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
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.
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.
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!!
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!
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.
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!
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.
🤞🤞🤞 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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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?!!
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)!
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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”
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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 🙄
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.
“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?
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pro-Kremlin department has staged a media campaign against all democratic institutions. They employ a plethora of Bots, spreading disinformation around the globe Arne!!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
💔🇺🇸 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.
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.
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..
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?
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.
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
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
Keep on keeping on using it. It’ll always be relevant in reminding us who Orange Fuckwit is and what he isn’t.
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
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.
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.
When Corporate America's fast-food Giant can't protect itself from climate change, then you know that something very big is going on.
“Climate change” A Frank Luntz soothing word.
ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL BROILING, how about.
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.
McD's gonna start selling McNomex Home Wraps
What are you talking about?
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.”
Like what?
If McDonald's cannot protect itself from climate change you know that something very big, namely climate change, is going on.
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!!
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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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.
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.
If only.
YES. But not the far eastern white-supremacist parts of WA and OR, they can stay with their brethren in Idaho.
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!
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.
If you shouted that out on the Streets of Seattle, the Ayes would raise the skies!
YES, please!!!!!!
Well, we could also attach a giant fire hose to that giant faucet...
Susan I don't see trying to take over anywhere anytime soon. Our military, MG, CG take oath to the Constitution.
🤞🤞🤞 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.
Because Canada is a civilized country, unlike our own.
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
CA, Oregon, Washington, NY, Ill, & Mass, possibly VA & VT are forming a united coalition. Well, at least in my mind, they are.
And Maine.
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.
Jane, as of 1/1/25 IIRC CA made changes to get more ins. companies to write homeowners' policies in CA. Now this. 😓
Elbow Mush could buy the entire Palisades and turn it into a MAGAt enclave, "Dizzyland."
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.)
Wait, Il Duche? My God, that is brilliant. Thank you.
Not so fast, cowboy! I've patented and/or copyrighted it! Okay, as long as you use it wisely.
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.
I’m surprised Dumbass didn’t tap him for a Cabinet position.
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.
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
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.
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.
thank you!
Jane, glad your family members are safe. Best wishes a fair result on her house.
Thank you, Teri!
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.
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.
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?!!
😂 One thing I count on is complete honesty from Jeff! 👏👏
😂😂😂😂
Seeing the drug addled execrable wastrel bloviate is always amusing Jeff!!
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!
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!
"....he’s continuing to be the ugliest source chaos and inhumanity we’ve witnessed since EVER!"
FIFY, Patrick. 😉
True, and I usually DO laugh at him, but not today. Not when the place I called "Home" is literally burning up.
Me too
Which one? ugh!!
I can't stand to see that fucking face nor hear that gritty, idiot voice any more, I just can't.
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.
Unfortunately, you can’t fix stupid.
That's what he actually believes. And now he's president. JFC.
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.
It’s hard to hear that clip of idiocy
It will always be hilarious
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.
*Rancho Palos Verdes
Too bad that cliff didn’t crack and fall off with Dumbass tumbling down into a ravine.
Sometimes “what goes around comes around”.
One of the best ever
I never grow tired of it.
That well will never run dry, Jeff.
Oh no problem!!!
That faucet piece should run in every commercial break on every channel for the next four years.
You are forgiven, and thanked!
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.
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.
You aren't the confused one.
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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.
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.
Let's not confuse the issue with facts!
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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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)
So he’s blaming the mayor for not being clairvoyant.
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.
BTW I loves me some almonds, but each one requires 1.1 gallons of water to produce.
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.
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.
Steve, thanks for this info. I can share that Berkeley's water comes from the Don Pedro Reservoir in the Sierra foothills. (EBMUD)
Haha I think that's Don Pedro
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.
You know, that would absolutely work. Brilliant solution.
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.”
He thinks that they just have to fill the hydrants.
Touché Linda!!
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”
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
I hope we'll have seceded by then. This is it for today. I can't spend all day on comments... XXX
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.
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."
I love the Canadians!!!
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.
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.
Your post sounds like it was cooked up in Kennedy's worm infested brain. Bravo
My thoughts are with Californians. This is horrific. I mean all fires are but LA is such a hugely populated place.
Confirming the POE prefix code on the CRM114. Plan “R” for Robert.
I think they share a brain worm because neither of them are smart enough for a full one.
Like minded HI2, Dic was about to enter the Twilight Zone!!
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 🙄
Making sound like Edith Bunker in response.....'Oooooohhhhhhhh!" 😂
😂😂😂
You forgot the feral beavers, high on BC weed...
Oh, Jeeze! I forgot all about the beavers.
"Ward, I'm worried about the beaver."
😂😂😂
"June, I was about to say the same thing."
🦫🦫🦫🪴🪴🪴
Oh, thank you so much for 'splaining it all to me! I will spread the truth to all my Q Anon buddies.
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.
😂
Is that why D wants to Alex Canada??! The Giant Faucet??!!!! 😂😂🤣😂....we should make a meme of that.....very funny droso....bravo!! 😅🤣😂
“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?
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.
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.
Why didn't Caruso nuke the Santa Ana winds?
Shhhhh! Don't tell the MAGAs that Dems truly do control the weather!
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
1st sentence, absolutely agree! (2nd - Highly unlikely, in my opinion, because Dem legislators just don't roll that way.)
Probably talking with Alito & Thomas about their retirements so he can appoint Cannon & some other nincompoop to the SC
They past the tipping point the moment RBG died Susan!!
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.
You are exactly right. The audacity is breathtaking.
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.
I certainly hope so-if they do then it will be quite obvious SCOTUS is corrupt. Everyone knows that except the Chief Justice!!
Now THERE'S a visual. 😂😂😂
Thurgood?
Close enough.
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
I'm really just a precocious 3 year old. A mouthy little thing.
I just saw your comment Hannah - I feel we're kindred spirits.😂
One bourbon, one shot, and one beer. (Could be useful in these times.😂😂)
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.
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?
I'm in
LOVE how you think, Susan.
That day will come. Oh yes.
FYI, DJT daddy lived to 93yo.
PINO's father didn't live on McDonald's and wasn't fat like djt. (PINO = President In Name Only)
And didn’t know what planet he lived on since 1986.
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.
Me too. 🤞
That’s an imagination I applaud Tama!!
Manifesting…..
Yeah, the wife and I were wondering who would even show up for his funeral, besides his loyal sycophants. The real luminaries should not.
I question whether a state funeral will even be a thing in the near future
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💙💙💙
I bet that narcissist motherfucker is not listening to the accolades for President Carter but is engaged in grandiose self serving fantasies.
He looked bored—- “ it wasn’t about ME!” Yuk
None of the words spoken this morning at President Carter’s service will EVER be said about felonious 45/47.
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?
Trump tried to deny disaster aid to blue states in the past and there is no doubt he’ll do it again.
That could and maybe should trigger secession.
How about an economic secession where CA holds back all federal taxes?
Hey, go for it.
New name for Donnie convict— His MAGAsty.
BTW, I borrowed this from another comment section.
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!
Oink, oink.
He’s got nothing on Arnold Ziffle!!!
Can we porcine lovers pls be excluded from having our identity tied to this vile, vulgar sub-human? 🐷🐽
Some of us may not survive.
I will live to PISS on Trump's grave.
I want to walk on his grave. Will anyone join me?
With hiking boots on!
These boots are made for walking, as it were.
Lawn aeration cleats!
Pogo sticks!
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.
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.
I'll be 75 in another month. Not at all sure that I'll make it another four years.
Hang in there, friends. Live with determination to outlast this orange waste of space and see our nation renewed, with sanity and probity returning.
Me too.
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.
I'll be 72 in April, my mission is to outlive that person.
67, but I swear sometimes I feel like I'm 90. It's exhausting
79 ½. I plan to live long enough to enjoy at least two post-LDFF years.
I'm older than you. We must make it. It is our sacred duty to see that bastard in the ground.
Amen.
Practice self care.....the youngins' will carry the cross. You just be happy.....life is short enough.
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.
I'm 88...world dies with me, looks like
Gina, we are your tribe & community. We need everyone. 💖💐
That, Linda is the question everyone who lives in this country, which has a time bomb of disaster ticking no matter where they live!
Linda hoping Biden fast tracks billions to CA, funds FEMA & all assistance programs like he did with Ukraine aid.
I hope so too, but I ain't holding my breath.
yes he will deny aid...right wing will try to pass a federal law on water usage that will benefit farmers in Valley
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.
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.
And probably not a single one of them has ever been to California...
Nicely said Alison!!
Yes, very nicely said, Alison.
Newsom represents all things positive that the far right hates because Trump says they should.
I like this phrase: ‘baseless hatred’. Perfect description.
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.
I wonder if a lot of these trolls are just Russian-based troll factories.
Pro-Kremlin department has staged a media campaign against all democratic institutions. They employ a plethora of Bots, spreading disinformation around the globe Arne!!
Yes, of course they are.
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!
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.
True. Even the best of them, Adam Kinsinger, still reveres Reagan. I hold Reagan responsible for most of our current problems.
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.
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.
And a shitty actor.
Out acted by a chimpanzee
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.
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.
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!!
Yes, he absolutely did that
Yep, the GOP should rebrand as the "Good Intentions Paving Company".
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Proven to be only partially true
Let’s not confuse the issue with facts!
Right On Ted, the anti-intellectualism devised plan has worked to perfection!!
Not your opinion.
Fact.
Here’s (to) mud in your eye, Elump
Several people I know lost their homes. ☹️
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.
My sister was out to dinner with a friend in NYC whose sister called and told her she lost her house.
I’m so sorry. It’s just devastating to see and hear.
Elump...I love it!
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!
Why waste a fire resistant suit?
Now >that's< funny. Nicely done David.
A little singeing will give him some color
Well played David!!
You’re so right, David!
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.
It's not only the states, but the people getting zapped with high taxes to pay for this crap.
So we should all let ourselves get fined, our wages garnished, liens on our property, etc? Come on.
No, the state will need to enact laws to protect residents from penalties.
Fed outweighs state, Chris.
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.
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.
💔🇺🇸 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.
The millions of Dem voters who did not vote are to blame this time. Now you will see what you have wrought.
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.
Absolutely agree, arne. All those comments about having secrets, and never having to vote in another election.... oh, yeah, not legit at all.
Does not hurt one’s election chances when some asshole pumps $250 million into your campaign…
WTF happens to the 2028 Olympics in LA?
I personally don't believe drumpf won, but that doesn't make it any easier to endure the shitshow.
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..
I honestly can't believe that the orange cretin bothered to show up. Must be planning another impromptu "press conference" for afterwards.
George W. did not even acknowledge the mango moron presence.
They did it with Helene too, and they KEEP WINNING. I am so fucking tired of these monsters.
Buying an election is not the same as winning one. Small comfort I know but it’s all I got right now.
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?
I'm actually surprised HE didn't start yammering on about that giant faucet in Canada could have saved his uninsured house.
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.
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
Enough with the 💩💩 breathless reporting "ooh, it's Sally Struthers! Sally, can you give us a first hand report?"
Interview real people.
Well if MAGA can make up stuff, why can’t we.
Like Trump pooping and farting during his criminal trial.
Elon wanted to help those kids in Thailand trapped in a cave too - by sending in a submarine that would not fit into the cave.
Trump wanted people to drink bleach to eradicate COVID-19.
Trump wants to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.
Oh wait - that stuff is not fiction.