I thought I could handle this post, all the crazy, that shit I’d been seeing and shaking my head at, all of the bitter insanity and loofah-scrubbed batshittery… and then you showed us President Obama visiting a Children’s Ward. And I lost it.
Thanks, Jeff, and may this year bring more light, more laughs, more love, more hope.
The Dummy Despot’s plan to build his massive, privately funded White House ballroom faces its first public scrutiny January 8 via a National Capital Planning Commission meeting.
There are also lawsuits happening against it as well.
Process is kryptonite for authoritarians. So this is a win.
My other Christmas wish is that he is forced to restore and rebuild it with the donated money. Any other fines, punishments or executions are just extra.
I would LOVE IT if they made him remove those ridiculous plastic gold ornaments from the walls of the White House. And the hate plaques under the presidential portraits. At some point, there needs to be a line in the sand where presidents can’t deface historical walls or in the case of the east wing, demolish them.
Yet again, we have an example of someone needed to tell the Mad Diaper-load King, Fuck No! Stop!
You can't just demolish the East Wing because it stands in the way of your grand ballroom. Get this into your tiny brain, there are architectural details that are way older than your flabby ass. You can still have your ballroom but you have to carefully dismantle the more than 100 year old history in the East Wing. There are doors, trim, windows, that need to be preserved.
But NOOOO! Morons and idiots said, "Yupper! Taking a back hoe to a building with a gazillion years of history." May none of them ever get work above flipping burgers in a McDonald's wanna-be.
Maybe Trump is our "line in the sand"? Dear America: This is what happens when the Supreme Court majority is anti-democracy, the mainstream media are controlled by mega-corporations, campaign finance regulations are a joke, civics education is nonexistent or inadequate in many places, and too many white people can't accept that the Constitution applies to people of color. What are we going to do about it?
FIRST, begin with the premise that there is no 'maybe' about it. He WAS the line in the sand during his first horrid 'administration'. NOW that we're living under his wanna-be full-on Nazi REGIME, everything is on the table: We MUST go back to a 13 Supreme Court made up of a BALANCED group of THINKING HUMANS (like our minority 3) who work with each other to decide cases instead of a top-heavy UBER-conservative/easily-bought group of 6 to 3 who OWE their drunken-SA'er/Uber-religiousity/rich grifting/Ultra-racism TO the toddler in the White House. That's only for starters but will go a long way to beginning our road back to NORMALCY. (Thank you for your attention to this matter. EGS). ;)
My Chrismanukkah wish is that he wanders off in the middle of the night, falls into the crevice of what used to be the East Wing, and disappear forever.
Fuck 'em. They'll create conspiracy theories no matter what so who cares. It'll be the new 'ghost story' of the renewed East Wing which I'd love to see having videos playing to the touch (for visitors) of those wonderful First Ladies who visited Hospitals, worked with children, worked in gardens with kids, were hugged and greeted by kids from all around OUR Country as well as from poor Countries around the World. There'd be an abundance of film from the likes of Rosalyn, Hillary, Eleanor, Michelle, Jill, even Barbara. Perhaps a glimpse or two of someone named 'melanie'? under a huge hat which came halfway down her face with a very heavy accent talking AT kids somewhere. After a few years, no one would have the remotest idea who she was, but they'd assuredly recognize all of the other decent women.
I LOVE Chrismanukkah AND the rest of your 'wish'. I like 'crevice' too - since lard-ass will undoubtedly be stuck long enough for the fuckwits to be unable to find OR rescue him though undoubtedly his screams will be heard for miles around, scaring even the birds. Sadly, no sharks in those crevices.
To be REAL, he doesn't and hasn't built ANYTHING! Contractors and architects, REAL builders and designers have - all this grifter has ever done is slap his fake name on something once a Bank approved a LOAN he finagled AND which he never repaid OR ever paid those same architects, contractors, builders, designers, etc. NONE of those ideas by this self-described 'aesthetic person' were ever his. HE'S a gaudy, trashy moron from Queens, NY who copied his mommy's 'style'. Have any of you ever SEEN photos of her? It's HER huge SWOOP of a heavily-sprayed hairdo, awful clothes, fur coats and jewelry he apes. Her makeup looked as though it was spackled on by an undertaker and her hair - OMG, it looked welded into place. There was nothing remotely 'aesthetic' about her OR him. He's a lifelong mama's boy and cowardly bully (all bullies are cowards). The REAL story of what he is has still not been told. Underneath he is in constant panic in case someone/anyone let's it all slip. WHEN it comes out - just remember that you read it here on Jeff's substack.
I lost it, too. But I'm not sure if it was just tears of joy, love and inspiration, or whether I just long for that love and goodness again in our government and in our country. Probably both.
You just articulated exactly how I felt watching the clip of Obama. I miss him so much, and just seeing again what a great human being he is made me both happy and sad for what we've lost.
The little kid with the glasses who was so excited to see him and then appeared to be crying happy tears getting a hug from him...that's what really sent me.
I read them AND commented because the first posts echo what WE feel here. Until the magats/bots caught on, there was nothing but pure joy and admiration for the man who brought US that same feeling. Trust me - he does that and the magats can't handle knowing they will NEVER FEEL IT from the orange rat bastid they've tied themselves to. That first glimpse of President Obama in a simple sweater with a silly Santa hat and that SMILE had already filled me full of joy - I knew what was to come would be even better. I KNEW frump's worshipers would be so jealous/envious they would have to be enraged by how good he made the folks in that Hospital feel, especially the kids. They worked so hard to bring him down for EIGHT FULL YEARS and even before, but couldn't. We STILL love that man. Think about that. It's glorious.
Seriously, that's what had me in tears—how happy people are when he walks in a room. If he ever gave me a hug they'd have to pry me away from him, ha ha!
It wasn't only women! Every man there felt connected to him when he began that deeply respectful song, knowing his voice wasn't 'the best', so they could feel free to sing too. You are telling on YOUR-self Lisa, LOL. (Just teasing) ;)
Haven't eaten a Big Mac in nearly 20 years. Once upon a time, McD's toasted both sides of the club section. Made for a crispy & savory sandwich, something special and a step above a mere hamburder. Instead, the corporate cheapskates have toasted only one side of the club section for decades, creating a soggy mess that makes for just another gooey burger that you don't dare eat with the wrapper removed. Ruined the Big Mac for me, and I spend my precious fast food dollars on meals & sandwiches far more deserving.
Apart from that - it's his WARMTH and the pure joy he emanates. He's a purely good human being as is Michelle. They went through hell on earth from the magat cultists but had to keep 'stiff upper lips' while living in the White House (does anyone realize THAT is a big reason the uber-racist frump is trying to tear it ALL down?) They are fucking SAINTS for being able to withstand what their family was put through AND to still be who they are: decent, good, loving and deeply compassionate people who still manage to put others over themselves. Michelle's books grab you by the throat about what it was REALLY like. I pay so little attention to his looks, other than the joy and humanity I see emanating from his face. I LOVE them together and with their daughters, so while - yes, he IS a most attractive man, he's off-limits so I don't think along those lines. :) It's why I've always had good men married or not, as close friends, with or without their spouses.
Hugs. It's been quite the decade. Even when Biden was in office, even when we knew Kamala would win - we still had that ugly demon hanging over us all. Never shutting up. Always with the lies.
That was what made me feel so bad for Old Handsome Joe, his entire presidency was under that dark cloud of that fucking guy always bleating about something, jostling his way to the top of the news every damn day. All of Joe's good work often went unknown because of Fat Joffrey, who would then turn around and take credit for it. Herr Poopenführer can't stroke out fast enough for me.
Here's hoping that works as an inoculation! But, since the U.S. is famous for its selective amnesia, it probably won't. I do wonder if the GOP will survive, and if it does, what will it look like. From the early 20th century onward, with the exception of Eisenhower, its presidents have ranged from mediocre to disastrous.
For the younger ones, we elders need to keep getting the word out! I keep remembering: WW2 ended only six years before I was born, but to me it might have been ancient history. My father, WW2 Army noncom vet (North Africa & Italy), never talked about it -- till we bonded over Joseph Heller's brilliant novel CATCH-22.
None of my family members ever talked about their service in WWII except the uncle who was stationed in Duluth Mn. The others either parachuted in, or landed on a bloody beach. You do have a point… bonding over Catch 22 is an amazing story altogether!
Watching and listening to the gracious, classy Mr. Obama brought actual tears. I feel privileged to have been here during his time in office. Thank you, sir, for showing us what a leader looks like.
Thank God for President Obama. I was losing my shit up until that clip. Oh and the BIGGLIEST of BIGGLIEST go fuck yourself tRUMP. You sack of walking excrement.
It’s my husband’s birthday today, time to celebrate. But the biggest gift he can get and be beyond blessed and grateful for (something Lucifer 2.0 CAN NEVER imagine or feel) is word from surgeons that our 42 year old daughter’s surgery this morning for colon cancer is over and is a success with a good outcome ahead 🙏🙏🙏
Aww thank you so much . I love this community and appreciate all the best wishes which have really helped especially as the tumor was successfully removed but it appears the cancer has spread by her kidney and arteries around it. The surgeon didn’t want to remove anything more in order not to cause damage, especially to the arteries. We’re now waiting to see just how far past the tumor it actually grew vs what they removed. It’s supposed to take 5-7 days for those margin results to come back, but I’m not sure bc of New Years coming up. 🙏for sooner rather than later. After the results come back, oncology will determine whether chemo or radiation is the best treatment.
Thank you again for your supportive words. Best wishes to you and yours for 2026. Lets hope it will be the year of #2547 🙂↔️
Please keep responding to this thread with further news. All of our collective fingers are crossed! I have 46 year old twins. I cannot even imagine how worried I would be....
For the Righties, lack of empathy is a feature, not a bug. Yesterday there was a heartbreaking story in WAPO about a terrified immigrant family in New Orleans being hunted by ICE, when all they want to do in life is raise their kids to be good people. I often enjoy the comments in WAPO, but this story attracted the meanest, nastiest people ever. Not one shred of empathy. Yes, they must have a certain deadness inside. No wonder they adore Trump. He validates them.
The one thing I have always said is that Trump didn't create MAGAots. They were always there. He just enabled them to come out of the shadows and embrace their bigotry, racism and mysogyny.
But they weren't in the shadows during Jim Crow, and in my teenage years (the 1960s) I watched them on TV as they screamed at Black children trying to go to school. Then they staged a big comeback during the Reagan years: the Republicans fed racist meat to "the base" while gutting unions and gifting the mega-rich with tax breaks. My worst fear at the moment is that many, many white USians will think this all started with Trump. Black USians know better.
As a Canadian who often travelled to the US, I wholeheartedly agree with you. When I started going to the US on golf holidays some 35+ years ago, they were there “en masse” with their grievances when a Democrat was at the helm or grossly complained about “coloured” people. As an FYI, I haven’t set foot in the US since Trump was first elected and I’m not until he’s 6 feet under.
Daily deluge of cruelty and insanity from whatever it is that currently defiles our White House.
I am getting a sense that his audience is shrinking. He is basically yammering to himself. But the overwhelming narcissism deludes him into assuming the everyone is listening and agreeing. Yuck.
Trying to explain color to a blind person is the perfect euphemism for describing empathy — or any regular human emotion — to the rotting pedo sitting in the Oval.
The Orange A**Hole has no idea how to speak to anyone.. but then Obama in a Santa hat going to spread some joy to kids spending the holidays in a hospital.. one is a GRIFTING PO💩 who only cares about himself and the Other is actually a damn good human being..FVCK DUMBt 🖕🏽
Arne— just the way he talked to that little girl was vile and disgusting. He is such a fucking creep. He should not be anywhere near a child. I wonder if he even knows the names of his own grandkids? Is he even allowed around his own grandkids?
Look at that ugly, miserable old face. Five kids, god knows how many grandkids, but it's dinner with the wife who hates you and her dad, and they're having a nice time, no doubt talking to each other in Slovene, possibly about what a wet fart he is, while he sits trying to remember who they are and why he is there with them.
We've seen other past Presidents with their families in various settings being a family and doing family things together. When have you ever seen Trump and Melania with their son doing anything together or even Donnie with Junior and Eric and Ivanka doing anything together other than pulling off some grift or scam.
I was struck by that, as well. If he weren’t such a gigantic failure of human flesh, I might feel a little bad for him alone at that table. I mean, that picture speaks so loudly of his life. So much money. So much “power.” Yet, he’s all alone.
It continues to be impossible in my mind that any of this is actually happening. This utter turd of a human being is obliterating any and every notion that anyone ever had that we should aspire to dignity or erudition of any kind in our "leaders." I hope to live long enough to see this end.
I cannot shuffle off this mortal coil with things in this condition. I cannot soar with angels or whatever knowing that America became a totalitarian kakistocracy under my watch. It must end before I end.
I think they mean because his mom literally wasn't around when he was 1-2. She had another child and then medical problems that kept her in the hospital and then bedridden. I don't think she touched her children or nurtured them in any way. That's what they're talking about. Not blaming the mother for what she did but blaming her absence on why he developed so many mental issues.
Jeff, here in AZ a legislator is proposing a bill to address our main issue here.. Trump Deranged Syndrome.. They wish to define the term and punishment. Ahhh.. reminds me of the old Soviet Union, where if you speak out you are shipped to an insane asylum.. old Alexander Solholzenisn the Russian writer covered this in several books.
I lived in the Phoenix area in the 1980s, Meachem was governor and it seemed it couldn’t be more nuts. But it’s way past taping aluminum foil to the windows.
Listen, Fastball - we Arizonans have GOT to stick together on this: we mention the good stuff from Governor Hobbs and AG Chris Mayes, maybe throw in a reference to the great weather (lookin’ at 70 degrees and sunny, folks), and then we’re out! Don’t remind them of the crazy!!! Try to gloss over the freak show of our state’s political history! Do not, for the love of Obama in a Santa hat, put ANY focus on our legislature. Come on, Fastball! We’ve come so far! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I believe that's 'derangement' syndrome. AND I think it was frump himself OR one of his more devoted derangees who came up with the term to call those of us who despise him. THEN he saw it in a post and loved it (as usual). The REAL TDS belongs to those who worship their false 'god/chosen one' of frump, the most evil presiDUNCE in American history whom we will wipe from OUR History as quickly as possible with a simple footnote: 'In the 21st Century, certain American idiots put into power an old, mentally deranged individual whose mental illness worsened as his senility increased. We referred to that as 'trump derangement syndrome' but they confused the syndrome with those opposed to his most vile tendencies. WHEN he died and everything he'd touched with him, everything he'd ruined was removed from the People's White House and that venerable building was restored to its former historical glory. Every single one of his idiotic 'Executive Orders' was reversed and every one of those who'd enabled him were put on trial at The Hague with Special Prosecutor Jack Smith obtaining convictions in every case.'
What THEY think is 'hell' - so they're beginning to realize they weren't taken so are pissed off they have to share this Planet with US - no do-overs. They flunked.
That must've been one helluva drug he dropped before he beat the shit out of Santa. I think he got into Donnie Demento's stash, 'cause that whole hallucination sounded straight out of Truth Social. All he was missing were the sharks and batteries.
Kay, did you notice how the sun came out with just a few minutes of the beloved Prez Obama, people crying for happy, singing with joy solidly around the room? Dopey don couldn’t do that to this group or in any hospital certainly not his own maggots.
Back in the 80s, I had a friend (from NY) and we both knew the same irritating guy from IN... he would shake his head and say "They grow 'em strange in Indiana".
Wow, there ain't enough diagnoses in the DSM to cover this guy. Most mental health professionals will tell you that the lack of a sense-of-humor is a sure sign of sociopathology. Not to mention ANY form of genuine self-awareness. The man is like Ebenezer Scrooge himself, left alone in the school during the Christmas recess. Let's add chronic Anhedonia to his list of maladies. What will continue to puzzle me until I join the Choir Everlasting is how ANYONE, Christian, Jew, Muslim, Hindu or Druid, could find ONE thing to admire (or even respect) about this man.
We need a volume on the collective pathology of the raging sickos who boosted him into celebrity status, then into the highest public office in our nation.
Can’t wait to see my senator, John Cornyn, try to cover his Dimwit Donald suck ups. The man’s so out of touch, he’s been running ads touting his “perfect” record “working” with Trump. He’s airing them on MSNBC, when Rachel Maddow is on! Looking forward to his reaction when Jasmine Crockett kicks his flabby butt in the ‘28 election.
'THEY' are using EVERY vile racist trope against her, including calling her 'ghetto' (an attorney who earned every bit of her way and who knows more about the law than his entire regime's 'cabinet' put together!) I love Jasmine and so hope the people in that district fight like hell for her!
Mark Burnett has a LOT to answer for! He produced that uber-stupid apprentice show - then turned it into 'celebrity' apprentice AND KNEW the entire time that frump was incapacitated/incapable of doing anything other than blurting out 'you're fired' (all of this courtesy of one who was there and talked about the faked-up office because frump's real office was SO cheap and crappy, made up of rented, beat-up horrible furniture, awful smell and the 'wet-wipes' guy). Mark Burnett has held onto the tapes AND the out-takes AND those showing every single bit of the RACIST, BIGOTED and ANTI-SEMITIC spewing, the vile outbursts from frump YET has kept them under lock and key while refusing to allow them to see the light of day. Anyone have ANY guess why? I have no idea, unless by now he's been made a trillionaire?
I thought the initial reports of his phone calls with children were someone's mockery of him.....and then I found out it all really did happen. It was all mockery, but not the funny kind that comes from SNL, or Gavin Newsom, or Jeff: it was the mockery Demento's existence makes of the nation every time he draws a breath.
no, but after seeing the phone call videos of his inappropriate yammering about "clean coal" and "infiltrating santa", I thought he might've actually said this
I thought I could handle this post, all the crazy, that shit I’d been seeing and shaking my head at, all of the bitter insanity and loofah-scrubbed batshittery… and then you showed us President Obama visiting a Children’s Ward. And I lost it.
Thanks, Jeff, and may this year bring more light, more laughs, more love, more hope.
This is some good news today:
The Dummy Despot’s plan to build his massive, privately funded White House ballroom faces its first public scrutiny January 8 via a National Capital Planning Commission meeting.
There are also lawsuits happening against it as well.
Process is kryptonite for authoritarians. So this is a win.
My other Christmas wish is that he is forced to restore and rebuild it with the donated money. Any other fines, punishments or executions are just extra.
I would LOVE IT if they made him remove those ridiculous plastic gold ornaments from the walls of the White House. And the hate plaques under the presidential portraits. At some point, there needs to be a line in the sand where presidents can’t deface historical walls or in the case of the east wing, demolish them.
Every other President knew that, just not the mad King
Yet again, we have an example of someone needed to tell the Mad Diaper-load King, Fuck No! Stop!
You can't just demolish the East Wing because it stands in the way of your grand ballroom. Get this into your tiny brain, there are architectural details that are way older than your flabby ass. You can still have your ballroom but you have to carefully dismantle the more than 100 year old history in the East Wing. There are doors, trim, windows, that need to be preserved.
But NOOOO! Morons and idiots said, "Yupper! Taking a back hoe to a building with a gazillion years of history." May none of them ever get work above flipping burgers in a McDonald's wanna-be.
A lot of unspoken rules no one else had a problem with need to be made law so dictators have legal guardrails.
A lot of spoken rules were made law, and he disregarded those too.
Maybe Trump is our "line in the sand"? Dear America: This is what happens when the Supreme Court majority is anti-democracy, the mainstream media are controlled by mega-corporations, campaign finance regulations are a joke, civics education is nonexistent or inadequate in many places, and too many white people can't accept that the Constitution applies to people of color. What are we going to do about it?
FIRST, begin with the premise that there is no 'maybe' about it. He WAS the line in the sand during his first horrid 'administration'. NOW that we're living under his wanna-be full-on Nazi REGIME, everything is on the table: We MUST go back to a 13 Supreme Court made up of a BALANCED group of THINKING HUMANS (like our minority 3) who work with each other to decide cases instead of a top-heavy UBER-conservative/easily-bought group of 6 to 3 who OWE their drunken-SA'er/Uber-religiousity/rich grifting/Ultra-racism TO the toddler in the White House. That's only for starters but will go a long way to beginning our road back to NORMALCY. (Thank you for your attention to this matter. EGS). ;)
My Chrismanukkah wish is that he wanders off in the middle of the night, falls into the crevice of what used to be the East Wing, and disappear forever.
My wish for him is that he goes out like Elvis, sitting on his golden shitter, with a Big Mac stuck in his anus-shaped mouth.
he almost walked off the roof!
Damn!
Oh yeah, that’s right!
I do like that scenario, but can you imagine the conspiracy theories that would result??
Fuck 'em. They'll create conspiracy theories no matter what so who cares. It'll be the new 'ghost story' of the renewed East Wing which I'd love to see having videos playing to the touch (for visitors) of those wonderful First Ladies who visited Hospitals, worked with children, worked in gardens with kids, were hugged and greeted by kids from all around OUR Country as well as from poor Countries around the World. There'd be an abundance of film from the likes of Rosalyn, Hillary, Eleanor, Michelle, Jill, even Barbara. Perhaps a glimpse or two of someone named 'melanie'? under a huge hat which came halfway down her face with a very heavy accent talking AT kids somewhere. After a few years, no one would have the remotest idea who she was, but they'd assuredly recognize all of the other decent women.
I LOVE Chrismanukkah AND the rest of your 'wish'. I like 'crevice' too - since lard-ass will undoubtedly be stuck long enough for the fuckwits to be unable to find OR rescue him though undoubtedly his screams will be heard for miles around, scaring even the birds. Sadly, no sharks in those crevices.
I *love* this idea. Talk about poetic (and democratic, and economic) justice!
Hope the Court makes him rebuild the old East Wing as it was. Maybe that'll give him something constructive to do for a change.
To be REAL, he doesn't and hasn't built ANYTHING! Contractors and architects, REAL builders and designers have - all this grifter has ever done is slap his fake name on something once a Bank approved a LOAN he finagled AND which he never repaid OR ever paid those same architects, contractors, builders, designers, etc. NONE of those ideas by this self-described 'aesthetic person' were ever his. HE'S a gaudy, trashy moron from Queens, NY who copied his mommy's 'style'. Have any of you ever SEEN photos of her? It's HER huge SWOOP of a heavily-sprayed hairdo, awful clothes, fur coats and jewelry he apes. Her makeup looked as though it was spackled on by an undertaker and her hair - OMG, it looked welded into place. There was nothing remotely 'aesthetic' about her OR him. He's a lifelong mama's boy and cowardly bully (all bullies are cowards). The REAL story of what he is has still not been told. Underneath he is in constant panic in case someone/anyone let's it all slip. WHEN it comes out - just remember that you read it here on Jeff's substack.
I lost it, too. But I'm not sure if it was just tears of joy, love and inspiration, or whether I just long for that love and goodness again in our government and in our country. Probably both.
Happiness in the New Year to all!
You just articulated exactly how I felt watching the clip of Obama. I miss him so much, and just seeing again what a great human being he is made me both happy and sad for what we've lost.
The little kid with the glasses who was so excited to see him and then appeared to be crying happy tears getting a hug from him...that's what really sent me.
Obama brings Joy and Happiness!
Shit stain brings Despair and Misery
And cruelty!
Can I join all of you who teared up seeing President Obama and who miss him. I hope we have another real president like him very soon.
The nasty comments beneath that post are saddening. So many miserable people, MAGAs who obviously have internalized Trump's own misery.
Oh no. Just enjoy the joy. Never read the comments. x
I read them AND commented because the first posts echo what WE feel here. Until the magats/bots caught on, there was nothing but pure joy and admiration for the man who brought US that same feeling. Trust me - he does that and the magats can't handle knowing they will NEVER FEEL IT from the orange rat bastid they've tied themselves to. That first glimpse of President Obama in a simple sweater with a silly Santa hat and that SMILE had already filled me full of joy - I knew what was to come would be even better. I KNEW frump's worshipers would be so jealous/envious they would have to be enraged by how good he made the folks in that Hospital feel, especially the kids. They worked so hard to bring him down for EIGHT FULL YEARS and even before, but couldn't. We STILL love that man. Think about that. It's glorious.
The way every single face lights up when they see him. <3
Seriously, that's what had me in tears—how happy people are when he walks in a room. If he ever gave me a hug they'd have to pry me away from him, ha ha!
You can tell. Both him and Biden give the best, heartfelt hugs.
Don’t forget,he’s also really good looking!
Definitely! When I first looked at the post, I thought it was a picture of young President Obama.
Me too! I realized it was the hat hiding his grey hair.
His beauty is from within. He could physically look like a troll and still be one of the most beautiful people you’ve ever seen
Girl. Remember when he began singing ‘Amazing Grace’ and every woman lost it? He is just that charismatic in every way ❤️
I lost it when he sang that sexy, “I’m…so-o in love with you”. My socks were sweaty.
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Oh! I know what you mean!
It wasn't only women! Every man there felt connected to him when he began that deeply respectful song, knowing his voice wasn't 'the best', so they could feel free to sing too. You are telling on YOUR-self Lisa, LOL. (Just teasing) ;)
I know you have to be talking about Obama and not the walking ad for not eating Big Macs.
Haven't eaten a Big Mac in nearly 20 years. Once upon a time, McD's toasted both sides of the club section. Made for a crispy & savory sandwich, something special and a step above a mere hamburder. Instead, the corporate cheapskates have toasted only one side of the club section for decades, creating a soggy mess that makes for just another gooey burger that you don't dare eat with the wrapper removed. Ruined the Big Mac for me, and I spend my precious fast food dollars on meals & sandwiches far more deserving.
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Hahaha! Perfect.
He just radiates good will. How we miss him.
OMG, so true! I'm 72 yrs old and drooling like a teenager! LOL!
Apart from that - it's his WARMTH and the pure joy he emanates. He's a purely good human being as is Michelle. They went through hell on earth from the magat cultists but had to keep 'stiff upper lips' while living in the White House (does anyone realize THAT is a big reason the uber-racist frump is trying to tear it ALL down?) They are fucking SAINTS for being able to withstand what their family was put through AND to still be who they are: decent, good, loving and deeply compassionate people who still manage to put others over themselves. Michelle's books grab you by the throat about what it was REALLY like. I pay so little attention to his looks, other than the joy and humanity I see emanating from his face. I LOVE them together and with their daughters, so while - yes, he IS a most attractive man, he's off-limits so I don't think along those lines. :) It's why I've always had good men married or not, as close friends, with or without their spouses.
I wish we had that kind of thing back. Instead it's a daily airing of grievances from the dotard at the top.
I hope for happiness for you all!
We may approach that degree of grace and class, but it will never get that good again!
All Republicans whine like wet toddlers now unfortunately.
…and for you, Seth. I want this country on track with Stevie Wonder’s ‘As’: ‘Change your words into truth, and then change that truth into love
And maybe our children’s grandchildren and their great grandchildren will tell…’
Call me a dreamer!
I love that song! Thank you for the sentiment.
I'm still in tears.
Hugs. It's been quite the decade. Even when Biden was in office, even when we knew Kamala would win - we still had that ugly demon hanging over us all. Never shutting up. Always with the lies.
You probably needed a good cry. I know I did.
That was what made me feel so bad for Old Handsome Joe, his entire presidency was under that dark cloud of that fucking guy always bleating about something, jostling his way to the top of the news every damn day. All of Joe's good work often went unknown because of Fat Joffrey, who would then turn around and take credit for it. Herr Poopenführer can't stroke out fast enough for me.
Well said Celeste.
Remember when . . . the U.S. had a human, humane president with brains, compassion, and a sense of humor? I needed that reminder!
And the sad truth is a whole generation of children have been exposed to this awful man and his ilk.
Here's hoping that works as an inoculation! But, since the U.S. is famous for its selective amnesia, it probably won't. I do wonder if the GOP will survive, and if it does, what will it look like. From the early 20th century onward, with the exception of Eisenhower, its presidents have ranged from mediocre to disastrous.
My 3 yr old grandchild calls him Donald Wump
We all do Susanna!
For the younger ones, we elders need to keep getting the word out! I keep remembering: WW2 ended only six years before I was born, but to me it might have been ancient history. My father, WW2 Army noncom vet (North Africa & Italy), never talked about it -- till we bonded over Joseph Heller's brilliant novel CATCH-22.
None of my family members ever talked about their service in WWII except the uncle who was stationed in Duluth Mn. The others either parachuted in, or landed on a bloody beach. You do have a point… bonding over Catch 22 is an amazing story altogether!
And all the Barack and Joe memes? :D
Yes! A great ending to the piece of trash posting untruth social messages!
Watching and listening to the gracious, classy Mr. Obama brought actual tears. I feel privileged to have been here during his time in office. Thank you, sir, for showing us what a leader looks like.
Me too. 😢 between this and realizing they’ll never be another Rob Reiner anything. It’s all too much. 😢
Thank God for President Obama. I was losing my shit up until that clip. Oh and the BIGGLIEST of BIGGLIEST go fuck yourself tRUMP. You sack of walking excrement.
It’s my husband’s birthday today, time to celebrate. But the biggest gift he can get and be beyond blessed and grateful for (something Lucifer 2.0 CAN NEVER imagine or feel) is word from surgeons that our 42 year old daughter’s surgery this morning for colon cancer is over and is a success with a good outcome ahead 🙏🙏🙏
What great news!! Happy Birthday to your hubby!!
Glad to hear your Daughter will be ok Hollie. Happy Birthday to your Husband -what a Wonderful present! 🙏🏽
Your community here all join in wishing the best for your daughter, including a lightning fast recovery!!
Aww thank you so much . I love this community and appreciate all the best wishes which have really helped especially as the tumor was successfully removed but it appears the cancer has spread by her kidney and arteries around it. The surgeon didn’t want to remove anything more in order not to cause damage, especially to the arteries. We’re now waiting to see just how far past the tumor it actually grew vs what they removed. It’s supposed to take 5-7 days for those margin results to come back, but I’m not sure bc of New Years coming up. 🙏for sooner rather than later. After the results come back, oncology will determine whether chemo or radiation is the best treatment.
Thank you again for your supportive words. Best wishes to you and yours for 2026. Lets hope it will be the year of #2547 🙂↔️
Please keep responding to this thread with further news. All of our collective fingers are crossed! I have 46 year old twins. I cannot even imagine how worried I would be....
Thank you Linda❣️This means a lot
I'm so happy that things went well for your daughter. Best wishes for a happy and healthy new year.
Same. I cried the first time I watched it and I didn’t even have the sound on.
Yeah, it brought me to tears too. And lol did anyone else notice how good he looks in those pants?
Ohhhh, we noticed.
Yes! Thank you Jeff, for putting Obama up! It made all the difference. I love you!!! You didn't leave us mired in the awfulness.
Exactly. Wasted me with one Obama. 🥹🥲🥹🥲🥹
Nicely said Neal!
Ditto Neal! You captured the essence of Jeff’s post. Jeff also took me from rage to tears in the blink of an eye. Jeff is pretty special.
Me too, NEAL! Jeff surely has his “way” with us.
Obama knows how to be Presidential—Trump only knows how to be a Huge Criminal Stinking Pedo Russian Traitor Pile of Shit.
Amen!
It was so heartwarming to see the Obamas lovely Xmas IG got 3.5M likes. And the Bidens. Yes, please, can we please have a Real President back.
For the Righties, lack of empathy is a feature, not a bug. Yesterday there was a heartbreaking story in WAPO about a terrified immigrant family in New Orleans being hunted by ICE, when all they want to do in life is raise their kids to be good people. I often enjoy the comments in WAPO, but this story attracted the meanest, nastiest people ever. Not one shred of empathy. Yes, they must have a certain deadness inside. No wonder they adore Trump. He validates them.
The one thing I have always said is that Trump didn't create MAGAots. They were always there. He just enabled them to come out of the shadows and embrace their bigotry, racism and mysogyny.
But they weren't in the shadows during Jim Crow, and in my teenage years (the 1960s) I watched them on TV as they screamed at Black children trying to go to school. Then they staged a big comeback during the Reagan years: the Republicans fed racist meat to "the base" while gutting unions and gifting the mega-rich with tax breaks. My worst fear at the moment is that many, many white USians will think this all started with Trump. Black USians know better.
Totally. Reagan is roasting somewhere.
Wherever it is, he has lots of company.
Those who refuse to learn from history,are probably intent on repeating it.
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As a Canadian who often travelled to the US, I wholeheartedly agree with you. When I started going to the US on golf holidays some 35+ years ago, they were there “en masse” with their grievances when a Democrat was at the helm or grossly complained about “coloured” people. As an FYI, I haven’t set foot in the US since Trump was first elected and I’m not until he’s 6 feet under.
Wish I could join you.
Yeah, the Republicans have been cultivating them for decades with the enthusiastic help of the church.
ALL extremist religious groups!
No, in this case it's very specifically Christianity. Like the famous quote, fascism came to this country draped in a flag and carrying a cross.
And entitlement
I agree with you 💯%!!!
Well said David.
Analogous to the predictable nastiness of almost any Facebook user from New Jersey, and I know whereof I speak.
Daily deluge of cruelty and insanity from whatever it is that currently defiles our White House.
I am getting a sense that his audience is shrinking. He is basically yammering to himself. But the overwhelming narcissism deludes him into assuming the everyone is listening and agreeing. Yuck.
I believe he's really not too far from kicking puppies and babies at this point.
Or eating them. He sure has a twisted attitude about dogs. And probably babies, as well!
Dogs ... may have something to do with his liking for kristi dogpoo noem.
He keeps calling Barron 'Melania's son'.
Depends on how old they are.
Trying to explain color to a blind person is the perfect euphemism for describing empathy — or any regular human emotion — to the rotting pedo sitting in the Oval.
Right?!?!? I almost screamed at how perfectly appropriate that was!
The Orange A**Hole has no idea how to speak to anyone.. but then Obama in a Santa hat going to spread some joy to kids spending the holidays in a hospital.. one is a GRIFTING PO💩 who only cares about himself and the Other is actually a damn good human being..FVCK DUMBt 🖕🏽
Oh,it got worse,he bragged to an 8 year old that he won Pennsylvania in 2020.
He’s such a douche 🙄
How sick he is. I'm surprised he didn't ask the little girl to tell him what she was wearing. He is disgusting.
Arne— just the way he talked to that little girl was vile and disgusting. He is such a fucking creep. He should not be anywhere near a child. I wonder if he even knows the names of his own grandkids? Is he even allowed around his own grandkids?
He refers to Barron as 'Melania's son'.... and doesn't every former 'Mrs. Trump' have at least one thing in common...a NDA??
Truer words Morgan!
Is he dead yet🍊💩
Yes. He just hasn't realized it yet.
😂😂
The smell should be a dead giveaway.
😁
Yes. Dead. Mostly dead. He was embalmed but he keeps speaking.
Go get a big rock get close to him, you know what to do then.
"My way isn't very sportsmanlike."
You’ll be fine, practice in your back yard.
Zombie? It's pretty obvious he eats brains.
I’m stealing that🤣
The Frankenstein monster of our time Kaye!
Probably the smell of death will be an improvement.
He’s a satchel of overstuffed laboratory grown meat, a rotting corpse…his time on this blue spinning cosmic stone is nearly over Debbie!
Not nearly soon enough.
Clots and prayers 🙏
Amen
Your words to God‘s ears!
I hope we get that gift soon.
We all deserve that gift
Look at that ugly, miserable old face. Five kids, god knows how many grandkids, but it's dinner with the wife who hates you and her dad, and they're having a nice time, no doubt talking to each other in Slovene, possibly about what a wet fart he is, while he sits trying to remember who they are and why he is there with them.
Meanwhile, a better president welcomed a new great-grandchild with his wife, who seems to love him a great deal: https://www.threads.com/@demsmight/post/DSsu3xxkjTD/joe-biden-shares-photo-with-jill-and-great-grandson-willie-on-christmas
We've seen other past Presidents with their families in various settings being a family and doing family things together. When have you ever seen Trump and Melania with their son doing anything together or even Donnie with Junior and Eric and Ivanka doing anything together other than pulling off some grift or scam.
Grifting and scamming is the way the Trumps celebrate. It’s in their genes.
I was struck by that, as well. If he weren’t such a gigantic failure of human flesh, I might feel a little bad for him alone at that table. I mean, that picture speaks so loudly of his life. So much money. So much “power.” Yet, he’s all alone.
Nope. I hope he suffers mightily for all the misery and death he has created. He deserves all the suffering and more.
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Well stated, Claudia!
It continues to be impossible in my mind that any of this is actually happening. This utter turd of a human being is obliterating any and every notion that anyone ever had that we should aspire to dignity or erudition of any kind in our "leaders." I hope to live long enough to see this end.
David, hang on for a year! Maybe even less!
I cannot shuffle off this mortal coil with things in this condition. I cannot soar with angels or whatever knowing that America became a totalitarian kakistocracy under my watch. It must end before I end.
🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼
I am determined to live long enough to see his demise. I wish he could just be hanged for treason.
LORD, do I miss the Obamas
I'd rather be in the Bahamas
Instead of right here
With that imbecile near
Who's got issues that stem from his mama!
This Drumpf thinks he’s a tough guy,
Though he’s an idiot which no one can deny;
He has zero morals,
He sits on his laurels ,
We can’t wait to say”Bye-Bye!”
Join the club, Dave! Way to goooooo!!! Morals and laurels is exceptional!!
Brilliant!
I’d say his issues stem from more than his mama. No need to lay all the blame on the mother.
His dada was no prize for sure. Woody Guthrie wrote a song denouncing "Old Man Trump" https://woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/Old_Man_Trump.htm
I like to think we’ve moved beyond the kneejerk “blame the mother for everything” mentality. Apparently not.
I think they mean because his mom literally wasn't around when he was 1-2. She had another child and then medical problems that kept her in the hospital and then bedridden. I don't think she touched her children or nurtured them in any way. That's what they're talking about. Not blaming the mother for what she did but blaming her absence on why he developed so many mental issues.
Exactly. And his father was a cold and racist narcissist himself - and demanded that his son be a "killer."
Good riddance to the lot of them ... eventually.
I didn’t know about that. Thanks for posting. Woody was a treasure, for sure.
Frosty, he hates women, that could be mommy dearest.
Thanks for posting this, Jeff. I too miss having a sane president instead of the crazy mf’er who’s in office now. I cannot wait until he is gone.
Jeff, here in AZ a legislator is proposing a bill to address our main issue here.. Trump Deranged Syndrome.. They wish to define the term and punishment. Ahhh.. reminds me of the old Soviet Union, where if you speak out you are shipped to an insane asylum.. old Alexander Solholzenisn the Russian writer covered this in several books.
That tracks. We do already have gulags here thanks to racists Miller, Noem, Homan, etc.
Here in Idaho they propose renaming one of the highways "The Charlie Kirk Memorial Highway". 🤮
And in two years people are going to be asking, "Who?"
Most ppl didn't even know who he was until he became a martyr…
Charlie was a podcaster..JFC..next it be such luminaries as Rush, George Rockwell,Jefferson Davis..🤮
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Well you do know in Florida at every college and university there MUST be a road on campus named after Charlie🤮
wtf????….. insanity knows no boundaries!
No wonder Putin sees frump as the big dumb orange pumpkin head that he is, leading a group of ultra-stupid lemmings.
I lived in the Phoenix area in the 1980s, Meachem was governor and it seemed it couldn’t be more nuts. But it’s way past taping aluminum foil to the windows.
Listen, Fastball - we Arizonans have GOT to stick together on this: we mention the good stuff from Governor Hobbs and AG Chris Mayes, maybe throw in a reference to the great weather (lookin’ at 70 degrees and sunny, folks), and then we’re out! Don’t remind them of the crazy!!! Try to gloss over the freak show of our state’s political history! Do not, for the love of Obama in a Santa hat, put ANY focus on our legislature. Come on, Fastball! We’ve come so far! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It ain't the hate, it's the stupidity!
SERIOUSLY??? OMFG!
I believe that's 'derangement' syndrome. AND I think it was frump himself OR one of his more devoted derangees who came up with the term to call those of us who despise him. THEN he saw it in a post and loved it (as usual). The REAL TDS belongs to those who worship their false 'god/chosen one' of frump, the most evil presiDUNCE in American history whom we will wipe from OUR History as quickly as possible with a simple footnote: 'In the 21st Century, certain American idiots put into power an old, mentally deranged individual whose mental illness worsened as his senility increased. We referred to that as 'trump derangement syndrome' but they confused the syndrome with those opposed to his most vile tendencies. WHEN he died and everything he'd touched with him, everything he'd ruined was removed from the People's White House and that venerable building was restored to its former historical glory. Every single one of his idiotic 'Executive Orders' was reversed and every one of those who'd enabled him were put on trial at The Hague with Special Prosecutor Jack Smith obtaining convictions in every case.'
I swan we are living in some weird alternative universe. I really am SICK of all this hate and deranged revenge against normal, kind people.
I think the rapture happened and we’ve been left in hell.
True dat Dana!
What THEY think is 'hell' - so they're beginning to realize they weren't taken so are pissed off they have to share this Planet with US - no do-overs. They flunked.
1. Since today is Boxing Day, I’m going to post AI slop boxing Garten’s ears.
2. Followed by a boxing ring with Orange Madness being beaten up by elves with Santa as the ringmaster.
Garten...why would anyone even feel the need to be such an asshole? These people are not right. 🙄
That must've been one helluva drug he dropped before he beat the shit out of Santa. I think he got into Donnie Demento's stash, 'cause that whole hallucination sounded straight out of Truth Social. All he was missing were the sharks and batteries.
HAHA! Seriously!
“AI pics I had a blast designing with my kids.” What a nut job. Sad for the kids.
Seriously. What kind of decent parent does this? It’s a cult.
EXACTLY what I thought - who the FUCK inflicts their hate onto their kids? Oh wait, I know.
Because the hate is what passes for humor. 🙄
I just can’t even…. 🤦♀️
Kay, did you notice how the sun came out with just a few minutes of the beloved Prez Obama, people crying for happy, singing with joy solidly around the room? Dopey don couldn’t do that to this group or in any hospital certainly not his own maggots.
He could bring joy to a hospital room, if he were in there dying.
Back in the 80s, I had a friend (from NY) and we both knew the same irritating guy from IN... he would shake his head and say "They grow 'em strange in Indiana".
😂😂😂
Wow, there ain't enough diagnoses in the DSM to cover this guy. Most mental health professionals will tell you that the lack of a sense-of-humor is a sure sign of sociopathology. Not to mention ANY form of genuine self-awareness. The man is like Ebenezer Scrooge himself, left alone in the school during the Christmas recess. Let's add chronic Anhedonia to his list of maladies. What will continue to puzzle me until I join the Choir Everlasting is how ANYONE, Christian, Jew, Muslim, Hindu or Druid, could find ONE thing to admire (or even respect) about this man.
There will be a DSM supplement devoted to his pathology.
We need a volume on the collective pathology of the raging sickos who boosted him into celebrity status, then into the highest public office in our nation.
Can’t wait to see my senator, John Cornyn, try to cover his Dimwit Donald suck ups. The man’s so out of touch, he’s been running ads touting his “perfect” record “working” with Trump. He’s airing them on MSNBC, when Rachel Maddow is on! Looking forward to his reaction when Jasmine Crockett kicks his flabby butt in the ‘28 election.
We will be supporting JC from here in NJ. We absolutely love her energy and no nonsense attitude.
'THEY' are using EVERY vile racist trope against her, including calling her 'ghetto' (an attorney who earned every bit of her way and who knows more about the law than his entire regime's 'cabinet' put together!) I love Jasmine and so hope the people in that district fight like hell for her!
Does seem they’re beyond the usual cult members. His advisers and Cabinet officers are just unethical opportunists, looking to make quick money.
It's gonna fascinating watching them backtrack after he goes to his infernal reward.
Especially GOP members of Congress.
Mark Burnett has a LOT to answer for! He produced that uber-stupid apprentice show - then turned it into 'celebrity' apprentice AND KNEW the entire time that frump was incapacitated/incapable of doing anything other than blurting out 'you're fired' (all of this courtesy of one who was there and talked about the faked-up office because frump's real office was SO cheap and crappy, made up of rented, beat-up horrible furniture, awful smell and the 'wet-wipes' guy). Mark Burnett has held onto the tapes AND the out-takes AND those showing every single bit of the RACIST, BIGOTED and ANTI-SEMITIC spewing, the vile outbursts from frump YET has kept them under lock and key while refusing to allow them to see the light of day. Anyone have ANY guess why? I have no idea, unless by now he's been made a trillionaire?
Hell, there will be an entire TEXTBOOK, if not branch of Abnormal Psychology.
That "do you have a boyfriend" was too realistic, I had to fact check it. That's how insane that freak is.
I thought the initial reports of his phone calls with children were someone's mockery of him.....and then I found out it all really did happen. It was all mockery, but not the funny kind that comes from SNL, or Gavin Newsom, or Jeff: it was the mockery Demento's existence makes of the nation every time he draws a breath.
Is it actually true? Jeebus!
no, but after seeing the phone call videos of his inappropriate yammering about "clean coal" and "infiltrating santa", I thought he might've actually said this