true story: one of my uncles wore a powder-blue leisure suit to my grandmother's funeral, and my mother — who competes in grudge-carrying on an olympic level — got back at him by wearing bermuda shorts to his funeral
Donnie's blue suit is just one more sign of his mental illness. Call it dementia. Call it pathological narcissism. When a human attracts attention so they can pull down their pants and show their stupidity, daily, over and over, it is nothing less than pathological self image mental disease.
Everyone in the world is sick and tired of this fool. And they are embarrassed for the American citizens who suffer from this crooked idiot.
Why isn't the DNC telling this truth? Why isn't the Press telling this truth?
We need to make the MAGAs own their choice of prez for years, hopefully decades. So parts of my extended family are farmers. And after my uncle died (my dad-aunt sibs, her husband), his side of the family didn't wear black suits. They may not be able to afford black suits. Those relatives get a bye. But MAGAs, you wanted this idiotic, demented, cognitively impaired, psychopath. Own it. Live it. This country you claim to be so proud of has been turned into a dumpster fire, governed by a moron buffoon. Thx. Hope the leopards continue to chew on your faces.
Remember when Obama wore a tan suit to address the press and the right wingnuts lost their shit over it? I bet they say nothing at all about this faux pas, which of course is much, much larger, it being the funeral of the Pope, FFS.
OMG. The first lady could take my lard-ass conservative journalism butt out with one swing. I'm a dumbass white boy. I need to mock her. Yeah, that's the adult, classy reaction, right?
Yup, screamed about the tan suit, which looked great on him. Did they say anything about Reagan's brown corduroy suits. Ugh, those were ugly. But he's the Prez. You can let the old guy wear what he wants. But that also means you have to STFU about a classy black prez who's can still play some pickup basketball when he's 47.
Yes Jon Stewart showed a montage of presidents in tan suits, while at various functions and concluded :"It wasn't the tan suit, it was the tan president."
Yes, Joan. I am pretty sure it was high summer in DC (humid as heck) when Barack wore that (linen?) suit, and it looked great on him. He was always cool as a cucumber! I miss the Obamas …
Also, Melania and her black veil looks so 1950s Eastern European or Italian widow. It looks like an Italian series my husband and I are watching set in the 1950s, which is totally fake. If she thinks God is going to smile on her, she can stop wasting her time with this show. Her actions in supporting DT say it all about who she is. I wish that someone would start scaring all the Christian Nationalists by telling them that unless they vote for Democrats they are going to HELL!
You're absolutely right: the black veil straight outta an Italian movie funeral. Although to be fair, they are worn by older women in mourning in Central Europe.
Satre would certainly agree Patrick. I was telling my Political book club that we should read the Butterfly Revolution, although I have a few other books I would like to add to our list first. We have a Signal chat group (No Hegseth is not on it), and we discuss things between our weekly meetings. After reading Project 2025, we have read the Constitution and two books explaining ideas of freedom. A friend in the book club was saying that we should be working on defining our idea of what we want our country to be and putting it out there. I think that is a marvelous idea. I think I will write about that in my Substack. Why should only the sick and twisted haters be developing world orders. She is getting this idea from the book On Freedom that we are reading by Timothy Snyder. We are going to discuss the last part of the book this Tuesday.
On Wednesday we have invited Historian Jefferson Cowie as a guest speaker on Zoom at Democrats Abroad. His Pulitzer Prize winning book Freedom's Dominion was our read before. We attended a talk he gave and things in his book and his talk intrigued us, so we asked if he would talk to Democrats in general. Not only is he discussing the type of Freedom that Tech Bros, Trump and Putin believe in, which is for [rich] white men to have dominion over others, but also that without the federal government voting rights do not get enforced and that populism is the kind platform that wins the presidency. He advocates the good kind of populism.
I wrote a piece about his book and a talk he held in Berlin.
I think we should all be writing our versions of Populist Project 2025, for 2026 and 2028, and give guidance to others on what the world can be like. To be honest, one reason I retired to Germany because I wanted to be sure to have health care throughout the remainder of my life. I think a lot of countries are a lot closer to the kind of country I would like to see the US be, than the US is right now. However, the US has potential to be more, if it can overcome Trump, the MAGAs and its racism.
If you are interested in his talk, it is going be at noon EST, so that those of us in other time zones around the world can attend.
While I appreciate your wise words I am always suspect of advice from those who choose to cut and run. Staying here in the middle of the fray shows a commitment I suspect you do not possess.
Enjoy your expat life while those of us here try to deal with this mess and save our Country.
You can read about it in the comfort of your German house, see how we’re doing
And write some more words without conviction. Or courage.
Ole, why do you always have to shit in the punch bowl? Jeff's community is mostly made up of smart, positive people like Linda. You're not contributing to the common weal by making snarky comments to your fellows here (which I've noticed tend more often to be directed at women, why is that?)
As somewhat of an aside, while I certainly believe you are in fact "suspect," I suspect the word you were looking for was "suspicious." That's how a properly educated person would say they're mistrustful of something.
Jumping Jeezus, wake the F Up! If you are such a snowflake that my tame comments upset you I suggest you scroll on by.
I am not here to submit to your or anybody else’s rules of what is ‘nice’.
I don’t feel nice right now, our Country is under seige! Don’t you get it yet?
You sip your tea and eat your crumpets or whatever it is you do.
At 75 I am out holding a sign- and waving it vigorously out in public while you sit home and Linda does whatever they do in Germany.
And while you and a few others may not like my style many intelligent and lovely women have sought to spend time with me. I am not threatened by nor do I cower before women of strength. Just the keyboard warrior types who will not be out in the streets yet feel like their opinion should carry the same weight as those who get out there and make their presence known.
I will leave it at that before I tell you some things you really need to hear but would certainly upset your over sensitive self further.
And thanks for the grammar lesson. I suppose that makes everything I said invalid in your supercilious mind.
You need to get a handle on your emotions, Ole. Calm down. If you want to inspire people to be more active in the fight for our democracy, stop yelling at them about how they're doing it all wrong and you're doing it all right. Reflect a little on how silly you look projecting your own sensitivity onto others as you rant and call people names. Chill. Think about what you actually know about what other people are doing and feeling, and what you don't know. Ponder the idea that you've called me both supercilious and oversensitive (which by the way should either be one word, or hyphenated :D).
We’re not at a proper English tea here, our very Democracy is at stake. The norms are off and have been off since the orange shit stain came on the scene.
If we are not allowed to voice an opinion which is not considered ‘nice’ then we may look forward to the exact same shit show we are seeing now.
And my opinion is that I prefer my champions be here amongst us, not commenting from afar. If that upsets you then I guess I would say toughen up- it’s gonna get a whole lot worse and we had better get ready to get out into the street because Nobody else is coming to save us. And Linda won’t be there along side of us when it’s time to make our displeasure known.
I know she is an intelligent woman but I can’t support her decision to flee. Many of us have concerns about what’s going to happen to our Medicare. That is no excuse
That sounds about right. If grudge-holding were an Olympic sport my Jewish mother would have won the silver medal (only because HER mother would have taken the gold).
My maternal grandmother did not suffer fools gladly. She was also prone to holding a grudge, and was very good at it. My dad once told me, "Gramma is a good hater." True, and blood-curdling. She did have Sicilian blood....
Frankly, I think I come after your mother. Ask my brother. Ask my husband's family. Invite my bitch of an ex-sister-in-law to Thanksgiving, I won't show. That's too bad, because if my son dies before me, they won't get what I could leave them. I don't have much, but it's for damn sure more than anyone else in the family has.
I would not allow my daughter to wear blue jeans under a dress to my mother’s funeral, knowing it would fuel an avalanche of spite from my brother, lots of sharing mean things to anyone who would listen and, especially, agree with him. She was 12 and really into Japanese teen fashion. In hindsight, I wish I’d let her. If it made people think I was a bad mother of a bad kid, fuck ‘em. She’s never done anything wrong in her life.
My sister wore bright yellow to my mom’s funeral. I just did a DNA search and found out she’s my half sister. Boom. But I’m a democrat so I feel guilty.
Most of us live on oxygen, trump lives on attention if there's no attention, his brain cells slide into a coma. Unfortunately, the slightest bit of adulation ...
I submit he wasn't there so much to pay respects to the Pope as it was to get his claws into Zelensky again. That's where his focal point was. Ya know he's like an idiot savant....when he focuses on a thing he wants he never let's go. And he WANTS Z to give up the store to his buddy Vlad. No?
And that handshake bit was important - not mentioned anywhere else that I saw. The high point of my day: watching Macron ignore trump's outstretched hand.
Orange Shitler claims to have made “200 deals” off his tariff debacle, but won’t specify a single one of them. His approval ratings are historically underwater, then he jets off to attend a solemn funeral wearing a happy blue suit in contravention of the dress code and all common decency, perhaps so he would stand out like the woman in red in Schindler’s List, so we’re all sure to notice him disrespectfully falling asleep as his fast food-laden intestines generate the latest factory fresh stink cloud.
My hometown newspaper (in Upper Peninsula of Michigan snow country) posts the police blotter, and last year they had a series of police calls from 2 neighbors who kept pushing snow back and forth into each other's driveway. Their retributions kept escalating. Now that was some crack news reporting
Thank you so much for a much needed belly laugh. Still wishing every single day that he is dead. Looks like we are a few more days closer to that. Can’t happen soon enough.
It's not a policy, just what seems to happen. We haven't had a president die in office in a long time. LBJ and Harry Truman went without VPs after the deaths of Kennedy and FDR. Gerald Ford did select Rockefeller as his VP after he was elevated to the presidency, but all that was a little more planned.
It’s not about “what seems to happen”: it’s a matter of constitutional law. The 25th Amendment was specifically written to address this hole, after the JFK assassination: the whole section about the President being removable if incapacitated was an add-on; the original proposal was just the part about nominating a new VP. The selection of Ford to replace Agnew, and then Rockefeller when Ford moved up, was an implementation of the then-new amendment. It’s not new now.
There's an army of nasty trolls ready to take up the mantle, some far more competent, but I think the entire cult of personality that holds them together dies with him.
I saw a post on threads that claimed he was chewing gum and playing with his phone, but when I clicked the video, I couldn't see any phone in his hand. otherwise I would have used it. was there a better one?
The rest of us would get sick and die but he's got the best Healthcare on the planet. The scientist who saved his life in 2020 was rewarded last month by getting fired from....was it NIH??
I literally laughed out loud at the Molly Ploofkins comment! I'm jealous too. Why won't this fucker just die? I can't even believe I said that. I've never felt that way about anyone. Well, maybe Putin.
The first time I heard the Molly Ploofkins quote was on January 21. It was at the church service at the Washington National Cathedral. He was dozing off there, but woke up when Bishop Budde began talking directly to him. Something about compassion.
I felt sorry for her at first in 2016. I have absolutely no sympathy for her now. She's as bad as he is in her own way. No one makes her stay with him and watch him humiliate her on the world stage with his affairs and his evilness. She knew exactly who he was when she married him.
She's beginning to look rough. She looked bad at another funeral. Was it Carter's? I think it was the hair all messy and some goofy dress with a collar with sex scenes?
yes, it was. And Trump's ugly ass blue suit was a big FU to the Pope too. Passive aggressive behavior at the max. So childish. Like the dead Pope cares what color of suit you wear to his funeral. Such an embarrassment. Rich, hillbilly white trash.
WHITE TRASH…. he was raised in NY - so the hillbilly isn’t a part of it- but wherever you go in this country you can see WHITE TRASH— and he’s the crowning KING OF WHITE TRASH!!!!”
I noticed he wore a black suit at Carter's funeral and at the G12 conference, so Farting Clown owns one. Kudos to Zelensky for wearing black combat fatigues instead of a suit. Now that's a FU. And remember when Obama wore a tan suit to no place particularly important and Fox News hacks peed themselves for a week over it?
The trump and pathetic collection of losers and morons regime is doing more to put the nail in the coffin of white male superiority than any organization or educational effort could ever hope to achieve. The orange, brainless blob and his didn’t earn it, don’t know how to do it, dumb as rocks fuckwits are fucking up every fucking thing they touch. I’d be grateful to them for cluelessly owning their place in the bottom quartile, brilliantly making the case against themselves, if they weren’t also leaving death and destruction in their wake. god I hate these fuckers.
Nicely said Becky… the “walk to Canossa” for him, and his coterie of crooks doesn’t come close to the level of punishment these odious cretins deserve!!
Just remember this about the orange cretin: HE ONLY RAN AGAIN SO HE COULD STAY OUT OF JAIL. Pure and simple- he will deny it- they will deny it - but with all those lawsuits it was inevitable - and he COULD NOT DO JAIL TIME, it would kill him.
It is nice to see Trump at his best. I note Melanie did not give him the ole elbow. She wants him to make a spectacle of himself. I am sure Trump will say he was sleeping in jest. He is no longer capable of leading.
I don’t think he wasn’t chosen by the Heritage Foundation Project 2025 guys to lead. They’re all so horrendously horrendous that he was the only one who could get elected, and even then a member of the broligarchy had to fund $1/4B of targeted ads to scare people in swing states out of (or give them an excuse for not) voting for VP Harris.
I actually think he was chosen because they have something on him just enough to make him sign all their executive order Project 2025 dictates. He isn't coming up with that stuff himself.
Jeff, love the photo of Donald all slack jawed, nodding off in his bright blue suit. Hopefully fine young men in starched white uniforms will escort Donald back to Laughing Pines Old Folks Home where he can enjoy predigested nutrition.🤮
Not only was Dumpy in a bright blue suit and tie, but, as usual, he doesn't bother to button his jacket when he stands up. He probably can't. That could be solved by buying suits - or having them tailor-made - that fit, instead of getting cheap off-the-rack stuff that always looks rumpled. I admit that I've never gotten up close to Dumpy, but I'm an experienced seamstress and his suits look like they're made of cheap polyester.
This is petty, but the way Dumpy sits bothers me. He rarely sits up straight, he's usually slumped over a bit, and his manspread is much wider than other men's, with his hands always dangling between his knees. I'm probably so biased against him that it sways my judgement, but Emmanuel Macron can sit that way in a chair and look elegant, and Dumpy looks - well, dumpy.
Not yesterday, next week or year… today is a great day for Trumps doddering, demented , drug addled disdain to leave this cosmic spinning blue ball Megan!!
true story: one of my uncles wore a powder-blue leisure suit to my grandmother's funeral, and my mother — who competes in grudge-carrying on an olympic level — got back at him by wearing bermuda shorts to his funeral
So THAT'S where you got your sassiness! Kudos to your mother!
Gotta love your mom for that payback
Donnie's blue suit is just one more sign of his mental illness. Call it dementia. Call it pathological narcissism. When a human attracts attention so they can pull down their pants and show their stupidity, daily, over and over, it is nothing less than pathological self image mental disease.
Everyone in the world is sick and tired of this fool. And they are embarrassed for the American citizens who suffer from this crooked idiot.
Why isn't the DNC telling this truth? Why isn't the Press telling this truth?
He doesn't need to pull down his pants to show his stupidity. It's just hanging out there for everyone to see.
Speaking of pulling down his pants, how about the MAGAts who wear diapers over their clothes to show show solidarity with Donnie Shitshispants?
We need to make the MAGAs own their choice of prez for years, hopefully decades. So parts of my extended family are farmers. And after my uncle died (my dad-aunt sibs, her husband), his side of the family didn't wear black suits. They may not be able to afford black suits. Those relatives get a bye. But MAGAs, you wanted this idiotic, demented, cognitively impaired, psychopath. Own it. Live it. This country you claim to be so proud of has been turned into a dumpster fire, governed by a moron buffoon. Thx. Hope the leopards continue to chew on your faces.
Scaredy cats, while also being cowards.
His black suit pants don’t have enough room for the Depends.
It is just lack of class for the entire clan. Money does not buy you elegance and class.
Call it self-absorbed assholishness. . .
But she still had the legs for it
I can't remember. she was probably around the age I am now (68)
Did she provide explanations for her sartorial choice to other attendees?
can't recall, sorry
Damn you old too Jeff, ditto!!
Your mother is awesome!
Revenge is a dish best served in bermuda shorts. Love this story.
Hey! Trump wore a blue tie. He really toned it down!
Remember when Obama wore a tan suit to address the press and the right wingnuts lost their shit over it? I bet they say nothing at all about this faux pas, which of course is much, much larger, it being the funeral of the Pope, FFS.
Yes! And Michelle with her bare arms! Horrors. (Although she and Angela Bassett have the best toned arms in the universe)
They were all just eaten alive with envy about Michelle's sculpted guns.
OMG. The first lady could take my lard-ass conservative journalism butt out with one swing. I'm a dumbass white boy. I need to mock her. Yeah, that's the adult, classy reaction, right?
And what did they say was wrong with the tan suit? I can't even remember now
As I recall, O’s tan suit was deemed “not presidential enough.” 🙄
Yup, screamed about the tan suit, which looked great on him. Did they say anything about Reagan's brown corduroy suits. Ugh, those were ugly. But he's the Prez. You can let the old guy wear what he wants. But that also means you have to STFU about a classy black prez who's can still play some pickup basketball when he's 47.
Yes and in men’s fashion in hot climates (DC in Summer) tan worsted wool or poplin have always been in style.
Yes Jon Stewart showed a montage of presidents in tan suits, while at various functions and concluded :"It wasn't the tan suit, it was the tan president."
Yes, Joan. I am pretty sure it was high summer in DC (humid as heck) when Barack wore that (linen?) suit, and it looked great on him. He was always cool as a cucumber! I miss the Obamas …
I don't know. All my life Reagan wore those ugly brown suits. Not presidential enough for me. And didn't Nancy wear those ugly red suits?
Quite the pair weren’t they ltbw!!
Melania had that plunging neckline, Adam’s Family appearance to match the occasion Kathleen!!
Well, she had to have known Macron would be there.
Gotcha! That explains it.
At least she didn’t go full on Hamburglar with the spy vs spy fedora.
I guess when you are married to an aging man-baby, you take finding decent male eye-candy to a new level : Newsom, Trudeau, and Macron.
She sure was gazing at Trudeau like he was something on the dessert tray , big dreamy smile on her face.
Only picture I’ve ever seen of her smiling.
True dat Cathy!!
Also, Melania and her black veil looks so 1950s Eastern European or Italian widow. It looks like an Italian series my husband and I are watching set in the 1950s, which is totally fake. If she thinks God is going to smile on her, she can stop wasting her time with this show. Her actions in supporting DT say it all about who she is. I wish that someone would start scaring all the Christian Nationalists by telling them that unless they vote for Democrats they are going to HELL!
You're absolutely right: the black veil straight outta an Italian movie funeral. Although to be fair, they are worn by older women in mourning in Central Europe.
Agreed. That is what I meant by Easter European. It just looks very much like the people dress in the series we are watching. Fake.
Excellent idea Linda, although hell on earth is likely the Butterfly Revolution we’re on a path towards, as you’ve poignantly shared in another post!!
Satre would certainly agree Patrick. I was telling my Political book club that we should read the Butterfly Revolution, although I have a few other books I would like to add to our list first. We have a Signal chat group (No Hegseth is not on it), and we discuss things between our weekly meetings. After reading Project 2025, we have read the Constitution and two books explaining ideas of freedom. A friend in the book club was saying that we should be working on defining our idea of what we want our country to be and putting it out there. I think that is a marvelous idea. I think I will write about that in my Substack. Why should only the sick and twisted haters be developing world orders. She is getting this idea from the book On Freedom that we are reading by Timothy Snyder. We are going to discuss the last part of the book this Tuesday.
On Wednesday we have invited Historian Jefferson Cowie as a guest speaker on Zoom at Democrats Abroad. His Pulitzer Prize winning book Freedom's Dominion was our read before. We attended a talk he gave and things in his book and his talk intrigued us, so we asked if he would talk to Democrats in general. Not only is he discussing the type of Freedom that Tech Bros, Trump and Putin believe in, which is for [rich] white men to have dominion over others, but also that without the federal government voting rights do not get enforced and that populism is the kind platform that wins the presidency. He advocates the good kind of populism.
I wrote a piece about his book and a talk he held in Berlin.
https://lindaweide.substack.com/p/is-populism-the-way-to-go?r=f0qfn
I think we should all be writing our versions of Populist Project 2025, for 2026 and 2028, and give guidance to others on what the world can be like. To be honest, one reason I retired to Germany because I wanted to be sure to have health care throughout the remainder of my life. I think a lot of countries are a lot closer to the kind of country I would like to see the US be, than the US is right now. However, the US has potential to be more, if it can overcome Trump, the MAGAs and its racism.
If you are interested in his talk, it is going be at noon EST, so that those of us in other time zones around the world can attend.
https://www.democratsabroad.org/freedom_or_power_the_fight_over_america_s_future
Linda
While I appreciate your wise words I am always suspect of advice from those who choose to cut and run. Staying here in the middle of the fray shows a commitment I suspect you do not possess.
Enjoy your expat life while those of us here try to deal with this mess and save our Country.
You can read about it in the comfort of your German house, see how we’re doing
And write some more words without conviction. Or courage.
Ole, why do you always have to shit in the punch bowl? Jeff's community is mostly made up of smart, positive people like Linda. You're not contributing to the common weal by making snarky comments to your fellows here (which I've noticed tend more often to be directed at women, why is that?)
As somewhat of an aside, while I certainly believe you are in fact "suspect," I suspect the word you were looking for was "suspicious." That's how a properly educated person would say they're mistrustful of something.
Jumping Jeezus, wake the F Up! If you are such a snowflake that my tame comments upset you I suggest you scroll on by.
I am not here to submit to your or anybody else’s rules of what is ‘nice’.
I don’t feel nice right now, our Country is under seige! Don’t you get it yet?
You sip your tea and eat your crumpets or whatever it is you do.
At 75 I am out holding a sign- and waving it vigorously out in public while you sit home and Linda does whatever they do in Germany.
And while you and a few others may not like my style many intelligent and lovely women have sought to spend time with me. I am not threatened by nor do I cower before women of strength. Just the keyboard warrior types who will not be out in the streets yet feel like their opinion should carry the same weight as those who get out there and make their presence known.
I will leave it at that before I tell you some things you really need to hear but would certainly upset your over sensitive self further.
And thanks for the grammar lesson. I suppose that makes everything I said invalid in your supercilious mind.
You need to get a handle on your emotions, Ole. Calm down. If you want to inspire people to be more active in the fight for our democracy, stop yelling at them about how they're doing it all wrong and you're doing it all right. Reflect a little on how silly you look projecting your own sensitivity onto others as you rant and call people names. Chill. Think about what you actually know about what other people are doing and feeling, and what you don't know. Ponder the idea that you've called me both supercilious and oversensitive (which by the way should either be one word, or hyphenated :D).
Come on, Ole. Play nice.
We’re not at a proper English tea here, our very Democracy is at stake. The norms are off and have been off since the orange shit stain came on the scene.
If we are not allowed to voice an opinion which is not considered ‘nice’ then we may look forward to the exact same shit show we are seeing now.
And my opinion is that I prefer my champions be here amongst us, not commenting from afar. If that upsets you then I guess I would say toughen up- it’s gonna get a whole lot worse and we had better get ready to get out into the street because Nobody else is coming to save us. And Linda won’t be there along side of us when it’s time to make our displeasure known.
I know she is an intelligent woman but I can’t support her decision to flee. Many of us have concerns about what’s going to happen to our Medicare. That is no excuse
So, No. I will continue to call it like I see it.
That sounds about right. If grudge-holding were an Olympic sport my Jewish mother would have won the silver medal (only because HER mother would have taken the gold).
My maternal grandmother did not suffer fools gladly. She was also prone to holding a grudge, and was very good at it. My dad once told me, "Gramma is a good hater." True, and blood-curdling. She did have Sicilian blood....
Haha, Stephanie! And my mother takes the bronze.
Frankly, I think I come after your mother. Ask my brother. Ask my husband's family. Invite my bitch of an ex-sister-in-law to Thanksgiving, I won't show. That's too bad, because if my son dies before me, they won't get what I could leave them. I don't have much, but it's for damn sure more than anyone else in the family has.
Leave it to "Habit For Humanity", Jimmy Carter believed in them.
That's one of my thoughts. Also, maybe an environmental or animal group. Or a group that works in Africa. It's really hard to choose.
😂
I would not allow my daughter to wear blue jeans under a dress to my mother’s funeral, knowing it would fuel an avalanche of spite from my brother, lots of sharing mean things to anyone who would listen and, especially, agree with him. She was 12 and really into Japanese teen fashion. In hindsight, I wish I’d let her. If it made people think I was a bad mother of a bad kid, fuck ‘em. She’s never done anything wrong in her life.
Now ex-brother still did all those things so why bother.
I love your mother! Obviously you got your snark from her <3
🥳😂
I love it.
My family is very informal about funeral wear, Catholics though they are. However, none are THE POPE.
Donald probably owns a roomful of these shitty suits
Ha ha! This fills me with irrational joy.
Me too! I laughed out loud.
My sister wore bright yellow to my mom’s funeral. I just did a DNA search and found out she’s my half sister. Boom. But I’m a democrat so I feel guilty.
🤣🤣🤣 Your mom sounds a bit scary, but I would like to meet her. And can you imagine what she would do to Trump if she ever met him?
😂😂😂😂
Hilarious
here's how you can tell when it's a slow news day: I write 1,238 words about an old man falling asleep in public
now THIS is a slow news day: https://bsky.app/profile/debbshock.com/post/3lnnkkmdevk27
Funny! Urban Americans never cease to amaze.
Those mushrooms ... so sneaky. Who knew they could masquerade as owls? 🧐
😂
Neither the mushrooms nor the owls are anywhere close to what they seem!
Most of us live on oxygen, trump lives on attention if there's no attention, his brain cells slide into a coma. Unfortunately, the slightest bit of adulation ...
!!! AND HE'S BACK !!!
I submit he wasn't there so much to pay respects to the Pope as it was to get his claws into Zelensky again. That's where his focal point was. Ya know he's like an idiot savant....when he focuses on a thing he wants he never let's go. And he WANTS Z to give up the store to his buddy Vlad. No?
Putin owns him. He has to do the dance or the pee tape is shown.
I've never been able to understand that....after ALL he's been thru why would he fear a pee tape?? That bad??!!
Only he probably knows what’s on that tape!
I suspect it's not just a pee tape, but something far, far worse
👆🎯
Autistic
Needs to be on RFKjr list
That’s insulting to autistic people, of which I am one
Donny is just an asshole
Nah, he's not neurodivergent. He's just a garden-variety pendejo.
I don't think "buddy" is the right term for Donny and Vlad's relationship.
It is if it has the word "butt" in front of it, because we know Putin is the top in that relationship.
Oh yes!
Well, ya got the idiot part right.
Coupled with a snootful of adderall Kathleen!!
It will likely show his teeny weeny peeny.
you also covered the handshake! I had not read that elsewhere, although I had read about the sleeping and the blue suit. Congrats!
And that handshake bit was important - not mentioned anywhere else that I saw. The high point of my day: watching Macron ignore trump's outstretched hand.
Macron is now a verb.
agree!
this is a classic column, Jeff. One for the ages!
Agreed Anne!!
I bet tRump was really pissed when President Zelensky got applause when his face appeared on the jumbo tron at the funeral and he didn't.
That was priceless! I loved it!
Furious!! haha
Orange Shitler claims to have made “200 deals” off his tariff debacle, but won’t specify a single one of them. His approval ratings are historically underwater, then he jets off to attend a solemn funeral wearing a happy blue suit in contravention of the dress code and all common decency, perhaps so he would stand out like the woman in red in Schindler’s List, so we’re all sure to notice him disrespectfully falling asleep as his fast food-laden intestines generate the latest factory fresh stink cloud.
200 deals in a world that only has 190 countries. maybe Donny made ten separate deals with Penguin Island
His deal with Penguin #8 would have given him the perfect suit to wear to The Pope’s funeral https://www.stuff.co.nz/media/images/9Tzi8ywRz924XE3uHaD6DfGZQfjEdZd7oKlsiR53VLHvSZExpMzuRmKdwHbkL9PkpZ1soJH%2FYZSROCt3BqHw7lzVbWpx3CpU01l7yQ1ZV8Kc%2FA%2FE4GebyA7CpG6Q4kOBG%2FV9C4fvIvngvIJ5pFj0tzz1rn0wguSuQXFmbESGp63bdIaCVGEGHB9x%2F8p2bEgV?resolution=620x350
https://images.app.goo.gl/jxauv
https://substack.com/@bobbowden209566/note/c-112791173?r=1pv3tg&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Maybe he made a deal with his pen pal - soulmate Kim Jun un to import the eerie nighttime darkness outlining the country, as seen from space.
The penguins wouldn't hear of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOzP87HVCWw
At least he didn’t wear his usual floor-length red tie.
Or a red MAGA cap, to complete the Fart Clown ensemble, so every stupid fuck who ever supported him can give him the Nazi salute.
It was hilarious, thank you! The photo of him sleeping with mouth agape is so embarrassing-he's gonna really hate that one 😂
For goodness sake, don't put him in an end seat again or he'll fall out into the aisle! It happens. And who'd pick him up? Not I.
I think his bullet proof vest was holding him erect! It was apparent he had one on.
Gonna need brain bleach for any post about Mango Mussolini that contains the word "erect"
I really can't imagine why she doesn't give him the pointy elbow, after all it's her embarrassment too?? I know it would be for me......
She wants him to look like a dried-up husk.
He’s sleeping and shitting his pants Jeff. I didn’t do much today , so I added more chapters to the biography work https://thistleandmoss.com/p/voices-of-a-diverse-america-weekend
You may have hit the tRump on the head - That look on Melanie's face sure looks like he let a big one rip.
No doubt. His ass trombone was playing faster than a Tommy Dorsey solo. No offense to Dorsey, he was one of the best.
"Tommy Dorsey's Ass Trombone" would be a fantastic garage band name.
Oh shit, I about asphyxiated. That wins the intar-tubes for the day, no more phone calls. I got tears, laughing.
Clean up on aisle two!
Row 1, wasn't it?
My hometown newspaper (in Upper Peninsula of Michigan snow country) posts the police blotter, and last year they had a series of police calls from 2 neighbors who kept pushing snow back and forth into each other's driveway. Their retributions kept escalating. Now that was some crack news reporting
😂😂😂😂 Negaunee by chance? My pal is from there!!
yeah, but it's fucking funny the way you wrote about it...and that's why we're here!
Best thing read this morning Jeff, well go down as one of your greatest, until the odious cretins funeral!!
Please g-d let us have more slow news days.
The picture you said you didn't know where it was from? That's from the National Prayer Service in DC, Jan 21. Day after dozing donny was installed.
I'm glad you revealed it as no other MSM seems to want to do. Chicken shits all of them.
But so funny!
The rest of the world was thinking about Gramps going sleepy-bye in the midst of court, funerals, campaign events, too. It hasn’t gone unnoticed.
Thank you so much for a much needed belly laugh. Still wishing every single day that he is dead. Looks like we are a few more days closer to that. Can’t happen soon enough.
I plan on celebrating by eating an entire meat-lovers pizza all by myself in front of the TV during normal business hours.
I wonder if half the workers in this country wouldn't take the whole day off in order to celebrate
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Fucking hilarious
😂
He is dead. He just pretends to be alive.
But then America gets disgusting Vance with (probably) MTG as vice president. We are so screwed.
I know, it sucks but we have to start the elimination process somewhere.
You're right, of course.
We can all send him boxes of eyeliner. Drown him in the shipments!
How about sitting on the toilet?
I like this! 🚽. No paper allowed for that asswipe.
Actually, historically, when a VP steps into a president's shoes, no VP is selected until the general election rolls around.
Ok, but there is nothing normal about this administration. I do think the plan was to get rid of Trump in favor of JD. We shall see...
I think you're right, arne. The handlers are just letting a plausible amount of time pass.
That was changed sixty years ago.
It's not a policy, just what seems to happen. We haven't had a president die in office in a long time. LBJ and Harry Truman went without VPs after the deaths of Kennedy and FDR. Gerald Ford did select Rockefeller as his VP after he was elevated to the presidency, but all that was a little more planned.
It’s not about “what seems to happen”: it’s a matter of constitutional law. The 25th Amendment was specifically written to address this hole, after the JFK assassination: the whole section about the President being removable if incapacitated was an add-on; the original proposal was just the part about nominating a new VP. The selection of Ford to replace Agnew, and then Rockefeller when Ford moved up, was an implementation of the then-new amendment. It’s not new now.
There's an army of nasty trolls ready to take up the mantle, some far more competent, but I think the entire cult of personality that holds them together dies with him.
How I hope that you are right. MAGA must die to save America.
YOU Cats 🐈⬛are my people! I wish the same: Every. Single. Day!!!
<<THIS>> times a thousand, RZolu..
Not only did he snooze, he played with his phone and chewed gum during the funeral service. He is a boorish lout and a disgrace to our nation.
I saw a post on threads that claimed he was chewing gum and playing with his phone, but when I clicked the video, I couldn't see any phone in his hand. otherwise I would have used it. was there a better one?
Yeah the railing in front of him blocked the view---but I thought I saw a glimpse of it.
He also sat on top of the program that everyone else attending was reading--'cause you know, Lil' Diaper Donnie can't fuckin' read!
Extra padding in case his diaper leaked.
Giving the chair a fighting chance.
"no one else among the assembled mourners felt the need to drift off to beddy-bye land and let rip some aromatic ass-music." So damned good. 🤣
Can I buy Molly Ploofkins a drink?
As we endure the demise of a free country, I'm so grateful to come here and laugh. Christ knows we need it. The day to day stress is almost too much.
Perfect, Susan. My sentiments exactly about Jeff's daily stack and 𝔸𝕃𝕃 𝕆𝔽 𝕐'𝔸𝕃𝕃 commenting.
Molly Ploofkins… I’m stumped
Seeing that pic of Orange Fuckwit with his mouth open, I’m hoping a fly flew in and laid a dozen eggs.
I'm hoping that a deadly dose of cyanide lands in that sphincter mouth of his...
The rest of us would get sick and die but he's got the best Healthcare on the planet. The scientist who saved his life in 2020 was rewarded last month by getting fired from....was it NIH??
It's so sad that he didn't die of Covid. America would have been spared all this misery and whatever misery is to come.
You’re right Douglas, was it Kessler??
Hilarious, Kay-El
A fly would probably find that putrid face hole too stinky even for maggots.
Love the colour of the picture you just painted Kay-EI!!
I am crying with laughter at this one, Kay-El!
𝕆𝕗𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕣𝕥𝕤 𝕙𝕚𝕝𝕒𝕣𝕚𝕠𝕦𝕤!
ヽ(╯▽╰)ﾉ
I literally laughed out loud at the Molly Ploofkins comment! I'm jealous too. Why won't this fucker just die? I can't even believe I said that. I've never felt that way about anyone. Well, maybe Putin.
The first time I heard the Molly Ploofkins quote was on January 21. It was at the church service at the Washington National Cathedral. He was dozing off there, but woke up when Bishop Budde began talking directly to him. Something about compassion.
Compassion…. which we all know the gasbag has less than a doorknob of.
I just recently crossed over from just wishing him out of office to wishing him dead. And dead in very bad ways, preferably embarrassing.
I'm rooting for slow and incredibly painful.
Nearly everyone globally has wished the same Ellen!!
Jeff, he was up all night rage tweeting. People with dementia do a lot of day sleeping.
Also people who hold off on their adderall or take a benzodiazepine.
Sun-doning!
Melania always looks as if lasers are going to shoot out of her eyes.
I felt sorry for her at first in 2016. I have absolutely no sympathy for her now. She's as bad as he is in her own way. No one makes her stay with him and watch him humiliate her on the world stage with his affairs and his evilness. She knew exactly who he was when she married him.
Money, money, money.
She does it for a steady stream of couture and Birkin bags.
She's beginning to look rough. She looked bad at another funeral. Was it Carter's? I think it was the hair all messy and some goofy dress with a collar with sex scenes?
I now suspect that she tries to look awful at events that her contract forces her to attend. That look at Carter's funeral was a giant "Fuck You".
yes, it was. And Trump's ugly ass blue suit was a big FU to the Pope too. Passive aggressive behavior at the max. So childish. Like the dead Pope cares what color of suit you wear to his funeral. Such an embarrassment. Rich, hillbilly white trash.
That’s the 2 words I forget about-
WHITE TRASH…. he was raised in NY - so the hillbilly isn’t a part of it- but wherever you go in this country you can see WHITE TRASH— and he’s the crowning KING OF WHITE TRASH!!!!”
I noticed he wore a black suit at Carter's funeral and at the G12 conference, so Farting Clown owns one. Kudos to Zelensky for wearing black combat fatigues instead of a suit. Now that's a FU. And remember when Obama wore a tan suit to no place particularly important and Fox News hacks peed themselves for a week over it?
She was extra scary looking for the event Alethia!!
It’s a super power I know it too well.
The trump and pathetic collection of losers and morons regime is doing more to put the nail in the coffin of white male superiority than any organization or educational effort could ever hope to achieve. The orange, brainless blob and his didn’t earn it, don’t know how to do it, dumb as rocks fuckwits are fucking up every fucking thing they touch. I’d be grateful to them for cluelessly owning their place in the bottom quartile, brilliantly making the case against themselves, if they weren’t also leaving death and destruction in their wake. god I hate these fuckers.
Nicely said Becky… the “walk to Canossa” for him, and his coterie of crooks doesn’t come close to the level of punishment these odious cretins deserve!!
Just remember this about the orange cretin: HE ONLY RAN AGAIN SO HE COULD STAY OUT OF JAIL. Pure and simple- he will deny it- they will deny it - but with all those lawsuits it was inevitable - and he COULD NOT DO JAIL TIME, it would kill him.
𝕎𝕖𝕝𝕝 𝕡𝕦𝕥, 𝔹𝕖𝕔𝕜𝕪!
Awesome and fucking 𝔻𝕀𝕋𝕋𝕆!
It is nice to see Trump at his best. I note Melanie did not give him the ole elbow. She wants him to make a spectacle of himself. I am sure Trump will say he was sleeping in jest. He is no longer capable of leading.
"It was on purpose," says KKKaroline Leavitt, "in order to make anyone else who was tired/bored feel comfortable."
I'm sure she would say something exactly like that--she is a shameless liar...just like her boss.
A shameless Xtian liar. Oxymoronic and just plain moronic
She's even better than Sarah Huckabee -Sanders.......
The insanity reigning down from the pope’s demise!!
I don’t think he wasn’t chosen by the Heritage Foundation Project 2025 guys to lead. They’re all so horrendously horrendous that he was the only one who could get elected, and even then a member of the broligarchy had to fund $1/4B of targeted ads to scare people in swing states out of (or give them an excuse for not) voting for VP Harris.
The Tech bro’s had the election rigged from the jump Abbi, Trump and Musks little secret, Trump bragged about prior to the election!!
ℍ𝕖 𝕥𝕒𝕝𝕜𝕖𝕕 𝕒𝕓𝕠𝕦𝕥 𝕚𝕥 𝕖𝕟𝕕𝕝𝕖𝕤𝕤𝕝𝕪!
I actually think he was chosen because they have something on him just enough to make him sign all their executive order Project 2025 dictates. He isn't coming up with that stuff himself.
Could not agree more, Tully.
He never was.
I guess it was a joke but whose laughing, oh it’s a PR thing so lovable. If not she would elbow him in the head!
She holds him in contempt, except at the inaugural ball.
When Jeff writes about the “dilapidated old dipshit,” the whole world knows who he is describing. Isn’t that amazing?
Jeff, love the photo of Donald all slack jawed, nodding off in his bright blue suit. Hopefully fine young men in starched white uniforms will escort Donald back to Laughing Pines Old Folks Home where he can enjoy predigested nutrition.🤮
If only a fly (like Mike pence pet one) would just disappear then fly back out gagging.
And they EAT shit. Dozy Don oozes the worst shit " the world has ever seen.:
You perfectly described tube feeding. LOL.
Not only was Dumpy in a bright blue suit and tie, but, as usual, he doesn't bother to button his jacket when he stands up. He probably can't. That could be solved by buying suits - or having them tailor-made - that fit, instead of getting cheap off-the-rack stuff that always looks rumpled. I admit that I've never gotten up close to Dumpy, but I'm an experienced seamstress and his suits look like they're made of cheap polyester.
This is petty, but the way Dumpy sits bothers me. He rarely sits up straight, he's usually slumped over a bit, and his manspread is much wider than other men's, with his hands always dangling between his knees. I'm probably so biased against him that it sways my judgement, but Emmanuel Macron can sit that way in a chair and look elegant, and Dumpy looks - well, dumpy.
He always looks like he's sitting on the toilet.
He is! You can Depend on it.
Fredi, haha!! Good one!!
Was just going to post that same obseevation!
Actually, his hands are always forming tha fucked up white supremacist sign between his creepy wide manspread.
Everyday I wake up hoping to hear of TRump's demise. Hopefully, he'll croak during one of his daytime naps. He needs to be GONE.
Yeah, Megan, I couldn’t agree more.
Not yesterday, next week or year… today is a great day for Trumps doddering, demented , drug addled disdain to leave this cosmic spinning blue ball Megan!!
Molly Ploofkins wins Best Post of the day!
Right?! I literally laughed out loud 😅