One plus of Donnie surrounding himself with F-Level humans is that they will spend more time stabbing each other in the back than doing damage. Dishonesty, incompetence and stupidity. A terrific combo for high positions of public trust!
Now Elon is a different story. He used identity theft/impersonation fraud to spread disinformation about Harris. Kept millions from voting for her. See the WAPO "false flag" story and Timothy Snyder's and Anne Applebaum's posts today. He's planning to use the same tactics to get his pals elected in other countries. Forget his job as Donnie's top advisor. Elon is angling for Master of the Universe!
Thanks Jeff. However I don’t expect the mainstream press to ever perform its responsibility to democracy. It is done. It will only be people like yourself, ProPublica and a handful of others speaking truth to vast wealth and concentrated power.
Thank you Linda. I never know what to call them any more (except for what I generally whisper under my breath), however I know they no longer represent the "Fourth Estate" or the responsibilities thereof.
George, I notice Jeff using corporate, and a friend of mine insisted we do that too. I also have a better not to be published name for them, but that does not get written.
I had already read about part of this, the part we learned about before the election where Russia was sending messages to Jews saying Harris is anti-Israel, and to Muslims saying Harris is pro-Israel. I saw Muslims interviewed who said they voted for Trump because as one woman said, "he says he is going to end the war." This was a woman in Michigan. Apparently our government was powerless to stop this.
During covid I learned about the misinformation campaign that Trump waged in 2016, obviously assisted by Putin. I attended a conference on Disinformation's Impact on Democracy, and a discussion of how Cambridge Analytica used data on people that they got from Facebook to suppress the vote by spreading disinformation. So, we knew all about this, yet our campaign could not do anything about it. Why is that? We have let the technology take over, by allowing bad users take over.
I have come to the conclusion that the Democrats need to have their own social media platform so that they have at least one forum where they can control the messages. It needs to be a global platform for Democrats around the world, and it needs to be safeguarded from these bad players, which I realize is difficult to do.
I fear the level of division that is going to be cultivated by Kremlin-Musk chaos machine on the American people, just at a time when a fascist is going to lead the government, actually, fascists in Trump and Musk. Musk is an evil Afrikaaner who is not spreading apartheid in the US that South Africa was not able to sustain.
Can anyone imagine how expensive it is it will be to run these detention camps and health camps? But LDFF will just put it on the national debt, where it belongs... sigh.
At this point, we must take bitter solace in the fact that NO ONE IS READING or WATCHING the so-called "mainstream press." Ultimately they are completely irrelevant. In the nether regions of the red states, in the rural areas, in the small towns, they don't read the NYT or the WaPo (which of course begs the question as always, WHAT THE FUCK do the NYT, WaPo, etc, think they're doing? They have longstanding subscribers who they've irredeemably alienated, do they really think Back of Bumfuck, Alabama, is going to start reading them? They're not even distributed there.)
I had to go to a small town in Northern-Northern Idaho for an unrelated reason a few years back, and noticed even then: no newsstands, no bookstores, no books, no nothing. Certainly no national newspapers. I actually asked where the nearest bookstore was and they said, seriously, "between cashiers 14 and 15 at the Walmart": and yep, that's where the "bookstore" was, a bunch of low grade romances & thrillers. Not even magazines!
These folks are uneducated, unaware, and uninformed beyond anything we can imagine.
It doesn't actually matter what newspapers like the NYT or WaPo are saying.
Truly, we must figure out a way to get to them via their disinformation portals, it's the only way we can try to inform them. The Onion buying Infowars is a terrific start.
Yes this is what is happening. I have well loved dear friends upper class wealthy never heard of Jack Smith. I live in the Bay Area San Fran. 🥲 how could people not be curious about the world they live in?
I work in a hospital among many educated people. I see it here too. No intellectual curiosity about anything outside of their little world. I can't talk politics with them because most don't know what's really going on. For this election, I didn't open my mouth because I have nothing nice to say to Trumpers. I don't have a financial background and I am the one some of them come to about our 401K and retirement at work. WTH??? I am no expert in any of this. I read a little bit about these issues and know more of what's going on than they do. One of my coworkers (50's) , BSN in nursing and retired Navy vet, asked me why should he sign up during benefits week for accident insurance. Duh - you might have an accident one day. Knows nothing about disability insurance or how to buy our company's stock through the company. He's far from the only one. But ask him about football stats and he'll tell you whatever you want. Combine that lack of interest with the younger generations and Tik Tok and no surprise that we've become a nation of dummies.
I am a BSN educated nurse who is also an Advanced Practice Nurse and not all of us are this obtuse. Many of my peers are well read and politically aware. Please don’t lump all of us together.
News? People who think this way will usually say they just can’t stand to hear all this stuff and don’t want to talk about it. In other words they isolate themselves from reality. 😖 Great!
Incuriosity cuts across class and state. I had to explain to my hairdresser, before the election, what Project 2025 is. (She was horrified.) At dinner with friends I’ve had for 30 years, it was all “Oh, can’t we talk about something more pleasant than politics!” They are purposely incurious.
I am saying that the consortium of Blue Governors needs to create a Social media platform in 2 months that is not located in the USA. Everyone needs to get a VPN so they can access it, and it should be open to democratic parties from around the world, and democratic peoples.
My friend says if we all have our own media circles where will our paths cross? Good question. However, if we have enticing material on a Democratically owned platform, perhaps we can attract some of the Joe Rogan fans to a saner, but still fun, view of the world. I. nominate Jeff to replace Rogan as an influencer on the new Democratic platform if someone gets one together in the next two months.
No news for me either! I haven’t watched since the election and that did it for me!! They can all go to hell!
I’m done with their bullshit as well. They were all worried that if the shitstain won they would all lose their jobs and be punished! All fucking sell outs for a buck!!
Wish Mr Buffett, George Soros or Mark Cuban could use their money to shut them down at the very least. I'm grateful for Jeff's posts and other like minded people to keep me updated on what's happening. Never ever thought I'd be here to witness this shit.
We need to start small newspapers drawing national and international reports from the AP as well as local news. Can these small newspapers be supported by an independent journalism source?
I was asking for that after the 2016 debacle. Someone like Bloomberg who has tons of money could start a liberal version of Sinclair Media and have small-market radio, TV and newspapers. Sadly it didnʻt happen. Now it really has to!
What age group are you wanting to target? My youngest is 36 and I've been mom shamed for subscribing to an actual newspaper, having a fax machine, having a land line and having an answering machine. The younger generations do not use those things in mass that I know of. You have to come up with ways to reach them and I don't see that it's how we have always gotten our news. That's one of the reasons that we need young people involved in politics. For the social media outreach especially.
The mainstream media is afraid of Trump. And he's always in the news because he's so freakin dysfunctional. That sells papers and get people to watch TV. They don't care anymore about ethics.
But my point is, even online, they’re not reading the “mainstream press.” So we needn’t spend time worrying about what they say. What we need to do, is find a way to communicate with them.
I think a big opportunity is terrestrial radio. There are about elebenty billion Reicht-wing radio stations for every progressive station. Rethugs were advertising big time on Spanish-speaking radio stations, and it appears to have had an effect on the election with so many Hispanic men voting for LDFF. Of course, machismo played a big role. Books are so important because these people are so fking ignorant. Now the LDFF Buybull will be forced on students in Oklahoma, which is not "OK." I was just there this September.
In September of 2016 I made a big trip through the mid-west and deep south via trains, planes, and automobiles. I paid attention to the radio stations everywhere we went and always read the local newspaper at every hotel. The radio station choices were country, religion, or hate talk, with an occasional oldies or Mexican station and the newspaper editorials were very conservative. There were a fkton of LDFF signs everywhere. I didn't see a Hillary sign until we got to NOLA. We are locked in a room with teh stoopids.
Yep. When Boomers were in their 20's and 30's, Maher was the cool guy to watch, taking on "the establishment." Now he's the crank RFK, Jr. of talk show comedians. Is he still haranguing endlessly against those "damned millennials?"
The whole derailment for Maher came when it took him a couple of years to get a solar power system installed on his house.
Turgid, bureaucratic over-regulation, which he correctly berated, was the tipping point, and now he's on the anti-Dems bus, all the while being so full of himself it's a wonder he doesn't explode.
They’d love to go back to witchcraft. Then they can stop taking away small parts of our freedom day by day and just burn us like they have in the past.
Yes, I watched it - this episode was one of the worst ever - with Mary Katharine Ham and Chris Cuomo to go along with the medical doctor whose name I quickly forgot.
I had to turn it off. The stupidity was making my head hurt. I used to occasionally watch Maher, but his insistence on giving morons a platform is just too much. Bye, Bill.
Glad I missed it. I stopped watching him years ago but picked it back up earlier this year and see that he is still a fucking asshole. Like we need one more negative word spread while still trying to process the impending doom if the administration can't thwart this somehow.
I remember when Chris Cuomo had his show on CNN. Boy every night he bashed Frump to death and laughed at him constantly! He had Covid really bad, with no help from Donny shitstain. Oh he really disliked that orange POS! Why is he sucking up to them now!! Scared of frump? Worried about all the shit he said about him? Fuck him too!!
Yeah, that was sickening too! Not surprised at Ham though. I thought Cuomo would be a little more retrospective given how he did his broadcast while suffering from Covid. Remember that? Guess he has a short memory…sigh.
There were plenty of docs during COVID that didn't agree with Fauci. There are wack jobs in every profession. Please don't think that all docs go along with the scientific community. Some of the nurses I work with are anti mask and vaccines. One of them was trying to convince her nurse colleagues not to get the vaccine in the spring of 2021. Unfortunately, she is no longer convincing anyone since she got COVID (unvaccinated) in the summer of 2021 and died and it was an ugly death as she was in ICU and didn't die right away. After that, her friends got vaccinated. She was only 51. If people listen to Kennedy, there will be many more horror stories, especially about children not getting vaccines.
Sorry to be so cold, but that nurse deserved it for her ignorance and stupidity. She should have known better. There is a high price to be paid for such imbecility.
Make Polio Great Again. Bring back the iron lung - although I believe respirators are used now. Anyway, somebody will make a profit from the return of polio.
Governor Polis is excited about Kennedy. He thinks he can bring on the war with Big Pharma and corporations who poison our food for profits. Polis did not support mask mandates. Bobby rolls over for anyone who fills his pockets with coin.
Bobby wants to be important and have his spot in history like his dad and uncle have. Never going to happen to any of the of the Kennedy children. Different time in history. Bobby has personality issues that have and still will ruin anything he tries to do. There was an article in Vanity Fair earlier this year about him and he's really a POS. Not just the heroin and sexual addiction, but he's just a total a-hole.
FYI, in this country, there were never any burnings, just hangings. But....interesting point: the accused women were often widows and other single women with property. They were accused of witchcraft so that their property could be seized. Fits right in with MAGA misogyny, right?
Read The Devil in Massachusetts by Marion L. Starkey, The Witches by Stacy Schiff, and A Storm of Witchcraft by Emerson Baker. The accusations arose out of ignorance, superstition, greed, misogyny, and quarrels between families, all started by a pack of adolescent girls who reveled in their power over the community.
Putin prescreened them all together with Musk, who bought Trump the White House so that he could run it himself. Musk is Trump's handler and Putin is Musk's handler, and Xi is Putin's handler.
When they get done with US media will there be any left? I guess the stuff that Trump wants to watch like the Morning show will remain. The rest of it will be shut down. Make sure to get your VPNs now. Let's hope Jeff moves to a platform that is not located in the USA if that happens and is accessible by VPN.
Do you really think Musk has the brain power to be a handler? If he's tRumps handler than he's doing it on Direct and Explicit instruments from the Kremlin and I have my doubts that he can even do that without fucking it up.
You're right. The problem will be when these two malignant narcissists egos collide. That's coming. He's going to fuck this all up. He can't help himself. He had some gatekeepers before. Now, not so much. It's already backfiring. He's going to rule Mob style. I don't think Putin gives a shit about that. He's the distraction. While they make their moves.
Of course they show Dear Leader video clips! He has the attention span of a 10 year old on Red Bull! What a fucking joke! I wonder how many of those clips had the requisite tears in their eyes, square jaws and steroid biceps. No wait, that was Marjorie Taylor Greene!
They are indeed a creepy lot… right from the bottom of the barrel. Musk is such an ass kisser - but, if one is narcissistic, can he also be an ass kisser?
I thought the slimiest creep in that photo by far was Mikey Johnson. Right behind him is
Elon Muck who is at least acts like the uber moronic creep that he truly is....
(and who showed that photo yesterday of a topless Elon with skin so white he looked like the Pillsbury doughboy or maybe Caspar the ghost--now that picture was def gag-inducing. I can't remember if I saw it on Jeff's "This Week in Stupid" or on Jay's "Xeets & Giggles")
But yeah...that picture of the gang on (omg) "Trump Force One" was definitely one for the ages. (More gagging)
What I find totally amusing is that I haven’t seen or heard from JD Vance since the election. Could it be that Trump sent him on a trip around the world so that he could rely on Elmo and Bobby brainworms to help with the casting of his Cabinet.
You obviously haven’t been watching all episodes of the reality show President. Our Veep is the Space Nazi who is now the guest that wouldn’t leave down at the flea ridden golf motel at Mar a Lardo.
The poetic injustice of this all, is that the MAGAs are anti China big time. Project 2025 reads like a manual on anti-Chinese sentiment, and yet, ultimately they will destroy the USA and empower China. Do you think they will notice that they did that? So much for a White Power Nation and Planet.
Hi Linda! Thanks for providing the links to Prof. Snyder's recent essays on Trump's powerlessness to Putin and Xi. I have heard enough. It's all there. In other words, Prof. Snyder explained every phase and what to expect. The current phase is NOT post election; it's pre-catastrophe. The cabinet posts are not accidental dart-throwing selection by an aging narcissist. They are blessed by Putin for the burning to the ground of this country and ending a period or Western Liberal Democracy prosperity and individual freedom.
There is a tiny light in that the Republicans picked Senator Thune and not Scott. But if the Senate does not apprehend what Prof. Snyder is writing, they will not last.
Our democracy was doomed because to combat the forces of invasion via social media and blackmailing and or buying our elected officials, our Democratic leaders continued to defend democracy using the rules of democracy. Harris had to be flawless while Trump was allowed to be lawless. We are about to reap the whirlwind. God help us.
Thank you for sharing these links. I will subscribe to his substack. I have seen him in interviews and have found him to have a nuanced approach to dealing with the fallout from the election.
At Bobby fuckface Kennedy can Fuck all the way off with his notions of dismantling the FDA. Did anyone see the post him buying mint flavored Zyn? You know that spitless nicotine that FDA had a huge warning label out on last April?
“FDA Issues Warning Letters to and Files Civil Money Penalty Complaints Against Retailers for Underage Sales of ZYN Nicotine Pouches”
May I be forgiven, but I kinda…really wish…that Kennedy just might develop an ugly cancer from using g Zyn….The Kennedy men really do have a legacy of dying rather young.
The complete abdication of journalistic integrity and probity, thy name is NYT. With his record of causing harm with his batshit anti-science influencing, they say RFK Jr. will provide "constructive reforms?"
How is medically unsupported fear mongering gonna do that? He is a dangerous loon, nothing better. NYT should call him that. If the NYT was concerned with the good of the country and not just clicks, that is. JFC.
The brilliant ideas these people have are ridiculous—wellness farms (yeah, right). And healthly eating -I’d barf just sitting on an airplane with these any of these morons. I’d prefer Jeff Force One any day!
RFK Jr. is extremely unhealthy-looking--pale, puffy, craggy...I don't need him telling me to be more healthy. I don't eat McD's either. I DO take antidepressants, however, so I guess I'm screwed.
I don't take antidepressants, but I eat McDonald's. So we're both screwed. I wonder how many steroids RFK Jr. takes to have a body like that at 70? I have seen thousands of people naked (hospital) and I never see anyone who looks like that even men who aren't overweight.
I can’t wait to see RFK go head to head with Elon over his toxic rockets and push for deregulation. It’ll be fun to see RFK trip all over Chris Wright, tRUMP’s nominee for DoE about all that mercury he plans to allow to be spewed into the air.
Oh yes, I cannot wait to see this horrifically mismatched group of sycophants make like they have a cohesive agenda.
They are going to be eating each other's faces soon. Trump will stand back and stand by to watch the shit show. Then he'll start firing them one after the other. I'm thinking of my own family members who love all of these appointees--until they don't because trump said they were no good.
It was widely reported that turd, in his first term, enjoyed putting top officials against each other to see the drama and chaos. May turd be so preoccupied with "the hunger games", leaving less time for fuckery affecting Americans. I'd pay PPV to see Elon & RFK Jr. debating rockets vs. vaccines.
Tiffany is a non-player. Now, Ivanka is an entirely different story…she has brains and an extremely rich husband. Not sure what her( their) endgame is just yet.
That would be a cohesive agenda that combines danger, madness and horseshit all into one. Can't believe this upcoming nightmare is happening and so many rubes are falling for it. It was reported yesterday that the vote tally between Kamala and Trump the Terrible is only 1.7%. Now the South African born actual VP is spewing that there will be consequences for those who are reporting election interference. Once again, their accusations are an admission of their endless guilt.
So do we have to go rewatch The Hunger Games, Dune, Star Wars, and Mad Max to come up with a resistance game plan? Dang I’m an overweight 70 year old so I guess I’ll be sent to one of those camps and will only be suited for a minor role.
I think you had a typo … should be Trump Farce One
On further thought maybe it’s Trump Farts One …
nah, that'd be Trump Farts Continuously
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he's supposed to be pretty fruity
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very very good
…or even Trump Farce Won
Or Trump Fascist One!
All I could think looking at that picture is how much good a plane crash would have done.
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One plus of Donnie surrounding himself with F-Level humans is that they will spend more time stabbing each other in the back than doing damage. Dishonesty, incompetence and stupidity. A terrific combo for high positions of public trust!
Now Elon is a different story. He used identity theft/impersonation fraud to spread disinformation about Harris. Kept millions from voting for her. See the WAPO "false flag" story and Timothy Snyder's and Anne Applebaum's posts today. He's planning to use the same tactics to get his pals elected in other countries. Forget his job as Donnie's top advisor. Elon is angling for Master of the Universe!
Good one 🤣
Well played Deanna!!
The sequel
Thanks Jeff. However I don’t expect the mainstream press to ever perform its responsibility to democracy. It is done. It will only be people like yourself, ProPublica and a handful of others speaking truth to vast wealth and concentrated power.
No longer called mainstream, but known as legacy, or corporate, or oligarchic media.
Thank you Linda. I never know what to call them any more (except for what I generally whisper under my breath), however I know they no longer represent the "Fourth Estate" or the responsibilities thereof.
George, I notice Jeff using corporate, and a friend of mine insisted we do that too. I also have a better not to be published name for them, but that does not get written.
Whenever someone spouts off about the "liberal media" I always remind them that the media is only as liberal as its corporate owners.
Jeff simply calls corporate media, or whatever our puppet masters present as fact scribblers, I think it’s an appropriate label George!!
propaganda machines, yep that is what they' ve become
Exactly James, but there’s an underlying reason for dumbing down “we the serfs”!!
Prof. Timothy Snyder is reporting on the effectiveness of the Putin-Musk propaganda machine today, in what he calls The Propaganda Machine.
https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/the-phantom-campaign?r=f0qfn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&comments=true
I had already read about part of this, the part we learned about before the election where Russia was sending messages to Jews saying Harris is anti-Israel, and to Muslims saying Harris is pro-Israel. I saw Muslims interviewed who said they voted for Trump because as one woman said, "he says he is going to end the war." This was a woman in Michigan. Apparently our government was powerless to stop this.
During covid I learned about the misinformation campaign that Trump waged in 2016, obviously assisted by Putin. I attended a conference on Disinformation's Impact on Democracy, and a discussion of how Cambridge Analytica used data on people that they got from Facebook to suppress the vote by spreading disinformation. So, we knew all about this, yet our campaign could not do anything about it. Why is that? We have let the technology take over, by allowing bad users take over.
I have come to the conclusion that the Democrats need to have their own social media platform so that they have at least one forum where they can control the messages. It needs to be a global platform for Democrats around the world, and it needs to be safeguarded from these bad players, which I realize is difficult to do.
I fear the level of division that is going to be cultivated by Kremlin-Musk chaos machine on the American people, just at a time when a fascist is going to lead the government, actually, fascists in Trump and Musk. Musk is an evil Afrikaaner who is not spreading apartheid in the US that South Africa was not able to sustain.
Corporate media will do nicely. All most likely being referred to as Pravda shortly.
It’ll be state run soon enough.
Or state "undone." I don't imagine that a year from now there will be any media left except Fox and a few other corporate boot licker publications.
Thanks for speaking the truth Linda!!
Like that, perfect replacement
If all goes well this week, we can probably add The Onion to our list of trusted sources.
Who would have ever thought SPW!!
And the Guardian, especially Rebecca Solnit.
I couldn't agree with you more! Perfectly stated.
Thank you Linda.
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
Very true. I’ve called Elon a “fee speech” advocate.
Can anyone imagine how expensive it is it will be to run these detention camps and health camps? But LDFF will just put it on the national debt, where it belongs... sigh.
They'll probably confiscate the assets of the people who "need" the camps to pay for their stays.
True dat George!!
The NYT can fuck off straight to hell
I thought it was fuck off straight to Fuckistan? Did I spell it right?
Ooh. You are right.
And fucking stay there!! They’ve all been banished from my life and other media as well! Fuck them all!
Numerous times JsuttraL
At this point, we must take bitter solace in the fact that NO ONE IS READING or WATCHING the so-called "mainstream press." Ultimately they are completely irrelevant. In the nether regions of the red states, in the rural areas, in the small towns, they don't read the NYT or the WaPo (which of course begs the question as always, WHAT THE FUCK do the NYT, WaPo, etc, think they're doing? They have longstanding subscribers who they've irredeemably alienated, do they really think Back of Bumfuck, Alabama, is going to start reading them? They're not even distributed there.)
I had to go to a small town in Northern-Northern Idaho for an unrelated reason a few years back, and noticed even then: no newsstands, no bookstores, no books, no nothing. Certainly no national newspapers. I actually asked where the nearest bookstore was and they said, seriously, "between cashiers 14 and 15 at the Walmart": and yep, that's where the "bookstore" was, a bunch of low grade romances & thrillers. Not even magazines!
These folks are uneducated, unaware, and uninformed beyond anything we can imagine.
It doesn't actually matter what newspapers like the NYT or WaPo are saying.
Truly, we must figure out a way to get to them via their disinformation portals, it's the only way we can try to inform them. The Onion buying Infowars is a terrific start.
How can we spread the Tiedrich Gospel?
Yes this is what is happening. I have well loved dear friends upper class wealthy never heard of Jack Smith. I live in the Bay Area San Fran. 🥲 how could people not be curious about the world they live in?
I work in a hospital among many educated people. I see it here too. No intellectual curiosity about anything outside of their little world. I can't talk politics with them because most don't know what's really going on. For this election, I didn't open my mouth because I have nothing nice to say to Trumpers. I don't have a financial background and I am the one some of them come to about our 401K and retirement at work. WTH??? I am no expert in any of this. I read a little bit about these issues and know more of what's going on than they do. One of my coworkers (50's) , BSN in nursing and retired Navy vet, asked me why should he sign up during benefits week for accident insurance. Duh - you might have an accident one day. Knows nothing about disability insurance or how to buy our company's stock through the company. He's far from the only one. But ask him about football stats and he'll tell you whatever you want. Combine that lack of interest with the younger generations and Tik Tok and no surprise that we've become a nation of dummies.
What the hell are they taught in nursing school?
I am a BSN educated nurse who is also an Advanced Practice Nurse and not all of us are this obtuse. Many of my peers are well read and politically aware. Please don’t lump all of us together.
How do they get their news?
They watch Fox, of course. Doesn't require any degree of literacy.
Not the don’t watch fox.
Not sure but that doesn't constitute a sentence in english.
Not the don't watch fox.
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News? People who think this way will usually say they just can’t stand to hear all this stuff and don’t want to talk about it. In other words they isolate themselves from reality. 😖 Great!
There busy living in LaLa land. That’s easier for them than facing truths!!
They don’t watch fox
Trump won with folks who don’t read or listen to news by 19 points.
Incuriosity cuts across class and state. I had to explain to my hairdresser, before the election, what Project 2025 is. (She was horrified.) At dinner with friends I’ve had for 30 years, it was all “Oh, can’t we talk about something more pleasant than politics!” They are purposely incurious.
I live in the Bay Area too. It totally flabbergasts me how ill-informed people are.
I am saying that the consortium of Blue Governors needs to create a Social media platform in 2 months that is not located in the USA. Everyone needs to get a VPN so they can access it, and it should be open to democratic parties from around the world, and democratic peoples.
My friend says if we all have our own media circles where will our paths cross? Good question. However, if we have enticing material on a Democratically owned platform, perhaps we can attract some of the Joe Rogan fans to a saner, but still fun, view of the world. I. nominate Jeff to replace Rogan as an influencer on the new Democratic platform if someone gets one together in the next two months.
Linda, do you mean a "radio free USA?"
I'm not turning the news on for the next 4 years. I'm out. I can read, thank goodness. Great comment.
No news for me either! I haven’t watched since the election and that did it for me!! They can all go to hell!
I’m done with their bullshit as well. They were all worried that if the shitstain won they would all lose their jobs and be punished! All fucking sell outs for a buck!!
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Wish Mr Buffett, George Soros or Mark Cuban could use their money to shut them down at the very least. I'm grateful for Jeff's posts and other like minded people to keep me updated on what's happening. Never ever thought I'd be here to witness this shit.
We need to start small newspapers drawing national and international reports from the AP as well as local news. Can these small newspapers be supported by an independent journalism source?
I was asking for that after the 2016 debacle. Someone like Bloomberg who has tons of money could start a liberal version of Sinclair Media and have small-market radio, TV and newspapers. Sadly it didnʻt happen. Now it really has to!
What age group are you wanting to target? My youngest is 36 and I've been mom shamed for subscribing to an actual newspaper, having a fax machine, having a land line and having an answering machine. The younger generations do not use those things in mass that I know of. You have to come up with ways to reach them and I don't see that it's how we have always gotten our news. That's one of the reasons that we need young people involved in politics. For the social media outreach especially.
The mainstream media is afraid of Trump. And he's always in the news because he's so freakin dysfunctional. That sells papers and get people to watch TV. They don't care anymore about ethics.
They may not read, but they sure do watch their TV screens and devices. Print has sort of been dying for a while now, anyway.
But my point is, even online, they’re not reading the “mainstream press.” So we needn’t spend time worrying about what they say. What we need to do, is find a way to communicate with them.
I think a big opportunity is terrestrial radio. There are about elebenty billion Reicht-wing radio stations for every progressive station. Rethugs were advertising big time on Spanish-speaking radio stations, and it appears to have had an effect on the election with so many Hispanic men voting for LDFF. Of course, machismo played a big role. Books are so important because these people are so fking ignorant. Now the LDFF Buybull will be forced on students in Oklahoma, which is not "OK." I was just there this September.
In September of 2016 I made a big trip through the mid-west and deep south via trains, planes, and automobiles. I paid attention to the radio stations everywhere we went and always read the local newspaper at every hotel. The radio station choices were country, religion, or hate talk, with an occasional oldies or Mexican station and the newspaper editorials were very conservative. There were a fkton of LDFF signs everywhere. I didn't see a Hillary sign until we got to NOLA. We are locked in a room with teh stoopids.
There was a medical doctor featured on Bill Maher's show this week who also defended RFK's medical
philanderings. Where are we going in this country? Back to practicing witchcraft?
Bill Maher is a certified asswipe
Fuck him. His narcissism is off the charts. His sundowning days are coming. He's a fucking whiner.
Lisa59….🎯 perfectly summed up. He’s arrogant as hell and master whiner.
And the president of the West Coast He-Man Women Haters Club.
My disdain for his smug buffoonery cannot be expressed here Lisa!!
Pandering, smarmy narcissist who will kiss any cinnamon ring if there's a dollar protruding from it.
Yep. When Boomers were in their 20's and 30's, Maher was the cool guy to watch, taking on "the establishment." Now he's the crank RFK, Jr. of talk show comedians. Is he still haranguing endlessly against those "damned millennials?"
I used to watch him every week. I haven't watched him in a couple of years. I don't agree with what I hear and find him not funny like he used to be.
I used to pay for HBO just so I could watch his show but now I wouldn't cross the street to see him live for free. He can fuck all the way off.
Mary - what I pay HBOmax is for John Oliver. Maher used up his talent
LOVE John Oliver!!
Nope, now it's the Dems.
The whole derailment for Maher came when it took him a couple of years to get a solar power system installed on his house.
Turgid, bureaucratic over-regulation, which he correctly berated, was the tipping point, and now he's on the anti-Dems bus, all the while being so full of himself it's a wonder he doesn't explode.
Bill Maher is angry at the world because he was born an ugly little troll! The world has to pay for that!
He's well past his pull date, as is Debbie Dingell, who voted FOR HB 9495.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/118-2024/h458
Yes he is.
They’d love to go back to witchcraft. Then they can stop taking away small parts of our freedom day by day and just burn us like they have in the past.
wow, I think that kind of rings true.
Yes, I watched it - this episode was one of the worst ever - with Mary Katharine Ham and Chris Cuomo to go along with the medical doctor whose name I quickly forgot.
I had to turn it off. The stupidity was making my head hurt. I used to occasionally watch Maher, but his insistence on giving morons a platform is just too much. Bye, Bill.
He’s the original Joe Rogan.
And he’s views and comments about women.
I only was watching because my husband wanted me to watch it with him. He ended up turning it off also, thank goodness.
Right on Miss!!
Glad I missed it. I stopped watching him years ago but picked it back up earlier this year and see that he is still a fucking asshole. Like we need one more negative word spread while still trying to process the impending doom if the administration can't thwart this somehow.
I remember when Chris Cuomo had his show on CNN. Boy every night he bashed Frump to death and laughed at him constantly! He had Covid really bad, with no help from Donny shitstain. Oh he really disliked that orange POS! Why is he sucking up to them now!! Scared of frump? Worried about all the shit he said about him? Fuck him too!!
Needed to be said Doreen!!
He wrote in his brother’s name for Prez.
Geeze…I’m glad I skipped it! I thought Sarah Isgur sucked!
Yes, she was pretty awful. As was Kellyanne Conway who kept interrupting the other guest panelist.
Yeah, that was sickening too! Not surprised at Ham though. I thought Cuomo would be a little more retrospective given how he did his broadcast while suffering from Covid. Remember that? Guess he has a short memory…sigh.
Don’t EVEN get me started on Chris Cuomo. 🙄
There were plenty of docs during COVID that didn't agree with Fauci. There are wack jobs in every profession. Please don't think that all docs go along with the scientific community. Some of the nurses I work with are anti mask and vaccines. One of them was trying to convince her nurse colleagues not to get the vaccine in the spring of 2021. Unfortunately, she is no longer convincing anyone since she got COVID (unvaccinated) in the summer of 2021 and died and it was an ugly death as she was in ICU and didn't die right away. After that, her friends got vaccinated. She was only 51. If people listen to Kennedy, there will be many more horror stories, especially about children not getting vaccines.
Sorry to be so cold, but that nurse deserved it for her ignorance and stupidity. She should have known better. There is a high price to be paid for such imbecility.
And the fact she was trying to get the younger nurses to go along with it.
What does that say about the younger nurses that they would even listen to such bullshit? What is wrong with nursing schools?
We don't have enough computer gigs for me to tell you what's wrong with nursing school and I'm serious.
Make Polio Great Again. Bring back the iron lung - although I believe respirators are used now. Anyway, somebody will make a profit from the return of polio.
In that way it's a problem that fixes itself.
Make leeches great again.
And bloodletting, also, too.
Ooh, forgot about that. Also using garlic to ward off vampires.
And wearing a necklace of onions to ward off illness. Pearl onions for special occasions, of course.
LOL.
Good one, Linda. Natural medicine returns.
How about a return to the medieval theory of humors? Make Galen great again.
Dang, and LOL too.
Governor Polis is excited about Kennedy. He thinks he can bring on the war with Big Pharma and corporations who poison our food for profits. Polis did not support mask mandates. Bobby rolls over for anyone who fills his pockets with coin.
Bobby wants to be important and have his spot in history like his dad and uncle have. Never going to happen to any of the of the Kennedy children. Different time in history. Bobby has personality issues that have and still will ruin anything he tries to do. There was an article in Vanity Fair earlier this year about him and he's really a POS. Not just the heroin and sexual addiction, but he's just a total a-hole.
That's probably why he never has hit the mantle like his father did. He shoots himself in his own foot. The man has serious problems.
Look, his own siblings can’t stand him! He’s an embarrASSment to them.
Good piece Deborah, thanks for the mention!!!
He certainly has no problem with the McGarbage on Trump Force One. The food and the guests.
Well, yes because then they can burn women at the stake for practicing. That is the true goal.
FYI, in this country, there were never any burnings, just hangings. But....interesting point: the accused women were often widows and other single women with property. They were accused of witchcraft so that their property could be seized. Fits right in with MAGA misogyny, right?
Hangings, and one person pressed to death.
Read The Devil in Massachusetts by Marion L. Starkey, The Witches by Stacy Schiff, and A Storm of Witchcraft by Emerson Baker. The accusations arose out of ignorance, superstition, greed, misogyny, and quarrels between families, all started by a pack of adolescent girls who reveled in their power over the community.
Maybe they'll bring back the Royal Touch. LDFF will lay hands on the sick and they will think for a moment that they are better.
I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
Linda, even a broken clock is correct twice a day. Look for the silver lining......
But, the clock is still broken, and therefore utterly useless.
We'll see if there is a silver lining. One never knows.....
Ummm....at least witchcraft practices make sense....
I saw that…UGH! A female doctor to boot! Trained at Stanford. Made me ill.
1. The Orange Fuckwit needs pictures and tv screens because he’s a “visual learner”. Now there’s a bit of sane washing for you.
2. I don’t need to be reparented. I had pretty good parents. My kids don’t need reparenting….ooops better ask them.
Putin prescreened them all together with Musk, who bought Trump the White House so that he could run it himself. Musk is Trump's handler and Putin is Musk's handler, and Xi is Putin's handler.
When they get done with US media will there be any left? I guess the stuff that Trump wants to watch like the Morning show will remain. The rest of it will be shut down. Make sure to get your VPNs now. Let's hope Jeff moves to a platform that is not located in the USA if that happens and is accessible by VPN.
I’ve been thinking about a VPN for ages. Guess that time is now
My weekend plan was to decide which one. That was supposed to be together with my husband. However, I think I have made a decision now.
I have Nord. Very happy with it.
Nord is one in looking at and Express. Both get high marks for my particular carrier
I have Nord also.
Just bought it and set it up. 100% security.
Yes, I still have to feed it more of my passwords. Been too lazy to do it so I’ve got to get on the roll.
I've had one for several years and especially use it when I'm out of the country on hotel wifi. It's super simple to use.
Yep, just set it up. Thanks for the recommendation.
Nope. Nope. Not today, Satan. Also, of course, fuck those guys. No redemption.
Trump is a Russian asset, so is Kennedy! Musk is either another asset or Trump's handler.
A glass eye in a duck's ass can see that. 💯 💯
Stealing that😂
Do you really think Musk has the brain power to be a handler? If he's tRumps handler than he's doing it on Direct and Explicit instruments from the Kremlin and I have my doubts that he can even do that without fucking it up.
You're right. The problem will be when these two malignant narcissists egos collide. That's coming. He's going to fuck this all up. He can't help himself. He had some gatekeepers before. Now, not so much. It's already backfiring. He's going to rule Mob style. I don't think Putin gives a shit about that. He's the distraction. While they make their moves.
Of course they show Dear Leader video clips! He has the attention span of a 10 year old on Red Bull! What a fucking joke! I wonder how many of those clips had the requisite tears in their eyes, square jaws and steroid biceps. No wait, that was Marjorie Taylor Greene!
That photo on the plane is the best contraceptive ever invented because I'm pretty sure my vagina just sealed itself shut like a bank vault.
They are indeed a creepy lot… right from the bottom of the barrel. Musk is such an ass kisser - but, if one is narcissistic, can he also be an ass kisser?
I thought the slimiest creep in that photo by far was Mikey Johnson. Right behind him is
Elon Muck who is at least acts like the uber moronic creep that he truly is....
(and who showed that photo yesterday of a topless Elon with skin so white he looked like the Pillsbury doughboy or maybe Caspar the ghost--now that picture was def gag-inducing. I can't remember if I saw it on Jeff's "This Week in Stupid" or on Jay's "Xeets & Giggles")
But yeah...that picture of the gang on (omg) "Trump Force One" was definitely one for the ages. (More gagging)
Donnie’s a narcissistic ass-kisser, so I’d think yes.
4b !!
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Hahahahahahahahahahaha…so good, Alison!!🤣
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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Good one!
What I find totally amusing is that I haven’t seen or heard from JD Vance since the election. Could it be that Trump sent him on a trip around the world so that he could rely on Elmo and Bobby brainworms to help with the casting of his Cabinet.
You obviously haven’t been watching all episodes of the reality show President. Our Veep is the Space Nazi who is now the guest that wouldn’t leave down at the flea ridden golf motel at Mar a Lardo.
The Space Nazi who is Trump's handler as a Russian asset.
Here is Prof. Timothy Snyder explaining the hierarchy.
https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/the-submission-chain?r=f0qfn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Here is Prof. Snyder explaining the appointments as fitting into the big picture of what pleases Putin.
https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/decapitation-strike?r=f0qfn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
The poetic injustice of this all, is that the MAGAs are anti China big time. Project 2025 reads like a manual on anti-Chinese sentiment, and yet, ultimately they will destroy the USA and empower China. Do you think they will notice that they did that? So much for a White Power Nation and Planet.
Hi Linda! Thanks for providing the links to Prof. Snyder's recent essays on Trump's powerlessness to Putin and Xi. I have heard enough. It's all there. In other words, Prof. Snyder explained every phase and what to expect. The current phase is NOT post election; it's pre-catastrophe. The cabinet posts are not accidental dart-throwing selection by an aging narcissist. They are blessed by Putin for the burning to the ground of this country and ending a period or Western Liberal Democracy prosperity and individual freedom.
There is a tiny light in that the Republicans picked Senator Thune and not Scott. But if the Senate does not apprehend what Prof. Snyder is writing, they will not last.
Our democracy was doomed because to combat the forces of invasion via social media and blackmailing and or buying our elected officials, our Democratic leaders continued to defend democracy using the rules of democracy. Harris had to be flawless while Trump was allowed to be lawless. We are about to reap the whirlwind. God help us.
Professor Snyder is a great writer. His books and Substack are excellent examples.
I worry about his future, but then I am worried about the future of many of our pro-democracy politicians and scholars.
Putin is the Chairman of the Rethuglican party. We are so fked.
Thank you for sharing these links. I will subscribe to his substack. I have seen him in interviews and have found him to have a nuanced approach to dealing with the fallout from the election.
I haven’t seen or heard from or about him. But Elmo and RFK have sure been prominent .
You're right. Where's the Hillbilly Harlot been? Maybe buying new couches for the VP residence.
I almost spit out my dog and cat.
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Take small bites.
At Bobby fuckface Kennedy can Fuck all the way off with his notions of dismantling the FDA. Did anyone see the post him buying mint flavored Zyn? You know that spitless nicotine that FDA had a huge warning label out on last April?
“FDA Issues Warning Letters to and Files Civil Money Penalty Complaints Against Retailers for Underage Sales of ZYN Nicotine Pouches”
May I be forgiven, but I kinda…really wish…that Kennedy just might develop an ugly cancer from using g Zyn….The Kennedy men really do have a legacy of dying rather young.
I was hoping that picture of the Most Fucked up Five on the plane was a picture of TFO crash fatalities.
The complete abdication of journalistic integrity and probity, thy name is NYT. With his record of causing harm with his batshit anti-science influencing, they say RFK Jr. will provide "constructive reforms?"
How is medically unsupported fear mongering gonna do that? He is a dangerous loon, nothing better. NYT should call him that. If the NYT was concerned with the good of the country and not just clicks, that is. JFC.
NYT can’t do that as shutting down the free pre is now a, essential president8al act per SCORTUM
True, but are they acting like the free press if they don’t tell the truth?
SCROTUM
Good label ! I’ve been using Scrotus !
Scrotus-2 Scrotum-1.
SROTUS
The brilliant ideas these people have are ridiculous—wellness farms (yeah, right). And healthly eating -I’d barf just sitting on an airplane with these any of these morons. I’d prefer Jeff Force One any day!
sorry, eating is not allowed in Jeff Force One
Noted! hahahhaha
What about drinking ? 🥴
RFK Jr. is extremely unhealthy-looking--pale, puffy, craggy...I don't need him telling me to be more healthy. I don't eat McD's either. I DO take antidepressants, however, so I guess I'm screwed.
We need anti-depressants more than ever!!!
They will have to pry my antidepressant from my cold dead fingers.
Same Dr has added meds due to pre-election anxiety. Even if I ask for more, even if she agreed, I'd be comatose every day.
I don't take antidepressants, but I eat McDonald's. So we're both screwed. I wonder how many steroids RFK Jr. takes to have a body like that at 70? I have seen thousands of people naked (hospital) and I never see anyone who looks like that even men who aren't overweight.
Plastic surgery. I don't care how fit someone is their skin will sag.
Did you see how Jr. is holding up his fries like he’s filming a commercial…🙄
How high was he when the picture was taken? Maybe he's happy that he has a Happy Meal and some daddy and me time.
Maybe all three! 🤪
Wonder who's going to pay for three years of somebody hanging around a RFK Jr Wellness Concentra- er, Farm?
I can’t wait to see RFK go head to head with Elon over his toxic rockets and push for deregulation. It’ll be fun to see RFK trip all over Chris Wright, tRUMP’s nominee for DoE about all that mercury he plans to allow to be spewed into the air.
Oh yes, I cannot wait to see this horrifically mismatched group of sycophants make like they have a cohesive agenda.
They are going to be eating each other's faces soon. Trump will stand back and stand by to watch the shit show. Then he'll start firing them one after the other. I'm thinking of my own family members who love all of these appointees--until they don't because trump said they were no good.
It was widely reported that turd, in his first term, enjoyed putting top officials against each other to see the drama and chaos. May turd be so preoccupied with "the hunger games", leaving less time for fuckery affecting Americans. I'd pay PPV to see Elon & RFK Jr. debating rockets vs. vaccines.
George Carlin: where are you, and why did you abandon us when we need you most?
maybe it's better he's gone, he'd be flipping a heart attack over this shit. :(
*pitting top officials
Well I am waiting for the time they are eating each other’s faces.
You know who’s missing? Tiffany and Ivanka!
Tiffany is a non-player. Now, Ivanka is an entirely different story…she has brains and an extremely rich husband. Not sure what her( their) endgame is just yet.
To take the money and run…
JK has his sights on Gaza real estate which will be “appropriated” from the Palestinian people.
That would be a cohesive agenda that combines danger, madness and horseshit all into one. Can't believe this upcoming nightmare is happening and so many rubes are falling for it. It was reported yesterday that the vote tally between Kamala and Trump the Terrible is only 1.7%. Now the South African born actual VP is spewing that there will be consequences for those who are reporting election interference. Once again, their accusations are an admission of their endless guilt.
A concept of a cohesive agenda.
So do we have to go rewatch The Hunger Games, Dune, Star Wars, and Mad Max to come up with a resistance game plan? Dang I’m an overweight 70 year old so I guess I’ll be sent to one of those camps and will only be suited for a minor role.