SO perfectly phrased! I continue to read Jeff's posts aloud to hubby, just to give him his laughs/cries for the day. His sense of humour isn't 'quite' as finely tuned as mine and clearly those of you who write so well here (after all, he WAS a Republican voter for many years - until Barack Obama), but he does smile and even laugh occasionally as I 'do' the different voices. :)
I totally agree about Manchin's and Fetterman's "books."
Speaking of words, let's all remember NOT to AGE UP the young girls assaulted and abused by Epstein and Trump and the other Creepy McCreepersons in Epstein's orbit. That reporter who said: “What did you think Epstein was stealing those women for?” referred to girls as "women," and they were NOT women, they were GIRLS. This is a tactic, by the way, used by some men when they want to justify their inappropriate attention toward young girls. Words mean what words mean, and the truth still matters!
After Festerman was elected, he realized that rich people would actually lavish bribes, er, contributions, on him to vote how they wanted him to, and POOF!, instant corrupt asshole.
I believe the proper terminology is “CHILD”. “Little girl” would even be an improvement.
I’d also like to know why the OWNER of a large hotel/resort even knows, by face or name, who this 16 yr old pool girl is. A *manager* of that property wouldn’t even know. I wonder what her actual job title even was. I swear I remember hearing she handed out towels or something.🤔 Teenagers don’t provide spa services.
I would like someone who can read lips tell me what drumph was saying to his pedo buddy shitstain in the video clip of them at some party where drumph is fist bumping ( precursor to his two handed “jerkoff” dance) …
Your and Kathy's responses had me in tears. I swear, reading Jeff's posts have my emotions up, down then upside down and sideways. It takes some time to level out. I was a very young 19 (having been a very sheltered 'good Catholic girl' since birth when the unthinkable happened to me. Today I'm as lapsed as one can be, mostly because of how the 'priests and nuns' I was taken to for help treated me. Every one outright refusing to accept my truth. Even these decades later I STILL can't fathom 'why me'? WHY did the fucker choose me? Even though others refer to college girls as 'women' (and I was in college at 16), I was the singularly most shy, terrified kid while attempting to put on a brave face for the people I met who were all naturally, older than I was. The girls were lovely for the most part and kept info they felt I shouldn't know from me. In epstein/frump's world I wouldn't have had a CLUE about what was going on...my mother was SO strict and abusive and even holding hands with a boy walking home from the CYO or Confraternity had her labeling me and my sister 'wh*res which would result in a MAJOR beating. Yup. Mostly because her fever dream was that we become Nuns and IF we liked boys that idea was out the window. Back in Scotland her BEST FRIEND was the local Parish Priest who, through her efforts even became a Canon! I was never going to be a Nun despite her years of brainwashing although I did live in abject fear of her and was willing to aim for teaching until the day I still think of as 'the destruction of my entire life' occurred (which I successfully kept from her and my Dad - mostly because it would have broken him. He was a good man, also abused by her). Initially I told no one other than the girl acquaintance who found me beaten and bloodied and got me home, worried that she'd be implicated in 'something'. She never asked a single question or mentioned it again, removing me from the Upstate NY site (a ranch where a group of coworkers had all been spending a companionable weekend riding horses and for those old enough, drinking. I hadn't of course. All I ever wanted to do was ride and help the wranglers with those horses I loved. They looked at and treated me as 'a kid' and I lived for their comments about how I was a natural with horses - a lifelong dream. THAT all came to a screeching halt. I still had to work with those people and 'pretend' all was normal - for a time. I can't tell much more - it took years before I could so much as mention anything about this...it comes out in dribs and drabs. BUT now that I'm far more outspoken and don't, frankly, give a flying fuck WHAT anyone thinks, I've dropped hints and mentions here and there. In a secret part of my mind I relish the thought that I've likely outlived the fucker and his enablers. THIS is to say that I fully understand that those YOUNG GIRLS who were so badly harmed by frump, epstein & maxwell NEED their day in Court sans their fucking NDA'S! I'm so sad Virginia suicided - or did she? Are we sure? Given the atmosphere we're living in now - I'm concerned about every one of those surviving girls. I wish someone would get their stories on FULL COLOUR VIDEO & under lock & key if they're able to talk about what happened to them, to protect against 'accidents' or 'disappearances'.
Elizabeth, I am so, so sorry. I am glad you survived and that you are still here. YOU DID NOTHING WRONG. Being innocent, naive, or inexperienced is not wrong, not a mistake, and not responsible for what happened to you.
Victim blaming is a terrible piling on to someone who has been hurt and traumatized. I don’t know why it happens so much, though there are theories. To me it is a social crime that compounds the harm of real crime. To this day, sex ed in public schools doesn’t do enough to educate females about lots of things, including rape, assault, and how people might react to learning of it if it happens to you. No one seems to understand how to demonstrate empathy or provide real help. Most people do not even understand that they should care and use words to that effect!
We as children do not get to pick our parents. It often isn’t until we have adult agency that we can begin to negotiate boundaries or new ones with parents and others. Sometimes, we have no choice but to limit abuse from family members, whether it is emotional, physical, mental, or other forms, by limiting or cutting off contact.
I am not a professional therapist, I am a sympathetic listener. I hope that if you have the means and the desire, that you seek out a professional, empathetic, wise therapist who can help you to live your life as you want to, and can help you to cope with the injury done to you. I send you vibes of peace and well being, Elizabeth!
I seem to have lost 'the end' of my sad saga. Apologies. I only wanted to ride and help the Ranch wranglers with the horses I loved. I enjoyed them describing me as a 'natural' rider (something I'd dreamt of for my entire life). I was still 'the kid' to them - all much older than me and to a person, good people who worked there. Even though we paid for the weekend I wasn't averse to mucking out stalls or walking horses to cool them down, brushing them...Purely glorious. I got a reputation for being 'one of them' and felt protected and safe - enough. Until...one of those WITH the group (of coworkers - and someone with authority over me on a daily basis back in the City) did the unthinkable during one of those weekends. It was so difficult to believe that no one heard, no one noticed, no one CARED that my entire life had now been altered forever. It was a decades-long struggle, but eventually I've let things out in dribs and drabs, a little here, a little there (mostly on the internet). Deep in the recesses of my mind I relish the idea that I've likely outlived the fucker who so ruined MY life. I can't imagine how those girls managed to function even after the world found out the abuses done to them. I weep for Virginia and her 'suicide'. Did she really? Are we sure? I have doubts. I would so love to see and hear every single one of those terrorized little girls interviewed now in full colour and the videos duplicated, copies put under lock and key about exactly what they went through as CHILDREN! I want frump in PRISON where he belongs for what he did to them. Epstein's already paid...the idea that frump will pardon maxwell is so repugnant I can't even...
I was there in 1983 and took two courses in illustration. I already had a BFA in painting from MICA. I also took a course at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in the eighties. I'd love to take another course sometime soon but I don't want to travel into the city. There are options locally. I should just do it. But yes, circumstances do tend to interfere.
I assumed you invented it - since it's SO 'you' AND so fucking good. That one in particular had me on the floor. Now I DO write 'a bit', but could never, ever, ever come up with any of the things you do. It's sheer genius. I'm in full agreement with Ann.
Me too, and I even contributed to him, despite not being in his district. I'm on Long Island and contribute to specific candidates who appeal to me all over the Country. HE is now on my shit list. I'm unsure it can be blamed on his having had a stroke...we stood up for him against those insulting him for his lack of dress code. HOW could he become a turncoat? That seems deliberate.
MAYBE he has an excuse. Or maybe all his shorts-wearing was just to disguise that he really loves Rump in his greasy blue suits and ties, with orange makeup smeared on his « white » shirt collars.
Hi Lisa. Is astrotofied a synonym of pompatus? I need a different dictionary cause Websters apparently isn’t cutting it. If you’re saying “horrified” I totally agree!
Medically, "weenus/wenis" is the loose skin on the back of the elbow. Somehow that it fitting for a description of many of the Guardians of Pedophilia/magats... it's pretty useless, and kind of gross when you think about it... my kids learned that in high school biology and had "wenis wars" that involved jabbing each other as hard as they could with their elbows 😁
This is what I fail to understand, every one of those oligarchic overlords NEED CONSUMERS TO MAKE THEIR MONEY. So why is it that they want to destroy the country and the economy? Stupid right? Confusing for sure. What's the end game?
I’ve been asking that same question for quite a while now. Once we have no extra money to spend on anything but very basic necessities, where are all the customers going to come from for, say, Amazon or other retailers.
And I understand even less the detention camps and deportations. My first concern are human beings. We all should also care about the terrifying economic impact of lost taxes, lost local businesses and spending, lost workers. Farms, construction companies and hospitality (hotels in particular) he for one day was going to exempt from raids and kidnappings. Then the MAGAts who dream up how to hurt people most talked him out of it. Flop again. Hotels are at 67% of needed staffing. No one to plant and harvest. No one to clean and process meats. And no one to build. Forget even a degree in economics. It’s common sense.
Let’s just say oligarch wannabe’s suppporting all the ahem high level economics (aka grift and graft) have totally minimal perspectives limited to ME ME ME. I guess another way of saying money memes.
this too, and I don't think they look much beyond next week, imagining they're too rich to die. We peons will die (or they'll kill us off), but not them. They plan to live forever and will be shocked when they don't.
Read an interesting piece re. Fetterman’s decline a while back. His staff tried to help him and one person in particular was pushing him to go back to see his doctor. This guy remembered what the doctor said were warning signs, but Fetterman would not follow through. People with those sorts of egos often engineer their own destruction.
Was it Ann Richards or Molly Ivins who said that the only things in the middle of the road were white lines and dead armadillos. I have no interest in a book written by any kind of armadillo.
BUT HE GRADUATED!!! Just like those Senator lawyers from Yale and Harvard. Need to keep those graduation rates up to impress the yokels at US News who tell us where to send out dear children to get the best education.
AND parlayed his lowest position in that class to 'somehow' be TOP of the class and the 'BEST' at everything since his Uncle John was a Mensa genius whose IQ somehow oozed over to him via ....osmosis? I'd love some enterprising reporter (if there are any left) to ask him IF he thought he inherited his Uncle's IQ through Osmosis. We all know he has absolutely no idea what it is.
Maybe a gerontologist can clue us in as to whether Trump's atrocious redecorating of teh Oval Office is also a sign of dementia. And the fact he's always asking people to repeat their questions: hearing loss or buying time to formulate a response?
When I was in college, I worked at a Holiday Inn. One day I went down to the Banquet Hall and the Banquet Manager was running around shouting "Twat, Twat!" at the top of her lungs... turns out she had hired a new Thai guy as a banquet server and his name was Twat. We had a Phuc, too.
I'm sure there is some country where 'Steve' is obscene or profane. But you had to be there - she was instructing Phuc and Twat and obviously enjoying their names.
Back in the 60s I worked at a telephone switchboard in a major hospital. There was a call from a Mrs. Fuckenbush - (I am NOT making this up). I had been under heavy stress and was wound pretty tight from problems not work related. Well, I had literal hysterics. The poor woman must have loved her husband very much but I’ll bet of all the reactions shes’d had up to then from his name, screaming, laughing and crying weren’t on the list.
What do you mean how he turned out to be. I’ve know since the first time he joined CNN in 2013. How do I remember so well? It was my first full fall/winter spent in Floreeda.
1) keep an eye on his left arm. It’s been hanging mostly limp by his side. & the last day he golfed in Scotland he was having difficulty raising it. Stroke? Dialysis? Chemo? (Ports are put in non-dominant arm)
2) notice how they put one grandkid on each side of Donald? That was also to keep him walking in a straight line & not weaving drunkenly
I pity those poor kids when in the future they become aware of how terrible a person he was, although inheriting ill gotten gains may assuage any guilt. They are trumps, after all, where avarice is king
Had exactly the same thought, H12thDoc...when they read about those sexually attacked little girls when THEY are older, they'll remember how they were told to 'walk out with Grandpa - show the world how much you luv him, go on'. In fact he DID weave all over the place. He can't walk a straight line and looks like a cheap robot with bits falling off as it plods along.
I SO HOPE he has real and painful issues with an arm and not being able to raise it - after horribly insulting John McCain who couldn't EVER raise his arms past chest level after being tortured by the Viet Cong during his POW years! This cowardly fuckwit had the balls to rail against McCain - a bonafide hero who opted to stay WITH the other POW's when an early release was offered to him. Vicious frump said in a sneering vile tone: 'he's not a hero. he's a hero only because he was shot down. I prefer those who weren't shot down, ok?', then went on to attack John McCain in myriad other ways when HIS single thumbs-down vote saved the ACA from frump's attempt to destroy it then. What a piggish response to someone who suffered so badly. Perhaps the reason he IS living so long is just SO he can go through 'things' those he attacks did, all while we get to laugh at him. Hmm? (I'm speaking as one who HAS had rotator cuff/bicep repair & spinal surgery; has major orthopedic issues in cervical and lumbar spine and hands but still counts myself lucky I'm ambulatory. So I'm wishing him MY pain. I hope he's as miserable a son-of-a-bitch as he looks and behaves. THAT is how Karma can satisfy my personal need for justice. Your mileage may vary (YMMV).
Ugh! That's my POS rethug congressman standing next to rump in that va bill clip. He refuses to hold an in person town hall and has now stopped even virtual meetings! Tonight there is a town hall in the town where the rethug lives. He has been invited, but I doubt he'll show. A super cool D Congressman from one district over is coming to talk to us.
They ( the Scumrepublicans) will avoid, hide out, and not hold public meetings because THEY KNOW THEY ARE KISSING A LOSERS ASS instead of representing their constituents!
It's a bit off topic, but can we get a dishonorable mention for the idiots who reacted to Kamala Harris deciding not to run for Governor of Cali with "GOOD! Genocide supporter!", followed up by a ton of bullshit about how not voting means nothing that's going on is THEIR fault, and entirely the fault of the Dems? As usual?
They're misguided, still trying to portray Harris in a bad light but yet ignoring that the crisis has worsened immeasurably, and ignoring that this is because trump has aided and abetted Netanyahu's genocide, which Harris would not have done.
Pretty sure the vast majority if them didn't and still don't actually care about Gaza. What they DO care about is boasting about how "pure" and "above it all" they are. If you mention what Trump is doing, they just respond with either "I didn't vote for him!" or "Trump being bad doesn't absolve Biden and Harris of GENOCIDE!".
There is NO major group in American politics that benefits from praising the Dems. They are all rewarded for tearing them down and blaming them for everything.
Yup, phony as hell. And besides the photo op, mostly to keep him from swaying and wandering off course. As the grandkids get older, the more that no matter what they're being told by their parents, they'll realize what a perverted, deranged piece of shit he really is. In the meantime, release the fucking files.
Arne: +I just got an awful picture in my head with your words. omg I so despise this old, disgusting pervert - I just can't STAND it - him getting away with all the awful harm he's done to innocent kids.
Jeff, thanks for the images of sleepy, farting and shitting in public Dear Leader, once again all these actions make America great amiright? “Golf with MAGAS” was once again fairly subdued, except for one instance as we traveled to the golf course we passed the huge chip factory from Taiwan TSMC set to begin operations. I was asked provocatively why our President Biden gave so much money to this project under the Chips Act, seems they don’t need it, TSMC is so rich.
My response? We are talking jobs, we are talking new housing, commercial activity among other items. I also countered by asking.. why would American taxpayers give money to the Musk, the richest man on the planet? I don’t see Elon hiring workers, to the contrary he fires them like his DOGE fiasco…. No answer, just silence… Best to All.
Your golf partners are irredeemable. They won't snap out of it even as they are robbed blind by Lone Smuk, Dear Leader, and the rest of the GOPedoprotectors. Points to you for trying to educate them, but wow. They are fucking idiots.
Idiots yes.. I did not wish to have lunch with this crew today, it was late in the afternoon and I was sure to express my opinions on the Epstein affair, abusing children by Donald and the legal issues surrounding Maxwell.. I’m not going to give a free law class to these guys assuming they would understand .
Going back to the CHIPS Act, you can see the shallowness of MAGA thinking. Jobs, technological advancement, less dependence on overseas chip manufacturing, TSMC coming here and giving them a foundry further from China, all these things are beyond their cognitive capabilities. Of course they would be in favor of CHIPS if it was a conservative bill, but that would be a knee jerk reaction just because. No wonder they're MAGAs.
My mom has a similar group of republican friends - they used to play tennis, now they are luncheon gal pals (not all of them maga). I keep telling her she's running with a bad crowd and they are a bad influence, she needs to ditch them. But she does , just like you, pointing things out and pushing back against their ridiculous maga-type statements. I'm glad you're both out there trying to reason with these brainwashed lunatics.
I'm wondering if his stroke was a factor, or if he just said whatever to get elected. Remember, the alternative was a snake oil huckster named Mehmet Oz.
He was a very different person before. I lived near Braddock when he was mayor, and he was a breath of fresh air. What has happened to him is very sad.
Okay, look, I like a punny title in a cozy mystery, but Fetterman calling his book "Unfettered" is just corny as fuck. Also, like...my dude, you having no control over your fucking mouth or your bursts of irritation with people expecting you to DO YOUR DAMN JOB is not a flex.
I was JUST thinking that with MAGA voters and 100% of the Republicans in Congress, Trump could SA his grandkids right in front of them, and they'd excuse it. Heck, he could SA THEIR (MAGA and all Republican congresspeople) kids or grandkids, right in front of them, and they'd excuse it. "It wasn't really him..." "It was Biden in a fat suit" "Obama installed an evil chip in his head, it's not his fault" or best of all, "I didn't see what I just saw!"
I propose with high probability that dopey don is infested by incest and Epstein took ivanka’s virginity. Donny said he would kill him. That’s the relationships he’s had.
Donny gets clobbered upside the head by Mister Sandman….😴 good one! I immediately envisioned Mister Sandman clobbering him with an iron pipe. Is this bad? Sometimes my fantasies can be vivid enough to concern me.
Thanks Jeff for the reminder that Melania already has her outfit picked out for Taco Don's funeral. She'll recycle the dress from the pope's funeral. Except she'll have the veil covering her face so nobody will see her smiling. I think I have figured out Donnie's comb over thanks to a photo courtesy of Meidas Touch. He combs hair from the back of his head straight forward towards his forehead. Then he does a deep part on the left side of his head and combs that hair left to right over the first comb over. It's a comb over of a comb over. Just like the Epstein files are a coverup of a coverup. Everything he does is a retread or a recycled scam.
Thank you! I've always wondered how he does that shit with his hair. It looks so bad these days. His "signature" hair-do is getting weaker just like he is.
Having grown up in western Pa., I am so disappointed in John Fetterman, I could spit. Mr. Working Man Hero….Not. I guess he’s voting with the Democrats so that’s good at least. But I expected him to be a male AOC to some extent. Speak out against this crap and these Cabinet nominees and people like Bove as a lifetime federal judge, etc.
How naive of me. He’d rather be the Kirsten Sinema of PA, fashion statement aside.
Itsy, Fetterman has a condition that requires heavy meds he must take but conjecture is he quits then starts just like all of them do. He is unstable he should be primaried.
I know about the meds. Awful. Really took the wind out of his sails. BUT still hoped he would speak up basic Truth to Power as he has the job. And I am sure he will be primaried. He just had SO MUCH POTENTIAL. Grrrr🤬
Bitsy, take political out of it and put him out there as dog catcher you really can’t. I was an excited person about him too but if you know anybody in your life that has been through this the swings are destructive to whole families. I do know someone best friends wife, when manic she had a bottle everywhere, at work and suddenly she was ironing in the basement alone for one reason.
Sounds like you are describing manic depression. Know it very well, was married to it for awhile. I have not heard that that is Senator Fetterman’s problem. If so there is medication for that. I thought it was a series of strokes. Certainly could be misinformed.
Every day is like drowning in fuckery and Jeff's column is a life jacket.
Painted another beautiful picture there Ann!!
It’s like drowning in a dangerous suckhole formed by the confluence of fuckery and an open sewer.
As for Fetterman, I actually voted for that tool. My Senator is Fetterman and my President is Farter-man
SO perfectly phrased! I continue to read Jeff's posts aloud to hubby, just to give him his laughs/cries for the day. His sense of humour isn't 'quite' as finely tuned as mine and clearly those of you who write so well here (after all, he WAS a Republican voter for many years - until Barack Obama), but he does smile and even laugh occasionally as I 'do' the different voices. :)
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Well said Ann!! I save his column like a treat.
Of all my Substack subscriptions, I always read Jeff first.
I treat Jeff's like dessert after dinner. And I would always trade dessert for the savory component of a meal, lol.
Amen.
“The pungent aroma of ass music.” 🤣
“Eleventy pickledillion dollars”. 😂😂😂😂
John Fetterman is a sad disappointment. And Joe Manchin is an ass.
I have to wonder when this nightmare will ever end.
fifty years ago, outside the student darkroom at Parsons School of Design, I heard someone use the term 'pickledillion' and I've never forgotten it
I totally agree about Manchin's and Fetterman's "books."
Speaking of words, let's all remember NOT to AGE UP the young girls assaulted and abused by Epstein and Trump and the other Creepy McCreepersons in Epstein's orbit. That reporter who said: “What did you think Epstein was stealing those women for?” referred to girls as "women," and they were NOT women, they were GIRLS. This is a tactic, by the way, used by some men when they want to justify their inappropriate attention toward young girls. Words mean what words mean, and the truth still matters!
I yell at the TV every time they call these girls “women”! My granddaughter is 15. She’s a girl, not a woman. Get it right MSM
After Festerman was elected, he realized that rich people would actually lavish bribes, er, contributions, on him to vote how they wanted him to, and POOF!, instant corrupt asshole.
You're so right.
I believe the proper terminology is “CHILD”. “Little girl” would even be an improvement.
I’d also like to know why the OWNER of a large hotel/resort even knows, by face or name, who this 16 yr old pool girl is. A *manager* of that property wouldn’t even know. I wonder what her actual job title even was. I swear I remember hearing she handed out towels or something.🤔 Teenagers don’t provide spa services.
I would like someone who can read lips tell me what drumph was saying to his pedo buddy shitstain in the video clip of them at some party where drumph is fist bumping ( precursor to his two handed “jerkoff” dance) …
Your and Kathy's responses had me in tears. I swear, reading Jeff's posts have my emotions up, down then upside down and sideways. It takes some time to level out. I was a very young 19 (having been a very sheltered 'good Catholic girl' since birth when the unthinkable happened to me. Today I'm as lapsed as one can be, mostly because of how the 'priests and nuns' I was taken to for help treated me. Every one outright refusing to accept my truth. Even these decades later I STILL can't fathom 'why me'? WHY did the fucker choose me? Even though others refer to college girls as 'women' (and I was in college at 16), I was the singularly most shy, terrified kid while attempting to put on a brave face for the people I met who were all naturally, older than I was. The girls were lovely for the most part and kept info they felt I shouldn't know from me. In epstein/frump's world I wouldn't have had a CLUE about what was going on...my mother was SO strict and abusive and even holding hands with a boy walking home from the CYO or Confraternity had her labeling me and my sister 'wh*res which would result in a MAJOR beating. Yup. Mostly because her fever dream was that we become Nuns and IF we liked boys that idea was out the window. Back in Scotland her BEST FRIEND was the local Parish Priest who, through her efforts even became a Canon! I was never going to be a Nun despite her years of brainwashing although I did live in abject fear of her and was willing to aim for teaching until the day I still think of as 'the destruction of my entire life' occurred (which I successfully kept from her and my Dad - mostly because it would have broken him. He was a good man, also abused by her). Initially I told no one other than the girl acquaintance who found me beaten and bloodied and got me home, worried that she'd be implicated in 'something'. She never asked a single question or mentioned it again, removing me from the Upstate NY site (a ranch where a group of coworkers had all been spending a companionable weekend riding horses and for those old enough, drinking. I hadn't of course. All I ever wanted to do was ride and help the wranglers with those horses I loved. They looked at and treated me as 'a kid' and I lived for their comments about how I was a natural with horses - a lifelong dream. THAT all came to a screeching halt. I still had to work with those people and 'pretend' all was normal - for a time. I can't tell much more - it took years before I could so much as mention anything about this...it comes out in dribs and drabs. BUT now that I'm far more outspoken and don't, frankly, give a flying fuck WHAT anyone thinks, I've dropped hints and mentions here and there. In a secret part of my mind I relish the thought that I've likely outlived the fucker and his enablers. THIS is to say that I fully understand that those YOUNG GIRLS who were so badly harmed by frump, epstein & maxwell NEED their day in Court sans their fucking NDA'S! I'm so sad Virginia suicided - or did she? Are we sure? Given the atmosphere we're living in now - I'm concerned about every one of those surviving girls. I wish someone would get their stories on FULL COLOUR VIDEO & under lock & key if they're able to talk about what happened to them, to protect against 'accidents' or 'disappearances'.
Elizabeth, I am so, so sorry. I am glad you survived and that you are still here. YOU DID NOTHING WRONG. Being innocent, naive, or inexperienced is not wrong, not a mistake, and not responsible for what happened to you.
Victim blaming is a terrible piling on to someone who has been hurt and traumatized. I don’t know why it happens so much, though there are theories. To me it is a social crime that compounds the harm of real crime. To this day, sex ed in public schools doesn’t do enough to educate females about lots of things, including rape, assault, and how people might react to learning of it if it happens to you. No one seems to understand how to demonstrate empathy or provide real help. Most people do not even understand that they should care and use words to that effect!
We as children do not get to pick our parents. It often isn’t until we have adult agency that we can begin to negotiate boundaries or new ones with parents and others. Sometimes, we have no choice but to limit abuse from family members, whether it is emotional, physical, mental, or other forms, by limiting or cutting off contact.
I am not a professional therapist, I am a sympathetic listener. I hope that if you have the means and the desire, that you seek out a professional, empathetic, wise therapist who can help you to live your life as you want to, and can help you to cope with the injury done to you. I send you vibes of peace and well being, Elizabeth!
I seem to have lost 'the end' of my sad saga. Apologies. I only wanted to ride and help the Ranch wranglers with the horses I loved. I enjoyed them describing me as a 'natural' rider (something I'd dreamt of for my entire life). I was still 'the kid' to them - all much older than me and to a person, good people who worked there. Even though we paid for the weekend I wasn't averse to mucking out stalls or walking horses to cool them down, brushing them...Purely glorious. I got a reputation for being 'one of them' and felt protected and safe - enough. Until...one of those WITH the group (of coworkers - and someone with authority over me on a daily basis back in the City) did the unthinkable during one of those weekends. It was so difficult to believe that no one heard, no one noticed, no one CARED that my entire life had now been altered forever. It was a decades-long struggle, but eventually I've let things out in dribs and drabs, a little here, a little there (mostly on the internet). Deep in the recesses of my mind I relish the idea that I've likely outlived the fucker who so ruined MY life. I can't imagine how those girls managed to function even after the world found out the abuses done to them. I weep for Virginia and her 'suicide'. Did she really? Are we sure? I have doubts. I would so love to see and hear every single one of those terrorized little girls interviewed now in full colour and the videos duplicated, copies put under lock and key about exactly what they went through as CHILDREN! I want frump in PRISON where he belongs for what he did to them. Epstein's already paid...the idea that frump will pardon maxwell is so repugnant I can't even...
It’s outstanding ! 👏👏👏
One of the many schools I attended briefly
Parsons? Me too.
When? I was there in 1972 for a summer course, had every intention of continuing. Other circumstances interfered.
I was there in 1983 and took two courses in illustration. I already had a BFA in painting from MICA. I also took a course at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in the eighties. I'd love to take another course sometime soon but I don't want to travel into the city. There are options locally. I should just do it. But yes, circumstances do tend to interfere.
It’s unforgettable!
I read that someone "is not going to read, watch or do that The Most." I just love that construct.
Don Snorleone is even better.🤣
That was my biggest laugh today. I think I actually guffawed.
I assumed you invented it - since it's SO 'you' AND so fucking good. That one in particular had me on the floor. Now I DO write 'a bit', but could never, ever, ever come up with any of the things you do. It's sheer genius. I'm in full agreement with Ann.
Could not agree, more!
I would also add that Jake Tapper is a turncoat asshat.
Never will I ever read their books.
Fire starter!
GRANDE irrelevant shit disturber🫥
I’m personally atrostofied that fetterman has become such a weenus!
I think the stroke changed him. Too bad.
Maybe. He’s burning his bridges. He won’t get re-elected.
As he shouldn’t.
Well, strokes can do that.
But I am still sorry that I once supported him.
Me too, and I even contributed to him, despite not being in his district. I'm on Long Island and contribute to specific candidates who appeal to me all over the Country. HE is now on my shit list. I'm unsure it can be blamed on his having had a stroke...we stood up for him against those insulting him for his lack of dress code. HOW could he become a turncoat? That seems deliberate.
Agree! He is SUCH an ass. Maybe he always was, and we just missed it.
I hate donating to and supporting someone who ended up fooling me.
Exactly this, Sharon. Thank you for expressing it so well.
Sure as hell NOT defending him but at least he has an excuse 🤷♀️ Now I’ll be on Karma’s list for saying that🙊
MAYBE he has an excuse. Or maybe all his shorts-wearing was just to disguise that he really loves Rump in his greasy blue suits and ties, with orange makeup smeared on his « white » shirt collars.
Hi Lisa. Is astrotofied a synonym of pompatus? I need a different dictionary cause Websters apparently isn’t cutting it. If you’re saying “horrified” I totally agree!
One of my kids made up the word “atrostofied” meaning she was shocked and appalled!? Weenus is self explanatory. Weiner + penis.
I forgot to add atrocious!
Mortified too. She was a teenager when she started using that word. We’ve been using it since.
Medically, "weenus/wenis" is the loose skin on the back of the elbow. Somehow that it fitting for a description of many of the Guardians of Pedophilia/magats... it's pretty useless, and kind of gross when you think about it... my kids learned that in high school biology and had "wenis wars" that involved jabbing each other as hard as they could with their elbows 😁
When our billionaire oligarchic overlords achieve their goal of destroying our republic, while taking the world down with it Susan!
This is what I fail to understand, every one of those oligarchic overlords NEED CONSUMERS TO MAKE THEIR MONEY. So why is it that they want to destroy the country and the economy? Stupid right? Confusing for sure. What's the end game?
I have questions lol.
I’ve been asking that same question for quite a while now. Once we have no extra money to spend on anything but very basic necessities, where are all the customers going to come from for, say, Amazon or other retailers.
Yes, THIS! Make it make sense.
And I understand even less the detention camps and deportations. My first concern are human beings. We all should also care about the terrifying economic impact of lost taxes, lost local businesses and spending, lost workers. Farms, construction companies and hospitality (hotels in particular) he for one day was going to exempt from raids and kidnappings. Then the MAGAts who dream up how to hurt people most talked him out of it. Flop again. Hotels are at 67% of needed staffing. No one to plant and harvest. No one to clean and process meats. And no one to build. Forget even a degree in economics. It’s common sense.
i don’t think destroying is their endgame.
I think it’s just lower our taxes and don’t you worry about our tax loopholes, so they can pass on all this wealth to their descendants.
Let’s just say oligarch wannabe’s suppporting all the ahem high level economics (aka grift and graft) have totally minimal perspectives limited to ME ME ME. I guess another way of saying money memes.
this too, and I don't think they look much beyond next week, imagining they're too rich to die. We peons will die (or they'll kill us off), but not them. They plan to live forever and will be shocked when they don't.
Read an interesting piece re. Fetterman’s decline a while back. His staff tried to help him and one person in particular was pushing him to go back to see his doctor. This guy remembered what the doctor said were warning signs, but Fetterman would not follow through. People with those sorts of egos often engineer their own destruction.
Fetterman is a HUGE disappointment! No pun intended.
Was it Ann Richards or Molly Ivins who said that the only things in the middle of the road were white lines and dead armadillos. I have no interest in a book written by any kind of armadillo.
Who knew how many stupid, corrupt people we have in leadership. I’m just so over this.
Exactly. Who knew there was so many crooks in leadership? Leaders blame the career staff, who do all the work. I feel like a dope, I’m so naive.
Donny was demented before he even had dementia. Just sayin’
I can't find the quote but I read in tRump I that his father would shout 'Donald, you moron' at him.
"T💩p was the dumbest GD student I ever had." -- Former Professor William T. Kelly, University of PA, Wharton
BUT HE GRADUATED!!! Just like those Senator lawyers from Yale and Harvard. Need to keep those graduation rates up to impress the yokels at US News who tell us where to send out dear children to get the best education.
more like he “graduated”
They were probably counting the days until they could get rid of him.
They were probably counting the money his daddy contributed to Wharton.
Thanks for sharing!
AND parlayed his lowest position in that class to 'somehow' be TOP of the class and the 'BEST' at everything since his Uncle John was a Mensa genius whose IQ somehow oozed over to him via ....osmosis? I'd love some enterprising reporter (if there are any left) to ask him IF he thought he inherited his Uncle's IQ through Osmosis. We all know he has absolutely no idea what it is.
“Perverted” may be more accurate since most dementia patients don’t go around raping 12 and 13 year old girls.
That too.
Maybe a gerontologist can clue us in as to whether Trump's atrocious redecorating of teh Oval Office is also a sign of dementia. And the fact he's always asking people to repeat their questions: hearing loss or buying time to formulate a response?
1. Nah, he’s always been tacky.
2. Perhaps some hearing loss, but I’m inclined to believe it’s mostly because his brain is scrambled.
Hearing loss, probably due to the gunshot. wink wink
Truer words Kay-EI!!
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I'd love to give Jake Tapper a piece of my mind. What a shamelss, sycophantic, smarmy twat he turned out to be.
When I was in college, I worked at a Holiday Inn. One day I went down to the Banquet Hall and the Banquet Manager was running around shouting "Twat, Twat!" at the top of her lungs... turns out she had hired a new Thai guy as a banquet server and his name was Twat. We had a Phuc, too.
Not to be an ugly American, I can't help but laugh. My vacation in Vietnam holds memories of the name Phuc. Well done.
I'm sure there is some country where 'Steve' is obscene or profane. But you had to be there - she was instructing Phuc and Twat and obviously enjoying their names.
I remember when I learned about the island of Phuket in Thailand -- I LOL'd! There's a "fuck it" island somewhere in the world!
Phukety - bye 👋
I suspect many will wish they had picked that over Epstein’s Island.
Back in the 60s I worked at a telephone switchboard in a major hospital. There was a call from a Mrs. Fuckenbush - (I am NOT making this up). I had been under heavy stress and was wound pretty tight from problems not work related. Well, I had literal hysterics. The poor woman must have loved her husband very much but I’ll bet of all the reactions shes’d had up to then from his name, screaming, laughing and crying weren’t on the list.
I apologize, Mrs. Fuckenbush, wherever you are.
She should have kept her family’s name.
🤣🤣🤣
😅😅I was sure you were going to say turned out she’d hired Jake Tapper
And those are his good points.
Well stated!
What do you mean how he turned out to be. I’ve know since the first time he joined CNN in 2013. How do I remember so well? It was my first full fall/winter spent in Floreeda.
😂
Sorry Veronica , I said Nancy.
I Always thought Tapper was a smart twat! Can’t stand him! 🤢
Was he not always Nancy? I Always thought so.
I didn't think he was ever nancy.
🤣🤣🤣
"Don Snorelone rides again"....fucking gold!
My favorite too
Yes, gold!
1) keep an eye on his left arm. It’s been hanging mostly limp by his side. & the last day he golfed in Scotland he was having difficulty raising it. Stroke? Dialysis? Chemo? (Ports are put in non-dominant arm)
2) notice how they put one grandkid on each side of Donald? That was also to keep him walking in a straight line & not weaving drunkenly
I pity those poor kids when in the future they become aware of how terrible a person he was, although inheriting ill gotten gains may assuage any guilt. They are trumps, after all, where avarice is king
Like having Hitler or Mussolini as your last name. 🤯
fun weird fact: being Mussolini's granddaughter has not hindered Alessandra Mussolini from having a successful career in Italian politics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandra_Mussolini
On the other hand, the surviving members of the Hitler family have made a pact not to have children.
Sophia Loren is her maternal aunt. I definitely see the resemblance to her.
Yikes, I see that she's 8 days younger than me.
Apropos of nothing, just saying. haha
She inherited that jawline.
Good for her. We do not have to be like our ancestors.
Did you see what Alessandra Mussolini's husband got up to? It's in that Wikipedia piece.
The "Mango Mussolini. "
their REAL surname is Drumpf. Will they revert back to that - at least any of them who might become ashamed of the 'pedo legacy'?
Too close to the mango Mussolini, me thinks.
Last week in trial we had an expert named Dr Trump, and the other party went to great lengths to confirm he was no relation.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 I sure would, too🤓
Had exactly the same thought, H12thDoc...when they read about those sexually attacked little girls when THEY are older, they'll remember how they were told to 'walk out with Grandpa - show the world how much you luv him, go on'. In fact he DID weave all over the place. He can't walk a straight line and looks like a cheap robot with bits falling off as it plods along.
Drumpf doesn't walk, he shambles hunched over like a drunken bear.
Good observation.
Mary, poor Mary
oooooh good points, thanks! I'll be watching for that
I SO HOPE he has real and painful issues with an arm and not being able to raise it - after horribly insulting John McCain who couldn't EVER raise his arms past chest level after being tortured by the Viet Cong during his POW years! This cowardly fuckwit had the balls to rail against McCain - a bonafide hero who opted to stay WITH the other POW's when an early release was offered to him. Vicious frump said in a sneering vile tone: 'he's not a hero. he's a hero only because he was shot down. I prefer those who weren't shot down, ok?', then went on to attack John McCain in myriad other ways when HIS single thumbs-down vote saved the ACA from frump's attempt to destroy it then. What a piggish response to someone who suffered so badly. Perhaps the reason he IS living so long is just SO he can go through 'things' those he attacks did, all while we get to laugh at him. Hmm? (I'm speaking as one who HAS had rotator cuff/bicep repair & spinal surgery; has major orthopedic issues in cervical and lumbar spine and hands but still counts myself lucky I'm ambulatory. So I'm wishing him MY pain. I hope he's as miserable a son-of-a-bitch as he looks and behaves. THAT is how Karma can satisfy my personal need for justice. Your mileage may vary (YMMV).
Most ports are placed in the upper chest under the collarbone. Dialysis fistulas are placed in arms.
Ugh! That's my POS rethug congressman standing next to rump in that va bill clip. He refuses to hold an in person town hall and has now stopped even virtual meetings! Tonight there is a town hall in the town where the rethug lives. He has been invited, but I doubt he'll show. A super cool D Congressman from one district over is coming to talk to us.
So glad to hear a Dem. Congressman is going to appear,Ann!
I’m in same district Ann—he is a POS!
In solidarity, Tess!!!!!
They ( the Scumrepublicans) will avoid, hide out, and not hold public meetings because THEY KNOW THEY ARE KISSING A LOSERS ASS instead of representing their constituents!
They are afraid of physical violence from their base and verbal abuse (aka questions they can't answer) from everyone else!
My POS also. If he did show he most likely would have had a "few" under his belt. Look out 11/26!
John, lol for sures!
It's a bit off topic, but can we get a dishonorable mention for the idiots who reacted to Kamala Harris deciding not to run for Governor of Cali with "GOOD! Genocide supporter!", followed up by a ton of bullshit about how not voting means nothing that's going on is THEIR fault, and entirely the fault of the Dems? As usual?
Yeah, are they happy with what's going on now in Gaza and she isn't president? Dumbshittery of the breathtaking proportions
If they were presented with the Trolley Problem, they'd demand a "Random" button so they could blame the machine when things went wrong.
Or their favorite default, "It's Biden's fault!"
Doc, what difference would there be? Trump isn’t doing anything if you think so name with a direct action. Bibi does what genocidal crap he wants to.
Why did they stop protesting? The pictures coming out of Gaza right now are atrocious. Why don’t they care anymore?
They're misguided, still trying to portray Harris in a bad light but yet ignoring that the crisis has worsened immeasurably, and ignoring that this is because trump has aided and abetted Netanyahu's genocide, which Harris would not have done.
Pretty sure the vast majority if them didn't and still don't actually care about Gaza. What they DO care about is boasting about how "pure" and "above it all" they are. If you mention what Trump is doing, they just respond with either "I didn't vote for him!" or "Trump being bad doesn't absolve Biden and Harris of GENOCIDE!".
Digby posted a really good graphic explaining the problem with American politics: https://digbysblog.net/2025/07/27/when-hes-right-hes-right-3/ .
There is NO major group in American politics that benefits from praising the Dems. They are all rewarded for tearing them down and blaming them for everything.
Victoria, they quit protesting? Who is they?
People who never started protesting ?
I look forward to your column every day. It's the highlight of my day. Keep them coming.
I don't remember ever seeing a picture of donald trump holding hands with his grandchildren. That was definitely just a prop photo for him.
Yup, phony as hell. And besides the photo op, mostly to keep him from swaying and wandering off course. As the grandkids get older, the more that no matter what they're being told by their parents, they'll realize what a perverted, deranged piece of shit he really is. In the meantime, release the fucking files.
That little granddaughter better watch out as she approaches the magic age of twelve. I hope her mother warned her not to sit on gramps lap.
Arne: +I just got an awful picture in my head with your words. omg I so despise this old, disgusting pervert - I just can't STAND it - him getting away with all the awful harm he's done to innocent kids.
Jeff, thanks for the images of sleepy, farting and shitting in public Dear Leader, once again all these actions make America great amiright? “Golf with MAGAS” was once again fairly subdued, except for one instance as we traveled to the golf course we passed the huge chip factory from Taiwan TSMC set to begin operations. I was asked provocatively why our President Biden gave so much money to this project under the Chips Act, seems they don’t need it, TSMC is so rich.
My response? We are talking jobs, we are talking new housing, commercial activity among other items. I also countered by asking.. why would American taxpayers give money to the Musk, the richest man on the planet? I don’t see Elon hiring workers, to the contrary he fires them like his DOGE fiasco…. No answer, just silence… Best to All.
Your golf partners are irredeemable. They won't snap out of it even as they are robbed blind by Lone Smuk, Dear Leader, and the rest of the GOPedoprotectors. Points to you for trying to educate them, but wow. They are fucking idiots.
Idiots yes.. I did not wish to have lunch with this crew today, it was late in the afternoon and I was sure to express my opinions on the Epstein affair, abusing children by Donald and the legal issues surrounding Maxwell.. I’m not going to give a free law class to these guys assuming they would understand .
Going back to the CHIPS Act, you can see the shallowness of MAGA thinking. Jobs, technological advancement, less dependence on overseas chip manufacturing, TSMC coming here and giving them a foundry further from China, all these things are beyond their cognitive capabilities. Of course they would be in favor of CHIPS if it was a conservative bill, but that would be a knee jerk reaction just because. No wonder they're MAGAs.
My mom has a similar group of republican friends - they used to play tennis, now they are luncheon gal pals (not all of them maga). I keep telling her she's running with a bad crowd and they are a bad influence, she needs to ditch them. But she does , just like you, pointing things out and pushing back against their ridiculous maga-type statements. I'm glad you're both out there trying to reason with these brainwashed lunatics.
TSMC is so rich, they don't need the money? Ask them why, then, do oil companies get huge subsidies, they're pretty damn rich too.
Excellent point.
Fantastic comeback, Fastball Fredo. Also loved The Musk. (A smelly secretion from male deer is musk, used to give perfume scent staying power.)
In Sanskrit it means testicle - Musk is Stink Bag
A horrible scent , bespoiling every Disco 😄
Fetterman's the new Manchin.
What a huge disappointment that fker turned out to be. Dems REALLY need to do a better job of vetting their candidates.
I'm wondering if his stroke was a factor, or if he just said whatever to get elected. Remember, the alternative was a snake oil huckster named Mehmet Oz.
He was a very different person before. I lived near Braddock when he was mayor, and he was a breath of fresh air. What has happened to him is very sad.
In their defense, they couldn't have know he would have a personality changing stroke.
Okay, look, I like a punny title in a cozy mystery, but Fetterman calling his book "Unfettered" is just corny as fuck. Also, like...my dude, you having no control over your fucking mouth or your bursts of irritation with people expecting you to DO YOUR DAMN JOB is not a flex.
His staff report being afraid of him, especially when he's driving a car.
I guess his handlers were trying to signal that he’s not a pedo.
« I am a safe grandpa ».
It didn’t work.
I was JUST thinking that with MAGA voters and 100% of the Republicans in Congress, Trump could SA his grandkids right in front of them, and they'd excuse it. Heck, he could SA THEIR (MAGA and all Republican congresspeople) kids or grandkids, right in front of them, and they'd excuse it. "It wasn't really him..." "It was Biden in a fat suit" "Obama installed an evil chip in his head, it's not his fault" or best of all, "I didn't see what I just saw!"
"I could molest a child on Fifth Avenue and not lose a single voter!"
Exactly! 👍🏻
Yes! An alternative version of, « I could shoot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue… ».
MAGA are truly sick!
I propose with high probability that dopey don is infested by incest and Epstein took ivanka’s virginity. Donny said he would kill him. That’s the relationships he’s had.
Donny gets clobbered upside the head by Mister Sandman….😴 good one! I immediately envisioned Mister Sandman clobbering him with an iron pipe. Is this bad? Sometimes my fantasies can be vivid enough to concern me.
No, that's not 'bad.'
It's only bad if you envisioned the iron pipe filled with lead.
Okay. How about a barbed-wire-wrapped Louisville Slugger?
Swung by Trunk Monkey.
https://youtu.be/AidAXgq9dWc
🤣🤣🤣🤣YES! Trunk Monkey at the ready🦧‼️
I'm sure the Sandman used an implement of some type, so as not to get that craptastic orange goo on himself
Tama2U In this case, it means you are totally normal! 😄
Better yet a golf club upside that big dumb pumpkin head.
Aaah, now someone's speaking MY language. ;) Thanks, Kristy. I can now let go of the subway fantasy.
Thanks Jeff for the reminder that Melania already has her outfit picked out for Taco Don's funeral. She'll recycle the dress from the pope's funeral. Except she'll have the veil covering her face so nobody will see her smiling. I think I have figured out Donnie's comb over thanks to a photo courtesy of Meidas Touch. He combs hair from the back of his head straight forward towards his forehead. Then he does a deep part on the left side of his head and combs that hair left to right over the first comb over. It's a comb over of a comb over. Just like the Epstein files are a coverup of a coverup. Everything he does is a retread or a recycled scam.
Thank you! I've always wondered how he does that shit with his hair. It looks so bad these days. His "signature" hair-do is getting weaker just like he is.
86-47
It is the most bizarre coiffure. Why can't he just accept that he's bald.
Having grown up in western Pa., I am so disappointed in John Fetterman, I could spit. Mr. Working Man Hero….Not. I guess he’s voting with the Democrats so that’s good at least. But I expected him to be a male AOC to some extent. Speak out against this crap and these Cabinet nominees and people like Bove as a lifetime federal judge, etc.
How naive of me. He’d rather be the Kirsten Sinema of PA, fashion statement aside.
Itsy, Fetterman has a condition that requires heavy meds he must take but conjecture is he quits then starts just like all of them do. He is unstable he should be primaried.
Then maybe he should be removed from office
I know about the meds. Awful. Really took the wind out of his sails. BUT still hoped he would speak up basic Truth to Power as he has the job. And I am sure he will be primaried. He just had SO MUCH POTENTIAL. Grrrr🤬
Bitsy, take political out of it and put him out there as dog catcher you really can’t. I was an excited person about him too but if you know anybody in your life that has been through this the swings are destructive to whole families. I do know someone best friends wife, when manic she had a bottle everywhere, at work and suddenly she was ironing in the basement alone for one reason.
Sounds like you are describing manic depression. Know it very well, was married to it for awhile. I have not heard that that is Senator Fetterman’s problem. If so there is medication for that. I thought it was a series of strokes. Certainly could be misinformed.
I defer to you you’re an expert, but similarities are there.
As an AZ resident I'm so glad she no longer represents me.
We all are!!😅😂