it's such a firehose of news these days that I didn't even have time to get to the new Gaetz and Hegseth allegations, or the Big Dick Toilet Salesman being appointed Ambassador to NATO, or Sporky's meltdown over the Gaetz report, or —
No shit! Fuck Mace, Morning fucking Joe/Mika, Mike Johnson and stupid ass trump with another gimmick…jesus f***ing christ….where the hell are we????????
Mine is my paternal grandmother's "Jesus H. Christ"! She was an inveterate curser, especially when she was behind the wheel of her car. I can hear her now, screaming at a driver she thought had made a particularly bad move. "You stupid son of a bitch", she'd yell out her window, "You oughtn't be allowed to drive!"
It was a blessing not many people carried guns in those days.
The best way to use "Fuck" is sparingly. Then it has a certain shock value. It seems on some social forums, it's the assholes on the right who fill their brainless posts with curses when they have no reply
WWII joke: an officer is driving along and sees a soldier kicking his broken-down Jeep by the side of the road. He stops and asks "What seems to be the problem, soldier?"
Don’t be. That seems to be most of my vocabulary these days and I’d love company. All the craptastics are flying out of Dumbfuckistan so we have to be ready for the onslaught and I’m nowhere out of fucks.
I was once behind a truck that had around 40 bumper stickers all over the tailgate. Every one had the word fuck or some variation thereof. My favorite was "Practice safe sex. Go fuck yourself!"
Buckle. up bitches, it's going to be a firehose news day for at least the next 4 years if we make it that long. The orange one CRAVES seeing his name everywhere
Meanwhile, our attention is directed away from the dismantling of our system of government and the Constitution. The flood of garbage is a strategy.
A strategy for dismantling the economy. Before 1913, there was no federal income tax and government was paid for mostly by tariffs. Now we will pay federal income tax, and Trump’s tariffs will be the same as a federal sales tax. But the extra money will fund tax cuts for the wealthy, won’t it? Trade wars? Who cares about those? Inflation? Who cares. . Um, maybe the people who googled What are tariffs? After they voted.
If his coterie read a single book, there are many written about Trump’s history. Used their eyes, or fingers in a search, instead of trusting ignorance to find truth. Knowing exactly where this mobbed up wastrel came from, instead of staring blindly at a fictitious reality TV show. They might have recognized the con Susan! Alas, I digress…
He’s so much more than that, Patrick. He invented his style of dividing and creating outrage and hate among us, drawing in many, many millions of people. He’s the main wrecking ball on whose coattails the PTB ride. But he is limited by not having inherited the legacy of Love. He feels a sense of love only from a united, hate filled mob at his rallies. He gets his sense of power from getting his people to act simply by dropping hint or innuendo. Something changed in him the moment he watched the insurrection, that he created, on the monitor in his dining room. He wast rapt, believing the hate on the screen was love for him. And oh! the power!
He revolts many more millions who HAVE experienced loving kindness, respect and nurturing from someone. Our constitution was derived from love. That’s why it’s fragile and yet enduring.
Except for the fact that all that aid to NATO is in the form of arms sales or contracts for food, medicine, and rebuilding damaged cities, which is big money for large US Corporations who provide the materials. They will not be happy to lose the fortune they normally get through NATO contracts. But, go ahead, you Republicans cut your noses off to spite your faces and follow the Revenger who wants to crush those meanies who laughed at his whiffy Napoleonic displays.
Jeff is the man. He keeps us sane. Four years is a long stretch. Stay healthy and sarcastic, Jeff. We need you. Ps when are you going to the golf motel to kiss the ring? Tell us it ain't so. Just kidding, friends. I am one of the many who will no longer watch Morning Joey. Oh, the horror. Thank you maestro of madness, Jeff the Jenius.
I think we are getting the picture well enough on our own. Now the media decides to report in full glory about Trump, because everything he does now that he is coming back to office, is a moneymaker. As for Morning Joe, my friend and I were discussing that they will end up on Fox News, or Newmax, and just like in the book 1984, they will erase any trace of who they were before. No loss to me because I am not a network disinformation news person anyway.
I am grateful to AOC, and worried for her safety as well. Without being too alarmist, I have been trying to tell my friends to get their daughters out of the USA. I am posting a piece on the nitty gritty details of applying to University in Germany, because I know that best. Hopefully it will get the juices flowing for people to at least look into where they might go to university, as being one of the easier ways to get into another country.
Also, gently discourage all women, as well as LGBTQ persons, from joining the military. It isn't safe now; they won't survive. They're "open season" and without legal recourse if abused or harmed.
Not to mention the shocking #of RAPES in the military. Women are retraumatized when trying to report sexual harassment, sexual assault or rape, as the process is that the report chain is to the woman's superior, WHO IN TOO MANY CASES IS THE SAME PERSON WHO RAPED HER!! I've written, emailed, tweeted about this for over a decade AND NOTHING IS DONE. NO WOMAN SHOULD JOIN THE #ToxicMasculinity
widespread entrenched rape of female military members.
Jeff, have you heard about Spoonamore’s ideas how Trump won all of the swing states, by a margin too big to trigger automatic recounts? Thom Hartmann interviews Spoonamore, who along with Duncan Buell have written Duty to Warn letters to VPHarris. Verrrrry interesting to hear from people who know stuff about hacking, and how Elon may have helped. Spoonamore says a hand recount of paper ballots will prove or disprove if votes were added electronically from Musk’s list of voters that he signed up for his lottery.
I am afraid that our “Oh, we aren’t the people who buy conspiracy theories. We aren’t like Them” mentality may not be in our favor this time.
Is asking for a manual recount a conspiracy theory? Al Gore conceded in 2000, then withdrew his concession. Only after Bush was in office for a year or so was it learned that Gore actually did win Florida.
Supposedly someone asked where Elon was at the election night watch party. “Oh, he went home already. He has an app, he says Trump won.” Steve Bannon, rather early said, “We’ve got this,”
The app Spoonamore refers to is EPollBook, which is online and available to election officials and I don’t know who else. I googled it. It can tell if a particular person has voted yet or not, and which polling place. Etc.
It was the 15 million “Undervotes” of those who voted only for president and nothing else that also happened to only be in swing states. Or was that debunked, because that sounds fishy to me.
I have not seen it debunked. I read 600,000 of those ballots, not 15 million. I don’t know where I can find the numbers and percentage of undervotes/bullet ballots/ghost ballots.
Fishyness stood out for the computer hacking pros who wrote Duty to Warn letters to VP Harris, laying out the numbers and possible scenarios for adding votes to where Trump needed them. For people who think it would be too hard to do this, Spoonamore reminded us of the simultaneously exploding pagers in Lebanon. The pagers worked normally for months, at least, until the explosive inside was activated. Adding votes would be much easier than that.
Thom Hartmann interviewed him. He explains persuasively.
I wrote to Harris, saying I had heard of these letters, I was sure her advisers were aware, etc. , why not ask for a manual recount of paper ballots. So far I got confirmation my letter was received, but no response.
Robert Hubbell, whose post I missed until now, sent this from Snopes and North Carolina election people:
Snopes writes, in part,
Spoonamore alleged that the purported hacking and fraud in North Carolina proved to be "the most extreme" and that "the public results indicate over 350,000 voters cast a ballot for Trump and no other race." However, this is false.
According to the North Carolina State Board of Elections' website, as of Nov. 21, . . [a] comparison of the numbers for total [presidential] votes and the gubernatorial race would reveal the maximum number of possible "bullet vote" ballots for all presidential candidates. The difference between the two numbers is 130,313 votes — a count nowhere near the 350,000 votes stated by Spoonamore. . . . [¶¶]
In an email, North Carolina State Board of Elections spokesman Patrick Gannon told Snopes, "Without access to confidential data, there is no way that anyone could know what [Spoonamore] claims to know about North Carolina's presidential election. North Carolinians cast secret ballots, [and] this information [is] confidential in North Carolina. My first step in fact-checking this would be to ask [Spoonamore] to show his work."
Snopes full report says, as of Nov. 21, there is no concrete evidence to support Spoonamore’s claims. Arizona promises a full report on Nov. 25 to include how many bullet ballots.
Did Gaetz just drop out of the running??? I'm in the hospital and not getting my news properly at the moment, but hopefully I heard the news about that shithead correctly
As ‘Merica transitions from capitalism to neofeudalism, we’re witnessing changes to our country and its culture, we never could have imagined. It’s hard to keep pace Jeff, tomorrow’s another day… maybe!!
That’s ok. It’s late and I’m filing all Substackers who all zeroed in on the Gaetz withdrawal. I’m just sorry his father didn’t do the same thing 43 years ago.
True fact: I’ve used men’s bathrooms more times than I care to admit, especially at concerts back in the day. Women’s bathrooms had lines 10 miles long. Not once did any man give me shit about it or assault me. I went about my business and they did too.
Bravo! First, what is a urinal cake? All mail to DC Govt is delayed due to off-site screening. Better to send to one of her local offices! Which one, and where is a urinal cake available to buy?!
As the mother of a transwoman, I cannot tell you how fucking pissed off I am at that POS Mace. I feel like saying that I wish one of her kids or grandkids comes out as trans, but that would be horrible for the kid. That stupid "A" on her stupid tee-shirt obviously stood for "Asshole." Fuck.
I have a Trans son. I can guarantee you that if he was made to use the women's restroom, he would startle the hell out of any women or girls in there with him. Want to protect them? Don't send men - physically, mentally, and legally male(he went to court and had everything legally changed) into their restrooms, changing rooms, gyms, pools, etc.
I had been stuck trying to understand the trans issue. As more brave trans folks come out, I now see it as none of anyone's business (including me). RW haters are doing to trans people what they did for decades to LGBQT+ people. Just another culture war against straight white Christians. JFC, leave other people alone!
*BY SWC against anyone not just like them. Remember how 10 years ago, schools began banning "non-traditional" hair? This targeted Black people. Screaming about dreadlocks, braids, trying to REFORM HAIR STYLES?! We would be so much better off w/o white people (I'm white) minding their own business!
Amen, Teri. My mom would say "it's a tempest in a teapot". You KNOW they don't care "one iota"(mom again) about these idiotic culture issues. It's just a means to enrage the voters, and to grab the spotlight. Bunch of media whores.
The phony culture war shit is used by the right to divide our nation. Putin is jumping for joy. Divide and conquer without firing a shot. Pure genius. Watch Russian become a mandatory educational requirement under Cheeto. Da, komrades. Ukraine, Taiwan, all gone under isolationist Don.
You'd think that, but I have a friend, AFAB, never identified as anything but female, who has been stopped *twice* in different stores from using a women's bathroom because some batshit insane whackadoo went running for store security because "a man is using the ladies' room!"
Both times, store security threw her out of the store; once she was trespassed and told never to return.
You might think -- OK, that's just one example. But, no. I know a second woman, born female, who has a naturally deep voice and a muscular body, who also was thrown out of a women's bathroom after some nutbag went screaming to store security.
Both of these women live well north of the Mason-Dixon line.
Oh, now see... were that me, I'd have lifted my shirt and flashed the accuser, flashed security, then the whole f'in store all the way out! Any judge would laugh the indecency charges right out of court.
It was never as prominent as it was this cycle. It was only after they found that gay people have too many friends and family to be a safe minority to pick on that they decided to focus on a smaller group that they hoped would have few allies.
Me too! Stalls have doors. Doors=privacy. I love how Mace has changed her talking points from “bathrooms” to “locker rooms” because she got trolled on her lack of understanding on how bathroom stall doors worked.
Many, many years ago before needed renovation, we would attend the Kentucky Derby. The women's rest rooms were totally inadequate and it wasn't a surprise to most of the women and men alike for us to go into the men's room.
You must’ve gone to a better class of bars than I did. Granted, the bathrooms I appropriated did not have stalls. I had to ask someone to stand guard. Much else needs to be left unsaid, but the bands were good and the beer was cheap.
I have too only not because of lines but by just not reading the signs on the stupid door! I’ve laughed myself silly over a couple of men’s room adventures and still managed to emerge unscathed.
My daughter’s childhood best friend is trans. He would be looking for a guy’s bathroom, but I’d still be happy to share a unisex bathroom with him. Acceptance is more important than anything and he has mine 100%.
I was at a convenience store one day to use the restroom. There was a man standing to the side and back from the men's. I asked him if he was waiting and if he had checked the women's to see if it was open. Do you know what he said? "I'm not transgender". I just replied "I don't think that has anything to do with it" and then I was probably inside and talking to myself so didn't see his reaction. Men annoy me so much here in NW Iowa.
I'm a guitar guy and I threw up in my mouth when I saw that shit. I'm guessing they're made in China because that shitheel would never pay full price for an American made instrument.
No doubt. Perhaps Peter Townsend will get a hold of a few and smash the shit out of them on stage or do a Hendrx imitation and set them on fire. That fucking revolting turd will do anything to make a buck and he'll continue his shyster ways as long as the rubes keep buying his worthless shit.
Just scoped the prices. $1K for the acoustic, $1.5 K for the electric. I hope the high action on the strings is so painful that any would be shredders get their fingers shredded.
Related Hegseth loved the musical ‘Annie Get Your Gun’ a woman in a power position but not ‘manly’ he is next. Not good enough for prison but a cabinet choice hypocrite.
I’m pretty sure Sarah McBride didn’t go through everything she did, just so she could gain access to ladies’ room to catch a glimpse of Nancy Mace’s vajayjay.
And really, I’m 67 and I can 100% say I’ve never seen another woman’s vajayjay in a public restroom. I’ve never even seen a women change all their clothes! Makeup repair, hair styling, maybe a quick short change at the most.
winning a third of the electorate and less than half the votes cast has not made this galactic scale grifter any less of a vile human being. He's picking weirdos and broken children just to prove how little he gives a shit about actually governing for all of us. And I am already sick of gerrymandered to the limit repugnicans crowing about their historic mandate to destroy the gummint. They can all fuck all the way off.
I've only tuned into Morning Joe a few times and for a few minutes. I found the two of them to be smug and insufferable. Mika never seemed to be able to complete a sentence without Joe interrupting her.
Now that was always fun to watch - you could always tell she was getting pissed but knew it was pointless. Sorry to hear this news - I quit watching news on TV after the Covid vaccines came out (though that had nothing to do with it, just coincidence and burnout), but I always liked them.
“… we were flooded with calls all day long, very positive, very supportive.” I call BS on Morning Joe’s breathless phone call update. Sounds like Trump wrote that for him. You can put as many bows and ribbons on your announcements as you like. A flaming sack of shit is still a flaming sack of shit. And so are you.
Yes, "A flood of calls like you've never seen before, beautiful calls" etc., etc. Men, strong men, were crying on the phone. Jeebus, what a tired act. I hope they martyr him so the Evangelicals can worship his image.
Imagine all that sound and fury aimed at trolling and ostracizing one person. Mean girl Mace loves being a Mean Girl. But Jeff's Scarlet Moron is better
In case you didn't notice, being an utter Mean Girl and beyotch is mandatory for women trying to advance in the Republican party. It got Stefanik nominated to UN Ambassador position, gets MTG and Bobo lots of attention. Maybe there's also a lane for saying the same thigs in fundie baby voice, but generally, being as bad as or worse than the men is obligatory.
I agree. I many ways MAGA women are worse than the MAGA cavemen. And the common theme of the "Mean Girl beyotches" is that apart from getting attention for their stunts, they don't actually legislate or do their putative jobs.
It's insane. When you increase the scope to the entire US, transpeople are such a small percentage of the population in general. I remember some state with a ban on trans girls playing girl's sports had all of TWO people who fell into that category. Imagine being one of those two and having the weight of the government pointed only at you. It's so gross and horrible.
Ummm, HELLO!!! This is all just a distraction! Fantastic, Joe's rating are tanking; fantastic, Mace is a douche bag. Oh and MORE project 2025 authors are getting nominated to key positions!
Let's not forget Joe was a republican congressman, he HELPED republicans get us to where we are now. Fuck him!
She had a congenital heart condition, fell and cracked her skull. No-one else was in the office to help her (Joe was a thousand miles away) so she wasn't found until it was too late.
I swear to God the next thing Trump is gonna sell are certified Thai virgins. Boys or girls —we don't discriminate. That's where the Trump branding strategy is headed.
that would be a hoot, but he's in his 70's. Maybe he could just drive a tour bus over them. And cover the wreckage in gasoline and create a bonfire. And then napalm the remains. Oh... and then bury them.
I am 80, and not as spry as once I was, but in a good cause I think I could do a good job of smashing a guitar. Maybe have a concrete block to do it on.
I own a bunch of them and you'd be really shocked at how tough some of the solid body guitars are. Not indestructable by any means, but you'd raise a sweat pretty quick if you had to do more than a few
I have no words for how fucking stupid we’ve been relentlessly forced to become. Republicans say that they are the now the party of the working people but will now do whatever they can to make those people they claim to represent the ‘misery class’ and suck whatever is left out of them so they can reward themselves and themselves alone. Fuck that and fuck them.
This election was about the class system in this country Joseph… the halves and have nots, the later were simply too ignorant to understand they’ll never be a part of the former!!
it's such a firehose of news these days that I didn't even have time to get to the new Gaetz and Hegseth allegations, or the Big Dick Toilet Salesman being appointed Ambassador to NATO, or Sporky's meltdown over the Gaetz report, or —
No shit! Fuck Mace, Morning fucking Joe/Mika, Mike Johnson and stupid ass trump with another gimmick…jesus f***ing christ….where the hell are we????????
sorry for all the fucks! lol
FUCK in every tense is the only word we need for the next 4 years.
I'd actually like a fucking stronger word than fuck to use for the next four fucking years...
mothafucka is Kamala's favorite...
I somehow doubt that!
Mine has been "JeezusfukinChrist!" since the early1 970s. Hammer on thumb? Someone swings a 2X4 and knocks over your coffee? JeezzusssfukinChrist!!!!
Mine is my paternal grandmother's "Jesus H. Christ"! She was an inveterate curser, especially when she was behind the wheel of her car. I can hear her now, screaming at a driver she thought had made a particularly bad move. "You stupid son of a bitch", she'd yell out her window, "You oughtn't be allowed to drive!"
It was a blessing not many people carried guns in those days.
Fuck a goddamned Duck. said it pretty well too.
Christ on a cracker!
The best way to use "Fuck" is sparingly. Then it has a certain shock value. It seems on some social forums, it's the assholes on the right who fill their brainless posts with curses when they have no reply
how about Star Farking Irther???
Fuckinghell is my go-to....
I agree, it doesn’t feel strong enough for me either!
Trump the cunt.
I, peronsally, like "Shitpisscatfuckcocksucker." All one word. Why "catfuck?" Because that's the fuckitest fuck there is!
Ah fuck it!😂😂
As my late husband always said: “Fuck the fucking fuckers!”
WWII joke: an officer is driving along and sees a soldier kicking his broken-down Jeep by the side of the road. He stops and asks "What seems to be the problem, soldier?"
"The fucking fucker's fucked, sir!"
😂
Sometimes a” fuck” is the only word that works especially in these times!
And I don't think I EVER used the "c" word until DJT and his Congress.
Fuck the fuck all the way off.
One of my go-tos.
Sorry, not sorry for fucks sake
Please continue to fuck away as you see fit
Fuck 'em if they can't choke on it.
Don’t be. That seems to be most of my vocabulary these days and I’d love company. All the craptastics are flying out of Dumbfuckistan so we have to be ready for the onslaught and I’m nowhere out of fucks.
I'm rather fond of FUCKITY - BYE !
Let it out, Tess! Don't want to keep that shit bottled up.
Fuckin’ eh Tess, no apology necessary!
I was once behind a truck that had around 40 bumper stickers all over the tailgate. Every one had the word fuck or some variation thereof. My favorite was "Practice safe sex. Go fuck yourself!"
Feather mucking coke stackers!
My go to: What the fuck Ever!!!!!
Don’t be.
You're good, Tess. We have to call it like it is. "Fuck" is what it is.
Tess, we're in a time warp...and there doesnt seem to be a way out. 👀
voice of Torgo: There is no way out of here. It will be dark soon.
😂😂😳
Why does “Dammit, Janet” come immediately to mind?
Susan mentioned a time warp? But when isn’t ‘Damnit, Janet’ appropriate?
Time meant nothing, never will again.
Time is a flat circle Susan, there’s no escaping it… unless I can find new parts for the broken down time machine in my garage!
Sign me up when you’ve got it working.
I’m ready to find a wormhole anytime now.
Fuck them all, is a perfectly normal human response to the wrath of fuckery brought upon us by a mookish coterie of imbecilic sycophants Tess!!
Fuck ‘em ALL! 😡
You're fucking fine, Tessa. FUCK may be my next vanity plate.
I typed Tess....fucking autocorrect
He's sure a blowhard who failed upwards.
Buckle. up bitches, it's going to be a firehose news day for at least the next 4 years if we make it that long. The orange one CRAVES seeing his name everywhere
He craves keeping us worried, outraged, off balance and focused on anything besides what he doesn’t want known. He floods the news with garbage.
Meanwhile, our attention is directed away from the dismantling of our system of government and the Constitution. The flood of garbage is a strategy.
A strategy for dismantling the economy. Before 1913, there was no federal income tax and government was paid for mostly by tariffs. Now we will pay federal income tax, and Trump’s tariffs will be the same as a federal sales tax. But the extra money will fund tax cuts for the wealthy, won’t it? Trade wars? Who cares about those? Inflation? Who cares. . Um, maybe the people who googled What are tariffs? After they voted.
I am waiting for Trumpee to erupt when he sees Leon on the cover of TIME. Someone will pay.
I’ve decided to call him “Shadow President Musk” every time I mention him. That should cause some fighting among them.
Someone recently called him FLEM (First Lady Elon Musk). I want that to go viral.
I've also seen him called Elonia
I did a spit take on " FLEM. 😉
I just refer to him as co-President. I may have appropriated that from the site.
I'm trying out "Co-President Musk." Donnie wouldn't like that, one bit.
I can’t wait! Thanks, Marcie!
If his coterie read a single book, there are many written about Trump’s history. Used their eyes, or fingers in a search, instead of trusting ignorance to find truth. Knowing exactly where this mobbed up wastrel came from, instead of staring blindly at a fictitious reality TV show. They might have recognized the con Susan! Alas, I digress…
TPTB takes care of all of this Susan, trumpis simply a useful idiot!
Useful asset might be better
He’s so much more than that, Patrick. He invented his style of dividing and creating outrage and hate among us, drawing in many, many millions of people. He’s the main wrecking ball on whose coattails the PTB ride. But he is limited by not having inherited the legacy of Love. He feels a sense of love only from a united, hate filled mob at his rallies. He gets his sense of power from getting his people to act simply by dropping hint or innuendo. Something changed in him the moment he watched the insurrection, that he created, on the monitor in his dining room. He wast rapt, believing the hate on the screen was love for him. And oh! the power!
He revolts many more millions who HAVE experienced loving kindness, respect and nurturing from someone. Our constitution was derived from love. That’s why it’s fragile and yet enduring.
…did I say enduring?
He wants us distracted while he steals the tires.
Jeff should consider writing 2 posts:
The Grifter & His Clowns
and
Other off the wall shite.
True dat Chris!
Then we should paint DRUMPF ALL OVER.
Yeah, let's paint turd! Here'sy suggestion 🌈🌈
If there isn't a message to NATO in the appointment of the toilet dude—
"I, Donny Convict, regard NATO as a crap hole alliance. I'm sending this very special ambassador to remind you of that every single day."
Except for the fact that all that aid to NATO is in the form of arms sales or contracts for food, medicine, and rebuilding damaged cities, which is big money for large US Corporations who provide the materials. They will not be happy to lose the fortune they normally get through NATO contracts. But, go ahead, you Republicans cut your noses off to spite your faces and follow the Revenger who wants to crush those meanies who laughed at his whiffy Napoleonic displays.
Exactly Kathleen!
I think you’re going to have to expand your reports to 2x daily.
Absolutely not. Let's not wear out Jeff. Don't burn this guy's butt at both ends.
I wouldn’t dream of burning Jeff’s butt at both ends. I wouldn’t know how to go about doing it, for one thing.
[weird images in my head]
😂😂
Jeff is the man. He keeps us sane. Four years is a long stretch. Stay healthy and sarcastic, Jeff. We need you. Ps when are you going to the golf motel to kiss the ring? Tell us it ain't so. Just kidding, friends. I am one of the many who will no longer watch Morning Joey. Oh, the horror. Thank you maestro of madness, Jeff the Jenius.
Brusler la chandelle par les deux bouts Kathleen???
Sorry, burning a candle at both ends!
Exactement!
but actually it's "bruler."
It was so nice during the early Biden years when we didn't have to cringe morning, noon and night over the constant updates on this asshat's fuckery.
But god, how the media/entertainment industry loves this guy! Perpetual clickbait heaven for them.
Obama too
I think we are getting the picture well enough on our own. Now the media decides to report in full glory about Trump, because everything he does now that he is coming back to office, is a moneymaker. As for Morning Joe, my friend and I were discussing that they will end up on Fox News, or Newmax, and just like in the book 1984, they will erase any trace of who they were before. No loss to me because I am not a network disinformation news person anyway.
I am grateful to AOC, and worried for her safety as well. Without being too alarmist, I have been trying to tell my friends to get their daughters out of the USA. I am posting a piece on the nitty gritty details of applying to University in Germany, because I know that best. Hopefully it will get the juices flowing for people to at least look into where they might go to university, as being one of the easier ways to get into another country.
Also, gently discourage all women, as well as LGBTQ persons, from joining the military. It isn't safe now; they won't survive. They're "open season" and without legal recourse if abused or harmed.
Not to mention the shocking #of RAPES in the military. Women are retraumatized when trying to report sexual harassment, sexual assault or rape, as the process is that the report chain is to the woman's superior, WHO IN TOO MANY CASES IS THE SAME PERSON WHO RAPED HER!! I've written, emailed, tweeted about this for over a decade AND NOTHING IS DONE. NO WOMAN SHOULD JOIN THE #ToxicMasculinity
widespread entrenched rape of female military members.
It's going to get worse.
Jeff, have you heard about Spoonamore’s ideas how Trump won all of the swing states, by a margin too big to trigger automatic recounts? Thom Hartmann interviews Spoonamore, who along with Duncan Buell have written Duty to Warn letters to VPHarris. Verrrrry interesting to hear from people who know stuff about hacking, and how Elon may have helped. Spoonamore says a hand recount of paper ballots will prove or disprove if votes were added electronically from Musk’s list of voters that he signed up for his lottery.
I am afraid that our “Oh, we aren’t the people who buy conspiracy theories. We aren’t like Them” mentality may not be in our favor this time.
Is asking for a manual recount a conspiracy theory? Al Gore conceded in 2000, then withdrew his concession. Only after Bush was in office for a year or so was it learned that Gore actually did win Florida.
What could be wrong with counting the votes?
And the New York Times buried the story about Gore winning Florida, even though they'd ponied up most of the money for the recount.
I'm not big on conspiracy theories but it's curious how Trump kept saying "You don't have to vote, I don't need the votes"
Yeah, and Trump said “Just vote this time and you’ll never have to vote again.”
Supposedly someone asked where Elon was at the election night watch party. “Oh, he went home already. He has an app, he says Trump won.” Steve Bannon, rather early said, “We’ve got this,”
The app Spoonamore refers to is EPollBook, which is online and available to election officials and I don’t know who else. I googled it. It can tell if a particular person has voted yet or not, and which polling place. Etc.
It was the 15 million “Undervotes” of those who voted only for president and nothing else that also happened to only be in swing states. Or was that debunked, because that sounds fishy to me.
I have not seen it debunked. I read 600,000 of those ballots, not 15 million. I don’t know where I can find the numbers and percentage of undervotes/bullet ballots/ghost ballots.
Fishyness stood out for the computer hacking pros who wrote Duty to Warn letters to VP Harris, laying out the numbers and possible scenarios for adding votes to where Trump needed them. For people who think it would be too hard to do this, Spoonamore reminded us of the simultaneously exploding pagers in Lebanon. The pagers worked normally for months, at least, until the explosive inside was activated. Adding votes would be much easier than that.
Thom Hartmann interviewed him. He explains persuasively.
I wrote to Harris, saying I had heard of these letters, I was sure her advisers were aware, etc. , why not ask for a manual recount of paper ballots. So far I got confirmation my letter was received, but no response.
Robert Hubbell, whose post I missed until now, sent this from Snopes and North Carolina election people:
Snopes writes, in part,
Spoonamore alleged that the purported hacking and fraud in North Carolina proved to be "the most extreme" and that "the public results indicate over 350,000 voters cast a ballot for Trump and no other race." However, this is false.
According to the North Carolina State Board of Elections' website, as of Nov. 21, . . [a] comparison of the numbers for total [presidential] votes and the gubernatorial race would reveal the maximum number of possible "bullet vote" ballots for all presidential candidates. The difference between the two numbers is 130,313 votes — a count nowhere near the 350,000 votes stated by Spoonamore. . . . [¶¶]
In an email, North Carolina State Board of Elections spokesman Patrick Gannon told Snopes, "Without access to confidential data, there is no way that anyone could know what [Spoonamore] claims to know about North Carolina's presidential election. North Carolinians cast secret ballots, [and] this information [is] confidential in North Carolina. My first step in fact-checking this would be to ask [Spoonamore] to show his work."
I did wonder where Spoonamore got his numbers.
I did wonder where he got his numbers. No response from him yet.
Snopes full report says, as of Nov. 21, there is no concrete evidence to support Spoonamore’s claims. Arizona promises a full report on Nov. 25 to include how many bullet ballots.
Thanks for everyone’s’ responses!
Also, least we forgot, Big Dick Toilet Guy was acting AG in Orange Fuckwit’s first admin until Barr replaced him. Only the best people
The old Bannon playbook. Flood the zone with
🐂 💩
Just had a breaking news report, Matt Gaetz is withdrawing his name from the AG appointment. 🤣😂
I always thought that appointment was a red herring anyway. What got past us in the interim? Hm? I wonder.
That's the real question! What did this distract us from?
Best news of the day...so far. 💙💙💙
At least Gaetz McForehead isn’t going to be Attorney General.
Hopefully next stop prison.
Here is the latest report on Gaetz and the SECOND GIRL who came forward about Gaetz!
https://youtu.be/Hwzj47DdgCg?si=BqSZhvBWkO4tlR2t
Did Gaetz just drop out of the running??? I'm in the hospital and not getting my news properly at the moment, but hopefully I heard the news about that shithead correctly
Yep
Jennifer, you heard right!💐
Gaetz just took himself out of the running, no doubt because he doesn't want that report about his crimes to go public.
As ‘Merica transitions from capitalism to neofeudalism, we’re witnessing changes to our country and its culture, we never could have imagined. It’s hard to keep pace Jeff, tomorrow’s another day… maybe!!
That’s ok. It’s late and I’m filing all Substackers who all zeroed in on the Gaetz withdrawal. I’m just sorry his father didn’t do the same thing 43 years ago.
😂😂😂😂
Matty McForehead has cough cough withdrawn his name ✌🏻💙🥴
True fact: I’ve used men’s bathrooms more times than I care to admit, especially at concerts back in the day. Women’s bathrooms had lines 10 miles long. Not once did any man give me shit about it or assault me. I went about my business and they did too.
seriously. in the real world, nobody cares about this shit.
Nancy Mace’s birthday is December 4th. What if everyone here mailed her a urinal cake?
I like that idea—and tell Mace it's for HER!
😂😂
I’m decorating one for her as we speak!
You win the Internets today.
😂😂 THATS a great idea!
Or a penis cake!
Anyone live in the immediate DC area?
Bravo! First, what is a urinal cake? All mail to DC Govt is delayed due to off-site screening. Better to send to one of her local offices! Which one, and where is a urinal cake available to buy?!
They are actually free. If you dare.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urinal_deodorizer_block
As the mother of a transwoman, I cannot tell you how fucking pissed off I am at that POS Mace. I feel like saying that I wish one of her kids or grandkids comes out as trans, but that would be horrible for the kid. That stupid "A" on her stupid tee-shirt obviously stood for "Asshole." Fuck.
I have a Trans son. I can guarantee you that if he was made to use the women's restroom, he would startle the hell out of any women or girls in there with him. Want to protect them? Don't send men - physically, mentally, and legally male(he went to court and had everything legally changed) into their restrooms, changing rooms, gyms, pools, etc.
I had been stuck trying to understand the trans issue. As more brave trans folks come out, I now see it as none of anyone's business (including me). RW haters are doing to trans people what they did for decades to LGBQT+ people. Just another culture war against straight white Christians. JFC, leave other people alone!
*BY SWC against anyone not just like them. Remember how 10 years ago, schools began banning "non-traditional" hair? This targeted Black people. Screaming about dreadlocks, braids, trying to REFORM HAIR STYLES?! We would be so much better off w/o white people (I'm white) minding their own business!
Amen, Teri. My mom would say "it's a tempest in a teapot". You KNOW they don't care "one iota"(mom again) about these idiotic culture issues. It's just a means to enrage the voters, and to grab the spotlight. Bunch of media whores.
The phony culture war shit is used by the right to divide our nation. Putin is jumping for joy. Divide and conquer without firing a shot. Pure genius. Watch Russian become a mandatory educational requirement under Cheeto. Da, komrades. Ukraine, Taiwan, all gone under isolationist Don.
You'd think that, but I have a friend, AFAB, never identified as anything but female, who has been stopped *twice* in different stores from using a women's bathroom because some batshit insane whackadoo went running for store security because "a man is using the ladies' room!"
Both times, store security threw her out of the store; once she was trespassed and told never to return.
You might think -- OK, that's just one example. But, no. I know a second woman, born female, who has a naturally deep voice and a muscular body, who also was thrown out of a women's bathroom after some nutbag went screaming to store security.
Both of these women live well north of the Mason-Dixon line.
awful…
Oh, now see... were that me, I'd have lifted my shirt and flashed the accuser, flashed security, then the whole f'in store all the way out! Any judge would laugh the indecency charges right out of court.
Not sure that is true. Rethuglicans have used trans issues to fire up the rubes in every election since 2016
It was never as prominent as it was this cycle. It was only after they found that gay people have too many friends and family to be a safe minority to pick on that they decided to focus on a smaller group that they hoped would have few allies.
Me too! Stalls have doors. Doors=privacy. I love how Mace has changed her talking points from “bathrooms” to “locker rooms” because she got trolled on her lack of understanding on how bathroom stall doors worked.
She is such a giant “pick me pick me” mean girl.
I have to, in the same venues.
Many, many years ago before needed renovation, we would attend the Kentucky Derby. The women's rest rooms were totally inadequate and it wasn't a surprise to most of the women and men alike for us to go into the men's room.
Exactly. I never had to wait because the stalls were always available
EXACTLY!!!!
Having covered many crowded concerts, I’ve witnessed that firsthand Kay-EI , no one gives a rats ass, but abhorrent tosspots!
I have done so as well
Ditto. I would announce myself on the way in, and the men got out of the way. It was no big deal. Just had to go.
You must’ve gone to a better class of bars than I did. Granted, the bathrooms I appropriated did not have stalls. I had to ask someone to stand guard. Much else needs to be left unsaid, but the bands were good and the beer was cheap.
I have too only not because of lines but by just not reading the signs on the stupid door! I’ve laughed myself silly over a couple of men’s room adventures and still managed to emerge unscathed.
Ditto
My daughter’s childhood best friend is trans. He would be looking for a guy’s bathroom, but I’d still be happy to share a unisex bathroom with him. Acceptance is more important than anything and he has mine 100%.
💯. I was in California recently and saw that many establishments have changed their restrooms to gender neutral. That’s progress.
I was at a convenience store one day to use the restroom. There was a man standing to the side and back from the men's. I asked him if he was waiting and if he had checked the women's to see if it was open. Do you know what he said? "I'm not transgender". I just replied "I don't think that has anything to do with it" and then I was probably inside and talking to myself so didn't see his reaction. Men annoy me so much here in NW Iowa.
I knew that Trump could take the coolness out of guitars
I'm a guitar guy and I threw up in my mouth when I saw that shit. I'm guessing they're made in China because that shitheel would never pay full price for an American made instrument.
No doubt. Perhaps Peter Townsend will get a hold of a few and smash the shit out of them on stage or do a Hendrx imitation and set them on fire. That fucking revolting turd will do anything to make a buck and he'll continue his shyster ways as long as the rubes keep buying his worthless shit.
Hendrix
He’s going to need a few more funerals to bury all his unsold shit Rick, who’s next?
Could be any number of folks who aren't loyal to him and refuse to kiss his ass. He might hire a full-time backhoe operator to dig all of those holes.
I don’t want to give that pig a nickel
But I do wish I could see a YouTube unboxing video
LOLZ 🤣 oh yeah, I will most definitely watch that
Just scoped the prices. $1K for the acoustic, $1.5 K for the electric. I hope the high action on the strings is so painful that any would be shredders get their fingers shredded.
Another big time ripoff. The good folks at Fender. Gibson, Martin, Zager and Taylor won't have to worry about competing with that shit.
Dude! I said EXACTLY the same thing (threw up in my mouth) when I saw that picture of him desecrating my instrument. Damn him.
It will only play tunes from Cats.
Hahaha! I hated Cats! Great answer.
Related Hegseth loved the musical ‘Annie Get Your Gun’ a woman in a power position but not ‘manly’ he is next. Not good enough for prison but a cabinet choice hypocrite.
And Ava Maria🙄🙄
😂😂
LOL!!!!
Or “The Star Spangled Banner.”
BAHWAHAHA!!!
😂
Only guitars playing simplistic, juvenile crap like Cat Scratch Fever.
Every thing he touches
I’m pretty sure Sarah McBride didn’t go through everything she did, just so she could gain access to ladies’ room to catch a glimpse of Nancy Mace’s vajayjay.
And really, I’m 67 and I can 100% say I’ve never seen another woman’s vajayjay in a public restroom. I’ve never even seen a women change all their clothes! Makeup repair, hair styling, maybe a quick short change at the most.
Neither have I, and I’m 65. If my daughter was still young, I’d feel much safer with her sharing a restroom with a trans woman than Matt Gaetz.
Hey Stephanie, :-D
winning a third of the electorate and less than half the votes cast has not made this galactic scale grifter any less of a vile human being. He's picking weirdos and broken children just to prove how little he gives a shit about actually governing for all of us. And I am already sick of gerrymandered to the limit repugnicans crowing about their historic mandate to destroy the gummint. They can all fuck all the way off.
Letting Matt Gaetz be AG but not letting a Congresswoman use the bathroom is proof we're in the worst timeline.
Absolutely Jennifer!
I've only tuned into Morning Joe a few times and for a few minutes. I found the two of them to be smug and insufferable. Mika never seemed to be able to complete a sentence without Joe interrupting her.
As always
Now that was always fun to watch - you could always tell she was getting pissed but knew it was pointless. Sorry to hear this news - I quit watching news on TV after the Covid vaccines came out (though that had nothing to do with it, just coincidence and burnout), but I always liked them.
“… we were flooded with calls all day long, very positive, very supportive.” I call BS on Morning Joe’s breathless phone call update. Sounds like Trump wrote that for him. You can put as many bows and ribbons on your announcements as you like. A flaming sack of shit is still a flaming sack of shit. And so are you.
It really does sound like something the orange asshole would fabricate. "Very good people said our ratings went up..."
Big strong men with tears in their eyes said, Sir...
I thought that too — right after read it— that Donny wrote that for him.
Yes, "A flood of calls like you've never seen before, beautiful calls" etc., etc. Men, strong men, were crying on the phone. Jeebus, what a tired act. I hope they martyr him so the Evangelicals can worship his image.
Donnie can barely read or write… but he’s got people Susan!!
Bad choice of words. Of course he didn’t ‘write’ that for him. But those were still Trumpy words.
Indeed.
Do you think there's a chance they could all be hit by lightning before January? Asking for a friend...
Painful, bleeding rectal cancer would suffice.
That'd work for me
Imagine all that sound and fury aimed at trolling and ostracizing one person. Mean girl Mace loves being a Mean Girl. But Jeff's Scarlet Moron is better
With Republicans, the cruelty is always the only point.
Nailed it Lisa!!
Go figure Nancy's last name is pepper spray or was a spiked club in medieval times where she wants to take us back to.
In case you didn't notice, being an utter Mean Girl and beyotch is mandatory for women trying to advance in the Republican party. It got Stefanik nominated to UN Ambassador position, gets MTG and Bobo lots of attention. Maybe there's also a lane for saying the same thigs in fundie baby voice, but generally, being as bad as or worse than the men is obligatory.
I agree. I many ways MAGA women are worse than the MAGA cavemen. And the common theme of the "Mean Girl beyotches" is that apart from getting attention for their stunts, they don't actually legislate or do their putative jobs.
It's insane. When you increase the scope to the entire US, transpeople are such a small percentage of the population in general. I remember some state with a ban on trans girls playing girl's sports had all of TWO people who fell into that category. Imagine being one of those two and having the weight of the government pointed only at you. It's so gross and horrible.
Ummm, HELLO!!! This is all just a distraction! Fantastic, Joe's rating are tanking; fantastic, Mace is a douche bag. Oh and MORE project 2025 authors are getting nominated to key positions!
Let's not forget Joe was a republican congressman, he HELPED republicans get us to where we are now. Fuck him!
I didnt know Joe was a former Congressman....hmmmm....
He left Congress after a dead young female intern was found in his office with no explanation. True story. Look it up.
She had a congenital heart condition, fell and cracked her skull. No-one else was in the office to help her (Joe was a thousand miles away) so she wasn't found until it was too late.
Nooooooooooooo! Holy Crap! I'll check this out! I had no idea!
Alas, poor Joe, we hardly knew ye. And then all of a sudden we did. To quote that venerable old asshat John McGlaughlin, “Bye-bye!”
Are those "very positive, very supportive" calls in the room with us now, Joe?
😂😂
Touché Alison!!
I don't suppose Pete Townshend would consider buying up all those guitars and then have a "concert" in which he simply smashes them?
I swear to God the next thing Trump is gonna sell are certified Thai virgins. Boys or girls —we don't discriminate. That's where the Trump branding strategy is headed.
all signed via a tattoo that means “God Willing.”
that would be a hoot, but he's in his 70's. Maybe he could just drive a tour bus over them. And cover the wreckage in gasoline and create a bonfire. And then napalm the remains. Oh... and then bury them.
I am 80, and not as spry as once I was, but in a good cause I think I could do a good job of smashing a guitar. Maybe have a concrete block to do it on.
There’s an easier way - a meat tenderizer/hammer if you have one. It’ll make minced meat out of it.
I own a bunch of them and you'd be really shocked at how tough some of the solid body guitars are. Not indestructable by any means, but you'd raise a sweat pretty quick if you had to do more than a few
does trump plan on selling “solid body guitars?’ One would think that the interest of grift would make them mostly of tin.
The electric guitar he’s holding in the photo looks like a tarted up Gibson Les Paul. But who knows. Might be made of tin 🤣
I expect Pete is pretty darn fit, like Paul, Ringo, and Mick who are all in their 80’s.
AND Keith Richards!
😂😂👏👏
You forgot salting the earth
Unfortunately Susan, they’d make more, opening another window of profit for the execrable mook!!
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I have no words for how fucking stupid we’ve been relentlessly forced to become. Republicans say that they are the now the party of the working people but will now do whatever they can to make those people they claim to represent the ‘misery class’ and suck whatever is left out of them so they can reward themselves and themselves alone. Fuck that and fuck them.
. . . and blame all of it on the Libs.
This election was about the class system in this country Joseph… the halves and have nots, the later were simply too ignorant to understand they’ll never be a part of the former!!
"We were flooded with phone calls from people all day. . .very positive, very supportive.”
But didn't you find it weird that all the callers spoke Russian?
😂😂