That flapping sound you hear is the chickens of state Bar Associations getting ready to roost. I anticipate a realignment of their world order over time. The disbarring will be epic.
What's taking so long? All the fuckery of Habba and Pirro and Halligan trying to indict over nothing? Bondi in all likelihood lying under oath to Congress?
My guess is they're lying low because of how Donny so successfully bullied the big law firms. The bringing of justice will be indistinguishable from retribution. They know with great clarity that, if they do not get out in front of this and purge their ranks of those turds, their collective reputations will be nada for generations.
"We are the ones we have been waiting for." — June Jordan
Jordan didn't say help is coming. She said we are it. No cavalry. Just us, showing up again with what we've got — a call made, a door held, a dollar sent. We are already the answer. Don't wait for the sign. You are the sign.
Resistance is on an individual level. When you look at the French resistance against the Nazis during the war, it was piecemeal while the people waited for the Allies to bail them out. After the war, almost everyone claimed to have been part of it. Same with the death camps: apparently nobody knew about them! What a huge surprise! The Zone of Interest showed this to great effect a couple years ago.
Yep. We are it. Thank you God for not existing. All-loving and all-powerful and all this shit does not compute, never did, never will. We are the ones. Let's resist, and let's win.
Well, MAGA Mike is Trump's useful idiot, willing to eat sh*t for .... tell me again what's in it for him? A front row seat in business class at the Rapture?
I swear to god everytime I see Mikey I want to smack the glasses off that condescending smirk. I would bet, in high school, this guy got pantsed on a daily basis and walked around with a perpetual 'kick me' post it note on his back.
You mean the guy who kept the government shut down for 43 days to avoid swearing in the final Democratic representative who would vote for the Epstein Transparency Act? Well color me shocked!
A post-hoc War Powers Resolution is basically pretty wallpaper made of marzipan dildos. Johnson should go ahead and take it to a vote, if it goes down Donny will ignore it anyway. There's only upside for him.
Folks that Sleazy E & His Peter Pan Posse fired from the State Department, K$H fired in the FBI, TOOLSI fired from various intelligence agencies...the list goes on...and on..
I’ve witnessed baby animals at a petting zoo with a greater grasp of their social responsibilities than this gang of privileged grifters. To have to witness—hour by hour and minute by minute—how inept they are in all things is depressing as hell. I have to keep recalibrating what “dregs of society” means.
Putin will not be mourned when he dies, but he deserves grudging credit for running the biggest, most successful opsec in history. He managed to get his co-opted, mentally ill bit-piece informant into the US presidency, and co-opt key Republicans thru blackmail and campaign donations (Buttina and the NRA) so they would allow him to wreck havoc unopposed (remember that dog-and-pony show on July 4, 2018, when he called them home to Moscow to bow to him?). Now his boy Donny has withdrawn our support for Ukraine, dismantled 80 years of post-WWII international cooperation, started a conflagration in the Middle East, and decimated our diplomatic and trade connections worldwide. I don't have to hand it to him, but he played the rot in our system and we took it hook, line, and sinker, like world-class marks.
That is so exactly true, Martha. Exactly. I'm sure he sits at night with his vodka laughing in disbelief at how utterly bone-stupid moronic and venal his shit informant turned out to be--- far, far beyond his wildest dreams.
Indeed. Also, a little forethought from the regime could have prevented thousands of American citizens from being stranded in the middle of a war zone with NO OPTIONS to get home to the U.S.
Stranded Americans need to figure out how to escape a war zone--but the Moron Administration is going to send in the Navy to make sure the oil tankers can get through.
There's no forethought anywhere in this regime. Kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out. And all the holy ones are convinced that's exactly what he's doing. The chief marzipan dildo in Washington, or wherever he is, doesn't give one flying fig about the citizens in the Middle East, or the citizens in the United States, or the military anywhere in the world. He doesn't give a f*u*c*k about anyone but himself. Got it? Not ANYONE. And to say we're doomed at this point sounds a little optimistic. But We the People are still pissed and a still, small part of me still believes we can still prevail.
I feel your pain Jan. Makes me want to punch a wall but I know I’d hurt myself…but I still want to do it. You can cut the exasperation with a knife it’s so thick.
It’s like watching a bank robbery calmly walking out the front door
of a bank with a bag of cash stuffed so full that money is falling out of it and here comes a bunch of ICE agents pushing past the robber with guns a blazing in order to nab a gardener who is standing in line. Unfortunately they couldn’t nab him because they had already killed him with their guns a blazing.
That was horrific enough (the gardener had his kids with him—in fact, a couple of them got shot in the crossfire; but, you know, collateral damage and besides the kids shouldn’t have been associated with a known dangerous criminal)
But here’s the cherry on top, the part that sends you into a complete psychotic break—the robber sues the government (the American people) because he was bumped when he was leaving the bank. I think the robbers name was Buttlick or Lickdick or Lutnick I forget but he was awful mad and he wanted special privileges like permanent tax breaks and subsidies and favors for a friend that owns a bridge into Canada. And you know what…he got all that and more because he’s a special person with special privileges.
But the gardener, who was gunned down in the bank and is bleeding out, is still a threat so an ICE agent puts a boot on his throat and puts another bullet in him to make sure the threat is neutralized.
Wow! I was actually believing this happened for real, until the robbers name part. It is a striking metaphor for what's been going on with a sprinkling of actual facts to top it off.
Leaving hundreds of thousands in the middle of a war zone is simply collateral damage to these connards Neal! We’ve got tons of oil here, why should we even consider shipping lanes a problem?
Well, leaving aside the question of better sources of energy—obviously not wanting to diminish the issue of our time—Japan and other East Asian nations with whom we are so inextricably connected in an effort to sustain each other depend upon oil and natural gas that must pass through the Strait. After WWII, we accepted that peace is maintained through global free trade and cooperation. And we have taken that responsibility most seriously. The present admin is nutso up the buttso, but without this supply, chaos would ensue, with dire consequences.
It's astonishing that the Washington Post sees him as one of the top two GOP frontrunners for 2028. Do they seriously think GOP voters are looking for someone so small, weak and indecisive? Of course their other choice is a socially awkward doughboy who fucks couches. Not a lot of promising material there.
Besides the "Broke It/Bought It" rule from Colin Powell is the one about how if you transparently and publicly lie to help your president get us into an unnecessary war, your political career is over.
Probably because he is small and insignificant. Recall how he shrank into his chair when Trump and the Couch Molester were yelling at Zelinsky because he wasn't grateful enough.
Listening to the sister of the dead 20-year-old soldier was beyond sad, the despair and agony in her voice speaking of her brother was just heartbreaking. FOR WHAT? So Drumpf and his friends can sell more weapons, etc.?
After being stranded by an airline who offered ZERO help in making alternate travel plans I swore on the pen of my aunt to never fly them again. I can't imagine how these people stuck in a war zone must feel or how they'll react. Hopefully, they'll all make it back okay and take their revenge at the ballot box.
"The term “Steely Dan” originates from the novel Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, a seminal work of the Beat Generation.
Burroughs’ writing is known for its gritty, surreal, and often provocative content, which resonated with many counterculture figures of the time.
In the novel, Steely Dan is the name of a steam-powered dildo, a bizarre yet memorable image that fit with the rebellious and avant-garde ethos of the era. This choice of name showcased Becker and Fagen’s willingness to embrace the irreverent and the unconventional."
Gonna have a lot of songwriting material: shooting puppies, lying, adultery, wasting taxpayer dollars, cosplaying, botox, cosmetic dentistry makeover, stunning stupidity (not being able to define habeas corpus), ad nauseum
Yeppers. Stiff Kitten existed in 19-fucking-88, so that tells you how supple-and-stiffy-along-ago. I should pin a pic so y’all can see it. I ain’t (wasn’t?) what most people expect. }:D
A garage band of my friends had an all-night session arguing about a name, eventually settling on Emerald City, but I liked most of the rejected names better. Lead singer utterly vetoed "Madame Mao and her Gang of Four" although another band later did well with "Gang of Four"; "Sweeter than Beef" is still available; a vociferous proponent of "Nuke the Whales" went out after it lost to spray paint it on a wall on the way to Michigan Stadium and it became a popular bumper sticker (along with elaborations like "Nuke the unborn gay whales").
OMG lol. I totes remember going thru names during the 30 years I played in working bands. Mistress was top 40 and not the most original name, but we had three women in the band and a fourth running sound and did pretty damn well in the mid-80s. Stiff Kitten was up against Touched, and I think we made the right choice there by NOT being Touched. I was the only woman in the band, as continued to be the trend well into the 90s, so yeah...to creepy for me lol. I remember saying "Touched? Like... touched in the head? Because that's what you are if you think that's a good hairband name LOL".
Yeah, the singer was the only woman, and you can understand her not wanting to be tagged "Madame Mao"
This session was a Friday night before a Football Saturday in Ann Arbor, so spray-painting NUKE THE WHALES on the street leading to the stadium's main gate that night guaranteed that 100,000 people would see it before it was cleaned off, hence its virality.
OK! Susan’s band has bass, fiddle, tambourine, two cowbells, and a Yoko-styled vocalist! This is gonna be rad! I sing, play guitar and keyboards, and can record us!
The State Department is useless because DOGE eviscerated it and because this administration has gone out of its way to replace career foreign service employees (who know how to get stuff done) with loyalist bozos.
When (knock wood) a Dem is elected prez in 2028, the transition needs to be on warp speed. (in fact, it should actually start when we have a nominee. some things can start when we have a Dem House in 2027.). put all of those Dem-affiliated think tanks, etc to work. give them their swim lanes. then mostly get out of their way. 1) develop plans to prevent Trump political appointees from "burrowing in." 2) figure out how to put employees hired during his presidency on admin leave while they figure out who can be fired for cause (lots of cause at DHS/CBP/ICE). State Dept employees who got pushed out? figure out how to rehire them ASAP. if it has to be as contractors 1st, fine. Take advantage of telework. 4) Use that immunity SCOTUS gave the executive. Don't worry about lawsuits. 5) Find patriots who are willing to be interim Sec of State, deputy this, that the other so there's no vacuum & the admin can start fixing things while in parallel you have the permanent appointees going thru the conformation process.
whichever think tank does HR is going to be key. Knowledge of Federal Employment Law & Federal personnel computer systems will be key.
This needs to be done in EVERY agency, committee, etc. Think Quick Reaction Force. the equivalent of landing vehicles, paratroopers etc need to be ready to go in & take control on 1/20/29 at 12:01. sorry, folks. the parties are going to have to wait. you have a country to save.
There's going to be a huge problem: the reluctance of knowledgeable, competent people to take a job that can just be flicked away at the election of the next president, particularly if the best of the best have found more stable jobs. Trump's gutting of the government will have a longterm impact.
that also holds true for our relations with other countries. Biden was able to reestablish many of the norms that Trump had trashed during his 1st term. But after this clown show, other countries would be foolish to believe in anything that we promise them.
Historically, and once again, the Democratic Party must right the ship. I fear Alito will "retire" and someone like Cannon will be put on the Supreme Court which will throw a monkey wrench into any plans.
“please do not rely on the US government for assisted departure or evacuation at this time. there are currently no United States evacuation points.”
As an American living abroad...what the hell? Prez Fuckwits started a war and didn’t plan, organize, or care. He's never cared about strategy, why should he? He's ignorant about anything happening outside his Sadam Hussein golf club or the ruins of our White House. And he doesn't care. It's all about out-Obamaing Obama, whatever his warped demented brain thinks that is. And proving to the world he's got the biggest penis. Him and warmongering Pig Hegseth. My outrage runneth over.
Only men with the tiniest, tiniest penises try to prove that they've got a big one. My fav was a South Park clip where he was masturbating with a tweezers lol.
wasnt there a huge storm of criticism of Biden for leaving American citizens behind in Afghanistan? Even tho they had been warned 3 months in advance of American troop withdrawal and chose not to leave?
Funnily enough I was just remarking the other day that whilst it always seemed harsh to us non-Americans that Uncle Sam taxed all Americans on al their worldwide income, no matter where they lived, there was the unwritten guarantee that if the shit did hit the fan, they'd usually have an aircraft carrier and a bunch of marines to pull said Americans out of the mess. Well, looks like that's gone fuckety-bye now...
The U.S. Treasury is so hopelessly in debt there's no way we can tax ourselves out of it. It would take breaking the billionaire class and that won't happen in our lifetimes.
The phone number posted on Trump's social is purely so that his dumbass followers can say, "SEE? He's helping them get home!" then they shut the app and call it a day. The truth that the number is 100% useless, meanwhile, reaches no one.
It's just another Lie Whack-a-Mole that we have to smack down (like to "war" or "not to war") and that's a losing game. Because his cultists already have their "truth." Why listen to anything else?
I don’t know about you guys but I was told last week that gas prices were $1.85, but ours here were $2.59. In four days, the price of gas went up 40 cents to $2.99. I heard it’s not a supply issue but a “price issue”. Which in reality means we have plenty of supply but it’s a great time for oil companies to make record breaking profits off American consumers. Isn’t this country just a big fucking train wreck? Thanks for nothing President pudding cup.
I'm out of fucks to give...,and excuse the fuck outta me, we're at war(no denying that),why the fuck haven't we seen a goddamn general for 3 days now?? Are they hiding, afraid to admit they're following illegal orders?? And goddamn Secretary of Hair and Makeup Hegseth said yesterday Trump is the messiah waging the final Holy War to rid the Holy Land of the infidels, no doubt that MFer fell off the wagon.
Ok so, if the State Department had information that Iran was going to bomb Israel and that's (one of many) excuses that DonOld and Liddle Marco are making up to justify their reign of terror, then why on earth did they not tell Americans to at least evacuate ISRAEL???? Because it's all bullshit. Now Americans can pound sand and wait for them to get their shit together before they get blown to shit. This is the most incompetent administration in history and I just hope our fellow countrymen stay safe until someone with a brain helps get them home.
NO! He could personally kill Americans on our streets and the Supreme court would agree it was part of his duties as President. The Republican Congress would be on vacation and the Democrats would shout foul, but do nothing.
The pricktator and his maladministration aren't elected to be competent or even moral. They're elected to torment and destroy the minorities that the unreconstructed hate.
today in Shit That Happened While I Was Busy Writing This Shit —
Holy Limpdick Johnson is still refusing to pass a War Powers resolution, because he's as useless as a marzipan dildo.
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mgamdi4dlg23
That god-pestering swamp goblin. I can’t wait until that sawed-off fashy is a billboard lawyer in Shreveport
That flapping sound you hear is the chickens of state Bar Associations getting ready to roost. I anticipate a realignment of their world order over time. The disbarring will be epic.
What's taking so long? All the fuckery of Habba and Pirro and Halligan trying to indict over nothing? Bondi in all likelihood lying under oath to Congress?
My guess is they're lying low because of how Donny so successfully bullied the big law firms. The bringing of justice will be indistinguishable from retribution. They know with great clarity that, if they do not get out in front of this and purge their ranks of those turds, their collective reputations will be nada for generations.
The law firms that caved to him did the most sniveling, venal, cowardly thing they could have done. Despicable. Quisling collaborator scum.
In The Files, perhaps?…
🤞
That is one sorry little johnson!
Maybe his name could be changed from “Johnson” to “Marzipan Dildo”…….
I call him Micro Johnson.
You beat me to it!
That’s what the Marzipan Dildo said
Oy!
Marzipan dildo is my new band name.
😂
He's one more Johnson than the Blazing Saddles joke could use.
😂😂
Ooo! “god-pestering swamp goblin”; good one 🙏🏾
Honestly, I’m surprised Moses Mike has “heard of it” at all.
He usually suffers from selective amnesia the second he’s asked questions.
My best effort today Jeff, its all I had in me.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/the-daily-exhale-i-ran-but-how-far-did-i-ran-before-i-stopped-ranning
Wisdom for today?
"We are the ones we have been waiting for." — June Jordan
Jordan didn't say help is coming. She said we are it. No cavalry. Just us, showing up again with what we've got — a call made, a door held, a dollar sent. We are already the answer. Don't wait for the sign. You are the sign.
Resistance is on an individual level. When you look at the French resistance against the Nazis during the war, it was piecemeal while the people waited for the Allies to bail them out. After the war, almost everyone claimed to have been part of it. Same with the death camps: apparently nobody knew about them! What a huge surprise! The Zone of Interest showed this to great effect a couple years ago.
Yep. We are it. Thank you God for not existing. All-loving and all-powerful and all this shit does not compute, never did, never will. We are the ones. Let's resist, and let's win.
Uselesser. At least the marzipan doesn’t leave a sour taste.
USED marzipan sounds unpleasant
😂
It leaves a bitter taste to me, literally and figuratively.
More like "rancid"!
Unlike Lady Lindsey.
Well, MAGA Mike is Trump's useful idiot, willing to eat sh*t for .... tell me again what's in it for him? A front row seat in business class at the Rapture?
Right next to the Huckabees
He is a useful idiot but also was one of the architects of the J6 invasion. His marzipan dildo should be investigated.
More like the Rupture.
I swear to god everytime I see Mikey I want to smack the glasses off that condescending smirk. I would bet, in high school, this guy got pantsed on a daily basis and walked around with a perpetual 'kick me' post it note on his back.
100%!!! He was and still is a fucking putz.
Set the county record for being stuffed into his locker.
I want to tar and feather him
Ha! So funny!
You mean the guy who kept the government shut down for 43 days to avoid swearing in the final Democratic representative who would vote for the Epstein Transparency Act? Well color me shocked!
Yeah, and how'd THAT work-out?
A post-hoc War Powers Resolution is basically pretty wallpaper made of marzipan dildos. Johnson should go ahead and take it to a vote, if it goes down Donny will ignore it anyway. There's only upside for him.
Thanks for the smiles today. That Markwayne is such a great target!!
Your mom was a misspoke is hilarious
It’s not a war….its a special military operation. At least that’s what Vlad told us to call it.
Did you know that Vietnam was never a war? It was a "police action"
Well, uncle Jeff, that’s giving marzipan a bad rap. Dildos too.
I really like(d) marzipan. I don't think I can ever eat it again.
The limpest dick in Congress
Hi Jeff. Just checking in with you today. As long as you’re still breathing and banging away on your computer for us, some days that’s enough ❤️🩹.
He’s doing what the Team needs… exactly imo
I’m seething with anger 😡
At least Holy Limpdick looks like a marzipan dildo.
Johnson is such an ass wipe.
Who could’ve imagined that war in the Middle East would disrupt air travel or shipping?
Folks that Sleazy E & His Peter Pan Posse fired from the State Department, K$H fired in the FBI, TOOLSI fired from various intelligence agencies...the list goes on...and on..
I’ve witnessed baby animals at a petting zoo with a greater grasp of their social responsibilities than this gang of privileged grifters. To have to witness—hour by hour and minute by minute—how inept they are in all things is depressing as hell. I have to keep recalibrating what “dregs of society” means.
Meanwhile at the Kremlin Putin and his pals just cracked open another case of Cristal celebrating their destruction of the USA.
Putin will not be mourned when he dies, but he deserves grudging credit for running the biggest, most successful opsec in history. He managed to get his co-opted, mentally ill bit-piece informant into the US presidency, and co-opt key Republicans thru blackmail and campaign donations (Buttina and the NRA) so they would allow him to wreck havoc unopposed (remember that dog-and-pony show on July 4, 2018, when he called them home to Moscow to bow to him?). Now his boy Donny has withdrawn our support for Ukraine, dismantled 80 years of post-WWII international cooperation, started a conflagration in the Middle East, and decimated our diplomatic and trade connections worldwide. I don't have to hand it to him, but he played the rot in our system and we took it hook, line, and sinker, like world-class marks.
And all it cost him was the suite at the Moscow Hilton, two KGB hos and some videotape.
That is so exactly true, Martha. Exactly. I'm sure he sits at night with his vodka laughing in disbelief at how utterly bone-stupid moronic and venal his shit informant turned out to be--- far, far beyond his wildest dreams.
And upcoming demand for their oil
Things are so fucked up that they could fire a rocket at Iran and accidently hit a city in the US.
Wouldn't be sure that it wasn't intentional, either. They hate US cities.
"Accidentally"?
Damn. Well said, Neal. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Indeed. Also, a little forethought from the regime could have prevented thousands of American citizens from being stranded in the middle of a war zone with NO OPTIONS to get home to the U.S.
OK, I'll say it. "Forethought" and "the regime" has to be the biggest oxymoron ever. Heavy on the moron part.
Stranded Americans need to figure out how to escape a war zone--but the Moron Administration is going to send in the Navy to make sure the oil tankers can get through.
I got it! Call for an uber. Man, I should be in the state department.
You are so right Joyce. Sad but true that money is more important than people
Oligarchs run the show. They don’t care about people. They only care about money.
When you have an oligarch running the country this is what you get.
How did he, an oligarch, convince enough people to elect him that he actually cared about them and was looking out for them?
You can rule the galaxy if you can answer that question
IMO, all he had to do was make some promises to Elon about, say, government contracts. Elon's hacker posse did the rest.
There's no forethought anywhere in this regime. Kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out. And all the holy ones are convinced that's exactly what he's doing. The chief marzipan dildo in Washington, or wherever he is, doesn't give one flying fig about the citizens in the Middle East, or the citizens in the United States, or the military anywhere in the world. He doesn't give a f*u*c*k about anyone but himself. Got it? Not ANYONE. And to say we're doomed at this point sounds a little optimistic. But We the People are still pissed and a still, small part of me still believes we can still prevail.
I feel your pain Jan. Makes me want to punch a wall but I know I’d hurt myself…but I still want to do it. You can cut the exasperation with a knife it’s so thick.
It’s like watching a bank robbery calmly walking out the front door
of a bank with a bag of cash stuffed so full that money is falling out of it and here comes a bunch of ICE agents pushing past the robber with guns a blazing in order to nab a gardener who is standing in line. Unfortunately they couldn’t nab him because they had already killed him with their guns a blazing.
That was horrific enough (the gardener had his kids with him—in fact, a couple of them got shot in the crossfire; but, you know, collateral damage and besides the kids shouldn’t have been associated with a known dangerous criminal)
But here’s the cherry on top, the part that sends you into a complete psychotic break—the robber sues the government (the American people) because he was bumped when he was leaving the bank. I think the robbers name was Buttlick or Lickdick or Lutnick I forget but he was awful mad and he wanted special privileges like permanent tax breaks and subsidies and favors for a friend that owns a bridge into Canada. And you know what…he got all that and more because he’s a special person with special privileges.
But the gardener, who was gunned down in the bank and is bleeding out, is still a threat so an ICE agent puts a boot on his throat and puts another bullet in him to make sure the threat is neutralized.
Tell me I’m exaggerating
Wow! I was actually believing this happened for real, until the robbers name part. It is a striking metaphor for what's been going on with a sprinkling of actual facts to top it off.
Well said!
thought? that's a foreign concept to this crowd.
Forethought from Redumblicans! 😂
Trump said it happened to fast to make any plans…
Ya think nobody told him until after it had started?
This regime of corrupt, ignorant, greedy fuckwits could not. Or they just don't give a shit. Or probably both.
Yup. Both.
Certainly no one in Washington
Only everyone who remembers what happened the last time we did this.
Leaving hundreds of thousands in the middle of a war zone is simply collateral damage to these connards Neal! We’ve got tons of oil here, why should we even consider shipping lanes a problem?
Well, leaving aside the question of better sources of energy—obviously not wanting to diminish the issue of our time—Japan and other East Asian nations with whom we are so inextricably connected in an effort to sustain each other depend upon oil and natural gas that must pass through the Strait. After WWII, we accepted that peace is maintained through global free trade and cooperation. And we have taken that responsibility most seriously. The present admin is nutso up the buttso, but without this supply, chaos would ensue, with dire consequences.
hahahahahahahahaha.
🤣
The British civil service
I'm shocked that Rubio didn't just come out and say to those stranded in the Middle East that..."God Will Take Care Of You"...
Little Micro Rubio always seems so small, insignificant.
I call him NARCO Rubio...
It's astonishing that the Washington Post sees him as one of the top two GOP frontrunners for 2028. Do they seriously think GOP voters are looking for someone so small, weak and indecisive? Of course their other choice is a socially awkward doughboy who fucks couches. Not a lot of promising material there.
Besides the "Broke It/Bought It" rule from Colin Powell is the one about how if you transparently and publicly lie to help your president get us into an unnecessary war, your political career is over.
Probably because he is small and insignificant. Recall how he shrank into his chair when Trump and the Couch Molester were yelling at Zelinsky because he wasn't grateful enough.
He’s actually shrinking.
I think he got speech therapy for his lisp though. Good for him. Now if he could get therapy for his idiotic rambling.
Don’t make fun of the way people talk. Say Mush Mouth Markwayne 10 times fast. 💨
He's probably waiting for Huckabee to say it, likely adding that their sacrifice will earn them a special place in heaven.
Meanwhile a Special Room In Hell has been reserved for the whole lot of ‘em, and it’s not a gilded ballroom
At least then Donald will be reunited with his father.
Listening to the sister of the dead 20-year-old soldier was beyond sad, the despair and agony in her voice speaking of her brother was just heartbreaking. FOR WHAT? So Drumpf and his friends can sell more weapons, etc.?
wanna bet Huckabee is out of there?
After being stranded by an airline who offered ZERO help in making alternate travel plans I swore on the pen of my aunt to never fly them again. I can't imagine how these people stuck in a war zone must feel or how they'll react. Hopefully, they'll all make it back okay and take their revenge at the ballot box.
More like May the odds be forever in your favor
Right! Thoughts and prayers.
Or as Joni Ernst says, “we’re all going to die.”
(So why fret about it?)
That’s gonna be Mike Huckabee.
Marzipan Dildo will be the name of my metal rock band.🎸
They can open for Steely Dan.
Did you mean Steely Dong?
Sounds like you know the origin of the band's name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steely_Dan
I've been a fan since the 1970s and have seen them five times.
I've loved Steely Dan since the Asia album and have seen them 3 times.
Lucky you!
I just scanned that whole Wikipedia about Steely Dan and can't find the origin of the band's name. This must be good...
What I found on the internet:
"The term “Steely Dan” originates from the novel Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, a seminal work of the Beat Generation.
Burroughs’ writing is known for its gritty, surreal, and often provocative content, which resonated with many counterculture figures of the time.
In the novel, Steely Dan is the name of a steam-powered dildo, a bizarre yet memorable image that fit with the rebellious and avant-garde ethos of the era. This choice of name showcased Becker and Fagen’s willingness to embrace the irreverent and the unconventional."
Thank you!! You are a true fan of Steely Dan. I missed them by about five years; I think my older sister liked them.
My first concert was Journey in the 70's and I spent all of my paper route money to go with a chaperoned group.
😂
That may escape the trademark laws. Or maybe not.
😂😂😂
😂😂😂
Steely Dan had an album titled Katy Lied. Might I suggest Marzipan Dildo's first album be called Krisit Lied
I wanna sing the lead vocals on that one. Perfect! 😜
Gonna have a lot of songwriting material: shooting puppies, lying, adultery, wasting taxpayer dollars, cosplaying, botox, cosmetic dentistry makeover, stunning stupidity (not being able to define habeas corpus), ad nauseum
Better topics than pickup trucks, beer, and bibles! 😁
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"The Sex Toys Tour '26"
Think of the bands logo opportunities tho! 🤭
Opening act: The Missing Noem Bag
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*chefs kiss*
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Ooh, ooh, can I join? I play bass and was once in a hair band called...wait for it...
Stiff Kitten
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Omg! Thats awesome!😂😂😂
Just cuz. 1988 Ink. https://substack.com/profile/50942315-irascible-ink/note/c-223166528
Freaking A! Hot rock bass chick gettin’ down with your bad self!
Fantastic!
I miss the 80s!
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Speaking of stiff, that's one part of aging that really sucks. Joints get stiff, other stuff that should be stiff. . .oh, never mind
Not pinned, but yeah. https://substack.com/profile/50942315-irascible-ink/note/c-223166528
Yeppers. Stiff Kitten existed in 19-fucking-88, so that tells you how supple-and-stiffy-along-ago. I should pin a pic so y’all can see it. I ain’t (wasn’t?) what most people expect. }:D
A garage band of my friends had an all-night session arguing about a name, eventually settling on Emerald City, but I liked most of the rejected names better. Lead singer utterly vetoed "Madame Mao and her Gang of Four" although another band later did well with "Gang of Four"; "Sweeter than Beef" is still available; a vociferous proponent of "Nuke the Whales" went out after it lost to spray paint it on a wall on the way to Michigan Stadium and it became a popular bumper sticker (along with elaborations like "Nuke the unborn gay whales").
OMG lol. I totes remember going thru names during the 30 years I played in working bands. Mistress was top 40 and not the most original name, but we had three women in the band and a fourth running sound and did pretty damn well in the mid-80s. Stiff Kitten was up against Touched, and I think we made the right choice there by NOT being Touched. I was the only woman in the band, as continued to be the trend well into the 90s, so yeah...to creepy for me lol. I remember saying "Touched? Like... touched in the head? Because that's what you are if you think that's a good hairband name LOL".
Yeah, the singer was the only woman, and you can understand her not wanting to be tagged "Madame Mao"
This session was a Friday night before a Football Saturday in Ann Arbor, so spray-painting NUKE THE WHALES on the street leading to the stadium's main gate that night guaranteed that 100,000 people would see it before it was cleaned off, hence its virality.
Ha!
Wow!
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Susan let me know when you get your band together; so I can apply for the tambourine position!!🤣
I’ll take triangle! 🎶
I play the fiddle!
First metal band ever to have triangle and fiddle players!
We’ll make a fortune and do a complete concert tour. Think of the merch we can sell! 🤪
The Marzipan Dildo empire!!😂😂😂😂😂
Haha! Yes! And we’ll play all our hits on Substack Jukebox every Monday!👍🏻👏👏👏
I would like to sing . . . ala Yoko Ono
In your Cousin Itt voice??? 😲
OMG, yeah . . . mum's the word !
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Haha!!
Keyboard
Perfect! This group is shaping up nicely 😃✌️
OK! Susan’s band has bass, fiddle, tambourine, two cowbells, and a Yoko-styled vocalist! This is gonna be rad! I sing, play guitar and keyboards, and can record us!
Cowbell?
Gonna need more cowbell for sure! 🤣
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I can rage really well😈
That works.😂
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I'm the long-haired guitar player who smashes things. We'll have marzipan props everywhere and smash them as we sing!
The State Department is useless because DOGE eviscerated it and because this administration has gone out of its way to replace career foreign service employees (who know how to get stuff done) with loyalist bozos.
The State Dept is CURRENTLY useless.
When (knock wood) a Dem is elected prez in 2028, the transition needs to be on warp speed. (in fact, it should actually start when we have a nominee. some things can start when we have a Dem House in 2027.). put all of those Dem-affiliated think tanks, etc to work. give them their swim lanes. then mostly get out of their way. 1) develop plans to prevent Trump political appointees from "burrowing in." 2) figure out how to put employees hired during his presidency on admin leave while they figure out who can be fired for cause (lots of cause at DHS/CBP/ICE). State Dept employees who got pushed out? figure out how to rehire them ASAP. if it has to be as contractors 1st, fine. Take advantage of telework. 4) Use that immunity SCOTUS gave the executive. Don't worry about lawsuits. 5) Find patriots who are willing to be interim Sec of State, deputy this, that the other so there's no vacuum & the admin can start fixing things while in parallel you have the permanent appointees going thru the conformation process.
whichever think tank does HR is going to be key. Knowledge of Federal Employment Law & Federal personnel computer systems will be key.
This needs to be done in EVERY agency, committee, etc. Think Quick Reaction Force. the equivalent of landing vehicles, paratroopers etc need to be ready to go in & take control on 1/20/29 at 12:01. sorry, folks. the parties are going to have to wait. you have a country to save.
Thankfully, Biden teams hit the ground running. People forget how good he was at some things.
Except for prosecutions. That really, really needed to start on day one.
Two words-Merrick Garland
There's going to be a huge problem: the reluctance of knowledgeable, competent people to take a job that can just be flicked away at the election of the next president, particularly if the best of the best have found more stable jobs. Trump's gutting of the government will have a longterm impact.
All Trump’s orders that made it easy to fire federal employees should work in our favor. Retrieving people with expertise may be more problematic.
Exactly. A lot of people won't want to come back now that they've seen how easily a rogue president can disrupt careers and lives.
that also holds true for our relations with other countries. Biden was able to reestablish many of the norms that Trump had trashed during his 1st term. But after this clown show, other countries would be foolish to believe in anything that we promise them.
Historically, and once again, the Democratic Party must right the ship. I fear Alito will "retire" and someone like Cannon will be put on the Supreme Court which will throw a monkey wrench into any plans.
That is definitely on the to-do list.
13 Justices on the court is something Biden needed to do.
And, Day One of the No, It's So Definitely NOT A WAR: Ka$h fired all of the FBI experts on Iran.
Yep.
“please do not rely on the US government for assisted departure or evacuation at this time. there are currently no United States evacuation points.”
As an American living abroad...what the hell? Prez Fuckwits started a war and didn’t plan, organize, or care. He's never cared about strategy, why should he? He's ignorant about anything happening outside his Sadam Hussein golf club or the ruins of our White House. And he doesn't care. It's all about out-Obamaing Obama, whatever his warped demented brain thinks that is. And proving to the world he's got the biggest penis. Him and warmongering Pig Hegseth. My outrage runneth over.
Only men with the tiniest, tiniest penises try to prove that they've got a big one. My fav was a South Park clip where he was masturbating with a tweezers lol.
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Pig Hegseth will remain in my vocab!!!
Pig Hagueseth
I caught my husband calling him that lol
where the hell were the generals...yessir yessir to any absurd orders?
They are also committing Constitutional crimes. But apparently it doesn’t matter.
Dude. It's about the money. https://www.instagram.com/reels/DVZLCEikT7P/
We've got to channel our outrage into figuring out a way to stop the bankruptcy of all we hold dear. We need a leader we can trust.
Civil unrest is growing and for good reason. Who will lead us?
wasnt there a huge storm of criticism of Biden for leaving American citizens behind in Afghanistan? Even tho they had been warned 3 months in advance of American troop withdrawal and chose not to leave?
Yes, that's what I was thinking of before. Where is the outrage now?
The double standards and hypocrisy are enraging!!!
No doubt they will blame Biden for the stranded citizens in the coming days.
Funnily enough I was just remarking the other day that whilst it always seemed harsh to us non-Americans that Uncle Sam taxed all Americans on al their worldwide income, no matter where they lived, there was the unwritten guarantee that if the shit did hit the fan, they'd usually have an aircraft carrier and a bunch of marines to pull said Americans out of the mess. Well, looks like that's gone fuckety-bye now...
The U.S. Treasury is so hopelessly in debt there's no way we can tax ourselves out of it. It would take breaking the billionaire class and that won't happen in our lifetimes.
The phone number posted on Trump's social is purely so that his dumbass followers can say, "SEE? He's helping them get home!" then they shut the app and call it a day. The truth that the number is 100% useless, meanwhile, reaches no one.
It's just another Lie Whack-a-Mole that we have to smack down (like to "war" or "not to war") and that's a losing game. Because his cultists already have their "truth." Why listen to anything else?
Is it a premium rate phone number that he takes off some cash from? 😉 'Cos that grifting won't grift itself
1-900-FUCKYOU
LOL right??
And because they have a pet rightwing media human centipede (including MSM) there isn't going to be significant criticism of this.
Yep 100%
Hey kids another sordid story
Of Kristi and her sidepiece
the married fella Corey
Canoodling in the sky
as they fly around
It would be cheaper for the public
if they cheated on the ground
ICE Barbie went ballistic over her lost bag
She's such a vicious hag
A plane with a bidet and a queen-sized bed
What a waste of bread
K-K-K-Kristi and her jetsssss
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I agree but it was her blanket she forgot….
That was the initial story she put out. Later it turned out it was her carry-on bag. So she lied. Big surprise
She's the bag
😏her “blanket”
That plane must have an industrial strength bidet. She is such a skank.
To the tune of Bennie and the Jets, by Elton John?
Roughly. Sorry, Elton and Bernie
No apologies necessary. It’s very creative.
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I don’t know about you guys but I was told last week that gas prices were $1.85, but ours here were $2.59. In four days, the price of gas went up 40 cents to $2.99. I heard it’s not a supply issue but a “price issue”. Which in reality means we have plenty of supply but it’s a great time for oil companies to make record breaking profits off American consumers. Isn’t this country just a big fucking train wreck? Thanks for nothing President pudding cup.
Ours were $3.09 in northwest AZ. Now they're $3.34.
In Phoenix it's probably $.40 higher than that.
Close to $5/gal. in San Diego, so cry me a river.
Oh, I'm well aware. I'm from L.A.. Still have family and many friends there.
We Californios are praying that it doesn't get above $8.
Oh wow, I guess I shouldn’t complain but the jump in price no matter what you paid before hurts.
That’s where I am too, Anna. I concur.
The crew is so sick and depraved
And the GOP Congress has caved
"Let's all just bend over
And like l'il Rover
We lie down and sulk, then behave."
"Ohhhh! Trumpy is so goddamn mean!
He's worse, he is more than obscene
But still we must listen
Or he'll be pissin'
And pretend we are little pre-teens'l"
"Thank you for calling
We have some helpful advice
Kiss your ass goodbye"
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Way too good!🆒
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I'm out of fucks to give...,and excuse the fuck outta me, we're at war(no denying that),why the fuck haven't we seen a goddamn general for 3 days now?? Are they hiding, afraid to admit they're following illegal orders?? And goddamn Secretary of Hair and Makeup Hegseth said yesterday Trump is the messiah waging the final Holy War to rid the Holy Land of the infidels, no doubt that MFer fell off the wagon.
Ok so, if the State Department had information that Iran was going to bomb Israel and that's (one of many) excuses that DonOld and Liddle Marco are making up to justify their reign of terror, then why on earth did they not tell Americans to at least evacuate ISRAEL???? Because it's all bullshit. Now Americans can pound sand and wait for them to get their shit together before they get blown to shit. This is the most incompetent administration in history and I just hope our fellow countrymen stay safe until someone with a brain helps get them home.
8647 and his syphilis neck
Couldn’t agree more, Jayne!!! Morons each & every one of them!!
IT'S THE BABBLING IDIOT CULT AT WORK.
Let's be clear: the U.S. had a deal that could have prevented Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
Trump ripped up that deal.
Then he started a war instead of doing the hard work of diplomacy to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
- Senator Elizabeth Warren
Because he’s not into doing the work, the background work, the tough work—it’s shoot and we will figure shit out later!
Because he's no President Obama, who lives rent-free in his head to this day.
- Nobel Peace Prize winner
- Did not bomb Iran like Il Douche kept saying he would
- Struck a deal whereby Iran agreed not to develop nuclear weapons and it was working
- Took out Osama bin Laden
- Won 2 consecutive terms as President without cheating (popular and electoral vote)
- Never divorced, still married to first wife and mother of both of his children
- Handsome, fit, athletic, highly educated, extremely articulate and magnetic public speaker
- Publicly named and shamed him at White House Correspondents Dinner
I could go on and on...
Will this bullshit military disaster be the final nail in Scump’s political coffin?
NO! He could personally kill Americans on our streets and the Supreme court would agree it was part of his duties as President. The Republican Congress would be on vacation and the Democrats would shout foul, but do nothing.
That would be a bridge too far for even this Supreme Court, Mary.
I wouldn’t bet on it.
I hope so.
Worse than that, giving Trump presidential immunity made all the cases against all his co-conspirators go fuckity-bye.
🤞🤞🤞 please make it be so.
How can it not be, Susan?
I feel like every time something will bring him down and it doesn’t… so I hope THIS will be it! The GOP needs to get it together.
The pricktator and his maladministration aren't elected to be competent or even moral. They're elected to torment and destroy the minorities that the unreconstructed hate.
Of course not. Epstein won’t either cause morons gonna moron.