“I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to 'propaganda” is basically the same but not as punchy.
Had I been around for his elections I probably wouldn't have voted for Ike, but one thing I will always be grateful to him for, is he had his troops take ordinary German citizens, not government figures or bureaucrats, but ordinary German Hitler supporters, on MANDATORY bus tours of the concentration camps so they could finally view the reality of what they had supported. Netflix has (or had, I don't know if it's still there) documentary footage of the camps taken by the US Army. Ike made sure the Army kept a record. It's interesting to see the difference in the facial expressions of the Germans getting on the bus, and what they looked like when the tour was done.
Indeed. The Nazis also filmed themselves and kept meticulous records, some of which didn’t escape destruction. PBS had a series quite some years ago on various wars and I’ll never forget seeing a Nazi bulldozing scores of bodies into a mass grave.
I saw that footage in high school in an assembly. I don’t remember much else about the film, but that image is burned in my brain. Catholic high school in the early 70s.
I have deceased relatives who served in the US Army units that liberated the death camps . They took their own black and white photos of the piles of bodies . The photos are still in someone's local war collections .
Dear friend, the film you are referring to is actually the Tommies using a bulldozer to try and bury the dead as quickly as possible to prevent an outbreak of diseases because of the decomposing bodies.
It is filmed after the liberation of Bergen-Belsen.
Here's a link to the website of the Imperial war Museum:
I read recently that the Germans who survived the war held on to the belief that nothing atrocious ever happened ; they held this belief for forty years after the war . Now they have laws that mandate the teaching of the Holocaust in schools .
I was married to a young German man in the 60's. I came across photos of the death camps in the library. When I showed them to him, he denied that that happened in Germany. He had never been taught that history in school.
those ingrained beliefs are tough to counter . Abe Lincoln said it is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled . To the Germans credit , and with help from other countries , Germany came clean .
My dad (z”l), a WWII European theater survivor, thought Gen Bradley THE best and respected Ike. He (& my mom, z”l) voted for Adlai. I was young and tho politics were always discussed, I never asked why. Guessing Party.
I think maga supporters and enablers should have to take a tour of the concentration camp detention centers here or better yet have to spend a day or 2 there. Of course, they'd probably see the wretched conditions and justify them...
Not as punchy; very Ike tho and true. Now tho we’re dealing with AI renditions that _show_ what others call the truth that isn’t. I think that scares me more.
Trump thinks ‘Sota is the home of a Somalian criminal syndicate, being a member of a transnational criminal syndicate presents a challenge for the overstuffed-rotting cachet of laboratory meat, Arne… hence the hatred!
Smell that Jeff? It's the Constitution smoldering. The Supreme Court's about to gut Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act—the only damn thing stopping states from erasing Black congressional districts like mistakes on a chalkboard.
It’s, okay, Uncle Jeff. If he didn’t actually say it, someone else probably did. And even if they didn’t, they should have. Your commitment to accuracy is admirable, but we now in Trump’s America, where facts no longer matter. So if someone tells you it didn’t happen, just keep repeating, “Yes it did.” It seems to be working for Noem.
another programming note: because I'm a responsible journalist and everything, I googled "is it bold faced or bald faced" and learned that the current accepted form is "bald faced." huh. I'd been using the wrong one all this time
For a blatant, shameless lie, bald-faced lie is the preferred and more common term in formal writing, though bold-faced lie is also widely understood and used due to people mistakenly associating "bold" (daring) with the meaning of "bare" (unconcealed) in the original barefaced lie phrase. While "bold-faced" technically refers to bold text, "bald-faced" (or "barefaced") correctly conveys brazenness, making it the better choice for describing audacious falsehoods.
Oh, but it does. Google & the Merriam-Webster dictionary (I should check the OED, but I’m not going to be that pendantic) say barefaced refers to a clean shaven or unmasked face, ie shameless. & yes, anyone who tells a barefaced lie is so brazen as to be shameless. ICE, etc wearing masks are examples of liars afraid that they will be caught for their lies. And worse.
Bold-faced comes about because it’s been passed down orally & people correcting what they think is a mistake. See also tenderhooks v. Tenterhooks.
One of my favorite examples is "butt naked" for "buck naked": the phrase "buck naked" itself arose from a misunderstanding; it has nothing to do with bucks (although deer, like other animals, are commonly naked) but is from Norse baknaken "back-naked" as opposed to "stark naked" ("stark" from a root for 'strongly' means frontal as well as rear), so the further corruption to "butt naked" actually restores the original sense.
Nope, you were right all the time. So many people said it wrong that lots of people think “bold faced” is correct. I’m one of those nerds who likes to find out where idiomatic expressions come from.
That one doesn’t bother me nearly as much as when people write “tow” the line instead of “toe” the line. It means following orders, like if someone drew a line and you put your toes right against it. It certainly doesn’t mean to haul on a rope.
I had a boss who always wrote “too” when he meant “to” and “your” when he ment you’re.” It was bad enough when he did that in internal emails but very embarrassing when he did it in emails to customers.
Noempathy is perfect for her job: monumentally stupid, utterly lacking in any semblance of a conscience, and deeply sadistic. As a point of fact--that describes Homan (one letter shy of being human), KKKaroline, $Patel, Goebbels Bovino.........etc., etc.
“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.”
Noem is an ugly woman because ugly seeps out from the inside, and no amount of fillers and makeup and teeth caps and hair extensions can hide the ugly seeping out from the inside. And until she gets down on her knees and begs forgiveness for having murdered an innocent dog, she will stay ugly.
and a goat. Because they displeased her. Couldn't be bothered to rehome the pup--even though the breeder SAID he would take the pup back. She is a hideous inhumane monster--inside and out.
She's seems so fake, and yet chilling in every way, that my mind says "evil droid" with her every appearance and statement. Unfortunately she represents the reality of our government. The rest of us may as well be puppies.
And let's not forget that she was pleased to tell us that she left the goat screaming and bleeding while she went back to get more ammunition to finish it off. [Google Kristi Noem goat killing incident].
Big trait is thinking they are always right and you should not question them . RFK thinks he knows more than highly qualified doctors and researchers . Hegseth thinks he knows more than all the military geniuses in history .
Vance is worse than all of them . He is a self proclaimed expert in evrything . .
Including Vance, who rushed to the mic as fast as Noem to condemn Renee Good as a domestic terrorist. Barely had time to apply his eyeliner. He's a blatant woman-hater who probably got off on the "Fuck you, bitch" comment from the cold-blooded ICE criminal. He must never, ever become president.
Vance is the most hated VP I can recall, you’re correct Sharon! It appeared to me, he was exercising his ability to take the reins in his multiple appearances over this corrupt cabal, in the past few days.
A darkly funny moment about a week ago on MS-NOW: in a review of Donnie Demento's plummeting poll numbers, the anchor noted, "His overall approval number is lower than JD Vance's!"
The first thing Krusti The dog and goat killer should have her head shaved bald when they have her in custody along with her eyelashes and her eyebrows!
Is it even possible that we could go one day without the madness and drama associated with this band of miscreants aka the GOP. Back in the day we referred to people like Don the Con as shitsters. He's the giant orange whale that swims in the ocean with remoras attached. Krusti is one of them, hanging on by her hair extensions, which I would love to pull out of her botoxed head.
Unfortunately, for your wish, she's Homeland Security, not international. But she will pay for her bullshit. They all will. Unless some pussy pardons them like Gerald Ford did 😡
I do not watch any of the awards shows, never have, never will. But I just read that Robert DeNiro said at the Golden Globes last night: “I’m gonna say one thing - fuck trump” He got a standing ovation. He’s one badass guy.
I still say he cheated in 2024. He kept telling saying he didn't need votes, that he had a secret with Mike Johnson, that we'd never have to vote again. And then all swing states called immediately for him?
Trump said on the air that Musk was helpful to him because he knows a lot about computers. He especially spent a lot of time in Pennsylvania and he is really good with computers.
To actually hand count ballots would require weeks, multiplying staff by ten times and exploding the budget of all boards of elections. Given the size of our country it can't be done. However, most of us vote on paper ballots which provide a backup.
But the bottom line is that the scan computers aren't connected with anything that could "rig" them — they are not networked. I've trained on both precinct-level and central scan systems. They don't feed the results anywhere they could be changed. Even the touchscreens don't do that despite the story made up in Ohio in 2004 ... but I better not repeat that one because smoke will start coming out my ears. DEMOCRATS made it up when it was literally impossible and that started this whole fiction that voting machines can be "rigged."
It wasn’t that long ago that ballots were counted by hand. I was an election judge for more than 20 years. In Texas, we did it at the voting precinct level, marking the count on pieces of paper and checking every few minutes to ensure that at least three counters had the same numbers. It didn’t take days or weeks, just one long, long night.
That's false. The only "cheating" he did was currying favor with the "mainstream" media which downplayed all his nasty moves and smeared Joe Biden for him while pretending he wasn't in steeper "cognitive decline" and then they went on a rampage against Harris because she wouldn't run her campaign according to their rules, that is, constantly answering questions about what she thought about this or that thing Trump said and refusing to amplify her own message. And there was a big helping of misogyny.
He was also helped by state Republicans who made accessing the ballot more difficult and by purity progressives who told people not to vote to "teach Democrats a lesson."
He did not, however, win the actual votes. There's no more proof of that than of the 63 losing lawsuits he filed in 2020 claiming Joe Biden didn't win. Changing the results of an election at the polling place is virtually impossible, and it didn't happen in 2024.
Look: I get it. We desperately want to believe he didn't win, the voters couldn't be that stupid, that there was no way this country could have looked at Trump and said "Yeah, he's the guy." But by claiming the actual votes weren't legit, we're indulging in the same sort of "change the facts to fit our fantasy' thinking that the right does.
And we won't fix what's wrong until we deal with truth and not a longed-for fantasy.
You keep saying this as though your opinion is verifiable fact. It isn’t. As I pointed out to you last time you made this claim, both Trump and Elon have admitted publicly that they fucked with the voting. Do you have hard statistical evidence of some sort that Trump “won” because purity ponies stayed home and Repubs made it harder to vote? If so, let’s see it.
So there is no way the thumb drives that go into the DS200 can be compromised? Not sure about that either way, just very skeptical about the overwhelming win for Trump after all the statements he made. I agree with all the hindrances you mentioned: misogyny, protest votes, complicit media, etc., but was that enough for ALL the swing states to cave? IDK. Not that it matters now, Nobody is going to investigate.
No. Any piece of equipment that is handled at a board of elections goes through a chain of custody that would prevent that. And the votes aren't just on some "thumb drive"—they are on ballots, and no, there's nothing that can be' compromised" by some random outside person. And yes, as much as it breaks our hearts, the propaganda was enough for all the swing states to veer slightly toward Trump. You don't need to "investigate." The evidence is right in front of youif you were following it. Three weeks hundreds of articles about JoeBiden's alleged "cognitive decline." Democrats shooting themselves in the foot with "let's have an open convention even though there's no time for it" (probably the people still hoping for Bernie). Media demanding that Harris spend all her time with the legacy media answering questions about Trump. People who decides an absolutist position on Palestine was the most pressing issue facing America. And yes, misogyny and racism. Look at the vote totals: 2024 was an anti-turnout election.
What's always so baffling to me is that he thinks anyone who hates him or protests him must be paid to do it. Bro, don't you get it? We do that shit for free.
And I love how the CK people are awfully quiet right about now. Because, oh yeah, it was never ViOlEnCe iS BaD. It was always, "you can't kill us, but we can kill you."
History is not a foreshadowing of what's going to happen in/to this country. People really need to stop and consider the effect that media has - specifically, social media - on the populace. I suspect that the history we're making right now, won't look anything like the past.
He can't fathom doing ANYTHING without getting something in return. Reminded me of Monty Python's Merchant Banker sketch, about collecting donations for the orphans.
And the criminal in the Oval just admitted to more crimes today—saying he regretted not sending in the National Guard to seize the voting machines in 2020 won he LOST.
*Demented* evil felon in charge, nursing grievances and seeking retribution against all opposed to him sez whut? We won't be getting the 25th Amendment unless he goes over the line for his supporters. Do they even have a line? They are covering for a rich fuckwad ring of pedophiles and rapists. RELEASE THE TRUMPSTEIN FILES
Like the winning answer in the math competition in ‘Mean Girls’: “The limit does not exist”. MAGAts do not have a limit. That makes no sense to decent people.
DOJ is stonewalling by claiming the sheer number of docs in the Epstein files has miraculously doubled to two million and so forth, ad infinitum. All must be redacted to "protect the victims." Who believes that rank BS?
He's angry because he LOST 62 1/2 of the 63 lawsuits filed on his behalf in 2020 because the election was totally legit, just like 2024 was. (The 1/2 was case where part of it was thrown out, but the judge ruled that election observers, whom they claimed weren't close enough to see what was going on, could in fact sit at little closer. That's hardly proof of a stolen election.)
Cannot read her mind, but a lot of people who insist that 2024 was stolen seemed to want to avoid facing the ugly fact that an uncomfortably large percentage of the American people are as bad as Trump is. We do need to be realistic about what we are up against.
This George! Distractions and diversions are Trumps trademarks.
I’m leaving my states crime labs and attorney general, to seek, and present charges against this murderous group of corrupt and incompetent wastrels, who offer nothing but amoral vacuousness.
It’s actually state terrorism, Jeff which is far worse than state sponsored, and carried out by the states own agents (ICE) which is similar to Venezuela’s “Death Squads” under Maduro and still exist. An example of a state sponsored group would be terrorists.
What a country he and his evil stooges have turned the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave into: an unstable, oppressive, brutal Third World dictatorship where the rich screw everyone else openly. Who's the banana republic shithole country now?
A people starved and stabbed in th' untilled field;
An army, whom liberticide and prey
Makes as a two-edged sword to all who wield;
Golden and sanguine laws which tempt and slay;
Religion Christless, Godless—a book sealed;
A senate, Time’s worst statute, unrepealed—
Are graves from which a glorious Phantom may
Burst, to illumine our tempestuous day."
Preferably a Phantom sent straight from Cthulhu to make an old, mad, blind, despised and dying King run screaming around his gilded home shitting and gibbering all over himself.
It remains shocking to me how soulless these people are. Not an ounce of humility or humanity. The ghost of Roy Cohn, the lessons he imparted to fatfuck, the absence of anything we could recognize as essential to this brief life we’ve been granted…
You can criticize me all you want, but we would never be here if Kamala had been elected, or Hillary for that matter. Can't imagine how we will make it thru 3 more years with th I s sewer-hose mouth.
Actually Jonathan Ross was highly trained. He was in the National Guard deployed to Iraq in 2004-2005, worked for Homeland Security and as a Border patrol agent 2007-2015, so plenty of "training". Let's focus on the fact, that training be damned he just wanted to shoot her.
There are many more exactly like him deployed by ICE. I read that the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, etc. are being absorbed into ICE. They've found their home and are ready to wage a series of January 6-type fuckfests.
Shady Vance jumped in to make excuses for Ross: He was dragged by a car in June, so OF COURSE he’s trigger happy. That guy isn’t fit to do more than pick up dog poop. (Neither is Vance.)
My sister said something interesting when we were discussing Ross's snuff film (she watched; I couldn't). She said it was clear that Becca had no experience with domestic violence, but Renee did.
Renee knew she was dealing with an abuser. Becca didn't.
Trump disrespects the American people every day, even his own ignorant supporters. I’ll continue my disrespect every fucking day even after he’s removed from office or croaks.
Donnie Demento made no secret of the fix during the late stages of the campaign, when it was becoming pretty clear that Harris was steamrolling him. As usual, Demento said the quiet part out loud, when he spoke to his slaves about how he (suddenly) didn't need their votes; then, of course, he thanked Elonia for fixing the election.
It was never clear that Harris was "steamrolling" him. What was clear was that once again, as in 2016, the media would do everything in its power to make the election nail biter, and that meant tearing down the only qualified candidate.
If it was so clear that Harris was steamrolling, then what reason did she and Walz and other Dems have to keep telling us that the election was going to be very (too) close? We need to accept the fact that things are not always as they appear. Crowd sizes and enthusiasm don't equate to majorities, as trump found out in 2020. Polling is not a reliable method with which to make any determination.
Now you're just using circular logic to defend your allegations of election fraud. Whatever. Harris and Dems KNEW they were not going to steamroll to a win. Regardless of what we think about campaign teams and advisors, they employ significant means to gathering relevant information about voters' intentions. All the general public really has, is a bubblegum machine mood ring. 🙄
On the contrary - I don't know. It's all speculation, but there is no proof that the election was rigged. After all of his documented lies, why would we suddenly choose to believe that he was telling us he fixed the election? He's as dumb as a mud fence, but not stupid enough to admit THAT.
Instead of an actual CSI investigation the Fascists in govt— and in charge of the domestic terrorism give us CSI: “Cover Shit Immediately”
Fuck this fascist assholes. This is STILL America, and we are showing up and turning out, and we will continue to do so. It doesn’t make headlines as much as the Nazi actions do, but we ARE doing it—we ARE resisting. Hold fast and hold strong my friends.
Good one. I live in a blue bubble and even here there are lots of magas who make this old and sorry allegation on local social media sites every time info. about a protest is posted. It's tiring....Maybe i need to ask them about the medical benefits lol.
programming note: there is some dispute as to whether or not Dwight D actually said what I quoted him saying.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/eisenhower-proof-nazi-atrocities/
so I took advantage of the Liberty Valance Rule. "this is the west, sir. when the legend becomes fact, print the legend"
“I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to 'propaganda” is basically the same but not as punchy.
def not as punchy, it's why I went with the legend
Had I been around for his elections I probably wouldn't have voted for Ike, but one thing I will always be grateful to him for, is he had his troops take ordinary German citizens, not government figures or bureaucrats, but ordinary German Hitler supporters, on MANDATORY bus tours of the concentration camps so they could finally view the reality of what they had supported. Netflix has (or had, I don't know if it's still there) documentary footage of the camps taken by the US Army. Ike made sure the Army kept a record. It's interesting to see the difference in the facial expressions of the Germans getting on the bus, and what they looked like when the tour was done.
Indeed. The Nazis also filmed themselves and kept meticulous records, some of which didn’t escape destruction. PBS had a series quite some years ago on various wars and I’ll never forget seeing a Nazi bulldozing scores of bodies into a mass grave.
I saw that footage in high school in an assembly. I don’t remember much else about the film, but that image is burned in my brain. Catholic high school in the early 70s.
Same and yes the timing is right.
I have deceased relatives who served in the US Army units that liberated the death camps . They took their own black and white photos of the piles of bodies . The photos are still in someone's local war collections .
Dear friend, the film you are referring to is actually the Tommies using a bulldozer to try and bury the dead as quickly as possible to prevent an outbreak of diseases because of the decomposing bodies.
It is filmed after the liberation of Bergen-Belsen.
Here's a link to the website of the Imperial war Museum:
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205194125
This was film actually produced by the Nazis during their reign, not after the liberation.
Wasn’t aware of that Joanne… Ike’s parting warning about the dangers of the Industrial Military Complex has been my greatest memory of Ike…
I read recently that the Germans who survived the war held on to the belief that nothing atrocious ever happened ; they held this belief for forty years after the war . Now they have laws that mandate the teaching of the Holocaust in schools .
I was married to a young German man in the 60's. I came across photos of the death camps in the library. When I showed them to him, he denied that that happened in Germany. He had never been taught that history in school.
those ingrained beliefs are tough to counter . Abe Lincoln said it is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled . To the Germans credit , and with help from other countries , Germany came clean .
Take another look at the films from that event. Check out the expressions on the ANTIFA guys herding the the Germans through the camps.
and the German people still feel embarrassed over the Nazi genocide to this day
My dad (z”l), a WWII European theater survivor, thought Gen Bradley THE best and respected Ike. He (& my mom, z”l) voted for Adlai. I was young and tho politics were always discussed, I never asked why. Guessing Party.
indeed!
I think maga supporters and enablers should have to take a tour of the concentration camp detention centers here or better yet have to spend a day or 2 there. Of course, they'd probably see the wretched conditions and justify them...
Not as punchy; very Ike tho and true. Now tho we’re dealing with AI renditions that _show_ what others call the truth that isn’t. I think that scares me more.
You a ‘Sota resident Kay?
No, Patrick, but I’m there in spirit.
I thought it was ‘ Minizuela’ now ?
Trump thinks ‘Sota is the home of a Somalian criminal syndicate, being a member of a transnational criminal syndicate presents a challenge for the overstuffed-rotting cachet of laboratory meat, Arne… hence the hatred!
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/this-week-just-continues-to-suck-and-it-s-fucking-monday
Smell that Jeff? It's the Constitution smoldering. The Supreme Court's about to gut Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act—the only damn thing stopping states from erasing Black congressional districts like mistakes on a chalkboard.
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Concur.
Concur.
It’s, okay, Uncle Jeff. If he didn’t actually say it, someone else probably did. And even if they didn’t, they should have. Your commitment to accuracy is admirable, but we now in Trump’s America, where facts no longer matter. So if someone tells you it didn’t happen, just keep repeating, “Yes it did.” It seems to be working for Noem.
Did, Too! And give it that childish pout they do when called out on their Lies.
That pout gets enhanced with all the extra collagen fillers!
Every time I see that pout, I want to punch something…or someone.
And she goes out doubles down, and commits worse crimes. No accountability.
If DDE didn't say it then, it applies now to January 6th. It's still fresh in our minds, and still is being whitewashed while video shows otherwise.
Whether he or someone else said it, it’s true!
Jeff, you are our go-to source for punch 🥊! Appreciate the clarification, no harm done 😎
we know what Dwight D meant and his intent
another programming note: because I'm a responsible journalist and everything, I googled "is it bold faced or bald faced" and learned that the current accepted form is "bald faced." huh. I'd been using the wrong one all this time
so has everyone else…no worries! :)
Nope, I knew it was "bald".
I also know it's "cut the muster", not cut the mustard.
Additionally, it's "spit and image". Spittin' image is just how it sounds when we don't enunciate properly.
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You have to nip that kind of thing in the butt before people start taking it for granite.
. . .said Robert E so humorously all of the sudden.
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😂😂
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Good one!
Thanks. I always thought it was "cut the mustard". I do know however that it is "toe the line" and not "tow the line".
Oh, yes. Forgot about that one!
Musically, it’s ‘like a deuce, another runner in the night’. Not ‘like a douche…..
So funny. People don't know that. They don't even know what a deuce is and no, it's not a number.
Impressive! And a little bit hot.
Ah, Glad to see a fellow member of the Grammar, Puncuation and Idiom Police!
Never. But I was a typographer.
Nuh uh. I use “bald faced” and I know there are others, especially those in Yiddish that I heard and repeat differently than they are!
You’re never too old to hone your craft.
That’s what JD says to his couch
Perfect.
Kinky!
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I think it's ironic that masked Ice agents and pillow faced Ice barbie and make-up slathered prezdumbass trump can tell bald faced lies.
Someday they must be made to face the music
The bar association is VERY clear about this usage, Jeff.
https://www.sfbar.org/blog/dont-say-bold-faced-when-you-mean-bald-faced/
I did not know it either.
Haha is that the Mandela effect? Because I’ve been using the wrong one too! I swear it was “bold faced!”
For a blatant, shameless lie, bald-faced lie is the preferred and more common term in formal writing, though bold-faced lie is also widely understood and used due to people mistakenly associating "bold" (daring) with the meaning of "bare" (unconcealed) in the original barefaced lie phrase. While "bold-faced" technically refers to bold text, "bald-faced" (or "barefaced") correctly conveys brazenness, making it the better choice for describing audacious falsehoods.
How about "botox-faced lie"? The language needs a facelift.
I love that. Very 21st century. Botox faced lie is perfectly appropriate for Trumps dolls.
Excellent catch Sharon! :-D
yes , but enough about Kristy Noem .
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Shazzzammm, Sharon!
Botox faced lie it is Elliot!
#metoo
Me, three. Bald face doesn’t make any sense.
Oh, but it does. Google & the Merriam-Webster dictionary (I should check the OED, but I’m not going to be that pendantic) say barefaced refers to a clean shaven or unmasked face, ie shameless. & yes, anyone who tells a barefaced lie is so brazen as to be shameless. ICE, etc wearing masks are examples of liars afraid that they will be caught for their lies. And worse.
Bold-faced comes about because it’s been passed down orally & people correcting what they think is a mistake. See also tenderhooks v. Tenterhooks.
One of my favorite examples is "butt naked" for "buck naked": the phrase "buck naked" itself arose from a misunderstanding; it has nothing to do with bucks (although deer, like other animals, are commonly naked) but is from Norse baknaken "back-naked" as opposed to "stark naked" ("stark" from a root for 'strongly' means frontal as well as rear), so the further corruption to "butt naked" actually restores the original sense.
I knew it was buck, but I tend to lapse into butt myself sometimes.
I’m loving this thread 😍👏🏻😍👏🏻😍👏🏻❣️
Ooh, tenterhooks. Uncommon but yes, often incorrect.
"aerates airedales" = absolutely appropriate alliteration
The US should have stuck with the Brits - then you’d be like 🇨🇦 and known all along that it was bald face. 😉
Bald faced lie is apropos for Homan the Showman
Just like the “Calvary” isn’t coming to save you…
Nope. Of that we can be sure.
Ooh I always knew it was bald faced despite it's not making sense. Do I win anything?
I contend it STILL doesn’t make any sense. BOLD-faced, as in an audacious lie.
I like it either way… if you’re bald you tend to be bold and if you’re bold you may be bald for all I know 😆
Nope, you were right all the time. So many people said it wrong that lots of people think “bold faced” is correct. I’m one of those nerds who likes to find out where idiomatic expressions come from.
That one doesn’t bother me nearly as much as when people write “tow” the line instead of “toe” the line. It means following orders, like if someone drew a line and you put your toes right against it. It certainly doesn’t mean to haul on a rope.
I had a boss who always wrote “too” when he meant “to” and “your” when he ment you’re.” It was bad enough when he did that in internal emails but very embarrassing when he did it in emails to customers.
You are forgiven.
I'm going to lie awake all night - trying to remember all the wrong sayings that are in common usage.
The only one I can think of right now is "I could care less" . . . which actually says that I DO care.
Whereas "I couldn't care less" actually says I don't give a shit.
OMG . . . there's a list.
Bald has always been used in these parts Jeff… however, most of our idioms are based on German language.
Oh well. Shit happens 😁.
The Republican Party is over as we knew it. Now they are terrorists and pussies.
If and when we make it to the other side of this nightmare, I hope Krusti Noem is in the top 5 to be tried at The Hague.
Can I despise her any harder than I do?
I think not.
Noempathy is perfect for her job: monumentally stupid, utterly lacking in any semblance of a conscience, and deeply sadistic. As a point of fact--that describes Homan (one letter shy of being human), KKKaroline, $Patel, Goebbels Bovino.........etc., etc.
“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Brilliant application of a perfect quote. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks Susie! I have posted that quote here before because it is so appropriate for these fked-up times in Rethuglicanland.
86-47…
My father, a Holocaust survivor, said that in the Nazi world morality was turned on its head. What was immoral became moral.
Noem is an ugly woman because ugly seeps out from the inside, and no amount of fillers and makeup and teeth caps and hair extensions can hide the ugly seeping out from the inside. And until she gets down on her knees and begs forgiveness for having murdered an innocent dog, she will stay ugly.
Dog?!!? On her watch PEOPLE have been murdered!!!
Animal torturers reliably graduate to being people torturers.
Yes, but she PERSONALLY murdered a dog.
and a goat. Because they displeased her. Couldn't be bothered to rehome the pup--even though the breeder SAID he would take the pup back. She is a hideous inhumane monster--inside and out.
The goat killing was particularly reprehensible because the goat wouldn't die. It was a brutal death. She is sadistic to the core.
No shit but she is murdering people by encouraging it! What the fuck!?
Nah....she'll remain ugly to the end of her days. Everything touched by Trump....
At least Corey likes her…..
Corey is no prize.
Well, she can probably suck start a Harley with those blown-up lips. That would explain the attraction.
She's seems so fake, and yet chilling in every way, that my mind says "evil droid" with her every appearance and statement. Unfortunately she represents the reality of our government. The rest of us may as well be puppies.
No horror movie necessary.
On her resume under job qualifications, she put
Shot my 3 year old dog I raised and trained from a puppy just because
And then I dragged a goat to where the dead dog was and shot it too because it smelled and I had an extra bullet.
And let's not forget that she was pleased to tell us that she left the goat screaming and bleeding while she went back to get more ammunition to finish it off. [Google Kristi Noem goat killing incident].
What a monster. She's probably watching the murder in Minneapolis over and over for entertainment.
Donald picked them because they are very much like him.
Big trait is thinking they are always right and you should not question them . RFK thinks he knows more than highly qualified doctors and researchers . Hegseth thinks he knows more than all the military geniuses in history .
Vance is worse than all of them . He is a self proclaimed expert in evrything . .
Because they are exactly like him.
They're sociopaths.
Absolutely. i'd just add sadistic to that description.
Yep!
It’s Millers hatred she espouses Susan, you’re right though. Trumps whole cabinet should be prosecuted at The Hague, along with several GOP members!
Including Vance, who rushed to the mic as fast as Noem to condemn Renee Good as a domestic terrorist. Barely had time to apply his eyeliner. He's a blatant woman-hater who probably got off on the "Fuck you, bitch" comment from the cold-blooded ICE criminal. He must never, ever become president.
I’d bet a lot of men got off on hearing those words right after the woman was shot to death. A precise example of Margaret Atwood’s adage that
“Men are afraid women will laugh at them; women are afraid men will kill them.”
Vance is the most hated VP I can recall, you’re correct Sharon! It appeared to me, he was exercising his ability to take the reins in his multiple appearances over this corrupt cabal, in the past few days.
A darkly funny moment about a week ago on MS-NOW: in a review of Donnie Demento's plummeting poll numbers, the anchor noted, "His overall approval number is lower than JD Vance's!"
Vance is a disgusting weak little boy.
You have hit the nail on the head . And that is sad for this country .
Hung from a light pole works for me.
Upside down, like Mussolini.
Yes-I want to see her swing, among others.
I’d watch that!
The first thing Krusti The dog and goat killer should have her head shaved bald when they have her in custody along with her eyelashes and her eyebrows!
A bold suggestion!
Even bald faced.
Hahahaha! I see what you did there.
There’d be nothing left, to pick up her bloodied head out of the guillotines basket though, Night!
👏👏👏👏
Is it even possible that we could go one day without the madness and drama associated with this band of miscreants aka the GOP. Back in the day we referred to people like Don the Con as shitsters. He's the giant orange whale that swims in the ocean with remoras attached. Krusti is one of them, hanging on by her hair extensions, which I would love to pull out of her botoxed head.
Unfortunately, for your wish, she's Homeland Security, not international. But she will pay for her bullshit. They all will. Unless some pussy pardons them like Gerald Ford did 😡
Trump will pardon everyone on his way out the door. That is assuming he will leave. It would be best if he would just die.
It’s Krusty Gnome. IYKYK? YK?
I do not watch any of the awards shows, never have, never will. But I just read that Robert DeNiro said at the Golden Globes last night: “I’m gonna say one thing - fuck trump” He got a standing ovation. He’s one badass guy.
I know that clip has been going around today as if it were new, but it actually from a couple years back. during Donny's criminal trial, I think
It’s too bad, because everyone loves DeNiro and it still hits the spot
DeNiro knows a Mafioso wanna-be when he sees it--and he's not afraid to call it out.
There was other protest stuff at the Globes.
I’m happy to know that all that privilege and vanity was put to good use
Yes Diniro did What a wonderful message.
I still say he cheated in 2024. He kept telling saying he didn't need votes, that he had a secret with Mike Johnson, that we'd never have to vote again. And then all swing states called immediately for him?
Thank you, he did not win this election without cheating.
And he’ll make the same moves in the next, because he has a criminal mind.
He did sadly. You're pointing your finger in the wrong direction.
It Musk who spent weeks in swing states.
And? His presence proved ineffective, especially in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election.
Trump said on the air that Musk was helpful to him because he knows a lot about computers. He especially spent a lot of time in Pennsylvania and he is really good with computers.
Trump says a lot of things. But computers have nothing to do with the actual votes cast. And what on earth does "good with computers" mean anyway?
Of course they do. All voting is recorded and counted on computers. You don't think they actually hand count ballots, do you.
To actually hand count ballots would require weeks, multiplying staff by ten times and exploding the budget of all boards of elections. Given the size of our country it can't be done. However, most of us vote on paper ballots which provide a backup.
But the bottom line is that the scan computers aren't connected with anything that could "rig" them — they are not networked. I've trained on both precinct-level and central scan systems. They don't feed the results anywhere they could be changed. Even the touchscreens don't do that despite the story made up in Ohio in 2004 ... but I better not repeat that one because smoke will start coming out my ears. DEMOCRATS made it up when it was literally impossible and that started this whole fiction that voting machines can be "rigged."
It wasn’t that long ago that ballots were counted by hand. I was an election judge for more than 20 years. In Texas, we did it at the voting precinct level, marking the count on pieces of paper and checking every few minutes to ensure that at least three counters had the same numbers. It didn’t take days or weeks, just one long, long night.
I believe that there was interference, or "fuckery" as Jeff would say. If you read This Will Stand it is all explained.
That's false. The only "cheating" he did was currying favor with the "mainstream" media which downplayed all his nasty moves and smeared Joe Biden for him while pretending he wasn't in steeper "cognitive decline" and then they went on a rampage against Harris because she wouldn't run her campaign according to their rules, that is, constantly answering questions about what she thought about this or that thing Trump said and refusing to amplify her own message. And there was a big helping of misogyny.
He was also helped by state Republicans who made accessing the ballot more difficult and by purity progressives who told people not to vote to "teach Democrats a lesson."
He did not, however, win the actual votes. There's no more proof of that than of the 63 losing lawsuits he filed in 2020 claiming Joe Biden didn't win. Changing the results of an election at the polling place is virtually impossible, and it didn't happen in 2024.
Look: I get it. We desperately want to believe he didn't win, the voters couldn't be that stupid, that there was no way this country could have looked at Trump and said "Yeah, he's the guy." But by claiming the actual votes weren't legit, we're indulging in the same sort of "change the facts to fit our fantasy' thinking that the right does.
And we won't fix what's wrong until we deal with truth and not a longed-for fantasy.
You keep saying this as though your opinion is verifiable fact. It isn’t. As I pointed out to you last time you made this claim, both Trump and Elon have admitted publicly that they fucked with the voting. Do you have hard statistical evidence of some sort that Trump “won” because purity ponies stayed home and Repubs made it harder to vote? If so, let’s see it.
Thank you.
So there is no way the thumb drives that go into the DS200 can be compromised? Not sure about that either way, just very skeptical about the overwhelming win for Trump after all the statements he made. I agree with all the hindrances you mentioned: misogyny, protest votes, complicit media, etc., but was that enough for ALL the swing states to cave? IDK. Not that it matters now, Nobody is going to investigate.
The Dems should have immediately challenged it. Too bad they’re such gutless chickenshits.
No. Any piece of equipment that is handled at a board of elections goes through a chain of custody that would prevent that. And the votes aren't just on some "thumb drive"—they are on ballots, and no, there's nothing that can be' compromised" by some random outside person. And yes, as much as it breaks our hearts, the propaganda was enough for all the swing states to veer slightly toward Trump. You don't need to "investigate." The evidence is right in front of youif you were following it. Three weeks hundreds of articles about JoeBiden's alleged "cognitive decline." Democrats shooting themselves in the foot with "let's have an open convention even though there's no time for it" (probably the people still hoping for Bernie). Media demanding that Harris spend all her time with the legacy media answering questions about Trump. People who decides an absolutist position on Palestine was the most pressing issue facing America. And yes, misogyny and racism. Look at the vote totals: 2024 was an anti-turnout election.
What's always so baffling to me is that he thinks anyone who hates him or protests him must be paid to do it. Bro, don't you get it? We do that shit for free.
And I love how the CK people are awfully quiet right about now. Because, oh yeah, it was never ViOlEnCe iS BaD. It was always, "you can't kill us, but we can kill you."
He also misses the other part: the people in the administration who praise him do it to get paid. Well, and also to have fun torturing America.
That part.
And his Bondi’s and Noem’s are waaaaay too dumb to have read history or know how these cruel and murderous thugs in history got it in the end.
After their death, hell was probably hell.
If they knew history as shallow as they all are, they would crap their pants and run but no place to go.
History is not a foreshadowing of what's going to happen in/to this country. People really need to stop and consider the effect that media has - specifically, social media - on the populace. I suspect that the history we're making right now, won't look anything like the past.
"We do that shit for free." Or will pay the highest of prices to do it.
those committed to defending democracy are willing to pay the higher price
He can't fathom doing ANYTHING without getting something in return. Reminded me of Monty Python's Merchant Banker sketch, about collecting donations for the orphans.
Thank you Jeff.
A great reminder that not only does the pedophile criminal elect belong behind bars -so does Noem, Bondi, Hegseth, and the entire Administration.
https://youtu.be/yce9n9QA_1E
Because democracy doesn't defend itself from corruption, tyranny, fraud, and pedophiles.
And the criminal in the Oval just admitted to more crimes today—saying he regretted not sending in the National Guard to seize the voting machines in 2020 won he LOST.
Convicted felon says what???
*Demented* evil felon in charge, nursing grievances and seeking retribution against all opposed to him sez whut? We won't be getting the 25th Amendment unless he goes over the line for his supporters. Do they even have a line? They are covering for a rich fuckwad ring of pedophiles and rapists. RELEASE THE TRUMPSTEIN FILES
Like the winning answer in the math competition in ‘Mean Girls’: “The limit does not exist”. MAGAts do not have a limit. That makes no sense to decent people.
DOJ is stonewalling by claiming the sheer number of docs in the Epstein files has miraculously doubled to two million and so forth, ad infinitum. All must be redacted to "protect the victims." Who believes that rank BS?
He's angry because he LOST 62 1/2 of the 63 lawsuits filed on his behalf in 2020 because the election was totally legit, just like 2024 was. (The 1/2 was case where part of it was thrown out, but the judge ruled that election observers, whom they claimed weren't close enough to see what was going on, could in fact sit at little closer. That's hardly proof of a stolen election.)
You’re awfully insistent that Trump won in 2024 legitimately. I’m starting to wonder why.
Me, too. It's tiresome. Is Anastasia a Bot?
Starting to look that way. They never respond.
Cannot read her mind, but a lot of people who insist that 2024 was stolen seemed to want to avoid facing the ugly fact that an uncomfortably large percentage of the American people are as bad as Trump is. We do need to be realistic about what we are up against.
Maybe both things are true.
Certainly possible.
This George! Distractions and diversions are Trumps trademarks.
I’m leaving my states crime labs and attorney general, to seek, and present charges against this murderous group of corrupt and incompetent wastrels, who offer nothing but amoral vacuousness.
It’s actually state terrorism, Jeff which is far worse than state sponsored, and carried out by the states own agents (ICE) which is similar to Venezuela’s “Death Squads” under Maduro and still exist. An example of a state sponsored group would be terrorists.
The worst terrorists in this country are now running it. They are amoral psychopaths.
What a country he and his evil stooges have turned the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave into: an unstable, oppressive, brutal Third World dictatorship where the rich screw everyone else openly. Who's the banana republic shithole country now?
Ruled by Theil, Musk, and Stephen Miller.
Pottersville
Thank you for posting the foto of our MN sister as your logo.
Trumps doing exactly what Maduro did with his death squads, you’re on the money today Mike!
England in 1819
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
"An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King;
Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow
Through public scorn,—mud from a muddy spring;
Rulers who neither see nor feel nor know,
But leechlike to their fainting country cling
Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow.
A people starved and stabbed in th' untilled field;
An army, whom liberticide and prey
Makes as a two-edged sword to all who wield;
Golden and sanguine laws which tempt and slay;
Religion Christless, Godless—a book sealed;
A senate, Time’s worst statute, unrepealed—
Are graves from which a glorious Phantom may
Burst, to illumine our tempestuous day."
Preferably a Phantom sent straight from Cthulhu to make an old, mad, blind, despised and dying King run screaming around his gilded home shitting and gibbering all over himself.
He, tRumPutin, may actually be one of Cthulu's minions. If there is an Antichrist meant to bring about Armageddon, then I'd say he's here.
Even the great H P Lovecraft could not have dreamed up an entity as nakedly evil and malicious as trump
It remains shocking to me how soulless these people are. Not an ounce of humility or humanity. The ghost of Roy Cohn, the lessons he imparted to fatfuck, the absence of anything we could recognize as essential to this brief life we’ve been granted…
Well said. And sad. Really sad. 💔🇺🇸
You can criticize me all you want, but we would never be here if Kamala had been elected, or Hillary for that matter. Can't imagine how we will make it thru 3 more years with th I s sewer-hose mouth.
Actually Jonathan Ross was highly trained. He was in the National Guard deployed to Iraq in 2004-2005, worked for Homeland Security and as a Border patrol agent 2007-2015, so plenty of "training". Let's focus on the fact, that training be damned he just wanted to shoot her.
There are many more exactly like him deployed by ICE. I read that the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, etc. are being absorbed into ICE. They've found their home and are ready to wage a series of January 6-type fuckfests.
Shady Vance jumped in to make excuses for Ross: He was dragged by a car in June, so OF COURSE he’s trigger happy. That guy isn’t fit to do more than pick up dog poop. (Neither is Vance.)
He was trained to be violent and have a disregard for human life.
My sister said something interesting when we were discussing Ross's snuff film (she watched; I couldn't). She said it was clear that Becca had no experience with domestic violence, but Renee did.
Renee knew she was dealing with an abuser. Becca didn't.
That is a fact. I'm afraid that the video has become snuff porn for incels. Especially the "fucking bitch." part.
Exactly right. He’s a true believer.
Only God can take a life .
Trump disrespects the American people every day, even his own ignorant supporters. I’ll continue my disrespect every fucking day even after he’s removed from office or croaks.
Just gonna throw this out there: Harris not only SHOULD have been president. She IS president. The 2024 election was bought and paid for.
https://thisbritslife.com/2024-us-election/
Donnie Demento made no secret of the fix during the late stages of the campaign, when it was becoming pretty clear that Harris was steamrolling him. As usual, Demento said the quiet part out loud, when he spoke to his slaves about how he (suddenly) didn't need their votes; then, of course, he thanked Elonia for fixing the election.
It was never clear that Harris was "steamrolling" him. What was clear was that once again, as in 2016, the media would do everything in its power to make the election nail biter, and that meant tearing down the only qualified candidate.
If it was so clear that Harris was steamrolling, then what reason did she and Walz and other Dems have to keep telling us that the election was going to be very (too) close? We need to accept the fact that things are not always as they appear. Crowd sizes and enthusiasm don't equate to majorities, as trump found out in 2020. Polling is not a reliable method with which to make any determination.
To warn everyone not to be complacent and make the grand error of thinking staying home would be just fine.
Now you're just using circular logic to defend your allegations of election fraud. Whatever. Harris and Dems KNEW they were not going to steamroll to a win. Regardless of what we think about campaign teams and advisors, they employ significant means to gathering relevant information about voters' intentions. All the general public really has, is a bubblegum machine mood ring. 🙄
Okay--I realize you know far, far more than I could possibly ever understand. You win, you're right, you got it.
Joyce, no way to know for sure as there is no photo or bio——but I get the distinct feeling “Outdoorluvr” has more testosterone than estrogen….
On the contrary - I don't know. It's all speculation, but there is no proof that the election was rigged. After all of his documented lies, why would we suddenly choose to believe that he was telling us he fixed the election? He's as dumb as a mud fence, but not stupid enough to admit THAT.
Thank you for posting this link. It sure looks like T💩p is an illegitimate president.
Instead of an actual CSI investigation the Fascists in govt— and in charge of the domestic terrorism give us CSI: “Cover Shit Immediately”
Fuck this fascist assholes. This is STILL America, and we are showing up and turning out, and we will continue to do so. It doesn’t make headlines as much as the Nazi actions do, but we ARE doing it—we ARE resisting. Hold fast and hold strong my friends.
Since I retired, I have a lot of spare time. I was thinking of becoming a paid, professional agitator. Does it include medical?
medical/paid holidays/paid vacation/bonuses
and brand new professionally printed signs to carry!
Good one. I live in a blue bubble and even here there are lots of magas who make this old and sorry allegation on local social media sites every time info. about a protest is posted. It's tiring....Maybe i need to ask them about the medical benefits lol.
We also need to find out where to get our professionally made signs.