at 1,901 words, I think this is my longest post to date — but by the time I add the atrocities-to-come to next year's Memorial Day post, it's going to be a fucking encyclopedia
Millions have been willing to make the ultimate sacrifice so this asshat can fly around in a gilded bordello and gaze 40,000 feet down at the millions of people he conned
Well, he flew over my dirt driveway after he scurried out of West Point and got to read “Trump’s Corruption makes US weak.” Took me an hour to paint it.
I was just about to comment this was one of your best. Thank you, and looking forward to next year's encyclopedia. Happy Memorial Day! We'll all get through this together. I promise.
Don-Old is so fucking depressing. Same ignorant shit, different day, every day. Stoopidity off the charts. Regurgitation inducing spew from his gaping maw. MAGATY minions backing his every fatal gesture.
These fuckers envision a utopia of the future where only the oligarchs reside. They may let some folks live in slums, somebody’s gotta screw those cell phones together, right?
Depressing is right. King Shitpants wouldn't piss on his wife if she was on fire. Our government guardrails are in a flight or fight positions. Shitpants and his Federalist/Heritage crew are psychologically holding this country hostage with fear. For everyone and entity who caves to this, he wins. He's a coward. Slap that bitch down and he'll go cry in a corner. That's a fact. Just like families are ripped apart by these pathological fuckwads, so is our country, as well as others. It's grieving. The greed whores can't win. Piss in their cornflakes, daily.
That's one of the ways he keeps clicks and eyeballs on him. The uncertainty. As bad as you know he's going to be, if Melania caught fire live on air, we'd wait to see. Will he happily watch her burn, or eagerly whip it out and piss all over her? Who knows?
They really do. But they're not quite thinking it through-- how does the water get to their homes, who builds their homes, who wires their homes, who provides the TV programs they want to watch, who gasses up their private planes, who flies their planes, who are the flight attendants, who makes sure the planes don't crash, you know, little things like that. They're just as oblivious as to "how everything works" as the worst MAGA rubes, which is probably why the nonsense they feed them resonates so well.
My ex-wife has friends that live on Long Island. All of the ridiculous cliches about how out of touch the rich are, its worse than that. And their kids are equally unaware, having no clue what it means to not have a shitload of money. That one does NOT, just decide at the last minute to fly to florida and enjoy a disney weekend. That $50,000 for a week stay at a 5 star hotel on Key West, is what some people make for an entire year, not a bargain compared to the $75K for a suite down from the street "cheaper" hotel. That one doesn't give a new Range Rover to your high school graduate who will need a car in the fall to drive to college. Need to tax these assholes, because they're exactly like that one kid that pees in the pool, and ruins it for everyone.
I’ve been saying this forever, Cat! Trump and his minions are doing away with all the people who provide services (whether that’s manufacturing their fancy cars and phones, who serve them in restaurants and on planes, who protect the air they breathe and the water they drink). What happens when they all die off? What will happen then? Of course, I’m assuming that Prez Pantload will be dead and gone, leaving only his memory and a bad taste in our mouths.
"Their performative bullshit is insulting to every dead and living soldier. Honoring the dead means more than ceremonies and photo ops. It means keeping faith with the living. It means ensuring that those who come home broken get the care they need to heal. It means fulfilling the promises we made when we sent them to fight our wars.
Every veteran who dies by suicide because they couldn't get mental health care is a broken promise. Every veteran who becomes homeless because their disability benefits were cut is a betrayal of our values. Every veteran who dies from cancer that could have been treated with proper VA funding is blood on our hands."
"Your column should be read by every single person in this country."
Confession time . . . I went to YouTube yesterday where they had a display of his speech to the West Point graduates. I clicked randomly on one, not to watch the speech (God, no) but to read the comments. The MAGAs were in rare form: God bless, Thank God, he is such a wonderful president, hearts, flowers, flags, prayers, and on and on and on. I'll never do that again. But it did reinforce one thing for me: NEVER engage a MAGA in ANY kind of conversation.
It is important that you keep these posts somewhere offline so future historians will have access to evidence of what was actually said and done. Back them up locally on secure media such as DVDs or portable hard drives and NOT on any network connected computer and for fucking sure not on the cloud.
Future generations will thank you just as we do now.
Thank you Jeff for helping me remain sort of sane.
Well none of the idiots creating the subject matter will own up to it all. But it is critical for those of us who abhor the loss of democracy to read every word coming from the enemies’s pie holes.
Two things: (1) 1,901 words, and I was engrossed by each one. And then grossed out (again) by the lack of compassion, callousness, and cruelty (again). Thanks for wrecking my Memorial Day weekend, Jeff. /s (2) My flag is hanging off my front porch. No longer must traitors be allowed to co-opt this as a symbol of their faux love of country.
I have no illusions about Little Donnie Fuckface. There’s no low low enough. He’ll keep digging just for the clicks.
Who I do feel rip shit about are the folks who know better (e.g., Senators snd Congresspeople), who know veterans in their constituencies, or have even worn the uniform and been to war. Who themselves rely on VA benefits. How the fuck did they vote for this abomination? Fucking over veterans who’re more patriotic than the rest of us and definitely more than President Toddler Pants and Veep Eyeliner? Cutting research money for child cancer? C’mon. How can you do that and feel good about yourself?
Jeff, you make an excellent point. It isn't just Dwumpy Twumpy that's disrespectful of our men & women in uniform. The GQP waves the flag, and SAYS how much the love our troops. Then doesn't want to fully fund the VA. Or expand care for the disabled, or pay for treatment for those whose concussed brains keep them from entering the workforce. Dems need to scream about this every day! Who votes for fully funded VA? Dems do. Who didn't sic his brain damaged attack DOGE to shut down VA help lines. Biden didn't. And in a parallel issue, who is the Law & Order party? Sure as shit isn't the Republicans. About half of them are child rapists. The rest are con-artists, drunks, thieves, campaign finance law violators, you name it. Another issue that ALL Dems need to scream about. The GQP knows the future demographics, regardless of the small spike of young Latino's voting for Red Cap ShitStain, is solidly against these rich assholes who hate all non-whites.
Well said. Every move Felon47 makes is an expression of utmost contempt for everything we value. He is clear that all our principles are crap & the lives of citizens mean nothing to him.
Not to mention his lack of qualifications and chronic boozin would preclude him from working KP duty. Over the weekend, I had the pleasure of speaking with three Vietnam era vets who were raising money for the cash strapped VA. If what I heard is the consensus of most vets and military personnel currently serving, these heartless turds of the GOP are going to have their asses handed to them in the mid terms. It was a good example of FAFO and how wonderful it would be to see these worthless shitweasels unemployed.
Not in some Republican-run states, but elections are held in states. And if a couple of those were on the verge of 'swinging' the other way, there's no doubt those Republcans in charge of that state's elections would break or change at the last minute every rule in their state constitution to allow them to stay in power.
You don't choose Hic!Seth if you expect to face any accountability. And each of these potted plants is chosen specifically to destroy the agency so it can be looted for parts, and in some cases the regulation of discrimination can be destroyed.
When Jeff says “watch what they do, not what they say,” he’s not just offering advice—he’s performing spiritual triage on a nation suffering from chronic cognitive dissonance.
This isn’t just hypocrisy. It’s heresy.
Because when you send people to war, break their bodies and minds, then laugh while blocking their care, that’s not bad policy—it’s blasphemy in boots. The same ghouls who clutch the flag with one hand are flipping off veterans with the other.
Trump didn’t just dishonor our troops—he made a blood sport of it. Mocking POWs, ghosting Gold Star families, body-shaming amputees, and trampling sacred ground like a bloated Nero on a selfie spree.
And still, they call him “God’s chosen.” Somewhere, the Book of Amos just caught fire in protest.
So this Memorial Day, spare us the flag-wrapped platitudes. If your version of patriotism leaves soldiers bleeding out while billionaires rake it in, you don’t love America—you’re looting her corpse.
The hypocrisy has been going on for so long! This disgusting treatment of our military seems to be something that the Dems could have illuminated more frequently as it occurred.
Do service members realize the damage the Republicons are doing to their healthcare and safety? It is documented fact that the Republicons are responsible for the degradation of (and the initial refusal of) VA benefits. Why would a soldier back these lying conmen?
I still can’t understand why so many of the military continue to support a draft dodger who continues to cut veterans’ services and who called the best of them “suckers and losers”.
Let’s hope it goes better than that. I was living near Kent State at the time. The behavior of the Guard that day was deplorable. I’ll leave it at that.
For the same main reasons, minorities vote for Trump. Racism and misogyny. Military bases all have FOX on. Many of our military comes from the South and working class families. The cult's largest number of members. Look at the way blacks, women, gays and trans people have been treated in our military's history. Like many other MAGAs, the cuts that Trump has made in services don't directly affect them. Many retired or former service people have civilian jobs that provide them with health insurance. They don't need VA benefits. I worked for VA for several years. Most of the VA patients I saw were the ones that had lower incomes. Unfortunately, it seems that today's human nature is that if it doesn't directly affect you, you don't care about what's going on.
It took my husband 54 years to get 90% compensation for the time he spent in Vietnam. We have been together for 55 years and psychiatrists did all they could to could to deny claims until Biden enacted the PACT Act. He is finally getting the care he and others deserve.
52 Republican Senators voted against an amendment to protect toxic-exposed veterans and survivors' benefits. This vote raised concerns about potential funding vulnerabilities for the PACT Act.
It is in the oath...I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God. (Title 10, US Code; Act of 5 May 1960 replacing the wording first adopted in 1789, with amendment effective 5 October 1962)
72% of white veterans according to Pew Research (in latest survey). Surprisingly, only 11% of black veterans voted Repub. For active military, it's been an overall 61% to 37% differential in last 3 presidential elections, no racial breakdown. So, you'd win that bet!
Memorial Day -a day of recognition to those who have served our nation. Yes, they take an oath to Uphold The Constitution. Isn’t the next part of the oath designed to help service members understand the hierarchy of command? With that question in mind, when any service member is asked to uphold an unconstitutional order they can defer to that hierarchy knowing that the paramount law and order they must follow is “our” Constitution. This oath they swear to is a lifetime oath.
I just don’t understand how so many of/or anything Drumpf and his illegal regime and his EO’s and Edicts can be carried out?
Oh!!! I know why!!!! Our government was overthrown by enemies, foreign and domestic x2. January 6, 2021 when there was an armed attack and insurrection on The Capitol and January 6, 2025 another form of insurrection occurred when SCOTUS decided we, in violation of our Constitution, could elect a felon and now live under a monarchy, GodKing Drumpf, who has been awarded the power of one, to enact anything he and his foreign and domestic owners/ handlers desire and the merry regime blindly carries by out.
Sooo, there is no Constitution, Rule of Law, No oath of office, and a stochastic terrorist, his clan and klan and militia, and regime running our country.
Our military has never been tested that I know of, to directly disobey an unlawful order from their Commander in Chief. People in Congress take an oath as does the Supreme Court. How's that been working out? I no longer trust anyone to do the right thing, unless I see it with my own eyes.
I'm afraid you're right, Deborah. If the upper chain of command blindly pass a trump unconstitutional order on (and with trump, isn't nearly everything he says unconstitutional?), most active service members will almost certainly not disobey a superior officer's order; the entire military structure is built around the hierarchy in place.
June 14th The military is about to be tested when Trump, his occupying forces/militia//insurgency will be aided and abetted under the cover of our US military (parade). They are most certainly planning a false flag event at his “big military parade/Birthday celebration in D.C.
His handlers and he will use this as their opening to finish the overthrow of our government. (The 2024 election interference-Musk/Doge and all of the hackers/agency take downs, theft of our data systems, sell out of our intel, his Cabinet pics and his agency appointments are the insurgents seizing/winning the battles and take down of our Constitutional Republic.
We must start having a network of spy’s and counterintelligence in place so that we are ready with a counter offensive plan to take back our country.
THESE FUCKING, STUPID, MOTHERFUCKING, COCKSUCKERS BETTER FUCKING REALIZE THEY WOULDN'T BE WHERE THEY ARE IF IT WASN'T FOR OUR FALLEN BROTHERS AND SISTERS WHO FOUGHT FOR THEIR RIGHT TO BE THE ASSHOLES THEY TURNED OUT TO BE AND NONE OF THEM HAD THE COURAGE TO EVEN SERVE SO THEY NEED TO SIT THE FUCK DOWN AND SHUT THE FUCK UP!!! I SALUTE MY FALLEN BROTHERS AND SISTERS AND TO THOSE OF US STILL HERE, WE STILL HAVE A CHECK TO CASH!!! FUCK TRUMP AND MAGA!!!
Yes Jeff! They are all non-patriots! My Dad , Col James F Hill (ret) US Army would’ve been so upset at the horrible display by Trump at West Point commencement ceremony. Wearing his silly red hat. My Dad is no longer with us. Glad he was spared this at least. What a vile,corrupt person Cadet Bone Spurs is! Despise him
The generation that would have publicly stood up to Trump about the military was my parent's generation that fought in WWII. Unfortunately, most of them are gone. I doubt back in the day after WWII, that a candidate like Trump would have had a chance in hell of winning. Not so today. Trump is a rich, white boy draft dodger. There is no record of anyone in the Trump family being in the military. I went to a private college in the late 60's. Some of the rich kids from the northeast were on the 6 year college program. Parents kept giving money to the school so they could delay their graduation date because they knew that they would be drafted as soon as that student deferment ended. Rich privilege, especially white, rich privilege has always been around. It used to be a little more subtle, that's all.
I’m with you. My dad (Captain, USN-R) voted R his whole life, but Donnie’s obvious disdain for our veterans and heroes finally turned him around. He didn’t live to get the chance to vote for Kamala, but I’m glad he wasn’t here to see that disgrace of a speech to the West Point cadets.
Of course, they fucking hate our troops. It’s the same with babies; they love fetuses until they're born as babies, then they tell them and their parents to fuck off. They treat our military the same way. They like them as props but suggest they have obligations to them, and they're gone, baby gone. Lying hypocrites will always be lying fucking hypocrites.
But the parade for his birthday…I seethe just thinking about it. Let’s pray for a big weather event to cancel it. Let the wind and rain soak his stupid makeup and thatched combover into a puddle of goo. May lightning strike him.
I said a nice prayer for rain. Not really hurricane country or tornado country, but strong winds and torrential rain would be nice. And it wouldn't cost a thing. Since we have no more weather forecasters, no one would know a storm was coming.
They are callous, dishonorable, and mean clods. I am running out of imprecations to heave at them. When tRump's time comes, his bloated corpse should be weighted down and lowered into a septic tank.
I'd rather see him Mussolini'd, hung upside down on the National Mall, sans stinking diaper, and then dragged through the same streets that his dickless military parade rumble through. And then attach his faux billionaire estate to pay for all his crimes and horrible treatment of the many that he harms. He is without question one of the most vile human pigs in the history of the world. Oh, and the same goes for Nosferatu Miller.
Imagine on the most important day of your life, a day you've worked like hell to achieve, you and your brothers and sisters are treated to a disgusting display of dementia indused sociopathic narcissism from a wannabe dictator who can't be bothered to shake your hand and who sees you as a tool to use for his own greed. .. makes me sick.
Thanks for this column, Jeff. I didn’t notice that it was longer than usual. Like many of your readers (I suspect), I was a kid in the 60s and 70s, when it was “unfashionable” to respect and appreciate the military, thanks to Vietnam. My father was 19 in 1944 when he went to Europe in the army. He was one of those veterans who refused to speak of his experiences when he survived his combat duty and returned home. Just before his death he must have felt the need to unburden himself and spoke to us about being a gun-spotter at the Battle of the Bulge. I had no idea. How many veterans have locked away their horrific memories for all these years? I felt awful that he had never shared this with us while my mother was still alive. I knew a few guys who got deferments from going to Vietnam…I can understand why a parent would try to protect their children from going to war (I’m not giving Trump or his father a pass, though). But what kind of selfish sociopathic SHIT would insult men who gave their lives or who were wounded serving their country? We know who: the guy who should be getting down on his creaky knees and kissing the feet of his soldiers. I don’t usually write long comments on Substack, but I’m so grateful my father made it home from WWII. And I hope the Asshole-in-Chief (aka King Donny Diaperload) doesn’t get us into another war so some other daughter has to worry about her father.
My dad was also in Europe in WWII, assigned to Patton's staff. He never talked about his service, at all.
My husband's great-uncle was in the Pacific, and his group entered Hiroshima not long after the bomb was dropped. One night he sat across from me and described some of the horrors. His wife of 50 years said he'd never told her or any of the family about any of it before. I don't know why he picked me, but I was glad he'd finally decided to talk about it.
Then I had a friend who was in 'Nam, assigned to lead forward recon ("search and destroy") missions. When the flashbacks hit, he'd have a row of shots lined up on the bar, and pound them until he blacked out. I stood suicide watch a couple times. He ended up drinking himself to death in his 40s.
All this to say that the orange obscenity and his followers simply have no clue what they mock so outrageously. F*ck THEM!
I’m sorry for the loss of your friend, Denise. The Vietnam Vets are truly a lost generation in many ways. How chilling, to have a family member who entered Hiroshima. The hair on my arms stood up when I read that.
The hair on my arms stood up when I wrote it, too.
As for my friend who served in 'Nam, when I knew him, we were both living in a small town. Of the population of 450, another vet died ar 32 from pancreatic cancer that his doctor thought was due to his exposure to Agent Orange. Another vet died in his 40s from liver cancer. Another two died in their 40s from complications from alcoholism. I knew them all well. That was quite a toll on such a small place.
Who knows what the percentages are among Iraq and Afghanistan vets, when DU ammuniition was being used, and there was exposure to burn pits?
Mitt Romney was another draft dodger, but he just kept it quiet. France didn't need Mormon missionaries there during the Vietnam War, especially since they were primarily a Catholic country.
So Jeff, what do you think is going to happen when The Orange Anal Pustule has his big beautiful microscopic-weenied masturbatory military birthday parade in DC on June 14? I am hoping Veterans show up in vast numbers and shut it all the fuck down. The only good thing about this dubious plan will be the video coverage by thousands of people that will be forever replayed on film along with fellow microscopic-weenied military displays from Kim Jung Un and other dickless fascists.
I'll tell you what's going to happen -- there will be a YUGE (sic) national protest against this malignant misanthrope -- so YUGE that it will overshadow his stupid parade that shouldn't be about him at all. It's only happening because it's the 250th anniversary of the founding of the US Army and T💩p hijacked it for his tiny-peen energy vanity project.
www.nokings.org -- show up and speak out while we still can and find your local tribe!
I am glad that my husband ,Korean War Vet, doesn't have to watch this despicable display of the MESS IN CHIEF. I often have to recall the stories Bill told me about his service. He was wounded flying the F86 in Korea. We often visited Military Cemeteries & Memorials. Who can ever forget the thousands of white crosses at Normandy. The demented man who sits in the OVAL is a shameless piece of shit.
The nice guy who used to sit next to me on the bus in high school never came back from Vietnam. He wasn't going to go to college and was drafted right out of high school. On a fair playing field, if you're going to have a draft, there are no deferments unless you are so physically/mentally disabled that you can't do any tasks. Most of the higher income and rich kids made sure they went to college to get the student deferment. I'm talking about Vietnam, not WWII. Those that fled to Canada shouldn't have been allowed to come back to the U.S. It was a war that never should have been, but 50,000 of young men my age never came home and that doesn't include the wounded numbers. Just my opinion, but I think some of our youth today would do better in life if they had mandatory service in either the military or community organizations. That includes both men and women. There are plenty of ways to help our country that don't involve going to a war zone. It might involve lost TikTok and Influencer time, but oh well. I'm not going to apologize to anyone for being a Boomer. Not that my generation is perfect or that everything was perfect when I grew up. But I am appalled at what I see now out of some of our younger citizens.
Melania is just like her husband. She is as heartless and cold, she told the world when she wore that coat that said “I don’t care, do U?” to visit children who had been separated from their parents.
That was a defining moment for me. I thought that surely it was an "Onion" article, but it was real. I'd call Melons a "c-word", but she lacks warmth and depth.
What kind of “trophy” is Malaria, anyway? She’s not arm candy (she won’t touch him). She’s obviously tone deaf with her, “I don’t care, do you?” jacket. She absolutely refuses to sleep with him or even live with him. Where’s the trophy?
at 1,901 words, I think this is my longest post to date — but by the time I add the atrocities-to-come to next year's Memorial Day post, it's going to be a fucking encyclopedia
Millions have been willing to make the ultimate sacrifice so this asshat can fly around in a gilded bordello and gaze 40,000 feet down at the millions of people he conned
Well, he flew over my dirt driveway after he scurried out of West Point and got to read “Trump’s Corruption makes US weak.” Took me an hour to paint it.
Big high five for you! Trumps a piece of shit
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼❤️❤️❤️
You deserve an extra hot dog for your patriotism, Grace. Good for you!
Fact: I did.
You’re doing the Lord’s work!
If that’s true, the lord better up her game.
Good effort!!! Excellent!
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 One question: there is at least one big word in your statement. Do you think he could read it let alone understand it 🤓
Brilliant. Thank you for your efforts.
WOW! Grace you rock!!!
Thank you!
Not all heroes wear uniform, thank you for your part!
I was just about to comment this was one of your best. Thank you, and looking forward to next year's encyclopedia. Happy Memorial Day! We'll all get through this together. I promise.
You say a lot more in 1900 words than often times I do and three or 4000 words
Don-Old is so fucking depressing. Same ignorant shit, different day, every day. Stoopidity off the charts. Regurgitation inducing spew from his gaping maw. MAGATY minions backing his every fatal gesture.
These fuckers envision a utopia of the future where only the oligarchs reside. They may let some folks live in slums, somebody’s gotta screw those cell phones together, right?
Depressing is right. King Shitpants wouldn't piss on his wife if she was on fire. Our government guardrails are in a flight or fight positions. Shitpants and his Federalist/Heritage crew are psychologically holding this country hostage with fear. For everyone and entity who caves to this, he wins. He's a coward. Slap that bitch down and he'll go cry in a corner. That's a fact. Just like families are ripped apart by these pathological fuckwads, so is our country, as well as others. It's grieving. The greed whores can't win. Piss in their cornflakes, daily.
Or maybe he would piss on her if she was on fire, but not to help her necessarily, but for his own pleasure
You're right!!
I thought he liked to get "golden showers", not give them.
That's one of the ways he keeps clicks and eyeballs on him. The uncertainty. As bad as you know he's going to be, if Melania caught fire live on air, we'd wait to see. Will he happily watch her burn, or eagerly whip it out and piss all over her? Who knows?
Ok, you are my new Her-O!! Such imagery! Thank you!
Now I must say: your second sentence wins Top Prize in the "Best Brief Description of the Orange Sadist Category". Congratulations!
They really do. But they're not quite thinking it through-- how does the water get to their homes, who builds their homes, who wires their homes, who provides the TV programs they want to watch, who gasses up their private planes, who flies their planes, who are the flight attendants, who makes sure the planes don't crash, you know, little things like that. They're just as oblivious as to "how everything works" as the worst MAGA rubes, which is probably why the nonsense they feed them resonates so well.
My ex-wife has friends that live on Long Island. All of the ridiculous cliches about how out of touch the rich are, its worse than that. And their kids are equally unaware, having no clue what it means to not have a shitload of money. That one does NOT, just decide at the last minute to fly to florida and enjoy a disney weekend. That $50,000 for a week stay at a 5 star hotel on Key West, is what some people make for an entire year, not a bargain compared to the $75K for a suite down from the street "cheaper" hotel. That one doesn't give a new Range Rover to your high school graduate who will need a car in the fall to drive to college. Need to tax these assholes, because they're exactly like that one kid that pees in the pool, and ruins it for everyone.
SO EXACTLY THIS, A.J.!!!
“Need to tax these assholes, because they're exactly like that one kid that pees in the pool, and ruins it for everyone.”
Thanks for that, AJ. 😂😂😂
I’ve been saying this forever, Cat! Trump and his minions are doing away with all the people who provide services (whether that’s manufacturing their fancy cars and phones, who serve them in restaurants and on planes, who protect the air they breathe and the water they drink). What happens when they all die off? What will happen then? Of course, I’m assuming that Prez Pantload will be dead and gone, leaving only his memory and a bad taste in our mouths.
We can only hope that day comes soon.
Your column should be read by every single person in this country.
Another good column -
https://mailchi.mp/minocquabrewingcompany/americas-literacy-crisis-and-the-gullibility-gap-8274207
"Their performative bullshit is insulting to every dead and living soldier. Honoring the dead means more than ceremonies and photo ops. It means keeping faith with the living. It means ensuring that those who come home broken get the care they need to heal. It means fulfilling the promises we made when we sent them to fight our wars.
Every veteran who dies by suicide because they couldn't get mental health care is a broken promise. Every veteran who becomes homeless because their disability benefits were cut is a betrayal of our values. Every veteran who dies from cancer that could have been treated with proper VA funding is blood on our hands."
"Your column should be read by every single person in this country."
Confession time . . . I went to YouTube yesterday where they had a display of his speech to the West Point graduates. I clicked randomly on one, not to watch the speech (God, no) but to read the comments. The MAGAs were in rare form: God bless, Thank God, he is such a wonderful president, hearts, flowers, flags, prayers, and on and on and on. I'll never do that again. But it did reinforce one thing for me: NEVER engage a MAGA in ANY kind of conversation.
good point.
If the cult leader has accomplished anything, it’s alerting us all that they live among us.
It is important that you keep these posts somewhere offline so future historians will have access to evidence of what was actually said and done. Back them up locally on secure media such as DVDs or portable hard drives and NOT on any network connected computer and for fucking sure not on the cloud.
Future generations will thank you just as we do now.
Thank you Jeff for helping me remain sort of sane.
So well done. My dad who was buried in Arlington National Cemetery with honors thanks you. 🙏 🇺🇸
Thank you for reminding us what Memorial Day should really be about and that it isn’t about Deferment Don and his group of hypocritical bullshitters.
Well none of the idiots creating the subject matter will own up to it all. But it is critical for those of us who abhor the loss of democracy to read every word coming from the enemies’s pie holes.
Honor the vets. Denounce the traitors in DC.
Two things: (1) 1,901 words, and I was engrossed by each one. And then grossed out (again) by the lack of compassion, callousness, and cruelty (again). Thanks for wrecking my Memorial Day weekend, Jeff. /s (2) My flag is hanging off my front porch. No longer must traitors be allowed to co-opt this as a symbol of their faux love of country.
I eagerly await your post on Donny’s Bigly Beautiful Fancy Special Military Parade on June 14. I bet that will be a doozy.
June 14 will be "NO KINGS DAY" nationwide:
https://indivisible.org/statements/indivisible-and-partners-announce-no-kings-nationwide-day-defiance-flag-day-during
I'll be there!
I plan to attend one near me!
I have no illusions about Little Donnie Fuckface. There’s no low low enough. He’ll keep digging just for the clicks.
Who I do feel rip shit about are the folks who know better (e.g., Senators snd Congresspeople), who know veterans in their constituencies, or have even worn the uniform and been to war. Who themselves rely on VA benefits. How the fuck did they vote for this abomination? Fucking over veterans who’re more patriotic than the rest of us and definitely more than President Toddler Pants and Veep Eyeliner? Cutting research money for child cancer? C’mon. How can you do that and feel good about yourself?
It's a sickening situation. I'm going out for whiskey right now.
Jeff, you make an excellent point. It isn't just Dwumpy Twumpy that's disrespectful of our men & women in uniform. The GQP waves the flag, and SAYS how much the love our troops. Then doesn't want to fully fund the VA. Or expand care for the disabled, or pay for treatment for those whose concussed brains keep them from entering the workforce. Dems need to scream about this every day! Who votes for fully funded VA? Dems do. Who didn't sic his brain damaged attack DOGE to shut down VA help lines. Biden didn't. And in a parallel issue, who is the Law & Order party? Sure as shit isn't the Republicans. About half of them are child rapists. The rest are con-artists, drunks, thieves, campaign finance law violators, you name it. Another issue that ALL Dems need to scream about. The GQP knows the future demographics, regardless of the small spike of young Latino's voting for Red Cap ShitStain, is solidly against these rich assholes who hate all non-whites.
You know it's long when Gmail says "message clipped"
Write away, Jeff. All the dirt MUST be aired!
Just choosing Hegseth as DefSec was a supreme act of disrespect to the military.
Sadly, that was the point Mark. EVERY one is an affront to the nation's citizens.
Well said. Every move Felon47 makes is an expression of utmost contempt for everything we value. He is clear that all our principles are crap & the lives of citizens mean nothing to him.
Not to mention his lack of qualifications and chronic boozin would preclude him from working KP duty. Over the weekend, I had the pleasure of speaking with three Vietnam era vets who were raising money for the cash strapped VA. If what I heard is the consensus of most vets and military personnel currently serving, these heartless turds of the GOP are going to have their asses handed to them in the mid terms. It was a good example of FAFO and how wonderful it would be to see these worthless shitweasels unemployed.
You think we will ever have fair elections? With all the lies we now face?
Not in some Republican-run states, but elections are held in states. And if a couple of those were on the verge of 'swinging' the other way, there's no doubt those Republcans in charge of that state's elections would break or change at the last minute every rule in their state constitution to allow them to stay in power.
I wonder if we’ll even have an election 🤬
Paper ballots might be a safer option at this point.
It also bodes well regarding who the military might be inclined support when it comes time.
Oh yes
You don't choose Hic!Seth if you expect to face any accountability. And each of these potted plants is chosen specifically to destroy the agency so it can be looted for parts, and in some cases the regulation of discrimination can be destroyed.
In all cases.
Good point, yeah. I had meant to say that sometimes the discrimination is the primary purposes but you are right.
Agree, Mark.
Yes
🎯🎯🎯
When Jeff says “watch what they do, not what they say,” he’s not just offering advice—he’s performing spiritual triage on a nation suffering from chronic cognitive dissonance.
This isn’t just hypocrisy. It’s heresy.
Because when you send people to war, break their bodies and minds, then laugh while blocking their care, that’s not bad policy—it’s blasphemy in boots. The same ghouls who clutch the flag with one hand are flipping off veterans with the other.
Trump didn’t just dishonor our troops—he made a blood sport of it. Mocking POWs, ghosting Gold Star families, body-shaming amputees, and trampling sacred ground like a bloated Nero on a selfie spree.
And still, they call him “God’s chosen.” Somewhere, the Book of Amos just caught fire in protest.
So this Memorial Day, spare us the flag-wrapped platitudes. If your version of patriotism leaves soldiers bleeding out while billionaires rake it in, you don’t love America—you’re looting her corpse.
—Virgin Monk Boy
The hypocrisy has been going on for so long! This disgusting treatment of our military seems to be something that the Dems could have illuminated more frequently as it occurred.
Do service members realize the damage the Republicons are doing to their healthcare and safety? It is documented fact that the Republicons are responsible for the degradation of (and the initial refusal of) VA benefits. Why would a soldier back these lying conmen?
Walt, I donate to votevets.org monthly. They are fighting for vets.
Me too! One of the few monthly donations well worth every cent!!!
Couldn’t have said it better Aleksander!!
Oh man, that last sentence.....powerful visual.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻X a million
I still can’t understand why so many of the military continue to support a draft dodger who continues to cut veterans’ services and who called the best of them “suckers and losers”.
This will be the ultimate test for our Armed Forces. Will they follow our Constitution, or AnusMouthPantLoad?
Witness: Ohio National Guard May 4, 1970.
Let’s hope it goes better than that. I was living near Kent State at the time. The behavior of the Guard that day was deplorable. I’ll leave it at that.
For the same main reasons, minorities vote for Trump. Racism and misogyny. Military bases all have FOX on. Many of our military comes from the South and working class families. The cult's largest number of members. Look at the way blacks, women, gays and trans people have been treated in our military's history. Like many other MAGAs, the cuts that Trump has made in services don't directly affect them. Many retired or former service people have civilian jobs that provide them with health insurance. They don't need VA benefits. I worked for VA for several years. Most of the VA patients I saw were the ones that had lower incomes. Unfortunately, it seems that today's human nature is that if it doesn't directly affect you, you don't care about what's going on.
It took my husband 54 years to get 90% compensation for the time he spent in Vietnam. We have been together for 55 years and psychiatrists did all they could to could to deny claims until Biden enacted the PACT Act. He is finally getting the care he and others deserve.
For now.
52 Republican Senators voted against an amendment to protect toxic-exposed veterans and survivors' benefits. This vote raised concerns about potential funding vulnerabilities for the PACT Act.
Yes, I know. May they be made to walk through burn pits and feel the effects the same day.
They took an oath and support that oath.
They took an oath, as did Donald Trump, to the Constitution. They did not take an oath to the President!
A crucial point, Brenda.
It is in the oath...I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God. (Title 10, US Code; Act of 5 May 1960 replacing the wording first adopted in 1789, with amendment effective 5 October 1962)
My reference was to the military who voted for Trump, not to what those in the military would do when presented an illegal order by the President.
I'd be willing to bet that the majority of the military voted for Trump.
72% of white veterans according to Pew Research (in latest survey). Surprisingly, only 11% of black veterans voted Repub. For active military, it's been an overall 61% to 37% differential in last 3 presidential elections, no racial breakdown. So, you'd win that bet!
I don't get that either unless they're Hegseth minded.
That is the dichotomy of the situation. How can our military follow our Constitution AND the orders of a fascist POTUS, Phil?
Those that think won't follow his orders.
BUT they have the choice of not obeying those orders if they seem illegal.
Not a choice. A DUTY!
100% CORRECT!!!
Memorial Day -a day of recognition to those who have served our nation. Yes, they take an oath to Uphold The Constitution. Isn’t the next part of the oath designed to help service members understand the hierarchy of command? With that question in mind, when any service member is asked to uphold an unconstitutional order they can defer to that hierarchy knowing that the paramount law and order they must follow is “our” Constitution. This oath they swear to is a lifetime oath.
I just don’t understand how so many of/or anything Drumpf and his illegal regime and his EO’s and Edicts can be carried out?
Oh!!! I know why!!!! Our government was overthrown by enemies, foreign and domestic x2. January 6, 2021 when there was an armed attack and insurrection on The Capitol and January 6, 2025 another form of insurrection occurred when SCOTUS decided we, in violation of our Constitution, could elect a felon and now live under a monarchy, GodKing Drumpf, who has been awarded the power of one, to enact anything he and his foreign and domestic owners/ handlers desire and the merry regime blindly carries by out.
Sooo, there is no Constitution, Rule of Law, No oath of office, and a stochastic terrorist, his clan and klan and militia, and regime running our country.
We are so fucked.
You have a typo. J6 was 2021. Just in case you want to fix it.
Thanks, I appreciate that, yes 2021. Will fix.
Dijit’s not sure if he DID take that oath.
Our military has never been tested that I know of, to directly disobey an unlawful order from their Commander in Chief. People in Congress take an oath as does the Supreme Court. How's that been working out? I no longer trust anyone to do the right thing, unless I see it with my own eyes.
No they haven't but this may be the time if any have the balls to do it.
I'm afraid you're right, Deborah. If the upper chain of command blindly pass a trump unconstitutional order on (and with trump, isn't nearly everything he says unconstitutional?), most active service members will almost certainly not disobey a superior officer's order; the entire military structure is built around the hierarchy in place.
The thinkers, and I think there are many among enlisted, noncoms and officers, will refuse.
June 14th The military is about to be tested when Trump, his occupying forces/militia//insurgency will be aided and abetted under the cover of our US military (parade). They are most certainly planning a false flag event at his “big military parade/Birthday celebration in D.C.
His handlers and he will use this as their opening to finish the overthrow of our government. (The 2024 election interference-Musk/Doge and all of the hackers/agency take downs, theft of our data systems, sell out of our intel, his Cabinet pics and his agency appointments are the insurgents seizing/winning the battles and take down of our Constitutional Republic.
We must start having a network of spy’s and counterintelligence in place so that we are ready with a counter offensive plan to take back our country.
Yes, we are at war.
THESE FUCKING, STUPID, MOTHERFUCKING, COCKSUCKERS BETTER FUCKING REALIZE THEY WOULDN'T BE WHERE THEY ARE IF IT WASN'T FOR OUR FALLEN BROTHERS AND SISTERS WHO FOUGHT FOR THEIR RIGHT TO BE THE ASSHOLES THEY TURNED OUT TO BE AND NONE OF THEM HAD THE COURAGE TO EVEN SERVE SO THEY NEED TO SIT THE FUCK DOWN AND SHUT THE FUCK UP!!! I SALUTE MY FALLEN BROTHERS AND SISTERS AND TO THOSE OF US STILL HERE, WE STILL HAVE A CHECK TO CASH!!! FUCK TRUMP AND MAGA!!!
That was perfect, Phil.
Thank you. A little harsh but it made the point.
You did the all caps thing proud. Thank you sir.
I'm pissed at these soulless ingorant motherfucking cowards for dissing our troops both passed on and alive!!!
Not harsh. Real.
I suck at being fucking eloquent.
We need to be harsh to battle this traitor.
Thank you for your service and fellow soldiers, that you lost.
Thank you, Phil. Please take care. We are in this together.
Best part, FUCK TRUMP!
Yes Jeff! They are all non-patriots! My Dad , Col James F Hill (ret) US Army would’ve been so upset at the horrible display by Trump at West Point commencement ceremony. Wearing his silly red hat. My Dad is no longer with us. Glad he was spared this at least. What a vile,corrupt person Cadet Bone Spurs is! Despise him
The generation that would have publicly stood up to Trump about the military was my parent's generation that fought in WWII. Unfortunately, most of them are gone. I doubt back in the day after WWII, that a candidate like Trump would have had a chance in hell of winning. Not so today. Trump is a rich, white boy draft dodger. There is no record of anyone in the Trump family being in the military. I went to a private college in the late 60's. Some of the rich kids from the northeast were on the 6 year college program. Parents kept giving money to the school so they could delay their graduation date because they knew that they would be drafted as soon as that student deferment ended. Rich privilege, especially white, rich privilege has always been around. It used to be a little more subtle, that's all.
They were kicked out of Germany because they wouldn't serve.
I’m with you. My dad (Captain, USN-R) voted R his whole life, but Donnie’s obvious disdain for our veterans and heroes finally turned him around. He didn’t live to get the chance to vote for Kamala, but I’m glad he wasn’t here to see that disgrace of a speech to the West Point cadets.
Of course, they fucking hate our troops. It’s the same with babies; they love fetuses until they're born as babies, then they tell them and their parents to fuck off. They treat our military the same way. They like them as props but suggest they have obligations to them, and they're gone, baby gone. Lying hypocrites will always be lying fucking hypocrites.
But the parade for his birthday…I seethe just thinking about it. Let’s pray for a big weather event to cancel it. Let the wind and rain soak his stupid makeup and thatched combover into a puddle of goo. May lightning strike him.
I signed up, just to screw with them. But I'll miss it; hosting a NO KINGS rally in my small town.
THIS is how we take our country back! Show the fk up people! www.nokings.org
I was afraid to use my real name, to sign up for tickets ( and not attend ,of course )
I registered as Fred De Timia. FDT.
I’m hoping the military members are so disgusted by him that they all go awol - no party for the 🍊💩
I said a nice prayer for rain. Not really hurricane country or tornado country, but strong winds and torrential rain would be nice. And it wouldn't cost a thing. Since we have no more weather forecasters, no one would know a storm was coming.
We are the storm Deborah ⚡️🌪️🔥
Now tell us how you really feel. 😀
I was holding back…I’m usually much more graphic 😎
They are callous, dishonorable, and mean clods. I am running out of imprecations to heave at them. When tRump's time comes, his bloated corpse should be weighted down and lowered into a septic tank.
I'd rather see him Mussolini'd, hung upside down on the National Mall, sans stinking diaper, and then dragged through the same streets that his dickless military parade rumble through. And then attach his faux billionaire estate to pay for all his crimes and horrible treatment of the many that he harms. He is without question one of the most vile human pigs in the history of the world. Oh, and the same goes for Nosferatu Miller.
There is a long list of traitors that should be strung up right alongside him. I’ll leave the construction of that list as an exercise for the reader.
I'd like him to be keel hauled under the
JOHN MCCAIN !
I like that idea!
He is Americas answer to a backed up
septic tank
Thanks for the new word, imprecations!
Imagine on the most important day of your life, a day you've worked like hell to achieve, you and your brothers and sisters are treated to a disgusting display of dementia indused sociopathic narcissism from a wannabe dictator who can't be bothered to shake your hand and who sees you as a tool to use for his own greed. .. makes me sick.
Thanks for this column, Jeff. I didn’t notice that it was longer than usual. Like many of your readers (I suspect), I was a kid in the 60s and 70s, when it was “unfashionable” to respect and appreciate the military, thanks to Vietnam. My father was 19 in 1944 when he went to Europe in the army. He was one of those veterans who refused to speak of his experiences when he survived his combat duty and returned home. Just before his death he must have felt the need to unburden himself and spoke to us about being a gun-spotter at the Battle of the Bulge. I had no idea. How many veterans have locked away their horrific memories for all these years? I felt awful that he had never shared this with us while my mother was still alive. I knew a few guys who got deferments from going to Vietnam…I can understand why a parent would try to protect their children from going to war (I’m not giving Trump or his father a pass, though). But what kind of selfish sociopathic SHIT would insult men who gave their lives or who were wounded serving their country? We know who: the guy who should be getting down on his creaky knees and kissing the feet of his soldiers. I don’t usually write long comments on Substack, but I’m so grateful my father made it home from WWII. And I hope the Asshole-in-Chief (aka King Donny Diaperload) doesn’t get us into another war so some other daughter has to worry about her father.
My dad was also in Europe in WWII, assigned to Patton's staff. He never talked about his service, at all.
My husband's great-uncle was in the Pacific, and his group entered Hiroshima not long after the bomb was dropped. One night he sat across from me and described some of the horrors. His wife of 50 years said he'd never told her or any of the family about any of it before. I don't know why he picked me, but I was glad he'd finally decided to talk about it.
Then I had a friend who was in 'Nam, assigned to lead forward recon ("search and destroy") missions. When the flashbacks hit, he'd have a row of shots lined up on the bar, and pound them until he blacked out. I stood suicide watch a couple times. He ended up drinking himself to death in his 40s.
All this to say that the orange obscenity and his followers simply have no clue what they mock so outrageously. F*ck THEM!
I’m sorry for the loss of your friend, Denise. The Vietnam Vets are truly a lost generation in many ways. How chilling, to have a family member who entered Hiroshima. The hair on my arms stood up when I read that.
The hair on my arms stood up when I wrote it, too.
As for my friend who served in 'Nam, when I knew him, we were both living in a small town. Of the population of 450, another vet died ar 32 from pancreatic cancer that his doctor thought was due to his exposure to Agent Orange. Another vet died in his 40s from liver cancer. Another two died in their 40s from complications from alcoholism. I knew them all well. That was quite a toll on such a small place.
Who knows what the percentages are among Iraq and Afghanistan vets, when DU ammuniition was being used, and there was exposure to burn pits?
My Dad flew 30 missions in WWII. I'm glad he didn't live to witness this.
I agree wholeheartedly. My dad always voted Republican, but I believe this behavior might have changed him.
My father was Air National Guard. A lifer, he was a Master Sergeant. He was deemed 4F by the Army ( flat feet ! 🤣 )
He served during Korea, he was stationed in Alaska & Vietnam.
He was a LIFELONG DEMOCRAT, but after Watergate, he confessed he had voted for Nixon, said it was the biggest mistake he ever made.
Well said Claudia, your dad would be proud.
Mitt Romney was another draft dodger, but he just kept it quiet. France didn't need Mormon missionaries there during the Vietnam War, especially since they were primarily a Catholic country.
So Jeff, what do you think is going to happen when The Orange Anal Pustule has his big beautiful microscopic-weenied masturbatory military birthday parade in DC on June 14? I am hoping Veterans show up in vast numbers and shut it all the fuck down. The only good thing about this dubious plan will be the video coverage by thousands of people that will be forever replayed on film along with fellow microscopic-weenied military displays from Kim Jung Un and other dickless fascists.
“Orange Anal Pustule,” that’s a keeper.
I'll tell you what's going to happen -- there will be a YUGE (sic) national protest against this malignant misanthrope -- so YUGE that it will overshadow his stupid parade that shouldn't be about him at all. It's only happening because it's the 250th anniversary of the founding of the US Army and T💩p hijacked it for his tiny-peen energy vanity project.
www.nokings.org -- show up and speak out while we still can and find your local tribe!
The MSM will likely ignore or attempt to minimize any June 14th protests.
Find out who’s televising this debacle and then protest them too
A fine distillation of GOP's hypocrisy ... but the Orange Turd really is special, isn't he? A more defective specimen of Homo sapiens there never was.
Let’s not forget that the comment to John Kelly about the military losers and suckers was made after Kelly’s son had been killed in Afghanistan.
I am glad that my husband ,Korean War Vet, doesn't have to watch this despicable display of the MESS IN CHIEF. I often have to recall the stories Bill told me about his service. He was wounded flying the F86 in Korea. We often visited Military Cemeteries & Memorials. Who can ever forget the thousands of white crosses at Normandy. The demented man who sits in the OVAL is a shameless piece of shit.
The nice guy who used to sit next to me on the bus in high school never came back from Vietnam. He wasn't going to go to college and was drafted right out of high school. On a fair playing field, if you're going to have a draft, there are no deferments unless you are so physically/mentally disabled that you can't do any tasks. Most of the higher income and rich kids made sure they went to college to get the student deferment. I'm talking about Vietnam, not WWII. Those that fled to Canada shouldn't have been allowed to come back to the U.S. It was a war that never should have been, but 50,000 of young men my age never came home and that doesn't include the wounded numbers. Just my opinion, but I think some of our youth today would do better in life if they had mandatory service in either the military or community organizations. That includes both men and women. There are plenty of ways to help our country that don't involve going to a war zone. It might involve lost TikTok and Influencer time, but oh well. I'm not going to apologize to anyone for being a Boomer. Not that my generation is perfect or that everything was perfect when I grew up. But I am appalled at what I see now out of some of our younger citizens.
Isn’t Melania the “trophy wife” Donny was talking about. What a terrible and heartless human being. Ugh 😑
Melania is just like her husband. She is as heartless and cold, she told the world when she wore that coat that said “I don’t care, do U?” to visit children who had been separated from their parents.
On Melania's tombstone it should read
HERE LIES A WOMAN WHO WAS A TOTALLY SELF-CENTERED, USELESS, IGNORANT, PIECE OF SHIT.
JUST LIKE HER HUSBAND.
That was a defining moment for me. I thought that surely it was an "Onion" article, but it was real. I'd call Melons a "c-word", but she lacks warmth and depth.
"Melons"! That's a new one.
I came up with it after she had her "kidney" surgery.
What kind of “trophy” is Malaria, anyway? She’s not arm candy (she won’t touch him). She’s obviously tone deaf with her, “I don’t care, do you?” jacket. She absolutely refuses to sleep with him or even live with him. Where’s the trophy?
One more thing, red Christmas trees?
He's ALWAYS PROJECTING