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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

today in "Shit That Happened While I Was Busy Writing This Shit" —

looks like the Space Nazi is in big trouble in Europe

"Paris prosecutors summon Elon Musk after raid on X's French offices

The prosecutor's cybercrime unit said it carried out searches with Europol and French police."

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/europe/france-paris-prosecutors-x-office-elon-musk-sexual-deepfakes-holocaust-rcna257202

Kay-El's avatar

I’m glad that there’s one government taking sex crimes seriously since our own prefers to protect the perpetrators.

Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

What really gnaws my gut is that BonDEI is a woman protecting these vile and obscene monsters! I am sharpening my guillotine right now.

If I was a duck's avatar

Prefer the poleax. Might take 2 or 3 hacks, but will eventually get the job done.

Charles Austin's avatar

Impaling pikes.😈😈

Bonnie Council's avatar

Ha! Yes. Very dull. and rusty.

Carol JLH's avatar

YouTube, in its scary AF algorithm wisdom, keeps offering me videos on why all the women who reveled in their jobs at Nazi camps had to hang. I'm not typically a proponent of fiery retribution but there must be SOME justice at the end of this.

MaryTR's avatar

Yeah, I'm getting those, too. WTF??

Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

There’s a lot of pleasure to be found when sharpening edges Marlene, enjoy!

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

So is Gnoem, under all the Botox and hair extensions.

Susan Niemann's avatar

It makes me sick. 🤮

Merrill's avatar

We shall definitely, 100% overwhelmingly defeat MAGA in America for one simple reason. TRUMP/MAGA Fascists do not understand or believe the fundamental ideals of American governance. Freedom, Liberty, Equality, Diversity are all foreign, abstract concepts to MAGA. These are the ideals they believe eliminate their power and they must subvert. They are failing in this mission. Americans will never live in a police state or oligarchy. We will win the MINNEAPOLIS WAR and we will win the WAR AGAINST ANERICA. Stay tuned.

Susan Niemann's avatar

From your lips to Gods ear! 💙💙💙👏👏👏

Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

I'm not a big 'god' believer but endorse the concept - only I call it 'from your lips to the Universe's ears'. Either will work and I think Merrill is absolutely dead on. ONCE even magats realize what's actually happening to THEIR 'rule of law' and THEIR 'rights', the heads begin to shake and 'oh no, it wasn't meant to be used against us WHITE people'! It never occurred to them that frump has NO loyalties, none. Ever.

Susan Niemann's avatar

I'm not either....It's just a phrase...but yes. I hope Merrill is right.

Joe Witkowski's avatar

Read Professor Timothy Snyder. EVERYTHING he has written. The antidote to Naziism and Christo-Fascism!

BDBoop's avatar

You are so right. That's where my beliefs lay, we will not fail. Their inherent rot is in the process of collapsing their power structures.

Rebuilding will take time, but it will happen.

Bonnie Council's avatar

Thank you. Helps me stay enraged and engaged.

Mary Lou Williams's avatar

After they've raided all the coffers and the cupboard is bare what's left?

Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

We take it back OR out of the frump family's hides if it isn't readily accessible. I'm sure we can put all those lazy fuckers to work - I can come up with suitable matching aprons. I'VE been telling everyone I can that his entire aim/purpose was to 'get' our gold reserves to stuff his own greedy pockets with (perhaps that 2nd Die Hard Movie wasn't such a good idea for lifelong crooks to watch? We KNOW that frump thinks of movies and tee-vee as real life. I'll add if I haven't done this before? He's DEEPLY RESENTFUL at being thought of as 2nd best to musk. The world's worst narcissist would settle for another - and a foreigner at that, to be 'the richest man in the world'? NO! Frump always and only wants it all for HIMself! HE has to be 'the king'. HE has to be 'the richest'. I know he truly imagines he's never going to die AND he has to be THE Richest one in the World. That is his aim. Else why 'plan' on all these gaudy buildings. Think he really will 'save' steel or marble from the Kennedy Center which will 'accidentally' be razed? This is where I throw MY head back and laugh. The single tiny piece of marble 'saved' will likely be coaster-sized and the steel will never see the light of day. It'll be 'oh, it was too badly done that first time - y'know those people never knew how to build like 'I' did'. I'll do it 'right' for his gaudy HUGE whatever's going to be put in its place. The White House IS being torn down in toto and he wants something far 'better'/gaudier than the original Taj Mahal (not the casino) for his new lifetime abode. EVEN my husband when he first questioned why it would take $257 MILLION to 'renovate' the Kennedy Center (and two years!) reacted with an 'oh, of course' when I lost it, yelling - it's not FOR 'renovations'!

Charles Austin's avatar

Me too!🤮🤮🤮🤮

Leigh Hamilton's avatar

Other leaders think (and too many in their populations) that America has to take care of this government problem; that it's "our problem" and we should just "fix it". IF FUCKING ONLY...

Or, leaders are trying to figure out a way to keep their financial heads above water while the U.S. circles the drain. It's self protection.

But here's the thing - this government is the world's problem whether they like it, want it, asked for it, voted for it or not. This American is really sorry because I would have voted for a goddamned folding chair before I'd vote for ANY Republican, but this is where we are and people need to start going to jail and I don't believe there is anyone in the world with grapes large enough to get that job done.

No Democrat, no Republican, no one. I'm beginning to believe we live through this until he dies. Let's just hope it's on camera.

DJS's avatar

Or there's the fact that cheaters will cheat, Trump cheats at everything even if he doesn't need to, and Trump Republicans have no problem with cheating to get what they want and screwing over everyone else. If they can't win by playing fair they will and do CHEAT. Steve Bannon urged his followers to get jobs working in local election offices and told them that those who count the votes win.

Billionaires have too much invested in their plans to own and control everything for their own selfish entitlement and greed, to not "tip the scales" in their favor however they can. And they have bought up the tools to be able to do just that, including almost every form of mass media and crooked politicians.

Lynn Van Haren's avatar

They need to invade us in a soft coup. Take out this administration

Dr J's Sanity Space's avatar

Truth right there...

Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Finding human trafficker Jean Luc Brunel hanged in his Paris cell like Epstein, was a good start Kay!

Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

I wonder if he killed himself. 🧐

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

Narcissists never kill themselves.

Grace Kennedy's avatar

No. They don’t.

Christine Zepka's avatar

G uardians

O f

P edophiles.

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

Protect and elect.

Susan Niemann's avatar

THAT is glorious news. GO FRANCE. And All the European countries who crack down on indecency....unlike America. 🙄

Crystal Hartley's avatar

Some enlightened countries have declared holocaust denial illegal. It would make sense for USA to make election denial illegal. It is toxic to democracy.

Maui Wahine's avatar

Iʻm so mad at SCOTUSʻs immunity decision. That is the source of so much misery.

Will's avatar

Completely agree with you. But this is tricky. Their accusations are part of the propaganda. Accuse the other side of the thing of which you are guilty. It controls the narrative.

I still believe, however, that they can't fix anything if it's a landslide. They need close elections. So we need elections that aren't close. We need voters -- an army of them.

Which is why they try to discourage people from voting. "Both sides are just as bad. Democrats are weak. It's no use. Give up." and so on.

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

👆👆👆🎯Yes that is pure, uncut, Russian propaganda, where it is true, as I have stated before with the exception of Navalny, but you saw what happened to him, such a brave man.

Clint Opine's avatar

"Accuse the other side of the thing of which you are guilty. It controls the narrative." Which is why, after endlessly defending the unquestionable validity of the 2020 election, no Democratic representative is willing to discuss some of the very questionable shit surrounding the 2024 election

Will's avatar
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Yes. I agree that Democrats know they can't win the narrative, and that they'd have enormous difficulty proving that it was fixed, which in turn would severely damage their credibility. The republican-controlled corporate media would have a field day, "accusing them of undermining confidence in our elections." And a lot of non-critical thinkers through the country would use it to further "prove" that "both sides are the same."

We need a landslide. We need landslides.

A.J. Madison's avatar

Need to throw their own stupid meme back at them. Too big to rig. Too big to steal. That special election in one of the reddest districts in Texas really impressed me. That's how angry all voters, regardless of party affiliation are. That's what we need. Everyone on the same page about democracy. Not democrats, not republicans, but everyone for free & fair elections, free speech, life, liberty, and the pursuit of (everyone's) happiness, not just the bloated Dwumpy the Hutt.

Kate's avatar

And this is why they despise the EU and want it gone, of course…

Kim Nesvig's avatar

They despise Western Europe because Vladimir Putin despises the West, generally. As the Epstein files accidentally demonstrate, so many of the world’s wealthiest and most influential people are sick fucks, and every time one of them “socialized” with Jeffrey, they fed Putin more kompromat. The oligarchs of the west fell into line for trump, just as those of Russia quickly fell into line with Putin. Those who had any reservations fell out of windows instead.

Michael Johnson's avatar

Have named it #TheAgeOfMonsters

Where men of wealth gorged on their sickest fantasies without fear of retribution or accountability; where world leaders have caused the death of untold thousands, unabated; and where a certified psychopath became POTUS.

#TheAgeOfMonsters As Jeff would say, the worst timeline ever.

Frank Nuts's avatar

I agree with you Kim. The mess the world is in is not confusing and convoluted. It is simply the way you explained it—Bad people following bad people doing bad things. We’ve just got to get better at breaking the chain links apart. Break the links and the bullies will run for the hills because all bullies are cowards and can’t stand on their own.

T L Mills's avatar

Thank you for that link. Rings very true to me.

Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Hartmann fits a small , but important piece of the puzzle in his piece, there’s so much more that has been revealed… I applaud his collation of facts in his timeline. It’s a good article. Share it if you’re able TL

Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

I leave Don Lemon to inspire you Jeff.

"I have spent my entire career covering the news. I will not stop now."

— Don Lemon, February 2, 2026

Forceful Momentum: That's the texture of courage under compression—not the absence of fear, but the decision to keep moving anyway. When they send a dozen agents for one journalist, when they can't produce a warrant, when the White House mocks you with prison emojis, the choice becomes crystalline: bend or don't.

https://thistleandmoss.com/p/the-daily-exhale-trump-to-nationalize-election-gabbard-is-a-russian-asset-fuck-i-c-e#life-survival-human-truth-is-real-t

Keith's avatar

spike lee said it best ... "DO THE RIGHT THING!"

arne link's avatar

That could be an election slogan for the Democrats. It's pretty clear, consists of small words and offers a solution. I like it.

Keith's avatar

sorry arne, this is congress we're dealing with.

the party would reinvent it then fuk it all up!

Jan Moon's avatar

If prez. gets his way and the elections are federalized, it won't make a shred of difference what election slogan Democrats have. There well never be a "right thing." 'Sides, does anybody even know what the "right thing" is anymore? I thought I did once, but that was way back when i was in about the fourth grade and I naively thought the flag stood for something. Now all I can think about is the end of the movie Red Dawn when the voice-over states, "Eventually the war ended, as all wars do." Or something like that. And now I don't believe any war has ever ended.

247kath's avatar

Feel the fear and do it anyway✊🏼

Unity In Defiance's avatar

Other shit that happened...

That troll Todd Blanche literally said on Main Stream State Media Lite today that "Partying with Epstein isn't a crime."

Kay-El's avatar

If it’s not a crime, why are they trying so hard to cover it up? 🤔🙄

Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

They’re covering up the massacre of young girls they toyed with. These young women were chosen because they came from impoverished situations. They became “throwaways”. These elite male sexual deviants have gotten away with murder. Fuck that! No more coverups!

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

"We weren't ABUSING underage girls, we were just PARTYING"

🙄 😒

Brad Yazell's avatar

Why wait until April 20th? Drag those fucks in there now! The whole world is in clusterfuck mode right now.

Susie's avatar

Couldn’t happen to a bigger douche. Thanks, France! 👏🏻🇫🇷👏🏻🇫🇷👏🏻

T L Mills's avatar

I hope the French government keeps Musk very, very, VERY busy until after November!

Carol JLH's avatar

The rest of the world is doing our job.

James Starr's avatar

except for NATO and the Hague. Where TF are they?

HI2thDoc's avatar

And he's in the Epstein-trump files. A lot.

SeekingReason's avatar

Bravo!! Extradite the fvcker! And keep him 8n prison there. Confiscate ALL of his money! He can clean toilets for life.

Richard's avatar

I’m ok with AI doctors if there’s first an extended trial period with “president’s” physician and congress’ and cabinet officials’ medical plans all AI-based.

Neal Stiffelman's avatar

The Spanish Prime Minister just announced that CEO’s will be criminally liable for failing to remove harmful posts.

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

Good. you report utter filth, and hate and it remains.

Bethie U's avatar

Yay! You've gotta respect the creators and implementers of Madame de Guillotine.

Bonnie Boyce's avatar

Schadenfreude. Dear schadenfreude!

Carol JLH's avatar

I'm hearing that sung to the tune of "O Tannenbaum"

Cheri Collins's avatar

😂🤣😂🤣😂 I hope this gives him some pain!

Joanne Beck's avatar

WOOHOO! I want to live with those brilliant people

Alison Parker's avatar

Another subtle but fucked up thing about this admin is that even if we manage to get a Dem elected in 2028, their whole first term will be taken up with fixing everything Trump messed up or flat out destroyed. And then the FTFNYT and others will be like "why is President Terrible Democrat not doing [whatever], they are awful and this is why we should never elect a Democrat again".

Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

EXACTLY.

here's a thing I tweeted in April 2020:

"our next president is going to have to spend the first three years just gluing all the broken pieces of government back together"

https://x.com/itsJeffTiedrich/status/1250454003412013057

seventeen thousand people liked that tweet, but I'll bet sixteen thousand of them ended up whining about how Joe Biden wasn't fixing everything fast enough

Stephen Brady's avatar

The next time we get a chance, it is going to essentially take a rewrite of The Constitution. And to fund the fix, wealth taxes to bring the Oligarch class down far below the financial stratosphere.

arne link's avatar

That is what has to happen. That has to happen even before all the gold crap is pried off the walls of our house. Fix the foundation first.

Stephen Brady's avatar

C’est vrai, ça!

Ole Anderson's avatar

While we’re fixing things let’s Tax these Mega Churches whose top dogs fly around in Gulfstream 5 Jets and live in $5-$10 Million dollar Mansions

I’m tired of paying taxes while these whores live Tax Free! They want to preach politics from the pulpit then they can pay Taxes!

arne link's avatar

Tax churches on a sliding scale. The megas get the highest rate and the small ones get the lowest tax rate. I don't know what we do with the Catholic churches. Individually they may have small congregations, but the mother church is rich beyond imagining.

Mary Hall's avatar

Have you ever been to the Vatican? OMG! The treasures that are there are unbelievable, and we were told by our tour guide that there is so, so much more in warehouses. Apparently, rich people back in the day would bribe the church with art and such so they got a front row in Heaven.

Al S's avatar

Should we consider thanking the regime for revealing the flaws/weakness in our constitutional republic? Stop laughing...I'm serious.

Stephen Brady's avatar

No - I do not thank them. They have been on a killing spree. I would pay a lot for viewing rights as they push them into the chute of the tree chipper.

T L Mills's avatar

Dang...I like the way you think.

Dr J's Sanity Space's avatar

Jeff: Why is that? Why the hard takes on Dems, always, and going easy if at all, on Rs? Is it what I call the "Cowboy mentality" of might makes right that the American psyche is poisoned with?

Tom Smith's avatar

Simple -- for decades now, and ironically it may have begun with Eisenhower, the nation (or at least the nation's news organizations) have recognized and promoted Republicans as the adults in the room.

Combine this with Democrats tending to be more on the side of civil and human rights and therefore more on the side of protesters, rather than Repubs, who want order and conformity;

the emphasis over the past forty years of short-term, bottom-line profit uber alles;

and the oligarchs who want all that profit owning all the news media...

... yeah, they're gonna do everything they can to make Dems look like perpetual villains. As has been said, many times, every accusation is a confession. Repubs, and especially the Regime, project so much, they should sell jujubes.

Dr J's Sanity Space's avatar

Tom: My question is: why here? Simple or complicated, why is US soil fertile for this movement you start with Eisenhower?

Michael Johnson's avatar

Greed.

Profits. While it's always been a strong motivation, it went into overdrive in the 1980's, and has only gained momentum since. Greedy fucks wanting more & more. Since you mention Eisenhower, it likely was greed that killed JFK - the war mongers wanting all the profits generated by war in Vietnam. Definitely greed that railroaded Jimmy Carter out of office after one term. Reagan supercharged that greed and started what we have today.

Profits.

Greed.

Lise Buranen's avatar

I think of the US as a teenager in a grown-up world of adults: Europe (especially Greece, perhaps), the Middle East, Asia, and perhaps the civilizations of the Americas that we haven't fucked up yet. Americans are teenagers with too much money who have the keys to the liquor cabinet and the car. (Keep in mind that this is a crude analogy that won't stand up to too much analysis. You can only take a metaphor so far.)

Tom Smith's avatar

Michael Johnson said a lot of it: greed. I think there might always be a huge dollop of American exceptionalism -- the notion that, no matter what, as Americans, we're correct, justified, and empowered to do... whatever.

Bob's avatar

The cowboy who saves the day is part of this country’s predilection for cults.

Lise Buranen's avatar

George Lakoff's "strict father" model comes to mind, but right now it comes to a mind that's not quite functioning and having one of those days when it all weighs more heavily on one's overburdened mind and body than it does on most days. And by "it all" I mean IT ALL.

Susie's avatar

Or the fact that they only care about keeping their jobs and their oligarchical owners decide what they write about?! Maybe?! 🙄

Linda McCaughey's avatar

Simple. We doomed ourselves when we adopted rugged individualism toxic masculine violence as our standard goal. Look at the massively unkind, unrealistic and unflattering stuff we call "entertainment". The Roman coliseum was a piker compared with us.

Mary Hall's avatar

Democrats have been cleaning up Rethuglican messes since 1933..

PollyP's avatar

Thank you, Mary! Just what I was going to say. During my and hubby’s working lives, it was a rollercoaster of cleaning up R’s shit. Rinse. Repeat.

Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Replacing many of them with the likes of Schumer though, is also F-ed up Mary!

Unity In Defiance's avatar

It is going to take decades to build back up what he destroyed. We will need a large initiative like a "New Deal." Maybe we could name it the "Operation Clean Up." And create a Nazi hunter force. Like they did after WWII.

David M Marko's avatar

The Detrumpification of America. It's going to take a shitload of disinfectant and degreaser to eradicate the stains perpetrated by this moronic imbecile.

Unity In Defiance's avatar

I fully agree, they are gonna need to sandblast the innards of the White House and Oval. On the upside, it will create a lot of jobs!

michellefromchicago's avatar

Operation cleanup 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

You’re obviously aware of Operation Paperclip Unity, which led to some good, some horrible consequences Unity!

Unity In Defiance's avatar

It may be part of why we find ourselves in this moment. Here's to hoping we can push it out of our culture and our society. We have to hope.

Jennifer's avatar
2dEdited

Exactly. This is the song of the Dems. Then when they do turn the ship around a Rethug comes in (because the Dem didn't "do enough") and takes credit for the recovery, then fucks shit up again, rinse repeat ad infinitum.

SethTriggs's avatar

Murc's Law is Cruise Control for Cool (and Clicks!)

San's avatar

The rat bastard is doing these things as revenge. Thank you SCOTUS.

But there is never enough for the rat bastard. He’ll be hanging people on the south lawn soon enough

Robert Eckert's avatar

elseweb (from Europe): "Even if you elect President Pete Buttigieg in 2028 we know you are perfectly capable of turning around and electing President Tucker Carlson in 2032."

Keith's avatar

the 'soldier' in me engages the disciplines earned

the 'warrior' in me engages!

Molly Blue Dawn's avatar

This has been true all my life. Every Democratic administration has had to dig the country out from under the disasters orchestrated by the previous Republican administration.

Dana Jae Labrecque's avatar

Rinse and repeat. I hate it here. Go France!

Lynn Van Haren's avatar

It will take longer than that. Immunity must be removed, norms must be hardened into laws, DOJ & law enforcement needs to be removed from the executive branch & the corrupt Supreme Court must be expanded to 13 & term limits have to be imposed for both the SC & Congress

Susan Niemann's avatar

"stay angry. stay engaged. and know that there are heroes in the Democratic Party who are willing to stand with us." Pritzker? Raskin? Schiff? Swalwell? AOC? Crockett? ALL YES! Except Chuck Fucking Schumer. He's got to go.

I was so fortunate to tour the Kennedy Center with a friend who volunteered there so I got to see its magnificence. I'll be brokenhearted to see that demented old fuck destroy that beautiful building.

Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

I've been banging this drum for a long time now.

I refer you to my "what the fuck, Chuck" from March of last year.

https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/what-the-fuck-chuck

"Schumer’s a great guy to have around if there’s absolutely nothing at stake. need someone to speak at the dedication of a new post office? Chuck’s your man. need someone to make sure all the procedural i’s are dotted and t’s are crossed in some piece of shrimp boat legislation? here comes Chuck!

do you need someone to fight fascism? Chuck’s your … wait, where the fuck did Chuck go? he was here a minute ago."

Susan Niemann's avatar

Ah I remember this column. Spot on. These establishment Dems (and exciting as oatmeal Ken Martin of the DNC) don’t have what it takes to meet these obscene situations. Give me Crockett or AOC. Fearless and wicked smart.

Charles Austin's avatar

As I've frequently said the leadership of the Democratic Party needs an enema.(Or 6😂😂)

Susan Niemann's avatar

You are so right!!

meryl selig's avatar

Post this once a week. Hammer it home. He is an abomination. Appeasers are as culpable as perpetrators.

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Schumer is a corporatist Democrat indebted to AIPAC. An intentional fuckup who will curl up on a rug in front of the fireplace to avoid disturbing his "cozy." Always disappears when his party needs a true leader willing to fight.

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

No, he is not. He's someone who is past his sell by date, but is hardly the enemy.

Lairbo's avatar

Would love to see Chuck announce he's not running for re-election and spend the rest of his time in office going full-on berserker at Trump & Co. He'd never have to buy his own pizza at Roma ever again.

Teresa G's avatar

Chuck and Hakeem need to go.

Both are worthless in the times when we need real, vocal leadership.

Rachel C's avatar

What they both have is a charisma problem. Both the result of “seniority” as a qualification, when it is probably more of a detriment. Jamie Raskin for Speaker. 👹

Cyndi's avatar

Jamie Raskin for President 2028!

meryl selig's avatar

He is a destroyer of all things. Desecration of our beautiful monuments! Physical manifestation of this giant egomaniacal wrecking ball.

David Skoglund's avatar

It will be another nail in the fat bastard’s coffin,Susan .

Hollie Rood's avatar

tRUMP’s idea of “revamping” the KENNEDY Center will be going on Temu and purchasing as much “gold “ schlock as possible and sticking it anywhere and everywhere around the building after he’s torn it down to a mere shell and rebuilt it😢😡😢😡😢

As for Chuck Schumer, he’s needed, wanted and hated by me almost as much the Stage 3 Colon cancer my middle daughter is fighting ( the comment about my beloved daughter is to show how strong my feelings are toward him. Same description runs even deeper for T🍊🤡💩Call it pure unadulterated hatred ++ )It makes me sick to my stomach and more (🤢🤬🤢)the way he pontificates about this Administration, droning on and on, believing his “strongly” worded letters are going to release the Repugnants heads from up tRUMP’s ass and actually get something meaningful done. My cat shows more leadership qualities and skills when he sits looking out the living room window or more enthusiasm (than Schumer has had in his entire life) when he’s curled up asleep.

Norma's avatar

Haven’t the Kennedys been through enough? Then here comes donnie to put his name on a building that has fuck all to do with him! And now he’s going to destroy it. Fuck him all the way to fuckoffistan 🤬

Susan Niemann's avatar

He is despicable.

Hollie Rood's avatar

💯‼️What they’ve endured over the years is beyond comprehension IMO 😢😢😢 I’ve said it many times, I’m a glass is half full type of person believing in the power of positivity but with

T🍊🤡💩’s worsening evilness, hate filled rhetoric, lies, denial, malignant narcissism, grifting and all the other atrocities that come from him, I’m beginning to wonder how/why he gets away with it when you have famous families like the Kennedys who had more than their “fair share”, not forgetting the folks in MSP and their suffering, the belittling of war heroes and more. The list is endless. I’m also a big believer in Karma, but man alive, she’s taking her sweet fvcking time. I sure hope the wait is worth it

arne link's avatar

You know that he will. People should form a human chain to protect it when they hear the bulldozers closing in.

Mike Hammer's avatar

I’m in Maine, Jeff and Susan Collins is soon to be a thing of the past. She learned her lesson but I’m concerned. 🤬

Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

is she going to be a thing of the past? do you promise?

Mike Hammer's avatar

She is so despised here, especially the way she’s handling the ice agents and border patrol. Hard to imagine she’ll recover and we have 2 great candidates (Graham Platner for the win and I think the swastika tattoo he had was just foolish kid stuff).

Toni Ballard's avatar

And she gave us Kavanaugh. 🤬

Cathy Rady's avatar

unfortunately we've had some real stinkers in Congress representing the Democratic party: Sen John Fetterman, Sen Kyrsten Sinema & Rep Tulsi Gabbard.

Wolves in sheep's clothing

Mary Greenwald's avatar

How old was Platner when he was a kid with the Nazi tattoo? Why did he not remove it! Once a Nazi always a Nazi.

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

We can't afford a purity test for anti-GOP candidates at this time. Look at their behavior over the past 5 -10 years. Netanyahu would fail that test.

Mike Hammer's avatar

Had it done while drinking with his Marine buddies in Croatia 2007. Claims he was unaware …

arne link's avatar

Young men do stupid things. Some women, too. It is hoped that what the young do will not affect the rest of their lives. I think we can forgive a tattoo while drunk.

arne link's avatar

Well, he seems like an honest person. Maybe the swastika tattoo will earn him a few Maga votes, who knows?

Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

Yes, I think we're all very very concerned! Maybe if we all join together we could send Susie back home so she can be concerned 24/7.

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

She's already so rich it is sickening.

David Skoglund's avatar

She will be inducted into the Phony Hall of Fame. That will be her legacy.

Mingo's avatar

My mother's family is from Portland and I still have family living there. You're right concerned Susan Collins isn't well liked. She needs to be kicked to the curb. She's done nothing for her constituents. Hasn't she been in office for almost 30 years?

Dr J's Sanity Space's avatar

Mike: Yes, I am CONCERNED too!!

DuduLovesBubu's avatar

There are some stupid motherfuckers in northern Maine. They will reelect her. I keep reminding them that with their rural hospital shut down they can die in the ambulance on the way to Bangor. Unfortunately that is likely to be my fate as well.

Junior's avatar

collins has not learned shit. pathetic, demented shell.

Mary Greenwald's avatar

Maine will elect Susan Collins. They did so 6 years ago after her stupidity and cowardice was revealed to the entire world. They will do it again.

arne link's avatar

I'm not sure they will. Six years ago, the evil was not so fully evident. People still believed that the ship of state would right itself. Things have only gotten worse. Please, get on the phone and whip the democratic votes, if you can. You would be doing America a solid.

Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

Things have changed in six years. We need to get over this hopeless pessimism, where we pre-defeat ourselves.

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

I read that her Democratic opponent six years ago had lived in Maine for "only" sixteen years. Apparently a portion of the state wants only native born candidates. Both Democrats this time are native Mainers.

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

Northern Maine will, but southern Maine won't, they are a divided state with two distinct voting districts.

Hollie Rood's avatar

Stop teasing. No fair😡 (as she stomps her feet)‼️

arne link's avatar

Whip the vote in Maine. Get rid of her worthless skinny ass. We beg of you, Main. Deal with this.

barb's avatar

Good Riddance! I hate when the word c**t is used to describe a woman but she is one.

Lisbeth Whitney's avatar

I do my part and write or call Susan Collins at least 5 times a week and will vote against her in November 2026. I hope there are many like minded Mainers to go along with me.

arne link's avatar

Thank you. All of us appreciate your efforts. That cow has to go to.

Unity In Defiance's avatar

Keep it up, tell a friend you are doing a lot just by doing that! I would add to that donating to mutual aid either locally or to places like Minnesota.

Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

We really have to more worry about the Passing of the SAVE Act that will essentially invalidate 69 Million voters (women and anyone else who changed their name). This is I suspect the golden calf that the GOP is hoping will stop the midterm elections loss that they know is coming.

serenity's avatar

While the SAVE act is dreadful, I think it will only benefit Republicans to an extent. I never officially changed my name with SSA when I married. Millions of those liberal childless cat ladies haven't changed their names and they vote. Educated women voters tend to be more aware of the issues and are better able to get their paperwork together to be able to vote. Some people will just not bother if trump's not on the ballot.

Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

as a Trans person it would affect me, because my BC name does not match my DL name. There are MANY trans women and trans men that would be affected by this.

serenity's avatar

I understand. Trans niece just legally changed her name. She also changed her driver's license so I'm hoping that she can vote. It's too scary otherwise and I'm hoping that the SAVE act doesn't pass the Senate.

Jane's avatar

My married name does not match my birth certificate and many other women also have that issue

arne link's avatar

I've changed my name several times. Suppose I'm screwed and won't be able to vote. But I live in the most liberal state so maybe it will be ok. I've had my present name for fifty years so I hope that will work.

Teresa G's avatar

I have changed my last name many times. Yes, poor choices in my life.

I have collected the paper trail.

I also have a passport in my current name.

The passport was easily changed with my paper trail.

I have advised my granddaughters to not change their name if they get married.

Since they are somewhat young, I will emphasize it more as they become older.

All that being said, I imagine that some people do not have the means, the knowledge, or the wherewithal to begin to be able to do this process.

It took me a fair amount of time of time and money to gather all of this information.

8647 regime

Carol C's avatar
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Absolutely right, Teresa!

Out of curiosity I asked my husband where our marriage certificate is. In a drawer, he said.

PEACE, LOVE, RESIST's avatar

I think the likelihood that this would pass is very low.

Carol C's avatar

I have read the same, but it’s a great way to stir us up and distract us from who knows what else there is.

Outdoorluvr's avatar

Same here. It would amount to an illegal poll tax, unless they're also willing to make passports free of charge for anyone. My worry is that they WANT all of us to obtain a passport, so they'll have even more tracking information on us.

Joanne Beck's avatar

"Oh! That came as a big surprise to me!" Cunt Collins, fuck you. You licked Orange Chungus' asshole over and over and now you're surprised you have shit on your face? Fuck you for helping overturn Roe V Wade. Fuck you for supporting a fascist FUCK YOU!

Kyle D Bickel's avatar

A most unfunny and important part of your piece: “This demented megalomaniac just can’t leave well enough alone. he won’t be satisfied until he’s clownfucked DC to the point where it’s unrecognizable — all in service of a weak and fragile ego that will never be satisfied.” 100%

HI2thDoc's avatar
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Is it too much to ask that the workmen operating the machinery to physically demolish these landmarks, like has already been done to the East Wing, just plain refuse? Geezus criminy.

Joyce's avatar

They all think they're going to get paid. Bigly.

HI2thDoc's avatar

Until he welches on them, like he has done countless times before

Joyce's avatar

Exactly--they THINK they're going to get paid. Donnie Demento and contractors = an endless rerun of Lucy and Charlie Brown with the football.

Ole Anderson's avatar

But it’s the Govt. paying this time so they actually will probably get paid.

Mary Greenwald's avatar

They should be prosecuted for damaging Public Property without a permit. Put them in jail. It might save the Kennedy Center!

HI2thDoc's avatar

Yes! If these actions are not sanctioned in any way, are not legally permissible, it's akin to obeying an illegal order.

arne link's avatar

We don't know who did the job, do we?

Cyndi's avatar

We do on the East Wing. The contractor is named on the permits, some team out of Maryland.

Carol C's avatar

And couldn’t the police put a stop to it if there was a court order prohibiting it?

Neal Stiffelman's avatar

“A change gonna come”, as Sam Cooke prophesied.

SethTriggs's avatar

The pricktator is free to destroy with his unitary control of government. And best believe that plenty of the money will find its way into the pricktator's pockets...like the malevolent bowerbird he is.

And he's going to make a grandiose monument to himself too, because of course he will. That's how narcissists roll!

Bob's avatar

The moment the new president is sworn in 2029, I want to hear wrecking balls slam into the ballroom and arch.

Robert Eckert's avatar

No construction on the ballroom, arch, or Trump Center is actually going to happen: that's my prediction.

meryl selig's avatar

Like the former evil dictator of Turkmenistan. The capital is a death zone of huge marble monuments and hideous statues commemorating the maniac. A hellscape of repression. That is the end zone for creatures like trump

Charles Austin's avatar

There's a Gold statue of him in the center of the capital of Turkmenistan that sits on a rotating platform so it always faces the sun.

arne link's avatar

FFS, don't let Drumpf hear about this.

meryl selig's avatar

Hahaah! He couldn’t find Turkmenistan on a map even if someone showed it to him

meryl selig's avatar

Yep. Trump and that despot have too many similarities

Kay-El's avatar

There isn’t a building in DC that Donny wouldn’t like to bastardize with his tasteless renovations

Keith's avatar

the 1st time he squatted in the white house he called it a 'DUMP'

now it's just TRAILER PARK TACKY!

Keith's avatar
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RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!

WTF? 6 MILLION EPSTEIN FILES?

WTF? ONLY EPSTEIN ARRESTED?

WTF? RICH & POWERFULL BEING PROTECTED?

WTF? WHITE HOUSE, DOJ, FBI PROVIDING COVER STORIES?

WTF? PRESIDENT ATTACKS SUPER BOWL HALFTIME MUSIC EVENT?

WTF? PRESIDENT CALLS PUERTO RICA "ISLAND of GARBAGE"?

WTF? WHY IZ HE STILL SPEAKING FOR US?

NO MORE WTF? DUMP TRUMP NOW! TODAY!

LOCK HIM THE FUK UP! LOCK HIS STAFF UP!

LOCK 'EM ALL UP! NO MORE LIES!

NO SE ACEPTAN MAS MENTIRAS!

NO MORE LIES ACCEPTED!

Carol C's avatar
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While we are at it, this was on a protest sign.

SUPER CALLOUS FRAGILE EGO SEXIST NAZI POTUS

Barbara Ferrara's avatar

Have you seen the Randy Rainbow YouTube of that? I think it’s called Braggadocious

arne link's avatar

I love Randy.

Carol C's avatar

Thanks for the link, Barbara!

Carol C's avatar

I think it should have been. . . RACIST SEXIST NAZI POTUS.

Declan's avatar

D is using the steel for his bunker...and marble for his ballroom...bet on it.

Betsy L's avatar

There are - were - a lot of powerful people who love the Kennedy Center. I'm praying that several of them will get together and tell von Schitzenpants to keep his mitts and tacky taste off the building.

I have walked past the huge model of JFK's head, and through the room dedicated to his deeds and legacy, and thought, "Boy! All these tributes would really piss Trump off. I hope he's never able to get his hands on this stuff." And here we are.

Frosty McGillicuddy's avatar

To the tune of "Over the Rainbow"

Somewhere over the rainbow

Drumpf is gone

And our beloved country

With its flaws, carries on.

Miller and that haggy Gnome Noem

Are in jail

And the rest of his sycophants

Writhe with some garbage snails.

Donald Junior and Eric are stuck in prison, too

Kash Patel is someone's bitch

"Bend over, why don't youuuuu?!"

Somewhere over the rainbow

Drumpf is gone

And Melania, the greedy slag

Will not carry on.

Somewhere over the rainbow

G-O-PEEEEE

Spends the rest of their lives

In abject poverty.

HI2thDoc's avatar

Susan, oh Susan

You are still confusin'

Abhorrence for being concerned

Your naivete act

Belies the fact

Of how many times you've been burned

The people are tired

Of how you are mired

In your strange brand of illusion

Soon the reckoning

Of '26 is beckoning

It will be your senate conclusion

Betsy L's avatar

The second most perfect anthem for our time, after Bruce Springsteen's ode to Minneapolis.

Frosty McGillicuddy's avatar

Jeez. That's good company!

HI2thDoc's avatar

Awesome! Hahahaha!

Frosty McGillicuddy's avatar

Thank you, my friend!

247kath's avatar

A masterpiece Frosty😁South Park animation was forming as I sung it😂🤣

Frosty McGillicuddy's avatar

Get outta here! Thanks!

Charles Austin's avatar

Nicely done!👍👍👍

Jane's avatar

👏👏👏

barb's avatar

Kudos to you. Those are great lyrics! Not sure if you sing but if not, you should get a recording made of someone singing them.