As if we don't know the Smoot-Hawley tariffs played a big part of bringing on the depression.
"What were the major causes of the Great Depression? Among the suggested causes of the Great Depression are: the stock market crash of 1929; the collapse of world trade due to the Smoot-Hawley Tariff; government policies; bank failures and panics; and the collapse of the money supply."
I also think that if he (Trump ) pushes this no income tax scheme that your house will begin to crumble. Canada and Europe will not be pushed around by this poor example of a leader, and perhaps if we stand firm in our resolve against his scheme, it will play a part in his demise.
Please continue to do so, we seem unable to “rid ourselves of the this troublesome pest”. The Becket solution would be best, which is better coming from his own supporters.
I disagree. Maybe SOME people's destiny. But it doesn't have to be yours.
If the Constitution is going to be treated by this federal government as simply a guidebook - or glorified toilet paper - then all sorts of things can happen that they cannot claim moral superiority over. They've pretty much said "fuck the federal state", so that paves the way for state amalgamations and successions. Let the Red states drown in their own piss and have all their tariffs, Chisto-Fascists, Neo-Nazis, banned books, no immigrants, no LGBTQ's, and - God forbid - NO TRANSGENDERS to "poison their blood"
You have CHOICES people. Albeit unconventional, but choices none-the-less. Gotta start thinking WAY outside the box. You do NOT have to capitulate to Nazism 2.0. No, no, no.
I haven't been calling him King Shitpants for nothing. 😄 He's fucking nuts. He behaves in true form, like the pathological, malignant narcissistic psychopath that he is, given power over the world. Why wouldn't he think he's a King? 🤣🤣🤣 His biggest fear will always be his irrelevance.
He really can’t stay alive much longer, can he Kay-El? He’s doing everything humanly possible to off himself. Crappy food, Aderall binges, zero exercise (besides swinging his golf club). Younger people have died from less!
You'd think that wannabe King Fuckface the Felon would be one step away from being on life support at this point. And now he wants to follow Nancy Reagan's lead about getting the word out to our youth about the dangers of drugs. That's another hypocritical crock of shit as dear leader is usually wired for sound, Lord Smuk is doing his ketamine dance and Don Jr. continues to pack his nose and rub his gums with his favorite South American import. WTF! This King bullshit along with Dump himself and Lord Smuk have got to go.
NOT to mention the years of purported cocaine use during the Studio 54 playtimes AND apprentice days. What a fucking hypocrite! We DO all know his worthless life was saved from Covid by those Walter Reed Physicians, don't we? AND that he and his entire useless family were vaccinated all while promoting 'ivermectin and bleach' to the peasants?
AND today, he and his dogies DEFUNDED Alzheimer's research! Hmm. Could it be that a teensy part of what's left of the fuckwit's brain knows that it's spinning madly out of control and he's scared shitless that the researchers would name him as a prime candidate for their upcoming meds?
His staff has him on a formaldehyde drip. Unfortunately, this means unless they turn off the formaldehyde, he'll be here forever. So other remedies will need to be pursued. Aggressively.
Chaney travels around with an ambulance and a defibrillator. That’s why an ambulance was already on the scene when he shot the guy in the face. ( Fun fact-the Ambassador to Switzerland 🇨🇭 was also there but SHE quickly spirited away never to be mentioned again -wink, wink) You can bet t💩p will be brought back from any coronary infarction poste haste.
He’s supported by PayPal mafia’s Peter Thiel, although he’s more articulate and educated than Trump, he’s also more hated, that might be a tough sell by the abattoir-billionaire tech class dros!!
"there are only two genders. everyone must wear their underwear on their head"
WHAT? Ok, you guys go first. 😂😂😂
Long Live Me! LOL It's just surreal what's happening... beyond any script anyone could possibly write because they'd never get it produced. PLEASE make it stop.
It's like something from Monty Python. Post-post-modern. Strange fiction. Nobody would believe it if it were a novel or movie except as a comedy farce. I think we've surpassed Kosinski's Being There. Have we reached clockwork 🍊 level yet?
Donnie likely just wears his giant-economy-size depends… I’d like to see the mob catch him and put his used one over his head before they lay him out on the guillotine.
Bastille Day part deux. Let's get the oxcarts(OK, pickups) and put your guillotines to good use. I'm all for it if it includes his oligarch "aristrocrats" and other ranking supporters.
Every single GOP Member of Congress who is not preparing to file or sign on to impeachment hearings at this point is betraying their Oath of Office to defend the United States, foreign or domestic. Trump’s fealty to Putin, Musk destroying vital Federal agencies, services, and invasions of privacy, and Vance’s expression of love for hard-right European fascists are the new “axis of evil” right here, right now. They are a clear and present danger to the United States, our allies, and people embracing the rule of law globally.
The question is, are there any Republicans who still value country, justice and democracy over a criminal-elect and his cabal?
Sorry, I believe that is a big no… The rethuglicans are tribal, spineless, and will put party over Country every time.I consider the whole lot of them to be traitors.
Probably not!! They seem to be terrified that loony tune CF47 will do terrible things to them. Better to keep their heads down rather than chance anything🤬🤬🤬
Mitch McConnell is the most pro-democracy Republican we have left. It is not that Turtle has gotten any less evil, but that all the others have moved past him.
Totally agree that the way The Turtle screwed around with that SCOTUS opening were more than criminal. But, now I seriously question how much of an asset Garland would have been to preserving our democracy.
Interesting point Hal. I think Garland’s temperament was better suited to the bench, and someone else, like Sally Yates could have been a fierce and assertive AG.
Jeff-you always make my day! I've decided to cull my substack subscriptions because I have more to read than I have time. My criteria is redundancy. Since you are one-of-a-kind though, I will always stick with you. Thanks for always telling it like it really is
Same here, Stephen. I am subscribed to 21 Substacks and pay for 17. Yikes, that’s a lot of valuable information, and a few of the pubs post twice a day. Many include video clips and interviews as well. I really have to pace myself. I do spend way too much time on the comments (reading, upvoting and replying). My new plan is to focus on the actual posts first, and then scan the comments at my leisure. Thank goodness I am retired! 😬
The comments are the best part. It's replaced letters to the editor, since the corporate overlords don't print anything critical of the dotard king. That's one of the reasons I cancelled my subscription to the AZ Republic. I subscibe to 10-12 Substacks but pay for five. Jeff is one them because of his snark. Now where is the angry, vengeful God of the Old Testament to smite those who wish to destroy us.
Agree, Mingo! The comments are awesome. I live in a red area of California with very few nearby allies. Substack comments have been a true joy. Connecting with other free-thinking progressives around the country gets my day off to a good start, and the snark and humor are a big plus!
I don't have the time to read all the good stuff. I have to have another life. And we're living on Social Security, so there's not much I can subscribe to.
I live on social security as well. Thankfully my Substack subscriptions are $4-6 a month, which I can afford, and I can always cancel if it gets to be too much.
WWII joke: an officer is driving along the road and sees a grunt off to the side kicking his broken-down Jeep. He stops and asks, "What seems to be the problem, soldier?"
If, and I am sorry that it's a big if, any of his idiot voters paid attention to the "I am King" shit and actually think this is not a good thing, WE FUCKING TRIED TO WARN YOU, you fucking dipshits
I doubt his voters & those who found rationalizations (Gaza, eggs) to not vote for Harris aren’t paying attention. If they ever troubled themselves to pay attention, they would have heard the same warnings we did.
Anyone who said they were voting for Trump because of high egg prices was lying. It was just a handy fig leaf allowing them say out loud that they were never going to vote for the black lady Democrat/Socialist/Communist/DEI hire.
As one of my friends just emailed me: “King” my fucking ass!” So true….He certainly has dementia…can’t remember names, doesn’t read, repeats campaign issues from years ago and delusional in general…. And the cartoon-“only this time he’s really fucking dumb”…..YUP!
I still can’t understand why congestion pricing ends just because Trump says so. My recollection is that we had a long painful process that eventually got us to this point. At no point did I hear that one person could just… decide.
Did I miss the carve out for mad kings who hate NYC?
Can New York just say “thank you for your input, but we’re good?”
Basically, that is what NYC has said. The congestion pricing has not, in fact, ended. The matter is in court, and Trump's lawyers don't have much of a case.
I've never been to NYC, but having lived my entire life in Greater LA, I know about traffic congestion and would have no problem paying a bit to reduce it. Time is money.
Yes, he explained that the fed needed to sign off on a portion of it due to the convergence of federal roads. He's a fuckwit. But tbh it was Hochul on Maddow the other day who put up a white flag on national TV when she hadn't even been asked about it...Maddow is asking about Adams debacle and Hochul goes into this blah blah about how she's willing to negotiate with the admin re "tolls". WTF? 24 hrs later DJT is dancing on her head over it.
Yeah, not a power she could easily employ, but what was notable is that instead of explaining that herself she deflected to another issue and then within a day lost out on that as well to the administration. Her goose is cooked.
Please see my comment above. I believe you are quite wrong about this. Kathy Hochul has earned HUGE respect from most NY'ers I've heard from/talked to precisely due to her stance against frump.
I hope I'm wrong about her but where are your NYers? Are they white and affluent or conservative? In NYC? Buffalo is the 2nd largest city in NY and has the 3rd highest poverty rate in the US w/a totally corrupt Dem gvmt propped up by the state. The machine (conservative) Dem party here overrode a primary that a progressive mayoral candidate won for the incumbent (Brown) who was given the nom w/explicit agreement lieutenants would be GOP and then he floated on a golden parachute to OTB leaving unelected GOP in charge here. Grift is huge w/Dems pouring state $ into private developers hands and no improvement for the people, jobs, housing etc. Dems here are like GOP of old. Huge tax $ spent on stadium in her wealthy suburb that won't help city (across the street from the old one). Roll tape of her smiling and saying 'happy to be with you' on her first national interview in front of the market where black neighbors were slaughtered by a white supremacist from, again, the local white suburbs where they fly Confederate flags. Slashing CDPA programs for the disabled by pushing care admin to one fiscal intermediary from out of state that has a horrendous track record in other states, pushing more people into custodial care which is abyssmal. I'm a progressive, and Dems have been giving away ground here for the last two cycles, which is why the GOP has a house majority. NY is the bulwark of the East. If she wants to resist and hold ground she needs to not say she's willing to negotiate with the administration on national TV was my point.
Kathy Hochul, MY Governor, made it quite clear to the mad king that he was NOT going to ride roughshod over NY's decision over congestion pricing which is already working. SHE is standing firm against him. As far as Eric Adams is concerned, the process of her 'firing' him would take years with multiple court hearings (as Lawrence explained in detail). She announced today that she would not summarily fire him (as many people mistakenly think she should or can) but would want oversight until the mayoral election (I believe in November?) and to avoid the ridiculousness of the possibility of 3 NYC Mayors in one year. Let's be clear, she is NOT backing down to frump.
My gov also, from my little town of Hamburg. I HOPE it is as she says it is. I agree 100% w/congestion pricing, have friends in NYC who say yea on the ground. It would be a stupid hill for orange to die on but it's a great distraction from Adams quid pro quo. I hope he gets his ass handed to him in court again. Adams is severely compromised, whatever she does for oversight is necessary to the max allowable. We all scream internally when we see house or Senate Dems saying 'we will work bipartisan with admin' when GOP is not reciprocating and dealing in good faith amidst a coup. If this is deadly serious, Dems need to employ same level vigilance in state politics, volunteering another issue to deflect from the one at hand doesn't inspire confidence and I don't think it hurts for her to hear that from the people of NY. I want her to be empowered to stand strong and it's hard not to look weak around orange because he's a total fucker with the bully pulpit. But NYers also can't stand him, so she has support. Her time in the light is precious. Don't volunteer to negotiate about another issue on nat TV so trump can divert nat attn with another stunt. Hold his feet to the fire that matters most, which right now is Adams and this rikers thing.
Ok, with this we ARE in agreement, Anne. I know very little about 'upstate' political maneuvering, having lived solely in: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens ` until ending up (reluctantly at first, I admit) on Long Island, quite far out (all we could afford as young marrieds despite the daily commute being horrendous). My best friend had moved fairly close by as well as my older brother which made it more palatable, but tbh 'I' wanted to be Upstate so I could have a horse, something I still miss but likely couldn't do any longer. I barely managed 3 hours of sleep, ensuring my husband got more since he drove us (we took a neighbour along) into the City most often. During those years, politics had to take a back step since holding onto our house and pets had to be priority. For us, you truly are in an entirely different world up there. For decades, our quiet little Court has been multi-ethnic - chosen for that reason (I can't tolerate the stupidity of 'white flight' whenever a different family moved in and we've all coexisted happily and become great friends.) Lately, one 'around the corner' creep has posted a 'this is trump country' sign on his lawn and my rage intensifies with every viewing: 'OH NO IT'S NOT, YOU FUCKWIT!' 'Over my dead body' also applies, but more of them are creeping in due to affordability, then their ranting complaints on the NextDoor app about anything and everything, showing their biases and bigotry begin to cow those on the wrong side of that kind of vitriol. It's all some of us can do to hang onto our earlier wonderful way of life and to reassure those targeted that we DO and WILL have their backs no matter what. WE are not the wealthy Southamptonites, just ordinary people, but we vote and pay attention and we are VERY active against those attempting to take over and alter our heretofore hard-earned peaceful communities. I thought my getting out there days were behind me since I'm physically disabled, and now my husband is recovering (slowly) from a fractured femur. Sadly, it takes ALL of us, of all ages and states of being, to fight back.
Gov. Hochuli says that Trump's edict means nothing. Apparently, Alina Habba's husband owns parking garages in NYC, but I'm sure that has nothing to do with Trump's order.
I worked at a nature center, and among others, we had a parrot. I would carefully place the newspapers with Shitler's picture in the spot the parrot would definitely shit on.
There is a delightful U.S. government manual from the 1940s, called Simple Sabotage. So far I have read how to slow down the enemy’s work by simply putting tools away in the wrong place, or starting arguments with co-workers, and other time-wasters. How to start a fire without being suspected. Many pages more!
Being king has been his goal from the beginning. His tacky gold plated apartment is so ugly, but he thinks it’s beautiful. It’s so sad that this felon is going to be in charge on the 250th anniversary of our country, we could have had a qualified and competent woman, but instead we got a demented king wannabe.
INstead, we could hold enormous rallies all across OUR America, specifically against this frump/musk/putin regime. Plenty of time to get the posters made up? I hate fireworks anyway since they hurt my dogs' ears and give them conniptions...the cats too.
His term also lasts through the L.A. Olympics, which I'm sure he'll insist on running. Of course, he could just re-use the plans for the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Remember when he was 'so sure' that Princess Diana would be thrilled to date him? The fuckwit really thought by calling and sending her flowers she'd somehow fall madly in love with him (he was already older and fuglier while she was coming into her prime, causing the World to fall in love with her) and he'd then (he thought) be 'royalty'. Her friends talked about how repulsed she was by him, even concerned about his persistence. I bet he still has fever dreams about British Royalty, finding out that the Queen (Elizabeth ll) was the richest woman in the World and imagining he could get his hands on that wealth.
Not sure if you folks have heard, but, Trump Tower is now a public urinal. Apparently, there are so many New Yorkers urinating on the gilded building that the NYPD is no longer responding to calls about it. Small victories.
Delusional is their claimed savings by DOGE. Those are criminal fraudulent misrepresentations. We can smoke them out fast. Where is Adam Schiff? We can mandate:
1) testimony under oath, and
2) certified cost and pricing data.
After all it is a claim. Therefore,
We must demand that.
We must have truthful data before we allow a vote for their self-serving tax cut. Their claims will be a basis of a $3 trillion tax cut bill; hence, untruthful testimony and certification of bogus data can put people in jail.
I detail other similar fraud in my post yesterday. I think the Administration’s firings are unlawful. I think all job holders will be reinstated with back pay. I think the harmed will be awarded damages. I think the cost to the Treasury will be 3 times the (bogus) savings claimed of $35 billion. I expect to see us pay out $105 billion for their line item’s $35 billion claim.
If you can't cancel right now to keep her from losing her marbles, just take it out of circulation and make sure nobody reads your copy...lining bird cages, starting bonfires, paper recycling etc.
GUYS GUYS TEN THOUSAND OF YOU HAVE IDENTIFIED JESSE DUQUETTE AS THE CARTOONIST. thank you but you can all stop telling me. I'll go add the credit now.
How far we have fallen, where a low IQ conman and an illegal alien billionaire can just trash our country and screw the world.
Walt, his next move should make every MAGAT happy - replace income tax with tariffs. Let’s see how that one turns out.
As if we don't know the Smoot-Hawley tariffs played a big part of bringing on the depression.
"What were the major causes of the Great Depression? Among the suggested causes of the Great Depression are: the stock market crash of 1929; the collapse of world trade due to the Smoot-Hawley Tariff; government policies; bank failures and panics; and the collapse of the money supply."
I also think that if he (Trump ) pushes this no income tax scheme that your house will begin to crumble. Canada and Europe will not be pushed around by this poor example of a leader, and perhaps if we stand firm in our resolve against his scheme, it will play a part in his demise.
Please continue to do so, we seem unable to “rid ourselves of the this troublesome pest”. The Becket solution would be best, which is better coming from his own supporters.
YES< PLEASE!!
Pretty sure trump’s response would be “Smoot who? Never heard of her.”
Too true! I’ve never seen a man so ignorant in my life before. And proud of it!
Given how much sociopolitical power Christianity's always had in this country, we were never too far off this point, to be fair.
That, coupled with the insatiable greed of the ruling sociopaths, were always on a collision course - I guess THIS was our destiny.
"I guess THIS was our destiny."
I disagree. Maybe SOME people's destiny. But it doesn't have to be yours.
If the Constitution is going to be treated by this federal government as simply a guidebook - or glorified toilet paper - then all sorts of things can happen that they cannot claim moral superiority over. They've pretty much said "fuck the federal state", so that paves the way for state amalgamations and successions. Let the Red states drown in their own piss and have all their tariffs, Chisto-Fascists, Neo-Nazis, banned books, no immigrants, no LGBTQ's, and - God forbid - NO TRANSGENDERS to "poison their blood"
You have CHOICES people. Albeit unconventional, but choices none-the-less. Gotta start thinking WAY outside the box. You do NOT have to capitulate to Nazism 2.0. No, no, no.
Murica, you are fucked right now, and you are going to take the rest of the world down with you for sure.
I haven't been calling him King Shitpants for nothing. 😄 He's fucking nuts. He behaves in true form, like the pathological, malignant narcissistic psychopath that he is, given power over the world. Why wouldn't he think he's a King? 🤣🤣🤣 His biggest fear will always be his irrelevance.
True dat Walt!!
Doesn’t that king quote start off “The King is Dead”? 🤔
Don’t get my hopes up Kay-El! 😄
He really can’t stay alive much longer, can he Kay-El? He’s doing everything humanly possible to off himself. Crappy food, Aderall binges, zero exercise (besides swinging his golf club). Younger people have died from less!
You'd think that wannabe King Fuckface the Felon would be one step away from being on life support at this point. And now he wants to follow Nancy Reagan's lead about getting the word out to our youth about the dangers of drugs. That's another hypocritical crock of shit as dear leader is usually wired for sound, Lord Smuk is doing his ketamine dance and Don Jr. continues to pack his nose and rub his gums with his favorite South American import. WTF! This King bullshit along with Dump himself and Lord Smuk have got to go.
NOT to mention the years of purported cocaine use during the Studio 54 playtimes AND apprentice days. What a fucking hypocrite! We DO all know his worthless life was saved from Covid by those Walter Reed Physicians, don't we? AND that he and his entire useless family were vaccinated all while promoting 'ivermectin and bleach' to the peasants?
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If only…IF ONLY, laws already on the books could be enforced…if only.
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Like Reagan he’s got DEMENTIA!
At least they hid Reagan’s dementia as best they could. Had level heads helping Reagan
The one is loose amongst us.
He need to be taken to the nearest psych ward in a white jacket and disappear
AND today, he and his dogies DEFUNDED Alzheimer's research! Hmm. Could it be that a teensy part of what's left of the fuckwit's brain knows that it's spinning madly out of control and he's scared shitless that the researchers would name him as a prime candidate for their upcoming meds?
No, I don’t think he has any clue that his brain is mush. He still thinks he’s the smartest person in the room. Which is pathetic.
And the FFOTUS is on who knows what.
The king is dead will be the biggly words ever
Hopefully in the next few days
It will be a world-wide celebration, like when he lost the 2020 election.
How is the question Rick??
Apparently, he staves off having a stroke simply by causing everyone else to have one. I'm afraid to even check my blood pressure.
Sadly, Walter Reed has an amazing medical staff Walt!!
I wish him the best, RFK should do his doctoring after all if he’s good enough for his subjects (king talk for people) then we Proclaim it be so!
Sure hope they have plenty of Ivermectin and bleach so he can be cured the MAGA way.
And we can bet that facility will be subject to no cuts whatsoever.
One can only hope! He has to be the most corrupt person ever to sit in the Oval Office. The embarrassment I feel is huge!
His staff has him on a formaldehyde drip. Unfortunately, this means unless they turn off the formaldehyde, he'll be here forever. So other remedies will need to be pursued. Aggressively.
Chaney travels around with an ambulance and a defibrillator. That’s why an ambulance was already on the scene when he shot the guy in the face. ( Fun fact-the Ambassador to Switzerland 🇨🇭 was also there but SHE quickly spirited away never to be mentioned again -wink, wink) You can bet t💩p will be brought back from any coronary infarction poste haste.
If only they could do the post haste part verrrry slowwwlly
We can only hope it applies soon and includes his abettors.
But then we're stuck with President Juvenile Delinquent.
True, but that was the plan all along. It shouldn't be long now
I don't know. Given that we appear to live in the stupidest timeline, with our luck, the SOB will live till ninety. I hope I'm wrong!
NO! NO! NO!!! Don't say that!
sorry ☹️
He’s supported by PayPal mafia’s Peter Thiel, although he’s more articulate and educated than Trump, he’s also more hated, that might be a tough sell by the abattoir-billionaire tech class dros!!
If only that was true!!
Then there’s this; the 🍊 in a basket. https://youtu.be/0u6T7f6oJA4?si=qlormY1MlIYsrQC1
Knitting needles for everyone!
Nice!
"there are only two genders. everyone must wear their underwear on their head"
WHAT? Ok, you guys go first. 😂😂😂
Long Live Me! LOL It's just surreal what's happening... beyond any script anyone could possibly write because they'd never get it produced. PLEASE make it stop.
I depend on this email each morning. In fact I wish there was an afternoon edition too. So hard to face each day's news.
Me too - but let's not wear Jeff out. I so look forward to these morning pick-me-ups. It's how I stay sane!
Exactly
So does that mean the turd in chief has to wear his Depends on his head? Some crown, that.
Considering what comes out of his mouth, he needs it at both ends!
And thus, the butt-crown was invented, with which to sit upon the porcelain throne.
His is GOLDEN!
Exactly what I was thinking Margaret! Shit from top to bottom!!!
MY EYES! MY EYES! 😂😂
😂😂
Let's not denigrate shitheads.
Eeeewwwww!
Appropriate.🤣🤣
Well played Jan!!
It's like something from Monty Python. Post-post-modern. Strange fiction. Nobody would believe it if it were a novel or movie except as a comedy farce. I think we've surpassed Kosinski's Being There. Have we reached clockwork 🍊 level yet?
Yep, Anne!!
Donnie likely just wears his giant-economy-size depends… I’d like to see the mob catch him and put his used one over his head before they lay him out on the guillotine.
Bastille Day part deux. Let's get the oxcarts(OK, pickups) and put your guillotines to good use. I'm all for it if it includes his oligarch "aristrocrats" and other ranking supporters.
I think a more fitting end would be marching him-sans clothes- to a pool full of sharks. No way out. Followed by his cult.
Don't make the sharks sick, though. Sharks have hard enough lives as it is.
Weeelll, you 'could' throw in an upended motor boat so he'd have his patented choice of electroshushun.
Omg, mega shadenfreud.
Then there’s this; the 🍊 in a basket. https://youtu.be/0u6T7f6oJA4?si=qlormY1MlIYsrQC1
It would be amusing to see his supporters sporting their boxer brief bonnets. An apt label for their cranial contents.
Maybe we will all have to become nudists so MAGA can check out our genitalia for on site gender establishment!
Oooooh boy. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I would welcome that. Summers are really, really hot where I live.
It's too fucking cold here for that! 😂
Wearing our underwear on our heads would be a gigantic gender reveal. Photos, please.
🤣🤣🤣
Isn’t that how Russia poisons dissidents by slathering some poison on their underwear? Some special golden Depends ( ☠️ 🍄 🍆 ) could save us.
Our current administration is The Producers to the tenth power multiplied by Pi level of ignorance and arrogance. Dumbasses turned up to eleven.
Great description.
Every single GOP Member of Congress who is not preparing to file or sign on to impeachment hearings at this point is betraying their Oath of Office to defend the United States, foreign or domestic. Trump’s fealty to Putin, Musk destroying vital Federal agencies, services, and invasions of privacy, and Vance’s expression of love for hard-right European fascists are the new “axis of evil” right here, right now. They are a clear and present danger to the United States, our allies, and people embracing the rule of law globally.
The question is, are there any Republicans who still value country, justice and democracy over a criminal-elect and his cabal?
Sorry, I believe that is a big no… The rethuglicans are tribal, spineless, and will put party over Country every time.I consider the whole lot of them to be traitors.
PARTY OVER COUNTRY! that is YOUR Republitards!
I have been asking this for 9 years. The answer is unequivocally NO. There are no such R’s in Congress for sure, not one.
Probably not!! They seem to be terrified that loony tune CF47 will do terrible things to them. Better to keep their heads down rather than chance anything🤬🤬🤬
Cowards- everyone.
No, they're paid off by the russians.
Mitch McConnell is the most pro-democracy Republican we have left. It is not that Turtle has gotten any less evil, but that all the others have moved past him.
He takes money from the russians. When I was growing up, these "people" would be considered traitors.
True. Although he has major culpability- he flipped Garland to Gorsuch and put SCOTUS on a path to expand Presidential power.
Totally agree that the way The Turtle screwed around with that SCOTUS opening were more than criminal. But, now I seriously question how much of an asset Garland would have been to preserving our democracy.
I think he would have been fine with the others to lead him on.
Interesting point Hal. I think Garland’s temperament was better suited to the bench, and someone else, like Sally Yates could have been a fierce and assertive AG.
The question is, are there any Republicans who still value country, justice and democracy over a criminal-elect and his cabal?
No, there is not. Except Liz Cheney. And she's out of politics, for now.
Nope.
No
No.
No.
Not happening.
Jeff-you always make my day! I've decided to cull my substack subscriptions because I have more to read than I have time. My criteria is redundancy. Since you are one-of-a-kind though, I will always stick with you. Thanks for always telling it like it really is
I’m still paying for the ones I don’t read every time because I want to support these great writers and creators.
Same here, Stephen. I am subscribed to 21 Substacks and pay for 17. Yikes, that’s a lot of valuable information, and a few of the pubs post twice a day. Many include video clips and interviews as well. I really have to pace myself. I do spend way too much time on the comments (reading, upvoting and replying). My new plan is to focus on the actual posts first, and then scan the comments at my leisure. Thank goodness I am retired! 😬
The comments are the best part. It's replaced letters to the editor, since the corporate overlords don't print anything critical of the dotard king. That's one of the reasons I cancelled my subscription to the AZ Republic. I subscibe to 10-12 Substacks but pay for five. Jeff is one them because of his snark. Now where is the angry, vengeful God of the Old Testament to smite those who wish to destroy us.
Agree, Mingo! The comments are awesome. I live in a red area of California with very few nearby allies. Substack comments have been a true joy. Connecting with other free-thinking progressives around the country gets my day off to a good start, and the snark and humor are a big plus!
We have Red areas? Where? Siskiyou county?
Lots of red areas in Cali, sadly. I live in San Bernardino County, District 23. Our congressman is Republican Jay Obernolte.
That is why I can do what I do. I am retired and I don’t watch TV. I am mostly on independent journalism sites now.
Woohoo, Stephen! Let’s hear it for us Gray Panthers!! 💪🏼💪🏽💪🏾
I don't have the time to read all the good stuff. I have to have another life. And we're living on Social Security, so there's not much I can subscribe to.
I live on social security as well. Thankfully my Substack subscriptions are $4-6 a month, which I can afford, and I can always cancel if it gets to be too much.
Same here
Ditto. He's the best!
Same.
Fuck him. Fuck everything about him. He's a fucking, fucked up fucker. Fucking "king..."
Off with his head.
Winner.
What you said! 😂😂 Eloquently, I might add!
WWII joke: an officer is driving along the road and sees a grunt off to the side kicking his broken-down Jeep. He stops and asks, "What seems to be the problem, soldier?"
"The fucking fucker's fucked, sir!"
That jeep is FUBAR
Ha, ha,, ha. I may borrow that because it fits my current frame of mind.
I don't recall that in my father's book of WWII cartoons about GI Joe, at least not with that wording.
Maybe yours was SNAFU; situation normal, all f---ed up
Fuckin' A, bubba!(Gus Grissom)
If, and I am sorry that it's a big if, any of his idiot voters paid attention to the "I am King" shit and actually think this is not a good thing, WE FUCKING TRIED TO WARN YOU, you fucking dipshits
I doubt his voters & those who found rationalizations (Gaza, eggs) to not vote for Harris aren’t paying attention. If they ever troubled themselves to pay attention, they would have heard the same warnings we did.
Anyone who said they were voting for Trump because of high egg prices was lying. It was just a handy fig leaf allowing them say out loud that they were never going to vote for the black lady Democrat/Socialist/Communist/DEI hire.
As one of my friends just emailed me: “King” my fucking ass!” So true….He certainly has dementia…can’t remember names, doesn’t read, repeats campaign issues from years ago and delusional in general…. And the cartoon-“only this time he’s really fucking dumb”…..YUP!
And old King George wasn't that bright either. Our King Donnie is even dumber.
Are you referring to George III or George W. Bush?
George III. Couldn't remember what number he was offhand.
They were both pretty stupid.
😂
I still can’t understand why congestion pricing ends just because Trump says so. My recollection is that we had a long painful process that eventually got us to this point. At no point did I hear that one person could just… decide.
Did I miss the carve out for mad kings who hate NYC?
Can New York just say “thank you for your input, but we’re good?”
Basically, that is what NYC has said. The congestion pricing has not, in fact, ended. The matter is in court, and Trump's lawyers don't have much of a case.
Lawrence O'Donnell had an excellent piece about the NY Congestion thing last night.
Paul Krugman wrote a piece last month about why congestion pricing is a good idea:
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/lessons-from-new-yorks-congestion
I've never been to NYC, but having lived my entire life in Greater LA, I know about traffic congestion and would have no problem paying a bit to reduce it. Time is money.
Exactly, I visited NY two times, I hated it, I have no desire to ever visit again.
Oh, no! You can visit a different museum every day!
Ditto.
Yes, he explained that the fed needed to sign off on a portion of it due to the convergence of federal roads. He's a fuckwit. But tbh it was Hochul on Maddow the other day who put up a white flag on national TV when she hadn't even been asked about it...Maddow is asking about Adams debacle and Hochul goes into this blah blah about how she's willing to negotiate with the admin re "tolls". WTF? 24 hrs later DJT is dancing on her head over it.
Lawrence explained why Hochul
" firing " Adams would take way too long.
Yeah, not a power she could easily employ, but what was notable is that instead of explaining that herself she deflected to another issue and then within a day lost out on that as well to the administration. Her goose is cooked.
Please see my comment above. I believe you are quite wrong about this. Kathy Hochul has earned HUGE respect from most NY'ers I've heard from/talked to precisely due to her stance against frump.
I hope I'm wrong about her but where are your NYers? Are they white and affluent or conservative? In NYC? Buffalo is the 2nd largest city in NY and has the 3rd highest poverty rate in the US w/a totally corrupt Dem gvmt propped up by the state. The machine (conservative) Dem party here overrode a primary that a progressive mayoral candidate won for the incumbent (Brown) who was given the nom w/explicit agreement lieutenants would be GOP and then he floated on a golden parachute to OTB leaving unelected GOP in charge here. Grift is huge w/Dems pouring state $ into private developers hands and no improvement for the people, jobs, housing etc. Dems here are like GOP of old. Huge tax $ spent on stadium in her wealthy suburb that won't help city (across the street from the old one). Roll tape of her smiling and saying 'happy to be with you' on her first national interview in front of the market where black neighbors were slaughtered by a white supremacist from, again, the local white suburbs where they fly Confederate flags. Slashing CDPA programs for the disabled by pushing care admin to one fiscal intermediary from out of state that has a horrendous track record in other states, pushing more people into custodial care which is abyssmal. I'm a progressive, and Dems have been giving away ground here for the last two cycles, which is why the GOP has a house majority. NY is the bulwark of the East. If she wants to resist and hold ground she needs to not say she's willing to negotiate with the administration on national TV was my point.
Kathy Hochul, MY Governor, made it quite clear to the mad king that he was NOT going to ride roughshod over NY's decision over congestion pricing which is already working. SHE is standing firm against him. As far as Eric Adams is concerned, the process of her 'firing' him would take years with multiple court hearings (as Lawrence explained in detail). She announced today that she would not summarily fire him (as many people mistakenly think she should or can) but would want oversight until the mayoral election (I believe in November?) and to avoid the ridiculousness of the possibility of 3 NYC Mayors in one year. Let's be clear, she is NOT backing down to frump.
My gov also, from my little town of Hamburg. I HOPE it is as she says it is. I agree 100% w/congestion pricing, have friends in NYC who say yea on the ground. It would be a stupid hill for orange to die on but it's a great distraction from Adams quid pro quo. I hope he gets his ass handed to him in court again. Adams is severely compromised, whatever she does for oversight is necessary to the max allowable. We all scream internally when we see house or Senate Dems saying 'we will work bipartisan with admin' when GOP is not reciprocating and dealing in good faith amidst a coup. If this is deadly serious, Dems need to employ same level vigilance in state politics, volunteering another issue to deflect from the one at hand doesn't inspire confidence and I don't think it hurts for her to hear that from the people of NY. I want her to be empowered to stand strong and it's hard not to look weak around orange because he's a total fucker with the bully pulpit. But NYers also can't stand him, so she has support. Her time in the light is precious. Don't volunteer to negotiate about another issue on nat TV so trump can divert nat attn with another stunt. Hold his feet to the fire that matters most, which right now is Adams and this rikers thing.
Ok, with this we ARE in agreement, Anne. I know very little about 'upstate' political maneuvering, having lived solely in: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens ` until ending up (reluctantly at first, I admit) on Long Island, quite far out (all we could afford as young marrieds despite the daily commute being horrendous). My best friend had moved fairly close by as well as my older brother which made it more palatable, but tbh 'I' wanted to be Upstate so I could have a horse, something I still miss but likely couldn't do any longer. I barely managed 3 hours of sleep, ensuring my husband got more since he drove us (we took a neighbour along) into the City most often. During those years, politics had to take a back step since holding onto our house and pets had to be priority. For us, you truly are in an entirely different world up there. For decades, our quiet little Court has been multi-ethnic - chosen for that reason (I can't tolerate the stupidity of 'white flight' whenever a different family moved in and we've all coexisted happily and become great friends.) Lately, one 'around the corner' creep has posted a 'this is trump country' sign on his lawn and my rage intensifies with every viewing: 'OH NO IT'S NOT, YOU FUCKWIT!' 'Over my dead body' also applies, but more of them are creeping in due to affordability, then their ranting complaints on the NextDoor app about anything and everything, showing their biases and bigotry begin to cow those on the wrong side of that kind of vitriol. It's all some of us can do to hang onto our earlier wonderful way of life and to reassure those targeted that we DO and WILL have their backs no matter what. WE are not the wealthy Southamptonites, just ordinary people, but we vote and pay attention and we are VERY active against those attempting to take over and alter our heretofore hard-earned peaceful communities. I thought my getting out there days were behind me since I'm physically disabled, and now my husband is recovering (slowly) from a fractured femur. Sadly, it takes ALL of us, of all ages and states of being, to fight back.
Gov. Hochuli says that Trump's edict means nothing. Apparently, Alina Habba's husband owns parking garages in NYC, but I'm sure that has nothing to do with Trump's order.
Thank Scrotus. 🤬
NYT makes me wanna get a bird and line its cage with NYT pages just so the bird can shit on them
The NYT played at being impartial until the Bloated Yam of Scam got “elected,” but, they aren’t even faking it anymore.
I worked at a nature center, and among others, we had a parrot. I would carefully place the newspapers with Shitler's picture in the spot the parrot would definitely shit on.
Haha. Bigger birds mean bigger shit blobs
Why wait? Use it in the bathroom if the plumbing is adequately robust.
Not your own bathroom, to be sure.
There is a delightful U.S. government manual from the 1940s, called Simple Sabotage. So far I have read how to slow down the enemy’s work by simply putting tools away in the wrong place, or starting arguments with co-workers, and other time-wasters. How to start a fire without being suspected. Many pages more!
Now that’s a good use of taxpayer money
Love this!
Being king has been his goal from the beginning. His tacky gold plated apartment is so ugly, but he thinks it’s beautiful. It’s so sad that this felon is going to be in charge on the 250th anniversary of our country, we could have had a qualified and competent woman, but instead we got a demented king wannabe.
I have a feeling that, come July 4, there won't be a lot ofpeople who want to celebrate.
INstead, we could hold enormous rallies all across OUR America, specifically against this frump/musk/putin regime. Plenty of time to get the posters made up? I hate fireworks anyway since they hurt my dogs' ears and give them conniptions...the cats too.
He'll be great at the Kennedy Center 🤮
His Grand Jete and Fouette need work, however
His pirouettes are merde.
His term also lasts through the L.A. Olympics, which I'm sure he'll insist on running. Of course, he could just re-use the plans for the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Remember when he was 'so sure' that Princess Diana would be thrilled to date him? The fuckwit really thought by calling and sending her flowers she'd somehow fall madly in love with him (he was already older and fuglier while she was coming into her prime, causing the World to fall in love with her) and he'd then (he thought) be 'royalty'. Her friends talked about how repulsed she was by him, even concerned about his persistence. I bet he still has fever dreams about British Royalty, finding out that the Queen (Elizabeth ll) was the richest woman in the World and imagining he could get his hands on that wealth.
Someone should start a go fund me page to pay for the demolition of Trump Tower.
Not sure if you folks have heard, but, Trump Tower is now a public urinal. Apparently, there are so many New Yorkers urinating on the gilded building that the NYPD is no longer responding to calls about it. Small victories.
I cannot wait for the gravesite to be similarly bedecked.
I suspect the deliveries at the gravesite will be more solid.
Although there will still be plenty of pissing going on , too
“More solid”…..lol
Also heard the tower is being pelted with urine balloons. Pity the poor bastards who have to clean those windows.
God bless both the urinators and the cleaners. Keep up the good work.
That’s hilarious! I’d be happy to send a vial of mine to add to it.
Me too, Kay-El!
Thank you for putting a smile on my face. I needed that! Maybe now we'll get the infamous pee tapes.
That’s Putin’s next move but the reps will sane wash it. Can’t think of how but they’ll come up with something.
Even if they come out… it will just not even faze Drumpf - he will blow it off and discredit it somehow.
I do believe in the pee tapes, though.
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Can we donate pennies?
Delusional is their claimed savings by DOGE. Those are criminal fraudulent misrepresentations. We can smoke them out fast. Where is Adam Schiff? We can mandate:
1) testimony under oath, and
2) certified cost and pricing data.
After all it is a claim. Therefore,
We must demand that.
We must have truthful data before we allow a vote for their self-serving tax cut. Their claims will be a basis of a $3 trillion tax cut bill; hence, untruthful testimony and certification of bogus data can put people in jail.
I detail other similar fraud in my post yesterday. I think the Administration’s firings are unlawful. I think all job holders will be reinstated with back pay. I think the harmed will be awarded damages. I think the cost to the Treasury will be 3 times the (bogus) savings claimed of $35 billion. I expect to see us pay out $105 billion for their line item’s $35 billion claim.
https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/doge-savings-another-con-game?r=3m1bs
Not Schiff; who we need, and who California should have elected, is Katie Porter. Her chalk board would have come with her and we all would have won!
I saw “I, Claudius” so I know what the next step is. He’ll wake up one morning and declare himself a God.
I bet even then his fake Xtian zombies and stooges will cheer him. They don't have a fucking clue about their vaunted Commandments.
Derek Jacobi was awesome in I CLAUDIUS, trumusk will end up like King CLAUDIUS is HAMLET
( spoiler alert , they all die in the end 😁 )
In Hamlet
As I recall, Claudius was murdered by his wife. Bob Eckert, can you confirm?
Yes, Jacobi was splendid! Excellent PBS series.
And it’s not a pretty scene but yes death cometh upon them having been smutted by the big guy who can also be mean at times.
The cult already has.
Gosh, those were excellent books. I have been thinking about them lately, I can't imagine why.
I continue to be horrified by the NYT.
I would cancel my subscription (as I did WaPo) if I wasn’t worried my wife would lose her crossword streak. I can’t stand to read it anymore.
If you can't cancel right now to keep her from losing her marbles, just take it out of circulation and make sure nobody reads your copy...lining bird cages, starting bonfires, paper recycling etc.
Haha - it’s hard to recall what the physical paper even looked like! It’s been a while…