Jeff, The Sundowners is getting just worse and worse.
This is the most entertaining thing yet so far of this dystopia we are forced into.
That said, the voter Rolls issue is going hard. I think that's going to be the big deal -- Trump and the GOP are going to demand Voter Rolls before letting a state have an election. As crazy as that sounds.
The federal government has no say in the elections. They can whine and scream and cry and bellyache all they want, but each state runs their election, and the feds have no say so. States don't have to give out their voter rolls, and the courts have already backed them up at least 17 times, if I'm not mistaken.
I'm still a grouchy old half-glass guy, but I notice this: they're going to try, they've always tried and will never stop, what's new now is that they broke containment and are trying all over us. What's new now is that we see them, they're no longer hidden, and the counter attack has begun.
Republican evangelicals unsuccessfully attacked Roe v. Wade for years. Legal attack after attack was shot down in the courts - - until it wasn't anymore.
The difference now is they have a Corrupt Supreme Court rubber-stamping everything they want. Our counter attacks won't win against the SC's desire for evangelical power in government. We just buy time. Let's hope we buy enough time to get through mid-terms. It's our only hope.
The MAGAts are in full panic mode on X. Virtually the entire feed seems to be about passing Trump's voter suppression law and attacking Senator Thune for not cancelling the upcoming recess.
I think there are some degrees of separation between panic and legitimate concern. I'd rather err on the side of panic (that is, to be legitimately concerned) than act as if everything is OK. Because it very much isn't.
I'm not panicking. It's the MAGAts who are going nuts. Now they're attacking Thune as well as those senators up for re-election who want to get home to campaign (and not "take a vacation").
Still, the Republicans will pull out all the stops. If voting weren't so powerful they wouldn't be working so hard.
So everyone make sure your voter registration is ACTIVE and get ready for the big dance! Vote as early as possible, every election. Especially in unreconstructed state-based regimes of terror!
Odds on what SCOTUS does with this latest attempt? As we write, with USPS help, Rump is trying to FUBAR mail-in voting.
It doesn't take every state to turn over voter rolls. There are 26 GOP trifectas and 23 or 24 GOP triplexes. Ohio, for example, has already turned over its voter info, as have a number of other red states.
If the election process is corrupted in just a handful of states, fuggedaboutit. Pinning hopes on state election rules is barking up the wrong tree, from the present perspective, IMO.
They can’t do that. States control elections. As horrible as this unsupreme court is, I just don’t see them interfering with election rules (of course it is republicans wanting this so they may make an exception.)
Unless you live in states like deSantistan where all of the data was easily harvested. Without consent or concern for privacy, of course.
The Manchurian cantaloupe will probably award him for compliance with a Cabinet position since he’s termed out this year. And nowhere to go. Although I’ve got some suggestions.
I left that hellhole state 6 months ago and went out of my way to cancel my voter registration there so I don't get caught up in some AI dragnet for the totally legal *crime* of being registered in two states. I have never done that in my nearly 50 years of voting and living in multiple states but I do not trust anyone there to not do the craziest thing imaginable.
I live in purple New Hampshire. It's a super surprise to me that this state is NOT handing over their voter rolls. And, the DNC wants to take away first in the nation from us - wrong, that ain't happening either...
It very likely is. NH thinks they are ENTITLED to have the first primary and point to their state law declaring so. I think other states should pass laws that THEIR primaries must come before New Hampshire's. It's all about the money the campaigns bring in, not some high-minded principle.
I’d love nothing better than for NH to lose their “first in the nation” while under tRump loving Kelly Ayotte. Anything to get that bitch out of her governor seat.
The DNC is NOT "in shambles," nor is it as powerful as some people think. Let's stop putting everything on the very limited shoulders of the DNC, which is the biggest example of the lingering damage Bernie Fucking Sanders did to the Democratic Party in 2016. I will never forgive that clown. Hey, all you people advocating for age limits to serve in Congress; what about HIM? He's the oldest person in the Democratic caucus and the second oldest Senator.
Everybody is sick of getting spammed by every candidate in the country 50x a day. I will no longer donate and I'm taking aggressive measures to stop the texts. I don't care about the emails because the spam filters work for them, but the texts are just awful.
My favorite of this junkie-level begging was some candidate for Congress in Bumfuk, West Virginia who started his pitch with "I have been sober for 35 years..." I'm like, thas...thas...(hic) the saddest story I ever heard. Here's a dollar pal, go get you a beer."
It's all too late. At this point we are just running around in endless panic "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!" And we need to stop because that is voter suppression: it discourages people from voting because they think their vote will be stolen or won't count. Please.
You're right about that. But even if we all just shut up about it, the voter suppression aspect of it is still happening because of the repuglies and the media. The repuglies' whole MO is to scare people into thinking their vote won't count and those who aren't really paying attention - probably more than half the country - are going to just stay home. So the message needs to be "stop listening to any and all chatter and just go vote." But, how to get that message out there without causing the panic? It's a double edged sword.
right? He's up for hours in the middle of the night posting on social media then nodding off in the middle of the day it's a textbook case: watching his face as he fumbled with the tic tacs my first thought was sleep deficit.
Here's the whole cockrotted center of it: a man fuckin' died, a family sat in the front row trying to just hold the fucking moment, and the President of the United goddamn States turned their private morning into a sad fuck-report about his own greatness — awake just long enough to make it about him, dead to the world for every part that wasn't. Nap-Time Narcissist-in-Chief, sleep tight. The rest of us don't get to clock out on the people we are supposed to be supporting, because Donald wont. Cock gobbling shit goblin that he is.
I was thinking the same thing! What else could it have been? White towels to wipe his sweaty face? Not likely, since they'd turn orange. It had to have been diapers.
Of the large number of Republicans who are not concerned with Trump earning $2B last year while serving as President, wonder what that number would look like if you substituted Obama or Biden’s name in the question? Never mind, I don’t have to ask. Hypocrites.
On an unrelated note (sorry), I think that I must not be the only one in this fine community who is infuriated and upset over this Republican tribunal that is currently eviscerating Dr. Fauci. And what’s with the theft of private journals? What is wrong with those people??
And exactly why he's pleading the Fifth. They can't do anything to him if he shows up and pleads the Fifth. He showed up, so they can't get him on refusing a subpoena. He invoked his right to decline to testify on Constitutional grounds, so they can't get him on contempt.
Frankly, Biden should have issued more preemptive pardons.
Rand Paul is a fucking nutcase and is absolutely obsessed with his feud with Dr Fauci over the origins of the Covid virus--and why? It was 8 frigging years ago. "DR." Paul definitely needs some serious therapy with medication.
Most credible virologists, epidemiologists and major global health bodies believe Covid-19 most likely originated via a natural zoonotic spillover from animals to humans like many viruses prior...such as Ebola, rabies, Nipah virus, swine flu, avian flu, EEE, West Nile virus....it's a long list and Rand Paul is a raving maniac with a grudge. Hopefully his mania isn't a virus and doesn't crossover to us humans.
Another wonderful expose of the farting-felon-in-chief’s truly bizzaro behavior. Rapping the coffin? What does he think - Aunt Lindsey is going to ask “Who’s there?” Too effing crazy! And I absolutely cracked up with the photo of the poor man who ended up sitting behind said farter-in-chief - he looked like he was going to throw up. Glad I don’t get invited to these things. I’d RSVP “no thanks, I have more sense than that.”
Of all the maddening things in the news this has pushed my buttons the most. Only an exceptionally cruel and vindictive person would expose the personal diary of an 85 y.o. retired scientist who, when well past retirement age, worked tirelessly during a worldwide pandemic to try to contain it. Fauci deserves some peace and quiet at this point in his life, not legal fees and stress due to harassment from conspiracy theory whack jobs who have nothing better to do with their time! Also how much is this charade costing taxpayers??
They did this to Ashley Biden, torturing her, and people were like "no big." Murc's Law means that it is fine for Republicans to hurt people and anything goes for their behavior. Only Democrats are subject to accountability for public and private behavior.
I will continue to present Democrats to do exactly the same for the Trump spawn when they retake power, not to be vindictive but because they are a thousand times more guilty.
More recently, the Heritage Foundation exposed the decade-old private conversations of President Biden and his ghostwriter concerning a memoir he wrote at the time. “The Bezos Bugle” (a name for the Washington Post that I swiped from the Substack writer TCinLA) is doing its best to make this story a thing, dragging the discreditable behavior on the Heritage Foundation’s part out into the second day.
Rand blowing a gasket because he's not going to get the answers about anything in his conspiracy playbook is pure gold. Kicking Fauci's lawyer out of the room made Rand look like an idiot as well. Dr. Fauci wins the day.
Apparently, Rand "Needs Another Punch" Paul reeeaalllllly hates Dr. Fauci, and all of this is his idea in order to exact revenge upon an American hero (I mean Dr. Fauci, not Paul's neighbor).
Some extraordinarily moronic talking head on MS-NOW was all super-Collins-level CONCERNED that Dr. Fauci's taking the 5th is setting a terrible precedent for when Democrats try to hold hearings against the corrupt Republicans, because now the Republicans will think they, too, have the right to refuse to answer questions.
My TV barely survived Susie Junior's asininity. But I just told myself that it must be her first day out of the burrow and in the real world, so........
He's a failed strip mall ophthalmologist and a failed policymaker who's pedaled horse shit his entire entrenched career in the senate. Always grandstands and obstructs for the spotlight but eventually caves.
Rand "Last Name First/First Name Last" Paul had been very quiet for quite a while--not Moscow Mitch's level, but close; that was enjoyable. All of sudden, though, he's up and spewing his usual stupidity and venom. Another one whose obituary will be a welcome bit of news.
Of course, he's no more a doctor than I am. I, too, could be a doctor like Rand if my rich white daddy bought me some people and named them a "medical certification board." What Rand is: yet another mediocre white boy with money who failed upwards. Give Vance a home perm kit and the two of them could be twins.
He is a doctor...he's an ophthalmologist but if I recall correctly, he never renewed his original certification which lapsed in 2005, so he is no longer a board certified and clearly, no longer practices. Or so I hope. I sure as hell wouldn't go to him for any eye issue! He is also whacko with a very short fuse.
We hope to...but her PAC is running the nastiest possible ads on Troy Jackson, while the ads that feature her are sickeningly sweet...and, oddly enough, those ads have edited out the the tremor in her voice.
She details all the pork she brings home--some of the things she lists are were funded and built over ten years ago! She features how her position as Chairperson of the Senate Appropriations Committee gives her lots of power to bestow Federal money on Maine--which is very nice for businesses and corporations, of course, but if the Dems flip the Senate (entirely possible!), she will lose that esteemed position, anyway. And we ordinary peons of the State O' Maine haven't seen much of the benefits of this largesse, I can assure you.
She claims to be the champion for Medicaid. Sure, she voted against passing the Bill that strips the states of Medicaid funding, but her assistance during the crafting and procedural phases of the Bill were key to it's passage AND while she did vote against it's passage, her vote didn't change the outcome.
That happens to be her favorite tactic for preserving her cherished but phony "moderate Republican" badge. She votes against select bills when her "yea" vote isn't necessary for it's passage. I won't even mention her support of insider trading for Senators...but she has become quite wealthy on that so-called "inadequate" Senate salary. So has her lobbyist husband...with whom she carried on an affair while his wife was terminally ill. They married as soon as the poor woman passed. So considerate.
She is a useless lying doormat and we Mainers can't WAIT to get her scrawny butt out of her cushy Senate seat!!!!
PS...Susie is pretty damned concerned about her chances of winning this time around; I just watched a Maine news report of a state level REPUBLICAN Representative (no doubt at the urging of either her campaign people or the Maine State Republican Committee) questioning the legitimacy of Troy Jackson's Senate candidacy (because he lost his race in the primary and didn't re-register....*GASP*). It was bogus effort because he was chosen by a mini-convention of elected delegates and Maine State Democratic Committee members and did not need to re-register, according to duly cited Maine law.
Kentucky quack Rand Paul is now fuming that Dr. Fauci will pay for not cooperating with the committee. He doesn't have a leg to stand on. Dr. Fauci was entirely within his rights to invoke the Fifth. Fauci was there under a subpoena having declined Paul's "invitation." Dr. Fauci's lawyer lays out just how obsessed Paul is with "getting" Dr. Fauci.
The quack is protected by the "speech and debate" clause. I hope Dr. Fauci's lawyer is going through Paul's statements that are outside and brings a defamation suit.
Wow..."Dr." Paul should be sued for the assault on Dr. Fauci's reputation. Good thing he is protected by his position. He is like a Yorkshire teacup terrier with a bone--lots of ferocious growling but with the bone bigger than he is, it's pretty ineffectual.
Quack Paul has certain protections in the Constitution. Fauci's lawyers said he's exploring where he might be liable (i.e., statements not under the "speech and debate" clause).
Thank you. I used to know that but forgot all about it because Rand Paul ticks me off so and I was thinking about how to best describe the miserable jerk. I fixed it.
Disgusting. How can any of those pissy revenge babies look at themselves in the mirror? And Trump’s approval numbers are so low now—why don’t they all jump ship together? If there IS a blue tsunami this fall…and who knows if there will be…could we clean house with a mass impeachment in January 2027? I’ll buy the popcorn.
I was watching it this am. It literally made me ill. They have made Fauci a target since Covid because Trump had to blame his mishandling of the COVID pandemic on somebody right? And it couldn’t have been Trumps utter mishandling and politicizing it - to this day- that caused hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths and illnesses in our country
Thank you for remembering/saying this, Helen. It seems to me that there is a level of collective amnesia that Trump’s early actions/inactions did result in unnecessary deaths.
Evidently he's a Secret Service Agent and his job is probably targeted for termination. Notice how Rubio leans in like he's putting his head in the gas oven.
The photo of Nappie Harp carrying the resuscitation/Depends bag while standing next to the soldier holding the nuclear football is one of the most terrifying images of this decade.
The photo of Harp with diapers and the officer with the nuclear football should get a Pulitzer, or whatever they award to photos. How much more do we need to say about the insanity of the Republican party, the corporate Democrats, and the corporate press that they accept the current status quo.
Given the total mental incapacity of Donald Drump, if we had a real opposition party in this country, they would have refused to participate in any congressional business at all, filibustered everything in the Senate, until impeachment or the 25th amendment was on the table, especially as he has shown he is clueless about ever making a peace deal to end the war crimes in Iran. Trump is dangerous, corrupt, and almost sure to cause a far greater disaster than is currently happening in Iran, Venezuela, the environment, public health (we ain't seen nothin' yet,) and disaster management, among other areas.
Are you familiar with the Jewish holiday of Purim? On it we read the Book of Esther and every time the name of the villainous Haman is read, it is traditional to drown it out with noisemakers.
Unholy shit. Great pictures, Jeff! How do you do it every day?
I have to rant today. It's maddening that the current administration shut down NCAR, the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO, mothership of climate science. That happened last year -- Don the Con's retaliation on us after Tina Peters(R) was imprisoned for election interference. The building itself is an iconic landmark, sort of a modern castle in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. They even had art exhibits there. It's been lying fallow and untended. It was vandalized with swastikas over this past weekend. Concerned locals jumped right in and painted over it. The good news is that in June a federal court halted the plans to dismantle it, but only after Gov. Polis commuted Tina Peters' sentence and let her walk free.
My sister lives in Boulder. She worked for Greenpeace, and is losing her mind right now. How is Tina Peters more important than the entire city of Boulder??? We already know how this regime feels about the climate emergency. It's a priority of theirs to make sure the planet doesn't survive.
I hate that that unrepentant b**ch walked free after doing what she did. I know Polis had to consider the good of the State but I really, really wish there was some way to have kept her imprisoned. She DOES NOT deserve to go free.
Thank you, Jeff. One of your best. I especially love this multi-hyphenated paragraph:
"welcome to the sad state of America in this year of our lord 2026, where every event — be it a cabinet meeting or a state funeral — must inevitably devolve into an ass-kissing session in honor of a thin-skinned colicky piss-baby who will throw a five-alarm shit-fit if he isn’t lavished with over-the-top praise every minute of his soft, pampered life."
Jeff, your eulogy for Claudia was beautiful and heartfelt. Don't measure it against anything Donnie Demento nattered about yesterday: hell, my cat that likes to yowl at 2 am delivers a better eulogy than Demento's by his own measure of 600%.
He reminds me so much of Truman Capote. The man could write, but what an obnoxious asshole. I had the misfortune to meet him, and he was awful. Lindsay even looks a bit like him.
Fun fact: In "Annie Hall" there's a scene where Woody Allen and Diane Keaton are sitting in Central Park and making up stories about passers-by. At one point he says, "Look, it's the winner of the Truman Capote lookalike contest." It actually WAS Capote.
The longer this goes on the more outrageous it is for the press to normalize this. I remember in the run-up to the 2024 election with the "eating the dogs" shit and the rambling magnet speeches, the unveiling of the EXACT FUCKING PLAN THEY IMPLEMENTED in Project 2025 (of which the SAVE act was a the keystone, because without that they will get thrown out) and media was all about yawns. It's a rotten terrible system. The cities around the world are planning for Day Zero when the water taps run dry, and the data centers are promising exactly 200 jobs (enough to generate interest but not enough to need to augment the school system) while fast-tracking the regulation and lying to get the things built. AI is not intelligent; an LLM merely predicts tokens, and the more garbage tokens there are the worse the results. It's yet another enshittified technology that had potential but was ruined by greed.
As we watch America slowly burn down, it's hard not to think we deserve our fate. The problem is that the people who are burning it will skate away. They'll have water. They'll have food. The rest of us? We're ancillary casualties who don't even get a mention.
We have the power, but we have to use it together. Doesn't seem we are capable of it.
This. All of it. And thank you for pointing out the fact that AI is nothing more that an energy-sucking, water-depleting, mediocre word-guesser that NOBODY asked for. I'm tired of it being foisted upon me at every turn and avoid it like the fucking plague whenever possible.
We all knew the collapse would offer big drama. And low comedy. Does anyone else here remember that effort to introduce odor-releasing effects into movie theaters, called “Smell-O-Rama”? That clip of the poor guy sitting behind fatfuck sure evokes that.
today in Shit That Happened While I Was Busy Writing This Shit:
Donny's approval rating is at an all-time low, even among Republicans
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/29/politics/cnn-poll-donald-trump-midterms-polls-iran-war
As Stephen Colbert would say, soaring like the Hindenburg.
Did you say Snoring like the Hindenburg?
:)
Reminder: Don’t light a match anywhere near Don Snoreleone’s ass while he’s nodding off
Sshhhhh! That's Elmo's plan for the next SpaceX rocket.
No, light the match. Then RUN really, really far, fast.
Oh, go on, do it - I'd love to see him fly around the White House like an untied balloon. . . .
During his last meeting with Hitler, the aging President Hindenberg nodded off, then snorted awake and said "So sorry, Your Majesty"
Damn.
🤣🤣
LOL that ALSO works
Kindness Seth, much.
😆😂
I miss Colbert SO MUCH!!
Me, too 😞
I keep wondering when he'll be back from vacation - then I remember. 😠 🥲
“Eau de Humanity”
Correction: Eau de inhumanity!
Eau d'mille toilettes
Eau de Manatee
Jeff, The Sundowners is getting just worse and worse.
This is the most entertaining thing yet so far of this dystopia we are forced into.
That said, the voter Rolls issue is going hard. I think that's going to be the big deal -- Trump and the GOP are going to demand Voter Rolls before letting a state have an election. As crazy as that sounds.
The federal government has no say in the elections. They can whine and scream and cry and bellyache all they want, but each state runs their election, and the feds have no say so. States don't have to give out their voter rolls, and the courts have already backed them up at least 17 times, if I'm not mistaken.
Yes--the current score is American Reality 17, Deluded Fascist Pigs 0.
But you know they are going to try. They are doing it already. Threatening states that dont hand over or purge their voter rolls.
I'm still a grouchy old half-glass guy, but I notice this: they're going to try, they've always tried and will never stop, what's new now is that they broke containment and are trying all over us. What's new now is that we see them, they're no longer hidden, and the counter attack has begun.
Republican evangelicals unsuccessfully attacked Roe v. Wade for years. Legal attack after attack was shot down in the courts - - until it wasn't anymore.
The difference now is they have a Corrupt Supreme Court rubber-stamping everything they want. Our counter attacks won't win against the SC's desire for evangelical power in government. We just buy time. Let's hope we buy enough time to get through mid-terms. It's our only hope.
Not comparable. Let's not think of new ways to dredge up panic.
It's like what John Lennon said, introducing Yoko during Live Peace at Toronto: "Now, Yoko's gonna do her thing . . . ALL OVER YA!"
The MAGAts are in full panic mode on X. Virtually the entire feed seems to be about passing Trump's voter suppression law and attacking Senator Thune for not cancelling the upcoming recess.
I've been posting this in reply. (I didn't originate it, but it's brilliant.)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HOYx3tLXoAA7HtU?format=png&name=small
Wow! Now that's good! Will share everywhere.
We need to send this to Right wing media, but they probably won't print it.
Sure, they've tried. And every try has failed. So let's stop with the panic, please.
I think there are some degrees of separation between panic and legitimate concern. I'd rather err on the side of panic (that is, to be legitimately concerned) than act as if everything is OK. Because it very much isn't.
If "panic" gets people out of their armchairs and out to vote this mid-term, then I'm all for panic.
I'm not panicking. It's the MAGAts who are going nuts. Now they're attacking Thune as well as those senators up for re-election who want to get home to campaign (and not "take a vacation").
Thank God you're here.
The thing is I bet red states agree to handover the voting rolls and perhaps let Trump disenfranchise some voters.
Still, the Republicans will pull out all the stops. If voting weren't so powerful they wouldn't be working so hard.
So everyone make sure your voter registration is ACTIVE and get ready for the big dance! Vote as early as possible, every election. Especially in unreconstructed state-based regimes of terror!
Absolutely correct. and we need to keep telling everyone this instead of panicking them. The media likes to prey on our panic but we can't humor them.
Odds on what SCOTUS does with this latest attempt? As we write, with USPS help, Rump is trying to FUBAR mail-in voting.
It doesn't take every state to turn over voter rolls. There are 26 GOP trifectas and 23 or 24 GOP triplexes. Ohio, for example, has already turned over its voter info, as have a number of other red states.
If the election process is corrupted in just a handful of states, fuggedaboutit. Pinning hopes on state election rules is barking up the wrong tree, from the present perspective, IMO.
Suuure, "states' rights!" for slavery and killing women by omission, but "no states' rights" for elections. Fucking GOP cherry picking AGAIN
... and bodily autonomy...
They can’t do that. States control elections. As horrible as this unsupreme court is, I just don’t see them interfering with election rules (of course it is republicans wanting this so they may make an exception.)
Unless you live in states like deSantistan where all of the data was easily harvested. Without consent or concern for privacy, of course.
The Manchurian cantaloupe will probably award him for compliance with a Cabinet position since he’s termed out this year. And nowhere to go. Although I’ve got some suggestions.
I left that hellhole state 6 months ago and went out of my way to cancel my voter registration there so I don't get caught up in some AI dragnet for the totally legal *crime* of being registered in two states. I have never done that in my nearly 50 years of voting and living in multiple states but I do not trust anyone there to not do the craziest thing imaginable.
I live in purple New Hampshire. It's a super surprise to me that this state is NOT handing over their voter rolls. And, the DNC wants to take away first in the nation from us - wrong, that ain't happening either...
It very likely is. NH thinks they are ENTITLED to have the first primary and point to their state law declaring so. I think other states should pass laws that THEIR primaries must come before New Hampshire's. It's all about the money the campaigns bring in, not some high-minded principle.
I’d love nothing better than for NH to lose their “first in the nation” while under tRump loving Kelly Ayotte. Anything to get that bitch out of her governor seat.
"As New Hampshire goes, so goes New Hampshire."
I thought the states changed their primaries already. Didn't Iowa lose its place as first?
They go through this every four years. And the DNC still has to ratify the changes at their meeting next month.
The DNC is in such shambles and broke. They have no business making any decisions much less who votes first.
The DNC is NOT "in shambles," nor is it as powerful as some people think. Let's stop putting everything on the very limited shoulders of the DNC, which is the biggest example of the lingering damage Bernie Fucking Sanders did to the Democratic Party in 2016. I will never forgive that clown. Hey, all you people advocating for age limits to serve in Congress; what about HIM? He's the oldest person in the Democratic caucus and the second oldest Senator.
Everybody is sick of getting spammed by every candidate in the country 50x a day. I will no longer donate and I'm taking aggressive measures to stop the texts. I don't care about the emails because the spam filters work for them, but the texts are just awful.
My favorite of this junkie-level begging was some candidate for Congress in Bumfuk, West Virginia who started his pitch with "I have been sober for 35 years..." I'm like, thas...thas...(hic) the saddest story I ever heard. Here's a dollar pal, go get you a beer."
But we do have more restrictions than other states.
It's all too late. At this point we are just running around in endless panic "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!" And we need to stop because that is voter suppression: it discourages people from voting because they think their vote will be stolen or won't count. Please.
You're right about that. But even if we all just shut up about it, the voter suppression aspect of it is still happening because of the repuglies and the media. The repuglies' whole MO is to scare people into thinking their vote won't count and those who aren't really paying attention - probably more than half the country - are going to just stay home. So the message needs to be "stop listening to any and all chatter and just go vote." But, how to get that message out there without causing the panic? It's a double edged sword.
I'm fine if the the MAGA idiots believe their own propaganda and stay home.
Me too but sadly misinformation is an equal opportunity employer.
I dont know why they want voter rolls. Are they going to remove people who they think vote Democratic. Is ICE going to come to my home?
They'll keep demanding the rolls, and the courts will keep telling them to fuck off.
Even the Trump appointees. I think the count is eight Trump appointees at this point.
The Mid-Terms will happen. See https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/americans-can-vote-without-fear
right? He's up for hours in the middle of the night posting on social media then nodding off in the middle of the day it's a textbook case: watching his face as he fumbled with the tic tacs my first thought was sleep deficit.
Got My Issue out Late jeff. but here the fuck it is.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-sundowning-into-a-coma-dying
Here's the whole cockrotted center of it: a man fuckin' died, a family sat in the front row trying to just hold the fucking moment, and the President of the United goddamn States turned their private morning into a sad fuck-report about his own greatness — awake just long enough to make it about him, dead to the world for every part that wasn't. Nap-Time Narcissist-in-Chief, sleep tight. The rest of us don't get to clock out on the people we are supposed to be supporting, because Donald wont. Cock gobbling shit goblin that he is.
Loved the obit.. 👩🏼🍳💋
They HAD to expect it.
Tell it girl!!
Loved rereading your obit. It is lovely! ❤️✌🏾
Damn. You can see the diapers in that bag
I was thinking the same thing! What else could it have been? White towels to wipe his sweaty face? Not likely, since they'd turn orange. It had to have been diapers.
Of the large number of Republicans who are not concerned with Trump earning $2B last year while serving as President, wonder what that number would look like if you substituted Obama or Biden’s name in the question? Never mind, I don’t have to ask. Hypocrites.
Wow! I too had a 20 minute conversation with Mitch. He was jabbering away, you know, talking about politics and world events! 🙄🤥🤥🤥
That's a shame.
Excellent. Now SHUT ORANGESHITSTAIN DOWN!
I have a new hashtag. Hope you all like it:
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On an unrelated note (sorry), I think that I must not be the only one in this fine community who is infuriated and upset over this Republican tribunal that is currently eviscerating Dr. Fauci. And what’s with the theft of private journals? What is wrong with those people??
it's a fucking outrage. this is exactly why Biden gave him a pre-emptive pardon
And exactly why he's pleading the Fifth. They can't do anything to him if he shows up and pleads the Fifth. He showed up, so they can't get him on refusing a subpoena. He invoked his right to decline to testify on Constitutional grounds, so they can't get him on contempt.
Frankly, Biden should have issued more preemptive pardons.
But Rand Paul said today in a hearing that there is a way to get around the pardons
Rand Paul is a fucking nutcase and is absolutely obsessed with his feud with Dr Fauci over the origins of the Covid virus--and why? It was 8 frigging years ago. "DR." Paul definitely needs some serious therapy with medication.
It came from a lab in Woohoo, China! It was brought on the wings of a devil bat! Minor Batman villain Man-bat could very well be responsible!
Most credible virologists, epidemiologists and major global health bodies believe Covid-19 most likely originated via a natural zoonotic spillover from animals to humans like many viruses prior...such as Ebola, rabies, Nipah virus, swine flu, avian flu, EEE, West Nile virus....it's a long list and Rand Paul is a raving maniac with a grudge. Hopefully his mania isn't a virus and doesn't crossover to us humans.
Rand Paul is fantasizing. He's desperate to take down Dr. Fauci because Dr. Fauci showed him up on television.
Not only is Rand Paul not a lawyer, he's barely an opthalmologist - he had to create his own licensing board in order to practice.
Another wonderful expose of the farting-felon-in-chief’s truly bizzaro behavior. Rapping the coffin? What does he think - Aunt Lindsey is going to ask “Who’s there?” Too effing crazy! And I absolutely cracked up with the photo of the poor man who ended up sitting behind said farter-in-chief - he looked like he was going to throw up. Glad I don’t get invited to these things. I’d RSVP “no thanks, I have more sense than that.”
Of all the maddening things in the news this has pushed my buttons the most. Only an exceptionally cruel and vindictive person would expose the personal diary of an 85 y.o. retired scientist who, when well past retirement age, worked tirelessly during a worldwide pandemic to try to contain it. Fauci deserves some peace and quiet at this point in his life, not legal fees and stress due to harassment from conspiracy theory whack jobs who have nothing better to do with their time! Also how much is this charade costing taxpayers??
They did this to Ashley Biden, torturing her, and people were like "no big." Murc's Law means that it is fine for Republicans to hurt people and anything goes for their behavior. Only Democrats are subject to accountability for public and private behavior.
I will continue to present Democrats to do exactly the same for the Trump spawn when they retake power, not to be vindictive but because they are a thousand times more guilty.
More recently, the Heritage Foundation exposed the decade-old private conversations of President Biden and his ghostwriter concerning a memoir he wrote at the time. “The Bezos Bugle” (a name for the Washington Post that I swiped from the Substack writer TCinLA) is doing its best to make this story a thing, dragging the discreditable behavior on the Heritage Foundation’s part out into the second day.
Rand blowing a gasket because he's not going to get the answers about anything in his conspiracy playbook is pure gold. Kicking Fauci's lawyer out of the room made Rand look like an idiot as well. Dr. Fauci wins the day.
Apparently, Rand "Needs Another Punch" Paul reeeaalllllly hates Dr. Fauci, and all of this is his idea in order to exact revenge upon an American hero (I mean Dr. Fauci, not Paul's neighbor).
Some extraordinarily moronic talking head on MS-NOW was all super-Collins-level CONCERNED that Dr. Fauci's taking the 5th is setting a terrible precedent for when Democrats try to hold hearings against the corrupt Republicans, because now the Republicans will think they, too, have the right to refuse to answer questions.
My TV barely survived Susie Junior's asininity. But I just told myself that it must be her first day out of the burrow and in the real world, so........
I'll take smart Dr. Fauci over Bobby Brain Worms any day of the week!! WTF is wrong with these people?
Asshole Paul, STFU
We don't need your whack view
If you're an MD
Why can't you see
What is fake and what is true?
He's a failed strip mall ophthalmologist and a failed policymaker who's pedaled horse shit his entire entrenched career in the senate. Always grandstands and obstructs for the spotlight but eventually caves.
Rand "Last Name First/First Name Last" Paul had been very quiet for quite a while--not Moscow Mitch's level, but close; that was enjoyable. All of sudden, though, he's up and spewing his usual stupidity and venom. Another one whose obituary will be a welcome bit of news.
Of course, he's no more a doctor than I am. I, too, could be a doctor like Rand if my rich white daddy bought me some people and named them a "medical certification board." What Rand is: yet another mediocre white boy with money who failed upwards. Give Vance a home perm kit and the two of them could be twins.
Ayn Rand, Rand Paul, and Paul Ryan walk into a bar. The bar serves tainted alcohol because there are no regulations. They die.
You win the internet today! Hilarious!
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May start a new MAGA trend: White Boy Jheri Curl
He is a doctor...he's an ophthalmologist but if I recall correctly, he never renewed his original certification which lapsed in 2005, so he is no longer a board certified and clearly, no longer practices. Or so I hope. I sure as hell wouldn't go to him for any eye issue! He is also whacko with a very short fuse.
That's extra clever considering he's an ophthalmologist with a lapsed license.
I so hope that Mainers will vote that elderly cow out of office.
We hope to...but her PAC is running the nastiest possible ads on Troy Jackson, while the ads that feature her are sickeningly sweet...and, oddly enough, those ads have edited out the the tremor in her voice.
She details all the pork she brings home--some of the things she lists are were funded and built over ten years ago! She features how her position as Chairperson of the Senate Appropriations Committee gives her lots of power to bestow Federal money on Maine--which is very nice for businesses and corporations, of course, but if the Dems flip the Senate (entirely possible!), she will lose that esteemed position, anyway. And we ordinary peons of the State O' Maine haven't seen much of the benefits of this largesse, I can assure you.
She claims to be the champion for Medicaid. Sure, she voted against passing the Bill that strips the states of Medicaid funding, but her assistance during the crafting and procedural phases of the Bill were key to it's passage AND while she did vote against it's passage, her vote didn't change the outcome.
That happens to be her favorite tactic for preserving her cherished but phony "moderate Republican" badge. She votes against select bills when her "yea" vote isn't necessary for it's passage. I won't even mention her support of insider trading for Senators...but she has become quite wealthy on that so-called "inadequate" Senate salary. So has her lobbyist husband...with whom she carried on an affair while his wife was terminally ill. They married as soon as the poor woman passed. So considerate.
She is a useless lying doormat and we Mainers can't WAIT to get her scrawny butt out of her cushy Senate seat!!!!
PS...Susie is pretty damned concerned about her chances of winning this time around; I just watched a Maine news report of a state level REPUBLICAN Representative (no doubt at the urging of either her campaign people or the Maine State Republican Committee) questioning the legitimacy of Troy Jackson's Senate candidacy (because he lost his race in the primary and didn't re-register....*GASP*). It was bogus effort because he was chosen by a mini-convention of elected delegates and Maine State Democratic Committee members and did not need to re-register, according to duly cited Maine law.
There with you. I’ve been donating to MDP & Trey.
Some wit described the Solon of Maine as "Our Lady of Perpetual Concern."
Susan of the Furrowed Brow
Dr Fauci is a hero. What the clowns are doing now is unconscionable. All dignity dies with the regime
Kentucky quack Rand Paul is now fuming that Dr. Fauci will pay for not cooperating with the committee. He doesn't have a leg to stand on. Dr. Fauci was entirely within his rights to invoke the Fifth. Fauci was there under a subpoena having declined Paul's "invitation." Dr. Fauci's lawyer lays out just how obsessed Paul is with "getting" Dr. Fauci.
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000019f-abae-d49c-ad9f-afbe44f50000&nname=playbook&nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&nrid=00000169-2525-d801-a779-27f562c80000
You mean the doctor who had a form his own accrediting organization so he could be accredited? Yeah, I'll trust him.
The quack is protected by the "speech and debate" clause. I hope Dr. Fauci's lawyer is going through Paul's statements that are outside and brings a defamation suit.
Wow..."Dr." Paul should be sued for the assault on Dr. Fauci's reputation. Good thing he is protected by his position. He is like a Yorkshire teacup terrier with a bone--lots of ferocious growling but with the bone bigger than he is, it's pretty ineffectual.
Quack Paul has certain protections in the Constitution. Fauci's lawyers said he's exploring where he might be liable (i.e., statements not under the "speech and debate" clause).
Thank you. I used to know that but forgot all about it because Rand Paul ticks me off so and I was thinking about how to best describe the miserable jerk. I fixed it.
Excellent!
Disgusting. How can any of those pissy revenge babies look at themselves in the mirror? And Trump’s approval numbers are so low now—why don’t they all jump ship together? If there IS a blue tsunami this fall…and who knows if there will be…could we clean house with a mass impeachment in January 2027? I’ll buy the popcorn.
Those fucking LGBTQ haters also want to burn Dr. Fauci at the stake for leadership in virtually eradicating the world of HIV/AIDS.
They just haven’t said it out loud yet.
Anti-vax loons need their raw meat
Everything.
I wish somebody, anybody, would kick Rand Paul’s ass.
I was watching it this am. It literally made me ill. They have made Fauci a target since Covid because Trump had to blame his mishandling of the COVID pandemic on somebody right? And it couldn’t have been Trumps utter mishandling and politicizing it - to this day- that caused hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths and illnesses in our country
Thank you for remembering/saying this, Helen. It seems to me that there is a level of collective amnesia that Trump’s early actions/inactions did result in unnecessary deaths.
What is wrong with them? How much time have you got? There is a very long list...
Oh; I know, Susie, I know…
Immediately after taking the 5th Fauci should have said, Rand Paul, Go Fuck Yourself.
So much is wrong with these people. It’s way too much to enumerate. Right now it’s completely loogie city with donnie dumbfuck as chief loogie.
It's not an investigation. It's a prosecution. There's a difference.
Persecution, more like.
Totally crop dusting the guy behind him. I assume people have to draw straws and loser gets the seat directly by the exhaust port.
I figure whoever that guy is was seated there as punishment for something
Evidently he's a Secret Service Agent and his job is probably targeted for termination. Notice how Rubio leans in like he's putting his head in the gas oven.
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“Crop dusting” 😆👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
"Games? Must we?" Debonair commie Philip van Damm shortly before he tried to blow the heads off of Mt Rushmore.
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Dear Andrew Taint, can you say "flight risk"? I knew you could.
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Mizz Harp is quite a find
I wonder what's in her mind
In order to adore
Who the rest of us abhor
Can't she smell and is she blind?
The photo of Nappie Harp carrying the resuscitation/Depends bag while standing next to the soldier holding the nuclear football is one of the most terrifying images of this decade.
The photo of Harp with diapers and the officer with the nuclear football should get a Pulitzer, or whatever they award to photos. How much more do we need to say about the insanity of the Republican party, the corporate Democrats, and the corporate press that they accept the current status quo.
Given the total mental incapacity of Donald Drump, if we had a real opposition party in this country, they would have refused to participate in any congressional business at all, filibustered everything in the Senate, until impeachment or the 25th amendment was on the table, especially as he has shown he is clueless about ever making a peace deal to end the war crimes in Iran. Trump is dangerous, corrupt, and almost sure to cause a far greater disaster than is currently happening in Iran, Venezuela, the environment, public health (we ain't seen nothin' yet,) and disaster management, among other areas.
Time to stop all cooperation, Democrats.
Yes, photographers can win Pulitzers for their work.
thanks!
Yes! I want to send this to my reps in Congress (all Democrats) so they know what their assignment is!
I thought it was her mobile printer
She probably packs her nose with Vick's several times a day.
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Yeah, same ole shit day after day after day after day. I am still looking forward to the day he is DEAD. Can’t come soon enough.
I was thinking blow horns and kazoos every time his ugly name is mentioned.
Are you familiar with the Jewish holiday of Purim? On it we read the Book of Esther and every time the name of the villainous Haman is read, it is traditional to drown it out with noisemakers.
yeah, but Susie Gross always got to be Queen Esther for some reason.
The Book of Esther is my favorite Biblical story--love the tradition of drowning out the name of Haman with noisemakers.
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And then we’ll have fun at his funeral. Wolf whistles and vuvenzuelas!
Could it be today? Please?
Unholy shit. Great pictures, Jeff! How do you do it every day?
I have to rant today. It's maddening that the current administration shut down NCAR, the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO, mothership of climate science. That happened last year -- Don the Con's retaliation on us after Tina Peters(R) was imprisoned for election interference. The building itself is an iconic landmark, sort of a modern castle in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. They even had art exhibits there. It's been lying fallow and untended. It was vandalized with swastikas over this past weekend. Concerned locals jumped right in and painted over it. The good news is that in June a federal court halted the plans to dismantle it, but only after Gov. Polis commuted Tina Peters' sentence and let her walk free.
My sister lives in Boulder. She worked for Greenpeace, and is losing her mind right now. How is Tina Peters more important than the entire city of Boulder??? We already know how this regime feels about the climate emergency. It's a priority of theirs to make sure the planet doesn't survive.
I know people who worked at NCAR. It was a beautiful location and a beautiful building. Or course Trump had to try to wreck it.
Good lord, the clowntastic batshittery is getting exponentially worse every day.
I hate that that unrepentant b**ch walked free after doing what she did. I know Polis had to consider the good of the State but I really, really wish there was some way to have kept her imprisoned. She DOES NOT deserve to go free.
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Thank you, Jeff. One of your best. I especially love this multi-hyphenated paragraph:
"welcome to the sad state of America in this year of our lord 2026, where every event — be it a cabinet meeting or a state funeral — must inevitably devolve into an ass-kissing session in honor of a thin-skinned colicky piss-baby who will throw a five-alarm shit-fit if he isn’t lavished with over-the-top praise every minute of his soft, pampered life."
We should describe him that way all the time!
I had to repost this comment, it's so good!
Thanks, Paula! But they’re mostly Jeff’s words. I’m always impressed by his multi-hyphenated descriptions of Donny boy.
Jeff, your eulogy for Claudia was beautiful and heartfelt. Don't measure it against anything Donnie Demento nattered about yesterday: hell, my cat that likes to yowl at 2 am delivers a better eulogy than Demento's by his own measure of 600%.
nattering nabobs… why’d have to remind me of VP Spiro Agnew 😖🥸🤣
In honor of that undignified coffin knocking sendoff from Fatfuck, here is a repost for ol' Linds:
Lushy Lindsey, the warmongering elf
Had best leave his booze on the shelf
It's easy to posit
All that time in the closet
Has made him loathe himself
He reminds me so much of Truman Capote. The man could write, but what an obnoxious asshole. I had the misfortune to meet him, and he was awful. Lindsay even looks a bit like him.
Fun fact: In "Annie Hall" there's a scene where Woody Allen and Diane Keaton are sitting in Central Park and making up stories about passers-by. At one point he says, "Look, it's the winner of the Truman Capote lookalike contest." It actually WAS Capote.
Nailed it. What are all his young boys going to do now??? 🤣
Escort revenue in the DC area will plummet
The longer this goes on the more outrageous it is for the press to normalize this. I remember in the run-up to the 2024 election with the "eating the dogs" shit and the rambling magnet speeches, the unveiling of the EXACT FUCKING PLAN THEY IMPLEMENTED in Project 2025 (of which the SAVE act was a the keystone, because without that they will get thrown out) and media was all about yawns. It's a rotten terrible system. The cities around the world are planning for Day Zero when the water taps run dry, and the data centers are promising exactly 200 jobs (enough to generate interest but not enough to need to augment the school system) while fast-tracking the regulation and lying to get the things built. AI is not intelligent; an LLM merely predicts tokens, and the more garbage tokens there are the worse the results. It's yet another enshittified technology that had potential but was ruined by greed.
As we watch America slowly burn down, it's hard not to think we deserve our fate. The problem is that the people who are burning it will skate away. They'll have water. They'll have food. The rest of us? We're ancillary casualties who don't even get a mention.
We have the power, but we have to use it together. Doesn't seem we are capable of it.
This. All of it. And thank you for pointing out the fact that AI is nothing more that an energy-sucking, water-depleting, mediocre word-guesser that NOBODY asked for. I'm tired of it being foisted upon me at every turn and avoid it like the fucking plague whenever possible.
Same. So so same. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I'm right there with you!!!
There was a douche named Donny Drumpf
Who never knew he was a humpf
Over the hill came Barack O
Who bitchslapped old Drumpf
Go man, go!
Donny then began to whine
"It's not fair! You're mean, you swine!"
Barack laughed right in his face
And said, "Dude, you real disgrace,
You have no brains, no heart, no soul
And cash won't fill that empty hole
Go back home, ya whiny bitch
And take with you your wifely witch.
And while we're at it,
Fuck your sons
Your mother should have been a nun
And then we wouldn't have your crowd
Of sad crybabies, always loud....
Without your money, you'd have no friends
WE laugh, WE sing, our lives transcend!"
Hey, but he’s Number One on TicTacs.
Number Two is in his pants.
Rapping on the casket. JFC.
I wish they made a casket built for two and the felon could crawl in right beside Miss Lindsey.
These people are beyond vile.
But the guy behind the felon and the face he made? LOL!
Nice photos of you, beautiful Claudia and good pals. ❤️
It was another of his public naps
After those WTF coffin raps
First he rambled dementedly
Then snoozed contentedly
While gassing the nearby saps
The fucker fell asleep at Charlie Kirk's funeral as well as at the Pope's and Graham's.
Maybe he subliminally wants to join them in forever sleepland....zzzzzz....
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LOL!!!! Very good, Doc!
We all knew the collapse would offer big drama. And low comedy. Does anyone else here remember that effort to introduce odor-releasing effects into movie theaters, called “Smell-O-Rama”? That clip of the poor guy sitting behind fatfuck sure evokes that.
I still remember the scratch and sniff card from the 1981movie Polyester. Filmed in Ordorama!
Wotta memory.
Does life copy art, or what? Donny does Homer Simpson at the funeral of Frank Grimes: “zzzzzz, oh I’m bored, Marge! Change the channel!”