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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

indulge me for having used that faucet clip for something like the third time in the last few weeks. it's never been more relevant than it was for today's post

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Kay-El's avatar

Keep on keeping on using it. It’ll always be relevant in reminding us who Orange Fuckwit is and what he isn’t.

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Bob Bowden's avatar

What he isn’t is a person with mental acuity able to absorb facts and formulate a solution to a challenging problem. We are so fucked

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Marycat2021's avatar

One of the worst problems is that Donny is amassing a lot of bad, criminal and incompetent people all around him who manipulate him with flattery and hare-brained crap straight from the right wing fever swamps. Blaming DEI for wildfires is just one example. And of course, the worthless scribblers play along.

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Jane's avatar

When I saw the McDonald's clip last night, my mind couldn't grasp it. It registered as something sped up dramatically for effect. I have to keep reminding myself it's the simple truth. My sister, her husband, and their animals are safe. I don't know what you do if your house burns down, fire insurance is inadequate, and you still owe on your mortgage. I guess we'll find out.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

When Corporate America's fast-food Giant can't protect itself from climate change, then you know that something very big is going on.

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Discrete Music's avatar

“Climate change” A Frank Luntz soothing word.

ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL BROILING, how about.

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Sharon Senkiew's avatar

McDonald’s can’t even keep up with hurricane damage- they still haven’t fixed their blown-down signs from the hurricane in October here in Florida.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

McD's gonna start selling McNomex Home Wraps

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Marycat2021's avatar

What are you talking about?

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

To be completely clear, I might have said: “If mcdonald's cannot protect itself from climate change, you know that something very big is going on.”

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Marycat2021's avatar

Like what?

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

If McDonald's cannot protect itself from climate change you know that something very big, namely climate change, is going on.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Assuming that insurance and property values remain in the turbo-charged state, most will be able to rebuild. However, memories and other valuables will be lost forever!!

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

The very wealthy will be able to rebuild but not the others unless FEMA and insurance companies help. We, in Northern CA, have sent our fire crews to SoCal and guess what country sent theirs? CANADA!

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CAM from 🇨🇦's avatar

👍❤️

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Susan Linehan's avatar

Well hey, if Canada becomes the 51st state trump can just ORDER them to send water and help, as opposed to relying on things like compassion and good will and human decency.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

No, no, no. We're dropping the US down to 47 states. WA, OR, and CA will be joining Canada as the province of Cascadia.

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arne link's avatar

If only.

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Cat Cafe's avatar

YES. But not the far eastern white-supremacist parts of WA and OR, they can stay with their brethren in Idaho.

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HMorgan's avatar

I do hope that Canada picks up Maine as well - we're cheek-by-jowl and share the same fishing waters of the Atlantic... I'd be very happy to be Canadian!

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Teri's avatar

Ellen, what about sawing the eastern part of each state? We'll need to root out maga. Now, all the red state Dems want into 'S 51st Province: Getting rid of Eastern areas of 3 states + rooted down maga should get us enough space.

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Susan Linehan's avatar

If you shouted that out on the Streets of Seattle, the Ayes would raise the skies!

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PTW's avatar

YES, please!!!!!!

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Marycat2021's avatar

Well, we could also attach a giant fire hose to that giant faucet...

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Teri's avatar

Susan I don't see trying to take over anywhere anytime soon. Our military, MG, CG take oath to the Constitution.

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Susan Linehan's avatar

🤞🤞🤞 Though I do worry about the setting up of paramilitary forces in some way. Maybe subverting some red state National Guards? Or covert funding of opponents of the Panamanian Government to take over and then "cede" the Canal to the US? Never forget the Contras.

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arne link's avatar

Because Canada is a civilized country, unlike our own.

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Teri's avatar

Bravo to our friends & cherished neighbors in Canada. Wait, has Joe quietly made CA a province? It only makes sense to do WA & OR too! 🇨🇦🇨🇦 jk

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

CA, Oregon, Washington, NY, Ill, & Mass, possibly VA & VT are forming a united coalition. Well, at least in my mind, they are.

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Marycat2021's avatar

And Maine.

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Jane's avatar

Most insurers in California shy away from fire insurance and a number of folks I know up here in No Cal have been unable to get fire insurance that would cover replacement cost. I haven't asked my sister about her insurance, since I don't think she has had time to consider the full implications as yet. But property values (raw land) in a place that just burned to the ground are unlikely to increase any time soon. Remember, the entire infrastructure of Pacific Palisades is gone. Banks, grocery stores, cafes, gas stations -- all gone. The city will have to be rebuilt before anyone will want to buy there even though a sale of raw land will not be sufficient to pay any remaining mortgage on a home purchased while the area was livable.

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Teri's avatar

Jane, as of 1/1/25 IIRC CA made changes to get more ins. companies to write homeowners' policies in CA. Now this. 😓

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Doc Blase''s avatar

Elbow Mush could buy the entire Palisades and turn it into a MAGAt enclave, "Dizzyland."

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skangirl's avatar

I'm surprised that ill douché didn't scream about Biden not sending in the National Guard to protect McDonalds. (If only they had swept the forest floors.)

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arne link's avatar

Wait, Il Duche? My God, that is brilliant. Thank you.

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skangirl's avatar

Not so fast, cowboy! I've patented and/or copyrighted it! Okay, as long as you use it wisely.

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Douglas's avatar

don't laugh about 'sweeping the forest floors' as that asshat real estate magnate that lost election for LA Mayor is blaming Newsome for not removing brush in forests..its exactly what Trump thinks.

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shee-rah's avatar

I’m surprised Dumbass didn’t tap him for a Cabinet position.

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Teri's avatar

Fact: 57 percent of CA land belongs to the US GOVT. They are 100 percent responsible for upkeep, fire suppression, vegetation removal etc. CF got schooled in this by a brave CalFire Captain when in 2018 CF blamed Newsom.

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Gina's avatar

in South Carolina people who lost their homes in the hurricane/flood are still being dinged for property tax....and how can insurance companies stay in business? gonna be baaaaad

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Doc Blase''s avatar

One of the LA residents stated that their bank is expecting the mortgage payments to continue for the ash-covered lot where their home once stood.

That is double-tough, with the insurance companies slow-walking their coverage, if they even HAD fire coverage. Disaster doesn't quite describe it.

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Rhoda Ozen's avatar

So sorry for all the losses from the fire. My daughter lives in LA but luckily she’s in Paris now but her neighbors called her and said her building is being evacuated and they grabbed whatever they could.

Her friend lost their home and kids school.

Jane I hope everything works out well for you and your family.

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Jane's avatar

thank you!

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Teri's avatar

Jane, glad your family members are safe. Best wishes a fair result on her house.

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Jane's avatar

Thank you, Teri!

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

If you think the McDonald's clip is terrifying, think about the car in the clip that is driving by. I know the driver's and passenger's minds were completely blown seeing all those sparks. Remember they've had wind gusts up 176 mph, which are Cat 5 hurricane speeds.

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Marycat2021's avatar

In 1987 my house burned down. We lost everything, but I never cared because my babies were safe.

Fire insurance is adequate. The Red Cross also helps a lot. Your fire insurance goes to the bank, and that payment should cover the replacement value of your home, should you decide to rebuild, otherwise they pay off what you owe. You put the loss on your tax returns.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Jeff, you wrote, “I shit you not.” Jeff, you have never shitted me one time! So, stop fucking apologizing! Holy Christ on a cupcake!!! How much do I have to put up with?!!

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Susan Niemann's avatar

😂 One thing I count on is complete honesty from Jeff! 👏👏

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Teri's avatar

😂😂😂😂

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Seeing the drug addled execrable wastrel bloviate is always amusing Jeff!!

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Paula Dean Coykendall's avatar

Is it? I seem to have lost my ability to laugh at him. Probably because fire, and most of my family still lives in California. I shake my head in amazement though!

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Laughing at the drug addled demented dotard is all we can do at this point Paula! The execrable wastrel hasn’t even taken the oath, yet he’s continuing to be the ugliest source of chaos and inhumanity we’ve witnessed since Hitler!

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

"....he’s continuing to be the ugliest source chaos and inhumanity we’ve witnessed since EVER!"

FIFY, Patrick. 😉

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Paula Dean Coykendall's avatar

True, and I usually DO laugh at him, but not today. Not when the place I called "Home" is literally burning up.

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Lynn Van Haren's avatar

Me too

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RZolu's avatar

Which one? ugh!!

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Doc Blase''s avatar

I can't stand to see that fucking face nor hear that gritty, idiot voice any more, I just can't.

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Victoria Wilson's avatar

Every time I hear the faucet story,I cringe at the pure idiocy of a mind that thinks that way! Yes, keep repeating it. Too bad the fucking media has not run with that story.

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Sharon C Storm's avatar

Unfortunately, you can’t fix stupid.

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Jennifer's avatar

That's what he actually believes. And now he's president. JFC.

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Robin's avatar

Once he's in office, he'll say that turning the faucet is too hard. People don't know that, but it is really hard to turn that faucet on.

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Lynn Van Haren's avatar

It’s hard to hear that clip of idiocy

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Mps's avatar

It will always be hilarious

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Teri's avatar

Jeff, play it whenever you want. A friend in Las Vegas and I have both been watching the place turd made those comments Rancho Palestine Verdes, CA. Very exclusive area set on buffs over the ocean, for the very wealthy. Decades of rain & storm causing now-dire erosion, resulted in SCE to emergency-stop all power& gas on a long term basis. That all this was happening on the very ground he stood on, a cliff with severe erosion, and go into his "Large Water Faucet" hallucination.

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Teri's avatar

*Rancho Palos Verdes

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shee-rah's avatar

Too bad that cliff didn’t crack and fall off with Dumbass tumbling down into a ravine.

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

Sometimes “what goes around comes around”.

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Burke's avatar

If there were old Missourians in the press corps they would have said “Show Me!” Instead they said “Duh, ok boss.” Dimwits.

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Joseph Luongo's avatar

One of the best ever

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Let me sum up's avatar

I never grow tired of it.

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Gout Machine's avatar

That well will never run dry, Jeff.

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

Oh no problem!!!

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Doc Blase''s avatar

That faucet piece should run in every commercial break on every channel for the next four years.

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drosophilist's avatar

Dammit, Jeff, you weren't supposed to mention the Giant Faucet in Canada!

My parents live in Vancouver. They've taken me to see the Giant Faucet, you can just see it in the distance from the top of Grouse Mountain if you know where to look. It's as tall as five Empire State Buildings stacked on top of each other and it's protected by hungry black bears and mountain lions. You need a special permit and bear/mountain lion repellent to go up there and turn on the faucet, because Canadians are big sticklers for rules. And if the few people who have the special permit are sick or out of town or whatever, that's it, the faucet isn't getting turned! Sorry, California!

Anyway, better hope nobody reads this to Donny, because then he'll want to annex Canada for real to seize the giant faucet and kill all the bears and mountain lions. My parents don't want that; they hate Donny as much as I do.

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Linda McCaughey's avatar

So. If the giant faucet is in Canada, how can it be Gavin Newsome's fault that it hasn't been turned on? Shouldn't he have been chastising Trudeau?? I am so confused.

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

You aren't the confused one.

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Teri's avatar

🎯🎯🎯

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Nancy Potter's avatar

While you'd never know it from Trump, if you sanewash hard enough, Newsom's sin is not diverting Northern California delta water to Central Valley farmers. Of course, if the water had been diverted, it would have gone to irrigate Central Valley almond trees, not transferred on to giant storage tanks over Pacific Palisades.

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Linda Weide's avatar

LAs water comes in part from the Sierras and in part from the Colorado River.

https://viterbi.usc.edu/water/#:~:text=The%20Owens%20River%2C%20Mono%20Lake,via%20the%20Los%20Angeles%20Aqueduct.

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Doc Blase''s avatar

Let's not confuse the issue with facts!

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Stranger Than Friction's avatar

Yesterday Wonkette writer Doktor Zoom, on the environment/climate change beat over there, wrote about how former L.A. mayoral candidate Rick Caruso, who lost to Karen Bass in 2022, was blaming her for why his Pacific Palisades neighborhood was on fire, implying that a Black woman who had gone on a trip BEFORE the fires was incompetent and MIA because misogynoir. He blamed her for his perception of mismanagement and infrastructure failures. Here's a link, but TLDR, Rich Caruso is a white man who seems to be a total racist douche canoe telling LIES: https://www.wonkette.com/p/until-youre-the-one-filming-the-disaster

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Of course, lies can travel around the world before the truth has even got its boots on (thank you Sir Terry Pratchett)!

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Doc Blase''s avatar

Love the Douche Canoe, available for weekly rentals! Try the Guilfoyle model.

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

That quote, or a version of it, has been misattributed to Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, Edgar Allen Poe, and Thomas Jefferson, in addition to Terry Pratchett and even a Chinese proverb.

It is likely the product of Jonathan Swift but stripped of its early-18th-century flowery verbiage.

Regardless of the origin, it's a GREAT quote.

BTW - ❤️ Doktor Zoom and all the other wonkers at Wonkette (which doesn't put commenters behind a paywall)

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shee-rah's avatar

So he’s blaming the mayor for not being clairvoyant.

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

The water on the west side of LA is almost all from the LA/Owens aqueduct. East of roughly LaBrea Av it's 40% LA aqueduct, 50% MWD (Colorado River aqueduct), and 10% groundwater. Those percentages can vary year-to-year depending on rainfall and Sierra snowpack.

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

BTW I loves me some almonds, but each one requires 1.1 gallons of water to produce.

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Peaceful Mary T.'s avatar

I remember being shocked when I first heard that! I almost stopped eating almonds! As a life-long California, I have to continue to support our farmers, though, even when we don't get enough rain.

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Doc Blase''s avatar

And hives full of bees to pollinate, after which the bees die because there is no other food around to sustain them. It's a double-f'd up deal.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Steve, thanks for this info. I can share that Berkeley's water comes from the Don Pedro Reservoir in the Sierra foothills. (EBMUD)

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

Haha I think that's Don Pedro

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Richard Von Busack's avatar

How I’d love to explain that to him, using a piece of rebar to ensure his attention. The old boy tends to drift off. Also (since I’ve had to explain the delta smelt thing to Fox News afficinadoes) can we rename the delta smelt the “MAGA mackerel”? Perhaps that would shut them up.

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arne link's avatar

You know, that would absolutely work. Brilliant solution.

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Richard Von Busack's avatar

It’s partially the fish to blame, unless the great icthiologist J. Emory Smelt discovered them or something. Stuck in my brain is an early Marx Brothers song about cooking one: “we put him in the pan and the fire he felt/ you should have smelled the way that smelt smelt.”

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skangirl's avatar

He thinks that they just have to fill the hydrants.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Touché Linda!!

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Ryn's avatar

This is like when he used his sharpie to extend the hurricane on the map

He’s trying to annex Canada so he can correct the error of it being a Canadian faucet. “See it was northern-northern California, just ignore the states in between”

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Teri's avatar

No one is EVEN talking about the constant moving of the Giant Faucet. Where IS it? Canadians are smart. If they keep moving it, it's not available to steal ... er, borrow a bit of water ...

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Linda Weide's avatar

I would like to point out that even though Musk and Trump have basically ousted Trudeau, Canada has sent fire helicopters to help fight the flames because that is an agreement they have with the US, and they apparently stick to their agreements.

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Rick Calegari's avatar

Canada also sent a water tender all the way from Quebec which hold a minimum of 1,000 gallons and up to 4,000 gallons of water. Now that we have $300 plus billion budget in place with no deficit here in CA, it would be money well spent at $30 million per aircraft if we had a couple here permanently. In the meantime, the recently elected Commander in Thief, with the help of useless assholes like Jesse Watters and Muskrat, keeps spewing his usual delirious bullshit. Again, we can't thank Biden and Newsom enough for their effort to put together a disaster relief plan before the heartless orange shitstain takes office.

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Linda Weide's avatar

I agree. In project 2025 the plan is to have no more federal flood insurance, and the communities foot the bill for their disaster relief with maybe 25% coming from the Federal government and only if it is a natural disaster. Does that mean no help cleaning up oil spills? Crazy and chaotic will be the new norm. Distancing oneself from it as best one can would be prudent. If anyone's home burned and they get insurance money, I would consider moving to another country at this point with it.

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Outdoorluvr's avatar

By the time they (trump, musk, thiel) get done gutting the EPA and de-regulating big business, oil and gas spills won't require clean-up anymore.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

I hope we'll have seceded by then. This is it for today. I can't spend all day on comments... XXX

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Linda Weide's avatar

I have been saying that the Blue States, who have the most money, join Canada. However, I don't know that there is a mechanism to do that, and I don't know if they will want to if Trudeau leaves and is replaced with a Canadian fascist.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpCLbdWVCEQ

Watch it. About 2min 30sec plus, this lady goes into the province of Cascadia, British Columbia to California. Pay attention to the phrase "academic studies."

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Lynn Horsky's avatar

I love the Canadians!!!

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Linda Weide's avatar

I only love them so much as their good leadership. I don't love their support of Enbridge and Pipeline 5 which is illegally in Lake Michigan until they refused to follow the laws and fought against them in court to win. I don't like their treatment of their indigenous population or history of boarding schools, but, I do understand that they are heading to a 50% indigenous population at some point. I don't remember when.

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Doc Blase''s avatar

What's really happening is Washington State, which has The Diversity and The Inclusion up the yin-yang, is hogging all the Canadian water in order to make crack, grow watermelons and raise big chickens to fry up.

Also some of the water is being diverted to help rinse the forest after raking, and to spread the Woke-fluid through the water supply and thereby compromising their Precious Bodily Fluids.

And Fluoride injections, let's not forget about those.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Your post sounds like it was cooked up in Kennedy's worm infested brain. Bravo

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Karla's avatar

My thoughts are with Californians. This is horrific. I mean all fires are but LA is such a hugely populated place.

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Doc Blase''s avatar

Confirming the POE prefix code on the CRM114. Plan “R” for Robert.

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Karla's avatar

I think they share a brain worm because neither of them are smart enough for a full one.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Like minded HI2, Dic was about to enter the Twilight Zone!!

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Outdoorluvr's avatar

Well, and there's all the salmon sanctuaries and hatcheries hogging water for themselves. Keeping it from the subsidized downstream farmers and ranchers who feed the world 🙄

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Douglas's avatar

Making sound like Edith Bunker in response.....'Oooooohhhhhhhh!" 😂

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Eileen's avatar

😂😂😂

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Richard Spiering's avatar

You forgot the feral beavers, high on BC weed...

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arne link's avatar

Oh, Jeeze! I forgot all about the beavers.

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

"Ward, I'm worried about the beaver."

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Teri's avatar

😂😂😂

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Doc Blase''s avatar

"June, I was about to say the same thing."

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Eileen's avatar

🦫🦫🦫🪴🪴🪴

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Oh, thank you so much for 'splaining it all to me! I will spread the truth to all my Q Anon buddies.

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Joanne Beck's avatar

That story about a giant faucet, batteries, whales, Greenland, Panama Canal along with all his other bullshit makes me want to cry and scream. Panama Canal was another of our wonderful country's rape and pillage of someone else's property.

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Lynn Van Haren's avatar

😂

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Douglas's avatar

Is that why D wants to Alex Canada??! The Giant Faucet??!!!! 😂😂🤣😂....we should make a meme of that.....very funny droso....bravo!! 😅🤣😂

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Susan Niemann's avatar

“I’ve been trying to get Gavin Newsom to allow water to come,” .... now come on. It's clear Dump is out of his mind and yet these fucking Senators surround him with grave faces and act like he's god. They are out of their minds too. 🙄

The racism in this country is being fanned into a destructive flame by the extreme right. People are so depraved... When will this get under control?

And...did Dump really go talk to Alito on Tuesday??? Is our SCOTUS going to prove once and for all it is corrupt beyond measure?

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Lisa59's avatar

The Dixiecrat party will never stop utilizing Strom Thurmond and Nixon's Southern Strategy. The John Birch Bros stick together like snot.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Now THERE'S a visual. 😂😂😂

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Thurgood?

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Lisa59's avatar

Oh, fuck!! Thurmond. Sorry about that.

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Charles Austin's avatar

One bourbon, one shot, and one beer. (Could be useful in these times.😂😂)

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

Close enough.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Haha. Used to be that close only counted in horseshoes and hand grenades. Now with social media, you don’t have to be. In fact, making shit up is a regular standard

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

I'm really just a precocious 3 year old. A mouthy little thing.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

I just saw your comment Hannah - I feel we're kindred spirits.😂

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Nancy Potter's avatar

While Rick Caruso (a rich white guy) was criticizing Mayor Bass claiming under him the disaster would have never happened, I strongly doubt any experienced straight white male fire fighter would claim he could have done much of a better job fighting the firestorm which hit Pacific Palisades on Tuesday.

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

Caruso would have pressed the giant button to turn off the wind, but Mayor Bass couldn't do it because she was traveling to (I think) Ghana.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Why didn't Caruso nuke the Santa Ana winds?

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Outdoorluvr's avatar

Shhhhh! Don't tell the MAGAs that Dems truly do control the weather!

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HI2thDoc's avatar

MAGAs are so committed and immersed in their own bullshit that they are oblivious to the fact that if there were a Dem “deep state” they would have no office holders and Drumpf would be dead. If libs controlled the weather, only red states would be afflicted and Mar a Lardo would have been flattened by a hurricane long ago

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Outdoorluvr's avatar

1st sentence, absolutely agree! (2nd - Highly unlikely, in my opinion, because Dem legislators just don't roll that way.)

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Lynn Van Haren's avatar

Probably talking with Alito & Thomas about their retirements so he can appoint Cannon & some other nincompoop to the SC

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

They past the tipping point the moment RBG died Susan!!

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

They spoke on the phone. IF drumph needed a personal or professional recommendation from Alito, b4 giving a former clerk of his a minor position in T’s justice dept, the call could have waited until after the inauguration. Just proves, once again, that Alito, drumph, & that whole gang don’t give a fuck about impropriety, or the appearance thereof.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

You are exactly right. The audacity is breathtaking.

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arne link's avatar

I really don't think they can interfere in a state's legal findings. Of course they are dying to do so. We shall see.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

I certainly hope so-if they do then it will be quite obvious SCOTUS is corrupt. Everyone knows that except the Chief Justice!!

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JOEL's avatar
Jan 9Edited

If you live in or are able to travel to the Washington DC area for Inauguration Day, please consider going to Pennsylvania Avenue carrying a poster with these words~~~

“Today is the first day of what will be Lying Scumbag Trump’s second four-year-long shit-show as Presidential Accident of the United States…..

Trump is a thoroughly disgusting person - - - he is a liar, a fraud, a con, a coward, a grifter, a felon, a scumbag, a misogynist, a sex abuser, a Hitler admirer, a racist, a puppet of Putin, and a traitor. Trump is America’s Disgrace.”

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Mike Hammer's avatar

Or how about showing up with upside down flags and starting a riot?

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HI2thDoc's avatar

We know why. Because we are law abiding citizens. They are violent, traitorous pieces of shit.

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Gina's avatar

and that (due to the perversity of the universe) is why they win and we let them

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

Sounds fun.

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JOEL's avatar

And, one other thought about this......

If you don't want to carry a poster, then consider PRINTING to paper (8 1/2 x 11) several hundred copies of what I wrote above in quotation marks. Take the copies you print to Pennsylvania Avenue and throw them up in the air like confetti. Flood the city with this confetti. Picture what it would look like if hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of 8 1/2 x 11 sheets of paper were flying all around.

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Lynn Van Haren's avatar

If thousands of protesters show up, tRump will claim that they came out because they love him so much. Would rather have the streets empty

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Douglas's avatar

There shall be a snowstorm on Jan. 20.....

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

That’s exactly what I’m hoping for, a huge blizzard with gale force winds. 🤞

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

Wouldn’t it be fantastic if the crowd at The Women’s March (aka The People’s March) on the 18th was way larger than at the inauguration?? 😊

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Came damn close to covering the malodorous codpiece’s list JOEL!!

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JOEL's avatar

what did I leave out, Patrick?

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Jeff has a very long list, but you picked the sentiment JOEL!

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Tama2U's avatar

As I watch President Carter’s funeral this morning, I can’t help but wish it was the FELON’S send off…and I picture those dignitaries popping champagne bottles and laughing their fine asses off about what a complete joke and disgrace he was and will always be in the history of our country.

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Suzn Sez's avatar

That's my constant wish. If we all put it out to the universe at a set date and time, maybe we could tip the karmic scales for once?

How's noon on January 20th sound?

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Gina's avatar

I'm in

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

LOVE how you think, Susan.

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Doc Blase''s avatar

That day will come. Oh yes.

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Old Man's avatar

FYI, DJT daddy lived to 93yo.

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Judy Luchsinger's avatar

PINO's father didn't live on McDonald's and wasn't fat like djt. (PINO = President In Name Only)

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Doc Blase''s avatar

And didn’t know what planet he lived on since 1986.

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arne link's avatar

But he had dementia and was wheelchair bound, I think. We can wish the same fate for his son. I am determined to live to see that day.

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

Me too. 🤞

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

That’s an imagination I applaud Tama!!

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Tama2U's avatar

Manifesting…..

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Yeah, the wife and I were wondering who would even show up for his funeral, besides his loyal sycophants. The real luminaries should not.

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Tama2U's avatar

I question whether a state funeral will even be a thing in the near future

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Tess's avatar

Watching the Carter funeral now- great speeches so far-way over the head of trump and melanoma…about racism, equity, helping less fortunate etc..he has no interest I’m sure…

Rest in peace Jimmy Carter💙💙💙

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HI2thDoc's avatar

I bet that narcissist motherfucker is not listening to the accolades for President Carter but is engaged in grandiose self serving fantasies.

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Tess's avatar

He looked bored—- “ it wasn’t about ME!” Yuk

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Karen Hall's avatar

None of the words spoken this morning at President Carter’s service will EVER be said about felonious 45/47.

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

When Trump takes power on 1/20, will he deny Federal aid to California? How the hell are we going to survive four years of this insane shit?

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Dr. Steven Quest's avatar

Trump tried to deny disaster aid to blue states in the past and there is no doubt he’ll do it again.

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Jane John Jones's avatar

That could and maybe should trigger secession.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

How about an economic secession where CA holds back all federal taxes?

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

Hey, go for it.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

New name for Donnie convict— His MAGAsty.

BTW, I borrowed this from another comment section.

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Dave Drell's avatar

His MAGAsty can kiss all of our asses!

…… it’s a well thought word: MAGA - we all know what that entails - and STY - like where that orange bloated pig comes from! A winner!

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Oink, oink.

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Dave Drell's avatar

He’s got nothing on Arnold Ziffle!!!

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Teri's avatar

Can we porcine lovers pls be excluded from having our identity tied to this vile, vulgar sub-human? 🐷🐽

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

Some of us may not survive.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

I will live to PISS on Trump's grave.

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Cathy Wray's avatar

I want to walk on his grave. Will anyone join me?

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

With hiking boots on!

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Major Kong's avatar

These boots are made for walking, as it were.

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Cheri Collins's avatar

Lawn aeration cleats!

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

Pogo sticks!

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

They’ll probably have to put up that anti-climb fencing around his grave site & maybe even electrify it to prevent us all from doing that.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

Better wear a gas mask to protect you from the noxious fumes emanating from the green slime surrounding the grave. And some kind of talisman to ward off the evil spirits that will congregate en masse.

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

I'll be 75 in another month. Not at all sure that I'll make it another four years.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Hang in there, friends. Live with determination to outlast this orange waste of space and see our nation renewed, with sanity and probity returning.

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

Me too.

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Doc Blase''s avatar

You will, and you'll join me in the pilgrimage to the Grave Of The Eternal Golden Shower to pour champagne thereon.

After we drink the champagne, of course.

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Richard Spruill's avatar

I'll be 72 in April, my mission is to outlive that person.

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

67, but I swear sometimes I feel like I'm 90. It's exhausting

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Sooz Hall's avatar

79 ½. I plan to live long enough to enjoy at least two post-LDFF years.

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arne link's avatar

I'm older than you. We must make it. It is our sacred duty to see that bastard in the ground.

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

Amen.

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Douglas's avatar

Practice self care.....the youngins' will carry the cross. You just be happy.....life is short enough.

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

Not so sure about the younguns, if those I've talked to are any example. I'm damn tired of watching my more than 50 years of fighting for social justice go down the tubes. I have grown to hate this country but I am too old and too poor to flee. The American public put us in this position and they can go straight to hell.

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Gina's avatar

I'm 88...world dies with me, looks like

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Teri's avatar

Gina, we are your tribe & community. We need everyone. 💖💐

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

That, Linda is the question everyone who lives in this country, which has a time bomb of disaster ticking no matter where they live!

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Teri's avatar

Linda hoping Biden fast tracks billions to CA, funds FEMA & all assistance programs like he did with Ukraine aid.

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

I hope so too, but I ain't holding my breath.

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Douglas's avatar

yes he will deny aid...right wing will try to pass a federal law on water usage that will benefit farmers in Valley

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Alison Parker's avatar

The comments on Newsom's posts about the fires have been PURE INSANITY. The level of hatred people have for him is legit pathological. They're saying the fires are his fault, that he's not doing anything to stop it, that the firefighters don't have enough money because he spent it all on trans people, and so on. I mean, this is how these losers always act toward him but it's FUCKING DISGUSTING that they're doing this shit now when people are dying, losing everything they own, fleeing for their lives. They are fucking sick in the head and so consumed by their baseless hatred that they've ceased to be anything even approximating a human being.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

I bet nearly all of these sorry hateful fuckers saying Gov. Newsome didn't do enough are typical anti-government, anti-tax folks. Where do they think resources like emergency services, fire, law enforcement get their staffing, training, equipment? Dumbasses.

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Outdoorluvr's avatar

And probably not a single one of them has ever been to California...

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Nicely said Alison!!

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Suzn Sez's avatar

Yes, very nicely said, Alison.

Newsom represents all things positive that the far right hates because Trump says they should.

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Old Man's avatar

I like this phrase: ‘baseless hatred’. Perfect description.

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Douglas's avatar

Alison....the right is doing to Gavin what they did to HRC. they KNOW Gavin will run for President and they are beating him up and trying to damage his reputation. Sadly, it may succeed as Dems have no media in their corner outside of some Podcasters.

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arne link's avatar

I wonder if a lot of these trolls are just Russian-based troll factories.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Pro-Kremlin department has staged a media campaign against all democratic institutions. They employ a plethora of Bots, spreading disinformation around the globe Arne!!

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

Yes, of course they are.

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Ted's avatar

The Dumbing Down Of America

Evidenced By This Last Election:

Brought to you by decades of Right Wing Republicans fucking with American's minds with disinformation, misinformation, conspiracy theories, downright lies and screwing with the Education Departments in "Red States" IMHO!

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Michael Guenon's avatar

It is why I take what the Never Trumper Republicans say with more than a grain of salt. It has been a long journey from Goldwater to this day but the road has been paved by the GOP.

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Paula Dean Coykendall's avatar

True. Even the best of them, Adam Kinsinger, still reveres Reagan. I hold Reagan responsible for most of our current problems.

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steve robertshaw's avatar

Yeah, it's maddening how intelligent people can cherry-pick the events and policies they like and ignore the myriad bad policies and outcomes. He'll always be Saint Ronnie to these people.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

They sanewashed Reagan and his deeds. They call him a fiscal conservative when he fleeced the middle class and poured huge money into the military-industrial complex, tripled the national debt with then-record deficits, and widened the wealth gap immeasurably. He started these fucking culture wars that have divided us perhaps irreparably. That he has stuff named for him makes me wanna puke. A liar and asshole of gigantic proportions.

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

And a shitty actor.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Out acted by a chimpanzee

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

He started his sneaky slimy crap before he even took office, with that deal with Iran to not release the American hostages until after he was elected. Just a horrible thing to do.

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steve robertshaw's avatar

Honestly, if there ever was a puppet acting as the public face of some nefarious right wingers behind the scenes, it was Reagan. He spoke their lines and gave the proper delivery on camera just like the trained actor he was. Not exactly the idea guy for the right wing cabal. But he was the IDEAL mouthpiece for their plans.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

And you are 100% correct Paula, Reagan tried desperately to put an end to the Department of Education, and increase the indebtedness of those who chose further education!!

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

Yes, he absolutely did that

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counterlife's avatar

Yep, the GOP should rebrand as the "Good Intentions Paving Company".

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Doc Blase''s avatar

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Proven to be only partially true

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Doc Blase''s avatar

Let’s not confuse the issue with facts!

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Right On Ted, the anti-intellectualism devised plan has worked to perfection!!

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David Jones's avatar

Not your opinion.

Fact.

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Kay-El's avatar

Here’s (to) mud in your eye, Elump

Several people I know lost their homes. ☹️

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

The ass cancer from S. Africa has a very limited IQ, he's showing us. Spawn of an emeralds mining slaver. What does he think adobe is? These clay mud structures can endure hundreds of years of wildfires, but the inhabitants, not so much. The air is unbreathable in LA now. The flying sparks are like pitch, they stick and burn, impervious to water. I live in San Diego and the atmospheric fire haze has drifted to the Mexican border.

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

My sister was out to dinner with a friend in NYC whose sister called and told her she lost her house.

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Kay-El's avatar

I’m so sorry. It’s just devastating to see and hear.

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Suzn Sez's avatar

Elump...I love it!

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

I have the perfect solution! Since the space Nazi believes the fires are spreading because of the ineptitude of DEI hires, we should slap a fire resistant suit on him right now and send him in to handle the situation. Since he’s whiter than white and an expert on fucking everything, he shouid have the situation under control by lunchtime!

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David Jones's avatar

Why waste a fire resistant suit?

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Doc Blase''s avatar

Now >that's< funny. Nicely done David.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

A little singeing will give him some color

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Well played David!!

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

You’re so right, David!

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Chris Ortolano's avatar

Blue states are going to have to stop sending money to the federal government, because after the 20th no blue state will receive federal disaster relief funds. That's a fact. Plus denying those funds will keep money from going to all the red "welfare" states that receive more from the federal government than they give.

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JOEL's avatar

Bravo for that comment, Chris. Everyone in Blue States MUST stop paying taxes to the Fed Gov and, instead, should pay their Fed taxes to their States.

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Alison Parker's avatar

So we should all let ourselves get fined, our wages garnished, liens on our property, etc? Come on.

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Chris Ortolano's avatar

No, the state will need to enact laws to protect residents from penalties.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

Fed outweighs state, Chris.

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Outdoorluvr's avatar

With the way republicans plan on defunding the IRS, it could be years before you'd ever even get a letter for failing to file. And you could always lower your employers' withholding, so as not to have that money funding the U.S. Treasury for trump to waste.

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Cynthia Turner's avatar

It's not only the states, but the people getting zapped with high taxes to pay for this crap.

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Sancho Panza's avatar

Was in college in the mid-60’s when civil rights laws were passed. Was sooo proud to be an American. Doin’ right. 60 years later not so. Somehow the majority of voters went for a pathological liar, a cheater of laborers and wives, a thief, a pedo imposing on teens at beauty contests, and a Jeffery Epstein pal whoring in the Caribbean. And he’s a transparent racist. That’s America these 60 years later? And threatening Canada to the north and Mexico to the south? This country is going down the Nazi path of the 1930’s. RIP, America.

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Pat Hofmann's avatar

💔🇺🇸 So hard to believe what happened to our country. Never perfect, but there was always reason for hope. Look for the bright spots, they will keep you sane.

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Dave Drell's avatar

The millions of Dem voters who did not vote are to blame this time. Now you will see what you have wrought.

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arne link's avatar

I will never believe that the election was legit. There was interference, without question. Remember how he kept saying that we didn't have to vote 'cause he had it all locked up.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

Absolutely agree, arne. All those comments about having secrets, and never having to vote in another election.... oh, yeah, not legit at all.

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Chet Brandt's avatar

Does not hurt one’s election chances when some asshole pumps $250 million into your campaign…

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Teri's avatar

WTF happens to the 2028 Olympics in LA?

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

I personally don't believe drumpf won, but that doesn't make it any easier to endure the shitshow.

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Ingrid Robertshaw's avatar

At this moment I am watching the funeral of JIMMY CARTER. Looking at that FAT ORANGE MESS sitting among the former President's make me sick...none have been convicted ..only that ORANGE MESS..he should have been told not to show up. There he sits among very revered people...A LYING INSURRECTIONIST, CONVICTED FELON, FASCHIST, RACIST..he sits as he belonged..looking disinterested and stupid..

Anyway.....maybe he sent MTG"S JEWISH SPACE LASERS TO START THE FIRES IN LA..GEE..HOW MUCH DO WE HAVE TO TAKE..

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Outdoorluvr's avatar

I honestly can't believe that the orange cretin bothered to show up. Must be planning another impromptu "press conference" for afterwards.

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Chet Brandt's avatar

George W. did not even acknowledge the mango moron presence.

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Kate's avatar

They did it with Helene too, and they KEEP WINNING. I am so fucking tired of these monsters.

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Lois Henry's avatar

Buying an election is not the same as winning one. Small comfort I know but it’s all I got right now.

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

And I saw James Woods crying to a reporter on the news last night about how his house has been destroyed. Didn’t he know he was supposed to rake the forest floor?

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Dina's avatar

I'm actually surprised HE didn't start yammering on about that giant faucet in Canada could have saved his uninsured house.

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Teri's avatar

Dina, "his uninsured" house?? Really? In CA, where wildfires are repeatedly burning the entire state to ash 12 months of the year?! Anyone without proper homeowners ins in CA or FL is stupid.

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Dotty's avatar

Ins bureaucracy in Calif is rampant. The Ins comp have cancelled almost all fire Ins in Calif ? Why ? Im still trying to figure this out but like health ins . They know something We don't . Ins (which you can only get in certain areas ) have gone up 4x the price in less than a year . But Ins com have cancelled most insured homeowners

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Teri's avatar

Enough with the 💩💩 breathless reporting "ooh, it's Sally Struthers! Sally, can you give us a first hand report?"

Interview real people.

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