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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

everyone remembers the Farm Film Report from SCTV, right?

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Bob Bowden's avatar

I’m sure several million of our taxpayer dollars got “blowed up real good” along with Elon’s surrogate penis

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A.J. Madison's avatar

Indirect tax dollars. WE are NOT paying for Starship Development. No, we have our own overpriced heavy lifter launch vehicles. It's nicknamed the "Senate Launch System." Elmo is ploughing his SpaceX profits into Starship development. Technically, its his own money.

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Bob Bowden's avatar

There’s no possible customer other than the U.S. taxpayer for his Mars heavy lift development so yes, you’re technically correct but for all intents and purposes, so am I

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Aleksander Constantinoropolous's avatar

Sure do. Blew up real good. Just like Donny’s foreign policy--except less lethal and more scripted.

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David M Marko's avatar

Big Jim McBob and Billy Saul Hurock are mensa members compared to this administration.

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Brad Yazell's avatar

SCTV was great!

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Canadians.

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Kim Nesvig's avatar

Speaking of Canadians. And I agree with Edgar, that Native guy should have gotten the academy award for dances with wolves. https://youtu.be/F6FwSb7zd6M?si=bNE86COmabP4nX2W

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R Bobby 🇨🇦❤️'s avatar

Graham Greene

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Dave Drell's avatar

great movie

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Mark B's avatar

Yes, the incomparable Red Green.

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SethTriggs's avatar

I loved that sketch.

SCTV was superior to Saturday Night Live in my opinion.

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Gina's avatar

in that it was frequently funny - SNL is so ... lame

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SethTriggs's avatar

One of the things about that funniness is that SCTV also didn't seem to be mean-spirited like SNL would be. There were times that SNL really, really went cruel.

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

Still does. I peek at Weekend Update now and then. Their humor has devolved to racist and sexist jokes.

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Gail (Chicago)'s avatar

I watched SCTV in the wee hours while my parents were fast asleep!

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Wendy🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

Jeff, Im sorry. I didnt have it today to cover any political news. Went on the interview train yesterday, and after 4 interviews (Im a DevOps / InfoSec/ Terraform / Ansible / Automation Engineer ), but Fuck my life if they didnt turn me the fuck down again after a 4 interview run (4th usually means culture fit, and I mold into every goddamned culture there is....53yo, Trans Woman Druid Progressive). But I guess not.

So Wrote a mixed prose to bitch about it. Enjoy.

https://thistleandmoss.com/p/thirty-years-of-my-life-means-absolute

As always jeff, Liked, Restacked, Quoted, and Cross Posted to my readers.

Keep up the hard work, Brother.

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Mingo's avatar

Wendy, I know the pain you feel as a job seeker. I went through it myself. Your interviewer is intimidated by your knowledge, education, experience and skills. You stated what I've always said about myself is that "I can forget more than they ever learned". Don't let the bastards grind you down. Your writing is terrific and your wit is biting, like Jeff's. Today we got comic relief in watching Elmo's rocket get all blowed up. Maybe he used ketamine instead of jet fuel. Couldn't have happened to a nicer nazi.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Wendy, I've experienced that too. Apparently I was too old (60 and over.) But we love you. I only worked as a crossing guard after I turned 60, and actually, it was a lot of fun.

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A.J. Madison's avatar

High tech recruiting has regressed back to turn of the century (not) hiring. We called it back then, "Looking for Jeezus." If you walked on water, you're hired. Anything less than that, was thank you, you're not what we're looking for. Why companies are wasting their time & resources for this bizarre practice I don't know. Maybe they're waiting for the right (cheap) contracts with overseas engineering firms, putting all those state educated drones to work.

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Wendy🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

It’s painful honestly

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247kath's avatar

❤️‍🩹

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Judy Luchsinger's avatar

Not me I don't remember it.

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIUl_UKW68g. you can fast forward to about a minute in

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Thanks for the link to the great John Candy! Presaging the MAGAs way before it happened.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

OMG. Thats hilarious. I felt like I was back in Missouri. 😂😂

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Tess's avatar

Thanks for sharing that! I love John Candy!

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Richard Von Busack's avatar

Inside joke about LBJ's crony Billy Sol Estes. Loved it, and Catherine O'Hara's Meryl Streep indeed blew up good. For me, the finest hour ever was a highly-overmedicated Miss Lola Heatherton's soulful rendition of the Carly Simon-esque "You're All Just Parasites Draining Me of Love". She was brrrrring, trying to get some blood into her numb lips...and then, overwhelmed, she started to name names: "I'm talking to YOU, Mr. Guy Caballero!"

It was as funny as Philomena Cunk trapping some boffin in "Cunk's Fork" where she asks some unanswerable historical question and then doubles down with a second one...those big blue eyes flickering like a dying light bulb as the boffin does the hard work of explaining the obvious to England's leading philologist.

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Susan Jane's avatar

Philomena Cunk is hilarious!

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Um, was this on TV? Remember, I grew up in the Fifties and Sixties, without TV, and rarely saw it in the Seventies. Richard, please explain this to me.

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Richard Von Busack's avatar

Go to you tube and search Philomena Cunk

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Okay. Thanks!

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michellefromchicago's avatar

Oh yes! Thank you for the SCTV shout-out, Jeff. What a classic program, and sorely missed.

This is probably beneath me, but I confess to laughing every time one of the Space Nazi's rockets explodes. To quote Count Floyd, "Thees one is really scary, and I'm not keeding thees time!" Count Floyd was, I believe, referring to that great horror classic "Blood-Sucking Monkeys from West Mifflin, Pennsylvania," but the line has numerous applications....

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Cheri Collins's avatar

I laugh too, Michelle! 😂🤣😂

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DR Darke's avatar

Oh, yeah! I remember "Farm Film Report" from SCTV!

I put a short video from it on my YouTube, because like Big Jim McBob and Billy Saul Hurok? I like to see things get blowed up! Blowed Up REAL good! 😁

https://youtu.be/8jHWcABPtm0

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Dan Parker's avatar

Oh yes Jeff! I remember. Thanks for today’s excellent column and especially for revisiting the hilarity produced by our pals at SCTV!!!

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Wendy Burton's avatar

We had a good laugh 😂 thanks!

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Melanie Knadler's avatar

Loved that bit!!!

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Cheri Collins's avatar

Yes! ☺️☺️☺️

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Christine Zepka's avatar

You bet! I have actually said this at times, but no one ever knows the skit😝

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Audrey Parris's avatar

Yep. Sure do!

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Burke's avatar

Bravo to Senators Duckworth and Slotkin for telling the truth! Finally some Dem leaders who have the courage to push back on the Stupids. Where’s the rest of the opposition Party?

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Rick Calegari's avatar

These spineless cowards of the GOP have their heads in only two places; buried in the sand or far up Dump's diaper rash ass. It's amazing how many times these incompetent fucks are asked a question, they respond with a reference to the Bible. Numbnuts Pete is about as likely to read the Bible as Dump is to refuse money for selling them.

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

When in doubt, always bring up religion. The universal crutch.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Yep, fall back on religion, no matter how bad a person you are.

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

Because we've made religion untouchable. It's not to be criticized, you can use it to get special privileges at work, days off and all you need to say is that you go to church and that somehow puts you in a special category. It's always been that way since I could remember. It actually was worse when I was growing up.

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Lisa K. Obrien's avatar

…and churches still don’t pay taxes!

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Linda McCaughey's avatar

They invoke religion because nobody can prove any of them are true--or false. Catch 22.

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shee-rah's avatar

The Church of Donald Dump.

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Bonnie Council's avatar

It’s way easier to pretend you’ve read the Bible than to pretend you’ve read anything current. Like trump did when asked his favorite part of the Bible: “I wouldn’t want to get into it. Because to me, that’s very personal.” I’d like someone to ask Hegseth his favorite book besides the Bible.

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Gail Dragoo's avatar

He’d probably say,” Penthouse”.

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Rick Calegari's avatar

Might be The History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage.

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Dave Drell's avatar

The book from Ron Jeremy : The Hardest working man in Showbiz.

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meryl selig's avatar

Porn

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

They are fucking assholes. I now understand the definition of that.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

And I can tell they haven't read the Bible, the red print part. Sermon on the Mount...

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Kay's avatar

And always the reference to the previous administration. Is there a Masters class in gaslighting?

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Senator Jackie Rosen also reamed him out. But he's such an arrogant asshole, I doubt it will improve his behavior

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Susan Niemann's avatar

I saw Senator Rosen.... oh man...she was fantastic. "You dont tell me when my time is up!" 😂😂😂😂

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

My senator. Seems like women are doing a man's job in Congress.

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Burke's avatar

Seems many of the women in Congress have bigger balls than many of the men. Every Democratic Party leader and elected official should be on every media platform every day and speak the truth. Coordinate their messaging. And stop the mealy mouthed/interview/panel/navel gazing bullshit.

"Cruelty to children and innocent families is wrong!"

"Abuse of the US Treasury to support their crypto scam is criminal!"

"Misuse of the military for political gain is dishonorable!"

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HI2thDoc's avatar

The late great Betty White: “Why do people say grow some balls? Balls are fragile. Grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding!”

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Bonnie Council's avatar

👏🏻😍👏🏻

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Cheri Collins's avatar

Yes! I miss her so much!

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Rick Calegari's avatar

Makes you wonder how they could ever father children.

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James Starr's avatar

I 100% agree. Men suck when ti comes to logic and ration.

hey are good for heavy lifting and maybe installing an LED TV on the wall, but other than that, I just don't have any use for men.

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James Starr's avatar

I agree and wish democrat women would run the entire country.

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Dr J's Sanity Space's avatar

💯💯💯 I was just about to say that they were all women. Where are the men?

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shee-rah's avatar

Scared little mice.

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Marty's avatar

They always have.

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Bill Corbett's avatar

So much shit blowing up everywhere, I’m having a hard time keeping up. Glad to see an Elon disaster once in a while. It makes me wonder who would climb up on one of his rocket bombs.

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Bonnie Council's avatar

Indeed. And yet “they” (whoever “they” are) still think Space-ex should replace our FAA. That’s terrifying.

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Bob Bowden's avatar

Elon and tRump should ride the next one and be shot to Mars. Then put some belief-over-science Repubs in charge of determining the best way to bring them home, hoping they choose Thoughts and Prayers

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Caroline (OR)'s avatar

Lol, I was just saying that to my partner. I say let musk and company go on the first manned flight.

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shee-rah's avatar

It seems like they’ve all blown up lately.

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Zija Pulp's avatar

All he does is blow up stuff. He’s impatient, doesn’t listen to his engineers. If there’s a date, he’ll shoot off whatever he has, ready or not. Speaking of blowing through our money.

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meryl selig's avatar

Talk about cringe and condescending and sexist! Telling the Senator that her time was up? I wanted to claw his throat out

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Same here. A real ass!

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Katy Lea's avatar

I loved when Slotkin told him that he didn't have the balls of his predecessor. Fan-fucking-tastic.

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meryl selig's avatar

Right?!? Go for the balls, Elissa

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Linda Weide's avatar

Burke, there are others, and you know what, they have been attacked by Trump's henchmen in ICE. Or shot dead for their positions protecting our rights.

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Cathy Carrozza's avatar

Senator Mazie Hirono from Hawaii had plenty to say to kegstand also! The women brought the fight to the hearing yesterday!!

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

cowering under their desks?

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Abigail Norling's avatar

WHY is it always the women who have the cojones to tell these simpering fools that they DO NOT have any!

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shee-rah's avatar

These women would not have been elected if they didn’t know how to mix it up with assholes.

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Bonnie Council's avatar

My thoughts exactly! We definitely need more like them to put some blood in this fight. And it’s definitely a fight, for our very survival.

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Linda McCaughey's avatar

In the Good Ole Boys Club.

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MargaretT's avatar

My Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth does...not...mince...words! And Slotkin's follow-up was perfect. Outstanding take downs by both of them.

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Fastball Fredo's avatar

Jeff, just rereading what our SOD, the DUI hire, former Fox fluffer and all around douche boy doing Donald’s bidding… “Senator, I’d be careful of what you read in books, and believing it, except for the Bible” My jaw dropped at the conceit, the smirk, the denigration of learning through books, the inability to admit a mistake or error. Pretty much sums up this whole MAGA movement… condescending, condemning, smirking and on and on. Engineered Incompetence…

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Mary Hall's avatar

If the Bible is proof of God, then "Lord of the Rings" is proof of hobbits.

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arne link's avatar

Also, Mordor. I'm pretty sure we are living in Mordor now.

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Gary Ross Genasci's avatar

rofl

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Dave Drell's avatar

UrukHai: Ask not what Sauron can do for you, ask when can we eat the Hobbits!

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Fantasy can span many forms, haha

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Really fabulous sentiment Mary, love it!!

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

As a short hobbit type person, I agree.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

I guess you really exist! (I read LOTR)

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

It's true! Ever since about 1964...

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Susan Niemann's avatar

That smirk-YES! I'd love to have the chance to smack it off his face. Pete is a real POS.

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Hollie Rood's avatar

Word of the Day

BACKPFEIFENGESICHT

German term for a face that badly needs a punch🥊 🥊 🥊

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Ingrid Robertshaw's avatar

I never heard that word..but...it sounds very apropos in this case! I have another word: RICHTIG in die FRATZE! Pow

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Richard Von Busack's avatar

He'd probably start crying.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Or say, "Yes! Can I have it on my ass next time, Mistress?"

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Cheri Collins's avatar

🤣

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Hollie Rood's avatar

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Susan Niemann's avatar

👏👏👏👏👏

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meryl selig's avatar

I seriously could have clawed his throat

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

He's a misogynist. His own mother berated him for his treatment of women. I can just imagine the names he called them when he got out of that hearing.

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kdsherpa's avatar

Didn't she tell him not to come home for Thanksgiving after the orange sadist won? (Oops. That was Jesse Waters's mother.)

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Hegseth's mother walked back the comments after they were publicized. I guess the truth looked too harsh on her wonderful piece of shit son

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Hollie Rood's avatar

Easy to confuse one misogynist for the other🤢

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James Starr's avatar

is the POS married? if so what does his wife see in him?

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Betsy L's avatar

Yes, he's on his third wife, and, just like his boss, #3 is the one he cheated on #2 with. On top of that, #3, who doesn't have any security clearance whatsoever, accompanies him to all his meetings (except maybe this hearing). It's speculated that she's there to keep him from drinking and flirting/leering at other women.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Some witty folks have speculated that she’s his designated driver too

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meryl selig's avatar

These douches always find a dumb accessory wife who think she is gaining access to status, wealth or power. Subjugation is not a deal-killer for their women. Just slap a big gaudy cross around their necks, make sure they have had breast enhancements, and have powerful hair curling tools.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

These poor delusional women. Usha Vance also comes to mind. At least Melania is cashing in 💵💰🤑🤑🤑

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Victoria Wilson's avatar

Yes, engineered incompetence and just plain fucking stupid…

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Bonnie Council's avatar

And this explains, too, why they’re defunding & attacking all forms of education, especially higher education. They’re terrified of educated people!

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Kay-El's avatar
1dEdited

Wheel of Moron will be outdone by Let’s Make A Crazy Deal where door #1 is a cybertruck, door #2 is an all expenses paid vacation to another country’s prison or #3 a nuclear warhead that will explode in 10 minutes.

Thanks to the Senators for chewing up Kegstand like a dog toy. Women senators for the win!

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Always Kay, we could certainly use more of them, speaking of which, you…

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kdsherpa's avatar

“I may do it, I may not do it. I mean, nobody knows what I’m going to do."

What he didn’t add is “And I don’t know what I’m going to do, either".

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Brenda McDonald's avatar

Kdsherpa: he has a concept of a plan.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

We will hear about it in 2 weeks.

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Walt I was this close to posting that too, it’s a well known and infamous lie he tells depending where the ‘wheel of moron’ happens to stop.

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Louise Pattison's avatar

I assume that's the same "two weeks" we've been waiting for his health care plan since ... err ... 2018?

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Theresa Palmer's avatar

Like infrastructure and medical insurance.

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Lisa's avatar

An idea of a possible idea.

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Carol C's avatar

Wasn’t it also something like, “I’m not telling you reporters, and you have no right to ask me.”

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kdsherpa's avatar

Did he actually say that?! (He did say what I quoted above.)

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Carol C's avatar

It was my interpretation of his remarks and attitude.

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kdsherpa's avatar

Got it. Thanks.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

“If I only had a brain” tune is pinging around in mon tete kd!!

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kdsherpa's avatar

Now you've got that tune pinging around MY brain, Patrick!

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Susan Niemann's avatar

"America’s Game-Show-Host-in-Chief is going to spin the Wheel of Moron, and no one has any clue where it will land — not even the game show host." 😂😂 Do we laugh or cry in horror?

"Donny Delano Roosetrump" 🤣🤣 I'm choosing laughter.

So, whats with the E-4B Doomsday plane sighting? We're all gonna die because of this demented old asshole, arent we...

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kdsherpa's avatar

Not gonna laugh. Not gonna cry. Gonna SCREAM!!!

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Can you hear me screaming in Philadelphia???😱

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

I thought that was an ambulance going by, Susan.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

HA! 😂😂😂

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

You heard her in Oregon? That's 3000 miles!!!!

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

It sounded like she was floating down the nearby Clackamas River, bellowing for all the residents of Orygun to hear.

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Cheri Collins's avatar

🤣

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kdsherpa's avatar

Yes! I think I can!

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Eva Porter's avatar

I love that the two democrats in question are women who served.

Hegseth is a tool

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

Jackie Rosen wasn't in the military, neither was Slotkin. Slotkin was a CIA analyst.

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Eva Porter's avatar

Ah, sorry. Thought Slotkin was.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Oh god! DEI!

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Lisa's avatar

Kegstand doesn’t seem to understand that he got castrated by two female members of congress, in front of EVERYONE!! I think he needs to have random breathalyzer tests!

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

Oh, I'm sure he knows. Misogynists have radar out for any female behavior that is threatening to them.

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Oh, oh I want to spin the wheel on that one ‘answer is…the private make up booth is stocked with ready to go flasks of moonshine.

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Dave Drell's avatar

Exactly- he headed back to the Pentagon; slammed the door to his special make up room; reached into the drawer and pulled out a fifth of Bourbon.

“Fucking broads” he murmured. “I’m gonna kick their asses someday!”

Then he falls asleep on the desk.

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Moe and Effie's avatar

Laughing my butt off!

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

😂😂😂😂😂

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Susan Kemp's avatar

Tammy Duckworth is my Senator and I absolutely love her. Slotting is great too.

“Wheel of Moron” you really do have the best words!

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Lee Ann Vindasius's avatar

Senator Duckworth is a pitbull not to be poked. I love her. She chewed him up and spit him out like a rag doll with a squeaker inside.

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Flo Plazo's avatar

squeaker deftly removed

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Lord John Whorfin's avatar

The spacex rocket exploded during a “static fire test”

I can’t imagine what an emergency would look like.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Why the fuck did the NASA outsource to this self promoting screwup supreme?

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rlritt's avatar

Because he inherited a bunch of money and bought a car company, so they thought he could build rockets. Makes sense. He's rich so he must be smart.

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kdsherpa's avatar

NOW I get it. Of course rich people are smart! Everyone else is dumb, including researchers at NIH, professors at Harvard, and so on.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Rich people are smart to choose rich parents! Darn, why didn't I think of that?

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kdsherpa's avatar

You didn't think of it because you are dumb.

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rlritt's avatar
17hEdited

Yeah, I could slap myself for not figuring it out before I was born.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Talk to ordinary people, on the bus, on the street, security guards, people in line at the grocery store. You'll find that they are as smart as people with Ph.Ds. I'm always amazed by talents and knowledge of people on the street. I know I live in Berkeley, but these are not Berkeley students or teachers.

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kdsherpa's avatar

I agree! I only wrote what I did to make a point.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

I think a lot of rich people are really stupid, since they inherit their money. One family in particular springs to mind.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Ouch

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kdsherpa's avatar

(I'm sorry, but it's true.) /s

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

I would say that Musk (until Jan, 2025) pulled the biggest scam on the American/world public of this century. His innovative cars, he's so smart, he's so well educated, Blah blah blah. All lies. And we drank his Koolaid willingly until it made us sick this year.

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James Starr's avatar

True, he is not smart.. he has he money, though, to commission smart people in the shadows to complete his assignments and then take all the credit...anyone who is naïve and 'nots smart' will think he is smart. And that is the entire magasphere.

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Gina's avatar

and the magic term: privatization...so much better than socialistic govt programs doncha know

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meryl selig's avatar

Remnants of Puritan ethic: accumulating wealth was seen as a sign of Divine Favor. If you were “successful” it was aided by God’s grace

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Lisa K. Obrien's avatar

Now coming to you in real time courtesy of the Prosperity gospel.

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rlritt's avatar

Absolutely, that has been an American measure of goodness. Rich people good, Bad people bad.

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SLS's avatar

Nowadays known as the "Prosperity Gospel"...

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Somebody close to donny got in his ear.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Sadly, I think it happened earlier, maybe in the Obama admin. Not sure

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Mary Hall's avatar

That's at least the third Eloon rocket in 2025 that had a 'rapid unscheduled disassembly'.

"If NASA had the failure rate SpaceX does, Elon Musk would be firing everyone, and Congress would be demanding to know where the money is going." -- Sundae Gurl

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

It makes me wonder what if it had a nuclear bomb payload, who are we trying to demolish? Us?

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kdsherpa's avatar

Too bad the muskrat wasn't in it.

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Richard Von Busack's avatar

Isn't it.

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

He's going to end up killing people on the ground with his crappy rockets.

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arne link's avatar

So many failures make me wonder if there is passive resistance in the engineering department.

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

Hmmm. Never thought of that. Sometimes nothing is sweeter than passive aggressive behavior. Kind of like the Army not marching in step in the “perade” last Saturday. LOL.

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Neal Stiffelman's avatar

“Don’t get blowed up” is my nightly prayer.

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Darrell Smith's avatar

Questionable tattoo indeed. Rump chose the most unqualified, idiotic, imbeciles to serve himself, not the Americans like they are supposed to.

Everyone needs to take a page from Comer and Jordan: attack, attack, attack. Our government is really that bad. The Toddler King doesn't care if you die. He just wants to feel good about himself. All he says is a stream of disturbed consciousness fabrication. Like gas is $1.88 a gallon. It has gone from $2.73 to $2.89 a gallon here in the last couple days. Arkansas has close to the cheapest gas. Most items have gone up in price inside the Hope Walmart. If someone tells you that no, no, you're wrong and I am right when you have seen the reality with your own eyes, that someone is insane.

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rlritt's avatar

He like them because they were on TV. Just like people voted for Trump because he played a smart businessman on TV. He's not smart.

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Dave Drell's avatar

“played” is the oxymoron word here.

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Doreen Dalesandro's avatar

'Not smart' is too kind🤓

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arne link's avatar

$2.89 for gas? I can't even imagine...

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HI2thDoc's avatar

I can. In 1987 here

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

I think it was 25 cents a gallon when I graduated from high school in 1968. I didn't drive, just took the bus. Hamburger was 39 cents a lb. that summer. That's why you could rent your own studio apt. and live on minimum wage of $1.65 an hour, 40 hours a week. Read it and weep.

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Mary Lou Williams's avatar

And a free car wash if you filled up

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Darrell Smith's avatar

I worked for $1.60 an hour myself. I got paid every two weeks and took home $108 after taxes and withholding. I did that for a year then found a job that paid $2.05 an hour and overtime. I had a house to pay for and utilities. I have a different set of concerns now being retired.

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Darrell Smith's avatar

Mississippi, Louisiana, and parts of Texas have gas cheaper than Arkansas. What I quoted is the current price here.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

The Left Coast gets absolutely reamed on gas prices…which has never been adequately explained to me

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Darrell Smith's avatar

I was born in San Francisco and grew up in the Bay Area during the 1950s and 60s. Gas was 26 cents a gallon at self serv stations in 1966 and a fill up earned a handful of S&H Green Stamps. In the following years, the state taxes per gallon climbed drastically.

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

Nevada has one of the highest state taxes on gasoline. Our gas will never be cheap here. My gasoline cost per week is hardly my highest bill and I never eat eggs.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

"what the market will bear." Because free market capitalism

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rlritt's avatar

Orange County, CA $4.86.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

The largest discrepancy between state gas taxes is $.50 (Alaska vs California). That alone does not explain a price difference of $1 to $2 per gallon between southeast and west.

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

We are paying $5 still.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

$4.99 in Berkeley. Fortunately we have solar and EVs. My son hasn't paid for gas since 2016.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Credibly accused sexual assaulter, or rapist, to be specific, Hegseth references the Bible as his go-to resource for behavior. Of course

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HI2thDoc's avatar

To be fair, there probably is rape in the Bible. There is definitely murder, incest, adultery, slavery, etc. Lot's daughters used intoxication to have incestuous sex with him. So Pete's despicable behavior is covered!

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Carol C's avatar

Yeah, but Lot’s daughters did it to keep their tribe from dying out, what with no other male alive to give them babies.

Pete loves his own personal religion that forgives him, over and over. Repentance not required, nor is forgiveness required to be extended to other people.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Yes, the unnamed daughters had good intentions. Just saying that incest is in the Bible

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Carol C's avatar

Yes, incest and so much more!

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Betsy L's avatar

Before the incest, Lot offered his daughters to a mob. They'd come to his house to kill two strangers who were staying with him, who were angels in disguise. The mob turned him down, so the angels struck them with blindness. Makes you wonder what the angels would have done if the mob had taken advantage of Lot's offer.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Probably? The killing of Dinah...by her brothers for sex with an outsider.

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Please somebody ask him; the favorite verse trap it’s nuclear! He will have to go with ‘too personal’ or spin the wheel of moron, it could come up with the same answer.

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Glen's avatar

Has anybody done a study of how many rapes and murders occur in the Bible? Asking for a friend

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Not sure, but I saw someone here on Substack say that by their count, Old Testament God killed millions with plagues and the flood, whereas Satan killed only around 10 (in Job's family)

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Doreen Dalesandro's avatar

🤮

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Aleksander Constantinoropolous's avatar

At this point, “Wheel of Moron” is the only game show where the consolation prize is global annihilation and the host doesn't even know what decade he's in. We went from "walk softly and carry a big stick" to "ramble incoherently and tweet nuclear threats at 3AM." If Trump had been president during the Civil War, we'd still be debating whether human beings should count as three-fifths or maybe just half on alternate Sundays.

And can we talk about that Bible line? The only thing Kegstand reads cover to cover is the back of a Monster Energy can. These guys weaponize patriotism while actively making the military unrecognizable to anyone who's ever served with integrity. Tammy Duckworth and Elissa Slotkin aren’t just serving truth. They’re exorcising the demons of mediocrity with a flamethrower.

Blessed be the veterans who still believe in democracy. May the rest of them find a map to reality.

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Alison Parker's avatar

Absolutely cackled at "Wheel of Moron" 🤣

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Larry Bushard's avatar

Keg stand got humiliated in a way that only two heroic women could.. Unfortunately we have a severely mentally challenged diaper wearing buffoon in the White House and we can’t be sure where he will take us, except it will be nowhere good!

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