argue that you disagree with Obama receiving the prize, there's no equivalence to anything that's occurring in this current regime. Remember, communication and reaching out to other nations is a key part of the responsibility of any world leader -- but especially an American president. It sets the tone, creates possibilities, opens doors, and encourages peace. If there's anything we're learning with this current regime, it's that words do matter. Bullshit and propaganda bring one set of results, while emotional intelligence and intellectual clarity bring a very different set of results.
Once again I raise the ire of the “centrist“ Democrats by suggesting that Obama was not worthy of the Prize, and noting the likelihood that the fascist pig in the White House might not be so obsessed with it had the Nobel Committee done otherwise. I am decidedly not saying that this is in any way Obama’s fault.
As a physicist, I am accustomed to the notion that the Prize is given based on accomplishments as opposed to rhetoric. So I look at what Obama actually did prior to receiving his award. I discount the things like torpedoing the Copenhagen Climate conference, extrajudicial killings and the like which came later.
Your suggestion that I'm a "centrist" Democrat is incorrect. As a physicist, you might try exercising more restraint in attributing labels to people without knowing enough about them -- that's pretty far from the scientific method. Listen to the gist of my comment. Whoever you are, you're advancing a narrative that has opened a door for this fascist regime by suggesting there's a significant equivalence between Democrats and Republicans. Nonvoters and third-party voters have attached themselves to that idea. And here we are.
Sorry for the insult; my experience with centrist Democrats has led me to think them to be intolerant of any suggestion that their own are above making mistakes. I see that I raised some hackles by mentioning my profession; the intent was to show a commitment to truth.
Finally I most certainly did not make an equivalency between Obama and Trump.
What he did at the time was reassure the world that the disappearance of American leadership under Bush was not a permanent irreparable breakdown. What Trump has done is to show that it really is.
And Mr. Stephen Thanks-For-Making-Sure-We-Know-You're-A-Physicist Schiff,
Remember, it will be the Centrists (Obama's worthiness of the Nobel in your arrogant eyes or not) that will save your ass from fascism, 'cause you physicists haven't done shit.
So Trump had a cabinet meeting and met with Carney.
I did the shit work, and sat through the Cabinet meeting and the Carney meeting.
Listen, I sat through seventy fucking minutes of Donald Shitsniffer's cabinet meeting, and I need you to understand something visceral here—my neurons were screaming, actually screaming, like they were being waterboarded with stupidity.
If the cabinet meeting was a dumpster fire, the meeting with Canada's PM Mark Carney was a thermonuclear ass-blast of incompetence. Picture this: you're sitting next to a world leader, someone who actually understands policy, and instead of discussing actual diplomatic matters, you suggest their entire fucking country should just "join the US." The audacity.
Wendy thank you for taking one for the team!! I haven’t watched or listened to the orange felon in years without putting my blood pressure in the danger zone!
The best part of yesterday was watching Moses Mike Johnson look like a lost deer in headlights being grilled by a military wife on C-Span. Whoever thought that was a good idea for Moses should be fired.
I have serious gratitude for you, but I also have a serious question: Why do leaders, intelligent people like Carney sit through that? Why do they waste their time?
My faith in the committee is now on solid ground. I was concerned a little that they would award it to the Orange Blob, but they came through with flying colors. A Venezuelan. no less! I'm sure the committee can't stop grinning today. Now if we could just get that Blob to melt away...
Now I'm worried that when Donald starts taking it out on Norway he will include those of us with significant amounts of Norwegian DNA since they've breached every bit of my PII not once but four times. Nowhere to hide...
“Maria Corina Machado was given the award for promoting democracy in Venezuela and says that the US president is the country’s best chance for regime change” (Venezuela’s)
I kinda see her point even if we know Trump is a fucking disaster who would probably make things worse
That was real? I didn't look closely at the headline and thought it was either satire or some shit the orange buffoon's handles cooked up to tamp down the ketchup blizzard.
You are aware of what has happened? "OSLO, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for fighting dictatorship in the country and DEDICATED THE AWARD in part TO U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP who has repeatedly insisted he deserved it."
oops: even WORSE (if it could be) I understand the idiot is now claiming that Machado called him saying she 'accepted it FOR HIM"?!!!!!!! The magats will accept this as fact and spew it all over the internet.
Dear Nobel Committee, This is the moment everyone committed to justice, democracy, and peace has been waiting for. Please invite Trump and Putin to The Hague to pick up their consolation prize. Thank You, Everyone (and Antifa).
The Nobel Consolation Prize, heretofore never awarded (or extant), was created expressly for those two who represent everything the Peace Prize is against. The Losers, er, I mean Consolation "winners" get a statuette in the shape of a raised middle finger, a diploma saying "You Had Zero Fucking Chance of Winning" and $100 in Trump Bucks, which are not legal tender anywhere on Earth
South Park needs to show Donny receiving his Noble Consulation Prize while Donnie is oblivious to what the middle finger actually means. Donnie, proud father to be of devil spawn, so giddy about his trophy.
With the Trump Bucks you can buy a Trump Watch which he's now hawking. The grift never stops. He'll be on his deathbed and will try to sell a Trump Mattress with his last breath.
I heard of at least one case where a MAGAt tried to use Trump bucks at a store and was enraged when the clerk wouldn’t accept it for payment since it’s not real money. Geez, MAGA stooopidity
But yet they’re still tRUMP’s biggest supporters. It wasn’t HIS fault the store wouldn’t take tRUMP bucks. It’s the store’s fault- the reason why MAGA exists.
Speaking of MAGA, just when the fuck, fuckity, fuck WILL ‘Murica be great again🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Answer- as soon as my cat wins America’s go Talent for his exquisite singing and dance routine while performing a juggling magic act
His toadies will dream up a Newer Better Peace Prize to “award” their Dear Leader. It will be the envy of the world! Everyone will want one! Later, it will officially be known as the Trump Peace Prize. It will totally eclipse the so-called Nobel Peace Prize. Who cares what Norwegians think, anyway. USA! USA! USA!
Damn! What a BIGLY beautiful idea. Why hadn’t that been thought of before?
Just imagine the tears of happiness and gratitude when they proudly present the gaudy gold trinket to the Insecure Narcissist Man-baby In Chief.
“Sir, this award, the likes that’s NEVER been seen before, is proudly being awarded,to a Great Peace loving, God fearing Christian. A huge honest, decent , kind humanitarian. It makes the “Noble” prize thingy from Sweden look like a claw machine prize”
I think the only American source I read is Rolling Stone now and even that makes me lose my will. The Irish Times is where it’s at, though it’s a bit murdery.
I read foreign press too because you get real facts instead of glossed over bullshit. I’ll check out Irish Times. I swear the Irish know more about our politics than a lot of Americans (been there twice)
A woman! A Venezuelan! Man, that's gonna leave a mark. Po' Donny. Po' MAGA. They fascisming as hard as they can, can't get no respect. In closing, Chris Cilizza is a douchenozzle who's been wrong about everything for decades, which is why he's the poster boy for corporate media.
Cilizza's a stupid, stupid opportunist who will say anything according to the way the wind is blowing. I can't believe the guy still has any job. Why is anyone still willing to ask that guy what he thinks? Who cares???
As a person who has Asian ancestry like Steve Cheung, I say to him WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR MALFUNCTION, numbnuts? Your boss is a fucking racist, you dipshit
"but he's always been nice to me" is what people say in a situation like Steve's.
Never mind that he's a total bastard on ball bearings to everyone else like Steve. (Who else remembers "Kung Flu" and "the CHY-nah virus"? *counts hands* That's what I thought. Thank you.)
Someone who renames the defense department the WAR department & then declares American cities training grounds for soldiers & sends soldiers into said cities claiming, untruthfully, that they are battles zones when in actuality he is creating battle zones so he can stir up the citizens so they will fight back so then he can call it an insurrection.........nope, can't make this stuff up.
MAKE IT STOP! Buddy Carter? No words for this insanity. At least we all know what we can expect from Marc Theissen...and Fetterman WILL be voted out. Fuck that guy-I dont care if he did have a stroke.
Why do I giggle every time I see a picture of Steven Thumbhead Cheung? 😂
A stroke can cause significant personality changes: emotional (irritability, depression, anxiety, apathy), behavioral (impulsivity, aggression, lack of inhibition) and cognitive (difficulty with decision-making, problem-solving, self-awareness).
Sounds like our boy, yes?
It doesn't make sense that a guy known for one thing his entire adult life—but NOT known for being duplicitous—would suddenly become his total opposite.
If that's the reason for Fetterman's 180°, he should resign and get the care he needs, while Shapiro's still the one who'd appoint a new senator.
This Massachusetts citizen repeatedly donated to multiple Democratic campaigns across the country--but I gave the most to that MOFO Fetterman! What a betrayal!
For some reason, the universe has decided there always has to be at least 1 - 2 DINOs in the Senate at any one time. Lieberman, Manchin, Sinema, Fetterman ... Just like every human body has to have an asshole.
There are a lot of DINOs in the Senate: Hassan and Shaheen of New Hampshire, Slotkin and Peters of Michigan, Kelly and Gallego of Arizona, Cortez-Masto and Rosen of Nevada. Purple states elect DINOs. They rush to TV interviews and complain about Trump, but they consented to the Trump Cabinet - the very people carrying out the horrors we endure.
Not sure about Fetterman being better than OZ. It would have kept OZ out of RFK, Jr.'s orbit. Yes, he would have voted for all things Republicans want, but so does Fetterman.
Fuck Fetterman. He's the 2025 version of Kirsten Sinema. I voted for her and she deeply disappointed me. She turned out to be corporate republicanish with bad taste in clothing.
I voted for Fetterman, I mean,Oz? Ick! Really? But I believe that the big man now needs to go. Calling Connor Lamb (who, through repub redistricting, lost his district to the reds)!
Every room in our White House must be dripping ketchup today. Not only no Nobel Peace Prize, but....
It went to a woman.
A woman who speaks Spanish.
A woman who is a leader of her nation.
A nation whose fishermen President Miller and Donnie Demento are murdering.
Because they want to start a war with that nation in order to cancel US elections.
Can we just hand Demento a Noble Peace Prize (engraved on a binky)? He won't know the difference anyway. We'll tell him the camel pictured on the award certificate is the national symbol of Norway, and they're so pleased he recognized one during his cognitive test that they HAD to give him the Noble.
I think they should have given the Nobel Prize to the poor schmucks who were blown to kingdom come in small boats in the Caribbean. It's crimes like this that wake people up to things that cannot be allowed to continue.
Even though I live thousands of miles from Pennsylvania, I will be donating to anyone who runs against Fetterman in the Dem primary for his Senate seat
Reach out (beyond your own) to as many in the Senate and House as you can. All of this is bigger than an “I only represent my constituents” issue.
Use/share this spreadsheet (bit.ly/Goodtrouble) as a resource to call/email/write members of Congress, the Cabinet and news organizations. Reach out to those in your own state, and those in a committee that fits your topic. Call. Write. Email. Protest. Unrelentingly. We deserve better ❤️🩹🤍💙
Jeff, because we live in the shit times and my advanced age I did not include one last conversation with “Golf with MAGAs” yesterday, so folks get an extra chapter. As I spoke about the evisceration of our Constitution, stationed troops in the cities, the First Amendment violations.. I then asked… how long it will be before ramping up on the Second Amendment, how long will it be before weapons are confiscated? All these guys are big gun owners who denied this event would occur… however just putting that idea out there got these thinking seriously about what they would do if the government came after them…. And Jeff…. I’m reading posting of that x Fox weekend hey boy Kegseth giving the OK for the government of Qatar building an Air Force base in …. Idaho? WTF is going on here?
MAGA idiots' idea of a good deal: Qatar unloads a white elephant over the hill plane that they did not want and get something hugely valuable and unprecedented in return. 'Murikka First!
The bestest thing about this is that Donny got beaten by A GIRL! hahaha loser.
And also — has anyone else in the history of ever turned the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize into a stupid contest? What a fucking LOSER he is and always has been and always will be.
I second that. I reached a point that I couldn't see humor in any of it any longer, but I'm grateful for Jeff's never-ending effort. I'm having to learn how to laugh all over again. It really does feel crazy when right prevailing seems like an anomaly in this frickin' time line! 😅
and a huge thank you to the Nobel Committee for making the announcement at 5:02 this morning — the exact moment I got out of bed — so I didn't have to sit around and wait to find out what I was going to write about
because we live in the shittiest timeline, I half expected Donny might actually win the damned thing, which I think is leftover PTSD from Kamala losing the election
Nah, and Machado winning it made it all the more delicious.
How many venezuelan boat attacks are we up to now?
1: A WOMAN WON INSTEAD OF DONNIE
2: A VENEZUELAN WOMAN WON INSTEAD OF DONNIE.
YAY, NOBEL COMMITTEE!!!
....and a progressive woman won a local election in a deep deep red Alaskan town by 10 points
This is the exact reason we must remain peaceful especially on 10/18. Trump wants to declare martial law so there will be no mid-terms - because we're winning them left and left.
My sign for the rally:
KEEP CALM (with a picture of a crown and yellow "hair").
THEY WANT AN EXCUSE.
Tell us more!
I LOVE THAT!!!!!👏🏼
A woman of color instead of Donnie?
Lois, I don’t have to check or google it Hitler never got one either. Dopey don is never going to make peace happen for anybody anywhere, unless he pays off the committee he has probably tried it since that is the way he rolls.
I thought the same - he believes everything has a Price, and he has access to plenty of OPM to buy whatever his tiny heart desires. Except that one thing!
A woman that speaks Spanish no less. I’m waiting for trump to try to deport her to a Salvadoran prison. That is if he can find her first.
How in the world was his name submitted in the first place? He reminds me every day of the possibility that he’s the reincarnation of Adolph Hitler on steroids! He is just so awful, how does he attract so many sancaphants ?sp?
AND DEDICATED THE AWARD TO DONNIE.
Yep. She is not who she seems on the surface.
What!!??!🤯🤯💀💀😱
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/peace-has-no-meaning-when-right-wingers-like-maria-corina-machado-win-the-nobel-prize
Mary: A HUMBLE LATINA Venezuelan woman - only adding to the absolute DELICIOUSNESS of this~giving the credit to her people!
Triple whammy, a woman, a Latina, fighting for democracy. Couldn't get any better in my opinion. Well done Norway.
EXCEPT: SHE'S DEDICATED THE AWARD TO THE ORANGE PEDOPHILIC SADIST!!!!!!!!!!!
Gotta go.
Brain cramp.
JFC. Is she all in on him bombing random boats there?
I think she's just afraid that if Trump starts thinking of her as an enemy things will get even worse.
How could she in good conscience do such a thing?
I just read that this will give her power to get him to stop bombing Venezuelan fishermen, and to lower their 25% tariff to zero, maybe? The big question is: will she have to give him the award so he can hang it in mard-a-lego? Didn't he force some sports team to do that recently? Will she have to give him half of the money? (And don't think he hasn't already thought of that.)
she was nominated for the award by Marco Rubio and Rick Scott- has strong ties with the American and Latin American far right.
I suspect that she tried to 'make nice' about HER win and, as usual he entirely misunderstood with his friend-banana brain and imagined she was saying that HE deserved it. The speech I heard her give she dedicated it to her PEOPLE!
🤬🤬🤬🤯🤯💀💀💀💀
DID she? OR did he just claim she did? OR--alternative theory: is she playing him like the cheap-azz fiddle he's always been? (fake=gold-sprayed paint), of course. I'm actually surprised that orange shit he spackles on isn't literally coloured 'gold' since that's how he 'really' sees himself.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/peace-has-no-meaning-when-right-wingers-like-maria-corina-machado-win-the-nobel-prize
Particularly since Trump has been helping Argentinian farmers sell soy beans to China, while the soy bean industry here is reeling from a lack of export requests. Trump helps Argentinian fascist on his tanked economy and a true peace activist get the Nobel Peace prize. Yay!
I think Paul Krugman wrote a little at his substack about the American billionaires, among others, who will benefit from those BEELYONS of American taxpayer dollars going to Argentina. It will help those "investors" get out before the collapse. The rich get richer while the rest of us get sicker, thus as it ever was.
I need a genius to tell us how to avoid our federal taxes being spent on such expenditures. Anybody?
Good question. Who in state government hands over the cash they take out of our checks? Anyone know? Jeff Tiedrich?
It does not pass through the hands of any state officials, ever.
And a WOMAN. heh, heh, heh, heh, heh.
The world is not impressed, Donny. Not afraid, in love , awed or anything but disgusted, either, asshole.
Now maybe the ICC will investigate the boat attacks?
I think threatening Norway with tariffs if they didn’t give him the peace prize wasn’t a great strategy.
He is so very stupid yes let’s threaten another country if I don’t get a prize The words of a 3 year old. He’s been a bully his entire life how to win friends and influence people! I am just so sick of his presence after this past decade. I was so looking forward to a break from Trump every day. He never matured beyond age 3.
Can't we just hand him a giant fake gold participation trophy and send him off to play golf somewhere far, far away?
like the North Atlantic? We could float carpet/fake grass or something similar on the water - drop him off after convincing him it's a new type of BILLION DOLLAR golf course. Oh, sad....no boats or ferries OR helicopters for another few years. Make do you 'big alpha male'. Look at the upside, you have little goebbels/stevie-batshit with you so you can cheat all you want and no one will GAF..
I'm hearing that Columbia is taking dump to hague, the boats were theirs, apparently....
Love your take on this!
And one Colombian boat gets added
Wendy, you read my mind! The irony is thick as the sludge that passes for that blackguard’s soul.
I was having nightmares and sleepless nights worrying he might actually win the damned thing. Now the nightmares are probably going to involve the radical right repuglies giving him a fake one. Cuz sadly you can't make this stuff up.
Oh, I had faith in the peace prize committee. I was certain trump wouldn’t get it. They didn’t want to look ridiculous to the world for giving it to him and they knew they would have.
The right wing is RELENTLESS in all matters...ridiculous are semi-serious. It's what makes them dangerous.....their insatiable desire to bend reality to their will
They learn to do that from birth, listening to what emanates from the pulpit. Reality is whatever they feel the Bible means to them.
...and then they accuse us of being Trump haters...Duuuuh!
If the mad king finds out where María Corina Machado is hiding out he will give her up out of spite.
she dedicated her prize to him.
Same here!! I was worried that the overeager capitulation to the senile, nappy-sharting overgrown-toddler-in-chief had metastasized beyond our borders and that would actually happen. So relieved that it didn't!
Same. Sadly, not much would surprise me when it comes to him.
I feel the same. Every goddamned day it's more bullshit. Living in Mexico now I find it oh so very karma-esque that not only did Norway snub that cruel piece of shit jackass, they gave it to a Latina!!!!!!! xoxoxoxo
A LADY Latina! hahahahaha
There will be retribution on Norway to be sure. Add Norway to D's enemies list.
If his crew had any brains or subtlety, they could play this well: Trump is obviously itching for war with Maduro. Machado was an opposition leader against Maduro, so Trump could claim they are on the same side. Of course (1) Trump won't admit he's itching for war with Maduro, and (2) Trump doesn't have the slightest qualm about suppressing opposition figures himself, so he can't celebrate somebody who stands up to authoritarians.
Feel the same. Propaganda about this guy is a disease that hopefully doesn't spread too far beyond our borders -- and that is eventually cured. Slightly reassuring that there's sanity out there.
Edit for clarity: I really mean, "propaganda FROM this guy..." But it's both from and about.
oh god oh god, the whirled is so nuts and there was all that nonsense in the news that oh god oh god...but it wasn't decided last night but prob months ago, and by sane people
Yes, it’s not like the Nobel committee is Fox “News,” or Congressional Republicans.
The decision was on Monday—Norway time.
The decision was ANNOUNCED Monday, but I am sure they had the short list of people to consider narrowed down to two or three, if they had not already decided, weeks or months ago.
I thought I was the only one traumatized by her loss. I'm still in full-blown PTSD over Clinton losing after winning the popular vote by approx. 3.7 million.
I never got over my trauma from Bush v. Gore.
I shared your fears. The Nobel Committee has nobody to blame but themselves, for having awarded Obama a Peace Prize for what amounted to a speech. That would not have been so bad, but for the fact that it gave the Orange Turd another target for his infantile obsessiveness.
Seriously, you're equating Obama receiving a Nobel Peace Prize to this? While you can certainly argue that you disagree with Obama receiving the prize, there's no equivalence to anything that's occurring in this current regime. Remember, communication and reaching out to other nations is a key part of the responsibility of any world leader -- but especially an American president. It sets the tone, creates possibilities, opens doors, and encourages peace. If there's anything we're learning with this current regime, it's that words do matter. Bullshit and propaganda bring one set of results, while emotional intelligence and intellectual clarity bring a very different set of results.
I vote that we award Norway a giant flag that has the "Melania" sentiment on it as a response to cry babies - remember?
"I REALLY DON'T CARE DO YOU"
Once again I raise the ire of the “centrist“ Democrats by suggesting that Obama was not worthy of the Prize, and noting the likelihood that the fascist pig in the White House might not be so obsessed with it had the Nobel Committee done otherwise. I am decidedly not saying that this is in any way Obama’s fault.
As a physicist, I am accustomed to the notion that the Prize is given based on accomplishments as opposed to rhetoric. So I look at what Obama actually did prior to receiving his award. I discount the things like torpedoing the Copenhagen Climate conference, extrajudicial killings and the like which came later.
Your suggestion that I'm a "centrist" Democrat is incorrect. As a physicist, you might try exercising more restraint in attributing labels to people without knowing enough about them -- that's pretty far from the scientific method. Listen to the gist of my comment. Whoever you are, you're advancing a narrative that has opened a door for this fascist regime by suggesting there's a significant equivalence between Democrats and Republicans. Nonvoters and third-party voters have attached themselves to that idea. And here we are.
I find them obnoxiously arrogant.
Sorry for the insult; my experience with centrist Democrats has led me to think them to be intolerant of any suggestion that their own are above making mistakes. I see that I raised some hackles by mentioning my profession; the intent was to show a commitment to truth.
Finally I most certainly did not make an equivalency between Obama and Trump.
What he did at the time was reassure the world that the disappearance of American leadership under Bush was not a permanent irreparable breakdown. What Trump has done is to show that it really is.
Agreed.
And Mr. Stephen Thanks-For-Making-Sure-We-Know-You're-A-Physicist Schiff,
Remember, it will be the Centrists (Obama's worthiness of the Nobel in your arrogant eyes or not) that will save your ass from fascism, 'cause you physicists haven't done shit.
no, they won't.
Right? Jeff, I did a (very petty) happy dance, accompanied by non-stop guffaws at 5:02. Scared the dog 🤣🎃🤣🎃🤣🎃🤣🎃🤣🎃🤣🎃🤣🎃🤣
Never believed for a second that T had a chance in hell to win the NPP.!!!!!
If they ever did give it to him, I wouldn't be surprised to see former winners returning theirs.
My $$$ is on the square that says "MAGA bootlicking legislators come up with a US Peace Prize just for the Big Baby to “win”. “
After a few days he’ll have lost enough additional brain cells to make him believe it’s the Nobel anyway.
WinWin for the toadies and the big baby.
Me too. At this point I don't trust anyone not to cave to his threats. Present company excluded.
but… did she lose jeff
True. If they can give it to Kissinger, they can give it to anyone.
So Trump had a cabinet meeting and met with Carney.
I did the shit work, and sat through the Cabinet meeting and the Carney meeting.
Listen, I sat through seventy fucking minutes of Donald Shitsniffer's cabinet meeting, and I need you to understand something visceral here—my neurons were screaming, actually screaming, like they were being waterboarded with stupidity.
(Read the rest of my take here: https://thistleandmoss.com/p/when-democracy-facepalms-so-hard-it-leaves-bruises-on-trumps-fucked-anushole)
If the cabinet meeting was a dumpster fire, the meeting with Canada's PM Mark Carney was a thermonuclear ass-blast of incompetence. Picture this: you're sitting next to a world leader, someone who actually understands policy, and instead of discussing actual diplomatic matters, you suggest their entire fucking country should just "join the US." The audacity.
Bless you. There's no way I could endure that. No way.
Yeah, it was a piece of crap all the way around.
And he kept lying and lying and lying like an idiot.
I have sworn for years that all politicians need to be injected with Pinocchio's DNA, so every time they lie their nose grows!
Yes! Noses with sharp points on the end, so then they would impale themselves on each other's noses!
But if the noses on the Cabinet grew to the proper lengths, they would be unable to get out of the office.
They might be unable to get out of bed ... which would be a definite improvement!
You mean they may have to be "trapped" in the Capitol and do some work! OH NO!!!
Wendy thank you for taking one for the team!! I haven’t watched or listened to the orange felon in years without putting my blood pressure in the danger zone!
I do, so you don't have to. And As long as he continues to do it, Ill continue to report on it.
The best part of yesterday was watching Moses Mike Johnson look like a lost deer in headlights being grilled by a military wife on C-Span. Whoever thought that was a good idea for Moses should be fired.
Military wife earns the Presidential Medal…
Kevin Kruse noted that the f’n CSPAN callers asked better questions than the msm…
I thank you and your neurons for the sacrifice.
I have serious gratitude for you, but I also have a serious question: Why do leaders, intelligent people like Carney sit through that? Why do they waste their time?
Seriously, Carney is trying to get Trump to push the permitting of the second Oil Sands pipeline, the North Dakota one.
Again?!?
Now that's taking one for the team!
High marks for endurance.👍👍
My faith in the committee is now on solid ground. I was concerned a little that they would award it to the Orange Blob, but they came through with flying colors. A Venezuelan. no less! I'm sure the committee can't stop grinning today. Now if we could just get that Blob to melt away...
Not only Venezuelan, but a WOMAN!!!!!
And a Latina! All of cankles nightmares. Ketchup will be flying today!
I watched it live. The coup de grace was when he said "there can be no peace without democracy"! Touche to the fat orange shitgibbon!
The committee should release a statement saying (to paraphrase Stewie Griffin):
So, we don't have a policy against awarding the prize to pedophiles. But, ummmmmm, no pedophiles.
Bravo, Norway, home of giants – – and sensible people who believe in democracy!!
Now I'm worried that when Donald starts taking it out on Norway he will include those of us with significant amounts of Norwegian DNA since they've breached every bit of my PII not once but four times. Nowhere to hide...
So thoughtful of them! I’m glad they did too.
Trump wasn't even nominated.
They could have cleared that up months ago… I think donnie is a content machine / ratings gift for EVERYONE… sickening
Just saw this:
“Maria Corina Machado was given the award for promoting democracy in Venezuela and says that the US president is the country’s best chance for regime change” (Venezuela’s)
I kinda see her point even if we know Trump is a fucking disaster who would probably make things worse
That was real? I didn't look closely at the headline and thought it was either satire or some shit the orange buffoon's handles cooked up to tamp down the ketchup blizzard.
Yep, I saw it in The Independent but other outlets had it too.
You are aware of what has happened? "OSLO, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for fighting dictatorship in the country and DEDICATED THE AWARD in part TO U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP who has repeatedly insisted he deserved it."
she is a strong ally of the far right. look at her record.
Today’s post is awesome! A thousand thank yous for this most important of messages.
Oh, I SO knew today's was going to be 'extra' good. The roundup of the week always is! You are a treasure, Jeff. I'm gifting you this: Don't know the writer (didn't even check, yet) but they had me laughing: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/if-a-humanitarian-like-trump-doesn-t-deserve-the-nobel-peace-prize-who-does-opinion/ar-AA1Oethw?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=68eaabf4ac474d69894f7d7d482511ab&ei=75
oops: even WORSE (if it could be) I understand the idiot is now claiming that Machado called him saying she 'accepted it FOR HIM"?!!!!!!! The magats will accept this as fact and spew it all over the internet.
Thank you Jeff.
...and...
Dear Nobel Committee, This is the moment everyone committed to justice, democracy, and peace has been waiting for. Please invite Trump and Putin to The Hague to pick up their consolation prize. Thank You, Everyone (and Antifa).
https://civicsky.io/nobel-prize-committee/
The Nobel Consolation Prize, heretofore never awarded (or extant), was created expressly for those two who represent everything the Peace Prize is against. The Losers, er, I mean Consolation "winners" get a statuette in the shape of a raised middle finger, a diploma saying "You Had Zero Fucking Chance of Winning" and $100 in Trump Bucks, which are not legal tender anywhere on Earth
Notably, "Trump Bucks" can be exchanged on the Mars colony founded by Elon Musk and his 3,000 children.
😳😂😂😂😂
Yeah, but exchanged for what?
That’s easy Anna! Extremist corrupt right wing officials and pardons.
Something like 'Mars Mock Moola'?
😂😂😂😂
Hahahaha
Ha freaking hahaha, George! OMG, hilarious! MarzBux!
Yours in service Dana Jae. 🤓
South Park needs to show Donny receiving his Noble Consulation Prize while Donnie is oblivious to what the middle finger actually means. Donnie, proud father to be of devil spawn, so giddy about his trophy.
With the Trump Bucks you can buy a Trump Watch which he's now hawking. The grift never stops. He'll be on his deathbed and will try to sell a Trump Mattress with his last breath.
I heard of at least one case where a MAGAt tried to use Trump bucks at a store and was enraged when the clerk wouldn’t accept it for payment since it’s not real money. Geez, MAGA stooopidity
But yet they’re still tRUMP’s biggest supporters. It wasn’t HIS fault the store wouldn’t take tRUMP bucks. It’s the store’s fault- the reason why MAGA exists.
Speaking of MAGA, just when the fuck, fuckity, fuck WILL ‘Murica be great again🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Answer- as soon as my cat wins America’s go Talent for his exquisite singing and dance routine while performing a juggling magic act
I'll vote for yer cat
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
His toadies will dream up a Newer Better Peace Prize to “award” their Dear Leader. It will be the envy of the world! Everyone will want one! Later, it will officially be known as the Trump Peace Prize. It will totally eclipse the so-called Nobel Peace Prize. Who cares what Norwegians think, anyway. USA! USA! USA!
So true Sandy. As long as it is painted gold.
Damn! What a BIGLY beautiful idea. Why hadn’t that been thought of before?
Just imagine the tears of happiness and gratitude when they proudly present the gaudy gold trinket to the Insecure Narcissist Man-baby In Chief.
“Sir, this award, the likes that’s NEVER been seen before, is proudly being awarded,to a Great Peace loving, God fearing Christian. A huge honest, decent , kind humanitarian. It makes the “Noble” prize thingy from Sweden look like a claw machine prize”
God Bless you!”
So nutzo and I think we can all count on this actually happening. Fucking Guardians of Pedofiles will shove this idea through.
Asswipes, the lot of them.
... are you sure it shouldn't say, Nobel Piece Prize 🤔 (pedophile prize) ... ?
A huge box of huge sized Depends for men.
and a 64oz bottle of ketchup.
1. Donny doesn’t have cabinet meetings. He has Daytime Story Hour
2. WaPo has been dead to me for a long time. Now they’re even deader.
I may subscribe to WaPo just so I can cancel it again.
I dig that rage!
Daytime Story Hour - gonna keep that one. Thank you.
Free for the taking!!
With shit kazoos!!
I think the only American source I read is Rolling Stone now and even that makes me lose my will. The Irish Times is where it’s at, though it’s a bit murdery.
I read foreign press too because you get real facts instead of glossed over bullshit. I’ll check out Irish Times. I swear the Irish know more about our politics than a lot of Americans (been there twice)
There’s a number of foreign news sites that have better coverage of this country’s fuckery Kay-EI den scoth!
Exactly. Often better written too. It’s crushing to see what the rest of the world thinks of us.
Aye, they used to respect us, and even fear us, but now we’ve become a third rate comedy act, with NO respect, and ALL mockery.
Oooo! I like me some murdery!
I highly recommended The Irish Times!
They seem to be a great paper too, often breaking US news before The Guardian even.
try The Guardian
I read that too.
👌🏻
"Daytime Story Hour" is perfect !! Lol
A woman! A Venezuelan! Man, that's gonna leave a mark. Po' Donny. Po' MAGA. They fascisming as hard as they can, can't get no respect. In closing, Chris Cilizza is a douchenozzle who's been wrong about everything for decades, which is why he's the poster boy for corporate media.
I always wonder of Chris Cilizza understands just how BIG a douchenozzle he is...I mean, I've never heard him say a rational thing. 🤷🏼♀️
I want to believe that Cillizza is trolling for clicks, but he might actually be a numbskull
He was always a douche-bro of "both-siderism". I always read his name as "ClitLizard."
😂😂😂 appropriate!
Cilizza's a stupid, stupid opportunist who will say anything according to the way the wind is blowing. I can't believe the guy still has any job. Why is anyone still willing to ask that guy what he thinks? Who cares???
That is a mystery wrapped in a riddle inside an enigma. Borrowed from Churchill
Strong possibility there. 😆
Both things can be true.
Indeed Ann!
As a person who has Asian ancestry like Steve Cheung, I say to him WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR MALFUNCTION, numbnuts? Your boss is a fucking racist, you dipshit
"but he's always been nice to me" is what people say in a situation like Steve's.
Never mind that he's a total bastard on ball bearings to everyone else like Steve. (Who else remembers "Kung Flu" and "the CHY-nah virus"? *counts hands* That's what I thought. Thank you.)
Nailed it Doc!
Someone who renames his defense department the WAR Department wants a PEACE prize even while he murders unarmed civilians in the Caribbean.
You cannot make this stuff up.
I have an award for Trump. The - despite being a convict, rapist, pedophile, murdering fascist, he got himself elected - award.
Oh and Epstein Epstein Epstein
Someone who renames the defense department the WAR department & then declares American cities training grounds for soldiers & sends soldiers into said cities claiming, untruthfully, that they are battles zones when in actuality he is creating battle zones so he can stir up the citizens so they will fight back so then he can call it an insurrection.........nope, can't make this stuff up.
Fuckoffistan isn’t far enough. Just launch these moronic grifting shit-for-brains right into the sun.
Yeet them into outer space on one of Phony Stark's rockets. Jane Goodall was onto something there.
Absolutely
MAKE IT STOP! Buddy Carter? No words for this insanity. At least we all know what we can expect from Marc Theissen...and Fetterman WILL be voted out. Fuck that guy-I dont care if he did have a stroke.
Why do I giggle every time I see a picture of Steven Thumbhead Cheung? 😂
how sad is it that as disappointing as Fefferman is, he's still better than the guy he defeated, Dr. Oz
Yeah...I was all in for John...even got a T-shirt. 😂😂 It's a dust rag now.
I feel particularly betrayed, because the Fetterman campaign asked me to boost him on social media, and I did
A stroke can cause significant personality changes: emotional (irritability, depression, anxiety, apathy), behavioral (impulsivity, aggression, lack of inhibition) and cognitive (difficulty with decision-making, problem-solving, self-awareness).
Sounds like our boy, yes?
It doesn't make sense that a guy known for one thing his entire adult life—but NOT known for being duplicitous—would suddenly become his total opposite.
If that's the reason for Fetterman's 180°, he should resign and get the care he needs, while Shapiro's still the one who'd appoint a new senator.
How did any of us know then he would end up like this? Evidently his staff has commented on his “decline” as well. It’s a damn shame. 🙄
He got more of my money than I like to admit. Makes me very sad.
I lived near Braddock when he was mayor there. He was awesome. His current condition is very sad to see.
Don't feel TOO badly -- we all sip a little kool-aid some time in our lives.
This Massachusetts citizen repeatedly donated to multiple Democratic campaigns across the country--but I gave the most to that MOFO Fetterman! What a betrayal!
I just cleaned the litter box: I have a bag of cat donations that would be better than both Fetterman and Oz.
Yep, them kitties never get tired of donating! 💩💩💩💩💩💩💩
What?!?! A skanky wad of shit-urine reeking of ammonia?
Well... okay. You're right.
👍👍👍
For some reason, the universe has decided there always has to be at least 1 - 2 DINOs in the Senate at any one time. Lieberman, Manchin, Sinema, Fetterman ... Just like every human body has to have an asshole.
There are a lot of DINOs in the Senate: Hassan and Shaheen of New Hampshire, Slotkin and Peters of Michigan, Kelly and Gallego of Arizona, Cortez-Masto and Rosen of Nevada. Purple states elect DINOs. They rush to TV interviews and complain about Trump, but they consented to the Trump Cabinet - the very people carrying out the horrors we endure.
Not sure about Fetterman being better than OZ. It would have kept OZ out of RFK, Jr.'s orbit. Yes, he would have voted for all things Republicans want, but so does Fetterman.
point
Truth! At least he doesn’t push super-powered vitamins with his name on them. … Does he?
Disappointing is so generous, Uncle Jeff. He’s a disgrace. 💔🇺🇸
Jeff, not by much!
Are you positive?
Fuck Fetterman. He's the 2025 version of Kirsten Sinema. I voted for her and she deeply disappointed me. She turned out to be corporate republicanish with bad taste in clothing.
Hear hear. I’m a fellow “what the fuck have you done, Sinema?” Arizonan. Fuck her and her curtsy as she betrayed us! 😡🤬💔🇺🇸
I voted for Fetterman, I mean,Oz? Ick! Really? But I believe that the big man now needs to go. Calling Connor Lamb (who, through repub redistricting, lost his district to the reds)!
The back of Cheung's neck looks like a package of hot dogs.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂
Cheung brings to mind that old Canadian piece of wisdom: "Hey fatso! Have another donut, eh?"😂😂
LOL….absolutely. 😂
Every room in our White House must be dripping ketchup today. Not only no Nobel Peace Prize, but....
It went to a woman.
A woman who speaks Spanish.
A woman who is a leader of her nation.
A nation whose fishermen President Miller and Donnie Demento are murdering.
Because they want to start a war with that nation in order to cancel US elections.
Can we just hand Demento a Noble Peace Prize (engraved on a binky)? He won't know the difference anyway. We'll tell him the camel pictured on the award certificate is the national symbol of Norway, and they're so pleased he recognized one during his cognitive test that they HAD to give him the Noble.
I just had a terrible thought: Does this mean Donny Demento will retaliate against Venezuela by bombing even more fishing boats?
More than likely.
Or helping out the one dictator he doesn’t like?
"they want to start a war with that nation in order to cancel US elections."
AND to seize the Orinoco Oil Belt!
Never say the Trump administration can't multitask.
I think they should have given the Nobel Prize to the poor schmucks who were blown to kingdom come in small boats in the Caribbean. It's crimes like this that wake people up to things that cannot be allowed to continue.
PS. Also that would be the biggest possible fuck you to our own national criminal.
Even though I live thousands of miles from Pennsylvania, I will be donating to anyone who runs against Fetterman in the Dem primary for his Senate seat
Yep. Me, too. Immediately. Fuck him. 🤬😡💔🇺🇸
So glad he didn’t win!
Keep being loud!
Reach out (beyond your own) to as many in the Senate and House as you can. All of this is bigger than an “I only represent my constituents” issue.
Use/share this spreadsheet (bit.ly/Goodtrouble) as a resource to call/email/write members of Congress, the Cabinet and news organizations. Reach out to those in your own state, and those in a committee that fits your topic. Call. Write. Email. Protest. Unrelentingly. We deserve better ❤️🩹🤍💙
Jeff, because we live in the shit times and my advanced age I did not include one last conversation with “Golf with MAGAs” yesterday, so folks get an extra chapter. As I spoke about the evisceration of our Constitution, stationed troops in the cities, the First Amendment violations.. I then asked… how long it will be before ramping up on the Second Amendment, how long will it be before weapons are confiscated? All these guys are big gun owners who denied this event would occur… however just putting that idea out there got these thinking seriously about what they would do if the government came after them…. And Jeff…. I’m reading posting of that x Fox weekend hey boy Kegseth giving the OK for the government of Qatar building an Air Force base in …. Idaho? WTF is going on here?
MAGA idiots' idea of a good deal: Qatar unloads a white elephant over the hill plane that they did not want and get something hugely valuable and unprecedented in return. 'Murikka First!
I think the Canadians should have some say on this proposal since their border is so close and those are fighter jets..
This bullshit is open treason. It is NOT "America First." Idiot MAGAs cannot see the obvious. Sorry, your golf partners must be dumbshits.
A miracle! A murderous psychopathic criminal did not win a Nobel Peace Prize! And the day is young!
the bar low these days
The bestest thing about this is that Donny got beaten by A GIRL! hahaha loser.
And also — has anyone else in the history of ever turned the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize into a stupid contest? What a fucking LOSER he is and always has been and always will be.
A Latino
A woman
A Venezuelan to boot
Thank you, Jeff for your never-ending efforts to highlight the stupidity. If we don't keep laughing at it, we'll go crazy.
I second that. I reached a point that I couldn't see humor in any of it any longer, but I'm grateful for Jeff's never-ending effort. I'm having to learn how to laugh all over again. It really does feel crazy when right prevailing seems like an anomaly in this frickin' time line! 😅
I hear you. Hang in there.