I stop everything I'm doing to read and give my full attention. I'd read more for sure. That sad part is you have so much more to write about in the first place. The fucknuttery, as you say, just never ends.
Not long enough, in my humble opinion! And Trump is getting worse by the day. Doddering old man with scrambled brains, how on earth can people stand to listen to such garbage?
1. If anyone hasn’t yet heard what Jeff and Neal are referring to, “Without detailing their reasoning, the justices kept in place a lower court order that said hospitals cannot be required to provide pregnancy terminations that would violate Texas law”. Good luck ladies, please remember to bleed out before attempting to get help.
2. The NYT finally surfaced from the depths of their bullshit to write a real article. Won’t win me back as a subscriber. Too little too late.
3. Agent Orange finally admitted he doesn’t know what the hell is going on. No, duh. Did he ever?
It's not an admission. When he says "what the hell," he's giving his audience permission to not know *and not care* what it is. It's too complicated, or too fancy, or too brainy to matter to real, red-blooded MAGA choads.
I don’t know that they need his permission. They celebrate their ignorance anyway, but you have a great point, he definitely encourages them to remain so.
Exactly. The fact that he sounds drunk and incoherent doesn't matter to them. They will only care about what he cares about. But in reality, the only thing he cares about is winning, and it cheating is part of it.
A linguist said that Trump talks at a fourth-grade level and most politicians at least get up to eighth grade level. Maybe it's Trump's decline or maybe (the jokes write themselves) he knows the level at which he has to speak to get through to MAGA.
Re item 2, there is no reason to believed that the change is permanent. Forgiving the Times for their past lies based on a single article is like forgiving a mass murderer because he stopped for a moment to pet a dog.
I would guess that many good, caring doctors are going to be leaving Texas in droves, if they haven't already. If I cannot treat patients the way I think they need to be treated without risking huge fines and jail sentences, I think I would leave Texas for somewhere else.
So I imagine as bad as it may be now, it will get worse fast...and the country probably won't know the real statistics regarding the deaths, because I'm sure Texas won't report them.
I can see doctors saying, "I didn't spend years in medical school, internship and residency to tell a patient to go sit in the parking lot until she passes out from blood loss."
I’m not sure. The HIPAA form does have an authorization to share with an attorney or governmental agency but it must be specified who/what agency. I’m not clear under what circumstances anyone would specify a government agency. 🤷🏼♀️
The blame would be on them and deservingly so. The professional horseshit artist spewing his latest lie about FEMA being broke because of money going to migrants can't be overstated. North Carolina's second largest newspaper had the integrity to spell it out. All of the media should be putting an emphasis on his non-stop false claims.
And if we lose our democracy, the press will find themselves as the propaganda arm of the Fascist States of America. I don't think they will enjoy that.
Oh, there is room for more at the table of shame. My candidate is Merrick Garland, who waited two fucking years before naming Jack Smith as special prosecutor. Imagine what would have happened had Smith gotten the nod even one year earlier.
If Harris wins and the insurrection is defeated I hope Garland is the first person to be pushed out. (And Obama was going to name him to the Supreme Court!!)
Actually, I wish that Garland HAD gotten on SCOTUS. We'd have one more liberal on the bench, instead of ACB + we'd have a different AG, hopefully someone who doesn't lollygag.
Fact of the Garland investigation should be researched before trashing his efforts to get to the bottom of the Jan/6th plot, which was in the works for months.
Garland immediately started an investigation into the meeting at the Willard Hotel, Bill Barr killed that investigation, just as he did the Reagan Irangate, and HR Bush Iran Contra investigations Stephen… Reagan was on the cusp of being indicted for treason by the way! All of this has been investigated, documented snd and a plethora of articles have been written about all of Barrs fuckery over his time inside the beltway!
The corporate media is part of the Putin-trump circle, so yes, they are equally if not more liable by broadcasting his dangerous lies to their dangerous gun-toting base of stupids.
The Court said they don't give a shit if women are dying. Too bad - that's the punishment for daring to try to assert control over our own bodies. Have sex for any reason other than procreation? You'll pay for it if you become pregnant.
It is some exercise in circular reasoning. Your primary reason for life is bearing children, right? So you dutifully get pregnant, But wait, you have an ectopic pregnancy and need help, or an incomplete partial miscarriage. What happens then? Sorry, dutiful women, you have to die. We can't help you so just die. Ok? All good? Just fucking die in the parking lot.
Thanks to the Extreme Cult, a female fetus has more rights, and is afforded more healthcare, than she will ever be at any other point in her life after birth.
The court does not have any right to judicate who may live or die, but that is what they have ordered. They are ensuring that many women will die or be deemed criminals for saving their own lives. Insanity at large.
THE REQUIRED NUMBER OF STATES HAVE RATIFIED IT. IT MERELY NEEDS CONGRESS TO REMOVE THE EXTERNAL DEADLINE IMPOSED ON IT, AND THEN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVIST TO PUT IT INTO THE CONSTITUTION. There are hurdles. They can be overcome. It's not simple, but it can be done. If the Ds win the House and Senate, *sigh*...
Have sex against your will, and you are given a life sentence of motherhood to take care of a child of a RAPIST. That's justice in some other MAN's universe, but not in this one. We are in dire straits on so many levels if Trump wins.
Reply to Linda Fulcher. Those shaming women for not wanting to be pregnant. Reason?????? They want to punish women who want to lead their OWN FUCKING LIFE. They walk-step to an oppressor and it hurts for them to see a woman be free, charting her life and reaping all the benefits of it.
Damn it to hell. I just found out what the Court did. I can't stand any more of this shit. Getting to be time to go after these christofascists and find a way to get Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, and Roberts off the Court.
There is no better litmus test on earth than maga. If you look at this obese dementia-ridden moron and his boy toys Apartheid Clyde and Couchfucker Vance and think "yeah, THESE guys should run the country," you have to be either supernaturally stupid or a fucking crook yourself. There's no "none of the above" anymore.
To listen to him in order to hear his decline is such a frustrating, irritating experience that maybe it passes unnoticed for too many people. But that's why NYT reporters get the big bucks.
It was a while ago that I noticed the NYT seemed to be holding a higher standard to Biden over Trump. It probably took me too long to notice, but when I did, I dropped the NYT like a hot potato - either report the news from equally on both sides or fuck off.
MSM are going through some things right now. They’re starting to realize they’re losing their viewers and readers to non-traditional, non-corporately owned media voices, and they are affronted that their built-in audience is breaking up with them, and they don’t know what to do about it.
They know what to do, but don't want to do it, for reasons I can't determine. It's pretty plain that they have to stop both-sides-ing us into fascism, call the GQP what it is, and throw whatever weight they still have behind democracy and Democrats. They won't, and they'll go the way of Sears, which discontinued its paper catalog in 1993 but didn't even try to compete in the online space until it was far too late to catch or even compete with Amazon.
About f-ing time they committed an “act of journalism!”. The guy is a whack job and the corporate media lets him slide—-ARGH!!! sick of it! And the Not-So Supreme Court…Christ-let’s do all we can to vote BLUE!!!!
It’s shorter than most of the other Substacks, so you’re good to continue I’d say.
On Donny’s demented decline, I’m sure that Vance must be whistling Dixie, as he envisions having to serve under Trump for a few months only if the latter wins, when the backroom boys tell him that it’s time to invoke the 25th. He’ll then be the puppet of the sycophants and Project 2025 will become the new way of life in America. This is not a fictitious scenario. Disregard at your own peril.
I agree. The minute the full Cabinet is confirmed and seated, out goes donOLD and in comes the younger, hipper fascist, and he doesn't have to worry that MAGA will turn on him because he'll just eliminate elections.
You mean Congressperson Wedgie in Charge. The one "that didn't see that comment from Eric or Elon or drumpfy" because "I was so gosh darn busy but I'm sure they didn't mean anything bad." He is mercilessly inept.
Let’s summarize and go straight to the point. Fuck Sulz, fuck NYT, fuck von trumpetto, fuck corrupt scotus and maga morons. Vote blue and blue! Did I mention BLUE anywhere? Well within 1’693 words. Of course it lacks details and subtility but we can’t have it all. Thank you!
Except, it’s not about age. His criming would be criming all the same at age 48. No, the NYT still sucks and is derelict in their duty - “All The News That’s Fit To Click.”
I continue to worry that these things are getting too long. this one's 1,693 words and I still didn't cover half of what I intended to.
Keep going, I will read it all!
Some days I read it twice.
First I read it sober and then I read it ripped out of my mind at night.
Me too.
Jeff, you could write a book and I would HAPPILY devour it!
Keep on keepin’ on!
Yep I do too!
Read every word and sometimes twice.
You took the words right out of my mouth!
I'm sure I speak for all of us when I say we will read every word!
Absolutely!
Yes!😀
Never too long. Please keep going.
I read it all every day!
Your missives are the only thing standing between me and the asylum. Don't begrudge yourself the space!
Same here😱
Veronica same here. What’s happening is taking it’s toll on me.
You could write an encyclopedia everyday and I'd read it, word for word. The only bright email of my day.
Perhaps you should write a column about worrying about how long a column should be. But keep it short.
😂😂
🙌
Keep going.....you can write a daily novelette. I'll read it.
Yes, I read every word you write always more than once sometimes more.
No such thing, Jeff! You know we'll read every word.
And it always helps to learn new ones:)
LOL!
I read your pieces through. For what that’s worth to you, i know you speak for millions.
It's all good. I'd rather read your Substack than the New York Times any day of the week... 👍
I DO read Jeff's Substack instead of the New York Times, every day!
Same.
Same!
Your work is always excellent. A bargain at twice the price. Thank you Jeff.
Or you could do two columns a day, haha
😂
I stop everything I'm doing to read and give my full attention. I'd read more for sure. That sad part is you have so much more to write about in the first place. The fucknuttery, as you say, just never ends.
Not long enough, in my humble opinion! And Trump is getting worse by the day. Doddering old man with scrambled brains, how on earth can people stand to listen to such garbage?
Don't you love it when Jeff describes him as waddling? Hahaha, perfect description of his walk 😂
Jeff keep going. You inspire me every day!
1. If anyone hasn’t yet heard what Jeff and Neal are referring to, “Without detailing their reasoning, the justices kept in place a lower court order that said hospitals cannot be required to provide pregnancy terminations that would violate Texas law”. Good luck ladies, please remember to bleed out before attempting to get help.
2. The NYT finally surfaced from the depths of their bullshit to write a real article. Won’t win me back as a subscriber. Too little too late.
3. Agent Orange finally admitted he doesn’t know what the hell is going on. No, duh. Did he ever?
Those fucking fuckers
It's not an admission. When he says "what the hell," he's giving his audience permission to not know *and not care* what it is. It's too complicated, or too fancy, or too brainy to matter to real, red-blooded MAGA choads.
I don’t know that they need his permission. They celebrate their ignorance anyway, but you have a great point, he definitely encourages them to remain so.
Without ignorance, the Republican Party would be toast!
TPTB have been dummying down the masses while getting richer every second!
George Carlin said “It’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it”. Kay-EI!!
I hadn't heard that! Hilarious! True.
Exactly. The fact that he sounds drunk and incoherent doesn't matter to them. They will only care about what he cares about. But in reality, the only thing he cares about is winning, and it cheating is part of it.
He sounds drunk, it’s part of Alzheimer’s Disease. It will get worse, so did he sound drunk 4yrs ago? Just hateful is all.
Still waiting on that healthcare plan… any day now
A linguist said that Trump talks at a fourth-grade level and most politicians at least get up to eighth grade level. Maybe it's Trump's decline or maybe (the jokes write themselves) he knows the level at which he has to speak to get through to MAGA.
The press should have been calling out the repetition and emptiness a few years ago.. but he was MUCH more presentable/articulate in 2016
Left staying out of prison Marycat!!
MAGAS are so illiterate. Couldn’t read comics.
Well said Ellis.
Archiebunkerspeak
Re item 2, there is no reason to believed that the change is permanent. Forgiving the Times for their past lies based on a single article is like forgiving a mass murderer because he stopped for a moment to pet a dog.
My thought exactly. What is this? Queen for a Day?
Exactly. 🎯
This Stephen!!
I would guess that many good, caring doctors are going to be leaving Texas in droves, if they haven't already. If I cannot treat patients the way I think they need to be treated without risking huge fines and jail sentences, I think I would leave Texas for somewhere else.
So I imagine as bad as it may be now, it will get worse fast...and the country probably won't know the real statistics regarding the deaths, because I'm sure Texas won't report them.
This has already happened in Idaho.
This is English, not Latin.
I can see doctors saying, "I didn't spend years in medical school, internship and residency to tell a patient to go sit in the parking lot until she passes out from blood loss."
#2. right there with you.
I have a 1973 shirt on. My husband didn't know what it meant. I told him to look it up.
I’m still curious how this doesn’t violate HIPAA
I’m not sure. The HIPAA form does have an authorization to share with an attorney or governmental agency but it must be specified who/what agency. I’m not clear under what circumstances anyone would specify a government agency. 🤷🏼♀️
It would at least give the Federal government some control over rogue states
I will NOT subscribe to the Trump Bootlicker-owned "newspaper" ever again.
Dubious Kay-EI!
When did the Cheeturd say that ... I don't doubt you, I'd just love to read that with my own eyes!!
It was in Jeff’s post. I took a little liberty with it.
Should we lose our democracy, the fault will be squarely on the press. Corporate media is only interested in one thing and that's their profitability.
The blame would be on them and deservingly so. The professional horseshit artist spewing his latest lie about FEMA being broke because of money going to migrants can't be overstated. North Carolina's second largest newspaper had the integrity to spell it out. All of the media should be putting an emphasis on his non-stop false claims.
GOP Sen Thom Tillis of NC came out with a strong pro-FEMA response and condemned turd conspiracy remarks. @senthomtillis
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/charlotte/news/2024/10/04/state-leaders-say-fema-responded-swiftly-to-hellene
Carolina Senators showing some class. I didnt know it was possible.
Remember chris Christie expressing gratitude to Obama after Superstorm Sandy.
I read that desantis didn’t take kamala’s call because he thought it was “political.”
Would you say Ron’s not taking the call is
A. Political
B. Stupid
C. Both of the above
D. The winning move in this four-dimensional chess game
E. Further proof that he’s a lizard in human form
HA! He is beyond hideous!
A, B, C, and F
NON-STOP
The idea is to overwhelm voters with lies so they no longer know fact from fiction
And it’s working very nicely, thank you!
THIS,!!!! DO NOT BE A VICTIM OF THEIR "flood the zone with shit". That's what they want + us not voting! 🗽🇺🇸🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊💙💙💙
And if we lose our democracy, the press will find themselves as the propaganda arm of the Fascist States of America. I don't think they will enjoy that.
Aren't they already there? Murdschlock and Shitburger get their focus points from the right.
Especially since they would be told what to write or else.
They already are told what to write.
That sure as hell ain’t “free press”
I agree.
I think they will be perfectly happy doing it since they've been doing it since 2015.
They won't care by that point. And they won't man up to fascism, either. They will call it "will of the people."
Who knows? Maybe it'll just be more of the same old same old.
Some of them may not get the chance to be fascist mouthpieces: they'll just be jailed for past reporting.
SCOTUS, you mean? (I don't think that corporate media gives a damn.)
Oh, there is room for more at the table of shame. My candidate is Merrick Garland, who waited two fucking years before naming Jack Smith as special prosecutor. Imagine what would have happened had Smith gotten the nod even one year earlier.
If Harris wins and the insurrection is defeated I hope Garland is the first person to be pushed out. (And Obama was going to name him to the Supreme Court!!)
Actually, I wish that Garland HAD gotten on SCOTUS. We'd have one more liberal on the bench, instead of ACB + we'd have a different AG, hopefully someone who doesn't lollygag.
Fact of the Garland investigation should be researched before trashing his efforts to get to the bottom of the Jan/6th plot, which was in the works for months.
Garland immediately started an investigation into the meeting at the Willard Hotel, Bill Barr killed that investigation, just as he did the Reagan Irangate, and HR Bush Iran Contra investigations Stephen… Reagan was on the cusp of being indicted for treason by the way! All of this has been investigated, documented snd and a plethora of articles have been written about all of Barrs fuckery over his time inside the beltway!
I definitely feel Garland is much more suited to being a justice than a prosecutor
Hitler made quick work of journalists.
The corporate media is part of the Putin-trump circle, so yes, they are equally if not more liable by broadcasting his dangerous lies to their dangerous gun-toting base of stupids.
Taking a closer look at who owns the media is relevant Susan!!
Which they will lose once the state takes control of them worked for Hitler.
And all this before this morning’s SCOTUS ruling. Jesus Christ in a bicycle.
yeah, I just noticed the SCOTUS fuckery that happened while I was writing this thing
The Court said they don't give a shit if women are dying. Too bad - that's the punishment for daring to try to assert control over our own bodies. Have sex for any reason other than procreation? You'll pay for it if you become pregnant.
It is some exercise in circular reasoning. Your primary reason for life is bearing children, right? So you dutifully get pregnant, But wait, you have an ectopic pregnancy and need help, or an incomplete partial miscarriage. What happens then? Sorry, dutiful women, you have to die. We can't help you so just die. Ok? All good? Just fucking die in the parking lot.
In the eyes of the Court and of the Right, women are worthless.
Thanks to the Extreme Cult, a female fetus has more rights, and is afforded more healthcare, than she will ever be at any other point in her life after birth.
Wow... I never looked at it that way before... Horrible
Not exactly worthless, useful, but not full human beings with rights that must be respected by white men. Unless they are at the fetal stage.
The court does not have any right to judicate who may live or die, but that is what they have ordered. They are ensuring that many women will die or be deemed criminals for saving their own lives. Insanity at large.
We are the new Dred Scott, with no rights to be respected.
Absolutely! Guess these god-bothering idiots haven’t realized that when they let women bleed out and die, they end up with fewer “procreators.”
Or maybe even that disgusting idea isn’t enough for them. Maybe they just want women to die.
I hate these people!
And no, the GOP will not help with child care, food etc. for whomever takes custody of your children after you die from sepsis.
Congress hasn't passed the Equal Rights Amendment for Women, right?
THE REQUIRED NUMBER OF STATES HAVE RATIFIED IT. IT MERELY NEEDS CONGRESS TO REMOVE THE EXTERNAL DEADLINE IMPOSED ON IT, AND THEN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVIST TO PUT IT INTO THE CONSTITUTION. There are hurdles. They can be overcome. It's not simple, but it can be done. If the Ds win the House and Senate, *sigh*...
And too bad, so sad for the children you already have. Maybe your husband, even.
Have sex against your will, and you are given a life sentence of motherhood to take care of a child of a RAPIST. That's justice in some other MAN's universe, but not in this one. We are in dire straits on so many levels if Trump wins.
Reply to Linda Fulcher. Those shaming women for not wanting to be pregnant. Reason?????? They want to punish women who want to lead their OWN FUCKING LIFE. They walk-step to an oppressor and it hurts for them to see a woman be free, charting her life and reaping all the benefits of it.
I love how all the blame falls on the woman when it takes 2 to get pregnant!
Including if you have sex because you were raped by your father. Tough skitsky, little girlie!
What wisdom will the court shovel down to “we the serfs,” when contraception bans become the law?
Damn it to hell. I just found out what the Court did. I can't stand any more of this shit. Getting to be time to go after these christofascists and find a way to get Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, and Roberts off the Court.
True dat Linda!
What happened? I missed it.
See Kay-El's comment above.
Gift article from the Washington Post.
‘A New Supreme Court Term: What The Experts Are Watching For’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/07/supreme-court-new-term/
I can’t access the article. Paywall.
Try Googling the article. When I first found it, it was free.
But now when I looked at it again, it’s not free anymore.
There is no better litmus test on earth than maga. If you look at this obese dementia-ridden moron and his boy toys Apartheid Clyde and Couchfucker Vance and think "yeah, THESE guys should run the country," you have to be either supernaturally stupid or a fucking crook yourself. There's no "none of the above" anymore.
Exactly, Mike! It’s really shouldn’t be this hard!
NYT is just helping to pave way for JD to toss out batty old Trump. NYT is gunning to install JD.
I had the same thought. They are setting things up for Vance to take over if Trump wins. Don't let that happen. Vote Blue.
No question about it.
Yep!!
Donny's decline "hasn't generated much attention" say the people whose job is to generate attention.
To listen to him in order to hear his decline is such a frustrating, irritating experience that maybe it passes unnoticed for too many people. But that's why NYT reporters get the big bucks.
TOUCHE' !!
Very astute Ann!
Ah yes. The Supposedly Very Liberal But In Actuality A Hop Skip And Jump From Fox News Fuck The Fucking New York Times. (That's their official name.)
It was a while ago that I noticed the NYT seemed to be holding a higher standard to Biden over Trump. It probably took me too long to notice, but when I did, I dropped the NYT like a hot potato - either report the news from equally on both sides or fuck off.
MSM are going through some things right now. They’re starting to realize they’re losing their viewers and readers to non-traditional, non-corporately owned media voices, and they are affronted that their built-in audience is breaking up with them, and they don’t know what to do about it.
I sure hope they change their paths. Amplifying lies is not what a free press is intended to do
They may be waking up to the realities too late to save themselves and this country. Fuck 'em!!!!
They know what to do, but don't want to do it, for reasons I can't determine. It's pretty plain that they have to stop both-sides-ing us into fascism, call the GQP what it is, and throw whatever weight they still have behind democracy and Democrats. They won't, and they'll go the way of Sears, which discontinued its paper catalog in 1993 but didn't even try to compete in the online space until it was far too late to catch or even compete with Amazon.
This, would be a great thing MzNicky!
About f-ing time they committed an “act of journalism!”. The guy is a whack job and the corporate media lets him slide—-ARGH!!! sick of it! And the Not-So Supreme Court…Christ-let’s do all we can to vote BLUE!!!!
Your work, your own fact-checking, your wit, your scabrous iambs: all, indispensable. Thank you x100, Jeff, and I too will read every word.
It’s shorter than most of the other Substacks, so you’re good to continue I’d say.
On Donny’s demented decline, I’m sure that Vance must be whistling Dixie, as he envisions having to serve under Trump for a few months only if the latter wins, when the backroom boys tell him that it’s time to invoke the 25th. He’ll then be the puppet of the sycophants and Project 2025 will become the new way of life in America. This is not a fictitious scenario. Disregard at your own peril.
I agree. The minute the full Cabinet is confirmed and seated, out goes donOLD and in comes the younger, hipper fascist, and he doesn't have to worry that MAGA will turn on him because he'll just eliminate elections.
Holy Mike Johnson - Ned Flanders in the flesh
You mean Congressperson Wedgie in Charge. The one "that didn't see that comment from Eric or Elon or drumpfy" because "I was so gosh darn busy but I'm sure they didn't mean anything bad." He is mercilessly inept.
The Republican motto has been changed from "The cruelty is the point" to, "I didn't see the tweet."
Worse. Ned Flanders means well.
Let’s summarize and go straight to the point. Fuck Sulz, fuck NYT, fuck von trumpetto, fuck corrupt scotus and maga morons. Vote blue and blue! Did I mention BLUE anywhere? Well within 1’693 words. Of course it lacks details and subtility but we can’t have it all. Thank you!
Except, it’s not about age. His criming would be criming all the same at age 48. No, the NYT still sucks and is derelict in their duty - “All The News That’s Fit To Click.”