His worshippers are Christian Nationalists. Here is Andra Watkins Explaining their End of the World beliefs and how it ties to what Trump and his team will be doing.
Nope. That's not true. Many of the most powerful MAGAts are rich, well educated and ideologically inclined towards the same goals as Trump. What has happened within our culture and history to make Trump and authoritarianism so attractive? Yes, some people were simply low information voters, but that alone was not enough.
I don't have one. I'm no expert at analyzing why people vote and for whom. But simplistic answers are pure garbage, and relying on them prevents us from ever doing the work we need to do, to prevent another Trump from gaining power.
Miss America is never the most beautiful woman in America.
The US president is never the smartest man in America. (And *this* president lost the 2016 election by 3 million votes, lost the 2020 election by more than 7 million votes; and, in 2024, won the election by a plurality--not a majority--of the votes.)
Finally and very, very sadly, the election was decided by people who believe that the American president must be a straight white man who claims (with no evidence) to be a Christian while he displays the character of a petty, greedy, unfaithful, narcissistic, racist, sexual predator who cares nothing for other people, nothing for world peace, nothing other than himself.
The voters who put him into office this time have very short memories. Trump and his excellent team of liars gaslit Americans with lies about the economy he created/trashed (and the vast amount he added to the nation's deficit by cutting taxes for people and corporations that were already holding onto more money than they could ever need or use). He convinced people to overlook his mishandling of Covid and the hundreds of thousands of lies that led to unnecessary deaths. This time, he will be worse.
He and his followers act as if real life and real issues are just a reality show. Just look at the tv clowns and celebrities he is appointing to help ruin the economy and destroy the nation from within.
Not trying to sound misogynistic, but I can't help but wonder: ladies (I use that term advisedly), is there such a shortage of not awful men that you have to worship that lying, sexual assaulting, uncouth, crass, creepy, adultery committing, convict conman ignoramus?
H12thDoc, reading about "I want to bring you joy" Harp, even bringing her printer on golf outings, women who "fall in love" with murderers in prison immediately came to mind. Some marry, even with the murders' life sentences. Harp is, as Jeff said, "creepy stalkerish". There are lots of fine young and older guys, I'm sure. Can anyone name ONE, just ONE, decent quality turd displays? I can't. Harp must be in desperate need of psychological help.
Like the grotesquely obese, increasingly stinky, and multiply divorced, philandering Henry VIII. (Whoa! I just realized that is a perfect description for the orange sadist! Except that h8 was a uxoricide, and o.s. isn't -- at least not so far.)
I read where her NDA was about to expire so she would be free to tell her story. We already know Shitler raped her and ripped out her hair from their divorce deposition. Two of his goons were seen leaving her apartment building the day she died. Her death conveniently got Shitler and spawn out of a deposition because they were so sad. She is quickly cremated and her remains are put into a coffin that TEN men struggled to carry at her funeral. She is buried in a makeshift grave on Shitler's golf course because, tax deduction (even though it is completely overgrown and unrecognizable as a gravesite). One week later the Saudis have their fake golf tournament at the same golf course and shortly after that Jerod is given $2B from the Saudi Prince. So many dots.
Excuse me, Ivana died under mysterious circumstances falling down some stairs. Do you know anyone who has died from falling down stairs? I certainly don't. You get bruised, maybe break something but die? I'm skeptical.
Actually, I almost died from that very thing this summer and ended up in the Trauma ICU for a while. Falls account for 2% of all deaths in the elderly. (In my case, the fall down several stone steps resulted in multiple broken ribs, along with multiple pulmonary emboli. An embolus could have caused death, as could splenic rupture, or lung collapse. I am so fortunate that I came out the other end and am doing fine now.)
Interesting you'd bring Henry up right now, kd. I was watching a program about him two nights ago on PBS, and the comparison with drumpf struck me, too.
They all need professional help, every single member of his creepy base. There aren’t enough ‘helpers’ in the entire country to get them out of the bubble.
Yeah, they all do, for differing reasons. Somehow Harp's obsession as a young, dewy eyed, "Christian" woman is in its own category of stalker-idol worship.
I think it's the Phyllis Shaflay gene theory with many of them. It's not uncommon for women not to recognize their own narcissistic abusers treatment as toxic. And then there are the ones who are defined by their own narcissism. As in Lake, coke head Marge, Melania, Ivanka and the rest. They wave their own misogyny flags. They're sadistic by nature.
I remember Phyllis Schlafly during the Reagan 80s being vehemently against the Equal Rights Amendment. Even back then I wondered, what kind of woman would be against the best interests of her own gender? Answer: a conservative woman.
Alina, yes, so young, turd so old. She could deliver a Diet Coke in a tiny black maid's outfit. Maybe add a little something to bring about his own personal End Time. Is Kari Lake out of the running?
LOL!!! So if we throw jabba the hutt into the mix, along with cannon, what is your bet on who will win? (I think it will be three Evil against one Good, to start with. Then the three Evils will have to fight it out. If it becomes two against one, which two would unite? And then when it comes down to the final two, who will be the Ultimate Winner? My Bets: Wings knocked out in the First Round; jabba in the Second Round; xerox in the Third Round; and THE WINNER IS: LOOPY LOOMER!!! This match will be presented by Linda McMahon. Since the demise of her former Ringmaster, the pedophilic Mel Phillips, is is TBD who will call the match. Get your popcorn ready, folks! This oughta be good .
Somebody needs to reproduce the “Claymation Celebrity Death Match” series to humorously explain the political implications of the sideshow our nation is now being subjected to:
I think the fight would actually be between Harp and Loomer: Good and Evil. I'd enjoy watching that one. I'll bet that Loomer would KO Harp in the first round.
It's more like Evil vs. More Evil. Not one of those supposedly female creatures who cluster around the orange dimwit is truly sane. Hardly any of male creatures who cluster
I guess we can all expect to give up our Maple Syrup, although apparently Trump and Trudeau had a talk after Trump sent out the tweet. Afterwards Trump's Treasury Secretary apparently claimed that the threats were just leverage to get what Trump wants from people. Well, so far not talk with China or Mexico. We shall see. Already the war in Gaza was supposed to end the day after Trump won the election and the War in Ukraine, so are his miracle working powers are rusty or what?
I’d like to think that inflation meant our salaries and bank accounts would automatically get bigger. Maybe even the actual banknotes. That’s the kind of inflation I could stand behind. Now that I’m thinking about it, I’m surprised Trump hasn’t floated that idea. “Inflation is very, very good.”
Of all the things Ill never be able to forgive (and there are many) I will never be able to get past the fact that this life-long lying, cheating, fraudulent, corrupt, grifting, criminal conning, raping, piece of shit will die without ever facing even one fucking consequence.
That infuriates me beyond measure. How the utter fuck does he manage his whole miserable life to find enablers to save his worthless ass? Fuck, even Gotti went to jail.
Trump likely helped put him there Susan… there’s a reason Trump, with his mobbed up money laundering to all the crime families in America and Russia was protected from prosecution!!
Life isn't finished with him yet. Karma is sometimes not a tit for tat payback. And if he dies and never pays the piper, then that's what it is. Some things are out of our control. I'm not wasting my mental time anymore envisioning him in prison or financially ruined. He's a miserable SOB - always has been.
Mussolini was hanged upside down in the town square, where people had the opportunity to beat his lifeless ass, I’d love the same opportunity for Trump!!
There actually is one very heart rending consequence! In his heart, tRump knows that he isn’t truly loved by anyone. Not even liked by anyone. Worship isn’t the same thing as love.
“I want to bring you joy”? JFC Natalie. Hope your checks cash, girlfriend. That’s some first class groveling right there. Sick. Of course she’s blond-he’s definitely got a type 🙄.
“Tariffs can’t be inflationary “. 😂😂😂😂😂😂. Just wait, dummies. Stock up up on peanut butter now before it’s $20 a jar. Imbeciles, all of them.
Does the warped brain dimwit even have a fucking clue that China is the main source of chemicals used to make fentanyl? So it's 25% for products coming from Mexico and Canada but only 10% on goods from China where most of his worthless grift shit is made. Go figure. If diaper boy was that concerned about the fentanyl epidemic, he'd target the real source of the problem but like today's GOP, nothing he proposes helps we the people or makes a damn bit of sense.
He, and the rest of the remnants of the GQP that he has torched, are never trying to actually solve any problems. They just use or manufacture issues to manipulate the gullible.
You think he cares about the rest of us? Not even his MAGA cult fans rate any consideration from him. The only time he give even a mouse-sized shit about any of them or us is when he can hear their applause.
Perhaps when the maggots stop buying his shitty, overpriced + tariffs junk, it will dawn on him that tariffs are hurting his bottom line, not just the pocketbooks of ordinary Americans. But then again, he probably has accountants who only give him good news.
Actually, I saw a documentary recently on Banks and Cartels. Holy fuck nuts, that kept me up a of couple of nights. His drug tariffs are a fucking joke. It's baked in the system. I didn't know Vancouver was the money laundering capital. We're so fucked.
Natalie will have plenty to tell her therapist some day. Her obvious obsession with manly mushrooms. Ok, I had to go there. It was right there.🤣 I couldn't pass it up.
Susan - to console myself, I did some retail therapy. I bought a new iPhone and a new MacBook as I’m sure the prices will be going up. I was planning to do these next year, but then I read, with a tariff, iPhone may go up $300!
Were you able to take advantage of the Black Friday Sale on Amazon? (I bought a Ninja blender + attachments for $310. Fortunately turned out that I didn't need and returned them, because the next day the price was $99 !!! for the BF sale.)
That’s why we need education. Math skills, reading comprehension, science biology and just because someone is rich, doesn’t mean they are intelligent enough to understand how to run the country.
BINGO! Absolutely right, Cynthia. If I were queen, there are so many things I would do...and improving education is right up there. Make America Smart Again!
You're right! I hadn't thought of it that way, but reading "everyone is entitled to my opinion" first thing is actually crucial to my mental well-being. (Not a joke.)
It's funny you wrote that, Susan. I was just thinking the same thing. Well, the part about not feeling so alone. Not the part about being in a camp. (Although if we have to be, I think we'd all do well together so long as if Jeff is our Chief. This topic came up yesterday, as a matter of fact, and one of our co-readers said that s/he had terrible memories of going to camp as a child and definitely didn't want to go to camp again.)
Yes, we would -- so long as torture were not involved. I don't say that as an "amusing"/sick comment. It is actually a terror of mine, since childhood. (Reincarnation from Nazi concentration camp? Sometimes, I wonder.)
"So there’s your Trump Administration, folks. traitors writing foreign policy, racists writing immigration policy, thieves writing economic policy, polluters writing environmental policy, ignoramuses writing science policy, illiterates writing education policy and criminals writing justice policy — and now we can add to the mix some head-over-heels cultist who has made it her life’s work to fill Dear Leader’s heart with joy."
As you saw, I highlighted it because those words summarized exactly what will happen under the orange sadist. Jeff often has profound observations which I make an effort to highlight in a post. It's so easy to read through his marvelous columns, laughing, and lose focus on his pithy statements.
We're still America, Love. This wonderful idea we call the US of A may get tarnished, sullied, and shat upon by T💩p and his minions, but it will survive.
No worries: This Canadian isn't going to be pouring over the US border anytime soon. I'll wait until Americans have regained some semblance of sanity down there, whenever that may be. (Too bad, because some of your national parks were on my bucket list, but, eh.)
Speaking of "pouring over", wasn't Trump going to open up that giant faucet somewhere along Canada's border with Washington State and deliver lots of water down to California? Maybe he'll work out a deal not to impose tariffs if Canada opens the faucet a few months per year. And can some of us still visit Canada's National Parks if we promise to behave ourselves and not overstay our welcome?
Actually we have them. Mt. Charleston is right behind my house. 12,000 feet. Has ski/snowboard resort. Is a wildfire risk every summer. They had one wildfire that the smoke covered Vegas. They have 10 feet of snow every winter. It's not all desert with no water here. Lol.
No reason left to ever make a trip south of your border--trust me. Even our National Parks have been so overrun with morons that you wouldn't want to go there. What a pity that we have managed to ruin everything.
I went to Kauai , Hawaii with my 80 yr old mother last Christmas (2023) and it was so crowded with morons from the mainland, 90% all MAGA- it was sickening.. she thinks that is all normal , didn't bother her a bit. I was quietly miserable...and what a shame because that was my first trip, ever to the Aloha state.
A trip to Hawaii was the dream of all Americans back in the 1950's. (I remember, because our next-door-neighbors in our 1950's subdivision went, and ALL of the women were mad with jealousy!) Since the maggots want to Make America 1950's Again, it makes sense that they all want to go to Hawaii.
Ditto. I’ll be watching and reading from this side of the border and go back to my resolve when the orange moron was first elected to stop purchasing American goods if he stand by his tariff threat. Not even wine. He doesn’t have to try very hard for most of us to despise him and his clown show, it was done on election night.
If it weren't for the fact that I need to visit my elderly father in Pennsyltucky and that the next Star Trek cruise is based out of Miami, I'd be boycotting the place, and it's my fucking homeland. Ugh.
After visiting my daughter in Ottawa when she was at university there, I planned to move to Canada for good. When I was finally able to do so--I was too old. Listen up, people! You have to go before you've retired. As a civilized country with universal health care they understandably do not want a horde of people from the U.S. streaming over the border to suck up all the free health care they never paid into. Go, NOW. Canada is more like what I always thought the U.S. was supposed to be. Regret that it is too late for me.
What a nice comment. Thank you even though sometimes I feel like moving to Ireland or France. My French grandkids who were born in Ottawa say that France isn’t what it’s cracked up to be although i love visiting it. I guess I’ll just stay here and hope that this will be last term for the orange bully, although I think I may be dreaming in color.
We think alike. I received my Irish citizenship papers and passport just this year! If I hadn't moved as far north as I could get last summer--Michigan's U.P.--I would be on my way to Ireland for sure. Shall we go together?
The same holds true for many countries Linda, filing for dual citizenship can be tricky, however there are literally a number of sublime parts of this blue spinning stone, that have affordable healthcare and are incredibly inexpensive to hang your hat!
Canadians should have lots of worries, including loss of trade income if Dumpty's idiot tariffs actually become real, and other bullshit lunacy such as ridiculous requirements to enter the US (y'all are terrorists, in case not aware).
Dumpty's disasters will spread far and wide, from the way it's shaping up. I'd store up the smug for another time.
The emperor has no clothes and Natalie Harp is there to tell him how wonderful he looks in his new suit made of fine threads of gold. A barf bag won't do it for me, I need a three gallon bucket!
And boy, was your dad correct -- we do have a shit-ton of laws but very little justice. With Trump, there is NO justice served. He absolutely could shoot a gun on 5th Avenue and nothing would happen. If I were religious, I'd swear he has made a pact with the devil. It's incredible how he mezmerizes his followers and defies consistent efforts to derail and squelch him. Trump truly is the quintessential cockroach that keeps evolving to avoid death by pesticide!
Up until Jan. 20, he has to pay for Natalie's adulation from his campaign's money. Starting January 20, all of us taxpayers will be paying for her "services." Another barf bag, please.
We talk about how some men are dogs, but what about the women that enable them? There is no amount of money that would make me slobber all over a pig like him.
As one who sees the majority of dogs as vastly superior to the majority of MAGA males, I must ask you to kindly refrain from any comparison of "those men" to dogs. Thank you very much.
If you dare, read the reference highlighted in the post. If not, the short version is she got into a trial for a drug and was given a huge amount which apparently helped symptoms. She gave him credit for reasons I didn't get.
"I'd swear he has made a pact with the devil." I'd never looked at it that way before. But as a person who knows that there are many things beyond our conscious "knowing", I get the chills thinking that you are on to something. (No kidding.)
We can already answer that. He has mental issues. Don't expect him to act in a normal, rational manner. If you've ever tried to figure out why an addict acts like they do, you'll know what I mean.
When Shitler first wormed his way into the WH he had to be fed good news articles about himself TWICE a day as I recall. They are going to name a new mental illness after him.
Yes, Trump's economic policies are going to be disastrous, but here's what really annoys me. Donny coasted for two years on the carry-over from the Obama economy, then mismanaged the pandemic and just about everything else and handed the whole fetid mess over to Joe Biden. Biden did a wonderful repair job and the Fed got inflation down to something reasonable. Now
Trump is going to enjoy the fruits of Biden's labors and brag about he made the economy great again--no acknowledgement off Biden's key role in all this. And of course the economic illiterates who voted for him won't have a clue. Irritating.
Possibly. All he needed was to get trump into the White House again and all of the other flying monkeys he dragged with him can do Putin's bidding—they're mostly younger, smarter, and power-hungry and will carry out Putin's will with or without trump.
AR-15, Nine mil, machete, noose, rattlesnake, golf course alligator, poisoned diet coke or big mac, wayward golf ball to the temple, Tsunami over Mara-Lardo...not picky either.
Just reading the headline about keeping rump "stupid and happy"--I doubt he is ever genuinely happy. And he's definitely ALWAYS going to be stupid.
Ha. If he's so stupid, how is he the president elect instead of Kamala Harris?
Easy! His worshippers are stupid.
His worshippers are Christian Nationalists. Here is Andra Watkins Explaining their End of the World beliefs and how it ties to what Trump and his team will be doing.
Part 1 https://open.substack.com/pub/andrawatkins/p/christian-nationalists-and-the-end?r=f0qfn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Part 2 https://open.substack.com/pub/andrawatkins/p/christian-nationalists-and-the-end-8b7?r=f0qfn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Part 3 https://open.substack.com/pub/andrawatkins/p/christian-nationalists-and-the-end-5c7?r=f0qfn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Nope. That's not true. Many of the most powerful MAGAts are rich, well educated and ideologically inclined towards the same goals as Trump. What has happened within our culture and history to make Trump and authoritarianism so attractive? Yes, some people were simply low information voters, but that alone was not enough.
So, what is your theory?
I don't have one. I'm no expert at analyzing why people vote and for whom. But simplistic answers are pure garbage, and relying on them prevents us from ever doing the work we need to do, to prevent another Trump from gaining power.
I'm going with the Christian Nationalist theory above. It makes the most sense, even as sickening as it is. Thank you Linda Weide.
Miss America is never the most beautiful woman in America.
The US president is never the smartest man in America. (And *this* president lost the 2016 election by 3 million votes, lost the 2020 election by more than 7 million votes; and, in 2024, won the election by a plurality--not a majority--of the votes.)
Finally and very, very sadly, the election was decided by people who believe that the American president must be a straight white man who claims (with no evidence) to be a Christian while he displays the character of a petty, greedy, unfaithful, narcissistic, racist, sexual predator who cares nothing for other people, nothing for world peace, nothing other than himself.
The voters who put him into office this time have very short memories. Trump and his excellent team of liars gaslit Americans with lies about the economy he created/trashed (and the vast amount he added to the nation's deficit by cutting taxes for people and corporations that were already holding onto more money than they could ever need or use). He convinced people to overlook his mishandling of Covid and the hundreds of thousands of lies that led to unnecessary deaths. This time, he will be worse.
He and his followers act as if real life and real issues are just a reality show. Just look at the tv clowns and celebrities he is appointing to help ruin the economy and destroy the nation from within.
He lies and is not credible. Criminal mind.
He got smart people to rig the election.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-151721941
1. Will there be a cage fight between Harp and Cannon over who gets to be the next Mrs. Orange Fuckwit? Pay-per-view please
2. How does inflation work? If you need a visual: Write “prices” on a helium balloon and let it go.
I think Alina Habba will enter that arena too, she of the "nice kidneys"
Not trying to sound misogynistic, but I can't help but wonder: ladies (I use that term advisedly), is there such a shortage of not awful men that you have to worship that lying, sexual assaulting, uncouth, crass, creepy, adultery committing, convict conman ignoramus?
Well done Doc - but it’s the money… I have more respect for sex workers who are out there at least acknowledging what it is they do for the money.
Totally!
Amen.
H12thDoc, reading about "I want to bring you joy" Harp, even bringing her printer on golf outings, women who "fall in love" with murderers in prison immediately came to mind. Some marry, even with the murders' life sentences. Harp is, as Jeff said, "creepy stalkerish". There are lots of fine young and older guys, I'm sure. Can anyone name ONE, just ONE, decent quality turd displays? I can't. Harp must be in desperate need of psychological help.
1.) He is mortal. and will die.
That’s worth celebrating.
I think proximity to power, money, fame is a big driver. Throughout history powerful men who were abhorrent have attracted a certain class of women.
Same as it ever was.
Like the grotesquely obese, increasingly stinky, and multiply divorced, philandering Henry VIII. (Whoa! I just realized that is a perfect description for the orange sadist! Except that h8 was a uxoricide, and o.s. isn't -- at least not so far.)
There are theories about what happened to Ivana...
I read where her NDA was about to expire so she would be free to tell her story. We already know Shitler raped her and ripped out her hair from their divorce deposition. Two of his goons were seen leaving her apartment building the day she died. Her death conveniently got Shitler and spawn out of a deposition because they were so sad. She is quickly cremated and her remains are put into a coffin that TEN men struggled to carry at her funeral. She is buried in a makeshift grave on Shitler's golf course because, tax deduction (even though it is completely overgrown and unrecognizable as a gravesite). One week later the Saudis have their fake golf tournament at the same golf course and shortly after that Jerod is given $2B from the Saudi Prince. So many dots.
Oh, my gosh!!! You're right!!!
uxoricide...A great new word for me. Thanks! Did not know this one. (I'm such nerd.)
If you were a REAL nerd, you've have known it! LOL!
Here’s the converse word - mariticide. Y’all run with it!!!!
Excuse me, Ivana died under mysterious circumstances falling down some stairs. Do you know anyone who has died from falling down stairs? I certainly don't. You get bruised, maybe break something but die? I'm skeptical.
Actually, I almost died from that very thing this summer and ended up in the Trauma ICU for a while. Falls account for 2% of all deaths in the elderly. (In my case, the fall down several stone steps resulted in multiple broken ribs, along with multiple pulmonary emboli. An embolus could have caused death, as could splenic rupture, or lung collapse. I am so fortunate that I came out the other end and am doing fine now.)
Possible, if you suffered a broken neck.
Amy Robsart, Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester's wife during Elizabeth I's reign, comes to mind. Same circumstances.
Interesting you'd bring Henry up right now, kd. I was watching a program about him two nights ago on PBS, and the comparison with drumpf struck me, too.
Irrefutably true. But her devotion is orders of magnitude nuttier and harder to understand
When Harp said: You are all that matters to me". I seriously felt ill. WTAF???
Maybe she wants a Daddy figure.
Gross! 😂😂
Me too, over the top!
Yeah! 🤮🤮🤮🤮
A lot of women do not have any self-esteem.
That's a very good question. Let's go to Harp for her answer, first.
Like Jeff said, Harp has a weird stalker kind of obsession with him. Eww. She needs professional help
They all need professional help, every single member of his creepy base. There aren’t enough ‘helpers’ in the entire country to get them out of the bubble.
Yeah, they all do, for differing reasons. Somehow Harp's obsession as a young, dewy eyed, "Christian" woman is in its own category of stalker-idol worship.
I think it's the Phyllis Shaflay gene theory with many of them. It's not uncommon for women not to recognize their own narcissistic abusers treatment as toxic. And then there are the ones who are defined by their own narcissism. As in Lake, coke head Marge, Melania, Ivanka and the rest. They wave their own misogyny flags. They're sadistic by nature.
I remember Phyllis Schlafly during the Reagan 80s being vehemently against the Equal Rights Amendment. Even back then I wondered, what kind of woman would be against the best interests of her own gender? Answer: a conservative woman.
Not sure where shaflay fits in here, but the rest of your analysis is right on target.
Schafly.
News flash. Women can be crazy too.
He's rich.
It could be the “prestige” of working in the White House/Trump administration.
Hurt me daddy I've been real bad.
Henry Kissinger said it the best: "Power is the best aphrodisiac."
Who are you calling a lady? My mom is dead, so....
Alina, yes, so young, turd so old. She could deliver a Diet Coke in a tiny black maid's outfit. Maybe add a little something to bring about his own personal End Time. Is Kari Lake out of the running?
LOL!!! So if we throw jabba the hutt into the mix, along with cannon, what is your bet on who will win? (I think it will be three Evil against one Good, to start with. Then the three Evils will have to fight it out. If it becomes two against one, which two would unite? And then when it comes down to the final two, who will be the Ultimate Winner? My Bets: Wings knocked out in the First Round; jabba in the Second Round; xerox in the Third Round; and THE WINNER IS: LOOPY LOOMER!!! This match will be presented by Linda McMahon. Since the demise of her former Ringmaster, the pedophilic Mel Phillips, is is TBD who will call the match. Get your popcorn ready, folks! This oughta be good .
Somebody needs to reproduce the “Claymation Celebrity Death Match” series to humorously explain the political implications of the sideshow our nation is now being subjected to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Celebrity_Deathmatch_episodes?wprov=sfti1#
Brilliant suggestion! Anybody listening?
I think the fight would actually be between Harp and Loomer: Good and Evil. I'd enjoy watching that one. I'll bet that Loomer would KO Harp in the first round.
It's more like Evil vs. More Evil. Not one of those supposedly female creatures who cluster around the orange dimwit is truly sane. Hardly any of male creatures who cluster
about the orange anus are truly sane, either.
Good point. I only called Wings "good" because she thinks she is.
great description of inflation!!!
Absofuckinglutely Tess!!
Maybe he will bring polygamy back.
But only with multiples of prenuptials.
And NDA's
I don't think polygamy ever left! lol
I don’t know about that, Kay-El. Your explanation smacks of science (e.g., balloons, helium), and we can’t have that.
Right. Just shut that sciency stuff right down.
I would like to think is common sense, but that ship has sailed as well
I think Sporky wouldn't mind entering that contest as well.
GREAT idea! And you know what? I think she would probably be the last one standing.
We should ask the magic cordless printer....
My magic 8 ball would like to fight the cordless printer.
Reply Hazy, Ask Again Later
😆
FOTF!!!!!
I guess we can all expect to give up our Maple Syrup, although apparently Trump and Trudeau had a talk after Trump sent out the tweet. Afterwards Trump's Treasury Secretary apparently claimed that the threats were just leverage to get what Trump wants from people. Well, so far not talk with China or Mexico. We shall see. Already the war in Gaza was supposed to end the day after Trump won the election and the War in Ukraine, so are his miracle working powers are rusty or what?
Never will I do fake maple syrup. I’m trading getting the real stuff by making my own laundry detergent, which I’ve done before when times were tough.
I'm with you.
I’d like to think that inflation meant our salaries and bank accounts would automatically get bigger. Maybe even the actual banknotes. That’s the kind of inflation I could stand behind. Now that I’m thinking about it, I’m surprised Trump hasn’t floated that idea. “Inflation is very, very good.”
Kari Lake has been auditioning for Mrs. Fuckwit for some time.
She's too old and not blonde. He likes 'em young.
Good one and that balloon is headed straight for the stratosphere.
I guess inflation means you get to spend more on what you really want or substitute stuff that you never really wanted.
More on what you really want and the cheaper shit for things that don’t matter as much
Thanks for bringing a smile to my face Kay-EI!!
The ultimate cage fight model was Claymation’s Celebrity Death Match TV series that ran for about 5 years starting in the mid-90s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Celebrity_Deathmatch_episodes?wprov=sfti1#
Love it 😀 😍 ❤️
Of all the things Ill never be able to forgive (and there are many) I will never be able to get past the fact that this life-long lying, cheating, fraudulent, corrupt, grifting, criminal conning, raping, piece of shit will die without ever facing even one fucking consequence.
That infuriates me beyond measure. How the utter fuck does he manage his whole miserable life to find enablers to save his worthless ass? Fuck, even Gotti went to jail.
I just don't understand why so many people grovel for Stinky's approval.
Trump likely helped put him there Susan… there’s a reason Trump, with his mobbed up money laundering to all the crime families in America and Russia was protected from prosecution!!
One hundred percent, Patrick.
YES!!!!!
Life isn't finished with him yet. Karma is sometimes not a tit for tat payback. And if he dies and never pays the piper, then that's what it is. Some things are out of our control. I'm not wasting my mental time anymore envisioning him in prison or financially ruined. He's a miserable SOB - always has been.
You are right and the grim reaper will catch up with him sooner rather than later.
He will walk into hell with the devil, hand in hand, in fact he might even take over down there.
A reliable source tells me Old Scratch doesn't want him there because of T💩p's lack of morals.
Even Beelzebub don't wanna be shown up
LOL!!!
The positive thing is that my determination to outlive him has increased a thousand fold.
It’s definitely a good reason to start eating a healthy diet.
He’s Satan’s Whore!
Pol Pot died in his sleep awaiting trial. Milosevic died before sentencing.
Mussolini was hanged upside down in the town square, where people had the opportunity to beat his lifeless ass, I’d love the same opportunity for Trump!!
I’d but tickers to see that bloated, orange sociopath being used as a human piñata.
Oh, I would travel five thousand miles to see that.
This
And Hitler killed himself; something Shitler would never do unless it's by KFC and McD's. Cholesterol may be our only hope.
Exactly Deborah, seeing his treacherous diapered ass behind bars would have felt like justice served though!!
It proves a point, there is no justice for those in power. None.
I can’t imagine anyone here, doesn’t share your thoughts Stephanie!!
Completely agree...it sickens me. Like everyone says, "if it was anyone else...." 🤦♀️
There’s a good chance that Officer Alzheimer’s will arrest his ponderous ass for which no Supreme Court will be able to nullify the charges.
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There actually is one very heart rending consequence! In his heart, tRump knows that he isn’t truly loved by anyone. Not even liked by anyone. Worship isn’t the same thing as love.
I believe the sentencing for the 34 guilty counts in the New York case was put on hold until after his presidency.
Yep shee, but just wait till he gets impeached again, or gets yeated out because his mental acuity is a danger to the country!!
And the we get Vance.
Well, when he is martyred they can worship his golden idol forever. I believe that's the plan.
Perhaps they’ll read a book or see a film about his lifetime of criminal activity, and piss on his grave as I will Arne!!
They won't. It's all lies to demonize him because he was too great for us.
I live to see the day.
“I want to bring you joy”? JFC Natalie. Hope your checks cash, girlfriend. That’s some first class groveling right there. Sick. Of course she’s blond-he’s definitely got a type 🙄.
“Tariffs can’t be inflationary “. 😂😂😂😂😂😂. Just wait, dummies. Stock up up on peanut butter now before it’s $20 a jar. Imbeciles, all of them.
Does the warped brain dimwit even have a fucking clue that China is the main source of chemicals used to make fentanyl? So it's 25% for products coming from Mexico and Canada but only 10% on goods from China where most of his worthless grift shit is made. Go figure. If diaper boy was that concerned about the fentanyl epidemic, he'd target the real source of the problem but like today's GOP, nothing he proposes helps we the people or makes a damn bit of sense.
He, and the rest of the remnants of the GQP that he has torched, are never trying to actually solve any problems. They just use or manufacture issues to manipulate the gullible.
And try and get more tax loopholes for the rich and reverse laws that actually help people.
You think he cares about the rest of us? Not even his MAGA cult fans rate any consideration from him. The only time he give even a mouse-sized shit about any of them or us is when he can hear their applause.
Or when they're buying his shit and sending him money.
Perhaps when the maggots stop buying his shitty, overpriced + tariffs junk, it will dawn on him that tariffs are hurting his bottom line, not just the pocketbooks of ordinary Americans. But then again, he probably has accountants who only give him good news.
Mouse sized shit, brilliant!
I think he said an additional 10% for china
Where his bibles and other shill crap comes from
He did
Right.
Actually, I saw a documentary recently on Banks and Cartels. Holy fuck nuts, that kept me up a of couple of nights. His drug tariffs are a fucking joke. It's baked in the system. I didn't know Vancouver was the money laundering capital. We're so fucked.
what was the name of the documentary. Would love to check it out. Thanks.
It's on Prime. I just checked on my phone.
It's called: Mafia and Banks. It's a 3 part series. It's on Prime or Netflix. I would love to hear your thoughts on it.
Holy shit. The guy who is nominated to be Treasury Secretary doesn't know the definition of inflation. WTF.
There is a fantastic chance that he's l-y-i-n-g.
Or Linda, no I don’t have a degree in teaching, however I can head up the department of education.
That's some first class hooker behavior. Let's call it what it is.
Gotta be...It's just gross.
Barf bag indeed!
LDFF in bed with sone woman half his age, gives me flashbacks of Jabba the Hutt and Carie Fisher.
OY!
Natalie will have plenty to tell her therapist some day. Her obvious obsession with manly mushrooms. Ok, I had to go there. It was right there.🤣 I couldn't pass it up.
LOL!!!
Preach it! Amen.
Susan - to console myself, I did some retail therapy. I bought a new iPhone and a new MacBook as I’m sure the prices will be going up. I was planning to do these next year, but then I read, with a tariff, iPhone may go up $300!
Were you able to take advantage of the Black Friday Sale on Amazon? (I bought a Ninja blender + attachments for $310. Fortunately turned out that I didn't need and returned them, because the next day the price was $99 !!! for the BF sale.)
No, Amazon does not sell Apple products
I didn't know that. Maybe Apple will have a sale? (Have they ever had a sale?)
Extremely rare and then it usually is not what you are looking for.
Right On Susan !!
That’s why we need education. Math skills, reading comprehension, science biology and just because someone is rich, doesn’t mean they are intelligent enough to understand how to run the country.
BINGO! Absolutely right, Cynthia. If I were queen, there are so many things I would do...and improving education is right up there. Make America Smart Again!
Part of self care is reading your essays.
You're right! I hadn't thought of it that way, but reading "everyone is entitled to my opinion" first thing is actually crucial to my mental well-being. (Not a joke.)
Same here. I eagerly await Jeff's blog each day.
It truly is...I dont feel so alone. What great community. Maybe we'll all be in the same camp together...
I have grown fond of so many commentors here, including you, Susan.
Same here Mary! 💙✌️
I'm the guy who will liberate all of you.
Yay! Charlie to the rescue! 👏👏👏
It's funny you wrote that, Susan. I was just thinking the same thing. Well, the part about not feeling so alone. Not the part about being in a camp. (Although if we have to be, I think we'd all do well together so long as if Jeff is our Chief. This topic came up yesterday, as a matter of fact, and one of our co-readers said that s/he had terrible memories of going to camp as a child and definitely didn't want to go to camp again.)
If this community is together I have no doubt we’d make it. Funny, smart people I learn from every day. ✌️
Yes, we would -- so long as torture were not involved. I don't say that as an "amusing"/sick comment. It is actually a terror of mine, since childhood. (Reincarnation from Nazi concentration camp? Sometimes, I wonder.)
😳😳😳
Exactly Susan
"So there’s your Trump Administration, folks. traitors writing foreign policy, racists writing immigration policy, thieves writing economic policy, polluters writing environmental policy, ignoramuses writing science policy, illiterates writing education policy and criminals writing justice policy — and now we can add to the mix some head-over-heels cultist who has made it her life’s work to fill Dear Leader’s heart with joy."
Brilliant and accurate.
Well dug rant!! KD’s!!
Jeff hits MULTIPLE home runs EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. He's brilliant!
I copied that !!
(Those are Jeff's words, not mine.)
I know but it’s just what I highlighted to save in my notes
As you saw, I highlighted it because those words summarized exactly what will happen under the orange sadist. Jeff often has profound observations which I make an effort to highlight in a post. It's so easy to read through his marvelous columns, laughing, and lose focus on his pithy statements.
I remember that election Jeff. What a bunch of crap that was. Your dad was spot on.
I remember. And your dad certainly called it!
“we have a lot of laws in this country, but very little justice.”
Your father sounds like he is wise. You’re lucky, my father never said a wise thing. 🤪
LOL!
My husband, a lawyer (and he was seriously, an honest lawyer) phrased it slightly more colloquially: "There's lots of law but damn' little justice."
<<wistfully, and punctuated by a slowly falling tear>>
Once upon a time, we were AMERICA ...
We're still America, Love. This wonderful idea we call the US of A may get tarnished, sullied, and shat upon by T💩p and his minions, but it will survive.
I hope you're right, Derek, I sincerely hope you're right.
Love how you indicate "T💩p." 👍👍👍
No worries: This Canadian isn't going to be pouring over the US border anytime soon. I'll wait until Americans have regained some semblance of sanity down there, whenever that may be. (Too bad, because some of your national parks were on my bucket list, but, eh.)
Best go visit them now before they become oil fields and lumber yards.
This.
🥲🤬
True dat Lois!!
Thank you for your service. Cali will secede. We're 51 percent Hispanic, I believe. Possibly more.
I still like the Cascadia approach. WA, OR, CA and BC. BC if they lose their election. Plus we need that water faucet.
As the fifth largest economy in the world, California could do it. Bye-bye, maggots!
((( )))
Speaking of "pouring over", wasn't Trump going to open up that giant faucet somewhere along Canada's border with Washington State and deliver lots of water down to California? Maybe he'll work out a deal not to impose tariffs if Canada opens the faucet a few months per year. And can some of us still visit Canada's National Parks if we promise to behave ourselves and not overstay our welcome?
I live in Vegas. Waiting for Canadian water to fill Lake Mead. I bought a rake to rake our forests here so we won't have any wildfires.
*** BEST COMMENT OF THE WEEK ***
FOTF!!!
Love visiting those Vegas forests.
Actually we have them. Mt. Charleston is right behind my house. 12,000 feet. Has ski/snowboard resort. Is a wildfire risk every summer. They had one wildfire that the smoke covered Vegas. They have 10 feet of snow every winter. It's not all desert with no water here. Lol.
Deborah, my memory is so bad, I don't even remember mountains near you. Sorry for the ignorant comment.
California went blue, so no deal with Canada to turn the giant faucet on. To the contrary, Canadian water will be subject to a larger tariff.
LOL! Yes, that is a kind of "pouring over", isn't it!
No reason left to ever make a trip south of your border--trust me. Even our National Parks have been so overrun with morons that you wouldn't want to go there. What a pity that we have managed to ruin everything.
I went to Kauai , Hawaii with my 80 yr old mother last Christmas (2023) and it was so crowded with morons from the mainland, 90% all MAGA- it was sickening.. she thinks that is all normal , didn't bother her a bit. I was quietly miserable...and what a shame because that was my first trip, ever to the Aloha state.
A trip to Hawaii was the dream of all Americans back in the 1950's. (I remember, because our next-door-neighbors in our 1950's subdivision went, and ALL of the women were mad with jealousy!) Since the maggots want to Make America 1950's Again, it makes sense that they all want to go to Hawaii.
We have just spent 8 days in Honolulu and no MAGAS
I think that's where I'll go next and by myself
So you’re saying you were a howlie, hanging with other MAGA howlies James, sorry about that!!
I have no idea what you're getting at with that
Ditto. I’ll be watching and reading from this side of the border and go back to my resolve when the orange moron was first elected to stop purchasing American goods if he stand by his tariff threat. Not even wine. He doesn’t have to try very hard for most of us to despise him and his clown show, it was done on election night.
If it weren't for the fact that I need to visit my elderly father in Pennsyltucky and that the next Star Trek cruise is based out of Miami, I'd be boycotting the place, and it's my fucking homeland. Ugh.
After visiting my daughter in Ottawa when she was at university there, I planned to move to Canada for good. When I was finally able to do so--I was too old. Listen up, people! You have to go before you've retired. As a civilized country with universal health care they understandably do not want a horde of people from the U.S. streaming over the border to suck up all the free health care they never paid into. Go, NOW. Canada is more like what I always thought the U.S. was supposed to be. Regret that it is too late for me.
What a nice comment. Thank you even though sometimes I feel like moving to Ireland or France. My French grandkids who were born in Ottawa say that France isn’t what it’s cracked up to be although i love visiting it. I guess I’ll just stay here and hope that this will be last term for the orange bully, although I think I may be dreaming in color.
We think alike. I received my Irish citizenship papers and passport just this year! If I hadn't moved as far north as I could get last summer--Michigan's U.P.--I would be on my way to Ireland for sure. Shall we go together?
The same holds true for many countries Linda, filing for dual citizenship can be tricky, however there are literally a number of sublime parts of this blue spinning stone, that have affordable healthcare and are incredibly inexpensive to hang your hat!
There are a lot of Snowbirds where I live. I wonder if they will sell their homes here in the United States of Dystopia?
Canadians should have lots of worries, including loss of trade income if Dumpty's idiot tariffs actually become real, and other bullshit lunacy such as ridiculous requirements to enter the US (y'all are terrorists, in case not aware).
Dumpty's disasters will spread far and wide, from the way it's shaping up. I'd store up the smug for another time.
The emperor has no clothes and Natalie Harp is there to tell him how wonderful he looks in his new suit made of fine threads of gold. A barf bag won't do it for me, I need a three gallon bucket!
And boy, was your dad correct -- we do have a shit-ton of laws but very little justice. With Trump, there is NO justice served. He absolutely could shoot a gun on 5th Avenue and nothing would happen. If I were religious, I'd swear he has made a pact with the devil. It's incredible how he mezmerizes his followers and defies consistent efforts to derail and squelch him. Trump truly is the quintessential cockroach that keeps evolving to avoid death by pesticide!
He’s the Antichrist, for lack of a better description. Pure undistilled evil in human form. Well, sort-of human form.
Up until Jan. 20, he has to pay for Natalie's adulation from his campaign's money. Starting January 20, all of us taxpayers will be paying for her "services." Another barf bag, please.
We talk about how some men are dogs, but what about the women that enable them? There is no amount of money that would make me slobber all over a pig like him.
As one who sees the majority of dogs as vastly superior to the majority of MAGA males, I must ask you to kindly refrain from any comparison of "those men" to dogs. Thank you very much.
Touche. I have 4 wonderful dogs. I apologize to dogs everywhere.
Oh their behalf (behalves?), I accept your apology.
I want the story on how dt cured harpies cancer? Is this a myth or misinformation or what?
If you dare, read the reference highlighted in the post. If not, the short version is she got into a trial for a drug and was given a huge amount which apparently helped symptoms. She gave him credit for reasons I didn't get.
"I'd swear he has made a pact with the devil." I'd never looked at it that way before. But as a person who knows that there are many things beyond our conscious "knowing", I get the chills thinking that you are on to something. (No kidding.)
The shoe fits.
I go with the 'ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑢𝑏𝑏𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡 𝑎 𝑡𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑦 𝑔𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑙𝑎𝑚𝑝 𝑖𝑛 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑝 𝑇𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑎𝑣𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑚 1 𝑤𝑖𝑠ℎ, 𝑠𝑜 ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑑 '𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠' 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 '𝐷𝑜𝑛𝑒!' 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑝 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑛 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑐𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑚𝑚𝑖𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑡' story
Marvelous!
Perfect.
"how fucking broken-inside do you have to be to require that kind of constant positive affirmation?"
We can already answer that. He has mental issues. Don't expect him to act in a normal, rational manner. If you've ever tried to figure out why an addict acts like they do, you'll know what I mean.
If only that question were unnecessary...
When Shitler first wormed his way into the WH he had to be fed good news articles about himself TWICE a day as I recall. They are going to name a new mental illness after him.
Typhoid Trump.
Good one!
WOW!! But the President's Daily Brief? NOT daily -- if at all.
Sorry-I’m gonna need more than one barf bag after reading this!🤢
I hope they're not made in "Chi-nah".
Will the NYT or the WaPo become the American Pravda? They are busily elbowing each other out of the way.
Imagine this being your job. She could have chosen something so much more ethical. Like running a puppy mill.
A hooker selling fentanyl would be a more pleasurable job than dealing with him.
Splendid!
Thanks for bringing pause to today’s reading Allison!!
LOL!!!
😂😂
Yes, Trump's economic policies are going to be disastrous, but here's what really annoys me. Donny coasted for two years on the carry-over from the Obama economy, then mismanaged the pandemic and just about everything else and handed the whole fetid mess over to Joe Biden. Biden did a wonderful repair job and the Fed got inflation down to something reasonable. Now
Trump is going to enjoy the fruits of Biden's labors and brag about he made the economy great again--no acknowledgement off Biden's key role in all this. And of course the economic illiterates who voted for him won't have a clue. Irritating.
But We The Sane People absolutely Know who to thank. President Joe!!
Anyone else hoping for an "October surprise" that takes place anytime between now and Jan 20? Karma, cholesterol, Covid...I'm not picky.
...polonium, fourth-floor window/balcony...I'm not very picky, either.
Is Putin done with him? IDK.
Possibly. All he needed was to get trump into the White House again and all of the other flying monkeys he dragged with him can do Putin's bidding—they're mostly younger, smarter, and power-hungry and will carry out Putin's will with or without trump.
Hoping...for any miracle. 🤞
AR-15, Nine mil, machete, noose, rattlesnake, golf course alligator, poisoned diet coke or big mac, wayward golf ball to the temple, Tsunami over Mara-Lardo...not picky either.