just want to point out that with this post, I have successfully won Ms Spouse's Can You Please Write About JD Vance Without Calling Him A Couchfucker Challenge
I have to say I noticed right away you didn’t call JD a couchfucker and I am disappointed. But after reading Wednesday in Stupid…about the potential deportation of 10 million Christians… I was somewhat elated by the hope that for the first time since the Roman Empire co-opted christianity, pulpit propaganda will be unprofitable.
Sofa Shagger, part of The Master Told Me to Give This Business to You, But I'm Giving this Business to You! Enterprises—which also gave us Torgo's Pizza!
I'm at a loss for words in my amazement over your übermenschlich self discipline!
BTW eternal gratitude for calling out James Carville. With his latest verbal vomit he has destroyed the last microscopic remnant of credibility. The LAST FUCKING THING we need right now is some pseudo-elitist dividing us further. The dumbass has documented his utter lack of knowledge of history (Refer to the last paragraphs of Heather Cox Richardson's post of Thursday, April 17th.)
Fun fact: Carville, LA is the home of a Leper Colony (or at least was while I was just up river at LSU in the '60s. (Yes, I know, College man from LSU, went in dumb, came out dumb too (Randy Newman).) Maybe ole Jim got leprosy on his brain.
This is so prescient, looking at approval ratings 47 in the 40s but Dems @26% and GOP @36%, JC has it exactly backwards, that 75% disapproval is for machine Dems like him who"s only identity is arguing with the GOP about HOW to screw the people. The progressives should split from Dems and leave Schumer and his posse of 6 in the dust of irrelevance.
Harsh. I honestly don’t get it, except that the purists will always find something to shoot themselves in the fucking foot with. Remember in 2010 when purists were too angry at Obama for not fulfilling all the promises he made for a 2-term presidency in the 1st 2 years to vote in the mid-terms and we got the tea party? They simply don’t learn.
protest-voting sounds great on paper but in real life it always makes things worse. protest-voting has gotten us Nixon, Reagan, GW Bush, and Trump twice. you'd think with a record like that, people would have figured it out by now
Protest voting is linked to narcissism, according to social science research. I know it's not a surprise, but it's been verified by studies, so I'm going with it.
Oh it's totally that. It's thinking voting is a chance to show the glorious purity of your views "look at me and how virtuous I am," rather than understanding it is a civic duty where you LOOK AT THE FUCKING OPTIONS THAT ARE ACTUALLY IN FRONT OF YOU and choose the one that would be best for the community. Right? It's an ice cream shop or a shit sandwich, no the ice cream isn't organic, but the alternative isn't an organic ice cream shop, the alternative is a FUCKING SHIT SANDWICH. AHHHHHHhhh
Isn't that sort of what Carville is referring to with (about) the Democrat voters? Maybe I just inferred that because it's how I feel about the so-called "purists" who want to push anything they see as moderate (or boomer) OUT of the big tent.
I don't understand why they didn't vote for the candidate who might have listened to them (Harris) if she won, and then HOLD HER ADMINISTRATION'S FEET TO THE FIRE over Bibi's genocide in Gaza. Instead, by failing to vote for Harris, and/or voting for Trump, they made it much more likely that Gaza would be obliterated and the two-state solution would become impossible.
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It was SO clear that Trump hates Muslims and is purely transactional with the rich ones in power in their respective countries and only them. Even on Bluesky those single-issue purity ponies are so furious about Bibi's genocidal ways, with good reason. They feel totally justified blurting out that America deserves to die because America has been supportive of Israel for decades. Never mind that the multi-ethnic citizenry of Israel is not in lockstep with Bibi's government, far from it. It's like drinking poison while expecting the object of your anger to die. And it's looking now like a murder-suicide.
Americans seem to have the memory of a door knob. I think I first heard the expression from Randi Rhodes: fall in love in the primary & fall in line in the general. Most of the time that works.
The people with grievances against Harris can't see the full picture 🌈 and whatever issue they have w her, its still a two party system.
Whatever helps them sleep at night. And our lunatic president rages on... so I don't know what they think they won by not voting against whatever this current destruction is.
Trump, Hegseth, and Musk will fuck anything with an orifice.
The rest of them - well, to preserve their evangelical Christian chastity - they would much rather be told to “go fuck themself” rather than “go get deported you gullible dumbfucks”…
We must return to teaching civics, so they can understand the good presidents can't wave a magic wand and fix everything in a couple of years, when the republicans spent eight years trashing everything.
Man, THAT is the truth. Watching the cycle is exhausting...and the money thats wasted to go through these cycles is-I dont know a word that can describe that kind of waste. 🙄
Absolutely true Biden didn't fix things overnight, he rolled up his sleeves and went to work. Fixing what Felonious broke was not simple or quick and the same for Obama after the genius Bush. tRump is at the destruction again 10 times worse then before and anyone that denies that is in the cult period.
My bro gave me some stats, not sure of authenticity that went 31% voted for el-douche, 30% for Kamala and another 30% didn't even vote that's of eligible voters. Not sure where he got this from exactly.
It is pretty close from the numbers I have seen, basically 2/3rds either did not vote, was disenfranchised, or Voted for Harris, only 1/3rd of the eligible voters voted for tangerini.
A protest vote against Harris got us Trump. I'm sure he'll be SO KIND to the Palestinians. My daughter protest voted in 2016; I still haven't gotten over it. She learned the hard way
If your conscience tells you not to vote for a Asian African American woman there is something very wrong with you! We are in the midst of a crisis because of MAGAts and misogynistic racists who claim to be democrats. They deserve whatever happens. The rest of us saw what might happen and voted to save this nation!
Lisa, “Misogynistic, racist, homophobic democrats are responsible for Trump being in the White House! Their “conscience” would not allow them to vote for Harris! Well stated.
I'm not convinced that the supporters of Palestinians and accusers of "Biden/Harris genocide" who couldn't vote for Harris, are in any way racists or misogynists. Not sure about the 90 million who stayed home, though.
It's called passing laws and being proactive about those laws even if no one has broken them yet. Like a law that you can't run for any federal office if you're a convicted felon. Do away with presidential pardons. Pass laws about term limits and age limits. There's much you can do if we ever get a majority again. Dems have had the majority in my lifetime and yet we have no universal healthcare (ObamaCare was a huge start though), no decent immigration policy that is enforced, no laws regarding Supreme Court misbehavior etc. We have been very reactive about the future of our country.
Nope, not this one. The next one may or may not cover exactly the same land mass, we'll see. But any republic that follows (if) will take a very hard look at the costs of universal voting rights. MAGAs and the fascists before them long wanted restrictions along racial and sex lines, a future republic may reasonably see the need to do it instead with requirements for education and intelligence.
In their 16th Century minds, the Founders probably were thinking the same thing, but chose to use race and property as proxies, since they did not have more direct access to the information we do today.
My own daughter argued that she couldn't vote for Kamala. I told her that if she really DIDN'T want me to blame her for electing Trump, she'd vote for the best choice.
My nephew, who was very concerned about people, and particularly children dying in Gaza and our supplying weapons to Israel, and was not enthused about Kamala at all, voted for her for the very reason above. He is honest, and earnest. That is the beauty of youth.
Oh, I understand. In truth, Kamala was walking a very fine line between angering the Arabic community and upsetting the Jewish community. Given Biden's position, and her role as VP, even while campaigning, there really wasn't much wiggle room. That's what I tried to impress on my daughter... who ultimately admitted that she could see the problem. I fully believe that Harris would have shifted gears on Israel upon election.
I'm glad to see that young people care about others in the world. But I don't understand why you would be so involved in another country's politics unless you were Jewish or Palestinian, to vote for someone who would destroy the US because you were more concerned about another country's political problems than what was staring you in the face here. Do the young think that Nazi Germany will never happen here? I was born right after WWII, so it was talked about all the time growing up. Maybe because people younger than myself that weren't growing up under the threat of being nuked by the Russians and hearing parents stories about WWII are quite naive about what happened years ago. If so, they need to visit Europe, especially Eastern Europe where the horrors of Nazism and Communism are still remembered by people living there.
Deborah, my nephew is growing up with Brown skin in a multinational family, as did I. For many people with brown skin, the deaths in Gaza looks like White Supremacists killing brown skinned people. Most of the youth who are protesting are not thinking which one country is democratic, which is not? In fact, we can see that democracy is not such a salient concept in the US. Look at how many voted for Trump or did not vote at all. I think a lot of people don't know what the terms democracy or fascism mean.
I did grow up with the Russian threat, but did not understand the possible danger when i was in college. Now I see the threat that Russia poses and am currently reading a book on their illegals program. I can tell you my nephew does not have such a complex understanding of global politics. His thinking of politics outside of the US is fairly new.
I protested to get my campus to divest from South Africa, so it seems normal to me to be involved in politics outside of the US as a student.
My children were deeply aware of what transpired in WWII. Their paternal grandfather served as a forward artillery observer in Europe. He never spoke of his experiences until our son was born, then he would regale him with stories of what Grandpa had endured in the war. Hiding in a tree behind German lines, calling in artillery strikes that barely missed him. Capturing a bunker of Germans on sheer bravado and a gas can... my kids know. My daughter was appalled that we were still sending munitions to Israel to participate in what she (rightfully, I believe) views as genocide.
She ultimately voted for Harris, knowing what horrors would await us all should Trump win. Unfortunately, not enough people understood the assignment.
My 23-year-old nephew viewed both Kamala and Trump as corrupt, and also he seemed to take Trump at his word. Naively. I need to find new, cool, social media podcasters for him to listen to. I am searching. Haven't found the right ones yet. Anyway, he complained that both supported bombing Gaza, and he also said he wished he could be a Green Party member. That is with the understanding that the Green Party in the US is not what it should be, so not really an option.
I don't know what Harris would have done on election, but with AIPAC, I don't see how she could have switched from supporting them. They are a powerful lobby. I could see my nephew supporting AOC, who is a very different kind of Brown skinned woman. Jefferson Cowie says that only a populist can win, and he does not mean the bad kind. My book club read a book by him called Freedom's Dominion where he talks about those who believe in Freedom for White Men that allows them to have dominion over others. We also attended a talk of his. Here is a piece I wrote on it.
I hate to burst your nephew's bubble, but the level of corruption in our government on both sides is pretty widespread. And it's been like that forever. Citizens United just made it worse and it's in our face now. If he's only going to vote for honest politicians, I wish him luck. Some may start out that way, but you can't last long if you don't cave to lobbyists, special interest groups and their money.
His complaint is that there is corruption on both sides. I think one should start out having high standards. He still makes compromises to vote. I hope he can maintain them.
I don't understand why it was so hard for people to vote for Kamala unless you're a racist/misogynist. I don't agree with everything that the Dems say, but I'm going to pick the top important issues to me and vote for that person. If you were concerned about Gaza and that area of the world, why on earth would you for one nanosecond considering voting for a Republican. The Israeli/Gaza issue is very complicated. I feel that there's no one wrong side and one right side. It's a very gray area. But my primary worry is about my country. Trump is ruining the USA, faster than I gave him credit for.
I don't think not voting for Kamala had anything to do with conscience. It had to do with pure stupidity--or maybe stupidity adulterated with a touch of misogyny and racism.
I laughed out loud at "a force not to be reckoned with." Thank you so much for that.
I'm hoping we can all raise a glass of 'Salvadoran Margarita" tomorrow if Abrego Garcia comes home on Easter. I'm projecting I know, but why not wish for some positive news on the day of resurrection. On another note, don't ever set foot in El Salvador, fuck em.
Why the reflexive and inappropriate use of the words "sadly" and "sorry"? I'm neither.
This is pretty close to universal language among we the liberals, maybe it indicates a disengagement because looking at what's going on it just too painful. And I get that.
Things are happening fast, though, and they're not going in straight lines. Hemingway's observation that things, like bankruptcy, very often unfold gradually, then suddenly, seems pretty relevant here. The sand is piling up by the minute in the whole Trump machine, it could well seize.
And their conscience would for tRump or not at all? You were right to post the truth. If the consciences objectors can't hang, tough, shut up and deal like the rest of us have to now.
It’s no surprise that Alito and Thomas dissented. They are drenched in corruption and have no interest in upholding the constitution or rights of others. They are vile.
Sadly, I don't have a sign. Yours is awesome. I will prepare one before the next rally, unless I get tear gassed today. It's my first rally and I'm a little nervous.
There were signs available and I got one. About 400 people on the four corners of the intersection. There were only five of the annoying Trump trucks driving around and smogging us. I have lived in L. A. Smog doesn't scare me. There was one small little truck in the line-up and that made me laugh. How pathetic are you, Dude? All in all, a great experience.
Yay Arne -- so glad you went! We met the nicest people today.
I was reminded that it was 250 years ago to the day (April 19, 1775) that the battles of Lexington and Concord occurred which kicked off the American Revolution.
UPDATE: We just got back from our rally in Renton, Washington (just south of Seattle) and there was an outstanding turnout (despite the cold and wet weather) with most cars honking in support. One young man rolled down his window and said, "Go T💩p!" and three other incels revved their engines in our faces just to be MAGAts. There were at least a couple of hundred people of all ages, with excellent signs, and everyone was having a good time.
I went to the one in Federal Way. There were at least 50 people on each of the 4 corners of the intersection. Got lots of positive honking as people drove through.
I don’t think he is. The preachy gender politics crowd have me about ready to ditch the Dems. And many who did not vote feel the same way. Too much emphasis and energy wasted on one minor issue when people want the Dems to focus on bread and butter issues which actually affect their lives.
We have to lose the schoolmarm attitude and concern ourselves with issues that hit closer to home for the average American.
Proper use of pronouns and LGBT issues just don’t resonate like many on the Party think they do.
Carville is actually correct. He is closer to the mood of the non voters than the ones driving the Dems agenda right now.
If we want to ever win another election again we had better make some changes to woo those people to go to the booths and vote Democratic.
Hope this wasn’t too preachy. Now go eat those peas. .
The population is aging. (I'm almost 70-I know this., 😂) I feel a more "liberal", reasonable generation is awake and playing closer attention. To say that women in the Democratic party are being "Preachy" is appropriate for an old white guy in his 80's. He's not helping his party in any way with dumb ass comments like that. He's a detriment.
I cannot agree with you, enough! I am 70, myself. Our generation needs to help the younger generations assume the control to fix the society they have to live in.
I believe he has hit a nerve and the furious backlash tells me the preachy women doth protest too much and prove his point.
I am most assuredly not including you in this group, Susan- I enjoy and appreciate your well aimed posts. But feel you are shooting the messenger in this instance.
I hate peas, Ole. Sorry, put me in time out. I agree with your text. Was going to post something similar, but then I don't want to be taken the wrong way. The pronoun issue and men in women's sports is not a winning issue for most Americans. Why is it a major election issue at all? Trump made a comment about it or someone close to him. They bring out the trans issue when they want to rile up their base. And if I don't believe that males should compete with biological females, why does that make me a hater? It's like if you don't embrace the use of pronouns other than he/she or don't want males in locker rooms with females, then you're a hater and a bigot. I find that an unfair label and it sure wouldn't make me want to vote for a Democrat that labeled me as such. People are entitled to their opinion about things, as long as they don't act out/speak so it harms someone. People care right now about their incomes, prices of things, being yanked off the street and never seen again, not having affordable housing etc.
I think you are losing middle America focusing so much on some social issues. Doesn't mean they're not important, but right now they're not the most important thing if our country is going down the tubes.
Carville keeps texting me for money which would be like pissing it away in a slot machine. I won't send that irrelevant asshat a dime considering he now continues to hurt the Dems a lot more than helping them. Like the felonious nightmare from hell, its time for cantankerous Carville to give us a break and retire his shitty, out of touch agenda.
Carville is a "Ragin' Cajun" caricature from the politics-as-entertainment industry of yesteryear. You won't often catch him speaking solemnly about serious issues and if he's forced to, you can see the swamp gas leaking out of his soul.
I block anything that uses his name, being as I am one of those "preachy females" he derides. At least I have opinions, which I am sure he would consider the same thing.
The problem, as I see it, is the opposition will take any issue (out of hundreds that exist) and blow it all up, and say that's what we ALL stand for. Pronouns aren't a problem, but they make it one by harping on it, somehow even otherwise sensible people start to think it is a problem. It is not, call anyone whatever they tell you to. Problem solved.
As for trans-persons in "women's" sports, that is an issue best left to the experts like my stepdaughter in Canada, who studied sports medicine, kinesiology, and various other subjects, that understand the difference in those who take puberty-blocking delaying hormones, and those who go through puberty, it should not be some Cletus in Missouri's decision
How exactly is he ‘hurting the Democrats’? Have we become such a thin skinned bunch that we can’t listen to the opinion of a man who has been helping to elect Dems since before many here were even of voting age?
All the sanctimonius outrage just proves his point unequivocally.
Lighten up! Let the man have his say, and it wouldn’t hurt to consider his message dispassionately and see if it hits too close to home for your own comfort and that is the real reason you are apoplectic about a simple opinion.
And if the word Preachy offends you, well- there are various reasons why that may be. But it is a very descriptive word and might apply here more than some are comfortable admitting.
Very discombobulated organization of protest sites for todays events.
I had trouble finding where they were. And the one two weeks ago at the Govt. Center in WPB was not repeated today for some reason. They need to be consistent with the protest venues to avoid making it more difficult for people.
So I drove to Southern Blvd by Mar a Lardo for the scheduled demonstration there but nobody assembling!
Jeff, you forgot to mention the latest Donald corruption. Vietnam wants to avoid crippling tariffs by the US, So they have decided to expedite the process of approvals for a new $1.5B resort, a Trump resort… nothing like mixing the goals of the presidents private business with government action. Pure and simple BS to benefit a criminal enterprise. More corruption? How about Donald using the DOJ for an end run to avoid paying E Jean Carroll…sounds like the DOJ is Donald’s private law firm.🤮 Best to all
With that corrupt as hell Bondi, who is Dump's personal attorney running the show, that's exactly what's happening. Now that she wants her brother to head the bar association, WTF could possibly go wrong?
Bondi.. she goes down for $20,000 and that’s the retainer from Donald.. I wonder how she ever passed the bar. Bottle Bleach Blond.. chemicals leached into her tiny brain.🤮
Trump bizarrely claimed egg prices are "getting too low," boasting they're "down 87 percent" despite data showing average wholesale prices at $3.13—an uptick from previous weeks.
"All the chickens, they came to me with tears in their eyes, and said, sir, sir, we will lay more eggs for you! And that will. . .that will bring down the price so fast, fast like no one has ever seen before, and. . . '
All of a sudden we have $3.99/doz eggs. Only those in Styrofoam packaging. Are they foreign eggs? Are they inspected by SecAg Rollins since she is the only one left in that dept.? The eggs we usually buy are $7.99/doz
Are you trying to tell me that you don't believe what trump the holy says? Obviously the people you get your eggs from are in the pay of Joe Biden. . . MAGA are getting theirs direct from the White House, delivered in little gold boxes. The coops are out on the WH back lawn, and Trump and Melania go out hand in hand every morning with a bucket to collect them. . . such a lovely picture. . .
Damn you should send that to SNL I’d love to see that as a skit!
As a retired farm girl who had free-range chickens, (no going barefoot with free range chickens) I enjoy that scenario. Funny everyone wants to gather the eggs, no one ever volunteers to clean the stalls where they nest.
My sister bought an old farmhouse in France, complete with outbuildings. The had six of the cutest little stone hen houses you ever did see - each complete with a little run of wooden steps so the hens didn't hurt their little legs when they came out.
When she moved in, I came along to help her renovate - the house was 200 years old, and the very nice old guy she bought it from probably moved in when it was new. So, lots to do. When we'd swept and cleaned and painted the house, she said "Time to clean out the hen houses!"
I swear, that chicken shit had not been cleaned for YEARS. It was four feet deep and had turned to concrete. I had to wear a mask and goggles and crack it with a hammer.
Mind you, the omelettes we had for dinner that night were damn nice. . .
She eventually moved the hens into the barn, and turned the six hen houses into 3 gites. I often wondered what the people who came to stay would have thought if they knew what had been there before, She just said " Oh, they used to be storage sheds. . ." Never said they'd been storing chickens. . .
Terrific level of education he's got going, there.
Better hope ICE doesn't pick him up and say "If you're American, say something in English" (or as ICE would PROBABLY say "Say something in American. . .)
Y'know, if they were seven years old, you'd want to pick them up and cuddle them. It would go down in the family history for years - every Thanksgiving, Grandma would say "You remember when we took little Oscar to Washington - and he wanted to go to the Electoral College? How we laughed!"
And Oscar, six foot two and 220lbs with a full beard sitting in the corner and squirming "Aw, GRANDMA! I was FIVE!"
Well I can speak with authority on Costa Rica, so the Spanish came and they were all Catholics then. What is Easter? It’s called Semana Santo or week of the Saint which when translated really means “hey everybody let’s go to the beech!” We can be absolved later so be it. Every town has a church though so they planted the seed everywhere as you know, funerals are popular for the churches. However the people do everything as a family no matter what, if one falls they pick that one up and support them, they hold hands and grandma always has an escort when out, it very lovely. So they don’t talk the talk but they walk the walk of Christianity.
He could have mispronounced it deliberately in front of the African delegation as a power play...his way of letting them know how inconsequential he views them. (I read too many psych books 😂)
We have a protest today (Saturday). Nonviolent. Take deep breaths, but be loud. Remember President Eisenhower was a patriot and demonstrably supported the Supreme Court’s order Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (May 17, 1954). I covered what he did in Little Rock, AR, in my post below. In September 1957, Eisenhower ordered the elite 101st Airborne to restore order in Little Rock. The picture of those troop driving from Fort Campbell in the dark of night sticks in my mind. Regular Army troops activated to restore order is a rare occurrence. We should not forget why: the cause of anti-racism. The racism that prevailed in my youth is disgusting to me, and has been not only unleashed, but also promoted by a lawless administration. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/forking-roads?r=3m1bs
I make a point of reading Jeff's column every morning before I read Heather Cox Richardson's. If I don't do it in this order, I don't feel like getting out of bed. I need curmudgeonly humor to give me my strength to face the fascism.
Oh I agree about Jimmy Carville....he respectfully needs to shut up. His moderate cowardly Democrats are the first political party in America's history to surrender the government of the U.S. to admitted fascists and Nazis...and he has the f*cking gonads to blame this on progressives??? There are a few other political commentators on this train too. James even admitted that the strategy vs. D should be...'to play dead'. Yeah....he needs to shut the heck up.
He's always been more on the right of center than not, how else can you explain hating most of the people who make up your (supposed) party? Women, young people etc,
My elementary school students used to learn all the countries and do research on countries in each continent as we got to it. I have to admit that Congo or DRC was not their favorite African country. They all loved the name of Djibouti the best, year after year. They loved this yearlong geography project. This is why I said that my 4th grade students would have understood many of the issues that Trump does not. They have all certainly had much better social skills.
I belonged to a global music choir and our leaders have summer music camps in various locations around the world. One of them did her doctorate on South African music in response to AIDS. They hold camps in South Africa and in Madagascar, as well as some European countries, and places in the US, which I wanted to go to. I have been too busy in the summers adjusting to my move, but eventually I will have a summer when I can go. Not this summer though.
The Orange Mess did not know that LESOTHO was a country. He couldn't even point out any given State or name their Capitals..We just have to put him in the Category of " intellectually challenged".. He is just plain fucking dumb!
He's intellectually lazy, a "doughy pantload" above the neck. He'd rather make shit up that flatters him or insults his challengers than check his brain farts for accuracy. Too much work, easier to cheat. And MSM and his GOP sycophants let this excrement slide.
just want to point out that with this post, I have successfully won Ms Spouse's Can You Please Write About JD Vance Without Calling Him A Couchfucker Challenge
I’m sure it took restraint, but you won!
I was missing your usual picture of him with the swollen face. It fits so well with his ego.
The one where he looks like Dildo Baggins.
His actual face is bad enough...
I have to say I noticed right away you didn’t call JD a couchfucker and I am disappointed. But after reading Wednesday in Stupid…about the potential deportation of 10 million Christians… I was somewhat elated by the hope that for the first time since the Roman Empire co-opted christianity, pulpit propaganda will be unprofitable.
The 738th time is perfection
I gotta say, I kinda missed it....I mean, "Couchfuck McGee" and all things associated is a Jeff classic!
No couches were harmed in the making of this post.
We put a dollar in the Mason jar everytime one of us mentions his name. We'll be rich someday.
I think you can now move from JD Couchfucker to JD Fuckerupper.
The Quicker Fucker-Upper ...
BRAVO, Keith!
I personally love when you refer to JD as Couchfuck McGee. My texting system automatically finishes it for me, too
Or Sofa shagger. Or Furniture fornicator.
Sofa Shagger. Sounds like a cleaning company name. Maybe he has a business on the side?
😂😂
Sofa Shagger, part of The Master Told Me to Give This Business to You, But I'm Giving this Business to You! Enterprises—which also gave us Torgo's Pizza!
https://youtu.be/xQiViIMNVLM?t=21
These are both excellent!! 😂😂😂😂
😂😂
LOL
It never looses its zing!
Saw a protest sign: HillbUlly vance.
I'm at a loss for words in my amazement over your übermenschlich self discipline!
BTW eternal gratitude for calling out James Carville. With his latest verbal vomit he has destroyed the last microscopic remnant of credibility. The LAST FUCKING THING we need right now is some pseudo-elitist dividing us further. The dumbass has documented his utter lack of knowledge of history (Refer to the last paragraphs of Heather Cox Richardson's post of Thursday, April 17th.)
Fun fact: Carville, LA is the home of a Leper Colony (or at least was while I was just up river at LSU in the '60s. (Yes, I know, College man from LSU, went in dumb, came out dumb too (Randy Newman).) Maybe ole Jim got leprosy on his brain.
This is so prescient, looking at approval ratings 47 in the 40s but Dems @26% and GOP @36%, JC has it exactly backwards, that 75% disapproval is for machine Dems like him who"s only identity is arguing with the GOP about HOW to screw the people. The progressives should split from Dems and leave Schumer and his posse of 6 in the dust of irrelevance.
"Doughy Pantload" is what I'm calling my Whiteboy Neo-Swing band.
It's right up there with "Cherry Popping Daddies" and "Squirrel Nut Zippers" in my book....
https://youtu.be/K3VYZhpN9E8?si=SM9qJpRCpryikfU2
"Trophyfumbler McGee" doesn't quite roll off the tongue as well.
by the way, half of bluesky is mad at me right now for posting this:
"pro tip: very few people right now want to hear about how your conscience wouldn't let you vote for Kamala. shut the fuck up"
https://bsky.app/profile/jefftiedrich.bsky.social/post/3ln4d4bi4o22a
I probably wouldn't have posted if I hadn't had a cocktail at lunch, but there you go
Harsh. I honestly don’t get it, except that the purists will always find something to shoot themselves in the fucking foot with. Remember in 2010 when purists were too angry at Obama for not fulfilling all the promises he made for a 2-term presidency in the 1st 2 years to vote in the mid-terms and we got the tea party? They simply don’t learn.
protest-voting sounds great on paper but in real life it always makes things worse. protest-voting has gotten us Nixon, Reagan, GW Bush, and Trump twice. you'd think with a record like that, people would have figured it out by now
When perfect is the enemy of good.
Every damn time!
Voting for a third party would work with a two-phase election, where the top two finishers square off in November. But we don’t have that.
Right, Gerard. Ranked-choice voting should be considered soon.
Imagine how crazy they’d be trying to rig that many elections. I like it.
Protest voting is linked to narcissism, according to social science research. I know it's not a surprise, but it's been verified by studies, so I'm going with it.
Oh it's totally that. It's thinking voting is a chance to show the glorious purity of your views "look at me and how virtuous I am," rather than understanding it is a civic duty where you LOOK AT THE FUCKING OPTIONS THAT ARE ACTUALLY IN FRONT OF YOU and choose the one that would be best for the community. Right? It's an ice cream shop or a shit sandwich, no the ice cream isn't organic, but the alternative isn't an organic ice cream shop, the alternative is a FUCKING SHIT SANDWICH. AHHHHHHhhh
That was one heartfelt AHHHHHHH!
Truly!
It is a completely selfish mindset
Isn't that sort of what Carville is referring to with (about) the Democrat voters? Maybe I just inferred that because it's how I feel about the so-called "purists" who want to push anything they see as moderate (or boomer) OUT of the big tent.
I don't understand why they didn't vote for the candidate who might have listened to them (Harris) if she won, and then HOLD HER ADMINISTRATION'S FEET TO THE FIRE over Bibi's genocide in Gaza. Instead, by failing to vote for Harris, and/or voting for Trump, they made it much more likely that Gaza would be obliterated and the two-state solution would become impossible.
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It was SO clear that Trump hates Muslims and is purely transactional with the rich ones in power in their respective countries and only them. Even on Bluesky those single-issue purity ponies are so furious about Bibi's genocidal ways, with good reason. They feel totally justified blurting out that America deserves to die because America has been supportive of Israel for decades. Never mind that the multi-ethnic citizenry of Israel is not in lockstep with Bibi's government, far from it. It's like drinking poison while expecting the object of your anger to die. And it's looking now like a murder-suicide.
Americans seem to have the memory of a door knob. I think I first heard the expression from Randi Rhodes: fall in love in the primary & fall in line in the general. Most of the time that works.
The people with grievances against Harris can't see the full picture 🌈 and whatever issue they have w her, its still a two party system.
Whatever helps them sleep at night. And our lunatic president rages on... so I don't know what they think they won by not voting against whatever this current destruction is.
My sister was furious after voting for Obama because he hadn't performed any miracles in his first 2 weeks. She's a Trumper now. She prays too much.
They always think they can pray their way out of trouble or misfortune.
Who are the nihilist gods these dumbfucks pray to?
Trump, Hegseth, and Musk will fuck anything with an orifice.
The rest of them - well, to preserve their evangelical Christian chastity - they would much rather be told to “go fuck themself” rather than “go get deported you gullible dumbfucks”…
If the right behaved like the left, they would have stopped voting Republican when Reagan failed to end abortion in his first year.
We must return to teaching civics, so they can understand the good presidents can't wave a magic wand and fix everything in a couple of years, when the republicans spent eight years trashing everything.
Man, THAT is the truth. Watching the cycle is exhausting...and the money thats wasted to go through these cycles is-I dont know a word that can describe that kind of waste. 🙄
Especially when Mitch McConnell worked to block everything that President Obama wanted to do
A fact so many seem to have forgotten.
Absolutely true Biden didn't fix things overnight, he rolled up his sleeves and went to work. Fixing what Felonious broke was not simple or quick and the same for Obama after the genius Bush. tRump is at the destruction again 10 times worse then before and anyone that denies that is in the cult period.
Yes, I wish everyone could get this as well as you do.
My bro gave me some stats, not sure of authenticity that went 31% voted for el-douche, 30% for Kamala and another 30% didn't even vote that's of eligible voters. Not sure where he got this from exactly.
It is pretty close from the numbers I have seen, basically 2/3rds either did not vote, was disenfranchised, or Voted for Harris, only 1/3rd of the eligible voters voted for tangerini.
A protest vote against Harris got us Trump. I'm sure he'll be SO KIND to the Palestinians. My daughter protest voted in 2016; I still haven't gotten over it. She learned the hard way
Yeah. “In good conscience, I needed to make sure we all have to experience Trump 2.0.”
:-/
👆👆👆🎯
I don’t get the outrage over this statement? It def grinds my gears when I hear this bs , as if they had a conscience to go against.
Selective consciences. FFS 🤦🏻♀️
Who cares?! You’re not wrong!!!!
And the footage of JDV breaking the trophy in half is priceless.
If your conscience tells you not to vote for a Asian African American woman there is something very wrong with you! We are in the midst of a crisis because of MAGAts and misogynistic racists who claim to be democrats. They deserve whatever happens. The rest of us saw what might happen and voted to save this nation!
Lisa, “Misogynistic, racist, homophobic democrats are responsible for Trump being in the White House! Their “conscience” would not allow them to vote for Harris! Well stated.
I'm not convinced that the supporters of Palestinians and accusers of "Biden/Harris genocide" who couldn't vote for Harris, are in any way racists or misogynists. Not sure about the 90 million who stayed home, though.
An Asian African American whose laugh they didn’t like. They deserve what they got but we sure as hell didn’t.
We do deserve it. We didn't stop them while they were weak.
One of the comments said something I agree with "maybe you should focus changing the system that got us into this shit."
How in hell is America going to ensure that this NEVER happens again?
That is, of course, if we ever get to change this shitty government.
It's called passing laws and being proactive about those laws even if no one has broken them yet. Like a law that you can't run for any federal office if you're a convicted felon. Do away with presidential pardons. Pass laws about term limits and age limits. There's much you can do if we ever get a majority again. Dems have had the majority in my lifetime and yet we have no universal healthcare (ObamaCare was a huge start though), no decent immigration policy that is enforced, no laws regarding Supreme Court misbehavior etc. We have been very reactive about the future of our country.
Nope, not this one. The next one may or may not cover exactly the same land mass, we'll see. But any republic that follows (if) will take a very hard look at the costs of universal voting rights. MAGAs and the fascists before them long wanted restrictions along racial and sex lines, a future republic may reasonably see the need to do it instead with requirements for education and intelligence.
In their 16th Century minds, the Founders probably were thinking the same thing, but chose to use race and property as proxies, since they did not have more direct access to the information we do today.
My own daughter argued that she couldn't vote for Kamala. I told her that if she really DIDN'T want me to blame her for electing Trump, she'd vote for the best choice.
*first try made no sense!
My nephew, who was very concerned about people, and particularly children dying in Gaza and our supplying weapons to Israel, and was not enthused about Kamala at all, voted for her for the very reason above. He is honest, and earnest. That is the beauty of youth.
Oh, I understand. In truth, Kamala was walking a very fine line between angering the Arabic community and upsetting the Jewish community. Given Biden's position, and her role as VP, even while campaigning, there really wasn't much wiggle room. That's what I tried to impress on my daughter... who ultimately admitted that she could see the problem. I fully believe that Harris would have shifted gears on Israel upon election.
I'm glad to see that young people care about others in the world. But I don't understand why you would be so involved in another country's politics unless you were Jewish or Palestinian, to vote for someone who would destroy the US because you were more concerned about another country's political problems than what was staring you in the face here. Do the young think that Nazi Germany will never happen here? I was born right after WWII, so it was talked about all the time growing up. Maybe because people younger than myself that weren't growing up under the threat of being nuked by the Russians and hearing parents stories about WWII are quite naive about what happened years ago. If so, they need to visit Europe, especially Eastern Europe where the horrors of Nazism and Communism are still remembered by people living there.
Deborah, my nephew is growing up with Brown skin in a multinational family, as did I. For many people with brown skin, the deaths in Gaza looks like White Supremacists killing brown skinned people. Most of the youth who are protesting are not thinking which one country is democratic, which is not? In fact, we can see that democracy is not such a salient concept in the US. Look at how many voted for Trump or did not vote at all. I think a lot of people don't know what the terms democracy or fascism mean.
I did grow up with the Russian threat, but did not understand the possible danger when i was in college. Now I see the threat that Russia poses and am currently reading a book on their illegals program. I can tell you my nephew does not have such a complex understanding of global politics. His thinking of politics outside of the US is fairly new.
I protested to get my campus to divest from South Africa, so it seems normal to me to be involved in politics outside of the US as a student.
My children were deeply aware of what transpired in WWII. Their paternal grandfather served as a forward artillery observer in Europe. He never spoke of his experiences until our son was born, then he would regale him with stories of what Grandpa had endured in the war. Hiding in a tree behind German lines, calling in artillery strikes that barely missed him. Capturing a bunker of Germans on sheer bravado and a gas can... my kids know. My daughter was appalled that we were still sending munitions to Israel to participate in what she (rightfully, I believe) views as genocide.
She ultimately voted for Harris, knowing what horrors would await us all should Trump win. Unfortunately, not enough people understood the assignment.
:(
My 23-year-old nephew viewed both Kamala and Trump as corrupt, and also he seemed to take Trump at his word. Naively. I need to find new, cool, social media podcasters for him to listen to. I am searching. Haven't found the right ones yet. Anyway, he complained that both supported bombing Gaza, and he also said he wished he could be a Green Party member. That is with the understanding that the Green Party in the US is not what it should be, so not really an option.
I don't know what Harris would have done on election, but with AIPAC, I don't see how she could have switched from supporting them. They are a powerful lobby. I could see my nephew supporting AOC, who is a very different kind of Brown skinned woman. Jefferson Cowie says that only a populist can win, and he does not mean the bad kind. My book club read a book by him called Freedom's Dominion where he talks about those who believe in Freedom for White Men that allows them to have dominion over others. We also attended a talk of his. Here is a piece I wrote on it.
https://lindaweide.substack.com/p/is-populism-the-way-to-go?r=f0qfn
We are having Cowie speak to Democrats Abroad on April 30 at noon EST, and at 6 pm CET. All are welcome to sign up.
https://www.democratsabroad.org/freedom_or_power_the_fight_over_america_s_future
I hate to burst your nephew's bubble, but the level of corruption in our government on both sides is pretty widespread. And it's been like that forever. Citizens United just made it worse and it's in our face now. If he's only going to vote for honest politicians, I wish him luck. Some may start out that way, but you can't last long if you don't cave to lobbyists, special interest groups and their money.
We need SOMEHOW to get the money out of politics.
His complaint is that there is corruption on both sides. I think one should start out having high standards. He still makes compromises to vote. I hope he can maintain them.
I don't understand why it was so hard for people to vote for Kamala unless you're a racist/misogynist. I don't agree with everything that the Dems say, but I'm going to pick the top important issues to me and vote for that person. If you were concerned about Gaza and that area of the world, why on earth would you for one nanosecond considering voting for a Republican. The Israeli/Gaza issue is very complicated. I feel that there's no one wrong side and one right side. It's a very gray area. But my primary worry is about my country. Trump is ruining the USA, faster than I gave him credit for.
Late getting here...but what you've said is exactly right.
Well the truth hurts, especially to the idiots. You aren't wrong.
I don't think not voting for Kamala had anything to do with conscience. It had to do with pure stupidity--or maybe stupidity adulterated with a touch of misogyny and racism.
I laughed out loud at "a force not to be reckoned with." Thank you so much for that.
I, for one, would like for you in particular to consistently post after a cocktail or two.
I sure don't want to hear about it. Thanks for posting.
Jeff,
I'm hoping we can all raise a glass of 'Salvadoran Margarita" tomorrow if Abrego Garcia comes home on Easter. I'm projecting I know, but why not wish for some positive news on the day of resurrection. On another note, don't ever set foot in El Salvador, fuck em.
Sadly, Trump will never bring him back. He will die there. It's all so predictible. Sorry.
I'm a naive optimist with hope. I know it's a loooooooooooooong shot, but hey what have I got to lose compared to Abrego.
Is this Crow, or a different Bill Corbett?
I feel ya.
Why the reflexive and inappropriate use of the words "sadly" and "sorry"? I'm neither.
This is pretty close to universal language among we the liberals, maybe it indicates a disengagement because looking at what's going on it just too painful. And I get that.
Things are happening fast, though, and they're not going in straight lines. Hemingway's observation that things, like bankruptcy, very often unfold gradually, then suddenly, seems pretty relevant here. The sand is piling up by the minute in the whole Trump machine, it could well seize.
He will live a lot longer than Trump
But that might not be a good thing considering his current residence.
Never wanted to go there anyway.
I voted for Ralph Nader in 2000 and have regretted it every year since
I haven’t had any cocktails and what you said about voters makes perfect sense to me!! Also James Carville is beyond his use by date!!
Wonder if his fingers were slippery from lube? Anyone checked his office couch?
And their conscience would for tRump or not at all? You were right to post the truth. If the consciences objectors can't hang, tough, shut up and deal like the rest of us have to now.
"why do they keep letting this doughy pantload out in public?" 😂 Seriously!!
We are being governed by imbeciles. And why is James Carville even being taken seriously anymore? He needs to go sit down.
This past week was a tough one... yet the Supreme Court is surprising us with their middle of the night issuances. https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/144-the-supreme-courts-late-night?r=39x24&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Grateful to all in this community...now let's go hit the streets! ✌️
It’s no surprise that Alito and Thomas dissented. They are drenched in corruption and have no interest in upholding the constitution or rights of others. They are vile.
Why won't mother nature claim the disgusting blob of hatred that is Thomas? He is obese and a smoker.
There’s an orange blob waiting for Mother Nature too.
Was just about to say the same. Add Moscow Mitch as well.
You are right, that should get priority. Come on reaper, do your job.
SOOOOO Vile!!
Got my sign all ready for the rally today. One side says, "Too much shit to list" and the other side says, F ELON & 47.
Sadly, I don't have a sign. Yours is awesome. I will prepare one before the next rally, unless I get tear gassed today. It's my first rally and I'm a little nervous.
You just being there is the very best thing to do. Let us know how it goes. 💙
There were signs available and I got one. About 400 people on the four corners of the intersection. There were only five of the annoying Trump trucks driving around and smogging us. I have lived in L. A. Smog doesn't scare me. There was one small little truck in the line-up and that made me laugh. How pathetic are you, Dude? All in all, a great experience.
Yay Arne -- so glad you went! We met the nicest people today.
I was reminded that it was 250 years ago to the day (April 19, 1775) that the battles of Lexington and Concord occurred which kicked off the American Revolution.
*hugs* if you want them, you've got this!
UPDATE: We just got back from our rally in Renton, Washington (just south of Seattle) and there was an outstanding turnout (despite the cold and wet weather) with most cars honking in support. One young man rolled down his window and said, "Go T💩p!" and three other incels revved their engines in our faces just to be MAGAts. There were at least a couple of hundred people of all ages, with excellent signs, and everyone was having a good time.
I went to the one in Federal Way. There were at least 50 people on each of the 4 corners of the intersection. Got lots of positive honking as people drove through.
Great to hear! There were over 500 people in Issaquah where we used to live before we moved to Renton.
Perfect *chef's kiss* 💙✌🏻
I too, am tired of James Carville. I try not to block fellow Dems, but next rant, I’m doing the STOP2END thing.
We all should, thanks for the suggestion.
But consider his argument- is he wrong?
I don’t think he is. The preachy gender politics crowd have me about ready to ditch the Dems. And many who did not vote feel the same way. Too much emphasis and energy wasted on one minor issue when people want the Dems to focus on bread and butter issues which actually affect their lives.
We have to lose the schoolmarm attitude and concern ourselves with issues that hit closer to home for the average American.
Proper use of pronouns and LGBT issues just don’t resonate like many on the Party think they do.
Carville is actually correct. He is closer to the mood of the non voters than the ones driving the Dems agenda right now.
If we want to ever win another election again we had better make some changes to woo those people to go to the booths and vote Democratic.
Hope this wasn’t too preachy. Now go eat those peas. .
The population is aging. (I'm almost 70-I know this., 😂) I feel a more "liberal", reasonable generation is awake and playing closer attention. To say that women in the Democratic party are being "Preachy" is appropriate for an old white guy in his 80's. He's not helping his party in any way with dumb ass comments like that. He's a detriment.
I cannot agree with you, enough! I am 70, myself. Our generation needs to help the younger generations assume the control to fix the society they have to live in.
I respectfully beg to differ.
I believe he has hit a nerve and the furious backlash tells me the preachy women doth protest too much and prove his point.
I am most assuredly not including you in this group, Susan- I enjoy and appreciate your well aimed posts. But feel you are shooting the messenger in this instance.
Of course there should be backlash.
"Preachy" is an insulting descriptor that defines his own misogyny. Substitute: strong, assertive, well spoken.
Carville is more than a bit preachy his ownself so it is somewhat disingenuous of him to tar others with that particular brush.
I hate peas, Ole. Sorry, put me in time out. I agree with your text. Was going to post something similar, but then I don't want to be taken the wrong way. The pronoun issue and men in women's sports is not a winning issue for most Americans. Why is it a major election issue at all? Trump made a comment about it or someone close to him. They bring out the trans issue when they want to rile up their base. And if I don't believe that males should compete with biological females, why does that make me a hater? It's like if you don't embrace the use of pronouns other than he/she or don't want males in locker rooms with females, then you're a hater and a bigot. I find that an unfair label and it sure wouldn't make me want to vote for a Democrat that labeled me as such. People are entitled to their opinion about things, as long as they don't act out/speak so it harms someone. People care right now about their incomes, prices of things, being yanked off the street and never seen again, not having affordable housing etc.
I think you are losing middle America focusing so much on some social issues. Doesn't mean they're not important, but right now they're not the most important thing if our country is going down the tubes.
Carville keeps texting me for money which would be like pissing it away in a slot machine. I won't send that irrelevant asshat a dime considering he now continues to hurt the Dems a lot more than helping them. Like the felonious nightmare from hell, its time for cantankerous Carville to give us a break and retire his shitty, out of touch agenda.
Carville is a "Ragin' Cajun" caricature from the politics-as-entertainment industry of yesteryear. You won't often catch him speaking solemnly about serious issues and if he's forced to, you can see the swamp gas leaking out of his soul.
He needs to choke to death on an LSU corndog
I block anything that uses his name, being as I am one of those "preachy females" he derides. At least I have opinions, which I am sure he would consider the same thing.
Being a bit preachy is OK, Natalie. Your intelligence and pithy writing style gets you a pass.
The problem, as I see it, is the opposition will take any issue (out of hundreds that exist) and blow it all up, and say that's what we ALL stand for. Pronouns aren't a problem, but they make it one by harping on it, somehow even otherwise sensible people start to think it is a problem. It is not, call anyone whatever they tell you to. Problem solved.
As for trans-persons in "women's" sports, that is an issue best left to the experts like my stepdaughter in Canada, who studied sports medicine, kinesiology, and various other subjects, that understand the difference in those who take puberty-blocking delaying hormones, and those who go through puberty, it should not be some Cletus in Missouri's decision
How exactly is he ‘hurting the Democrats’? Have we become such a thin skinned bunch that we can’t listen to the opinion of a man who has been helping to elect Dems since before many here were even of voting age?
All the sanctimonius outrage just proves his point unequivocally.
Lighten up! Let the man have his say, and it wouldn’t hurt to consider his message dispassionately and see if it hits too close to home for your own comfort and that is the real reason you are apoplectic about a simple opinion.
And if the word Preachy offends you, well- there are various reasons why that may be. But it is a very descriptive word and might apply here more than some are comfortable admitting.
I'm still laughing about that 10 minutes after reading it! 🤣
Might be nice to state 3-5 actual QUALIFICATIONS to hold these offices…
That makes too much sense, Sunny. So it will never happen.
Very discombobulated organization of protest sites for todays events.
I had trouble finding where they were. And the one two weeks ago at the Govt. Center in WPB was not repeated today for some reason. They need to be consistent with the protest venues to avoid making it more difficult for people.
So I drove to Southern Blvd by Mar a Lardo for the scheduled demonstration there but nobody assembling!
I came home.
This site may help: https://www.fiftyfifty.one/events
Jeff, you forgot to mention the latest Donald corruption. Vietnam wants to avoid crippling tariffs by the US, So they have decided to expedite the process of approvals for a new $1.5B resort, a Trump resort… nothing like mixing the goals of the presidents private business with government action. Pure and simple BS to benefit a criminal enterprise. More corruption? How about Donald using the DOJ for an end run to avoid paying E Jean Carroll…sounds like the DOJ is Donald’s private law firm.🤮 Best to all
With that corrupt as hell Bondi, who is Dump's personal attorney running the show, that's exactly what's happening. Now that she wants her brother to head the bar association, WTF could possibly go wrong?
Bondi.. she goes down for $20,000 and that’s the retainer from Donald.. I wonder how she ever passed the bar. Bottle Bleach Blond.. chemicals leached into her tiny brain.🤮
The DOJ is now the Trump law firm
Two things.
1/ Trump sent Vance because there's two reasons Trump would never be seen standing next to Black men, (you can guess what the two reasons are,) and,
2/ James Carville was annoying before annoying was vogue.
I dunno which is worse , Karl rove telling us all that Trump is fucked
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/voices-of-diverse-america-april-18th
Or
Trump bizarrely claimed egg prices are "getting too low," boasting they're "down 87 percent" despite data showing average wholesale prices at $3.13—an uptick from previous weeks.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/voices-of-diverse-america-april-18th
"All the chickens, they came to me with tears in their eyes, and said, sir, sir, we will lay more eggs for you! And that will. . .that will bring down the price so fast, fast like no one has ever seen before, and. . . '
HI2...😅🤣😂😂
Meh - any old lie will do for the cult. Doesn't all have to be red meat. . .
They seem to believe it more, the less true it is.
All of a sudden we have $3.99/doz eggs. Only those in Styrofoam packaging. Are they foreign eggs? Are they inspected by SecAg Rollins since she is the only one left in that dept.? The eggs we usually buy are $7.99/doz
If they are foreign eggs, they had better be worried about being deported
Karl Rove and his high school diploma can fuck all the way off to his next high school reunion
They're almost $7 here in northeast Florida💙✌🏻
Same in southwest FL.
Are you trying to tell me that you don't believe what trump the holy says? Obviously the people you get your eggs from are in the pay of Joe Biden. . . MAGA are getting theirs direct from the White House, delivered in little gold boxes. The coops are out on the WH back lawn, and Trump and Melania go out hand in hand every morning with a bucket to collect them. . . such a lovely picture. . .
Damn you should send that to SNL I’d love to see that as a skit!
As a retired farm girl who had free-range chickens, (no going barefoot with free range chickens) I enjoy that scenario. Funny everyone wants to gather the eggs, no one ever volunteers to clean the stalls where they nest.
My sister bought an old farmhouse in France, complete with outbuildings. The had six of the cutest little stone hen houses you ever did see - each complete with a little run of wooden steps so the hens didn't hurt their little legs when they came out.
When she moved in, I came along to help her renovate - the house was 200 years old, and the very nice old guy she bought it from probably moved in when it was new. So, lots to do. When we'd swept and cleaned and painted the house, she said "Time to clean out the hen houses!"
I swear, that chicken shit had not been cleaned for YEARS. It was four feet deep and had turned to concrete. I had to wear a mask and goggles and crack it with a hammer.
Mind you, the omelettes we had for dinner that night were damn nice. . .
She eventually moved the hens into the barn, and turned the six hen houses into 3 gites. I often wondered what the people who came to stay would have thought if they knew what had been there before, She just said " Oh, they used to be storage sheds. . ." Never said they'd been storing chickens. . .
A lot to be said for that lifestyle if the guy she bought it from lived to be 200+ years old
Make America a Force Not to Be Reckoned With Again!
Yes.
Terrific level of education he's got going, there.
Better hope ICE doesn't pick him up and say "If you're American, say something in English" (or as ICE would PROBABLY say "Say something in American. . .)
That’s probably next on his bully list: to rename the English language to American
He probably already thinks they are two different languages.
Like when I was learning shorthand, and a really dumb friend said "Oh, speak some! Please!"
Like the fumducks who went to DC looking for the "Electoral College." They thought it was an actual building.
Oh, dearie me.
Y'know, if they were seven years old, you'd want to pick them up and cuddle them. It would go down in the family history for years - every Thanksgiving, Grandma would say "You remember when we took little Oscar to Washington - and he wanted to go to the Electoral College? How we laughed!"
And Oscar, six foot two and 220lbs with a full beard sitting in the corner and squirming "Aw, GRANDMA! I was FIVE!"
They are. American includes words that don't exist in English, like hamberders and covfefe
You're right. Actually, "Covfefe is a WELSH word - it means "A woman on her knees. . ."
"also applies to a sycophantic "leader" sucking up to the dictator of another country, e.g. when tRump does it to Putin."
😂😂 💙✌🏻
HA!
D'ya think that slogan would fit on those fucking red hats?
Hmmm doubt it- their heads are too SMALL!
No brain 🥴💙✌🏻😉
If you can believe in one God/the Trinity, you can believe in “two spirit” male/female one body.
Signed- a Mexican Catholic
BAZINGA! Besides, we all start out as female. It's why men have nipples.
Well I can speak with authority on Costa Rica, so the Spanish came and they were all Catholics then. What is Easter? It’s called Semana Santo or week of the Saint which when translated really means “hey everybody let’s go to the beech!” We can be absolved later so be it. Every town has a church though so they planted the seed everywhere as you know, funerals are popular for the churches. However the people do everything as a family no matter what, if one falls they pick that one up and support them, they hold hands and grandma always has an escort when out, it very lovely. So they don’t talk the talk but they walk the walk of Christianity.
Africa has always been a toughie for that ignoramus. Remember when he referenced "Nambia" and pronounced Tanzania as Tan-ZAY-niuh?
Yeah, Nambia was a good one.
Or when Puerto Rico was slammed by the Hurricane Maria, and he asked staff to get the president of Puerto Rico on the phone ...
Oh GOD!!! I remember that! 😂😂😂😂
Ha, ha, ha. is that true? It's hysterically funny.
Then he tossed a few rolls of paper towels to the people. Helpful.
Trump Paper Towels -- now more self-absorbent than ever!
Brilliant!
I clearly remember the paper towel incident.
His form needed work
Remember when he thought Wakanda was a real African nation? He’s a moron!
They...aren't?!
I remember when the 🍊💩 called Nepal
NIPPLE.
There's a book here just waiting to be written "Did You Hear What He Just Said? (2 volumes. . .)
Someone told him it has two great Stormy mountains
Darn. I missed that one. A nip slip
I remember! TRump just couldn't pronounce either of them correctly and got very frustrated when corrected. He's such a man-child...
He mispronounced Namibia in a speech to African delegates, of all people. What an embarrassment he is.
He could have mispronounced it deliberately in front of the African delegation as a power play...his way of letting them know how inconsequential he views them. (I read too many psych books 😂)
He could have, but I think he just mispronounced it because he's ignorant and doesn't read well
Exactly. He has the vocabulary of an illiterate third grader...
Yes, and he was particularly frustrated one of his aides tried to correct him. Sigh ....🙄
Yo-semite was my favorite.
Mine too
Shitler pronounced Yosemite as Yo-su-mite.
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Just waiting for him to deport all those wicked immigrants from "Venoozella"
Vuvuzela
We have a protest today (Saturday). Nonviolent. Take deep breaths, but be loud. Remember President Eisenhower was a patriot and demonstrably supported the Supreme Court’s order Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (May 17, 1954). I covered what he did in Little Rock, AR, in my post below. In September 1957, Eisenhower ordered the elite 101st Airborne to restore order in Little Rock. The picture of those troop driving from Fort Campbell in the dark of night sticks in my mind. Regular Army troops activated to restore order is a rare occurrence. We should not forget why: the cause of anti-racism. The racism that prevailed in my youth is disgusting to me, and has been not only unleashed, but also promoted by a lawless administration. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/forking-roads?r=3m1bs
I'm going to be there, today. My first protest ever.
It feels really good to be in the company of other intelligent, sane, patriotic people. It's like being in this chat space, but in person.
Yaaaay! The first of many, I hope. 😍
Did you also report on Operation Wetback?
If laughter is medicine, it should be Dr. Tiedrich.
I make a point of reading Jeff's column every morning before I read Heather Cox Richardson's. If I don't do it in this order, I don't feel like getting out of bed. I need curmudgeonly humor to give me my strength to face the fascism.
Marching today in a small town in Wisconsin. Jeff, you are my inspiration! Thanks!
Oh I agree about Jimmy Carville....he respectfully needs to shut up. His moderate cowardly Democrats are the first political party in America's history to surrender the government of the U.S. to admitted fascists and Nazis...and he has the f*cking gonads to blame this on progressives??? There are a few other political commentators on this train too. James even admitted that the strategy vs. D should be...'to play dead'. Yeah....he needs to shut the heck up.
He's always been more on the right of center than not, how else can you explain hating most of the people who make up your (supposed) party? Women, young people etc,
It’s definitely time to retire JC as a spokesperson/analyst for the Democratic Party.
My elementary school students used to learn all the countries and do research on countries in each continent as we got to it. I have to admit that Congo or DRC was not their favorite African country. They all loved the name of Djibouti the best, year after year. They loved this yearlong geography project. This is why I said that my 4th grade students would have understood many of the issues that Trump does not. They have all certainly had much better social skills.
I did Mauritania. Besides Mauritania, Burkina Faso is my favorite...
I belonged to a global music choir and our leaders have summer music camps in various locations around the world. One of them did her doctorate on South African music in response to AIDS. They hold camps in South Africa and in Madagascar, as well as some European countries, and places in the US, which I wanted to go to. I have been too busy in the summers adjusting to my move, but eventually I will have a summer when I can go. Not this summer though.
The Orange Mess did not know that LESOTHO was a country. He couldn't even point out any given State or name their Capitals..We just have to put him in the Category of " intellectually challenged".. He is just plain fucking dumb!
"Donald J. Trump is the dumbest GD student I ever had." -- Wm. T. Kelly, former professor at University of PA, Wharton
It was also reported out that he paid others to do work. The CRIMINAL LEANING already developed..
Learned at his father’s knee.
He's intellectually lazy, a "doughy pantload" above the neck. He'd rather make shit up that flatters him or insults his challengers than check his brain farts for accuracy. Too much work, easier to cheat. And MSM and his GOP sycophants let this excrement slide.
I'm still laughing at the description of Shady Vance as a "doughy pantload"! Thanks for the Saturday Funnies. I needed that.👍😊💙🇺🇸