I saw a cartoon this morning showing the Simpson around his casket with April 12, 2025 as DOD(date of death - there’s a joke there somewhere!). The Simpson’s never lie! 🤞🤞 I am waiting for donuts to fall from the sky!
She may eventually be forced to act as elected Republicans become even more worried about the national security implications of the current amateurs. I'd expect a sham investigation that exonerates most of the players, but someone will be sacrificed to save the Dear Leader.
Someone should be all of them! Chain of command would put vp as top watchdog so he should go and then downward from there. Waltz will be the easiest to let go to shut us up so that probably is what will happen.
"A unanimous state Supreme Court on Sunday refused to hear a last-minute attempt by the state’s Democratic attorney general to stop Musk from handing over the checks to two voters, a ruling that came just minutes before the planned start of the rally." The thing is, the court doesn't have such a procedure. When someone announces the intent to commit a felony, you don't go to court asking for an injunction "don't do that": you arrest the felon in the act. Did Wisconsin not trust its state police?
I don’t know why a lot of people, including Krasnov, aren’t being arrested! Now apparently Hegseth brings his wife to top secret meetings because “she’s cool, she won’t tell anyone”!
What are the odds that student will spend a big part of it recruiting new members? And won't have to worry about fees or student debt, so can avoid part time work and just work on this while phoning in enough uni work not to fail out of university.
The old Buffalo Springfield song, “For What It’s Worth” is my ear worm today. I sense a growing awareness & anger of the insanity in the people around me. For the first time in months, the awakening in 🇺🇸 is palpable . Gonna hold onto it for this moment, for what it’s worth.
Many of the old Vietnam protest era songs are hitting relevant notes today. Those of us who grew up during that period are getting strong Deja vibes. Woodstock revival.
Excellent choices! Don't forget Subterranean Homesick Blues, Street Fighting Man, Up Against the Wall, My Generation, Won't Get Fooled Again, and, of course, Four Dead in Ohio. Ask Neil, Bob, and Mick to write something current. They should do it together.
My budding repertoire has already got too many XYs in the mix, though I'm working on Ochs's "Changes" (and in future might take on "Small Circle of Friends") and on Keelaghan's "Rebecca's Lament."
So Doc, are you here in the East Bay? This is definitely the Berkeley/El Cerrito connection. How many times did I hear the Fish do the cheer when I was in high school?
I was singing the Beatles Revolution song the other day and my grandson asked what a revolution was! I told him we could go to one on April 5. He said ok and my daughter about lost her mind! “My 5 yo will NOT be going to a revolution!” So that ended that.
My kids loved Rage. I didn't. They would sing the "fuck you" lyrics loudly at me in the car. I popped that cassette out and threw it out the window and ran over it, and said "fuck that." 🤗
Oh! My kids were the ones who turned me on to it. Perfect anger song. I use it regularly. Try it! Scream "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me" at the top of your lungs. Feels so amazing.
I scream, "Jesus Fucking Christ" about 50x a day. My Italian grandmother invented swearing. Her words still hang in space like poetry. She was a natural. She taught me my first Italian swear words. 🥰
I’ve heard a lot of planes that used to go between Jersey and Pennsylvania between the two air bases. I forgot the PA ones name but it’s been years since they closed it. The Jersey one was Maguire/Ft Dix. My Da worked at the old Wilson Army Hospital in the 60’s. He also drove a soft ice cream truck on the base in the summer. But I’ve also seen equipment on the train tracks moving equipment somewhere. I think that was a video? Anyway air traffic is moving in that old way in the sky at least 3 nights a week. Lots of airports on both sides of the river. But military equipment sounds completely identifiable. They also fly low way low. I try not to think about it because it might suck me into the cookoo club!
I’m currently in Mexico City at a conference of professional audio engineers and educators. Everyone from the states are mumbling about the horrors in our country while enjoying the freedom and camaraderie of Mexico. Several others from around Latin America and a few from Australia as well wonder what the hell is happening. But, we are all here for SOUND, so the conversation switches quickly to, “Oooh, cool new gear.”
Gee, I wonder if I should get you invited to the weekly Tone Summit breakfasts my husband goes to every week. I've never been... But your last sentence is what the breakfasts are all about. Mason, the guy who runs them, invents musical gizmos. If you want to go, let me know.
It's called the Tone Summit, hosted by Mason of Vertex, and is breakfast every Friday at 9am, usually in the Oakland Berkeley area (sometimes in San Rafael or SF) and it usually lasts all morning. It's for anyone in the music business who's interested, and musicians who happen to be in the area (last week Vernon Reid came). There are two studio owners who come too. My husband will put you on the email list, but he needs a contact email... A phone number will get you the group chat on What's App... As I'm sure you've figured out, tech is not me.
These cuts grabbed me when they came out, it was a lot more informative to that 12 year old. And now wet living it. I hope people find this even a tiny hit of inspiration.
No surprise. Even he says that. He doesn’t understand why others don’t understand. In a documentary he lists a whole handful of his best work in his day. Then says “who does that? ” Insinuation was no one can keep up that level of creativity. It’s true. Despite some very good work here and there, The Beatles couldn’t reproduce the levels they reached early on. Neither Dylan nor Beatles could draw the “hysterical” devotion they enjoyed (or didn’t enjoy😝). But none of this negates the good stuff in all that early work.
My spit coffee line: "telling Granny to shut the fuck up and eat cat food " 🤣
Peter Navarro shoulda stayed in the joint. And in what universe is it legal to bribe voters? I guess the one we're living in. The courts are corrupt. JFC. 🤦♀️
Courts have been corrupt for decades Susan, thanks for pointing that out… Citizens United should have been the final straw for anyone paying attention!!
The worshippers of Our Lady of Goldman Sachs, Chattel Project 2025, see Social Security as a means to keep the poorest of poor in cat food. In their eyes, it serves no other purpose. It's not meant to be a retirement plan. They're going to fuck it up. It's part of their oligarchy plan.
Well, Daniel, they think they are “above” us, like we should be subservient to them. This is really a class war and Lisa is right. Some realized the anger of common folk because it upset their stocks, THEIR MONEY! They didn’t care about ours or our livelihoods and they still don’t.
They are fully complicit i the belief that we are the serfs class Marlene… the Jekyll Island meeting of the Uber wealthy that created the Federal Reserve shared this belief… we rest is well documented throughout history!
That's where we can all agree. That's why the millionaires during the Industrial revolution started giving to charities. Because people started throwing bombs at them. They thought it would calm people down.
Al Capone was the first guy to come up with the idea of giving free milk to school children, as a sop to the district. So if you have bad memories of having to drink slightly warm and cheesy milk at school - blame Al Capone!
When I was a kid, all kindergarteners and first graders got a container of milk for snack. I think it was a followup to WWII when nutrition was very highly valued.
"the president has got a heck of a lot of analysis for him" made me LOL. Them insisting that he's able to think is pretty funny.
And while nothing should come close to making a third term possible it *would* be the justice we all seek if Obama ran again. He'd mop the floor with trumpy.
Imagine a debate between Obama and Dump. The level of vile, babbling, incompetent bullshit vs a highly intelligent, articulate ex president whose platform is supported by facts and results. The media wouldn't know whether to shit or go blind. Hard to think Dump would still be around and even if he is, his mind will be beyond extra crispy.
Semantics is my speciality - I think there's a whole dissertation that could be constructed on the origins and hidden resonances in "to shit or go blind. . ."
A Trump debate with Obama would end no differently than Trump's debate with Harris. Sadly, Trump would spend all of his allotted time ignoring the questions asked and spewing forth so many lies that Obama wouldn't have time to refute them all.
When I saw that I almost cried. OF COURSE Obama could run! Why didn't I think of that? Probably because my IQ has dropped to less than a life-sustaining level since the inauguration.
Same. When he was elected, I cried tears of relief and the only stressors were watching the right's racism tear him and his family who kept things super smooth for eight solid years.
The strange turn of those who voted for Obama and then turned MAGA, like Ashley Babbit, must be studied to win them back. Well, not Babbit, because her MAGA foray ended up killing her, but the others.
Jennifer, you see my nephews and in laws are all low wattage. They are are all a thousand miles from me and are blocked. That’s where my empathy comes from.
I'm actually fairly certain that is how I will die. I'll fall down the stairs, lay there immobile on the bottom landing---and my cats will snack on my still-warm body.
I’ve been noticing more ads for “human grade” pet food. Seriously that’s almost comforting, maybe tastes better with a bit of ketchup. Maybe I should stock up although I don’t have a cat. My dog’s food is delivered frozen fresh and expensive. He eats healthier than me.
That human grade pet food is so fucking expensive. One of my kids was buying for their dog. It was costing thousands of dollars. Their dog is a mastiff. They quit, it was ridiculous.
I don't know how this happened but my cats' Pretty Litter costs more than their canned food. I tried switching to a cheaper brand but lost an area rug in that war.
Yeah, if their dog is like my daughter's Chihuahua, why pay for expensive food when the dog will eat anything? Seriously, the little shit doesn't even bother to smell anything. If you hold your hand out to him and he thinks you have food, he'll just chomp on it and worry about whether it's food or not afterward.
No problem with that - my vet says cat turds pass through the cat quicker, so have to be made with higher protein garbage, so when they come out they're still full of goodness. In fact, you should ENCOURAGE your dog to eat cat turds - cheap form of protein AND environmentally friendly!
My son in law owns restaurants and as been nominated for 4 James Beard awards. He goes overboard with his food for the dog. He thought buying it would be cheaper. It's not. Back to dry dog food, eggs and vegetables. And his homemade dog sausage. They're trying to manage her weight and allergies. We all eat well in this family. 😋 He's taught me so much about cooking. And I can cook. But, much better these days. I might have to ask him about cat food recipes if we lose our social security.
As a part-time vegetarian, I can advise that cooking your own beans, pasta, etc., is cheaper than eating canned cat food. (Of course, based on your utility bills being paid so you can cook. And refrigerate.)
Spent a very happy Christmas one year, relative and friend free, lying in bed with a great book, home made bread covered with butter, a tin of Heinz baked beans and a spoon.
A little cautious about those dogs - since while i was slurping my way through one, my vegetarian grandson murmured to me "Toes, tongue and testicles, Grandma - just sayin'. . . "
Who the hell are these assholes going to blame after 94!!!! year old Goerge dies?? It's the only name we ever hear and it's lodged into the MAGA brain to immediately bring up the "paid protesters" "paid actors" theme they have been gaslit to believe. Leon the dipshit has no problem paying people to do his bidding (I still think it's funny that he believes people will vote the way he pays them to when nobody will ever SEE the way they actually vote) but I digress, his self-awareness is so lacking that it's frightening. At least George Soros built his own fortune, we could NEVER say that about The Muskrat, Is that why he hates George so much?
Thank God Elon was booed in WI!!!! I didn’t see his plane fly over, but just in case…2 fingers were held in the air at various times in the late afternoon! Fuck’der than Fuck is for sure—-none of them know what trumpy wants or what he means…cuz he has no f***ing clue himself! Thanks for the wrap-up Jeff!
Im sick of the fucking Tariffs. And everyone else has to be sick of it too. Did not any people learn from Ronald Reagan, and his sage words (not that he had many mind you), that Tariffs dont work. Its fucking bullshit.
Ok, this is tasty. We the uninvested can wail about this all being "business is usual", as if it's not a thing. It is absolutely a thing, those two facts exists quite happily side-by-side in our world of late-stage capitalism. But harken unto me: Tesla has shareholders. Those shareholders, having many gored oxen at this point, can and will take their lovable Nazi nerd downtown and beat him like a bad dog. Elmo only owns 13%, as the largest shareholder, and he's not even a founder of the company. This shit's gonna self-correct with much fanfare very soon now. I haven't studied the board, I'm sure they love Elmo, but it will take take just one opportunistic hedge fund asshole to foment a shareowner rebellion and start buying it all out.
Tesla board members have sold off $100 million of Tesla stock this month. James Murdoch (one of Rupert's sons) sold off $13 million. It's the reverse-Midas touch in Trump's aura. Now turn xAI to worthless shit.
Yeah, I sort of figured. Fun fact from Sharon above: lotta shares being dumped by those loyalists, too. Where is T Boone Pickens now that we need him? Time for a good old fashioned rat-fucking.
There is a reason why they dumped those shares, they were sued for overpaying themselves, the same way Musk did.
"Tesla CFO, board members offload millions in stock
The sales occurred after board members, including Kimbal Musk, agreed to pay a collective $919 million back to the EV maker to settle claims of excessive compensation.The stock sales come after Denholm, Kimbal Musk and other Tesla board members — including James Murdoch and Oracle co-founder Lawrence Ellison — recently agreed to collectively return roughly $919 million in compensation to Tesla in a Delaware settlement last month. The settlement followed a lawsuit alleging the directors had overpaid themselves, Reuters recently reported."
You know, maybe this country needed a complete and obvious clusterfuck to knock sense into people’s heads. Problem is, much of Donny’s damage cannot be undone.
That's the clusterfuck factor. We have seen such a lack of humanity across this country. I mean, families that cheered when their friends and relatives lost their jobs. Who fucking does that!! The cult mindset is scary. They will take the poison pill for their leaders. I really don't know how one undoes that. Maybe when they're standing naked holding their cup of pencils for sale, with a sign that says, "buy my pencils and save a billionaire" they will understand.
The lack of humanity is what has bothered me the most. And one of the reasons I gravitate to this column and others... decent, intelligent people gather here and I appreciate that. Gives me hope.
I agree. I just think we need to highlight both aspects. He had done some damage. I don’t know how a foreign country could ever, ever trust us again. But a fair amount of what’s going on is constitutional law preventing a common sense housecleaning. Or … the way constitution is used needs a fresh upgrade. So in a lot of ways, it’s more than Trump. It’s our system that, for good reason, has been very difficult to change that can be pointed to as not meeting the damage of the moment.
Yes but it’s easy to upend the Constitution if you’re an activist RW SCOTUS and you’ve ruled Money Is Speech, Corporations Are People, and a lying crime factory of a POTUS is beyond the reach of the law for any and all Presidential actions, making him De Facto King Donald I.
Fingers crossed that Amy finally has big brass ones. Or even small ones. There’s been a fair amount written about her perhaps being shaken up. She’d hardly be the first SCOTUS who took a hard left after observing the realities of life and law after seeing the world from the inside chamber. I’ll believe it when i see it. But it does no one any good to be completely blind to possibilities. Disconcerting that it seems her ego hit the best of her from the get go. Unless I’m misunderstanding, she should have known she was too green for such a lofty seat.
Peter Navarro is an expert at being a liar, an obsequious ball-gargling clown, and what it's like to get pimped out for a packet of instant ramen in the hoosegow, and that's about it.
My 81 year old aunt didn’t get her social security deposit. She doesn’t have a rich son in law so, yes, she does care. She told me she has to go to the social security offices to prove she isn’t “a jar of ashes”.
And FYI she is a staunch democrat, despises Trump, and thinks this is all BULLSHIT.
Both my wife and I received our March deposits. Because we are retired teachers and recent legislation eliminated the windfall penalty, it will be interesting whether we receive our readjusted social security (did receive the accumulated past owed) in April.
This really annoys me. When my dad died in 2012, I called SSA to report it (the next day, he died on a Sunday). They immediately sent me a notice to pay back x amount of money for a month, which I did. Now I don't think I was trying to cheat the government, since I notified them as soon as possible. They sent out the repay notice right away and I paid it right away. Where do muck and muttnick get the idea that SSA doesn't work like clockwork and people are cheating it? I don't see any poor performance/cheating on the part of the recipient or SSA workers here.
It’s standard to remove pd money for the month when they wouldn’t be alive. Mine was because my husbands date to receive the check for the next months calculation of being already paid for the upcoming month. That’s how that works. I then the next month or so got to use my husbands benefits because he made more in his work years. I worked part time and was mainly a stay at home mom happily even though most stay at home moms didn’t hold jobs at all at that time. At least the moms I knew.
We “all know that bribing voters is illegal” so the WISC sticks their grubby fingers in their ears and says they can’t and won’t hear you. Fuck that shit. When Muskrat buys a person’s vote he owns their souls and they are his slave-demons. We can’t be bought. I am not for sale. We are not for sale. Greenland is not for sale… democracy is not for sale. Remember Biden talking about fighting for the soul of democracy or something like that? The soul of democracy is the people. That’s what we must do.
mElon's incoherent narcissist babbling is from his drug-soaked brain. I often wonder if his addictions will take him out before The Tangerine Terrorists' brain rot & fast food hamburder diet finally finish him off.
I adore the woman holding the sign that says trump lost, you know it. Yes we do! Greg Palast has done the legwork and calculations. We all know Muskrat & Putin fixed ANOTHER election for the Orange Seditionist-Felon-Rapist!
Don’t let SIGNALGATE fall off the radar… it was also all over the Sunday shows and he WANTS IT TO GO AWAY.
Signalgate is not going away until someone gets thrown under the bus. Until then it will be a 500lb octopus wrapped around Trump's face.
Let's hope enterprising journalists dig up more stuff. This is a gold mine that they should all still be searching in.
According to Keith Olberman, Waltz is leaking like a sieve to burn Hegseth and Gabbard...and to save himself.
It’s being implied that Houthi Signalgate was NOT the first misconstrued conversation on the Signal app…
Any chance the octopus will cut off his oxygen intake? I'm in for $15US if it does.
I saw a cartoon this morning showing the Simpson around his casket with April 12, 2025 as DOD(date of death - there’s a joke there somewhere!). The Simpson’s never lie! 🤞🤞 I am waiting for donuts to fall from the sky!
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Signal gate has no “gate” until the Justice Department recognizes it and Trump’s tool, Pam Bondi, won’t do that.
Thanks, Congress, for screwing the pooch big time on THAT one.
It doesnʻt matter, we just need to keep the drumbeat going because it will make Trump crazier.
She may eventually be forced to act as elected Republicans become even more worried about the national security implications of the current amateurs. I'd expect a sham investigation that exonerates most of the players, but someone will be sacrificed to save the Dear Leader.
Yes, but they're t's choices. Congress okayed them. All are responsible.
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Someone should be all of them! Chain of command would put vp as top watchdog so he should go and then downward from there. Waltz will be the easiest to let go to shut us up so that probably is what will happen.
I read last night that Trump said no one will be fired and that "the matter is closed."
That’s his nose. Not an octopus.
Poor octopus!
True!
/s/ The Atlantic editor must pay for this travesty.
Is that sarcasm? I hope so.
/s/ = "sarcasm incoming"
I wish it were a literal octopus, Peter, with no nearby syncophants to help.
and may it bite his nose right off.
Lovely image.
The Kraken?
What a satisfying image.
Remember when he gave out $1M checks in PA last November? Those were given to “qualified” people, too.
"A unanimous state Supreme Court on Sunday refused to hear a last-minute attempt by the state’s Democratic attorney general to stop Musk from handing over the checks to two voters, a ruling that came just minutes before the planned start of the rally." The thing is, the court doesn't have such a procedure. When someone announces the intent to commit a felony, you don't go to court asking for an injunction "don't do that": you arrest the felon in the act. Did Wisconsin not trust its state police?
I don’t know why a lot of people, including Krasnov, aren’t being arrested! Now apparently Hegseth brings his wife to top secret meetings because “she’s cool, she won’t tell anyone”!
https://www.theverge.com/politics/640230/elon-musk-wisconsin-supreme-court-million-dollars-brad-schimel
You are SO right!
SIGNALGATE! SIGNALGATE! SIGNALGATE! SIGNALGATE!
(and yes, I AM shouting!)
Truer words Sunny!!
The issuance of the check to an insider merits an investigation beyond the legality of the checks in general.
Oops - and here’s the other winner:
https://bsky.app/profile/pmzyox.bsky.social/post/3llop3bvfwk22
Who's Instagram and FB account are now shut down. . .
I guess you can't make this stuff up.
What are the odds that student will spend a big part of it recruiting new members? And won't have to worry about fees or student debt, so can avoid part time work and just work on this while phoning in enough uni work not to fail out of university.
Maybe the deal was for him to give it back to Elon.
And it will be some Dem’s fault.
What? I didn't have anything to do with it.
https://www.theverge.com/politics/640230/elon-musk-wisconsin-supreme-court-million-dollars-brad-schimel
🔥🔥🔥
The old Buffalo Springfield song, “For What It’s Worth” is my ear worm today. I sense a growing awareness & anger of the insanity in the people around me. For the first time in months, the awakening in 🇺🇸 is palpable . Gonna hold onto it for this moment, for what it’s worth.
Many of the old Vietnam protest era songs are hitting relevant notes today. Those of us who grew up during that period are getting strong Deja vibes. Woodstock revival.
I'm (finally!) learning to play the guitar. So far my repertoire includes "Deportee," "Masters of War, and "Hard Rain's Gonna Fall."
Excellent choices! Don't forget Subterranean Homesick Blues, Street Fighting Man, Up Against the Wall, My Generation, Won't Get Fooled Again, and, of course, Four Dead in Ohio. Ask Neil, Bob, and Mick to write something current. They should do it together.
My budding repertoire has already got too many XYs in the mix, though I'm working on Ochs's "Changes" (and in future might take on "Small Circle of Friends") and on Keelaghan's "Rebecca's Lament."
We shall overcome, is always the best fallback #.
Hard hard HARD rain !
Yeah. I keep hoping it won't be radioactive.
Fish Cheer- sing it!
"The Fish Cheer / I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die"
Gimme an F! F!
Gimme a U! I!
Gimme an C!
Gimme a K!
What's that spell? FUCK!
What's that spell? FUCK!
What's that spell? FUCK!
Yeah, come on all of you, big strong men, Uncle Sam needs your help again
He's got himself in a terrible jam, way down yonder in Viet-nam
So put down your books and pick up a gun, we're gonna have a whole lotta fun
And it's one, two, three, what are we fighting for?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn, next stop is Vietnam
And it's five, six, seven, open up the pearly gates
Well there ain't no time to wonder why
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.
Well, come on generals, let's move fast, your big chance has come at last
Gotta go out and get those reds, the only good commie is one that's dead
And you know that peace can only be won when we've blown 'em all to kingdom come.
And it's one, two, three, what are we fighting for?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn, next stop is Vietnam
And it's five, six, seven, open up the pearly gates
Well there ain't no time to wonder why
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.
Well, come on Wall Street, don't move slow, why man, this is war a-go-go
There's plenty good money to be made by supplying the Army with the tools of the trade
Just hope and pray that if they drop the bomb, they drop it on the Viet Cong,
And it's one, two, three, what are we fighting for?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn, next stop is Viet-nam
And it's five, six, seven, open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.
Well, come on mothers throughout the land, pack your boys off to Vietnam
Come on fathers, don't hesitate, send 'em off before it's too late
Be the first one on your block to have your boy come home in a box
And it's one, two, three, what are we fighting for?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn, next stop is Vietnam
And it's five, six, seven, open up the pearly gates
Well there ain't no time to wonder why
Whoopee! we're all gonna die!
https://youtu.be/XKyn17TZ-JY?t=2
Throw away your pomp, Romping through the swamp,
Romping through the swamp in the month of May!
Wading through the mucky ooze, you can chase away your blues,
Romping through the swamp!
You can spend your time, covered up in slime,
Frolicking with the water snakes and newts!
You can be a muddy sailor, wrestling with an alligator,
Romping through the swamp!
https://youtu.be/_7PUPNxsRQ0
So Doc, are you here in the East Bay? This is definitely the Berkeley/El Cerrito connection. How many times did I hear the Fish do the cheer when I was in high school?
I was singing the Beatles Revolution song the other day and my grandson asked what a revolution was! I told him we could go to one on April 5. He said ok and my daughter about lost her mind! “My 5 yo will NOT be going to a revolution!” So that ended that.
Do you have any idea what a revolution is? Have you actually listened to the lyrics of the Beatles song?
Yes, but I found the song disappointing.
Your daughter was right. Children do not belong at demonstrations. You have no idea what will happen.
https://youtu.be/ScxI94XDdtY?t=6
no old 60's stuff. I will take Killing in the Name of, by Rage Against the Machine. It is much more accurate in describing how I really feel!
My kids loved Rage. I didn't. They would sing the "fuck you" lyrics loudly at me in the car. I popped that cassette out and threw it out the window and ran over it, and said "fuck that." 🤗
Oh! My kids were the ones who turned me on to it. Perfect anger song. I use it regularly. Try it! Scream "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me" at the top of your lungs. Feels so amazing.
I scream, "Jesus Fucking Christ" about 50x a day. My Italian grandmother invented swearing. Her words still hang in space like poetry. She was a natural. She taught me my first Italian swear words. 🥰
fongula or fanculo?
Ooh! Mean o’mommy.
🤣
'UPRISING' MUSE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8KQmps-Sog
I hadn't heard that song before and just listened to it, thanks!
Adding it to the April 5 uprising playlist!
Rock on Joanne!
If Woodstock were to pop up now, fighter jets would be scrambled and then a strafing so times they are a’ changing.
Now you know why I get nervous when I hear planes overhead.
I’ve heard a lot of planes that used to go between Jersey and Pennsylvania between the two air bases. I forgot the PA ones name but it’s been years since they closed it. The Jersey one was Maguire/Ft Dix. My Da worked at the old Wilson Army Hospital in the 60’s. He also drove a soft ice cream truck on the base in the summer. But I’ve also seen equipment on the train tracks moving equipment somewhere. I think that was a video? Anyway air traffic is moving in that old way in the sky at least 3 nights a week. Lots of airports on both sides of the river. But military equipment sounds completely identifiable. They also fly low way low. I try not to think about it because it might suck me into the cookoo club!
Who?
And I, “Soup is Good Food” by the Dead Kennedys
May it be so.
“A Change is Gonna Come” Sam Cooke
Oh yes it is!! Hands Off April 5 growing bigger by the day!! 🇺🇸
Looks like we’re compiling the playlist for April 5th! How perfect 🤩
Worm in my ear (R.E.M. 1988):
I've got my spine, I've got my orange crush
(Collar me, don't collar me)
I've got my spine, I've got my orange crush
(We are agents of the free) ...
I’m currently in Mexico City at a conference of professional audio engineers and educators. Everyone from the states are mumbling about the horrors in our country while enjoying the freedom and camaraderie of Mexico. Several others from around Latin America and a few from Australia as well wonder what the hell is happening. But, we are all here for SOUND, so the conversation switches quickly to, “Oooh, cool new gear.”
Gee, I wonder if I should get you invited to the weekly Tone Summit breakfasts my husband goes to every week. I've never been... But your last sentence is what the breakfasts are all about. Mason, the guy who runs them, invents musical gizmos. If you want to go, let me know.
I would be delighted! I teach audio at City College of San Francisco. I love conversing with fellow gearheads.
𝕋𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕜 𝕪𝕠𝕦!
It's called the Tone Summit, hosted by Mason of Vertex, and is breakfast every Friday at 9am, usually in the Oakland Berkeley area (sometimes in San Rafael or SF) and it usually lasts all morning. It's for anyone in the music business who's interested, and musicians who happen to be in the area (last week Vernon Reid came). There are two studio owners who come too. My husband will put you on the email list, but he needs a contact email... A phone number will get you the group chat on What's App... As I'm sure you've figured out, tech is not me.
Gimme an F.
https://youtu.be/ScxI94XDdtY?t=6
I actually wrote in Country Joe then edited it out of my comment. GMTA!
I believe we are composing our playlist for April 5th …keep’’em coming good people!
In my mind is https://youtu.be/wQbxs9FZqRk?si=mj4mpGjwqunWSbmF
The whole world is watching.
Should resurrect that one. Big time.
You big ugly orange baby ruining the friggen world.
These cuts grabbed me when they came out, it was a lot more informative to that 12 year old. And now wet living it. I hope people find this even a tiny hit of inspiration.
Weird. I was answering someone who commented on my post about Dylan. But it disappeared right in front of my eyes. Poof. Gone.
Try again Dylan is still great but wish we had him again at 25yrs old.
No surprise. Even he says that. He doesn’t understand why others don’t understand. In a documentary he lists a whole handful of his best work in his day. Then says “who does that? ” Insinuation was no one can keep up that level of creativity. It’s true. Despite some very good work here and there, The Beatles couldn’t reproduce the levels they reached early on. Neither Dylan nor Beatles could draw the “hysterical” devotion they enjoyed (or didn’t enjoy😝). But none of this negates the good stuff in all that early work.
My spit coffee line: "telling Granny to shut the fuck up and eat cat food " 🤣
Peter Navarro shoulda stayed in the joint. And in what universe is it legal to bribe voters? I guess the one we're living in. The courts are corrupt. JFC. 🤦♀️
Courts have been corrupt for decades Susan, thanks for pointing that out… Citizens United should have been the final straw for anyone paying attention!!
Yes and no. In the Sixties, we really depended on them.
I could share some facts that might bring pause, sayin’!!
In the Sixties, I saw every trial eventually end with no conviction, and in the Bay Area we saw a lot of trials.
Yeah, well that's six decades ago now. The last four decades, the courts have not been great.
Or Heller.
Fuckter than fucked sorta says it too
The worshippers of Our Lady of Goldman Sachs, Chattel Project 2025, see Social Security as a means to keep the poorest of poor in cat food. In their eyes, it serves no other purpose. It's not meant to be a retirement plan. They're going to fuck it up. It's part of their oligarchy plan.
Amazing to me, that the billionaire class thinks they’re bulletproof, they’ll be the first to bear witness to an angry mob Lisa!!
Well, Daniel, they think they are “above” us, like we should be subservient to them. This is really a class war and Lisa is right. Some realized the anger of common folk because it upset their stocks, THEIR MONEY! They didn’t care about ours or our livelihoods and they still don’t.
They are fully complicit i the belief that we are the serfs class Marlene… the Jekyll Island meeting of the Uber wealthy that created the Federal Reserve shared this belief… we rest is well documented throughout history!
That's where we can all agree. That's why the millionaires during the Industrial revolution started giving to charities. Because people started throwing bombs at them. They thought it would calm people down.
Al Capone was the first guy to come up with the idea of giving free milk to school children, as a sop to the district. So if you have bad memories of having to drink slightly warm and cheesy milk at school - blame Al Capone!
When I was a kid, all kindergarteners and first graders got a container of milk for snack. I think it was a followup to WWII when nutrition was very highly valued.
And it was ALWAYS slightly warm and cheesy. . . .yuk!
We can blame him for syphilis too. Lol.
We need to throw some at Clarence and the rest of rump’s lackeys also.
Absofuckinglutely Lisa, I’m damn giddy that someone has a grasp on history!!
Repugnant congressfolk are facing angry voters at town halls, so there is some pushback.
The winners were handpicked.
Paid actors
Of course.
Speaking of ‘the joint’ - Bannon is qualifying his more incendiary comments of late - ‘that was a metaphor’ etc… post-joint adjustment?
Not all. More have helped us than hurt us.
"the president has got a heck of a lot of analysis for him" made me LOL. Them insisting that he's able to think is pretty funny.
And while nothing should come close to making a third term possible it *would* be the justice we all seek if Obama ran again. He'd mop the floor with trumpy.
Imagine a debate between Obama and Dump. The level of vile, babbling, incompetent bullshit vs a highly intelligent, articulate ex president whose platform is supported by facts and results. The media wouldn't know whether to shit or go blind. Hard to think Dump would still be around and even if he is, his mind will be beyond extra crispy.
Kamala’s debate with Donnie was excellent.
Too bad the racist misogynists didn't see it that way.
Kamala was robbed.
Yup and proved the media doesn’t want an actual debate.
OMG the media. They'd be forced to remember what facts and truth are. It would be glorious to behold.
I have to say, you do find the most wonderful phrases in the comments on Tiedrich's threads"
They "wouldn't know whether to shit or go blind."
So much more expressive than "Between a rock and a hard place. . ."
Jeff's brand of humor and righteous scorn for all this stupidity is the only way I take my news.
Thank you Lady.
Semantics is my speciality - I think there's a whole dissertation that could be constructed on the origins and hidden resonances in "to shit or go blind. . ."
Hmm, does that belong in Linguistics or English? Hair would stand on end at Cal.
A Trump debate with Obama would end no differently than Trump's debate with Harris. Sadly, Trump would spend all of his allotted time ignoring the questions asked and spewing forth so many lies that Obama wouldn't have time to refute them all.
When I saw that I almost cried. OF COURSE Obama could run! Why didn't I think of that? Probably because my IQ has dropped to less than a life-sustaining level since the inauguration.
Same, lol. It's enough to fry anyone's brain.
Yes, but I have a real excuse. Teetering on the edge of Alzheimers. My vocabulary has long spaces in it and my speech has long pauses in it.
I have no words strong enough to convey how much I miss Obama.
Same. When he was elected, I cried tears of relief and the only stressors were watching the right's racism tear him and his family who kept things super smooth for eight solid years.
The only thing Donnie the Dotard analyses is which hamburder to have for lunch. Big Mac or quarter pounder.
Yep. And maybe not even that. They probably bring him trays of both and he just reaches for whatever his lizard brain says to first.
"He'd mop the floor with trumpy"
Well, he'd have the equipment - right there on trumpy's head!
LMAO
The strange turn of those who voted for Obama and then turned MAGA, like Ashley Babbit, must be studied to win them back. Well, not Babbit, because her MAGA foray ended up killing her, but the others.
I have family in laws who voted for Trump, then Biden, then Trump again. It's absolutely mind-boggling.
You have my deepest sympathy.
Jennifer, you see my nephews and in laws are all low wattage. They are are all a thousand miles from me and are blocked. That’s where my empathy comes from.
I’m not looking forward to fighting my cat for the last can of his food. SMDH
Make sure to start buying flavors you like. 😄😡
Oh, you know how it is. They love the can one day and hate it the next day. It's probably the same for the hoomans.
Some of his chicken ones smell like fresh cooked chicken. I’ll pass on the lamb one though
I'm pretty sure the salmon I get for Doodle is edible, so long as I pick out the few chunkly bits.🤔
My tabby has already called dibs on my eyeballs when it all goes down.
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I'm actually fairly certain that is how I will die. I'll fall down the stairs, lay there immobile on the bottom landing---and my cats will snack on my still-warm body.
They are all fuzzy murder-muffins. The joke's on us.
I’ve been noticing more ads for “human grade” pet food. Seriously that’s almost comforting, maybe tastes better with a bit of ketchup. Maybe I should stock up although I don’t have a cat. My dog’s food is delivered frozen fresh and expensive. He eats healthier than me.
That human grade pet food is so fucking expensive. One of my kids was buying for their dog. It was costing thousands of dollars. Their dog is a mastiff. They quit, it was ridiculous.
I don't know how this happened but my cats' Pretty Litter costs more than their canned food. I tried switching to a cheaper brand but lost an area rug in that war.
Yeah, if their dog is like my daughter's Chihuahua, why pay for expensive food when the dog will eat anything? Seriously, the little shit doesn't even bother to smell anything. If you hold your hand out to him and he thinks you have food, he'll just chomp on it and worry about whether it's food or not afterward.
Yep, she loves cat turds. 😋
No problem with that - my vet says cat turds pass through the cat quicker, so have to be made with higher protein garbage, so when they come out they're still full of goodness. In fact, you should ENCOURAGE your dog to eat cat turds - cheap form of protein AND environmentally friendly!
Just - don't let it lick you face after. . .
She loves cat shit. She has a wide menu at my farm. She asked for a special wine to pair with it. A smokey fruit one would be nice. 🤣
Not if you don't want to take a chance on worms and other such fun things cats poop out. Dogs do love the tootsie rolls, though!
Never saw a wolf chasing a rabbit marked "Human Grade. . ."
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Omg a mastiff! It’s spendy enough for our plump corgi!
Well mastiffs…you might as well give them your whole backyard to eat!
Her name is Barbara Ann. She's pushing 165lbs. She doesn't like to walk on certain flooring. She's entertaining. We love her.
That is a GREAT name for a dog. 😂😂
Do you sing Ba Ba Ran take my ha Anne. by The Beach Boys to her?
Yep
My grandson cooks his dog food instead of the pre-made stuff. Cheaper !
My son in law owns restaurants and as been nominated for 4 James Beard awards. He goes overboard with his food for the dog. He thought buying it would be cheaper. It's not. Back to dry dog food, eggs and vegetables. And his homemade dog sausage. They're trying to manage her weight and allergies. We all eat well in this family. 😋 He's taught me so much about cooking. And I can cook. But, much better these days. I might have to ask him about cat food recipes if we lose our social security.
I always made my dog's food. Simple and cheap.
It is and my dog loved it. I just got tired of doing it. 😂
It's a big commitment.
Lol, my dog too
Our cat prefers the stinkiest most revolting cans. He can have it.
As a part-time vegetarian, I can advise that cooking your own beans, pasta, etc., is cheaper than eating canned cat food. (Of course, based on your utility bills being paid so you can cook. And refrigerate.)
Push comes to shove, you could eat those beans raw. . . just take your dentures out first. . .
Even canned beans served cold likely are cheaper than canned cat food. Anyone remember 3-bean salad?
Spent a very happy Christmas one year, relative and friend free, lying in bed with a great book, home made bread covered with butter, a tin of Heinz baked beans and a spoon.
Ah! Luxury!
Heinz Baked Beans and hot dogs. A staple during my childhood and my early single life. No one in my family now likes them except me.
A little cautious about those dogs - since while i was slurping my way through one, my vegetarian grandson murmured to me "Toes, tongue and testicles, Grandma - just sayin'. . . "
I DO! It's so good!!
Lol, I am as well. However, his chicken food really does smell good.
Absolutely, cooking your own beans is the best. I loved Danny Trejo's cookbook where he talks about cooking (beans) all afternoon. A true star!
Damn, Kay-EI you sure can bring a smile to this man’s face!!
Discriminating connoisseurs may wish to steer away from Mouser catfood, made with whole mice blended with chicken, duck, pheasant etc.
Bon appetit !
https://www.muridaepet.com/mouser-pet-food
No, just no, lol.
No, Elmo. People aren't being paid by George Soros to hate you. We actually hate you. Truly, madly, deeply.
Who the hell are these assholes going to blame after 94!!!! year old Goerge dies?? It's the only name we ever hear and it's lodged into the MAGA brain to immediately bring up the "paid protesters" "paid actors" theme they have been gaslit to believe. Leon the dipshit has no problem paying people to do his bidding (I still think it's funny that he believes people will vote the way he pays them to when nobody will ever SEE the way they actually vote) but I digress, his self-awareness is so lacking that it's frightening. At least George Soros built his own fortune, we could NEVER say that about The Muskrat, Is that why he hates George so much?
They hate Soros, because he funds educational pursuits and warns about Nazis, having seen their rise from his childhood in Hungary.
They still have Hillary, Obama and the all time favorite, Hunter.
I'm a big hater for free.
Money's for nothing 🎵 and the hate's for free.🎶
Thank God Elon was booed in WI!!!! I didn’t see his plane fly over, but just in case…2 fingers were held in the air at various times in the late afternoon! Fuck’der than Fuck is for sure—-none of them know what trumpy wants or what he means…cuz he has no f***ing clue himself! Thanks for the wrap-up Jeff!
Well said Tess!
Nice sentiment Tess!!
“…the president has got a heck of a lot of analysis for him…”
The only analysis Donny should get a lot of is psychiatric.
Im sick of the fucking Tariffs. And everyone else has to be sick of it too. Did not any people learn from Ronald Reagan, and his sage words (not that he had many mind you), that Tariffs dont work. Its fucking bullshit.
Jeff, as promised, I churned the financial analysis on the X to xAI deal, and I posted it in that thread, but in case anyone missed it (As I promised to drop it into your today's thread) , here: https://thistleandmoss.com/p/the-musk-twitter-tesla-triangle-legal
thanks!
Ok, this is tasty. We the uninvested can wail about this all being "business is usual", as if it's not a thing. It is absolutely a thing, those two facts exists quite happily side-by-side in our world of late-stage capitalism. But harken unto me: Tesla has shareholders. Those shareholders, having many gored oxen at this point, can and will take their lovable Nazi nerd downtown and beat him like a bad dog. Elmo only owns 13%, as the largest shareholder, and he's not even a founder of the company. This shit's gonna self-correct with much fanfare very soon now. I haven't studied the board, I'm sure they love Elmo, but it will take take just one opportunistic hedge fund asshole to foment a shareowner rebellion and start buying it all out.
Tesla board members have sold off $100 million of Tesla stock this month. James Murdoch (one of Rupert's sons) sold off $13 million. It's the reverse-Midas touch in Trump's aura. Now turn xAI to worthless shit.
I tend to agree with you George (I am also in Atlanta, btw), and yes, I think Justice will ride itself out, one way or another.
The board consists of his relatives (brother Kimball) lawyer several close friends etc.
Yeah, I sort of figured. Fun fact from Sharon above: lotta shares being dumped by those loyalists, too. Where is T Boone Pickens now that we need him? Time for a good old fashioned rat-fucking.
There is a reason why they dumped those shares, they were sued for overpaying themselves, the same way Musk did.
"Tesla CFO, board members offload millions in stock
The sales occurred after board members, including Kimbal Musk, agreed to pay a collective $919 million back to the EV maker to settle claims of excessive compensation.The stock sales come after Denholm, Kimbal Musk and other Tesla board members — including James Murdoch and Oracle co-founder Lawrence Ellison — recently agreed to collectively return roughly $919 million in compensation to Tesla in a Delaware settlement last month. The settlement followed a lawsuit alleging the directors had overpaid themselves, Reuters recently reported."
https://www.cfodive.com/news/tesla-cfo-chairwoman-offload-millions-stock-compensation-elonmusk-electricvehicles/739593/
Wendy, that was one fine post, read it friends you will learn and chuckle as well, Elmo has a secret new fake company Micro Tool, excellent.
Micro Tool is quite descriptive of Elmo Musk.
Interesting read, thanks for the link.
of course. Thank you.
Can’t wait to read it!
You know, maybe this country needed a complete and obvious clusterfuck to knock sense into people’s heads. Problem is, much of Donny’s damage cannot be undone.
That's the clusterfuck factor. We have seen such a lack of humanity across this country. I mean, families that cheered when their friends and relatives lost their jobs. Who fucking does that!! The cult mindset is scary. They will take the poison pill for their leaders. I really don't know how one undoes that. Maybe when they're standing naked holding their cup of pencils for sale, with a sign that says, "buy my pencils and save a billionaire" they will understand.
The lack of humanity is what has bothered me the most. And one of the reasons I gravitate to this column and others... decent, intelligent people gather here and I appreciate that. Gives me hope.
I hear ya! I don't understand the pure hate in their hearts. It's pathological. Fuck, people can really suck ass.
Make those states secede. Or we should secede. We're not them and they're not us.
How do you “make” states secede? Which states are we talking about? All the “red” ones, I guess?
Just ignore that shit. She believes that everyone who's not her is defective.
ah.
Perhaps when they lose Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, food stamps, school lunches, etc.
But a lot of it can be reversed. EO’s don’t hold shit.
Telling allies they’re now adversaries is a loss of goodwill that will take generations to restore.
I agree. I just think we need to highlight both aspects. He had done some damage. I don’t know how a foreign country could ever, ever trust us again. But a fair amount of what’s going on is constitutional law preventing a common sense housecleaning. Or … the way constitution is used needs a fresh upgrade. So in a lot of ways, it’s more than Trump. It’s our system that, for good reason, has been very difficult to change that can be pointed to as not meeting the damage of the moment.
Yes but it’s easy to upend the Constitution if you’re an activist RW SCOTUS and you’ve ruled Money Is Speech, Corporations Are People, and a lying crime factory of a POTUS is beyond the reach of the law for any and all Presidential actions, making him De Facto King Donald I.
Fingers crossed that Amy finally has big brass ones. Or even small ones. There’s been a fair amount written about her perhaps being shaken up. She’d hardly be the first SCOTUS who took a hard left after observing the realities of life and law after seeing the world from the inside chamber. I’ll believe it when i see it. But it does no one any good to be completely blind to possibilities. Disconcerting that it seems her ego hit the best of her from the get go. Unless I’m misunderstanding, she should have known she was too green for such a lofty seat.
And the economy is on a trajectory that can't be turned on a dime.
God I miss Obama 💕
Best post today 💙
Peter Navarro is an expert at being a liar, an obsequious ball-gargling clown, and what it's like to get pimped out for a packet of instant ramen in the hoosegow, and that's about it.
“Obsequious ball-gargling clown” is an apt description. It fits Navarro, JD Vance and so many other sycophants of Kaiser Bonespurs.
Navarro is NOT the sharpest pencil.
few of them are.
"obsequious ball-gargling clown"....😂😂😂
New name of my thrash-metal Carpenters cover band.
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My 81 year old aunt didn’t get her social security deposit. She doesn’t have a rich son in law so, yes, she does care. She told me she has to go to the social security offices to prove she isn’t “a jar of ashes”.
And FYI she is a staunch democrat, despises Trump, and thinks this is all BULLSHIT.
Both my wife and I received our March deposits. Because we are retired teachers and recent legislation eliminated the windfall penalty, it will be interesting whether we receive our readjusted social security (did receive the accumulated past owed) in April.
This really annoys me. When my dad died in 2012, I called SSA to report it (the next day, he died on a Sunday). They immediately sent me a notice to pay back x amount of money for a month, which I did. Now I don't think I was trying to cheat the government, since I notified them as soon as possible. They sent out the repay notice right away and I paid it right away. Where do muck and muttnick get the idea that SSA doesn't work like clockwork and people are cheating it? I don't see any poor performance/cheating on the part of the recipient or SSA workers here.
It’s standard to remove pd money for the month when they wouldn’t be alive. Mine was because my husbands date to receive the check for the next months calculation of being already paid for the upcoming month. That’s how that works. I then the next month or so got to use my husbands benefits because he made more in his work years. I worked part time and was mainly a stay at home mom happily even though most stay at home moms didn’t hold jobs at all at that time. At least the moms I knew.
We “all know that bribing voters is illegal” so the WISC sticks their grubby fingers in their ears and says they can’t and won’t hear you. Fuck that shit. When Muskrat buys a person’s vote he owns their souls and they are his slave-demons. We can’t be bought. I am not for sale. We are not for sale. Greenland is not for sale… democracy is not for sale. Remember Biden talking about fighting for the soul of democracy or something like that? The soul of democracy is the people. That’s what we must do.
mElon's incoherent narcissist babbling is from his drug-soaked brain. I often wonder if his addictions will take him out before The Tangerine Terrorists' brain rot & fast food hamburder diet finally finish him off.
We can all hope
I adore the woman holding the sign that says trump lost, you know it. Yes we do! Greg Palast has done the legwork and calculations. We all know Muskrat & Putin fixed ANOTHER election for the Orange Seditionist-Felon-Rapist!
I adore her too. Seeing this video again gave me the biggest smile. Love her!