Ted Cruz is my senator. He was just reelected in a landslide over a great candidate and human being Colin Allred. Need I say more? Our country, and especially my state of Texas, is suffering from a mass psychosis at best, cult behavior to the Jim Jones level in the alternative, or most likely, we are suffering from total and complete ignorance and stupidity, or worse, moral, spiritual, cultural and political bankruptcy. As you can see, I am quite bearish on the USA. We are committing suicide as a nation, and at least 77 million people are quite pleased about it. We are SO, SO messed up. I do not see an awakening, I really do not.
But were the posted results legit? Here in Fla, shitty GOP candidates running for re-election announce a landslide 5 minutes after the polls close. Color me suspicious
I agree with his assessment but, that means the Dems have a helluva lot of work to do by the midterms. And I think there was some fuckery going on with musk and his minions( and millions of $$$)!
Except when it doesn't. Look at President Kennedy, may he rest in peace. Please! Thousands of years from now people are still going to be sifting through dusty libraries and archives looking for THE TRUTH about his assassination.
I may be dragged out kicking and screaming but I believe the 2024 election was rigged. There's NO WAY that slimy, lying, felonious sack of doo doo could have amassed all those votes, despite nearly half the country having their heads where the sun don't shine. No way.
Musk throws nearly $300 million into Trump's election -- I can't believe it all went to boost turnout among the idiots playing his voting lottery. And I'm really sorry the Democrats conceded so quickly to prove their virtue and concerns about a peaceful transition. If we were the violent ones the Republicans wouldn't have a person standing now.
The answer is simple. Repugs used communication channels that worked and we did not. Dems spent 1 BILLION dollars on old media, and it failed.
The old shout political slogans at the mic and roll out 700-page policy plans is a LOSER.
That plus: America, outside of our coastal cities, are what they appear to be. Angry, racist, (mostly) white folks who live in a 24-hour propaganda bubble. They would vote for Jabba The Hut if it ran as a MAGAt.
Mary. He is not legitimate because the Constitution clearly states that a seditionist cannot serve in office..including the presidency! On top of that, they DID cheat.They need to be forcibly removed. Period. No lawsuits needed. The military or the FBI should go in with weapons drawn!
He’s lied & cheated about everything else. The tell is that the only time every swing state has gone to one candidate, that candidate has had a real landslide.
Yeah, those tiny 'plausible' margins in every flipping state don't make sense. And there were 10m new Dem registered the month before and somehow KH also lost 10m Biden voters? So she was 20m short and orange menace was performing fellatio on a microphone in front of 20 person crowds the week before? STOLEN. And the deafening silence from the Dems after. 67 Georgia polling places cleared out with bomb threats. Uugh!
Until there is campaign finance reform, we will never win another election. As long as billionaires can donate as much as they want, they will have ultimate control. All they have to do is see how much the democrats have put in for their candidate, then just raise their donations - again & again & again - for their candidate. And now that Musk has put trump back in office, there will never be campaign finance reform. And perhaps never another election, either. It disgusts me.
Thanks for sharing, Mary. There are several statisticians who've sounded the alarm, but no one, especially any Dems, including Harris, has been listening.
Terrifying! I just forwarded it to several people and will continue forwarding this video until the Democrats get off their asses and challenge the election
Hey! F-Elon bought that election fair and square! See Donnie sit at his desk mournfully while F-Elon rants on, and his 4 year old berates little Donnie...why do we think THAT is happening????
Musk had a hand in it, and the orange traitor knew it. Which is how, along with complacency on the part of too many citizens, that the worst human to walk the earth cheated his way back into the White House.
It is now our duty to get rid of him. And his lap dog, musk, as well.
Speaking of fuckery in the form of voter suppression, the SAVE ACT in Congress threatens the ability to vote of lots of people, including women whose birth certificate name doesn’t match their married name. A Marriage certificate doesn’t count as proof of name change. Each time someone moves and needs to register to vote somewhere new, they have to jump through multiple hoops again. Not just women.
JD Vance’s mentor Peter Thiel said it was a shame that women got the vote. It’s not just him. Actual Republican congressmen suggest repealing the 19th Amendment.
The fkery was legitimate given our election standards. If we were Romania and said, we do not think Russian bots interfering made the results unfair, then so be it. But we have our own bots, and they come from Trump and Musk, so they will not be discounted. We could say, there was interference, we need a do-over. We will not be doing that.
We did have the Heritage Foundation shithead saying "the revolution will be bloodless, if the Democrats allow it." This civil war is going to be MAGA against the world.
I just don't understand why the Dems didn't object, or Biden or KH say or do something? We should be sore and so should the Dem leadership. The silence and vacuum around leadership has been deafening.
It’s not blue anon, it’s facts about the huge purges of voter rolls, the removal of mail ballot drop boxes making it way less convenient to return those ballots, the army of Republican voters they recruited to do massive voter challenges, up to 4000 challenges made by 1 single person, mail ballots disqualified for very minor errors, or the person comparing the signatures decides they don’t match. My signature from 15 yrs ago doesn’t look exactly like my 74 yr old signature today.
It’s a fact that Republicans have been doing voter suppression for decades, but they’ve definitely ramped it way up since the 2020 election.
I’m glad JT brought that up about Drumpf insulting Cruz. Just shows what a hypocrite Cruz is, and a lying whore he is too. Tex-ass can become part of Mexico again- I will never visit that knucklehead state ever again!
The only time I set foot on Tex-ass soil was to change planes at DFW forty years ago. It was only for about 20 minutes, I didn't spend a penny, and because of the way that state has gone it has become a lowlight in my life
consider yourself blessed. Nothing good comes from Texas. Lived there 49 years before I moved out of that shit hole....Geographically everything west of San Antonio is so nice in my opinion, but the people there are sick as fuck.
Wait until their Social Security payments don't show up in their bank accounts. And Melon and his pimply faced hackers are none to savvy. They will post your financial info online, accidentally.
It didn’t, so I looked back at the dates last year and realized that most of the past 6 months the 3rd Monday was 2 days before the 4th Wednesday, whereas this month it is not. So I panicked too soon — now why would anyone panic easily during the reign of king fuckface?! — and will see what happens next week. Sorry I alarmed you.
For the past 8 or 9 months, we’ve been getting our direct deposits on the Saturday prior to the Wednesday our payments were scheduled. Payments are made on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th weeks. Approximately every three months there are 5 weeks between payments, it’s really difficult to make 4 weeks worth of money last for 5 weeks.
Sheila, people who began getting pmts pre-1995-ish got pmts on the 3rd of e. mo. Then, to better managing huge pmts on one day, they began with alternate PMT dates thru out the mo., but always on their assigned day of mo. Exceptions: pmt day is 3rd, a Sunday. Sat is not a PMT day, so go back to the prior business day. In this case, you got your ck Fri the 1st. Same with major holidays.
Absolutely. And I won’t be alone. Everyone whose birthday falls between the 21st & 31st of the month will likely also be calling their MOCs. I think we need to all watch it every month, even people who aren’t living check-to-check.
Turns out mine is the 4th Wednesday. When I looked back at last year’s deposits, I discovered that the 3rd Monday is frequently the same week as the 4th Wednesday. So I panicked prematurely, although like you I don’t expect it to show up next week either. I do have a friend who got hers yesterday, so maybe you’ll get lucky. I hope so. The question is, how long before co-prez/chancellor leon’s incel coders break the system entirely.
Television in general, is a hotbed of fuckery…dumbing down the masses Lynn! FUX was a creation enabled by the Telecommunications Act, which will likely become state media after the PayPal mafia’s billionaire clubs, last pillar is completed!!
The Atlantic has an article on the colossal fuckhead Rupert Murdoch and his real-life Succession bullshit. What he put his kids through is mind-boggling. I blame the coming apocalypse on him, Newt Gingrich, and Rush Slimeball. May they share a suite in Satan’s Hell-A-Lardo Pitchfork wing.
I agree with the questionable results of fuckface, Cancun Cruz and who knows how many more in the so called GOP. Our votes were manipulated and will continue to be until this is found out and stopped. I learned how to type on a manual typewriter so I'm not the best to figure out code, but, we must have some smart geeks who hate these people as much as we all do and expose their bullshit election. Otherwise, it will be more of the same - especially in the midterms...
TX and my home state of Ohio where I no longer live were two huge election disappointments. Allred is brilliant and we all needed him. Sadly I’m with you on the lack of hope even tho I’ll keep trying.
Most of the problem can be summed up as "Christianity exists and we didn't put any constraints on it".
Everything Donny and the sewer clown brigade are doing is what evangelicals have wanted to do since forever.
In order for anything to get better, trump has to die and the church needs to either get severe legal sanctions placed on it, be taxed out of existence, or ideally both.
Lucius, I would be ok with burning down every single empty church. ALL OF THEM. First we reclaim collection 💸💸💸💲, remove anything of value to sell. Evict wealthy mansions & card, take all" profits "pastors" get. Use $$ to help hungry, raise folks out of poverty etc
Sadly, he's mine too. And I honestly don't see how Texans could vote for the guy who's done nothing for Texas in the 12 years he's been in DC.
And now Abbutt is trying to sue the feds for recompense for the 11 Billion of OUR tax money he spent on that performative border nonsense he undertook. I'm actually hoping Dumpf says "F off. No-one told you to do all that, you did it on your own."
But who knows what the orange clown will do.
I agree. It does seem as if a significant portion of our country has grown up historically ignorant, morally bankrupt (despite squalling about how they're so put upon as "Christians"), culturally bereft, spiritually empty, and politically stupid.
Yes, what is it about the Ivy League schools like Harvard and Yale? Their graduates don't really impress these days, do they? Bush? Vance? Cruz? Hawley? Let's make a list.
The ones who lost their jobs and now possibly their farms, still support him. 🤢 These stupid fuckers really thought by supporting him they would be exempt from his pathological revenge on the entire planet. When the economy tanks (like it has 10 out of 11 times they've held office) they can congratulate each other. 🫡 It's coming. How do we protect ourselves? We are leader less. What happens when the Supreme Court tells the lower courts to just fuck off?
Kathleen Weber wrote a great piece this weekend, The March of a Thousand Robes. Thanks, Kathleen.
I’m with you. Ted does nothing for those he represents. He’s in cahoots with a broad range of political criminals.
Greg Abbott’s supporters (and Ted’s, and the whole GOP party’s) have major hooks into them via billions they have been plowing into these guys for decades. They remote control.
Dunn, Wilkes, et.al. are megalomaniacs includes Fertitta +++
They control everything from real estate, the electricity grid, petroleum and water rights, and the Texas government and legislature.
Fun fact: West Texas has abandoned old oil wells where the plugs are disintegrating and widespread water aquifer breeches are occurring. This is turning what was once scenic open land with many unique features and species into a wasteland. It breaks my heart.
Dweebs and rednecks lured by evangelical churches vote for them like lemmings. They have screwy ideas fed by Fox, Jones, Brannon, and their local “heretic pastors” go into this protoplasm mishmash that are their hive minds. They are all tied together with Trump.
Our once fine public education systems have become polluted and diluted by righteous evangelical wing nuts, with Abbott still pressing for Texas taxpayers to pay for Christian school vouchers. It’s been voted down numerous times yet he comes back like a whackamole. Shit, we already pay their church and Christian school property taxes. This irks me no end.
Taxes are up hugely since Abbott invited California to move in with us. We get nothing for the hikes. Constant road work and dangerous traffic. Gee thanks Abbott.
Austin area is running out of water. Drought plus overdevelopment. Now Elon has relocated to that area. Oh joy.
Trump comes for visits and affirmation rallies and meetings. Our pathetic governor sits looking up at Trump like he’s the second coming. It’s nauseating.
I was born in Texas. It’s my home for over 60 years. I hate that these assholes have wrecked what once was a beautiful state.
I read Jeff’s posts because they help me cope with the absurd reality that is scaring the shit out of me right now.
And yeah, I think Elon’s ninja interns could have messed with our election results. The big donation and the timing? Coincidence? 🤔 But who would look into it? Nobody. One day, maybe the EU or the UK will figure it out as part of a wider investigation into Elon. We may never know.
In addition, West Texas is suffering from a measles outbreak with many of those infected being unvaccinated. I don’t think your electric grid was ever updated after the last fiasco when Cancun Ted was on vacation?!
Excellent article by election forensics expert Greg Palast. He says it’s not equipment tampering, it’s massive voter suppression & uncounted ballots; especially “provisional” ballots. Please read & pass it on.
Looking at the democratic response to the election “when we fight we win” nonsensical platitude’s. The tech bros clearly stated they can rig elections, the DNC failed to believe them sadly…good points I Have!!
I am sorry for you. Frankly, I'd move to California. I know not everyone wants to live in the fourth or fifth largest economy in the world, and it can be expensive, but you don't pay taxes on your food or driving on the FREEway, and you can fuel up your EV anywhere (practically.)
Ellen's right. Be prepared to double or triple rental costs. If u buy, same, but research out of control costs of property taxes, homeowners insurance. Consider too that we have the occasional tsunami warnings (uncommon), earthquakes, multiple out of control year-round wildfires. Pls don't come expecting non-maga land. They are everywhere.
"...suffering from a mass psychosis at best, cult behavior to the Jim Jones level in the alternative, or most likely, we are suffering from total and complete ignorance and stupidity, or worse, moral, spiritual, cultural and political bankruptcy."
Ratfuck will tell us to eat organic chicken and eggs, because somehow in his dead-worm infested brain that’s the answer to everything. He might even tell the other chickens to become cannibals — now wouldn’t that be brilliant, no one’s ever heard of such brilliance.
Experiment. Let’s imagine that somebody throws this hassett moron thru a 35th floor window. Due to whatever strange laws of physics (not very important in our case) he won’t fly. Does it mean he IS a chicken?
This is the part they don't talk about it, industrialized farm oligopoly. Who engage in cartelistic conspiracies to limit egg production, split markets and increase prices. Cal-Maine is a top egg producer. They were sued for these practices 2 yrs ago. Instead of investing in laying hens, they have been using their profits to buy up the competition. So, for 2 years, no hens. Last time we had an egg crisis, farmers added more hens and in 8 months they rebounded. This has been happening since 2020. Oligarchs love this shit.
Truck had to re hire nuclear weapons experts & staff fired in a gigantic firing of folks. No methodical exam of what jobs these citizens perform. Just "you are fired". Yesterday trusk went running back to nuke experts "we didn't mean YOU please come back to work!"
@SusanNew Re bird flu. I believe people are now dying from bird flu. Maybe ten or so, but we're at the beginning of the jump to people. Let's ALL share credible sources of info here so we can focus and not have another crisis. #BirdFlu
This admin will definitely suppress all info about deaths from bird flu. I’m glad I’m vegan, don’t worry about egg prices, & I’ll definitely be wearing a mask anytime I must go out in public.
Lots of large dairy farms within a 75 mi radius & it’s already jumped to cows.
Biden wearing a cowboy hat and aviators, screeching up to various farms in the Midwest in his Corvette, leaping out and running through a flock of chickens firing a gun from each hand like Yosemite Sam
Clearly, we need to encourage smarter, better people to run for office. I can understand why they wouldnt want to, given the cesspool our government has become...but people with a modicum of intellect and decency need to start getting involved in politics...start at the local level. Mayors, city councils and county boards.
We keep electing criminals and wonder why we get the same results. People like Clueless Kevin need to sit down and shut the fuck up. And then trash like Ted Cruz. “a slimy, shapeless mass" 😂😂😂 Hilarious. Hang in there everyone. ✌️
I am struggling with how we get the message to the rural "red voter" about what has been happening in DC since Trump took office. Everyone votes and then goes about their business and doesn't pay attention. When they finally wake up it will be too late.
My dream is that Blue State governors send out a message on the cell network for people to pay attention to what's happening. It would definitely get covered by MSM right? Right?
We can protest and shout til the cows come home but until the uninformed Fox News audience gets a clue about what's going on we are in danger of losing democracy sooner than expected. Daydreamin.
I totally agree with that. I've envisioned town halls, hosted by Democrats who will answer questions and present the facts. Ads in small town newspapers that they read. Have Mayor Pete or Tim Walz or ??? commit to some in medium sized towns and counties. It would get great coverage.... Call It the Bring America Back Townhall. I'm spit balling here. 🤷🏼♀️
Where are the local democratic parties? I don't see them doing anything where I live in northern California. And, in my opinion, this is a huge mistake. They're leaving space for misinformation to take top billing.
So true. We have an underground in Berkeley, but it doesn't matter, the developers buy their own candidates and we have so many newcomers who want to live here (not immigrants, just people who didn't grow up here) and who don't understand Berkeley issues and who vote for developer issues. I won't even go into my city councilwoman, I let my husband deal with her.
People from all over the world want to live in CA. Wealthy people. It was forever thus. We’ve had the Coastal Commision and good environmental laws, but money always wins out in the end. That’s human nature. As my brother told me many years ago “The California you remember exists only in your mind”.
Because the DNC doesn’t share the money with the state & county democratic parties, they are underfunded terribly. Do NOT give to the DNC, & write or call your senators & Rep & tell them why you are not donating to it. Donate to individual candidates & good orgs, but not the DNC until they make a commitment to share the money & we have proof that they are.!!
I like this idea, Susan. Something needs to be done to get the message out to people that they have been lied to. No one else will do it and there are people that can tell it like it is….Moskovitz,, Crockett, Shapiro, Newsom, etc. The cult is too entrenched in the lying on Fox, CNN, etc. I guess it’s not hurting them where they live yet. Give it two weeks.
Yes, just wait for the red state fallout from losing Medicaid and Social Security benefits. (If that happens) I’m sure they won’t just say they’re doing their part for the benefit of the country.
Like lapdog Lindsey, the bloviating, makeup covered turd must have some major dirt on terrible Ted. Who knows how many of these GOP dipshits in Congress did an about face like these two numbskulls and can't stop kissing the ring or his disgusting ass. Unlike Dump and Smuk, clueless Cruz should have an inkling that not everything in this world is for sale, including Greenland.
how come I--a former English teacher and retired lawyer who satisfied her science requirement in college by taking geology--know more about Avian flu than a presidential "economics advisor?"
actually, because I went through an educational system—starting in 1950—that actually fostered curiosity and made one WANT to look outside whatever expertise one was focused on at the time. Our country is moving back to the strict Daddy mode where you regurgitate what you are told and no sass back. It’s been going on some time, particularly with the horrendous “teaching to the test” requirements. Those tests were meant to help find weaknesses, but instead they PROMOTED weaknesses in anything but “yessir.”
It suddenly hit me: we were the generation raised under the theories of Dr. Spock. It was the great era of what George Lakoff called the "nurturant parenting" frame, which stresses what he taught. "His ideas influenced several generations of parents, encouraging them to be more flexible and affectionate with their children and to treat them as individuals." The backlash against this arose in part because of his anti war position on Vietnam, and the likes of Spiro Agnew hated him; under Reagan and after, the model of "strict father" frame was pushed to counter what was seen as the disorder arising from the war- protest, civil rights, 2nd wave feminist generation. "Permissiveness" became the "woke" of its day. This, combined with the feeling that education, including college, was really a super trade school aimed at jobs jobs jobs so that arts, history, humanities were a waste of precious time (and perhaps precious bodily fluids?)--this combination has I think narrowed a whole lot of peoples' chances for a fullness of life they don't even know they are missing.
It obviously isn't a lock step requirement of any generation to be like the trends--but I think Dr. Spock started a trend that really gave a big swath of a generation "something completely different" for a while.
I agree, Susan, parenting style has a lot to do with it. Having worked with kids in an informal educational setting for the last 35 years, I have seen the dramatic changes!
I love every time you use 'Fidel Cancun'! Side note everyone. If you are anywhere near a protest today, please show up. We are perilously close to a theofascist Autocracy now. tRump+Musk are willing to burn it all down to profit off the ashes.
We're not close to.... we're THERE! Listen to intelligent folks like Rick Wilson, Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell, Michael Steele etc. They know how fucked up we've become. The Coup is well underway....
Our foreign policy lacks adult leadership. The world is dumbfounded by our dummies going abroad. At least our leaders are not yet shooting our citizens, but they will crack skulls and shoot us. We need to be ready for that fork in the road. https://bit.ly/4b5wkL4
I keep scrolling through breaking news hoping to find something encouraging about what's being done to put a halt to all this. Lawsuits and judges blocking drumpf's evil orders just don't cut it. Amy Klobuchar and Jasmine Crocket etc cleverly stating the obvious out loud doesn't help much either. Protests in every state are a noble fight but how many will it take and for how long? And what am I doing about it? Nothing. Nothing at all besides being worried and pissed off about it. Except, this is all about control. It's not about money. or the unborn, or Jesus, or jobs, paper straws, what people do in their bedroom, the Gulf of Mexico, Greenland etc etc etc. It's about the desire to control everyone and everything. It's as close to being God as they will ever get. So I guess it's like they say. As long as I don't agree, don't comply, stay true to what I believe is right, moral and humane maybe I am doing something about it. All of us here resisting are doing something about. Ghandi said "they will have my dead body, but not my obedience." I hope I can be like that.
If you have a few bucks, donate to Democracy Forward and CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington). Even just $5 per month shows your support. They are leading the charge with the lawsuits and at least they are kicking sand in the gears and slowing things down.
I think about Ghandi a lot lately and wonder what he would tell us to do. The technology thing makes civil disobedience more complicated. Cutting the cords, decentralizing is survival but mass protest is the most powerful...
A Fox News "economist" is an expert on bird flu??!🙄🤮 Jesus Christ on a wheat thin! It's too bad that Shitgibbon's limo didn't hit the wall. I'd be honored to contribute some salt to the Fidel Cancun extermination fund. (I do snow removal for a living.)
Well Hassett probably just learned the word “perimeter,” so might as well use it! NO EFFING CLUE. And yes….cruz=garden slug. And Donny probably is going to let everyone know that he WON the Daytona 500!! OMG…ENOUGH! OH…hope Ms. Spouse is feeling better!
Ted Cruz is my senator. He was just reelected in a landslide over a great candidate and human being Colin Allred. Need I say more? Our country, and especially my state of Texas, is suffering from a mass psychosis at best, cult behavior to the Jim Jones level in the alternative, or most likely, we are suffering from total and complete ignorance and stupidity, or worse, moral, spiritual, cultural and political bankruptcy. As you can see, I am quite bearish on the USA. We are committing suicide as a nation, and at least 77 million people are quite pleased about it. We are SO, SO messed up. I do not see an awakening, I really do not.
But were the posted results legit? Here in Fla, shitty GOP candidates running for re-election announce a landslide 5 minutes after the polls close. Color me suspicious
I do not believe that T💩p is the legitimate president. There was way too much fkery going on with that election.
I will never believe it was an honest election. Never.
It defies all logic. Someday we will know what really happened. The truth always comes out…
Greg Palast already did post the truth that Kamala won and doofus lost. https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/
I agree with his assessment but, that means the Dems have a helluva lot of work to do by the midterms. And I think there was some fuckery going on with musk and his minions( and millions of $$$)!
Respectfully Palast is nuttier than squirrel poop.
some of us might be dead when that day comes, but yes, one day.
Except when it doesn't. Look at President Kennedy, may he rest in peace. Please! Thousands of years from now people are still going to be sifting through dusty libraries and archives looking for THE TRUTH about his assassination.
Your lips...
I think it's possible that state tabulation sites were compromised in 2016.
I may be dragged out kicking and screaming but I believe the 2024 election was rigged. There's NO WAY that slimy, lying, felonious sack of doo doo could have amassed all those votes, despite nearly half the country having their heads where the sun don't shine. No way.
We know that GOP operatives accessed voting software in at least some states. For example, in Colorado. See: https://apnews.com/article/tina-peters-colorado-clerk-election-vote-fraud-b456ce4f80dc97f4b967eb6297311a51
Because it clearly was NOT. Too bad the good people are too polite to call it out!
Musk throws nearly $300 million into Trump's election -- I can't believe it all went to boost turnout among the idiots playing his voting lottery. And I'm really sorry the Democrats conceded so quickly to prove their virtue and concerns about a peaceful transition. If we were the violent ones the Republicans wouldn't have a person standing now.
Dems and their families were probably threatened in some way.
Oh for fuck sake. Please stop.
The answer is simple. Repugs used communication channels that worked and we did not. Dems spent 1 BILLION dollars on old media, and it failed.
The old shout political slogans at the mic and roll out 700-page policy plans is a LOSER.
That plus: America, outside of our coastal cities, are what they appear to be. Angry, racist, (mostly) white folks who live in a 24-hour propaganda bubble. They would vote for Jabba The Hut if it ran as a MAGAt.
In fact, they did.
But voter suppression cost Democrats millions of votes
Yes, that’s inexcusable, whatever the number might be, but the fact is, 13 million registered Democrats did not vote.
What’s the source enumerating the millions of voters suppressed?
AMEN, Sharon!
Mary. He is not legitimate because the Constitution clearly states that a seditionist cannot serve in office..including the presidency! On top of that, they DID cheat.They need to be forcibly removed. Period. No lawsuits needed. The military or the FBI should go in with weapons drawn!
Hope you aren't holding your breath, Seeking. What should be and what is are many miles apart.
I wish, but honestly I do not see that happening unfortunately..Too many boot lickers and wimps!!
XIV clause 3.
https://constitution.findlaw.com/amendment14/annotation15.html#:~:text=Section%20Three%20of%20the%20Fourteenth,rebellion%22%20against%20the%20United%20States.
He’s lied & cheated about everything else. The tell is that the only time every swing state has gone to one candidate, that candidate has had a real landslide.
Yeah, those tiny 'plausible' margins in every flipping state don't make sense. And there were 10m new Dem registered the month before and somehow KH also lost 10m Biden voters? So she was 20m short and orange menace was performing fellatio on a microphone in front of 20 person crowds the week before? STOLEN. And the deafening silence from the Dems after. 67 Georgia polling places cleared out with bomb threats. Uugh!
I just found this video that raises many questions about the last election -- https://democraticunderground.com/100220039226
Until there is campaign finance reform, we will never win another election. As long as billionaires can donate as much as they want, they will have ultimate control. All they have to do is see how much the democrats have put in for their candidate, then just raise their donations - again & again & again - for their candidate. And now that Musk has put trump back in office, there will never be campaign finance reform. And perhaps never another election, either. It disgusts me.
Thanks for sharing, Mary. There are several statisticians who've sounded the alarm, but no one, especially any Dems, including Harris, has been listening.
Maddening!
Terrifying! I just forwarded it to several people and will continue forwarding this video until the Democrats get off their asses and challenge the election
Yes there was! I wish someone would look into it. Why are they just accepting this shit?
Hey! F-Elon bought that election fair and square! See Donnie sit at his desk mournfully while F-Elon rants on, and his 4 year old berates little Donnie...why do we think THAT is happening????
So Trump can stay out of jail and golf
Mary, have you been able to add any more epithets to your famous list?
Why yes, I have. Most recent entries are:
Fatamir Putin
Hateler
Tangerine Terrorist
Loudmouth J. Fuckwad
Yambo
Thank you.
Agent Orange
Awesome.
Musk had a hand in it, and the orange traitor knew it. Which is how, along with complacency on the part of too many citizens, that the worst human to walk the earth cheated his way back into the White House.
It is now our duty to get rid of him. And his lap dog, musk, as well.
You guys please need to end the Blue-anon fantasy and concentrate on winning in '26. Please.
Speaking of fuckery in the form of voter suppression, the SAVE ACT in Congress threatens the ability to vote of lots of people, including women whose birth certificate name doesn’t match their married name. A Marriage certificate doesn’t count as proof of name change. Each time someone moves and needs to register to vote somewhere new, they have to jump through multiple hoops again. Not just women.
JD Vance’s mentor Peter Thiel said it was a shame that women got the vote. It’s not just him. Actual Republican congressmen suggest repealing the 19th Amendment.
The fkery was legitimate given our election standards. If we were Romania and said, we do not think Russian bots interfering made the results unfair, then so be it. But we have our own bots, and they come from Trump and Musk, so they will not be discounted. We could say, there was interference, we need a do-over. We will not be doing that.
The tech bros’ figured out how to rig an election, I wouldn’t count on another ever being legitimate, if ever again Susan!!
We did have the Heritage Foundation shithead saying "the revolution will be bloodless, if the Democrats allow it." This civil war is going to be MAGA against the world.
Forgot abt that…
The degenerates are sitting back and laughing at all of us and saying WE DID IT! We screwed them all without a single question about the outcome!!
If you haven’t already seen it, read the Greg Palast article I linked here, very near your comment
This is an excellent article from election forensics expert Greg Palast. Not vote flipping in the machines, but extreme voter suppression
https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-c6f
I just don't understand why the Dems didn't object, or Biden or KH say or do something? We should be sore and so should the Dem leadership. The silence and vacuum around leadership has been deafening.
We can't have it both ways. It's not going to be "free and fair" when one side wins and "corrupt and 'stollen' (with two "l"'s) when that side loses.
We Dems were in power during the election, so we blame ourselves?
No. That doesn't fly.
13 MILLION votes? Really? If one believes this I have a real nice old bridge for sale between Tacoma and Gig Harbor. Free shipping.
We need Blue-Anon like we need an anus on our elbows.
It’s not blue anon, it’s facts about the huge purges of voter rolls, the removal of mail ballot drop boxes making it way less convenient to return those ballots, the army of Republican voters they recruited to do massive voter challenges, up to 4000 challenges made by 1 single person, mail ballots disqualified for very minor errors, or the person comparing the signatures decides they don’t match. My signature from 15 yrs ago doesn’t look exactly like my 74 yr old signature today.
It’s a fact that Republicans have been doing voter suppression for decades, but they’ve definitely ramped it way up since the 2020 election.
No.
I’m glad JT brought that up about Drumpf insulting Cruz. Just shows what a hypocrite Cruz is, and a lying whore he is too. Tex-ass can become part of Mexico again- I will never visit that knucklehead state ever again!
The only time I set foot on Tex-ass soil was to change planes at DFW forty years ago. It was only for about 20 minutes, I didn't spend a penny, and because of the way that state has gone it has become a lowlight in my life
Yes, that's the only place in Texas I've ever been too, DFW airport.
We're lucky we don't have to live there. Glad they at least have Jasmine Crockett and Wendy Davis, et al, but holy shit that place is nuts
consider yourself blessed. Nothing good comes from Texas. Lived there 49 years before I moved out of that shit hole....Geographically everything west of San Antonio is so nice in my opinion, but the people there are sick as fuck.
Wait until their Social Security payments don't show up in their bank accounts. And Melon and his pimply faced hackers are none to savvy. They will post your financial info online, accidentally.
Somebody should be publishing the incel hackers info online. Put them on the hot seat
ProPublica did:
https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/
Mine usually shows up as pending on the 3rd Monday, even last month when it was a federal holiday (MLK Jr Day). It’s not there today.
Abbi, pls post again today, if $ arrive or not. Soc Security is my #1 concern.
It didn’t, so I looked back at the dates last year and realized that most of the past 6 months the 3rd Monday was 2 days before the 4th Wednesday, whereas this month it is not. So I panicked too soon — now why would anyone panic easily during the reign of king fuckface?! — and will see what happens next week. Sorry I alarmed you.
Absolutely 💯
I live in senior affordable housing, and all my friends here received their normal payments of SS on the day it was due last week.
Aren't SS checks paid on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Wednesday of the month? My brother-in-law got his last Wednesday.
For the past 8 or 9 months, we’ve been getting our direct deposits on the Saturday prior to the Wednesday our payments were scheduled. Payments are made on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th weeks. Approximately every three months there are 5 weeks between payments, it’s really difficult to make 4 weeks worth of money last for 5 weeks.
Sheila, people who began getting pmts pre-1995-ish got pmts on the 3rd of e. mo. Then, to better managing huge pmts on one day, they began with alternate PMT dates thru out the mo., but always on their assigned day of mo. Exceptions: pmt day is 3rd, a Sunday. Sat is not a PMT day, so go back to the prior business day. In this case, you got your ck Fri the 1st. Same with major holidays.
God help us all
Hang tight mine was a few days behind too but it came.
Same
Does anyone suppose that in 17 days there would have been news about people not receiving their scheduled benefits?
Nothing?
Not a single story. What's that tell you?
In seventeen days, not a one.
Watch it carefully. If it doesn’t show up, make a big stink.
Absolutely. And I won’t be alone. Everyone whose birthday falls between the 21st & 31st of the month will likely also be calling their MOCs. I think we need to all watch it every month, even people who aren’t living check-to-check.
Mines the third Thursday of the month still waiting, not holding my breath.
Turns out mine is the 4th Wednesday. When I looked back at last year’s deposits, I discovered that the 3rd Monday is frequently the same week as the 4th Wednesday. So I panicked prematurely, although like you I don’t expect it to show up next week either. I do have a friend who got hers yesterday, so maybe you’ll get lucky. I hope so. The question is, how long before co-prez/chancellor leon’s incel coders break the system entirely.
"accidentally"
A lot of the brainwashing has come from conservative media, especially Faux Noise
Television in general, is a hotbed of fuckery…dumbing down the masses Lynn! FUX was a creation enabled by the Telecommunications Act, which will likely become state media after the PayPal mafia’s billionaire clubs, last pillar is completed!!
The Atlantic has an article on the colossal fuckhead Rupert Murdoch and his real-life Succession bullshit. What he put his kids through is mind-boggling. I blame the coming apocalypse on him, Newt Gingrich, and Rush Slimeball. May they share a suite in Satan’s Hell-A-Lardo Pitchfork wing.
Murdoch! Grrrrrr…
Agreed.. Have not watched national news on TV in over 8 years.. I read 6 newspapers a day plus Jeff and others on Substack, Meidas and Bluesky.
Lynn, And the lies from the right wing owned press are relentless. They are MOST responsible for the phony selection of Seditionist-Felon-Rapist trump
The master plan details rooting out the blue Seeking, watching the plan play out isn’t comforting!!
I agree with the questionable results of fuckface, Cancun Cruz and who knows how many more in the so called GOP. Our votes were manipulated and will continue to be until this is found out and stopped. I learned how to type on a manual typewriter so I'm not the best to figure out code, but, we must have some smart geeks who hate these people as much as we all do and expose their bullshit election. Otherwise, it will be more of the same - especially in the midterms...
Read this article by Greg Palast, election forensics expert, it’s actually massive voter suppression & uncounted ballots by the millions.
https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-c6f
TX and my home state of Ohio where I no longer live were two huge election disappointments. Allred is brilliant and we all needed him. Sadly I’m with you on the lack of hope even tho I’ll keep trying.
No to Allred, no to Brown, yes to smarmy MAGA shills and sellouts. Sad!
Most of the problem can be summed up as "Christianity exists and we didn't put any constraints on it".
Everything Donny and the sewer clown brigade are doing is what evangelicals have wanted to do since forever.
In order for anything to get better, trump has to die and the church needs to either get severe legal sanctions placed on it, be taxed out of existence, or ideally both.
Lucius, I would be ok with burning down every single empty church. ALL OF THEM. First we reclaim collection 💸💸💸💲, remove anything of value to sell. Evict wealthy mansions & card, take all" profits "pastors" get. Use $$ to help hungry, raise folks out of poverty etc
Hey, use the money to fund education and healthcare. That's the real middle finger to them.
Think of all the children we would be saving from sexual abuse at the hands of “youth ministers.”
Sadly, he's mine too. And I honestly don't see how Texans could vote for the guy who's done nothing for Texas in the 12 years he's been in DC.
And now Abbutt is trying to sue the feds for recompense for the 11 Billion of OUR tax money he spent on that performative border nonsense he undertook. I'm actually hoping Dumpf says "F off. No-one told you to do all that, you did it on your own."
But who knows what the orange clown will do.
I agree. It does seem as if a significant portion of our country has grown up historically ignorant, morally bankrupt (despite squalling about how they're so put upon as "Christians"), culturally bereft, spiritually empty, and politically stupid.
Yes, what is it about the Ivy League schools like Harvard and Yale? Their graduates don't really impress these days, do they? Bush? Vance? Cruz? Hawley? Let's make a list.
Like your style Ellen!!
I always remain hopeful and at the same time harbor no expectations. I hear Canadians are no longer visiting the state of Texas.
we're not visiting ANY goddam state
As a USA citizen, BRAVO! 🏆. Tell the kids Legoland & Disney are rebuilding after fires. Maybe 2 summers from now. Promise!🤞
Good on you Gina, with guns in the hands of the willfully ignorant, Canada is a beautiful safe harbor!!
Won't be climbing aboard a plane anytime soon…
The ones who lost their jobs and now possibly their farms, still support him. 🤢 These stupid fuckers really thought by supporting him they would be exempt from his pathological revenge on the entire planet. When the economy tanks (like it has 10 out of 11 times they've held office) they can congratulate each other. 🫡 It's coming. How do we protect ourselves? We are leader less. What happens when the Supreme Court tells the lower courts to just fuck off?
Kathleen Weber wrote a great piece this weekend, The March of a Thousand Robes. Thanks, Kathleen.
Farmers appear to have short memories, coupled with willful ignorance, what could go wrong for them?
I’m with you. Ted does nothing for those he represents. He’s in cahoots with a broad range of political criminals.
Greg Abbott’s supporters (and Ted’s, and the whole GOP party’s) have major hooks into them via billions they have been plowing into these guys for decades. They remote control.
Dunn, Wilkes, et.al. are megalomaniacs includes Fertitta +++
They control everything from real estate, the electricity grid, petroleum and water rights, and the Texas government and legislature.
Fun fact: West Texas has abandoned old oil wells where the plugs are disintegrating and widespread water aquifer breeches are occurring. This is turning what was once scenic open land with many unique features and species into a wasteland. It breaks my heart.
Dweebs and rednecks lured by evangelical churches vote for them like lemmings. They have screwy ideas fed by Fox, Jones, Brannon, and their local “heretic pastors” go into this protoplasm mishmash that are their hive minds. They are all tied together with Trump.
Our once fine public education systems have become polluted and diluted by righteous evangelical wing nuts, with Abbott still pressing for Texas taxpayers to pay for Christian school vouchers. It’s been voted down numerous times yet he comes back like a whackamole. Shit, we already pay their church and Christian school property taxes. This irks me no end.
Taxes are up hugely since Abbott invited California to move in with us. We get nothing for the hikes. Constant road work and dangerous traffic. Gee thanks Abbott.
Austin area is running out of water. Drought plus overdevelopment. Now Elon has relocated to that area. Oh joy.
Trump comes for visits and affirmation rallies and meetings. Our pathetic governor sits looking up at Trump like he’s the second coming. It’s nauseating.
I was born in Texas. It’s my home for over 60 years. I hate that these assholes have wrecked what once was a beautiful state.
I read Jeff’s posts because they help me cope with the absurd reality that is scaring the shit out of me right now.
And yeah, I think Elon’s ninja interns could have messed with our election results. The big donation and the timing? Coincidence? 🤔 But who would look into it? Nobody. One day, maybe the EU or the UK will figure it out as part of a wider investigation into Elon. We may never know.
In addition, West Texas is suffering from a measles outbreak with many of those infected being unvaccinated. I don’t think your electric grid was ever updated after the last fiasco when Cancun Ted was on vacation?!
I have so many wonderful friends trapped in your once-great state. It’s been a long time since you had Molly Ivins and Ann Richards. 💙
Excellent article by election forensics expert Greg Palast. He says it’s not equipment tampering, it’s massive voter suppression & uncounted ballots; especially “provisional” ballots. Please read & pass it on.
https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-c6f
Looking at the democratic response to the election “when we fight we win” nonsensical platitude’s. The tech bros clearly stated they can rig elections, the DNC failed to believe them sadly…good points I Have!!
Texas, home of Charles Whitman and David Koresh.
democracy stinks...too bad, as a famous guy said, that all other systems are worse
+ voter purges ???
Yes, purges & uncounted ballots, & massive voter challenges by 44,000 trained Republican voters.
Yup… haven’t lost faith in my fellow Americans quite yet. Too many thumbs on scales. WHY ARE WE OK WITH IT???
Sick of ppl preserving the status quo bc it would be ‘unseemly’ otherwise. Or they need to leave @5:00pm :/
I am sorry for you. Frankly, I'd move to California. I know not everyone wants to live in the fourth or fifth largest economy in the world, and it can be expensive, but you don't pay taxes on your food or driving on the FREEway, and you can fuel up your EV anywhere (practically.)
Ellen's right. Be prepared to double or triple rental costs. If u buy, same, but research out of control costs of property taxes, homeowners insurance. Consider too that we have the occasional tsunami warnings (uncommon), earthquakes, multiple out of control year-round wildfires. Pls don't come expecting non-maga land. They are everywhere.
Unfortunately anyone who has vested interest in other states couldn’t afford to live there Ellen!!
"...suffering from a mass psychosis at best, cult behavior to the Jim Jones level in the alternative, or most likely, we are suffering from total and complete ignorance and stupidity, or worse, moral, spiritual, cultural and political bankruptcy."
"All of them, Ricky!"
So, as regards the Avian flu - are they finalizing plans with all the government scientists that they just fired?
They're turning it over to the CDC where little RFK is going to invent a vaccine.
Ratfuck will tell us to eat organic chicken and eggs, because somehow in his dead-worm infested brain that’s the answer to everything. He might even tell the other chickens to become cannibals — now wouldn’t that be brilliant, no one’s ever heard of such brilliance.
Chickens already ARE cannibals, Abbi!
Yeah, but are they Republicans or Democrats? 🤣🤣
Mine are democrats.
I didn’t know that.
Drink raw milk too
I really wish rfkjr would follow his own advice
Another making sure his children are vaccinated but no one else?
The worm is talking
I fucking hate him too 🤬
As DOGE as his witness, Hassert thought chickens can't fly.
Experiment. Let’s imagine that somebody throws this hassett moron thru a 35th floor window. Due to whatever strange laws of physics (not very important in our case) he won’t fly. Does it mean he IS a chicken?
They can't even go nuclear on those birds because they fired, then dumped contact information for the atomic adults in the room.
This is the part they don't talk about it, industrialized farm oligopoly. Who engage in cartelistic conspiracies to limit egg production, split markets and increase prices. Cal-Maine is a top egg producer. They were sued for these practices 2 yrs ago. Instead of investing in laying hens, they have been using their profits to buy up the competition. So, for 2 years, no hens. Last time we had an egg crisis, farmers added more hens and in 8 months they rebounded. This has been happening since 2020. Oligarchs love this shit.
Truck had to re hire nuclear weapons experts & staff fired in a gigantic firing of folks. No methodical exam of what jobs these citizens perform. Just "you are fired". Yesterday trusk went running back to nuke experts "we didn't mean YOU please come back to work!"
Now they can’t find those folks as they went “fuckity bye-bye”…..unbelievable.
Poignant post Susan!!
@SusanNew Re bird flu. I believe people are now dying from bird flu. Maybe ten or so, but we're at the beginning of the jump to people. Let's ALL share credible sources of info here so we can focus and not have another crisis. #BirdFlu
This admin will definitely suppress all info about deaths from bird flu. I’m glad I’m vegan, don’t worry about egg prices, & I’ll definitely be wearing a mask anytime I must go out in public.
Lots of large dairy farms within a 75 mi radius & it’s already jumped to cows.
Same here.
Should be some serious exit interview(s) 😳‼️
Or the ones at unis that were unfunded?
Maybe we should try throwing salt on the slugs in the White House too, namely Cissy SpaceX and Butternut Bitchtits - and watch them dissolve.
Ooo, I like “Butternut Bitchtits,” Lisa!
hahahaha, thank you.
Butternut Bitchtits,DAMN!😂😂😂
Bravo...👏👏👏👏👏 😂
You win the internet today.😂😂🤣
Oh, I was going to say that! That's what happens when I oversleep.
Cissy SpaceX - Brilliant!
Both of those are sooooo freakin' AWESOME!!! I just laughed/choked and wiped tears. Thank you for the funniest thing I'll probably hear all week.
<3 <3 <3
Cissy Space X and butternut bitchtits? O thank you I needed this.
Good euphemisms!
The MAGATS have been outside the “intelligence perimeter” since the dawn of time.
🤣 Correct!
They substitute arrogance for intelligence.
Indeed!😂😂
Indeed cubed
😂
"just randomly killing chickens"
Biden wearing a cowboy hat and aviators, screeching up to various farms in the Midwest in his Corvette, leaping out and running through a flock of chickens firing a gun from each hand like Yosemite Sam
Shouting “Yeee Haw!!!”
Wait, wasn't it Kristi Noem that killed Cricket for attacking the neighbors' chickens? Doesn't that mean he was being a "good boy"? I'm so confused!
I'm getting the visual. 😂😂😂
And that's how you control disease. Not just for chickens either. We're in ttrouble.....
And spending billions of dollars doing it.
Amusing picture Alison!!
Clearly, we need to encourage smarter, better people to run for office. I can understand why they wouldnt want to, given the cesspool our government has become...but people with a modicum of intellect and decency need to start getting involved in politics...start at the local level. Mayors, city councils and county boards.
We keep electing criminals and wonder why we get the same results. People like Clueless Kevin need to sit down and shut the fuck up. And then trash like Ted Cruz. “a slimy, shapeless mass" 😂😂😂 Hilarious. Hang in there everyone. ✌️
I am struggling with how we get the message to the rural "red voter" about what has been happening in DC since Trump took office. Everyone votes and then goes about their business and doesn't pay attention. When they finally wake up it will be too late.
My dream is that Blue State governors send out a message on the cell network for people to pay attention to what's happening. It would definitely get covered by MSM right? Right?
We can protest and shout til the cows come home but until the uninformed Fox News audience gets a clue about what's going on we are in danger of losing democracy sooner than expected. Daydreamin.
Happy NOT MY PRESIDENT Day to all who celebrate.
Remember there are protests in all states today!
I totally agree with that. I've envisioned town halls, hosted by Democrats who will answer questions and present the facts. Ads in small town newspapers that they read. Have Mayor Pete or Tim Walz or ??? commit to some in medium sized towns and counties. It would get great coverage.... Call It the Bring America Back Townhall. I'm spit balling here. 🤷🏼♀️
I think Pete would be an excellent choice. Tim is a little busier with MN but also a great communicator.
I have in fact been begging Pete on social media to please do a daily information program to the masses. He could even work from home lol.
Your suggestion of local newspapers is also a good one.
The AG of NC (Jeff Jackson) puts out a daily newsletter too, but it needs to get to the right people.
UGH! Fox (not so much) News has accomplished exactly what it set out to do and it's so frustrating.
Where are the local democratic parties? I don't see them doing anything where I live in northern California. And, in my opinion, this is a huge mistake. They're leaving space for misinformation to take top billing.
So true. We have an underground in Berkeley, but it doesn't matter, the developers buy their own candidates and we have so many newcomers who want to live here (not immigrants, just people who didn't grow up here) and who don't understand Berkeley issues and who vote for developer issues. I won't even go into my city councilwoman, I let my husband deal with her.
People from all over the world want to live in CA. Wealthy people. It was forever thus. We’ve had the Coastal Commision and good environmental laws, but money always wins out in the end. That’s human nature. As my brother told me many years ago “The California you remember exists only in your mind”.
Because the DNC doesn’t share the money with the state & county democratic parties, they are underfunded terribly. Do NOT give to the DNC, & write or call your senators & Rep & tell them why you are not donating to it. Donate to individual candidates & good orgs, but not the DNC until they make a commitment to share the money & we have proof that they are.!!
I like this idea, Susan. Something needs to be done to get the message out to people that they have been lied to. No one else will do it and there are people that can tell it like it is….Moskovitz,, Crockett, Shapiro, Newsom, etc. The cult is too entrenched in the lying on Fox, CNN, etc. I guess it’s not hurting them where they live yet. Give it two weeks.
My Rep holds town halls. A lot of them do. Guess not everywhere. I have always thought they were useful.
Thats awesome... I think our reps need to work harder at communicating with those who put them in their chair.
The message will arrive when the Social Security checks begin disappearing.
Yes, just wait for the red state fallout from losing Medicaid and Social Security benefits. (If that happens) I’m sure they won’t just say they’re doing their part for the benefit of the country.
Like lapdog Lindsey, the bloviating, makeup covered turd must have some major dirt on terrible Ted. Who knows how many of these GOP dipshits in Congress did an about face like these two numbskulls and can't stop kissing the ring or his disgusting ass. Unlike Dump and Smuk, clueless Cruz should have an inkling that not everything in this world is for sale, including Greenland.
Anyone running for president , if that happens again, should have to pass the same test for citizenship that newcomers to our country have to pass.
ONE HUNDRED PERCENT! 👏👏
Fidel Cancun “Margarita - double - hold the salt”
It’s also the absurd cost to run and for House members, the fundraising never ends cuts nuts.
"Ted Cruz is 500 rats inside a person suit and each rat is 500 cockroaches inside a rat suit." -- Ryan Bernardoni
Ooooo....thats good. 👏👏👏
oh mary - that 500x500 is PRICELESS !
They're eating the dogs! They're eating the cats! They're killing the chickens!
The sky really is falling, folks.
I ℍ𝔼𝔸ℝ you! The sky is falling out of the sky. So, excuse me while I kiss it...
𝔾𝕠𝕠𝕕𝕓𝕪𝕖
how come I--a former English teacher and retired lawyer who satisfied her science requirement in college by taking geology--know more about Avian flu than a presidential "economics advisor?"
Because you have a functioning brain, and you read, Susan!
actually, because I went through an educational system—starting in 1950—that actually fostered curiosity and made one WANT to look outside whatever expertise one was focused on at the time. Our country is moving back to the strict Daddy mode where you regurgitate what you are told and no sass back. It’s been going on some time, particularly with the horrendous “teaching to the test” requirements. Those tests were meant to help find weaknesses, but instead they PROMOTED weaknesses in anything but “yessir.”
Yep, you are absolutely correct - born in 1952 here ☺️.
It suddenly hit me: we were the generation raised under the theories of Dr. Spock. It was the great era of what George Lakoff called the "nurturant parenting" frame, which stresses what he taught. "His ideas influenced several generations of parents, encouraging them to be more flexible and affectionate with their children and to treat them as individuals." The backlash against this arose in part because of his anti war position on Vietnam, and the likes of Spiro Agnew hated him; under Reagan and after, the model of "strict father" frame was pushed to counter what was seen as the disorder arising from the war- protest, civil rights, 2nd wave feminist generation. "Permissiveness" became the "woke" of its day. This, combined with the feeling that education, including college, was really a super trade school aimed at jobs jobs jobs so that arts, history, humanities were a waste of precious time (and perhaps precious bodily fluids?)--this combination has I think narrowed a whole lot of peoples' chances for a fullness of life they don't even know they are missing.
It obviously isn't a lock step requirement of any generation to be like the trends--but I think Dr. Spock started a trend that really gave a big swath of a generation "something completely different" for a while.
I agree, Susan, parenting style has a lot to do with it. Having worked with kids in an informal educational setting for the last 35 years, I have seen the dramatic changes!
I know educators hate those tests.
i would think so.
I am sure the Danish Ambassador and the Greenlandic Ambassador were also upset because they couldn't punch Rafael in his f**king rat face.
He absolutely has a chicken face, probably small pecker too. 🐓
LOL!
Hey, don't insult my chickens! I like the salted slug better.
I love every time you use 'Fidel Cancun'! Side note everyone. If you are anywhere near a protest today, please show up. We are perilously close to a theofascist Autocracy now. tRump+Musk are willing to burn it all down to profit off the ashes.
We're not close to.... we're THERE! Listen to intelligent folks like Rick Wilson, Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell, Michael Steele etc. They know how fucked up we've become. The Coup is well underway....
Our foreign policy lacks adult leadership. The world is dumbfounded by our dummies going abroad. At least our leaders are not yet shooting our citizens, but they will crack skulls and shoot us. We need to be ready for that fork in the road. https://bit.ly/4b5wkL4
We no longer have a foreign policy.
Then I'll have to crack their skulls and shoot them. (See Gen.Patton on the topic of dying for your country.)
I expect we will follow MLK’s peaceful protest program. I see benefit in the Civilian Marksmanship Program. Enough said.
I keep scrolling through breaking news hoping to find something encouraging about what's being done to put a halt to all this. Lawsuits and judges blocking drumpf's evil orders just don't cut it. Amy Klobuchar and Jasmine Crocket etc cleverly stating the obvious out loud doesn't help much either. Protests in every state are a noble fight but how many will it take and for how long? And what am I doing about it? Nothing. Nothing at all besides being worried and pissed off about it. Except, this is all about control. It's not about money. or the unborn, or Jesus, or jobs, paper straws, what people do in their bedroom, the Gulf of Mexico, Greenland etc etc etc. It's about the desire to control everyone and everything. It's as close to being God as they will ever get. So I guess it's like they say. As long as I don't agree, don't comply, stay true to what I believe is right, moral and humane maybe I am doing something about it. All of us here resisting are doing something about. Ghandi said "they will have my dead body, but not my obedience." I hope I can be like that.
Well stated, antlisa. This is a blitz attack and quick action is necessary.
If you have a few bucks, donate to Democracy Forward and CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington). Even just $5 per month shows your support. They are leading the charge with the lawsuits and at least they are kicking sand in the gears and slowing things down.
I think about Ghandi a lot lately and wonder what he would tell us to do. The technology thing makes civil disobedience more complicated. Cutting the cords, decentralizing is survival but mass protest is the most powerful...
That is exactly Elmo's goal. He's the true danger. Shitgibbon is a distraction.
A Fox News "economist" is an expert on bird flu??!🙄🤮 Jesus Christ on a wheat thin! It's too bad that Shitgibbon's limo didn't hit the wall. I'd be honored to contribute some salt to the Fidel Cancun extermination fund. (I do snow removal for a living.)
🤣😂🤣
Well Hassett probably just learned the word “perimeter,” so might as well use it! NO EFFING CLUE. And yes….cruz=garden slug. And Donny probably is going to let everyone know that he WON the Daytona 500!! OMG…ENOUGH! OH…hope Ms. Spouse is feeling better!