I was dreading having to watch Donny's speech. I expected it to be one of his usual hour-and-a-half snoozefests. imagine my surprise when it was over in 18 minutes
It would have been longer except he was speed talking like drug commercials that explain all the horrific side effects. Thanks for watching so I didn’t have to.
Hi Jeff. Great post! Great title! That was absolutely horrific wasn’t it? My acid reflux went to 11. You know there’s only so much “throwing up in your mouth a little” you can do before it becomes a full on puke fest. I’d consume a full gallon of dago red with the resultant barf-o-Rama and hangover before I’d watch that ego maniac’s narcissistic injury laden wounded animal diatribe ever again.
When are the republicans going to send for the loony wagon to haul him off? And no, yesterday would not be soon enough.
I started watching clips from it but then had to mute so all I got were gyrations and hand flapping. Which was also more than I could stomach. Thank you to all you people who actually watched. And listened. I can probably assimilate enough of the lying slobber to last me until the next lying slobber-fest.
Great post Jan! I busted out laughing with your description of his “gyrations and hand flapping”. You’re right—that is something to behold. The more he thinks he’s losing his audience the more and bigger gyrations and “accordion hands” he displays, apparently thinking he can force our agreement with him.
I would call him our current generation’s Marcel Marceau if he were better looking, more intelligent, less insane, less narcissistic, less mouthy, more athletic (yawn, I’m getting tired…)
“Time to hit the road”as my wife likes to say. One time my wife answered the door to a door to door salesman and asked him what this was all about. He got through half of his first sentence when she said “time to hit the road” and closed the door. Not very polite but VERY effective. Right now, with this dangerous knucklehead, we need efficiency NOT politeness. Being polite to him just makes his head grow. He needs to be stopped. Who are the republican politicians who have the guts. Don’t they realize that they would be lauded as the patriots who took down the tyrant? Now they’re just weasels who wallow at the trough of Trump. Is that how they want to be remembered? They could be hero’s—they should listen to David Bowie. But will they?…
We have to get rid of all of them. Vance as prez? The same cabinet? No. We have to clean house. The Democrats failed when he was allowed to start the insurrection and steal top-secret papers. Damn, there's so much more. He's looting us, killing us, and selling us out.
He had 3 mad, crazed raccoons or squirrels running around his brain knocking each other over and causing one helluva mess. Add in the drugs he was hopped up on and give him a microphone and a camera and the shit show begins! My God - someone do something!
Thank God for small favors. I really appreciate your watching his garbage speech, so I don't have to. Watching him speak burns my eyes and makes my ears bleed.
The brains of tens of millions of Americans crashed as they wondered why the President of the United States interrupted Survivor to brag that his Fifth Grade Math skills are 600% lower than average
Why, yes it is. And how did he stay in the US? He was at the end of his visa and in the terminal at LAX and suddenly decided he wanted to be in Hollywood. So he overstayed his visa until someone hired him. He’s also responsible for the charade that Trump was a great business man. Along with then NBC president Jeff Zucker, who then went to run CNN. May they both burn in hell.
Yeah, well I suspect that substack is having issues related to growth, and not the right way. Too many people like Yarvin are populating space on Substack these days.
As I promised Jeff, the article I wrote back in Jan of this year:
I was going to mock Donny "gift" to the military of a $1,776 bonus, but all reporting on it made it sound legit, so I left it alone.
but nope, of course it just came out (shit that happened while I was writing this shit) that it's a sleight-of-hand scam.
"Trump is taking money out their housing allowances approved by Congress and giving it to them in a “bonus” so it looks like it came from him. It’s just a shell game with military pay from the ultimate con man"
I read David Sanger's reporting on the speech in today's NY Times. I wrote to him on his NY Times email. (You can do this by clicking on his byline.) Dear Mr. Sanger: Trump's speech did not contain "exaggerations" and "misleading statements." They were lies.
This is a new version of the same con he pulled on the military in T1. He took money from military housing to build his big, beautiful wall. Sundowning Grandpa Rantypants instead yelled "Get off my lawn all you Somali's, Haitians, trans people, women, gays, blacks, browns, Jews, veterans, libs". What a disgrace.
But of fucking course it’s the economic weave that’s what he calls it and low IQ Dems can’t keep up. He takes from you so he can give to you. That is some kind of genius right there.
But it *is*. His great genius was accurately perceiving that there are adults in the United States who are so willfully stupid that they can be convinced of anything that a sufficiently skilled charlatan presents to them. Before Trump, I don't know that the population of drooling cretins was as large as it is. The trick in the future will be to lure them back out of their trailer parks for another round of this fun.
I heard half of the first partial sentence he uttered last night and fled. I'm just not strong enough. I can't even listen to the clips you provide: I read the transcipts and try very hard not to imagine his voice.
And that $1776 “bonus” for the military that he’s dangling?
It’s a BAH (basic allowance for housing) increase already approved by Congress — because his tariffs and inflation have increased so much that military families can’t afford rent and food.
Yes, I KNOW our system of government has proven over 249 years that it really does NOT "check and balance" itself very good (See Civil War, Jim Crow Laws, ERA, Citizens United, et al, for more information). Nonetheless, I NEVER in my wildest imagination would have thought a President would appear in this country and get away with so much crime, violence and death as this lochia mess of a human. For me, it is the court system and, specifically, The Supreme Court, that has EPICALLY FAILED us. And, yes, I know the sketchy at best history of bad rulings in the past too. But STILL!!!
Second, I have always known that 1/3 of our country was just waiting for the right time for the South To Rise Again!!! Here is a "no shit" story for ya: my mother married a Navy pilot in February of 1944. She met his mother a few months before the marriage in southern Illinois. The first words out of her soon to be mother-in-law's mouth was, "We ain't done with you damn Yankees yet!!!" My mother responded, "Uh......OK?" Let's just say my mom never got along with her....ever.
All to say that the rise of MAGA and Trump is a direct result of The Cult of millions and millions of people in America who have inherited and believe the "White Superior Race" narrative of western history. Everything about ICE, anti-immigration, DEI, "shit countries," "human garbage," etc, in this authoritarian regime is built on this FOUNDATION of DNA and skin pigmentation matters.
Moral? Even if Trump and MAGA were to magically disappear tonight, America will STILL have a deeply embedded and cruel RACE PROBLEM that is a true cancer in our society. IT WILL NOT GO AWAY. Sorry folks. It's just a fact. And...It is our "Bottom" in America! And they will surely find another Trump! As Jeff says when signing off: you can set your watch to it...
True about the DNA, Brad. Almost 25 years ago, a friend moved to Atlanta after living up North all her life, and soon told me that the racism is simply inherent. People in the South don't even think about it; they just live it, and it's as natural as the air they breathe.
When Obama ran in 2008, they didn't even bother to overtly put him down. They just "knew" he was a worthless [fill in a racist epithet] and wouldn't vote for him.
Yeah, I am originally from a small rural town in NC where there is a Baptist church on literally every corner. I graduated high school and high-tailed it out of there real quick.
Our family lived in northeast Ohio, and when he was about 19, my brother was suddenly and mysteriously born again in a traditional Baptist sect. No idea how he ever connected with them. He adopted all their rigid, regressive beliefs. He quickly divorced his first wife because she only agreed to be about an 85% tradwife (he made her give him her paychecks), and has been a pontificating, proselytizing hypocrite ever since, four wives later.
I had similar experiences in the south visiting my brother in the New Orleans area in both Louisiana and Mississippi. I'll never forget my USAF officer training (8 weeks) in Montgomery, Alabama. I was waiting for the infamous Civil Rights Era sheriff, Jim Clark, to come around the corner!!! As if The Civil Rights era NEVER happened!!! Surreal.
Yep, good old Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base. I was there for training in early 2000's, about 2002 I think. Long after 1960's!!! Yeah, Bull was a piece of work as well! I have to say, though, that the diners around there were some of the best country cook'n I had ever eaten!!! Pan fried chicken out of this world!!!
None at all. Once upon a time, I thought there would be/could be. Instead, it's a black hole, and we were trapped in the event horizon a long time ago.
Agreed. For decades I have been saying that the "bottom of the barrel" for Rethuglicans is through the center of the molten Earth and out the other side.
My hubs is a Vietnam veteran. His brother voted for Trump. Thanks for getting the word(s) out. The newbies really need a cleansing from all of this BS.
I can’t watch him speak. I literally cannot. I can see a snippet on late night TV for a few seconds at a time, but if it is more than that, I start feeling nauseated. Longer, and I have the skin crawling sensation. I don’t even like seeing his pictures and his name scattered across every headline. It feels like trauma to me. Obviously, it is not what real victims feel - a pale variant, I’m sure, since the orange obscenity has never harmed me personally. Just by association. But in a very real way, aren’t we all trapped in an abusive relationship with our country right now? 😔 was his demeanor genuinely worse than it usually is?
I haven't been able to watch him speak/listen to his voice for years, it is like nails on a chalkboard times a million. I can only read transcripts which has the bonus of really demonstrating how incoherent and rambling the things he says actually are and then I want to scream forever that this demented piece of shit is somehow president.
What drugs are these people taking and how can we be certain to avoid getting dosed? Is it like the old rule backstage at Grateful Dead shows, don’t drink or eat anything at all? Are they addicted to Soylent Green? Are they hopped up on bath salts? What?
If all of MAGA were distilled into one human person, it would be the guy who walks in and sits next to you at the bar, and you immediately cover your drink and make meaningful eye contact with the bartender until they walk you out to your car/taxi.
I think of MAGA as the hapless rube in the first episode of "Hey, It's Florida Man" who trespasses onto fenced off land, swims ecstatically under the moon in a hidden lake, and gets his arm ripped off by a crocodile.
Eventually the kompromat they have on Miss Linz will come out and boy howdy, it’s gotta be sumpthin. 🤦♀️
The felon is completely whacked. And his “staff” don’t give a flying shit about anyone but themselves. It’s way past 25th amendment time. What’s it gonna take?
I share your fear, arne. Two days after the last No Kings rally, he bulldozed the East Wing. Two days after....what? Congress passes a bipartisan bill he doesn't like, or JD tries to 25th amendment him, he nukes Venezuela?
I'm more worried he'll nuke THIS country. If he feels betrayed or thinks he's going down, I don't think he'd hesitate to nuke San Francisco or Chicago or any other liberal city. If he ever tries, I just hope there's somebody with the courage to refuse to push the button.
That's exactly what Robert Reich posted about today. He couldn't sleep last night because he was so worried about it. He won't be bombing Russia, but he might nuke California....and then blame the San Andreas Fault.
Many years ago, a caller to a progressive talk show (Thom Hartmann?) said he delivered a pizza to Mz. Lindsey's house in S. Carolina. He answered the door wearing only a bathrobe and there was another man in a matching robe in the background. Pizza dude says, "Aren't you a US Senator?" Mz. Lindsey replies, "Yeah, I'm Bernie Sanders."
First, MTG has to take down Mike Johnson as House Speaker before she exits to Never-Never Again Land. Vance and the rest of the Cabinet also have to approve use of the 25th and that will take intervention by the Jeebus Man to cause Trump to explode on-camera, like Monty Python's Monsieur Creosote after that fatal "one thin mint." In other words, we're fucked.
I didn't watch for the same reason I don't put motor oil in my coffee. Thanks for taking one for the team, Jeff. I picture Stephen Miller waiting for the reviews like he's at Sardi's and crying into his drink when the show is panned.
After last night BS fevered 20 minute rant, Trump has crossed the 25th Amendment Rubicon. Are there any Republicans brave enough to call for his resignation? Hasn’t America suffered enough?
Jeff, that speech last night was merely a reflection of a mixture of roids, a stimulant, a narcissist, delusions of grandeur and someone who is not right in the head, hates anything or anyone who does not bow to his rantings. I read the speech and reviewed the comments by the journalists, I just cannot listen to him anymore. Moving on to Oingo Boingo, I’m sure he will get his podcast or his weekend newsreader on Fox job back. I can’t name one accomplishment Boingo completed. I worry about the next Fox newsreader to assume the deputy director FBI position.. Best to you and fellow travelers.
I'd guess, based on everything he saw and knows, he might be getting a lifetime income from the Trump Org, like his former bodyguard Keith Schiller and his former COO Allen Weisselberg.
She probably bought the bibles, branded watches, guitars, shitty gold sneakers, etc. Has a special room in her house for all the grift merch. Einstein, she ain't
I saw a post somewhere that said "I really hate to miss Donald Trump's speech tonight, but someone invited me to their house to listen to Yoko Ono's greatest hits. And their amp goes all the way to 11."
I was dreading having to watch Donny's speech. I expected it to be one of his usual hour-and-a-half snoozefests. imagine my surprise when it was over in 18 minutes
It would have been longer except he was speed talking like drug commercials that explain all the horrific side effects. Thanks for watching so I didn’t have to.
Yeah, me neither. Not good for my mental well-being to be exposed to such wacko drivel.
Hi Jeff. Great post! Great title! That was absolutely horrific wasn’t it? My acid reflux went to 11. You know there’s only so much “throwing up in your mouth a little” you can do before it becomes a full on puke fest. I’d consume a full gallon of dago red with the resultant barf-o-Rama and hangover before I’d watch that ego maniac’s narcissistic injury laden wounded animal diatribe ever again.
When are the republicans going to send for the loony wagon to haul him off? And no, yesterday would not be soon enough.
I started watching clips from it but then had to mute so all I got were gyrations and hand flapping. Which was also more than I could stomach. Thank you to all you people who actually watched. And listened. I can probably assimilate enough of the lying slobber to last me until the next lying slobber-fest.
The Trump Creature is truly disgusting.
Great post Jan! I busted out laughing with your description of his “gyrations and hand flapping”. You’re right—that is something to behold. The more he thinks he’s losing his audience the more and bigger gyrations and “accordion hands” he displays, apparently thinking he can force our agreement with him.
I would call him our current generation’s Marcel Marceau if he were better looking, more intelligent, less insane, less narcissistic, less mouthy, more athletic (yawn, I’m getting tired…)
“Time to hit the road”as my wife likes to say. One time my wife answered the door to a door to door salesman and asked him what this was all about. He got through half of his first sentence when she said “time to hit the road” and closed the door. Not very polite but VERY effective. Right now, with this dangerous knucklehead, we need efficiency NOT politeness. Being polite to him just makes his head grow. He needs to be stopped. Who are the republican politicians who have the guts. Don’t they realize that they would be lauded as the patriots who took down the tyrant? Now they’re just weasels who wallow at the trough of Trump. Is that how they want to be remembered? They could be hero’s—they should listen to David Bowie. But will they?…
I blinked and it was over… did that Orange Shitstain do a line of coke before he went live??!?? Cause he was hopped up on something..
Snorting Adderall to keep him awake or got into Cokehead Jr’s stash? 🤔
One or the other.. he was hopped up on something.. next time I hope he takes enough to flatline that Fvcker
Love your holiday wish.
(😄🤣🤣😄)
Yes!!!
I’d rather see him fall asleep in the middle of his speech on live TV.
We have to get rid of all of them. Vance as prez? The same cabinet? No. We have to clean house. The Democrats failed when he was allowed to start the insurrection and steal top-secret papers. Damn, there's so much more. He's looting us, killing us, and selling us out.
Or both?
"it was as if the squirrels that live inside Donny’s head were having a cocaine-fueled orgy. " .... ha ! Jeff writes the best lines ever!
Into don jr.s' stash!
He had 3 mad, crazed raccoons or squirrels running around his brain knocking each other over and causing one helluva mess. Add in the drugs he was hopped up on and give him a microphone and a camera and the shit show begins! My God - someone do something!
Spot on Kay…the bats in the Orange Shitstain’s belfry have nested and are multiplying
I heard a distinct SNIFF in one clip.
Ditto on that post Kay…
I. LOVE. THIS. !!!!!
All the drugged up public speaking might give him an extra push down his luge ride to the afterlife.
We can only hope!
LOL! 😂 Thanks for the belly laugh!! Your comment is hilarious! I appreciate you!
I detest those drug commercials. They have to speed read through all of the often dangerous side effects so people won't pay much attention to them.
Hahahahaha…no shit!
That’s the one gift his dementia and failing health is giving us.
I guarantee it’s because he couldn’t stand longer than that.
I hear it was because CBS wouldn't give him more time: had to get back to the Survivor season finale, so much more important to their demographic
that's the side affect of amphetamines
Hitler used an entire cocktail of amphetamines...
Jinx!
A coke-fueled 18 minutes, thanks to junior.
"Not my fault! Somebody put cocaine in my Adderall!"
Perhaps it set some sort of record for most lies in 18 minutes
Without a doubt. Every word he uttered was a lie, including: the, a, an, it, they, he, she, and
The prior record was the one he set during the debate with Biden.
Thank you for watching so I didn’t have to. There isn’t enough money in the world to make me watch any shitshow he puts on.
thank heaven for small mercies.
Probably collapsed when he got off camera-
Yes, we won't see him for several days while he recovers.
That, too, we can only hope. His handlers will never tell.
Yeah, well....his staying power is ever dwindling...
Adderall is a Hell of a drug!😂😂
Thank God for small favors. I really appreciate your watching his garbage speech, so I don't have to. Watching him speak burns my eyes and makes my ears bleed.
Hold Everything! Yeah, I'm a Democrat who is Very Unnerved, Newt Baby, but not for the reason you think. Ack ack.
I watch When Harry Met Sally, started it at 8:58 pm. He only talked for 18 minutes? Yeah that's about how long a rail of coke lasts.
I can not watch that anus mouth move let alone hear his voice. Thank you for suffering for me and the rest of us
Speed is like that.
That’s what I pay you for!😂
...and worth every penny!!
it's always fun when all of substack crashes five seconds after I publish a post. looks like it's back now.
The brains of tens of millions of Americans crashed as they wondered why the President of the United States interrupted Survivor to brag that his Fifth Grade Math skills are 600% lower than average
I want my 1600% back!!!
I know!! where are the checks?
Survivor, a show about backstabbing assholes, created by an asshole.
Is this asshole's name....Burnett???
Why, yes it is. And how did he stay in the US? He was at the end of his visa and in the terminal at LAX and suddenly decided he wanted to be in Hollywood. So he overstayed his visa until someone hired him. He’s also responsible for the charade that Trump was a great business man. Along with then NBC president Jeff Zucker, who then went to run CNN. May they both burn in hell.
😂😂😂
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Survivor - of all shows to interrupt. Survivors missing Survivor! CBS owes us.
😂😂😂
Yeah, well I suspect that substack is having issues related to growth, and not the right way. Too many people like Yarvin are populating space on Substack these days.
As I promised Jeff, the article I wrote back in Jan of this year:
https://thedruidwendy.substack.com/p/susan-wiles-the-trump-ally-who-could?utm_source=publication-search
and now, I refreshed and compared to current happenings.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/trump-is-ferkytoodling-because-of-his-chief-of-staff-using-her-hoozywaddle
Trump is FERKYTOODLING.
Hoozywaddle-good one Wendy!
I made up that one, but I cant take Credit for FerkyToodling. Allison did that yesterday.
Damn good one Wendy
Yeah, I try, TJ.
Not as prophetic as I thought I would be, but I guess I did anyway.
Was damn good
Thanks for those links. Mind blowingly accurate, Wendy.
I had a momentary panic attack.
tell me about it
I thought he might rush to window, throw it open and scream: I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!
Yeah I was trying to access your commentary when I got the notification that the site was unavailable or some such wordage.Whew! Glad you’re back!
That happens when even the Orange Zombie's cultists want to tell you they agree with you.
Proofing your post for ‘things’.
I was going to mock Donny "gift" to the military of a $1,776 bonus, but all reporting on it made it sound legit, so I left it alone.
but nope, of course it just came out (shit that happened while I was writing this shit) that it's a sleight-of-hand scam.
"Trump is taking money out their housing allowances approved by Congress and giving it to them in a “bonus” so it looks like it came from him. It’s just a shell game with military pay from the ultimate con man"
https://bsky.app/profile/ronfilipkowski.bsky.social/post/3mabh53k4bs2u
Jesus: "This. THIS is why my middle name is 'Fucking'. 🤦♀️
Wow, maybe we are related?
LOL
O.M.F.G. no words.
Yes - there are words:
Criminal
Grifter
Liar Liar
Narcissistic Whore
Moronic Imbecile
I read David Sanger's reporting on the speech in today's NY Times. I wrote to him on his NY Times email. (You can do this by clicking on his byline.) Dear Mr. Sanger: Trump's speech did not contain "exaggerations" and "misleading statements." They were lies.
Please add "sociopath"
Pedophile
I could add number of others to your collection Dave…
Traitor
FUKIN RACIST!
It's ALWAYS something like that. Cheating. One of his love languages.
This is a new version of the same con he pulled on the military in T1. He took money from military housing to build his big, beautiful wall. Sundowning Grandpa Rantypants instead yelled "Get off my lawn all you Somali's, Haitians, trans people, women, gays, blacks, browns, Jews, veterans, libs". What a disgrace.
Figures. For those just now joining us: Trump NEVER actually gives anything to anyone.
Not even charity; he'll find a way to spend it on himself instead.
But of fucking course it’s the economic weave that’s what he calls it and low IQ Dems can’t keep up. He takes from you so he can give to you. That is some kind of genius right there.
But it *is*. His great genius was accurately perceiving that there are adults in the United States who are so willfully stupid that they can be convinced of anything that a sufficiently skilled charlatan presents to them. Before Trump, I don't know that the population of drooling cretins was as large as it is. The trick in the future will be to lure them back out of their trailer parks for another round of this fun.
All the waaaaaay back in 2016 I honestly thought he'd lose steam after his "I alone can fix it" statement. Who would ever believe that?! *sigh*
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More like Donny’s grift to the military.
And silly me was going to ask if the Vets would benefit!
35,000 more job cuts at the VA, in add-on to the DOGE 30,000 earlier under tPLUMP's reign
Wow. That is devastating.
Kind of like Diddy "paying" for Biggie's funeral.
JFC!
🤦♀️
Friend, last night: "You watching this speech????"
Me: "Nah, I'll wait to read Jeff's post about it so at least I can laugh while I scream."
I wish I had that option!
Please know we all appreciate you wading into the muck. You're our Gandalf.
Perfect! Our GANDALF! Indeed!
* Salutes *
I heard half of the first partial sentence he uttered last night and fled. I'm just not strong enough. I can't even listen to the clips you provide: I read the transcipts and try very hard not to imagine his voice.
His voice and staccato delivery were absolutely frightening and unbearable. Hitler at Nuremberg rallies was the same.
Same drugs, no doubt.
I really can't listen to it either.
I'd rather watch paint dry.
And listen to fingernails on a blackboard.
So do I, Joyce! I just cannot watch that vile creature.
Exactly.
Ya don't wanna hear this...but his voice was the same as when he was dressing down Zelensky....harsh, accusatory, angry. I feel sorry for him.
I listened to approximately 20 seconds just now to get an idea to the rate of speech that you mentioned. He gets a traffic ticket for speeding.
I think you might mean "for being on speed."
Doesn't matter, though--he's above the law. John Boy Roberts says so.
Hugs, Jeff. Stay healthy and strong. We need you.
Thank you for your service. Your pain has saved many lives- including mine.
No way I can stomach even a clip but your words bring it to life enough.
I watched it and I’m glad because omfg 🙀
You have free will. You just have to sacrifice everything you have created here.
It’s why you’re paid the big bucks, Sensei
No kidding!
What an honor it is, Jeff to be on the same wavelength as Heather Cox Richardson.
I was rather amused last night on bluesky when her post showed up seconds after mine
He is a morally incontinent piss-baby.
And that $1776 “bonus” for the military that he’s dangling?
It’s a BAH (basic allowance for housing) increase already approved by Congress — because his tariffs and inflation have increased so much that military families can’t afford rent and food.
yeah, I just found that out, twenty minutes after posting — else I would have def included it in this piece
It happens for sure! The military and veteran stuff I always perk up over, so just wanted to add that fact check in there.
FWIW, thank you for the clear rundown — saved me from watching it, he makes me want to vomit if I have to watch more than a quick clip!
No bottom. None.
Yes, I KNOW our system of government has proven over 249 years that it really does NOT "check and balance" itself very good (See Civil War, Jim Crow Laws, ERA, Citizens United, et al, for more information). Nonetheless, I NEVER in my wildest imagination would have thought a President would appear in this country and get away with so much crime, violence and death as this lochia mess of a human. For me, it is the court system and, specifically, The Supreme Court, that has EPICALLY FAILED us. And, yes, I know the sketchy at best history of bad rulings in the past too. But STILL!!!
Second, I have always known that 1/3 of our country was just waiting for the right time for the South To Rise Again!!! Here is a "no shit" story for ya: my mother married a Navy pilot in February of 1944. She met his mother a few months before the marriage in southern Illinois. The first words out of her soon to be mother-in-law's mouth was, "We ain't done with you damn Yankees yet!!!" My mother responded, "Uh......OK?" Let's just say my mom never got along with her....ever.
All to say that the rise of MAGA and Trump is a direct result of The Cult of millions and millions of people in America who have inherited and believe the "White Superior Race" narrative of western history. Everything about ICE, anti-immigration, DEI, "shit countries," "human garbage," etc, in this authoritarian regime is built on this FOUNDATION of DNA and skin pigmentation matters.
Moral? Even if Trump and MAGA were to magically disappear tonight, America will STILL have a deeply embedded and cruel RACE PROBLEM that is a true cancer in our society. IT WILL NOT GO AWAY. Sorry folks. It's just a fact. And...It is our "Bottom" in America! And they will surely find another Trump! As Jeff says when signing off: you can set your watch to it...
True about the DNA, Brad. Almost 25 years ago, a friend moved to Atlanta after living up North all her life, and soon told me that the racism is simply inherent. People in the South don't even think about it; they just live it, and it's as natural as the air they breathe.
When Obama ran in 2008, they didn't even bother to overtly put him down. They just "knew" he was a worthless [fill in a racist epithet] and wouldn't vote for him.
Yeah, I am originally from a small rural town in NC where there is a Baptist church on literally every corner. I graduated high school and high-tailed it out of there real quick.
I don't blame you!
Our family lived in northeast Ohio, and when he was about 19, my brother was suddenly and mysteriously born again in a traditional Baptist sect. No idea how he ever connected with them. He adopted all their rigid, regressive beliefs. He quickly divorced his first wife because she only agreed to be about an 85% tradwife (he made her give him her paychecks), and has been a pontificating, proselytizing hypocrite ever since, four wives later.
WOW! Too bad he doesn’t have a clue as to why he has had 4 wives.
I had similar experiences in the south visiting my brother in the New Orleans area in both Louisiana and Mississippi. I'll never forget my USAF officer training (8 weeks) in Montgomery, Alabama. I was waiting for the infamous Civil Rights Era sheriff, Jim Clark, to come around the corner!!! As if The Civil Rights era NEVER happened!!! Surreal.
Were you at Gunter AFB? I lived there in the early 60’s when my Dad was teaching Public Health to the Airmen.
I was shining their shoes in the barracks and walking away with $60 on a Saturday when I was 11.
I didn’t shine yours, did I?
And I think Bull Conner from Birmingham was the Sheriff you never wanted to see come around the corner!
Excellent comment, btw
Yep, good old Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base. I was there for training in early 2000's, about 2002 I think. Long after 1960's!!! Yeah, Bull was a piece of work as well! I have to say, though, that the diners around there were some of the best country cook'n I had ever eaten!!! Pan fried chicken out of this world!!!
In their minds, I don't think it ever DID happen. Or at least, it was just a minor inconvenience that quickly disappeared.
So it's hopeless to try to eradicate this kind of cancer in our electorate?
afraid so, imho.
There has to be a bottom…
It’s called the Mariana Trench - the deepest part of the ocean.
all his bullshit ends up there!
Damn it…Dave, now you’ve got me dreaming of life on an island, except perhaps the Bikini Atoll’s!
OK, so now I'm worrying about all the toxic waste spewing into the ocean. Thanks, Dave! 😉
None at all. Once upon a time, I thought there would be/could be. Instead, it's a black hole, and we were trapped in the event horizon a long time ago.
Perfect description, Joyce.
Agreed. For decades I have been saying that the "bottom of the barrel" for Rethuglicans is through the center of the molten Earth and out the other side.
But the idiot Democrats still wanna be friends with & make nice with these....deplorable. Oh it just.came out...sorry 😮💨😋
Good to know thank you for the information..
You betcha, my friend.
I wish I could do a PSA to all active service members — but I’m a veteran now, so I just take to platforms and try to spread the word where I can.
Thank you for your due diligence in your post active military life. Keep a close eye on the VA— lots of fuckery abound there.
My hubs is a Vietnam veteran. His brother voted for Trump. Thanks for getting the word(s) out. The newbies really need a cleansing from all of this BS.
and truth be revealed..... Was this the brainchild of Crushed Nuts?
My guess is Susie Wiles. She’s the only one out of the bunch with more than one brain cell.
Hegseth burned all his up a while ago.
I can’t watch him speak. I literally cannot. I can see a snippet on late night TV for a few seconds at a time, but if it is more than that, I start feeling nauseated. Longer, and I have the skin crawling sensation. I don’t even like seeing his pictures and his name scattered across every headline. It feels like trauma to me. Obviously, it is not what real victims feel - a pale variant, I’m sure, since the orange obscenity has never harmed me personally. Just by association. But in a very real way, aren’t we all trapped in an abusive relationship with our country right now? 😔 was his demeanor genuinely worse than it usually is?
He's a toxic mess.
Same here. I couldn't watch last night. I just knew it would be one lie after another, with self congratulatory praise in between the lies.
I haven't been able to watch him speak/listen to his voice for years, it is like nails on a chalkboard times a million. I can only read transcripts which has the bonus of really demonstrating how incoherent and rambling the things he says actually are and then I want to scream forever that this demented piece of shit is somehow president.
Yup!!
I spent that time cleaning the cat boxes. I figured I'd be exposed to less shit that way.
😂😹
Brilliant!
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Bravo!
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What drugs are these people taking and how can we be certain to avoid getting dosed? Is it like the old rule backstage at Grateful Dead shows, don’t drink or eat anything at all? Are they addicted to Soylent Green? Are they hopped up on bath salts? What?
If all of MAGA were distilled into one human person, it would be the guy who walks in and sits next to you at the bar, and you immediately cover your drink and make meaningful eye contact with the bartender until they walk you out to your car/taxi.
I think of MAGA as the hapless rube in the first episode of "Hey, It's Florida Man" who trespasses onto fenced off land, swims ecstatically under the moon in a hidden lake, and gets his arm ripped off by a crocodile.
Yikes!! Haven’t seen that one, however, you painted a lovely picture Sharon!
Alligator
Thanks, H12th!
That's an "I", not a "1"
While he deluges you with stupid conspiracy bullshit, racist and sexist attempts at humor, crude pickup lines, then he tries to grab your. . .
No beat bag of Adderall last nite, that was the real shit
Definitely Steve!
It's the opposite of When Harry Met Sally - I'll have what she's having. No! No way.
I vote bath salts.😂😂
The Florida connection.
Indeed.
The squirrel gif! 😂😂😂.
Eventually the kompromat they have on Miss Linz will come out and boy howdy, it’s gotta be sumpthin. 🤦♀️
The felon is completely whacked. And his “staff” don’t give a flying shit about anyone but themselves. It’s way past 25th amendment time. What’s it gonna take?
If I was the dude with the nuclear codes, I would rush out of the country with the box right now.
I'm very worried about that. He might want to make a big statement by nuking some small country. It's a valid concern, IMHO.
I share your fear, arne. Two days after the last No Kings rally, he bulldozed the East Wing. Two days after....what? Congress passes a bipartisan bill he doesn't like, or JD tries to 25th amendment him, he nukes Venezuela?
Robert Reich uttered it this morning...
I'm more worried he'll nuke THIS country. If he feels betrayed or thinks he's going down, I don't think he'd hesitate to nuke San Francisco or Chicago or any other liberal city. If he ever tries, I just hope there's somebody with the courage to refuse to push the button.
I think he’d nuke my beautiful state. He hates California.
That's exactly what Robert Reich posted about today. He couldn't sleep last night because he was so worried about it. He won't be bombing Russia, but he might nuke California....and then blame the San Andreas Fault.
I shouldn't joke, I know.
I live practically next to the San Adreas Fault. Someone funnier than me recently said that T💩p wants to rename it "Joe Biden's Fault."
🤣😂🤣
At least bury it next to the oak tree in his backyard.
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Many years ago, a caller to a progressive talk show (Thom Hartmann?) said he delivered a pizza to Mz. Lindsey's house in S. Carolina. He answered the door wearing only a bathrobe and there was another man in a matching robe in the background. Pizza dude says, "Aren't you a US Senator?" Mz. Lindsey replies, "Yeah, I'm Bernie Sanders."
😂😂😂
Too funny 😂
First, MTG has to take down Mike Johnson as House Speaker before she exits to Never-Never Again Land. Vance and the rest of the Cabinet also have to approve use of the 25th and that will take intervention by the Jeebus Man to cause Trump to explode on-camera, like Monty Python's Monsieur Creosote after that fatal "one thin mint." In other words, we're fucked.
The squirrel gif is priceless. I'm thinking Linz is in a Senator Geary position.(Godfather ll) Dr. Morell 2.0 outdid himself last night.
The squirrel thing was......
Love the squirrel gif!
Wasn’t that right on the money!?!?😂😂
I didn't watch for the same reason I don't put motor oil in my coffee. Thanks for taking one for the team, Jeff. I picture Stephen Miller waiting for the reviews like he's at Sardi's and crying into his drink when the show is panned.
Nah, Miller will just blame the reviewers for not properly appreciating Dear Leader.
After last night BS fevered 20 minute rant, Trump has crossed the 25th Amendment Rubicon. Are there any Republicans brave enough to call for his resignation? Hasn’t America suffered enough?
No. And no.
Jeff, that speech last night was merely a reflection of a mixture of roids, a stimulant, a narcissist, delusions of grandeur and someone who is not right in the head, hates anything or anyone who does not bow to his rantings. I read the speech and reviewed the comments by the journalists, I just cannot listen to him anymore. Moving on to Oingo Boingo, I’m sure he will get his podcast or his weekend newsreader on Fox job back. I can’t name one accomplishment Boingo completed. I worry about the next Fox newsreader to assume the deputy director FBI position.. Best to you and fellow travelers.
Are we paying that useless fucker for maintaining an empty desk for __ weeks?
I don't know what's worse, paying these fuckers just refusing to do their jobs or paying them to actively destroy our democracy.
I would gladly have my tax dollars go towards paying them to do nothing at all.
It's kind of like the old joke: admission to the show is free, but you have to pay to get out, once you realize how awful it is.
I'd be happy to pay them for not showing up to work.
I'd guess, based on everything he saw and knows, he might be getting a lifetime income from the Trump Org, like his former bodyguard Keith Schiller and his former COO Allen Weisselberg.
My first thought, besides shut the fuck up you fucking liar, tf is up with that maga woman who went to 42!! of that morons rallies? WITAF.
Yes, who would brag about that? Yuck.
She probably bought the bibles, branded watches, guitars, shitty gold sneakers, etc. Has a special room in her house for all the grift merch. Einstein, she ain't
I saw a post somewhere that said "I really hate to miss Donald Trump's speech tonight, but someone invited me to their house to listen to Yoko Ono's greatest hits. And their amp goes all the way to 11."
I once hosted a Bad Taste Party (it was a hoot!) and we played Slim Whitman's Greatest Hits on a kid's phonograph.
Mojo Nixon: “you thought you were like Whitman/America’s beloved bard/instead, you’re just like Slim/a noxious tub of lard.”
Hey everyone, I just wanna say it’s been so great to be part of this group. Love JT, Ms Spouse, and all the regular commenters.
Oh, I’m just saying this in case we all get nuclear bombed today.
There’s a happy but realistic thought! 😂😂
Yes, lovely.😂😂
Ha!