And it's no coincidence that the media is desperately trying to explain to us that the only people who can be legally shot to death in this country with impunity are blacks, Hispanics, homeless, protesters, women, and schoolchildren, not white rich men... Especially no billionaires!
It's important for the 185 million American adults (70% of the total), who did not vote for Trump, to be aware that the world's unethical oligarchs/autocrats are about to take control of the biggest economy and strongest military on earth. And we should be aware that the journalists who are tasked with telling the truth are compromised to help the autocrats deceive the majority.
The failure by the Press to ask Trump the Why questions is a part of the coverup of immoral and criminal behavior. Shutting down the Autocrat Club is not in their financial interest. See the LA Times, WAPO and the TV news networks. They are all well paid to not ask Why.
Why was Donald allowed to keep operating his businesses while President? And use them to take money from foreign powers in exchange for favors and influence.
Why is he being allowed to expand his businesses after inauguration?
Why was Elon allowed to spend $250 million in an election deception/fraud campaign? That obviously worked! Elon now controls/influences the incoming administration!
Why are Donald and Elon and his pals allowed to do business deals with our economic and military adversaries? And talk to them and hide the conversations. Is Donald working for US or them?
Why did Donald nominate a Russian propagandist to be in charge of spying on Russia?
Let's ask the "responsible" journalists Why aren't they asking Why?
Murder is wrong, full stop, if it is not in self defense. Shooting a rich guy in the back is still murder. I don't want to become a LW version of the RW lunatics.
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That said, the corporate media has repeatedly let down the whole country when they fail to cover the extreme violence that is being used to kill females, POC, and LGBTQ+ people, suppress voting rights, steal elections, etc., all in service of the oligarchy and Trump, Inc. And the repugnicans. So I totes agree with you there.
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It's been suggested in podcast land that we LW voters should be throwing sand in the gears in our respective states and localities to prevent fascism from getting a toe hold or a strangle hold on us. In addition, we should be lobbying hard for our local state governments to 1. make the John Lewis Voting Rights Act legal locally, and B. support the Interstate Compact to have their EC votes mirror the popular vote. Maryland's Jamie Raskin is working hard to get states to commit to doing this and we would need 270 EC votes to be cast as part of the Compact. I think he's managed around 200 votes so far but needs at least another 70? Let's not surrender in advance, folks. Let's all be pains in the ass for Democracy!
ProPublica has a story today about how billionaires pay zero towards Medicare because there are very special IRS rules written just for them. I hate it here.
And of course, the concept of income subject to income tax (and associated taxes) has been redefined to only apply to use lesser humans that are on a payroll.
Billionaires…and Taylor Swift gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to truck drivers for her tour! We need billionaires like her please! Screw Musk-screw LDFF.
Taylor Swift donated enough to the food pantry I volunteer at to have the whole place renovated and filled. Anonymously. But everyone knows.
It has free breakfast, a daycare center which charges a miniscule fee, emergency food delivery, and a whole host of other community services.
Someone magical and anonymous donated enough turkeys to feed ... well, Turkey the country. And all the trimmings, too. I think it was her.
As a joke, the director sent letters to a bunch of Richie Richs asking for a donation. Trump, Leon, Buffet, and I forget who else. Buffet was the only one who responded and gave.
So fuck the ones who grow richer and never contribute anything positive to society. Fuck them and their families who follow their example.
And deepest respect and appreciation to those who help. 💙
(Sidebar: my adoptive father's parents immigrated here from Greece, so I was raised in a very Greek environment. The food! The dancing! The insane aunts and drunken uncles! Opa!
So I want to know what in great, blue fucking HELL did Greece do to that orange asshole that he wants Kimberly Gargoyle as his ambassador to Greece?!?!
Ti kefi, ti plaka…opa indeed. I spent a few months on assignment to the HAF. Like you, I pity the Hellenics having to host Gargoyle (funny take on her name and apropos).
I have a great story about my thea's (aunt) friend in the mountains and how she protected her Resistance sons.
Nazis went into her mountain village to hunt the Resistance. Her sons were hiding in the caves. The Nazis brought her into the village square and said if she didn't tell them where the resistance was, they would cut off her fingers, knuckle by knuckle. She refused.
Middle finger, first knuckle WHACK. Nothing. Second knuckle WHACK. Nothing. Now her thumb, but the Nazis hesitated. She sucked her own blood and spat it in their face. "You can cut me into pieces. NEVER will I tell you anything!"
They gave up.
I had the honor to meet her, this tiny woman dressed all in black. She pinched my cheeks purple and held up her mangled hand while her youngest son jokingly translated: "Live long and prosper." 🖖
My ex's grandparents came from Greece. My two children with him are half Greek background and Greek Orthodox. I just burst out in laughter when I saw that the Gargoyle was to be the Ambassador. I remember back in the 70's when there was a news report that Nixon's helicopter/plane had crashed. Wasn't true, but the Greeks were all excited that finally a Greek (Agnew) would be president. This is before Agnew's walk of shame. She is just trash. We are already laughed at in the rest of world, people like her and Lake round out the picture. At least Lake dresses like she has some class and doesn't look like Halloween scary. Guess she and coke boy have broken up?
Yep! And she summers in my state, which I believe is why she gives so much to us. We try very hard to protect her privacy
She's worked very hard to get where she is and still does. I don't know her music (my tastes run more towards geriatrics like Aerosmith, Van Halen, etc.), but I do respect what she does. She brings happiness, not misery (except to the occasional ex-boyfriend, and which one of us wouldn't love to do THAT?!).
Last year she gave out about $93 million in bonuses to her concert crew. This year she gave about another $140 million. THAT'S how a boss should treat the people who work for them.
Plus $100,000 to food banks in every city she appeared in. She's filmed at stadiums "handing out hundies" to the food & bev crews. She rarely talks about it, but in "Miss Americana" she identifies herself as a Christian. Living her faith. 🙏🙏
Taylor is one of the few billionaires who actually worked for what she earned ! If that was true for all of the oligarchs we might have a half dozen of them ! Felon would definitely be out of the line up ! Trump would be selling pencils under a bridge with a monkey and an organ !
America for sale. 80 years ago right now, American soldiers were fighting for their lives in the Ardennes against the Nazis. These brave men are spinning in their graves watching this bullshit from the hereafter. This can't be allowed to happen. We should channel Anthony McAuliffe, the acting commander of the 101st Airborne in Bastogne when the Germans demanded his surrender: To the German commander:
I remember my father telling me that story when I was only 5 or 6 years old …I always thought that Commander Anthony Mc Auliffe was the bravest soldier in the war next to my father of course !
He was in command because Maxwell Taylor, the commanding general of the 101st. Airborne was unable to get to Bastogne due to the weather. Those troopers got pissed when somebody said that Patton rescued them. "We were relieved, damnit!"
My Dad was a bombardier in the south Pacific. Flew B-24 Liberator and dropped bombs on the enemy. He never talked about it, not ever. The only story he ever told was that they would run target practice runs, dropping crates full of rocks on practice targets. He imagined the enemy laughing at the thought that the US Air Corps was out of ammo and reduced to dropping rocks.
He was my hero, and while I miss him every day, I'm thankful that he's not here to see what's happened to this country that he loved so much.
That would be amazing if the wannabe dictator from hell became incarcerated before his shouldn't be happening inauguration and had to stay there for a while. His ongoing plans to keep on crimin' could actually come to a screeching halt. He hasn't even taken office yet but he keeps stirring shit up at a record pace. Fingers crossed that he finally gets more than the usual handslaps for a change.
First, kudos for highlighting Elon Musk’s motives. The whole thing for business is to reduce or remove the frictions on profit such as taxes and regulations (labor costs are another, and why companies went off-shore). Taxes the rich & corporations defer pay for the educated workforce, the infrastructure, the security (military, and other perks of society. So they push the tab downward to the people who actually do the work. Then they bitch about minimum pay. Sigh.
As for regulations, IMHO, they are evolutionary. At the turn of the last century Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle resulting in the Pure Food and Drug Act. Damn those socialists, another bite in profit. Or the flaming Cuyahoga River resulting in the Clean Water Act. The Silent Spring by Rachel Carson inspired creation of the EPA. The Federal Aviation Regulations are in some part written in blood (I’m a former aviator). One could certainly write a book about why we have banking regulations…oh never mind, read The Big Short about the 2008 recession.
So we enter the brave new world where $1B allows one to poison the very people who made America great. To circumvent the taxes allowing their business to thrive, perhaps even exist (looking at you Elon with your Space X US contracts).
I return to my kudos to Jeff and others on blog and journalism. Like Upton Sinclair, Rachel Carson, et al it is your exposes, your continual light on malfeasance that will save our Country.
An absolutely wonderful comment. This is also exactly how I see it. So it must be right! (just kidding). But all true, and this country in every area I can think of is now going backwards.
Our democracy is in hospice. Next January, we will be a leader less nation. I saw that King Shitpants is building a new hotel in Saudi Arabia. He gave the oligarchs what they wanted to keep him out of prison and buy his election. We're fucked.
He approached Gorbachev with the same proposal many years ago, I’m not sure why it doesn’t exist already, unless Putin knew it would alert further investigation into Trump’s involvement in Russia James!
Moscow is more geographically correct, considering Trump stayed in Moscows National Hotel in the Lennon suite, which is right next door to KGB headquarters SPW!!
Putin is a Russian mob boss, not simply a dictator who gets a cut from all the other oligarchs ( mobsters) action…Trump was born into the Genovese mob family… did business with all 5 East coast crime families, West coast as well… the Concrete Cartel and other mob run business built Trumps properties… the Atlantic City casino property was owned by a mob boss… the mob launders tons of cash through the casino biz… Trump Tower apartments were a major source of Russian mob money laundering… Trump has met with Semion Mogilivech who at one time was “the” head of Russian organized crime. Along with many others over the years, via FBI investigations since the 1970’s…Robert Mueller was a part of several of these investigations Crossfire Hurricane was but one, but there have been several…Putin has Kompramat in droves on Trump as the KGB has been gathering information on Trump since his days with Ivana the Eastern Bloc model and socialite! It’s all information in FBI, CIA and Justice Department files. Along with several books and published articles!
No one ever said the Russian golden shower 🚿 prostitutes were females or even human for that matter ! Puppy 🐶love ?💕 squeal like a pig ,? 🐷 🦇batshit ? Monkey monsoons 🙈? Who knows ? But Vlad has something on him besides bodily excretions !
Just my opinion. The Russians have a great deal on him. Dating back to the 70's, Trump Tower and laundering Russian mob money. But the icing on the cake are minors. People unfortunately now, look the other way about financial crimes, bad behavior, but the one thing that no one will defend is pedophilia. I'd be willing to be there are tapes and/or videos of him with minors. Girls, maybe boys too. The one thing that no one would defend him about. But MAGA would say it was doctored anyway. He's terrified of Putin. His behavior is so 180 degrees of the way he treats pretty much everyone else. He's like a whipped puppy. As far as Melania and Ivana are concerned - both came from former Soviet countries and Melania's dad was a member of the Yugoslavian Communist Party. Funny how the Reagan adorers never mention that. I think it was extremely telling, that days after he won the election, Russian TV was showing semi naked pictures of Melania all over Russian TV. The message was loud and clear from Putin: I STILL OWN YOU. Some day it will come out what went on. Maybe not in my lifetime, but secrets like that don't stay secrets forever. Just absolute disrespect shown towards Trump with those pictures and his wife.
That's been 100% of my analysis for 10 years. The only place where we differ is that Ivana's father was a Czech Communist official and was passing on info to the Soviets in the Eighties. I wonder if somehow it went through the Stasi where Putin was working. I'm not date checking here, but I think I'm pretty close. And based on his Miss Teenage America thing, I think we already know he was interested in underage girls, how underaged we don't know.
The woman who accused Pete Hegseth of rape believes he put something in her drink. She was unable to fight him off, but was aware he was raping her. Got me thinking. People seem to do wild things if drugged. I'm sure pootie wouldn't do that for blackmail.
Perfect! Trump being a mobbed up Russian asset, will undoubtedly bring more harm to our planet than any natural or accidental disaster that has ever occurred throughout history Karen!
I never paid attention to politics until Donnie the Demented Degenerate rode down that golden escalator. He’s part of my generation and ANYONE who has paid attention knew he was a vile, disgusting person. I can’t figure out why so many boomers voted for him. Did they drop too much acid? Has their blood pressure meds triggered another psychedelic trip? Maybe they’ll snap out of it when they stop getting Social Security.
This is why I blame Mark Burnett for the disaster this country has become . He promoted the flim-flam con man for years; shoving this bullshit show down our throats so that Drumpf became a household name outside of NY/NJ.
Years ago tRump did the talk show circuit that is where I first learned to dislike him. tRump has always been an entitled jerk, his whole life. First thing he learned from daddy was how to discriminate against black people and get sued by the DOJ then make a deal with Doj and break that deal. In 1974
Most people in Jersey knew of the family’s mob relations Stephanie. The FBI planted agents in his Casinos, since the mob was prevalent in their operations. Pauly C. fleeced Trump on the purchase of land in Atlantic City, &175k property that was purchased for well over $1M!
I'm a Boomer. Good portion of your Boomer population are racist and misogynistic, especially in the Midwest and South. We were brought up in an era where a woman couldn't have a checking account if she wasn't married. Couldn't get a prescription for birth control without her husband's ok. When we were in grade school, blacks were still barred from attending some white schools. I remember hearing on TV when Medgar Evers had to be escorted by the state police to attend the University of Mississippi. Rosa Parks happened when I was in grade school. I grew up in the North and didn't find out about a lot of this stuff until I was older. All Boomers growing up with this stuff going on. So how many grew up as adults and discarded these prejudices? And how many still have them today?
Notice that the states that Musk are polluting are all Red states. Sorry for the Blues that live in these states. I couldn't live in a Red state today. But this is what the majority of the voters in that state wanted. Dirty air and dirty water. It's getting to be a contest in my brain - who do I hate the most? Musk or Trump. Probably Musk. Trump at least is a home grown menace. Musk has the audacity to come from another country and then want to destroy ours.
Bravo, Alvin Bragg. I hope that he will finalize the sentencing and let it linger over Drumpf's (short) tenure. Drumpf will fall out of a window within the next few years, or maybe not if he does his master's bidding. We shall see.
Considering Putin is the most powerful mob boss in history, whom Trump admittedly owes big time. You’re likely right Arne! Unless he hands over Ukraine, and uses a katana to slice and dice NATO to shreds, which is only just the beginning of Trumps payback to his master!!
The Libertarians have a book The Myth of the Robber Barons. Now in eighth edition, foreword by Stephen Moore. My former employer, a chain of private K-8 schools, pushed it on us. So we would have alternative facts, I guess.
We're already here. Our country doesn't change. We evolve, but we don't change. Look at how prisons deny parole because they need their labor. Prisoners work at fast food chains, private businesses and construction. Most are black. The state of Alabama is the worst. They can work in free market jobs, but denied parole. Oligarchs are winning. Not much different from 1865.
Alabama is awful! The fast food industry is slamming unions for wanting to stop the practice, accusing unions of alienating black workers!
Wendy's McDonald's and KFC franchises pay minumum wage, some of which is kicked back to the employer, some to the prison and what remains, to the prisoner.
We can still fight! GOP Senators' feathers are ruffled at Turd's "let me do recess appts". Senators value their power. We must inundate them, GOP, DEM, IND on SS, Medicare and Medicaid! And vets' benefits. #DoSomething
I agree with Mangione as far as the corporate vultures, but obviously murdering people you don't agree with is not the solution. I was surprised how educated and smart he is because he made some stupid mistakes if he didn't want to get caught. Wonder if he's schizophrenic? It often rears it's ugly head late teens or early 20's. The Unabomber was schizophrenic and paranoid. If he had been receiving threats, why didn't the CEO hire security? He could have afforded it. Nowadays when someone threatens you, I'd take it seriously.
How does one donate $1B to the “United States”? Do you make the check out to The United States of America, c/o Donald J. Trump? Or does Donny just give you his routing number?
And it's no coincidence that the media is desperately trying to explain to us that the only people who can be legally shot to death in this country with impunity are blacks, Hispanics, homeless, protesters, women, and schoolchildren, not white rich men... Especially no billionaires!
It's important for the 185 million American adults (70% of the total), who did not vote for Trump, to be aware that the world's unethical oligarchs/autocrats are about to take control of the biggest economy and strongest military on earth. And we should be aware that the journalists who are tasked with telling the truth are compromised to help the autocrats deceive the majority.
The failure by the Press to ask Trump the Why questions is a part of the coverup of immoral and criminal behavior. Shutting down the Autocrat Club is not in their financial interest. See the LA Times, WAPO and the TV news networks. They are all well paid to not ask Why.
Why was Donald allowed to keep operating his businesses while President? And use them to take money from foreign powers in exchange for favors and influence.
Why is he being allowed to expand his businesses after inauguration?
Why was Elon allowed to spend $250 million in an election deception/fraud campaign? That obviously worked! Elon now controls/influences the incoming administration!
Why are Donald and Elon and his pals allowed to do business deals with our economic and military adversaries? And talk to them and hide the conversations. Is Donald working for US or them?
Why did Donald nominate a Russian propagandist to be in charge of spying on Russia?
Let's ask the "responsible" journalists Why aren't they asking Why?
To answer your question, Donald is working for his own aggrandizement.
Let’s only hope DT works hard enough for himself to get impeached again and get thrown out for good!!!
There would not be sufficient votes in either house.
They're not asking Why because they've been paid off or threatened with loss of job, or kompromat, and they're effing cowards.
The spinelessness of the MSM is going to be one of the sinister hallmarks of our era.
Yup. They get special dispensation from the orange god king.
Don't obey in advance; don't give up in advance.
Especially not the legacy media oligarchic owners.
Yes, they are appalled that a rich, powerful, white man got his karma.
Murder is wrong, full stop, if it is not in self defense. Shooting a rich guy in the back is still murder. I don't want to become a LW version of the RW lunatics.
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That said, the corporate media has repeatedly let down the whole country when they fail to cover the extreme violence that is being used to kill females, POC, and LGBTQ+ people, suppress voting rights, steal elections, etc., all in service of the oligarchy and Trump, Inc. And the repugnicans. So I totes agree with you there.
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It's been suggested in podcast land that we LW voters should be throwing sand in the gears in our respective states and localities to prevent fascism from getting a toe hold or a strangle hold on us. In addition, we should be lobbying hard for our local state governments to 1. make the John Lewis Voting Rights Act legal locally, and B. support the Interstate Compact to have their EC votes mirror the popular vote. Maryland's Jamie Raskin is working hard to get states to commit to doing this and we would need 270 EC votes to be cast as part of the Compact. I think he's managed around 200 votes so far but needs at least another 70? Let's not surrender in advance, folks. Let's all be pains in the ass for Democracy!
ProPublica has a story today about how billionaires pay zero towards Medicare because there are very special IRS rules written just for them. I hate it here.
And of course, the concept of income subject to income tax (and associated taxes) has been redefined to only apply to use lesser humans that are on a payroll.
Oh! So we are humans now? Must be a mistake, and I am sure Elno Skum will find a way to fix it.
Oooo, Elno Skum--I like that! I may have to use it (with attribution, of course!)
I got it from someone else, and - whoever it was please forgive me! - do not recall who. So, enjoy, and use without attributing me.
The version I saw was Lone Skum
I like that, too.
Stephen, Elmo Skum. Nice. I was trying to think of a "skunk" like nickname, but want to spend my time resisting + reading.
No, no! It’s ElNo, not ElMo. Gotta be an anagram!
Billionaires…and Taylor Swift gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to truck drivers for her tour! We need billionaires like her please! Screw Musk-screw LDFF.
Taylor Swift donated enough to the food pantry I volunteer at to have the whole place renovated and filled. Anonymously. But everyone knows.
It has free breakfast, a daycare center which charges a miniscule fee, emergency food delivery, and a whole host of other community services.
Someone magical and anonymous donated enough turkeys to feed ... well, Turkey the country. And all the trimmings, too. I think it was her.
As a joke, the director sent letters to a bunch of Richie Richs asking for a donation. Trump, Leon, Buffet, and I forget who else. Buffet was the only one who responded and gave.
So fuck the ones who grow richer and never contribute anything positive to society. Fuck them and their families who follow their example.
And deepest respect and appreciation to those who help. 💙
(Sidebar: my adoptive father's parents immigrated here from Greece, so I was raised in a very Greek environment. The food! The dancing! The insane aunts and drunken uncles! Opa!
So I want to know what in great, blue fucking HELL did Greece do to that orange asshole that he wants Kimberly Gargoyle as his ambassador to Greece?!?!
I'm ready to burst a brain blood vessel.)
Ti kefi, ti plaka…opa indeed. I spent a few months on assignment to the HAF. Like you, I pity the Hellenics having to host Gargoyle (funny take on her name and apropos).
I'd love to take credit, but I stole Gargoyle from spell check. Hahaha!
Kali spera, philos mou! Efharisto! 💙
Yet another failure by AI!!!
Mindy, maybe to soothe the insult, you could envision the time away from ambassadoring, tending to Botox, various implants etc.
Geez, the time on just her wanna-be-sexy lips will minimize her exposure. JC on a Pogo stick.
Have you seen her recently? she really looks like a monster.
Yep, what's that Mediterranean sun gonna do to her complexion?
They fought against Hitler and his Nazi creatures !
I have a great story about my thea's (aunt) friend in the mountains and how she protected her Resistance sons.
Nazis went into her mountain village to hunt the Resistance. Her sons were hiding in the caves. The Nazis brought her into the village square and said if she didn't tell them where the resistance was, they would cut off her fingers, knuckle by knuckle. She refused.
Middle finger, first knuckle WHACK. Nothing. Second knuckle WHACK. Nothing. Now her thumb, but the Nazis hesitated. She sucked her own blood and spat it in their face. "You can cut me into pieces. NEVER will I tell you anything!"
They gave up.
I had the honor to meet her, this tiny woman dressed all in black. She pinched my cheeks purple and held up her mangled hand while her youngest son jokingly translated: "Live long and prosper." 🖖
What a story! May we all #Resist with her courage.
My ex's grandparents came from Greece. My two children with him are half Greek background and Greek Orthodox. I just burst out in laughter when I saw that the Gargoyle was to be the Ambassador. I remember back in the 70's when there was a news report that Nixon's helicopter/plane had crashed. Wasn't true, but the Greeks were all excited that finally a Greek (Agnew) would be president. This is before Agnew's walk of shame. She is just trash. We are already laughed at in the rest of world, people like her and Lake round out the picture. At least Lake dresses like she has some class and doesn't look like Halloween scary. Guess she and coke boy have broken up?
That's how you know Swift is an excellent person, she doesn't brag about it, she(like Dolly,) just helps out.
They need to get her out of the country so Jr. can move on.
Jr. needs to concentrate on getting clean/sober. IMO.
She knows too much ! Rump is starting to pay her off. Gargoyle is perfect !
Nah, Don Jr has a new, younger, richer love interest. Gargoyle is in the way, so TrumpilThinSkin is smoothing the way for a non-litigious breakup.
And these are The Days of Your Life. 🤣
I'm sure fish lips knows where all the bodies are buried too. She hook some ancient rich Greek guy and disappear off our radar.
Sick shit. Amazing family values....
He's getting her out of juniors hair. Relationship is imploding, sounds like he's buying her off.
Yep! And she summers in my state, which I believe is why she gives so much to us. We try very hard to protect her privacy
She's worked very hard to get where she is and still does. I don't know her music (my tastes run more towards geriatrics like Aerosmith, Van Halen, etc.), but I do respect what she does. She brings happiness, not misery (except to the occasional ex-boyfriend, and which one of us wouldn't love to do THAT?!).
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Last year she gave out about $93 million in bonuses to her concert crew. This year she gave about another $140 million. THAT'S how a boss should treat the people who work for them.
Plus $100,000 to food banks in every city she appeared in. She's filmed at stadiums "handing out hundies" to the food & bev crews. She rarely talks about it, but in "Miss Americana" she identifies herself as a Christian. Living her faith. 🙏🙏
Taylor is one of the few billionaires who actually worked for what she earned ! If that was true for all of the oligarchs we might have a half dozen of them ! Felon would definitely be out of the line up ! Trump would be selling pencils under a bridge with a monkey and an organ !
No, the monkey would have nothing to do with him
Never said who was holding the leash and who was cranking the organ !😂
omg hahaha
Oprah too?...
Oh can we make that come true Robert?!! Cause I’m down with that..
The minkey does not tell me what to play, and I do not tell the minkey what to do with his money
Respectfully disagree Tess. Billionaire level wealth should be taxed out of existence!
Well they definitely should be taxed!!!!
Tess; Economic power begets political power. Therein lies the problem.
Justice Louis Brandeis:
“ You can have wealth concentrated in the hands of the few or you can have democracy. But you can’t have both.”
We have to get the big money 💰 out of politics,maybe taxation is the way to start, just not sure 100%. Bill Gates earned his.
Gates earned his the same way Musk did: right place, right time, knowing when to back a technology. Plus limitless ambition.
Repealing Citizens United would be a good start.
Gates earned his by fleecing every person who owns a computer. He is no ethical poster boy
America for sale. 80 years ago right now, American soldiers were fighting for their lives in the Ardennes against the Nazis. These brave men are spinning in their graves watching this bullshit from the hereafter. This can't be allowed to happen. We should channel Anthony McAuliffe, the acting commander of the 101st Airborne in Bastogne when the Germans demanded his surrender: To the German commander:
NUTS!!
Sincerely, the American commander.
And my father was one of them.
I remember my father telling me that story when I was only 5 or 6 years old …I always thought that Commander Anthony Mc Auliffe was the bravest soldier in the war next to my father of course !
He was in command because Maxwell Taylor, the commanding general of the 101st. Airborne was unable to get to Bastogne due to the weather. Those troopers got pissed when somebody said that Patton rescued them. "We were relieved, damnit!"
What our country has become
My Dad survived Midway Charlie.. and if he were alive today he wouldn’t even recognize
Damn right ! 🤨👍
My Dad was a bombardier in the south Pacific. Flew B-24 Liberator and dropped bombs on the enemy. He never talked about it, not ever. The only story he ever told was that they would run target practice runs, dropping crates full of rocks on practice targets. He imagined the enemy laughing at the thought that the US Air Corps was out of ammo and reduced to dropping rocks.
He was my hero, and while I miss him every day, I'm thankful that he's not here to see what's happened to this country that he loved so much.
That would be my Uncle Jack.
1. Elmo : “Quid pro quo! Quid pro quo!” Jumps for joy
2. Proceed to sentencing and put Orange Fuckwit in jail/prison until inauguration. No fuckwit is above the law.
That would be amazing if the wannabe dictator from hell became incarcerated before his shouldn't be happening inauguration and had to stay there for a while. His ongoing plans to keep on crimin' could actually come to a screeching halt. He hasn't even taken office yet but he keeps stirring shit up at a record pace. Fingers crossed that he finally gets more than the usual handslaps for a change.
yes that would be great, but not even dark brandon can pull that off...so many others would get in the way
Why is he being allowed to travel outside the US?
My understanding is Merchan didn’t place any travel restrictions
That means going to Hell isn’t out of the question?🧐😅
Lol, I hope so.
I'm guessing not every country is operating the same, hope they all get on the same page and freeze the very special boy out.
Yes please Kay-EI, thanks for this post!!
🇺🇸 Hey JAUN ! Be a stand up guy and sentence that bastard before the inauguration! 🙏🏻🙏🏻 For the sake of the country DO IT !🇺🇸
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Kay-El, oohhh! Paging the Karma Dispatcher: Quick! Get us the GPS map to NYC Stat!
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Especially not cheeto boy
I love Alvin Bragg - bring it on, indeed! 💙💙💙. Please, please do - make our day!
First, kudos for highlighting Elon Musk’s motives. The whole thing for business is to reduce or remove the frictions on profit such as taxes and regulations (labor costs are another, and why companies went off-shore). Taxes the rich & corporations defer pay for the educated workforce, the infrastructure, the security (military, and other perks of society. So they push the tab downward to the people who actually do the work. Then they bitch about minimum pay. Sigh.
As for regulations, IMHO, they are evolutionary. At the turn of the last century Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle resulting in the Pure Food and Drug Act. Damn those socialists, another bite in profit. Or the flaming Cuyahoga River resulting in the Clean Water Act. The Silent Spring by Rachel Carson inspired creation of the EPA. The Federal Aviation Regulations are in some part written in blood (I’m a former aviator). One could certainly write a book about why we have banking regulations…oh never mind, read The Big Short about the 2008 recession.
So we enter the brave new world where $1B allows one to poison the very people who made America great. To circumvent the taxes allowing their business to thrive, perhaps even exist (looking at you Elon with your Space X US contracts).
I return to my kudos to Jeff and others on blog and journalism. Like Upton Sinclair, Rachel Carson, et al it is your exposes, your continual light on malfeasance that will save our Country.
An absolutely wonderful comment. This is also exactly how I see it. So it must be right! (just kidding). But all true, and this country in every area I can think of is now going backwards.
Excellent post David!!
Well dug comment David, had to come back and read it twice!!
Amen! Wonderful comment 👏🏻👏🏻
Welcome to Trumpistan 🍊
Our democracy is in hospice. Next January, we will be a leader less nation. I saw that King Shitpants is building a new hotel in Saudi Arabia. He gave the oligarchs what they wanted to keep him out of prison and buy his election. We're fucked.
Now he can get his Trump Tower Moscow.
He approached Gorbachev with the same proposal many years ago, I’m not sure why it doesn’t exist already, unless Putin knew it would alert further investigation into Trump’s involvement in Russia James!
Lisa, we are NOT FUCKED YET! Don't give up EVER, especially b4 inauguration!
#DoSomething #Resist
I'm not giving up. I'm one of those weirdos who lives on hope. Even though it slaps me in the face. I try again.
Hope is the gateway to despair.
I have a tattoo on my right
bicep that says " Don't get too excited " Meaning basically the same as Hope is the gateway to despair.
Don't forget, it is also an identifying mark.
Good idea Tess, deleting a section of the 14th amendment might yield some path forward against his inauguration!
Absofuckinglutely Lisa!!
Or Trumpimuskovistan maybe?
Moscow is more geographically correct, considering Trump stayed in Moscows National Hotel in the Lennon suite, which is right next door to KGB headquarters SPW!!
I can't help but wonder what Pootie has on the Dumpster. It must be huge. More than pee pee.
Putin is a Russian mob boss, not simply a dictator who gets a cut from all the other oligarchs ( mobsters) action…Trump was born into the Genovese mob family… did business with all 5 East coast crime families, West coast as well… the Concrete Cartel and other mob run business built Trumps properties… the Atlantic City casino property was owned by a mob boss… the mob launders tons of cash through the casino biz… Trump Tower apartments were a major source of Russian mob money laundering… Trump has met with Semion Mogilivech who at one time was “the” head of Russian organized crime. Along with many others over the years, via FBI investigations since the 1970’s…Robert Mueller was a part of several of these investigations Crossfire Hurricane was but one, but there have been several…Putin has Kompramat in droves on Trump as the KGB has been gathering information on Trump since his days with Ivana the Eastern Bloc model and socialite! It’s all information in FBI, CIA and Justice Department files. Along with several books and published articles!
No one ever said the Russian golden shower 🚿 prostitutes were females or even human for that matter ! Puppy 🐶love ?💕 squeal like a pig ,? 🐷 🦇batshit ? Monkey monsoons 🙈? Who knows ? But Vlad has something on him besides bodily excretions !
Just my opinion. The Russians have a great deal on him. Dating back to the 70's, Trump Tower and laundering Russian mob money. But the icing on the cake are minors. People unfortunately now, look the other way about financial crimes, bad behavior, but the one thing that no one will defend is pedophilia. I'd be willing to be there are tapes and/or videos of him with minors. Girls, maybe boys too. The one thing that no one would defend him about. But MAGA would say it was doctored anyway. He's terrified of Putin. His behavior is so 180 degrees of the way he treats pretty much everyone else. He's like a whipped puppy. As far as Melania and Ivana are concerned - both came from former Soviet countries and Melania's dad was a member of the Yugoslavian Communist Party. Funny how the Reagan adorers never mention that. I think it was extremely telling, that days after he won the election, Russian TV was showing semi naked pictures of Melania all over Russian TV. The message was loud and clear from Putin: I STILL OWN YOU. Some day it will come out what went on. Maybe not in my lifetime, but secrets like that don't stay secrets forever. Just absolute disrespect shown towards Trump with those pictures and his wife.
That's been 100% of my analysis for 10 years. The only place where we differ is that Ivana's father was a Czech Communist official and was passing on info to the Soviets in the Eighties. I wonder if somehow it went through the Stasi where Putin was working. I'm not date checking here, but I think I'm pretty close. And based on his Miss Teenage America thing, I think we already know he was interested in underage girls, how underaged we don't know.
Yea, that had me scratching my head. What did Putin hope to gain by insulting trump in front of all of Russia, and the rest of the world?!?
Was it just to show him who’s still his Boss? A very strange incident, indeed.
The woman who accused Pete Hegseth of rape believes he put something in her drink. She was unable to fight him off, but was aware he was raping her. Got me thinking. People seem to do wild things if drugged. I'm sure pootie wouldn't do that for blackmail.
Lennon suite or Lenin suite? I mean … John?
😳😳😳
Dumbfuckistan
That is what the rest of the world is calling us.
Perfect! Trump being a mobbed up Russian asset, will undoubtedly bring more harm to our planet than any natural or accidental disaster that has ever occurred throughout history Karen!
No, climate change has that wrapped up already. But it won’t be good by any stretch
I never paid attention to politics until Donnie the Demented Degenerate rode down that golden escalator. He’s part of my generation and ANYONE who has paid attention knew he was a vile, disgusting person. I can’t figure out why so many boomers voted for him. Did they drop too much acid? Has their blood pressure meds triggered another psychedelic trip? Maybe they’ll snap out of it when they stop getting Social Security.
He’s white & male. I think The Apprentice is largely responsible for his positive image in the Midwest & South. Metro NYC area hates him
I don't think he'd be where he is today without The Apprentice. Outside of NYC, I don't think most Americans really knew much about him.
This is why I blame Mark Burnett for the disaster this country has become . He promoted the flim-flam con man for years; shoving this bullshit show down our throats so that Drumpf became a household name outside of NY/NJ.
Years ago tRump did the talk show circuit that is where I first learned to dislike him. tRump has always been an entitled jerk, his whole life. First thing he learned from daddy was how to discriminate against black people and get sued by the DOJ then make a deal with Doj and break that deal. In 1974
Ask Noel Casler about his semi illiteracy and drug addled behavior Lynn!
As a boomer who grew up in Northern NJ, I always knew he was fraud!
Most people in Jersey knew of the family’s mob relations Stephanie. The FBI planted agents in his Casinos, since the mob was prevalent in their operations. Pauly C. fleeced Trump on the purchase of land in Atlantic City, &175k property that was purchased for well over $1M!
He is not the business man he thinks he is , yet his cult eats that crap whole.
They will blame the Biden administration as always
Obama is just waiting to find out how it’s all HIS fault.
Or , like me, they dropped just enough Acid to expand their minds. AND NEVER VOTED FOR A REPUBLIKKKAN
F.A.W.X.
I'm a Boomer. Good portion of your Boomer population are racist and misogynistic, especially in the Midwest and South. We were brought up in an era where a woman couldn't have a checking account if she wasn't married. Couldn't get a prescription for birth control without her husband's ok. When we were in grade school, blacks were still barred from attending some white schools. I remember hearing on TV when Medgar Evers had to be escorted by the state police to attend the University of Mississippi. Rosa Parks happened when I was in grade school. I grew up in the North and didn't find out about a lot of this stuff until I was older. All Boomers growing up with this stuff going on. So how many grew up as adults and discarded these prejudices? And how many still have them today?
Notice that the states that Musk are polluting are all Red states. Sorry for the Blues that live in these states. I couldn't live in a Red state today. But this is what the majority of the voters in that state wanted. Dirty air and dirty water. It's getting to be a contest in my brain - who do I hate the most? Musk or Trump. Probably Musk. Trump at least is a home grown menace. Musk has the audacity to come from another country and then want to destroy ours.
Yep. Trump is just a greedy pig. Musk actually revels in the damage he causes.
Sad truth Lady!!
Trump is the kid who's permanently queuing for the pie- eating contest.
Musk is the kid who cycles around the neighborhood slashing down newly planted saplings.
And lots of the toxic dumping and air pollution are near Black neighborhoods.
Of course they are. Millionaires aren't going to breathe dirty air nor drink dirty water.
Yes, California has very tough environmental/manufacturing rules, so I think the Tesla plant was clean.
Bravo, Alvin Bragg. I hope that he will finalize the sentencing and let it linger over Drumpf's (short) tenure. Drumpf will fall out of a window within the next few years, or maybe not if he does his master's bidding. We shall see.
Considering Putin is the most powerful mob boss in history, whom Trump admittedly owes big time. You’re likely right Arne! Unless he hands over Ukraine, and uses a katana to slice and dice NATO to shreds, which is only just the beginning of Trumps payback to his master!!
I'm thinking Novichok....
Polonium
I wonder who will taste his food to assure it is safe to eat. That will be a special assignment.
I nominate Matt Gaetz as Turd's food & Bev taster. Seems like Matty has extra time on his hands these days. Sad. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Any of the Trump kids or spouses would be my choice. They are all a complete waste of space.
They've been pining for that Gilded Age. Poor things.
The Libertarians have a book The Myth of the Robber Barons. Now in eighth edition, foreword by Stephen Moore. My former employer, a chain of private K-8 schools, pushed it on us. So we would have alternative facts, I guess.
Indeed Carol!
Unfortunately, we will be living in the new Gilded Age
We're already here. Our country doesn't change. We evolve, but we don't change. Look at how prisons deny parole because they need their labor. Prisoners work at fast food chains, private businesses and construction. Most are black. The state of Alabama is the worst. They can work in free market jobs, but denied parole. Oligarchs are winning. Not much different from 1865.
Alabama is awful! The fast food industry is slamming unions for wanting to stop the practice, accusing unions of alienating black workers!
Wendy's McDonald's and KFC franchises pay minumum wage, some of which is kicked back to the employer, some to the prison and what remains, to the prisoner.
The KKK run that state. It's slavery, pure and simple. Racism is sown in the fabric of this country.
AL Prisoners work in fast food joints? 🤬🤬🤬
And in their supplier's workplaces
The Gutted Age.
Thanks for reporting that Alvin Bragg isn't giving up and that Joyce Vance is urging him to sentence Trump before January 20. Made my morning.
The chains are off ! We, the ones are left in this TRUMP MUCK must now scream at this injustice. I declare myself part of this REVOLUTION.
Trumpomuskovia is what Timothy Snyder is calling our country these days. Musk, Elon. And Muskovia an old name for Russia.
Income inequality & blatant corruption usually leads to that. We are there
We can still fight! GOP Senators' feathers are ruffled at Turd's "let me do recess appts". Senators value their power. We must inundate them, GOP, DEM, IND on SS, Medicare and Medicaid! And vets' benefits. #DoSomething
We need a revolution!
I think that's what Luigi Mangione was thinking - and hoping to trigger a rising. Certainly against the HC vultures.
I agree with Mangione as far as the corporate vultures, but obviously murdering people you don't agree with is not the solution. I was surprised how educated and smart he is because he made some stupid mistakes if he didn't want to get caught. Wonder if he's schizophrenic? It often rears it's ugly head late teens or early 20's. The Unabomber was schizophrenic and paranoid. If he had been receiving threats, why didn't the CEO hire security? He could have afforded it. Nowadays when someone threatens you, I'd take it seriously.
Or perhaps he wanted to be a martyr for the cause -"the guy who fired the first shot that brought down the American HC system."
We need to drag out the guillotines
Ingrid, me too!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🗽🗽
Live your life like you're in revolt. We do.
How does one donate $1B to the “United States”? Do you make the check out to The United States of America, c/o Donald J. Trump? Or does Donny just give you his routing number?
Either will work. I assume he accepts crypto, too.
I’m going with the latter Stephanie!!
Thank God for Alvin Bragg!