Amen. I was ready to quit reading my Substacks after reading only two: Heather Cox Richardson and Robert Reich's. I was feeling a creeping despair had finally decided to flood and I was drowning.
I still feel like that, but this post let me come up for air.
NOW I'm leaving! Going off with the fairies 🧚♀️ 🤪
Oh lord! Same here. I subscribe to way too many here but Jeff is one I never miss; would never miss. So will probably look over who has said what and decide to just chuck it all for the weekend. I need a break!
And MUCH sooner than 2.5 yrs from now. TOMORROW would be a nice way to start the wkend....🤔
Since 20 Jan '25, I've been predicting that, ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, #Bumblefuck wouldn't last 18 MONTHS in the WH. That takes us to JULY. Between the reports of his bad health - mental *&* physical - w/ him "disappearing" for several days at a time; his MAGAt base turning against him; his OWN GOVERNMENTAL SUPPORTERS beginning to turn against him; serious blowback re: Epstein; the GROWING disapproval, from EVERY ANGLE, of the bullshit involving Iran; & etc....I STILL believe I'm RIGHT ON TRACK.
All that's left is for MORE members of Congress to finally PUSH HIS ASS OFF THE LEDGE.
If not taking your challenge, it would have at least been nice if someone in the back of the press in the Oval Office said "Is he ASLEEP?!?!" I mean, they wouldn't have to YELL IT, but could be just loud enough........😁
you KNOW kkkaroline and the rest of his 'devoted staff' will be the first to exit stage left having 'somewhere else to be' not to have to smell the puddle he'll be sitting in. EMT's will show up to a remarkably empty room.
LOL - my take was for someone to ask in a stage whisper: 'shouldn't SOMEONE check his pulse'? Not me, though - I find that too icky' - then 'Is there a REAL Dr. in the house'? Wouldn't it be worth not being invited back just to DO that? For me it would. Wow, ALL the opportunities these people miss - yet they're going to show up at the correspondents' dinner? I've heard there'll be something related to Epstein waiting to greet the fuckwit. Can't wait.
Hee hee. ROTF. Your delivery. The way you wrote it..Just perfect! 🤗
I swear I woke up this morning and thought about jumping, and just coming to Uncle Jeff is so life-affirming that we're not alone. I can't stop laughing!
Howard Lutnick.was watching. Look at the picture. Pretend you're picking up a dropped hankie and cough in his ear. Push him with a finger to see if he reacts. 🖕 He really looks like he just expired in his chair 🙏
Auntie Teefa - I FAR prefer silver jewelry, collect it in fact, only have a few bits of gold (wedding ring, necklace, etc.) LOVE silver, especially with the pale blue topaz or real turquoise (my birthstones). Nothing to compare to the soft gleam of polished silver, even still get so many compliments on my older antique silver passed-down pieces I've worn for decades. They carry 'personality' gold just doesn't, especially frump's trashy gaudy 'version of gold'.
I downright refuse to cry - at the shitfukkery being perpetrated on us - and the rest of the world. He does not know WHO we're talking to - in Iran. I was making a joke the other day about him being scammed by a couple of college students, but now I'm wondering if he really IS the butt of a frat pledge joke? Now that would be downright hilarious if they were putting on fake 'iranian' accents (he wouldn't know the difference) right up until he insisted on using a nuclear bomb, because he's so frumplethinskinned.
Yeah, because it's FRIDAY. And while the Mango spends a couple mil of our tax dollars to go golf this weekend, "we the people" get to chew our nails wondering what travesty will happen late tonight.
Actually he'll be speaking at the White House Correspondents dinner tomorrow night and reportedly has brought in comedians to punch up his remarks. That's not unusual, but his attending at all is. It will be the first time he's ever been AS president. (The last time he went the poor dear had to suffer when Obama made jokes at his expense.)
The real journalists should boycott the dinner and leave the traitors of the news media (Ellison, Weiss, all of Fox News) to enjoy their rancid heartburn.
It's a networking opportunity. It's part of the job. The real question is how they react to Trump. If he starts bashing the press they should loudly boo and/or walk out, making it clear that it's NOT acceptable.
Wish every journalist would either boycott or get up and walk out altogether. Whoever doesn't should be placed on a do not support list that must be made public. For all his disgusting berating behavior, vulgarity, and lying he deserves no less from a once highly regarded 4th estate.
So Trump should be surrounded by people cheering him (from FOX Noise) or cowards afraid to react (from CBS)? How does that make sense? It's ceding the floor to him. It will be interesting to see if he goes on the attack and how they react.
'Twas not a very silly post; sometimes people need things laid out as simply as possible. And if it's funny, even better. Jesus did occasionally show flashes of righteous anger, but it was only towards Establishment figures and those in Power who were crushing the poor. People like Trump.
The Christian Nationalist movement reminds me of the Pharisees ofJesus’s time. They had everything figured out, so they thought, and wanted everyone to think and obey according to their conclusions. And we know what Jesus said to them— “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?”
No room in their theology for Jesus and certainly not what He said or did or taught or commanded. So sad
Nothing sadder or more pathetic than a woman of a certain age who is so botoxed her eyes are different shapes and her fish lips so enormous I don't know how she gets them around a glass. Must have to open her mouth and drink from the box wine spout LOL. Can you imagine, her, Ka$h, and GI Pete out at a bar commiserating if they get fired together? The thought is delicious.
Hideous what she did to herself. She was pretty when she was young. I'm from NY and I remember her and her late mobster lawyer she was married to..Trump pardoned him in 1.0. She owes him. But Al cheated on her and I think she wanted someone to sabatoge his boat. It was like out of "The Sopranos" Ugly drunk driving stories. She's a real whackjob. I think she was once a respected judge Yes, terrifying with our lives in their hands.
It's really quite difficult to do a criminal probe on someone who is 100% (even without a 600% decrease) not a criminal. Unlike a certain sleepy idiot snoozing at the not-the-real Resolute Desk: with that one, one has to admit, so many crimes, so little time before he finally kicks off.
Aha! Sen. Thom Tillis was blocking the nomination of Dump bootlicker Kevin Warsh unless the DOJ dropped its case against Powell. Reported yesterday on BigGo Finance:
President Donald Trump's nomination of Kevin Warsh to lead the Federal Reserve is stalled in the Senate Banking Committee due to opposition from Republican Senator Thom Tillis. Tillis is demanding the Justice Department end its investigation into current Fed Chair Jerome Powell, or he will block the nomination. Senate Majority Leader John Thune is exploring procedural maneuvers to bypass Tillis, but these paths are nearly impossible due to Senate rules. During his confirmation hearing, Warsh pledged to maintain independent monetary policy, but questions remain about his plan to divest significant personal assets and his overall independence. The standoff highlights deepening tensions between the White House and the Fed, and markets are closely watching whether Trump will halt the probe to break the impasse.
True that. Wasn’t it Tillis’s last-second “aye” vote that got us Whiskey Pete? Up to that point, Tillis had made a big show of wavering and we all had our fingers crossed the nomination would fail. Not so, as Tillis caved. The final vote was 50-50 and Shady was trotted in to break the tie.
Donny absolutely aspired to be mobster. All his business acumen; bullying, strong arm tactics, stiffing payments, is straight out of the mafia handbook. I'm surprised he doesn't sport gold chains and Gucci loafers and a pinky ring.
Every day he says something that compels me to shout, "can you imagine ANY other president speaking that way!". Why the fuck is he still sitting in that chair? (I love "when will he fall asleep forever". All sane Americans wake up, cross their fingers, and check their phones for news of his passing.)
OMG, me too! Sometimes, I’m out walking, listening to a podcast & start shouting in response to something stupid/criminal Demented Donny has said! People turn to look 😂
Jeff, that photo of Donald asleep in the Oval Office…just how long will it take for MAGAs to accept the fact that Donald should be residing at Laughing Pines, where fine young men in white starched uniforms are able to put grandpa to bed and not allow the use of his phone..Best to All Fellow Travelers…hang on it’s going to get much worse soon.
During the evangelically caused Satanic panic, backwards masking was another of their imaginary crusades. I remember in Bloom County the kids tried playing a rock song backwards and the lyrics said to go to school and say your prayers 😂😂😂
Flashback. We need some deep Opus musings on our current state of affairs. Either on the toilet or aboard the Starship Wheelchair, gazing into the sunset.
Are you joking or for real? Was that during the time there was the rumour it said "Paul's Dead" when you played one one.of the Beatles albums backwards? I'm not being facetious, I've honestly never heard of this.
This was some years after the "Paul is dead" baloney. The accusation of backward masking came in the 80s during what was later deemed the Satanic Panic, where hyper-Christians saw Satanic influence behind every tree or bush or person whose behavior and motives were outside the strict parameters of their narrow beliefs. This led to the McMartin Preschool fiasco which ruined lives and reputations and the aforementioned music "scandal." The religious nuts claimed that hidden messages promoting devil worship could be heard by playing the records backward. Now how do you suppose that even if that were true the listener could understand and assimilate this hidden message? The song that I heard was singled out was Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven. I heard a program where they did play it backwards and the words were unintelligible as you might imagine. And who is astute enough to write/sing lyrics that make sense in normal play and convey an intentional message when played backwards? So Bloom County parodied this ridiculous idea. It was another red herring propagated by judgmental, intolerant, paranoiacs, IMHO. Similar to the antivaxxers, "chem" trails theorists, raw milkers, and other conspiracy fringers that we see now.
I couldn't stop looking at their faces. To me, it looks like pure disgust, but he has set them all up to pocket as much of our money as they can so they just hush up, or they insert the stupidest math equation ever. Using Bobby Brainstorm's math, they should be paying us for prescriptions, right? I'm no genius, but I know a 600% discount when I see one!
There is some small satisfaction in knowing that Donnie Demento is loathed by everyone around him: he is nothing more than a means to an end for all of these corrupt grifters. Demento has, as he closes in on a very feeble 80 years on the planet, achieved the condition of having absolutely no one who even musters a small degree of "like" for him--and that includes those related to him by genetics.
There is an article in The Hill that demands that someone examine Trump for dementia. Last line is great.
"If you had a grandparent behaving like Trump does, on a practical level,...........you would be very concerned about trusting him with a car, much less the Fifth Fleet."
True story. For years I was in charge of the night shift respiratory therapy department in a small community hospital in So Cal. The next town over was a wealthy "retirement" community. One night the police brought an elderly woman in for a "medical exam". Apparently she was driving her Buick or Cadillac using the tires on her car to feel for the curb. She had those metal curb feelers attached to her car to gauge where the curb was while driving. And she had fun, fun, fun til the cops took her keys away.
My father in law drove with macular degeneration. He could see the sides of his eyes so he turned his head when drove. Yikes. He's 80 and shouldn't be driving much less working.
I heard this idea recently and I fully agree with it. Trump is an arsonist. We know that. We've always known that. And so his enablers are the ones we need, as you say Jeff, to stand up as say "what the fuck is wrong with you?" But no, they're just standing around with fire hoses and wondering why an inferno rages unchecked.
So when a journalist asks a question and he attacks, it's the DUTY of every other journalist to stand up for that person (usually a woman, usually a woman of color, but no matter who) and say "That is uncalled for, rude, and unbefitting the POTUS." To keep saying nothing is bullshit.
I totally agree and also think that whenever he belittles a journalist, mostly women, another reporter in the room should immediately ask the same question, then another until the question is answered.
Remember the utter meltdown when Obama's teenagers simply rolled their teenaged eyes at the stupid turkey-pardoning ritual? Imagine if Obama had rolled his eyes at the stupid-turkey pardoning ritual: the howls for the 25th would've drowned out a hurricane.
Every time I teach my community college algebra students how to calculate percentages, I remind them that they are now overqualified to be the POTUSA. Now I can also tell them they are overqualified to be Cabinet members. Or useless scribblers in the White House Press (rotten) Core…
'A true Light of the World would put down the lamb, pick up a calculator, crunch the numbers and go ‘huh, I guess you’re right.’ This sent me to spew-your-coffee land. A great post, Jeff.
Wait a minute…. 25,000 people is LESS THAN a million. Did I read & hear that right? Trump’s new math doesn’t make any sense… just like everything he says & does!!
If trump is anything Biblical, he's the anti-Jesus, aka Antichrist. Although my impression of the Antichrist of the Bible is that he's really smart, he fools the world with his 'silver tongue' and is able to unite many countries into a vast hegemony. He's The Great Deceiver, which implies that people around the world actually believe his bullshit. I definitely don't get the impression that the world would be rolling on the floor laughing, or praying for his prolonged suffering.
I’ve said that since 2015. He is NOT a Christian, he does not care about people, he’s not been to church since his parents dragged him to Riverside to see Billy Graham, he does nothing kind, generous, or helpful
Trump does have some mysterious ability to beguile. It only works on a minority of Americans and even fewer overseas, but it is undeniable. Those of us who are immune to the Hypnotoad only see the toad, and will never see whatever it is that MAGAs see when they look at him, and we will never understand why they cannot see the toad.
yes, it's a very silly post, but fuck it. I was in the mood to be silly
Well, done. I think we ALL need silly right now.
Amen. I was ready to quit reading my Substacks after reading only two: Heather Cox Richardson and Robert Reich's. I was feeling a creeping despair had finally decided to flood and I was drowning.
I still feel like that, but this post let me come up for air.
NOW I'm leaving! Going off with the fairies 🧚♀️ 🤪
Can we come with you?
I enjoy both Heather and Robert but sometimes BREVITY ("the soul of wit") is the better option.
Oh lord! Same here. I subscribe to way too many here but Jeff is one I never miss; would never miss. So will probably look over who has said what and decide to just chuck it all for the weekend. I need a break!
As long as THEY'RE not coming to take YOU away
Heather Cox Richardson's post of today really frightened me. The train is off the rails.
I've had days like that.
I’m sure glad I was busy today and decided to read Jeff first. Thanks for the warning.
This posting was an excellent read! No need to apologize.
Oh my goodness- I was thinking he’d run out of words describing Tired Trump- but nope he had more… too funny‼️
Thank you for another great post- I’m sending it to family right now‼️
I'm only at the end of the best description ever written about Trump and I've got tears rolling down my face. So good, Jeff.
Excellent description!!!
Me too! A few times I snorted🤭‼️
Longest opening description yet…NICE!
More descriptors will write themselves in the next 2.5 years.
And I'm hoping that one of them will be "finally-dead"
The most anticipated obituary in history.
🎶 That night, we're gonna party like it's
1945. 🎶
Or 1865, or 1776 . . .
😂😂😂😂😂 I can't stop laughing!
And MUCH sooner than 2.5 yrs from now. TOMORROW would be a nice way to start the wkend....🤔
Since 20 Jan '25, I've been predicting that, ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, #Bumblefuck wouldn't last 18 MONTHS in the WH. That takes us to JULY. Between the reports of his bad health - mental *&* physical - w/ him "disappearing" for several days at a time; his MAGAt base turning against him; his OWN GOVERNMENTAL SUPPORTERS beginning to turn against him; serious blowback re: Epstein; the GROWING disapproval, from EVERY ANGLE, of the bullshit involving Iran; & etc....I STILL believe I'm RIGHT ON TRACK.
All that's left is for MORE members of Congress to finally PUSH HIS ASS OFF THE LEDGE.
🙌
And let's hope that description comes posthaste.
I bet you can’t say all that in one breath 🤪
Tess…. But a keeper for sure‼️
If not taking your challenge, it would have at least been nice if someone in the back of the press in the Oval Office said "Is he ASLEEP?!?!" I mean, they wouldn't have to YELL IT, but could be just loud enough........😁
Better yet: "he IS just asleep, isn't he?!?", with an alarmed glance at the stand-by medical team just off-camera.
OMG GEORGE!!
Sorry to yell, but that is BRILLIANT!!
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼‼️
<gruff Elvis voice> than-cue, thancueverymuch...
🤣
BTW, George, just letting you know that "BRILLIANT" is my highest award.
(and I am an Elvis fan, as well)
Miselle - you could UP it with a 'fucking brilliant' (as we Scots tend to do). ;)
Hahaha. You're adorable! 🤗
Oh now, George - THAT put the cream on top!
Might be hard to tell. Feeling for the carotid pulse on that vagina neck and the fact that flatulence can occur after death
OMG. I thought of the flatulence after death too or filling his diaper. How would they know the difference for a few minutes?
That could explain the concerned looks from 3 of the 4 ppl behind him!
Probably the smell. 👃
you KNOW kkkaroline and the rest of his 'devoted staff' will be the first to exit stage left having 'somewhere else to be' not to have to smell the puddle he'll be sitting in. EMT's will show up to a remarkably empty room.
OUTSTANDING, George!!
RFK Jr did have that look like he was ready to bolt from the room (again).
😂😂😂
LOL - my take was for someone to ask in a stage whisper: 'shouldn't SOMEONE check his pulse'? Not me, though - I find that too icky' - then 'Is there a REAL Dr. in the house'? Wouldn't it be worth not being invited back just to DO that? For me it would. Wow, ALL the opportunities these people miss - yet they're going to show up at the correspondents' dinner? I've heard there'll be something related to Epstein waiting to greet the fuckwit. Can't wait.
"Is...is he DEAD?"
Hee hee. ROTF. Your delivery. The way you wrote it..Just perfect! 🤗
I swear I woke up this morning and thought about jumping, and just coming to Uncle Jeff is so life-affirming that we're not alone. I can't stop laughing!
Howard Lutnick.was watching. Look at the picture. Pretend you're picking up a dropped hankie and cough in his ear. Push him with a finger to see if he reacts. 🖕 He really looks like he just expired in his chair 🙏
EXACTLY!!
Wut? No apologies Jeff!
This is Pulitzer level reporting.
👏👏
Keep up the good work
If I ruled the board, you would be handed that prize on a silver platter because something about the color gold now just makes me wanna 🤮
If he’s not the one running his mouth, he’s bored. Not sure, but I don’t think you added RUDE to his resume of superlatives
Auntie Teefa - I FAR prefer silver jewelry, collect it in fact, only have a few bits of gold (wedding ring, necklace, etc.) LOVE silver, especially with the pale blue topaz or real turquoise (my birthstones). Nothing to compare to the soft gleam of polished silver, even still get so many compliments on my older antique silver passed-down pieces I've worn for decades. They carry 'personality' gold just doesn't, especially frump's trashy gaudy 'version of gold'.
Well, it made me laugh. And I like the extended DJT is not Jesus motif.
If we dont laugh, we cry.
I downright refuse to cry - at the shitfukkery being perpetrated on us - and the rest of the world. He does not know WHO we're talking to - in Iran. I was making a joke the other day about him being scammed by a couple of college students, but now I'm wondering if he really IS the butt of a frat pledge joke? Now that would be downright hilarious if they were putting on fake 'iranian' accents (he wouldn't know the difference) right up until he insisted on using a nuclear bomb, because he's so frumplethinskinned.
I needed silly today, so thank you!
Yeah, because it's FRIDAY. And while the Mango spends a couple mil of our tax dollars to go golf this weekend, "we the people" get to chew our nails wondering what travesty will happen late tonight.
Actually he'll be speaking at the White House Correspondents dinner tomorrow night and reportedly has brought in comedians to punch up his remarks. That's not unusual, but his attending at all is. It will be the first time he's ever been AS president. (The last time he went the poor dear had to suffer when Obama made jokes at his expense.)
The real journalists should boycott the dinner and leave the traitors of the news media (Ellison, Weiss, all of Fox News) to enjoy their rancid heartburn.
Or a real journalist could take the opportunity to shout "What the fuck is wrong with you?"
It's a networking opportunity. It's part of the job. The real question is how they react to Trump. If he starts bashing the press they should loudly boo and/or walk out, making it clear that it's NOT acceptable.
No excuse. Go network somewhere else.
Thoroughly predictable outcome for sure.
Omg how drunk will the attendees have to get to sit through this? Shame on them for attending at all.
Wish every journalist would either boycott or get up and walk out altogether. Whoever doesn't should be placed on a do not support list that must be made public. For all his disgusting berating behavior, vulgarity, and lying he deserves no less from a once highly regarded 4th estate.
So Trump should be surrounded by people cheering him (from FOX Noise) or cowards afraid to react (from CBS)? How does that make sense? It's ceding the floor to him. It will be interesting to see if he goes on the attack and how they react.
It's *almost* worth watching to see if it makes any rude jokes about Barack HUSSEIN Obama to get even.
'Twas not a very silly post; sometimes people need things laid out as simply as possible. And if it's funny, even better. Jesus did occasionally show flashes of righteous anger, but it was only towards Establishment figures and those in Power who were crushing the poor. People like Trump.
To keep with the Python theme, it represents the Slightly Silly Party.
The Christian Nationalist movement reminds me of the Pharisees ofJesus’s time. They had everything figured out, so they thought, and wanted everyone to think and obey according to their conclusions. And we know what Jesus said to them— “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?”
No room in their theology for Jesus and certainly not what He said or did or taught or commanded. So sad
All the worst characteristics of a toddler and a seventh grader!
No! Not you,Jeff—Prez Fustercluck!!
Silliness is often needed in times of turmoil and uncertainty, never apologize for it.
We take the joy however we can get it. And I enjoyed it.
You Need to include the audio for the Life of Brian clips. "He's just a naughty boy" is hilarious 😂
On the mark. No problemo dude. Take the rest of the day off, tomorrow even.
You deserve it.
You really fucking nail it ! Bull's eye! Well done. Thank you
today in Shit That Happened While I Was Busy Writing This Shit—
"Jeanine Pirro drops criminal probe of Jerome Powell"
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/24/business/doj-criminal-probe-of-powell
wow, it looks like US Attorney Tipsy McBoxwine can NOT indict a ham sandwich
She’s had to dismiss 11 felony cases over the last month. What a fucking loser
This whole MAGA thing is crumbling.
Like a stale cracker
They ARE stale crackers.
🤣🤣🤣
While they loot our government.
From your keyboard…
Thank you, God!
Loser indeed. What else would you expect from a former fox news lackey.
Good... she needs to go back to the bar and STFU.
An oldie from Two Whole Fucking Months Ago But It Seems Years:
Hey Pirro, oh, Pirro
Tries hard to be a MAGA hero
Your wild machinations
Are laughable conflations
Your legal acumen is zero
👏😂
HA! Well done! 👏👏👏
Sweet.
Good one Doc!!! 👏👏👏👏👏
Beautiful!!! 🤣👏🏻🤣👏🏻🤣👏🏻🤣👏🏻
She needs to be disbarred so she can hang out in bars
And if she got thrown out of one, would she be disbarred again?
Disbarred and datbarred
ROTFLMAO!!
I’ll have another limerick about Pirro tomorrow
Hee hee! 😝
Nothing sadder or more pathetic than a woman of a certain age who is so botoxed her eyes are different shapes and her fish lips so enormous I don't know how she gets them around a glass. Must have to open her mouth and drink from the box wine spout LOL. Can you imagine, her, Ka$h, and GI Pete out at a bar commiserating if they get fired together? The thought is delicious.
Mar a Largo Face. As far as the alcohol abuse, I would not care if they did not hold people's lives in their besotted hands.
Hideous what she did to herself. She was pretty when she was young. I'm from NY and I remember her and her late mobster lawyer she was married to..Trump pardoned him in 1.0. She owes him. But Al cheated on her and I think she wanted someone to sabatoge his boat. It was like out of "The Sopranos" Ugly drunk driving stories. She's a real whackjob. I think she was once a respected judge Yes, terrifying with our lives in their hands.
😂😂😂
It's really quite difficult to do a criminal probe on someone who is 100% (even without a 600% decrease) not a criminal. Unlike a certain sleepy idiot snoozing at the not-the-real Resolute Desk: with that one, one has to admit, so many crimes, so little time before he finally kicks off.
Well, except his criminal activity as a member of the Carlyle group. Like the Christmas society in One Battle after Another only worse.
Busted condoms are better at their job than Judge Boxwine is.
as is a limp dick . . . which undoubtedly contributes to the Donald's irritability . . .
and Melania's smirk
😂😂😂
😂😂
As I've said before, if you want a jury to indict a ham sandwich, you have to give them an actual ham sandwich, not just a bunch of baloney.
Aha! Sen. Thom Tillis was blocking the nomination of Dump bootlicker Kevin Warsh unless the DOJ dropped its case against Powell. Reported yesterday on BigGo Finance:
President Donald Trump's nomination of Kevin Warsh to lead the Federal Reserve is stalled in the Senate Banking Committee due to opposition from Republican Senator Thom Tillis. Tillis is demanding the Justice Department end its investigation into current Fed Chair Jerome Powell, or he will block the nomination. Senate Majority Leader John Thune is exploring procedural maneuvers to bypass Tillis, but these paths are nearly impossible due to Senate rules. During his confirmation hearing, Warsh pledged to maintain independent monetary policy, but questions remain about his plan to divest significant personal assets and his overall independence. The standoff highlights deepening tensions between the White House and the Fed, and markets are closely watching whether Trump will halt the probe to break the impasse.
https://finance.biggo.com/news/BtEyup0B-x-dxYpbFXUi
Tillis can’t expunge his voting record no matter what he does on the way out the door.
True that. Wasn’t it Tillis’s last-second “aye” vote that got us Whiskey Pete? Up to that point, Tillis had made a big show of wavering and we all had our fingers crossed the nomination would fail. Not so, as Tillis caved. The final vote was 50-50 and Shady was trotted in to break the tie.
He was never not gonna vote aye. They’ve been playing games since the Reagan administration.
Argh, sister. Don’t get me started on Reagan! 😖
You too, huh?
What the HELL is wrong with Tillis?!? Why does he hate 'murrica now, at this late stage?
sarcasm?
Correct. It's all I have left, I am a dried-up shell of my former self.
😂😂😂😄😄
Ditto
It was part of the deal to confirm Kevin Warsh to succeed Powell. Now he is all but in.
Drunks usually lose interest and never follow through on the shit they say when they're drunk.
I thought she lost her top lawyer on the case because there was no case.
Think she’ll still have a job at the end of the day? It IS Friday….
Not for lack of trying, though.
Tillis wouldn’t allow the Warsh confirmation to continue until the “investigation” was dropped. Fuck these people. Not a shred of decency to be found.
"Tipsy McBoxwine" HAHAHAHA 😂😂😂
"Let me finish, wise guy"
The supreme leader is a supreme asshole. I just cant take it.
When will he fall asleep forever?
The Monty Python references are FANTASTIC. 🤣🤣
He thinks he’s a mafioso DON.
What he really is a phony, ignorant, and the biggest bullshitter of all time, respected by no one, and hated by all. So, Mr. Wise Guy …
GO FUCK OFF
Donny absolutely aspired to be mobster. All his business acumen; bullying, strong arm tactics, stiffing payments, is straight out of the mafia handbook. I'm surprised he doesn't sport gold chains and Gucci loafers and a pinky ring.
The world's a casino per him. He's running it into the ground as fast as he can.
Every day he says something that compels me to shout, "can you imagine ANY other president speaking that way!". Why the fuck is he still sitting in that chair? (I love "when will he fall asleep forever". All sane Americans wake up, cross their fingers, and check their phones for news of his passing.)
OMG, me too! Sometimes, I’m out walking, listening to a podcast & start shouting in response to something stupid/criminal Demented Donny has said! People turn to look 😂
Have been doing those things since the 2016 election...
Crass,vulgar, insensitive, and a sub-human cretin.
Uh oh, he's insulting the men now. Maybe they will finally care about how Trump treats the press.
Jeff, that photo of Donald asleep in the Oval Office…just how long will it take for MAGAs to accept the fact that Donald should be residing at Laughing Pines, where fine young men in white starched uniforms are able to put grandpa to bed and not allow the use of his phone..Best to All Fellow Travelers…hang on it’s going to get much worse soon.
which leads me to the song: “They’re Coming to Take Me Away Ha-Ha”…………someone out there wanna try it? lol
OMG! That song used to give me nightmares! 😂😂😂
I bought the 45, and the A side was hilarious...but the B side was the song played backwards, and that was terrifying 😳
I loved the line about calling the ASPA to pick her(the ex who the lyrics were aimed at) up, "you mangey mutt", "woof woof".
During the evangelically caused Satanic panic, backwards masking was another of their imaginary crusades. I remember in Bloom County the kids tried playing a rock song backwards and the lyrics said to go to school and say your prayers 😂😂😂
Flashback. We need some deep Opus musings on our current state of affairs. Either on the toilet or aboard the Starship Wheelchair, gazing into the sunset.
Come back Cutter John with your grin
A nation wonders where you've been
We need you now so badly
We will ride with you so gladly
On your Star Trek wheelchair once again
Berkeley Breathed IS still cranking it out on FB, yanno....
Are you joking or for real? Was that during the time there was the rumour it said "Paul's Dead" when you played one one.of the Beatles albums backwards? I'm not being facetious, I've honestly never heard of this.
This was some years after the "Paul is dead" baloney. The accusation of backward masking came in the 80s during what was later deemed the Satanic Panic, where hyper-Christians saw Satanic influence behind every tree or bush or person whose behavior and motives were outside the strict parameters of their narrow beliefs. This led to the McMartin Preschool fiasco which ruined lives and reputations and the aforementioned music "scandal." The religious nuts claimed that hidden messages promoting devil worship could be heard by playing the records backward. Now how do you suppose that even if that were true the listener could understand and assimilate this hidden message? The song that I heard was singled out was Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven. I heard a program where they did play it backwards and the words were unintelligible as you might imagine. And who is astute enough to write/sing lyrics that make sense in normal play and convey an intentional message when played backwards? So Bloom County parodied this ridiculous idea. It was another red herring propagated by judgmental, intolerant, paranoiacs, IMHO. Similar to the antivaxxers, "chem" trails theorists, raw milkers, and other conspiracy fringers that we see now.
LOL!!!
😂
It was about his dog.
My first thought too
Except that #Bumblefuck NEVER cooked anyone's food or cleaned their house.
And the residents of ASPCA shelters would probably chew his 🍄 off (if they can FIND it).
That song.always scared me. I think.Dr. Donnie needs Nurse Melania to give him more thorazine and a straight jacket..
Or she could have a "rowboat" do it for her.😂
I couldn't stop looking at their faces. To me, it looks like pure disgust, but he has set them all up to pocket as much of our money as they can so they just hush up, or they insert the stupidest math equation ever. Using Bobby Brainstorm's math, they should be paying us for prescriptions, right? I'm no genius, but I know a 600% discount when I see one!
There is some small satisfaction in knowing that Donnie Demento is loathed by everyone around him: he is nothing more than a means to an end for all of these corrupt grifters. Demento has, as he closes in on a very feeble 80 years on the planet, achieved the condition of having absolutely no one who even musters a small degree of "like" for him--and that includes those related to him by genetics.
And absolutely hated by a good percentage of the entire world!
His base is far too ignorant to ever figure that out
Absolutely perfect. I woke up feeling like throwing in the towel! Sometimes it feels like too much.
Then, I read your post, Jeff, and, know that I must stay involved, as long as I am alive.
Thank you for the wake up ,Jeff.
BTW, YOUR FIRST PARAGRAPH IS EPIC!!
There is an article in The Hill that demands that someone examine Trump for dementia. Last line is great.
"If you had a grandparent behaving like Trump does, on a practical level,...........you would be very concerned about trusting him with a car, much less the Fifth Fleet."
True story. For years I was in charge of the night shift respiratory therapy department in a small community hospital in So Cal. The next town over was a wealthy "retirement" community. One night the police brought an elderly woman in for a "medical exam". Apparently she was driving her Buick or Cadillac using the tires on her car to feel for the curb. She had those metal curb feelers attached to her car to gauge where the curb was while driving. And she had fun, fun, fun til the cops took her keys away.
I believe it!
My father in law drove with macular degeneration. He could see the sides of his eyes so he turned his head when drove. Yikes. He's 80 and shouldn't be driving much less working.
I'm a senior citizen now and I try not to drive at night. That was in 1992 and the traffic is much worse now.
Or the nuclear codes.
JFC that’s so accurate!!! 💯
If this happens, watch him market the Hormuz Strait Jacket with matching diaper. In gold lame to match them sneakers and watches.
"I opened the Strait and all I got was this crappy diaper."
His cult stooges would buy 'em
You're on a serious roll, Doc!
😂😂😂
Lol, Lol, Lol.
This is the same guy who to this day refers derisively to “sleepy Joe Biden”.
He did fall asleep, but I think that specific photo had been doctored so that his head was tipping over. I think it may be a still from a doctored video where his head falls all the way to his desk. https://tribune.com.pk/story/2604542/fact-check-video-of-donald-trump-snoozing-hitting-his-head-during-white-house-meeting-is-doctored
Thanks, I don't like it when people fill the internet with fakes.
He has not one family member who cares enough about him to get him to step down. Sad. /s
I heard this idea recently and I fully agree with it. Trump is an arsonist. We know that. We've always known that. And so his enablers are the ones we need, as you say Jeff, to stand up as say "what the fuck is wrong with you?" But no, they're just standing around with fire hoses and wondering why an inferno rages unchecked.
So when a journalist asks a question and he attacks, it's the DUTY of every other journalist to stand up for that person (usually a woman, usually a woman of color, but no matter who) and say "That is uncalled for, rude, and unbefitting the POTUS." To keep saying nothing is bullshit.
I totally agree and also think that whenever he belittles a journalist, mostly women, another reporter in the room should immediately ask the same question, then another until the question is answered.
I agree also. Trump is unfit for the Presidency!
Someone has to have a spine somewhere!
Any day now...
I agree, Jennifer!!
Spot on, Jennifer.
I don't see his enablers so much holding fire hoses as cans of gasoline.
Just think - JUST THINK - Of ink that would have been spilled in every news paper and magazine across the country if President Biden had done that.
I truly hate this time line.
Remember the utter meltdown when Obama's teenagers simply rolled their teenaged eyes at the stupid turkey-pardoning ritual? Imagine if Obama had rolled his eyes at the stupid-turkey pardoning ritual: the howls for the 25th would've drowned out a hurricane.
Yup. And I remember the tan suit meltdown by the media.
Seriously!!! Beam me the fuk outta here!
Every time I teach my community college algebra students how to calculate percentages, I remind them that they are now overqualified to be the POTUSA. Now I can also tell them they are overqualified to be Cabinet members. Or useless scribblers in the White House Press (rotten) Core…
I'ma still waiting for my refund from the pharmaceutical companies after he lowered drug prices by 1200%. Or am I mistaken?
You are correct ✅ 💯
I knew it! Now where's my money?!
It’s part of an outline of a concept for a refund plan. Bundled with tariff refunds 🤡
So I have to wait. . .two weeks?
It's coming in two weeks.
Second coming of the apocalypse if anything!
Miasma, Pestilence, Calamity and Destitution...the Republican Way!
And child abuse
Inebriation and adultery
I'm telling ya. It's time for some good old testament smiting.
Hell, yeah!!!
The entire post is outstanding but the first paragraph was out of this world.
Nice job Jeff Tiedrich!!!!!!!
'A true Light of the World would put down the lamb, pick up a calculator, crunch the numbers and go ‘huh, I guess you’re right.’ This sent me to spew-your-coffee land. A great post, Jeff.
Drumpf ain't the Messiah at all
Though his testes are so goddamn small
They're as tiny as peas-is
And when that douche sneezes
"I'm Jesus, I think, fuckitall!"
You ain't Jesus, moronic old cretin
The thing that you need is a beatin'
We all loathe and despise
From your toes to your eyes
You'll be bitchslapped in prison... your greetin'!
Third posting for this, but it relates to your poem, Frosty.
Hey you evangelical fanatics
How do you ignore his moral acrobatics
He never attends church
He will leave you in the lurch
Your blind brains need some informatics
Wow! You are quite talented!
Nuh, mostly pissed off and worried.
Wait a minute…. 25,000 people is LESS THAN a million. Did I read & hear that right? Trump’s new math doesn’t make any sense… just like everything he says & does!!
You caught that too? Maybe he was referring to the inaccuracies made by the press?
It didn’t sound like that way. It really would not surprise me at all if he thinks 25,000 is greater than 1 million. 🤦🏻♀️
🤣🤣
Yes!
I think he was meaning to say that "25,000" was a lie and the real attendance at his speech was more than a million.
Well, as usually, he made himself look bad.
In that picture of the big, beautiful nod-off, Nutlick is thinking about humping one of his pant legs
😂😂😂
There's a mess in 'ere alright, but no messiah...now piss off! ☝️
If trump is anything Biblical, he's the anti-Jesus, aka Antichrist. Although my impression of the Antichrist of the Bible is that he's really smart, he fools the world with his 'silver tongue' and is able to unite many countries into a vast hegemony. He's The Great Deceiver, which implies that people around the world actually believe his bullshit. I definitely don't get the impression that the world would be rolling on the floor laughing, or praying for his prolonged suffering.
Did you catch this on Colbert?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZYRxLR-m84
Holy hell, that’s freaking awesome!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I’ve said that since 2015. He is NOT a Christian, he does not care about people, he’s not been to church since his parents dragged him to Riverside to see Billy Graham, he does nothing kind, generous, or helpful
Trump does have some mysterious ability to beguile. It only works on a minority of Americans and even fewer overseas, but it is undeniable. Those of us who are immune to the Hypnotoad only see the toad, and will never see whatever it is that MAGAs see when they look at him, and we will never understand why they cannot see the toad.
Doubling down on dumbfuckery needs to be added to lie, deny, deflect.