Thank you, but it hardly matters if he’s the real Barack Obama. I mentioned it because I was so startled to see his name on my dropdown. People would probably be more excited to know that Keanu Reeves has contacted me through Instagram.
I think I'm up to around 6 now? However, one is 'Tesla CEO', another is 'Spaceforce head' (or some such), and the real humdinger is - ta da, the bona fide REAL elon musk. I suspect he's keeping tabs on my outre language. I'd made a twitter post about how it was his racist mama who brought him here so who knows? Perhaps he's not 'quite' as enamoured of her beliefs as they all pretend? You can tell when it's a fake with the subname. By the way, Robert Reich posts regularly on twitter and we ALL follow him - he might just follow back some of those who think similarly.
I was once on a flight from DC to Florida with John Bolton. He was being a real jerk because he had to check his bag because it was too big for carry on.
That mustache - I'm embarrassed to admit, makes my husband close enough to being Bolton's Doppelganger. He'd often come home remarking upon just how many of his coworkers on a particular day had commented on the resemblance. I thought it would convince him (hubby) to trim his definitely out-of-control mustache and hair, but no. HE felt that he 'owned' his look and Bolton was the 'copy', lol. The sole difference at the time was Bolton's constant crabby expression, but today even that has become too close a resemblance for my personal comfort.
The Mustache also used Lin-Manuel’s phrase “The Room Where It Happens” as the title of his White House memoir. This annoyed me, probably because it’s such a neat fit.
here's what I want to know: how the fuck is the US not a signatory to the the Rome Statute? it's been a thing since 2002. I get why Donny or George W Bush wouldn't want to sign onto it, but why did Obama and Biden not agree to it?
Lifelong Dem here. The DNC has not adapted. Talk about getting pantsed; the leadership consistently makes decisions that may have been ok 100 years ago. Just look at the NYC mayoral race.
This is a dirty, dirty war. The DNC needs to adapt. NOW.
There is a saying that the generals fight like they did in the previous war, sadly our highest ranking D's are doing the same, they need to educate themselves on modern times, or mentor the newer reps faster so they can take over.
Yup - those pesky rules and regulations WE always followed but are now so much flotsam and jetsam to be batted away by republikkkons in both House and Senate. A POX on their houses.
In the past 42 years, there have been only two, two-year periods where the Senate and the White House were both controlled by Democrats, 12-13 and 20-21. Obama was busy passing the ACA and Biden was trying to contain the trump-edemic.
1. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, was passed by the Senate on December 24, 2009. I assure you, Greg, that it was passed while the Senate was under Democratic control.
2. Behold the furious destruction the Republicans have wrought in just six months. Surely the Dems could have and SHOULD HAVE accomplished much more during their four years of control
I seem to recall Obama had a little economic disaster to deal with, left by the other moron. R’s seem to ‘let’ the dems take the house right after they trash our country, then, somehow take it back when it’s all fixed. 🧐 Unfortunately, no superhero from either side will be able to fix this devastation for many years.
Biggest fault I see is not being proactive about getting laws passed whenever the Dems could since Reagan. Why can a convicted felon be president? Why are there no age limits and term limits on Congress? Why are SC judges for life? Why can someone who's under federal indictment run for Congress (Hunter in So. Cali & that guy in the Buffalo area). Both ran and won and were found guilty after the election so had to step down. Certain ethical accusations should trigger automatic inquiries and/or special counsels that the party in power can't cancel. Boy, hindsight is great in this administration. So much of this could have been prevented if we would have just been proactive instead of now, reactive. Human nature is human nature. To say that no president would ever abuse the office like Trump has is being utterly naive. There have been dirtbags since the beginning of time.
C'mon Bob. You know it wasn't that simple. NO ONE knew that we were heading into entirely UNprecedented times with CONS using every Gingrich-type dirty trick in the yet-to-be-written book to bring down our Democracy. No one could imagine they'd elect AND do the bidding of someone as unhinged and downright STUPID as frump, let alone do everything possible to roll back rights as basic as birthright citizenship and even WOMEN'S RIGHT TO VOTE (which is now on the table according to pissant pete)! Nor could anyone envision alcoholic fox hosts being appointed to top Governmental positions AND PASSED BY THE SENATE! We all believed there were failsafes in place to prevent anything remotely this nuts. Sure, we were wrong, but when we had two VERY BRIEF periods of Democratic control of Congress, not only were they working to try to pass the ACA which was a monumental achievement, but fighting against the neverending racism ramping up day by day by day against this new President we DARED vote into office. From OUR perspective he was a breath of fresh air. From THEIR kkk perspective, we'd unleashed the ghosts of their great grandpappies who couldn't tolerate an 'N' word rebellion. Does no one else remember the GOD-AWFUL LIES they promulgated about Michele Obama - and their two daughters? I'm STILL seeing that vileness regurgitated over and over. The magats believe every word. In her book 'Becoming', Michele Obama describes what it did to her family. Nothing's as easy as 'hindsight' in politics, seemingly. But what you see as '4 years' was actually 2 separate brief period and each of those VERY BRIEF times was spent working hard to accomplish important issues WE DEMOCRATS WANTED DONE while fending off the slings and arrows of their racism and other bullshit already put in place BY newt gingrich (whom I usually refer to as the 'eft' when I must). It was HIS master plan out of his hatred for Hilary and his seething ambition to elevate HIMself to the Presidency which began it all. Check back and you'll see. He even boasted about his dirty tricks. He was/is scum of the earth and set it all in motion. Democrats behaved like decent humans for the most part. while the Koch, Heritage Foundation and 'Tea Party' were beginning their plan to create their vaunted fourth reich. Need I mention it takes literal months to get an administration off the ground? Two years isn't. It's narrowed to roughly 12 - 14 months at best while wrangling so many disparate individuals from all over the country. THEY had their master plan while we've always been far more freewheeling and believers in the stability in our Constitution. Yes, it's time we became tougher and more focused and many are doing so but one cannot blame those Democrats who behaved normally for this current debacle. It's simply unfair to pile onto those who are still fighting hard TO save our democracy.
I will never forget Glitchy McTurtleface saying "we will obstruct, obstruct, obstruct." Way to get things done, useless fuckwad.
And NOW he has the utter gall to vote NO on things that he KNOWS fucking suck, because he wants to try to save his reputation (ha) for history, and yet he knows that they will pass anyway, even with his no vote. Cheese and fucking crackers, I loathe him.
Well, I know that the EU and Zelenskyy are preparing a response which is going to be
"NO WAY JOSÉ!
Then, is Trump going to raise tariffs on Ukraine and EU. Well, let us see how that works.
Martin Belderson keeps my spirits up about Ukraine in counter to Trump.
Here is Martin Belderson of the "Ukraine: The Under Reported War" Substack writing about Ukraine this week. It is a story of creativity and ingenuity in the face of war. Also, a story of Russia's incompetence. Trump is not backing a winner here, so everyone says Putin is waving that Kompromat at him, and it is believed he has Epstein files access to blackmail Trump with.
Putin is the master manipulator. However, the EU is not buying any of that, particularly the former Soviet countries are onto Putin's tactics. So, if you know someone who is interested in how Ukraine is doing, share Martin's posts with them. They will get a different picture of Ukraine and the dynamics.
I would like to see some media headlines that state what this is, "Trump Welcomes War Criminal Despot of Russia to the US, to his Aren't We Criminals Clever Festival!" as they both celebrate their cleverness at robbing their populations blind and tanking their economies while doing so.
Disgusting that man (actually both of them) will be on American soil. We will have though, room for another 50th state after Trump gives Putin back Alaska. Greenland comes to mind. Can you imagine if Alaska was still under Russian control?
THIS! the fucking nazis have been planning their fourth reich ever since hitler's death (which most of them don't really believe, imagining that he'll 'rise again' - or is under disguise somewhere). THEY can't count either - the vile little monster would be SO OLD - but no, just like jebus, he'd 'rise and be all young again'. They do tend to conflate their version of christianity and fuehrer worship into a meld of madness, don't they? There's absolutely no logic or commonsense but when was that ever a problem for republikkkons?
And I distinctly remember him saying they'd make Barack Obama a 'one-term president'. Well, WE showed the old fucker he was WRONG, but we can't fight a seething race hatred majority republiCON congress which has percolated for decades and came boiling up when we DARED to elect our first black President. Turtle deliberately blocked a democratically appointed SCOTUS justice which changed EVERYTHING! I still can't believe I felt sorry for the old bastard when he froze (TIA?) leaving everyone standing around having no clue what to do. Now they all behave as if there was 'nothing to see here'. WE know his brain glitched big-time - shades of The Manchurian Candidate (which I just watched again on Showtime - with Denzel, Meryl and Liev Schriber). Very well-done movie, although I don't remember the original so need to see that Film again for comparison.
Ruth should have retired when Obama was president. The handwriting was on the wall. Obama was still president when Trump rode down that elevator. No reason for her to stay on like she did - age and poor health. I think she was a great justice, but we might have had a different outcome if she would have left the dance much earlier. There would have been votes during Obama's 8 years to have gotten a new younger judge in there. Same with Feinstein. What is it with power and attention that these people (both men and women) absolutely can't give up? It's not money as Feinstein was wealthy. Their egos are ruining our country. So it's not just the GOP that needs to look in the mirror.
Damn fucking straight. Lead, follow, or in Ruth's case, get the HELL out of the way.
I'd like to say I hope she's happy with her candy-wrapped shit-legacy, but I believe when you're dead, you're as non-existant as before you were born. So I don't even have that hope to lighten my day.
Also technically Obama and probably Biden are guilty of crimes against humanity for their special operations and drone strikes in third countries. The rule of law applies even to people you don't like.
I doubt that most Democrats much less Republicans are willing to abandon the morally unconscionable notion of American Exceptionalism.
American hubris. No need to use the term “technical” when referring to the killing of innocent non-combatants. But hey, now they have immunity. Boy did this country ever take a wrong turn. Ike was right.
Corporate Dems. The progressive caucus is fighting like hell. It’s not the entire party. It’s the corporate Dems getting in the way of the party. GOP supports, deadly sedition, child molesters, election cheating, Fascism…that's the short list.
I thought we were part of the ICC until W pulled us out after he invaded a sovereign nation in 2003, i.e., for the obvious reason to protect himself from being prosecuted.
Love your writing, Jeff but really don’t think Trump is getting “played” or “he truly doesn’t understand how terrible all this shit looks to the rest of the world.” The reality is he is Putin’s ally if not his puppet and as for the rest of the world- he doesn’t give a rat’s ass what they think.
Trump is being blackmailed by Putin. I'm sure ole Vlad is quite aware of the pedophilia and human trafficking that has gone on in the world by very rich and powerful people. I'd bet a week's salary that the girls in Moscow that he hooked Trump up with in 2013 and maybe other times, were underage. It's also Russian money laundering. Trump cares very much what people think. He's the most publicly thin skinned president in my lifetime.
In the very Substack article from which Jeff quoted her, Heather Cox Richardson mentioned that there's some speculation around the possibility that Putin has the goods on Trump's involvement with Epstein’s pedo ring. If that’s the case, no wonder Trump looks so "pantsed" next to Putin in that Helsinki photo...
I thought we were part of the ICC until W pulled us out after he invaded a sovereign nation in 2003, i.e., for the obvious reason to protect himself from being prosecuted.
The United States has never been a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC). While the US signed the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the ICC, in 2000, it was never ratified by the Senate and was subsequently withdrawn in 2002. The US remains a non-member state to the ICC.
This really makes me wonder how our government could justify this for so long. It’s an international CRIMINAL court!How the heck do we not support the apprehension of international criminals? Oh, that’s right, most of them are in Shitler’s camp.
I think it is that even Democtatic presidents feel that they don’t want to have an international court have jurisdiction over them. Everybody wants to war crime every now and then, don’t they?
I posted this, yesterday, on the "contact us" page at WhiteHouse.Gov......
"Trump agreeing to Putin’s demand that Russia be able keep Ukrainian territory would be prima facie evidence that Trump is the weakest President the United States has EVER had and would prove to EVERY American that Trump is Putin’s Puppet."
Look at how 6'3" (allegedly) Donny is slumped over to appear shorter than 5'7" Putin. He grovels like a shamed dog who has been scolded by its owner for tearing up a sofa cushion.
I remember how shocked I was when I first saw that cosplay years ago. Donnie just stumped out and Putin bounced out and jumped onto the podium. We did not reelect this guy, Putin and Musk did it.
And the NY Fucking Times. More front-page stories about "her emails" in the 6 days before than election than about ALL policy issues combined in the previous 69. FIVE TIMES more stories about the top-rated Clinton Foundation which continues to raise millions for good work across the country and around the world, insinuating wrongdoing it couldn't quite name, than about the Trump Foundation which had its charter pulled for multiple legal violations such as paying Pam Bondi a huge bribe to drop her investigation of Trump University. (Can you image the media uproar if Democratic president had named someone he'd bribed to be attorney general?)
This is why don't subscribe to the NYT and my subscription to the Washington Post will lapse. I get their newsletters and scan the headlines but no longer read them, unlike this newsletter to which I'm a paid subscriber. I get more from it than I would from a hundred NYTs andWaPos.
Thank you! The NYET printed the easily debunked propaganda piece "Clinton Cash," by a far-right-wing nutbar, thus giving it a veracity it couldn't get on its own merit. They ignored the fact that Caligulump was under investigation, yet trumpeted that Clinton was. They had their thumb on the scale and sold us out. I wish them a big fat bankruptcy.
Oh, I remember that. They printed rightwing propaganda like it was news. I think after early polls showed Hillary winning in a landslide they wanted a "horse race" so bad they worked overtime to destroy her, hoping she'd win by a tiny margin and they could go into her administration with the "credibility" to "hold her accountable." But they miscalculated badly to their eternal shame.
You nailed it. I think the nepo trust-fund babies at the Times, resented the Clintons for daring to educate and pull themselves up to political success via their brains. It put all the useless pseudo-intellectuals there to shame, and they did all they could to tear them down for it.
slave Trump sucking Master Pootie’s mushroom should be in the next South Park episode. With the devil relieved that at least Trump is leaving me alone for awhile. An oiled up butthole and nowhere to go.
Must be a lot just like what Trump has on Linseed. Dear Cheater has been a Russian asset for years and there were reports of a Russian oligarch making a large donation to Linseed's last campaign. When you follow the money and all of the shady bullshit that's associated with it, you can see the big picture.
I believe it's murder but more likely it's some type of gay activity. I think Donnie and Epstein wonderful secret was that they were occasional lovers. Remember that Roy Cohn was Trump's mentor. Do you not think that he tried it on with weak Donnie? Not against gays in any way, just own it.
Here's my theory. I think what dirt Vlad has on Donnie is ties to organized crime and prostitution. I also think he doesn't want the Epstein files released because Melania played a role in girls for hire and trafficking. The modeling career was cover for for other illicit activity. Donnie doesn't want the world to know he was a chump for some two bit hooker from Eastern Europe during his days with Jeffrey Epstein chasing tail and supplying Prince Andrew with women.
Paolo Zampolli provides credence to your theory Mingo. His eastern bloc girls/women were models and escorts for the billionaire class, Melania happened to be one of them!!
Melania's dad belonged to the communist party when it was Yugoslavia. That may be the reason she doesn't leave him - he has dirt on her too. I never thought of that before.
It’s interesting that Viktor not only has a background with the Tito communist party, but has a criminal record as well Deborah… Trumps transnational criminal syndicate ties are lengthy, however his marriage is strictly transactional. What that contract says is another story!!
How hard would it be to infiltrate Epstein’s island with a Uber rich Russkie easy, or worker ther to take photos and vids after all anything goes on the island of evil.
From my local paper, this reporter is very reputable and would not write it if not backed up by a source.“Trump also flew on Epstein’s private jet, where, according to a taped interview with Epstein, he and Melania first consummated their relationship after he introduced them to each other.”
But that's common knowledge and has been for years. Why would he care? It just reinforces his masculine energy with his base. They love that stuff. I think it's something much worse. Has to be. Everyone knows he fucks children.
True "masculine energy" would come from having well-known adult beauties, such as movie stars and models, not from imposing on children. That's just creep energy.
Come on, Arne, if he's moving the pictures of Obama and Bush so they can't be seen, it's now obvious that his manliness is the size of week old human embryo. We'll see if he gives Alaska to p.
This is why I think it's Putin who provided the girls. Accusations from a head of state of a major power would be 'way more incriminating than the essentially circumstantial evidence we have of Trump & Epstein.
Let's add human trafficking (worldwide) to that picture. Then you get organized crime and money laundering. This isn't just about Trump sleeping with a minor. And why do we keep hearing about Mossad?
Because they know how to control a potential asset, and supposedly Epstein did blackmail for them. Maxwell's father Bob supposedly worked for them, so she could have set Epstein up with a meeting.
I think the thing they are trying to cover up is that when Epstein was arrested, they had enough evidence of the trafficking and money laundering to bust Trump too but he squealed on his buddy and got an N.P.A.
I remember what he said about his own daughter Ivanka, how he would have loved to date her. And I also recall her sitting on his lap when she was a young girl (12 or so). Weird behaviour, for sure.
I agree Arne, my first thought after that letter came out was that it sounded a little too “gay” to me! And yes, I am an ally too, was one of the “hags” as far back as I can remember, so that's also how I can recognize signs. I grew up with male friends that I knew were gay before they even did!
I think, and, mind you, this is just wild speculation, Donnie spent some time in Russia when he was there for the Miss Universe pageant with some *young* ladies, and Vladimir has the receipts. I mean, think about it 🤔
JOEL comes from the Hebrew יוֹאֵל (Yo’el), combining “Yo” (a form of the divine name Yahweh) and “El” (meaning God).
In the Bible, Joel was a minor prophet and the author of the Book of Joel.
“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions”.
Joel 2:28
❤️🔥As the Tibetan Buddhists say: “Thank you for your practice!!!”❤️🔥
Yeah, like me! I grew up five blocks from Michelle in South Shore, my sister now lives about six blocks from the Obamas' North Kenwood home. In both neighborhoods, Trump got less than 5% of the vote. In South Shore it was under two percent which could've been voters making a mistake. Trump's bullshit doesn't fly on the south side of Chicago.
Putin knows this is pointless. Donny thinks he might get Nobel Peace Prize. They’re both criminals. They should be having the meeting in a prison mess hall.
No question and do you think that will be the real judge after crybaby takes it to the other courts or judges, it going to take some time but it won’t be burying getting whatever has been mopped clean. That video was chopped up and a real pro killer got in there to make sure Epstein monster was dead.
It’s a damn shame Judge Chutkin wasn’t overseeing Shitler’s NY fraud case. She has more “balls” than Judge Merchan and might have actually sentenced Shitler to prison for 30+ FELONIES. Merchan is on my list, that weak-assed fucker (sorry weasels).
Okay, just wanted to make sure I understood you correctly. Here’s my response, J.R:
It doesn’t do any good to compromise our legal standards in anticipation of corrupt Supreme Court rulings. We have to force them to rule, for the world to see how fucked up things really are. How does convicting someone of 30+ felonies and letting them waddle away accomplish anything? That behavior serves only to protect a scared little Judge who is afraid of what might happen…to him. I say
Trump inviting Putin to Alaska isn’t diplomacy, it’s dinner theater for despots. The whole “safe space for war criminals” thing really drives home that he’s not negotiating peace — he’s laundering Putin’s image. And if the endgame is Ukraine “ceding” stolen land, then it’s not a deal, it’s an armed robbery with paperwork.
The hits just keep on coming, Virgin Monk Boy. He just had one of the worst pedophiles in American history (Ghislaine) moved from a real prison to Club Fed to save his pale pimpled arse. It’s beyond the pale. Nobody does a fucking thing about it. The oligarch owned media has inserted their collective keyboards so far up their asses, they are spitting commas.
I know it’s not the main point of your piece but seriously how does Couchf’er have time for all these vacations? He doesn’t even pretend to work. Just like the 🍊💩
The vice president's sole constitutional job is to be available if the president dies or is incapacitated. Previous VPs have joked about this. Any other job is at the pleasure of the president. Some presidents, such as Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, have given their VPs a meaningful portfolio of work. Others, such as HW Bush, have given their VP almost nothing but a ceremonial role, sending them to ribbon cuttings. And in the case of W, the VP held all the power. In many ways, Cheney WAS president. So it depends. It seems like Trump doesn't trust JD, and as an Ohio voter he allegedly "served" in the Senate, I concur.
I my opinion , J.D. is just biding his time till the Oligarchs get rid of Trump, who was just a tool to get the presidency in their control, they couldn't run J.D. , he did not have the ability to win. Now, once Trump is gone , J.D. will makes things even worse, he is evil , but not stupid like Trump.
It’s true, but Canada who should have ensured that our law preventing any convicted felon of entering our country, opened the door wide and allowed trumpet the clown to attend the G7 meeting in Alberta last June. So much for respecting our own laws.
The United Kingdom has laws on disallowing convicted felons to enter one of its countries, but they seem to make exceptions - and obviously the trump family is one of those exceptions. Remember when they visited Queen Elizabeth II and the disgusted look on her face when she was walking beside him.
Cam, it is those “exceptions” provided to the rich and powerful that make middle class Americans feel hopeless. Jail is for those of us without obscene wealth, it seems.
I’d suggest that Putin also has the Epstein files. Epstein got a lot of attention from Russian oligarchs. As Medvedev recently told Donnie: Mossad isn’t the only one who has Epstein files
Richard, nobody knows how Epstein got all that money I haven’t heard a number but those Oligarchs of Russia get whatever they want that’s what Epstein gave them.
It's been a while since I blew coffee out my nose but "I've got your cease fire right here" did it for me. Donnie just wants to see his dear friend Pootie on our dime. I'm sure they will sleep in and have a lovely get-together brunch in bed with a happy ending. God, how I hate this POS president. Also, the Epstein news is good. Chutkan takes no BS.
I wonder who will be fool enough to accompany the fat fuck in his Alaska ass-licking trip? Tulsi? Marco? Bannon? How about Paula White? That would make it just perfect.
Liddle Marco was made for this scenario. He will perform as he always done, like someone who knows Shitler has enough dirt on him to turn him into an afterthought. Right, Lindsay Graham?
fun fact: John Bolton once liked one of my tweets, and I'm pretty sure it was the only time I got a mention on CNN.
https://x.com/itsJeffTiedrich/status/1222497166507290624
“Barack Obama follows you on Substack” startled me at three a.m.
Nice. I'm sure it's the 'real' Barack Obama 🤣 Just like the 'real' Robert Reich followed me!!
Thank you, but it hardly matters if he’s the real Barack Obama. I mentioned it because I was so startled to see his name on my dropdown. People would probably be more excited to know that Keanu Reeves has contacted me through Instagram.
I got three different "Elon Musks" one time.
I think I'm up to around 6 now? However, one is 'Tesla CEO', another is 'Spaceforce head' (or some such), and the real humdinger is - ta da, the bona fide REAL elon musk. I suspect he's keeping tabs on my outre language. I'd made a twitter post about how it was his racist mama who brought him here so who knows? Perhaps he's not 'quite' as enamoured of her beliefs as they all pretend? You can tell when it's a fake with the subname. By the way, Robert Reich posts regularly on twitter and we ALL follow him - he might just follow back some of those who think similarly.
Lol, he follows me too.
I was once on a flight from DC to Florida with John Bolton. He was being a real jerk because he had to check his bag because it was too big for carry on.
Sounds about right
I used to love Evan Hurst on Wonkette calling him "the national security mustache".
That mustache - I'm embarrassed to admit, makes my husband close enough to being Bolton's Doppelganger. He'd often come home remarking upon just how many of his coworkers on a particular day had commented on the resemblance. I thought it would convince him (hubby) to trim his definitely out-of-control mustache and hair, but no. HE felt that he 'owned' his look and Bolton was the 'copy', lol. The sole difference at the time was Bolton's constant crabby expression, but today even that has become too close a resemblance for my personal comfort.
Reminder that John Bolton once said the UN building needed to lose several upper floors, saying this I believe AFTER 9/11.
The Mustache also used Lin-Manuel’s phrase “The Room Where It Happens” as the title of his White House memoir. This annoyed me, probably because it’s such a neat fit.
Epic
here's what I want to know: how the fuck is the US not a signatory to the the Rome Statute? it's been a thing since 2002. I get why Donny or George W Bush wouldn't want to sign onto it, but why did Obama and Biden not agree to it?
Treaties require ratification by the US Senate. Ask McConnell.
ohhhhhhhhh. that explains it
Lifelong Dem here. The DNC has not adapted. Talk about getting pantsed; the leadership consistently makes decisions that may have been ok 100 years ago. Just look at the NYC mayoral race.
This is a dirty, dirty war. The DNC needs to adapt. NOW.
Hire Michael Steele and put in charge at the DNC .
Hire Jasmine Crockett and put HER in charge
Oooh!! World-class idea, Cat! Genius!
Good suggestion.
I like Ben Wikler.
@benwikler.bsky.social
https://open.substack.com/pub/benwikler?r=38mda&utm_medium=ios
There is a saying that the generals fight like they did in the previous war, sadly our highest ranking D's are doing the same, they need to educate themselves on modern times, or mentor the newer reps faster so they can take over.
Sure does, the evil despicable McConnell strikes again.
Yup - those pesky rules and regulations WE always followed but are now so much flotsam and jetsam to be batted away by republikkkons in both House and Senate. A POX on their houses.
Except the Senate was majority Democratic in 2009-10 under Pres. Obama and again in 2021-22 under Pres. Biden
In the past 42 years, there have been only two, two-year periods where the Senate and the White House were both controlled by Democrats, 12-13 and 20-21. Obama was busy passing the ACA and Biden was trying to contain the trump-edemic.
Great chart here:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Combined--Control_of_the_U.S._House_of_Representatives_-_Control_of_the_U.S._Senate.png
Both parties failed. It's all a look-back now. Putin is coming to visit. Only here.
1. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, was passed by the Senate on December 24, 2009. I assure you, Greg, that it was passed while the Senate was under Democratic control.
2. Behold the furious destruction the Republicans have wrought in just six months. Surely the Dems could have and SHOULD HAVE accomplished much more during their four years of control
I seem to recall Obama had a little economic disaster to deal with, left by the other moron. R’s seem to ‘let’ the dems take the house right after they trash our country, then, somehow take it back when it’s all fixed. 🧐 Unfortunately, no superhero from either side will be able to fix this devastation for many years.
1. I remember it well.
2. Furious destruction breaking the law.
It is vastly easier to tear something apart than it is to put something together. No great accomplishment.
Biggest fault I see is not being proactive about getting laws passed whenever the Dems could since Reagan. Why can a convicted felon be president? Why are there no age limits and term limits on Congress? Why are SC judges for life? Why can someone who's under federal indictment run for Congress (Hunter in So. Cali & that guy in the Buffalo area). Both ran and won and were found guilty after the election so had to step down. Certain ethical accusations should trigger automatic inquiries and/or special counsels that the party in power can't cancel. Boy, hindsight is great in this administration. So much of this could have been prevented if we would have just been proactive instead of now, reactive. Human nature is human nature. To say that no president would ever abuse the office like Trump has is being utterly naive. There have been dirtbags since the beginning of time.
C'mon Bob. You know it wasn't that simple. NO ONE knew that we were heading into entirely UNprecedented times with CONS using every Gingrich-type dirty trick in the yet-to-be-written book to bring down our Democracy. No one could imagine they'd elect AND do the bidding of someone as unhinged and downright STUPID as frump, let alone do everything possible to roll back rights as basic as birthright citizenship and even WOMEN'S RIGHT TO VOTE (which is now on the table according to pissant pete)! Nor could anyone envision alcoholic fox hosts being appointed to top Governmental positions AND PASSED BY THE SENATE! We all believed there were failsafes in place to prevent anything remotely this nuts. Sure, we were wrong, but when we had two VERY BRIEF periods of Democratic control of Congress, not only were they working to try to pass the ACA which was a monumental achievement, but fighting against the neverending racism ramping up day by day by day against this new President we DARED vote into office. From OUR perspective he was a breath of fresh air. From THEIR kkk perspective, we'd unleashed the ghosts of their great grandpappies who couldn't tolerate an 'N' word rebellion. Does no one else remember the GOD-AWFUL LIES they promulgated about Michele Obama - and their two daughters? I'm STILL seeing that vileness regurgitated over and over. The magats believe every word. In her book 'Becoming', Michele Obama describes what it did to her family. Nothing's as easy as 'hindsight' in politics, seemingly. But what you see as '4 years' was actually 2 separate brief period and each of those VERY BRIEF times was spent working hard to accomplish important issues WE DEMOCRATS WANTED DONE while fending off the slings and arrows of their racism and other bullshit already put in place BY newt gingrich (whom I usually refer to as the 'eft' when I must). It was HIS master plan out of his hatred for Hilary and his seething ambition to elevate HIMself to the Presidency which began it all. Check back and you'll see. He even boasted about his dirty tricks. He was/is scum of the earth and set it all in motion. Democrats behaved like decent humans for the most part. while the Koch, Heritage Foundation and 'Tea Party' were beginning their plan to create their vaunted fourth reich. Need I mention it takes literal months to get an administration off the ground? Two years isn't. It's narrowed to roughly 12 - 14 months at best while wrangling so many disparate individuals from all over the country. THEY had their master plan while we've always been far more freewheeling and believers in the stability in our Constitution. Yes, it's time we became tougher and more focused and many are doing so but one cannot blame those Democrats who behaved normally for this current debacle. It's simply unfair to pile onto those who are still fighting hard TO save our democracy.
But we had traitors in our ranks and GOP McConnell would not bring essential bills for a vote...nor a Supreme Court nominee.
Except treaty ratification requires a two-thirds supermajority.
I will never forget Glitchy McTurtleface saying "we will obstruct, obstruct, obstruct." Way to get things done, useless fuckwad.
And NOW he has the utter gall to vote NO on things that he KNOWS fucking suck, because he wants to try to save his reputation (ha) for history, and yet he knows that they will pass anyway, even with his no vote. Cheese and fucking crackers, I loathe him.
Meanwhile now the slightest attempt to slow down, much less stop, the Reich is labeled treason by the whole right-wing noise machine.
Well, I know that the EU and Zelenskyy are preparing a response which is going to be
"NO WAY JOSÉ!
Then, is Trump going to raise tariffs on Ukraine and EU. Well, let us see how that works.
Martin Belderson keeps my spirits up about Ukraine in counter to Trump.
Here is Martin Belderson of the "Ukraine: The Under Reported War" Substack writing about Ukraine this week. It is a story of creativity and ingenuity in the face of war. Also, a story of Russia's incompetence. Trump is not backing a winner here, so everyone says Putin is waving that Kompromat at him, and it is believed he has Epstein files access to blackmail Trump with.
Putin is the master manipulator. However, the EU is not buying any of that, particularly the former Soviet countries are onto Putin's tactics. So, if you know someone who is interested in how Ukraine is doing, share Martin's posts with them. They will get a different picture of Ukraine and the dynamics.
https://underreported.substack.com/
Here is also a bonus edition about Russia a few weeks ago.
https://open.substack.com/pub/underreported/p/the-under-reported-war-bonus-issue?r=f0qfn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
I would like to see some media headlines that state what this is, "Trump Welcomes War Criminal Despot of Russia to the US, to his Aren't We Criminals Clever Festival!" as they both celebrate their cleverness at robbing their populations blind and tanking their economies while doing so.
Every word, Linda!
Disgusting that man (actually both of them) will be on American soil. We will have though, room for another 50th state after Trump gives Putin back Alaska. Greenland comes to mind. Can you imagine if Alaska was still under Russian control?
THIS! the fucking nazis have been planning their fourth reich ever since hitler's death (which most of them don't really believe, imagining that he'll 'rise again' - or is under disguise somewhere). THEY can't count either - the vile little monster would be SO OLD - but no, just like jebus, he'd 'rise and be all young again'. They do tend to conflate their version of christianity and fuehrer worship into a meld of madness, don't they? There's absolutely no logic or commonsense but when was that ever a problem for republikkkons?
And I distinctly remember him saying they'd make Barack Obama a 'one-term president'. Well, WE showed the old fucker he was WRONG, but we can't fight a seething race hatred majority republiCON congress which has percolated for decades and came boiling up when we DARED to elect our first black President. Turtle deliberately blocked a democratically appointed SCOTUS justice which changed EVERYTHING! I still can't believe I felt sorry for the old bastard when he froze (TIA?) leaving everyone standing around having no clue what to do. Now they all behave as if there was 'nothing to see here'. WE know his brain glitched big-time - shades of The Manchurian Candidate (which I just watched again on Showtime - with Denzel, Meryl and Liev Schriber). Very well-done movie, although I don't remember the original so need to see that Film again for comparison.
Ruth should have retired when Obama was president. The handwriting was on the wall. Obama was still president when Trump rode down that elevator. No reason for her to stay on like she did - age and poor health. I think she was a great justice, but we might have had a different outcome if she would have left the dance much earlier. There would have been votes during Obama's 8 years to have gotten a new younger judge in there. Same with Feinstein. What is it with power and attention that these people (both men and women) absolutely can't give up? It's not money as Feinstein was wealthy. Their egos are ruining our country. So it's not just the GOP that needs to look in the mirror.
Damn fucking straight. Lead, follow, or in Ruth's case, get the HELL out of the way.
I'd like to say I hope she's happy with her candy-wrapped shit-legacy, but I believe when you're dead, you're as non-existant as before you were born. So I don't even have that hope to lighten my day.
👍🏼 Yep..dead bodies, go nowhere..no heaven no hell.
MAGA explained eloquently.
https://x.com/charise_lee/status/1954165209121345991?t=c78guhGFV3HpxpnaCQA2-A&s=09
Oh yeah. Right after Obama’s first inauguration, Moscow Mitch vowed to make him a ‘one-term president.’ I remember it all. 🤬
Love ‘cheese and fucking crackers!’ Hehehe
No worries. They do whatever the monster wants.
Also technically Obama and probably Biden are guilty of crimes against humanity for their special operations and drone strikes in third countries. The rule of law applies even to people you don't like.
I doubt that most Democrats much less Republicans are willing to abandon the morally unconscionable notion of American Exceptionalism.
American hubris. No need to use the term “technical” when referring to the killing of innocent non-combatants. But hey, now they have immunity. Boy did this country ever take a wrong turn. Ike was right.
Especially when he commanded Operation Wetback!
Dems are no angels either. Just right now, the GOP is so vulgar and disgusting that we do look like choir boys.
Corporate Dems. The progressive caucus is fighting like hell. It’s not the entire party. It’s the corporate Dems getting in the way of the party. GOP supports, deadly sedition, child molesters, election cheating, Fascism…that's the short list.
I thought we were part of the ICC until W pulled us out after he invaded a sovereign nation in 2003, i.e., for the obvious reason to protect himself from being prosecuted.
I believe we have never been part of the ICC.
Great memory. For a fact. Wow.
If I’m remembering correctly, I was so angry about the war and then the acknowledgement it was illegal didn’t help!
😡🤬
I’m sure Moscow Mitch had something to do with it.
He’s the devil lurking in the shadows. Whispering into the ears of stooges to go warn what will happen and none of it pretty.
Congress has to approve, and I believe the budding fascists frames it as caving to their sovereignty idiocies.
Or they can ‘outsource’ their responsibility…? And accountability… 😃😒
Love your writing, Jeff but really don’t think Trump is getting “played” or “he truly doesn’t understand how terrible all this shit looks to the rest of the world.” The reality is he is Putin’s ally if not his puppet and as for the rest of the world- he doesn’t give a rat’s ass what they think.
Trump is being blackmailed by Putin. I'm sure ole Vlad is quite aware of the pedophilia and human trafficking that has gone on in the world by very rich and powerful people. I'd bet a week's salary that the girls in Moscow that he hooked Trump up with in 2013 and maybe other times, were underage. It's also Russian money laundering. Trump cares very much what people think. He's the most publicly thin skinned president in my lifetime.
In the very Substack article from which Jeff quoted her, Heather Cox Richardson mentioned that there's some speculation around the possibility that Putin has the goods on Trump's involvement with Epstein’s pedo ring. If that’s the case, no wonder Trump looks so "pantsed" next to Putin in that Helsinki photo...
Oh I bet Putin has some very embarrassing video on him as well.
Assuming to protect Bush and Cheney!!
You got it. Do they ever leave the counties they live in, except in B's case, to go to funerals and inaugurations?
Excellent question – anyone know the reason?
Because treaty ratification requires two-thirds of the Senate.
W, before this dumpster fire president, was IMHO a total disaster.
He lost his place starting with the first inauguration in 2016.
At that point it’s been one rolling nightmare where this orange one seems to be able to get away with everything.
What a bunch of flying monkeys.
Probably because Republican or Democratic president, the US does shit that violates international law.
Also, like lawyers & sharks: professional courtesy.
I thought we were part of the ICC until W pulled us out after he invaded a sovereign nation in 2003, i.e., for the obvious reason to protect himself from being prosecuted.
The United States has never been a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC). While the US signed the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the ICC, in 2000, it was never ratified by the Senate and was subsequently withdrawn in 2002. The US remains a non-member state to the ICC.
This really makes me wonder how our government could justify this for so long. It’s an international CRIMINAL court!How the heck do we not support the apprehension of international criminals? Oh, that’s right, most of them are in Shitler’s camp.
Thank you.
I think it is that even Democtatic presidents feel that they don’t want to have an international court have jurisdiction over them. Everybody wants to war crime every now and then, don’t they?
I posted this, yesterday, on the "contact us" page at WhiteHouse.Gov......
"Trump agreeing to Putin’s demand that Russia be able keep Ukrainian territory would be prima facie evidence that Trump is the weakest President the United States has EVER had and would prove to EVERY American that Trump is Putin’s Puppet."
"Donald, what dirt does Vlad have on you?"
Look at how 6'3" (allegedly) Donny is slumped over to appear shorter than 5'7" Putin. He grovels like a shamed dog who has been scolded by its owner for tearing up a sofa cushion.
I remember how shocked I was when I first saw that cosplay years ago. Donnie just stumped out and Putin bounced out and jumped onto the podium. We did not reelect this guy, Putin and Musk did it.
And the NY Fucking Times. More front-page stories about "her emails" in the 6 days before than election than about ALL policy issues combined in the previous 69. FIVE TIMES more stories about the top-rated Clinton Foundation which continues to raise millions for good work across the country and around the world, insinuating wrongdoing it couldn't quite name, than about the Trump Foundation which had its charter pulled for multiple legal violations such as paying Pam Bondi a huge bribe to drop her investigation of Trump University. (Can you image the media uproar if Democratic president had named someone he'd bribed to be attorney general?)
This is why don't subscribe to the NYT and my subscription to the Washington Post will lapse. I get their newsletters and scan the headlines but no longer read them, unlike this newsletter to which I'm a paid subscriber. I get more from it than I would from a hundred NYTs andWaPos.
Thank you! The NYET printed the easily debunked propaganda piece "Clinton Cash," by a far-right-wing nutbar, thus giving it a veracity it couldn't get on its own merit. They ignored the fact that Caligulump was under investigation, yet trumpeted that Clinton was. They had their thumb on the scale and sold us out. I wish them a big fat bankruptcy.
Oh, I remember that. They printed rightwing propaganda like it was news. I think after early polls showed Hillary winning in a landslide they wanted a "horse race" so bad they worked overtime to destroy her, hoping she'd win by a tiny margin and they could go into her administration with the "credibility" to "hold her accountable." But they miscalculated badly to their eternal shame.
You nailed it. I think the nepo trust-fund babies at the Times, resented the Clintons for daring to educate and pull themselves up to political success via their brains. It put all the useless pseudo-intellectuals there to shame, and they did all they could to tear them down for it.
Would be a great suggestion for South Park!
slave Trump sucking Master Pootie’s mushroom should be in the next South Park episode. With the devil relieved that at least Trump is leaving me alone for awhile. An oiled up butthole and nowhere to go.
And that's with the alleged shoe lifts
A whipped puppy.
Trump is no more 6-3 than I am. Putin has short man's syndrome in excess.
Must be a lot just like what Trump has on Linseed. Dear Cheater has been a Russian asset for years and there were reports of a Russian oligarch making a large donation to Linseed's last campaign. When you follow the money and all of the shady bullshit that's associated with it, you can see the big picture.
Spot on, Rick.
Thanks Joel.
who is Linseed ?
That sellout, former anti Trump senator from South Carolina, Lindsey Graham.
Who is getting primaried by a MAGA, for not being MAGA enough.
I believe it's murder but more likely it's some type of gay activity. I think Donnie and Epstein wonderful secret was that they were occasional lovers. Remember that Roy Cohn was Trump's mentor. Do you not think that he tried it on with weak Donnie? Not against gays in any way, just own it.
Here's my theory. I think what dirt Vlad has on Donnie is ties to organized crime and prostitution. I also think he doesn't want the Epstein files released because Melania played a role in girls for hire and trafficking. The modeling career was cover for for other illicit activity. Donnie doesn't want the world to know he was a chump for some two bit hooker from Eastern Europe during his days with Jeffrey Epstein chasing tail and supplying Prince Andrew with women.
Paolo Zampolli provides credence to your theory Mingo. His eastern bloc girls/women were models and escorts for the billionaire class, Melania happened to be one of them!!
Melania's dad belonged to the communist party when it was Yugoslavia. That may be the reason she doesn't leave him - he has dirt on her too. I never thought of that before.
It’s interesting that Viktor not only has a background with the Tito communist party, but has a criminal record as well Deborah… Trumps transnational criminal syndicate ties are lengthy, however his marriage is strictly transactional. What that contract says is another story!!
Look at us coming up with conspiracy theories but it’s not a hoax this stuff happened to us!
I didn't know that. The plot thickens.
How hard would it be to infiltrate Epstein’s island with a Uber rich Russkie easy, or worker ther to take photos and vids after all anything goes on the island of evil.
Ghislaine’s father Robert, the triple agent, got Russian mob boss Semion Mogilivech his Israeli passport Douglas… nothing appears to be impossible!
He also got buried in one of the hardest to obtain cemetery lots in Israel.
True dat Natalie!
Brilliant theory! Makes sense 💯‼️
You know he met Melania through Epstein.
I’ve heard conflicting stories about who introduced them at the Kit Kat Club, Paolo was the most likely candidate, who knows, the trio was all there!
From my local paper, this reporter is very reputable and would not write it if not backed up by a source.“Trump also flew on Epstein’s private jet, where, according to a taped interview with Epstein, he and Melania first consummated their relationship after he introduced them to each other.”
https://thebradentontimes.com/stories/epstein-trump-clinton-and-israel-a-retrospective,151977?newsletter=151932
Read the same Natalie, late night comedy has had fun with that one!
Nah, I think "the secret" is the young girls that scumbag, pedophile Epstein supplied to scumbag asshole Trump.
But that's common knowledge and has been for years. Why would he care? It just reinforces his masculine energy with his base. They love that stuff. I think it's something much worse. Has to be. Everyone knows he fucks children.
True "masculine energy" would come from having well-known adult beauties, such as movie stars and models, not from imposing on children. That's just creep energy.
Knowing that Trump indulged would crush his followers, creeps though they may be. The dirtiest, fattest among them see themselves as extremely manly.
Come on, Arne, if he's moving the pictures of Obama and Bush so they can't be seen, it's now obvious that his manliness is the size of week old human embryo. We'll see if he gives Alaska to p.
This is why I think it's Putin who provided the girls. Accusations from a head of state of a major power would be 'way more incriminating than the essentially circumstantial evidence we have of Trump & Epstein.
Melania is the mole he has.
Let's add human trafficking (worldwide) to that picture. Then you get organized crime and money laundering. This isn't just about Trump sleeping with a minor. And why do we keep hearing about Mossad?
Because they know how to control a potential asset, and supposedly Epstein did blackmail for them. Maxwell's father Bob supposedly worked for them, so she could have set Epstein up with a meeting.
I think the thing they are trying to cover up is that when Epstein was arrested, they had enough evidence of the trafficking and money laundering to bust Trump too but he squealed on his buddy and got an N.P.A.
I remember what he said about his own daughter Ivanka, how he would have loved to date her. And I also recall her sitting on his lap when she was a young girl (12 or so). Weird behaviour, for sure.
creepy behavior
Much better attribute. Thank you.
The young girls that scumbag, pedophile Trump supplied to scumbag asshole Epstein.
I agree Arne, my first thought after that letter came out was that it sounded a little too “gay” to me! And yes, I am an ally too, was one of the “hags” as far back as I can remember, so that's also how I can recognize signs. I grew up with male friends that I knew were gay before they even did!
See the Vladdy Daddy video produced by the Lincoln Media guys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhlwPOrccww.
The Lincoln guys great!
It's got to be more than just being gay though, which everyone knows and which is sort of a yawner.
Being gay or committing adultery these days is no news.
Christian Nationalist!
There also may have been deaths of one or more of these young girls that were trafficked.
I dunno, I still think Virginia Giuffrie might not have actually killed herself.
Overdoses are fairly common in those settings.
I think, and, mind you, this is just wild speculation, Donnie spent some time in Russia when he was there for the Miss Universe pageant with some *young* ladies, and Vladimir has the receipts. I mean, think about it 🤔
Crazy that this situation has been tolerated for almost a decade…
Pedophilia, human trafficking and money laundering. Who knows what else. This is way more than just Trump liking young girls.
Oh, he has some nasty shit on Trump, and so do the Israelis, which is why Netanyahu gets away with his war crimes.
I think Mossad has the dirt as to what's in the files. That's why he kisses Bibi's butt also.
I think Bibi also pays trump. Money is T's god.
Beautifully done ✔️
JOEL comes from the Hebrew יוֹאֵל (Yo’el), combining “Yo” (a form of the divine name Yahweh) and “El” (meaning God).
In the Bible, Joel was a minor prophet and the author of the Book of Joel.
“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions”.
Joel 2:28
❤️🔥As the Tibetan Buddhists say: “Thank you for your practice!!!”❤️🔥
thank you
Any NATO member wouldn’t be amused to see one of their allies on the wrong side of the foundational principle of NATO Joel!
Probably quite a bit.
Love that photo of Obama looking down at Putin. You don’t mess with anyone from the south side of Chicago.
It’s beautiful. Obama is smarter than Putin and cannot be played.
And we're all smarter than poor liddle Donny.
To quote one of my favorite movies, I've worn dresses with higher IQs.
The tree in my backyard is a more intelligent presence J. R. !
I've flushed things smarter and more attractive than Schitzenführer.
Extremely low bar.
Trump is soooo dumb anyone and everyone plays him.
Damn right!
Yeah, like me! I grew up five blocks from Michelle in South Shore, my sister now lives about six blocks from the Obamas' North Kenwood home. In both neighborhoods, Trump got less than 5% of the vote. In South Shore it was under two percent which could've been voters making a mistake. Trump's bullshit doesn't fly on the south side of Chicago.
I actually met Obama at the El station when he was running for senate. He’s tall, he’s cool 😎
He was my sister's state senator and she went to fundraisers for him.
They were at my trailer for hot dogs last night . I swear on the trump bible !!
I had seen him on the local news. He was handing out brochures and shaking hands. And smiling!!
Southsider here. Damn straight!
Has nothing to do with Chicago. Short men are intimidated by taller men and Obama knows that.
Jeff Tiedrich keeps me sane!
I make myself crazy, so I guess it all balances out in the end
Same. I have about 8,000 unopened emails but I read Jeff’s newsletter every day.
lol 😂
Oh gosh, Stephanie, I've gone over the edge with 30,000! How does this happen???
I have 604,655! Lol!
Seriously? I feel so much better.
That number of unopened emails haunts me.
Me too!!
Me too!!
Please take good care of yourself, Jeff. America needs you.
Agree. I'm still mourning Eric Boehlert.
Id like to hear from the Missus, please.
she deserves sainthood, having put up with my bullshit for 45 years
She must be in the same club as my wife, who has somehow endured me even longer.
Also, it’s time for another one of her own essays, isn’t it?
Does she wear a cape?
Yeah, but she must laugh all day long.
Putin knows this is pointless. Donny thinks he might get Nobel Peace Prize. They’re both criminals. They should be having the meeting in a prison mess hall.
Trump would be an adequate prison 'wife' for Putin. A happy ending for all.
It’s a national disgrace that Putin will be welcomed in our 49th state. Where’s the newly “woke” Lisa Murkowski when you need her?
Hiding, and hoping trump doesn't make her part of Russia!
Touché Larry!
The Cotswolds gave JD the Vermont treatment. Good job!
They were way nicer than I would have been.
Judge Chutkan rides in for the Epstein files. Beautiful. Thanks, Jeff!
No question and do you think that will be the real judge after crybaby takes it to the other courts or judges, it going to take some time but it won’t be burying getting whatever has been mopped clean. That video was chopped up and a real pro killer got in there to make sure Epstein monster was dead.
It’s a damn shame Judge Chutkin wasn’t overseeing Shitler’s NY fraud case. She has more “balls” than Judge Merchan and might have actually sentenced Shitler to prison for 30+ FELONIES. Merchan is on my list, that weak-assed fucker (sorry weasels).
I disagree. Her words are followed the law & knew the Tangerine Tyrant would just go to the SUPREME COURT
I’m convinced. Thanks
What “her” are you talking about?
I meant “him”! Sorry
Okay, just wanted to make sure I understood you correctly. Here’s my response, J.R:
It doesn’t do any good to compromise our legal standards in anticipation of corrupt Supreme Court rulings. We have to force them to rule, for the world to see how fucked up things really are. How does convicting someone of 30+ felonies and letting them waddle away accomplish anything? That behavior serves only to protect a scared little Judge who is afraid of what might happen…to him. I say
MAKE. IT. HAPPEN.
Trump inviting Putin to Alaska isn’t diplomacy, it’s dinner theater for despots. The whole “safe space for war criminals” thing really drives home that he’s not negotiating peace — he’s laundering Putin’s image. And if the endgame is Ukraine “ceding” stolen land, then it’s not a deal, it’s an armed robbery with paperwork.
The hits just keep on coming, Virgin Monk Boy. He just had one of the worst pedophiles in American history (Ghislaine) moved from a real prison to Club Fed to save his pale pimpled arse. It’s beyond the pale. Nobody does a fucking thing about it. The oligarch owned media has inserted their collective keyboards so far up their asses, they are spitting commas.
I know it’s not the main point of your piece but seriously how does Couchf’er have time for all these vacations? He doesn’t even pretend to work. Just like the 🍊💩
The vice president's sole constitutional job is to be available if the president dies or is incapacitated. Previous VPs have joked about this. Any other job is at the pleasure of the president. Some presidents, such as Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, have given their VPs a meaningful portfolio of work. Others, such as HW Bush, have given their VP almost nothing but a ceremonial role, sending them to ribbon cuttings. And in the case of W, the VP held all the power. In many ways, Cheney WAS president. So it depends. It seems like Trump doesn't trust JD, and as an Ohio voter he allegedly "served" in the Senate, I concur.
I my opinion , J.D. is just biding his time till the Oligarchs get rid of Trump, who was just a tool to get the presidency in their control, they couldn't run J.D. , he did not have the ability to win. Now, once Trump is gone , J.D. will makes things even worse, he is evil , but not stupid like Trump.
They send that toe cheese eater out and about so he won’t embarrass the MAGATS further. Doesn’t work well, does it?
Couchfucker Magee is just biding his time, cuz the Heritage Foundation is gonna make him President.
He was only a senator for maybe a year and a half, before they plucked him out for the VP slot, he is useless.
Or he says they are "diplomatic" travel.
Maybe Denali Park rangers can offer Trump and Putin a chance to feed the grizzlies.
How about a little sightseeing helicopter tour of “Mt. McKinley?”
At this moment two years ago I was there myself!
(Denali Park. I mean)
Another idea is to leave them on one of the glaciers.
Preferably one about to Calve due to global warming.
🤞
"‘listen, you Russkie fuckwazoo, you better cut this Ukraine shit out right now’ " OMG! 😂
"‘hey fuck-o, I’ve got your ceasefire right here.’" 🤣🤣🤣
Such brilliant word smithing. The felon gets away with everything and it pisses me off. But the news about Judge Chutkan is glorious.
I don’t know whether this is true, but I read somewhere that Trump is also banned from visiting 38 countries because he’s a convicted felon.
It is true
It’s true, but Canada who should have ensured that our law preventing any convicted felon of entering our country, opened the door wide and allowed trumpet the clown to attend the G7 meeting in Alberta last June. So much for respecting our own laws.
Many countries do not allow convicted felons to visit
Including Scotland?
The United Kingdom has laws on disallowing convicted felons to enter one of its countries, but they seem to make exceptions - and obviously the trump family is one of those exceptions. Remember when they visited Queen Elizabeth II and the disgusted look on her face when she was walking beside him.
Cam, it is those “exceptions” provided to the rich and powerful that make middle class Americans feel hopeless. Jail is for those of us without obscene wealth, it seems.
Another good one
I’d suggest that Putin also has the Epstein files. Epstein got a lot of attention from Russian oligarchs. As Medvedev recently told Donnie: Mossad isn’t the only one who has Epstein files
Richard, nobody knows how Epstein got all that money I haven’t heard a number but those Oligarchs of Russia get whatever they want that’s what Epstein gave them.
The oligarchs of the U.S. get everything they want, immediately. It’s not just a Russian thing.
I would venture that China and North Korea do, too
It's been a while since I blew coffee out my nose but "I've got your cease fire right here" did it for me. Donnie just wants to see his dear friend Pootie on our dime. I'm sure they will sleep in and have a lovely get-together brunch in bed with a happy ending. God, how I hate this POS president. Also, the Epstein news is good. Chutkan takes no BS.
I wonder who will be fool enough to accompany the fat fuck in his Alaska ass-licking trip? Tulsi? Marco? Bannon? How about Paula White? That would make it just perfect.
Probably Loony Loomer and Liddle Marco.
Y’know, I hadn’t considered Loomer attending but it wouldn’t surprise me.
Liddle Marco was made for this scenario. He will perform as he always done, like someone who knows Shitler has enough dirt on him to turn him into an afterthought. Right, Lindsay Graham?
The list of sycophants possibly going on the field trip is long indeed
Tulsi Gabbard - she has such good relations with rogue countries.
A flip-flopper of epic proportions. Liddle Marco-esque.
Shitler rotates his MAGATS like a compost drum. You can put your nose to the air and smell the stench.
No thank you. I’m gonna keep wearing the clothespin.
Shitler attacks all of our senses.