ADVISORY: it's only a matter of time before I put up a post where I say Iraq when I mean Iran. I almost did it today, and caught it at the last minute. please be gentle with me when it happens
When I was living in Teheran, I was told Shah Reza Pahlavi changed the name of his country from Persia to Iran because it sounded like "Aryan." He modeled his entire regime, down to the secret police, on Hitler and we (the U.S.) were gung-ho there for it.
A children's book that I used to have my 3-5 graders read, or read to them is called It Ain't So Awful, Falafel by Firoozeh Dumas. It teaches some modern Persian/Iranian history.
While I was taught to pronounce it "E-rahn," I still remember George Bush always saying "I-ran" when he named the country.
I think maybe people who live in countries beginning with a vowel are sensitive on this point. I do remember, from long ago, an Italian girl friend constantly admonishing me, "It's not EYE-talian! It's IT-talian!" (After the first two or three times, I was just teasing her.)
A British colonel during WWII allegedly told his men about some Roman ruins in Libya, "These were apparently built by the Eyeties sometime before the war."
No, that was his father who did the name-change, in the 30s to suck up to Hitler. The UK and USSR (shortly after Barbarossa) invaded to get rid of him. He agreed to abdicate in favor of his son (that son being the Shah we knew) and go into exile in Bombay. The UK tricked him, taking him to South Africa instead so he would have a harder time plotting with people back in Iran.
"Iran" is the historic name not just for Persia but for all lands speaking languages related to Farsi (Persian), and it sounds like "Aryan" because it is etymologically the same word: "Aryan" is the Sanskrit form (originally referring to upper-caste people), and like "Iranian" it means "the people who know how to do things" with cognates in Greek arete "excellence" (hence "aristocratic") and Latin ars "art" (hence "artistic").
According to AI Overview: ""Persian" refers to the ethnic group native to the Fars province, and while they are the largest ethnic group within Iran, they are not the only one. The term "Iranian" is more encompassing, referring to the nationality of anyone holding citizenship within Iran."
Sharon's right. The Persian language is called Farsi. But where I live we have Persian after school care and summer school. And of course, Nowruz, little boys' favorite holiday.
All of the Iranians, or part Iranians that I have known considered themselves Persian. However, I understand that they might not be all of the population in Iran.
He has declared the Persian Gulf the "Arabian Gulf"; this could lead to confusion with the larger body into which it empties, the "Arabian Sea" which I guess we have to rename the "Persian Sea" now.
I know actor Sarah Shahi (PERSON OF INTEREST, BLACK ADAM—but don't hold it against her!) uses "Persian" in preference to "Iranian"—her parents fled Iran after the Ayatollahs took over, so she was mostly raised here in the U.S.
She's my second choice to play Lt. Eve Dallas of J.D. Robb's IN DEATH books after Stana Katic (yes, Beckett from CASTLE). The only reason she's not equally my first choice with Katic is because Eve is tall for a woman, and Shahi is, like, 5'3"—you wouldn't know it because she really brings the badassery when it's needed, as she did on PERSON OF INTEREST. They once did a shot where Amy Acker jumped off the back of a truck to embrace Shahi, and I was really surprised to see how tall Acker was compared to her!
Watching Truth Social posts by Trump every hour, each more insane & unhinged than the previous one as he circles the drain of a malignant narcissist’s descent into dementia, makes it that much more ridiculous that media just spent a month on Biden while pretending Trump is sane.
Which makes me laugh each time. It is akin to “I would like to thank” (v “I thank”) and “Feel free to contact me” (v Please call me by date.”) Corp no-sense words.
I live in the US and I can never keep the ‘I’ states straight. Actually, on a good day I can’t even remember most of them. ‘I’ countries with two syllables and four letters?; no damn way.
No, he imagines he's royalty (as in noble peace prize and barron), ergo: British, ergo AluMINIum. I know it took me a looong time and a lot of laughter from my new American friends to pronounce it aluminum.
Substack does allow editing—those three dots at the upper right-hand corner of your posts include "Edit" as an option, both on browsers and the Substack mobile app itself.
I just wish they'd allow bold, subtitles, strikethrough, images and video in responses as well.
When you say "post ", do you mean posts like the one Jeff just did? Or do you mean comments like we're doing here?
And are you doing these on a laptop or desktop, or on some mobile device if on a mobile device like a phone or tablet? If the latter, the three dots are on the lower right hand side beneath your post, because Sunstack R Grate with UI, they R they R! 🙄
I know this because I'm doing it right now on my phone!
Sorry, a lot of people mix keep saying "Posts" when they mean Notes or replies on here....
Are you using a personal computer, or a mobile device like a smartphone or iPad? If you're on a computer, click on DASHBOARD (top of the main Substack page, right hand side), which will give you a page with links to your last few (three or four) Posts, including three dots to the upper right of each listing, where "EDIT" and "UNPUBLISH" are both listed as options.
If you're on a mobile device? You have to go into Substack from your browser, not the app itself (because...reasons!), then follow the instructions in the last paragraph like you were on a computer.
Why Substack, who heavily pushes their mobile app, does things this way makes NO sense to me, at all....
PS: I hope this makes sense to you, given I can't add images in replies. If not, tell me and I'll write a quick Post explaining how to Edit Posts on Substack, which seems to be more than Substack is doing! 🤦♂️
Jeff does edit his posts, and he has in the past—but first he has to have somebody tell him he's made a typo, which means he gets flooded with comments from...people like me, who say "Hey, you said 'Iraq' when you meant 'Iran'! Ha-Ha!"
Jeff has often edited his posts-- after it got emailed to thousands of people with the uncorrected text, prompting numerous correction comments even after he has already fixed it.
For some reason I no longer get Jeff's posts in my email, don't know what I did (I assume it's my fault).
It's better to click through to the Substack source and not read the emailed version, anyway.
Two reasons for it:
One, the author gets the advantage of a higher open rate, which does not count when only the email is read, and two, the updated version of the post is what is seen, instead of the original.
My take is that Big Brother is manipulating the citizens to believe anything to forget everything that came before, so nothing makes any difference. Unquestioning compliance.
Did that myself couple days ago. Started off ok with Iran then it became Iraq, Iran, Iraq🤦♀️🤦♀️ Caught it after I hit post, then edited. You’re human. You’re definitely excused
Donny went from Gulf Messiah to global time-out in record time. NATO trimmed their summit just to avoid his toddler tantrums—imagine being so unbearable the entire free world schedules around your mood swings.
He rants about genius pilots and collapsed rocks, but even the Pentagon whispered, “Yeah, that did nothing.” Now he's beefing with Iran, Israel, and gravity itself, while the rest of us are just trying to build cities that don’t suck.
Meanwhile, NYC voters just handed the mic to someone who actually cares about people. Affordable housing? Free transit? Telling ICE to take a hike? That’s real power, Donny—not the imaginary kind wrapped in diaper diplomacy.
Blessed be the meltdown,
Virgin Monk Boy
("Ceasefire between your butt and your diaper" was a prophecy, not a suggestion.)
Como is washed up. He's corrupt just like Trump. They used to fight over power when he was governor in Trump's first term. I think this new guy should have a chance at being mayor. Just my opinion.
I'm so sick of corruption in government. The Republicans are the worst, but occasionally the Ds are pretty corrupt too. And in Berkeley, the property developers have bought off most of the city council, and I believe, the League of Women Voters (!!!) mayor and they are so corrupt, that I will no longer vote for tax increases. This is me, who went to Berkeley in the Sixties, who has lived here longer than most of the city council (all?) have been alive, helped plan and build People's Park and knows the true story (True Story--I remember before we had homeless people here). Mamdani is my hero! Affordable housing! My citycouncilwoman is big on "middle housing". We don't need "middle" housing. We need AFFORDABLE housing and rentals. I notice housing prices are dropping to the high $900Ks! Not enough. $250,000 would be good, if it doesn't have solar or any 20th century amenities. The motto should be: Waste not, want not. That's how we did it, and I learned from my parents and the Berkeley Co-op. I still have their books on how to save on food.
Where I live houses in the high 500's are being built. They are not large homes. Unless you have generational wealth, you can't afford a mortgage of that size.
What are interest rates these days? When we bought our house in 1992, the interest rate was 9 3/4%. I went to real estate agents saying I could afford $750 a month for house payment, property taxes, and insurance. We bought a foreclosure for $112,500, with $30,000 down. Two bedroom, 836 square feet. We're still here... House has been paid off since 2018. And we have solar and a storage battery. Two EVs. My son hasn't paid for gas since 2016.
Decades ago a friend from France asked me the difference between Democrats and Republicans. I said you have to distinguish between the national and local levels. On the national level, the Republicans are the party of corruption and the Democrats are the party of incompetence, but on the local level, it's the other way around.
I'd disagree with both of those at different times. It wasn't until Tom Bates (D) became mayor of Berkeley that corruption started to flourish here. Republicans in California government have been corrupt since Reagan first became governor. I really felt Jerry Brown as governor and mayor of Oakland was incorruptible. But our state legislature has been on the people's side for at least 20 years. San Francisco does have some issues, and I'd hate to seem like a racist, but the Chinese who used to run permitting and development were a very difficult group to get around if you didn't want to pay extra. I knew a couple people who had real difficulty getting businesses started if they didn't want to pay someone off. Berkeley's a pretty small town and if you went to elementary, junior high and high school here, and babysat a lot, and worked as a live in babysitter, you know a lot of people. People who were in the same fraternity as Bates in the Fifties, for example, pretty much had exposure to the kind of person he was since then. You might know that his predecessor in the State Assembly from Berkeley quit after four years because he was so disgusted with the corruption. According to my witness, now a retired superior court judge, Tom could barely restrain himself from running out of the law office to and file for the office. Twelve years in the Assembly and Senate, then he came home and became mayor. Now he and his wife (another former mayor of Berkeley) spend six months a year traveling around the world, every year.
I'm kind of "anyone but Cuomo." Mamdani is making a lot of promises no one could keep, and they sound wonderful and people are loving them. What happens when the rubber meets the road of governing though? He's also a blatant anti-Semite but there's no place he can go with that. I don't see him launching Trump-like attacks on the Orthodox community (although maybe he should since they tend to support Trump and are often one-issue voters: Israel, first and foremost.) Here in Cleveland, a similar young, shiny guy with no experience was elected in 2021 and is now running for re-election essentially unopposed (Republican LaVerne Gore doesn't count. She always loses 15-85). He hasn't be amazing, he hasn't been bad. I was skeptical but he ran in 2021 against Kevin Kelley Who Lied To My Face, kind of a Cuomo w/o the sexual assault accusations.
Sadly, I doubt that will stop Cuomo from running anyway as an Independent, given he's got all the Machine Democrats, like anybody named "Clinton", in his corner! They LOVE business as usual in New York, and successfully shoved Zephyr Teachout away from running for any office in the state whatsoever.
No doubt New York City residents voted for the best candidate yesterday. I would have done the same if I was there and not in CA. However, even though Cuomo stepped on his dick, as so many penis' in power do, I believe he showed leadership during Covid keeping Americans informed, and with daily updates how to survive. He even went to DC to grovel for equipment. I will always be grateful and believe he saved numerous lives in such a dangerous time.
I agree. I’m not crazy about Cuomo these days - his smarmy meter runs too high now - but he did right by the people during Covid. I understand all the backlash about the nursing homes, but I don’t think anyone else could have done any better during all that. But yeah, time for him to hang up his holster.
I think the "leadership" people were gushing over during the early COVID days was mainly infatuation with his blunt calling out of Trump. He made a LOT of mistakes and cost a lot of lives too. He's also still an asshole and always was. I got so annoyed with all the infatuated progressives talking about how the Democrats should dump Biden and make Cuomo their candidate. Yeah, that would've worked out well.
No, he really didn't. Cuomo bragged about how low his COVID-19 numbers were while fudging the books—not counting people in rest homes or assisted living, and not doing anything, like ordering Social Distancing or ordering that PPEs be distributed, to reduce the risk of their dying in there.
Maybe he tried to get funding for NYS from Trump, and he was early on Social Distancing for jobs and businesses. But he left the elderly (of which I am one now!) to twist in the wind and die....
I wish he would run back to his home and never show his sleazy face again. Yes, it's virtually certain that Mamdani won't be able to deliver on any of the glossy promises that energized young voters — and young voters who vote for glossy promises from glossy candidates are the most fickle of voters. But at least women won't be getting abused in the mayor's office and he won't be letting the police run even more amok in one of the country's safer cities. I can believe the gall Cuomo has.
NATO attendees made a big deal of something The Trump Dump said and, according to the WP they were nearly genuflecting. The WP has gone to the dark side in the past 24 hours. Makes me want to stick needles under my fingernails. It wouldn't hurt as much.
“Bunker busting bombs barely busted any bunkers”!!! 😂😂. We need you more than ever. If you can’t find something to laugh at we’re truly doomed.
Is it true the military didn’t tell him what they were really going to do because they were afraid he’d blab it? I mean how fucking stupid can anyone be!?!?🤦♀️
You said they sent two sets of bombers out, one heading east, one heading west, so Trump wouldn't know the plan and blab it. Imagine, the Commander in Chief has to be kept in the dark as he's such a risk. Why does that not translate to ignore his orders, he's unfit?
And, can you imagine how much this flight of ego massaging cost to do?? Could have just handed over the money to NYC for a shit-ton of city-owned grocery stores! or maybe even some subsidized decent housing....yay, Mamdani!!!
I read the Iran has been mining for the rare mineral antimony. After a decade they recently found 7000 tons. China hordes 50% of this rare mineral that's used for climate science, weapons, and many other uses. China cut the United States off in December. The US desperately wants to get its hands on it. Iran isn't interested in Nuclear weapons as much as they are vested in mineral mining. 🤔 Could this be what this entire shit show was about? Just wondering.
King Shitpants is the transactional fuckwad of distraction. While the billionaire bros going after resources we apparently do not have. MSM doesn't tell us shit. Democrats aren't adding any daylight on this issue. The Fascist Party is getting compensated for their silence. I'm just guessing here. 🤷
"multimillion dollar bunker-buster bombs barely busted any bunkers" is going to be my go-to when I'm testing myself to see if I've had a stroke or not.
My then 13-year-old brother came up with "over the shoulder boulder holder" to describe a bra, and 'lower decker pecker checker' to describe a jock strap. Boys!
I wish I could. I live in FL and he is still busy trying to institute his authoritarian fever dream. The Alligator Alcatraz concentration camp is insane.
I'm sad that we didn't get to see the picture of 6' 5" Donnie next to the King (?) of the Netherlands who is 6'2". I'm told that he tops Donnie and his lifts by at least two inches. I want to see that picture.
I found it but I can't find a way to share it. It's pretty funny. Dipshit is standing there between the very tall king and the queen with his stupid thumb up and a shit-eating grin on his face. He is such an embarrassment. Good Lord!
It was so nice to hear a real "King" speak so elegantly and intelligently and empathetically to President Zolynskyy. No one deserves more honor than him. I had tears at the end. That man has been through so much.
It's so thoroughly embarrassing to be represented by a gibbering mantoddler where everyone has to bend over backwards to accommodate the inevitable tantrums and napping and everything.
Know who didn't need all this? Joe Biden. He could handle a three-day summit without wilding out.
Know who else wouldn't need all this? Kamala Harris.
But alas, people wanted to prioritize their prejudice, privilege and/or Internet clout. Well you can ask the pricktator and his transnational, racist, ethnonationalist criminal syndicate for help making your lives better...in vain.
Oh, my God. It is going to be so bad when the Iranians begin another series of terror attacks. They are very, very good at that and we have been complaisant for a long time. I really doubt that Grocery Boy is up to the job.
It's more than likely that NATO didn't need to meet for more than one day with Dull Donnie present because they've already met without him. He's like the world's appendix these days; serves no useful function but can be a real pain. Also, for sheer goddamned pettiness, check out the NATO 'family photo' where Dear Leader was shunted off to the side looking like he'd slept in his clothes. Note that he's standing next to the 6'2" king of The Netherlands and is a good 2" shorter even with his Liddle Marco shoe lifts. Time and gravity are a bitch, eh Donnie?
I am immersed in schadenfreude! His hissyfit is quite delightful and really reinforces hope in karma...What a horrible mess for all of us, the US, though to mop up hopefully sooner than later.
Why did NATO accommodate him? If he’d left early, they could have gotten something done without either puking from the fumes or inciting a rage attack. This isn’t rhetorical question; I really can’t imagine why they didn’t just say “fuckity bye” & go back to work.
I agree. Did you know the money they give, I think it's based on each countries GDP, rose, because the other countries want more money in their budget to give to Ukraine? I read that, I believe, in Popular Information Substack this morning. trump is taking credit, when it has nothing to do with him....lmfao
Gotta say - just heard on NPR that they will likely face budget cuts of about ‘50%’ and we’d “better get all hands on deck, buckle up” etc etc… And you can’t help but wonder: Why does NO ONE point out that public radio $ WASN’T AN ISSUE in this election. Yet we act like this is all normal and kick into a normal reaction. Just AMAZING… Rs must be pinching themselves at how easy this is!?!…smdh
ADVISORY: it's only a matter of time before I put up a post where I say Iraq when I mean Iran. I almost did it today, and caught it at the last minute. please be gentle with me when it happens
they (or we or somebody) should do a name-regime change - "Persia" is a nice name and not likely to be confused with "Iraq"
When I was living in Teheran, I was told Shah Reza Pahlavi changed the name of his country from Persia to Iran because it sounded like "Aryan." He modeled his entire regime, down to the secret police, on Hitler and we (the U.S.) were gung-ho there for it.
A children's book that I used to have my 3-5 graders read, or read to them is called It Ain't So Awful, Falafel by Firoozeh Dumas. It teaches some modern Persian/Iranian history.
While I was taught to pronounce it "E-rahn," I still remember George Bush always saying "I-ran" when he named the country.
Bush was good at fucking up words but not as good as Trump. Trump turned it into an art form.
Bush had trouble speaking English. Probably still does.
HaHaHaHa
I think maybe people who live in countries beginning with a vowel are sensitive on this point. I do remember, from long ago, an Italian girl friend constantly admonishing me, "It's not EYE-talian! It's IT-talian!" (After the first two or three times, I was just teasing her.)
A British colonel during WWII allegedly told his men about some Roman ruins in Libya, "These were apparently built by the Eyeties sometime before the war."
No, that was his father who did the name-change, in the 30s to suck up to Hitler. The UK and USSR (shortly after Barbarossa) invaded to get rid of him. He agreed to abdicate in favor of his son (that son being the Shah we knew) and go into exile in Bombay. The UK tricked him, taking him to South Africa instead so he would have a harder time plotting with people back in Iran.
"Iran" is the historic name not just for Persia but for all lands speaking languages related to Farsi (Persian), and it sounds like "Aryan" because it is etymologically the same word: "Aryan" is the Sanskrit form (originally referring to upper-caste people), and like "Iranian" it means "the people who know how to do things" with cognates in Greek arete "excellence" (hence "aristocratic") and Latin ars "art" (hence "artistic").
Thank you for that explanation 🙃
Re the name change: I never heard that before. WOW!!! I wonder why the Ayatollahs haven't changed it back to "Persia"??
According to AI Overview: ""Persian" refers to the ethnic group native to the Fars province, and while they are the largest ethnic group within Iran, they are not the only one. The term "Iranian" is more encompassing, referring to the nationality of anyone holding citizenship within Iran."
Thanks so much for this information! (I do think that "Persia" is far more melodic than "Iran", though. :-) )
Sharon's right. The Persian language is called Farsi. But where I live we have Persian after school care and summer school. And of course, Nowruz, little boys' favorite holiday.
Yep!
Wow! That is pretty awful and he was also from the reports that I remember about political prisoners, etc...
I live in Berkeley and we call the people of Iran (many of them live here) Persians.
In LA/Beverly Hills, Iranians refer to themselves as Persian
Only if they ARE Persian (a large ethnic group in Iran, but not the only). Kurds do not call themselves Persians, even if they are from Iran.
Those Persians are largely Jewish, as opposed to Muslim.
Same in northern California
All of the Iranians, or part Iranians that I have known considered themselves Persian. However, I understand that they might not be all of the population in Iran.
I have a good friend who is Iranian, and she always refers to it as Persia.
If the Idiot-in-Chief thinks he can rename the Gulf of Mexico, why can’t we rename other parts of the world?
He can start by changing Mara lardo to Motel Shit Scum.
He has declared the Persian Gulf the "Arabian Gulf"; this could lead to confusion with the larger body into which it empties, the "Arabian Sea" which I guess we have to rename the "Persian Sea" now.
It's only a matter of time before he attempts another ridiculous, stupid shit move to rename something that makes no fucking sense.
Yes. That is what the Persian cab driver that I know from him parking at a cab stand on my block here in Germany uses as well. He says, Persian.
I know actor Sarah Shahi (PERSON OF INTEREST, BLACK ADAM—but don't hold it against her!) uses "Persian" in preference to "Iranian"—her parents fled Iran after the Ayatollahs took over, so she was mostly raised here in the U.S.
She's my second choice to play Lt. Eve Dallas of J.D. Robb's IN DEATH books after Stana Katic (yes, Beckett from CASTLE). The only reason she's not equally my first choice with Katic is because Eve is tall for a woman, and Shahi is, like, 5'3"—you wouldn't know it because she really brings the badassery when it's needed, as she did on PERSON OF INTEREST. They once did a shot where Amy Acker jumped off the back of a truck to embrace Shahi, and I was really surprised to see how tall Acker was compared to her!
Good idea
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Watching Truth Social posts by Trump every hour, each more insane & unhinged than the previous one as he circles the drain of a malignant narcissist’s descent into dementia, makes it that much more ridiculous that media just spent a month on Biden while pretending Trump is sane.
- @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Which makes me laugh each time. It is akin to “I would like to thank” (v “I thank”) and “Feel free to contact me” (v Please call me by date.”) Corp no-sense words.
I slipped up with friends in my verbal rant... Iran/Iraq. One of those countries needs to change their name gawddammit!
Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing - Stevie Wonder opening rap:
I've been to, you know, Paris, Beirut...
You know, I mean, uh... Iraq, Iran, Eurasia, you know –
I speak very, very, um... fluent Spanish
I live in the US and I can never keep the ‘I’ states straight. Actually, on a good day I can’t even remember most of them. ‘I’ countries with two syllables and four letters?; no damn way.
We will know what you mean. The fact that you cover this clusterfuck every day without going insane is good enough.
An honest mistake.
The confusion would be completely understandable. I’m just waiting for team donnie to start rambling about yellow cake uranium. Mmm…cake.
In aluminum tubes.
Mmm…aluminum…
No, he imagines he's royalty (as in noble peace prize and barron), ergo: British, ergo AluMINIum. I know it took me a looong time and a lot of laughter from my new American friends to pronounce it aluminum.
When is Substack going to allow editing for posts???
Substack does allow editing—those three dots at the upper right-hand corner of your posts include "Edit" as an option, both on browsers and the Substack mobile app itself.
I just wish they'd allow bold, subtitles, strikethrough, images and video in responses as well.
Thanks, but when I click on those three dots in one of my own posts, there is no “edit” option! What am I missing?
When you say "post ", do you mean posts like the one Jeff just did? Or do you mean comments like we're doing here?
And are you doing these on a laptop or desktop, or on some mobile device if on a mobile device like a phone or tablet? If the latter, the three dots are on the lower right hand side beneath your post, because Sunstack R Grate with UI, they R they R! 🙄
I know this because I'm doing it right now on my phone!
Posts! Like the one Jeff posted and we’re all commenting on!
Sorry, a lot of people mix keep saying "Posts" when they mean Notes or replies on here....
Are you using a personal computer, or a mobile device like a smartphone or iPad? If you're on a computer, click on DASHBOARD (top of the main Substack page, right hand side), which will give you a page with links to your last few (three or four) Posts, including three dots to the upper right of each listing, where "EDIT" and "UNPUBLISH" are both listed as options.
If you're on a mobile device? You have to go into Substack from your browser, not the app itself (because...reasons!), then follow the instructions in the last paragraph like you were on a computer.
Why Substack, who heavily pushes their mobile app, does things this way makes NO sense to me, at all....
PS: I hope this makes sense to you, given I can't add images in replies. If not, tell me and I'll write a quick Post explaining how to Edit Posts on Substack, which seems to be more than Substack is doing! 🤦♂️
Make sure you are logged in.
And if editing a post is allowed, then Jeff should be able to edit his own posts when he accidentally types a wrong word!
Jeff does edit his posts, and he has in the past—but first he has to have somebody tell him he's made a typo, which means he gets flooded with comments from...people like me, who say "Hey, you said 'Iraq' when you meant 'Iran'! Ha-Ha!"
oh, me too!
You can edit your comments. Click the 3 little dots to the R of your post and edit away!
Yep. Thanks. I know that! But as far as I know, we can’t edit posts. That’s why Jeff apologized in advance in the comments.
You can easily edit posts—I do it all the time!
Me too. I just deleted one I put up. Not a post; a comment.
I can edit my posts, so probably can everyone else.
Jeff has often edited his posts-- after it got emailed to thousands of people with the uncorrected text, prompting numerous correction comments even after he has already fixed it.
For some reason I no longer get Jeff's posts in my email, don't know what I did (I assume it's my fault).
Yeah.
It's better to click through to the Substack source and not read the emailed version, anyway.
Two reasons for it:
One, the author gets the advantage of a higher open rate, which does not count when only the email is read, and two, the updated version of the post is what is seen, instead of the original.
You can DELETE but not EDIT.
We’re not getting any younger.
And Leon is getting LARGER!
(Airplane)
as country crooner Alan Jackson once sang in a song,
I watch CNN, but I'm not sure I can tell you
The diff'rence in Iraq and Iran
It is like in Orwell's 1984 where they keep trading out the alliances so everyone gets confused.
I suspect that George Orwell’s 1984 is required reading for all maga(ts), at least for the rare few who can actually read.
Never happen, however needed.
I didn’t say that the way I meant. I meant to say that since they behave that way, they have read it. It just came out wrong.
My take is that Big Brother is manipulating the citizens to believe anything to forget everything that came before, so nothing makes any difference. Unquestioning compliance.
Just think of "Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Iran" (to the tune of Barbara Ann by the Beach Boys).
Jeff, how about being gentle with yourself when it happens?
It's confusing. You've got a Q and you've got an N. I do it all the time. It drives my wife crazy. I always apologize.
Ive done it. Dont sweat it.
Did that myself couple days ago. Started off ok with Iran then it became Iraq, Iran, Iraq🤦♀️🤦♀️ Caught it after I hit post, then edited. You’re human. You’re definitely excused
It’s an easy mixup!!
Donny went from Gulf Messiah to global time-out in record time. NATO trimmed their summit just to avoid his toddler tantrums—imagine being so unbearable the entire free world schedules around your mood swings.
He rants about genius pilots and collapsed rocks, but even the Pentagon whispered, “Yeah, that did nothing.” Now he's beefing with Iran, Israel, and gravity itself, while the rest of us are just trying to build cities that don’t suck.
Meanwhile, NYC voters just handed the mic to someone who actually cares about people. Affordable housing? Free transit? Telling ICE to take a hike? That’s real power, Donny—not the imaginary kind wrapped in diaper diplomacy.
Blessed be the meltdown,
Virgin Monk Boy
("Ceasefire between your butt and your diaper" was a prophecy, not a suggestion.)
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 re Diaper Diplomacy
Been calling it dementia diplomacy.
Only in MAGA world is obliterated conflated from a months-long setback.
Orangeshitstain LOVES that they are accommodating it.
I will vote for any Dem who can say those words on tv like Meet the Presd...'he can't even do a ceasefire tween his butt & his diaper" 😅🤣
Cuomo may still run in November.
Como is washed up. He's corrupt just like Trump. They used to fight over power when he was governor in Trump's first term. I think this new guy should have a chance at being mayor. Just my opinion.
I'm so sick of corruption in government. The Republicans are the worst, but occasionally the Ds are pretty corrupt too. And in Berkeley, the property developers have bought off most of the city council, and I believe, the League of Women Voters (!!!) mayor and they are so corrupt, that I will no longer vote for tax increases. This is me, who went to Berkeley in the Sixties, who has lived here longer than most of the city council (all?) have been alive, helped plan and build People's Park and knows the true story (True Story--I remember before we had homeless people here). Mamdani is my hero! Affordable housing! My citycouncilwoman is big on "middle housing". We don't need "middle" housing. We need AFFORDABLE housing and rentals. I notice housing prices are dropping to the high $900Ks! Not enough. $250,000 would be good, if it doesn't have solar or any 20th century amenities. The motto should be: Waste not, want not. That's how we did it, and I learned from my parents and the Berkeley Co-op. I still have their books on how to save on food.
Where I live houses in the high 500's are being built. They are not large homes. Unless you have generational wealth, you can't afford a mortgage of that size.
What are interest rates these days? When we bought our house in 1992, the interest rate was 9 3/4%. I went to real estate agents saying I could afford $750 a month for house payment, property taxes, and insurance. We bought a foreclosure for $112,500, with $30,000 down. Two bedroom, 836 square feet. We're still here... House has been paid off since 2018. And we have solar and a storage battery. Two EVs. My son hasn't paid for gas since 2016.
We have the same thing here
Decades ago a friend from France asked me the difference between Democrats and Republicans. I said you have to distinguish between the national and local levels. On the national level, the Republicans are the party of corruption and the Democrats are the party of incompetence, but on the local level, it's the other way around.
I'd disagree with both of those at different times. It wasn't until Tom Bates (D) became mayor of Berkeley that corruption started to flourish here. Republicans in California government have been corrupt since Reagan first became governor. I really felt Jerry Brown as governor and mayor of Oakland was incorruptible. But our state legislature has been on the people's side for at least 20 years. San Francisco does have some issues, and I'd hate to seem like a racist, but the Chinese who used to run permitting and development were a very difficult group to get around if you didn't want to pay extra. I knew a couple people who had real difficulty getting businesses started if they didn't want to pay someone off. Berkeley's a pretty small town and if you went to elementary, junior high and high school here, and babysat a lot, and worked as a live in babysitter, you know a lot of people. People who were in the same fraternity as Bates in the Fifties, for example, pretty much had exposure to the kind of person he was since then. You might know that his predecessor in the State Assembly from Berkeley quit after four years because he was so disgusted with the corruption. According to my witness, now a retired superior court judge, Tom could barely restrain himself from running out of the law office to and file for the office. Twelve years in the Assembly and Senate, then he came home and became mayor. Now he and his wife (another former mayor of Berkeley) spend six months a year traveling around the world, every year.
I'm kind of "anyone but Cuomo." Mamdani is making a lot of promises no one could keep, and they sound wonderful and people are loving them. What happens when the rubber meets the road of governing though? He's also a blatant anti-Semite but there's no place he can go with that. I don't see him launching Trump-like attacks on the Orthodox community (although maybe he should since they tend to support Trump and are often one-issue voters: Israel, first and foremost.) Here in Cleveland, a similar young, shiny guy with no experience was elected in 2021 and is now running for re-election essentially unopposed (Republican LaVerne Gore doesn't count. She always loses 15-85). He hasn't be amazing, he hasn't been bad. I was skeptical but he ran in 2021 against Kevin Kelley Who Lied To My Face, kind of a Cuomo w/o the sexual assault accusations.
One article suggests Mamdani may not be the best choice for some of his views. I agree, my take is NYC said we have had enough of Cuomo.
Sadly, I doubt that will stop Cuomo from running anyway as an Independent, given he's got all the Machine Democrats, like anybody named "Clinton", in his corner! They LOVE business as usual in New York, and successfully shoved Zephyr Teachout away from running for any office in the state whatsoever.
No doubt New York City residents voted for the best candidate yesterday. I would have done the same if I was there and not in CA. However, even though Cuomo stepped on his dick, as so many penis' in power do, I believe he showed leadership during Covid keeping Americans informed, and with daily updates how to survive. He even went to DC to grovel for equipment. I will always be grateful and believe he saved numerous lives in such a dangerous time.
I agree. I’m not crazy about Cuomo these days - his smarmy meter runs too high now - but he did right by the people during Covid. I understand all the backlash about the nursing homes, but I don’t think anyone else could have done any better during all that. But yeah, time for him to hang up his holster.
I think the "leadership" people were gushing over during the early COVID days was mainly infatuation with his blunt calling out of Trump. He made a LOT of mistakes and cost a lot of lives too. He's also still an asshole and always was. I got so annoyed with all the infatuated progressives talking about how the Democrats should dump Biden and make Cuomo their candidate. Yeah, that would've worked out well.
No, he really didn't. Cuomo bragged about how low his COVID-19 numbers were while fudging the books—not counting people in rest homes or assisted living, and not doing anything, like ordering Social Distancing or ordering that PPEs be distributed, to reduce the risk of their dying in there.
Maybe he tried to get funding for NYS from Trump, and he was early on Social Distancing for jobs and businesses. But he left the elderly (of which I am one now!) to twist in the wind and die....
I wish he would run back to his home and never show his sleazy face again. Yes, it's virtually certain that Mamdani won't be able to deliver on any of the glossy promises that energized young voters — and young voters who vote for glossy promises from glossy candidates are the most fickle of voters. But at least women won't be getting abused in the mayor's office and he won't be letting the police run even more amok in one of the country's safer cities. I can believe the gall Cuomo has.
Run in the NY Marathon??
😄
The mayoral election.
Only if he’s hoping everyone loses
NATO attendees made a big deal of something The Trump Dump said and, according to the WP they were nearly genuflecting. The WP has gone to the dark side in the past 24 hours. Makes me want to stick needles under my fingernails. It wouldn't hurt as much.
Amazing how fast tRump went from hero to zero just opening his anus mouth.
“Bunker busting bombs barely busted any bunkers”!!! 😂😂. We need you more than ever. If you can’t find something to laugh at we’re truly doomed.
Is it true the military didn’t tell him what they were really going to do because they were afraid he’d blab it? I mean how fucking stupid can anyone be!?!?🤦♀️
yes it's true, I had a link to the reporting a couple-three days ago. can't remember in which post exactly
You said they sent two sets of bombers out, one heading east, one heading west, so Trump wouldn't know the plan and blab it. Imagine, the Commander in Chief has to be kept in the dark as he's such a risk. Why does that not translate to ignore his orders, he's unfit?
And, can you imagine how much this flight of ego massaging cost to do?? Could have just handed over the money to NYC for a shit-ton of city-owned grocery stores! or maybe even some subsidized decent housing....yay, Mamdani!!!
$280,000,000 was the cost. Sure, Rethuglicans are worried about debt
They only worry about the debt when Democrats want to do something to help ordinary working people. As we all know.
whoa, baby. guess I just can't imagine numbers that big!
If only women ruled things. The positive stuff that could happen…….
Amen, sister!! Bring on the Matriarchy!!
Because blind allegiance to the mango messiah.
I’ll go back and look cause you seriously can’t make this shit up. 🤓
brilliant.
I read the Iran has been mining for the rare mineral antimony. After a decade they recently found 7000 tons. China hordes 50% of this rare mineral that's used for climate science, weapons, and many other uses. China cut the United States off in December. The US desperately wants to get its hands on it. Iran isn't interested in Nuclear weapons as much as they are vested in mineral mining. 🤔 Could this be what this entire shit show was about? Just wondering.
Hey Lisa! I had no idea about this. It sounds completely plausible. 🤔
King Shitpants is the transactional fuckwad of distraction. While the billionaire bros going after resources we apparently do not have. MSM doesn't tell us shit. Democrats aren't adding any daylight on this issue. The Fascist Party is getting compensated for their silence. I'm just guessing here. 🤷
That's even better than suzy sells seashells by the seashore.
rubber baby buggy bumpers
how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Here you go...
https://metromindful.com/hardest-tongue-twisters
TY 🤓
🤣🤣🤣
You're talking about Taco Don.
It’s as poetic as “Peter Piper Picked a Peck…” was that the National Enquirerer or the Sewer Clown from DOD? Same difference.
😂😂😂. Exactly!
He's just scratching the surface, unfortunately.🤢🤢
"multimillion dollar bunker-buster bombs barely busted any bunkers" is going to be my go-to when I'm testing myself to see if I've had a stroke or not.
Rubber tire baby buggy bumpers.
My then 13-year-old brother came up with "over the shoulder boulder holder" to describe a bra, and 'lower decker pecker checker' to describe a jock strap. Boys!
We called bras that back in the 70s, minus the "the". Nice to know some funny shit still exists in the lexicon. 😂
Your brother didn't come up.with that. I remember hearing it in the 60s.
Well, that may be true, but to then eight-year-old me he did.
Your brother sounds like a fun guy.
Just had dinner with him -- believe it or not, he is a certified genius according to the IQ tests they gave him in grade school.
I like it! 🤣
Brilliant! I'm laughing at this as hard as I laughed at Jeff!!
😂😂😂
🤣👏🏻
Lmao 🤣
LOL kinda forgot Ron DeSantis existed.
yeah, that tweet was from back when Chicken-Fucking Ron thought he had a chance to be president
Poor Ron. Just him and the pudding cups now.
😂😂
Ugh, I guess we can take heed that we dodged that one. Gross.
As a Florida resident I take pleasure in watching MoRon disintegrate in plain sight!
What's he saying about the loss of all the workers now with ice running the show? Crickets?
He's happy to have them all die in a mass casualty event at his new concentration camp in the Everglades.
Gawd!
This is Armoggedan. I probably spelled that wrong since I've never typed it before. Sad.
Meatball Ron lives! Pass the marinara.
He’s still here fucking Florida.
I wish I could. I live in FL and he is still busy trying to institute his authoritarian fever dream. The Alligator Alcatraz concentration camp is insane.
I keep hoping the governor goes for a site visit and has an up close encounter with one of the local wildlife.
Humans are not the top of the food chain, no matter what we want to believe!
Thankfully, we have all forgotten Governor DeStructo!
Ha! Me too! I was like, Ron who? 😂
I'm sad that we didn't get to see the picture of 6' 5" Donnie next to the King (?) of the Netherlands who is 6'2". I'm told that he tops Donnie and his lifts by at least two inches. I want to see that picture.
I found it but I can't find a way to share it. It's pretty funny. Dipshit is standing there between the very tall king and the queen with his stupid thumb up and a shit-eating grin on his face. He is such an embarrassment. Good Lord!
It was so nice to hear a real "King" speak so elegantly and intelligently and empathetically to President Zolynskyy. No one deserves more honor than him. I had tears at the end. That man has been through so much.
What a doofus with that thumb.
We all know where we want him to
stick that thumb, right?
Here ya go
https://prod-img.telegraaf.nl/public/incoming/y8yjwg-anp-530455816.jpg/alternates/SIXTEEN_NINE_1200/ANP-530455816.jpg
6'4" my ass.
6'4" in dog years, so to speak 🐶
According to his NY arrest records, Little Donny Fuckface is 5'10" and 287#.
He doesn't look an ounce over 285 tho
That sounds a lot more realistic.
Check Donny's expression. At least His Majesty didn't call him Shorty.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news
I wish he had. That would have been fun.
https://www.google.com/search?q=pic+of+trump+standing+witj+king+of+netherland&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari&sei=PxxcaK-_O5zdwN4PmqKqqAk#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:98cae81a,vid:129dHp3DdRc,st:0
Quote of the day: “Donny can’t even arrange a ceasefire between his butt and his diaper.”
-Jeff Tiedrich 😂
You win the internet today Jeff!
That was truly brilliant. Jeff for the win.
It's so thoroughly embarrassing to be represented by a gibbering mantoddler where everyone has to bend over backwards to accommodate the inevitable tantrums and napping and everything.
Know who didn't need all this? Joe Biden. He could handle a three-day summit without wilding out.
Know who else wouldn't need all this? Kamala Harris.
But alas, people wanted to prioritize their prejudice, privilege and/or Internet clout. Well you can ask the pricktator and his transnational, racist, ethnonationalist criminal syndicate for help making your lives better...in vain.
❌ Qualified Woman… 😞🇺🇸
Qualified (aka: ‘shrill’) :/
Amazing how that word is never used to describe a man.
Good one Seth! Man toddler indeed.
Why not just send someone else to these summits/ meetings/ etc? Like that 22 year old doofus that was hired for terrorism control, can’t be any worse.
You mean the fetal alcohol syndrome looking grocery store whiz kid?
Oh, my God. It is going to be so bad when the Iranians begin another series of terror attacks. They are very, very good at that and we have been complaisant for a long time. I really doubt that Grocery Boy is up to the job.
Okay, Shitler, put a billion dollars in the swear jar.
🤣
It's more than likely that NATO didn't need to meet for more than one day with Dull Donnie present because they've already met without him. He's like the world's appendix these days; serves no useful function but can be a real pain. Also, for sheer goddamned pettiness, check out the NATO 'family photo' where Dear Leader was shunted off to the side looking like he'd slept in his clothes. Note that he's standing next to the 6'2" king of The Netherlands and is a good 2" shorter even with his Liddle Marco shoe lifts. Time and gravity are a bitch, eh Donnie?
LOL he actually has to look up to speak to him!
He can’t admit his big beautiful bombs were a bust. His big mouth is what always gets him into trouble. He just can’t seem to keep it shut.
1. Trump contradicting the people he put in place is gold (plated crap). Let the shitcanning commence.
2. The hen house guarding Fox wanted your eye focused on the Trump-Proof NYC box.
GOLD (plated) 😂‼️
I am immersed in schadenfreude! His hissyfit is quite delightful and really reinforces hope in karma...What a horrible mess for all of us, the US, though to mop up hopefully sooner than later.
Why did NATO accommodate him? If he’d left early, they could have gotten something done without either puking from the fumes or inciting a rage attack. This isn’t rhetorical question; I really can’t imagine why they didn’t just say “fuckity bye” & go back to work.
I agree. Did you know the money they give, I think it's based on each countries GDP, rose, because the other countries want more money in their budget to give to Ukraine? I read that, I believe, in Popular Information Substack this morning. trump is taking credit, when it has nothing to do with him....lmfao
Gotta say - just heard on NPR that they will likely face budget cuts of about ‘50%’ and we’d “better get all hands on deck, buckle up” etc etc… And you can’t help but wonder: Why does NO ONE point out that public radio $ WASN’T AN ISSUE in this election. Yet we act like this is all normal and kick into a normal reaction. Just AMAZING… Rs must be pinching themselves at how easy this is!?!…smdh
There is hope in NYC.
NYC - DON'T MESS UP, HEAR?
That's pretty inevitable. NYC is intractable.