I liked the series - but I thought it ended way too positive on the family. And the first episode of the new season - we didn't need this backstory. Think it's just setting up one plot point. But looking forward to the rest of the season.
I was thinking, in fairness, Dildo Baggins was invented by Harvard Lampoon in its paperback book from the 60s or 70s, Bored of the Rings. Then I thought, it is like we have Smeagol as President today.... then I scrolled down to Colin Robinson. You win.
... and now I've got Smeagol in the White House in my head -- better than the orange jenius, probably, but both are pretty fucking repulsive.
And yes, Dildo was featured in Bored of the Rings. Saw a couple of guys on the school bus in 7th grade passing it back & forth and giggling and eventually found a copy (although it took what seemed like YEARS! lol)
WWDITS, my favorite series of all time. And Colin Robinson's explanation of his energy vampirism -- "I don't live to drain, I drain to live ' -- seems to fit all accountants and economic advisors.
Don't we all. The couch humper as Dildo Baggins hit the much appreciated laugh button. I've canceled other subscriptions but no way in hell will this one go by the wayside. As we try to get through this shitstorm of insanity and incompetence, we need all of the info and laughs we can get.
I had to choke down my laughter from seeing Dildo Baggins. When Donny dies while screaming,”You get a tariff. Now you get a tariff. Everyone gets a tariff!!!” The Dildo will stand up for a nano second and get run over by the republicans who couldn’t give two shits about little Hitler.
I get why people can’t read every post because it’s depressing. Membership is a small price to pay, though, for the community here and for feel good things like Tesla hitting the shitter. His baby mamas better start looking for jobs.
Funny, huh. That’s exactly what the kids on the opposition say to each other. That’s what red and blue have in common. That feeling! Let’s make friends with them!
I appreciate the hard job late night TV comedians have to make daily humor out of horror, but I think they've helped to normalize Trump's insane shit and I go to bed feeling despondent and slightly ill. Jeff's posts don't play by corporate network rules, the snark is validating and the humor is weaponized. Please stick with us!
I just figured out how to pay for a subscription to make sure I get my daily dose of snark and ridicule. I sometimes laugh so hard my eyes leak and my belly jiggles. First thing I read every morning.
The loss of income and incentive for fighting American Imperialism is growing old, as is being confronted with fears of the criminal syndicate parading as government Linda. I get its disheartening effect!!
I find myself unable to respond coherently lately but I’m not going anywhere. How does one respond to insanity and horror? My day fantasies are becoming very dark, dreams of assassins and such…not healthy and not in the least my usual MO.
Sticking with you Jeff! Even when I can't get around to reading the whole post of some of my subscriptions, I still pay to support them. You - I hang on every word!
You are worth every cent. I went all in on the yearly because I need this in my life and who knows if I will be allowed to keep my own banking account in 6 months.
Wendy, First off I’m still recovering from my trip to Sepsis after my infected port was removed following my successful treatment for cancer. I still can’t write because I forget what I was going to say. But I’m hopeful that it will take more time as it did some 20 years ago when I had chemo then. Wendy, I like what you write. I do read a lot and I find it helps me to mellow out from this crazy thing of America today.
I’m staying. I used to engage more, but I’m overwhelmed with local resistance and managing messaging on three platforms. But I’m here, Jeff, and need your bite. I’m snarky, but get my teeth sharpened with your daily commentary and all the folks I’ve met and laughed or groaned with.
Blue states support the red states financially, have democratic governors who won’t bow down to a mobbed up career criminal, who’s been laundering money for decades, including Lavrov, Mogilivech and the other miscreants of the Russian mafia. Blue states hold the the majority of the countries wealth, along with the succession card as well!!
Fact remains that Putin is an Alexsandr Dugin disciple, who wants to destroy America. Which is too powerful militarily, and needs to be destroyed from within, hence Musk, another of Putins puppets, like many of the PayPal mafia members… including Krasnov (Trump)…
A comment I can finally relate to Mike, thanks! I haven’t seen a movie for years, along with a TV that serves no purpose but “inchoherent blithering” by idiots, and a space on top my musical collection and audio equipment! Dig the rake steppers idea!!
Tuberville-a dumb ass..but so are the rest of the maggots and fox news! Dildo Baggins…spittin image! Ditto with Kevin Hassett/Colin Robinson. What would we do without you Jeff!?! Have a nice day everyone!
The truism I've always heard is: "you usually 'holler' when you're hit...". if so, Smuk must have been "hit". A ketamine overdose can't be too far in the future.
Years ago, legendary fumduck $arah Palin was a guest on SNL. Tina Fey and Loren Michaels were mocking her right to her face, but $arah was too dense to see it and just laughed right along with them.
I also remember when $arah met with T💩p at his NYC office and they were served pizza on paper plates with plastic forks (which is how T💩p eats pizza, unlike a real New Yorker). $arah looked so shocked when the food was served. It was almost like she was expecting to be served pheasant under glass and Beluga caviar on solid gold plates with Cristal champagne to wash it all down.
Good. He had it coming. For a long time. It should hurt. Myers is a genius. I missed him and I'm so glad he's back for a bit giving us much needed perspective and relief because it's hard to laugh at the real musk through the blind hatred he's projecting onto us.
We are coming up on a Senate vote that will provide one of the few chances to throw a log in front of the Trump runaway train. Forty-one senators need to vote against a six-month CR which will give Trump an unfettered 6-month pass to smash more things. A one-month CR will give multiple chances to expose Trump as a bunch that is ignoring congressional budgets. It will also provide clear evidence that will support intervention by the courts.
I want — no, I NEED — someone to bungee-cord all those bastards to a SpaceX rocket and I NEED it to be one that explodes. Dear Universe, make it so. Please and thank you. Amen.
I'm sorry, but I truly believe Usha is, in spite of her evident intelligence, all in with her hubby and his ambitions. I would love to be proved wrong, but I don't see it happening...
And now Elon’s talking about going after Social Security and Medicare. Since you didn’t learn it in school here - since you didn’t go to school here - the deal is that the money was taken out of our paychecks every pay period and promised to come back to us when we retried. The only entitlement is that we’re entitled to get it back because we PAID for it in the first place. Learn civics before you start taking OUR money away from all of us
There goal is to privatize it. They have sent in the whores of Wallstreet to take over social security, to steal the 2.7 trillions of our money to invest in themselves. Like the hedge fund rat fuckers who take companies apart and sell it off. And when they steal it, the only way to restore it will be in the form of Social Security Advantage Plans.
Republicans are sick sadists. In Oklahoma, they passed a law that states you can't beat disabled children anymore. Sixteen Bible thumpering Republicans voted against it. It's still legal in 14 states to beat disabled children. In Iowa, they have a bill going through that states, if a doctor gives a patient a Covid vaccine, they will be fined $500.00. They are the most anti-pro-life motherfuckers. Republicans hate this country and its people. I can't wait till they bring up the Chattel Project's mandatory military requirements for 18 yrs. to be conscripted to the military for 2 years.
I totally agree with you, Lisa. The broligarchs want to privatize Social Security, the postal system, the VA health system and so much more. So they can inject themselves into and reinvent these institutions and put their grubby little hands on a percentage of every dollar that goes into and out of those systems. Just look at private equity. How well is that working for privatized hospital systems, doctors' offices and labs? How well is that working for the price of homes and apartments as private equity owns large tracts of houses and apartment buildings?
Yes! Republicans whoring to oligarchs assured a captive health insurance market under Obamacare, imposing a tax fine against uninsured individuals without health insurance premium rate caps. And we can stop worshiping Warren Buffet as the "good billionaire," since his firm Berkshire Hathaway is a major player in abusing real estate equity affecting mid-to-lower income homeowners.
Exactly!! So when the economy tanks, so will the privatized assets. Let's see, like when we lost thousands in our retirement plans in 2009. But, the banks will be protected from their own greed. We can go belly up. But, corrupt corporations and financial institutions will be protected at all costs. We pay for that. Over and over, again. I can't afford Republicans or Democrats that can't seem to hold these grifters accountable. No one bailed me out of the fucking nightmare that the 2009 recession left my family in. 😤
Same here Lisa! I sucked balls for 5 yrs trying to recover and when I finally had my head above water here comes the pandemic. Honest to god these fuckers keep crashing the markets on purpose to squeeze labor, sell high and buy low, trash retirement funds and make us all dirty and poor and homeless and indentured until death so us part.
It's truly the bane of our existence, the PE groups, hands in everything. I saw that coming with the VA as they are notoriously anti-private, doing biz w/VA is like getting a drug patent. They want to evaluate your business, and privates don't like compliance requirements. You can't just fly in on a kite and say gimme yer money for an overpriced shitty product or svc like the pharma reps do in retail medicine.
“The broligarchs want to privatize Social Security, the postal system, the VA health system and so much more. So they can inject themselves into and reinvent these institutions”
Yes, and first they must devastate or destroy these institutions. It’s called Disaster Capitalism. They with their money and aggression move in to areas obliterated by hurricanes or fire. They rebuild it themselves how they want it and people it with their people.
But now something new. They don’t wait for a disaster to happen. They create the disaster themselves, then they go “fix” it.
It would allow workers to invest their own contributions into private accounts. Which has been a discussion for decades. The Brookings Institute describes the advantages of privatized ss. Basically, the oligarchs would own it. You can Google Britannica description of social security pros and cons. It's a quick read.
In exchange for the hope that you could increase your retirement nest egg by having Wall Street, rather than the SSA, manage it, you would pay a percentage every year to Wall Street, and would have to hope that you didn't place it with snakes and con men who would leave you with nothing when you want to retire.
Right! My trust level is pretty low. I don't trust any of them. They'll find a way to get their hands on it. They always do. And for all the good faith bills that are passed, they leave enough loopholes in them to flip them on their heads. We can fix these issues with pragmatic common sense. But, I don't think anyone wants to. No one wants to fix our grifters scam of a tax code. Equitable tax code?? Never!
The stock market has been over valued for about eight years. I never lost any money, although some of my stocks did go down in 2008, I held them until they were worth more than I paid for them and sold them a few months afterward. I really don't believe in the stock market anymore.
Are we approaching the day when Trump jettisons Musk, as he does with all those who cease to be useful? I can see the headlines now: "ELON ALL ALONE", a perfect near-pallindromic pity party with tiny violins playing the most mournful of music. Boo hoo indeed.
There is only one way deal with a rabid dog.! Does this solution apply to a rabid space Nazi and a rabid President?..............Can I say this? I guess I can?
Back in the day Hunter S. Thompson got interviewed by the Secret Service for saying things like this about Attorney General Edwin Meese. Thompson told Rolling Stone he asked the agent what he could say, “Can I say he should be locked in a room with a horny bull moose?”
And apparently he could, and I believe it was P.J O’Rourke interviewing Thompson who suggested the moose should be on acid.
Joel, I hear you LOUD AND CLEAR. BTW, was there an armed intruder at MAL or WH in the past few days? Saw a questionable "news site", but no Google results.
🇨🇦Trump is big mad because Premier of Ontario is slapping him on the back of his head with electricity tariffs. Our new Prime Minister isn’t backing down. That made Pumpkin Head really explode. How dare Canada defend itself! Elbows Up!
I'm praying that Ontario responds to this tit for tat by cutting power exports entirely. Then Hydro Quebec does the same to New England. Sit in the fucking cold and dark. Suck on that MAGA.
if you've never watched What We Do In The Shadows (the tv series or the movie), you owe it to yourself to drop everything and right this wrong
Agreed. Just finished entire season. Now re-watching The Righteous Gemstones. Appropriate for the times.
I liked the series - but I thought it ended way too positive on the family. And the first episode of the new season - we didn't need this backstory. Think it's just setting up one plot point. But looking forward to the rest of the season.
Everyone should watch at LEAST the movie. I agree 100%
Yes. Movie > Series
Fave Episode: Season 1, Ep 3, and how Nandor beat the werewolves. I laugh just thinking about it.
Let's not forget about ghosts, Jim the Vampire, the curse, and the witches episodes!
Jim the Vampire liked my comment about that episode (before I went into Twitter limbo). After fan-girling all over the place. I saved the tweet.
One of Mark Hamill's finest roles!
Laszlo fucking off to Pennsylvania, and then the aside that he was only gone for a week was 👩🍳 💋.
Last one, I promise: Nadia & Laszlo's revived music act.
Their duets are so sublimely awful! 0-)
Colin Robinson's Promotion is right up there, as is the Superb Owl episode.
SAME! I absolutely LOVE that episode and l just have to think about it and I laugh out loud. I’m laughing now. It’s so good!
I agree, funniest fucking show on TV. I think the TV series is funnier than the movie but the film set the standard.
Totally agree with that opinion
I was thinking, in fairness, Dildo Baggins was invented by Harvard Lampoon in its paperback book from the 60s or 70s, Bored of the Rings. Then I thought, it is like we have Smeagol as President today.... then I scrolled down to Colin Robinson. You win.
In Bored of the Rings his name was Dildo Bugger, as I recall.
Ah, si si!
Some people know where I got it when I say, "You mean, there's a Balrog in the woodpile?"
... and now I've got Smeagol in the White House in my head -- better than the orange jenius, probably, but both are pretty fucking repulsive.
And yes, Dildo was featured in Bored of the Rings. Saw a couple of guys on the school bus in 7th grade passing it back & forth and giggling and eventually found a copy (although it took what seemed like YEARS! lol)
on my list now!!!
WWDITS, my favorite series of all time. And Colin Robinson's explanation of his energy vampirism -- "I don't live to drain, I drain to live ' -- seems to fit all accountants and economic advisors.
I love WWDITS!!! 😊❤️❤️❤️
THIS!!! They are both so, so great!!
It's naughty & hilarious, I have recorded it all .
Last thing I remember is Guillermo becoming a vampire, but with glitches.
I'm going to see if I have any new ones
recorded.
Wild Jeff Bridges Interview on "The Big Lebowski"
https://youtu.be/B7zLthh85P8?feature=shared
omg, Hassett really IS that guy lol
it is an awesome series. And movie.
I'll take a hard pass
Is it on a streaming service?
Nevermind- googled it
One of the times I wish I lived close enough to impose on my daughter and her housemates to watch with them! I’d even bring baked goodies!
The “practice self-care” part is getting more challenging.
a TON of people are cancelling their paid subscriptions these days. so I really do appreciate everyone who's choosing to hang in
I will stick with you. I need sanity.
Don't we all. The couch humper as Dildo Baggins hit the much appreciated laugh button. I've canceled other subscriptions but no way in hell will this one go by the wayside. As we try to get through this shitstorm of insanity and incompetence, we need all of the info and laughs we can get.
This. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I had to choke down my laughter from seeing Dildo Baggins. When Donny dies while screaming,”You get a tariff. Now you get a tariff. Everyone gets a tariff!!!” The Dildo will stand up for a nano second and get run over by the republicans who couldn’t give two shits about little Hitler.
I just paid in for a year! Please don't do a disappear. You speak to my inner "bad girl."
I get why people can’t read every post because it’s depressing. Membership is a small price to pay, though, for the community here and for feel good things like Tesla hitting the shitter. His baby mamas better start looking for jobs.
Baby Mamas: "You told me you were a 🚀 rocket scientist with billions!" 😰😰😰😰😱😱
Only a matter of time before one of the kiddos is named Test Tube.
It beats X.
🤣🤣🤣
Agreed. Same.
Ditto!!
Same here, Linda!
Same.
You and Wonkette are my go-to pages every morning. Can't take this shitshow without a proper helping of snark, derision and ridicule!
Yup, this is my means of "staying salty and remaining sane".
You guys are my snark, derision and ridicule tribe! I love you all!
Funny, huh. That’s exactly what the kids on the opposition say to each other. That’s what red and blue have in common. That feeling! Let’s make friends with them!
The feeling of bonding over brotherly hate. It’s still bonding … which is what we’re all here for.
I appreciate the hard job late night TV comedians have to make daily humor out of horror, but I think they've helped to normalize Trump's insane shit and I go to bed feeling despondent and slightly ill. Jeff's posts don't play by corporate network rules, the snark is validating and the humor is weaponized. Please stick with us!
Play by the corporate network rules, and you dont get to say what the fuck you want.
You and me both, artemis.
And I'm a 3d.
I just figured out how to pay for a subscription to make sure I get my daily dose of snark and ridicule. I sometimes laugh so hard my eyes leak and my belly jiggles. First thing I read every morning.
Jeff, we all are hanging in there. Yours would be the last Id consider for pausing or otherwise cancelling.
Same here, Wendy.
Those who are cancelling are cowards. Obeying in advance is an act of moral corruption.
Well, too huge a generalization…People can have financial issues.
Thats why I make our monthly as cheap as possible, and regularly discount is even lower if possible.
Like if they were laid off from their job in the federal government thanks to DOGE.
On can still read with a free sub.
Indeed - we don’t know if they cancel subs but still use free version
Yeah, My real name is Mike Kelly I live in the Detroit area, come and get me.
I use my given name as well— I don’t give a flying fuck about the retrumplican sycophants. Bring it clownfuckers… I’m ready!
Mike, put new batteries in your paranoia detector!
Jim Cain, Bradenton Floriduh
Not always. People are having financial difficulties & it’s beginning to show up.
The loss of income and incentive for fighting American Imperialism is growing old, as is being confronted with fears of the criminal syndicate parading as government Linda. I get its disheartening effect!!
I find myself unable to respond coherently lately but I’m not going anywhere. How does one respond to insanity and horror? My day fantasies are becoming very dark, dreams of assassins and such…not healthy and not in the least my usual MO.
You are not alone. My own fantasies have become VERY dark, of late.
When I read Trump is buying a Tesla to support his baby brother Elon, my immediate thought was "Glad it's not bulletproof." So here we are.
I’m right there with all of you
Tamu & Friends, I've called a couple times over the years. It help me a lot. Highly recommend. Free, confidential.
https://988lifeline.org/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=onebox
I NEED this newsletter. It’s the only one of my many subscriptions that I read daily.
Mps, same. Jeff is the thing I won't cancel.
I find that hard to believe. You are our best and only hope for sanity as our country is destroyed from within.
Sticking with you Jeff! Even when I can't get around to reading the whole post of some of my subscriptions, I still pay to support them. You - I hang on every word!
This paid subscription is the best money I’ve ever spent. There’s no price that can be put on my sanity.
I'll never unsubscribe! You always make me laugh or chuckle--even when the news is as awful as it can possibly be.
Sticking with you for my mental health. It is a paid subscription
I’ve actually increased the number of subscriptions I pay for on Substack to help out the people delivering the facts! Appreciate you all!
Me too! I just subscribed to God's Substack yesterday.
Ditto
You are worth every cent. I went all in on the yearly because I need this in my life and who knows if I will be allowed to keep my own banking account in 6 months.
You were my first subscription and many have come and gone but you will always be on my list.
I aspire to living on that list, Nightmaher, but I dont know how long Ill live there.
Wendy, First off I’m still recovering from my trip to Sepsis after my infected port was removed following my successful treatment for cancer. I still can’t write because I forget what I was going to say. But I’m hopeful that it will take more time as it did some 20 years ago when I had chemo then. Wendy, I like what you write. I do read a lot and I find it helps me to mellow out from this crazy thing of America today.
NightMaher, you are a trooper far beyond my own skill level. I commend you, 100%
Keep going please. Glad you are still here with us. 🧡
Nightmare, good luck for getting your health back and 🎉🎊 for being cancer free.
I’m staying. I used to engage more, but I’m overwhelmed with local resistance and managing messaging on three platforms. But I’m here, Jeff, and need your bite. I’m snarky, but get my teeth sharpened with your daily commentary and all the folks I’ve met and laughed or groaned with.
I miss you, Cassandra.
Thanks, Margaret. Over the past years, I’ve enjoyed the comments — smart and funny. I’ll keep stopping in.
You're the ONLY one I pay for, because youare THE BEST.
I agree
You might consider finding a blue state to hang your hat Eva!!
I’m thinking the blue states are targets, Patrick?
Blue states support the red states financially, have democratic governors who won’t bow down to a mobbed up career criminal, who’s been laundering money for decades, including Lavrov, Mogilivech and the other miscreants of the Russian mafia. Blue states hold the the majority of the countries wealth, along with the succession card as well!!
Fact remains that Putin is an Alexsandr Dugin disciple, who wants to destroy America. Which is too powerful militarily, and needs to be destroyed from within, hence Musk, another of Putins puppets, like many of the PayPal mafia members… including Krasnov (Trump)…
“Incoherent blithering idiot and the rake steppers” might be a good name for their band, if they had one.
Opening for them is Justa Douche Vance and the Couchfuckers.
You win, Kay-El! 😂🤣😂
Well dug KayEI!!
😂😂😂😂
I pity the hypothetical instruments...
A comment I can finally relate to Mike, thanks! I haven’t seen a movie for years, along with a TV that serves no purpose but “inchoherent blithering” by idiots, and a space on top my musical collection and audio equipment! Dig the rake steppers idea!!
I got that from Jeff, but thanks!
That pretty much describes all the Repugnants.
Tuberville-a dumb ass..but so are the rest of the maggots and fox news! Dildo Baggins…spittin image! Ditto with Kevin Hassett/Colin Robinson. What would we do without you Jeff!?! Have a nice day everyone!
Kevin Hassett/Colin Robinson are brothers from another mother.
Bingo. Or Doppelganger.
You as well Tess!!
Musk is having just a horrible week, and it shows no sign of slowing Jeff.
Thank you for all your hard work.
Here is our Contrib - https://thistleandmoss.com/p/it-has-been-a-bad-week-so-far-for
Mike Myers did an hysterical Leon on SNL these last 2 Saturdays. His buffering glitch still has me laughing
I heard Smuk is pissed at Myers's portrayal of him. HAHAHA
So then, it's working!
The truism I've always heard is: "you usually 'holler' when you're hit...". if so, Smuk must have been "hit". A ketamine overdose can't be too far in the future.
We can dream, can't we?
Dang right! Krasnov hasn't authorized ICE to kidnap dreams yet. Has he?
Yeah. And Smuk is too clueless to see how accurate the parody is to himself
Years ago, legendary fumduck $arah Palin was a guest on SNL. Tina Fey and Loren Michaels were mocking her right to her face, but $arah was too dense to see it and just laughed right along with them.
I also remember when $arah met with T💩p at his NYC office and they were served pizza on paper plates with plastic forks (which is how T💩p eats pizza, unlike a real New Yorker). $arah looked so shocked when the food was served. It was almost like she was expecting to be served pheasant under glass and Beluga caviar on solid gold plates with Cristal champagne to wash it all down.
Tina Fey’s impersonation is one of the best in SNL history
MuskRatFart should be trolled every minute of every day
Good. He had it coming. For a long time. It should hurt. Myers is a genius. I missed him and I'm so glad he's back for a bit giving us much needed perspective and relief because it's hard to laugh at the real musk through the blind hatred he's projecting onto us.
Let him be, hes a fkr.
We are coming up on a Senate vote that will provide one of the few chances to throw a log in front of the Trump runaway train. Forty-one senators need to vote against a six-month CR which will give Trump an unfettered 6-month pass to smash more things. A one-month CR will give multiple chances to expose Trump as a bunch that is ignoring congressional budgets. It will also provide clear evidence that will support intervention by the courts.
https://kathleenweber.substack.com/p/how-to-fight-trump-part-2a
Done, Done and Done Kathleen!!
Done, Kathleen
I want — no, I NEED — someone to bungee-cord all those bastards to a SpaceX rocket and I NEED it to be one that explodes. Dear Universe, make it so. Please and thank you. Amen.
Still waiting for Usha to wake the fuck up and carang her racist, lying xenophobe of a husband with a frying pan while he's asleep.
I'm sorry, but I truly believe Usha is, in spite of her evident intelligence, all in with her hubby and his ambitions. I would love to be proved wrong, but I don't see it happening...
She married him. Pretty much tells me what is happening. Women can be awful people too.
She can borrow my big, heavy cast iron skillet!
I could almost hear the bonkBOING. 🤣
And now Elon’s talking about going after Social Security and Medicare. Since you didn’t learn it in school here - since you didn’t go to school here - the deal is that the money was taken out of our paychecks every pay period and promised to come back to us when we retried. The only entitlement is that we’re entitled to get it back because we PAID for it in the first place. Learn civics before you start taking OUR money away from all of us
There goal is to privatize it. They have sent in the whores of Wallstreet to take over social security, to steal the 2.7 trillions of our money to invest in themselves. Like the hedge fund rat fuckers who take companies apart and sell it off. And when they steal it, the only way to restore it will be in the form of Social Security Advantage Plans.
Republicans are sick sadists. In Oklahoma, they passed a law that states you can't beat disabled children anymore. Sixteen Bible thumpering Republicans voted against it. It's still legal in 14 states to beat disabled children. In Iowa, they have a bill going through that states, if a doctor gives a patient a Covid vaccine, they will be fined $500.00. They are the most anti-pro-life motherfuckers. Republicans hate this country and its people. I can't wait till they bring up the Chattel Project's mandatory military requirements for 18 yrs. to be conscripted to the military for 2 years.
I totally agree with you, Lisa. The broligarchs want to privatize Social Security, the postal system, the VA health system and so much more. So they can inject themselves into and reinvent these institutions and put their grubby little hands on a percentage of every dollar that goes into and out of those systems. Just look at private equity. How well is that working for privatized hospital systems, doctors' offices and labs? How well is that working for the price of homes and apartments as private equity owns large tracts of houses and apartment buildings?
They took out Joann Fabrics with this scam. Buy it, squeeze all the money out and dump it.
Yes exactly this!!
Yes! Republicans whoring to oligarchs assured a captive health insurance market under Obamacare, imposing a tax fine against uninsured individuals without health insurance premium rate caps. And we can stop worshiping Warren Buffet as the "good billionaire," since his firm Berkshire Hathaway is a major player in abusing real estate equity affecting mid-to-lower income homeowners.
Exactly!! So when the economy tanks, so will the privatized assets. Let's see, like when we lost thousands in our retirement plans in 2009. But, the banks will be protected from their own greed. We can go belly up. But, corrupt corporations and financial institutions will be protected at all costs. We pay for that. Over and over, again. I can't afford Republicans or Democrats that can't seem to hold these grifters accountable. No one bailed me out of the fucking nightmare that the 2009 recession left my family in. 😤
Same here Lisa! I sucked balls for 5 yrs trying to recover and when I finally had my head above water here comes the pandemic. Honest to god these fuckers keep crashing the markets on purpose to squeeze labor, sell high and buy low, trash retirement funds and make us all dirty and poor and homeless and indentured until death so us part.
It's truly the bane of our existence, the PE groups, hands in everything. I saw that coming with the VA as they are notoriously anti-private, doing biz w/VA is like getting a drug patent. They want to evaluate your business, and privates don't like compliance requirements. You can't just fly in on a kite and say gimme yer money for an overpriced shitty product or svc like the pharma reps do in retail medicine.
“The broligarchs want to privatize Social Security, the postal system, the VA health system and so much more. So they can inject themselves into and reinvent these institutions”
Yes, and first they must devastate or destroy these institutions. It’s called Disaster Capitalism. They with their money and aggression move in to areas obliterated by hurricanes or fire. They rebuild it themselves how they want it and people it with their people.
But now something new. They don’t wait for a disaster to happen. They create the disaster themselves, then they go “fix” it.
Their goal.
What is a Social Security Advantage Plan? There are Medicare Advantage Plans that rip off the government, but how would that work for SS?
It would allow workers to invest their own contributions into private accounts. Which has been a discussion for decades. The Brookings Institute describes the advantages of privatized ss. Basically, the oligarchs would own it. You can Google Britannica description of social security pros and cons. It's a quick read.
In exchange for the hope that you could increase your retirement nest egg by having Wall Street, rather than the SSA, manage it, you would pay a percentage every year to Wall Street, and would have to hope that you didn't place it with snakes and con men who would leave you with nothing when you want to retire.
Right! My trust level is pretty low. I don't trust any of them. They'll find a way to get their hands on it. They always do. And for all the good faith bills that are passed, they leave enough loopholes in them to flip them on their heads. We can fix these issues with pragmatic common sense. But, I don't think anyone wants to. No one wants to fix our grifters scam of a tax code. Equitable tax code?? Never!
They don't own shit! It's MY MONEY!! 😡😡
it still baffles my mind about how an un-elected official and non native person can go after our social security
Even Ronny Reagan, patron saint of Republicans, admitted that Social Security doesn’t increase the national debt
6 weeks ago, I changed my 401(k) mix from 70% stocks to 20% as I was pretty sure where things were headed 🙃
I got rid of all my stocks a few weeks ago because I knew that Trump was going to fuck up the market. Relieved that I did.
I got rid of 85% of my stocks soon after Leon Skum fixed the election with Starlink... so, early December.
The stock market has been over valued for about eight years. I never lost any money, although some of my stocks did go down in 2008, I held them until they were worth more than I paid for them and sold them a few months afterward. I really don't believe in the stock market anymore.
I also tRump proofed my IRA at the beginning of the year
Good thinking Steve, a recession appears imminent!!
Steve, hope you celebrated that fine decision! 🤓⭐💫
Are we approaching the day when Trump jettisons Musk, as he does with all those who cease to be useful? I can see the headlines now: "ELON ALL ALONE", a perfect near-pallindromic pity party with tiny violins playing the most mournful of music. Boo hoo indeed.
It appears that Eloon ripped off Canada for $43 Million CDN by abusing their electric vehicle rebate program -- https://www.benzinga.com/25/03/44213295/tesla-suspected-of-ev-rebate-manipulation-in-canada-amid-sudden-sales-surge-tesla-gamed-the-system-says-industry-body
He has already been stripped of his South African citizenship and could cease to be a Canadian citizen as well.
Let’s strip him naked here too! Run his ass outta town and he can take his lil’ douchees with him!
They're all angling to declare martial law.
You know it. Trump is just dying to have protesters shot.
Well, I'm dying to shoot MAGAts.
I know you're actually not. Not unless you were under threat of physical harm. 💙🇺🇦
You're right.
Poisoning is more efficient. 🙂💙
😂😂
Charles, we need you here. 🧑🤝🧑👬👭. Turd, melon and maga win if there aren't 1000
videos showing self defense. But I also feel your rage.
Absolutely
Appeared that way last time around, now it’s a given Allen!!
There is only one way deal with a rabid dog.! Does this solution apply to a rabid space Nazi and a rabid President?..............Can I say this? I guess I can?
Fuck it, it's still a free country for now!
You can say it… we need a high bar, a rope, and a cheap wooden chair.
A brick wall and a firing squad, a guillotine with the inscription: Liberté, égalité, fraternité Joel!!
Liberte, egalite, fraternite.....I love it when you talk dirty to me!! LOL
Back in the day Hunter S. Thompson got interviewed by the Secret Service for saying things like this about Attorney General Edwin Meese. Thompson told Rolling Stone he asked the agent what he could say, “Can I say he should be locked in a room with a horny bull moose?”
And apparently he could, and I believe it was P.J O’Rourke interviewing Thompson who suggested the moose should be on acid.
That’s sounds lovely 🥰 I’ll make popcorn 🍿
....A glass of Jack Daniels plus send a bottle to our Canadian friends!!
"HANG 'EM HIGH" TRUMP'S PENCE SOLUTION!!
Where’s Atticus Finch when you need him?
(Made this comment once on Twitter and got put in Time Out for 24 hours 😄)
A time out, so mature
Joel, I hear you LOUD AND CLEAR. BTW, was there an armed intruder at MAL or WH in the past few days? Saw a questionable "news site", but no Google results.
It was reported by NBC and another one that I have forgotten.
I can’t wait to read your oh-so-nasty, yet truths EVERY DAY!!! Thank you! ❤️
🇨🇦Trump is big mad because Premier of Ontario is slapping him on the back of his head with electricity tariffs. Our new Prime Minister isn’t backing down. That made Pumpkin Head really explode. How dare Canada defend itself! Elbows Up!
I'm praying that Ontario responds to this tit for tat by cutting power exports entirely. Then Hydro Quebec does the same to New England. Sit in the fucking cold and dark. Suck on that MAGA.
MA, CT, VT and RI are blue.
All of the USA is now MAGA in the eyes of the rest of the world. Welcome to the macrocosmic “red-state reputation.”
It's not the Bay Area.
That's "Electricity" to the Orange Menace.
I'm loving watching Canada fight back!
My idiot MAGA classmates from HS are all in for taking over Canada. So tired of the stupidity
Elbows Up🙌🏽🇨🇦🙌🏽🤙🏽🙌🏽🤙🏽 thank you Canada
I literally felt my energy being sapped while watching/listening to Hassett the other day. I KNEW it!!!
Fox is losing it because the American people are so mean to Elon. Boofuckinghoo.
What a fucking low-life narcissist.