No, it's not. There's no shooting yet. Lots of tasty scenarios could unfold whereby Trump's minions begin seizing private weapons, for 'national security' of course. Then you may get some kind of reaction. But I will not speculate further on how 'true patriots' will react to having their beloved gunz taken away.
Performative puff jobs like random deployments of bored soldiers and the slapping up of cardboard-cutout prisons (marketed with T-shirts, no less), do not look like strength to me. They look like a panicked attempt to 'look strong' between other planned atrocities.
$170B are earmarked for 'border security', about a third is estimated for detention facilities. Nothing for judges or legal infrastructure. At full deployment, ICE will be the largest operator of prisons on the PLANET. Trump is also increasing his spend on the border wall by 10x from his first term.
And hardly anyone cares. Whether we can get up to the mythical 3.5% is still an open question.
Maybe all those children, though there wasn’t more than a handful, needed 200+ border patrol agents because the children were all armed to the teeth with sniper guns. Oh, wait, that would be Texas where everyone is required to own a high powered weapon or face deportation to El Salvador.
I didn’t know that. I grew up in NYC and until I left for college, I thought the entire country had the same strict laws as NY. Then I went to college, first in Missouri and then Florida I was astonished how easy you could buy a gun. When I moved to FL friends would warn me not to give someone the finger when they drove like assholes. Something I still have a problem holding back till this day.
Also, article written by a Texas meteorologist explaining why thunderstorms and floods are currently impossible to predict In more than general terms in Texas.
Kerr County sought funding from the federal government and the state for years for a flood warning system, and they never got it. But they didn't want sirens, which are the only thing that could be effective for all citizens. Now they'll get sirens! If I lived there, I want sirens!
It seems Texas has a rainy day fund of $billions. They knew for years they needed an alert system but it never happened and now there are over 100 dead and 160 still missing.
I was watching this on the news and saw that Mayor Bass showed up to see what the hell was going on. Apparently no one was apprehended, the stormtroopers kept moving and we wish it was for good but this largely Hispanic neighborhood was in their crosshairs. Is the mad Emperor attempting to do a similar repeat of 1939 Warsaw? Probably not so much since this forever dumbshit, like everything else, is not well versed in history. However, it's obvious that CA is purposely being targeted to continue spreading fear and anger but the brave folks of LA won't back down.
Tell me again how this isn’t an attack on American democracy and our citizens. Guns mounted on trucks. Armed men hiding their faces. They are using California as a test to see how far they can go. If Americans don’t push back and FORCE THESE NAZIS OUT our nation will be lost. Our freedom will be lost. Blue states must start withholding funds. Let red states fend for themselves. See what happens. FYI, I live in one of the most corrupt red states in the country so a shortage of money to steal just might force voters to open their eyes!
Don't miss coverage of the folks posting flyers (and handing copies to Marines) with the headline "Not what you signed up for?". Subtitle says " You have rights. You have duties." Body lists a bunch of contacts for addressing concerns with constitutionality and legally and whistle blowing.
Wait!! What??? A gun mounted on a truck came rolling into MacArthur Park…Why? I’ve taken some time away from the internet & completely missed this!!🤦🏼♀️🙄😡😤🤬
Really apt comparison with Bonnie Tyler. I was having a senior moment the other day when "It's a Heartache" came on the radio, and I was thinking, who is that? Kim Carnes? And "Bette Davis Eyes" went through my head for comparison. But then the memory rebooted and I got Bonnie Tyler. Sometimes takes awhile for the encyclopedic memory files to re-set. 😉
Wellll, I look at your and Jeff's posts the same way as I consider YouTube videos which state emphatically "don't try this at home" ... if everyone heeded the warning, where could we watch such YouTube videos? Since our world is getting dumber, sadly your anger, disgust and willingness to investigate and point this out properly are a welcome break from the stupidity. Please don't type this at home, y'all ... several MAGA cultists were hurt purposely to ensure this message was completed. 😉
To quote Al Franken in his book about his time in the Senate, “I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz.”
The original quote that I saw years ago had only 50 cockroaches in a rat suit, but I knew that wasn't enough, so I took some artistic license and added another 450 cockroaches to be more accurate.
It's kind of hard to feel bad for them when they keep picking this idiot. And voting for the idiot in the White House. It's like "you get what you get and you don't throw a fit"
I lived there (not by choice) for eight years when I was a teenager and college student. I can attest that almost all of Texas is Fundie Central, and many self-identified Christian voters choose Republicans to saaaave the baaaaaabieees!
I hope ya ain't there now. Repubes are fetus obsessed but let's be honest: once it's out of the womb and is an actual baby, they don't want it to have food, healthcare, education, equal opportunity, or safety. Uh huh, "pro life" my ass
"Boy those conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you're born, you're on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don't want to know about you. They don't want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care. No daycare, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare. Nothing. If you're pre-born, you're fine. If you're preschool, you're fucked. Conservatives don't give a shit about you until you reach 'military age'. Then they think you are just fine. Just what they've been looking for. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. Pro-life, pro-life, these people aren't pro-life, they are killing doctors! What kind of pro-life is that? What? They will do anything they can to save the fetus, but if it grows up to be a doctor, they just might have to kill it. They're not pro-life. You know what they are? They are anti-woman. Simple as it gets, they are anti-woman. They don't like them. They don't like women. They believe that a woman's primary role is to serve as a brood mare for the state." -- The Late Great George Carlin
Wendy, the Druid covers in heartbreaking detail the viciousness combined with Joker-like perverted glee at the death and destruction. They’re peeing their pants with anticipation at their next mass murder perpetrated by their pulling the rug out on America with their Big Buttfuck Bill.
These creatures are not human, Nosferatu Miller and Leopard Face Vance are products of Opus Dei. A cult within the Catholic Church, billionaires like Leonard Leo and other members of the Heritage Foundation have deeply embedded themselves in American politics. They are the authors of Project 2025. 6 members of our corrupt SCOTUS were bought and paid for by the Heritage Foundation overseer Leo. The Koch Bros have deeply invested in Heritage Foundation’s view for our country. A theocratic cult combined with a police state. Tearing apart our government and constitution, destroying the social safety net aimed at taking women’s rights specifically. We are moving toward a cruel authoritarian dictatorship where no one has a right to anything. This includes billionaires that somehow find themselves on the wrong side of the dictatorship. No one is safe. No one. We’re only 6+ months in and completely avoidable death and destruction, cruelty at a psychopath level is here.
I personally find it equal measures appalling, infuriating, ironic, and just plain ridiculous that a Christianity-based movement is so fucking evil and cruel.
Well, just think about the Crusades, the Inquisition, the vicious antisemitism, the hatred of women, the war on intellect - Christianity is evil and always has been.
For a scathing and unblinking look at Christianity and the intellectual destruction it has caused, read the remarkable book, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World, by Catherine Nixey. It really is a case of "read 'em and weep".
Oh yes! We must call out Opus Dei! Shine light on this perverted cult! It is deeply embedded in our political system. Financed by billionaires who want a caste based society. They are Christo-Fascists who own politicians and entangled them in illegal and unconstitutional bills and passing laws to hurt Americans.
Opus Dei has been calling the shots for 40+ years! Root them out!
Michelle Davis writes about this on her Lone Star State Substack. The state is heavily gerrymandered. The state makes registration a clusterfuck. They have something called a 'suspension' if one has not voted in the last two elections. Many people do not vote because it's way too complicated. Limited access to ballot boxes. I think she said, only 25% of Texans voted for King Shitpants. It's a rigged state. Two white Christian Nationalist billionaires run the state, Dunn and Wilkes.
I read your morning Substack, and your info is a little out of date. It's 27 kids now, and 104 deaths. But, you probably know that already, so I'll shut up now.
It's the same ol' tired deflection from the right. Whenever there's a mass shooting and calls for change, like gun control, the GOP pols rush to the mic to condemn the Democrats for "politicizing" a tragedy. After conservatives have utterly politicized religion, health choices, education, and research in this country to the point where all those sectors are broken.
Let's also not forget that every time Cancun Cruz attends a sports event, the team he came to support loses badly. Astros, Univ of Texas, Rangers...the list is endless.
Smarmy triggered a memory of seeing him talking real close up to the camera and he had this, um, let's call it a "booger" on his bottom corner lip and you couldn't help but just notice it cuz it just stayed there until one moment when he just slurped it in and never missed a beat. I about threw up. I think it went viral actually. Gawd, why they all gotta sear their crap in our brains?
1. 🎶 Send in the clowns…don’t bother they’re here 🎶
2. Donny was content to let a blue state burn, but is promising aid to Texas. Of course, if it’s the now gutted FEMA, I’m not sure how much help they’re going to get. Mexico for the win on that score.
Sheinbaum showed Trump what a great president looks like. But he was too busy golfing and jerking off to his ICE capades, complete with cavalry, in MacArthur Park, to pay attention.
When I saw that, all I could think of was Richard Harris singing 🎵 MacArthur park is melting in the dark 🎵 only it’s not icing flowing down, it’s ICE 🖕🏼
AMEN, Sharon! The fact that Mexico sent help just makes me want to cry. If it were possible for Cruz, Abbott, Paxton, and Cheetolini to feel shame, they should be thoroughly humiliated. As it is, it was just a, "So what?" moment for them.
Well here the fuck we are. Jeff, Thank you as always. Liked, Restacked, Crossed to my readers, and Quoted.
What I wanna know is, followup from yesterday.
You know what keeps me up at night: How do we sleep soundly knowing that one man's vindictive incompetence can literally orchestrate the deaths of children, and half the country will still defend him?
It's the thing I live for that gets me up every morning. I'll take it, but don't want to be left with Vance or Johnson, so I dream that my karma asteroid hits. So they can all be wiped out in well fell swoop like the dinosaurs.
1)During Search and rescue: Don’t politicize this, just STFU and pray, we haven’t had time to create enough BS stories, yet. 2) After funerals: Don’t politicize this! Please STFU and PRAY MORE, they have just buried their dead. 3) Four weeks later. STFU. All you do is try to politicize this and we have moved on. Damned Democrats….
1- “he dove head-first into partisan finger-pointing with the same vigor he displays when elbowing his way to the front of an all-you-can-eat buffet in Cancun.” Love this Jeff!
2- I’m surprised trump didn’t quote the Iranians as saying “Sir, sir! Please let us know when we can bomb your base”. Now that’s respect!! What an imbecile.
It's "good feeling" when we denigrate these fools and sycophants...but that's all we can do as DonnieFelon takes all the air out of our sails by his autocratic dictatorship and dependency upon Congress and SCOTUS to give him carte blanche. I fear that he will find some excuse to deny an election in November '26.
A building is a symbol, as is the act of destroying it. Symbols are given power by people. Alone, a symbol is meaningless, but with enough people, blowing up a building can change the world. -- V for Vendetta reference for those who dont know.
It's a sick sign of the times that our best hope is the fascists splintering and devouring each other. Musk is conjoining with Andrew Yang on a third party movement, which will probably fizzle but suck up a lot of media time and cause the most chaos within MAGA before the midterms. DOJ's denial about the Epstein Client List is also rich fodder for outraged MAGATs to pile on to, even more than the drownings in Texas. The "base" is cracking.
Trump's private army rolled into MacArthur Park with a gun mounted on a truck, FFS. Good God. Make it stop!
𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕔𝕚𝕧𝕚 𝕨𝕒𝕣 𝕚𝕤 𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕪 𝕞𝕦𝕔𝕙 𝕆ℕ 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕗𝕦𝕔𝕜𝕖𝕕 𝕦𝕡 𝕕𝕚𝕤𝕡𝕝𝕒𝕪 𝕠𝕗 "military might" 𝕚𝕟 𝕄𝕒𝕔𝕒𝕣𝕥𝕙𝕦𝕣 ℙ𝕒𝕣𝕜.
No, it's not. There's no shooting yet. Lots of tasty scenarios could unfold whereby Trump's minions begin seizing private weapons, for 'national security' of course. Then you may get some kind of reaction. But I will not speculate further on how 'true patriots' will react to having their beloved gunz taken away.
Performative puff jobs like random deployments of bored soldiers and the slapping up of cardboard-cutout prisons (marketed with T-shirts, no less), do not look like strength to me. They look like a panicked attempt to 'look strong' between other planned atrocities.
$170B are earmarked for 'border security', about a third is estimated for detention facilities. Nothing for judges or legal infrastructure. At full deployment, ICE will be the largest operator of prisons on the PLANET. Trump is also increasing his spend on the border wall by 10x from his first term.
And hardly anyone cares. Whether we can get up to the mythical 3.5% is still an open question.
Worst cover of "MacArthur Park" ever.
Weren't they there because someone left the cake out in the rain?!
Someone left the ICE out in the rain.
I hope they're melting...
in their full cosplay battle rattle getups in 85 degree heat and 50% humidity
I think humidity is more of an East Coast thing.
Tell that to Louisiana.
I was thinking the same thing 😂
Appalling.
Maybe all those children, though there wasn’t more than a handful, needed 200+ border patrol agents because the children were all armed to the teeth with sniper guns. Oh, wait, that would be Texas where everyone is required to own a high powered weapon or face deportation to El Salvador.
Periodic reminder that California has gun control because Ronald Wilson Reagan was scared of the Black Panthers.
I didn’t know that. I grew up in NYC and until I left for college, I thought the entire country had the same strict laws as NY. Then I went to college, first in Missouri and then Florida I was astonished how easy you could buy a gun. When I moved to FL friends would warn me not to give someone the finger when they drove like assholes. Something I still have a problem holding back till this day.
💥💥💥 DONT MISS THIS!!! ⛈️⛈️⛈️
Actual video showing flash flood hit in a Texas river, video worth a thousand words. What a horror!
https://www.npr.org/sections/the-picture-show/2025/07/06/g-s1-76298/video-timelapse-texas-llano-river-flood-minutes?jwsource=cl
Also, article written by a Texas meteorologist explaining why thunderstorms and floods are currently impossible to predict In more than general terms in Texas.
https://kathleenweber.substack.com/p/see-texas-flash-flood-happen
Kerr County sought funding from the federal government and the state for years for a flood warning system, and they never got it. But they didn't want sirens, which are the only thing that could be effective for all citizens. Now they'll get sirens! If I lived there, I want sirens!
It seems Texas has a rainy day fund of $billions. They knew for years they needed an alert system but it never happened and now there are over 100 dead and 160 still missing.
I was watching this on the news and saw that Mayor Bass showed up to see what the hell was going on. Apparently no one was apprehended, the stormtroopers kept moving and we wish it was for good but this largely Hispanic neighborhood was in their crosshairs. Is the mad Emperor attempting to do a similar repeat of 1939 Warsaw? Probably not so much since this forever dumbshit, like everything else, is not well versed in history. However, it's obvious that CA is purposely being targeted to continue spreading fear and anger but the brave folks of LA won't back down.
I think I read that there were embedded faux news people in the crowd - horses?????
Heather Cox Richardson says that, and she lists her sources, so I'd believe it.
I stand with those brave people in LA, and I wish there was more I could do from this other side of the country to help.
He doesn't know but a lot of people who are in a position to order ICE where to go and what to do are damn sure aware of what they are doing.
Especially Stephen Miller.
Stephen Miller is well versed in history.
Yup, 1930s German history.
It is Trump's private army. It's not just Homeland Security or Border Patrol or even ICE. We need a new name that sums it all up. How about:
Group Established to Stampout Terrorism And Protect Ourselves.
I'm sure there's a workable acronym in there somewhere.
I’m old and old school. Geheime Stadts Polizei still works for me.
Tell me again how this isn’t an attack on American democracy and our citizens. Guns mounted on trucks. Armed men hiding their faces. They are using California as a test to see how far they can go. If Americans don’t push back and FORCE THESE NAZIS OUT our nation will be lost. Our freedom will be lost. Blue states must start withholding funds. Let red states fend for themselves. See what happens. FYI, I live in one of the most corrupt red states in the country so a shortage of money to steal just might force voters to open their eyes!
I doubt it. Logic and reason can't reach those ignorant hayseeds. The could be broke and alone and living under a bridge and they's still be MAGAts.
You’re probably right. Ignorance is what the GOP propagates and values.
And still blaming Biden. Or Obama.
Photo op time for Fox Entertainment. That ought to keep the cult drooling for awhile.
Tin soldiers has FAUX News comin'
Brain dead in Trump White House
Don't miss coverage of the folks posting flyers (and handing copies to Marines) with the headline "Not what you signed up for?". Subtitle says " You have rights. You have duties." Body lists a bunch of contacts for addressing concerns with constitutionality and legally and whistle blowing.
ICE is best when CRUSHED!
he isn't going to declare martial law. he's just going to do things like this and challenge us to make it stop.
Wait!! What??? A gun mounted on a truck came rolling into MacArthur Park…Why? I’ve taken some time away from the internet & completely missed this!!🤦🏼♀️🙄😡😤🤬
At least Bette Davis as Baby Jane had some charm and humor...
Baby Jane was way more rational and functional than he is
True--set goal, take steps to achieve it...
Yep, BJ did that. Dumpload DonOld? Nuh
And when Trump writes a "letter to daddy," it goes straight to Putin.
Great answer!
What I would do for Bette Davis Eyes. :)
Come on, we just got done paying the bail from last time 😁
But....but....it was worth....it.....kinda.....
yup ... Kim Carnes really set the bar singing this one.
I very much love that song, and Carnes gravely voice (ala Bonnie Tyler), makes it all the better.
Really apt comparison with Bonnie Tyler. I was having a senior moment the other day when "It's a Heartache" came on the radio, and I was thinking, who is that? Kim Carnes? And "Bette Davis Eyes" went through my head for comparison. But then the memory rebooted and I got Bonnie Tyler. Sometimes takes awhile for the encyclopedic memory files to re-set. 😉
So true, Wendy! I love your posts.
Oh, you actually like my perpetual anger and disgust? I appreciate your kindness TR. :)
Wellll, I look at your and Jeff's posts the same way as I consider YouTube videos which state emphatically "don't try this at home" ... if everyone heeded the warning, where could we watch such YouTube videos? Since our world is getting dumber, sadly your anger, disgust and willingness to investigate and point this out properly are a welcome break from the stupidity. Please don't type this at home, y'all ... several MAGA cultists were hurt purposely to ensure this message was completed. 😉
Bette Davis Eyes? Nah, Marty Feldman Eyes.
That’s I- gor
You promise you won't be angry? It was Abby-something. Abby-what? Abby-normal.
I found her to be the epitome of creepy. With Trump it goes far beyond that into unending disbelief that anyone could like him.
WTF, Tex-ass, ya coulda had Beto or Colin Allred as yer senator and you chose this guy. Twice.
To quote Al Franken in his book about his time in the Senate, “I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz.”
Ted Cruz is 500 rats in a person suit and each rat is 500 cockroaches in a rat suit.
Ooh, ooh, Mary Hall, I love this!!
That’s a great oldie Mary- glad you brought that up again!
The original quote that I saw years ago had only 50 cockroaches in a rat suit, but I knew that wasn't enough, so I took some artistic license and added another 450 cockroaches to be more accurate.
It's inflation. Just simple economics.
Timeless and classic. That's why Al was a writer on SNL
Kirsten Gillibrand led the effort to unseat Franken. Despicable
It's kind of hard to feel bad for them when they keep picking this idiot. And voting for the idiot in the White House. It's like "you get what you get and you don't throw a fit"
𝔸𝕟𝕕 𝔸𝕓𝕓𝕠𝕥𝕥 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝔾𝕠𝕧.
May he rot in hell, that right wing douche
I lived there (not by choice) for eight years when I was a teenager and college student. I can attest that almost all of Texas is Fundie Central, and many self-identified Christian voters choose Republicans to saaaave the baaaaaabieees!
I hope ya ain't there now. Repubes are fetus obsessed but let's be honest: once it's out of the womb and is an actual baby, they don't want it to have food, healthcare, education, equal opportunity, or safety. Uh huh, "pro life" my ass
Yep, I'm out of there. Bad news is that I'm now in Florida. Out of the frying pan and into *another* frying pan lol...
My sympathies
It’s what civilization calls actual people.
But once you're born ...
"Boy those conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you're born, you're on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don't want to know about you. They don't want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care. No daycare, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare. Nothing. If you're pre-born, you're fine. If you're preschool, you're fucked. Conservatives don't give a shit about you until you reach 'military age'. Then they think you are just fine. Just what they've been looking for. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. Pro-life, pro-life, these people aren't pro-life, they are killing doctors! What kind of pro-life is that? What? They will do anything they can to save the fetus, but if it grows up to be a doctor, they just might have to kill it. They're not pro-life. You know what they are? They are anti-woman. Simple as it gets, they are anti-woman. They don't like them. They don't like women. They believe that a woman's primary role is to serve as a brood mare for the state." -- The Late Great George Carlin
Damn, I really miss Carlin.
Michelle, my sister says it like that, "the baaaaabieees ". I cut her out if my life, and PP will get her share in my will.
Wow, Cathy! You are badass! Great response!
Wendy, the Druid covers in heartbreaking detail the viciousness combined with Joker-like perverted glee at the death and destruction. They’re peeing their pants with anticipation at their next mass murder perpetrated by their pulling the rug out on America with their Big Buttfuck Bill.
These creatures are not human, Nosferatu Miller and Leopard Face Vance are products of Opus Dei. A cult within the Catholic Church, billionaires like Leonard Leo and other members of the Heritage Foundation have deeply embedded themselves in American politics. They are the authors of Project 2025. 6 members of our corrupt SCOTUS were bought and paid for by the Heritage Foundation overseer Leo. The Koch Bros have deeply invested in Heritage Foundation’s view for our country. A theocratic cult combined with a police state. Tearing apart our government and constitution, destroying the social safety net aimed at taking women’s rights specifically. We are moving toward a cruel authoritarian dictatorship where no one has a right to anything. This includes billionaires that somehow find themselves on the wrong side of the dictatorship. No one is safe. No one. We’re only 6+ months in and completely avoidable death and destruction, cruelty at a psychopath level is here.
We will overcome. Keep shining your light, Wendy.
I personally find it equal measures appalling, infuriating, ironic, and just plain ridiculous that a Christianity-based movement is so fucking evil and cruel.
Well, just think about the Crusades, the Inquisition, the vicious antisemitism, the hatred of women, the war on intellect - Christianity is evil and always has been.
𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℂ𝕙𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕚𝕒𝕟 ℂ𝕣𝕦𝕤𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕤 𝕨𝕖𝕣𝕖 𝕡𝕣𝕖𝕥𝕥𝕪 fucked up. Check on the 11th-13th centuries. Ooof
For a scathing and unblinking look at Christianity and the intellectual destruction it has caused, read the remarkable book, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World, by Catherine Nixey. It really is a case of "read 'em and weep".
Those fkers brought us 900 years of the Dark Ages.
And they would like to return us to those glory days of theirs.
It’s The Handmaids Tale come to real life
Worse than that. We are currently living in the middle of a Venn Diagram of The Handmaid's Tale, Fahrenheit 451, Animal Farm, and 1984.
Resistance is not futile.
Yet.
The 6 conservative members of the Supreme Court are also Opus Dei.
Oh yes! We must call out Opus Dei! Shine light on this perverted cult! It is deeply embedded in our political system. Financed by billionaires who want a caste based society. They are Christo-Fascists who own politicians and entangled them in illegal and unconstitutional bills and passing laws to hurt Americans.
Opus Dei has been calling the shots for 40+ years! Root them out!
┗(•ˇ_ˇ•)―→ 𝕊𝕡𝕠𝕥 𝕠𝕟.
Why do people take an instant dislike to Ted Cruz? It saves time.
THREE FUCKING TIMES!
Texas elected Ted Cruz 3 fucking times. How are we to take Texas seriously?
Michelle Davis writes about this on her Lone Star State Substack. The state is heavily gerrymandered. The state makes registration a clusterfuck. They have something called a 'suspension' if one has not voted in the last two elections. Many people do not vote because it's way too complicated. Limited access to ballot boxes. I think she said, only 25% of Texans voted for King Shitpants. It's a rigged state. Two white Christian Nationalist billionaires run the state, Dunn and Wilkes.
Of course. How's that working out for Texas?
Some of us did not choose him.
Republicans are terrorists
The felons insane
Ted Cruz is a fuck
They’re all fair game.
Thats my little poem for today.
I hate it here. 😭
Thank you Susan. I feel enriched.....with rage....means more writing from me later.
MORE from you!!! Take a rest Wendy! lol
Cant. Im a stubborn old Trans bitch. If I stop, then I wont have a reason to continue doing the things I do. So, I keep it up.
…and ALL of it is great and useful! ❤️
Wendy always posts her address on this thread so she’s easy to find. 🤷♀️
I read your morning Substack, and your info is a little out of date. It's 27 kids now, and 104 deaths. But, you probably know that already, so I'll shut up now.
I churned through it last night. Ill update the numbers. Thank you DonP, this kind of engagement is what I need personally.
I adore your poem, Susan.
┗(•ˇ_ˇ•)―→ Ditto
Susan- where do you live?
I hail from the Midwest.
Quite telling that the right thinks caring about people is "politicizing" something.
They fired all the people who would warn of such weather and it's politicizing to say so? Save it (and us).
It's the same ol' tired deflection from the right. Whenever there's a mass shooting and calls for change, like gun control, the GOP pols rush to the mic to condemn the Democrats for "politicizing" a tragedy. After conservatives have utterly politicized religion, health choices, education, and research in this country to the point where all those sectors are broken.
Sharon, I would just like to say, "Fuck the GODDAMNED republicans. "
They r hippocrites.
Repeat after me: "Every accusation is an admission".
Or an aspiration...
Most excellent!
Absolutely. Words to live by. I just wrote that next to my desk on a post-it note to always see it.
Let's also not forget that every time Cancun Cruz attends a sports event, the team he came to support loses badly. Astros, Univ of Texas, Rangers...the list is endless.
Cruz is a piece of shit...utterly. He really is.
We call him Fat Wolverine here.
I just call him smarmy. He reminds me of the liquid blob of a smashed cockroach.
Smarmy triggered a memory of seeing him talking real close up to the camera and he had this, um, let's call it a "booger" on his bottom corner lip and you couldn't help but just notice it cuz it just stayed there until one moment when he just slurped it in and never missed a beat. I about threw up. I think it went viral actually. Gawd, why they all gotta sear their crap in our brains?
Ewwwww! Horrible image! And so accurate.
"Esteemed Senator Fidel Cruz". I almost choked on my water from that. Jeff is so funny with the names. LOL.
Same with mass shootings. Republicans are all, "How dare they politicize this tragedy," just so they don't have to talk about gun violence.
Another Republican bearded clam with a rancid anus mouth and face - Ted all cruise, no work. Piece of shit without borders.
A POS without borders- brilliant 👏👏👏👏
President Stupid J. FuckingMoron…….Yes… let’s go with that from now on!
Im still hanging onto Emperor Caligulump.
And Emperor Dimmus Bulbus.
1. 🎶 Send in the clowns…don’t bother they’re here 🎶
2. Donny was content to let a blue state burn, but is promising aid to Texas. Of course, if it’s the now gutted FEMA, I’m not sure how much help they’re going to get. Mexico for the win on that score.
Sheinbaum showed Trump what a great president looks like. But he was too busy golfing and jerking off to his ICE capades, complete with cavalry, in MacArthur Park, to pay attention.
When I saw that, all I could think of was Richard Harris singing 🎵 MacArthur park is melting in the dark 🎵 only it’s not icing flowing down, it’s ICE 🖕🏼
It could have been half the boring length it was but the theatre was his game not music, an awful song.
Great actor indeed
AMEN, Sharon! The fact that Mexico sent help just makes me want to cry. If it were possible for Cruz, Abbott, Paxton, and Cheetolini to feel shame, they should be thoroughly humiliated. As it is, it was just a, "So what?" moment for them.
Well, ya know all those Mexican rapists have to get a day job. Right? Jeebus!
Well here the fuck we are. Jeff, Thank you as always. Liked, Restacked, Crossed to my readers, and Quoted.
What I wanna know is, followup from yesterday.
You know what keeps me up at night: How do we sleep soundly knowing that one man's vindictive incompetence can literally orchestrate the deaths of children, and half the country will still defend him?
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/republicans-why-are-you-letting-caligulump
Half the country is stupid, ignorant, vicious, sadistic, and criminally insane. Nothing new there.
I don't believe that. Over 65% of eligible voters did NOT vote for this.
But....they didn’t care enough to stop it, either, and therein lies the problem.
I'd like to think that leaves non-voters in the "ignorant" or "stupid" camp, rather than "all of the above".
Keeps me unrested as well. Likely soon to be arrested too for my disdainful posts about the mad king.
Dana, They will come for my 53yo TransWoman Druid ass long before they come for you. Promise. So when you see me drop off, then its time to worry.
(Early warning system).
Wendy, I love this. My same thoughts. Is he dead yet????
Every single morning...
Agreed.
This is why I DON'T sleep soundly... Going on for about 8 years and 8 months now...
Right. keep waking up with the thought "Is he dead yet? No. Well fuck. Maybe tomorrow....."
It's the thing I live for that gets me up every morning. I'll take it, but don't want to be left with Vance or Johnson, so I dream that my karma asteroid hits. So they can all be wiped out in well fell swoop like the dinosaurs.
1)During Search and rescue: Don’t politicize this, just STFU and pray, we haven’t had time to create enough BS stories, yet. 2) After funerals: Don’t politicize this! Please STFU and PRAY MORE, they have just buried their dead. 3) Four weeks later. STFU. All you do is try to politicize this and we have moved on. Damned Democrats….
Yep.
1- “he dove head-first into partisan finger-pointing with the same vigor he displays when elbowing his way to the front of an all-you-can-eat buffet in Cancun.” Love this Jeff!
2- I’m surprised trump didn’t quote the Iranians as saying “Sir, sir! Please let us know when we can bomb your base”. Now that’s respect!! What an imbecile.
You, Marlene, Dana, me, all right here in the Bay Area.
I’m in Moraga. Where are you?
Berkeley. Dana's in the City and Marlene is not too far east of you.
Yoshie, you too?
Gavin has just deployed a highly experienced search and rescue team to Texas. And so has Mexico.
It's "good feeling" when we denigrate these fools and sycophants...but that's all we can do as DonnieFelon takes all the air out of our sails by his autocratic dictatorship and dependency upon Congress and SCOTUS to give him carte blanche. I fear that he will find some excuse to deny an election in November '26.
Inform. Educate. Resist.
Thats all we can do.
A building is a symbol, as is the act of destroying it. Symbols are given power by people. Alone, a symbol is meaningless, but with enough people, blowing up a building can change the world. -- V for Vendetta reference for those who dont know.
Alternative: Inform. Counteract. Educate. :-)
It's a sick sign of the times that our best hope is the fascists splintering and devouring each other. Musk is conjoining with Andrew Yang on a third party movement, which will probably fizzle but suck up a lot of media time and cause the most chaos within MAGA before the midterms. DOJ's denial about the Epstein Client List is also rich fodder for outraged MAGATs to pile on to, even more than the drownings in Texas. The "base" is cracking.