Your age might be showing. Not too many remember Fred (Ethel's husband) Mertz from the I Love Lucy show. He was played by an old vaudevillian named William Frawley
Frawley also played Bub on My Three Sons. According to Barry Livingston who played the adopted son Ernie, Frawley preferred having his five Cutty Sark lunches and not going back to work.
My dad took my sister and me to the 7-eleven on Saturday nights so we could run the TV tubes through the tube tester. Then he popped corn in bacon grease (yummy) and we all watched the Saturday Night Fights. Good times!
Oh, yeah, so lucky. Those days when Civil Rights were still shiny new and barely enacted and the color of your skin determined where you could live, when women couldn't have their own bank account or get a credit card without a man's permission, when children were spanked in schools. But, hey, we had tv sets without fancy electronic gadgets!
Yep…all the gop and magats in muskrat’s ship. Let’s add bezos and his ship in that adventure as well. If one of them can find a seat for zuckerberg it’ll be a threefer!
And I'll pay the fare for at least one of the Murdoch heirs! If it's one of Elon's exploding rockets, perhaps we will be able to avoid contaminating the sun.
Make sure it is Lachlan, he is the bad one, James hates the tabloids and Fox propaganda channel.
"In his 2020 resignation, James — known as the more liberal Murdoch brother — said he stepped down “due to disagreements over certain editorial content published by the Company’s news outlets and certain other strategic decisions.” James had previously criticized News Corp’s editorial decisions and said he disagreed with Fox News coverage."
I knew that one of them was Murdoch's preferred heir and he is now trying to break the trust he put everything in, so as to cut out some of his kids that don't admire his fake news empire...I couldn't remember his name. Lachlan it is...yep, launch him (and Trump, Musk, Rupert, Vance, Bezos and Zuck) into the sun!
Dragging this mess through the courts, even with Jack Smith would take up too many people’s lifetimes Janan, abruptly ending their reign of terror on the denizens and the country would suit the masses,,as well as being a deterrent!!
As crazy as Musk is, he may line them all up and then lead the way down himself as they fall behind him! He may try to go last just to stay on the top.
Considering the toe fellatio video, I think the left is beginning to outsmart them -- hope they saved it to splice in all over the country at certain events!
I recently heard Kara Swisher and Sarah Longwell discussing that Elon Musk wants to go to Mars. They were suggesting that they hope he gets his dream and stays there! I can go along with that. I would pitch in money to send him on a one way trip to Mars.
Trump will pardon EVERYBODY just before he leaves ( that's if he EVER leaves)
If the Democrats get back in again, one of the FIRST things they should do is remove the "Presidential Pardon" power. Leave it to State's governors. The way it is now, it's just an open invitation to corruption - "Do whatever I ask! I'll pardon you!"
Decades of study of quantum physics has given great evidence that thoughts are actually a form of energy and have power. I like to prefer thinking: trump is going out one way or another!! With his pet rats along with him!!
Yes. So would I .They are traitors and need to be treated as such.It hurts my heart that this idiot and his cult have turned America into Public Enemy Number 1 to the world.It really sucks!
I don’t think a lot of the world believes “we”are really on board with this shit storm. I see a lot of supportive postings from mostly Canada, but individuals from other countries as well.
But, but, Johnson thinks everything is right on track, can't remember his exact quote today. Hope he ends up behind a few bars without his porn phone. You can interpret the 'bars' however you'd like!
They’re certainly giving them plenty to go on. Imagine Orange Anus Mouth coming up against Jack Smith, but this time in a real court, with real judges and prosecutors, not one of Donnie’s bought and paid for kangaroo courts, ya know, like SCOTUS?
Here is Andra Watkins talking about what kind of a Christian Nationalist Pete Hegseth is. Disclaimer: Christian Nationalists do not follow the teachings of Christ, but some other shit that they made up.
I did an analysis of the German election today, after voting in it yesterday. I would say that the single reason that Merz won so big is not just because of economics and immigration, but because no one could really imagine Scholz standing up to Trump, and for good reason. While I think there are better qualified candidates than Merz, and we did not vote for his party or the AfD, I know that many did not see Scholz as the one to stand up to Putin, or Trump.
White Russian would also apply. This booze soaked weasel who runs the Pentagon probably has more blackouts then we did in CA during the catastrophic fires. Dump's cabinet of shit for brains, ass kissing misfits couldn't be any more dangerous for us and the rest of the free world.
Liars gonna lie, right? These people have no soul. It's numbing but we have to hope the law will eventually win. Something will give. I keep hoping their incompetence will be their undoing.
Susan, unfortunately, I think the only thing to "give" that will make a difference is if the stock market crashes and the economy tanks. The one thing oligarchs love more than Trump is their money. If Trump's policies start losing their fortunes, I believe they will turn on him like junkyard dogs.
Not only did we not want this crap, Susan, we have a Constitution that was created to prevent it. With all of the voter suppression tactics being done by the Republicons, you will notice that banning the “stoopid” from voting ain’t one of them.
And to make voter suppression even more aggressive, apparently the House passed the SAVE Act? I don't care what those arsholes do, I will NOT wear a red robe and a white bonnet shielding me from all eyes.😡🤬🤬
Yes, it makes clear their determination to control women. I thank goddess fasting that at the conclusion of my spouse divorcing me, I petitioned the judge to let me take my maiden name back and I have kept it ever since--so I am thankful that my name remains the same on all of my documentation. But this is going to be a horror show for women who have taken their husband's name, which will not match the name on their birth certificate. I'm afraid there will be a lot of disenfranchised women next election (provided we have one)
Not to mention the children. I have a daughter who just turned 9 and a baby girl…neither of them voted for this. My 9yo is incredibly bright and well-informed, so she’s been devastated since the election.
Everything is horrible about rump but why in the h does he speak about himself in the third person? And the latest post - "a gentleman named Donald J. Trump" - WTAF?
Narcissists and sociopaths talk about themselves in third person for many reasons, one is to get their name and brand out there by appearing to be another worshipper.
Mostly, however, it's to distance themselves from what that tiny part of inherent good conscience is screaming at them that what they're doing is wrong.
They could lead our revolution, scream their message from the mountain tops and organize country wide strikes in protest of our democracy being dismantled. The message, the message, the message.
Some are, but I’d actually like to see more messaging. I know they can’t do much in Congress, being the minority party, but they can stop voting for confirmations even if those pass, and they can shut the government down (disclaimer: I hate those shutdowns as a rule, but desperate times call for this to happen).
Only works if the news gets out. Corporate media doesn't want to upset the revenue stream. Non-aligned media seems invested in the "Dems aren't doing anything" narrative to the point they won't discuss anything that is happening.
Want the message out there? Maybe try looking for it and putting a megaphone on it.
100% agree! Not only that, but our anger really should be directed at the Rs in office who have all the power but are doing absolutely nothing to stop the madness.
And what are you going to do if the military starts shooting and killing American citizens? Considering we have the best military in the world, our gun obsessed country is any match for their weapons. Fox News doesn't play in every military base for nothing. Where do many of our soldiers come from? The South and Midwest working class families. Trump voters.
Scott Bessent is one of those entitled white pretty boy money men who never had to work a day in his life, like Jamie Diamond for instance. They're basically dumb blonds - a misogynistic pejorative I don't agree with - but if the shoe fits...
Exactly right. This is an administration composed of the disturbed children of abusive parents. That analogy to the angry dad in the car reflects just how these people think. Daddy beat me because I was bad. Daddy beat mommy, drank and slept around because mommy was being mean to him. And following the logic, if I am not happy, drink too much, rip off my business partners, abuse and cheat on my wife, and terrorize my kids, or my country, it’s THEIR fault for making me angry.
Kim: you sure nailed the pathologies. Anyone who suffered thru reading Vance’s book can clearly see how a twisted, violent, xenophobic and paranoid culture spawned him. It rendered him unfit for public office (let alone socialized society). Usha (God knows why!?!?) bailed his sorry ass and tried to socialize him while at Yale Law
My prediction: Anyone who opens a MAGA-themed dungeon and charges these fools $500 to get spanked by someone wearing a Cheetolini mask will be our next billionaire.
She shall be called Mistress Liberty. and she shall own the only BDSM club in America specifically catering to right-wing men whose political bravado masks their deep, aching need to submit.
Located in an unmarked basement in D.C., the MAGA Dungeon operates under a strict set of rules:
No Safe Words – Not because they aren't allowed, but because MAGA men refuse to use them, terrified it would make them look weak.
All Sessions Begin with the Pledge of Allegiance – Mistress Liberty makes sure they recite it properly before getting gagged.
Bootlicking Is Mandatory – And not just figuratively - there is an actual leather boot in the center of the room, enshrined like a holy relic.
Trump Masks Only – Any sub requesting a Biden mask gets turned away for being too progressive.
And the clientele are exactly whom you'd expect.
Tucker Carlson was one of the first to arrive, begging for punishment for being a “bad little propagandist.” He requested a session where he had to sit cross-legged on the floor while Mistress Liberty scrolled through MSNBC on her phone, ignoring him. Every time he tried to speak, she snapped, "Silence, you pathetic little bowtie goblin." He moaned.
Matt Gaetz wanted a time-out. In a crib. His session included being dressed as a giant baby while a dominatrix in a Hillary Clinton mask scolded him for being "a very naughty boy." He cried real tears when she took away his bottle.
Ted Cruz requested the "Intellectual Humiliation Special," in which he was forced to read feminist literature aloud while Mistress Liberty laughed and called him a worm. He climaxed somewhere around the second paragraph of 'The Feminine Mystique.'
Jim Jordan paid extra for the "Locker Room Discipline Package," in which he was tied to a pommel horse and berated by a dom dressed as a high school wrestling coach who repeatedly yelled, "You let it happen, Jim! YOU LET IT HAPPEN!"
Clarence Thomas only visited once. His request? To have a dom impersonate Thurgood Marshall and publicly shame him for his existence. He left in tears, clutching his Bible.
Steve Witkoff saying the Ukraine war was “provoked” is like saying a rape victim “provoked” her sexual assault with her clothing choice. Russia is the attacker here, and Trump supports attackers, because he is a predator too.
As one notes, the greater danger may be firing the JAG’s. To me, as a retired Navy Captain, the whole sordid affair in DoD is beyond troubling. We turn no further back than the Nuremberg trials. The noble notion was a higher morality must intervene when laws are unjust. Today, the moral conscience and justice embedded in the JAG has been eviscerated. It reflects the Nazi judges who administered to the holocaust. Perhaps too dramatic, but let us consider the military oath. It is to uphold and defend the Constitution…and, to obey the lawful orders.
Obey the lawful orders is an important element. Expect to see legal sophistry remove ethical—moral— constraint hence politicizing the military. The picture of George Washington presenting his sword to Congress is lost on today’s GOP. Their craven greed and fealty to a wannabe monarch is our Country’s undoing. Instead, the Congress must stand and shout ENOUGH. Senator Angus King’s admonishment this past week is overdue.
I will add, Hegseth’s comments to Europe may be lauded as Real Politik. Words to effect, flags and diplomacy cannot replace bullets is reminiscent of the Athenian Melian dialogue (413 BC)—might, not ideology, makes right. As such, it is totally antithetical to America’s professed values leading to the post WWII era of prosperity and world order (or some semblance). The Athenians ultimately paid the price in their hubris. I seriously doubt Major (ret) Hegseth has the intellectual depth to understand the lesson.
Jake Tapper just nodding his head in agreement while Steve Witkoff says the Ukraine war was “provoked” makes me sick. I used to respect him. Many, many, many months ago. Before he sold his soul.
These “news” people astound me. How they could collectively sell their morals and decency to keep a job? Tapper has his moments when you think he is okay, but, then the MAGATY billionaires jerk his chain and he falls in line.
Ukraine was its own country BEFORE Moscow existed. When Putin took over Crimea I looked it up. It has not been Russian from time immemorial. It was taken over for the Russian Empire by Catherine the Great, a time well memorialized. She memorialized it herself in correspondence still extant in a museum in Stuttgart.
yes, I resisted making the obvious "Fred Mertz is running Germany" joke, because I'm so mature
Your age might be showing. Not too many remember Fred (Ethel's husband) Mertz from the I Love Lucy show. He was played by an old vaudevillian named William Frawley
Frawley was intensely disliked by Lucy, Desi, and Vivian
He was an alcoholic and just plain mean.
Kind of like Piss drunk Pete.
I remember ! That’s when a tv show let you laugh.
Frawley also played Bub on My Three Sons. According to Barry Livingston who played the adopted son Ernie, Frawley preferred having his five Cutty Sark lunches and not going back to work.
I do!
A joke for all 10 of us old enough to remember having to change the TV channels by getting up and turning a knob.
And then adjusting the antenna.
My dad took my sister and me to the 7-eleven on Saturday nights so we could run the TV tubes through the tube tester. Then he popped corn in bacon grease (yummy) and we all watched the Saturday Night Fights. Good times!
And deciding if it needed more tinfoil as the wind was blowing…
😝 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡ – ✧) Hilarious and true! Americans were in better shape when we were kids getting up to flip channels! Ha
Eleven
It was all those miles we had to trek through acres of knee-deep avocado shag carpet to change the channel that did it.
O, how we suffered!
We’re so lucky we grew up in those days! 😉
Oh, yeah, so lucky. Those days when Civil Rights were still shiny new and barely enacted and the color of your skin determined where you could live, when women couldn't have their own bank account or get a credit card without a man's permission, when children were spanked in schools. But, hey, we had tv sets without fancy electronic gadgets!
You meant to do that.
Looooseee!!!!
First thing that popped into my raised on 60s reruns brain too! lol
If we survive this and get the country back I'd love to see the entire fucking GOP shipped off to the Hague. Giftwrapped.
I'd like to see them loaded into President Musk's rocket ships and fired into the Sun.
Yep…all the gop and magats in muskrat’s ship. Let’s add bezos and his ship in that adventure as well. If one of them can find a seat for zuckerberg it’ll be a threefer!
Jodi, I will pay the fare to get Rupert Murdoch on that ship!
And I'll pay the fare for at least one of the Murdoch heirs! If it's one of Elon's exploding rockets, perhaps we will be able to avoid contaminating the sun.
Make sure it is Lachlan, he is the bad one, James hates the tabloids and Fox propaganda channel.
"In his 2020 resignation, James — known as the more liberal Murdoch brother — said he stepped down “due to disagreements over certain editorial content published by the Company’s news outlets and certain other strategic decisions.” James had previously criticized News Corp’s editorial decisions and said he disagreed with Fox News coverage."
I knew that one of them was Murdoch's preferred heir and he is now trying to break the trust he put everything in, so as to cut out some of his kids that don't admire his fake news empire...I couldn't remember his name. Lachlan it is...yep, launch him (and Trump, Musk, Rupert, Vance, Bezos and Zuck) into the sun!
We can just grift from Rupert’s millions to ship him off to NEVER NEVER LAND!
I knew I liked you Walter!
It’s much simpler to find a nice long wall, and a firing squad, like the good old days and ways, of treating treasonous enemies of state Stephen!!
That would make them happy. Like the old days.
Things you want to bring back for $100, Alex…
I was thinking Mars, but hey, the Sun works.
As does the Van Allen radiation Belt, if unprotected Susanna!!
The Sun works out to be much better. They’ll get a little toasty!
No, the Hague will go on for days while they will have to sit there & endure…
Dragging this mess through the courts, even with Jack Smith would take up too many people’s lifetimes Janan, abruptly ending their reign of terror on the denizens and the country would suit the masses,,as well as being a deterrent!!
👍👍👍
Scum can go along to supervise.
I’d settle for Mars.
I would like them to go to North Korea. There they will get the full anti-immigrant treatment!
North Korea
Then shipped to Russia to fight Ukraine
Especially bone spurs
As cannon fodder I’d buy into your idea Teressa!
I'd like to find a large 9th floor window and then ask Eric to clean up the mess.
As crazy as Musk is, he may line them all up and then lead the way down himself as they fall behind him! He may try to go last just to stay on the top.
Considering the toe fellatio video, I think the left is beginning to outsmart them -- hope they saved it to splice in all over the country at certain events!
I recently heard Kara Swisher and Sarah Longwell discussing that Elon Musk wants to go to Mars. They were suggesting that they hope he gets his dream and stays there! I can go along with that. I would pitch in money to send him on a one way trip to Mars.
We'll have our very own version of the Nuremberg trials.
We can dream.
What’s that song, “I like dreaming…”🎶🎶🎶
Trump will pardon EVERYBODY just before he leaves ( that's if he EVER leaves)
If the Democrats get back in again, one of the FIRST things they should do is remove the "Presidential Pardon" power. Leave it to State's governors. The way it is now, it's just an open invitation to corruption - "Do whatever I ask! I'll pardon you!"
Like Dylan's McGuinn, he ain't a-goin' nowhere.
Decades of study of quantum physics has given great evidence that thoughts are actually a form of energy and have power. I like to prefer thinking: trump is going out one way or another!! With his pet rats along with him!!
Hugs to you!
OMG- the long list of things that need to change just got longer!!!
Yes. So would I .They are traitors and need to be treated as such.It hurts my heart that this idiot and his cult have turned America into Public Enemy Number 1 to the world.It really sucks!
I don’t think a lot of the world believes “we”are really on board with this shit storm. I see a lot of supportive postings from mostly Canada, but individuals from other countries as well.
and we're just barely over 1 month in...3 years and 11 months to go
Jeff will get us through these terrible, terrifying, traumatic, tortuous, troubling times.
Please! Let Jack Smith be the prosecutor
Just going to say, I think feasibly we are watching the death of a major majority of the GOP as we speak.
Wishing Wendy, IIRC the death of. the GOP happened earlier during the Bush years!!
I’d go back to reagan.
Indeed. He started this shit.
What do you mean?
All of the things that are happening show the decadence, decay, and ultimately the falling apart of the GOP.
I've been hearing that kind of thing for years. I'll believe it's dead when I see the death certificate.
I won't rest until I spit on the GOP's grave.
There's going to be a hell of a line for that.
But, but, Johnson thinks everything is right on track, can't remember his exact quote today. Hope he ends up behind a few bars without his porn phone. You can interpret the 'bars' however you'd like!
With Jack Smith as the prosecutor.
I like how you think!
That makes one of us.
Two.
Republicans are traitors. They will sell out the country to keep themselves in power and trump in the White House.
Wiyh chains for ribbons!
air dropped over Russia, all of them
Sans parachutes.
No, they don't even get to be giftwrapped. Loosely wrapped in Rite Aid tissue paper.
The gift wrap is for the people at the Hague, not the Republicans.
I volunteer to tie bows!! 🙋🏻♀️
They’re certainly giving them plenty to go on. Imagine Orange Anus Mouth coming up against Jack Smith, but this time in a real court, with real judges and prosecutors, not one of Donnie’s bought and paid for kangaroo courts, ya know, like SCOTUS?
Here is Andra Watkins talking about what kind of a Christian Nationalist Pete Hegseth is. Disclaimer: Christian Nationalists do not follow the teachings of Christ, but some other shit that they made up.
https://open.substack.com/pub/andrawatkins/p/three-sects-of-christian-nationalism?r=f0qfn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
I did an analysis of the German election today, after voting in it yesterday. I would say that the single reason that Merz won so big is not just because of economics and immigration, but because no one could really imagine Scholz standing up to Trump, and for good reason. While I think there are better qualified candidates than Merz, and we did not vote for his party or the AfD, I know that many did not see Scholz as the one to stand up to Putin, or Trump.
https://lindaweide.substack.com/p/german-election-results?r=f0qfn
What I will say is that I am glad that my city in Germany was flying the Ukrainian flags on all the government buildings, not the Russia!
Sincere thanks to the German people.
I love that, LInda!!! Slava Ukraine!!🇺🇦
Slava Ukraini!
Pete's favorite drink is a "Blackout Russian"!
White Russian would also apply. This booze soaked weasel who runs the Pentagon probably has more blackouts then we did in CA during the catastrophic fires. Dump's cabinet of shit for brains, ass kissing misfits couldn't be any more dangerous for us and the rest of the free world.
“Only the best people.”
To get ‘piss-drunk’ that’s what it takes, he ain’t right in the head.
Liars gonna lie, right? These people have no soul. It's numbing but we have to hope the law will eventually win. Something will give. I keep hoping their incompetence will be their undoing.
Over 75 million people didnt want this crap.
Susan, unfortunately, I think the only thing to "give" that will make a difference is if the stock market crashes and the economy tanks. The one thing oligarchs love more than Trump is their money. If Trump's policies start losing their fortunes, I believe they will turn on him like junkyard dogs.
I agree with you...and we'll all go down with them. Bastards.
I'm hoping the Feb 28 boycott will matter.
Kristy, I agree. We won't get to vote at a ballot box until 2026 (if then), but we can vote with our wallets, starting on February 28.
I'm looking forward to the 28th
The stock market seems to trend down a little each day...
Not only did we not want this crap, Susan, we have a Constitution that was created to prevent it. With all of the voter suppression tactics being done by the Republicons, you will notice that banning the “stoopid” from voting ain’t one of them.
Yet a simple audit of the swing states was too much of an ask?… really? 😐
*forensic audit
And to make voter suppression even more aggressive, apparently the House passed the SAVE Act? I don't care what those arsholes do, I will NOT wear a red robe and a white bonnet shielding me from all eyes.😡🤬🤬
Hey, TL I thought the SAVE Act passed but it hasn't yet. It's a really dealbreaker for women. Readers can learn more about it here:
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/save-act-would-hurt-americans-who-actively-participate-elections
well, Phew! I thought it passed, too.
Yes, it makes clear their determination to control women. I thank goddess fasting that at the conclusion of my spouse divorcing me, I petitioned the judge to let me take my maiden name back and I have kept it ever since--so I am thankful that my name remains the same on all of my documentation. But this is going to be a horror show for women who have taken their husband's name, which will not match the name on their birth certificate. I'm afraid there will be a lot of disenfranchised women next election (provided we have one)
I'll tell you this...the SAVE act is the final straw for me. It's beyond bullshit. I'm looking into retirement visas. I have a renewed passport. :(
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You should read up what the SAVE Act does--partcularly as regards to married women voting. It is going to be a shitshow
It hasn't passed YET: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/save-act-would-hurt-americans-who-actively-participate-elections
SCOTUS acid agree with you all but guess, Alito and Ginny or Clerance.
Not to mention the children. I have a daughter who just turned 9 and a baby girl…neither of them voted for this. My 9yo is incredibly bright and well-informed, so she’s been devastated since the election.
The law takes too long. There used to be severe penalties for traitors
But 52% of white women did, a fact I will never get over.
Now DEI stands for
Deport Elon Immediately
Everything is horrible about rump but why in the h does he speak about himself in the third person? And the latest post - "a gentleman named Donald J. Trump" - WTAF?
“Gentleman”? more like low level cretin
He talks as if he's his own puppet. Really one fucked up mess, even for an indulged narcissist.
Like the " gentleman " who go to the idiotically named " Gentleman's Clubs ".
Narcissists and sociopaths talk about themselves in third person for many reasons, one is to get their name and brand out there by appearing to be another worshipper.
Mostly, however, it's to distance themselves from what that tiny part of inherent good conscience is screaming at them that what they're doing is wrong.
Perfect example: Ted Bundy in his "confessions".
He has dementia and it is accelerating. He gets all the drugs, as needed.
Views himself (falsely) as the Holy See.
1. When is the Orange Fuckwit not full of shit? Any day that doesn’t end in y.
2. Piss-Drunk Pete is getting ready for the grand opening of his new Torture Museum.
Worse and worse and worse. Hegseth, Patel, Gabbard, Noem, the shits just keep on coming. And the Dems snooze on.
What can the Ds realistically do when the Rs control the House, Senate, Judiciary & the presidency?
They can be out in front of the cameras EVERY SINGLE DAY, telling the truth about what Musk & his teenage incels are doing
More than voting for unqualified nominees and nothing. Jumping Jesus if they’re going to do nothing the least they can do not help the psychos.
They could lead our revolution, scream their message from the mountain tops and organize country wide strikes in protest of our democracy being dismantled. The message, the message, the message.
Some are, but I’d actually like to see more messaging. I know they can’t do much in Congress, being the minority party, but they can stop voting for confirmations even if those pass, and they can shut the government down (disclaimer: I hate those shutdowns as a rule, but desperate times call for this to happen).
They don’t only have to work in Congress. They need to get out & hold press conferences/rallies/protests
Only works if the news gets out. Corporate media doesn't want to upset the revenue stream. Non-aligned media seems invested in the "Dems aren't doing anything" narrative to the point they won't discuss anything that is happening.
Want the message out there? Maybe try looking for it and putting a megaphone on it.
100% agree! Not only that, but our anger really should be directed at the Rs in office who have all the power but are doing absolutely nothing to stop the madness.
And what are you going to do if the military starts shooting and killing American citizens? Considering we have the best military in the world, our gun obsessed country is any match for their weapons. Fox News doesn't play in every military base for nothing. Where do many of our soldiers come from? The South and Midwest working class families. Trump voters.
Is hardly any match.
Scott Bessent is one of those entitled white pretty boy money men who never had to work a day in his life, like Jamie Diamond for instance. They're basically dumb blonds - a misogynistic pejorative I don't agree with - but if the shoe fits...
How about just DUMB.
Trump is treating everyone like bad children which is just how he felt growing up. Poor fucker.
Under no circumstance does anyone need to pity Donald Trump.
It’s a song, relax!
Only in the sense of I PITY THE FOOL!
Exactly right. This is an administration composed of the disturbed children of abusive parents. That analogy to the angry dad in the car reflects just how these people think. Daddy beat me because I was bad. Daddy beat mommy, drank and slept around because mommy was being mean to him. And following the logic, if I am not happy, drink too much, rip off my business partners, abuse and cheat on my wife, and terrorize my kids, or my country, it’s THEIR fault for making me angry.
Hannity said " I was abused as a child & I'm okay." NO , NO, you are definitely not okay at all, if you want others to be terrorized too.
Trump and his buddy Musk are criminals and stupid sadistic bastards. I don't care how their horrible parents treated them.
The origin story for mommy hater JD Vance
Mommy put those naughty tattoos on me!!!
Well stated, Kim.
It's the old "See what you made me do?" excuse for abuse. God, that shit never seems to go away.
Kim: you sure nailed the pathologies. Anyone who suffered thru reading Vance’s book can clearly see how a twisted, violent, xenophobic and paranoid culture spawned him. It rendered him unfit for public office (let alone socialized society). Usha (God knows why!?!?) bailed his sorry ass and tried to socialize him while at Yale Law
Women, sadly, can be awful people too.
Poor fuckers the rest of us more like it!
Sewer clowns.....
Fuck them all.
Fuck their "dear leader thought that up 'ALL BY HIMSELF...' " Oh reeaally...?
He actually had a thought...?
Yeah, and I'm the queen of the Gulf of Fragile Masculinity. 🙄
My prediction: Anyone who opens a MAGA-themed dungeon and charges these fools $500 to get spanked by someone wearing a Cheetolini mask will be our next billionaire.
🤣🤮
A billionaire DOMINATRIX, cool 😎
She shall be called Mistress Liberty. and she shall own the only BDSM club in America specifically catering to right-wing men whose political bravado masks their deep, aching need to submit.
Located in an unmarked basement in D.C., the MAGA Dungeon operates under a strict set of rules:
No Safe Words – Not because they aren't allowed, but because MAGA men refuse to use them, terrified it would make them look weak.
All Sessions Begin with the Pledge of Allegiance – Mistress Liberty makes sure they recite it properly before getting gagged.
Bootlicking Is Mandatory – And not just figuratively - there is an actual leather boot in the center of the room, enshrined like a holy relic.
Trump Masks Only – Any sub requesting a Biden mask gets turned away for being too progressive.
And the clientele are exactly whom you'd expect.
Tucker Carlson was one of the first to arrive, begging for punishment for being a “bad little propagandist.” He requested a session where he had to sit cross-legged on the floor while Mistress Liberty scrolled through MSNBC on her phone, ignoring him. Every time he tried to speak, she snapped, "Silence, you pathetic little bowtie goblin." He moaned.
Matt Gaetz wanted a time-out. In a crib. His session included being dressed as a giant baby while a dominatrix in a Hillary Clinton mask scolded him for being "a very naughty boy." He cried real tears when she took away his bottle.
Ted Cruz requested the "Intellectual Humiliation Special," in which he was forced to read feminist literature aloud while Mistress Liberty laughed and called him a worm. He climaxed somewhere around the second paragraph of 'The Feminine Mystique.'
Jim Jordan paid extra for the "Locker Room Discipline Package," in which he was tied to a pommel horse and berated by a dom dressed as a high school wrestling coach who repeatedly yelled, "You let it happen, Jim! YOU LET IT HAPPEN!"
Clarence Thomas only visited once. His request? To have a dom impersonate Thurgood Marshall and publicly shame him for his existence. He left in tears, clutching his Bible.
(More to come...)
Wow, girl you grabbed that idea a RAN WITH IT ! BRAVA ! 👏
Clarence Thomas and Long Dong Silver showed up? It’s an all star cast!
“Bow tie goblin.” 😂😂😂
😝🤣
You have given this some thought!!!
𝕀𝕞𝕒𝕘𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕂𝕚𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣𝕝𝕪 𝔾𝕦𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕗𝕠𝕪𝕝𝕖 𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕣𝕠𝕝𝕖 𝕠𝕗 𝕄𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤 𝕃𝕚𝕓𝕖𝕣𝕥𝕪...
Steve Witkoff saying the Ukraine war was “provoked” is like saying a rape victim “provoked” her sexual assault with her clothing choice. Russia is the attacker here, and Trump supports attackers, because he is a predator too.
As one notes, the greater danger may be firing the JAG’s. To me, as a retired Navy Captain, the whole sordid affair in DoD is beyond troubling. We turn no further back than the Nuremberg trials. The noble notion was a higher morality must intervene when laws are unjust. Today, the moral conscience and justice embedded in the JAG has been eviscerated. It reflects the Nazi judges who administered to the holocaust. Perhaps too dramatic, but let us consider the military oath. It is to uphold and defend the Constitution…and, to obey the lawful orders.
Obey the lawful orders is an important element. Expect to see legal sophistry remove ethical—moral— constraint hence politicizing the military. The picture of George Washington presenting his sword to Congress is lost on today’s GOP. Their craven greed and fealty to a wannabe monarch is our Country’s undoing. Instead, the Congress must stand and shout ENOUGH. Senator Angus King’s admonishment this past week is overdue.
I will add, Hegseth’s comments to Europe may be lauded as Real Politik. Words to effect, flags and diplomacy cannot replace bullets is reminiscent of the Athenian Melian dialogue (413 BC)—might, not ideology, makes right. As such, it is totally antithetical to America’s professed values leading to the post WWII era of prosperity and world order (or some semblance). The Athenians ultimately paid the price in their hubris. I seriously doubt Major (ret) Hegseth has the intellectual depth to understand the lesson.
I guess I’ll have to wake up and eat a gummy before I start reading anything. This shit blows, even with JT narrating.
have to change my routine - from gummy at night to sleep to gummy at dawn (so I can sleep)
I need something stronger. 😩
Get your sunglasses and a script for Ketamine. It’s trending chica go for the day time ignorance our greatest assholes are doing it!
You and me both 😄.
That’s how I’m playing it this morning, Lisa.
Jake Tapper just nodding his head in agreement while Steve Witkoff says the Ukraine war was “provoked” makes me sick. I used to respect him. Many, many, many months ago. Before he sold his soul.
I haven't watched CNN in years.
These “news” people astound me. How they could collectively sell their morals and decency to keep a job? Tapper has his moments when you think he is okay, but, then the MAGATY billionaires jerk his chain and he falls in line.
Exactly!
Ukraine was its own country BEFORE Moscow existed. When Putin took over Crimea I looked it up. It has not been Russian from time immemorial. It was taken over for the Russian Empire by Catherine the Great, a time well memorialized. She memorialized it herself in correspondence still extant in a museum in Stuttgart.