One thing that everyone missed-unless they read The Palestine Chronicle like my daughter does-is the message sent to the American people from the Iranian president.
"At the core of the message is a central argument: that Iran has not pursued aggression, and that the perception of Iran as a threat has been deliberately constructed."
"We have met the enemy and he is us." And more every day if we and the corporate media don't do more. We have had nearly 80 years to do something about this sorry excuse for a human and now he's ready to do God knows what.
Or maybe Allah knows what, since he’s taken to praising Allah for some disturbingly unknown reason, and decided to skip church on Easter. Proving yet again what a Christian he is not. That’s some serious dementia going on there.
Everything in the world of humans is relative. Compared to him, the Ayatollah, who is a bug-fuck religious zealot, looks like a thoughtful leader. Compared to him, Xi looks like a stable and predictable economic partner. They can't believe their luck.
It’s good to know that they get who the enemy is! They know the majority hates his guts. I also watched a video of a Jew in Israel saying how they were against Israel killing Palestinians. It is heartening to hear these things during all of the Fascist attacks on us.
There’s a substantial peacenik movement in Israel, and it’s truly weird how little we hear about it, even from lefty journalists and citizen journalist Substacks which could be helping them A LOT.
There’s just so much going on in so many places that big stories get buried by emergencies, even at the most well-meaning outlets.
Iranian officials have stated that the talks in February were going well but Witkoff and Kushner failed to understand the technical concessions being made because they failed to bring ANY experts to the meetings. Not surprised, I believe as well that they had no intensions of making peace. They work for Netanyahu.
This morning they stated that they want lasting peace, not just of few weeks of cease-fire.
“Our assessment indicates that this [new, temporary] proposal has been drafted solely on the basis of the mediators’ perception of the minimum demands of the parties for halting the war,” the official said. “Tehran does not consider a temporary ceasefire to be a logical course of action, inasmuch as the window for the United States’ exit from the conflict has already been delineated. Should the requisite political will exist, the parties are in a position to establish a permanent ceasefire and thereafter concentrate their efforts on diplomacy.”
They've embarrassed humanity as a whole. They're a pair of sleazy, dishonest real estate developers: the sum total of what the two of them know about Iran would fail to fill an eye dropper. The reason they're there is to scope out waterfront properties on sale after the "excursion."
They, like trump, think they can just demand peace & it will magically happen. They, like trump, have the negotiating skills of a three-year-old “advocating” for a lollipop.
I believe that this concession on Bannon was a way of giving Trump one "win" before they make any other rulings that piss him off. They should have learned by now that Trump wants a win every time or else they will get demented Donnies endless wrath.
At least Bannon spent four months in jail. The SCt has already earned Donny’s wrath so hasn’t that ship sailed? It’s a shame to give a toddler what he wants because he’s prone to tantrums.
As we all well know the role of the SC is not to make rulings based on what will or won't piss donnie off. Oh, i forgot, that was when we used to have checks and balances and before they were corrupt and complicit in democracy's decline.
Steve Bannon always reminds me of Griffin Dunne in "American Werewolf in London" post-mauling. When he keeps revisiting David Naughton's character to warn him of the full moon, and with each appearance, his face and body are more moldy and literally rotting away.
I've said it before, but I'm flummoxed as to why Bannon is even asked what the time of day is? This crusty creature is a cypher that has no quarter in politics and any credence of what his opinions are. Another failing of the media with their misplaced journalism.
Jeff, I like Scrub-o-Matic 5000™ as your opening entry to name the NYT sanewashing machine, but let’s open this up and see if someone can come up with an even better name.
My entry is The A.G. SulzHamBurger Helper, Sewage Treatment Machine and Informational Sausage Maker™ for $51.99, and if you order now they throw in a one year All Access subscription to The New York Times, good for wasting an hour a day playing Wordle™ Connections™ and Pips™ instead of learning how the world is coming to the stupidest end that Alien A.I. could possibly devise
This is why Jeff Tiedrich and Aaron Parnas at getting my money and not the NY Times and Washington Post. I don't play Wordle or any other games, and recipes aren't worth the cost. Most of them have meat in them anyway and I have a shelf of vegetarian cook books.
Just fyi, you can play Wordle without a subscription. But I cancelled my NYTs and WaPo subscriptions the day Bezos refused to endorse Harris and the NYTs headline about Harris working (or not) at McDonald's. I don't pay any news outlet. I subscribe to Substack.
The NY Times was dead to me in 2016 when it became obvious how they had their thumb on the scale for Trump. They CREATED the whole "her emails" "scandal" which the rest of the media picked up. They ran more front-page stories about the emails, following Comey's blunderous letter, in the six days before the election than they ran about ALL policy issues combined in the previous 69. They also ran five times more stories about the A-rated Clinton Foundation which is still raising hundreds of millions of dollars to address health care and other poverty-driven issues in both the U.S. and abroad (especially essential given Trump's abolishing of USAID) than they did about the criminal Trump Foundation which had its charter pulled because of numerous violations. (Facts courtesy of Columbia Journalism Review)
All absolutely true. The 'Times used to be one of the most respected news outlets in the world. Now I trust what the Iranians say more than the 'Times' reporting of Trump.
I would add that I also enjoy the Meidas Report and the Contrarian and will probably subscribe as soon as the money is there. Many people I know also like Heather Cox Richardson and she is good especially for in-depth background pieces, but not in my wheelhouse exactly.
Yes, I have been following HCR for 8 years. Robert Hubbell is another as is Simon Rosenberg and another humorist, Andy Borowitz. Plus, I sometimes tune into Wajahat Ali, Qasim Rashid, and Dean Obeidallah for different perspectives.
I also subscribe to Andy Borowitz. But I'm very strategic. I suggest to friends of mine who are overwhelmed with the news to pick one or two good newsletters such as Parnas or Meidas, read those in the morning and evening, and then go about your day. Reading 20 takes on the latest Trump post is causing a lot of people I know to become fearful, depressed and paralyzed. If that's not you, by all means subscribe to 20 sources!
The Bannon news made it difficult to keep my breakfast down. I will be practicing self-care today at 1:00 p.m. No 25th Amendment from a cabinet that is so scared of him that they wear shoes that don't fit. No impeachment from the GOP majority in congress who don't want their sweet insider trading deals to dry up.
That image of Trump reminds me of a SNL skit where a newscaster was interviewing people after an earthquake and on TV right out their names. One of them was Holden Twodicks.
this is why you go to original sources. I don't need American media (& it's endemic) writing 100 words or whatever to paraphrase instead of just directly quoting.
I have to give props to the MS-NOW bunch, as I only counted two who did not repeatedly read that vile posting aloud, in full--as well as have the text message on screen over and over. They were having a field day, pointing out how revolting it was and, even more, how unhinged. So.Very.Close to "what the fuck is wrong with you"................
I don't ask anymore. It's been ELEVEN FUCKIN' YEARS that the press has been pandering to Trump. And why wouldn't they? They're all in corporations or owned by billionaires and have no interest in increasing their own tax rates by backing A GOOD CANDIDATE when a piece of shit one promises them the moon.
ELEVEN FUCKIN' YEARS. That's WHY there's a Substack.
I think it's more complex than that. In 2016, The NY Times, which basically sets the agenda for all the "lesser" media, worked overtime to tear down Hillary and gloss over Trump's sins, of which they were well aware because they'd been covering him for 40 years. But I don't think their tax rates had much to do with it. The candidates were so unevenly matched – one clearly incredibly qualified, the other not at all — that to leave that alone and cover it honestly would've mean Hillary running away with the race. And they needed a horserace to keep people engaged and reading. So they covered up or ignored things they knew about Trump (such as his bankrupting casinos in Atlantic City and basically the whole town, a story mostly covered by USA Today) while fabricating Hillary's sins, such as their hit job on the Clinton Foundation, where they even massaged facts to make it look worse, and of course HER EMAILS which they made into the biggest campaign issue of 2016 and the one the entire race ultimately hinged on, as I can attest from my canvassing. It was the sole reason given to me by voters at their doors who opened by saying "Of course I would never vote for Trump but I just don't like Hillary." (I canvassed almost exclusively in the Black inner city.)
When asked why CBS was giving 41 times the tv airtime to Trump than they gave all of the other candidates combined, during the primary season and afterwards, Les Moonves, the CEO, said, "Trump brings eyes to the screen. More people watching means more profit. IT MAY BE BAD FOR AMERICA, BUT IT'S GREAT FOR CBS."
Interesting as this rationale is the same answer when I asked my daughter why she is contemplating buying stock in Tesla after the damage Musk has caused to our country's economy.
That was basically what I heard while canvassing, but they didn't like Trump for real reasons and they didn't like Hillary because they fell for a fabricated smear job. When I asked people what about the emails bothered them, they had no idea what it was about. It was so frustrating.
MSM gave Trump as much exposure throughout Biden's term as they did during his campaign and first term. It never relented. Every damned day they've stampeded to Trump for his opinion. They own this.
PBS/NPR are de facto leaning right because of their rigid inherence to "bothsidesism," which is why I stopped listening. They frame every issue as having two exactly equal sides, which is false. Sometimes there's only one truth, and sometimes an issue can have 5 or 6 sides.
A clear example. In 2010, NPR reported on a proposal President Obama suggested offering two free years of education after high school. They found some guy to attack his proposal, insisting all students aren't qualified for college. I looked the guy up and he was not an expert in higher education or job training programs: he was a professional Obama hater whose number they probably had to oppose anything Obama proposed.
I don't recall if Obama was proposing just college or any post-secondary program, but it would have been more interesting if they had brought on someone from a community college, someone from a union apprenticeship program and someone from some other job training program to talk about the different opportunities for education that could be provided to young people after high school. But they just wanted to "both sides" it. Also lazy journalism.
PRECISELY..We have Substack, FreeSpeech tv, Meidas Touch,Amy Goodman and many more! But not with the reach of the mega stations. Many, like me, haven’t listened to corporate owned news for years.
I don't think this batch of sewer clowns would ever 25th Donny, no matter how deranged he gets. but it's still symbolically important for our press to be calling for it. open your mouths, you fucking cowards.
She is--but, still: every time she says something that is sane, it trickles into the right-wing bubble of her former constituents; some of them are still listening to her.
Not until they get past the point where the couchpusher could serve two full terms, methinks. Gee, maybe I should get on one of those betting sites and bet on it.....?
I disagree. They don't want JD in because they know that their power will all vanish. JD cannot get elected on his own. He simply doesn't have the fictional charisma that MAGAs project onto Trump.
Don't worry, he will soon be dumping Usha. They will both agree that he can't get ahead with her as baggage so she will back down and give her children the best possible life.
I know. Isn't it sad? The Democrat, Amy Acton, may win the race in Ohio this year because her opponent is a brown-skinned Hindu with a funny name, and MAGAs may not want to bother to get to the polls to vote for him. Oh well.
They can "pour" what they want, but Trump was elected because of a delusion he was able to sell; that he is a strong, powerful, confident individual, an amazing businessman and a self-made billionaire. All fiction, but MAGAs believe it. Vance has no fiction they buy.
Before the cheat to win election of 2024, I saw on FB some of the NH cult saying that they wished it was JD that was running because he made so much more sense than Fuckface. I must say I was surprised...
No. Remember the magic feather in Dumbo, it made the little elephant believe he could fly? That's what the 25th is for us. It was a useless bit of political theater put out to remind us that presidents aren't supposed to be forever, and that we should get rid of bad ones. The actual amendment itself is not workable, it requires the Cabinet to effectively conspire against the president, and could be nullified by Congress or the Supreme Court. Miles Taylor published a piece on this today.
It's always been "Of and By the People". We're all there is. He's forced out of office by a major shift in politics, the details of which are fuzzy at best. So far, our representatives, the people we hired to manage the government for us* have not seen adequate reason to move against Trump. No one even seriously questions his attempts at criminalizing dissent, why should they step into the breach. Like Congress, our non-governmental institutions have just rolled over and died at the first threat from Trump*. They are no longer factors in any of this.
I'm now pretty confident Trump is going to do something stupid enough, and egregious enough, that it will impact enough of us to begin movement. Nuke Iran. Slaughter a thousand American protesters. But not yet, anyone even dimly aware are still waiting until November. A lot is happening between now and then.
*Footnote: none of these people are our 'leaders'. They follow us. They work super-hard to try and turn the tables and effectively enslave us, but it's harder than it looks. Donny is merely a creature of his followers, someone else will be a creature of us. And so it goes.
To get personal, there came a time last year where I finally needed to call my county’s crisis care unit to help assess my spouse’s troubling behavior and threats. This led to ER, memory care unit, and her dying of a progressive brain condition two and a half months later.
I join all those who feel in their gut and know with their brain that our country needs to take the drastic step of calling in the crisis care unit and at the very least take away Trump’s and his fellow vampires’ driving licenses.
My condolences to you too. From a spiritual perspective it was like living in our own lives the Passion. Being taken away, imprisoned as it were, making decisions without knowing, stepping out nonetheless , showing up ..being present all along the way and as the end came…
as has been pointed out (Andy Borowitz is one), the proper use of an apostrophe rules out that that tweet was actually written by the felon. I think SecDrunk has the keys to the felon's twitter.
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I don’t think I can watch his press conference today without blowing out my vocal cords or putting my hand through the TV. But I know you’ll take one for the team Jeff, and report back in the only style with which I can handle the news. And at this point, I think we need to extend the offer of a Pulitzer to any reporter who asks ANY republican member of Congress, “What the fuck is wrong with you?”
If Jake Tapper needs a new book topic ... oh never mind. 'memba when the NYT was the "paper of record"? If it weren't for Substack, Tiedrich, Richardson, Wilson, etc, I wouldn't have a fuckin clue because mainstream media is dead to me.
In this instance, I think the source should be directly quoted. This is what our president said, word by f'ing word. If you don't like it, don't vote for vulgar morons.
today in Shit That Happened While I Was Busy Writing This Shit—
I don't even know. my phone has been unusually silent this morning. zero notifications. what have I been missing while I was writing?
okay, here we go: it looks like the Supreme Court has declared that Rotting Stevie Three-Shirts also gets to be a Very Special Boy.
"Supreme Court sides with Steve Bannon in bid to dismiss Jan. 6 conviction"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/06/supreme-court-steve-bannon-conviction/
One thing that everyone missed-unless they read The Palestine Chronicle like my daughter does-is the message sent to the American people from the Iranian president.
"At the core of the message is a central argument: that Iran has not pursued aggression, and that the perception of Iran as a threat has been deliberately constructed."
"At the same time, he emphasizes a distinction between governments and people, stressing that Iran does not view Americans as enemies."
What a coincidence! Americans don't view Iranians as enemies, either
At this point, probably more Americans view Donnie as the enemy.
PUBIC enemy number one
"We have met the enemy and he is us." And more every day if we and the corporate media don't do more. We have had nearly 80 years to do something about this sorry excuse for a human and now he's ready to do God knows what.
Or maybe Allah knows what, since he’s taken to praising Allah for some disturbingly unknown reason, and decided to skip church on Easter. Proving yet again what a Christian he is not. That’s some serious dementia going on there.
Exactly.
Everything in the world of humans is relative. Compared to him, the Ayatollah, who is a bug-fuck religious zealot, looks like a thoughtful leader. Compared to him, Xi looks like a stable and predictable economic partner. They can't believe their luck.
And compared to him, Putin looks like the smartest man who ever lived
Putin has always been brilliant, in a Chaotic-Evil kind of way. It's an intelligence that is very specific to task.
George..So true!
It’s good to know that they get who the enemy is! They know the majority hates his guts. I also watched a video of a Jew in Israel saying how they were against Israel killing Palestinians. It is heartening to hear these things during all of the Fascist attacks on us.
There’s a substantial peacenik movement in Israel, and it’s truly weird how little we hear about it, even from lefty journalists and citizen journalist Substacks which could be helping them A LOT.
There’s just so much going on in so many places that big stories get buried by emergencies, even at the most well-meaning outlets.
Iranian officials have stated that the talks in February were going well but Witkoff and Kushner failed to understand the technical concessions being made because they failed to bring ANY experts to the meetings. Not surprised, I believe as well that they had no intensions of making peace. They work for Netanyahu.
This morning they stated that they want lasting peace, not just of few weeks of cease-fire.
“Our assessment indicates that this [new, temporary] proposal has been drafted solely on the basis of the mediators’ perception of the minimum demands of the parties for halting the war,” the official said. “Tehran does not consider a temporary ceasefire to be a logical course of action, inasmuch as the window for the United States’ exit from the conflict has already been delineated. Should the requisite political will exist, the parties are in a position to establish a permanent ceasefire and thereafter concentrate their efforts on diplomacy.”
Good luck with that "diplomacy" thing.
Those two are greedy stupid lil’ bastards who don’t give a shit about us. They have embarrASSed our tribe of sane Jews everywhere.
They've embarrassed humanity as a whole. They're a pair of sleazy, dishonest real estate developers: the sum total of what the two of them know about Iran would fail to fill an eye dropper. The reason they're there is to scope out waterfront properties on sale after the "excursion."
They, like trump, think they can just demand peace & it will magically happen. They, like trump, have the negotiating skills of a three-year-old “advocating” for a lollipop.
It certainly appears that way but at least they bring nuclear scientists with them to the table when negotiating nuclear weapons.
It is a must read.
JFC! Bannon is now a special boy too?! SMH 🙄
I believe that this concession on Bannon was a way of giving Trump one "win" before they make any other rulings that piss him off. They should have learned by now that Trump wants a win every time or else they will get demented Donnies endless wrath.
At least Bannon spent four months in jail. The SCt has already earned Donny’s wrath so hasn’t that ship sailed? It’s a shame to give a toddler what he wants because he’s prone to tantrums.
As we all well know the role of the SC is not to make rulings based on what will or won't piss donnie off. Oh, i forgot, that was when we used to have checks and balances and before they were corrupt and complicit in democracy's decline.
🎯
Steve Bannon always reminds me of Griffin Dunne in "American Werewolf in London" post-mauling. When he keeps revisiting David Naughton's character to warn him of the full moon, and with each appearance, his face and body are more moldy and literally rotting away.
OMG….YES!!!
I loved that film...
Right?🤢
I'm wondering what Master Race Bannon did to deserve such privilege.
Race Bannon from Johnny Quest was way cooler and better looking.
Absolutely LOVE Johnny Quest references!
I used to have a wee crush on Race Bannon.
He’s an exemplar to the Seditious Six and their racist ideology
lol. He’s so Aryan.
He's a member of the Master Baitor Race! 😏
Simple, he repukes trump's bs and kisses his 🫏.
That makes sense; there's wide deference in the legal and political systems for the champions of the unreconstructed.
Now Steve Bannon who has not bathed and changed his clothes since god knows when. Is a very special boy! Eew, yuck and gross! 🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
My friend once described Bannon as having all the allure of a used urinal cake.
Bannon was once described by S. Colbert as
' the best looking drunk in the bar.' I've always been reminded of Otis the town drunk of Mayberry! regardless he is dangerous and hates people.
I've said it before, but I'm flummoxed as to why Bannon is even asked what the time of day is? This crusty creature is a cypher that has no quarter in politics and any credence of what his opinions are. Another failing of the media with their misplaced journalism.
And Roberts wonders why everyone is so mean to them. No, the Roberts Court Six aren't doing all they can to help destroy this country. /s
I don't get it. Does this mean everyone who speaks to king fuckface is automatically covered under presidential immunity?
As long as you kiss his flabby ass!
does this mean that he'll now be able to sue We the US Taxpayers for beaucoup $$$$$ ?
ARRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!
Senator Chris Murphy is calling for the 25th. He's asking Trump's cabinet to start talking to their constitutional lawyers and make it happen....
...And then we ALL laughed.
🤬🤬🤬
That's ridiculous. OMG. Maybe this is a win to hand trump now so they can decimate him with the birthright citizenship ruling.
What??
Sarcasm
Dunno....maybe Trump is at Walter Reed getting some tests done?
Hey everyone reading--anyone else SICK OF GOVERNING VIA TWEETS?
I wonder what those good evangelicals would think if their Pastor said the phrase that Trump used, right at the pulpit?
Oh the hypocrisy! WHY does it not drench them in eternal fire?!
The few Democrats who dared say Preznit lost his shit did so by tweet. That oughta handle it. :-(
I'm thinking more of the party in charge. And the doofus that heads it.
I got that, just saying the Dems use of Twitter is just as lame and useless See: Chuck Schumer.
That's now where all the readers are. On X. On BlueSky. On Facebook.
The president’s words should be read out loud verbatim at all churches supporting him!
Remember when Joe Biden whispered to Barack Obama that passing Obamacare was “a big fucking deal?” That was brought up constantly.
I'm so old I remember that--and the apoplexy over Biden's "crude language" and Obama's allowing it to enter his ear.
Shocking!!
Jeff, I like Scrub-o-Matic 5000™ as your opening entry to name the NYT sanewashing machine, but let’s open this up and see if someone can come up with an even better name.
My entry is The A.G. SulzHamBurger Helper, Sewage Treatment Machine and Informational Sausage Maker™ for $51.99, and if you order now they throw in a one year All Access subscription to The New York Times, good for wasting an hour a day playing Wordle™ Connections™ and Pips™ instead of learning how the world is coming to the stupidest end that Alien A.I. could possibly devise
This is why Jeff Tiedrich and Aaron Parnas at getting my money and not the NY Times and Washington Post. I don't play Wordle or any other games, and recipes aren't worth the cost. Most of them have meat in them anyway and I have a shelf of vegetarian cook books.
Just fyi, you can play Wordle without a subscription. But I cancelled my NYTs and WaPo subscriptions the day Bezos refused to endorse Harris and the NYTs headline about Harris working (or not) at McDonald's. I don't pay any news outlet. I subscribe to Substack.
The NY Times was dead to me in 2016 when it became obvious how they had their thumb on the scale for Trump. They CREATED the whole "her emails" "scandal" which the rest of the media picked up. They ran more front-page stories about the emails, following Comey's blunderous letter, in the six days before the election than they ran about ALL policy issues combined in the previous 69. They also ran five times more stories about the A-rated Clinton Foundation which is still raising hundreds of millions of dollars to address health care and other poverty-driven issues in both the U.S. and abroad (especially essential given Trump's abolishing of USAID) than they did about the criminal Trump Foundation which had its charter pulled because of numerous violations. (Facts courtesy of Columbia Journalism Review)
All absolutely true. The 'Times used to be one of the most respected news outlets in the world. Now I trust what the Iranians say more than the 'Times' reporting of Trump.
So did I.
Absolutely two of the best! 👌
I would add that I also enjoy the Meidas Report and the Contrarian and will probably subscribe as soon as the money is there. Many people I know also like Heather Cox Richardson and she is good especially for in-depth background pieces, but not in my wheelhouse exactly.
Yes, I have been following HCR for 8 years. Robert Hubbell is another as is Simon Rosenberg and another humorist, Andy Borowitz. Plus, I sometimes tune into Wajahat Ali, Qasim Rashid, and Dean Obeidallah for different perspectives.
I also subscribe to Andy Borowitz. But I'm very strategic. I suggest to friends of mine who are overwhelmed with the news to pick one or two good newsletters such as Parnas or Meidas, read those in the morning and evening, and then go about your day. Reading 20 takes on the latest Trump post is causing a lot of people I know to become fearful, depressed and paralyzed. If that's not you, by all means subscribe to 20 sources!
Leave Wordle out of this. :).
Just the same ‘ol shit-different day!
The Bannon news made it difficult to keep my breakfast down. I will be practicing self-care today at 1:00 p.m. No 25th Amendment from a cabinet that is so scared of him that they wear shoes that don't fit. No impeachment from the GOP majority in congress who don't want their sweet insider trading deals to dry up.
Agreed. I’d rather scoop my cat’s box and scrub my toilet than listen to other the type of shit coming out of his mouth.
you missed that the felon was late to today's Easter Egg roll.
& you're getting a break to prepare yourself for his press briefing at 1 pm.
That image of Trump reminds me of a SNL skit where a newscaster was interviewing people after an earthquake and on TV right out their names. One of them was Holden Twodicks.
Not sure how I missed that one😃
Well, I'm certainly sorry that I missed it. It sounds brilliant.
https://youtu.be/nv6FMEvNiWo?si=bodfzkbxGRHMPOVS
Maybe your phone is not functioning! How can 17 other stories about the cussing lunatic NOT have come in AFTER writing this? 🤔
I meant the SNL skit
Some world leader, vulgar and crass
Never will have an iota of class
Endlessly mendacious
Pointlessly loquacious
Threatens the world and fires our brass
Yes!!!
Brilliant, as usual. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Wish you’d somehow rhymed class with ass…. As in “what an ass”
Maybe tomorrow
I was waiting for that!
Interesting how Jake Tapper edited out the “praise be to Allah” part of the tweet!
I wondered about that! Hmm, Jake. Why did you skip that part?
He remembers Charlie Hebdo.
There's a name I haven't heard in a long time.
Possibly he knows the context in which it was used is offensive to Muslims.
To be fair, the entire post was offensive to everyone.
No excuse
this is why you go to original sources. I don't need American media (& it's endemic) writing 100 words or whatever to paraphrase instead of just directly quoting.
which includes Roll Call's archive of the felon's tweets. (cause I'm not giving twitter traffic). https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/topic/social/?platform=all&sort=date&sort_order=desc&page=1
He’s a FPOS
I have to give props to the MS-NOW bunch, as I only counted two who did not repeatedly read that vile posting aloud, in full--as well as have the text message on screen over and over. They were having a field day, pointing out how revolting it was and, even more, how unhinged. So.Very.Close to "what the fuck is wrong with you"................
why didn't the orange turd invoke his fellow messiah JC?
What the AF was that part, actually?
Can the raccoons commence chewing a little more rapidly until they have NO MORE brain left….I mean, c’mon…can’t be much in there now!
are you sure there is ANY left in there?
😂
"sigh. why did I even bother to ask?"
I don't ask anymore. It's been ELEVEN FUCKIN' YEARS that the press has been pandering to Trump. And why wouldn't they? They're all in corporations or owned by billionaires and have no interest in increasing their own tax rates by backing A GOOD CANDIDATE when a piece of shit one promises them the moon.
ELEVEN FUCKIN' YEARS. That's WHY there's a Substack.
I think it's more complex than that. In 2016, The NY Times, which basically sets the agenda for all the "lesser" media, worked overtime to tear down Hillary and gloss over Trump's sins, of which they were well aware because they'd been covering him for 40 years. But I don't think their tax rates had much to do with it. The candidates were so unevenly matched – one clearly incredibly qualified, the other not at all — that to leave that alone and cover it honestly would've mean Hillary running away with the race. And they needed a horserace to keep people engaged and reading. So they covered up or ignored things they knew about Trump (such as his bankrupting casinos in Atlantic City and basically the whole town, a story mostly covered by USA Today) while fabricating Hillary's sins, such as their hit job on the Clinton Foundation, where they even massaged facts to make it look worse, and of course HER EMAILS which they made into the biggest campaign issue of 2016 and the one the entire race ultimately hinged on, as I can attest from my canvassing. It was the sole reason given to me by voters at their doors who opened by saying "Of course I would never vote for Trump but I just don't like Hillary." (I canvassed almost exclusively in the Black inner city.)
When asked why CBS was giving 41 times the tv airtime to Trump than they gave all of the other candidates combined, during the primary season and afterwards, Les Moonves, the CEO, said, "Trump brings eyes to the screen. More people watching means more profit. IT MAY BE BAD FOR AMERICA, BUT IT'S GREAT FOR CBS."
And that's it in a nutshell.
Soulless motherfucker. 🤬😡💔🇺🇸
And I cannot turn off the boob tube fast enough when his image comes up...That fucking VOICE!! ughhhhhhh
Les Moonves sexually harassed multiple women. Shitbags of a feather flock together.
Indeed.
Interesting as this rationale is the same answer when I asked my daughter why she is contemplating buying stock in Tesla after the damage Musk has caused to our country's economy.
I know people who said that. “I don’t like either of them.” Dumbasses who I will never forgive
Or just couldn't bring themselves to (horrors!) vote for a WOMAN! (No matter how qualified)
That was basically what I heard while canvassing, but they didn't like Trump for real reasons and they didn't like Hillary because they fell for a fabricated smear job. When I asked people what about the emails bothered them, they had no idea what it was about. It was so frustrating.
The GOP never forgave Hillary for advocating for children when she was first lady.
She was against the "traditional family," they wailed.
I know a guy who wouldn't vote for Hillary because "she walks funny".
And of course we remember the criticism that her voice was "shrill." Even if it were true, no voice is more annoying than Trump's.
Like the MAGA media smear about Kamala's "cackle." My grandmother cackled and could make strong men weep.
So true, I refuse to listen to his dead voice. I will be exceedingly happy when I never have to hear it again.
MSM gave Trump as much exposure throughout Biden's term as they did during his campaign and first term. It never relented. Every damned day they've stampeded to Trump for his opinion. They own this.
And yet, MAGA still contends that the crazy left owns all of mainstream media. Go figure.
And why is that a surprise? (There is no "Liberal Media." Not even PBS or NPR. I was involved with the media for over thirty years, so I know that.)
This, as with everything else they claim about the left, is 180 degrees from the truth.
PBS/NPR are de facto leaning right because of their rigid inherence to "bothsidesism," which is why I stopped listening. They frame every issue as having two exactly equal sides, which is false. Sometimes there's only one truth, and sometimes an issue can have 5 or 6 sides.
A clear example. In 2010, NPR reported on a proposal President Obama suggested offering two free years of education after high school. They found some guy to attack his proposal, insisting all students aren't qualified for college. I looked the guy up and he was not an expert in higher education or job training programs: he was a professional Obama hater whose number they probably had to oppose anything Obama proposed.
I don't recall if Obama was proposing just college or any post-secondary program, but it would have been more interesting if they had brought on someone from a community college, someone from a union apprenticeship program and someone from some other job training program to talk about the different opportunities for education that could be provided to young people after high school. But they just wanted to "both sides" it. Also lazy journalism.
It's been a long, harrowing eleven years, too. We had four hopeful years with Biden, and then a woman ran again and, boom, Trump's back.
I'm big mad that Biden endorsed Kamala and that was that. WHAT did we expect? Fuckface does not get voted in against a man...
I don't understand what you're implying here.
PRECISELY..We have Substack, FreeSpeech tv, Meidas Touch,Amy Goodman and many more! But not with the reach of the mega stations. Many, like me, haven’t listened to corporate owned news for years.
Amy Goodman has truly the only show on cable that spits out truths non-stop!
Hey all you evangelical fanatics
Who can’t see through his moral acrobatics
He never goes to church
He’ll leave you in the lurch
Your blind brains need some informatics
They’re part of the grift.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
25th anyone? Anyone out there?
I don't think this batch of sewer clowns would ever 25th Donny, no matter how deranged he gets. but it's still symbolically important for our press to be calling for it. open your mouths, you fucking cowards.
They all need to resign like Spork-Foot-MTG. Suddenly, she’s the voice of sanity for the Republican Party. I did not have that on my bingo card.
Don’t be fooled. She’s still a reprehensible POS
She is--but, still: every time she says something that is sane, it trickles into the right-wing bubble of her former constituents; some of them are still listening to her.
One more reason for me to proud to be from Georgia /s.
He is their meal ticket. They won't get rid of him.
Not until they get past the point where the couchpusher could serve two full terms, methinks. Gee, maybe I should get on one of those betting sites and bet on it.....?
That's EXACTLY what I've been thinking! They don't want JD to take over until he is eligible to run twice!
I disagree. They don't want JD in because they know that their power will all vanish. JD cannot get elected on his own. He simply doesn't have the fictional charisma that MAGAs project onto Trump.
He’s also a cretin who MAGA can’t warm up to because of his wife’s skin color. Such irony!
Don't worry, he will soon be dumping Usha. They will both agree that he can't get ahead with her as baggage so she will back down and give her children the best possible life.
I know. Isn't it sad? The Democrat, Amy Acton, may win the race in Ohio this year because her opponent is a brown-skinned Hindu with a funny name, and MAGAs may not want to bother to get to the polls to vote for him. Oh well.
That’s a long shot bet. But Thiel and his comrades will be pouring enough money to “burn a wet mule” into the Shillbilly’s campaign.
They can "pour" what they want, but Trump was elected because of a delusion he was able to sell; that he is a strong, powerful, confident individual, an amazing businessman and a self-made billionaire. All fiction, but MAGAs believe it. Vance has no fiction they buy.
But everyone believes he romanced a couch. He's just that kind of guy...
Before the cheat to win election of 2024, I saw on FB some of the NH cult saying that they wished it was JD that was running because he made so much more sense than Fuckface. I must say I was surprised...
The sewer clowns’ job prospects outside of fondling Dear Leader’s bollocks are shit with few exceptions.
And the people below them should probably start filling out those welfare forms now.
Jeff, 🎯 (sewer clowns-so accurate 😄)
Bueller? Bueller?
We both thought of it at the same time!
No. Remember the magic feather in Dumbo, it made the little elephant believe he could fly? That's what the 25th is for us. It was a useless bit of political theater put out to remind us that presidents aren't supposed to be forever, and that we should get rid of bad ones. The actual amendment itself is not workable, it requires the Cabinet to effectively conspire against the president, and could be nullified by Congress or the Supreme Court. Miles Taylor published a piece on this today.
It's always been "Of and By the People". We're all there is. He's forced out of office by a major shift in politics, the details of which are fuzzy at best. So far, our representatives, the people we hired to manage the government for us* have not seen adequate reason to move against Trump. No one even seriously questions his attempts at criminalizing dissent, why should they step into the breach. Like Congress, our non-governmental institutions have just rolled over and died at the first threat from Trump*. They are no longer factors in any of this.
I'm now pretty confident Trump is going to do something stupid enough, and egregious enough, that it will impact enough of us to begin movement. Nuke Iran. Slaughter a thousand American protesters. But not yet, anyone even dimly aware are still waiting until November. A lot is happening between now and then.
*Footnote: none of these people are our 'leaders'. They follow us. They work super-hard to try and turn the tables and effectively enslave us, but it's harder than it looks. Donny is merely a creature of his followers, someone else will be a creature of us. And so it goes.
or Fuckface could just die...
Quite frankly, I'm not sure we deserve to have the problem solved for us. I think we have to do it. Builds character.
Yeah, there is that. It would be the start of a "new conversation".
Appreciate the nod to Vonnegut, BTW. Miss him.
Beuller?
They sanewashed it because their corporate owners are on the same team as America's Pilonidal Cyst.
Seth, 🎯🎯
To get personal, there came a time last year where I finally needed to call my county’s crisis care unit to help assess my spouse’s troubling behavior and threats. This led to ER, memory care unit, and her dying of a progressive brain condition two and a half months later.
I join all those who feel in their gut and know with their brain that our country needs to take the drastic step of calling in the crisis care unit and at the very least take away Trump’s and his fellow vampires’ driving licenses.
My sincere condolences. I've had a similar experience with my mother. It is not a pleasant journey, to be sure.
My condolences to you too. From a spiritual perspective it was like living in our own lives the Passion. Being taken away, imprisoned as it were, making decisions without knowing, stepping out nonetheless , showing up ..being present all along the way and as the end came…
And that’s why I only read Substack and The Guardian.
The Guardian doesn’t mess around:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/05/trump-iran-threats-politician-reactions?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
as has been pointed out (Andy Borowitz is one), the proper use of an apostrophe rules out that that tweet was actually written by the felon. I think SecDrunk has the keys to the felon's twitter.
Maybe he and Nosferatu collaborated.
I’m aware. But at least The Guardian used the actual quote
YES! I subscribe to them too.
Great journalism there!
Just keep writing, Jeff. Yours is a sane voice in a sea of insane, duped and blind morons.
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I don’t think I can watch his press conference today without blowing out my vocal cords or putting my hand through the TV. But I know you’ll take one for the team Jeff, and report back in the only style with which I can handle the news. And at this point, I think we need to extend the offer of a Pulitzer to any reporter who asks ANY republican member of Congress, “What the fuck is wrong with you?”
I never watch or listen. I read transcripts. I value my life -lol.
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I hope he takes off his diaper and opens it on his head! Classic stuff!
Do you know when that kind of comedy will go out of style? It'll be right after the last human being on earth dies.
If Jake Tapper needs a new book topic ... oh never mind. 'memba when the NYT was the "paper of record"? If it weren't for Substack, Tiedrich, Richardson, Wilson, etc, I wouldn't have a fuckin clue because mainstream media is dead to me.
The proper BBC referred to it as "expletive-laden Trump threat."
See, AP, NY Times, etc. you can report on the actual content of the tweet without repeating bad words.
In this instance, I think the source should be directly quoted. This is what our president said, word by f'ing word. If you don't like it, don't vote for vulgar morons.