Well, all I can say is I’m Elvis adjacent by virtue of the fact that my older brother met The King in Germany when they were both in the Army while they were in the chow line. How ya like me now? 🤣🤣🤣
After he was already dead, I opened his tax return at the WI Dept of Revenue. (He had played a concert in Madison the previous year. I was 16 and had a part-time job opening and sorting tax forms, one of those pre-internet jobs that are long gone.)
I was invited to the Clinton White House. Instead of meeting Bill, Hilary met with my class, our traveling companions and me. Her photographer took our pics, which I have either here in the US, and we got a special tour of the White House. She was absolutely lovely with my students. It was a day to remember, although usually I don't. Thanks for the memory.
Been to Graceland myself. As is often reported, it's rather small. Today's billionaires have garages with more square footage, and yet, ELVIS will always be "the King".
I grew up with two older sisters who loved Elvis, and I was exposed to his music. I wanted to see Graceland, so we toured it. I was very impressed with the (appeared to be) HUNDREDS of checks framed and displayed. Apparently, Elvis wrote a small check to anyone who needed a hand, in fact, it nearly bankrupted him. It was Priscilla that opened Graceland to the public and rebuilt the empire and legacy. My husband humored me by going to Graceland with me, and he came away a fan of Elvis.
Too many people now remember Elvis as an overweight, druggie has been who o.d'd on a toilet. Elvis reportedly suffered from Mega Colon which was a factor in his death. He was used and spit out by the music/entertainment industry. What a shame.
Oh, no, I have been to Graceland quite a number of times and Graceland is so subdued and tasteful compared to Trump's White Gold House. Trump just needs to be buried in the back yard, and that would solve everything.
He fell for a Southern Cornpone Con Artist ("Colonel" Tom Parker). As for those who disliked him going to Vegas like other rockers did, I remember an interview with Fats Domino I did for RS when he became the first rocknrolla to play Vegas. He picked up on the fact I saw it with some disdain, and said "The reason I do this is they pay me $25,000 a week, in a bag full of cash, every Thursday afternoon, and they don't tell me some bullshit about how they'll pay me next Monday. This is the first time I've been paid what I'm worth and they don't fuck me over." (FWIW,. $25,000 in 1969 is $232,600 in 2026 - so I think he was right).
Parker was the kind of Southern slime you count the silverware before you let him leave the house. He robbed Elvis left right up and down, and put him in bad deals where Parker got the piece of the action that mattered. Like too many creative artists who doubt they deserve to be there (this is almost universal), Elvis needed a guy to say "I'll take care of you," who didn't have the ability to spot a shark at the time he signed his life over. That's a more common story than people like to think.
Is bashing Helen Keller in vogue these days? Or maybe Helen Keller jokes are coming back? (I hope not.) If Helen Keller had a room or a house to decorate, she would have hired capable advisers. In fact, she probably did, more than once.
Apparently, conspiracy theorists are claiming that Helen Keller's claimed accomplishments were (and are) a hoax. I shit you not. I just had a video about it come across my YouTube feed last night.
We went to the house from Christmas Story, too! Last year we took a road trip from Houston to Cleveland to visit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. That was very cool!
On the way, we made many stops. Graceland was a big one. It was amazing. We even got to tour his plane, and the museum of all his cars.
It's very fragile (pronounced fra-gee-lay). I think it must be Italian.
There's a reason that movie is shown every Christmas season over and over again (TBS maybe)? I wasn't alive in the timeline of this movie (the 50s I think), but it speaks to every kid's childhood pretty well regardless of the setting, and it has a lot of LOL moments in it.
I was invited to the St. Ronny Raygun White House by my friend’s boyfriend who was in his Cabinet. I stole a cocktail napkin from the Oval Office that I still have. I also saw Fawn Hall talking to Oliver North in the hallway but I didn’t see any secret documents sticking out of her boots. IYKYK. It was surreal. Fk Raygun and all the rest of the unAmerican traitors.
PS -- My friend unceremoniously broke up with me after 36 years of being BFFs because I hated
She did you a favor! I also lost a friend because of trumPutin, and it turned out that I suddenly had more than $500 a month more in my checking account. He had been my signatory for about 10 years after I became fully disabled, and he had my debit card so he could run errands for me. I trusted him completely. 💔
If ICE hires men over 60, he would be thrilled to join. I have wondered if he did, but not enough to contact him….I have no doubt he would use any attempt to find out as an opening for renewed ‘friendship’. . . Just, ugh. Nope.
Agree about my former friend, who was apolitical when we met in 1984. Her then-boyfriend now husband of 35 years has completely twisted her head and turned her into a huge MAGAt. Her ghosting saved me the trouble of breaking up with her.
Sorry that you were ripped off by your former "friend" and I'm also sorry that you are disabled. $500 is a lot of money to lose every month. It's hard to trust people these days. My friend group isn't huge, but it is authentic and awesome. 💙
Some 'friend'! AND to rip off someone who's 'fully disabled'? UGH. beyond disgusting! I too am so sorry this happened to you Paula. What a vile piece of shit to do such a thing - but it does seem par for the course for magat cultists. Grrrrr
I was waiting for someone ELSE to bring this up. Didn't want to come across as a - y'know, 'stalker-type' just because he looks fantastic all dressed up and has that GLORIOUS head of hair. ;) Matches mine somewhat except I'm a bit blonder and a lot longer - SO need a major trim. Glad he mentioned that Claudia was there too. Tamped us Ladies down, didn't he? LOL (and maybe some of the guys as well? - I'm only saying!) ;) I only ever got to visit OUTSIDE the White House way back when we drove my parents from Queens to visit my sister's then home in Md - taking a day trip into DC. I can't remember which year so don't now know which Resident was in office - it was tough enough trying to tolerate my mother's ranting all the way there and back. Thought she'd have changed a wee bit, but no. Sigh. She'd have become the biggest magat of all if she'd lived into his regime. I'd have seriously LOVED visiting the Clinton, Obama and Biden White Houses - and the Harris WH if she'd been elected - can we all imagine how tasteful it would look today - instead of all that gold-sprayed SHLOCK? AND Peace on Earth - or at least magats back underground. Sigh again.
The opening lyrics to Elvis’ song that became “our song” as I married my own Ms. Spouse in 1981. In the matter of love, the wise men were wrong. In the matter of a war in the Middle East, the wise men should be heeded
my sweetie and I were together for 19 years before we decided to tie the knot . . . no kids, financially independent, we were doing fine
but we knew we were a done deal and that, as spouses, we'd be able to make important decisions (vs. family members butting in) in case of disability or medical issues. So we, and this is ridiculous, checked first to see if the tax laws still included a marriage penalty. And no, they did not.
We've been married for 22 yrs now. :-)
My hubby has always joked that the saying, Marry in haste - Repent at leisure, has a counterpart . . . Marry at leisure - Repent in haste.
umm . . . that depends on which day you're talking about. 😂
I made him wait 8-9 years (longest engagement of our respective families and friends) before I could quell the panic I felt at marrying again. My poor engagement ring was thrown down stairs and across rooms so many times I'm surprised it was always found. I was growing into who I am now. HE was growing up a bit from being spoiled rotten by his Mama. Lots of butting heads and figuring things out. HE decided having kids would be a no-no due to his Agent Orange exposure because he had all kinds of skin issues (and other problems) before we met. I ok'd it after my earlier trauma and - we needed both salaries. We'd met working together where we got to know each other as 'enemies' (he resented the girl he'd been 'dating' being fired to bring me in while he was gone), then frenemies, then pals then dating - and so on. Took a WHILE. Probably why it's lasted even though we're still so opposite - and still butt heads. THAT part is getting old. I've never not worked hard, I adore my pets - deserve a break. I like your method better methinks. ;)
Same here. Except that my dad told me he took my mom to see Elvis in concert when they were dating (back in the '50s). When I asked Mom about it, in the presence of her hubby (#5), denied it happened. I trust my Dad not to make up something like that. Mom, she was worried her hubby might be upset because she never told him about it.
I was never a big fan of the 'early' Elvis. When 'that' song came along, though - I could see what others saw and accepted that he did have a good voice although I was never one of those who 'screamed' or enjoyed the other 'stuff' he did. I grew to appreciate his voice more as I grew up more but my tastes were far more into R&B of the late 60's, early 70's - be still my heart! I still use 'Rainy Night in Georgia' as MY song to calm myself - can bring down my blood pressure to an amazing degree whenever it pops up in doctors' offices or in pain. Give me 5 mins with my eyes closed and I'm good to go. It's better WITH the music but I can do it without music by playing it in my head. Also Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, Smokey Robinson...so many others.
My mother in law grew up in Memphis and met Elvis plenty of times and it’s funny to hear her casually mention some nice boy and realize that she’s talking about Elvis.
Also I know trump has said people said that he favored young Elvis except with blond hair back in the day. You know he’s just resentful that people didn’t love him and isn’t over it.
Oh! And my husband worked as a guide at Graceland 30 years ago for a summer! You got to borrow videos of all his movies, so he has seen them all, even “Clambake!”
He is SO delusional - he's somehow convinced himself he resembles Elvis or is his 'twin'. Here we go again: Elvis CHOSE to go into the Service while this fucking coward-in-cheat had HIS rich daddy pay off a podiatrist to FAKE 5 deferments for him. He couldn't shine Elvis' patriotic shoes, the fucking wimp. How dare he? He's ALWAYS trying to steal someone else's talent, fame or glory because he's a nothing - a LOSER. Ugh!
When my husband was in the Air Force, he was stationed near Graceland and said he would drive by it every day on his way to work. Being a big Elvis fan, I asked him if he ever went into Graceland. When he replied, "No" I was incredulous, saying, "How could you drive by it every day and not go in?" His reply, "He was living there at the time." Oh, never mind.
We've since been to Graceland and we did the VIP tour which was worth the extra $.
More people from New York City have been to Mt. Rushmore than people from South Dakota. More people from South Dakota have been to the Statue of Liberty than people from New York City.
I believe it -- I live in Seattle and my father designed the original electric motor that turned the Space Needle's restaurant 360 degrees (it opened in 1962). I haven't been there since 1989 when I took out of town guests.
You're right. WHEN we sailed into New York Harbour in our (what we thought of as HUGE Cunard Line Ship: the SS Sylvania) we lined up to see everything - this in a freezing cold January day. I SO wanted to see the Statue of Liberty I'd read so much about. Then this thick fog rolled in blocking her from our view but I could catch tiny glimpses of her arm and the torch and YES - that's her HEAD peeking through the fog SO FAR above us! It was the most thrilling thing I'd ever seen in my scant few years on this Earth. WHILE we were staring upward (at least a mile) this big black WALL moved between us and the 'view' - turning out to be the REAL Cunard Line ships - might have been the Queen Mary (or Elizabeth?) making ours look like a rowboat, lolol. Fwiw, I've NEVER managed to get back down to visit the Statue of Liberty despite my entire life spent in New York! Then again, I worked IN the Empire State Building for a year and a half and never ONCE managed to get up to 'that' so often filmed view everyone falls in love with. Go figure. Some of us are those working in those windows shining the lights out onto the Streets of NY - and then rushing down to get our rides home. The times we WOULD get into the City would be to see my friend and favourite diatonic harmonica player in town in the Village: Jason Ricci (has a lot of youtube videos out). Another brilliant chromatic harmonica player /guitarist/singer Will Galison - is also a good friend and lives in Manhattan. Does these house concerts I've so far been unable to get in for, but his vids (and albums) are SO GOOD! (Barbra Streisand hired him to play on HER version of a song he'd already played for the movie version). He wrote an album for & with Madeleine Peyroux too. BRILLIANT musician.
I can say I met Elvis, Tina Turner, Stevie Wonder and Marilyn Monroe a few years back, all in the same room together and I have pics to prove it, in a wax museum. It’s so weird to stand so close to them you can see nose hair. Still beautiful and they hadn’t aged a bit.
They had a little less conversation, a peanut butter and banana sandwich? Remember when Nixon duped Elvis with a fake badge to hunt down drug criminals?
I've met a lot of people, mainly in entertainment....
But my cousin's son-in-law worked on VP Biden's Air Force Two....& he & my cousin's daughter went to VP & Dr Biden's final Christmas party at their home. (Karyn was laughing because her outfit matched Biden's tie.) Biden also treated the spouses of the AF2 to a ride in it, up & down the eastern seaboard.
Sound reasoning. However [of course], one should address which party might win by lying. I think Iran doesn’t win anything valuable by denying and Trump always will lie when he thinks that the lie will make people think better of him. To postpone his ‘glorious’ bombardments that shocked the markets (which are holy to him), he decided to postpone them 'because he (HE!) had so good talks with Iranian representatives’. This portrays him as a good dealmaker [which he isn’t] and it should sooth the dealers on the markets whose indices than would rise again. So, Trump is the liar, as could be expected since he is a pathological liar.
That could very well be true Linda; but, the point I would make is that we KNOW Trump is lying because everyone time he opens his mouth he lies (when the truth would serve him better—as my friend Matt used to say).
Yes, the Iranians could be lying but I’d be more likely to trust them over Trump.
Trump lies because he wants us to believe 2+2=5. In the meantime, most of us have learned not to believe that. I talked about how he uses "Doublethink" in this piece I wrote on what I learned about Trump from rereading Orwell's "1984" with my bookclub.
Trump wants to have two conflicting things at once. He wants to war profiteer, and that requires never ending wars; he also wants to regain his popularity, that requires ending the war and improving the economy. Which is he going to do. We shall probably see on Saturday. I might add that it is all quite sickening.
AND he didn't write that entirely ALL CAPS piece of dreck! The first 'version' trotted out had 'him' saying 'PLEASE' instead of PLEASED and 'WITCH' instead of 'WHICH'. I guess someone pointed those out and very rapidly those 'typos' were fixed. Since when does donnydemento fix anything? Someone ELSE is typing out his spew - and they're as dumb/clueless as musk's group of dogies. Could it be goebbels/miller? kkkaroline? Just had to add here how THRILLED I was to hear that Emily (don't know her surname) BEAT frump's repuke pick soundly to become the DEMOCRATIC REPRESENTATIVE OF HIS OWN DISTRICT IN PALM SPRINGS! WHOO-HOO! Donny must be shitting a brick right about now., and I'm SO here for it. Imagine that this young Democratic congresswoman is now HIS congresswoman?! hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Donald Trump may be really incompetent at managing the operations of real things like the Presidency or foreign policy, but what he is clearly VERY competent at is corruptly making money through innuendo and propaganda. When insider trading investigations begin, let's start at the top.
It was late last night when I saw a bit of news that must have hit too late for either HCR or Jeff to comment upon: The WH is paying the French company building wind farms off the coast ONE BILLION DOLLARS to end it.
But, we can't FEED hungry Americans, or shelter them, or heal their illnesses.
I am totally disgusted with Congress.
Vote every one of those Republican (insert bad words!!) OUT.
The main problem I see here is that there aren’t nearly enough bad words to fully describe the GOP any longer. 15 years ago, I struggled, but at least I found enough bad words to cover it. Today? Not so much.
Yes! Exactly, Sharon C. Storm. I've been married to a sailor for 48 years and am (waaay) over 50 years old. Both of those conditions create olympian-level, swear word vocabulary. Lately, though. I'm reduced to shaking my fist in the air. The power words have run dry.
I get ya, Sharon. As I fancy myself a writer, I try to find the most succinct words to convey my thoughts. I also try to avoid expletives as #1 I was raised by a father who never ever used them even when he had good reason to and #2 they have come to lack impact and meaning anymore, at least for me. Back in 1974, dropping an f-bomb--even by a teenaged boy--was reserved for when adults weren't around, and I recall other teen boys saying "shut up, there's a lady here" when I was present, even though I was the same age as them!
I was home on leave at the dining table with my dad and stepmother. I say to my dad "pass the fucking salt please". 1976 I think. I was so embarrassed. It was a word we used without thinking when I was in the service.
I live next door to a family with a few small children, under 10 years old. It really bothers me to hear the parents yelling at the kids to perform outdoor chores (pick up the dog poop, etc) and use the s and f words. I mentioned this to a neighbor who lives down the street who said "those are the best behaved kids you'd ever see" and it is true. I believe in this household, those words are just common. I am quite sure the kids are loved and well cared for. I just hate to hear it, but I'm old.
I say it way too much, and my wife catches me on it. But I have automatic filters to not cuss in front of or around the public and most everyone else. My wife uses the word frack.
My dad had this same story, Ray! Probably happened around 1943, after a medical discharge from the service. He was at the table with my mom and her parents! 😁 I didn’t hear about it until I was an adult.
WWII joke: a general is being driven down the road when he sees a GI kicking a Jeep that is broken down on the side of the road, so he tells his driver to stop.
I was suspended from third grade because I called the mean girl who was tormenting me in the lunch line an ass. I also had to apologize to her in front of the class, but I started to get nauseous and ran for the girls' room. The teacher chased me! She was on my heals when I vomited just outside the stall. That was 62+ years ago, and I'm still able to remember it with crystal clarity. I couldn't tell you anything else about that year....and it was just the word "ass"!
Had an almost identical situation when I was a third grader. My sin was using the word “assinine.” The principal called my mom who told him it was assinine to object to a perfectly useful word. I miss my mom.
This bullshit about negotiations would be laughable if it weren’t so fucking terrifying. And now that they’re desperately scrambling to find a way out of the cluster fuck they created, I have this image of Jared, trying to reach whoever is leading Iran, pushing all the buttons on his phone and screaming, “Speak to an agent!”
Ellen, there are number’s alright and it’s the calls from the trembling leader of Iran, with tears streaming down is eyes please dear leader of the world, have mercy and it was fo…fifteen times he called as Elvis would say “Tahky you very much.
Re: support for the ass clown, waiting for a reply from Martin Heinrich (D - New Mexico) as to why he'd vote to confirm Markwayne Mullin. Fetterman, we already know about---he went over to the dark side long ago.
It's just pathetic that the Dems hardly ever present a united front.
Thank you for not letting this shit become routine. That's a huge danger with this non stop bullshit. I see and hear it, but I appreciate your take and ability to parse it into doses of reality. It cathartic and I fucking Love all the fucking curses as well. Be best comrade.
Which is weird, because he is so opposite of what "Christian fundamentalists believe. Someone asked a prominent Christian evangelist why he would support such deceitful guy like Trump. The preacher laughed, and said we know he's not a saint but he'll do what we want. WTF!
There are times—many times—when words fail. When even pictures fail. When our brains simply cannot process. But then, our national roller coaster ride keeps going around for one more terrifying ascent.
I’m real glad you included that photo of yerself. It reminds me that, as Firesign Theater once proclaimed: “We’re all bozos on this bus.”
Much of Firesign Theater’s work is on the internet. I fell for their recordings in the late sixties/early seventies, mostly because they understood the listening experience and because they were really smart. They refused to dumb down for a laugh. Very clever lads. Silly, but smart-silly.
Could he have taken Elvis in a fight? While he is killing innocents and our own military personnel, destroying the world order, lining his and his family's pockets with open corruption, wasting taxpayer money, and per usual, lying out his malodorous diaper, this is what crosses his mind. He is the current occupant of the White House, with the nuclear codes and the role of commander in chief. Holy shit. Every day that is what crosses my mind.
How can we possibly survive 3 more years of this batshit buffoonery!
It is a highly dangerous situation we find ourselves in.
How can so many be so stupid as to re elect this narcissistic and bombastic Fool to bring such destruction to all the norms we once held dear ? It is maddening!
Silly, because egg prices are going to be SO low, just like gasoline! Also, he’s going to drain the swamp (not quite sure what that means) and open *all* the Epstein files and get rid of all the bad illegal people. All the farmers will be happy and the children will be safe and it will be the 1950s again… but with cell phones.
To be fair, Dipshit-in-Chief could definitely have taken Elvis in a hamberder eating contest. And the talks with Iran in his brain ("Did not!" Did too!") are going very well. It's totes unfair that The Wall Street Journal compared him to Baghdad Bob. Bob didn't destabilize the world, he just lied about it hilariously.
Once item that I think many overlook was exposed in today's Bulwark newsletter. Trump is starting to tease that maybe it was Pete's fault to start this thing all along.......
And he even apportioned out a bit of shared responsibility, turning to his defense secretary: “And, uh, Pete, I think you were the first one to speak up, and you said, ‘Let’s do it.’” There may be no better indication that the president is experiencing a little bomber’s remorse: When things are going well, Trump’s not exactly one to share credit.
riritt - it absolutely IS illegal! But laws don't apply to tRumPutin. Never have. I'm living for the day he finally faces legal consequences....AND is forced to do the time, pay the debts, etc - with no pardons or SCOTUS rescue!
Trump has accomplished something quite amazing here. In the nearly 47 years of the Islamic Republic in Iran, if ever there was a disparity in "truth" between Tehran and the White House, the British mainstream print media would side with the White House version - largely because the White House would be right, or at least far closer to being correct than Tehran. But this morning? The British mainstream print media, probably the most pro-American in Europe, just doesn't know. They really don't know who to believe, which almost certainly means that they really think that Donny is the one making it up. That may be no surprise to us, but when our newspapers are pretty public about it - yup, you've changed that beacon of light into a fountain of shite...
Donald Trump may be really incompetent at managing the operations of real things like the Presidency or foreign policy, but what he is clearly VERY competent at is corruptly making money through innuendo and propaganda. When insider trading investigations begin, let's start at the top.
hey, you know who else met Elvis? Ms. Spouse.
Well, all I can say is I’m Elvis adjacent by virtue of the fact that my older brother met The King in Germany when they were both in the Army while they were in the chow line. How ya like me now? 🤣🤣🤣
After he was already dead, I opened his tax return at the WI Dept of Revenue. (He had played a concert in Madison the previous year. I was 16 and had a part-time job opening and sorting tax forms, one of those pre-internet jobs that are long gone.)
When my uncle got drafted, he was lucky enough to be sent to Germany, to the unit Elvis had been in a few years earlier.
The enlisted club was very, very nice. Elvis set them up.
Way cool!
I was invited to the Clinton White House. Instead of meeting Bill, Hilary met with my class, our traveling companions and me. Her photographer took our pics, which I have either here in the US, and we got a special tour of the White House. She was absolutely lovely with my students. It was a day to remember, although usually I don't. Thanks for the memory.
She is amazing in person
It's okay to brag about meeting Elvis. That's royalty. I, too have been to Graceland, but never got to meet Elvis, alas and alackaday.
Been to Graceland myself. As is often reported, it's rather small. Today's billionaires have garages with more square footage, and yet, ELVIS will always be "the King".
I grew up with two older sisters who loved Elvis, and I was exposed to his music. I wanted to see Graceland, so we toured it. I was very impressed with the (appeared to be) HUNDREDS of checks framed and displayed. Apparently, Elvis wrote a small check to anyone who needed a hand, in fact, it nearly bankrupted him. It was Priscilla that opened Graceland to the public and rebuilt the empire and legacy. My husband humored me by going to Graceland with me, and he came away a fan of Elvis.
Too many people now remember Elvis as an overweight, druggie has been who o.d'd on a toilet. Elvis reportedly suffered from Mega Colon which was a factor in his death. He was used and spit out by the music/entertainment industry. What a shame.
I’ve been to Graceland. And in the Oval Office. Wouldn’t go near any of them now that they’ve been sullied by the rotting TACO.
I've been to the WH as well. When I saw the East wing was ripped down, I actually cried.
Moselle, I have only seen photos of Graceland, but I have to ask: Do you think the trumpster was looking for decorating ideas?
Oh, no, I have been to Graceland quite a number of times and Graceland is so subdued and tasteful compared to Trump's White Gold House. Trump just needs to be buried in the back yard, and that would solve everything.
As close as he’ll ever get to being king
🤣
He fell for a Southern Cornpone Con Artist ("Colonel" Tom Parker). As for those who disliked him going to Vegas like other rockers did, I remember an interview with Fats Domino I did for RS when he became the first rocknrolla to play Vegas. He picked up on the fact I saw it with some disdain, and said "The reason I do this is they pay me $25,000 a week, in a bag full of cash, every Thursday afternoon, and they don't tell me some bullshit about how they'll pay me next Monday. This is the first time I've been paid what I'm worth and they don't fuck me over." (FWIW,. $25,000 in 1969 is $232,600 in 2026 - so I think he was right).
Parker was the kind of Southern slime you count the silverware before you let him leave the house. He robbed Elvis left right up and down, and put him in bad deals where Parker got the piece of the action that mattered. Like too many creative artists who doubt they deserve to be there (this is almost universal), Elvis needed a guy to say "I'll take care of you," who didn't have the ability to spot a shark at the time he signed his life over. That's a more common story than people like to think.
Heartbreaking…
I have been 4here and some rooms look like they were decorated by Helen Keller.
Is bashing Helen Keller in vogue these days? Or maybe Helen Keller jokes are coming back? (I hope not.) If Helen Keller had a room or a house to decorate, she would have hired capable advisers. In fact, she probably did, more than once.
Apparently, conspiracy theorists are claiming that Helen Keller's claimed accomplishments were (and are) a hoax. I shit you not. I just had a video about it come across my YouTube feed last night.
I believe it was what was in vogue back then.
Do you think you could take him?
The best I can do here is that I've been to the house from A Christmas Story. Yes, it has the leg lamp in the front window.
We went to the house from Christmas Story, too! Last year we took a road trip from Houston to Cleveland to visit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. That was very cool!
On the way, we made many stops. Graceland was a big one. It was amazing. We even got to tour his plane, and the museum of all his cars.
Husband has the leg lamp in his office- I’ve never seen the movie 🍿
It's very fragile (pronounced fra-gee-lay). I think it must be Italian.
There's a reason that movie is shown every Christmas season over and over again (TBS maybe)? I wasn't alive in the timeline of this movie (the 50s I think), but it speaks to every kid's childhood pretty well regardless of the setting, and it has a lot of LOL moments in it.
Hmmm...maybe I'll see it, finally.
I was invited to the St. Ronny Raygun White House by my friend’s boyfriend who was in his Cabinet. I stole a cocktail napkin from the Oval Office that I still have. I also saw Fawn Hall talking to Oliver North in the hallway but I didn’t see any secret documents sticking out of her boots. IYKYK. It was surreal. Fk Raygun and all the rest of the unAmerican traitors.
PS -- My friend unceremoniously broke up with me after 36 years of being BFFs because I hated
T💩p.
She did you a favor! I also lost a friend because of trumPutin, and it turned out that I suddenly had more than $500 a month more in my checking account. He had been my signatory for about 10 years after I became fully disabled, and he had my debit card so he could run errands for me. I trusted him completely. 💔
That would be exactly the kind of person who would love Trump.
If ICE hires men over 60, he would be thrilled to join. I have wondered if he did, but not enough to contact him….I have no doubt he would use any attempt to find out as an opening for renewed ‘friendship’. . . Just, ugh. Nope.
"Friends" like that, you don't need.
I am sorry that happened to you, Paula Dean. But am glad you found it out. What an awful person.
Agree about my former friend, who was apolitical when we met in 1984. Her then-boyfriend now husband of 35 years has completely twisted her head and turned her into a huge MAGAt. Her ghosting saved me the trouble of breaking up with her.
Sorry that you were ripped off by your former "friend" and I'm also sorry that you are disabled. $500 is a lot of money to lose every month. It's hard to trust people these days. My friend group isn't huge, but it is authentic and awesome. 💙
Some 'friend'! AND to rip off someone who's 'fully disabled'? UGH. beyond disgusting! I too am so sorry this happened to you Paula. What a vile piece of shit to do such a thing - but it does seem par for the course for magat cultists. Grrrrr
Nice pic of you smiling, Jeff
and she preferred you! ❤️
Jeff looking pretty good in that photo! Hummina hummina!
OOH YEAH!!!!!!!
a stud muffin with a WICKED sense of outrage, humor and sarcasm
🎯🎯🎯
I was waiting for someone ELSE to bring this up. Didn't want to come across as a - y'know, 'stalker-type' just because he looks fantastic all dressed up and has that GLORIOUS head of hair. ;) Matches mine somewhat except I'm a bit blonder and a lot longer - SO need a major trim. Glad he mentioned that Claudia was there too. Tamped us Ladies down, didn't he? LOL (and maybe some of the guys as well? - I'm only saying!) ;) I only ever got to visit OUTSIDE the White House way back when we drove my parents from Queens to visit my sister's then home in Md - taking a day trip into DC. I can't remember which year so don't now know which Resident was in office - it was tough enough trying to tolerate my mother's ranting all the way there and back. Thought she'd have changed a wee bit, but no. Sigh. She'd have become the biggest magat of all if she'd lived into his regime. I'd have seriously LOVED visiting the Clinton, Obama and Biden White Houses - and the Harris WH if she'd been elected - can we all imagine how tasteful it would look today - instead of all that gold-sprayed SHLOCK? AND Peace on Earth - or at least magats back underground. Sigh again.
“Wise men say,
Only fools rush in…”
The opening lyrics to Elvis’ song that became “our song” as I married my own Ms. Spouse in 1981. In the matter of love, the wise men were wrong. In the matter of a war in the Middle East, the wise men should be heeded
my sweetie and I were together for 19 years before we decided to tie the knot . . . no kids, financially independent, we were doing fine
but we knew we were a done deal and that, as spouses, we'd be able to make important decisions (vs. family members butting in) in case of disability or medical issues. So we, and this is ridiculous, checked first to see if the tax laws still included a marriage penalty. And no, they did not.
We've been married for 22 yrs now. :-)
My hubby has always joked that the saying, Marry in haste - Repent at leisure, has a counterpart . . . Marry at leisure - Repent in haste.
umm . . . that depends on which day you're talking about. 😂
I made him wait 8-9 years (longest engagement of our respective families and friends) before I could quell the panic I felt at marrying again. My poor engagement ring was thrown down stairs and across rooms so many times I'm surprised it was always found. I was growing into who I am now. HE was growing up a bit from being spoiled rotten by his Mama. Lots of butting heads and figuring things out. HE decided having kids would be a no-no due to his Agent Orange exposure because he had all kinds of skin issues (and other problems) before we met. I ok'd it after my earlier trauma and - we needed both salaries. We'd met working together where we got to know each other as 'enemies' (he resented the girl he'd been 'dating' being fired to bring me in while he was gone), then frenemies, then pals then dating - and so on. Took a WHILE. Probably why it's lasted even though we're still so opposite - and still butt heads. THAT part is getting old. I've never not worked hard, I adore my pets - deserve a break. I like your method better methinks. ;)
That was my sister's song too.
I got nothing to give to this celebrity walk down memory row. 🤗
Same here. Except that my dad told me he took my mom to see Elvis in concert when they were dating (back in the '50s). When I asked Mom about it, in the presence of her hubby (#5), denied it happened. I trust my Dad not to make up something like that. Mom, she was worried her hubby might be upset because she never told him about it.
I was never a big fan of the 'early' Elvis. When 'that' song came along, though - I could see what others saw and accepted that he did have a good voice although I was never one of those who 'screamed' or enjoyed the other 'stuff' he did. I grew to appreciate his voice more as I grew up more but my tastes were far more into R&B of the late 60's, early 70's - be still my heart! I still use 'Rainy Night in Georgia' as MY song to calm myself - can bring down my blood pressure to an amazing degree whenever it pops up in doctors' offices or in pain. Give me 5 mins with my eyes closed and I'm good to go. It's better WITH the music but I can do it without music by playing it in my head. Also Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, Smokey Robinson...so many others.
My mother in law grew up in Memphis and met Elvis plenty of times and it’s funny to hear her casually mention some nice boy and realize that she’s talking about Elvis.
Also I know trump has said people said that he favored young Elvis except with blond hair back in the day. You know he’s just resentful that people didn’t love him and isn’t over it.
Oh! And my husband worked as a guide at Graceland 30 years ago for a summer! You got to borrow videos of all his movies, so he has seen them all, even “Clambake!”
"Also I know trump has said people said that he favored young Elvis except with blond hair back in the day."
And the talent, and the charm, and the good looks, and the bedroom eyes, and the snake hips, and and and...
The dysmorphia and delulu never ends with this guy, does it?
He is SO delusional - he's somehow convinced himself he resembles Elvis or is his 'twin'. Here we go again: Elvis CHOSE to go into the Service while this fucking coward-in-cheat had HIS rich daddy pay off a podiatrist to FAKE 5 deferments for him. He couldn't shine Elvis' patriotic shoes, the fucking wimp. How dare he? He's ALWAYS trying to steal someone else's talent, fame or glory because he's a nothing - a LOSER. Ugh!
When my husband was in the Air Force, he was stationed near Graceland and said he would drive by it every day on his way to work. Being a big Elvis fan, I asked him if he ever went into Graceland. When he replied, "No" I was incredulous, saying, "How could you drive by it every day and not go in?" His reply, "He was living there at the time." Oh, never mind.
We've since been to Graceland and we did the VIP tour which was worth the extra $.
More people from New York City have been to Mt. Rushmore than people from South Dakota. More people from South Dakota have been to the Statue of Liberty than people from New York City.
I believe it -- I live in Seattle and my father designed the original electric motor that turned the Space Needle's restaurant 360 degrees (it opened in 1962). I haven't been there since 1989 when I took out of town guests.
You're right. WHEN we sailed into New York Harbour in our (what we thought of as HUGE Cunard Line Ship: the SS Sylvania) we lined up to see everything - this in a freezing cold January day. I SO wanted to see the Statue of Liberty I'd read so much about. Then this thick fog rolled in blocking her from our view but I could catch tiny glimpses of her arm and the torch and YES - that's her HEAD peeking through the fog SO FAR above us! It was the most thrilling thing I'd ever seen in my scant few years on this Earth. WHILE we were staring upward (at least a mile) this big black WALL moved between us and the 'view' - turning out to be the REAL Cunard Line ships - might have been the Queen Mary (or Elizabeth?) making ours look like a rowboat, lolol. Fwiw, I've NEVER managed to get back down to visit the Statue of Liberty despite my entire life spent in New York! Then again, I worked IN the Empire State Building for a year and a half and never ONCE managed to get up to 'that' so often filmed view everyone falls in love with. Go figure. Some of us are those working in those windows shining the lights out onto the Streets of NY - and then rushing down to get our rides home. The times we WOULD get into the City would be to see my friend and favourite diatonic harmonica player in town in the Village: Jason Ricci (has a lot of youtube videos out). Another brilliant chromatic harmonica player /guitarist/singer Will Galison - is also a good friend and lives in Manhattan. Does these house concerts I've so far been unable to get in for, but his vids (and albums) are SO GOOD! (Barbra Streisand hired him to play on HER version of a song he'd already played for the movie version). He wrote an album for & with Madeleine Peyroux too. BRILLIANT musician.
I can say I met Elvis, Tina Turner, Stevie Wonder and Marilyn Monroe a few years back, all in the same room together and I have pics to prove it, in a wax museum. It’s so weird to stand so close to them you can see nose hair. Still beautiful and they hadn’t aged a bit.
I still sorrow for you jeff on that loss. Please remember to practice self care, like you tell the rest of us.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/the-cuckold-compromise-when-the-strongman-bends-his-own-knee
Then laugh at my cuckold joke. :)
That’s very cool! 🥰
Nice photo Jeff! 🤩
They had a little less conversation, a peanut butter and banana sandwich? Remember when Nixon duped Elvis with a fake badge to hunt down drug criminals?
My mother was Pat Boone's secretary at the Cooga Mooga office. She almost met Elvis a few times, but kept just missing him. She did meet Roy Orbison.
My aunt, who was the receptionist, met pre-Star Trek Leonard Nimoy.
You have probably already heard about the series The Madison… very real to life of soulful love and loss. Lots of tissues needed.
I've met a lot of people, mainly in entertainment....
But my cousin's son-in-law worked on VP Biden's Air Force Two....& he & my cousin's daughter went to VP & Dr Biden's final Christmas party at their home. (Karyn was laughing because her outfit matched Biden's tie.) Biden also treated the spouses of the AF2 to a ride in it, up & down the eastern seaboard.
Does THAT count? 🤣
I trust what the Iranian “leaders” are telling me over whatever I hear from this regime. That’s fucking scary.
This ridiculous mess is grim
So of course he's in top lying trim
Pulling fibs out his ass
To escape this morass
I trust Iran more than him
👍👍👍
💯💯💯💯
Genius! I’m saving this one.
Good one!
That is what everyone is saying. However, the point that both sides are lying can be true as well.
Sound reasoning. However [of course], one should address which party might win by lying. I think Iran doesn’t win anything valuable by denying and Trump always will lie when he thinks that the lie will make people think better of him. To postpone his ‘glorious’ bombardments that shocked the markets (which are holy to him), he decided to postpone them 'because he (HE!) had so good talks with Iranian representatives’. This portrays him as a good dealmaker [which he isn’t] and it should sooth the dealers on the markets whose indices than would rise again. So, Trump is the liar, as could be expected since he is a pathological liar.
If Trump’s mouth is emitting CO2 or anus gas, you can be 900% (one of his patented sales discounts) sure that he is lying.
He will to disrupt market trading.
You nailed it Cornelis!
That could very well be true Linda; but, the point I would make is that we KNOW Trump is lying because everyone time he opens his mouth he lies (when the truth would serve him better—as my friend Matt used to say).
Yes, the Iranians could be lying but I’d be more likely to trust them over Trump.
Trump lies because he wants us to believe 2+2=5. In the meantime, most of us have learned not to believe that. I talked about how he uses "Doublethink" in this piece I wrote on what I learned about Trump from rereading Orwell's "1984" with my bookclub.
https://lindaweide.substack.com/p/the-language-of-the-fascist-regime?r=f0qfn
Trump wants to have two conflicting things at once. He wants to war profiteer, and that requires never ending wars; he also wants to regain his popularity, that requires ending the war and improving the economy. Which is he going to do. We shall probably see on Saturday. I might add that it is all quite sickening.
Ii think we’d all believe a nameless mysterious leader whom we’ve never seen or heard, before we’d believe any alleged facts tooted out by King Moron.
OMG🤦♀️ I truly thought I was the only one who thought that Mike! But shush, don’t let that get out there, lest we be brought up on charges of
seditious conspiracy🤯
Right?!
Was saying the same thing the other day. It’s Upside Down times.
With you Mike
Isn’t it? Knowing we’re more likely to get truth anywhere else than from these jerks?
Really! That's so true. Fucking unbelievable thst this is the country we live in right now. Has anyone called out Trump for lying?
Donnie the Dumbfuck summarized over the course of one day.
Friday's press gaggle Barely exaggerated:
At 12:03 PM, President Trump told reporters he wanted a ceasefire with Iran.
At 12:05 he declared victory.
At 12:07 he announced he was sending Marines.
At 12:08 he said no boots on the ground.
At 12:11 he said he did not want a ceasefire.
At 12:16 he declared victory again. At 12:17 he asked for a ceasefire. At 12:23 he told NATO they were cowards.
At 12:29 he said Iran was begging for a ceasefire.
At 12:31 he said everything was perfect.
At 12:36 he said $500 oil was a good thing.
At 12:37 he demanded Iran open Hormuz.
At 12:39 he said Hormuz was never closed.
At 12:41 he said the US was not at war with Iran.
At 12:42 he declared victory in Iran.
https://www.threads.com/@politicsinthewild/post/DWQFLEOFMOr
yeah, I tried to work that bit of info into today's post but there was no way to wedge it in without killing the narrative
Totally! It’s just unbelievable when it is listed out—in the sense that he should have been ejected from all power and responsibility awhile ago now.
He barely has the mental capacity to open a pudding cup.
I bet they had to change his diapers over to using Pull-Ups because he couldn't figure out how to work the velcro tabs.
AND he didn't write that entirely ALL CAPS piece of dreck! The first 'version' trotted out had 'him' saying 'PLEASE' instead of PLEASED and 'WITCH' instead of 'WHICH'. I guess someone pointed those out and very rapidly those 'typos' were fixed. Since when does donnydemento fix anything? Someone ELSE is typing out his spew - and they're as dumb/clueless as musk's group of dogies. Could it be goebbels/miller? kkkaroline? Just had to add here how THRILLED I was to hear that Emily (don't know her surname) BEAT frump's repuke pick soundly to become the DEMOCRATIC REPRESENTATIVE OF HIS OWN DISTRICT IN PALM SPRINGS! WHOO-HOO! Donny must be shitting a brick right about now., and I'm SO here for it. Imagine that this young Democratic congresswoman is now HIS congresswoman?! hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Donald Trump may be really incompetent at managing the operations of real things like the Presidency or foreign policy, but what he is clearly VERY competent at is corruptly making money through innuendo and propaganda. When insider trading investigations begin, let's start at the top.
It was probably Jared who gamed the system.
Arne: exactly what I thought
He most certainly had help. Possible surrogates: Kushner, Nutlick Jr., Drumpf Jr., Barron, one of Melania’s hats, Bessent’s pool boy ...
I'll put money on it being Melania's Hamburgler hat.
He's certifiable. Will no one rid us of this lunatic?
We don't have any knights with swords.
I'd love to send Uma Thurman to the White House in her "Kill Bill" mode.
Vol. 2!
We don't have any Congress with balls.
And that is the problem.
You’re right Chris — at least not in this regime (administration)
Arrogance + Incompetence = Disaster. Again!
He's a magligant narcissistic psychopath and this proves it.
Very funny Unity! But also very scary.
I figured out the war strategy: "Stop or I'll say stop again!"
Excellent.
It was late last night when I saw a bit of news that must have hit too late for either HCR or Jeff to comment upon: The WH is paying the French company building wind farms off the coast ONE BILLION DOLLARS to end it.
But, we can't FEED hungry Americans, or shelter them, or heal their illnesses.
I am totally disgusted with Congress.
Vote every one of those Republican (insert bad words!!) OUT.
The main problem I see here is that there aren’t nearly enough bad words to fully describe the GOP any longer. 15 years ago, I struggled, but at least I found enough bad words to cover it. Today? Not so much.
Yes! Exactly, Sharon C. Storm. I've been married to a sailor for 48 years and am (waaay) over 50 years old. Both of those conditions create olympian-level, swear word vocabulary. Lately, though. I'm reduced to shaking my fist in the air. The power words have run dry.
lol! You’re not the only one Carol — there’s a whole lot of shakin’ going on.
I understand, I’m 85, so I had plenty of time to learn all the words.
I get ya, Sharon. As I fancy myself a writer, I try to find the most succinct words to convey my thoughts. I also try to avoid expletives as #1 I was raised by a father who never ever used them even when he had good reason to and #2 they have come to lack impact and meaning anymore, at least for me. Back in 1974, dropping an f-bomb--even by a teenaged boy--was reserved for when adults weren't around, and I recall other teen boys saying "shut up, there's a lady here" when I was present, even though I was the same age as them!
I was home on leave at the dining table with my dad and stepmother. I say to my dad "pass the fucking salt please". 1976 I think. I was so embarrassed. It was a word we used without thinking when I was in the service.
Understandable, Ray.
I live next door to a family with a few small children, under 10 years old. It really bothers me to hear the parents yelling at the kids to perform outdoor chores (pick up the dog poop, etc) and use the s and f words. I mentioned this to a neighbor who lives down the street who said "those are the best behaved kids you'd ever see" and it is true. I believe in this household, those words are just common. I am quite sure the kids are loved and well cared for. I just hate to hear it, but I'm old.
I never swear in front of my kids, and they swear like sailors. The words have lost their meaning.
I say it way too much, and my wife catches me on it. But I have automatic filters to not cuss in front of or around the public and most everyone else. My wife uses the word frack.
I substitute Phuket (Pooh Ket) in polite company, after listening to a kid gave an oral report on Thailand.
My dad had this same story, Ray! Probably happened around 1943, after a medical discharge from the service. He was at the table with my mom and her parents! 😁 I didn’t hear about it until I was an adult.
WWII joke: a general is being driven down the road when he sees a GI kicking a Jeep that is broken down on the side of the road, so he tells his driver to stop.
"What seems to be the problem, soldier?"
"The fucking fucker's fucked, sir!"
I was hysterical! The salt. Please.
Navy?
Ray, I love that you also said 'please'!
Well, being polite is how I was raised.
I was suspended from third grade because I called the mean girl who was tormenting me in the lunch line an ass. I also had to apologize to her in front of the class, but I started to get nauseous and ran for the girls' room. The teacher chased me! She was on my heals when I vomited just outside the stall. That was 62+ years ago, and I'm still able to remember it with crystal clarity. I couldn't tell you anything else about that year....and it was just the word "ass"!
Had an almost identical situation when I was a third grader. My sin was using the word “assinine.” The principal called my mom who told him it was assinine to object to a perfectly useful word. I miss my mom.
And now third-graders mimic South Park!
Compared to now, in those ancient days, young men did not feel so “entitled,” or so resentful of women. As I remember it.
“Fucking shitwits” isn’t sufficient any longer?
Me exactly
How abou dingleberry dong-knockers 🤔
And Fetterman!
On my OWN dime I wrote many, many postcards for Fetterman. I can't begin to express the level of disappointment I have!
That totally sucks. I have worked for candidates and if they get elected and then completely change their views you feel so cheated.
He did change his vote and voted with Democrats. They must have given Fetterman something for his vote.
Like a dog treat?
Hahahahaha! Perfect.
That French company needed to tell him to fuck off!
Right Miselle! It must happen!
Said company agreed to invest in US oil and gas.
This bullshit about negotiations would be laughable if it weren’t so fucking terrifying. And now that they’re desperately scrambling to find a way out of the cluster fuck they created, I have this image of Jared, trying to reach whoever is leading Iran, pushing all the buttons on his phone and screaming, “Speak to an agent!”
Ok, that made me laugh out loud. Who among us has not done that?
Just speak a foreign language to the AI, when it can't understand you it will transfer you to an agent (in some systems).
And dont forget soldiers have died, young girls have died, many civilians have died. That's the really horrific result of his hubris
And, sadly rlritt, he’s not done yet. I think I heard him say “Let there be blood…and then some more blood”
It’s like sending a “hello!” Into outer space.
Ellen, there are number’s alright and it’s the calls from the trembling leader of Iran, with tears streaming down is eyes please dear leader of the world, have mercy and it was fo…fifteen times he called as Elvis would say “Tahky you very much.
Don’t forget, the “sir” part of it.
I just keep pressing a lot of numbers. Eventually you get a “representative “.
Anyone who continues to rationalize their support for this ass clown should evaluate their other life choices as well.
They are too dumb to even do that I’m guessing!
they only have one life choice: being a moronic simpleton with no empathy - just like their bossman!
Re: support for the ass clown, waiting for a reply from Martin Heinrich (D - New Mexico) as to why he'd vote to confirm Markwayne Mullin. Fetterman, we already know about---he went over to the dark side long ago.
It's just pathetic that the Dems hardly ever present a united front.
https://youtu.be/NPY3Cu2R1SI?si=XqQJ7U1BNogl0veE
So good
I agree. But he did change his vote.
Thank you for not letting this shit become routine. That's a huge danger with this non stop bullshit. I see and hear it, but I appreciate your take and ability to parse it into doses of reality. It cathartic and I fucking Love all the fucking curses as well. Be best comrade.
I know who said BE BEST and I'm not telling.
Also allegedly said by that person: "I maarry awful hoosband for mahney. Cannott waayt for heem to keek thee bahcket."
Holy crap, HI2thDoc, I HEARD that quote in my head! Well done!
Heh heh
And Trump actually makes Iran look like the sane ones. Thats quite a feat.
Thats so true. Trump looks crazy next to religious fanatics. Wow.
He and his ilk are also religious fanatics of a white Christian nationalist persuasion.
Which is weird, because he is so opposite of what "Christian fundamentalists believe. Someone asked a prominent Christian evangelist why he would support such deceitful guy like Trump. The preacher laughed, and said we know he's not a saint but he'll do what we want. WTF!
There are times—many times—when words fail. When even pictures fail. When our brains simply cannot process. But then, our national roller coaster ride keeps going around for one more terrifying ascent.
I’m real glad you included that photo of yerself. It reminds me that, as Firesign Theater once proclaimed: “We’re all bozos on this bus.”
Also reminds me of FT’s “Not Insane!”/Papoon for President routine, wherein the main attraction of Candidate Papoon is that he is “not insane!”
Gets my vote.
Wasn't that a song routine? I wonder if it's available on YouTube?
Much of Firesign Theater’s work is on the internet. I fell for their recordings in the late sixties/early seventies, mostly because they understood the listening experience and because they were really smart. They refused to dumb down for a laugh. Very clever lads. Silly, but smart-silly.
Could he have taken Elvis in a fight? While he is killing innocents and our own military personnel, destroying the world order, lining his and his family's pockets with open corruption, wasting taxpayer money, and per usual, lying out his malodorous diaper, this is what crosses his mind. He is the current occupant of the White House, with the nuclear codes and the role of commander in chief. Holy shit. Every day that is what crosses my mind.
How can we possibly survive 3 more years of this batshit buffoonery!
It is a highly dangerous situation we find ourselves in.
How can so many be so stupid as to re elect this narcissistic and bombastic Fool to bring such destruction to all the norms we once held dear ? It is maddening!
And the same 4 out of ten still think he is great and a smart successful deal maker. I don't get it at all. This goes beyond Fox News brainwashing.
Cult - Jim Jones would be proud
I think you're 100 % right and they are afraid of losing their gang and therefore their identity
Willful Malignant ignorance?
Is it still 4 out of 10? Holy shit!
3 1/2 anyway
Silly, because egg prices are going to be SO low, just like gasoline! Also, he’s going to drain the swamp (not quite sure what that means) and open *all* the Epstein files and get rid of all the bad illegal people. All the farmers will be happy and the children will be safe and it will be the 1950s again… but with cell phones.
I agree with you 100%!
To be fair, Dipshit-in-Chief could definitely have taken Elvis in a hamberder eating contest. And the talks with Iran in his brain ("Did not!" Did too!") are going very well. It's totes unfair that The Wall Street Journal compared him to Baghdad Bob. Bob didn't destabilize the world, he just lied about it hilariously.
Whatever happened to Bob? He'd make a peachy assistant for Karoline.
She would feel threatened by his panache and popularity
True. So would Trump.
They compared Trump to Baghdad Bob? That's perfect. I wish I'd thought that up.
Once item that I think many overlook was exposed in today's Bulwark newsletter. Trump is starting to tease that maybe it was Pete's fault to start this thing all along.......
And he even apportioned out a bit of shared responsibility, turning to his defense secretary: “And, uh, Pete, I think you were the first one to speak up, and you said, ‘Let’s do it.’” There may be no better indication that the president is experiencing a little bomber’s remorse: When things are going well, Trump’s not exactly one to share credit.
Hitler picking bombing targets
It's amazing how Trump can turn something into a big money maker for his family and friends while taking us to the edge of going nuclear.
And national bankruptcy. He's written the script for who America's enemies will be for the rest of the century.
That's what will be known to future historians, assuming we survive, as a Trump Twofer
And it should be illegal.
riritt - it absolutely IS illegal! But laws don't apply to tRumPutin. Never have. I'm living for the day he finally faces legal consequences....AND is forced to do the time, pay the debts, etc - with no pardons or SCOTUS rescue!
Thats why they trying to pass the SAVE act even without the senate. The thing is way fewer people in red states have the proper IDs thatn Blue States.
Trump has accomplished something quite amazing here. In the nearly 47 years of the Islamic Republic in Iran, if ever there was a disparity in "truth" between Tehran and the White House, the British mainstream print media would side with the White House version - largely because the White House would be right, or at least far closer to being correct than Tehran. But this morning? The British mainstream print media, probably the most pro-American in Europe, just doesn't know. They really don't know who to believe, which almost certainly means that they really think that Donny is the one making it up. That may be no surprise to us, but when our newspapers are pretty public about it - yup, you've changed that beacon of light into a fountain of shite...
Donald Trump may be really incompetent at managing the operations of real things like the Presidency or foreign policy, but what he is clearly VERY competent at is corruptly making money through innuendo and propaganda. When insider trading investigations begin, let's start at the top.
Jared and Witkoff, such a pair
Always scheming to grab a big share
Of dubious solicitations
Through treasonous machinations
Greedy weasels who never play fair
Somebody in the Trump family is. Say, what has Ivanka been up to lately?