It’s so very cute MAGAS seem to think food costs will go down with Donald in office. Please tell me when the farm workers are kicked out of our country and adding at least 30% tariffs for goods from foreign countries…. How are those actions going to make food costs cheaper? Please be logical in your MAGA replies.. 🤮
Oh pu-lease don’t go away, Jeff T! Only you (and Rachel) tell it like it really is. How & WHY is this non-citizen gaining so much ground in OUR damn country. He can spaceX himself back to S Africa. Stop with the assignments with this egotistical nutcase!!! Talking to OUR legislators? WTAF?
Muskrat obtained his US citizenship in 2002. Personally, I think his citizenship should be revoked and he should be deported back to So Africa. His Tesla plant in SE Austin, Texass was caught dumping their wastewater into Texasses Colorado River. This river feeds into a few lakes and is used by ranchers, farmers, fishermen and municipalities. He got a slap on his wimpy wrist and a hefty fine (sure it didn’t hurt his pocketbook); but then this is Texass, where money talks and bs walks.
When it doesn't happen, they'll stick JD Vance in front of a grocery display (clearly showing eggs at $5.00) saying that eggs are now $1.00 thanks to Dear Leader. And they will believe it and rejoice.
I’ve asked myself that question and the only thing I can think is that it may be considered an attempt to sway votes. It may be illegal if improperly done.
Read an article on DKos the other day that said Dems should rejoice that drumpf won, because surely, when the stock market drops 20% and retirement savings go away, and unemployment skyrockets, people will inevitably vote Dems in for the next generation or so.
First: rejoice?? WTAF??? It's OK that the country craters and who-knows-how-many people are homeless and starving, if Dems theoretically will win elections down the line? Second, the cult is going to blame Jewish space lasers or alien mind control or Joe Biden’s evil influence, NEVER mango man.
What a mind-blowingly stupid article. Got lots of positive comments, roo, unbelievably.
I'm not surprised Kos is a crazy rag. On the other hand, everybody from MSNBC to Kos to every Democratic substack is probably underwater. Personally, I have stopped giving a shit. There is nothing I can do that I haven't done for the last several decades. America has the toilet it has wanted to swim in and drink out of. 60 percent of idiots/Americans even like Trump's administrative picks. They're all in and can't wait to get the party rolling. The tariffs, mass deportations and cuts to public services haven't happened yet.
Trump is living proof that crime pays. Smith is moving to withdraw his prosecutions of Trump. Even the Jan 6th case. Please, explain to me just what the fuck we losers are supposed to do now. I'm out of ideas.
I'm weighing the option of cashing out a trust in case of cyber attacks. I don't know if that's smart, or an overreaction. I don't like having cash at home, but if accts gets drained...
BTW.. Meidas is reporting that out of a job little Matt Gaetz could be appointed, by Trump consiglieri and member of the Florida mafia.. Pam Bondi, to the post of special counsel to go after the investigators, lawyers and judges involved in little Donnie’s crimes. 🤮
Paging Elon Musk: Huge waste of taxpayer $. Some turd trials have been reviewed by several sets of higher judges. Some SCOTUS too. So FUCKing quit with the bullshit "watching the detectives". Any missteps would have been found out.
I suggested in some forum that we need to start growing our own food like we did back in the day - and the only response was WHAT ABOUT THE HOMELESS. (Actually: provide some ground, let them build dwellings and plant gardens...)
I can go back five generations, and my family has never grown their own food to sustain us over even one year, never mind multiple years. Having the land for even a vegetable garden is a privilege. Assuming the time it takes to do the work it takes. Containers aren't going to hack it.
Been there/done that. Still attempting to do it, out on the balcony where I now live. First off, it is quite an expensive undertaking - buying the seed or the starter plants, buying the soil, buying (in my case) buckets to fill and plant in. You need a space for all of the above that will provide ample sunshine. It is exciting when you see results - but - the yield is very small, and disappointing. One year I got enough green beans to cook one batch. Now that I live in an apartment, the only thing I've had real success with is tomatoes. Not to be a killjoy, but container gardening is never going to sustain even one person, much less a family.
doesn't have to be everyone, doesn't had to be to "sustain", and I don't know where you live but where I grew up everyone had a garden. I guess having land for a garden is a privilege, but there are millions of privileged suburbanites surrounded by useless lawn... We cannot (migrant labor or not) sustain the factory farming of the present and dependence on systems that are gonna crash - climate (that we're messing with - cf all the people madly flying in all directions for thanksgiving: think of the CO2) is gonna make for a Course Correction that will make The Turnip's messing around look like the evil-child's-play that it is
I am privileged enough to have a home and a lot large enough to plant fruit trees and vegetables. I've got backyard chickens. It's just 2 of us, so I put my excess out on a large crate with a sign that says "Free". Even the Zucchini disappears. It's not much, but if it helps anyone it's worth doing.
The summer heat has been gone up that I gave up on growing anything but herbs the last 3 years. In pots that i could barely manage to shift from sun to shade. The shade was too hot for my tarragon and basil. Even in the greenhouse, plants baked. We got rid of our grass in the front yard 10 years ago and made room for tomatoes, squash and cukes, and carved a space for green beans that thrived in the back, but it got too hot for all of them. Our neighbor grows peppers 🫑 🌶️ but I can’t eat them. We also have a ton of oak, fir and pines, and the native squirrels disappeared the year it hit 117F and have finally made a comeback. Thankful we’re well above flood level, and no land slides yet, but a seasonal stream of rushing out back that appears after heavy rains, it’s normally underground. I lament. We rely on hydroponic fresh produce from Western Washington and Canada, and from California and Mexico during the cooler months.
Avian flu virus was detected last week in raw milk on a farm in California. Avian flu also infected a child. So it's jumped species. And Bobby Brain Worm will oversee the next pandemic, with no government funding for a vaccine. "Bring out your dead!"
bush and his administration had left a book they’d give to the next president, which, of course, was Obama. The Obama administration handed that out for the next president who was handing over to the next president who was trump.
Who sees major grocers & other stores, hauling in billions in profit years after the pandemic lowering prices? Many are buying their stock back with $$. Add turd tariffs.
NPR used to be (granola) liberal. I listened to them, and watched PBS, a lot back then. They listed toward center, and I started listening less, and then not at all. No more contributions in response to their numerous awful fund-driving begs. From what I understand, there’s some downright sanewashing going on these days. They have a lot of company.
Same! I remember a week after bush was elected, what a moron, he was lecturing the French and saying their economy was in the shitter because they didn't have a word for entrepreneur. Swear to God, I stopped in my tracks and said "that's it". I turned off NPR for good (maybe some mornings with car talk on the way to the farmers market) and did not once again listen to Bush's voice. None of it, not 911, none. Zip. Zero. Nil. If we turn our attention to the people who will need helping living through the next several years and supporting the kids who are protesting on our behalf (I'm not well enough to make a nuisance of myself anymore) then we will get through it. If we give the scribblers another ounce of our time, they will just waste it fucking with us with their constant misdirection and fear mongering.
Public donations haven’t been enough to fund many 501c (non profits) , of coarse federal funding helps keep NPR going…anyone paying attention to the congressional reports and HR9495 might have foreseen the end of many nonprofits… project 2025 makes for interesting reading, who’s been paying attention is the question?
The ‘legacy’ news and media abandoned being the voice of truth and reality and chose greed instead. Surrounded by talk radio, YouTube, social media, and propaganda Fuks News (and the like) have been spewing lies and hate drawing a bigger audience. Instead of fighting disinformation with actual facts WaPo and the rest have succumbed to disseminating disinformation in an effort to compete. Well - it hasn’t worked and now they are just driving themselves into the ground and will lose their businesses anyway. Lose their news organizations and lose the country - someone doesn’t have good reasoning skills!!
All these needy incels seem to have read Nietzsche in high school and mistakenly believed they understood it. Instead of which they have simply developed a Superman complex. That’s ironic.
Musk is running vanity videos praising his own breathtaking accomplishments to save humanity on Facebook, now that he's maxed out the vitriolic morons on X. Plastic action figures of Captain Irony and President Turd to hit the shelves by Christmas?
Turnip, um, Trump *is* consistent: he does at least attempt to do some of the catastrophic fucking up of things that he promises - sometimes successfully, sometimes not (when he is blocked from doing so.) He also consistently lies about the things he says that he won’t try to fuck up.
So, for the press to attempt to paint him as anything other than the lying, fucked up fucker upper of any and all things is quite egregious.
One interesting thing that I saw on Bluesky this morning was what South Dakota GOP Sen. Mike Rounds said when he was recently in Halifax. He said and not in these exact words that their role was to keep all three branches of our government independent. Holy shit. Is it possible that Adolph anus lips isn't going to be able to pull off all of his planned fascist autocratic destruction? Since Trump lapdog Sen. Rick Scott wasn't elected to run the Senate, we can hope wiser GOP members prevail.
I am currently in Texas to spend the holiday with my children. Ever since I was a little girl, the undocumented people gather in places like Home Depot or Lowe’s or other places where contractors come and pick them up to do day labor. I drove past the Home Depot three days in a row last week. At least fifty people were hanging around the parking lot every single day. This is well known throughout Texas that this is where these people gather looking for work. I said to my husband, “Greg Abbott is such a piece of lying shit. These people have been coming here for years and ICE knows exactly where they are, but they don’t do a damned thong because Texas needs day laborers.” I can’t wait to see what old Hot Wheels is going to do—deport all the undocumented which are the most in texas than any other state, or let the entire economy of Texas collapse. There’s a lot of Trump voters running those construction companies not to mention all of the Nannie’s who raise Texans’ children and do all of the landscaping and vegetable harvesting in the state. Greggy boy has quite the conundrum.
Construction projects, roofers, asphalt & cement crews,etc., go bye-bye? Good luck Texas! And who’s going to work the slaughterhouses and the produce fields?
If Kamala had won, Im quite sure the media wouldn't be writing articles about how the MAGA faithful must "reach across the aisle" and learn to communicate and understand and accept the Democrats. So yes, WHY is it that we are ALWAYS the group that has to capitulate and "learn to get along" with a herd of ignorant sheep happily trodding along to their ultimate slaughter! Meanwhile, MAGAland is furiously working (as promised) to destroy every Democratic institution --
including non-profits -- that benefit people and have, more often than not, helped to bring truth and comfort to the forefront.
Maybe I should sell my house before the government seizes my property and robs me of any valuables I have for their own coffers. After all, I won't need any of it when I'm shipped off to a camp for being a decent person, but a polical dissident none-the-less.
Because the Right are a bunch of bullies and the Left acts like pussies sometimes. We have the brains on our side. Get some street smarts and go after them. Sorry Michelle - you're "when they go low, we go high" isn't working in 2024. It's a grown up classy way to act, but not appropriate for MAGAS. Bullies don't respect people that don't stand up to them.
The media knows/believes that the Left is more mature and reasonable and thus expects it to .....assuage the radical right in order to keep peace. As in a dysfunctional family with a lunatic brother, the sisters are ALWAYS expected to mollify and patronize the Looney one in order to keep peace. But there will be NO peace. Only violence and heartache
I never liked camping with my family when I was a kid. I know I'll **really** hate it now that I'm in my 70's and I'm in one of the Orange Menace's camps, no matter who I'm with!
I'm over 60, disabled, and on life-sustaining types of medications, such as insulin, so I'm not likely to last long in any type of camp, without what I need medically. I'm also in two minority groups the haters love to hate.
Who is going to willingly show up to the train station/bus station/airport to go the "The Camps"? I think we all know the way that story ends. Fuck that. I sure as hell won't be "hoping for the best". No one should be thinking that way. Fight these assholes to the very end, if need be. I am absolutely serious. No bending the knee. No making it easy for them.
Likely a Musk suggestion Stephan, eugenics was always part of the GOP platform. It’s either work camps, or death camps for “We the Serfs”, unless the Opus Dei faction of the Leo, Thiel party come to the expected fisticuffs, and the whole mess of fuckery collapses kd!!
Steven Miller is one of the major and most powerful eugenics believer in the world at this time. There are no limits to what he would do. (Read about his asking General Milley to bomb the boat people coming from Cuba.) The most bizarre thing to me about this dead-eyed reptile is that he is Jewish; his grandparents were immigrants from Germany; and they have completely disowned him, even though he apparently considers himself to be a Jew. Screwy? You betcha.
Miller is a textbook case of extreme self loathing that he turns against those like himself. I worked with someone whose mom was Asian and dad was black. Beautiful girl. She refused to date black men. Rounding up primarily Latinos and deporting them won't make Miller any less Jewish nor make himself like himself better.
But IS miller self-loathing? He certainly is FILLED with hate -- though not directed toward other Jews, to my knowledge. How he became such an emotionally sadistic man I will never understand.
Not his grandparents--his great-grandparents. His grandparents were lovely, warm people, born here. They're both gone, now. The rest of his family (his mother's family) have disowned him.
PS. Went to HS with his mother.
What Miller doesn't understand, is that one day, when they finally come for us, they'll come for him, too. His service to the Reich will have been for nothing.
Thanks for the correction and the information. (Makes sense that it would have to have been great-grandparents.) You say that his mother's family has disowned him (along with his sibs, from what I've read). Is his father's family remaining in contact with him? If so, does that imply that father is, as well? I think you are speaking as a Jew, when you say "for us". Is he REALLY that stupid/delusional?!
The original Nazi camps were NOT for the Jews but for socialist Democrats, criminals, guys, etc. It wasn't till later in that decade that Nazis realized shipping Jews to Madagascar wasn't a solutuon...the 2 hour long Wansee conference/luncheon revealed killing camps as.....The Final Solution.
I am so fucking sick of being told to “seek common ground.” Sorry, but I am at least moderately sane and intelligent. I am fed up with being instructed to understand cultist insanity that wants to destroy everything I value!! NO! I WILL NOT!!
sob, I just don't understand - after WWII we (as a species) seemed to have entered an era of sanity and progress, and now we've driven off the cliff and there are cries of Look, We're Flying. I've thought of "reaching across the chasm" with the one trumper I know, but last week when she was in town I refused to let her in: self-care. And who can find "common effing ground" with someone who thinks the income tax dept is a private company funnelling $ to the pope and the king of England, who is into chemtrails, hydrogen peroxide (cures/prevents cancer - who knew?), etc etc - not a mind that can be reasoned with. Madness offers a frisson mere reality cannot match
Let them drink away to their heart's content. Just like that stupid couple in AZ who died from taking the horse pills during COVID. I'm sorry for their loved ones, but 2 less Trump voters in AZ. I'm not wasting my empathy/compassion bank on people who would ruin our country.
Lived on a ranch, drank milk from our cows. We had a cream skimmer and a pasteurizer. I don’t think we ever drank the milk raw, as in right out of the cow.
Just need to say this is one of the best "everyone is entitled to my own opinion" I've read - inside and out, top to bottom, all around, through and through. Every damn word.
“I will use the power of irony …”. Give me a damned break. They are insane. And we’ll see how fast that 45% drops when a head of lettuce costs $23. 🤦♀️
They will never throw their DEAR LEADER under the bus. Or blame him for any of the ensuing fuckery. They will still somehow try to blame it on the Left. Trump is always a blameless victim 😡
I saw a really good TikTok about coddling MAGAs. It likened them to drug addicts and those, like NPR and anyone else saying we really need to reach out to them and understand them blah blah blah, are like the enablers who keep giving drug addicts second, third, a hundred chances to fix themselves and then are surprised when they keep going for the dope. MAGA cultists are addicted to trump, elon, the whole notion of "owning the libs." The only thing that will help them is to hit rock bottom.
"Reaching out" to someone who thinks the earth is flat , vaccines are bad, or that trump wasn't found guilty etc is never going to work. They live in their own fantasy land and until they come back to reality, we cannot get through to them. How can you find common ground with someone when you live on separate planets?
It just sucks that them hitting rock bottom is going to drag the rest of us down with them.
Speaking of WAPO fuckery, "Why DOGE is an essential and important idea." by Fareed Zakaria. He goes on, "Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who will be in charge of DOGE, are both brilliant, and the federal government has clearly become too expansive and its writ too cumbersome." So Zakaria is just another clown sucking up to the oligarchs, and celebrating the looming depression to follow: "But I support the impulse to reform — and not just because I think it will force greater scrutiny and efficiency on government, which needs it...the central lesson of macroeconomic policy in recent decades has been that government spending now constitutes so large a part of the economy that drastically cutting it can lead to a downward spiral of reduced consumer spending and declining confidence. Your expenditure is my income." He closes with, "With DOGE, we might finally get an effort to actually deliver on the central Republican promise of the past 90 years. And we will find out what America thinks of it." Can you imagine celebrating a fucking depression all in the name of "goverment efficiency?" This really means oligarchs can operate without regard to health and environmental regard, etc., such as Musk dumping toxic waste in Austin's Colorado River: https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/elon-musk-tesla-environment-1263cd60
I bet we all agree that there's waste in the government. BUT the answer to attacking the problem is not with the Trifecta of Morons (Musk, MTG and Vivek). Out of the 3, I have a visceral reaction when I see Musk's face. I hate him the most.
I have heard NO one talk about how the federal government has been prevented from instituting efficiencies because of very old, outdated technology. Bombs not computers.
NPR and PBS have been into bothsiding for a long time now. They are so yypersensitive about being accused of being humanists that they bend over backwards to placate the lunatics.
it's the toleration paradox - reasonable people trying to Find Common Ground with lunatics. THEY never try that with us libs. So the whole culture is shifting (galloping) towards far rightism (otherwise known as.............)
It’s so very cute MAGAS seem to think food costs will go down with Donald in office. Please tell me when the farm workers are kicked out of our country and adding at least 30% tariffs for goods from foreign countries…. How are those actions going to make food costs cheaper? Please be logical in your MAGA replies.. 🤮
because Dear Leader told them it would happen. that's all the explanation the cultists need
And when it DOESN'T happen, it will be because of sleepy Joe or maybe those evil RINOs who torpedoed what's her name's nomination or .... or ...
exactly. because Dear Leader is never at fault
Oh pu-lease don’t go away, Jeff T! Only you (and Rachel) tell it like it really is. How & WHY is this non-citizen gaining so much ground in OUR damn country. He can spaceX himself back to S Africa. Stop with the assignments with this egotistical nutcase!!! Talking to OUR legislators? WTAF?
Muskrat obtained his US citizenship in 2002. Personally, I think his citizenship should be revoked and he should be deported back to So Africa. His Tesla plant in SE Austin, Texass was caught dumping their wastewater into Texasses Colorado River. This river feeds into a few lakes and is used by ranchers, farmers, fishermen and municipalities. He got a slap on his wimpy wrist and a hefty fine (sure it didn’t hurt his pocketbook); but then this is Texass, where money talks and bs walks.
Donnie Convict will simply tell them that the deep state sabotaged him again!
When it doesn't happen, they'll stick JD Vance in front of a grocery display (clearly showing eggs at $5.00) saying that eggs are now $1.00 thanks to Dear Leader. And they will believe it and rejoice.
That’s true but I think employers are already warning them of the effects tariffs will have on them. I hope that will make a difference.
Why didn't they speak up three months ago? It's not as if the effects tarriffs were unkniwn until now.
I’ve asked myself that question and the only thing I can think is that it may be considered an attempt to sway votes. It may be illegal if improperly done.
Grocery prices won't matter when there are no groceries at any price.
Read an article on DKos the other day that said Dems should rejoice that drumpf won, because surely, when the stock market drops 20% and retirement savings go away, and unemployment skyrockets, people will inevitably vote Dems in for the next generation or so.
First: rejoice?? WTAF??? It's OK that the country craters and who-knows-how-many people are homeless and starving, if Dems theoretically will win elections down the line? Second, the cult is going to blame Jewish space lasers or alien mind control or Joe Biden’s evil influence, NEVER mango man.
What a mind-blowingly stupid article. Got lots of positive comments, roo, unbelievably.
I'm not surprised Kos is a crazy rag. On the other hand, everybody from MSNBC to Kos to every Democratic substack is probably underwater. Personally, I have stopped giving a shit. There is nothing I can do that I haven't done for the last several decades. America has the toilet it has wanted to swim in and drink out of. 60 percent of idiots/Americans even like Trump's administrative picks. They're all in and can't wait to get the party rolling. The tariffs, mass deportations and cuts to public services haven't happened yet.
Trump is living proof that crime pays. Smith is moving to withdraw his prosecutions of Trump. Even the Jan 6th case. Please, explain to me just what the fuck we losers are supposed to do now. I'm out of ideas.
I'm weighing the option of cashing out a trust in case of cyber attacks. I don't know if that's smart, or an overreaction. I don't like having cash at home, but if accts gets drained...
And (dark thought here) that assumes that will actually BE a next election.
Was it written by Susan Sarandon? 😒
And when (not IF) it doesn't happen you know who'll get blamed (safe bets are either the Jews or Deep State).
"Biden"! He "rigged" it all in advance! With space lasers and thermostats from Brazil.
I wonder if they realize that on Jan 20, they become the "deep state" !
BTW.. Meidas is reporting that out of a job little Matt Gaetz could be appointed, by Trump consiglieri and member of the Florida mafia.. Pam Bondi, to the post of special counsel to go after the investigators, lawyers and judges involved in little Donnie’s crimes. 🤮
Paging Elon Musk: Huge waste of taxpayer $. Some turd trials have been reviewed by several sets of higher judges. Some SCOTUS too. So FUCKing quit with the bullshit "watching the detectives". Any missteps would have been found out.
Matty's got a possible job? Last weekend stumbled over news he was doing $500 each zoom or online "thing" for a co. called Cameo.
Just came from store. Produce is WAAAY up. Yeah, that’s all going to get better when there’s no one to pick and process and get it to market.
I can't wait for the $14.00 heads of lettuce. Coming to a store near you.
I suggested in some forum that we need to start growing our own food like we did back in the day - and the only response was WHAT ABOUT THE HOMELESS. (Actually: provide some ground, let them build dwellings and plant gardens...)
I can go back five generations, and my family has never grown their own food to sustain us over even one year, never mind multiple years. Having the land for even a vegetable garden is a privilege. Assuming the time it takes to do the work it takes. Containers aren't going to hack it.
Actually, there are quite a few books on container gardening, using pots or small veggie beds on a patio. It does take time, however.
Best book I have found is “The Bountiful Container” by McGee & Stuckey.
Been there/done that. Still attempting to do it, out on the balcony where I now live. First off, it is quite an expensive undertaking - buying the seed or the starter plants, buying the soil, buying (in my case) buckets to fill and plant in. You need a space for all of the above that will provide ample sunshine. It is exciting when you see results - but - the yield is very small, and disappointing. One year I got enough green beans to cook one batch. Now that I live in an apartment, the only thing I've had real success with is tomatoes. Not to be a killjoy, but container gardening is never going to sustain even one person, much less a family.
Perhaps think of it not so much as sustaining, but as offsetting what one might have to spend at the market.
Yep, I 've grown peppers on patio & microgreens inside.
doesn't have to be everyone, doesn't had to be to "sustain", and I don't know where you live but where I grew up everyone had a garden. I guess having land for a garden is a privilege, but there are millions of privileged suburbanites surrounded by useless lawn... We cannot (migrant labor or not) sustain the factory farming of the present and dependence on systems that are gonna crash - climate (that we're messing with - cf all the people madly flying in all directions for thanksgiving: think of the CO2) is gonna make for a Course Correction that will make The Turnip's messing around look like the evil-child's-play that it is
So right, Gina! Thousands of acres of nothing but suburban green lawns. What a waste!
I have friends in city neighborhoods that are doing it very successfully in cattle troughs.
In the frickin' winter, yet. Show me how to grow chickens in a container.
Feel free to throw eggs at me. Stop eating meat.
I am privileged enough to have a home and a lot large enough to plant fruit trees and vegetables. I've got backyard chickens. It's just 2 of us, so I put my excess out on a large crate with a sign that says "Free". Even the Zucchini disappears. It's not much, but if it helps anyone it's worth doing.
🥰 what a kind neighbor! Free fresh eggs & veggies
My city has a community garden that is quite successful.
apartment dwellers and lawn-lovers can still garden!
The summer heat has been gone up that I gave up on growing anything but herbs the last 3 years. In pots that i could barely manage to shift from sun to shade. The shade was too hot for my tarragon and basil. Even in the greenhouse, plants baked. We got rid of our grass in the front yard 10 years ago and made room for tomatoes, squash and cukes, and carved a space for green beans that thrived in the back, but it got too hot for all of them. Our neighbor grows peppers 🫑 🌶️ but I can’t eat them. We also have a ton of oak, fir and pines, and the native squirrels disappeared the year it hit 117F and have finally made a comeback. Thankful we’re well above flood level, and no land slides yet, but a seasonal stream of rushing out back that appears after heavy rains, it’s normally underground. I lament. We rely on hydroponic fresh produce from Western Washington and Canada, and from California and Mexico during the cooler months.
Let them eat cake, right?
Lettuce buying won’t bother the maggots
The only lettuce drumpf cares about is what's on his Big Macs 🙄🥴✌🏻💙
Lettuce is probably the least nutritional produce. It holds water, that’s about it.
fingers X'd that those pricey Lactuca outlast this incoming drunken clownfuck with bees in their pants administration.
Idiocracy.
Say it again! LOUDER!
It's what plants crave!
Watch the movie on Hulu. 2006. How freaking prophetic! Somewhat follows the theme of the 1951 sci fi story "Marching Morons" by CM Kornbluth.
The good news is that the dummies will starve to death before 2028.
Avian flu virus was detected last week in raw milk on a farm in California. Avian flu also infected a child. So it's jumped species. And Bobby Brain Worm will oversee the next pandemic, with no government funding for a vaccine. "Bring out your dead!"
As a senior citizen I've wondered how I'd meet my end...now I know it'll be during another pandemic when no vaccine will be available....its ironic
"I'm feeling better!"
Thanks. It's the only laugh I've had in a while. (smiling while crying)
That's why we're here - to support each other.
"I don't want to get on the cart."
I don’t know much about Avian flu but I do remember bush was going to declare Martial Law in case we had a
Pandemic.
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/bush-may-use-troops-quarantine-if-bird-flu-breaks-out/
bush and his administration had left a book they’d give to the next president, which, of course, was Obama. The Obama administration handed that out for the next president who was handing over to the next president who was trump.
wtf did that sociopathic narcissist do with it.
Oh for fucks sake he threw it out? For real for real?
Yep
Also the first case of transmission from bird to a human was reported last week in Oregon. Watching out for those giant hornets in SW Washington.
It’s also been transmitted from bird to cow to dairy worker who works with cows.
Sorry. Logical and MAGA replies is an oxymoron.
Who sees major grocers & other stores, hauling in billions in profit years after the pandemic lowering prices? Many are buying their stock back with $$. Add turd tariffs.
What lowered prices? Inflation ballooned thr price of everything.
Let's not confuse the issue with facts.
It's very disappointing to learn that NPR is rolling over like Morning Joe.
The um “ironic” thing about that is NPR has been creeping toward the right for years now.
MzNicky, true, they’ve been bought out as well. 😕
NPR = Nice Polite Republicans
Bullshit.
YMMV. I’m not really interested in arguing about it.
Nope.
NPR used to be (granola) liberal. I listened to them, and watched PBS, a lot back then. They listed toward center, and I started listening less, and then not at all. No more contributions in response to their numerous awful fund-driving begs. From what I understand, there’s some downright sanewashing going on these days. They have a lot of company.
Same! I remember a week after bush was elected, what a moron, he was lecturing the French and saying their economy was in the shitter because they didn't have a word for entrepreneur. Swear to God, I stopped in my tracks and said "that's it". I turned off NPR for good (maybe some mornings with car talk on the way to the farmers market) and did not once again listen to Bush's voice. None of it, not 911, none. Zip. Zero. Nil. If we turn our attention to the people who will need helping living through the next several years and supporting the kids who are protesting on our behalf (I'm not well enough to make a nuisance of myself anymore) then we will get through it. If we give the scribblers another ounce of our time, they will just waste it fucking with us with their constant misdirection and fear mongering.
Walking that fine line between losing listeners and being booted off the air by the next administration.
NPR rolled over quite a while ago, at least eight years ago. They've been useless for quite some time now.
NPR sold out, was bought, like every other branch of media long ago Allan!!
A public station cannot be "bought." How ignorant. NPR is supported by donations.
Public donations haven’t been enough to fund many 501c (non profits) , of coarse federal funding helps keep NPR going…anyone paying attention to the congressional reports and HR9495 might have foreseen the end of many nonprofits… project 2025 makes for interesting reading, who’s been paying attention is the question?
They have to pay for those tax cuts for the rich somehow. Cutting support to non profits will help them do that.
Never listened but sad nevertheless.
Yesterday I got an email from WaPo trying to convince me to re-subscribe. The entire sales pitch was this:
"We’re here to uncover the facts, hold power to account and inform the public. We’re here for you."
Do they even read their own paper?
I cancelled earlier this year and when my access finally ran out days before the election, my final comment was:
'Democracy Dies With WaPo Holding It Underwater In The Bathtub'
I absolutely love your parting comment.
The ‘legacy’ news and media abandoned being the voice of truth and reality and chose greed instead. Surrounded by talk radio, YouTube, social media, and propaganda Fuks News (and the like) have been spewing lies and hate drawing a bigger audience. Instead of fighting disinformation with actual facts WaPo and the rest have succumbed to disseminating disinformation in an effort to compete. Well - it hasn’t worked and now they are just driving themselves into the ground and will lose their businesses anyway. Lose their news organizations and lose the country - someone doesn’t have good reasoning skills!!
Considering that drumpf sycophant Bezos owns WaPo, are we surprised?
That’s why I have several Substack subscriptions.
Cosplaying as a superhero when you’re actually the villain is a master class in propaganda that only the rubes swallow. Here’s to them choking on it.
All these needy incels seem to have read Nietzsche in high school and mistakenly believed they understood it. Instead of which they have simply developed a Superman complex. That’s ironic.
Musk is running vanity videos praising his own breathtaking accomplishments to save humanity on Facebook, now that he's maxed out the vitriolic morons on X. Plastic action figures of Captain Irony and President Turd to hit the shelves by Christmas?
Those will be INaction figures.
Hell yes!
Turnip, um, Trump *is* consistent: he does at least attempt to do some of the catastrophic fucking up of things that he promises - sometimes successfully, sometimes not (when he is blocked from doing so.) He also consistently lies about the things he says that he won’t try to fuck up.
So, for the press to attempt to paint him as anything other than the lying, fucked up fucker upper of any and all things is quite egregious.
One interesting thing that I saw on Bluesky this morning was what South Dakota GOP Sen. Mike Rounds said when he was recently in Halifax. He said and not in these exact words that their role was to keep all three branches of our government independent. Holy shit. Is it possible that Adolph anus lips isn't going to be able to pull off all of his planned fascist autocratic destruction? Since Trump lapdog Sen. Rick Scott wasn't elected to run the Senate, we can hope wiser GOP members prevail.
I thought TIM Scott was the lap-dog.
He's one of many but Tim Scott wasn't even considered to head the Senate.
I am currently in Texas to spend the holiday with my children. Ever since I was a little girl, the undocumented people gather in places like Home Depot or Lowe’s or other places where contractors come and pick them up to do day labor. I drove past the Home Depot three days in a row last week. At least fifty people were hanging around the parking lot every single day. This is well known throughout Texas that this is where these people gather looking for work. I said to my husband, “Greg Abbott is such a piece of lying shit. These people have been coming here for years and ICE knows exactly where they are, but they don’t do a damned thong because Texas needs day laborers.” I can’t wait to see what old Hot Wheels is going to do—deport all the undocumented which are the most in texas than any other state, or let the entire economy of Texas collapse. There’s a lot of Trump voters running those construction companies not to mention all of the Nannie’s who raise Texans’ children and do all of the landscaping and vegetable harvesting in the state. Greggy boy has quite the conundrum.
Construction projects, roofers, asphalt & cement crews,etc., go bye-bye? Good luck Texas! And who’s going to work the slaughterhouses and the produce fields?
Cross eyed Paxton isn't much better.
If Kamala had won, Im quite sure the media wouldn't be writing articles about how the MAGA faithful must "reach across the aisle" and learn to communicate and understand and accept the Democrats. So yes, WHY is it that we are ALWAYS the group that has to capitulate and "learn to get along" with a herd of ignorant sheep happily trodding along to their ultimate slaughter! Meanwhile, MAGAland is furiously working (as promised) to destroy every Democratic institution --
including non-profits -- that benefit people and have, more often than not, helped to bring truth and comfort to the forefront.
Maybe I should sell my house before the government seizes my property and robs me of any valuables I have for their own coffers. After all, I won't need any of it when I'm shipped off to a camp for being a decent person, but a polical dissident none-the-less.
Because the Right are a bunch of bullies and the Left acts like pussies sometimes. We have the brains on our side. Get some street smarts and go after them. Sorry Michelle - you're "when they go low, we go high" isn't working in 2024. It's a grown up classy way to act, but not appropriate for MAGAS. Bullies don't respect people that don't stand up to them.
The media knows/believes that the Left is more mature and reasonable and thus expects it to .....assuage the radical right in order to keep peace. As in a dysfunctional family with a lunatic brother, the sisters are ALWAYS expected to mollify and patronize the Looney one in order to keep peace. But there will be NO peace. Only violence and heartache
Brilliant comparison, Douglas. Could not be more spot-on in all respects.
Douglas, you nailed it. Exactly and perfect example.
Your, not you're. Sorry, I can't stand bad grammar lol.
Maybe we can find common ground when we’re all in the camps together, whispering NPR liberals and anti-Trump firebrands alike
Frankly, I don't look forward to being in a camp, even if it's with you and Jeff. Who knows what they'd do to us, once they got us there?
I never liked camping with my family when I was a kid. I know I'll **really** hate it now that I'm in my 70's and I'm in one of the Orange Menace's camps, no matter who I'm with!
I'm over 60, disabled, and on life-sustaining types of medications, such as insulin, so I'm not likely to last long in any type of camp, without what I need medically. I'm also in two minority groups the haters love to hate.
Well, I love you, Ben!
LOL!!!
Well, somebody's gotta pick those $14 heads of lettuce...
Their plan for the homeless. The ones who aren't "disappeared."
Ah! By Jove, I think you've got it! Makes sense.
shave our heads and send us to the showers
Except they wont be ‘showers’…after your shower feel free to pick a nice spot in the mass grave we’ve set up for you libtard.
That's what I am concerned about.
Who is going to willingly show up to the train station/bus station/airport to go the "The Camps"? I think we all know the way that story ends. Fuck that. I sure as hell won't be "hoping for the best". No one should be thinking that way. Fight these assholes to the very end, if need be. I am absolutely serious. No bending the knee. No making it easy for them.
Who's hoping for the best? Did someone write that? Also, this is all supposed to be satire.
Oh… my bad… guess my sense of humor about the situation is busted,
Likely a Musk suggestion Stephan, eugenics was always part of the GOP platform. It’s either work camps, or death camps for “We the Serfs”, unless the Opus Dei faction of the Leo, Thiel party come to the expected fisticuffs, and the whole mess of fuckery collapses kd!!
Steven Miller is one of the major and most powerful eugenics believer in the world at this time. There are no limits to what he would do. (Read about his asking General Milley to bomb the boat people coming from Cuba.) The most bizarre thing to me about this dead-eyed reptile is that he is Jewish; his grandparents were immigrants from Germany; and they have completely disowned him, even though he apparently considers himself to be a Jew. Screwy? You betcha.
Miller is a textbook case of extreme self loathing that he turns against those like himself. I worked with someone whose mom was Asian and dad was black. Beautiful girl. She refused to date black men. Rounding up primarily Latinos and deporting them won't make Miller any less Jewish nor make himself like himself better.
But IS miller self-loathing? He certainly is FILLED with hate -- though not directed toward other Jews, to my knowledge. How he became such an emotionally sadistic man I will never understand.
Not his grandparents--his great-grandparents. His grandparents were lovely, warm people, born here. They're both gone, now. The rest of his family (his mother's family) have disowned him.
PS. Went to HS with his mother.
What Miller doesn't understand, is that one day, when they finally come for us, they'll come for him, too. His service to the Reich will have been for nothing.
Thanks for the correction and the information. (Makes sense that it would have to have been great-grandparents.) You say that his mother's family has disowned him (along with his sibs, from what I've read). Is his father's family remaining in contact with him? If so, does that imply that father is, as well? I think you are speaking as a Jew, when you say "for us". Is he REALLY that stupid/delusional?!
It will be fun, they said
Work will set you free they said.
It was Kamala’s laugh! It was like she was laughing at my mighty sword! I had to vote for Donny
Her beautiful laugh... How I miss it.
Serfdom seldomly yields reward Richard!
The original Nazi camps were NOT for the Jews but for socialist Democrats, criminals, guys, etc. It wasn't till later in that decade that Nazis realized shipping Jews to Madagascar wasn't a solutuon...the 2 hour long Wansee conference/luncheon revealed killing camps as.....The Final Solution.
I am so fucking sick of being told to “seek common ground.” Sorry, but I am at least moderately sane and intelligent. I am fed up with being instructed to understand cultist insanity that wants to destroy everything I value!! NO! I WILL NOT!!
sob, I just don't understand - after WWII we (as a species) seemed to have entered an era of sanity and progress, and now we've driven off the cliff and there are cries of Look, We're Flying. I've thought of "reaching across the chasm" with the one trumper I know, but last week when she was in town I refused to let her in: self-care. And who can find "common effing ground" with someone who thinks the income tax dept is a private company funnelling $ to the pope and the king of England, who is into chemtrails, hydrogen peroxide (cures/prevents cancer - who knew?), etc etc - not a mind that can be reasoned with. Madness offers a frisson mere reality cannot match
My old boss used to say "You cant deal rationally with irrational people."
🥛🥛🥛🥛🥛 Monday News of the Stupid! RFK Jr says drink up on that raw milk! LOW IQ!!! 🥛🥛🥛🥛🥛
Bird flu virus has been found in raw milk in California. State health authorities have pulled the product from the shelves.
https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OPA/Pages/NR24-039.aspx
I feel the same way about him pushing raw milk that I did about Trump’s drink bleach theory. If you’re that stupid…
If you’re that stupid, drink up!
Let them drink away to their heart's content. Just like that stupid couple in AZ who died from taking the horse pills during COVID. I'm sorry for their loved ones, but 2 less Trump voters in AZ. I'm not wasting my empathy/compassion bank on people who would ruin our country.
Those who die could be the children of the stupid ones.
well, raw milk IS safe if you boil it before you drink it! (that tip came from someone who apparently follows RFKjr, appropriately enough lol.)
Yep. Home pasteurization beats factory pasteurization any old day. So much healthier!
Lived on a ranch, drank milk from our cows. We had a cream skimmer and a pasteurizer. I don’t think we ever drank the milk raw, as in right out of the cow.
News of the stupid is right!
Culling of the stupid herd. Drink up. Idiots.
Just need to say this is one of the best "everyone is entitled to my own opinion" I've read - inside and out, top to bottom, all around, through and through. Every damn word.
agree
“I will use the power of irony …”. Give me a damned break. They are insane. And we’ll see how fast that 45% drops when a head of lettuce costs $23. 🤦♀️
I suspect the higher cost of Cheetos and beer, rather than lettuce, is what will get their attention.
You are so right… and when Busch Light is $30 a 6 pack, break out the pitchforks 🙄
And Trump's crappy Chinese merchandise.
They will never throw their DEAR LEADER under the bus. Or blame him for any of the ensuing fuckery. They will still somehow try to blame it on the Left. Trump is always a blameless victim 😡
Their propaganda has been well executed. 😭
I saw a really good TikTok about coddling MAGAs. It likened them to drug addicts and those, like NPR and anyone else saying we really need to reach out to them and understand them blah blah blah, are like the enablers who keep giving drug addicts second, third, a hundred chances to fix themselves and then are surprised when they keep going for the dope. MAGA cultists are addicted to trump, elon, the whole notion of "owning the libs." The only thing that will help them is to hit rock bottom.
"Reaching out" to someone who thinks the earth is flat , vaccines are bad, or that trump wasn't found guilty etc is never going to work. They live in their own fantasy land and until they come back to reality, we cannot get through to them. How can you find common ground with someone when you live on separate planets?
It just sucks that them hitting rock bottom is going to drag the rest of us down with them.
Yes the general direction I s down then real down followed by Hell.
Ugh, that sounds awful. So toxic and gross. I'm sorry you had to witness that.
Speaking of WAPO fuckery, "Why DOGE is an essential and important idea." by Fareed Zakaria. He goes on, "Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who will be in charge of DOGE, are both brilliant, and the federal government has clearly become too expansive and its writ too cumbersome." So Zakaria is just another clown sucking up to the oligarchs, and celebrating the looming depression to follow: "But I support the impulse to reform — and not just because I think it will force greater scrutiny and efficiency on government, which needs it...the central lesson of macroeconomic policy in recent decades has been that government spending now constitutes so large a part of the economy that drastically cutting it can lead to a downward spiral of reduced consumer spending and declining confidence. Your expenditure is my income." He closes with, "With DOGE, we might finally get an effort to actually deliver on the central Republican promise of the past 90 years. And we will find out what America thinks of it." Can you imagine celebrating a fucking depression all in the name of "goverment efficiency?" This really means oligarchs can operate without regard to health and environmental regard, etc., such as Musk dumping toxic waste in Austin's Colorado River: https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/elon-musk-tesla-environment-1263cd60
I bet we all agree that there's waste in the government. BUT the answer to attacking the problem is not with the Trifecta of Morons (Musk, MTG and Vivek). Out of the 3, I have a visceral reaction when I see Musk's face. I hate him the most.
Ohh I'd have to draw straws on which of those three make me the sickest.
I have heard NO one talk about how the federal government has been prevented from instituting efficiencies because of very old, outdated technology. Bombs not computers.
Yikes. Fareed too?
Good grief
Fareed hasn't changed. He has always been an asshole.
Now NPR???
Oh, fuck me.
NPR and PBS have been into bothsiding for a long time now. They are so yypersensitive about being accused of being humanists that they bend over backwards to placate the lunatics.
it's the toleration paradox - reasonable people trying to Find Common Ground with lunatics. THEY never try that with us libs. So the whole culture is shifting (galloping) towards far rightism (otherwise known as.............)