Also, would like to point out that Trump, the Commander-in-Thief uses a word salad that is called Doublethink in Orwell's "1984" and his followers use "Duckspeak." I explain it here for those who did not read the book or remember this part.
Great reminder Linda. I tried to reread 1984 but in light of what we’re living through currently, I had to stop. It was just too dark. Have always loved words and their etymology. Words don’t scare me but their misuse certainly does. The pen has proved many times in history to be far mightier than the sword. I’m old enough to realize I got a great public education too. It’s wasn’t fancy but it was a great base upon which to build a life and eventually a career in healthcare. Watching what’s happening around us now is truly frightening.
I read 1984 during one of Shrub's terms. And it scared the shit out of me then. Shrub was too stupid to go full on fascist. Just mostly authoritarian. Little did I know that Shrub was just an amuse bouche of merde from the Repubs. They were not happy with how much greed, grift, and theft they got from the American taxpayers, and decided to push the envelope. Little did they know, they broke American politics. The democracy is teetering, but the American people is smart enough to pull back from the brink. Not all of us, not all on the same page, but enuf of us are saying ESAD R's and you get to keep & own your idiot spawn of fascist hell.
Shrub was not president though; Cheney was. And Cheney was not stupid so there were other reasons. I can't pretend to know Cheney's thinking. Maybe he had ideas about benefiting himself and his cronies that weren't helping by fascism. Also, Trump is far far stupider than W.
SPW my book club read "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin first and both are so bleak that it was hard, but Orwell's writing was a relief after Zamyatin's. They have made clear to me that I don't want to live in a totalitarian state. Zamyatin influenced Orwell, so it was interesting to read them both for that reason.
1084 (in Europe) is the year the Republicans REALLY want to take us back to.
Royalty and The Church ran everything, The Church dictating, with the clergy were the richest of them all. Everyone else were just peons who existed to obey the clergy and financially support the Royalty. Educating the populace was severely frowned upon, whatever science there was, were either the property of the rich or spurned, and diseases ran rampant throughout the continent. And white Christians repeatedly had Crusades into the Arab and Muslim worlds to murder, pillage, plunder, and loot.
Sound familiar?
(And as an aside, and as a subscriber to Jeff, doesn't Murder, Pillage, Plunder, and Loot sound like it should be the name of a law-firm? Or, the DOJ?)
I'd prefer it be a rock band. I worked for THE top law firm in NYC - very snooty and high-brow. I like to think they would have told him to go piss up a rope unlike Paul Weiss. Little anecdote about Paul Weiss: back in the day NO Jewish attorneys were being hired by 'the' major law firms, so after years of this fuckery = a group of the top Jewish attorneys decided to open their own Firm which became Paul, Weiss, Garrison & (oops, I've forgotten the 4th surname). NO attorney, even at my firm were allowed to have beards, btw. Most were hired from the Ivy League schools (wooed as summer attorneys during their final 'vacations', then weeded out with only a handful making it through). After some years Paul Weiss had established themselves as a solid, competitor to the other top firms and finally Jewish attorneys were slowly 'allowed' into ours (before my time there). THEN the attorney I worked for - who, in his off time was an actor in community theatre and refused to shave his full beard (he was also tall and barrel-chested so played 'those' roles (Henry VIII, etc.) and was deliberately passed over for partnership BECAUSE OF HIS BEARD! Can you imagine anything so outright stupid? Oh wait - we're living through another such time-line...So, once HE finally made Partner since they couldn't come up with any more excuses and half of the men in the general public had grown beards, the very next day after the announcement of his promotion - the handful of Jewish Attorneys began growing THEIR beards as well as a couple of the higher-level Partners who'd previously been too chicken. So MY attorney was a ground-breaker. In other ways too - he insisted on me working for him despite my absolute lack of 'secretarial skills such as stenography'. He decided my intelligence and rapid-fire typing were more than sufficient for us to make it work - and it did for over over a decade. He was also willing to help me go to Law School during my paralegal days but the commute was impossible, much as the idea was so intriguing. Fast forward to donny dumpsterfire: It shocked me when Paul Weiss caved to frump since that had never been their MO. What I'd also admired about them was their willingness to allow non-Jewish attorneys into their firm despite the years of bigotry they'd previously endured. By the way, Jeff: 'wall to wall bugfuck nuts' was GREAT! And yet another new one to me.
Thanks Linda. First I wrote 1084. I'm happy you didn't laugh too hard. Then I tried downloading the book but, because I am painfully tech challenged, I couldn't get it to open. Finally got it but ended up with twenty pdfs across the top of my screen. Finally have it now. I think. ⁉⁉⁉
I think I have about 30 of those Jan, LOL - I'm so hopeless tech-wise...no wonder my computer is bumbling along on its last legs. I'd hoped that when I got a new one I could start fresh once donny dimwit had also kicked the bucket but alas, he hangs on as tenaciously as does my fucking computer. Maybe I'm looking at it all wrong - perhaps getting a new computer will hasten both this one AND his demise?
The Car Talk guys invented the law firm Dewey, Cheatem, & Howe. There was at one point a 2nd story window in Cambridge Square painted with that firm's name on it.
seriously, everyone stay safe. daughter Katie, who lives in Madison, Wisconsin had to cut her visit a day short and fly home yesterday so she wouldn't get stuck in some snowed-in airport
Further north, we have over 2 feet of lovely snow at 9:30 am and continued whiteout conditions. It’s a Winter Wonderland! Wait, is that a St. Bernard coming across the yard? We’re saved!
A wise colleague moved there and avoided being a librarian in a school with a lot of money, a lot of books, and unethical leadership. Wise move on her part.
Here on Maui we are waking up to the aftermath of a Kona storm that was like a Cat 1 hurricane. Roads are a mess. Sadly lots of debris washed into the ocean.
Yes! Stay safe. Sorry to hear about Katie’s trip being cut short but, for want of better words, it’s worth the peace of mind knowing she is home safe. I’m about 90miles south of Madison in IL and so far we’ve been having heavy thunderstorms. Snow is forecast for later today with up to 5-8inches by Tuesday.
yeah it's like MAD magazine around here, air conditioned house to air conditioned car to air conditioned store to air conditioned restaurant in an endless loop. how'd humanity ever survive for 2 million years without air conditioning it's a mystery...
Aww - so sorry she couldn't stay for the full time - but. safety first and I KNOW we all want her home safely and out of this expected massive blizzard. although I'm sure you might have hoped she'd stay with you for the entire time. NY's had its own share of awful weather. with that ice lasting SO much longer.
Shame we can't redirect the 'bomb cyclone' right to motel-a-lardo. while dropping the temps there by about 60 degrees at the same time. Let the idiot freeze his tiny mushroom off. He can go hide in the gigantic bunker he's ordering built under where the East Wing once was - and which we'll likely fill in when he's gone. You KNOW it's just an oversized nuclear fallout shelter, right?
Huh. Child's play. Here in the U.P., we had 5 "warnings" this morning: storm; blizzard; lakeshore flooding; heavy freezing spray; and gale. Oh, and up to 3' of snow possible.
My husband is from the U.P., and he often updates me on the snow and blizzard reports up there, so we appreciate our weather. This morning, he told me there was 4-6 feet of snow in some places—the Ides of March and my granddaughter's birthday.
My fervent hope is to be able to see out over the snowbanks from my windows again soon! Also to be able to walk out the door without having to shovel a path as I go.
If the weather is this bad now Linda, isn’t it a relief that climate change is a fake thing made up by Hollywood actors; because, if it were real and the weather got progressively worse we would be in a world of hurt.
Can you believe that some radical leftist democrats created and advanced wind and solar energy to the point that it could replace fossil fuels just to troll those nice republicans but also to destroy the oil industry. Those heartless terrorists. Who do they think they are anyway? Some people. I swear.
And, I heard this afternoon that the French and the Italians are trying to negotiate a Pass from Iran so their ships can go through. Iran has said only US and Israeli ships and those of their friends cannot go through.
Malcolm Nance was saying today that he thinks we are going to see a lot of Middle Eastern bases close soon. China has a pass, yet Trump called on them to help attack Iran and get ships through. Not only did he do that, but doing it through a social media post is the highest of insults to world leaders who do not have to take his S--T! Why would China attack their ally Iran, when they can get their ships through without any trouble?
I assume China is looking at the mess Trump got the US into, and is deciding whether now would be a good time to take over Taiwan, or will they wait for things to get even worse?
Right now several countries already get their ships through because they negotiated a pass. India, Turkey, China, Pakistan and now others are trying to see if this works too.
Also, Ukraine should be making sure to get a lot back from helping the US. Here is a discussion of Drones that I listened to last night. Trump is such a loser and he does not have a clue. Those who back him are too. Watch Shaheed Drone School 101. Ignore the sucking up to manly men, and hear what they have to say.
Most of my French has long-since gone but guessed that it meant this. Now, is it pronounced 'foutre' as in fowl, or foutre as in fool? The 'faire' kind of gave it away to my mind. LOVED it. Christina of 'Christinatalkst' told her followers on Instagram and what she calls 'the tickytocky' - that she was put on suspension for an entire WEEK by YouTube for 'bullying pete hegseth'. Can you imagine? The fuckwits BULLY US and an entire Country - expecting its citizens (who have no idea WTF he's doing or saying) to 'rise up' against their dicktators - all while he allows pete the moron to play war games with our soldiers' lives. I'm loath to admit just how much I LOATHE this disgusting wastrel - and waste of good air and space.
Ya Chris, I’m betting that people that work in hot dog factories don’t eat the hot dogs they make.
I grew up in the San Joaquin valley in California. I believe that a lot if not most of the world’s ketchup comes from central California. I spoke with someone who worked in one of the ketchup factories and they said no one who worked there would eat ketchup. Apparently you wouldn’t believe how much protein gets ground up and smashed into ketchup. Who knew ketchup was a source of protein.
In my younger years I worked at a Christian Brothers winery, also there in the valley. The same thing applied there. The grape crushers could not separate out snakes and rats and spiders etc.
I drank their wine and enjoyed it. We got a good discount.
Of course we’ve got much bigger problems now than worrying about what goes in our hotdogs ketsup and wine.
I guess we could have a lunch with hot dogs ketchup and wine and talk about the good ol days when fascists didn’t run our country. We could even have a toast…not a lot to toast these days.
The Chinese bought Smithfield the largest pork operation on earth as I recall headquarters in Mexico if I remember correctly. Draw your own conclusions.
I grew up in Fremont, OH....home of one of the largest Heinz ketchup plants. (If you've ever seen the Heinz commercial - w/ their R&D guy calling himself a "ketchup nerd" - the patch on his shirt reads "Fremont's Finest".) I went to friend's homes for lunch, who had a parent who worked at Heinz.
They ALWAYS had Heinz on the table....so at least *there*, they didn't have any qualms about what was in it.
Suggested instructions for Jeff’s A.I. graphics generator: Make a picture of President tRump with small hands, with fingers that look like short penises with heads that resemble mushrooms
Yup. I’m old enough to remember the show and had tRUMP replaced as Jed as I sang your great ditty in my head! Jed was way more refined than the 🍊🤡ever could be.
This is a great reminder that while Pam "Bribe Me" Bondi, Kash "and carry" Patel, the "Woke" media, and the ethically bent Roberts Court continue to do all they can to come to the aid of the war mongering pedo criminal-elect, other countries might be less interested in joining Operation Epstein Fury.
Of course, while begging our former allies -perhaps Putin will respond to Trump's latest love letter in the form of lifting sanctions on Russian oil. The criminal elect and his GOP apologists might as well just arm Russia as Putin continues his own criminal onslaught against Ukraine.
Congratulations MAGA. Instead of a "strongman" President, you've elevated a criminal pedophile, begging others for help while he heads off for a round of golf -or a so-called "press" conference where he declares victory and talks about more bombing just for fun.
while masturbating as he gazes past his golden curtains toward the East Wing crater that will one day (allegedly) house his Best Big Ballroom . . . (vs the teeny tiny ballroom that resides within his Big Manly Diaper)
He’s imagined hisself to be a mob boss. But even the dumbest mob bosses know what battles are beyond their purview. Still, no mob boss EVAH was as raw-assed stupid as this mofo. And the henchman surrounding him—and henchfemmes—are likewise stupid grifters and grifting stupids, every one of them. Or if a couple aren’t stupid, they’re stupidly ambitious [Rubio] and culpable af.
Reading Heather Cox Richardson’s latest about the State of Maine, the Missouri Compromise, and the fight for abolition was a splash of cold water, for sure, but also gives me hope. A sliver of hope. And that’s enough.
You totally nailed the idiotic president…no one likes him…mumbles and bumbles his way when speaking…can’t stand it any longer!! C’mon republicans….DO SOMETHING!!!! (and Democrats!)
I scroll on by if his face or voice is displayed. Fuck MSM for helping elect him. They just wanted more sound bites for their ratings. I quit them all and won’t be back. Cannot stand his voice/ image.
I never see him because I sit at my computer as I listen to the news on TV. No longer watch the talking heads. It's enough to hear him. His face is grotesque, his facial (if you can call it a face) expressions make me sick to my stomach.
He's ordered the deployment of 5,000 Marines to Iran, all by himself. So at what point does our government function as intended by the Constitution? Quoth the raven, "never more" is my guess.
yes, it would be nice if the 8 democrats who vote right along with the republicans wuld stop being bribed for one second and help us out...without them and a couple of sane repubicans, I see no hope coming in the near future.
Even if those 8 Democrats you blame were to "stop being bribed", Republicans would still have the majority. Blame the Republicans; blame Mikey Johnson who prefers to have the House inactive than dealing with issues.
This is not going to end well. You can tell that Dear Leader is in a panic, since none of these not-tweets end with “Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
I hope the UK tells him to F off, after all he did say he didn’t need us as he’d already won this war or whatever it’s being called today, he needs to reap what he’s sowed by himself
yes! oh, yes! I have always found this country's over-the-top boasting obnoxious and embarrassing. "Greatest country on earth", my ass. Who voted?(Who came in second?) Sheesh.
Thing is sometimes a sense of duty overwhelms what is right for the nation, I know the majority of us Brits don’t want anything to do with this, Trump is destroying the world bit by bit I’m mid 70’s never felt so uneasy about world affairs ever
Jeff, your “Frenchman” from Monte Python reminded me of what was common in The Dark Ages when attacking a castle or fortified compound, that catapults were used to hurl diseased animal carcasses over the walls to contaminate the enemy’s food and water supply. Even cows and horses with The Plague were hurled great distances to get the enemy to surrender or face a horrible slow death. Not thinking to use this method in Iran, but to snuff Trump out of the White House in 2028.
Not just the Dark Ages. In 1347 one army was besieging another at a town in the Crimea. The besiegers were hit by the Black Death (which thus began its migration from central Asia to Europe). So, they loaded the corpses of Black Death victims into catapults and flung them into the city, hoping to infect their enemies. I've seen it said that this is the first recorded instance of biological warfare in history.
The joke was on them, though. As soon as a Black Death victim dies, his body starts to cool, and the disease-carrying fleas migrate somewhere else. The bodies of Black Death victims are not contagious.
They didn't. The whole area around there was largely depopulated, and the city of Tmutarakhan, formerly the capital of Crimea and major trading port with representatives of Genoa and Venice making deals with Russians and Turks, was empty so long it got buried and could not even be found for centuries, so in Russian it became a name like "Boondock" or "Podunk" (Podunk was a New England settlement that failed so hard its site could not even be found for centuries) for "middle of nowhere"
Most Queens, Kings and rich elites around the year 0 were poisoned, and from their family members. Then they were the ones with the power. Too much is never enough they screwed eachother and killed eachother big assholes like we have today.
Doesn't anyone in this "administration" have a sense of self- preservation? It surprises me that no one is resigning. Rubio, Bondi, Hegseth, and Homan would be wise to jump ship and blend into the background. It's only going to get worse.
Stephen and Donnie will be hiding out together in a Bunker until the bitter end
. . .
my only question is whether their so-called bunker will be in Trump's War Room; the basement at Mar-a-Lado, securely fortified by those black curtains.
In the first administration, the rats resigned before they got in too deep; this current crew is waaaaayyyyy too far gone--they're desperate to keep Donnie Demento propped up, because they can't blend into the background: they're sunk in the corruption with no escape. Contrast, for instance, all the Rethuglican members of Congress who have, over the past year, suddenly decided they needed to resign, or not seek re-election, because.......reasons........
Or they're afraid to jump ship, because they don't want #Bumblefuck to make up a PLAYGROUND BULLY NICKNAME for them & blast it all over Batshit Social, & every tv interview & press conference.
They're in too deep now. Their only hope is to stick with him until total victory is achieved (Trump declared emperor and sole designator of his successor) and they can never be held accountable. Only a slight exaggeration; they realize that if they bail now, it shows awareness of wrongdoing and would be seen as an admission of complicity.
Donny’s got his own dick shoved all the way into a hornet’s nest, and is now all ‘why won’t anyone help me pull it out? I can’t do it myself because I’ve got hot dog fingers!”
To all those who voted for someone so ignorant he imagined himself “a very stable genius,” I extend this invitation: allez-vous faire foutre. Thank you, Mr Tiedrich.
spoiler alert: 'allez-vous faire foutre' is French for 'go fuck yourself.'
Vive la France!
Also, would like to point out that Trump, the Commander-in-Thief uses a word salad that is called Doublethink in Orwell's "1984" and his followers use "Duckspeak." I explain it here for those who did not read the book or remember this part.
https://lindaweide.substack.com/p/the-language-of-the-fascist-regime?r=f0qfn
Great reminder Linda. I tried to reread 1984 but in light of what we’re living through currently, I had to stop. It was just too dark. Have always loved words and their etymology. Words don’t scare me but their misuse certainly does. The pen has proved many times in history to be far mightier than the sword. I’m old enough to realize I got a great public education too. It’s wasn’t fancy but it was a great base upon which to build a life and eventually a career in healthcare. Watching what’s happening around us now is truly frightening.
I read 1984 during one of Shrub's terms. And it scared the shit out of me then. Shrub was too stupid to go full on fascist. Just mostly authoritarian. Little did I know that Shrub was just an amuse bouche of merde from the Repubs. They were not happy with how much greed, grift, and theft they got from the American taxpayers, and decided to push the envelope. Little did they know, they broke American politics. The democracy is teetering, but the American people is smart enough to pull back from the brink. Not all of us, not all on the same page, but enuf of us are saying ESAD R's and you get to keep & own your idiot spawn of fascist hell.
Shrub was not president though; Cheney was. And Cheney was not stupid so there were other reasons. I can't pretend to know Cheney's thinking. Maybe he had ideas about benefiting himself and his cronies that weren't helping by fascism. Also, Trump is far far stupider than W.
I don't think Trump is stupider than W. He is just more gone now.
SPW my book club read "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin first and both are so bleak that it was hard, but Orwell's writing was a relief after Zamyatin's. They have made clear to me that I don't want to live in a totalitarian state. Zamyatin influenced Orwell, so it was interesting to read them both for that reason.
Thanks, Linda. I haven't read "1984" in a long time and it's time for me to read it again.
Jeez I can't believe I wrote 1084. Guess that maybe that wasn't a very good year, either. 😖
1084 (in Europe) is the year the Republicans REALLY want to take us back to.
Royalty and The Church ran everything, The Church dictating, with the clergy were the richest of them all. Everyone else were just peons who existed to obey the clergy and financially support the Royalty. Educating the populace was severely frowned upon, whatever science there was, were either the property of the rich or spurned, and diseases ran rampant throughout the continent. And white Christians repeatedly had Crusades into the Arab and Muslim worlds to murder, pillage, plunder, and loot.
Sound familiar?
(And as an aside, and as a subscriber to Jeff, doesn't Murder, Pillage, Plunder, and Loot sound like it should be the name of a law-firm? Or, the DOJ?)
I'd prefer it be a rock band. I worked for THE top law firm in NYC - very snooty and high-brow. I like to think they would have told him to go piss up a rope unlike Paul Weiss. Little anecdote about Paul Weiss: back in the day NO Jewish attorneys were being hired by 'the' major law firms, so after years of this fuckery = a group of the top Jewish attorneys decided to open their own Firm which became Paul, Weiss, Garrison & (oops, I've forgotten the 4th surname). NO attorney, even at my firm were allowed to have beards, btw. Most were hired from the Ivy League schools (wooed as summer attorneys during their final 'vacations', then weeded out with only a handful making it through). After some years Paul Weiss had established themselves as a solid, competitor to the other top firms and finally Jewish attorneys were slowly 'allowed' into ours (before my time there). THEN the attorney I worked for - who, in his off time was an actor in community theatre and refused to shave his full beard (he was also tall and barrel-chested so played 'those' roles (Henry VIII, etc.) and was deliberately passed over for partnership BECAUSE OF HIS BEARD! Can you imagine anything so outright stupid? Oh wait - we're living through another such time-line...So, once HE finally made Partner since they couldn't come up with any more excuses and half of the men in the general public had grown beards, the very next day after the announcement of his promotion - the handful of Jewish Attorneys began growing THEIR beards as well as a couple of the higher-level Partners who'd previously been too chicken. So MY attorney was a ground-breaker. In other ways too - he insisted on me working for him despite my absolute lack of 'secretarial skills such as stenography'. He decided my intelligence and rapid-fire typing were more than sufficient for us to make it work - and it did for over over a decade. He was also willing to help me go to Law School during my paralegal days but the commute was impossible, much as the idea was so intriguing. Fast forward to donny dumpsterfire: It shocked me when Paul Weiss caved to frump since that had never been their MO. What I'd also admired about them was their willingness to allow non-Jewish attorneys into their firm despite the years of bigotry they'd previously endured. By the way, Jeff: 'wall to wall bugfuck nuts' was GREAT! And yet another new one to me.
Scott . . . Don't forget Rape. Rape, Pillage, Plunder, and Loot.
Damn. You're right. I knew it was off somehow but didn't make the connection or the correction... Thank you!
Yup! They want roles for women and health care to be from the past. Just think of the medicine then.
Jan, Here is a link to a pdf of it.
https://dn790002.ca.archive.org/0/items/NineteenEightyFour-Novel-GeorgeOrwell/orwell1984.pdf
I have to say, our book club takes its time with books, and that helped me to take it in.
Thanks Linda. First I wrote 1084. I'm happy you didn't laugh too hard. Then I tried downloading the book but, because I am painfully tech challenged, I couldn't get it to open. Finally got it but ended up with twenty pdfs across the top of my screen. Finally have it now. I think. ⁉⁉⁉
I think I have about 30 of those Jan, LOL - I'm so hopeless tech-wise...no wonder my computer is bumbling along on its last legs. I'd hoped that when I got a new one I could start fresh once donny dimwit had also kicked the bucket but alas, he hangs on as tenaciously as does my fucking computer. Maybe I'm looking at it all wrong - perhaps getting a new computer will hasten both this one AND his demise?
Sorry for my bad link. Glad you finally got it.
I knew what you meant since we all have typos.
The Car Talk guys invented the law firm Dewey, Cheatem, & Howe. There was at one point a 2nd story window in Cambridge Square painted with that firm's name on it.
Loved Car Talk! And I do remember Dewey, Cheatum & Howe!!
Then there's the firm of Billings, Billings, Moore & Moore
hmmm….have to remember that! BLIZZARD in WI…..stay safe to everyone in this wretched storm!
seriously, everyone stay safe. daughter Katie, who lives in Madison, Wisconsin had to cut her visit a day short and fly home yesterday so she wouldn't get stuck in some snowed-in airport
Further north, we have over 2 feet of lovely snow at 9:30 am and continued whiteout conditions. It’s a Winter Wonderland! Wait, is that a St. Bernard coming across the yard? We’re saved!
I hope Saint Bernie has a keg of brandy!
Sounds like a nice hallucination.
Lol.
Madison is a great place to live! I have close family members there!
I lived there in 1982-83. Worked at the Progressive Magazine for a short while. Great place to live.
A wise colleague moved there and avoided being a librarian in a school with a lot of money, a lot of books, and unethical leadership. Wise move on her part.
Sounds like either Chicago or an Ivy.
Yes. But not the University the primary and secondary school.
Here on Maui we are waking up to the aftermath of a Kona storm that was like a Cat 1 hurricane. Roads are a mess. Sadly lots of debris washed into the ocean.
I’m seeing pics of Maui on Instagram…dang….best of luck and stay safe!
Sorry, the weather reduced your visit. Otherwise, I hope it was grand and comforting also.
Yes! Stay safe. Sorry to hear about Katie’s trip being cut short but, for want of better words, it’s worth the peace of mind knowing she is home safe. I’m about 90miles south of Madison in IL and so far we’ve been having heavy thunderstorms. Snow is forecast for later today with up to 5-8inches by Tuesday.
Yep! 60 degrees today, 20’s by Tuesday!
👍🏼At this time of year we get to experience Chicago’s five seasons ALL in ONE DAY:- winter, spring, summer, fall and road construction. Yippee 🥳
Indeed we do!
it's 97 here today...swimming pool weather!
Ugh. Not for me. And--aren't we all relieved that our climate is so stable? Keep those coal burning power plants open, by all means!
yeah it's like MAD magazine around here, air conditioned house to air conditioned car to air conditioned store to air conditioned restaurant in an endless loop. how'd humanity ever survive for 2 million years without air conditioning it's a mystery...
I think they survived ala Fred and Wilma Flintstone; living in a nice cool cave and using open air, foot powered transportation.
Though working in a quarry might've been tough.
Are you in Tx or Az?
Palm Springs...
Better state to be in all around.
so happy you got to see your daughter - sorry you lost a day but I'm sure you made the most of the time you had her
Hope she made it home safely. I feel 😎 cool adjacent now because I also live in Madison. 😉 embarrassing, maybe, but true
Aww - so sorry she couldn't stay for the full time - but. safety first and I KNOW we all want her home safely and out of this expected massive blizzard. although I'm sure you might have hoped she'd stay with you for the entire time. NY's had its own share of awful weather. with that ice lasting SO much longer.
Shame we can't redirect the 'bomb cyclone' right to motel-a-lardo. while dropping the temps there by about 60 degrees at the same time. Let the idiot freeze his tiny mushroom off. He can go hide in the gigantic bunker he's ordering built under where the East Wing once was - and which we'll likely fill in when he's gone. You KNOW it's just an oversized nuclear fallout shelter, right?
the bunker's been there, it's just exposed since the foolish demolition
And here in California it will be 80°F today.
We would actually love some of that snow in our Sierras.
wise move, take no risks these days
Huh. Child's play. Here in the U.P., we had 5 "warnings" this morning: storm; blizzard; lakeshore flooding; heavy freezing spray; and gale. Oh, and up to 3' of snow possible.
My husband is from the U.P., and he often updates me on the snow and blizzard reports up there, so we appreciate our weather. This morning, he told me there was 4-6 feet of snow in some places—the Ides of March and my granddaughter's birthday.
My fervent hope is to be able to see out over the snowbanks from my windows again soon! Also to be able to walk out the door without having to shovel a path as I go.
Lol. Yoopers do have a sense of humor.
Yes. And snow in April. I'm still waiting for snow in May in Chicago.
I am just hoping we don't have rain on March 28 so that people attend our No Kings Rally here in Bremen.
Around these parts, anything’s possible.
If the weather is this bad now Linda, isn’t it a relief that climate change is a fake thing made up by Hollywood actors; because, if it were real and the weather got progressively worse we would be in a world of hurt.
Can you believe that some radical leftist democrats created and advanced wind and solar energy to the point that it could replace fossil fuels just to troll those nice republicans but also to destroy the oil industry. Those heartless terrorists. Who do they think they are anyway? Some people. I swear.
We should all be eternally grateful.
And obedient.
And line up for free pre-frontal lobotomies, just like the MAGATS.
That's why they all wear those red hats--to hide the scar.
Well, I swan.
Yuck. I flew to FL last Tuesday as I was over the erratic W PA weather 🌞
OK you win, 🏅 stay safe
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Stay safe ♥️
Omg stay safe. ( Yoopers are so tough but this has gotta be pushing extreme limits)
Enjoy, we’ve got another 2 days of 50-60 mph winds and more heavy wet snow…
You be careful up there!!!
I just spoke to my cuz in Minneapolis, she said 8” on the ground and it won’t stop until tonight.
And it was 72 here last Monday.. No climate change worries.
No climate changes Debra…all FAKE. Ooh, I’ve got a bridge for sale at a really good price🤥
Madison area resident...waiting for it to begin. Couple days of nasty then temps will make it disappear
Same in ‘Sota Tess, damn I hate shoveling heavy wet snowfalls, especially when they hit the 24” mark!
Is it winter #3 already?
C’est un gros tas de merde.
Oui!
You mean the Commander-in-Thief?
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Huh?
I looked it up. Lol.
Je l’avais sur le bout de la langue, Stephanie…
Oui….très grand‼️
Stephanie, does that be mean “stop the gross murders”? Because I’m down with that
Actually, it’s French for “Release the Epstein files.”
I'm sick and tired of waiting for the Epstein files to be released. Can someone please read the names and how many times their names were written?
I love French! Most of it doesn't make sense to me but that phrase does. Especially now.
A great deal of English is derived from French
Asking for a friend, why isn't he dead yet?
I ask that question every fucking day.....there has to be more than one price of that fat ignorant blob
It should be, why isn't the big pile of shit dead yet. 😂
Gedult mein Freund, Gedult!
Plus his mother was a hamster and his father smelt of elderberries (and dementia).
Also to Drumpf and all of its supporters: MANGE DE LA MERDE ET MEURS!
The first phrase my French professor taught us
And, I heard this afternoon that the French and the Italians are trying to negotiate a Pass from Iran so their ships can go through. Iran has said only US and Israeli ships and those of their friends cannot go through.
Malcolm Nance was saying today that he thinks we are going to see a lot of Middle Eastern bases close soon. China has a pass, yet Trump called on them to help attack Iran and get ships through. Not only did he do that, but doing it through a social media post is the highest of insults to world leaders who do not have to take his S--T! Why would China attack their ally Iran, when they can get their ships through without any trouble?
I assume China is looking at the mess Trump got the US into, and is deciding whether now would be a good time to take over Taiwan, or will they wait for things to get even worse?
Right now several countries already get their ships through because they negotiated a pass. India, Turkey, China, Pakistan and now others are trying to see if this works too.
Also, Ukraine should be making sure to get a lot back from helping the US. Here is a discussion of Drones that I listened to last night. Trump is such a loser and he does not have a clue. Those who back him are too. Watch Shaheed Drone School 101. Ignore the sucking up to manly men, and hear what they have to say.
https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/deans-live-shaheddrone-school-101?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
Or, you can you the familiar, vas-tu faire foutre, because the formal is used for adults, and people you want to be polite to. ;)
I kinda thought so, but in tenth grade French we didn’t conjugate the verb for fuck.
Most of my French has long-since gone but guessed that it meant this. Now, is it pronounced 'foutre' as in fowl, or foutre as in fool? The 'faire' kind of gave it away to my mind. LOVED it. Christina of 'Christinatalkst' told her followers on Instagram and what she calls 'the tickytocky' - that she was put on suspension for an entire WEEK by YouTube for 'bullying pete hegseth'. Can you imagine? The fuckwits BULLY US and an entire Country - expecting its citizens (who have no idea WTF he's doing or saying) to 'rise up' against their dicktators - all while he allows pete the moron to play war games with our soldiers' lives. I'm loath to admit just how much I LOATHE this disgusting wastrel - and waste of good air and space.
as in fool
Mais oui!
One of a few ways, yes…
My French is rusty, but that was easy enough to translate. Merde.
In his case, it’s not Hot Dog Fingers, it’s Little Smokies Fingers!
Yeah, Vienna Weiners!
I heard hot dogs are made from lips and assholes with a dash of something worse.
If that's what it takes to make delicious hot dogs, bring on the lips and assholes.
Ya Chris, I’m betting that people that work in hot dog factories don’t eat the hot dogs they make.
I grew up in the San Joaquin valley in California. I believe that a lot if not most of the world’s ketchup comes from central California. I spoke with someone who worked in one of the ketchup factories and they said no one who worked there would eat ketchup. Apparently you wouldn’t believe how much protein gets ground up and smashed into ketchup. Who knew ketchup was a source of protein.
In my younger years I worked at a Christian Brothers winery, also there in the valley. The same thing applied there. The grape crushers could not separate out snakes and rats and spiders etc.
I drank their wine and enjoyed it. We got a good discount.
Of course we’ve got much bigger problems now than worrying about what goes in our hotdogs ketsup and wine.
I guess we could have a lunch with hot dogs ketchup and wine and talk about the good ol days when fascists didn’t run our country. We could even have a toast…not a lot to toast these days.
The Chinese bought Smithfield the largest pork operation on earth as I recall headquarters in Mexico if I remember correctly. Draw your own conclusions.
I grew up in Fremont, OH....home of one of the largest Heinz ketchup plants. (If you've ever seen the Heinz commercial - w/ their R&D guy calling himself a "ketchup nerd" - the patch on his shirt reads "Fremont's Finest".) I went to friend's homes for lunch, who had a parent who worked at Heinz.
They ALWAYS had Heinz on the table....so at least *there*, they didn't have any qualms about what was in it.
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My father-in-law was a life-long, large scale hog farm owner, *&* ran the area's largest grain elevator for almost 50 yrs.
He'd eat souse 🤮, but wouldn't even allow hot dogs in their HOUSE. "There's no WAY to know what they put in that crap."
(I like hot dogs, but I'm pretty picky about which ones I'll eat.)
Suggested instructions for Jeff’s A.I. graphics generator: Make a picture of President tRump with small hands, with fingers that look like short penises with heads that resemble mushrooms
Bob, and here I thought AI was useless and destructive. You’re giving me hope
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🤣🤣🤣 100% TRUE!!!
The Mar-a-Lago Drumpfbillies
With apologies to The Beverly Hillbillies
Come and listen to my story 'bout a man named Drumpf
A narcissistic maniac, an irritating chump
His father didn't love him and his mother didn't care
That's why this hate-filled jackass has ugly, bit up hair.
Rat's nest that is... all bald. Orange goop.
Well, the next thing you know, old Drumpf's a billionaire
Thinks he'll fuck up everyone and not give any care
"Gimme all your money and I'll cheat on all my wives!"
Thank God that you and I are living more fulfilling lives.
Happier, that is. More content. No crazed ego.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwzaxUF0k18 (the original tune for those of you who don't know it)
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I’m old enough to remember the original tune, and I heard this in that voice! Great job!
SAME!
I LOVE this!!!
Why, thank you!
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👏👏👏Encore
Yup. I’m old enough to remember the show and had tRUMP replaced as Jed as I sang your great ditty in my head! Jed was way more refined than the 🍊🤡ever could be.
So was Granny Clampett.
You are a dandy, Frosty! I love this!
Thank you so much!
OUTSTANDING!! 😂👏👏👏
I am partial to “bit up hair”.
Thanks, Lisa.
Thank you and I appreciate you subscribing!
Thank you Jeff.
This is a great reminder that while Pam "Bribe Me" Bondi, Kash "and carry" Patel, the "Woke" media, and the ethically bent Roberts Court continue to do all they can to come to the aid of the war mongering pedo criminal-elect, other countries might be less interested in joining Operation Epstein Fury.
Of course, while begging our former allies -perhaps Putin will respond to Trump's latest love letter in the form of lifting sanctions on Russian oil. The criminal elect and his GOP apologists might as well just arm Russia as Putin continues his own criminal onslaught against Ukraine.
Congratulations MAGA. Instead of a "strongman" President, you've elevated a criminal pedophile, begging others for help while he heads off for a round of golf -or a so-called "press" conference where he declares victory and talks about more bombing just for fun.
while masturbating as he gazes past his golden curtains toward the East Wing crater that will one day (allegedly) house his Best Big Ballroom . . . (vs the teeny tiny ballroom that resides within his Big Manly Diaper)
Probably challenging in diapers. Maybe Marco Rubio helps?
Marco's shoes are a bit too large for him . . . that should leave plenty of room for his own toes to curl as he 'pleasures' his Orange Deity
He’s imagined hisself to be a mob boss. But even the dumbest mob bosses know what battles are beyond their purview. Still, no mob boss EVAH was as raw-assed stupid as this mofo. And the henchman surrounding him—and henchfemmes—are likewise stupid grifters and grifting stupids, every one of them. Or if a couple aren’t stupid, they’re stupidly ambitious [Rubio] and culpable af.
Reading Heather Cox Richardson’s latest about the State of Maine, the Missouri Compromise, and the fight for abolition was a splash of cold water, for sure, but also gives me hope. A sliver of hope. And that’s enough.
Being beyond dumb does set a new low.
You totally nailed the idiotic president…no one likes him…mumbles and bumbles his way when speaking…can’t stand it any longer!! C’mon republicans….DO SOMETHING!!!! (and Democrats!)
I have to mute it when his rancid anus-mouth begins to speak.
I have to turn him off. His face makes me sick too.
I scroll on by if his face or voice is displayed. Fuck MSM for helping elect him. They just wanted more sound bites for their ratings. I quit them all and won’t be back. Cannot stand his voice/ image.
I never see him because I sit at my computer as I listen to the news on TV. No longer watch the talking heads. It's enough to hear him. His face is grotesque, his facial (if you can call it a face) expressions make me sick to my stomach.
Its a cross between a snake and a lizard.....gross!
He definitely has lizard eyes.😵💫
His betrothed is much more lizard, I’d classify him a little more snake with a generous helping of porcine
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Interesting. I was just trying to figure out which one he was yesterday!
oh yes, me too....*mute* since 2017, I dont even use CC anymore... it's all jibberish
I think I lasted a year. Can't remember.
He's ordered the deployment of 5,000 Marines to Iran, all by himself. So at what point does our government function as intended by the Constitution? Quoth the raven, "never more" is my guess.
yes, it would be nice if the 8 democrats who vote right along with the republicans wuld stop being bribed for one second and help us out...without them and a couple of sane repubicans, I see no hope coming in the near future.
Even if those 8 Democrats you blame were to "stop being bribed", Republicans would still have the majority. Blame the Republicans; blame Mikey Johnson who prefers to have the House inactive than dealing with issues.
So mad.
Which is why I've called him #Bumblefuck since 2016. (Short for Bumbling Fucktard)
This is not going to end well. You can tell that Dear Leader is in a panic, since none of these not-tweets end with “Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
Excellent point.
When you say you have totally annihilated Iran but are asking (begging?) for helping to defeat Iran, well, yeah, things are already not going well.
I hope the UK tells him to F off, after all he did say he didn’t need us as he’d already won this war or whatever it’s being called today, he needs to reap what he’s sowed by himself
I hope everyone, everywhere tells.him to such it
I’m sure Putin would love nothing more than EU military powers to fuck off to the Persian Gulf.
Suck
(yeah, we knew)
Canada has definitely moved on. US used to be our bestie - never more!
Why would any other nation support this douchebag ? Risk body bags and billions in military savings for what? to help this pudknocker to save face?
Oh, yeah; 100%!!
https://x.com/lbc/status/2033180789639139442?s=12
yes! oh, yes! I have always found this country's over-the-top boasting obnoxious and embarrassing. "Greatest country on earth", my ass. Who voted?(Who came in second?) Sheesh.
I have ALWAYS hated that FAKE brag.
Right about now, I'd even rather live in the country we lived in while adopting our son....Kazakhstan.
Thing is sometimes a sense of duty overwhelms what is right for the nation, I know the majority of us Brits don’t want anything to do with this, Trump is destroying the world bit by bit I’m mid 70’s never felt so uneasy about world affairs ever
Agree, I will be very disappointed if the UK gets involved.
“We don’t need people that join wars after we’ve already won.” DJT
Okay, then stop asking. (Also, I notice he called it a war).
What a fucking fool he is, like nobody is watching....we see you and we want you gone.
JFC. I hope we survive this disaster. Thank you France. And thank you Spain.
Jeff, your “Frenchman” from Monte Python reminded me of what was common in The Dark Ages when attacking a castle or fortified compound, that catapults were used to hurl diseased animal carcasses over the walls to contaminate the enemy’s food and water supply. Even cows and horses with The Plague were hurled great distances to get the enemy to surrender or face a horrible slow death. Not thinking to use this method in Iran, but to snuff Trump out of the White House in 2028.
Not just the Dark Ages. In 1347 one army was besieging another at a town in the Crimea. The besiegers were hit by the Black Death (which thus began its migration from central Asia to Europe). So, they loaded the corpses of Black Death victims into catapults and flung them into the city, hoping to infect their enemies. I've seen it said that this is the first recorded instance of biological warfare in history.
The joke was on them, though. As soon as a Black Death victim dies, his body starts to cool, and the disease-carrying fleas migrate somewhere else. The bodies of Black Death victims are not contagious.
WOW! I never learned that in my history classes in college. Now: how did the throwers avoid getting the plague themselves?
They ate steak and ferments.
Organic, grass fed steak only.
They didn't. The whole area around there was largely depopulated, and the city of Tmutarakhan, formerly the capital of Crimea and major trading port with representatives of Genoa and Venice making deals with Russians and Turks, was empty so long it got buried and could not even be found for centuries, so in Russian it became a name like "Boondock" or "Podunk" (Podunk was a New England settlement that failed so hard its site could not even be found for centuries) for "middle of nowhere"
Fascinating!
Its easy to toss stuff over the wall at mara-shit-hole or you can fling it off a boat in the backyard....love it
Yes. Have seen the movie w/Rutger Hauer!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesh_and_Blood_(1985_film)
Most Queens, Kings and rich elites around the year 0 were poisoned, and from their family members. Then they were the ones with the power. Too much is never enough they screwed eachother and killed eachother big assholes like we have today.
They even used HUMAN corpses, dead from plague, smallpox, & etc, to fling over the enemy's walls.
Even if there was a sane voice of reason in the WH he would never listen anyway. Time for an ouster.
I have a plan. See below …
It's a time for sharing.
lol!
Tell! Tell!!!
We are way pass that. He needs to die
Doesn't anyone in this "administration" have a sense of self- preservation? It surprises me that no one is resigning. Rubio, Bondi, Hegseth, and Homan would be wise to jump ship and blend into the background. It's only going to get worse.
I wish Stephen Miller would resign. But he’ll probably be the last one!
Oh, I wish way more than a resignation from Nosteratu. Something long, painful, and ending badly for that POS.
Or pneumonic plague: sick at breakfast, dead by supper.
Stephen and Donnie will be hiding out together in a Bunker until the bitter end
. . .
my only question is whether their so-called bunker will be in Trump's War Room; the basement at Mar-a-Lado, securely fortified by those black curtains.
Or in the Secret Bunker under the former East Wing of the White House!
Gold! The curtains must be gold!
Angry upvote.
I wish Stephen Miller would be sent to prison.
He acts like one who has a secret, Hitlerian plan to become an unelected dictator.
In the first administration, the rats resigned before they got in too deep; this current crew is waaaaayyyyy too far gone--they're desperate to keep Donnie Demento propped up, because they can't blend into the background: they're sunk in the corruption with no escape. Contrast, for instance, all the Rethuglican members of Congress who have, over the past year, suddenly decided they needed to resign, or not seek re-election, because.......reasons........
Half of them are too stupid to know what’s going on, the other half is too drunk.
Or they're afraid to jump ship, because they don't want #Bumblefuck to make up a PLAYGROUND BULLY NICKNAME for them & blast it all over Batshit Social, & every tv interview & press conference.
Mme, and so goddamed corrupt!!
Vance has been trying to distance himself from the war. He just wants to fuck up furniture.
Who the hell would give these assholes a job...They are done.When the carnival closes they are out of work.
They're in too deep now. Their only hope is to stick with him until total victory is achieved (Trump declared emperor and sole designator of his successor) and they can never be held accountable. Only a slight exaggeration; they realize that if they bail now, it shows awareness of wrongdoing and would be seen as an admission of complicity.
By staying they have a chance at a pardon.
Nope. Have you seen these dpiwads walking around in too large shoes?
Donny’s got his own dick shoved all the way into a hornet’s nest, and is now all ‘why won’t anyone help me pull it out? I can’t do it myself because I’ve got hot dog fingers!”
I'm not sure his widdle mushroom dick could reach very far into a hornets' nest, and the stingers would run out of space quickly.
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To all those who voted for someone so ignorant he imagined himself “a very stable genius,” I extend this invitation: allez-vous faire foutre. Thank you, Mr Tiedrich.
Jeff publishes an hour earlier these days. I know why that's happening. He isn't getting to chat with someone or do snooky woocams with someone. 💘💘💘💘💘
very sad but true
Ms Spouse would have told me not to use 'hotdog fingers,' because not everyone would have gotten the reference
I LOVED “Hotdog fingers.” I’m hoping to add that to my lexicon to yell whenever the Mad King says something batshit crazy.
“Everything Everywhere All At Once”. Great movie
The actor KeHuy Quan in that movie (the son) - was the kid actor in Indiana Jones& Temple of Doom
(all grown up, obviously)
I had to look it up! But that’s ok ✅
Metoo!
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It's great for the west coast fans.
Really? You like it when Jeff arrives before 7:00 AM?