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Amber's avatar

The Independent properly addressed a head line towards the GOP… “Navalny’s death has shown Speaker Mike Johnson up as a coward” Navalny was willing to take on Putin…Johnson cowers and caves to Marjorie Taylor Greene…

Cassandra Here's avatar

From The Independent: “Navalny was willing to take on Vladimir Putin and risk his life. Johnson is so afraid of losing his speakership that he caves to Marjorie Taylor Greene.” <<< that right there ought to be up in lights in Times Square.

Amber's avatar

Doesn’t Trump tower have a news scroll outside? 😂🤣 It’s been too many years since my last trip to the Big Apple, can’t remember…

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

There is always the person that projects true statements onto his buildings.

Cassandra Here's avatar

A perfect observation to project.

Karla's avatar

They should project “Republican cowards. History is watching” on the Capitol Building.

skangirl's avatar

If I'm not mistaken, mike johnson's congressional district is predominantly Black. How the fuck can he get re-selected? (Have they banned Black people from voting there?) Once he's out, he can go back to being the less-than-nothing he has always been.

skangirl's avatar

Lord help us! Anyone with (D) after their name should be able to beat that useless, obstructionist, cowardly a-hole!

M McConlogue's avatar

I hope we can fix that.

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

That is brilliant, and the unvarnished, naked truth, thank you for sharing it.

Karla's avatar

If Biden were Putin and Trump were Navalny, Trump would have been under the prison by sundown on Inauguration Day 2021 for his efforts to stop the transfer of power. This is only hard to grasp if you’re in a cult.

Openly Fae's avatar

Wait wait the "lock her up/day one dictator" crowd thinks Democrats are the party more like Putin? Hahaha.

I guess when objective reality means nothing to you, you really can just make up anything.

Lorraine Parish's avatar

and incredibly stupid and hateful but then again, I guess those are cult attributes.

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A coworker said she's a T supporter. Not a Republican, a T supporter. And said the looming government shut down is because of the Democrats and the Democrats spent their whole time as the majority party " getting back at the Republicans." I just stood there, speechless. And now I find reasons to talk to her, not about politics but just to annoy her.

Petty? Yup.

Don'tBlameTheDog's avatar

Ask what she thinks about Clarence going on all inclusive, paid, swanky vacations with the billionaires who think they have more to say about her childbearing choices than she does.

Sam Maruca's avatar

Write her off and spend your precious time/energy elsewhere.

Charlie Austin's avatar

😄😄Give her Hell!!

🌷IntheHalloftheMtnKing's avatar

My advice... Stay far away from that person

Lorraine Parish's avatar

P.S. I have a neighbor three doors down who is a classic narcissist/Jeckle and Hyde. He was my piano teacher who after two months revealed himself. It was frightening, I had to block him on text and email which drove him over the edge. I haven't been able to play my piano ever since. That was almost a year ago but I will again I am sure.

Charlie Austin's avatar

Play your piano. Don't let him win.

Lorraine Parish's avatar

thanks, but he has won nothing. it gave me more time to focus on my book which I finished in November to great reviews! i've already started my next book. fuck him and his sickness.

🌷IntheHalloftheMtnKing's avatar

😢 That is scary.

You don't have to see him do you?

Lorraine Parish's avatar

no. he's not dangerous and at this point he's may be afraid of ME!

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Lorraine Parish's avatar

So. so sorry and it is NOT HARSH, it is honest. And to be nice or even less harsh would be living a lie.

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Karla's avatar

If your therapist thinks that’s harsh, you need a different therapist.

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

JFC, internet hugs if you want them.

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Lorraine Parish's avatar

1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000% true.

Mary Hall's avatar

My mother, who is also the worst fking person I have ever known.

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

Much healing energy to you.

Old Man's avatar

Next time you marry, check out the family.

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Mary Hall's avatar

I love gay men so much! They are the best friends a woman can have.

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Mary Hall's avatar

Thanks for your kind words. It's been surreal having a narc mother. My life was so much sadder and harder than it needed to be because of her misdeeds. I tried to kill myself when I was ten and instead of asking me why, she punished me for inconveniencing her. The worst thing is she is a Talibangelical end-timer (Rethuglican, of course) who said that I'm the one in the cult.

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Sam Maruca's avatar

Just like Hilary said - deplorable.

Old Man's avatar

Not at all, if possible.

Rick Calegari's avatar

The orange cult is only going to continue to get worse. With Trump enablers like immoral Newt Gingrich, sewer rat Dinesh Dadumbfuck and mindless ex congressmsn Lee Zeldin tweeting their usual anti American bullshit, the numbskull MAGAs will continue to accept this as being normal and acceptable. It's pretty damn scary.

Deb's avatar

So much of what these MAGAs come up with feels like a gut-punch. Comparing a hero of Russian Democracy like Navalny to a Fascist Insurrectionist like Dipshit-Diaperstain Donnie ranks right up there with the worst of the worst. They have no shame.🤬

Marie Martin's avatar

…no shame and no brains.

Chet Brandt's avatar

Some of these MAGAt’s are as dumb as a fox….beware!

Linda Weide's avatar

Remember MAGAs have the emotional maturity of a 5 year old, although some may have made it to junior high. They may have less intellectual complexity than that. What thought does a sheep need to have? All they have to do is bleat! Ba-a-a-h! That is Johnson.

skangirl's avatar

Remember how Biden allowed rump to use Air Force One for his cowardly retreat from DC (refusing to attend the inauguration)? Biden should've forced him to use his own plane and had it staffed with the Secret Service traitors who support rump. Ooops. It shouldn't have flown over protected air space. "It's a bird, it's a...oh, it *was* a plane!"

Gene Oyler's avatar

It’s ironic that the most powerful man in Russia, Putin, could not guarantee that Navalny would survive prison. Either Putin is not that powerful or he was the one who ordered Navalny’s death. Putin is nothing but a lying POS. 💩

Jim@Badger1944's avatar

Who is Newt Gingrich? Oh, I remember. He's the guy who was Speaker who had to resign because he was a crook. And the guy who visited his second wife in the hospital where she was being treated for cancer--and told her he was divorcing her. Great guy. Another grifter.

SPW's avatar

Yep. He’s the one. Right out of the GA lowlife pool of goons and grifters.

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

...all while he was getting blow-jobs from his mistress in the car at work, while lecturing Bill Clinton on his sexual behavior.

Rhoda Ozen's avatar

I think Gingrich had the 2nd wife excommunicated too. Or it could’ve been the first. So many wives I can’t remember if it was the 1st, 2nd, or third??

Jim@Badger1944's avatar

He had his first two (supposedly unconsummated) marriages annulled (for a hefty price). There isn’t one authentic piece of DNA in his body.

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

Ah, I wondered how the Catholic adulteress could be the representative to the Vatican, they have some screwy rules! (not that I care about the adultery at all but they have weird loopholes.)

Jim@Badger1944's avatar

Rudy uses the same rules around divorce. If a marriage is annulled, there was no marriage so there is no divorce. An annulment can be expensive, but when your new(est) wife is loaded, that is no problem.

Charlie Austin's avatar

Pope Alexander, the Borgia Pope, had two children by mistresses; Chesare and Lucretia. So much for the vow of celibacy.

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

What about Juan the oldest? The one that got the armies that Chesare wanted?

Charlie Austin's avatar

That's right. Have you read "The Family" by Mario Puzo? The miniseries "The Borgias" is based on it.

Patris's avatar

And don’t forget Orange Baboon appointed that third wife ambassador to the Vatican. Sweet.

Mary Hall's avatar

She with the faraway eyes and helmet hair. So very Republican.

Tess's avatar

The republican party is going to hell-quickly. My father-who actually was a leader in the WI republican party back in the day-would be appalled by what the hell they are doing. Where are all the Mitt Romney’s in the party? I know…too scared-too chicken-shit to go against the tangerine asshole. MY GOD!

Susan Niemann's avatar

Tess, I agree. The GOP is done. Whatever happened to integrity and intellect? To doing whats right? It's appalling and amazing at the same time, to watch them disintegrate.

Tess's avatar

And putting our country in jeopardy!

Lorraine Parish's avatar

and THE WORLD and its future in jeopardy. putin is succeeding so far that is.

Susan Niemann's avatar

Yes indeed they are. Maddening that they cant see this.

Charlie Austin's avatar

They don't want to.🙈🙈

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Bill Lawrence's avatar

I agree. He gets more demented by the day as the net closes around him. His unhinged whines will only grow louder and will only alienate voters who have a working brain cell.

Monnina's avatar

I think that Trump has been dropped by his previous backers very recently ? Anyone else hear the rumor that the Space Nazi ordered him to back out of the election campaign at their recent meeting in Palm Springs ? If so, watch how the news media begin to push Nikki Haley as a remedy to GOP presidential campaign ills. I do not know enough about her to judge whether she would be just as dangerous a POTUS as Trump or not.

With their Strongman going down perhaps the GOP will now break into conflicting factions becoming a descending death spiral of circular firing squads.

Bill Lawrence's avatar

Haley is much smarter than Trump and has more experience in the real world, if you can call the UN the real world. So she is dangerous, but in a more traditional Republican way, not the MAGAMoron way.

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Ethereal Fairy's avatar

That is very interesting... Haley is still a Republican, and has said she would sign any abortion ban that hit her desk, just like she did as Gov of SC. She endorses all their fuckery, but is smart enough to pretend to be "moderate". I know Charles Koch is backing her, but he backed Pence and could only get him in as VP.

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

May you be a prophet, but not like Cassandra.

Charlie Austin's avatar

Hey Susan. There's a problem with your Substack. They monetized it today. The problem is, there's no view in browser option on your Substack, which is on all my other ones. They seem to insist that I subscribe through the app. The app doesn't recognize any of my other subscriptions. I want to work off my Yahoo mail. Please help me.😥😥

Susan Niemann's avatar

Yikes! I just today set up Stripe…so I obviously didnt do it right. DUH! Please stand by as I call in tech support. 😂

Charlie Austin's avatar

I tried but got a fucking bot. I'm a tech caveman. Thank you. Please get back to me.

Runfastandwin's avatar

the Romneys et al are genteel nazis but nazis nonetheless.

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steve robertshaw's avatar

Newt's always been insane, that's the first thing that ever struck me about him when I'd see a clip of him talking - so self-assured and confident in whatever narrative he was spinning, cherry picking facts as needed and re-connecting the dots to create an alternate history for that topic or event, no room for doubt or uncertainty, just delivering a non-stop monologue to the camera. Next time I saw that type of speech style was when Trump would be delivering a non-pause monologue of made-up and "alternate" facts. Steve Bannon speaks in a similar way. I've come to group the 3 of them as the "trinity of insanity". But maybe it's just me.

Kathleen Weber's avatar

I'd add Rush Limbaugh and create the 4 Vampires of the Apocalypse.

steve robertshaw's avatar

Hah! Rush Limbaugh definitely belongs on the Mt. "Rush"more of evil!

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

That was brilliant!, Both of you, well done.

Ellis Weiner's avatar

It's not insanity. It's conscience-free, calculated evil.

Diana Hembree's avatar

I remember a journalist friend of mine intervewing Gingrich a long time back said Gingrich's wife started to say something, and Gringrich turned to her and said "SHUT UP!"

Patris's avatar

Republican wives just don’t have a killer instinct…

Old Man's avatar

Too much confidence is. ‘Tell.

Zija Pulp's avatar

I’d say it was the Holy Moly Trinity of Insanity.

Patris's avatar

Don’t forget the buzzard Paul Ryan.

JOE P's avatar

Newt ‘happening’ to the republican party is akin to a stage four cancer diagnosis. Death cant come soon enough for newt, for republicans, for stupid cult members.

Kay G's avatar

Newt’s Reaganomic’s economic policy that he foisted on the GOP also sent our economic growth to the upper classes and doomed our middle class. That’s why the rich don’t pay taxes and companies like Fed-Ex don’t pay taxes but the Republicans don’t want to pay for “handouts” like Social Security.

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

Bingo, he ruined the facade of civility with his "Scorched Earth" policies of no compromise...ever!

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I have ALWAYS laid our current state of politics at the feet of Newt Gingrich. Even Reagan wasn't as much of an asshole. I can still remember his bullshit "Contract with America" from the 1995 House, and of course, how were we to know that it was actually a Contract ON America at the time? Nasty, personalized politics came from the mind of Gingrich, with a healthy dose of "help" every day from Rush Limbaugh, who, it can never be emphasized enough, is STILL DEAD. Newt Gingrich AND Steve Bannon are pure evil.

Mary Hall's avatar

Nancy Pelosi was asked when decorum went to hell in Congress, and she said it was when Gnewt Gingrich showed up.

steve robertshaw's avatar

And regarding Rush STILL being dead, I'd like to applaud the brave soul who put a stake through the corpse so it can't come back. Well done!

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

Did they take the head though,? Ghouls and Vampires can regenerate if you don't take the head.

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Bill Lawrence's avatar

I spent most of my working life posted abroad...and I leaned strongly Republican. But then I came back in the '90's and saw what Gringrich had done and was doing. I dropped the GOP immediately and became a Democrat. Never looked back.

Dean Gavney's avatar

The real problem is that they think Americans are stupid, and the bitch of it is that way too many are.

Don'tBlameTheDog's avatar

On a brighter note, the rubes are out there trumpeting the quiet part out loud. Apparently, they never got the 'Shhhhhhhh!' memo. Oops. Suburbanites recoiling in disgust.

Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

Newt has been very active in leading the R Party down the rabbit hole. He is not talked about enough. No moral scruples, which seems to be the prerequisite for being in this Do Nothing Party. I would like him to go away and I mean that with all sincerity, like fly away to some deserted island where no one would listen to him. He can take his pals, Trump & Stephen Miller with him.

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

🎯Dude, you so nailed that one.

Patris's avatar

Let’s not forget Ronnie ‘the buffoon’ Reagan. Who decided ketchup was a vegetable.

"MizMeezer"'s avatar

"Imprisoning a political rival and engineering his murder — the very thing that Vlad Putin just got away with — is exactly what presidential immunity looks like."

Amen brother.

AudreyRose's avatar

I thought this was a pivotal and incisive comment by Jeff as well.

bluesyfish's avatar

This is what Liz Cheney said yesterday on CNN. Not that I'm a fan, I appreciate the Jan 6th committee work but could never vote for her. “…when you think about Donald Trump, for example, pledging retribution, what Vladimir Putin did to Navalny is what retribution looks like in a country where the leader is not subject to the rule of law.”

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

And the Bloated Orange Toad wants to be Putin, so badly!

Charlotte Thompson's avatar

In his dreams Natalie. Basically, he's too fucking stupid. Putin may be evil, but he is smart.

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

Absolutely, he could never duplicate Putin's intellect and ruthless training.

bluesyfish's avatar

But the BOT WANTS to assassinate people like Putin does. Right?

Susan Niemann's avatar

Yes, Jeff. You are absolutely correct. The massive amount of gaslighting and pure horse manure from the cult is staggering. It's the law, dumb asses! When you break a law, you must be held accountable. What part of this cant they understand? 🤦‍♀️ The Republican Party is history.

Charlie Austin's avatar

They may do a Nero and try to burn the country down on their way out.

Kathleen Weber's avatar

When did Dictator Wannabe start saying, “Lock her up!”

EIGHT YEARS ago!

Hmmm.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Trump crime family stole billions.

Biden crime family accused of stealing millions.

Sharon C Storm's avatar

Now that has been debunked. They guy who made up that story has been arrested by the FBI.

Kathleen Weber's avatar

I was counting on Jeff's readers to know that.

Sharon C Storm's avatar

A large majority would know that, of course, but someone may have missed it.

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

It is always projection with that lot, "every accusation is a confession."

Cassandra Here's avatar

By that logic, Putin will help Biden get elected? They’re not very good at that thinking things through thing, are they?

Ellis Weiner's avatar

They're not in the business of thinking things through, because everything they say and do is in bad faith. They're not advancing *opinions.* They're spewing propaganda. They're not trying to persuade serious people with well-intended arguments. They're out to bamboozle and enrage the orc army of morons who are today's GOP rank and file. Sure, it's slimy and disgusting--but it beats working for a living.

Cassandra Here's avatar

Yes. I know. My comment is sarcasm, which is a hard thing on social media

Cassandra Here's avatar

Oh gosh, no need. We’re all trying like hell to make sense out of the absurd. Conventional language and tropes fail. If I can find the piece I read about what we are up against linguistically and rhetorically, I’ll stick it here. It’s crazy making for sure.

Rhoda Ozen's avatar

I think the key word there, Cassandra, is “thinking.”

Karen Livolsi's avatar

That was my first thought after reading the convoluted logic used.

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

Putin is playing into that, he told Tucker Carlson in that love-fest (you couldn't all it an interview) that he would rather see Biden elected, as he is more stable, and predictable. That must have broken "Bronzo the Malignant's" non-existent heart.

Charlotte Thompson's avatar

The part that Putin didn't say out loud is that Orange idiot is easier to manipulate.

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

True, he is the master of implied intent!

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Lorraine Parish's avatar

they're incapable of it.

Sköll's avatar

I knew Gingrich was a classless fuckup, but his post takes the cake. Definitely beaucoup dinky dau.

Margaret's avatar

I want to puke. tRump = Navalny? I can't even.

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

They always desecrate good men, by claiming their valor for themselves, when they are the opposite.

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EFS's avatar

So disrespectful to Elvis...

Charlotte Thompson's avatar

In his dreams Donna. Elvis would be laughing his ass off.

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Charlotte Thompson's avatar

You are correct. I guess my thought was that Elvis would think it was a joke. Didn't explain myself very well.

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Charlotte Thompson's avatar

Everything you have said makes sense Donna. I thought the same regarding Hitler, he was a horrible person, but far from stupid. Cheeto on the other hand is stupid.

Dr J's Sanity Space's avatar

Equating TFG with Navalny is at best horribly insulting, at worst stomach turning nauseating. How dare anyone say that…Lowest of low would and has.

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

Does it involve prions and non-functional brains?

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Ethereal Fairy's avatar

I'm not even religious and I know that is blasphemy on their part!

Susan Keefer's avatar

That makes me absolutely nauseous. The fact that Gingrich and the other psychos think that they can get away with that comparison shows how far they will go with their lies and how gullible their MAGA morons are. WHERE IS THE PRESS?

SPW's avatar

There is very little “press” left. They’ve all been gobbled up and spat out by the Bezos’ of the country.

Karla's avatar

But they CAN get away with it because the press is worthless and MAGA is full of cult members who believe anything.

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Ethereal Fairy's avatar

From the liars, without push-back absolutely.

Darrell Smith's avatar

Navalny was the most vocal and visible to the entire world opponent of Putin. The one who motivated Russians to question Putin's intentions. There are many Russians who are happy that Eastern Europe can do what they want and that Russia doesn't have to prop them up or police them or worry about them. Russia is a big place and has enough to worry about.

Who would imprison Jack Smith and thousands of others and do away with them at his whim? The Orange Menace rubs his hands with glee. It is all in his campaign rhetoric.

Navalny may be revenged. Trump will never get his revenge. He will get the wages of high crimes.

Mark L's avatar

The Branch of the Russian State Duma in the United States is called the Republicans

Never forget that.

Mike Phelan's avatar

The mofo’s never tire of demonstrating to anyone paying attention that every accusation they make is another admission of guilt.

Lorraine Parish's avatar

This is so sickening. You think they can't go lower than whatever they did the day before but fuck no. Their depravity is bottomless. This insane comparison though ranks top of my list of why I hate the Magas.