Hey Trump Jr, your mother’s an immigrant. Get that gangbanging, pet eating, criming immigrant bitch out of here! And what’s up with your immigrant loving dad? He loves immigrants so much he keeps marrying them!
My brown skinned nephew just told me that he and his friend who also has brown skin are driving from Chicago down to Florida to visit his friend's parents who are undocumented. I flipped out. And, on the way they want to stop in Tennessee to fish. I said no no no! I don't think this is a safe trip, but told him to take his US passport and something else. All because his friend's sister is having a birthday. So, I told him don't expect that if they are stopped by ICE being on the right side of the law matters. Now, my nephew has a maternal German grandmother and a maternal Panamanian grandfather and then on his dad's side he is American. So, who knows what can happen. His mother, who is no longer alive, was born to two people who are not native born US citizens. Scary. He is 23 and has no idea.
I think that because they are so young, they really do not know or have any idea. We don't want them to have to know, do we? A sad state of affairs, having to be afraid for them. But here we are. In our own country no less. I hope they will be alright.
He got an earful. My husband, who came in on the middle of the call told me not to be so negative, and then when he got a better sense of the plan he suggested now maybe there is no place that is safe to be doing a road trip because of ICE. Two 23-year old men, with Brown skin driving around the US just seems dangerous to me. I am sad that they are imprisoned in their own country.
Thank you Karen. I am trying to do that. I think after listening to me telling him what a bad idea I thought it was, and then my husband quietly saying, that no place was a good place to travel, he is going to be driving down there differently. I am so scared for him too.
Approval ratings be damned, he still has his MANDATE (wasn't that a gay porn magazine?). These felonious flatulent flagellants will have you believe that this was all somehow part of god's plan. If so, the best thing you can say is that (S)He is an underachiever.
There a few right wing/red wave polls that have been propagating the false narrative of Taco Don's popularity. Remember the red wave from a couple years ago? You should subscribe to Simon Rosenberg's Hopium Chronicles for more accurate polling numbers.
While there are people who are acting dumber than dirt, I like the clever person Joshua Aaron who created the ICE tracking app. The only way to survive a police state is to be clever and wiley. Aaron is showing us what that looks like. I also like the kid that tracked Musk's plane usage. We need every creative type doing this.
After reading a piece in Jay Kuo's Substack yesterday, where he talks about how ICE came to raid a farm to look for undocumented workers, and the farmer told them they could go everywhere except into a certain field. They told him that they had the right to go whereever they want in the US with their badges. So, they went to the back field where an angry bull was grazing. Even if this is just a nice story, it is just the type of thing we should spend our energy on. Thwarting ICE. I suggested calling them on fake calls to places that are unpleasant.
When I was a child a friend of my mom's had a pet boa constrictor. It slept a lot of the time, but he would take a skin from the huge snake, nail it on his door, and had a sign that said "Beware of Snake" on his door. So you can see why he was the only one not robbed. I think a lot of Americans should get pet snakes and have signs on homes with snakeskins on them. Restaurants should get them too. Send the inspectors in. Who wants to go? I am sure there are other unpleasant things that the average idiot working for ICE would not want to deal with.
How about we just start shooting dudes wearing masks, and claim under "Stand Your Ground" laws that we thought they were, you know, "Coloreds With Knives"?
Of course, this only works if you're a White person—though I do kind of love turning blatantly racist laws against racists.
That would not work for me as a brown-skinned woman. I was thinking of dressing as an ICE agent and pretending you work with them and arresting them. However, ICE is the new SS, and I am not violent or mean enough to fake it. I had better stick to hanging boa constrictor skins on my door with a sign that says, "Beware of Snakes."
I can do it. I'm a tiny white elderly southern lady. I've thought of all sorts of things I can do because if they are afraid of the likes of me it makes them look bad.
I have the ICE app on my phone and I can't wait to use it.
I've been wondering why hooded & masked criminals that show no ID and follow no laws of this country and cause immense grief & harm without any clear info on who they are "grabbing" -- much less explaining those they are "disappearing" their due process rights. (deep breahth been wondering
I think we should just kidnap these ICE January 6 pardonee's who themselves are kidnapping people. If they're not showing badges, then what's to say they're not gang members. Needs to be well thought out, since these idiots are carrying alot of firepower. Grab them, take all their communication devices, and throw them in some dark hole. The shame of themselves of being kidnapped should be a fate worse than death.
When this bs started and DUMPster claimed every "illegal" was part of some gang---(nobody ever heard of!?!) I became sick to my stomach at the fu-irony----of pardoning 1500 REAL gang members!! Btw, that action in and of itself, was tRUMP's "silent" admission of guilt at his involvement. Another fu to Amerika for not giving him EVERYTHING HE WANTS -WHEN HE WANTED IT!!!
The MAGATS actually put Three Toed Marj in charge…of a committee! Now we know what happens if enslaved experimental chimps escape their laboratory and take over the scientists. Although a chimp would have more discretion with a gavel than the Queen of the Jewish Space Lasers.
A heat shield is developing Marjie because of all the big gas guzzling cars people are driving around in Texas, and all of the air conditioning people have to use, and all of the data storage facilities in Texas, and Elon Musk's exploding rockets. That heat shield means more water will evaporate and warmer air can hold more moisture, so it is going to rain hard when it does because there is just more moisture in the air.
There are things that can be done to make the flooding less devastating, but I don't see that happening with this regime, which I hesitate to call a government because they don't seem to really be governing.
Flooding will be less devastating if 1)you evacuate camps when there's a threat of rain or 2)you don't allow camping in a flood zone. These people are so lucky. California is working on earthquake alerts, but we don't have a really workable system yet. I live in California, and we don't get warnings. We have to be prepared at all times, and frankly, we bought our house a few miles from a big fault. These people in Texas had warnings, they just didn't pay attention...
The best app for Californians so far, is the Watch Duty App developed by yet another clever designer. It tells you where fires are occurring. It helped people in Pacific Palisades tremendously, as to giving them time to evacuate.
Thanks, Marlene!!! Of course, around here, you hear lots of sirens, go outside and look, and turn on the radio. Ash floating on the wind is another clue.
And yet, it will be worse next year because there will be no FEMA money or so they say. In a fascist state often if you curry favor with the person at the top there will be money, no one else will get it. I hope wiser minds than mine can figure out creative ways to thwart this government. I of course will be thinking about it too.
It's beyond belief that that Congress would even vote on such a warped, wackadoddle bullshit bill. Between MTG, the lost in space Georgia congressional candidate and now with the wet behind the ears, teenage looking like a Spin and Marty series knockoff cowboy who represents the poor folks of Texas, it's not going to get any better soon.
Of course they will. They just passed the MAGA Murder Bill. I'm going to call the junior cowboy, Brisket Cain because he has the dumb look of a teenage boy waiting for his first rub.
Marj can write all of the legislation she wants. I'm dubious how many other Repubs will want to sponsor or even be seen dead with her proposals. At least she can claim she wrote some paper. Gym Jordan has a nearly perfect track record. I forget how many terms, but zero submitted & passed legislation from him.
Jeff, I'm the last person to let the Trump administration off the hook but the facts are the facts. This post is not about the Trump administration it's about Mother Nature in Texas
I have lived in Houston, TX for 26 years now. The eastern half of Texas is liable to ferocious and unpredictable thunderstorms.
To give an outstanding example, some years ago we had a thunderstorm in Houston which dumped 29 inches of rain on one zip code and three inches on another overnight. My zip code had 9 inches of rain. There is no forecaster on the planet who could tell you which zip code would have gotten the catastrophic load.
The Storm on the Guadalupe was truly unprecedented. The girls camp had been in the same family for three generations and had never experienced anything close to that level of rainfall. The head of the camp, a man in his 70s, died trying to save three little girls. Neither he, nor his parents, nor his grandparents could anticipate this event .
The camp's older girls survived because they were able to scramble up a very steep bank. The two cabins holding the younger girls were hit from floodwaters both from the river and a tributary stream simultaneously. This set up a swirling current that trapped them inside.
To describe a similar set of conditions, I rode across the country on a bicycle about 10 years ago and was advised never to camp in a wash. A wash is a dry stream bed in a desert location. You don't camp there because a thunderstorm could hit miles away and send water down the wash from a storm you hadn’t even heard.
To give another example, the northern half of Houston had a derecho last summer. This is a particularly intense type of thunderstorm that CANNOT be predicted—it either forms or it doesn’t. As far as I know, this is the first derecho that Houston had in the 26 years I’ve lived here, and this one hit my house. It made a path about five miles wide and 12 miles long. It knocked down one of my trees.
If you live in the New York City metro area, you cannot imagine Texas weather.
Granted, Ma Nature had a significant role in this mess. But not the only one. Another is Trump's crippling of the agencies that could have minimized her impact.
One reason there are dams on the Colorado River and the Rio Grande is to help mitigate these kinds of floods, but you can't damn every river in the West. Damning western rivers also totally disrupts the native ecology and leads to the extinction of rare species of fish.
Or Haboobs (an Arabic word) in the desert, walls of sand and dust. There was a big one in Phoenix years ago. They come up without warning and paralyze everything in their wake.
Well, if it's going to rain, and results will be bad, I would evacuate. I can't imagine Texas weather, but I'm pretty sure I'd leave if you were expecting a rainstorm in Houston. I've only been in one bad earthquake (no warning for those, Kathleen) and two bad fires, and I left for the fires. It rains, and the hills sometimes slide, but not near me (a few miles away.)
The problem with leaving every time there is a rainstorm is that you may leave the zip code that gets 9 inches of rain and end up in the zip code that gets 29.
The best protection is to have a good roof on your house and solid windows. My house is elevated nine inches from the ground on top of cinder blocks. I haven't been flooded in the 25 years I've lived here. Lightning has struck my yard twice in the 25 years I lived here, once hitting a tree and once hitting a power pole.
I lived there for 50 years and experienced TS Allison and Harvey and Ike. The hill country has always been extremely dangerous during a rainstorm. Even the wrong prediction of rain amounts would have caused fatalities.
Jeff, the sooner America realizes the obvious… MAGAS over the past few weeks have told us… they just don’t care if people die. A detainee dies at ICE facility, Holman says people die in jail, in prison, so one dies in ICE. To justify the vote on the BBB, eliminating health care.. well people just die. The Texas flood fiasco? No rural hospitals? Biden’s fault… As I have said previously, all the issues during the last administration were Biden’s fault…I predicted that for the next 4 years under Trump it will be Biden’s fault. Best to All
They do not care about anybody, not even each other. They're stupid, mean, or both. They don't even realize that Trump doesn't give two SHITS about their lives.
I always think of Trashcan Man from Stephen King's "The Stand". He's standing there, radiation burned skin sliding off of him, saying "My LIFE for you" to Randall Flagg. This is MAGA; they'll blow the whole thing up while worshipping Satan.
Did you know that Iowa, with the richest black dirt in the U.S., imports 90% of their food? All of that beautiful dirt is now being used to grow corn for ethanol and export. Of course, that dirt is also quickly being contaminated by the use of deadly insecticides.
Tell me please, what does our Department of Agriculture do?
Read Bill Bryson's Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, about his growing up in Des Moine in the fifties and sixties. It never used to be that way for Iowa and its incomparably rich topsoil. Your troubling stats are of relatively recent vintage as Monsanto and other corporate interests and one would assume repub ideas of profit took over.
People just die Doc, get over it Biden rigged the weather and that did it wise up fool. Trash can man told you how important the pledge, not the pledge of allegiance the pledge to the king, Ernst told us to expect death. I’m expecting the actuary tables will actually tell the story life expectancy drops RFKjr knows it is those sneaky lib’s plan secret from others, almost ALL others but he’s got the science on his side and he’s the only one in on it.
Doc, I’m afraid you are correct.. You would tend to think all those farmers who will go under due to these MAGA policies might, just might rethink their life decisions.
Here’s the deal: many if not most Xtian Nationalists are pre-millennial dispensationalists —which means that the rapture can happen any minute or 3 1/2 years or seven years from now depending on what type of “woo” they believe. So they don’t give a fuck about the world or environment or peeps. Not to get too far afield but that vile Mike Huckabee believes Bibi is hastening the rapture so he doesn’t give a flying fǔck about Palestinians or bonesaw MBS cause he gonna fly away w/Jesus.
This is a deeply held belief of the evangelicals. In my experience they do actually believe it. But in their forecasting when this will happen, they forget the words of Jesus that they do not know the day nor the hour of his return. He also didn’t tell them it was okay to go ahead and kill people and fuck up everything because he’s going to come back and fix it all. There is so much picking and choosing which verses one wants to believe or focus on. They seem to have discarded the verses about welcoming the stranger and taking care of the sick, poor, and hungry.
The Rapture, if it happens according to their beliefs, would rid us of a lot of obnoxious and annoying people. Unfortunately, I think they are misinformed and will be shocked when they find themselves Left Behind.
That rapture horseshit is not even IN the bible, it is fan fiction from the "Late Great Planet Earth written by a nutty fucker who kept predicting Jesus' return.
"in the late 1960s, when Vietnam was raging and the Boomers were having fun doing free love to each other, the conservative evangelical Christians were doing free love to Biblical prophecy, mainlining books by Campus Crusade for Christ bigwig Hal Lindsey like The Late Great Planet Earth which laid out everything else that not only must happen for Jesus to return, but was DEFINITELY HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. (A commenter amusingly points out below often Lindsey’s proclamations would have to be updated in subsequent books, each time world events would render his previous book’s interpretations absolutely inoperable. A charlatan? Yes, yes Hal Lindsey was!)
One thing Lindsey’s books focus on, a prophecy that remains unfulfilled all these years later, is full Israeli control of the Temple Mount, AKA the site of the original Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, which, saith the prophecies, must be rebuilt for Jesus to come back...Anyway, as I said, there are all kinds of disagreements between Bible Trivia champions over the timing of how the prophecies will come to pass, a field of study I like to call GIANT WANKING MOTION DOT GIF."
I believe the timeline is said to be Rapture, Antichrist, and then the period of tribulation. In that case, either Joe Biden is not the antichrist or we didn’t miss the folks who were raptured and the ones pointing to OHJ are Left Behind. That also upends my theory that DJT is the antichrist and the red hats are the mark of the beast.
I quit organized religion when I was 11. I'm anti-theist. I'm agnostic because non of us know. I waffle because global religions have often similar creation stories that intrigue me. Most of the rest of it is, in my view, politics ancient and current.
Antichrist checklist: he is characterized by pride, envy, anger, lust, avarice, gluttony, and sloth; he worships golden images, uses the name of God vainly, disrespected both his parents, golfs every Sunday, was accomplice to brutal killings and boasts he could kill personally in plain sight and not lose any of his followers, has made a career of stealing from everyone who works with him, has committed adultery on every one of his wives, bears false witness every time he opens his mouth, moved on his neighbor's wife "like a bitch" and covets everything else that belongs to his neighbor; he opposes feeding the hungry, letting the thirsty have water, treating the sick, or especially welcoming the stranger, and he abused children, so that it would be better if a millstone were tied round his neck and he were cast into the sea.
I grew up a Southron Baptist. Luckily or by God’s grace my pastor when I was a kid had gone to seminary before the RW crazies took over the SBC and purged the faculty —anyone our pastor was learned in Greek and Hebrew and basically said the ones that Jesus said were left behind are the ones that were saved—“as it was in the days of Noah”. So Jenkins and LaHaye and Hal
Lindsay and Pat Robertson have it bass ackwards even if you take Matthew 24 literally—which I don’t. To answer your question—people believe that. When I was a little kid I used to fear the Rapture. But so relieved as a teen to hear my pastor deflate that nonsense. So yeah lots of people believe it. LaHaye and Jenkins may have too, but that didn’t stop them from making bank off of it. I would suggest reading Jason Kirk’s book “Hell is a World Without You”. Jason a generation or two younger than I am but he captures what many RW evangelicals/Xtian nationalists believe.
He’s an out, gay, lapsed Southron Baptist, His substack “the Moral High Ground” tracks religious republicans charged with sexual assault, he goes by arrest information.
That is what a friend predicts as well. No one is disagreeing. We have been there and done that. Biden can be 50 years dead and the MAGAs will still be blaming everything on him, long after people even know who he is.
David, hope has to be there because we take action. Things will not just fix themselves on their own. Causing creative chaos would be good. Turning their laws on them and thwarting their people, is how to handle a police state. Being careful is par for the course too.
I really liked a story Jay Kuo shared about a farmer who was raided by ICE telling them feel free to look around everywhere except a specific pasture. The ICE agent told him he could go ANYWHERE he wanted, and so the guy later saw about 6 ICE agents in that pasture running from a very angry bull.
I think we should create those sorts of experience for ICE agents. They are the Secret Police of the Trump administration. The Brown Shirts or Black shirts, whichever you prefer. I was saying how my mom's friend had a boa constrictor when I was a child and he used to hang a skin on his door with a sign that said, "Beware of Snake." Everyone should be doing that. Let them spend time hiring snake specialists, and losing their ICE agents, since most people don't want to enter a place where a boa could drop down onto them.
I think it's worse than that. They WANT people to die. (1) The eugenicists are culling and (2) Far too many of them are actively sadistic psychopaths (see: middle-school Goebbels Stephen Miller) who enjoy watching people suffer and die (also see: the Orange Menace)
They have trained a large army to fight on the side of diseases and natural disasters against the human species, resisting every preventative measure that could lower death tolls.
These people are so incredibly delusional... it's really amazing they can even tie their shoes. Religion continues to fuel these insane people. FFS. Is there ANYTHING that can restore common sense in America. I was called "heartless" because I said people who vote for this are getting exactly what they voted for. Gimme a break.
If it assuages your angst, this Canadian absolutely supports your last comment. What the hell happened to the America that we looked up to? Did 50% of the population ingest food that makes them lose their thinking skills. Some of these folks have intellectuals skills of 6-year olds.
First quote of Jeff’s piece, fake weather, fake incineration, fake trump (stunt double). Have you noticed he is now the shortest man in every group foto now see that’s fake trump. I have it from the man hisowndamnself he is 6ft 4in in his doctors office.
Stephen Fry did satirical skit based on “It’s a Wonderful Life” only with Rupert Murdoch as the one who sees how the world would have been if he had never been born. (Spoiler: It was a much nicer place) All the Murdoch character see is how to exploit the happiness, and set people against each other. The skit ends with Clarence the Angel played by Fry, pushing Murdoch off the bridge.
Although Fox network is available, it doesn’t have the readership that you have in the US. 🇨🇦 has fewer right wing propaganda TV channels and when one has an attachment to them, they are not carried by our regular cable providers. The cost varies between $5-$15/month. Not exorbitant by any stretch of the imagination, but still pricey if you’re not a high income earner.
I realize that because I am married to a Canadian, and we lived in BC during W’s reign. I believe the lack is because you have a superior education system. You do have the Western Separatists and many Albertans behave like Texans, and not in a positive way. You dodged a bullet with Pollievere because the intelligent people understood the assignment and voted to stave off the MAGA misery. My stepdaughters in-laws are from Saskatchewan, and love Trump and are uber religious. She’s a Torontonian yuppie and despises all trump stands for.
Thank you for your eloquent comments about 🇨🇦 and I’m glad that you were a member of our dynamic society even for a short period. Yes, there is indeed a slice of Alberta that wants to separate and join the US. I say we help them pay for their move there. 😉
Alas...50 years of Republican underfunding education: stripping out music, arts, CIVICS... low pay and low regard of teachers. Now MAGAs are raiding the school libraries (and even, on occasion public libraries) banning books that "offend" or are "unsuitable" for whatever age range they decide (or that might show their children a different world and different ways of looking at things). Reagan led the charge of the ignorant against education...he disliked educated people (because he was so damned dumb) and he positively hated universities.
All courses that are compulsory in 🇨🇦. You used to be a country revered by the world. What a shame, what a travesty and tragedy that’s befallen your country. 😭
I used to own a home in Florida, and sold it once trump was elected. We’ve never been back and it looks like we’ll never go back now. Those were the good old days. My deceased father who held dual citizenship is rolling over in his grave.
Floribble isn't a safe or healthy state to live in any longer. We live as close to Canada as possible to get (only one other state borders us) but I'd move to Newfoundland or PEI in a heartbeat if I was 50 years younger! (no offense to your Province meant). I hate what Trump and his ilk and cultists have done and are trying to do to this country.
Florrible! 🤭😂. PEI and NFDL are gems. Alas NFDL is a tad too removed from the mainland to live there, although I have visited multiple times. The cost of living and the harsh winters make it a last choice for me. I dream of moving to the Okanagan, but age is also standing in my way.
This was a rhetorical question and not sure that I would concur with your response. Canadians are also big time TV watchers and our brains haven’t fizzled. Perhaps the real culprit if to US public school system.
Well, I don't watch much tv and these people do. I also got a great public school education in the Fifties and Sixties. And, and, my father didn't allow a television in the house until 1976, when I had been gone for eight years. He didn't think they were useful. He was a Ph.D from Harvard in American Civilization and a full professor at the University of California at Berkeley, in History in the School of Social Welfare. He was the national expert on the development of Social Security law.
Well longtimebirdwatcher, I would say that like me you were fortunate to be raised by parents who invested in their children’s future. My parents did not go to university, but they both had innate abilities that would rival any undergraduate degree nowadays. My siblings and I were fortunate to have attended university and my youngest brother and I went to graduate school. My work life was spent in university and research environments and when my youngest daughter told me she wanted to go to the London School of Economics to do an MSc, I made sure that she had adequate funding and significant aspirations to make it a worthwhile investment.
Some white chick on instagram had the caucasity to tell a POC that he was the “real monster” because magat voters he knew were in the finding out stage regarding the ICE raids…just clueless.
Could there be a way to turn Greene’s Bill to make geo engineering weather illegal around to prosecute those corporate criminals who are creating the pollution that is responsible for increasing catastrophic fatal weather events ? Jujitsu the morons.
What? -,every corporation pollutes - hard to see that working- although the Oil companies should be getting taxed even higher to help cover pollution control costs
Joshua Aaron is the hero of the day! After reading about Amurrican Way, I needed the good stories of democrats and Joshua doing things right. Thanks, Jeff 🙏🏻
Joshua Aaron is right in that he is protected by the First Amendment, but as we have seen, Bondi does not care about the Constitution. If she decides to prosecute or apprehend him, I hope the response from law abiding citizens is enormous.
Didn't Krusty G-spot already do a fuckity bye to FEMA or will FEMA only be available to states that obey his holy diaper stain? The cloud? You mean the non-physical storage backup that can be hacked by anyone anywhere...namely Russia and China. His holy shitstain said recently not to worry about the 2026 elections, they'll be fair and not rigged...we all know what bullshit that is?
THESE FUCKS NEED TO GO FUCKITY BYE NOW BEFORE IT GETS FUCKING WORSE!!!
Since they spent $450M of FEMA money for their concentration camp in the Everglades, I think the answer is they will prioritize housing immigrants like cordwood over responses to natural disasters
This shows how pro life they are too. Just carry your baby to term and let the kids die after they're born no matter how. And the girls were attending a christian camp so thoughts and prayers by maga.
It’s so hard to believe that there are people in this country who don’t give a shit about anyone but themselves. But here we are. It’s getting more difficult to read the news BUT that won’t stop us!!! Peace and Love EVERYONE❤️
Abbi, read the Black press, they’ve seen these Gestapo agents roll up on Brown folks in LA, they fully expect the same treatment once ICE has their new funds, then they will come for Jews, the “bad ones” as Donald has defined who are good and bad.. we are on the slippery slope of fascism.
I think we’re already there. And Sporkfoot’s Jewish space lasers + fuckface’s public slur in Iowa, his failure with Iran, & his trashing higher education being the Jews’ fault is all a set-up. As a Black client said to me during the reign of W, “We’ll be on the same cattle cars.”
There is a slight bit of good news regarding that, vaccinations for measles actually increased in the area with the outbreak! Your Local Epidemiologist here on Substack is a good follow for info like that.
Even if you put weather data “up in the cloud,” it’s common for power outages to happen during severe weather events. And when there’s no power, there’s no “cloud.” Part of having a robust network of satellites and offices is so when part of the network goes down, the rest of the network still functions.
As a resident of south central Texas, thank you so much for this post. The pain level for folks who lost loved ones or whose loved ones are still missing is off the charts. Some folks watched cars with lights on & people in them screaming for help as the flood waters washed the cars down the river. No one could get to them.
As a former resident with close friends in Kerrville, I feel for all those lost and losing. I fear this only drive them closer to their MAGA, though, as their children are martyrs and US citizens are deported to any hellhole that will take them.
Imagine the comments from maga if the tragedy to the (supposedly) Christian camp had happened to an organization with just a hint of DEI. They'd have been celebrating "god's vengeance on the wicked".
Since the Bush Administration, any time there was a devastating natural event, it was "God punishing the gays." We've always had this hopelessly stupid element in the U.S. that gets to have its moronic opinions showcased in the media.
Courage is indeed in short supply right now, but there are a few, like Joshua. It is laughable: mgt, lutnick, the "Ketamine Kid", and would be completely hilarious if not so massively tragic. Sad. The loss of a child is a parent's worst nightmare, and these floods... so many children. I understand the cruelty is often the point, but so many children the world over have lost their lives thanks to the tangelo colored taint tumor and the "Ketamine Kid." It's not healthy to have so much hate currently in my thinking and soul. It's soul crushing.
Are there any Dummies books you want to recommend? I will look for them the next time I order used books or go to a bookstore (Berkeley has many, many bookstores, used and new...)
Well, I looked at their category listing and my mouth dropped open— there’s so many more than I thought or remembered. Probably home improvement (after your house gets demolished by the weather and no FEMA); Gardening (for growing your own veggies that will be soon be unaffordable at the market) and this one made me lol, Political Careers.
Well, we've just improved our home (added a storage battery to our solar) and we pay close attention to warnings (the most recent was a tsunami warning two months ago--we'd never had one before...but we evacuated and came home again.) Weather might be bad across from the Golden Gate, but earthquakes are much worse, and fires aren't good. The city had a fire department zoom seminar in March, so I got rid of all the plantings within five feet of the house, so we're clear on that. And I've put in a garden too, although the only things I'm harvesting yet are lettuce and radishes (oh, and some cherries and apricots...) So at least partially covered on everything. I'm going to check out sustainability too.
Ok, I know I'm being facetious here, but isn't three toes' bill to stop manipulating clouds in direct opposition to holman's wanting to throw everything into the "cloud...?"
So I guess the little girls' bodies they're pulling from the flood waters are just little plastic mannequins, fake dead bodies ?
Stop Morgan you are going to damage you brain and for some it is terminal, do not try even to formulate ‘logic’ out of a cult. A friendly warning to those caught up in that trap!
For all of this enshittification we have the Supreme Court to thank. Citizens United opened the floodgates of dark (always right wing) money. The gutting of the voting rights act, especially the most recent decision where gerrymandering that results in under-representation of minorities is Constitutional as long as the method is political, not racial distorted Congressional Districts to the point where the MTG's of the world are foisted upon us. And, the coup de grace, the Donald Trump can criminal to his heart's content decision, as long as his actions are within the definition of his official duties. These three toed sloths wouldn't have the environment to thrive in if not for John Roberts and his merry band of Constitutional arsonists.
Heartbroken bout those wee girls, and anyone else who lost their life. They’ll NEVER Accept that trump was to blame for ALL the Cuts to Weather/FEMA ETC.
May have@ least given enough Warning to get out….Who knows.
According to the Census Bureau, in 2024 there were 257.3 million adults alive in the United States.
2024 Presidential Election Results:
Trump: 77.3 million votes = 30.0% of the total number of adults in the US
Harris: 75.0 million votes = 29.15% of the total number of adults in the US
Total who not vote for Trump: 182.3 million = 70.85% of the total number of adults in the US
Richard Nixon: "I am not a crook!" He was a crook so we removed him from office.
Supreme Court and Congress: "Donald Trump is a crook but he's popular so we let him get away with stealing, taking bribes, harming children, racism and sadism and torture of brown skinned people and abusing his office and government agencies for personal gain."
70.85% of the adults in this nation did not vote for this little mafia wannabe gangster. Why are we putting up with this shit?
DNC: Wake the fuck up. The government has been taken over by an organized crime family and you gaze at your navel. Represent the 70% and remove the criminals from the government.
House. GOP: 220 seats. Dems: 212 seats. If all the Dems vote yes, only 5 of 220 GOP members are required to vote for articles of impeachment.
Senate. GOP: 53 seats. Dems & Ind: 47 seats.
Senate votes needed for conviction: 67. If all the Dems vote yes, only 14 GOP senators are required to vote for conviction.
Congress has given the Trump administration $45 Billion to build concentration camps for brown skinned people and MAGA enemies (anyone who they deem to be a threat to stop their law breaking). At what point do 5 House members and 14 senators find their conscience, are swayed to rise above the money and power corruption. And remove the crime family from the Executive Branch? How many hundreds of thousands of humans must suffer and die before these "leaders" do the right thing?
Historically, the largest totalitarian leaders killed literally millions of their own people through war, famine, gulags, secret police torturing. Internal uprisings -- zero? Trump's health is failing, so that's hopeful. But he's creating the dystopia that his enablers will rapidly inherit and we will not have a normal world -- nothing like it was -- to return to.
I am so sick of the Dems/DNC being blamed for this absolute travesty. 90 f'in million people didn't bother themselves to get to the polls, even after Dem legislators and candidates literally BEGGED them to register and vote! They spent tens of millions of dollars on efforts to get out the vote, and millions of Americans volunteered to register and help potential voters. At WHAT point do we stop making excuses for those who choose to abdicate their personal responsibility - their civic and patriotic duty - for participation in our democracy?
Those who chose not to vote are just as responsible for this hell scape as Trump voters. They best not complain about anything!! Their complacency sentenced this nation to death.
an exchange I just had on bluesky under my post promoting this piece:
https://bsky.app/profile/jefftiedrich.bsky.social/post/3ltcjzmwspk2i
Ganzi Ambassador @symich74.bsky.social· 4m
When will people start realizing that electing assholes may not be in their interest?
Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 2m
history tells us 'never.'
In a country where corporations are declared to be people and a village idiot is declared to be a king above the law, a lot of people become ex-people
Thus I wrote this piece on denaturalization of US citizens.
https://lindaweide.substack.com/p/losing-your-us-citizenship?r=f0qfn
Hey Trump Jr, your mother’s an immigrant. Get that gangbanging, pet eating, criming immigrant bitch out of here! And what’s up with your immigrant loving dad? He loves immigrants so much he keeps marrying them!
My brown skinned nephew just told me that he and his friend who also has brown skin are driving from Chicago down to Florida to visit his friend's parents who are undocumented. I flipped out. And, on the way they want to stop in Tennessee to fish. I said no no no! I don't think this is a safe trip, but told him to take his US passport and something else. All because his friend's sister is having a birthday. So, I told him don't expect that if they are stopped by ICE being on the right side of the law matters. Now, my nephew has a maternal German grandmother and a maternal Panamanian grandfather and then on his dad's side he is American. So, who knows what can happen. His mother, who is no longer alive, was born to two people who are not native born US citizens. Scary. He is 23 and has no idea.
I think that because they are so young, they really do not know or have any idea. We don't want them to have to know, do we? A sad state of affairs, having to be afraid for them. But here we are. In our own country no less. I hope they will be alright.
He got an earful. My husband, who came in on the middle of the call told me not to be so negative, and then when he got a better sense of the plan he suggested now maybe there is no place that is safe to be doing a road trip because of ICE. Two 23-year old men, with Brown skin driving around the US just seems dangerous to me. I am sad that they are imprisoned in their own country.
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Seriously, impress upon him the complete lack of respect for ANY laws most authorities USED to follow.
Thank you Karen. I am trying to do that. I think after listening to me telling him what a bad idea I thought it was, and then my husband quietly saying, that no place was a good place to travel, he is going to be driving down there differently. I am so scared for him too.
Very eye-opening piece. Thank you. Be well. Be safe. I will be thinking of you at every demonstration I attend (3 per week these days).
Be safe at your demonstrations Bonnie. ✌🏽
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Hey Jeff, his approval rating is in the fucking toilet again, Even on Rassmussen (the republican friendly pollster).
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/hey-republicans-your-fuckweasels
Approval ratings be damned, he still has his MANDATE (wasn't that a gay porn magazine?). These felonious flatulent flagellants will have you believe that this was all somehow part of god's plan. If so, the best thing you can say is that (S)He is an underachiever.
ManDate MAGAzine indeed. :) See what I did there?
Hi-Yoooooo!
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2z9ny8
::mimes swinging a golf club, watches the nonexistent ball go into the water::
Yes, I'm old enough to still remember Johnny Carson....
“…was all somehow part of god's plan. If so, the best thing you can say is that (S)He is an underachiever.”
OMG I am stealing this and laying it on the next MAGA bible-thumper who makes the mistake of crossing my feed. 🤓
Porn?! It was ART to my eyes. ;)
There a few right wing/red wave polls that have been propagating the false narrative of Taco Don's popularity. Remember the red wave from a couple years ago? You should subscribe to Simon Rosenberg's Hopium Chronicles for more accurate polling numbers.
While there are people who are acting dumber than dirt, I like the clever person Joshua Aaron who created the ICE tracking app. The only way to survive a police state is to be clever and wiley. Aaron is showing us what that looks like. I also like the kid that tracked Musk's plane usage. We need every creative type doing this.
After reading a piece in Jay Kuo's Substack yesterday, where he talks about how ICE came to raid a farm to look for undocumented workers, and the farmer told them they could go everywhere except into a certain field. They told him that they had the right to go whereever they want in the US with their badges. So, they went to the back field where an angry bull was grazing. Even if this is just a nice story, it is just the type of thing we should spend our energy on. Thwarting ICE. I suggested calling them on fake calls to places that are unpleasant.
When I was a child a friend of my mom's had a pet boa constrictor. It slept a lot of the time, but he would take a skin from the huge snake, nail it on his door, and had a sign that said "Beware of Snake" on his door. So you can see why he was the only one not robbed. I think a lot of Americans should get pet snakes and have signs on homes with snakeskins on them. Restaurants should get them too. Send the inspectors in. Who wants to go? I am sure there are other unpleasant things that the average idiot working for ICE would not want to deal with.
Time to be creative.
How about we just start shooting dudes wearing masks, and claim under "Stand Your Ground" laws that we thought they were, you know, "Coloreds With Knives"?
Of course, this only works if you're a White person—though I do kind of love turning blatantly racist laws against racists.
That would not work for me as a brown-skinned woman. I was thinking of dressing as an ICE agent and pretending you work with them and arresting them. However, ICE is the new SS, and I am not violent or mean enough to fake it. I had better stick to hanging boa constrictor skins on my door with a sign that says, "Beware of Snakes."
Yeah, unfortunately that only works for somebody like me who's an Older Pasty White Dude.... 🙄
I can do it. I'm a tiny white elderly southern lady. I've thought of all sorts of things I can do because if they are afraid of the likes of me it makes them look bad.
I have the ICE app on my phone and I can't wait to use it.
I've been wondering why hooded & masked criminals that show no ID and follow no laws of this country and cause immense grief & harm without any clear info on who they are "grabbing" -- much less explaining those they are "disappearing" their due process rights. (deep breahth been wondering
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I think we should just kidnap these ICE January 6 pardonee's who themselves are kidnapping people. If they're not showing badges, then what's to say they're not gang members. Needs to be well thought out, since these idiots are carrying alot of firepower. Grab them, take all their communication devices, and throw them in some dark hole. The shame of themselves of being kidnapped should be a fate worse than death.
When this bs started and DUMPster claimed every "illegal" was part of some gang---(nobody ever heard of!?!) I became sick to my stomach at the fu-irony----of pardoning 1500 REAL gang members!! Btw, that action in and of itself, was tRUMP's "silent" admission of guilt at his involvement. Another fu to Amerika for not giving him EVERYTHING HE WANTS -WHEN HE WANTED IT!!!
Remember the story of Passover? Same idea.
Need to locate some lamb's blood. BRB.
Also, need to have someone contact the Lord for the other 9 plagues.
Seems to me the Lord is sending us the plagues at intervals
I love these clever but important ways to keep the thugs away! Wish showing crosses to vampires worked.
Well, if you use enough garlic it usually works on anything.
HA! So true!
Linda, these are just stories that have been around for a few years. If those thugs come to my door, they will be met with my Glock.
There are about a million illegal criming immigrants in the Marianna Trench. Go gettum boys!
The MAGATS actually put Three Toed Marj in charge…of a committee! Now we know what happens if enslaved experimental chimps escape their laboratory and take over the scientists. Although a chimp would have more discretion with a gavel than the Queen of the Jewish Space Lasers.
They’re salting the clouds of Texas, Marji!
A heat shield is developing Marjie because of all the big gas guzzling cars people are driving around in Texas, and all of the air conditioning people have to use, and all of the data storage facilities in Texas, and Elon Musk's exploding rockets. That heat shield means more water will evaporate and warmer air can hold more moisture, so it is going to rain hard when it does because there is just more moisture in the air.
There are things that can be done to make the flooding less devastating, but I don't see that happening with this regime, which I hesitate to call a government because they don't seem to really be governing.
Flooding will be less devastating if 1)you evacuate camps when there's a threat of rain or 2)you don't allow camping in a flood zone. These people are so lucky. California is working on earthquake alerts, but we don't have a really workable system yet. I live in California, and we don't get warnings. We have to be prepared at all times, and frankly, we bought our house a few miles from a big fault. These people in Texas had warnings, they just didn't pay attention...
The best app for Californians so far, is the Watch Duty App developed by yet another clever designer. It tells you where fires are occurring. It helped people in Pacific Palisades tremendously, as to giving them time to evacuate.
Thanks, Marlene!!! Of course, around here, you hear lots of sirens, go outside and look, and turn on the radio. Ash floating on the wind is another clue.
And yet, it will be worse next year because there will be no FEMA money or so they say. In a fascist state often if you curry favor with the person at the top there will be money, no one else will get it. I hope wiser minds than mine can figure out creative ways to thwart this government. I of course will be thinking about it too.
Deepak has an early warning system you can put on your phones, but I don't own a cell phone. I sent it to my husband and son.
Where is the warning coming from if NOAA is defunded and shut down as is planned in Project 2025?
It's beyond belief that that Congress would even vote on such a warped, wackadoddle bullshit bill. Between MTG, the lost in space Georgia congressional candidate and now with the wet behind the ears, teenage looking like a Spin and Marty series knockoff cowboy who represents the poor folks of Texas, it's not going to get any better soon.
Of course they will. They just passed the MAGA Murder Bill. I'm going to call the junior cowboy, Brisket Cain because he has the dumb look of a teenage boy waiting for his first rub.
He's probably an incel who only gives himself a rub.
The chimps are smarter than laser idiot.
:ssh!: I'm aiming my Jewish Space Laser hoping to FINALLY hit her with it...!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CFB1scUkwdI_g4w1B4E4fCDpVz-vUkla/view?usp=sharing
All the enslaved chimps were released when the Principal Investigator of the NIH grant lost his funding.
Marj can write all of the legislation she wants. I'm dubious how many other Repubs will want to sponsor or even be seen dead with her proposals. At least she can claim she wrote some paper. Gym Jordan has a nearly perfect track record. I forget how many terms, but zero submitted & passed legislation from him.
The sad/silly thing is these idiots have always been there. My Dad used the phrase ‘rightwing nut jobs’ back in the 60s. But now they run the GQP.
Laughed out loud more than a few times on this one. Thanks. Moronsplaining killed me
It was a nice take on "mansplaining". Jeff is a genius. Thank the Goddess for Jeff.
Jeff, I'm the last person to let the Trump administration off the hook but the facts are the facts. This post is not about the Trump administration it's about Mother Nature in Texas
I have lived in Houston, TX for 26 years now. The eastern half of Texas is liable to ferocious and unpredictable thunderstorms.
To give an outstanding example, some years ago we had a thunderstorm in Houston which dumped 29 inches of rain on one zip code and three inches on another overnight. My zip code had 9 inches of rain. There is no forecaster on the planet who could tell you which zip code would have gotten the catastrophic load.
The Storm on the Guadalupe was truly unprecedented. The girls camp had been in the same family for three generations and had never experienced anything close to that level of rainfall. The head of the camp, a man in his 70s, died trying to save three little girls. Neither he, nor his parents, nor his grandparents could anticipate this event .
The camp's older girls survived because they were able to scramble up a very steep bank. The two cabins holding the younger girls were hit from floodwaters both from the river and a tributary stream simultaneously. This set up a swirling current that trapped them inside.
To describe a similar set of conditions, I rode across the country on a bicycle about 10 years ago and was advised never to camp in a wash. A wash is a dry stream bed in a desert location. You don't camp there because a thunderstorm could hit miles away and send water down the wash from a storm you hadn’t even heard.
To give another example, the northern half of Houston had a derecho last summer. This is a particularly intense type of thunderstorm that CANNOT be predicted—it either forms or it doesn’t. As far as I know, this is the first derecho that Houston had in the 26 years I’ve lived here, and this one hit my house. It made a path about five miles wide and 12 miles long. It knocked down one of my trees.
If you live in the New York City metro area, you cannot imagine Texas weather.
All great reasons NOT to fire all the weather people.
Absolutely true. Especially true because of hurricanes which develop slowly and are much easier to observe if we invest the resources.
Granted, Ma Nature had a significant role in this mess. But not the only one. Another is Trump's crippling of the agencies that could have minimized her impact.
One reason there are dams on the Colorado River and the Rio Grande is to help mitigate these kinds of floods, but you can't damn every river in the West. Damning western rivers also totally disrupts the native ecology and leads to the extinction of rare species of fish.
Wait a damn minute. Is Derecho a Mexican word? WTF? Texans using Mexican words? What has the world come to?
Yes, the fact that this weather phenomenon goes by a Mexican name Shows that it is not found in most of the 50 states.
Tornado is a Mexican name also.
They're Spanish words. Like parasol.
But "derecho" and "tornado" aren't used that way in Spain.
Or Haboobs (an Arabic word) in the desert, walls of sand and dust. There was a big one in Phoenix years ago. They come up without warning and paralyze everything in their wake.
“Haboob,” use it twice and it’s yours for life.
Well, if it's going to rain, and results will be bad, I would evacuate. I can't imagine Texas weather, but I'm pretty sure I'd leave if you were expecting a rainstorm in Houston. I've only been in one bad earthquake (no warning for those, Kathleen) and two bad fires, and I left for the fires. It rains, and the hills sometimes slide, but not near me (a few miles away.)
The problem with leaving every time there is a rainstorm is that you may leave the zip code that gets 9 inches of rain and end up in the zip code that gets 29.
The best protection is to have a good roof on your house and solid windows. My house is elevated nine inches from the ground on top of cinder blocks. I haven't been flooded in the 25 years I've lived here. Lightning has struck my yard twice in the 25 years I lived here, once hitting a tree and once hitting a power pole.
I lived there for 50 years and experienced TS Allison and Harvey and Ike. The hill country has always been extremely dangerous during a rainstorm. Even the wrong prediction of rain amounts would have caused fatalities.
Thanks for the interesting lesson in the nuances of Texas weather.
In Texas, we don't do nuance— We do crash, boom, bang!
"The Storm on the Guadalupe was truly unprecedented." This is the new normal. Expect storms like this every year from now on.
Jeff, the sooner America realizes the obvious… MAGAS over the past few weeks have told us… they just don’t care if people die. A detainee dies at ICE facility, Holman says people die in jail, in prison, so one dies in ICE. To justify the vote on the BBB, eliminating health care.. well people just die. The Texas flood fiasco? No rural hospitals? Biden’s fault… As I have said previously, all the issues during the last administration were Biden’s fault…I predicted that for the next 4 years under Trump it will be Biden’s fault. Best to All
They do not care about anybody, not even each other. They're stupid, mean, or both. They don't even realize that Trump doesn't give two SHITS about their lives.
I always think of Trashcan Man from Stephen King's "The Stand". He's standing there, radiation burned skin sliding off of him, saying "My LIFE for you" to Randall Flagg. This is MAGA; they'll blow the whole thing up while worshipping Satan.
Trashcan Man’s blind allegiance to Randall Flagg is a perfect analogy. (Also, The Stand is the best book ever)
I remember Randall Flagg and I read The Stand over 45 years ago.
Yes, same here. Also reminds me of the planet of the Apes movie, where the cult worshipped the bomb.
One of my favorites! Every time MAGA rears its ugly head, I recall Matt Frewer in the 1994 miniseries: Ci-BO-la…
And a hell of a song by The Alarm!
https://youtu.be/DUPbQi78WHI?si=I2Qhu6QzfzzKAIsR
Joni Ernst has the answer: Everyone Dies.
Will Iowans re-elect her after that? My guess is yes. Damn
Did you know that Iowa, with the richest black dirt in the U.S., imports 90% of their food? All of that beautiful dirt is now being used to grow corn for ethanol and export. Of course, that dirt is also quickly being contaminated by the use of deadly insecticides.
Tell me please, what does our Department of Agriculture do?
Read Bill Bryson's Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, about his growing up in Des Moine in the fifties and sixties. It never used to be that way for Iowa and its incomparably rich topsoil. Your troubling stats are of relatively recent vintage as Monsanto and other corporate interests and one would assume repub ideas of profit took over.
I loved that book of Bryson's--one of his good ones.
People just die Doc, get over it Biden rigged the weather and that did it wise up fool. Trash can man told you how important the pledge, not the pledge of allegiance the pledge to the king, Ernst told us to expect death. I’m expecting the actuary tables will actually tell the story life expectancy drops RFKjr knows it is those sneaky lib’s plan secret from others, almost ALL others but he’s got the science on his side and he’s the only one in on it.
Damn, you can speak republican!
Doc, I’m afraid you are correct.. You would tend to think all those farmers who will go under due to these MAGA policies might, just might rethink their life decisions.
Having the ability to ignore a tremendous amount of cognitive dissonance is a hallmark of people who fall into cults, of which MAGA is one
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I say to her :"You first."
Here’s the deal: many if not most Xtian Nationalists are pre-millennial dispensationalists —which means that the rapture can happen any minute or 3 1/2 years or seven years from now depending on what type of “woo” they believe. So they don’t give a fuck about the world or environment or peeps. Not to get too far afield but that vile Mike Huckabee believes Bibi is hastening the rapture so he doesn’t give a flying fǔck about Palestinians or bonesaw MBS cause he gonna fly away w/Jesus.
This is what happens when people base a big chunk of their theology on a heresy that was invented in the 19th century and has no Biblical basis....
Thank you! It is fucking fan fiction Like "50 Shades of Gray" was to "Twilight".
Do they actually believe this cra,p or do they put it out there to control the gullible and get rich? I believe it's the latter.
This is a deeply held belief of the evangelicals. In my experience they do actually believe it. But in their forecasting when this will happen, they forget the words of Jesus that they do not know the day nor the hour of his return. He also didn’t tell them it was okay to go ahead and kill people and fuck up everything because he’s going to come back and fix it all. There is so much picking and choosing which verses one wants to believe or focus on. They seem to have discarded the verses about welcoming the stranger and taking care of the sick, poor, and hungry.
The Rapture, if it happens according to their beliefs, would rid us of a lot of obnoxious and annoying people. Unfortunately, I think they are misinformed and will be shocked when they find themselves Left Behind.
That rapture horseshit is not even IN the bible, it is fan fiction from the "Late Great Planet Earth written by a nutty fucker who kept predicting Jesus' return.
"in the late 1960s, when Vietnam was raging and the Boomers were having fun doing free love to each other, the conservative evangelical Christians were doing free love to Biblical prophecy, mainlining books by Campus Crusade for Christ bigwig Hal Lindsey like The Late Great Planet Earth which laid out everything else that not only must happen for Jesus to return, but was DEFINITELY HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. (A commenter amusingly points out below often Lindsey’s proclamations would have to be updated in subsequent books, each time world events would render his previous book’s interpretations absolutely inoperable. A charlatan? Yes, yes Hal Lindsey was!)
One thing Lindsey’s books focus on, a prophecy that remains unfulfilled all these years later, is full Israeli control of the Temple Mount, AKA the site of the original Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, which, saith the prophecies, must be rebuilt for Jesus to come back...Anyway, as I said, there are all kinds of disagreements between Bible Trivia champions over the timing of how the prophecies will come to pass, a field of study I like to call GIANT WANKING MOTION DOT GIF."
https://substack.com/home/post/p-166300424?source=queue
Aren't we supposed to get the anti-christ first? Or do they think that was Handsome Joe?
I believe the timeline is said to be Rapture, Antichrist, and then the period of tribulation. In that case, either Joe Biden is not the antichrist or we didn’t miss the folks who were raptured and the ones pointing to OHJ are Left Behind. That also upends my theory that DJT is the antichrist and the red hats are the mark of the beast.
I quit organized religion when I was 11. I'm anti-theist. I'm agnostic because non of us know. I waffle because global religions have often similar creation stories that intrigue me. Most of the rest of it is, in my view, politics ancient and current.
He's here.
Antichrist checklist: he is characterized by pride, envy, anger, lust, avarice, gluttony, and sloth; he worships golden images, uses the name of God vainly, disrespected both his parents, golfs every Sunday, was accomplice to brutal killings and boasts he could kill personally in plain sight and not lose any of his followers, has made a career of stealing from everyone who works with him, has committed adultery on every one of his wives, bears false witness every time he opens his mouth, moved on his neighbor's wife "like a bitch" and covets everything else that belongs to his neighbor; he opposes feeding the hungry, letting the thirsty have water, treating the sick, or especially welcoming the stranger, and he abused children, so that it would be better if a millstone were tied round his neck and he were cast into the sea.
See reply to Linda
Know one will ever know. The people in control probably don't but the sheep that follow them probably do. Lying to yourself is a thing.
I grew up a Southron Baptist. Luckily or by God’s grace my pastor when I was a kid had gone to seminary before the RW crazies took over the SBC and purged the faculty —anyone our pastor was learned in Greek and Hebrew and basically said the ones that Jesus said were left behind are the ones that were saved—“as it was in the days of Noah”. So Jenkins and LaHaye and Hal
Lindsay and Pat Robertson have it bass ackwards even if you take Matthew 24 literally—which I don’t. To answer your question—people believe that. When I was a little kid I used to fear the Rapture. But so relieved as a teen to hear my pastor deflate that nonsense. So yeah lots of people believe it. LaHaye and Jenkins may have too, but that didn’t stop them from making bank off of it. I would suggest reading Jason Kirk’s book “Hell is a World Without You”. Jason a generation or two younger than I am but he captures what many RW evangelicals/Xtian nationalists believe.
https://substack.com/@jasonkirk/note/c-93984507?r=2k15g&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
His podcast is great as well.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vacation-bible-school-podcast/id1511438277?i=1000705315125
If they believe in Revelation of John, yup.
👆🎯https://substack.com/home/post/p-166300424?source=queue
Evan Hurst explains their crazy-ass delusion.
Yes Evan did a good job of splaining it. As if he’s a lapsed Southron Baptist as well.
He’s an out, gay, lapsed Southron Baptist, His substack “the Moral High Ground” tracks religious republicans charged with sexual assault, he goes by arrest information.
That tracks.
That is what a friend predicts as well. No one is disagreeing. We have been there and done that. Biden can be 50 years dead and the MAGAs will still be blaming everything on him, long after people even know who he is.
At least they seem to have tired of Hilary. That must be a relief to her.
Yes, and Obama is not scot free, but new scapegoat is Mamdani.
Oh, right. I forgot that for a moment. He is going to win unless they find a way to jail or deport him.
Arne, If it gets to that point prepare to witness civil war.
Linda, let's hope they'll be gone sooner than later.
David, hope has to be there because we take action. Things will not just fix themselves on their own. Causing creative chaos would be good. Turning their laws on them and thwarting their people, is how to handle a police state. Being careful is par for the course too.
As I've aged I've thrown off the baggage of fear and intimidation. I like the idea of creative chaos. This time around, I won't be careful.
US Marine Corps RVN
I really liked a story Jay Kuo shared about a farmer who was raided by ICE telling them feel free to look around everywhere except a specific pasture. The ICE agent told him he could go ANYWHERE he wanted, and so the guy later saw about 6 ICE agents in that pasture running from a very angry bull.
I think we should create those sorts of experience for ICE agents. They are the Secret Police of the Trump administration. The Brown Shirts or Black shirts, whichever you prefer. I was saying how my mom's friend had a boa constrictor when I was a child and he used to hang a skin on his door with a sign that said, "Beware of Snake." Everyone should be doing that. Let them spend time hiring snake specialists, and losing their ICE agents, since most people don't want to enter a place where a boa could drop down onto them.
I mean , honestly, the Incinerator story is already circling the boards out there, Fastball. https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/07/03/alligator-alcatraz-incinerators/
My bigger issue....is that snopes is still working on that claim....which is scary.
I think it's worse than that. They WANT people to die. (1) The eugenicists are culling and (2) Far too many of them are actively sadistic psychopaths (see: middle-school Goebbels Stephen Miller) who enjoy watching people suffer and die (also see: the Orange Menace)
The same family that will not speak to little Stevie.
They have trained a large army to fight on the side of diseases and natural disasters against the human species, resisting every preventative measure that could lower death tolls.
Oh yes it is a death cult. Sometimes I forget bc I can't stand it
These people are so incredibly delusional... it's really amazing they can even tie their shoes. Religion continues to fuel these insane people. FFS. Is there ANYTHING that can restore common sense in America. I was called "heartless" because I said people who vote for this are getting exactly what they voted for. Gimme a break.
If it assuages your angst, this Canadian absolutely supports your last comment. What the hell happened to the America that we looked up to? Did 50% of the population ingest food that makes them lose their thinking skills. Some of these folks have intellectuals skills of 6-year olds.
First quote of Jeff’s piece, fake weather, fake incineration, fake trump (stunt double). Have you noticed he is now the shortest man in every group foto now see that’s fake trump. I have it from the man hisowndamnself he is 6ft 4in in his doctors office.
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Rupert Murdoch's Fox Propaganda channel, and the right wing disinformation machine happened. Reality TV turned many adults brains to pudding.
I wish Rupert Murdoch had never been allowed to become a citizen. he's made a mess where ever he has set up business.
Stephen Fry did satirical skit based on “It’s a Wonderful Life” only with Rupert Murdoch as the one who sees how the world would have been if he had never been born. (Spoiler: It was a much nicer place) All the Murdoch character see is how to exploit the happiness, and set people against each other. The skit ends with Clarence the Angel played by Fry, pushing Murdoch off the bridge.
Dang, what a great idea! I like Fry's work.
Although Fox network is available, it doesn’t have the readership that you have in the US. 🇨🇦 has fewer right wing propaganda TV channels and when one has an attachment to them, they are not carried by our regular cable providers. The cost varies between $5-$15/month. Not exorbitant by any stretch of the imagination, but still pricey if you’re not a high income earner.
I realize that because I am married to a Canadian, and we lived in BC during W’s reign. I believe the lack is because you have a superior education system. You do have the Western Separatists and many Albertans behave like Texans, and not in a positive way. You dodged a bullet with Pollievere because the intelligent people understood the assignment and voted to stave off the MAGA misery. My stepdaughters in-laws are from Saskatchewan, and love Trump and are uber religious. She’s a Torontonian yuppie and despises all trump stands for.
Thank you for your eloquent comments about 🇨🇦 and I’m glad that you were a member of our dynamic society even for a short period. Yes, there is indeed a slice of Alberta that wants to separate and join the US. I say we help them pay for their move there. 😉
Alas...50 years of Republican underfunding education: stripping out music, arts, CIVICS... low pay and low regard of teachers. Now MAGAs are raiding the school libraries (and even, on occasion public libraries) banning books that "offend" or are "unsuitable" for whatever age range they decide (or that might show their children a different world and different ways of looking at things). Reagan led the charge of the ignorant against education...he disliked educated people (because he was so damned dumb) and he positively hated universities.
All courses that are compulsory in 🇨🇦. You used to be a country revered by the world. What a shame, what a travesty and tragedy that’s befallen your country. 😭
I used to own a home in Florida, and sold it once trump was elected. We’ve never been back and it looks like we’ll never go back now. Those were the good old days. My deceased father who held dual citizenship is rolling over in his grave.
Floribble isn't a safe or healthy state to live in any longer. We live as close to Canada as possible to get (only one other state borders us) but I'd move to Newfoundland or PEI in a heartbeat if I was 50 years younger! (no offense to your Province meant). I hate what Trump and his ilk and cultists have done and are trying to do to this country.
Florrible! 🤭😂. PEI and NFDL are gems. Alas NFDL is a tad too removed from the mainland to live there, although I have visited multiple times. The cost of living and the harsh winters make it a last choice for me. I dream of moving to the Okanagan, but age is also standing in my way.
I just checked to see exactly where in Canada 'the Okanagan' was located (I knew it was the NW; I used to buy Okanagan Pellets for my pellet stove).
My goodness--from the photos it looks beautiful!!!! Not so far from Vancouver or Kamloops...what a gorgeous valley!
Too much reality TV.
This was a rhetorical question and not sure that I would concur with your response. Canadians are also big time TV watchers and our brains haven’t fizzled. Perhaps the real culprit if to US public school system.
Well, I don't watch much tv and these people do. I also got a great public school education in the Fifties and Sixties. And, and, my father didn't allow a television in the house until 1976, when I had been gone for eight years. He didn't think they were useful. He was a Ph.D from Harvard in American Civilization and a full professor at the University of California at Berkeley, in History in the School of Social Welfare. He was the national expert on the development of Social Security law.
Well longtimebirdwatcher, I would say that like me you were fortunate to be raised by parents who invested in their children’s future. My parents did not go to university, but they both had innate abilities that would rival any undergraduate degree nowadays. My siblings and I were fortunate to have attended university and my youngest brother and I went to graduate school. My work life was spent in university and research environments and when my youngest daughter told me she wanted to go to the London School of Economics to do an MSc, I made sure that she had adequate funding and significant aspirations to make it a worthwhile investment.
Susan: Good old Marx: Religion is the opiate of the masses
UGH. TRUE!!!
Amen to that!
Some white chick on instagram had the caucasity to tell a POC that he was the “real monster” because magat voters he knew were in the finding out stage regarding the ICE raids…just clueless.
Yup, Susan, FAFO! Bless those hungry leopards! 😉
Could there be a way to turn Greene’s Bill to make geo engineering weather illegal around to prosecute those corporate criminals who are creating the pollution that is responsible for increasing catastrophic fatal weather events ? Jujitsu the morons.
Thats a nice idea, but you know Empty Greene (lol), wont allow it.
Packaged properly does she possess the brains to notice such a legal hijack ?
Well...probably not.
Love that one! Empty Green
What? -,every corporation pollutes - hard to see that working- although the Oil companies should be getting taxed even higher to help cover pollution control costs
Agreed.
Joshua Aaron is the hero of the day! After reading about Amurrican Way, I needed the good stories of democrats and Joshua doing things right. Thanks, Jeff 🙏🏻
Oh, I forgot Jared Moskowitz. Another hero in reaction to MTG
Joshua Aaron is right in that he is protected by the First Amendment, but as we have seen, Bondi does not care about the Constitution. If she decides to prosecute or apprehend him, I hope the response from law abiding citizens is enormous.
Didn't Krusty G-spot already do a fuckity bye to FEMA or will FEMA only be available to states that obey his holy diaper stain? The cloud? You mean the non-physical storage backup that can be hacked by anyone anywhere...namely Russia and China. His holy shitstain said recently not to worry about the 2026 elections, they'll be fair and not rigged...we all know what bullshit that is?
THESE FUCKS NEED TO GO FUCKITY BYE NOW BEFORE IT GETS FUCKING WORSE!!!
Since they spent $450M of FEMA money for their concentration camp in the Everglades, I think the answer is they will prioritize housing immigrants like cordwood over responses to natural disasters
This shows how pro life they are too. Just carry your baby to term and let the kids die after they're born no matter how. And the girls were attending a christian camp so thoughts and prayers by maga.
He said it a year ago. 'Vote for me and you'll never have to vote again.'
I couldn't believe my ears.
It’s so hard to believe that there are people in this country who don’t give a shit about anyone but themselves. But here we are. It’s getting more difficult to read the news BUT that won’t stop us!!! Peace and Love EVERYONE❤️
The “it won’t happen to me” crowd lacks empathy, though perhaps doesn’t substitute sadism like the maga crow2d does. Fuck them, too.
Abbi, read the Black press, they’ve seen these Gestapo agents roll up on Brown folks in LA, they fully expect the same treatment once ICE has their new funds, then they will come for Jews, the “bad ones” as Donald has defined who are good and bad.. we are on the slippery slope of fascism.
I think we’re already there. And Sporkfoot’s Jewish space lasers + fuckface’s public slur in Iowa, his failure with Iran, & his trashing higher education being the Jews’ fault is all a set-up. As a Black client said to me during the reign of W, “We’ll be on the same cattle cars.”
Remember anti maskers?? Anti vaxxers still going strong and getting worse, so yeah, it’s really something
And we are having the largest measles outbreak in decades.
There is a slight bit of good news regarding that, vaccinations for measles actually increased in the area with the outbreak! Your Local Epidemiologist here on Substack is a good follow for info like that.
Even if you put weather data “up in the cloud,” it’s common for power outages to happen during severe weather events. And when there’s no power, there’s no “cloud.” Part of having a robust network of satellites and offices is so when part of the network goes down, the rest of the network still functions.
As a resident of south central Texas, thank you so much for this post. The pain level for folks who lost loved ones or whose loved ones are still missing is off the charts. Some folks watched cars with lights on & people in them screaming for help as the flood waters washed the cars down the river. No one could get to them.
Oh my god—I am so sorry.
As a former resident with close friends in Kerrville, I feel for all those lost and losing. I fear this only drive them closer to their MAGA, though, as their children are martyrs and US citizens are deported to any hellhole that will take them.
Horrifying!
Terrible!!
Imagine the comments from maga if the tragedy to the (supposedly) Christian camp had happened to an organization with just a hint of DEI. They'd have been celebrating "god's vengeance on the wicked".
Exactly my first thought! The cult can never understand itself.
I think the best way for “Christians” to comprehend what happened is to just file it away under “It was God’s will.” 🤷🏻♀️
Since the Bush Administration, any time there was a devastating natural event, it was "God punishing the gays." We've always had this hopelessly stupid element in the U.S. that gets to have its moronic opinions showcased in the media.
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Courage is indeed in short supply right now, but there are a few, like Joshua. It is laughable: mgt, lutnick, the "Ketamine Kid", and would be completely hilarious if not so massively tragic. Sad. The loss of a child is a parent's worst nightmare, and these floods... so many children. I understand the cruelty is often the point, but so many children the world over have lost their lives thanks to the tangelo colored taint tumor and the "Ketamine Kid." It's not healthy to have so much hate currently in my thinking and soul. It's soul crushing.
1. Read all the How To for Dummies books. We have to count on ourselves.
2. How do you not realize that gutting our agencies equals massive fuckups, Julie? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤬
FAUX News tells them “all is well.”
Lack of brain cells as well.
Are there any Dummies books you want to recommend? I will look for them the next time I order used books or go to a bookstore (Berkeley has many, many bookstores, used and new...)
Well, I looked at their category listing and my mouth dropped open— there’s so many more than I thought or remembered. Probably home improvement (after your house gets demolished by the weather and no FEMA); Gardening (for growing your own veggies that will be soon be unaffordable at the market) and this one made me lol, Political Careers.
https://www.dummies.com/sitemap/
See above...
Lol, I don’t remember posting my comment twice
Well, we've just improved our home (added a storage battery to our solar) and we pay close attention to warnings (the most recent was a tsunami warning two months ago--we'd never had one before...but we evacuated and came home again.) Weather might be bad across from the Golden Gate, but earthquakes are much worse, and fires aren't good. The city had a fire department zoom seminar in March, so I got rid of all the plantings within five feet of the house, so we're clear on that. And I've put in a garden too, although the only things I'm harvesting yet are lettuce and radishes (oh, and some cherries and apricots...) So at least partially covered on everything. I'm going to check out sustainability too.
Ok, I know I'm being facetious here, but isn't three toes' bill to stop manipulating clouds in direct opposition to holman's wanting to throw everything into the "cloud...?"
So I guess the little girls' bodies they're pulling from the flood waters are just little plastic mannequins, fake dead bodies ?
jesusfuckingchrist....🙄😳
Stop Morgan you are going to damage you brain and for some it is terminal, do not try even to formulate ‘logic’ out of a cult. A friendly warning to those caught up in that trap!
🤣 that's not formulating logic, it's a giant eye roll and major shoulder shrug. Just weird stuff I notice....
We need lots and lots more Joshua Aarons out there! A new American hero!
For all of this enshittification we have the Supreme Court to thank. Citizens United opened the floodgates of dark (always right wing) money. The gutting of the voting rights act, especially the most recent decision where gerrymandering that results in under-representation of minorities is Constitutional as long as the method is political, not racial distorted Congressional Districts to the point where the MTG's of the world are foisted upon us. And, the coup de grace, the Donald Trump can criminal to his heart's content decision, as long as his actions are within the definition of his official duties. These three toed sloths wouldn't have the environment to thrive in if not for John Roberts and his merry band of Constitutional arsonists.
Sincerely, Leonard & Mitch
💯 Richard
As usual an AMAZING post Jeff.
Heartbroken bout those wee girls, and anyone else who lost their life. They’ll NEVER Accept that trump was to blame for ALL the Cuts to Weather/FEMA ETC.
May have@ least given enough Warning to get out….Who knows.
mtg etc - NO Words to Waste bout them.
Take Care. x
According to the Census Bureau, in 2024 there were 257.3 million adults alive in the United States.
2024 Presidential Election Results:
Trump: 77.3 million votes = 30.0% of the total number of adults in the US
Harris: 75.0 million votes = 29.15% of the total number of adults in the US
Total who not vote for Trump: 182.3 million = 70.85% of the total number of adults in the US
Richard Nixon: "I am not a crook!" He was a crook so we removed him from office.
Supreme Court and Congress: "Donald Trump is a crook but he's popular so we let him get away with stealing, taking bribes, harming children, racism and sadism and torture of brown skinned people and abusing his office and government agencies for personal gain."
70.85% of the adults in this nation did not vote for this little mafia wannabe gangster. Why are we putting up with this shit?
DNC: Wake the fuck up. The government has been taken over by an organized crime family and you gaze at your navel. Represent the 70% and remove the criminals from the government.
House. GOP: 220 seats. Dems: 212 seats. If all the Dems vote yes, only 5 of 220 GOP members are required to vote for articles of impeachment.
Senate. GOP: 53 seats. Dems & Ind: 47 seats.
Senate votes needed for conviction: 67. If all the Dems vote yes, only 14 GOP senators are required to vote for conviction.
Congress has given the Trump administration $45 Billion to build concentration camps for brown skinned people and MAGA enemies (anyone who they deem to be a threat to stop their law breaking). At what point do 5 House members and 14 senators find their conscience, are swayed to rise above the money and power corruption. And remove the crime family from the Executive Branch? How many hundreds of thousands of humans must suffer and die before these "leaders" do the right thing?
Historically, the largest totalitarian leaders killed literally millions of their own people through war, famine, gulags, secret police torturing. Internal uprisings -- zero? Trump's health is failing, so that's hopeful. But he's creating the dystopia that his enablers will rapidly inherit and we will not have a normal world -- nothing like it was -- to return to.
"How many hundreds of thousands of humans must suffer and die"? I don't see the US getting out of this at a price less than millions of corpses.
"Senate votes needed for conviction: 67. If all the Dems vote yes, " TWENTY GOP senators are required for conviction. Not happening.
I am so sick of the Dems/DNC being blamed for this absolute travesty. 90 f'in million people didn't bother themselves to get to the polls, even after Dem legislators and candidates literally BEGGED them to register and vote! They spent tens of millions of dollars on efforts to get out the vote, and millions of Americans volunteered to register and help potential voters. At WHAT point do we stop making excuses for those who choose to abdicate their personal responsibility - their civic and patriotic duty - for participation in our democracy?
Those who chose not to vote are just as responsible for this hell scape as Trump voters. They best not complain about anything!! Their complacency sentenced this nation to death.
It would/will be an easy RICO case on about 500 counts.