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.
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
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.
::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.::
Well, SCTV was Canadian, yaknow, Eh? If they ever go to war against the United States like Trump seems to want? They'll be apologizing to every one of our soldiers they kill! 😂
SNL's first Head Writer, Michael O'Donoghue, liked to say he was writing "Comedy from the barrel of a gun", and he had a lot of battles with NBC over what he wrote and what he approved. He was ultimately fired from SNL after writing a sketch "The Last Days in Fred Silverman's Bunker" (a lampoon of THE LAST DAYS IN HITLER'S BUNKER miniseries), which is a rare occasion where a judge ruled something *had* been written with "malice aforethought" (even *cause celebre* pieces of writing like HUSTLER's "Jerry Falwell On His First Time", where they parodied a series of high-class liquor ads by making the innuendo explicit, and having Falwell talk about fucking his mother in the pigpen, were considered to have been written with an "absence of malice"!).
SNL keeps trying to live up to that cutting-comedy standard.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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....
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.
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.
::DR, Doug and Bob, you all of that crew ended up in Hollywood for big money!::
I'm not about to blame them for that! I'd love to get cut off a piece of Big Hollywood Money! I've been writing screenplays for the last five years hoping for some of that Big (or even not so big) Hollywood money....
Rick Moranis, before he got typecast as "the nerdy weakling", turned in some great performances, like STREETS OF FIRE's Billy Fish—a tough-talking asshole manager whose mouth kept writing checks his body couldn't remotely cash. He even got away with openly pointing out Amy Madigan's fellow-soldier McCoy was a lesbian—back in 1984 when if you had an out LGBT character, THAT was what the movie was about!
John Candy elevated nearly every movie he was in before he died. And if it weren't for Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara (and Levy's son Dan), we wouldn't have SHITT'S CREEK....
I can’t tell but you do know as a Minnesotan I love Canadians. I’ve said it many times right here and by my actions, I went whenever I could and would speak and I know why they didn’t finish painting there houses it raised their taxes a miserable word especially there. Many drove to MN to get gasoline as one example. But SCTV was the birthplace of so much talent that continues. Just so you know where I’m coming from. Dopey must go!
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…
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.
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.
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!
"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?
I had to Google it. Not on the tip of my tongue lol. She was CIA in Iraq during several tours so she actually probably has more knowledge of their (Middle East) politics and inside info than some in the military did.
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!
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
I worked for $1.25/hour on the line cooking burgers WITHOUT AC in a Southern state, at Burger Chef when I was 16 years old. (I supported myself at that time.)
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.
When I was in college - 1967 - 1971, gas was 30 cents a gallon at the gas station near my college in Utica, NY. My first car was a Pontiac Firebird, 1970. $3,500. Red with a white vinyl top. 8 cylinder of course. Then came the ridiculous gas lines in the early 70's which gave the oil companies a reason to hike up the price of gas. We started seeing foreign 4 cylinder cars in this country and the rest is history.
I am kind of ashamed to admit it, but my first car in 1966 was a 1951 Kaiser Deluxe four door sedan with overdrive. I had been mowing yards and saving my money for a car and was able to buy the Kaiser for $35. It was a yellow plate California car and in mint condition. Girls didn't want to ride in it, they said "it looks like a big fish". Aircraft grey was a popular color in the early 50s.
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.
Nope. And our property taxes in Vegas aren't high. Our excise tax on cars when you get your plates is high. But overall, it doesn't come close to what I'd be paying on my income if we had state tax. Like most people, my highest consumer expense is food. I don't know why gasoline and eggs seem to be the barometer of what's expensive and what's not. It's not for me.
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.
Here in SC, because tax is so low on gas, we just filled the tank at Costco for $2.59 a gallon. Also got 18 eggs at Costco for $4.69. Gas not at Costco is $2.89, and 18 eggs are $12.00. Costco sticks with DEI, and I'm going to do everything I can to support them!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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!
everyone remembers the Farm Film Report from SCTV, right?
I’m sure several million of our taxpayer dollars got “blowed up real good” along with Elon’s surrogate penis
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.
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
Sure do. Blew up real good. Just like Donny’s foreign policy--except less lethal and more scripted.
Big Jim McBob and Billy Saul Hurock are mensa members compared to this administration.
SCTV was great!
Canadians.
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
Graham Greene
great movie
Yes, the incomparable Red Green.
Mark, So many men liked it , let us say the oath “forgive us for we are men, we can change, if we have to”! Says it all.
I loved that sketch.
SCTV was superior to Saturday Night Live in my opinion.
in that it was frequently funny - SNL is so ... lame
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.
Still does. I peek at Weekend Update now and then. Their humor has devolved to racist and sexist jokes.
::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.::
Well, SCTV was Canadian, yaknow, Eh? If they ever go to war against the United States like Trump seems to want? They'll be apologizing to every one of our soldiers they kill! 😂
SNL's first Head Writer, Michael O'Donoghue, liked to say he was writing "Comedy from the barrel of a gun", and he had a lot of battles with NBC over what he wrote and what he approved. He was ultimately fired from SNL after writing a sketch "The Last Days in Fred Silverman's Bunker" (a lampoon of THE LAST DAYS IN HITLER'S BUNKER miniseries), which is a rare occasion where a judge ruled something *had* been written with "malice aforethought" (even *cause celebre* pieces of writing like HUSTLER's "Jerry Falwell On His First Time", where they parodied a series of high-class liquor ads by making the innuendo explicit, and having Falwell talk about fucking his mother in the pigpen, were considered to have been written with an "absence of malice"!).
SNL keeps trying to live up to that cutting-comedy standard.
SNL at its best was brilliant—but that was usually wrapped around a LOT of stuff that ranged from "ehh" to "fuck this bullshit"....
SCTV was consistently really funny.
I watched SCTV in the wee hours while my parents were fast asleep!
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.
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.
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.
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.
It’s painful honestly
❤️🩹
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....
I laugh too, Michelle! 😂🤣😂
Not me I don't remember it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIUl_UKW68g. you can fast forward to about a minute in
Thanks for the link to the great John Candy! Presaging the MAGAs way before it happened.
OMG. Thats hilarious. I felt like I was back in Missouri. 😂😂
Thanks for sharing that! I love John Candy!
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.
Philomena Cunk is hilarious!
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.
Go to you tube and search Philomena Cunk
Okay. Thanks!
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
DR, Doug and Bob, you all of that crew ended up in Hollywood for big money!
::DR, Doug and Bob, you all of that crew ended up in Hollywood for big money!::
I'm not about to blame them for that! I'd love to get cut off a piece of Big Hollywood Money! I've been writing screenplays for the last five years hoping for some of that Big (or even not so big) Hollywood money....
Rick Moranis, before he got typecast as "the nerdy weakling", turned in some great performances, like STREETS OF FIRE's Billy Fish—a tough-talking asshole manager whose mouth kept writing checks his body couldn't remotely cash. He even got away with openly pointing out Amy Madigan's fellow-soldier McCoy was a lesbian—back in 1984 when if you had an out LGBT character, THAT was what the movie was about!
John Candy elevated nearly every movie he was in before he died. And if it weren't for Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara (and Levy's son Dan), we wouldn't have SHITT'S CREEK....
I can’t tell but you do know as a Minnesotan I love Canadians. I’ve said it many times right here and by my actions, I went whenever I could and would speak and I know why they didn’t finish painting there houses it raised their taxes a miserable word especially there. Many drove to MN to get gasoline as one example. But SCTV was the birthplace of so much talent that continues. Just so you know where I’m coming from. Dopey must go!
Oh yes Jeff! I remember. Thanks for today’s excellent column and especially for revisiting the hilarity produced by our pals at SCTV!!!
We had a good laugh 😂 thanks!
Loved that bit!!!
Yes! ☺️☺️☺️
Canadian here: Yup.
Yup, eh?
You bet! I have actually said this at times, but no one ever knows the skit😝
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…
If the Bible is proof of God, then "Lord of the Rings" is proof of hobbits.
Also, Mordor. I'm pretty sure we are living in Mordor now.
rofl
UrukHai: Ask not what Sauron can do for you, ask when can we eat the Hobbits!
Fantasy can span many forms, haha
Really fabulous sentiment Mary, love it!!
As a short hobbit type person, I agree.
I guess you really exist! (I read LOTR)
It's true! Ever since about 1964...
That smirk-YES! I'd love to have the chance to smack it off his face. Pete is a real POS.
Word of the Day
BACKPFEIFENGESICHT
German term for a face that badly needs a punch🥊 🥊 🥊
I never heard that word..but...it sounds very apropos in this case! I have another word: RICHTIG in die FRATZE! Pow
He'd probably start crying.
Or say, "Yes! Can I have it on my ass next time, Mistress?"
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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
👏👏👏👏👏
I seriously could have clawed his throat
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.
Didn't she tell him not to come home for Thanksgiving after the orange sadist won? (Oops. That was Jesse Waters's mother.)
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
Easy to confuse one misogynist for the other🤢
is the POS married? if so what does his wife see in him?
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.
Some witty folks have speculated that she’s his designated driver too
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.
These poor delusional women. Usha Vance also comes to mind. At least Melania is cashing in 💵💰🤑🤑🤑
Yes, engineered incompetence and just plain fucking stupid…
And this explains, too, why they’re defunding & attacking all forms of education, especially higher education. They’re terrified of educated people!
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!
Always Kay, we could certainly use more of them, speaking of which, you…
“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".
Kdsherpa: he has a concept of a plan.
We will hear about it in 2 weeks.
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.
Like infrastructure and medical insurance.
I assume that's the same "two weeks" we've been waiting for his health care plan since ... err ... 2018?
An idea of a possible idea.
Wasn’t it also something like, “I’m not telling you reporters, and you have no right to ask me.”
Did he actually say that?! (He did say what I quoted above.)
It was my interpretation of his remarks and attitude.
Got it. Thanks.
“If I only had a brain” tune is pinging around in mon tete kd!!
Now you've got that tune pinging around MY brain, Patrick!
"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...
Not gonna laugh. Not gonna cry. Gonna SCREAM!!!
Can you hear me screaming in Philadelphia???😱
I thought that was an ambulance going by, Susan.
HA! 😂😂😂
You heard her in Oregon? That's 3000 miles!!!!
It sounded like she was floating down the nearby Clackamas River, bellowing for all the residents of Orygun to hear.
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Yes! I think I can!
I love that the two democrats in question are women who served.
Hegseth is a tool
Jackie Rosen wasn't in the military, neither was Slotkin. Slotkin was a CIA analyst.
Ah, sorry. Thought Slotkin was.
I had to Google it. Not on the tip of my tongue lol. She was CIA in Iraq during several tours so she actually probably has more knowledge of their (Middle East) politics and inside info than some in the military did.
Oh god! DEI!
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!
Oh, I'm sure he knows. Misogynists have radar out for any female behavior that is threatening to them.
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.
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.
Laughing my butt off!
😂😂😂😂😂
Tammy Duckworth is my Senator and I absolutely love her. Slotting is great too.
“Wheel of Moron” you really do have the best words!
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.
squeaker deftly removed
The spacex rocket exploded during a “static fire test”
I can’t imagine what an emergency would look like.
Why the fuck did the NASA outsource to this self promoting screwup supreme?
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.
NOW I get it. Of course rich people are smart! Everyone else is dumb, including researchers at NIH, professors at Harvard, and so on.
Rich people are smart to choose rich parents! Darn, why didn't I think of that?
You didn't think of it because you are dumb.
Yeah, I could slap myself for not figuring it out before I was born.
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.
I agree! I only wrote what I did to make a point.
I think a lot of rich people are really stupid, since they inherit their money. One family in particular springs to mind.
Ouch
(I'm sorry, but it's true.) /s
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.
and the magic term: privatization...so much better than socialistic govt programs doncha know
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
Now coming to you in real time courtesy of the Prosperity gospel.
Absolutely, that has been an American measure of goodness. Rich people good, Bad people bad.
Nowadays known as the "Prosperity Gospel"...
Somebody close to donny got in his ear.
Sadly, I think it happened earlier, maybe in the Obama admin. Not sure
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
It makes me wonder what if it had a nuclear bomb payload, who are we trying to demolish? Us?
Too bad the muskrat wasn't in it.
Isn't it.
He's going to end up killing people on the ground with his crappy rockets.
So many failures make me wonder if there is passive resistance in the engineering department.
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.
“Don’t get blowed up” is my nightly prayer.
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.
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.
“played” is the oxymoron word here.
'Not smart' is too kind🤓
$2.89 for gas? I can't even imagine...
I can. In 1987 here
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.
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.
I worked for $1.25/hour on the line cooking burgers WITHOUT AC in a Southern state, at Burger Chef when I was 16 years old. (I supported myself at that time.)
And a free car wash if you filled up
Mississippi, Louisiana, and parts of Texas have gas cheaper than Arkansas. What I quoted is the current price here.
The Left Coast gets absolutely reamed on gas prices…which has never been adequately explained to me
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.
When I was in college - 1967 - 1971, gas was 30 cents a gallon at the gas station near my college in Utica, NY. My first car was a Pontiac Firebird, 1970. $3,500. Red with a white vinyl top. 8 cylinder of course. Then came the ridiculous gas lines in the early 70's which gave the oil companies a reason to hike up the price of gas. We started seeing foreign 4 cylinder cars in this country and the rest is history.
I am kind of ashamed to admit it, but my first car in 1966 was a 1951 Kaiser Deluxe four door sedan with overdrive. I had been mowing yards and saving my money for a car and was able to buy the Kaiser for $35. It was a yellow plate California car and in mint condition. Girls didn't want to ride in it, they said "it looks like a big fish". Aircraft grey was a popular color in the early 50s.
Once I had a car, I could get a real job.
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.
But no state income tax, right?
Nope. And our property taxes in Vegas aren't high. Our excise tax on cars when you get your plates is high. But overall, it doesn't come close to what I'd be paying on my income if we had state tax. Like most people, my highest consumer expense is food. I don't know why gasoline and eggs seem to be the barometer of what's expensive and what's not. It's not for me.
"what the market will bear." Because free market capitalism
Orange County, CA $4.86.
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.
We are paying $5 still.
Almost $6 on a neighbor (not Oahu) island 🏝️ in HI
Here in SC, because tax is so low on gas, we just filled the tank at Costco for $2.59 a gallon. Also got 18 eggs at Costco for $4.69. Gas not at Costco is $2.89, and 18 eggs are $12.00. Costco sticks with DEI, and I'm going to do everything I can to support them!
$4.99 in Berkeley. Fortunately we have solar and EVs. My son hasn't paid for gas since 2016.
Credibly accused sexual assaulter, or rapist, to be specific, Hegseth references the Bible as his go-to resource for behavior. Of course
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!
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.
Yes, the unnamed daughters had good intentions. Just saying that incest is in the Bible
Yes, incest and so much more!
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.
Probably? The killing of Dinah...by her brothers for sex with an outsider.
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.
Has anybody done a study of how many rapes and murders occur in the Bible? Asking for a friend
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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Where men are men and the sheep are nervous?
Haha. It’s still that way in red farming states
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.
Absolutely cackled at "Wheel of Moron" 🤣
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!
On to Mars! Get on board, Musk.