this is my third Memorial Day post, and at 2,263 words, it's my longest post to date. but atrocities just keep piling up. imagine how long next year's Mem Day post will be
Well, I would hope it is both painful and humiliating... if he were to slip in the overflow from his depends and go face-first down the flight stairs of AF 1, I would be well pleased!
I’ve been saying this at home- paralyzed from the nose down- can’t talk, can’t tweet, can’t do his business in the bathroom- all his care staff are women with a grudge …. That’s all‼️
I really don’t want him to be assassinated, because the maga nuts will then blame it on a Democrat, make him a martyr to their “holy” cause, & then start killing us all.
I’d prefer he stroke out in front of a large crowd, & on camera
Just go! Right? My dad was born 5 months before Trump. My dad died when he was 60, & this POOS gets to keep on going & going. My dad was a good, loving man though he had his faults like we all do. I’ve come to this believe over the last 10 years, God doesn’t want Trump any more than we do. My dad’s last & 3rd wife just turned 70, outliving him so far by 10 years. God doesn’t want her either!
Bearing in mind Jeff’s eloquent indictment of President Bone Spurs, he should pass dangling at the end of a stout American made rope attached to an industrial strength scaffold built by the Army Corps of Engineers.
Oh, and at the West Point graduation — in the pouring rain of which the grads had to sit in uncovered — Piss Drunk Pete stood under a covering and gave a ChatGPT speech crediting Charlie Mother Fucking Egg Head Kirk with the the quote:
Jeff, not only are the worthless scribblers of the MSM unable to ever ask "What the fuck is wrong with you?" of our "Commander in Chief," they refuse to tally any of what those POS in Congress and his administration actually do against our veterans. But you do. Thank you for your service!
I read the article, and I can't believe that what it seems to say is what it actually says: is it impossible to locate the graves of women now, on their website??
I'm with you, Pam. I'm guessing that we didn't know about it because they tried to sneak it past us, as usual. I remember hearing about one black woman who was delisted. That's all. Any ideas about what we should do? I wish we could get about a thousand women there to highlight WTF they're doing to us.
Thank you for this post Jeff. Thank you for giving our soldiers the respect they deserve. Republicans always “speak” a good line for our soldiers but won’t “do”shit for them. What a bunch of worthless bottom feeders. They wouldn’t know what service is or gratitude if it hit them in the face (or nuts).
And again I call for a law that says if you think it’s important enough to send our troops to war then you should be leading the charge. If you’re willing to send our soldiers to war to fight to make the oil companies rich then you should put on a uniform and have at it. And if you’re lucky enough to make it back from the war but are physically and/or psychologically damaged then you can see what it’s like to try to get help for your injuries.
And for the ungrateful republican politicians that believe they are too valuable to our country to send to war I say you’re not. You’re a dime a dozen. There’s a thousand others willing to stand in line for the military industrial complex’s handouts — no experience necessary — just a willingness to accept bribes and perks.
Rattling sabres has always been a qualification for a republican politician and it can continue to be as long as you’re willing to put on a uniform and strap on a gun. You like guns so it shouldn’t be that hard. Of course it will be crickets from you when you’re asked to march off to a war that you support.
The mantra for republicans has always been: “we rattle sabres for boogie men”. At first the boogie men were blacks (different party name same assholes). Next it was those dastardly “commies”. They beat that drum to death decades after there were no communists (they still bring the commie thing back on occasion for the old timers). Next it was the terrorists (not the neonazi racist white supremacists — they get a pass…because of votes… and “reasons”).
Look out, look out — the wheels have come off the boogie man truck — now there’s a new boogie man every day — “it’s the Greenlanders, it’s the Venezuelans, it’s the Cubans, it’s the Iranians, it’s the trans people, it’s the gays (except Lindsey), it’s the democrats, it’s the immigrants. It’s always something isn’t it.
It’s copy and paste. Republican strategy: “boogie man bad. Kill boogie man”. Do you think we’ll ever catch on? Not likely.
If you’re so gung ho on killing and being killed then step on up —join the army — what, “no” you say… right… I didn’t think so.
Wars are only necessary in order to stop fascist regimes from expanding outside their border — like for instance if they wanted to invade Greenland and Cuba and Canada and Mexico and South America. Of course what idiot would contemplate that?
Colonel Nutcracker Hegseth, since you’re so keen on blowing things up and killing people (including our own soldiers) then go ahead and jump on your skateboard (with the all terrain wheels) and ride off into the sunset leading the charge; but, just a suggestion here — don’t go doing that flippy thing with the skateboard… it could be hazardous to your health.
Scratch that last suggestion — go ahead and do it — I know you’ll get it right if you keep practicing. Of course, the veterans’ hospitals may not agree to treat your injuries.
Naturally, you’ll have to wait in line (for months). And after waiting for months and finally making it to the front of the line you’ll be informed that they don’t treat self inflicted nut cracker injuries. Boo Hoo.
Bollocks, I’ve worked myself into a frenzy with nowhere to go. Time to shut the fuck up as my wife likes to say. This started out as a short two sentence thank you to Jeff and then the wheels came off. The insanity of how the republican racists operate just sends me into fits of rage and I lose my shit. I apologize. I think Lewis Black is a distant relative of mine (not) so that’s my excuse.
Let’s hope he passes away before next memorial, & when he does, those flags better not stay at half staff & half mast for more than a week after what he did to President Carter. I mean seriously, NO ONE WANTS TO SEE THAT!!!! I hope he doesn’t even get to lie in state at the rotunda! It’s going to take decades to remove his orange stain!
Gorgeous pics of Claudia & Katie again, & it was MUCH needed! I was crying reading about Avila again. Who wants to see that Mr POOS Trump? This girl!! I choose to see that ANY day over that POOS (Piece of Orange Shit)!!
Happy Memorial Day from this sucker and loser that relies heavily on the VA.
If you are enraged at all the BS Donnie and his Merry Band of Morons are putting us veterans through, please consider donating to your local VFW or American Legion. They fight for our rights and lobby for legislation.
All who served gave something. My dad was a WWII draftee who shipped to Europe. They made him a clerk because he knew how to type, or I may not be here today. But he did his job and was part of the OG Antifa. He is laid to rest in a veteran's cemetery and I am proud of his service.
I lost my Grandfather and two Great Uncles in WWII. Fighter pilots. Obviously I never met them, but my mother and Grandmother never stopped missing them. My stepfather lost both his legs six inches below his knees in Korea. The VA, back them, never let him down, and he was compensated for his injuries for life. Wonder who Trump lost in the wars...
And I was a VA radiology tech back when Gingrich’s bunch of shit kazoos froze VA funding for 5 damn years. My loathing for republicans goes back a long way.
UID, I salute you. My hubs is a Vietnam vet, 68-69, so I know of your sacrifices and truths. He too, is getting the benefit of some healthcare from the VA. I just hate that that Doug Collins is the one in charge of everything. He was a Zero in Congress and is presently, a fat ZERO at the VA.
Marlene, Doug Collins is a revolting Christo-fascist "pastor" who has no business navigating the VA. The plan is to privatize the entire VA system which I believe is untenable. I hope Mr. Spouse is well.
Jeff, you always bring the receipts. So incredibly grateful for the work you put into your posts, and the joyfully irreverent and delightful way you present them. And for our daily Ms. Spouse, who feels like family now. Happy Memorial Day to you, sir! ❤️🇺🇸🏳️🌈
I don't agree that repubs actively "hate" our veterans. I believe most of them simply don't give a shit and trump said the quiet part out load when he called them "losers" and "suckers". Most repubs (and some dems) don't give a fuck about any of their constituents.
You are absolutely correct. Most of them just do not care at all about people especially those who they think are on the public dole. They have even convinced the masses that Social Security comes wholly from tax dollars. They may not actively hate us personally, but most in power in that party, hold us all in contempt. That an entire party allows its leaders to name-call, disparage, mock, and humiliate it's citizens for any reason, is despicable. That people continue to vote for the likes of Greg Abbott, Ron DeSantis, and Lauren Boebert is WORSE. There is no place in a democracy for promoting hatred with corporate money. It's vile. Every citizen should be appalled at their self-serving behavior. It has harmed all of us. It's not new. It has gone on for decades. It's just out loud now. All the people who for some reason did not notice this for 50 years, better wake up and start paying attention! Look at their voting record history.
Piggy McPuddingcup posting an AI vid of himself in a fighter jet dropping shit all over Americans should have been the absolute last fucking straw, but apparently it's a self-regenerating haystack.
As Jeff likes to refer to my despicable Congresswoman Lauren Boebert as Handy Oakley. She has her nose so far up Trump’s ass that she couldn’t give a damn when he shitcanned a bipartisan pipeline project to bring safe drinking water to her constituents in the 4th Congressional District of Colorado.
Lauren Boebert, Lindsay Graham and the other sycophants all could be represented by the awesome portrayal of Pam Bondi in South Park- always with a brown nose from sticking up Dear Leader's posterior. In South Park, people are always telling her "you've got some shit on your nose, Pam." She rubs it off and it magically appears seconds later. Genius!
My condolences regarding Boebert. I live in Boulder County and am grateful to have Joe Neguse as our representative. However i've been enraged over our DINO governor, Jared Fetterman, commuting Tina Peter's sentence. I can't wait until he's out of office.
I agree--but I also do think that, when any Rethug's attention is drawn to an actual veteran or any other constituent, their hate does then infuse their basic not giving a fuck attitudes.
I just don’t get it… Rs dined out for what NINE YEARS on ‘Benghazi’ casualties(4?) - yet radio silence on those 4 Niger deaths… and 13 dead in I ran (that has never been updated). Just don’t get how there is NO fight/pushback from the supposed opposition party. Must have missed a memo somewhere- !
I know. I say that constantly. The most blatant example, of course, is how the media ended Joe Biden with its baseless speculation about his "cognitive decline," based on one tired debate performance (listen to any speech he's given in the last year to see how baseless this pile-on was). Yet almost every day we hear Trump spewing incoherent, spiteful, ill-tempered nonsense, and at best we get an occasional, very gentle piece, wondering if maybe he's got something going on.
The media is 90% owned by a right wing conglomerate. We will never hear good things about Democrats or bad things of Trump and MAGA. They have accomplished what they wanted, nearly erasing any political opposition.
Exactly--the Democrats are doing and saying whatever they can about this shitcan administration.....but the mainstream media barely covers that. Thereby causing people to believe that the Democrats "aren't doing anything."
US OFFICIALS TOLD I RAN THAT RUMP’s TRUTH SOCIAL LIE ABOUT A DEAL IS JUST “POLITICAL THEATER FOR AN AMERICAN AUDIENCE” and ‘NOT TO WORRY ABOUT IT”
While simultaneously declaring victory and threatening to wipe out I ran, US officials told I rani Ian officials to disregard Rump’s social media posts as “political domestic theater” (aka: ‘for his base’) - Dean Blundell
Here it is : War Powers Push: Led by Senators like Tim Kaine, Democratic lawmakers are actively pushing War Powers Resolutions to force the President to seek congressional authorization to continue the war in Iran.Budget and Troop Safety: Democratic veterans emphasize their refusal to write "blank checks" for the war, arguing that the administration lacks a clear endgame or strategy to protect American troops. They argue that avoiding "forever wars" is the best way to honor veterans.
The reason you dont see it is because the corporste media wont write anything about what Democrats say or do. "Approximately 90% of U.S. media is controlled by a handful of mega-conglomerates: Comcast, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount, Sony, and News Corp. When including tech and digital platforms, the landscape is increasingly dominated by a select group of billionaires (such as the Ellisons, Murdochs, and Mark Zuckerberg)."
And even this platform, Substack, has a fairly large investment (maybe as much as 20%) from Marc Andreesson, the bald egg-shaped head guy who is part of the PayPal mafia. It will eventually be bought out completely by one or another of the oligarchs.
Weak Dem leadership - we need to can Schummer and light a fire under Hakeem Jefferies or replace him with AOC whichever works. Mr. Global did a recent piece which outlines this perfectly.
I want AOC to start building a war chest right now to get ready to run against Chuck Schumer in 2028. Imagine what a powerful senator she could be!!!! Let’s all encourage her to do that.
Jeffries is as useless as Schumer. Check out Jeffries regarding the criminal, most right wing Democrat in the House, anti-choice pro gun Henry Cuellar. Trump pardoned him regarding the financial crimes he committed and then Jeffries claimed it was the perfect outcome and endorsed him for 2026. Yuk.
While I couldn't agree more about his utter lack of truthfulness, that number was counted up one by one by news reports. He's just echoing it. Of course, the Pentagon also has every reason to lie. I haven't seen any independent contradicting reports, though.
The reason we have to have a trillion plus dollar standing military where we have a holiday to salute our veterans and memorialize our fallen heroes really boils down to man's inhumanity to man. Which is, sadly, the embodiment of this administration.
To quote some random guy on YouTube, fuck these motherfucking chickenhawks who got us into war and don't give a crap that their constituents can't pay for food or gas.
Good pics of Claudia but the photo I enjoyed the most is the one showing clear signs of the Dipshit's congestive heart failure. That swollen neck... oy gevalt.
I'm beginning to think Dipshit needs a heart valve procedure. That maybe why there are more frequent dental exams. Either way, why is he still here!!! Yesterday I packed my dog in the car and drove to my dad's grave to place a flag since he was a WW2 vet. I apologized to Dad for the shit show in the White House even though I didn't vote for any of this.
Lots of speculation about those "dental" exams. For one thing, there's a complete dental suite in the White House, so why the trips to Walter Reed? I just want him gone. My dad was a WWII vet, too. Have a meaningful Memorial Day.
It would be utterly appropriate for Donnie Demento to cark it as he tries to lift the Memorial wreath into place today.....Of course, that's if he shows up--it is raining on the East Coast today, and he wouldn't want that tangle of shit on his head to melt.
Bets on that he'll rave about the Arch de Trump planned for the bridge leading to Arlington National Cemetery. I heard the design has soared in height to loom taller than the Lincoln Memorial by 200+ feet. This is dying empire stuff.
Yes, it is, & what’s even more telling is his almost panick mode push for the “ballroom.” It was NEVER just a ballroom. It has always been about the huge, top of the line bunker/data center & surveillance center, that’s 9 stories deep underground, under that POS ballroom. The fuckwit is becoming more & more paranoid every day, because he knows how much he is despised. He has absolutely no intention of leaving there in Jan 2029; that is IF he’s still alive by then. If anyone reading this hasn’t already watched the vids of The Drey Dossier starting shortly after he destroyed the East Wing, she had it pegged way back then, & has the research.
My dad was a veteran of WWII as well. He was in memory care and thankfully he received VA benefits to help cover the cost of his care. While in care he received a letter signed by the asshat thanking him for his service. My dad immediately told me to rip up the letter because Trump was a draft dodger. My dad couldn’t remember where he was but knew he didn’t like Trump.
Nowhere is GOP “support the troops” bullshit more hollow than in how they feed young Americans into badly conceived wars and then abandon them on the back end. We saw it in Iraq. Watch Generation Kill and you’ll get a sense of how criminally underplanned that invasion was, how Marines rolled in without armor, intel, or basic logistical cover, while the same crowd that sent them there now blocks health care for burn pit cancers and guts the VA to the studs.
And that was the war they WANTED. The one they didn't want in Afghanistan was criminally undermanned and undersupplied. Jake Tapper wrote extensively about this back when he used to be a journalist and published a book about how fucked that war was from the start. You remember, the war that lasted twenty years that Trump set up to fail before he left office last time?
In the wake of World War II, and even after the catastrophe of Vietnam, there was a GI Bill worthy of the name and a semi-functional VA that, however imperfectly, recognized lifelong obligations to those it had fed into the shredder. I guess treating PTSD is 'woke."
But now the party “we love our veterans” cheers when benefits are slashed, shrugs at weeks-long hold music on VA crisis lines, and rallies behind a draft-dodging president who calls the wounded “losers” and can’t be bothered to stand in the rain at a cemetery in France. The so-called "war department" is headed by a drunken disgraced guardie major who acts like a cross between Nick Fury and Herr Starr, refusing to back down from his shouty incoherent rants. He's the poster boy for fragging.
As with everything from this shoddy crew, cruel hypocrisy is the point. These soldiers, sailors, Marines, and aircrew are background props for campaign ads and angry Memorial Day shitposts. They are disposable once the photo op is over and the body comes home. They serve the same function as the animals at a rodeo.
Seriously, fuck these traitorous shit weasels. Fuck them forever.
Sadly, you couldnt be more right. Military operations seem more like political theater that the politicians use to distract from what they are doing to help corporate owners. Politicians should have to wear corporate patches on their suits like athletes so we know who is supporting them.
Private equity makes even that impossible. The same handful of people own pretty much everything. Get gas at BP, shop at Safeway, use your phone, order Amazon, eat at Chipotle, go to the office… the money goes into the same anonymous pockets.
Me too. At first, they made me so sad. But I look forward to them and they make me smile now. Thanks Jeff. Keep the daily Claudia for a long, long time. We love her too.
Daily we are reminded that the republicans are in office for themselves, not for the people that voted them in. It always amazes me when I see the way they vote against bills to help veterans. My 89 year old husband just left to go work at his American Legions chicken barbecue. They do it to raise money to help the veterans that need things that our government does not give them. We are the lucky ones, we don’t need the Veterans Administration help, but there are many that do, and deserve it. My dad was wounded in Korea, he never went to the veterans hospital because he had health insurance. He said why take up their time when there were so many that didn’t have insurance. We feel the same way. I hope you have a good Memorial Day. As always the pictures are great. Cape Cod is my favorite place to be.
Same for my husband after arriving home during the Vietnam War. He had good benefits from his job and knew many didn’t so he never used his VA benefits. He was ashamed how he was treated by fellow Americans then. He died Memorial Day in 2022 after suffering eight years from complications from Pharyngeal Cancer Surgery and treatments. He was feeding tube and Oxygen dependent. We watched Jan 6 together and he was ashamed once again of his fellow Americans. He suffered from PTSD for years until he underwent psychiatric treatment on his own dime. Insurance paid shit for psychiatric health back then, probably still does!
It will never cease to astonish me that so many Republicans, who always love to embrace things they see as macho, such as police and military, can sit there like zombies and accept Trump's blatant contempt for those who serve (and for that matter, the police, given his embrace of the January 6 police-attackers) and act like he is heroic. Once upon a time, any one of those things he said would've ended him. It's a clear indication of how the standards have changed — but only for one man. It makes me want to puke.
Thank you, Jeff! Surely one of your best! (Stop calling me Shirley.) The title of "white supremacy's middle manager" for Scalise just made my day! So many could and should qualify. In honor of those departed and still here, we shall overcome.
Wonderful photos...seeing them reminds me there is a love n the world.
Suggestion for tomorrow. The reaction of CBS to Stephen Colbert hosting a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan. The audacity is breathtaking. Fuck the Ellisons.
this is my third Memorial Day post, and at 2,263 words, it's my longest post to date. but atrocities just keep piling up. imagine how long next year's Mem Day post will be
Perhaps next year your headline will be about the passing of the 🍊💩👜 and the fallout from that glorious occasion. One can hope!
I’m praying to any god that will hear me and I don’t give a shit how he goes.
Personally, I would like to see him in prison first.
Me too. But at this point, and considering his age, I'll take what we can get. Just be gone.
Personally, I just think of a certain Led Zeppelin song (#3) what I want his departure to be.
I used to love that song, then Jan. 6 happened, when there was a real one on the steps of the Capitol.
Any other country would have
given him the proper treatment for what he did that day… but not this country!
Well, I would hope it is both painful and humiliating... if he were to slip in the overflow from his depends and go face-first down the flight stairs of AF 1, I would be well pleased!
I'd like to see him blown-out of the window like his porcine role model, Auric Goldfinger.
It would haveta be an oversized window
"He's playing his golden harp."--007
I’ve been saying this at home- paralyzed from the nose down- can’t talk, can’t tweet, can’t do his business in the bathroom- all his care staff are women with a grudge …. That’s all‼️
you must have read my mind!
Spanish speaking women with a grudge but also blond, fake-boobed and with the hallowed mar a loser face. That would really confuse him.
It is my daily prayer and I too do not care how it happens just that it does.
I really don’t want him to be assassinated, because the maga nuts will then blame it on a Democrat, make him a martyr to their “holy” cause, & then start killing us all.
I’d prefer he stroke out in front of a large crowd, & on camera
Have you noticed how often his lips droop on one side? Many photos show it. It's a sign of stroke. And probably why he gets to take cognitive tests.
Oh yes, absolutely 💯 As a retired ICU/ER nurse I noticed it long ago. Also he wide swings one leg when he walks
Choking on a hamburger or drowning in his own vomit would also be noteworthy. . . ideally it would be posted on YouTube.
I want to see it happen. Just to be sure it’s for realzies.
Stroked out on top of his golden commode
I used to feel that way....but as time has gone on, I have grown more greedy for the most gruesome end possible.
Bleeding out from all orafices would suit me fine. On camera. I’ll deal with the ptsd later. It’s worth it.
Just go! Right? My dad was born 5 months before Trump. My dad died when he was 60, & this POOS gets to keep on going & going. My dad was a good, loving man though he had his faults like we all do. I’ve come to this believe over the last 10 years, God doesn’t want Trump any more than we do. My dad’s last & 3rd wife just turned 70, outliving him so far by 10 years. God doesn’t want her either!
And I bet that respectful soldiers will be there in his honor and not one will spit on his grave.
As for the rest of us....I predict a run on Big Gulps before visiting.
But they gonna have to stop me from pissing on it!
There might be too many of us to stop any of us. 🤞
Bearing in mind Jeff’s eloquent indictment of President Bone Spurs, he should pass dangling at the end of a stout American made rope attached to an industrial strength scaffold built by the Army Corps of Engineers.
🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Yes, please & thank you!!!
I appreciate that 8 of those words were this:
fuck you, Donald Trump. you piece of shit.
Oh, and at the West Point graduation — in the pouring rain of which the grads had to sit in uncovered — Piss Drunk Pete stood under a covering and gave a ChatGPT speech crediting Charlie Mother Fucking Egg Head Kirk with the the quote:
This too shall pass.
Fucks sake…
Oof, really? Is this the same speech where Hagueseth said “you can’t throw pronouns at the enemy”?
These idiots are so stupid that they think they’re clever.
Dunning-Kruger effect?
Too stupid to know how stupid they are.
yep
Correct
Did he flip that skateboard into his nuts for a few yucks?
Jeff, not only are the worthless scribblers of the MSM unable to ever ask "What the fuck is wrong with you?" of our "Commander in Chief," they refuse to tally any of what those POS in Congress and his administration actually do against our veterans. But you do. Thank you for your service!
Love the family photos! Thanks for sharing.
Wonderful, pithy phrase about the state of the nation: "Atrocities just keep piling up."
“I can’t afford a hamburger. In America.”
- @angelanelson2146
Here's another atrocity for you (us)...Women have been delisted from Arlington Cemetery: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/5/22/800043010/community/missing-in-action-women-service-members-delisted-from-arlington-national-cemetery-website/#google_vignette
Sorry if this is redundant. I just read the article and I exploded.
They hate women and people of color. Women are only supposed to have sex and pump out babies.
We are ALL delisted.
OMG! I read that with my mouth open! Who the hell thinks that was a good idea?
trump, hague-seth, and GOP men, who else? Aaaargh!
I read the article, and I can't believe that what it seems to say is what it actually says: is it impossible to locate the graves of women now, on their website??
😑
This should be a criminal offense.
Fuck these fucking fuckers!
Dammit. Why didn’t I know that? Now, I, too, am spitting fire. How dare those fuckin’ sons of fuckin’ bitches! Arrrrgh!
I'm with you, Pam. I'm guessing that we didn't know about it because they tried to sneak it past us, as usual. I remember hearing about one black woman who was delisted. That's all. Any ideas about what we should do? I wish we could get about a thousand women there to highlight WTF they're doing to us.
An Annual Update is a GREAT IDEA 🇺🇸
Touch some grass today JEFF‼️
If we're all lucky it will be a 2,263 word synopsis of the late president's greatest Memorial Day hits.
Thank you for this post Jeff. Thank you for giving our soldiers the respect they deserve. Republicans always “speak” a good line for our soldiers but won’t “do”shit for them. What a bunch of worthless bottom feeders. They wouldn’t know what service is or gratitude if it hit them in the face (or nuts).
And again I call for a law that says if you think it’s important enough to send our troops to war then you should be leading the charge. If you’re willing to send our soldiers to war to fight to make the oil companies rich then you should put on a uniform and have at it. And if you’re lucky enough to make it back from the war but are physically and/or psychologically damaged then you can see what it’s like to try to get help for your injuries.
And for the ungrateful republican politicians that believe they are too valuable to our country to send to war I say you’re not. You’re a dime a dozen. There’s a thousand others willing to stand in line for the military industrial complex’s handouts — no experience necessary — just a willingness to accept bribes and perks.
Rattling sabres has always been a qualification for a republican politician and it can continue to be as long as you’re willing to put on a uniform and strap on a gun. You like guns so it shouldn’t be that hard. Of course it will be crickets from you when you’re asked to march off to a war that you support.
The mantra for republicans has always been: “we rattle sabres for boogie men”. At first the boogie men were blacks (different party name same assholes). Next it was those dastardly “commies”. They beat that drum to death decades after there were no communists (they still bring the commie thing back on occasion for the old timers). Next it was the terrorists (not the neonazi racist white supremacists — they get a pass…because of votes… and “reasons”).
Look out, look out — the wheels have come off the boogie man truck — now there’s a new boogie man every day — “it’s the Greenlanders, it’s the Venezuelans, it’s the Cubans, it’s the Iranians, it’s the trans people, it’s the gays (except Lindsey), it’s the democrats, it’s the immigrants. It’s always something isn’t it.
It’s copy and paste. Republican strategy: “boogie man bad. Kill boogie man”. Do you think we’ll ever catch on? Not likely.
If you’re so gung ho on killing and being killed then step on up —join the army — what, “no” you say… right… I didn’t think so.
Wars are only necessary in order to stop fascist regimes from expanding outside their border — like for instance if they wanted to invade Greenland and Cuba and Canada and Mexico and South America. Of course what idiot would contemplate that?
Colonel Nutcracker Hegseth, since you’re so keen on blowing things up and killing people (including our own soldiers) then go ahead and jump on your skateboard (with the all terrain wheels) and ride off into the sunset leading the charge; but, just a suggestion here — don’t go doing that flippy thing with the skateboard… it could be hazardous to your health.
Scratch that last suggestion — go ahead and do it — I know you’ll get it right if you keep practicing. Of course, the veterans’ hospitals may not agree to treat your injuries.
Naturally, you’ll have to wait in line (for months). And after waiting for months and finally making it to the front of the line you’ll be informed that they don’t treat self inflicted nut cracker injuries. Boo Hoo.
Bollocks, I’ve worked myself into a frenzy with nowhere to go. Time to shut the fuck up as my wife likes to say. This started out as a short two sentence thank you to Jeff and then the wheels came off. The insanity of how the republican racists operate just sends me into fits of rage and I lose my shit. I apologize. I think Lewis Black is a distant relative of mine (not) so that’s my excuse.
I love this righteous rant! (Especially the Lindsey comment. That made me chuckle.) You said everything this time. Thanks!
Wow! Thank you Pam! My mouth starts going and my brain follows fairly close behind
You might want to start writing it now.
the nutcrusher had to be protected from the rain too during west point address.
great post Jeff!
Let’s hope he passes away before next memorial, & when he does, those flags better not stay at half staff & half mast for more than a week after what he did to President Carter. I mean seriously, NO ONE WANTS TO SEE THAT!!!! I hope he doesn’t even get to lie in state at the rotunda! It’s going to take decades to remove his orange stain!
Gorgeous pics of Claudia & Katie again, & it was MUCH needed! I was crying reading about Avila again. Who wants to see that Mr POOS Trump? This girl!! I choose to see that ANY day over that POOS (Piece of Orange Shit)!!
Not if Ronald McDonald gets his ass in gear
...IF we are still standing.
Wonderful post, Jeff. Even better than before. I wish every maggot cocksucker could have it read to them. Everyday and twice on Sunday. Thank you.
Please stop 'clipping' these posts. I lose out on seeing your lovely pics of Claudia, which I look forward to.
Happy Memorial Day from this sucker and loser that relies heavily on the VA.
If you are enraged at all the BS Donnie and his Merry Band of Morons are putting us veterans through, please consider donating to your local VFW or American Legion. They fight for our rights and lobby for legislation.
Happy Memorial Day. Much Love!
I was a VA physician and you guys certainly have it rough. It’s always “supposed” to get better. We salute you and thank you for your service.
Thank you Mike. And thank you for all you did for those of us that use the VA.
So many of us vets wish we could “get better” and this administration wants us all to STFU already and just die.
Sometimes there just aren’t enough fucks to shout into the void.
To be fair, he wants the elderly to STFU and just die, along with children, the poor, anyone in a "shithole" country...
They eat deaths for breakfast and the deaths they cause themselves for lunch.
My husband is a veteran. He never saw combat but he was ready.
All who served gave something. My dad was a WWII draftee who shipped to Europe. They made him a clerk because he knew how to type, or I may not be here today. But he did his job and was part of the OG Antifa. He is laid to rest in a veteran's cemetery and I am proud of his service.
I lost my Grandfather and two Great Uncles in WWII. Fighter pilots. Obviously I never met them, but my mother and Grandmother never stopped missing them. My stepfather lost both his legs six inches below his knees in Korea. The VA, back them, never let him down, and he was compensated for his injuries for life. Wonder who Trump lost in the wars...
Dr Mike thanks for your past work at the VA. I was an RN at the VA also.
And I was a VA radiology tech back when Gingrich’s bunch of shit kazoos froze VA funding for 5 damn years. My loathing for republicans goes back a long way.
I am grateful for being a member of the losers and suckers club.
US Marine Corps, RVN
Good Point. I am going to do that. Thank you for your service on this solemn day.
UID, I salute you. My hubs is a Vietnam vet, 68-69, so I know of your sacrifices and truths. He too, is getting the benefit of some healthcare from the VA. I just hate that that Doug Collins is the one in charge of everything. He was a Zero in Congress and is presently, a fat ZERO at the VA.
Marlene, Doug Collins is a revolting Christo-fascist "pastor" who has no business navigating the VA. The plan is to privatize the entire VA system which I believe is untenable. I hope Mr. Spouse is well.
No shit, David! Collins is a nightmare for vets.
This whole regime is full of cyphers, or worse yet, negatives.
Thank you for your service.
Thank you for serving .
🫡
Thank you.
Jeff, you always bring the receipts. So incredibly grateful for the work you put into your posts, and the joyfully irreverent and delightful way you present them. And for our daily Ms. Spouse, who feels like family now. Happy Memorial Day to you, sir! ❤️🇺🇸🏳️🌈
Well-said, Lolly!
I don't agree that repubs actively "hate" our veterans. I believe most of them simply don't give a shit and trump said the quiet part out load when he called them "losers" and "suckers". Most repubs (and some dems) don't give a fuck about any of their constituents.
You are absolutely correct. Most of them just do not care at all about people especially those who they think are on the public dole. They have even convinced the masses that Social Security comes wholly from tax dollars. They may not actively hate us personally, but most in power in that party, hold us all in contempt. That an entire party allows its leaders to name-call, disparage, mock, and humiliate it's citizens for any reason, is despicable. That people continue to vote for the likes of Greg Abbott, Ron DeSantis, and Lauren Boebert is WORSE. There is no place in a democracy for promoting hatred with corporate money. It's vile. Every citizen should be appalled at their self-serving behavior. It has harmed all of us. It's not new. It has gone on for decades. It's just out loud now. All the people who for some reason did not notice this for 50 years, better wake up and start paying attention! Look at their voting record history.
Piggy McPuddingcup posting an AI vid of himself in a fighter jet dropping shit all over Americans should have been the absolute last fucking straw, but apparently it's a self-regenerating haystack.
OUTSTANDING, Irascible!
Piggy McPuddingcup?!? I loooove it.
As Jeff likes to refer to my despicable Congresswoman Lauren Boebert as Handy Oakley. She has her nose so far up Trump’s ass that she couldn’t give a damn when he shitcanned a bipartisan pipeline project to bring safe drinking water to her constituents in the 4th Congressional District of Colorado.
She is an embarrassment to everyone in the state.
Lauren Boebert, Lindsay Graham and the other sycophants all could be represented by the awesome portrayal of Pam Bondi in South Park- always with a brown nose from sticking up Dear Leader's posterior. In South Park, people are always telling her "you've got some shit on your nose, Pam." She rubs it off and it magically appears seconds later. Genius!
My condolences regarding Boebert. I live in Boulder County and am grateful to have Joe Neguse as our representative. However i've been enraged over our DINO governor, Jared Fetterman, commuting Tina Peter's sentence. I can't wait until he's out of office.
nah....they hate them as evidenced by their actions!
I agree--but I also do think that, when any Rethug's attention is drawn to an actual veteran or any other constituent, their hate does then infuse their basic not giving a fuck attitudes.
I just don’t get it… Rs dined out for what NINE YEARS on ‘Benghazi’ casualties(4?) - yet radio silence on those 4 Niger deaths… and 13 dead in I ran (that has never been updated). Just don’t get how there is NO fight/pushback from the supposed opposition party. Must have missed a memo somewhere- !
I constantly compare any--ANY---random action out of Trump and ask "what if BIDEN or ANY OTHER POTUS had done that?!?"
Why this turd of a man has constantly gotten away with what he does is a very sad reflection on our society.
I know. I say that constantly. The most blatant example, of course, is how the media ended Joe Biden with its baseless speculation about his "cognitive decline," based on one tired debate performance (listen to any speech he's given in the last year to see how baseless this pile-on was). Yet almost every day we hear Trump spewing incoherent, spiteful, ill-tempered nonsense, and at best we get an occasional, very gentle piece, wondering if maybe he's got something going on.
The media is 90% owned by a right wing conglomerate. We will never hear good things about Democrats or bad things of Trump and MAGA. They have accomplished what they wanted, nearly erasing any political opposition.
Exactly--the Democrats are doing and saying whatever they can about this shitcan administration.....but the mainstream media barely covers that. Thereby causing people to believe that the Democrats "aren't doing anything."
Isn’t that why we’re all here? Independent journalism is alive and well…and really pissed off.
More people need to read it.
Don’t think they actually do anything ‘randomly’… they just have the perfect bread & circus distraction machine out front. Sadly
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING:
US OFFICIALS TOLD I RAN THAT RUMP’s TRUTH SOCIAL LIE ABOUT A DEAL IS JUST “POLITICAL THEATER FOR AN AMERICAN AUDIENCE” and ‘NOT TO WORRY ABOUT IT”
While simultaneously declaring victory and threatening to wipe out I ran, US officials told I rani Ian officials to disregard Rump’s social media posts as “political domestic theater” (aka: ‘for his base’) - Dean Blundell
I no longer take seriously anything about the progress or lack thereof in the Iran war if comes from Trump. He just isn't believable.
We can all save ourselves some precious time by skipping over ANY headline that begins with “Trump said…”
Exactly.
On anything
and to commit insider trading crimes
Why any one would ever believe anything out of Trumps mouth is beyond me.
From yesterday:
Iran's Fars News spilled the tea
What non-MAGA Americans can see
Drumpf's blustering tweets
Are cult bullshit treats
With no connection to reality
Here it is : War Powers Push: Led by Senators like Tim Kaine, Democratic lawmakers are actively pushing War Powers Resolutions to force the President to seek congressional authorization to continue the war in Iran.Budget and Troop Safety: Democratic veterans emphasize their refusal to write "blank checks" for the war, arguing that the administration lacks a clear endgame or strategy to protect American troops. They argue that avoiding "forever wars" is the best way to honor veterans.
The reason you dont see it is because the corporste media wont write anything about what Democrats say or do. "Approximately 90% of U.S. media is controlled by a handful of mega-conglomerates: Comcast, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount, Sony, and News Corp. When including tech and digital platforms, the landscape is increasingly dominated by a select group of billionaires (such as the Ellisons, Murdochs, and Mark Zuckerberg)."
Goddamn right wing media 🤮
Now its just THE MEDIA
true, sadly.
And even this platform, Substack, has a fairly large investment (maybe as much as 20%) from Marc Andreesson, the bald egg-shaped head guy who is part of the PayPal mafia. It will eventually be bought out completely by one or another of the oligarchs.
But they'll give us dissenters a place to blow off steam that doesnt make out of the internet.
I didn't know what Andreessen looked like so I searched his name and holy sht his head is pointed on the top like a conehead.
IMO, Dennis Kucinich said it best, many years ago: "Support the troops---bring them home!"
hypocrites and sociopaths
Weak Dem leadership - we need to can Schummer and light a fire under Hakeem Jefferies or replace him with AOC whichever works. Mr. Global did a recent piece which outlines this perfectly.
I want AOC to start building a war chest right now to get ready to run against Chuck Schumer in 2028. Imagine what a powerful senator she could be!!!! Let’s all encourage her to do that.
Jeffries is as useless as Schumer. Check out Jeffries regarding the criminal, most right wing Democrat in the House, anti-choice pro gun Henry Cuellar. Trump pardoned him regarding the financial crimes he committed and then Jeffries claimed it was the perfect outcome and endorsed him for 2026. Yuk.
Apparently, Fuckwit is bragging that there were "only" 13 killed in Iran (so far). There is no bottom.
Since he always lies and exaggerates, that is likely only a fraction of the true number.
While I couldn't agree more about his utter lack of truthfulness, that number was counted up one by one by news reports. He's just echoing it. Of course, the Pentagon also has every reason to lie. I haven't seen any independent contradicting reports, though.
The reason we have to have a trillion plus dollar standing military where we have a holiday to salute our veterans and memorialize our fallen heroes really boils down to man's inhumanity to man. Which is, sadly, the embodiment of this administration.
To quote some random guy on YouTube, fuck these motherfucking chickenhawks who got us into war and don't give a crap that their constituents can't pay for food or gas.
Good pics of Claudia but the photo I enjoyed the most is the one showing clear signs of the Dipshit's congestive heart failure. That swollen neck... oy gevalt.
I'm beginning to think Dipshit needs a heart valve procedure. That maybe why there are more frequent dental exams. Either way, why is he still here!!! Yesterday I packed my dog in the car and drove to my dad's grave to place a flag since he was a WW2 vet. I apologized to Dad for the shit show in the White House even though I didn't vote for any of this.
Lots of speculation about those "dental" exams. For one thing, there's a complete dental suite in the White House, so why the trips to Walter Reed? I just want him gone. My dad was a WWII vet, too. Have a meaningful Memorial Day.
It would be utterly appropriate for Donnie Demento to cark it as he tries to lift the Memorial wreath into place today.....Of course, that's if he shows up--it is raining on the East Coast today, and he wouldn't want that tangle of shit on his head to melt.
Bets on that he'll rave about the Arch de Trump planned for the bridge leading to Arlington National Cemetery. I heard the design has soared in height to loom taller than the Lincoln Memorial by 200+ feet. This is dying empire stuff.
Let's hope it's dying emperor stuff instead.
Yes, it is, & what’s even more telling is his almost panick mode push for the “ballroom.” It was NEVER just a ballroom. It has always been about the huge, top of the line bunker/data center & surveillance center, that’s 9 stories deep underground, under that POS ballroom. The fuckwit is becoming more & more paranoid every day, because he knows how much he is despised. He has absolutely no intention of leaving there in Jan 2029; that is IF he’s still alive by then. If anyone reading this hasn’t already watched the vids of The Drey Dossier starting shortly after he destroyed the East Wing, she had it pegged way back then, & has the research.
*snort*
That would've been fitting all right.
cark = croak?
Yes--a lovely gift of slang from the Australians.
There's not a cardiac cath lab in the White House.
My dad was a veteran of WWII as well. He was in memory care and thankfully he received VA benefits to help cover the cost of his care. While in care he received a letter signed by the asshat thanking him for his service. My dad immediately told me to rip up the letter because Trump was a draft dodger. My dad couldn’t remember where he was but knew he didn’t like Trump.
Nowhere is GOP “support the troops” bullshit more hollow than in how they feed young Americans into badly conceived wars and then abandon them on the back end. We saw it in Iraq. Watch Generation Kill and you’ll get a sense of how criminally underplanned that invasion was, how Marines rolled in without armor, intel, or basic logistical cover, while the same crowd that sent them there now blocks health care for burn pit cancers and guts the VA to the studs.
And that was the war they WANTED. The one they didn't want in Afghanistan was criminally undermanned and undersupplied. Jake Tapper wrote extensively about this back when he used to be a journalist and published a book about how fucked that war was from the start. You remember, the war that lasted twenty years that Trump set up to fail before he left office last time?
In the wake of World War II, and even after the catastrophe of Vietnam, there was a GI Bill worthy of the name and a semi-functional VA that, however imperfectly, recognized lifelong obligations to those it had fed into the shredder. I guess treating PTSD is 'woke."
But now the party “we love our veterans” cheers when benefits are slashed, shrugs at weeks-long hold music on VA crisis lines, and rallies behind a draft-dodging president who calls the wounded “losers” and can’t be bothered to stand in the rain at a cemetery in France. The so-called "war department" is headed by a drunken disgraced guardie major who acts like a cross between Nick Fury and Herr Starr, refusing to back down from his shouty incoherent rants. He's the poster boy for fragging.
As with everything from this shoddy crew, cruel hypocrisy is the point. These soldiers, sailors, Marines, and aircrew are background props for campaign ads and angry Memorial Day shitposts. They are disposable once the photo op is over and the body comes home. They serve the same function as the animals at a rodeo.
Seriously, fuck these traitorous shit weasels. Fuck them forever.
Sadly, you couldnt be more right. Military operations seem more like political theater that the politicians use to distract from what they are doing to help corporate owners. Politicians should have to wear corporate patches on their suits like athletes so we know who is supporting them.
Private equity makes even that impossible. The same handful of people own pretty much everything. Get gas at BP, shop at Safeway, use your phone, order Amazon, eat at Chipotle, go to the office… the money goes into the same anonymous pockets.
Yep!
'The real enemy isn't the Iranians, it's the woke Democrats'
SecDef of Hair and Makeup Hegseth,on one of his drunken Fox propaganda talking point diatribes,that apparently run in his little pea brain 24/7.
Jeff, I love your Daily Claudia posts! And all the Katie pics too. So sweet!
Me too. At first, they made me so sad. But I look forward to them and they make me smile now. Thanks Jeff. Keep the daily Claudia for a long, long time. We love her too.
We sure do! 💞💞💞💞💞💞
Absolutely agree!💯🥰
Donny would never repay those who sacrificed, because Donny never pays his bills.
In memory of those who served and in honor of those who still do: I thank you for your service.
Fuck Trump, the biggest sucker and loser of all.
A dumb fuck doucheweasel named Don
Who thought the whole world he could con
A saggy old scrotum
Should not have a modem
'Cause Little Bone Spurs cut and run.
A hideous dick filled with greed
An empty-holed soul he's indeed
A self-hating buffoon
His head's air-spaced balloon
Filled with needles and charred walls of need!
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Only for you, Dave!!
The depraved predator's worst impulses
His spineless bootlickers empowered
To hide his Epstein connection
But the rest of the world has soured
On wanton killing and destruction for profit
By that tough-talking draft-dodging coward
To think war is a worthwhile thing
Is for insecure, immature pricks
They will be held to account for their crimes
As each damning, irrefutable charge sticks
Daily we are reminded that the republicans are in office for themselves, not for the people that voted them in. It always amazes me when I see the way they vote against bills to help veterans. My 89 year old husband just left to go work at his American Legions chicken barbecue. They do it to raise money to help the veterans that need things that our government does not give them. We are the lucky ones, we don’t need the Veterans Administration help, but there are many that do, and deserve it. My dad was wounded in Korea, he never went to the veterans hospital because he had health insurance. He said why take up their time when there were so many that didn’t have insurance. We feel the same way. I hope you have a good Memorial Day. As always the pictures are great. Cape Cod is my favorite place to be.
Same for my husband after arriving home during the Vietnam War. He had good benefits from his job and knew many didn’t so he never used his VA benefits. He was ashamed how he was treated by fellow Americans then. He died Memorial Day in 2022 after suffering eight years from complications from Pharyngeal Cancer Surgery and treatments. He was feeding tube and Oxygen dependent. We watched Jan 6 together and he was ashamed once again of his fellow Americans. He suffered from PTSD for years until he underwent psychiatric treatment on his own dime. Insurance paid shit for psychiatric health back then, probably still does!
There ARE good men out there! Bless you and your family.
It will never cease to astonish me that so many Republicans, who always love to embrace things they see as macho, such as police and military, can sit there like zombies and accept Trump's blatant contempt for those who serve (and for that matter, the police, given his embrace of the January 6 police-attackers) and act like he is heroic. Once upon a time, any one of those things he said would've ended him. It's a clear indication of how the standards have changed — but only for one man. It makes me want to puke.
Two words for every Republican: Just die.
I couldn’t love this enough!! 🩷
Thank you, Jeff! Surely one of your best! (Stop calling me Shirley.) The title of "white supremacy's middle manager" for Scalise just made my day! So many could and should qualify. In honor of those departed and still here, we shall overcome.
Wonderful photos...seeing them reminds me there is a love n the world.
Suggestion for tomorrow. The reaction of CBS to Stephen Colbert hosting a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan. The audacity is breathtaking. Fuck the Ellisons.