I'd prefer to bury him up to his neck in quicksand, then let nature take its course. He COULD still be lassoed and pulled out but it might stretch that horrid mangina and result in a permanent inability to move/twitch/act like the orange piggy he is. Works for me.
Come to think of it Eva - that isn't a bad idea. A class action suit BY everyone who feels the same way against orange sphincter FOR refusing to consult Congress AND We the People about this fucking War AND for his fucking around about the Epstein files when we ALL KNOW he's all over those files! Put him on notice that we see what's going on -and exactly why he started this fucked-up War. Change.org allows people to begin petitions - when they reach a certain number of signees they become 'real' and things get done. Might just be worth a try?
That 'must' have been used during the major assault I endured - but I can't remember...was out cold. BUT when I hear those words (like almost every other SA survivor) my entire skin CRAWLS and I find myself cringing while looking around for a way to disappear into the wall. It's no longer a 'real' fear today, just pure bodily reaction I'll likely never forget. However, at this stage of life I'd prefer to enact revenge on any would-be perp using those words - WITH deadly force of my own.
He uses classic abuser language - "I don't WANT to lose my temper with you, Iran - but you push me into it. You just keep on and on resisting! If only you were bright enough to realise that if you'd just do what I ask. It's not a lot, is it?"
Exactly this! He learned it in - probably grade school? Fine-tuned it in military school where his parents sent him to 'straighten him out/grow him up' and he paid thugs there to do his bidding, becoming even more of a bully-boy coward than he'd already been. When I read what he did to Ivana, pulling out CLUMPS of her hair purely because HE was feeling pain due to his scalp reduction (she'd referred him to a doctor so it was her 'fault') it clicked about just how abusive he was to his wives as well, and a whiny coward who couldn't handle the tiniest bit of discomfort.
Far, far too many women understand exactly what you and I are talking about, Elizabeth. And 342 to Myhoops original. Makes you despair, doesn't it. . .
👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆🎯 Yes, all because they warped the hell out of a message that was about love, and treating others well, to "bomb them all and bring on the end times" so We can bring Jesus back, (but to save only us)while everyone else remains in the toxic stew we made of the environment, in our bottomless greed. They are certifiable!
Yes it is cruel and unusual punishment and I do not want my good name associated with this heartless bastard.Like someone else said, this cannot go on until the mid-terms.We The People want action NOW!
I'm not sure who the man was - invited onto, I think MSNow? - a Psychologist, first name Charles? He stated that the malignant narcissism is simply going to continue getting worse and it IS abusive: orange piggy's been abusive since childhood, gets off on it. Everything he said resonated with my own feelings.
In my experience, mental illness increases in severity with age. I’m a firm believer that in lives that are not so great, we are at some point presented with a “fork in the road” moment. We can continue on the habitual path, or choose the more difficult path of self reflection and growth. I believe that that fork in the road moment never happened for trump. What he is was pretty much baked in at a very early age and then reinforced by his father and Fred’s legacy desires. Just my opinion. 🇨🇦
With all due respect, you are living in “crazy town.” But you’re not alone. We, in Alberta, are also - just to a lesser degree. So I kinda feel your pain and multiply ✖️ by about 300 million! Take care. 🇨🇦
Thanks, Patricia. I feel SO BADLY for those in Canada and others of our Allies who never deserved an iota of this horrid treatment. At least you (and a few others of your countrymen and women) DO know that most of us love you and despise the way this monstrous child occupying our Oval Office has been berating you.
We do Elizabeth, and appreciate that love and caring very much. Unfortunately there are some, even here, who simply do not get/understand the strong feelings we have for our country. When returning from a trip to US, it was just so heartwarming when a customs officer, as we were going through customs, said simply, “Welcome home.” That did more for me than any hoopla in July 1st. We’re just not loud about how we feel. It’s there, just not loud or what we may see as performative. I think it’s in large part due to our British roots. Just my opinion. Wishing you all well through these fractious times. 🇨🇦
Patricia - thank you for this. My Great-Aunt Sue lived in Vancouver. I only met her once as a child when she came to Glasgow for a visit, but never forgot that her dress was the exact same colour as her hair - a steelish gray, and she was so well-spoken, didn't put up with my mother's nonsense (likely why there was no return visit). I can visualize her clearly in my mind and had always wanted to visit her in Canada but didn't get the chance as an adult - since he died before I could. My Dad's side of the family were all good folks.
Yup. Complete with the enabling family members that always tell the victims to just deal with it because "that's just the way he is", or some shit like that.
Fwiw - I never told members of my family, preferring to leave home before anyone could know (my situation got worse and worse...of course it did). I KNEW I'd be blamed for what had been done to me by a stranger to them. I hadn't trusted my gut sufficiently before - but doing so then I'm positive saved my life. The worst part is knowing that it's happening to women and girls still - and every day. WHEN will these fuckers EVER stop hurting us?
We are, and we are long past the point where our ex tries to kill us, to punish us for rejecting him, and the cops go, "Well we can't do anything until we catch him actually choking you to death."
Geezus fucking keerist: YOUR word isn't good enough, nor are the fingerprints wrapping around your neck, NOR are the petechiae in your eyes? Nah, let's wait until we 'catch him in the fucking ACT'. Mine was so long ago and luckily didn't involve 'that' but a sucker punch which (the asshole I later annulled) round-housed to my face. I weighed half of what he did - and he was 6'4 to boot. I've dealt with a severe tmj problem ever since and it was in the middle of a huge snowstorm in NY where all the traffic was at a standstill. No point in calling them since he would have gotten a pat on the back for 'handling' his problems and I'd likely have been laughed at for wasting their time. I planned my escape from that moment on. The other issue I spoke about took place prior to - annulled one was supposed to be who'd rescue me from anything like that again. Even told me so. Ha. I'm still surprised that I ever trusted a man ever again, but I learned to recognize 'the good ones' from the mooks. I now have VERY fine-tuned radar.
It IS abuse! As one who's been there it feels exactly the same, whether by a parent or a short-lived spouse. Left the first, annulled the 2nd but the taint stays - and haunts.
I think there would have been a whole lot of people taking mental health days or just checking out completely for an undetermined time.I don’t know about others but yesterday for me was about as bad as it gets concerning Little Donnie F F and I have had it up to here with him.I just called my 2 Senators 10 times in one hour.I heard that this gets a call noticed but I am not holding my breath.
I called all four of Thune's offices asking him to do to Trump what the GOP senators did to Nixon back in the day. Midterms and impeachment isn't quick enough, and the cholesterol isn't either.
I called Thune's office in DC, as well as Johnson, Jeffries and Schumer. (In addition to my Senators and MAGA-loving Reps office.) Here is the info for anyone who wishes to contact Congressional Leadership:
House Speaker Mike Johnson: (202) 225-2777
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries: (202) 225-5936
I called my GOP Trump ass kissing rep and actually spoke to someone in the Tucson office, told them he needs to grow a spine. Also called Mark Kelly, my Senator, then later saw that he was on Jen Psaki. I know both he and Gallego do what they can.
Left messages for all 3 of my AZ Reps. At least Gallego is calling for impeachment, Kelly says that he “lives in the real world” and what good is it to call for impeachment or removal under 25th Amendment. How about just calling for the right thing, even if it is a long shot. Really disappointed in this perspective and lack of action.
Hi from NAZ! I have called Kelly and Gallego each about 57 times. I think I they need to do some podcasts. Like Rogan and Flagrant and PBD and Theo Von. That will showcase them to a broader audience. We need everyone.
I called around 20 Republican senators last night. Not my own. I think the call volume was waaay up yesterday and it is my expectation that these dolts understand that Americans have had enough. He needs to go. Now.
Even if you are. I called Ron Johnson, and once his aide confirmed I live in Madison he responded with something about <sneer> people in *Madison* who don't have the right priorities.</sneer>. They basically write everyone who lives in WI's cities off. Republicans do not believe they represent all of us.
Wisconsin had some great pushback in the elections yesterday. Perhaps you could call Johnsonʻs aide back and ask him about the new Democratic mayor in a ruby-red city near Milwaukee.
Ron is unfit to serve in that office. He is insane and has his head up trumps ass. We wanted him out last time. I think we’ll have better luck the next time.
I email my Senators and Congressman. I usually get a response to my concern (probably from an aide. But a response none the less. Yesterday I sent an email about the Iran fiasco and got a response from my congressman and one senator within a few hours, and an email today from the other senator.
I email mine all the time. Always get a thoughtful response from my Dem Representative, rarely get a response from my Republican Senator, and sometimes get a response from Fetterman, which mostly contradicts what he does in Congress!
I email mine as well because I live out of the country. They are Rs and I only get form responses, and then get added to their stupid mailing lists. I do it anyway just to make sure they get some volume.
In less than a month, Americans can take part in the May 1st general work strike. On that day, don't shop, don't buy anything, don't work (unless you must). Use that time to write or call your Congress critters. Donate to or work for candidates who are opposed to this regime (don't trust republicans, though), and some of those might be going up against politicians (either in primaries or the general in November) who have failed to stand up. Check your voter registration status or register to vote. Track down the forms of ID they will probably demand to prove you are you and you are a citizen who can vote. The SAVE Act might be out, but it's like the undead and it might rise from its grave this year.
I called both my POS GOP senators, neither of whom gives a rat's ass about his constituents or the country. One's D.C. mailbox was full (wonder why?), so I had to call another office. Called Thune and Johnson, too. For some strange reason <not>, J. Divan's voicemail message was directing people to the White House comments line, which in turn said to send an email. I kinda got the idea they don't want to hear from us. Huh.
I call Swalwell all the time. All I get back is they are all over with being sure I am accommodated if I am not getting my government things like Medicaid. Bla bla bla.
That’s not the derangement syndrome causing problems.
We had a serviceable agreement with Iran. If not for “Obama derangement syndrome”which many voters felt&Trump’s white hot jealousy of Obama we might not be here.
It's their ultimate "get out of the conversation" card when they can't defend whatever he says or does. It's childish and very much tied to their overwhelming desire to "own the libs" to the point they've made it their entire personality.
It's like, no idiots, it's called living in reality and reacting when you have a working brain, more empathy than a gnat, and aren't in a fucking cult.
Yeah and what’s with an elected official from the United States campaigning in another country’s election? Especially for an authoritarian dictator wannabe. Isn’t it the CIA’s job to interfere in foreign affairs? Imagine if Macron had come and campaigned for Kamala Harris. Heads would’ve exploded.
But he called back to tell everyone that he “loves Viktor.” And Don Jr. was in Bosnia yesterday, schmoozing with the Serbian separatists, who want to carve off the part of Bosnia they live in to be come part of Serbia. They tried that 34 years ago and killed thousands in a genocide because living with Croats, Muslims and others is too much of a burden.
If there’s a fascist regime in the world, the Trump Crime Family can’t be far away.
In the old days they would be pinning medals and ribbons on one another until they looked like gaudy Christmas trees, but now it's just giant bribes in crypto (plus Escobar-sized bricks of blow for Junior). Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić would be right at home with these assholes. 100,000 people were killed in Bosnia between 1992 and 1995.
don't forget - they ALSO wanted to hang his wife and grown children as well! frump didn't give ONE shit about any of them. 'Mike isn't doing right by us' he kept telling his magat morons in the crowd (they were holding up their phones with his voice repeating this bullshit over and over). THAT alone should have been sufficient to convict him of sedition and treason. THAT moment, captured on other cameras is when the 'hang Pence' yells began as the cameras cut to the gallows in the background.
Jeff, once again I ask you to consider starting a GoFundMe to raise a reward for the first journalist to take up your challenge. It would grow faster than any GoFundMe EVER. Gee--anyone know how a multi-national GoFundMe would work--can it accept dollars, euros, yen, etc. all at once?
The winner would never have to work again.
And for once INSTEAD of chewing my nails, waiting to see Demento drops nukes and starts WW3, the entire world can watch EVERY (insert bad word!) PRESSER to see "will TODAY be the day?!" 😁🙏🏼
Something you have to ponder...what IF some rightwing ass (like jesse watters, for example) DELIBERATELY and sarcastically told the orange piggy that HE was going to ask him this question just so he could reap all this 'commie/liberal' money - to laugh at them (us)? Then it'd be a disaster.
Or just make sure you don't live anywhere near a large cities especially DC, power plant, military installation, major airport, transportation hubs, battery or chip factory, Texas, Florida, or any US submarine ports.
I'm dreading the Fourth of July in general but especially here in Philadelphia. What are we celebrating, anyway? Our country is gone. Yes, we're still here but we certainly aren't the same country. I wonder if it will ever come back....probably not in my lifetime.
WE haven't flown our flag or celebrated since that man took office. There's nothing to celebrate. I do want to get a flag that blends the Mexican and the American flag, just to be a pain in the ass...I'm of Mexican descent
I agree. There is nothing to celebrate. We’ve been eating tacos or Italian sausage and peppers on Fourth of July for the last 10 years, just as a big F*** you. We also read Frederick Douglass’ 1852 speech, “What to the Slave, is the Fourth of July?” This year, we are going to draw the drapes and binge on French movies all day. I’m not Mexican, but half my family is, and I grew up in Occupied Mexico. The racism and bigotry in this country has always been sickening, but under Trump it has been cultivated and celebrated to a truly nauseating degree.
Same here, Eva. I took down my flag when the unthinkable happened. I replaced it with a big LGBTQ+ Ally Flag that flies proudly from my front porch. This is in support of my trans grandson, my lesbian sister, my gay neighbors, and everyone who is being persecuted by these MAGA Monsters. And like so many of y'all, yesterday was stressful as hell with constant doom scrolling. Today I'm going to spend the day playing with my six foster kittens and napping. Fuck DJT in the ass with a prickly pear!
Jeff, are you sure that DJT is actually writing the (Un)Truth Social posts under his name, no matter how early or late they are posted? His brain is going fuckity bye and he has difficulty constructing coherent sentences and making complete points in his speech without wandering around in his brain summoning words that refuse to answer. In short, he seems to have a form of dementia. Like Fred Trump, Sr. did. If he is not writing the posts, WHO IS? That mysterious person or team is propping up a demented President. That should be a crime.
I was married to a malignant narcissist for 22 years. Back then, men had all the power. I couldn’t even have my own bank account. I feel the same way now as I felt back then.
When you gag up madness like "an entire civilization will die tonight," you had to wonder if he was starting to review the nuclear codes - and if Hegseth has corrupted the top brass at the Pentagon sufficiently enough to follow through. Then - the world would need a mental health break - and we'd wake up to a new world at that point. And wonder if "Republicans" were still OK with it.
neither the felon nor SecDrunk wrote that. neither waxes philosophical. & the felon can't use proper grammar, punctuation, etc. & if you saw SecDrunk this AM, it just reinforces that he didn't write it.
I want to know who is the Stephen Miller of Iran in the admin. cause that's who wrote it.
I'd tend to agree save the fact that such a ridiculous statement was a monumental political blunder - and Miller is cunning as a pit viper. I can't imagine anyone outside of Trump thinking that projecting himself as a psychotic mass murderer was worth the shock value. But to your point - you can't tell the psychopaths without a scorecard.
Jeff I think even here in Ireland, on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, we were All gonna take a mental health day-if we didn’t pass out from anxiety first!
I saw JD Vance in Hungary stumping for Orbán, and know he is too big of a coward to be closer to the nuke site when he could be in the US hiding in a nuclear proof bunker. So, I did not think it was going to happen.
I also think that Donald got what he wanted from this. He stole a whole lot of money from the US taxpayers, and he got to make his family richer on the futures markets with his Iran war game. Of course, he wanted to keep making money, and thinks he is going to do that by joining Iran in collecting from ships going through the Strait of Hormuz, so he can stash that in a Qatari bank like he is doing with his oil revenues from Venezuela. It is shameful that this country still has even one person who thinks highly of Trump.
Heather Cox Richardson did make the point that their is no walking back from threatening to annihilate a civilization. He can not take that back. It has been said, and he should be making sure to hide out in the US, because he is not going to be safe anywhere else.
A morning meditation to calm and ground you in these difficult times:
Sit with your back straight and eyes closed. Picture a beautiful meadow. Birds are chirping. A fawn grazes. Donald Trump enters wandering aimlessly. Two uniformed men follow, rip off his toupe and drag him away by his overly long red tie. He is placed in a cell and fed baloney sandwiches on white bread for the rest of his miserable life.
Now slowly return to the present and have a great day!
My mom tried once years ago to serve us fried spam for dinner. No bueno. I tried with my kids and they refused to eat it. I work with a large population of Filipinos and they love spam.
So do Hawaii residents. We get it. Mainlanders don’t go for SPAM. But here it’s part of our heritage. We prepare it in ways we find delectable. Our state, I believe, eats the most SPAM per capita in the nation, probably the world
Leigh, ever see the Comey dinner with Dopey tv movie. Comey gets shrimp platter while dumb-dumb gets a bowls of ice cream, he slobbers and loudly slurps the ice cream with his face all but in it (personal pet peeve). Reminds me of that.
I'm pretty sure this is all about one thing only: MONEY. The unrelenting chaos is generating inconceivable amounts of money for donald and his cronies playing the financial markets and playing the completely unregulated crypto and betting underbelly markets. Up is down, down is up, bad is good, good is bad....
Sounds like when he found out the Iranians are gonna levy that $million(s) toll his filthy lucre detector went off and he started down that "joint venture" fever dream rabbit hole.
And his constant lying. I’ve found that—as Dashiell Hammett noted in The Thin Man—those who lie most often and routinely are most easily tricked by lies. Netanyahu’s lies ensnared this moron and the weakness by everyone around him permitted this. All this. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: fuck.
The hilarious notion that Iran would form a joint-venture with the U.S. to toll tankers in the Hormuz Strait is just more deranged magical-thinking. I read this morning that we sent tons of weapons to some unknown entities in Iran at the start of the war, thinking Iranians would use them to revolt against the regime. Instead, they said "Don't mind if we do" and kept them all to aim at us.
We sent arms to the Kurds, who hate the mullahs. The Kurds however know from long experience that the United States will not have their backs, so they will keep the weapons for their own self-defense but are not going to initiate any conflict.
Same, though it really speaks to how completely incompetent this whole thing has been from the start that they thought if we gave the Kurds guns, they would use them help us after everything we've done.
Hell, Trump fucked them over big time the last time he was president! And yet neither he nor anyone around him seems to have remembered that!?
No, it’s worse. Fifth graders would actually give a fuck about their collective futures. Piss drunk warmonger Hegseth clearly doesn’t give a crap about anything except what war crime he can commit next.
This is a lie (originating from Noam Chomsky) that has been repeated so often it has become accepted wisdom. Peter Bergen's "The Bin Laden I Knew" (comprehensive interviews with people who knew him in all stages of his life plus analysis of captured and declassified al-Qaeda documents) demonstrates that Bin Laden hated all the mujahideen who took weapons from the US. The whole point of him going to Afghanistan with his family's money behind him was to show that Muslims could arm themselves against the Soviets without being tainted by the West. He ended up fighting with the mujahideen that we were backing more often than he fought the Russians, finally managing to kill Ahmed Shah Massoud and the rest of the leadership of the Northern Alliance ("our" mujahideen) just before he greenlit 9/11.
Is it Netanyahu's lies or the fact he's being blackmailed by him (and Russia)? Just my opinion, but I think he is being blackmailed (financial crimes his whole adult life plus the Epstein files). I don't feel he has a choice in the matter. Do what Israel wants or Israel will release the files/videos. His behavior around Putin has been suspect from his first term. It's one thing to believe a liar, it's another to be cowed down everytime you're around them. He acts more afraid of Putin than anyone. Israel wasn't even around when Trump was born. Putin was KBG and born right before Stalin died. I'd probably be more afraid of Putin too.
Wisconsinite here. That is the most we've ever had from Ron Johnson in the years he's been taking up space on our dime. He does not even bother to answer calls or emails. He doesn't even have a staffer answering the phone. Totally useless and corrupt.
Don't forget about the time he spent the Fourth of July in Russia in 2018, ostensibly to warn Russia not to interfere in the 2018 election. I call bullshit. All who went on that trip were rethuglicans who kowtow to trump, and they know he was elected because of Russian help.
Fellow Badger here. I’m not surprised. I would much rather he not respond at all to my letters rather than send his “Thank you for your message and I will work tirelessly blah blah blah…” With RonJohn it’s all about the money.
Thats disgusting. I'm glad my representatives always respond even if its only coming from an aide. They address my issue specifically, which means someone is reading it.
The republican part of WI openly bragged about suppressing the vote in Milwaukee, biggest city with the most black constituents, during RoJo's last senate election.
⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️Guess what!⁉️⁉️⁉️ The New York Times put out enlightening article about the run up to Trump's war on Iran. Apparently, he was told all the potential pitfalls but insisted on going ahead. For gift Link, click here.
Evidently War Pig Pete said they were offered a number of strategic diplomatic solutions to avoid war and ignored them because "It's more fun to shoot things."
"Of all the foreign policy challenges Mr. Trump had confronted across two presidencies, Iran stood apart" This sentence totally sane washes Trump. It sounds as if he has an in depth understanding of the foreign challenges facing the US. He does not and never did. He only believes what last person said to him.
It's not even long article and I don't know if you can count on Jeff to break it all down given all of the other craziness on a given day. Of course, use your own discretion but there is nothing that stands out as untrue or out of character in there.
And James Comey can go fuck himself all the way back to 2016. He handed Trump the presidency with that bogus investigation into Hillary’s emails, just weeks before the election. How did that work out for old Jimmy? About the same way it did for the rest of us.
And I understand Comey was investigating Trump's association with Putin and Epstein over global money laundering, espionage, and sex and drug trafficking with 14 other co-conspirators. That investigation was separate from the routine "Epstein Pedo Files" that are still not released. And then Comey wants redemption from the public. I don't think that day will come for him.
Well, I sure wish his daughter, Maurene (sp?), would sound off about details of her investigations to Epstein... including her reasons for stopping AZ's investigation of Zorro Ranch.
And Fudd Comer has now decreed that Pamnesia Blondi does not need to show up and explain herself, because the subpoena was issued to the Attorney General version of her and she's not the AG anymore. Except the subpoena was, in fact, addressed to just plain ol' Bitch Face Lying Eyes Blondi. Nevertheless, she is currently off the hook.
We will now have our tax dollars go to reparations for an illegal, unnecessary war in Iran, while being told we can’t have health care for all here! Children can’t get breakfast in school here! And there are more dead children whose relatives will want revenge for. And toxins have been spewed into the air and ground. It affects us all to some extent. It is time for removal of the monster and the entire administration!! They’ve crossed the red line 10 times now!
As the President, he speaks for the country, and if he says no? Who will enforce the reparations? Thus far, no international body has held him (or the U.S.) accountable for anything.
If we had had 2 terms with Hillary and 1 with Kamala, we would NEVER be where we are now. You can't convince me other- wise. He is a human wrecking ball.
not gonna lie — if Donny had bombed Iran last night, I was going to take a mental health break today
I feel like we're all in an abusive relationship. This feels like abuse.
100% We should sue him for emotional trauma
I'd prefer to bury him up to his neck in quicksand, then let nature take its course. He COULD still be lassoed and pulled out but it might stretch that horrid mangina and result in a permanent inability to move/twitch/act like the orange piggy he is. Works for me.
Come to think of it Eva - that isn't a bad idea. A class action suit BY everyone who feels the same way against orange sphincter FOR refusing to consult Congress AND We the People about this fucking War AND for his fucking around about the Epstein files when we ALL KNOW he's all over those files! Put him on notice that we see what's going on -and exactly why he started this fucked-up War. Change.org allows people to begin petitions - when they reach a certain number of signees they become 'real' and things get done. Might just be worth a try?
A rape is in progress, and you and I and over 8 billion other human beings are the victims. Please do not refer to it as a “relationship”
Yep.
"NOW see what you made him do. . .!"
That 'must' have been used during the major assault I endured - but I can't remember...was out cold. BUT when I hear those words (like almost every other SA survivor) my entire skin CRAWLS and I find myself cringing while looking around for a way to disappear into the wall. It's no longer a 'real' fear today, just pure bodily reaction I'll likely never forget. However, at this stage of life I'd prefer to enact revenge on any would-be perp using those words - WITH deadly force of my own.
He uses classic abuser language - "I don't WANT to lose my temper with you, Iran - but you push me into it. You just keep on and on resisting! If only you were bright enough to realise that if you'd just do what I ask. It's not a lot, is it?"
Exactly this! He learned it in - probably grade school? Fine-tuned it in military school where his parents sent him to 'straighten him out/grow him up' and he paid thugs there to do his bidding, becoming even more of a bully-boy coward than he'd already been. When I read what he did to Ivana, pulling out CLUMPS of her hair purely because HE was feeling pain due to his scalp reduction (she'd referred him to a doctor so it was her 'fault') it clicked about just how abusive he was to his wives as well, and a whiny coward who couldn't handle the tiniest bit of discomfort.
104 "likes" to one comment on one substack.
Far, far too many women understand exactly what you and I are talking about, Elizabeth. And 342 to Myhoops original. Makes you despair, doesn't it. . .
We're being terrorized, more than abuse. At this point, I really don't care about airport security anymore.
The world is being terrorized by Republican Evangelicals!!!
👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆🎯 Yes, all because they warped the hell out of a message that was about love, and treating others well, to "bomb them all and bring on the end times" so We can bring Jesus back, (but to save only us)while everyone else remains in the toxic stew we made of the environment, in our bottomless greed. They are certifiable!
ICE y ever cared about it either.
Yes it is cruel and unusual punishment and I do not want my good name associated with this heartless bastard.Like someone else said, this cannot go on until the mid-terms.We The People want action NOW!
Trump‘s only real talent is his ability to abuse literally millions of people all at the same time
He's an adjudicated abuser. it is an abusive relationship.
adjudicated rapist. The judge in E Jean Carroll's case stated that out loud if I remember correctly?
Myhoopbabies: that's because this IS abuse! He's abusing us all, and enjoying it immensely. It's as though he's raping the entire nation. Ugh.
I'm not sure who the man was - invited onto, I think MSNow? - a Psychologist, first name Charles? He stated that the malignant narcissism is simply going to continue getting worse and it IS abusive: orange piggy's been abusive since childhood, gets off on it. Everything he said resonated with my own feelings.
In my experience, mental illness increases in severity with age. I’m a firm believer that in lives that are not so great, we are at some point presented with a “fork in the road” moment. We can continue on the habitual path, or choose the more difficult path of self reflection and growth. I believe that that fork in the road moment never happened for trump. What he is was pretty much baked in at a very early age and then reinforced by his father and Fred’s legacy desires. Just my opinion. 🇨🇦
Unless you’re a heterosexual white Christian male, you’re probably right.
And the funny thing is so many of them really aren't, they hate women, as Grndr crashing every time CPAC is in town will attest.
Are you sure Mike?
This feels like living in crazytown.
With all due respect, you are living in “crazy town.” But you’re not alone. We, in Alberta, are also - just to a lesser degree. So I kinda feel your pain and multiply ✖️ by about 300 million! Take care. 🇨🇦
Thanks, Patricia. I feel SO BADLY for those in Canada and others of our Allies who never deserved an iota of this horrid treatment. At least you (and a few others of your countrymen and women) DO know that most of us love you and despise the way this monstrous child occupying our Oval Office has been berating you.
We do Elizabeth, and appreciate that love and caring very much. Unfortunately there are some, even here, who simply do not get/understand the strong feelings we have for our country. When returning from a trip to US, it was just so heartwarming when a customs officer, as we were going through customs, said simply, “Welcome home.” That did more for me than any hoopla in July 1st. We’re just not loud about how we feel. It’s there, just not loud or what we may see as performative. I think it’s in large part due to our British roots. Just my opinion. Wishing you all well through these fractious times. 🇨🇦
Patricia - thank you for this. My Great-Aunt Sue lived in Vancouver. I only met her once as a child when she came to Glasgow for a visit, but never forgot that her dress was the exact same colour as her hair - a steelish gray, and she was so well-spoken, didn't put up with my mother's nonsense (likely why there was no return visit). I can visualize her clearly in my mind and had always wanted to visit her in Canada but didn't get the chance as an adult - since he died before I could. My Dad's side of the family were all good folks.
Yup. Complete with the enabling family members that always tell the victims to just deal with it because "that's just the way he is", or some shit like that.
"Aww, it's just Donnie being Donnie! He's always been high strung/quick tempered/ sensitive! You seem to be losing your sense of humor, America!"
I know how I'D like to see Donnie being "high strung. . ."
Lady Emsworth: oh, THIS is great! I'm assuming we're not talking about fine-tuning our violin or guitar strings? lolol
Fwiw - I never told members of my family, preferring to leave home before anyone could know (my situation got worse and worse...of course it did). I KNEW I'd be blamed for what had been done to me by a stranger to them. I hadn't trusted my gut sufficiently before - but doing so then I'm positive saved my life. The worst part is knowing that it's happening to women and girls still - and every day. WHEN will these fuckers EVER stop hurting us?
We are, and we are long past the point where our ex tries to kill us, to punish us for rejecting him, and the cops go, "Well we can't do anything until we catch him actually choking you to death."
Geezus fucking keerist: YOUR word isn't good enough, nor are the fingerprints wrapping around your neck, NOR are the petechiae in your eyes? Nah, let's wait until we 'catch him in the fucking ACT'. Mine was so long ago and luckily didn't involve 'that' but a sucker punch which (the asshole I later annulled) round-housed to my face. I weighed half of what he did - and he was 6'4 to boot. I've dealt with a severe tmj problem ever since and it was in the middle of a huge snowstorm in NY where all the traffic was at a standstill. No point in calling them since he would have gotten a pat on the back for 'handling' his problems and I'd likely have been laughed at for wasting their time. I planned my escape from that moment on. The other issue I spoke about took place prior to - annulled one was supposed to be who'd rescue me from anything like that again. Even told me so. Ha. I'm still surprised that I ever trusted a man ever again, but I learned to recognize 'the good ones' from the mooks. I now have VERY fine-tuned radar.
I am sorry that dredged up your abuse, and that happened to you.
It IS abuse! As one who's been there it feels exactly the same, whether by a parent or a short-lived spouse. Left the first, annulled the 2nd but the taint stays - and haunts.
I think everyone should take a day off from Trump, which I have mostly been doing today.
About time America changed its national anthem to "Goodbye Earl."
We are
I think there would have been a whole lot of people taking mental health days or just checking out completely for an undetermined time.I don’t know about others but yesterday for me was about as bad as it gets concerning Little Donnie F F and I have had it up to here with him.I just called my 2 Senators 10 times in one hour.I heard that this gets a call noticed but I am not holding my breath.
I called all four of Thune's offices asking him to do to Trump what the GOP senators did to Nixon back in the day. Midterms and impeachment isn't quick enough, and the cholesterol isn't either.
Now THAT’S a game plan! WTG
I called Thune's office in DC, as well as Johnson, Jeffries and Schumer. (In addition to my Senators and MAGA-loving Reps office.) Here is the info for anyone who wishes to contact Congressional Leadership:
House Speaker Mike Johnson: (202) 225-2777
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries: (202) 225-5936
Senate Majority Leader John Thune: (202) 224-2321
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer: (202) 224-6542
I called Thune, Johnson, and my three repugnant republican congresspeople. It's difficult to keep the message civil.
I know. I called Thune’s offices, too. Trump 🤢 just keeps on regenerating. It’s surreal.
Don’t hold your breath.
I called my GOP Trump ass kissing rep and actually spoke to someone in the Tucson office, told them he needs to grow a spine. Also called Mark Kelly, my Senator, then later saw that he was on Jen Psaki. I know both he and Gallego do what they can.
I don’t know. Gallego is getting kind of wishy-washy regarding ICE.
Left messages for all 3 of my AZ Reps. At least Gallego is calling for impeachment, Kelly says that he “lives in the real world” and what good is it to call for impeachment or removal under 25th Amendment. How about just calling for the right thing, even if it is a long shot. Really disappointed in this perspective and lack of action.
Hi from NAZ! I have called Kelly and Gallego each about 57 times. I think I they need to do some podcasts. Like Rogan and Flagrant and PBD and Theo Von. That will showcase them to a broader audience. We need everyone.
PS I don’t even bother with my asskissing rep. He has yet to show up at his office. Like ever.
I called around 20 Republican senators last night. Not my own. I think the call volume was waaay up yesterday and it is my expectation that these dolts understand that Americans have had enough. He needs to go. Now.
Of course they are still on vacation, again.
Really? I wouldn't think that they care if you weren't one of their voters.
Even if you are. I called Ron Johnson, and once his aide confirmed I live in Madison he responded with something about <sneer> people in *Madison* who don't have the right priorities.</sneer>. They basically write everyone who lives in WI's cities off. Republicans do not believe they represent all of us.
Wisconsin had some great pushback in the elections yesterday. Perhaps you could call Johnsonʻs aide back and ask him about the new Democratic mayor in a ruby-red city near Milwaukee.
That is unbelievable. I guess they are not you representatives then.
Ron is unfit to serve in that office. He is insane and has his head up trumps ass. We wanted him out last time. I think we’ll have better luck the next time.
Ordinarily that is the case, but this particular time is not ordinary.
I email my Senators and Congressman. I usually get a response to my concern (probably from an aide. But a response none the less. Yesterday I sent an email about the Iran fiasco and got a response from my congressman and one senator within a few hours, and an email today from the other senator.
I email mine all the time. Always get a thoughtful response from my Dem Representative, rarely get a response from my Republican Senator, and sometimes get a response from Fetterman, which mostly contradicts what he does in Congress!
I get form letters from my D senator and bupkis from my R senator.
Form letters are so sad. I wouldn't expect much from an R senator, but I would expect a D senator to actually respond to you! So sorry!
I think they have aides for that. They get lots of letters and emails. I just want then to know I interested in what they are doing.
Fetterman is a weird guy.
I email mine as well because I live out of the country. They are Rs and I only get form responses, and then get added to their stupid mailing lists. I do it anyway just to make sure they get some volume.
In less than a month, Americans can take part in the May 1st general work strike. On that day, don't shop, don't buy anything, don't work (unless you must). Use that time to write or call your Congress critters. Donate to or work for candidates who are opposed to this regime (don't trust republicans, though), and some of those might be going up against politicians (either in primaries or the general in November) who have failed to stand up. Check your voter registration status or register to vote. Track down the forms of ID they will probably demand to prove you are you and you are a citizen who can vote. The SAVE Act might be out, but it's like the undead and it might rise from its grave this year.
I called both my POS GOP senators, neither of whom gives a rat's ass about his constituents or the country. One's D.C. mailbox was full (wonder why?), so I had to call another office. Called Thune and Johnson, too. For some strange reason <not>, J. Divan's voicemail message was directing people to the White House comments line, which in turn said to send an email. I kinda got the idea they don't want to hear from us. Huh.
I call Swalwell all the time. All I get back is they are all over with being sure I am accommodated if I am not getting my government things like Medicaid. Bla bla bla.
Infuriating.
Can’t they read.
That is so far from my inquiry.
We are in the hands of morons.
As were we all.
BTW Was Donald planning on bombing Iran while his VP was in Hungary? May have the timing wrong, just wondering?
JD should be called a traitor. Imagine if Obama or Biden had their VP doing that.
I always bristle at “Trump derangement syndrome”
That’s not the derangement syndrome causing problems.
We had a serviceable agreement with Iran. If not for “Obama derangement syndrome”which many voters felt&Trump’s white hot jealousy of Obama we might not be here.
The only derangement syndrome are the deranged idiots who still support him. I hate that term too.
It's their ultimate "get out of the conversation" card when they can't defend whatever he says or does. It's childish and very much tied to their overwhelming desire to "own the libs" to the point they've made it their entire personality.
It's like, no idiots, it's called living in reality and reacting when you have a working brain, more empathy than a gnat, and aren't in a fucking cult.
Vance became a traitor long before he sold himself to Peter Thiel to get elected to the Senate.
Yep. Those of us Ohioans who are sane have known that for quite a while.
Yeah and what’s with an elected official from the United States campaigning in another country’s election? Especially for an authoritarian dictator wannabe. Isn’t it the CIA’s job to interfere in foreign affairs? Imagine if Macron had come and campaigned for Kamala Harris. Heads would’ve exploded.
Just imagine how the corporate media would have responded to that.
That's what I was thinking! WTF? Vance needs to be outed with 'rump.
Vance called him from the podium and the call went straight to voicemail. No lie.
But he called back to tell everyone that he “loves Viktor.” And Don Jr. was in Bosnia yesterday, schmoozing with the Serbian separatists, who want to carve off the part of Bosnia they live in to be come part of Serbia. They tried that 34 years ago and killed thousands in a genocide because living with Croats, Muslims and others is too much of a burden.
If there’s a fascist regime in the world, the Trump Crime Family can’t be far away.
In the old days they would be pinning medals and ribbons on one another until they looked like gaudy Christmas trees, but now it's just giant bribes in crypto (plus Escobar-sized bricks of blow for Junior). Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić would be right at home with these assholes. 100,000 people were killed in Bosnia between 1992 and 1995.
Also, Orban is offering to help both Iran and Putin (big surprise!). https://www.thedailybeast.com/vances-humiliation-deepens-as-new-leak-rocks-visit-to-boost-trump-ally/
Orban is their dictator of choice and using his playbook to turn Ameica into and Autocratic Shit Hole.
The core mission of Project 2025.
A stray Tomahawk or Cruise missile happens to rub out ol' JD by mistake? Oops.
Like a back rub but with a Tomahawk?
All our allies are disgusted with Vance who is in Hungary gushing over Orban.
As they should be. Says a LOT about how far the USA has fallen.
no, you have the timing right. vance is in Hungary to try to help Orbann get reelected.
which is insane!
Well, he DID try to have his last VP killed on Jan 6th...why not this one?
A pattern?
He wanted to hang Pence. Oops I mean the visitors to the Capitol in January 6 wanted to hang him.
Yep. Same way he was watching his insurrectors on TV while they were setting up the noose platform for VP Pence.
don't forget - they ALSO wanted to hang his wife and grown children as well! frump didn't give ONE shit about any of them. 'Mike isn't doing right by us' he kept telling his magat morons in the crowd (they were holding up their phones with his voice repeating this bullshit over and over). THAT alone should have been sufficient to convict him of sedition and treason. THAT moment, captured on other cameras is when the 'hang Pence' yells began as the cameras cut to the gallows in the background.
Yep. Deplorable and despicable doesn't even cut it. 🫤
Jeff, I think we all would have been contacting friends in Mexico & Canada and packing for a visit.
Come on down. It’s hot but not near as hot as it is up there.
Jeff, once again I ask you to consider starting a GoFundMe to raise a reward for the first journalist to take up your challenge. It would grow faster than any GoFundMe EVER. Gee--anyone know how a multi-national GoFundMe would work--can it accept dollars, euros, yen, etc. all at once?
The winner would never have to work again.
And for once INSTEAD of chewing my nails, waiting to see Demento drops nukes and starts WW3, the entire world can watch EVERY (insert bad word!) PRESSER to see "will TODAY be the day?!" 😁🙏🏼
I would actually bet on that!!!!!
I'm sure Vegas could get that going, but my intention is to award the first journalist to ask Trump the Tiedrich question.
That is what I would be betting on, "Is today the day" and or "who shall it be?"
I would also contribute to your Go fund me. Sorry for the misunderstanding! LOL
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That’s awesome
I'll contribute.
Something you have to ponder...what IF some rightwing ass (like jesse watters, for example) DELIBERATELY and sarcastically told the orange piggy that HE was going to ask him this question just so he could reap all this 'commie/liberal' money - to laugh at them (us)? Then it'd be a disaster.
Basically, I was mental health breaking all day long - I didn't get shit done except for doom-scrolling
Same! and I had a lot to do
Me, too.
Me, too. Biting my nails and sick to my stomach. That imbecile has got to go!
Same here, Beth. Even checking from 8pm on. 💁🏻
I’d be taking a trip to the market to stock up on non-perishables.
I've been doing that since the election.
I’ve had an emergency kit for years. Once a year I replenish it.
Or just make sure you don't live anywhere near a large cities especially DC, power plant, military installation, major airport, transportation hubs, battery or chip factory, Texas, Florida, or any US submarine ports.
I'm dreading the Fourth of July in general but especially here in Philadelphia. What are we celebrating, anyway? Our country is gone. Yes, we're still here but we certainly aren't the same country. I wonder if it will ever come back....probably not in my lifetime.
WE haven't flown our flag or celebrated since that man took office. There's nothing to celebrate. I do want to get a flag that blends the Mexican and the American flag, just to be a pain in the ass...I'm of Mexican descent
I agree. There is nothing to celebrate. We’ve been eating tacos or Italian sausage and peppers on Fourth of July for the last 10 years, just as a big F*** you. We also read Frederick Douglass’ 1852 speech, “What to the Slave, is the Fourth of July?” This year, we are going to draw the drapes and binge on French movies all day. I’m not Mexican, but half my family is, and I grew up in Occupied Mexico. The racism and bigotry in this country has always been sickening, but under Trump it has been cultivated and celebrated to a truly nauseating degree.
Same here, Eva. I took down my flag when the unthinkable happened. I replaced it with a big LGBTQ+ Ally Flag that flies proudly from my front porch. This is in support of my trans grandson, my lesbian sister, my gay neighbors, and everyone who is being persecuted by these MAGA Monsters. And like so many of y'all, yesterday was stressful as hell with constant doom scrolling. Today I'm going to spend the day playing with my six foster kittens and napping. Fuck DJT in the ass with a prickly pear!
Hang it upside down. And in tatters. Like our country.
I like those flags--we see them a lot on Cinco de Mayo here in California's Richmond--
Sadly I live twenty minutes from Mara-shit-Hole.
That's plenty close to fart in that general direction.
I'm close enough to hear the drone of fighter jets in the air when the Big Shit is at home instead of defiling our White House.
actually, it's better to live near those. get vaporized when the nuke is dropped.
I agree!!!
and don't relay on any electricity or water utilities
I'm so glad I got the fuck out of Texas.
Jeff, are you sure that DJT is actually writing the (Un)Truth Social posts under his name, no matter how early or late they are posted? His brain is going fuckity bye and he has difficulty constructing coherent sentences and making complete points in his speech without wandering around in his brain summoning words that refuse to answer. In short, he seems to have a form of dementia. Like Fred Trump, Sr. did. If he is not writing the posts, WHO IS? That mysterious person or team is propping up a demented President. That should be a crime.
You should have seen my brunch yesterday since I thought it would be my last.
drank your brunch?
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Omg😝
You and me and everyone else...I was seriously sitting here thinking, well, we're cooked.
maybe next time we all just ignore him since we know he's an energy vampire who thrives on the attention.
I was married to a malignant narcissist for 22 years. Back then, men had all the power. I couldn’t even have my own bank account. I feel the same way now as I felt back then.
I identify with you completely!
If the rest of the world had started bombing us in return we’d have gotten permanent mental health breaks.
When you gag up madness like "an entire civilization will die tonight," you had to wonder if he was starting to review the nuclear codes - and if Hegseth has corrupted the top brass at the Pentagon sufficiently enough to follow through. Then - the world would need a mental health break - and we'd wake up to a new world at that point. And wonder if "Republicans" were still OK with it.
neither the felon nor SecDrunk wrote that. neither waxes philosophical. & the felon can't use proper grammar, punctuation, etc. & if you saw SecDrunk this AM, it just reinforces that he didn't write it.
I want to know who is the Stephen Miller of Iran in the admin. cause that's who wrote it.
I'd tend to agree save the fact that such a ridiculous statement was a monumental political blunder - and Miller is cunning as a pit viper. I can't imagine anyone outside of Trump thinking that projecting himself as a psychotic mass murderer was worth the shock value. But to your point - you can't tell the psychopaths without a scorecard.
Gary, don’t insult pit vipers. They just go along doing their thing and are mellow and retiring.
I'm thinking of who would be laser focused on manipulating the markets so they can keep personally cashing in over and over. Lutnick? Bessent?
Agree---Dump didn't write it, so who's pulling the strings? Somebody waaayyyy back behind the curtain is making the decisions here.
Joe Scarborough says his sources tell him CENTCOM flatly refused to target for bombing the list of civilian sites Hegseth sent them.
Jeff I think even here in Ireland, on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, we were All gonna take a mental health day-if we didn’t pass out from anxiety first!
What a World Class fuckup he really is!
Excellent article as usual.
Hope you’re coping ok…💚
I saw JD Vance in Hungary stumping for Orbán, and know he is too big of a coward to be closer to the nuke site when he could be in the US hiding in a nuclear proof bunker. So, I did not think it was going to happen.
I also think that Donald got what he wanted from this. He stole a whole lot of money from the US taxpayers, and he got to make his family richer on the futures markets with his Iran war game. Of course, he wanted to keep making money, and thinks he is going to do that by joining Iran in collecting from ships going through the Strait of Hormuz, so he can stash that in a Qatari bank like he is doing with his oil revenues from Venezuela. It is shameful that this country still has even one person who thinks highly of Trump.
Heather Cox Richardson did make the point that their is no walking back from threatening to annihilate a civilization. He can not take that back. It has been said, and he should be making sure to hide out in the US, because he is not going to be safe anywhere else.
A morning meditation to calm and ground you in these difficult times:
Sit with your back straight and eyes closed. Picture a beautiful meadow. Birds are chirping. A fawn grazes. Donald Trump enters wandering aimlessly. Two uniformed men follow, rip off his toupe and drag him away by his overly long red tie. He is placed in a cell and fed baloney sandwiches on white bread for the rest of his miserable life.
Now slowly return to the present and have a great day!
Ann, Thank you for that much needed break, but I was headed toward a slightly different ending to make myself happier! 🤔😁
One suggestion.
Demented Donnie comes wandering in, collapses, and the garbage men come and take him away?
He would be considered toxic waste so not sure trash haulers could take him. 😁
I'd like to see him either go into the compactor or a shredder.
One of those automobile compactors. 😁
Hmm. And what might that be?
Cathy, I have a feeling you guessed it.
you can use DND. Dirt nap day.
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Love it!
You guys keep teasing me with a good time.
We're doing PG-13 today with innuendo
Love that, "PG-13 with innuendo". Can I borrow it?
Feed him SPAM, cold, raw with no fork out of the can.
An insult to SPAM. Sorry, Hormel. SPAM deserves better
Actually it doesn't.
Hormel once ran a SPAM haiku contest, which they regretted after entries like
Have you heard? SPAM Light!
Same rancid flavor, only
Half the yellow slime!
My mom tried once years ago to serve us fried spam for dinner. No bueno. I tried with my kids and they refused to eat it. I work with a large population of Filipinos and they love spam.
So do Hawaii residents. We get it. Mainlanders don’t go for SPAM. But here it’s part of our heritage. We prepare it in ways we find delectable. Our state, I believe, eats the most SPAM per capita in the nation, probably the world
I used to love a fried Spam sandwich. Haven't had one since I left home. Thanks for the memory.
no. salad.
Withhold Big Macs.
How about some E Coli chicken?
Excuse ME! - that's how I LIKE to eat my spam - with a jar of honey pickles as a side.
I could get behind a jar of honey pickles.
SPAM:
Shit Posing As Meat.
Leigh, ever see the Comey dinner with Dopey tv movie. Comey gets shrimp platter while dumb-dumb gets a bowls of ice cream, he slobbers and loudly slurps the ice cream with his face all but in it (personal pet peeve). Reminds me of that.
Best meditation ever!
Nah, he'd like the baloney. Make him eat tofu and kale sammiches.
oooooh - tofu! That's it. Breakfast, lunch and dinner!
Another food that can be used as punishment. Lol. I've never eaten rubber bands, but that's what tofu reminded me when I ate it.
I like it! Thanks Ann.
Find out his food allergies then feed him that.
not baloney sandwiches. salad.
Feel free to customize your visualizations, people.
We gotta have fun somehow. lol.
I’ve allowed my mind to really go overboard on this exercise; I won’t share explicit details, but the long red tie is used creatively
I encourage everyone to use their imaginations.
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Mine involves a toilet. On the Elvis model.
THANK YOU, Ann 💕💕
Now these are meditations I can get into. Ann, please publish more of them!
Thanks Ann!! Awesome imagery.
When I go to my happy place the idiot is not any where around- maybe the guys already took him away- we can hope right?
Love it. Great meditation!!!
Trash Truck Donnie
I'm pretty sure this is all about one thing only: MONEY. The unrelenting chaos is generating inconceivable amounts of money for donald and his cronies playing the financial markets and playing the completely unregulated crypto and betting underbelly markets. Up is down, down is up, bad is good, good is bad....
Sounds like when he found out the Iranians are gonna levy that $million(s) toll his filthy lucre detector went off and he started down that "joint venture" fever dream rabbit hole.
It would be great if our part of the take from Hormuz replaced all our military vehicles and equipment with a big payout to families of those killed
A filthy lucre detector is about the only neural pathway left in his lizard brain.
Lizards are far brighter.
A ROTTING TURNIP is far brighter.
True, no offense meant to lizards.
A lot of tRump adjacent diques made millions on the market manipulation just this morning
Completely agree.
That was only heard by me today I didn’t hear of it before. I think it was an oversight or too complex but not for Iran they are still holding cards.
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That is the truth. Everytime he does this there is immense insider trading. Read Zev Shalev for details
Bingo!!! If the congress cuts off the spigot and he and his family and friends cant get rich anymore that will be the day he will resign.
Trump isn't going to see a dime of Iran's money but Putin might. Hmmm.
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With Trump, it’s only ever about the money and how much of it ends up in his pocket.
Strongly suspect you're right.
So much of all this comes down to his stupidity.
And his constant lying. I’ve found that—as Dashiell Hammett noted in The Thin Man—those who lie most often and routinely are most easily tricked by lies. Netanyahu’s lies ensnared this moron and the weakness by everyone around him permitted this. All this. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: fuck.
The hilarious notion that Iran would form a joint-venture with the U.S. to toll tankers in the Hormuz Strait is just more deranged magical-thinking. I read this morning that we sent tons of weapons to some unknown entities in Iran at the start of the war, thinking Iranians would use them to revolt against the regime. Instead, they said "Don't mind if we do" and kept them all to aim at us.
We sent arms to the Iranians????
What?
Without any supervision or control - we just sent them weapons!!! are the 5th graders done running this military?
We sent arms to the Kurds, who hate the mullahs. The Kurds however know from long experience that the United States will not have their backs, so they will keep the weapons for their own self-defense but are not going to initiate any conflict.
Works for me. The Kurds deserve something from all the times we’ve screwed them over.
Same, though it really speaks to how completely incompetent this whole thing has been from the start that they thought if we gave the Kurds guns, they would use them help us after everything we've done.
Hell, Trump fucked them over big time the last time he was president! And yet neither he nor anyone around him seems to have remembered that!?
No, it’s worse. Fifth graders would actually give a fuck about their collective futures. Piss drunk warmonger Hegseth clearly doesn’t give a crap about anything except what war crime he can commit next.
We also supplied Bin Laden with plenty then 9/11 happened and Afghanistan, oops. But we always learn from our mistakes.
This is a lie (originating from Noam Chomsky) that has been repeated so often it has become accepted wisdom. Peter Bergen's "The Bin Laden I Knew" (comprehensive interviews with people who knew him in all stages of his life plus analysis of captured and declassified al-Qaeda documents) demonstrates that Bin Laden hated all the mujahideen who took weapons from the US. The whole point of him going to Afghanistan with his family's money behind him was to show that Muslims could arm themselves against the Soviets without being tainted by the West. He ended up fighting with the mujahideen that we were backing more often than he fought the Russians, finally managing to kill Ahmed Shah Massoud and the rest of the leadership of the Northern Alliance ("our" mujahideen) just before he greenlit 9/11.
I see your fuck, and raise my two fucks!!
I haven't got ANY fucks left for #Bumblefuck anymore. I just want him DISAPPEARED.
I don't care HOW, or to WHERE.
Call
You have TWO fucks?
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Is it Netanyahu's lies or the fact he's being blackmailed by him (and Russia)? Just my opinion, but I think he is being blackmailed (financial crimes his whole adult life plus the Epstein files). I don't feel he has a choice in the matter. Do what Israel wants or Israel will release the files/videos. His behavior around Putin has been suspect from his first term. It's one thing to believe a liar, it's another to be cowed down everytime you're around them. He acts more afraid of Putin than anyone. Israel wasn't even around when Trump was born. Putin was KBG and born right before Stalin died. I'd probably be more afraid of Putin too.
Both. Plus he’s delusional.
Yep. He is nuts. It's the stupid factor that will do him in. He is no mental match for the true tough guys.
Nor for a reasonably-equipped 6-yr-old.
Wisconsinite here. That is the most we've ever had from Ron Johnson in the years he's been taking up space on our dime. He does not even bother to answer calls or emails. He doesn't even have a staffer answering the phone. Totally useless and corrupt.
Don't forget about the time he spent the Fourth of July in Russia in 2018, ostensibly to warn Russia not to interfere in the 2018 election. I call bullshit. All who went on that trip were rethuglicans who kowtow to trump, and they know he was elected because of Russian help.
Yes 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Sadly Wisconsin had the chance to remove him two years ago and blew it. My condolences.
I saw you guys elected another dem to your state supreme court last night. Have a majority until at least 2030.
We could have had Russ Feingold.
Or Mandela Barnes.
Indeed.
I mourn your loss of Senator Feingold. He's the best.
You said it.
Fellow Badger here. I’m not surprised. I would much rather he not respond at all to my letters rather than send his “Thank you for your message and I will work tirelessly blah blah blah…” With RonJohn it’s all about the money.
That's what Moreno says here in Ohio. Never any response to the issue. I ended up blocking his messages.
BAsically it was a case of "Trump says "This is what I want to do!" and his admin all say "Uh, ok, Sir! We're with you!"
He did have the distinction of being the Stupidest Member of the Senate for a while but then Tommy Tuberville came in and snatched his crown.
It remains a crowded field though.
But what about his telephone town halls where he spews nonsense? Do those count for nothing? (narrator: they count for nothing).
Thats disgusting. I'm glad my representatives always respond even if its only coming from an aide. They address my issue specifically, which means someone is reading it.
Send his staffers the news articles about yesterdayʻs Wisconsin elections.
One of the worst, big bad by Wisconsin.
But he is re-elected by Wisconsin Voters!
Maybe there is election fuckery?
The republican part of WI openly bragged about suppressing the vote in Milwaukee, biggest city with the most black constituents, during RoJo's last senate election.
Mary: He is reelected by out-of-state money and farmers.
⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️Guess what!⁉️⁉️⁉️ The New York Times put out enlightening article about the run up to Trump's war on Iran. Apparently, he was told all the potential pitfalls but insisted on going ahead. For gift Link, click here.
https://kathleenweber.substack.com/p/gift-link-how-trump-took-the-us-to
yeah, I saw that yesterday. everyone should read it
The blustering bully did say
He would blow a civilization away
But six hours later
His braggadocio did crater
Oh wait, it was TACO Tuesday
golf clap!
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Of course he was told. That's why he didn't attack Iran his first term, aside from still having grownups in the room.
His unique combination of obstinacy, stupidity, and greed are beyond description.
Who else but the sovereign of snooze
Can ignore, mistake, and confuse
That his stupid aggressions
Would not force Iranian concessions
But that they would close the Strait of Hormuz
“the sovereign of snooze”
YOWSERS! It’s a winner🚨🚨
Did the gray lady accidentally commit a journalism?
If they did, it's a good bet it was accidental
Basically it was a case of "Trump says "This is what I want to do!" and his admin all say "Uh, ok, Sir! We're with you!"
Evidently War Pig Pete said they were offered a number of strategic diplomatic solutions to avoid war and ignored them because "It's more fun to shoot things."
"Of all the foreign policy challenges Mr. Trump had confronted across two presidencies, Iran stood apart" This sentence totally sane washes Trump. It sounds as if he has an in depth understanding of the foreign challenges facing the US. He does not and never did. He only believes what last person said to him.
Agreed. Trump would have had to have had at least 20 functioning brain cells for that sentence to reflect reality.
Yep. He was warned by just about everyone in the Sit Room.
When Netanyahu (another tinpot piece of shit) told Trump how easy regime change in Iran would be, Trump’s response - “sounds good to me.” WTF⁉️
I’m not reading the NYT for any reason. I don’t consider them a legitimate source of information. Valerie Plame was the last straw.
Jeff Tiedrich reads the NYT and he recommends this article. like any source the NYT must be read with discretion.
A filter. Jeff reads it so I don’t have to. Gotta love him.
Their punditry, editorials, opinion pages, etc. are garbage for sure but they have some good actual breaking news. I'd take Jeff's advice and read it. It really is a stunning look at the lead up to the war and it's a gift link so you aren't giving them money: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/us/politics/trump-iran-war.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZFA.4m-e.tA6N6u-mSOXY&smid=url-share
It's not even long article and I don't know if you can count on Jeff to break it all down given all of the other craziness on a given day. Of course, use your own discretion but there is nothing that stands out as untrue or out of character in there.
And James Comey can go fuck himself all the way back to 2016. He handed Trump the presidency with that bogus investigation into Hillary’s emails, just weeks before the election. How did that work out for old Jimmy? About the same way it did for the rest of us.
And I understand Comey was investigating Trump's association with Putin and Epstein over global money laundering, espionage, and sex and drug trafficking with 14 other co-conspirators. That investigation was separate from the routine "Epstein Pedo Files" that are still not released. And then Comey wants redemption from the public. I don't think that day will come for him.
He’s on a long list of people who should never see redemption.
I couldn't agree more. I fantasize about where this country would be if Hillary had won. Perfect? That's never going to happen. Better? Undeniably.
He had said that his wife and daughters supported Hillary, so I hope they have given him shit non-stop
Well, I sure wish his daughter, Maurene (sp?), would sound off about details of her investigations to Epstein... including her reasons for stopping AZ's investigation of Zorro Ranch.
And Fudd Comer has now decreed that Pamnesia Blondi does not need to show up and explain herself, because the subpoena was issued to the Attorney General version of her and she's not the AG anymore. Except the subpoena was, in fact, addressed to just plain ol' Bitch Face Lying Eyes Blondi. Nevertheless, she is currently off the hook.
That’s just fu**ing infuriating. These scum bags keep getting away with their sleazy manipulations.
And Todd Blanche, personal lawyer turned head of DOJ, says Trump can keep all the documents he supposedly never took? Sad times.
Excellent reminder!
"fuck you, you fucking fuck. you don’t get a cookie." But you CAN have two dolls and five pencils.
Trump: “Hop in losers! We’re going losing!!”
God I hate this fucking timeline…
Operation Epic Blunder
Operation AIPAC Fury
Or AIPAC FUBAR
It was screwed from start to finish. So my Dad's favorite rip comes to mind, once again:
SNAFUBAR.
🏆
stolen, not mine, but I'm keeping the trophy
😂 fair
As well you should!
We will now have our tax dollars go to reparations for an illegal, unnecessary war in Iran, while being told we can’t have health care for all here! Children can’t get breakfast in school here! And there are more dead children whose relatives will want revenge for. And toxins have been spewed into the air and ground. It affects us all to some extent. It is time for removal of the monster and the entire administration!! They’ve crossed the red line 10 times now!
Reparations??? You really think that will happen? Rump's never paid for anything in his life. Ask E. Jean Carroll.
It isn’t his personal issue. It will be an international one.
As the President, he speaks for the country, and if he says no? Who will enforce the reparations? Thus far, no international body has held him (or the U.S.) accountable for anything.
If we had had 2 terms with Hillary and 1 with Kamala, we would NEVER be where we are now. You can't convince me other- wise. He is a human wrecking ball.
No. A wrecking ball can be stopped. NOBODY IS COMING TO SAVE US.
If trump wants to keep this winning streak up, he should just give Cuba Ft. Lauderdale now in exchange for a Havana Peace Prize
@swin24.bsky.social
Nah, keep them. Cuba can have Mar-a-Lago and Trump Presidential Library Hotel instead.
haHA!
He would probably prefer Cuba because the newly elected state senator for that district is a Democrat. (And female)
P123Sunny, That sounds about right in comparison.
Why not Miami? It's largely Cuban and sinking fast.
It’s a shame he is too physically unwell to ride along in Artemis. They could’ve dropped him off somewhere out past the moon.
Shoot #Bumblefuck's rancid ass out an airlock (like Sigourney Weaver did in "ALIENS").
😂😂😂
There is really no peace possible in this country and on this earth until TACO Donnie Blunderbutt is gone. The sooner the better.
Hahaha, hey "America First" dummies, how d'ya like the cash Demento Donnie just handed to Iran for ransoming the Strait? MIGA, not MAGA.