the lede of today's post is 100% true. I went to bed with a whole slate of other stuff I was planning to write about. then I woke up, looked at my phone — and all that other shit went out the window
Just reading both Dean Blundell's (Canadian) posts and Malcolm Nance's(Former US Intelligence) posts. They are saying looks like US is getting ready to invade Greenland, and Trump's latest reasoning is because he did not get the Nobel Peace Prize. Well, he certainly isn't going to get it now.
The 1500 troops stationed in Alaska supposedly ready to go into Minnesota are really going into Greenland according to Nance. He is about to go there himself. He lays out why he thinks this and what he thinks they will do when they get there. He sees this happening within the next few days.
Gail, I had already read the horrid letter to Norway in Dean's Substack and it just gets worse and worse as he talks about the Troops ready to go to "Minnesota" are really for Greenland. Malcolm says that means they are a few days out from their mission. So, if this happens, will it happen on Wednesday, the day that Trump is supposed to speak in person at Davos? Will he actually show up to gloat? Switzerland is not NATO so they have to remain neutral.
Can Europe take troops hostage then, or does Trump think he can deploy all of them and their families to where? Germany has around 39,000. Can there be housing for all of them in the US? In Russia? Sounds like not very carefully thought out actions.
My husband says that he has heard others say Nance has been wrong on things. So, he does not trust him. I am saying, we shall see. I would hope Nance would be wrong, but Jake Broe also said that even if a lot of Generals said no to invading Greenland he would shop around until he found one who would do this. I think Congress should be telling people in the military just what will happen to them when this regime is over. Show them what being court martialled looks like. Not in hero movies where the hero gets off because they are wrongfully charged, but in real life. Maybe some cases and stats.
It's imploding now. The oligarchs own the press, the politicians, the Supreme Court, and more. The oppressors have their new Constitution...Project 2025. Republicans and some really fucked up Democrats will not stop them. This is so disheartening and grieving. I think our politicians are broken idiots that either don't give two shits because their on the grift or they're that fucking dumb.
"4. They will create chaos, maintain a constant sense of conflict and danger. It will be their argument to enact new authoritarian laws, each one further limiting your freedoms and civil liberties. They will disguise them as being for your protection, for the good of the People."
OMG, I hate how accurate this Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide you posted the link to has become for the USA. I'm sick to my stomach every day...that leads to item #5.
I couldn't have said it better myself! And what scares the crap out of me is he's probably going to strike Greenland and nobody will do anything about it. What the fuck has happened to the human race?
We've been told to hate each because we're different cultures and colors. Without racism and economic oppression they can't win. They've never won on their own integrity. Never. Hate is cheap power. It supports the grift. Humans are real fuck ups. They rarely learn from their mistakes. Taking responsibility for their own actions is a bitch. We've been banging these same drums for centuries. And here we are again. Things don't look good. Our STATE CAPTURE is here. Now.
I think the ICC needs to indict Trump if, for no other reason, so he will not be able to go to civilized countries anymore without risking arrest. Less embarrassment for Americans, less catastrophe for the rest of the world.
They must not fawn over him in Davos. That would throw fuel on the fire and he doesn't deserve any special treatment which is why he expects to achieve economic damage if they don't bow down in worship of him. Quit referring to him as the leader of the free world. He is the destroyer of the free world.
That's the whole problem, continuing to operate on a presumption of good faith, that all this is just misunderstandings, the we all ultimately want the same thing- what is right. No.
They. Don't. Care.
It's might over right. It's been demonstrated in EVERYTHING being done & they have also said so. They intend to seize total control & not share any power ever again. It's past time to get fking real about that.
I was up at 2am, voice to texting shit into my phone, that I could then piece together into a valid daily digest post, which I did do. How successful I was? as of yet to be seen.
I think he told him that a LOOOOOOONNNNNGGGGG time ago.
Remember the Helsinki meeting where no one was allowed to know what was said?
Personally—and just a theory of course— I think that’s when Vlad reminded Trump that he owns him (with some evidence—snuff film, homosexual honeypot, etc).
You need to disengage from your daily posts and go camping away from any electronic devices for a week Jeff. Donny is starting to mega freak you out. You'll have an aneurism if you don't chill out.
How do y’all reckon the history books are gonna cover this shite for the next generations? Will there be wildly different curricular materials between different states or rival districts within states? Will there emerge a schism between the cosmopolitan areas and the hillbilly backwoods that suppress any efforts to deal with all this responsibly? I ask in part because I taught history for many years and understand propaganda. And I really do care about this question.
Just as my parents’ generation would never buy a Ford, opinions about Germany began to shift after VWs became so obviously interesting (I had a ‘62 VW bus with 40hp) and then began to see how Germans had wrestled with their guilt. But I fear a huge swath of our populace will never, never admit culpability after this all comes crashing down.
The MAGA movement is actively erasing the truth about American history, because they fear it makes white citizens (and especially white men) look bad. And we can’t have that!
True Story: In my younger days in magazine publishing I joined the ad director on a sales call to the agency handling Ford. He instructed me never to mention Ford's "Jewish Problem" during the call.
If they can deny the Jan 6th insurrection, they are lost forever, unless we invest in a massive cult deprogramming program, but given their authoritarian mindset, all they will learn is to keep their racist drivel to themselves. And regurgitate it to their next generations to perpetuate it.
Aren't there people who still defend Nixon? Certainly when he died, he suddenly became the Great Statesman -- China, EPA, etc. -- but that other little incident was glossed over. He was no Trump, but he did some damage, as I recall.
Nixon had plenty of faults, plenty, and also that experience with Roy Cohn, but he also had some brains, some discipline, some familiarity with the DC establishment (for better and worse), and acknowledged that the national interest demanded a certain regard for governance by a few principles. He implemented OSHA, EPA, etc.
Of course, he was also a traitor, conspiring to prolong the Vietnam War, and sent tens of thousands to die needlessly in that conflict. But he rose from a level of poverty, knew tragedy as an element of life, and could occasionally put aside his petty grievances for a moment. I think he loved his wife and family, at least. The difference between then and now is insane.
Also, Nixon in China is a really good opera. He makes for a good tragic opera character because he had layers.
He was a brilliant man who had no real reason to be as evil as he was, but he was filled with resentment, and that twisted him. That's catnip for operatic and dramatic roles. He's basically tailor-made for the stage.
Trump's not really that interesting because he's just a spoiled rich boy who's never heard no and is just a tyrant. There's not a lot of depth to him. He's not acting out of hubris or thwarted ambition or because he had a vision for how to make things better that got corrupted. He's always been spoiled and corrupt. He's always been a crook. He's always been a conman. He's always been a failure. He gets ahead by failing upwards and buying off officials, and that's just not that fun to watch.
No argument here -- Nixon looks like a Sunday school teacher in comparison to Donny. Nixon was infinitely smarter, but so is my Labrador (kinder, too). My point is not that Nixon is just as bad -- though after he resigned, I never thought it could get much worse (silly me) -- but that the whitewashing and sanewashing of unpleasant history will happen again.
Yep, I had a ‘67 and the counter-culture did invert values (‘62 had 40hp?—I forget, mine was 1500cc or 1600cc, and maybe 40 hp—half-century ago—sigh). Miss it.
War correspondent Martha Gellhorn’s piece for Collier’s, May 26 1945, began: “No one is a Nazi. No one ever was. There may have been some Nazis in the next village, and, as a matter of fact, in that town about twenty kilometers away it was a veritable hotbed of Nazidim. To tell you the truth, confidentially, there were a lot of Communists here. Oh, the Jews? Well, there weren’t really many Jews in this neighborhood. I hid a Jew for six weeks. I hid a Jew for eight weeks. All God’s chillun hid Jews.”
"I heard that there were some people who belonged to that there party and some who follered along, but I never did and none of the folk I know ever did."
I saw a meme that said something to the effect of when this regime is over everyone who did will say they never voted for Trump nor believed his lies. Same vibe.
I think there will continue to be a dichotomy of opinion of this era, just like there is now. The conservatives/fascists/religiously corrupted will portray this as their long sought-after and mythical golden age, while those who value and hew to factual history will view this time with a mixture of horror, befuddlement, and a measure of disbelief.
Congress should be condemned for dereliction of duty in not impeaching this world-class lunatic. Not a word from Schumer who is busy congratulating himself for recruiting electable Democrats to run in November. By then, we'll be in full blown war with NATO.
Do what Mitch McConnell did. Figure every way you can to obstruct, including standing in front of cameras and saying, "We are obstructing." No fancy speeches, no need to inspire. Standing up for what is right can't be much harder than standing up for what is wrong. When in doubt, WWMMD?
Endorse impeachment. Call on our allies to block him. Mobilize the Democrats to act as one party instead of a flock of chickens outnumbered by weasels.
I don't know when this era of MAGA is going to end, but I'm glad I won't be around 80 years after that when a new generation of fascists is neo-Trumpist rather than neo-Nazi.
Thats it. Religion is the source of all evil. If you convince yourself and other people that what you are doing is ordained by God, you have no qualms and no reason to think it through.
It all fits. It’s the 21st century equivalent of the Crusades. Apparently, all these white Christian-nationalists have forgotten history. Success was short-lived.
As a retired educator, I remember that some states required all schools in the state to use same texts-instead of districts choosing the texts, as we did. It seemed odd to me that schools could not preview and select their own materials to use. Good question Neal! I too care about this question….
That's is true, but its more complicated. School boards, especially in some states, dont spend money on schools. Its true that school boards can be made up of eccentric people. That's why I volunteered to be involved in any area I could when my kids were in school. If you don't like what's going on, run for school board.
However I worked for years for a textbook publisher and a lot of work by many excellent educators goes in to writing textbooks. The reason districts select textbooks is because its easier and cheaper and because if separate schools have individual textbooks ( and they're really teaching the same thing), it makes standardized testing difficult. You have to understand that states keep reducing public school budgets that 1) school districts use actually the same textbooks for years. 2) and buying in bulk give states a better price.
Reallly excellent question, Neal. Before we get to that, however, is the task of promoting the real accounts of some of our un-pretty history that the far right is trying to bury.
I hate to say this (becauae Im always repeating myself) but television does a lot of damage. The only reason Trump is president was because he was on a game show for 12 yrs. where he played a smart businessman. His voters absolutely believe that he was a brilliant business man because he played one on TV.
True, but... I know I've often been called too idealistic (among other things), but after four decades in higher education, I'm not convinced that this is a given. At worst, it's almost complying in advance. Then again, I'm in California, not Texas or Oklahoma (apologies and condolences to the sane folks who live there). K, gotta run -- time for my PA meeting (Pollyannas Anonymous).
I worry that American history books regarding this era will have to be written in Canada and other countries. The regime is going to try to memory-hole a lot of this and it may be a decade or more before a lot of Americans will treat this as history and not partisan attacks.
Who will buy them? The purchase of books is up to the state and school boards. I sent my daughter to private schools run by fairly liberal people for Jr and senior high. My son preferred public school. But my son is way more liberal minded than my daughter.
The right-wing, red-state written textbooks, will fawn obsequiously, like a Bill O'Reilly (ghostwritten) book. Full of lies, and absolutely diametrically opposed to reality" factoids". Rather like their books are now.
Funny story, there was big adoption in CA the 4 big publishers were presenting a US History text. We were the only publisher whose text was not chosen because one of the committee members was an East Indian American and our book did not contain any mention of the contributions to the US by East Indians.
You have more power than you think over textbooks.
Can’t some country arrest the asshole as soon as he leaves the country for all of the shit he has already done in Venezuela? Ugh, why can’t this stop????
Well, unfortunately, he knows that. He has said if the Democrats get in power he will be impeached. Im sure Miller has a plan to prevent the Democrats taking power. It has to do with declaring Minneapolis a "war zone" (which is hysterical because my best friend lives in suburb there and everything is fine and status quo). Its part of taking rights away. No voting, no Democrats.
I'm told that those military folks in Alaska standing back and standing by are slated for a trip to Greenland not Minneapolis. I hope they are wrong, but...
So let me get this straight: Norway didn’t give him the Nobel Peace Prize, so he’s punishing Denmark? I guess any territories north of Maine are interchangeable.
And, the Nobel Committee isn't part of the government of Norway. I wonder if Trump blames Obama for his not getting an Emmy Award for The Apprentice? I know, silly question, of course he does.
Trump probably thinks the Nobel Committee is appointed by the Prime Minister, which is, of course, the way HE'D do it! So, he takes his complaint to the top and says "it's all your fault, so I'm taking Greenland instead."
Dolly turned 80: Icon, Ally, Legend—Today the patron saint of rhinestone-covered radical kindness turns 80. Nine times she's come out swinging for LGBTQ+ rights: from writing "family is family" in 1991, to calling out Christians for judging, to defending trans bathroom access ("if I have to pee, I'm gon' pee"), to gifting a bejeweled guitar to Texas drag queen Brigitte Bandit during the state's anti-drag crusade. She wrote "Travelin' Thru" for Transamerica. She made sure marriage equality was policy at Dollywood after staff turned away a lesbian patron. At 80, she's still teaching us that fierce love isn't soft—it's steel wrapped in sequins.
I firmly believe that if Dolly was ten years younger, we could slap a crown on her and end this cold civil war. If she was our constitutional monarch, both sides would respect her.
What are the 8 plus wars he thinks he stopped? He keeps saying that and journalists never call him out on it, never say he’s out of his mind and deranged. WHY?
Exactly. They never ask “What the fuck is wrong with you?” I really hope I live to see the day some brave soul asks that and wins Jeff’s lifetime Pulitzer!
Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC):
Thailand and Cambodia:
Armenia and Azerbaijan:
Egypt and Ethiopia:
Serbia and Kosovo:
Analysts and news reports (such as BBC Verify and AP Fact Check) have noted that many of these conflicts were already de-escalating, were not active "wars" in the traditional sense, or were very short-lived.
I think this drooling old sack of shit is asleep most of the time, and that his minions fight for his approval of social media posts. He's obviously incapable of focusing long enough to think about punctuation, so best case scenario is speech-to-text.
Since this method of "communication" was allowed to become normal, even nominal checks on nut-nut behavior are long gone. We have some seriously evil shits racing to the bottom, likely to justify the immense amounts of public money they are siphoning into their own offshore accounts.
Greed, hatred, venality, and self preservation as they loot the burning house they themselves set afire.
The billionaires who own most of everything are fine with all of us dying, since they only see as far as next quarter's P&L statements (if they even care about that).
This is what unchecked capitalism hath wrought, and apparently we're not even close to the breaking point.
I hope you ALL KNOW who is egging on trump, his brains not with it enough to come this out without STEVEN MILLER rehearsing him thru what he, MILLER, wants to say & is evil enough to know that no one will listen to him, but they’ll listen if it’s trump. Miller’s getting all his goals out while knowing trumps so fucked up ppl will just laugh & mock trump, while in the same time, telling the entire world what the little Nazi is & will be doing. It’s not, without trumps mind controlling, all this would go on, this little fucker is in control & he’s more fucked up than trump could ever be.
And I think Vought is hurrying to enact as much of Project 25 as he can while Donnie’s still out there entertaining everyone. All the more reason for Republicans to grow a spine and impeach NOW!
That is 100% true. Also Theil and Bondi pushing Unitary Executive control. They couldn't have made it this far without unfettered propaganda media. The worst thing that happened in the US was getting rid of the Fairness Doctrine.
Yeah but he wouldn't be able to do it if Trump wasnt immoral and self centered. And when the shit hits the fan whose fault will it be? The Jewish guy, Miller. I wonder if that occurs to him.
piggy is a 2 year old toddler, he's stuck in the phase where he's never realized he's a separate entity in the world. he still believes his tantrums will get him his way. OTHERWISE KNOWN as a mentally ill IMBECILE.
According to those who processed mentality: Idiot (2 Year old), Imbecile (7 year old) and Moron (12 year old that is equivalent to foolish/stupid), Trump is and Idiot.
the lede of today's post is 100% true. I went to bed with a whole slate of other stuff I was planning to write about. then I woke up, looked at my phone — and all that other shit went out the window
“Sleep no more; Macbeth hath murdered sleep.”
There was an old racist from Queens
Who grabbed power because of his means
A Nobel he did covet
But Peace? Didn’t love it!
Went to war over ICE-
Covered land once named Green
(Due to shame of the Scandal Epstein)
In line with what Jeff has been saying, can you call it "DistractFromEpsteinFilesLand?"
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And who is that supposed to be bonking Trump in the video? Putin? A pig? Hegseth? A Dane?
Shirtless, so Putin.
All of them?
Who is Bubba anyway?
"All the perfumes of Arabia cannot sweeten those TINY HANDS "
Paraphrasing Shakespeare
I messed up my first try.
And a shout-out to the Gatekeeper scene for Pissdrunk Pete.
Gate keeper or gravedigger ?
I played Lady Macbeth twice.
Actors call MacB , the SCOTTISH PLAY, because-
reasons.
Good one.
Just reading both Dean Blundell's (Canadian) posts and Malcolm Nance's(Former US Intelligence) posts. They are saying looks like US is getting ready to invade Greenland, and Trump's latest reasoning is because he did not get the Nobel Peace Prize. Well, he certainly isn't going to get it now.
Dean Blundell
https://open.substack.com/pub/deanblundell/p/breaking-trump-says-hes-no-longer?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
Malcolm Nance
https://substack.com/home/post/p-185064007
The 1500 troops stationed in Alaska supposedly ready to go into Minnesota are really going into Greenland according to Nance. He is about to go there himself. He lays out why he thinks this and what he thinks they will do when they get there. He sees this happening within the next few days.
If that happens, things are going to get very interesting very fast! Can't we have some boring times for a while? "Interesting times" may kill us.
That’s right. Follow Blundell (Canadian) and Nance. They know what’s really going on.
Gail, I had already read the horrid letter to Norway in Dean's Substack and it just gets worse and worse as he talks about the Troops ready to go to "Minnesota" are really for Greenland. Malcolm says that means they are a few days out from their mission. So, if this happens, will it happen on Wednesday, the day that Trump is supposed to speak in person at Davos? Will he actually show up to gloat? Switzerland is not NATO so they have to remain neutral.
Can Europe take troops hostage then, or does Trump think he can deploy all of them and their families to where? Germany has around 39,000. Can there be housing for all of them in the US? In Russia? Sounds like not very carefully thought out actions.
My husband says that he has heard others say Nance has been wrong on things. So, he does not trust him. I am saying, we shall see. I would hope Nance would be wrong, but Jake Broe also said that even if a lot of Generals said no to invading Greenland he would shop around until he found one who would do this. I think Congress should be telling people in the military just what will happen to them when this regime is over. Show them what being court martialled looks like. Not in hero movies where the hero gets off because they are wrongfully charged, but in real life. Maybe some cases and stats.
Having US troops invade Greenland while he's at Davos - given the economic fallout it seems insane, but since when does that mean it wouldn't happen?
Could Europe arrest him for war crimes while he’s over there and please NOT extradite him?
That would be epic!
Trump does some of his “best work” while we sleep.
How many more outrages must he commit before everything implodes?
It's imploding now. The oligarchs own the press, the politicians, the Supreme Court, and more. The oppressors have their new Constitution...Project 2025. Republicans and some really fucked up Democrats will not stop them. This is so disheartening and grieving. I think our politicians are broken idiots that either don't give two shits because their on the grift or they're that fucking dumb.
Required reading--The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide. link:
https://verfassungsblog.de/the-authoritarian-regime-survival-guide/
"4. They will create chaos, maintain a constant sense of conflict and danger. It will be their argument to enact new authoritarian laws, each one further limiting your freedoms and civil liberties. They will disguise them as being for your protection, for the good of the People."
OMG, I hate how accurate this Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide you posted the link to has become for the USA. I'm sick to my stomach every day...that leads to item #5.
I couldn't have said it better myself! And what scares the crap out of me is he's probably going to strike Greenland and nobody will do anything about it. What the fuck has happened to the human race?
We've been told to hate each because we're different cultures and colors. Without racism and economic oppression they can't win. They've never won on their own integrity. Never. Hate is cheap power. It supports the grift. Humans are real fuck ups. They rarely learn from their mistakes. Taking responsibility for their own actions is a bitch. We've been banging these same drums for centuries. And here we are again. Things don't look good. Our STATE CAPTURE is here. Now.
How ironic that Prez. Dumbfuck is mobilizing troops on MLK Day.
We have met the enemy and he is us.
Nazism and the holocaust taught us nothing.
Slavery taught us nothing.
Religion teaches us nothing.
Guess we're on the same page, Lisa.
Amazing the batshittery someone can do when they're sleep deprived and hopped up on goofballs!
That is why Malcolm Nance and Dean Blundell posted that the troops that are supposedly for Minnesota are really for Greenland.
Dean Blundell
https://open.substack.com/pub/deanblundell/p/breaking-trump-says-hes-no-longer?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
Malcolm Nance
https://substack.com/home/post/p-185064007
I saw the Chief's video.
He literally took his wackadoodle Truth Social posts and sent them to the leaders of another country.
It’s so fucking stupid I think it broke my brain. I’m gonna need at least a day to recover from it…
I am going to need 4 or 5 years to recover.
Past time to Amendment 25/impeach/remove. House Republicans, where are you? Your country is circling the drain!
I think the ICC needs to indict Trump if, for no other reason, so he will not be able to go to civilized countries anymore without risking arrest. Less embarrassment for Americans, less catastrophe for the rest of the world.
They must not fawn over him in Davos. That would throw fuel on the fire and he doesn't deserve any special treatment which is why he expects to achieve economic damage if they don't bow down in worship of him. Quit referring to him as the leader of the free world. He is the destroyer of the free world.
A straight-jacket and 20cc of thorazine.
Ann Telnaes came to a similar conclusion:
https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/trump-texts-norways-pm-linking-nobel?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb05fac1a-d245-4e77-a9a3-e61826a62c86_1800x1825.jpeg&open=false
He’s a fat tub of lard. 40cc ought to do it. I’m no doctor but what’s the worst that can happen?
The best would be weeks of unconsciousness.
They. Don't. Care.
This is what their owners want. All focus on Trump and Miller while Vought destroys any semblance of government by the people for the people.
That's the whole problem, continuing to operate on a presumption of good faith, that all this is just misunderstandings, the we all ultimately want the same thing- what is right. No.
They. Don't. Care.
It's might over right. It's been demonstrated in EVERYTHING being done & they have also said so. They intend to seize total control & not share any power ever again. It's past time to get fking real about that.
Got some you can share? lol
Yup!
I was up at 2am, voice to texting shit into my phone, that I could then piece together into a valid daily digest post, which I did do. How successful I was? as of yet to be seen.
I still say Putin told Trump in Alaska, break NATO.
I think he told him that a LOOOOOOONNNNNGGGGG time ago.
Remember the Helsinki meeting where no one was allowed to know what was said?
Personally—and just a theory of course— I think that’s when Vlad reminded Trump that he owns him (with some evidence—snuff film, homosexual honeypot, etc).
It's nice to see that you read the comments! And I'm happier than a pig in shit that you enjoyed the video!
Thank you for all of your work!
I wonder if that little butt f***ing prop is for sale on Amazon. Have to get me one
Lol, yeah, that caught my eye in the protest clips, very glad to see it here. I don't think there's anything that says it all so well.
It’s those damn giraffes. They’re in control They didn’t get their hand jobs this week. So, they
Lmao!! This comment made me audibly hoot in laughter lol thanks for that my friend!
read 'whose words'
https://www.writerscafe.org/writing/angrybuddhaguy/3124318/
i have no doubts of where i stand in this community
or really give a fuk who does care what i say
i know my last words will be FUK YOU! spoken or not
my mind is my own and it's waves you cannot change
i have sat at the table of freedoms my entire life
i am their problem
i know my destiny
to live to die a free man
not an american, a free man
Well, at least you’re rid of all that other shit…
Brilliant! Thx for the best writing - keep going!!
You need to disengage from your daily posts and go camping away from any electronic devices for a week Jeff. Donny is starting to mega freak you out. You'll have an aneurism if you don't chill out.
Every Single Morning…..I wake up this same way…😡🤬
How do y’all reckon the history books are gonna cover this shite for the next generations? Will there be wildly different curricular materials between different states or rival districts within states? Will there emerge a schism between the cosmopolitan areas and the hillbilly backwoods that suppress any efforts to deal with all this responsibly? I ask in part because I taught history for many years and understand propaganda. And I really do care about this question.
Germany mandates by law that every schoolchild learn about the Holocaust. but we live in a much dumber country
Just as my parents’ generation would never buy a Ford, opinions about Germany began to shift after VWs became so obviously interesting (I had a ‘62 VW bus with 40hp) and then began to see how Germans had wrestled with their guilt. But I fear a huge swath of our populace will never, never admit culpability after this all comes crashing down.
I’m afraid of just that, too. 🥺 We suck, both collectively and individually, at remorse.
The MAGA movement is actively erasing the truth about American history, because they fear it makes white citizens (and especially white men) look bad. And we can’t have that!
True Story: In my younger days in magazine publishing I joined the ad director on a sales call to the agency handling Ford. He instructed me never to mention Ford's "Jewish Problem" during the call.
Amazing. And aren’t you grateful to know that? I hope you’ve shared this tidbit with everyone in your life. It says so much.
If they can deny the Jan 6th insurrection, they are lost forever, unless we invest in a massive cult deprogramming program, but given their authoritarian mindset, all they will learn is to keep their racist drivel to themselves. And regurgitate it to their next generations to perpetuate it.
life lived on bent knee is submission ... surrender ... enslavement
And they desire it, it is hard to understand the lack of courage.
Aren't there people who still defend Nixon? Certainly when he died, he suddenly became the Great Statesman -- China, EPA, etc. -- but that other little incident was glossed over. He was no Trump, but he did some damage, as I recall.
Nixon had plenty of faults, plenty, and also that experience with Roy Cohn, but he also had some brains, some discipline, some familiarity with the DC establishment (for better and worse), and acknowledged that the national interest demanded a certain regard for governance by a few principles. He implemented OSHA, EPA, etc.
Of course, he was also a traitor, conspiring to prolong the Vietnam War, and sent tens of thousands to die needlessly in that conflict. But he rose from a level of poverty, knew tragedy as an element of life, and could occasionally put aside his petty grievances for a moment. I think he loved his wife and family, at least. The difference between then and now is insane.
Also, Nixon in China is a really good opera. He makes for a good tragic opera character because he had layers.
He was a brilliant man who had no real reason to be as evil as he was, but he was filled with resentment, and that twisted him. That's catnip for operatic and dramatic roles. He's basically tailor-made for the stage.
Trump's not really that interesting because he's just a spoiled rich boy who's never heard no and is just a tyrant. There's not a lot of depth to him. He's not acting out of hubris or thwarted ambition or because he had a vision for how to make things better that got corrupted. He's always been spoiled and corrupt. He's always been a crook. He's always been a conman. He's always been a failure. He gets ahead by failing upwards and buying off officials, and that's just not that fun to watch.
Nixon won a scholarship to Yale, but could not afford to travel there (and his family needed him).
No argument here -- Nixon looks like a Sunday school teacher in comparison to Donny. Nixon was infinitely smarter, but so is my Labrador (kinder, too). My point is not that Nixon is just as bad -- though after he resigned, I never thought it could get much worse (silly me) -- but that the whitewashing and sanewashing of unpleasant history will happen again.
Im not sure. He is doing so much damage and the worse is yet to come. He wants to be Putin or li'l putin.
Yep, I had a ‘67 and the counter-culture did invert values (‘62 had 40hp?—I forget, mine was 1500cc or 1600cc, and maybe 40 hp—half-century ago—sigh). Miss it.
War correspondent Martha Gellhorn’s piece for Collier’s, May 26 1945, began: “No one is a Nazi. No one ever was. There may have been some Nazis in the next village, and, as a matter of fact, in that town about twenty kilometers away it was a veritable hotbed of Nazidim. To tell you the truth, confidentially, there were a lot of Communists here. Oh, the Jews? Well, there weren’t really many Jews in this neighborhood. I hid a Jew for six weeks. I hid a Jew for eight weeks. All God’s chillun hid Jews.”
"I heard that there were some people who belonged to that there party and some who follered along, but I never did and none of the folk I know ever did."
The Klan was in the next town over, but none of them was here in this town.
i have many longtime friends whose parents wore the tattoo numbers of THE JEWS!
each and every time i saw it i had an overload of hatred, anger and embarrassment for my fellow man
I saw a meme that said something to the effect of when this regime is over everyone who did will say they never voted for Trump nor believed his lies. Same vibe.
The reverse of how many people say they were at Woodstock. More people claim to have been there than there were attendees
People are used to saying whatever the hell they want now. Hard to imagine them ever finding their civility again.
I think there will continue to be a dichotomy of opinion of this era, just like there is now. The conservatives/fascists/religiously corrupted will portray this as their long sought-after and mythical golden age, while those who value and hew to factual history will view this time with a mixture of horror, befuddlement, and a measure of disbelief.
Congress should be condemned for dereliction of duty in not impeaching this world-class lunatic. Not a word from Schumer who is busy congratulating himself for recruiting electable Democrats to run in November. By then, we'll be in full blown war with NATO.
Schumer totally useless
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Schumer is busy concocting his next "strictly-worded letter."
Just curious, what would you have Schumer do?
Do what Mitch McConnell did. Figure every way you can to obstruct, including standing in front of cameras and saying, "We are obstructing." No fancy speeches, no need to inspire. Standing up for what is right can't be much harder than standing up for what is wrong. When in doubt, WWMMD?
Endorse impeachment. Call on our allies to block him. Mobilize the Democrats to act as one party instead of a flock of chickens outnumbered by weasels.
I don't know when this era of MAGA is going to end, but I'm glad I won't be around 80 years after that when a new generation of fascists is neo-Trumpist rather than neo-Nazi.
The religious right still clings to Manifest Destiny as a rationalization for whatever they want to do.
Thats it. Religion is the source of all evil. If you convince yourself and other people that what you are doing is ordained by God, you have no qualms and no reason to think it through.
religiously corrupted ... white christian nationalist
that believe their god and their savior is of course WHITE!
odds are 50/50 their god was/is a woman not a man/their son of god was not white ...
created in 'his image' ... that makes god an entity of color?
man evolved from the black african ... white was choice #2, #3, #4 ... ??????
It all fits. It’s the 21st century equivalent of the Crusades. Apparently, all these white Christian-nationalists have forgotten history. Success was short-lived.
As a retired educator, I remember that some states required all schools in the state to use same texts-instead of districts choosing the texts, as we did. It seemed odd to me that schools could not preview and select their own materials to use. Good question Neal! I too care about this question….
Indeed, that’s one of the very worst features of our school systems. You’re probably aware of the work of Mel and Norma Gabler.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/the-guardians-who-slumbereth-not/
Was not …thanks for the info!
The infamous Texas school book committee/cabal. And what they decided is picked up by other states, mostly those with education systems at the bottom.
That's is true, but its more complicated. School boards, especially in some states, dont spend money on schools. Its true that school boards can be made up of eccentric people. That's why I volunteered to be involved in any area I could when my kids were in school. If you don't like what's going on, run for school board.
However I worked for years for a textbook publisher and a lot of work by many excellent educators goes in to writing textbooks. The reason districts select textbooks is because its easier and cheaper and because if separate schools have individual textbooks ( and they're really teaching the same thing), it makes standardized testing difficult. You have to understand that states keep reducing public school budgets that 1) school districts use actually the same textbooks for years. 2) and buying in bulk give states a better price.
I understand all that. Typically, districts select and purchase books. But Texas mandates books at the state level for all roughly 1,100 districts.
Reallly excellent question, Neal. Before we get to that, however, is the task of promoting the real accounts of some of our un-pretty history that the far right is trying to bury.
Indeed. But I’m afraid that a LOT of folks have had their brains scrambled and reprogrammed by the worst among us, probably for three generations.
I hate to say this (becauae Im always repeating myself) but television does a lot of damage. The only reason Trump is president was because he was on a game show for 12 yrs. where he played a smart businessman. His voters absolutely believe that he was a brilliant business man because he played one on TV.
At least. And we've about lost our living memory of WWII.
Our Dads would not like this
True, but... I know I've often been called too idealistic (among other things), but after four decades in higher education, I'm not convinced that this is a given. At worst, it's almost complying in advance. Then again, I'm in California, not Texas or Oklahoma (apologies and condolences to the sane folks who live there). K, gotta run -- time for my PA meeting (Pollyannas Anonymous).
Excellent point.
They won’t teach history. They will watch WWE videos and recite the 10 commandments.
Haha, that makes sense, Joe, since Demented DonOld made Linda McMahon Secretary of Diseducation
Depends on if Texas or any other unreconstructed state has a say. There'll be a lot of whitewashing of this.
Well,I think fried pig skins will still be popular with both groups but that's about it.
chicharrónes!
Great question, Neal. From one former history teacher to another.
I worry that American history books regarding this era will have to be written in Canada and other countries. The regime is going to try to memory-hole a lot of this and it may be a decade or more before a lot of Americans will treat this as history and not partisan attacks.
Who will buy them? The purchase of books is up to the state and school boards. I sent my daughter to private schools run by fairly liberal people for Jr and senior high. My son preferred public school. But my son is way more liberal minded than my daughter.
Same. There’s a real concern that if things keep going as they are that those who are able to read and write will be disappeared.
The right-wing, red-state written textbooks, will fawn obsequiously, like a Bill O'Reilly (ghostwritten) book. Full of lies, and absolutely diametrically opposed to reality" factoids". Rather like their books are now.
Those books are trash, like their( ghost) author.
Is his book a textbook? What subject?
Funny story, there was big adoption in CA the 4 big publishers were presenting a US History text. We were the only publisher whose text was not chosen because one of the committee members was an East Indian American and our book did not contain any mention of the contributions to the US by East Indians.
You have more power than you think over textbooks.
An empty soul of a dude
Wakes up and he's in a bad mood
"It's Greenland for me!
And I'll get it for free!
Or else I'll just whine and I'll brood."
"And nobody likes me they say
Which makes me all crabby and gray
So I'll flip them the bird
Because I don't know a word
With two syllables, I'm dumber than clay."
Brilliant Frosty😁
Thanks!!
Abso-fucking-lutely perfect!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you!!
way too considerately kind
Haha that’s Great Frosty!
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I hate to say it but I firmly believe that the only solution is for the military to refuse his,order to invade Greenland and arrest the fat pig!
I am absolutely in favor of that!
While they're at it grab the little pocket Fascist Bovino. That gave me my first laugh of the day and laughs are getting harder to come by.
Bad case of little man syndrome.
Yes. Actually, past time for that.
My husband agrees.
And imprison him in an igloo on the northern-most tip of Greenland.
I'm still advocating for Bikini Atoll for him, his family, and the entire administration.
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NOPE TOO FUKIN KIND you are!
strip him down to nothing ... set him adrift on a 10'x10' chunk of ice somewhere unknown
Can’t some country arrest the asshole as soon as he leaves the country for all of the shit he has already done in Venezuela? Ugh, why can’t this stop????
Well, unfortunately, he knows that. He has said if the Democrats get in power he will be impeached. Im sure Miller has a plan to prevent the Democrats taking power. It has to do with declaring Minneapolis a "war zone" (which is hysterical because my best friend lives in suburb there and everything is fine and status quo). Its part of taking rights away. No voting, no Democrats.
imprisonment!
I'm told that those military folks in Alaska standing back and standing by are slated for a trip to Greenland not Minneapolis. I hope they are wrong, but...
Fucking shit show of epic proportions because a tiny dick didn’t get the bobble it wanted.
They wont do that.
I know they won’t. A girl can dream.
Indeed!
So let me get this straight: Norway didn’t give him the Nobel Peace Prize, so he’s punishing Denmark? I guess any territories north of Maine are interchangeable.
And, the Nobel Committee isn't part of the government of Norway. I wonder if Trump blames Obama for his not getting an Emmy Award for The Apprentice? I know, silly question, of course he does.
Obama has been living rent-free in his tiny brain since the ill-fated White House Correspondent's Dinner.
Yup
Trump probably thinks the Nobel Committee is appointed by the Prime Minister, which is, of course, the way HE'D do it! So, he takes his complaint to the top and says "it's all your fault, so I'm taking Greenland instead."
I mean, Im going to be fair Uncle Jeff, the most sensible thing I could write today:
was to quote Lorde:
"I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own." — Audre Lorde
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/this-week-has-really-started-to-suck-trump-approval-in-toilet-ice-killing-people-gen-z-is-homophobic
That said though....
Dolly turned 80: Icon, Ally, Legend—Today the patron saint of rhinestone-covered radical kindness turns 80. Nine times she's come out swinging for LGBTQ+ rights: from writing "family is family" in 1991, to calling out Christians for judging, to defending trans bathroom access ("if I have to pee, I'm gon' pee"), to gifting a bejeweled guitar to Texas drag queen Brigitte Bandit during the state's anti-drag crusade. She wrote "Travelin' Thru" for Transamerica. She made sure marriage equality was policy at Dollywood after staff turned away a lesbian patron. At 80, she's still teaching us that fierce love isn't soft—it's steel wrapped in sequins.
The world needs more Dolly❤️and no Donny😵
Damn Right, Kath.
In a world of Donnys, be a DOLLY!!! ✨✨✨
100000000%
I firmly believe that if Dolly was ten years younger, we could slap a crown on her and end this cold civil war. If she was our constitutional monarch, both sides would respect her.
Richard, I am with you 100000%
the republicans would never acknowledge or respect her
why? she is a she!
She's great. If she were 10 years younger, she could get elected Senator from Tennessee. ( She'd skin Marsha the human rats nest.🤣🤣
What are the 8 plus wars he thinks he stopped? He keeps saying that and journalists never call him out on it, never say he’s out of his mind and deranged. WHY?
Exactly. They never ask “What the fuck is wrong with you?” I really hope I live to see the day some brave soul asks that and wins Jeff’s lifetime Pulitzer!
“What the fuck is wrong with you?” ... no prize or award necessary!
this one is on ME!
Yes, one of them needs to ask him “ Sir, sir, please name the 8 wars that you stopped.I think I must have missed something… in my pants.
Guy couldn't find Azerbaijan on a map with a GPS.
Israel and Hamas (Gaza):
Israel and Iran:
Pakistan and India:
Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC):
Thailand and Cambodia:
Armenia and Azerbaijan:
Egypt and Ethiopia:
Serbia and Kosovo:
Analysts and news reports (such as BBC Verify and AP Fact Check) have noted that many of these conflicts were already de-escalating, were not active "wars" in the traditional sense, or were very short-lived.
Who are these "journalists" of which you speak?
To those in the Oval Office who change Orange Hitler’s shitty diapers:
“Thank you for your attention to this matter. In my pants.”
😂😂😂😂😂Joe!!!
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Evil asshole who traffics in lies
Continually whines and cries
"If you don't gimme my due
I'm gonna invade you
Unless you give me The Prize!"
We'd give you Greenland
But your hands are very small
Have Rice-a-Roni
Steve's haiku hits it on the head
The San Francisco Treat!
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“I’m a little despot”😂😂😂. Bovines biography will be titled “The Littlest Nazi” and it’ll be illustrated in cartoons.
Seriously….We’re all screwed aren’t we?
But wait! There's more!
I’m sure there is. 🤦♀️
I think this drooling old sack of shit is asleep most of the time, and that his minions fight for his approval of social media posts. He's obviously incapable of focusing long enough to think about punctuation, so best case scenario is speech-to-text.
Since this method of "communication" was allowed to become normal, even nominal checks on nut-nut behavior are long gone. We have some seriously evil shits racing to the bottom, likely to justify the immense amounts of public money they are siphoning into their own offshore accounts.
Greed, hatred, venality, and self preservation as they loot the burning house they themselves set afire.
The billionaires who own most of everything are fine with all of us dying, since they only see as far as next quarter's P&L statements (if they even care about that).
This is what unchecked capitalism hath wrought, and apparently we're not even close to the breaking point.
We are all so sick of it.
I feel sorry for all of the translators for the European Ambassadors.
But if we all die, to whom will their services?
Why do you think Musk is so into robots?
My two cents... it's all to avoid the Epstein files.
This meme will never get old
https://substack.com/@mnmomingb/note/c-154781439
I get what you are saying. But starting a war that kills many and tears down seems a lot worse.
I hope you ALL KNOW who is egging on trump, his brains not with it enough to come this out without STEVEN MILLER rehearsing him thru what he, MILLER, wants to say & is evil enough to know that no one will listen to him, but they’ll listen if it’s trump. Miller’s getting all his goals out while knowing trumps so fucked up ppl will just laugh & mock trump, while in the same time, telling the entire world what the little Nazi is & will be doing. It’s not, without trumps mind controlling, all this would go on, this little fucker is in control & he’s more fucked up than trump could ever be.
And I think Vought is hurrying to enact as much of Project 25 as he can while Donnie’s still out there entertaining everyone. All the more reason for Republicans to grow a spine and impeach NOW!
YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT! I can’t believe we see it & they don’t, except if they’re complicit!
That is 100% true. Also Theil and Bondi pushing Unitary Executive control. They couldn't have made it this far without unfettered propaganda media. The worst thing that happened in the US was getting rid of the Fairness Doctrine.
Yeah but he wouldn't be able to do it if Trump wasnt immoral and self centered. And when the shit hits the fan whose fault will it be? The Jewish guy, Miller. I wonder if that occurs to him.
Miller is an anti Semitic Jew. He likely thinks that his anti Semitism will protect him. It won’t.
He has to be the first to go and made an example for de-throned MAGAts
Give him a f**king binky, maybe that’ll shut him up.
Shove a butt plug in his face and tell him it's a binky.
You win comment of the day!!
To hell with giving up carbs. I need some soothing...
Hold your carbs close until this is all over.
Cheers!
piggy is a 2 year old toddler, he's stuck in the phase where he's never realized he's a separate entity in the world. he still believes his tantrums will get him his way. OTHERWISE KNOWN as a mentally ill IMBECILE.
According to those who processed mentality: Idiot (2 Year old), Imbecile (7 year old) and Moron (12 year old that is equivalent to foolish/stupid), Trump is and Idiot.