no, I didn't write about Chuck Schumer's capitulation — because I didn't want my head to explode. but that doesn't mean you can't talk about here in the comment.
I called every wavering senator but couldn't get through to talk to any staffers, so I left messages and sent emails. Their phones must be blowing up. My senators are voting no, bless their good Dem hearts.
I so wish! It's a mystery to me how he ever got elected in the first place. Governor twice, then the FL Senate since 2018. He's garbage and a sneaky crook.
He's rich as shit, that's why. Bought his (most-unpopular in the country) governorship after being booted from his corrupt healthProfit work. An obnoxious person.
I’m in DC. We have bupkis. A non voting Delegate to the House & a “shadow Senator”. I reached out to the 4 Dem Senators & 2 others. One wrote I wasn’t his constituent (I opened my letter acknowledging that) ergo buh bye they come first. My BIG issue on top of all is UNLESS EXTENDED Medicare coverage of tele health stops 3/31/25 hurting many of us who don’t need to go in & it’s impossible for most for a 10 min visit. I’ve heard NO Dems speak for the extension.
I've lived here for 50 years and wouldn't want to live anywhere else, but in the old days and for many years we were bluish- greyish, and becoming red has been a horror.
For some reason I got on his email list. Straight to spam folder, and delight every time I empty it and watch his name vanish into oblivion. As I am a life long blue state democrat, I assume he bought the same mailing list that keep sending me sure fire hints for penis enhancement.
I can empathize---mine are Bernie thiel-bought-the-election-for-me Moreno and a big zero Repug who's filling JD Vance's seat through next year. Neither responds to messages, and it's a certainty that both will vote for the CR
Mine too. I couldn't get through on the phone, either. But I e-mailed, and I sent Schumer a special one advising him that his days in the Senate are numbered if he screws over the American public again.
We need to recall one or both in NY, Gillebrand is in till 2031. Will there be another election anyway? I left VM for shumer asking him to step down as minority leader and let someone younger and angrier lead the opposition.
I did the same for Schumer. I left a phone message and then followed up with an email. Evidently, he's more scared of the Donvict than his fellow Dems.
And if you’re not comfortable with calling, there’s a website, faxzero.com, that lets you send free faxes to Senate offices. I’ve been told that faxes get high priority, and you don’t have to talk to anyone or wait on hold.
Same, got through to Warner's and he's a no, left VM at Bookers, but no answer at ossof, hickenlooper, peters, Shaheen, durbin. So bummed about my NY reps rolling over.
May I just say, Fuck Schumer and that miserable excuse and hideously dressed Senator Fetterman, who apparently idolizes the traitorous works of Joe “Water Mansion” Manchin and the ignominious Kyrsten Sinema. It takes some authentic weakness to submit to tyranny so quickly.
I just called Fetterman, my Senator, to tell him I will vote for his primary opponent, assuming we will ever hold an election again in this Dollarocracy called The United States.
Does anyone know wtf happened to him? I know he suffered a stroke and his behavior seemed noticeably different since he returned to full-time picnic wear on the Senate floor, or am I mistaken? There are times when the only accessory missing from his DJ gig ensemble is a MAGA hat. Anybody?
Why do people think he's going to switch? What's the payoff for him? His game seems to be sticking it to the middle-class-and-up Dems by playing "(white) working-class hero." For reasons that defy belief, Trump has that role sewn up in the GOP. I can see him going Independent, though.
Thanks for posting this Derek, his phone line has been down since yesterday it appears. I’ve written his soft traitorous ass several times, everyone should!!
Agree. I was bummed when Schumer was unanimously re-elected as Dem Leader for this current Senate. Was hoping for a younger firebrand, or Bernie, or Liz.
How about Murphy for President in 2026! Recall vote. Let's make MAGAs think it is their idea by saying no one who is MAGA would ever think of such a thing to improve their lives.
Or the rest of the world is going to replace the USA. Even China is getting in on the tariff wars. Look out Texas. China is not buying US beef any more. So, no USAID, no children's food program, no China beef, and Americans are not going to be able to afford it. What are the beef producing states?
The ten states with the most cattle are Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, Kansas, Montana, Kentucky, North Dakota, and Iowa. Texas leads the pack with an astounding 4,475,000 cows, securing its position as the top beef-producing state.
Yeeha Texas! There you go.
European countries are starting boycotts on US. I believe in Denmark or Sweden or both, black stars are placed on goods that do not have any US parts.
So much for taking Greenland. EU is already planning military strategy. With Hegseth in the lead on that, US is in a great position. Trump scorning French wines is as much about France providing Europe with a nuclear shield negating the fact that the US has more nuclear weapons, because it only takes one and done.
just coincidentally, the top 10 beef states are all red...I'm in TN and a beef farmer, but I'll gladly take the hit. I can sell my organic beef locally.
They also will not vote for a gay guy. We need a tall, white or nearly white male. I hate to say that but it's true. I thought it might be Newsome but now he's gone over to the other side. Interviewing shitstains on his podcast.
Murphy would be a big upgrade. Schumer is a big reason why the Dems can't get much done. It's the same old shit, different day with Chuck. Or, is Schumer preventing Smuk from accomplishing the drastic cuts he wanted in a shutdown? Most Dems are on board with a 30 day extension and going back to the bargaining table.
Don't forget AOC and Jasmine Crockett. Wouldn't that make the heads of the White Supremacist racist misogynists spin if they were the Pres and VP. Then, let us put someone else with Black or Brown skin in almost all of the other elected positions, including all but one or 2 positions on the Supreme Court and then talk about affirmative action for White men. In the meantime throw Trump and Musk in a deep dark prison on an island in the Arctic that they are trying to take over. Perhaps Greenland.
I would go see that movie. Shondra Rhimes, where are you?
I had a very good friend who suffered a brain injury from a motorcycle crash. He was a funny guy. We both found humor in our misfortunes. One time he pulled up in my driveway on his motorcycle to take me for a drive, after his injury. He shamed me into going. When we got to the stop sign, he said, he just dropped a hit of acid. I got off the motorcycle. He laughed his ass off. He died of a drug overdose. I miss him.
I sent Chuckie Cheese an email last night letting him know that I'm not one of his constituents but Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego are my senators. I told him to vote no on the CR as my senators are voting no. This going along to get along shit no longer works.
Thanks Kay-EI, and everyone who’s called to demand the CR receives a huge NO vote!! I’ve been calling all week sending out Schumer’s mind numbing idiocy on what this CR does by handing Trump/Musk the keys to the castle, and our social safety nets. Let alone access to the trillions invested in our SS coffers!
Yesterday Donnie was calling Schumer a "Palestinian," and this morning Chuck is great statesman helping Dear Leader make america great again. We're not at war with Eastasia, we've always been at war with Eurasia. Facts are fungible to Donny.
I was thinking the same, that Trump's calling Schumer a Palestinian must have inflicted a bone-deep wound. Schumer's been dialing it in for years, playing by rules from a by-gone era. Same with Durbin. And Pelosi in the House. They have no clue.
President Elmo has planned his “billionaire coup” for years. He knew that our government would be so laden with the inertia of money-grubbing elected officials that they would be unable to respond effectively.
Well I have to say it didn't surprise me. Waaay back when I was a Republican I didn't trust him. But then I "seen" the light and suddenly all Democrats were GOOD and all Republicans were BAD. Um, Jan, reality check here. Schumer is still Schumer and kool aid is still kool aid. And Fetterman still shops for fashions at Dick's Sporting Goods. It's just one more kick in the head for all of us who love our country . . . pre-Trump/Musk. We have to take to the streets. I can still walk and carry a sign.
Thanks Kathleen, Schumer’s response yesterday was another peerless in vacuous idiocy moment that needs to send his sorry ass home. He should have never been allowed another chance to be in his position if people weren’t so damned disinterested!!
Thanks for the link, Kathleen. Schumer May have a good point in that a shutdown would let musk dig around and meddle more easily in our govt. systems and could cripple the Courts who appear to be our only hope in stopping some of the worst abuses that are going on.
Pass the CR and dig in on the budget, specifically the $4.5 Trillion tax cut continuation for Billionaires and other Rich fucks who think they should get a free ride like musk and bezos.
I hope we have a short shut down and a once month CR. We do have a better chance with the budget. Fingers crossed. I'm so glad people are calling the Senate.
If you only have one opportunity to oppose what's happening, and that means you can capture legacy media with a shutdown and filibuster, and the vets are in 50 states and DC over the wkend, and the GOP reps are on the run from their own constituents, and you have near daily/weekly demonstrations all over the US, then dems have the conditions for a one month CR demand and should at least try. Assuming the consequences will somehow be worse when there's no way to rein them in now doesn't make sense. They don't have the military captured yet but in 6 mos they will. Right now there's enough opposition among military members - before huge purges - that orders might not be followed now even under duress from the administration. In six months those moves will be much easier to do. Right now the momentum of the people is in opposition, and people are willing to take the pain up front to stop the worst from moving forward, if we don't have support at the highest levels of congress it will weaken the opposition mvmt.
Here's the turncoat list. Super disappointing. Democratic Sens. Dick Durbin (Illinois), Catherine Cortez Masto (Nevada), Maggie Hassan (New Hampshire), John Fetterman (Pennsylvania), Kirsten Gillibrand (New York), Jeanne Shaheen (New Hampshire), Gary Peters (Michigan) and Brian Schatz (Hawaii) joined Schumer and King in voting for the bill. One Republican, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, voted against it.
STEPHEN COLBERT told Tesla jokes last night. Neither Steven nor I condone vandalism, but we are definitely willing to look the other way.
“Tesla owners are facing backlash everywhere they go. Recently, somebody stole the wheels from every single Tesla in a Texas parking lot. Whoever did it, I do not condone this, but I do appreciate your ‘tire-less’ efforts.” —
“Now, I want to be clear: I do not condone violence or vandalism of any kind. That is a deeply held belief of mine that comes from the bottom of my CBS legal department." — STEPHEN COLBERT
“With that in mind, I find it interesting that there’s a growing trend of Cybertrucks being vandalized and used as skate ramps or covered in garbage. To be fair, that might not be vandalism; that might just be a simple mistake because they do look a lot like a dumpster.” — STEPHEN COLBERT
There is a hilarious internet meme going around (oh, do I wish Substack would upgrade so we could publish images) - it is a 1990s Dumpster in India which looks for all the world like a yellow Swastikar truck. I'll just bet that one of Space Nazi's bargain basement H1B designers put it in front of him and he chose it... (You can see it if you go to JoeMyGod and look through yesterday's posts for the one about the Swastikar which sank in Ventura Beach harbor. It is in the comments.
You can find a entire assortment of hilarious MAGAs on tiktok busily denying that the ancient India dumpster looks ANYTHING like a Musk cybertruck....while every denial is placed with photos of those two items (the dumpster and cybertruck) side by side and the resemblance is hysterically unmistakable!
I'm only going to say this once. There was a time, not long ago, when Tesla owners were heroes for not putting gas pollution into the air. New owners might be a problem, but for car owners (we're not talking trucks here) they saw the future and acted on it. If you want to backlash, make sure the owners have bought their Teslas after January 1, 2024. Otherwise, just enjoy your climate crisis. I can't help you. We've got two Chevy EVs and we do just fine, thank you.
There are bumper stickers for those EV heroes. However, I change your "best by/buy" date from 1 Jan 2024 to Sept 2022 when Musk refused the request from Ukraine to activate Starlink to Sevastopol. Ukraine believed that area was already activated. It was not. (Strange, that!) Musk wrote later, “the obvious intent being to sink most of the Russian fleet at anchor”. “If I had agreed to their request, then SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation.”
I say take him at his word. He's on record as tying SpaceX and Starlink to outcomes when utilizing his technology. So that makes him "explicitly complicit" in every drug deal, murder, kidnapping, etc. that uses Starlink.
Imagine being a “one issue voter,” and that one issue makes your livelihood possible…and you still vote for the Bloated Yam of Scam, cementing your demise. The very essence of STOOPID.
And something similar happened in his first term. To keep them in the cult, they were given taxpayer handouts to make up for the loss. The same thing is sure to happen.
When is someone going to have the stones to tell him, “Shut the fuck up, Donny, you don’t know what you’re talking about?” I wonder who fed Senator Tubesteak that line about the sugar high? He’s far too stupid to have come up with that on his own, a slick lie like that.
Someone should tell Donnie Dipshit that there IS no "American" champagne. "Champagne" is a protected name. Champagne can and only does come from France. France WILL sue anyone who tries to sell it from another country under the name Champagne.
Someone should tell the idiot that Google is his friend. . .
How can even the lowly MAGATS pretend that cutting 50% of the VA workforce is okay? I know quite a few veterans and their biggest complaint about the VA has always been that it takes so damn long to be seen. How’s that gonna work now? Department of Government Efficiency? Be real!
His enormous, stunning, breathtaking stupidity cannot be adequately encompassed by words. But even more elusive to the rational mind is how his fucking zombies and stooges cannot see that.
Seeing as Krasnov is such a germophobe and that (early stage) syphilis is relatively easy to cure with antibiotics....I suppose it's within the range of possibility that untreated syph is the root cause of his serious cognitive decline:
(side effects of late stage or tertiary syphilis are many but the worst are the cardiological and the neurological deteriorations--aortitis, heart valve damage & aneurysms...neurological problems centered around stroke, nerve damage, dementia, hearing and/or visual impairments, urinary incontinence...and a host of other physical issues)
However, I'm slightly more inclined to point a finger at his unremitting use of Adderall AND finasteride (Propecia). The side effects for continuous use of Adderall might be enough to explain his more obvious symptoms: difficulty falling asleep or interrupted sleep, paranoia, hallucinations, EXACERBATIONS OF EXISTING MENTAL ILLNESS. It could just be the family Alzheimer's Disease making a gradual appearance. We'll never know until he keels and a transparent and honest doctor's report is released.
The only “talent” the fat fuck has is for reading cue cards for commercials. For steaks. For Teslurs. That’s the maximum range of his functional abilities.
And yet, he spouts unreal and offensive nonsense all day every day and zero fucking pushback from the “access reporters” in the room.
Foreign leaders have to feel brain cells dying by the millions as they sit there and watch with horror.
Any pushback from reporters earns them an automatic expulsion from the WH press pool. They all need to just stay away. Let him speak to the Tass stringer all alone in the room.
Donny Huckster hawked Goya Beans in the White House with his loving Daughter Ivanka the first time around. Then he had a four year vacation to sell junk. Now he has moved to Teslas and crypto currency. Not surprising at all.
Well for crying out loud…I DO NOT WANT fucking jenga blocks falling on my head!!! Not one damn brain cell left in his head. And Schumer/Fetterman…..gimme a break. Well anyway-try to have a happy weekend despite all the SHIT happening in our once beautiful democratic country. Dang—where’s the wine bottle……….
But... von trump wants the economy to tank! Good for his billionaires friends who are betting on it and will buy companies at much cheaper prices. He is manipulating the market for his (their) own interests. He got dacred immunity from this fucking corrupt scotus so he can do whatever he wants, including shooting someone on the fifth avenue without consequences! What about that, mmhh? Insane. Fuck maga
Hannah Arendt cited a Jewish-British financier, who was invested in the diamond fields of South Africa and was pleased when he discovered that “‘the Transvaal Government is like no other government in the world. It is indeed not a government at all, but an unlimited company of some twenty thousand shareholders’” (Origins of Totalitarianism). Recommended reading, first published in 1951.
Arendt’s description of Boer life and history is interesting. Clannish. Lazy (because they “discovered” that native blacks could be coerced). Racial thinking evolved into racism. It is a part of her view on imperialism (scramble for Africa period), bureaucracy, and racism pointing the way to totalitarianism.
Actually the reason that Greenland is a Danish territory is because at one time, when several Caribbean countries where held by Denmark, there was a deal that Denmark would give control over those islands to the US in exchange for them colonizing Greenland There is always an historical reason for borders. Not some guy somewhere drew a line and made a border, like Donny dipshit thinks is why we have a straight line at the Canadian border. Maybe he should take a look at Montana.
Honestly, never once in my life have I said “I told you so” to anyone. It doesn’t help. But to the farmers like the one down the road who had Trump signs all over his 500 acres, I’m coming close.
no, I didn't write about Chuck Schumer's capitulation — because I didn't want my head to explode. but that doesn't mean you can't talk about here in the comment.
gonna leave this here, from AOC on bluesky:
KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN.
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
https://bsky.app/profile/aoc.bsky.social/post/3lkduskfjpk2x
I called every wavering senator but couldn't get through to talk to any staffers, so I left messages and sent emails. Their phones must be blowing up. My senators are voting no, bless their good Dem hearts.
I weep oceans each time I recall that my Senator is pRick Scott. Talk about shitty luck!
I am so sorry for you. Any chance of booting him out?
I so wish! It's a mystery to me how he ever got elected in the first place. Governor twice, then the FL Senate since 2018. He's garbage and a sneaky crook.
He's rich as shit, that's why. Bought his (most-unpopular in the country) governorship after being booted from his corrupt healthProfit work. An obnoxious person.
Hey, I’ve got Tom Cotton and John Boozman so I feel your pain. We need to start a group, like, Rotten Senators Club.
I’m in DC. We have bupkis. A non voting Delegate to the House & a “shadow Senator”. I reached out to the 4 Dem Senators & 2 others. One wrote I wasn’t his constituent (I opened my letter acknowledging that) ergo buh bye they come first. My BIG issue on top of all is UNLESS EXTENDED Medicare coverage of tele health stops 3/31/25 hurting many of us who don’t need to go in & it’s impossible for most for a 10 min visit. I’ve heard NO Dems speak for the extension.
I hope living in Florida is a necessity, not a choice.
I've lived here for 50 years and wouldn't want to live anywhere else, but in the old days and for many years we were bluish- greyish, and becoming red has been a horror.
Moved here when my mom was diagnosed with cancer and now I've become pretty much stuck here.
For some reason I got on his email list. Straight to spam folder, and delight every time I empty it and watch his name vanish into oblivion. As I am a life long blue state democrat, I assume he bought the same mailing list that keep sending me sure fire hints for penis enhancement.
I am in Florida….
I can empathize---mine are Bernie thiel-bought-the-election-for-me Moreno and a big zero Repug who's filling JD Vance's seat through next year. Neither responds to messages, and it's a certainty that both will vote for the CR
Mine too. I couldn't get through on the phone, either. But I e-mailed, and I sent Schumer a special one advising him that his days in the Senate are numbered if he screws over the American public again.
There's talk about AOC primarying Schumer. I think he's likely to resign rather than have to run against her. His time is over.
Good. She would be an excellent replacement for him. We need people who actually care about the American public and not their fattening wallets.
We need to recall one or both in NY, Gillebrand is in till 2031. Will there be another election anyway? I left VM for shumer asking him to step down as minority leader and let someone younger and angrier lead the opposition.
Unfortunately, I believe that Federal pols can't be recalled.
I did the same for Schumer. I left a phone message and then followed up with an email. Evidently, he's more scared of the Donvict than his fellow Dems.
Schumer is your most important call of the day Linda, thanks for your efforts!!
I couldn’t get through, though I tried about 10 or 12 times. I sent emails to him saying he was betraying We the People if he voted yes.
Call that old fool Durbin as well.
And if you’re not comfortable with calling, there’s a website, faxzero.com, that lets you send free faxes to Senate offices. I’ve been told that faxes get high priority, and you don’t have to talk to anyone or wait on hold.
What a great resource. Thanks for posting.
Thank you. I didn't know of this option.
Same, got through to Warner's and he's a no, left VM at Bookers, but no answer at ossof, hickenlooper, peters, Shaheen, durbin. So bummed about my NY reps rolling over.
Ossoff is now a no vote.
Booker is now a no.
Me neither. Everyone is using VM
May I just say, Fuck Schumer and that miserable excuse and hideously dressed Senator Fetterman, who apparently idolizes the traitorous works of Joe “Water Mansion” Manchin and the ignominious Kyrsten Sinema. It takes some authentic weakness to submit to tyranny so quickly.
Weakness or a quiet 'donation' from Elon? Can't help but wonder...
Follow the money. I’m more inclined to believe it stops at Putin.
Agreed!
When is Fetterman going to switch parties?
I wish he would and just get it over with. He is no more reliable for Dems than Manchin or Sinema were.
I just called Fetterman, my Senator, to tell him I will vote for his primary opponent, assuming we will ever hold an election again in this Dollarocracy called The United States.
He already has, Linda…just hasn’t announced it yet.
Does anyone know wtf happened to him? I know he suffered a stroke and his behavior seemed noticeably different since he returned to full-time picnic wear on the Senate floor, or am I mistaken? There are times when the only accessory missing from his DJ gig ensemble is a MAGA hat. Anybody?
He was a nice guy in a hoodie. Turned out to also be a jackass in a hoodie, but them's the breaks.
can’t disagree
Can’t judge a book by its cover.
No shit...I'm furious with him.
Let him know he will be out of a job if he votes against our best interests.
Blow him up!!
Who are these people that lie so easily, hide their true identities and turn traitor at the drop of a hat?
He did.
He just didn't make it official. Yet. Now, I call him Fettermanchinema.
I called the combo of Manchin and Sinema: Manchenema.
FetterManchEnema
When is Fetterman going to be recalled for doing the devil's work?
Fetterman scammed everyone by pretending to be a progressive. He is loathesome.
No more sympathy cards for his health issues.
Does McDonald’s issue gift cards?
Can't be recalled as he holds a Federal office.
Why do people think he's going to switch? What's the payoff for him? His game seems to be sticking it to the middle-class-and-up Dems by playing "(white) working-class hero." For reasons that defy belief, Trump has that role sewn up in the GOP. I can see him going Independent, though.
They could put Fetterman in charge of deporting all the Canadian geese!
He did go to mar-a-lardo! That was highly suspicious and here we are.
When's he going to put on a suit and get a haircut?
Better yet, when are all the sell-outs gonna just eat shit and die?
Tim Miller had Fetterman on his podcast. Said John couldn’t think quickly on his feet or spar, so he had to take it easy on him
He did long ago, but nobody around these parts seemed to notice! He’s definitely put on a front few noticed Linda!!
https://www.schumer.senate.gov/contact/message-chuck
sent a strongly worded email to vote no on cloture and CR and then think about retirement...
Thanks for posting this Derek, his phone line has been down since yesterday it appears. I’ve written his soft traitorous ass several times, everyone should!!
I sent him a blistering email early this morning. I hope he will cave to our pressure as easily as he caved to Trump's.
Thanks I just messaged him. Appreciate the link.
Thanks. I sent my strongly worded message. I'm in FL so no use writing my senators for this.
Thanks. I used it.
Thanks! Message sent!
Just received an email from Jon Ossoff, who was listed as a yes vote and now says he's voting no. Anyone know the latest lineup?
Linda, here you go. Updates automatically. Heavy traffic in this file.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kF9_E5GqOROqaMgynsPSnnUJop7X6kh0mj4hxsbuJKI/edit?pli=1&gid=0#gid=0
Thanks. Both of my Senators are ‘NO’ votes.
Mine too.
Thanks for sharing!
JFC! There are ten who say they’re voting yes now! WTF
Wonder who got to them?
A few were on leans yes and a few were undecided so 🤷🏼♀️
Replace Loser Schumer with Chris Murphy NOW! 😤
Agree. I was bummed when Schumer was unanimously re-elected as Dem Leader for this current Senate. Was hoping for a younger firebrand, or Bernie, or Liz.
How about an end run around the age issue and run Bernie as VP?
I am all for that, Carol. Adore Bernie. He is always the president of my heart. 💙
Bernie would have beaten T💩p in 2016 and our world would look very different (in a good way).
Right on, Mary! I voted for him in the primary. Still feeling the Bern!
Great idea. How about Murphy for President on 2028?
How about Murphy for President in 2026! Recall vote. Let's make MAGAs think it is their idea by saying no one who is MAGA would ever think of such a thing to improve their lives.
Presidential election is in 2028, not ‘26
Not a bad idea!
He's been speaking out fiercely and eloquently. We can forget that fool Newsom, Mr. "Let's play footsie with the fascists".
This is war; no time for capitulation.
Thanks for calling out Newsom, who is indeed a fool that I’ve lost all respect for
I was thinking the same thing the other day. He's the most clear thinking person Ive heard speaking. Thankfully he's speaking so clearly.
This!!
Replace loser Trump with Chris Murphy NOW!
Or the rest of the world is going to replace the USA. Even China is getting in on the tariff wars. Look out Texas. China is not buying US beef any more. So, no USAID, no children's food program, no China beef, and Americans are not going to be able to afford it. What are the beef producing states?
The ten states with the most cattle are Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, Kansas, Montana, Kentucky, North Dakota, and Iowa. Texas leads the pack with an astounding 4,475,000 cows, securing its position as the top beef-producing state.
Yeeha Texas! There you go.
European countries are starting boycotts on US. I believe in Denmark or Sweden or both, black stars are placed on goods that do not have any US parts.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91296407/danish-grocery-stores-have-a-new-trick-for-boycotting-us-products
So much for taking Greenland. EU is already planning military strategy. With Hegseth in the lead on that, US is in a great position. Trump scorning French wines is as much about France providing Europe with a nuclear shield negating the fact that the US has more nuclear weapons, because it only takes one and done.
just coincidentally, the top 10 beef states are all red...I'm in TN and a beef farmer, but I'll gladly take the hit. I can sell my organic beef locally.
Or Jasmine Crockett.
Love Jasmine, but unfortunately, she wouldn’t stand a chance.
Look what happened to Kamala.
Kamala was robbed as were 70+ millions of us who voted for her.
Absofuckinglutley!
You're right. I hate it, but you're right.
Love that idea, but realistically this country will not vote for a Black woman for president. How about a Murphy/Crockett ticket?
They also will not vote for a gay guy. We need a tall, white or nearly white male. I hate to say that but it's true. I thought it might be Newsome but now he's gone over to the other side. Interviewing shitstains on his podcast.
I WISH
Murphy would be a big upgrade. Schumer is a big reason why the Dems can't get much done. It's the same old shit, different day with Chuck. Or, is Schumer preventing Smuk from accomplishing the drastic cuts he wanted in a shutdown? Most Dems are on board with a 30 day extension and going back to the bargaining table.
Chris Murphy is the only Democratic Senator getting donations from me
My senator, Chris Van Hollen, is a good guy. He's definitely voting no, as is my other senator, Angela Alsobrooks.
Yes! 👏
I like your style Susan!!
Thank you.🙏
Amy Schumer would be a better leader than her second cousin once removed.
Gary Busey makes more sense. Maybe throw Ozzy Osborne in the mix. Put them in charge.
I think Busey is a MAGA. Drugs and a fairly serious head injury from a motorcycle crash are his reasons.
I don't think he knows what he is.
I dated him when I was 18. Before BUDDY HOLLY. The head trauma from the motorcycle crash , completely changed him. It's actually very sad.
Some people think that Busey is actually Eric T💩p's real father. The resemblance is uncanny.
Don't forget AOC and Jasmine Crockett. Wouldn't that make the heads of the White Supremacist racist misogynists spin if they were the Pres and VP. Then, let us put someone else with Black or Brown skin in almost all of the other elected positions, including all but one or 2 positions on the Supreme Court and then talk about affirmative action for White men. In the meantime throw Trump and Musk in a deep dark prison on an island in the Arctic that they are trying to take over. Perhaps Greenland.
I would go see that movie. Shondra Rhimes, where are you?
Gary Busey + Ozzy Osborne + Fetterman = Three Stooges 2.0
At least Gary Busey would be entertaining.
Right! 🤣🤣 I'm imaging a conversation between Ozzy, Gary, and everyone's dick handler, Tommy, on issues.
Like trump mocking the disabled reporter ? Not funny, just mean.
I had a very good friend who suffered a brain injury from a motorcycle crash. He was a funny guy. We both found humor in our misfortunes. One time he pulled up in my driveway on his motorcycle to take me for a drive, after his injury. He shamed me into going. When we got to the stop sign, he said, he just dropped a hit of acid. I got off the motorcycle. He laughed his ass off. He died of a drug overdose. I miss him.
But it would be cruel.
No
You’re forgetting Alice Cooper and Ted Nugent Lisa!!”
Alice Cooper is a 1000% smarter than Ted fuckwad. Ted's too stupid for this group.
lol!!!
So would Amy Schumer's [fill in the blank]
…discarded toenail clippings?
Gabbard's cult eats their leader's toenail clippings. No joke
Maybe it ain’t a joke, Doc, but I’m laughing!
They actually did it
🙄🤮🤮
eeeeyew! gross!!!
I was thinking more along the lines of t. . .er, "female hygiene product"
Well, he does hide behind a “douchebag aquarium” when holding his hate rallies.
(right?)
Schumer is a big fucking weenie. Both my Senators are voting NO, as every decent Dem should.
I sent Chuckie Cheese an email last night letting him know that I'm not one of his constituents but Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego are my senators. I told him to vote no on the CR as my senators are voting no. This going along to get along shit no longer works.
Nice Minho!!
Thanks Kay-EI, and everyone who’s called to demand the CR receives a huge NO vote!! I’ve been calling all week sending out Schumer’s mind numbing idiocy on what this CR does by handing Trump/Musk the keys to the castle, and our social safety nets. Let alone access to the trillions invested in our SS coffers!
Mine too. I called them to let them know that I'm proud of them.
Yesterday Donnie was calling Schumer a "Palestinian," and this morning Chuck is great statesman helping Dear Leader make america great again. We're not at war with Eastasia, we've always been at war with Eurasia. Facts are fungible to Donny.
Trump is laughing at Schumer and the quisling Dems.
I was thinking the same, that Trump's calling Schumer a Palestinian must have inflicted a bone-deep wound. Schumer's been dialing it in for years, playing by rules from a by-gone era. Same with Durbin. And Pelosi in the House. They have no clue.
Indeed Sharon, no fucking clue!!
President Elmo has planned his “billionaire coup” for years. He knew that our government would be so laden with the inertia of money-grubbing elected officials that they would be unable to respond effectively.
My head is exploding too. I am calling to the US constantly because of his inability to lead. I need to send him my long distance phone bill.
Thanks Linda, knowing you’re in Germany, I bow low!!
Well I have to say it didn't surprise me. Waaay back when I was a Republican I didn't trust him. But then I "seen" the light and suddenly all Democrats were GOOD and all Republicans were BAD. Um, Jan, reality check here. Schumer is still Schumer and kool aid is still kool aid. And Fetterman still shops for fashions at Dick's Sporting Goods. It's just one more kick in the head for all of us who love our country . . . pre-Trump/Musk. We have to take to the streets. I can still walk and carry a sign.
I'll be carrying something much more lethal than a sign.
We all can still call Schumer or your own Democratic senator at this phone number. (202) 224-3121
If you want to read Schumer's rationale for his vote, see here:
https://kathleenweber.substack.com/p/how-not-to-fight-trump-part-two
Calling their state office numbers help. I've been able to at least speak to a person when calling the offices.
Thanks Kathleen, Schumer’s response yesterday was another peerless in vacuous idiocy moment that needs to send his sorry ass home. He should have never been allowed another chance to be in his position if people weren’t so damned disinterested!!
I think the Democratic senators liked him because he wasn't one of those bossy demanding types. Easy to live with.
Thanks for the link, Kathleen. Schumer May have a good point in that a shutdown would let musk dig around and meddle more easily in our govt. systems and could cripple the Courts who appear to be our only hope in stopping some of the worst abuses that are going on.
Pass the CR and dig in on the budget, specifically the $4.5 Trillion tax cut continuation for Billionaires and other Rich fucks who think they should get a free ride like musk and bezos.
No. Schumer is wrong. Checkout https://democrats-appropriations.house.gov and https://www.pgpf.org
I hope we have a short shut down and a once month CR. We do have a better chance with the budget. Fingers crossed. I'm so glad people are calling the Senate.
If you only have one opportunity to oppose what's happening, and that means you can capture legacy media with a shutdown and filibuster, and the vets are in 50 states and DC over the wkend, and the GOP reps are on the run from their own constituents, and you have near daily/weekly demonstrations all over the US, then dems have the conditions for a one month CR demand and should at least try. Assuming the consequences will somehow be worse when there's no way to rein them in now doesn't make sense. They don't have the military captured yet but in 6 mos they will. Right now there's enough opposition among military members - before huge purges - that orders might not be followed now even under duress from the administration. In six months those moves will be much easier to do. Right now the momentum of the people is in opposition, and people are willing to take the pain up front to stop the worst from moving forward, if we don't have support at the highest levels of congress it will weaken the opposition mvmt.
NO!!!
Your Jenga analogy is a good one. An good historical analogy would be Nero. Another irrational criminal tyrant who harmed children and old people.
70% of American adults did not vote for this shit. Who will stand up and represent us? And fight back against the 30% who approve this crap.
Just read that Hakeem Jeffries has no comment on Schumer's position on the CR. So we have two weak-kneed wankers refusing to fight,
Actually, I read his "next question" as "No, I do NOT have Schumer's back"
Yeah, ain’t nothing to say about this. Other than maybe he will reverse.
I called my two senators. I hope to god they donʻt capitulate!!!!
Good job. Our great Senators here, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, are on the front lines fighting this tyranny.
I thought you’d rip Schumer a new asshole, you certainly should have, considering he’s a fucking peerless in vacuous idiocy traitor!!
Here's the turncoat list. Super disappointing. Democratic Sens. Dick Durbin (Illinois), Catherine Cortez Masto (Nevada), Maggie Hassan (New Hampshire), John Fetterman (Pennsylvania), Kirsten Gillibrand (New York), Jeanne Shaheen (New Hampshire), Gary Peters (Michigan) and Brian Schatz (Hawaii) joined Schumer and King in voting for the bill. One Republican, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, voted against it.
Chuck is no longer who he was as my congressman in the 80's. He's turned into a gutless, political punk!!!
He’s a traditional old Democrat…and that’s no compliment.
💥💥💥 DONT MISS THIS!!! 🧨🧨🧨
STEPHEN COLBERT told Tesla jokes last night. Neither Steven nor I condone vandalism, but we are definitely willing to look the other way.
“Tesla owners are facing backlash everywhere they go. Recently, somebody stole the wheels from every single Tesla in a Texas parking lot. Whoever did it, I do not condone this, but I do appreciate your ‘tire-less’ efforts.” —
“Now, I want to be clear: I do not condone violence or vandalism of any kind. That is a deeply held belief of mine that comes from the bottom of my CBS legal department." — STEPHEN COLBERT
“With that in mind, I find it interesting that there’s a growing trend of Cybertrucks being vandalized and used as skate ramps or covered in garbage. To be fair, that might not be vandalism; that might just be a simple mistake because they do look a lot like a dumpster.” — STEPHEN COLBERT
supposedly EGGS ARE CHEAPER!
nothing feels better than lobing a dozen or so HA! BOMBS AWAY!
Sooo....when are we going to start throwing them at deserving targets?
Go more for rotten tomatoes. There should be some readily available if you ask your friendly grocer to pick through the ones going bad. 😈
anytime anyday ... NO reason to wait for Halloween,
don't forget the TP!
According to Fox, eggs are now $1.83 per dozen! State propaganda
Maybe, they just declared a dozen is 3. The problem is solved.
There is a hilarious internet meme going around (oh, do I wish Substack would upgrade so we could publish images) - it is a 1990s Dumpster in India which looks for all the world like a yellow Swastikar truck. I'll just bet that one of Space Nazi's bargain basement H1B designers put it in front of him and he chose it... (You can see it if you go to JoeMyGod and look through yesterday's posts for the one about the Swastikar which sank in Ventura Beach harbor. It is in the comments.
You can find a entire assortment of hilarious MAGAs on tiktok busily denying that the ancient India dumpster looks ANYTHING like a Musk cybertruck....while every denial is placed with photos of those two items (the dumpster and cybertruck) side by side and the resemblance is hysterically unmistakable!
That was on our local news. That was pretty damn funny.
I’ve got that picture and, like you, would have posted it here. Ho over to Notes and do it there 👍🏻.
I'm only going to say this once. There was a time, not long ago, when Tesla owners were heroes for not putting gas pollution into the air. New owners might be a problem, but for car owners (we're not talking trucks here) they saw the future and acted on it. If you want to backlash, make sure the owners have bought their Teslas after January 1, 2024. Otherwise, just enjoy your climate crisis. I can't help you. We've got two Chevy EVs and we do just fine, thank you.
There are bumper stickers for those EV heroes. However, I change your "best by/buy" date from 1 Jan 2024 to Sept 2022 when Musk refused the request from Ukraine to activate Starlink to Sevastopol. Ukraine believed that area was already activated. It was not. (Strange, that!) Musk wrote later, “the obvious intent being to sink most of the Russian fleet at anchor”. “If I had agreed to their request, then SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation.”
I say take him at his word. He's on record as tying SpaceX and Starlink to outcomes when utilizing his technology. So that makes him "explicitly complicit" in every drug deal, murder, kidnapping, etc. that uses Starlink.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/12/elon-musk-biographer-admits-suggestion-spacex-head-blocked-ukraine-drone-attack-was-wrong
That would work. I actually don't know anyone who bought less than five years ago. My son bought his Bolt in 2015, and it still runs fine.
There were some great laugh lines in Colbert's monologue !!!
Yes. Stephen was hot last night.
Ms. Weber, Stephen is ALWAYS hot! (well, I think so anyway!)
Back off! After Evie is no longer with us, he's mine!!!
🤣🤣🤣👍🏽
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lkdrpwmbko2r
wow. like WOW
To every trump-voting farmer now whining that "we didn't vote for this"; the reply is "Yes, you fucking did."
Imagine being a “one issue voter,” and that one issue makes your livelihood possible…and you still vote for the Bloated Yam of Scam, cementing your demise. The very essence of STOOPID.
And something similar happened in his first term. To keep them in the cult, they were given taxpayer handouts to make up for the loss. The same thing is sure to happen.
Yep, $28 billion worth of handouts.
😳
Ooooo, Love "the Bloated Yam of Scam"! Excellent, Mr. Svirsky!
barking yam is also good
Am so going to use “bloated yam of scam” 🤣🤣
He did it to them last time. Why didn’t they think he would do it again?
Or maybe they made out better with the $Billions of our tax dollars the shit stain gave them to make nice for tanking all their markets.
The only ones that matter to Drumpf are the billionaires and they are overjoyed.
When is someone going to have the stones to tell him, “Shut the fuck up, Donny, you don’t know what you’re talking about?” I wonder who fed Senator Tubesteak that line about the sugar high? He’s far too stupid to have come up with that on his own, a slick lie like that.
I'd like to run his balls through a bread slicing machine. It makes me feel warm all over.
That would be the greatest thing since sliced bread!
😂😂
A little more than a pinch of salt, where they used to hang. 😳
Lemon juice.
SAVAGE ! I love it.
I like your style, Lisa!
Never, Richard. Stoopid is their entire identity.
Come on Richard, the stock market has been overvalued for eight years now.
🤣
Extra points for 'Senator Tubesteak'
Someone should tell Donnie Dipshit that there IS no "American" champagne. "Champagne" is a protected name. Champagne can and only does come from France. France WILL sue anyone who tries to sell it from another country under the name Champagne.
Someone should tell the idiot that Google is his friend. . .
Lady, you are commingling facts with the statements of a raving lunatic and we all know that ain’t allowed!
SPARKLING WINE, Champagne only come from the Champagne district in France, I toured a CUVEE.
But that damn coked-up squirrel doing laps in his brain is always on full throttle!
You are absolutely right! Not champagne unless it's from France!
off with his head iz too easy to say!
BUT ... there is no excuse!
HANDS OFF OUR VA!
WE EARNED OUR BENEFITS DRAFT DODGER!
How can even the lowly MAGATS pretend that cutting 50% of the VA workforce is okay? I know quite a few veterans and their biggest complaint about the VA has always been that it takes so damn long to be seen. How’s that gonna work now? Department of Government Efficiency? Be real!
it's NOT
i have an appointment made for august and september
i'm waiting on a sleep study so i can get my pacemaker before i BLOW THE DAMN THING UP! was recently told maybe NEXT YEAR!
TOO MANY BOOMERS!
sad very sad.
there are TOO MANY VETS not being taken kare of as our agreement when we were inducted
HONORABLE DISCHARGE =s eligibility for VA BENEFITS for LIFE!
Thanks for your service, Keith. The shabby treatment that is happening now to our Vets is no indication of your value to our country.
court orders California and dc(?) federal courts rehire most of who were fired ... VA to get back the 5000 (?) fired earlier
oh what fun it would be to be a fly on the wall in the oval office today!
oh yeah i forgot donnie boy is a no show on fridays
wouldn't it be a sight to see if donnie boy's maker visited him one day and said ... 'why are you telling everybody i am your sponsor WHY?'
STOP with the religious acting! what makes you think i want you on my side, eh donnie boy, eh?
STOP THE GRIFTING and CHEATING in golf! remember, i have lightning in my command? don't push it donnie, don't push it!'
P.S. YOUR HATS SUK!
His enormous, stunning, breathtaking stupidity cannot be adequately encompassed by words. But even more elusive to the rational mind is how his fucking zombies and stooges cannot see that.
And people that actually know better go along anyway, cuz MAGA!
In a nutshell. Well said, Doc
Carville thinks Dumpy needs a syphilis test.
Late stage syphilis would be my guess.
Blisters on his tiny grabbers, tell a nasty tale.
Interesting! To usually get these nasty venerian gifts you need to fuck. To fuck you need a cock. And there it became more complicated...
i vote for FULL FRONTAL LOBOTOMY !
Better go for a colostomy if your looking for the brain 🧠 !
👍🏽
Too late.
kinda mushy ain't it?
dental suction hose?
dynamite?
Seeing as Krasnov is such a germophobe and that (early stage) syphilis is relatively easy to cure with antibiotics....I suppose it's within the range of possibility that untreated syph is the root cause of his serious cognitive decline:
(side effects of late stage or tertiary syphilis are many but the worst are the cardiological and the neurological deteriorations--aortitis, heart valve damage & aneurysms...neurological problems centered around stroke, nerve damage, dementia, hearing and/or visual impairments, urinary incontinence...and a host of other physical issues)
However, I'm slightly more inclined to point a finger at his unremitting use of Adderall AND finasteride (Propecia). The side effects for continuous use of Adderall might be enough to explain his more obvious symptoms: difficulty falling asleep or interrupted sleep, paranoia, hallucinations, EXACERBATIONS OF EXISTING MENTAL ILLNESS. It could just be the family Alzheimer's Disease making a gradual appearance. We'll never know until he keels and a transparent and honest doctor's report is released.
No need, it's evident.
The only “talent” the fat fuck has is for reading cue cards for commercials. For steaks. For Teslurs. That’s the maximum range of his functional abilities.
And yet, he spouts unreal and offensive nonsense all day every day and zero fucking pushback from the “access reporters” in the room.
Foreign leaders have to feel brain cells dying by the millions as they sit there and watch with horror.
Any pushback from reporters earns them an automatic expulsion from the WH press pool. They all need to just stay away. Let him speak to the Tass stringer all alone in the room.
The TASS stringer an MTG’s Nazi boyfriend.
That poor bastard is caught between a rock and a hard spot… razzPutin and Lord Trump… nowhere to go, shit shit shit!
Donny Huckster hawked Goya Beans in the White House with his loving Daughter Ivanka the first time around. Then he had a four year vacation to sell junk. Now he has moved to Teslas and crypto currency. Not surprising at all.
“Teslers” President Elmo probably dumped a load in his own pants hearing that one.
Colbert said t said TESLERS, cuz its close to HITLERS.
Reading cue cards BADLY.
". . .Champagne businesses in the USA"
There is precisely zero Champagne produced in the USA, and there never will be. Same goes for European bourbon.
Facts, Steve? MAGA don’t need no facts!
Well for crying out loud…I DO NOT WANT fucking jenga blocks falling on my head!!! Not one damn brain cell left in his head. And Schumer/Fetterman…..gimme a break. Well anyway-try to have a happy weekend despite all the SHIT happening in our once beautiful democratic country. Dang—where’s the wine bottle……….
But... von trump wants the economy to tank! Good for his billionaires friends who are betting on it and will buy companies at much cheaper prices. He is manipulating the market for his (their) own interests. He got dacred immunity from this fucking corrupt scotus so he can do whatever he wants, including shooting someone on the fifth avenue without consequences! What about that, mmhh? Insane. Fuck maga
Hannah Arendt cited a Jewish-British financier, who was invested in the diamond fields of South Africa and was pleased when he discovered that “‘the Transvaal Government is like no other government in the world. It is indeed not a government at all, but an unlimited company of some twenty thousand shareholders’” (Origins of Totalitarianism). Recommended reading, first published in 1951.
Wait . . .TRANSvaal ? Is that where the grow the Transgender mice ?
Thanks for posting this. Explains so much!
Arendt’s description of Boer life and history is interesting. Clannish. Lazy (because they “discovered” that native blacks could be coerced). Racial thinking evolved into racism. It is a part of her view on imperialism (scramble for Africa period), bureaucracy, and racism pointing the way to totalitarianism.
According to Tuberville only the lib’s stocks crash. 😅
How did that babbling buffoon ever get a microphone?
Shove it up his Bama Ass, please!
🤦♀️. Wait! Don’t do that! Too many head hits is how we got (S)tuberville.
of course, rump famously doesn't drink, so fuck everyone else. let's put some massive tariffs on ketamine and adderal and see what happens!
Actually the reason that Greenland is a Danish territory is because at one time, when several Caribbean countries where held by Denmark, there was a deal that Denmark would give control over those islands to the US in exchange for them colonizing Greenland There is always an historical reason for borders. Not some guy somewhere drew a line and made a border, like Donny dipshit thinks is why we have a straight line at the Canadian border. Maybe he should take a look at Montana.
A lot of borders are squiggly because they're based on rivers, the Mississippi, the Ohio, etc.
Or Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. They are ALL straight lines.
Squaresville U.S.A.
but Montana has got that squiggly line on the west, because Idaho exists (sadly)
Honestly, never once in my life have I said “I told you so” to anyone. It doesn’t help. But to the farmers like the one down the road who had Trump signs all over his 500 acres, I’m coming close.
Ah, they will get a big buy-out. As always.