I was PRETTY sure he would make it, but I wasn't TOTALLY sure. I have to say I read something distressing about him: he says that essential to his longevity is his refusal to hate anyone. It's like going to a doctor and he says, "You must never eat pepper sauce again or you will die. Not even a quarter teaspoon of mild, made in NYC salsa." I'll take the shorter lifespan, thanks, as long as I can stare dumbfounded at that pic of Trump in that cowboy hat.
Plenty of Crypto, though Doc. Fat Boy is doing very well since he turned his spawn loose among the Bitcoin miners. It’s pay to play with this admin and Oh, How they want to play in the newly deregulated playing fields!
Where n’er a Billionaire hears a discouraging word. Such as No.
ALL hat, tiny mushroom, rotting hand, mushed brain spilling out of his ears. Yippee ka YAY mother-fucker! (fwiw, I believe THAT is the very first time I'VE ever thought or used/typed that specific word - in my entire life)!
When I first saw that pic of him in the cowboy hat on my phone, it was so small I didn’t realize it was him. It looked like Pat Robertson (who’s dead). Once I blew up the picture so I could see it…Krasnov looks like he’s shrunken and shriveling under that hat. His suit looks too big, too. He’s a little wizened old man, but he reminds me of a 5-yr-old who made everyone wear cowboy hats to his party.
Looks just like the spoiled, entitled brat he is, being given a "big boy" cowboy hat for his birthday to stop his whining. I particularly noticed the smirks and sly grins of the adults looking down on "the very special boy" while wearing the same hat, knowing they'd be able to take advantage of Grandpa as he slides further and further behind those vacuous eyes shouting out "Where am I and what the fuck is happening--Oh well--they all adore me". Is it 25th Amendment time yet??
Which is funny because, reading his memoirs? Dick Van Dyke's got more of an edge than you'd think—also more of a social conscience.
He was a Presbyterian deacon who walked away from his religion because, during the Civil Rights movement in the early Sixties, his church didn't want to work with Black congregations to promote Civil Rights because they thought it would "send the wrong message!"
So, yeah—his being a Bernie Bro is not a recent thing by any means....
Oh, I LOVE that, Lisa. The SAG group, lol. I've been even more sick today - literally thought I would die - tonight. Just woke up (it's after 4a.m. and checking in since I DID wake up, surprisingly). Turns out there's a 'new' Covid strain and my symptoms fit every single one...but, but, but - I just GOT my Covid booster. So I'm wondering if my doctor's PA gave me the wrong one (along with the flu shot?) I've been reeeeaaaaally sick for two solid weeks now and that's just not me. Just - everyone please take care. I know I'm on Long Island, unsure where everyone else is but BE CAREFUL. A guest on MSNow made sure to warn all of us that Covid is still very active and very serious, so those at risk NEED to take it seriously (despite fucking bobby brainworms deliberately downplaying everything which can kill us). Anyway: thank you so much. I'm still breathing and the tylenol with codeine I take for my back pain kicked in at 2a.m. for this intense chest pain as well, surprisingly. Happy to still be breathing - I want so much to outlive the orange fuckwit, LOL.
Oh my gosh! I had no idea you were SO sick! Two weeks is a long time to be so unwell - very demoralizing. I, too get the updated COVID and flu vaxes each year. I’ve had COVID just once. It’s the flu that seems to wipe me out.
Please take loving care of yourself and get back in the game! We need you!
Thank you, Patrick. Hubby might still need his surgery - his story changes from phone call to phone call (from the surgeon's office) as to whether or not they're removing his not-yet-healed partly amputated toe and: 'is it scheduled for Thursday'? Who the hell knows. Not me. He informed me that 'FOR' my birthday I won't have to go with him, he'll take an Uber and a friend will bring him home. NO conception at all that from that moment on I then become 'the mommy' waiting on him hand and foot. I swear he has more in common with the orange toddler's thinking process than I'd ever realized. Grr. (without the billions of course).
Happiest of Birthdays Kristy! Have a sublimely wild and memorable next trip around the Sun… I’ve got nearly a week till I take another lap… you just made me long to be 37 again!
My Brit friend tells me he was the most hated man in England, after Mary Poppins came out for his terrible Cockney accent as Bert the chimney sweep. I never noticed it, myself.
I couldn't 'hate' him for that - but did find it a bit offputting. But that's showbiz. Did they ever hear Tony Curtis try to sound like an ancient Roman? Oh my - or was it Egyptian? Can't remember, but the comedians had a field day.
You're right - I WAS conflating the two: his Antoninus in Spartacus (with Kirk Douglas and the homo-erotic scenes they cut of Laurence Olivier trying to seduce a young Tony), with that of Prince Valiant. I suspect his speech had somewhat improved by the time Spartacus was filmed but he WAS still pretty awful then. They hadn't hired him for his English --his looks were far more important. ;) Here's a link to the trailer: they seriously imagined this kind of film couldn't be 'topped'? NOW I see where frump gets his 'bronzer/spackle'. He DOES think he's a 'star'. Ugh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFLCEDLCSHA&t=163s
You KNOW whomever brought the 'extra one' for him - was told to get 'extra large' because 'of course he has a huge, tremendously huge head, to hold that special stable genius brain'. Still laughing my head off. Now, just watch some fuckwit TRY to use AI to make it look 'normal' and make it SO much worse. I'd been too focused on the Brown University shooting tonight, but was hoping to see Gavin Newsom troll THAT - hopefully soon, so it can go viral.
We all lean on Jeff Tiedrich’s big shoulders as he tirelessly repeats the Lifetime Pulitzer Challenge until someone with big enough cajones and appropriate outrage steps up to the plate and asks the big question. Here’s suggested wording:
“Mr. President, you work for the American people and not the other way around. Over half of the people you work for are now wondering - What the fuck is wrong with you?”
Nancy: I've NEVER once referred to him as 'President'. It's either the presiDUNCE, or much worse terms which fit. I've watched this conman critter for decades here in NY. Like you, find him SO cringeworthy so REFUSE to accept him as MY President. Much as I disliked the Bushes I still called them President (which should show you the level of my disdain)! IF I have to talk 'about' him, it's 'frump', drumpf (his actual family name) or as previously stated. :)
Wow! I honestly thought your show would have made all the blue state rounds Kristy. I photographed for a couple of catalogues and ad agencies there. Sadly, they tore down the hotel I always stayed, tons of musicians made it their northern Chelsea. You’d probably like it there, with one exception being the weather!
Well, Carl Sandburg’s ‘I am the People, the Mob’ was our Indivisible meeting’s ‘prelude’ a few days ago…Carl Sandburg is a good name to invoke, even though we know the Bordello Dipshits probably have no clue who he is.
It sucked for those of us born even a week earlier: my sister's birthday's on the 11th, mine the 17th. SHE got to choose the SINGLE gift we had to share for BOTH birthdays and Xmas. Me? Bupkis. AND of course, she'd pick something SHE loved and I'd despise - always. Only once did I get (courtesy of my Dad) my chromatic harmonica, which I kept for years upon years, playing every chance I got (self-taught). Of course - a few years ago my sister (before our estrangement), seeing a photo of it claimed that it was 'the family harmonica' having zero recollection that I was the sole person in our family who EVER played it - or could. Same with the battered, 2nd-hand old piano I was brought out to 'entertain' guests on.
Neal, it depends on the 'type'. I play chromatics only (although I have a few regular and even custom diatonics which I really should relinquish to the new younger players who'd treasure them. (I also became very good friends with Jason Ricci - whom all the new 'young guns' revere as their hero). For me, those are a mystery with the OverBlows, Bends, etc.) For a BIG Birthday a couple of years ago - I finally got (made just for me) a gold-plated $2,500 'GoldBar' Chromatic Harmonica in key of A (my preferred key) - I believe the first one in that key. Psardo Harmonica. Unsure if he's still around...he was already heading into his 80's when Phil Sardo brought his invention to fruition. The sole problem is it's SO heavy and my hand had chosen that time to get worse, but I am working on being able to hold and play it. I usually play Hohner's CX-12's - much lighter and easy to dissasemble sans tools -have quite a collection of those (among others), accumulated over a couple of decades. I also belong to SPAH (Society for the Preservation and Advancement of the Harmonica) and SlideMeister (although the guy running that has changed the format and my computer glitched so I haven't signed in for a long while). Yup, a real thing, although I haven't attended SPAH or the Long Island Club in a few years due to hubby's illnesses and getting my latest rescue dog. THIS year's SPAH Convention was held in San Antonio (they have quite a few Texas harmonica groups who're willing to do the work for 500 players coming from all over the World. That's the criteria: willing volunteers. The Harmonica Happenings magazine (sent to members) showed the obits of so many people I used to know - and the new 'stars' are all brand new to me, so, unsure I'd even fit in. But it IS fantastic - and I'd spend most of MY time videorecording and in the Jams (of all kinds of genres) which works for me. SO fun. It's a world I never knew existed. Btw, never buy a 'junk' harp, they're simply not worth the cost, time and effort. An average cost (for me - from before) ran around $100 for my CX-12's. Now, if they're even available, are probably far more - but I donate those I won't use. It's time to pass on more of those since I no longer have the time (or ability) to work on mine.
That's because it was the trump administration saying it. If a Democrat said, "You get two pencils, now shutup and go buy a plastic tree" they'd be screaming "TYRANNY!" and driving their oversized trucks through crowds of shoppers.
4 days ago · SALEM, MA - Congressman Seth Moulton (MA-06) has introduced the National Oversight and Enforcement of Misconduct Act (NOEM Act) which would permit victims of constitutional violations committed by federal immigration enforcement officers—including masked agents running roughshod on our streets—to sue those officers in federal court.
Wearing a cowboy hat 🤠 is another thing that DJT should never, ever do. Even George W. Bush could put one on without losing a precious brain cell. May I point out that the 1980 Winter Olympics actually took place? Those aging hockey champs got their gold medals, so this was another Oval Bordello group fap.
GeeDumbya Bush is not a real cowboy and only bought the Crawford, Texas ranch because KKKarl Rove told him it made him look more "Reaganesque." Truth is that war mongering jerkhole is afraid of horses. Mofo had the temerity to show up to the amputation ward at Walter Reed after his disastrous. illegal, and immoral invasion of Iraq telling the patients there that he too had a wound -- a little fking scratch from "clearing brush" which is all he ever did there. Fking phoney should have been on trial in The Hague. Rethuglicans suck, all of 'em, Katie!
I spent a few weekends sleeping in a ditch at Camp Casey, outside of W’s Crawford ranch. He just rolled through in the back of a big black SUV a couple times. Never saw a hat or cattle.
The cowboy hats are probably from their opening ceremony looks (not just them, all of Team USA), designed by Ralph Lauren. Shearling coats and cowboy hats.
That was also the Olympics of Eric Heiden, and I was at an impressionable age. I've always had a thing for robust thighs on a man.
Unfortunately I had graduated by the time Heiden attended my alma mater. A close friend happened to sit near him in a lecture hall but didn’t know who he was.
Damn-that was a great summary of the stupid shit that occurred this week! ANYTHING to distract from the Epstein files. From George Washington to lap-hockey champion Handy Oakley, Appalling Lunatic, fake tree, pronouns (idiot) and the condom (why is “finally” under the $4.50 condem—-because he didn’t use it before??????!!!) GROSS
Me first! I've never found him even the TINIEST bit attractive or 'handsome'. He's one of those pasty, weaselly-faced pudgy, whiny wanna-be's who ALWAYS turned me off at first glance.
I bitterly regret that I did not get her to make a video talking about all she's seen in the last century. She was crystal clear in her mind until the day before her stroke - fortunately, we had a long phone conversation that night. She was a warm light in the lives of many, and beloved by all who knew her. My son and daughter are there, and I asked them to record the eulogies, if they are able to be discreet. If she could somehow see how much she is loved, and how grateful so many people are to have known her, that would be a wonderful thing. ❤️ 💔❤️💔❤️
My mother had her first stroke when I was caring for her .I was her caregiver for 13 years. She had to have speech therapy, & to be reminded to swallow, but she was funny & lucid to the end.
💔 I am envious that you had those years with her, though I know how difficult it was. AND she recovered from her stroke! My mom had been saying for a while how she was ready to go. She was fearless and grateful. I am grateful too - that we had this last decade to get to know each other better, without the constant clamor of kids and so many family members vying for attention. We've been able to talk much more easily about everything under the sun! She only felt regret about leaving while the country was in such a mess, though she was confident it would pass the way of all the hard times she'd lived through. She outlived her family - except my kids and I - and all her close friends. I am not so selfish I would keep her here beyond her time. She lived exactly as long as she wanted to. I hope that for myself and everyone I care about: A finished life.
It must be nice to look forward to a long, long life. I, however, do not.
For the last 40+ years I've been living with chronic pain and depression. Since 2002, I have lived alone, missing my husband every day. For the last 6+ years, I have been bedridden. My mom was the only person who talked - really talked! - with me. My kids text me occasionally. My cat is an okay listener, but I tend to talk baby-talk to him....mostly about how adorable and precious he is. And then there's Substack. It's the only 'social media' I use, because here I learn so much, and the conversations are intelligent. I spend most of my time reading on my kindle. Thank God for the infinite worlds of books to escape to!
Sorry Arne! I didn't mean to dump a sad rant on you! But this is what happens when something shakes up my world and I only have Mr. Peanut to share it with.
I appreciate all the support from my friends here! Thank you thank you thank you...and I apologize. That's all, folks! I promise! ❤️
Not in the chaos and absence of a more altruistic and humane society Cindy! Those who have survived 99 years on this blue spinning cosmic stone, should be applauded!
MN and Canada they were the MN Northstars all those names you heard a million times but I have forgotten. Then hey were Dallas Lone Stars when they bought the team. It was exciting and tells me Tramp is now reliving his better days.
I had to pull brain files. The only cowboy hats I could remember were in the 1988 Calgary Olympics, which makes sense because that is DEFINITELY cowboy country with the Stampede an all. Sure enough they had on white hats. Getty had the proof. Also, I remember that in the early 80s, cowboy hats were a big trendy thing mostly from the John Travolta movie "Urban Cowboy" (1980). So the hats make sense pop culturally.
Handy Oakley stands like that because she watched the episode of Ted Lasso where Keeley advised Rebecca on how to stand on the red carpet for pictures. Needs a little more "claw", though, I'd say, and a little less chest-thrust.
Well, I actually looked up his Dec 2019 presidential schedule, because I wanted to see when the WH xmas parties were to compare to this year.
Trump was busy in 2019. All sorts of stuff on his schedule. Traveling everywhere. In 2025? He does 1 stupid event a day like that sitting in the Oval Office for a photo op with a past Olympic team. He’s going to the Army-Navy game today. Has 2 holiday parties Sun. Early in the day (that darn sundowning). I didn’t find exactly what I was looking for, but I’m convinced that they are coming up with stuff to keep him in DC on the weekends because commuting to FL is too hard on his cankles.
Whatever it takes to keep him away from here! We are going broke in Palm Beach County paying for his security needs when he is at Mar a Lardo- $45 Million in Overtime for the Sheriffs deputies who hang around in their cruisers doing Fuck All at $230/hr. since he took office. And another $22 Million request last month from the Sheriff for more OT expenses. Really Pisses me Off! Let the Secret Service protect him, not shuffle the Bill onto the backs of the Citizens of one County!
But we are an island of Blue in a Sea of Red so Lard Ass laughs about it every trip he makes, I am sure.
You proved my point. Shit stain provided most of Jeff’s material even when Biden was in office. Once he kicks the bucket the pickings will be a lot thinner and harder to find.
It’s like a loose tooth; it hurts but you like to move it around trying to get it to come out. Then when it finally does you kinda miss it. I’m not trying to sound perverse but we are living in the middle of a Chinese curse, living in interesting times.
It won’t be near as interesting when the orange moron is gone. And I am ready for those boring days when I don’t wake up wondering what new atrocity has taken place.
oh, and happy 100th birthday to the definitely-not-stupid Dick Van Dyke
I was PRETTY sure he would make it, but I wasn't TOTALLY sure. I have to say I read something distressing about him: he says that essential to his longevity is his refusal to hate anyone. It's like going to a doctor and he says, "You must never eat pepper sauce again or you will die. Not even a quarter teaspoon of mild, made in NYC salsa." I'll take the shorter lifespan, thanks, as long as I can stare dumbfounded at that pic of Trump in that cowboy hat.
I'm kinda surprised it took this long for Trump to be photographed wearing a cowboy hat. I'm hoping it never happens again.
All hat, no cattle
No cattle, yet loads of bullshit
Plenty of Crypto, though Doc. Fat Boy is doing very well since he turned his spawn loose among the Bitcoin miners. It’s pay to play with this admin and Oh, How they want to play in the newly deregulated playing fields!
Where n’er a Billionaire hears a discouraging word. Such as No.
Ooops, unintentional echo after I scrolled down
He needs a hobby horse and a cap gun.
I'm kinda hoping to see him wearing a coffin.
Gold lamé shroud, baby!
And all of us will say, with tears (of joy) in our eyes, "Sir, sir, no one has ever worn it better."
Touché skangirl!
I live to serve.
He will wear it well, I'm sure.
Excellent. 🎯👋
All hat no sausage.
ALL hat, tiny mushroom, rotting hand, mushed brain spilling out of his ears. Yippee ka YAY mother-fucker! (fwiw, I believe THAT is the very first time I'VE ever thought or used/typed that specific word - in my entire life)!
We all have our moments Elizabeth. I know I forgive you for the use of mother- fucker.
Even the most eloquent of writers/speakers, Robert Arnold, has finally resorted to "motherfuckery".
Thank you, Chris! Now I feel so much better. :)
How about Mammajamma .
When I first saw that pic of him in the cowboy hat on my phone, it was so small I didn’t realize it was him. It looked like Pat Robertson (who’s dead). Once I blew up the picture so I could see it…Krasnov looks like he’s shrunken and shriveling under that hat. His suit looks too big, too. He’s a little wizened old man, but he reminds me of a 5-yr-old who made everyone wear cowboy hats to his party.
The giant shoder pads sticking way out from his obviously sloping shouders , don't help the image either.
Looks just like the spoiled, entitled brat he is, being given a "big boy" cowboy hat for his birthday to stop his whining. I particularly noticed the smirks and sly grins of the adults looking down on "the very special boy" while wearing the same hat, knowing they'd be able to take advantage of Grandpa as he slides further and further behind those vacuous eyes shouting out "Where am I and what the fuck is happening--Oh well--they all adore me". Is it 25th Amendment time yet??
Long past time Doug!
I think he should wear it all the time!
Fitting for a 10 gallon dipshit
To complete his Urban Cowboy look, all that is needed is a rocking horse. Or maybe one of those stick horses we used to run around with as kids.
I vote for stick horse
Ridden upside down 😉
lol
GMTA!
Giddy up.
To match the one in his posterior.
me too
The motorized horse at the grocery store.
5 Oz brain in a 10 gallon hat. Overkill.
It’s so that his “big brain” can fit inside.
should have seen this first before making my comment just now. Didn't. Sorry!
lol!
I was just thinking about the late, great Betty White who didn't quite make it to 100.
That’s simply beautiful Richard!
Oh, and another thing: if hate counts against your life span, whence all these wrathful dotards who won’t die!
He was trying to set an example when he said that (like a true Elder)… he still can’t believe that ppl can’t see through the bs‼️
It really swallowed his head......
why won't it gulp it down entirely - is my question? It's already halfway there!
The President is 3 years old.
Which is funny because, reading his memoirs? Dick Van Dyke's got more of an edge than you'd think—also more of a social conscience.
He was a Presbyterian deacon who walked away from his religion because, during the Civil Rights movement in the early Sixties, his church didn't want to work with Black congregations to promote Civil Rights because they thought it would "send the wrong message!"
So, yeah—his being a Bernie Bro is not a recent thing by any means....
This may be some of the best news out of the week. What a good human and an amazing milestone.
Dick Van Dyke is awesome!
Itʻs all that dancing, kept him in great cardiac shape. Happy Birthday to him!
It's my B day too. I'm 37 for the second time . I went out with Barry Van Dyke once in high school. You just made me remember that.
Happy birthday!
Me too - Happy Birthday. Mine should be on Wednesday (if I make it to then), lol. We December babies have to stick together.
You’ll make it ❤️ All of my very favorite women friends were born in December.
Oh, I LOVE that, Lisa. The SAG group, lol. I've been even more sick today - literally thought I would die - tonight. Just woke up (it's after 4a.m. and checking in since I DID wake up, surprisingly). Turns out there's a 'new' Covid strain and my symptoms fit every single one...but, but, but - I just GOT my Covid booster. So I'm wondering if my doctor's PA gave me the wrong one (along with the flu shot?) I've been reeeeaaaaally sick for two solid weeks now and that's just not me. Just - everyone please take care. I know I'm on Long Island, unsure where everyone else is but BE CAREFUL. A guest on MSNow made sure to warn all of us that Covid is still very active and very serious, so those at risk NEED to take it seriously (despite fucking bobby brainworms deliberately downplaying everything which can kill us). Anyway: thank you so much. I'm still breathing and the tylenol with codeine I take for my back pain kicked in at 2a.m. for this intense chest pain as well, surprisingly. Happy to still be breathing - I want so much to outlive the orange fuckwit, LOL.
Oh my gosh! I had no idea you were SO sick! Two weeks is a long time to be so unwell - very demoralizing. I, too get the updated COVID and flu vaxes each year. I’ve had COVID just once. It’s the flu that seems to wipe me out.
Please take loving care of yourself and get back in the game! We need you!
Hopefully it’s an awesome day Elizabeth’s!
Thank you, Patrick. Hubby might still need his surgery - his story changes from phone call to phone call (from the surgeon's office) as to whether or not they're removing his not-yet-healed partly amputated toe and: 'is it scheduled for Thursday'? Who the hell knows. Not me. He informed me that 'FOR' my birthday I won't have to go with him, he'll take an Uber and a friend will bring him home. NO conception at all that from that moment on I then become 'the mommy' waiting on him hand and foot. I swear he has more in common with the orange toddler's thinking process than I'd ever realized. Grr. (without the billions of course).
Happiest of Birthdays Kristy! Have a sublimely wild and memorable next trip around the Sun… I’ve got nearly a week till I take another lap… you just made me long to be 37 again!
Happy Birthday, Kristy. I hope you have a wonderful day.
💋 Thanks sweetie !
My Brit friend tells me he was the most hated man in England, after Mary Poppins came out for his terrible Cockney accent as Bert the chimney sweep. I never noticed it, myself.
Have heard similar things Natalie!
I couldn't 'hate' him for that - but did find it a bit offputting. But that's showbiz. Did they ever hear Tony Curtis try to sound like an ancient Roman? Oh my - or was it Egyptian? Can't remember, but the comedians had a field day.
It's probably Curtis as Prince Valiant: "Yonda lies da kassel of my fodda"
You're right - I WAS conflating the two: his Antoninus in Spartacus (with Kirk Douglas and the homo-erotic scenes they cut of Laurence Olivier trying to seduce a young Tony), with that of Prince Valiant. I suspect his speech had somewhat improved by the time Spartacus was filmed but he WAS still pretty awful then. They hadn't hired him for his English --his looks were far more important. ;) Here's a link to the trailer: they seriously imagined this kind of film couldn't be 'topped'? NOW I see where frump gets his 'bronzer/spackle'. He DOES think he's a 'star'. Ugh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFLCEDLCSHA&t=163s
I never understood the bad attitude towards him, he, like many actors was playing a part, one he actually excelled at! You’re right Elizabeth!
Weird, because a Cockney accent
IS terrible. 😊
I especially enjoyed the fact that the idiot had the the “bonnet strings” hanging in the front of his stupid head🙄
That's the main thing I noticed too. Just another example of his profound stupidity.
You KNOW whomever brought the 'extra one' for him - was told to get 'extra large' because 'of course he has a huge, tremendously huge head, to hold that special stable genius brain'. Still laughing my head off. Now, just watch some fuckwit TRY to use AI to make it look 'normal' and make it SO much worse. I'd been too focused on the Brown University shooting tonight, but was hoping to see Gavin Newsom troll THAT - hopefully soon, so it can go viral.
and a very unhappy 77th to Ted Nugent
Well dug thought PTW.
We share the same sign
SAGITTARIUS ♐️
YES! There clearly are many of us Sags here. I'm one too. Those arrows fly straight and hit right to the heart of the target.
I'm sometimes honest to a fault !
We share a many a thing Kristy… now get back to partying like the rock star you are!
Finally, some good news! Dick Van Dyke made it to 100! And he's still got all his marbles!
Which is more than Donald Trump can possibly hope for....
"is Carl Sandburg's 'Chicago' too obscure a reference for 'this week in stupid'?" may have been a thing I said to Ms. Spouse over dinner last night
We all lean on Jeff Tiedrich’s big shoulders as he tirelessly repeats the Lifetime Pulitzer Challenge until someone with big enough cajones and appropriate outrage steps up to the plate and asks the big question. Here’s suggested wording:
“Mr. President, you work for the American people and not the other way around. Over half of the people you work for are now wondering - What the fuck is wrong with you?”
I'd make one TINY change: Slur the first two words: Mr. Presidunce (he won't notice but others will). ;)
Great idea. I literally cringe whenever I hear anyone say “President Trump” -
Nancy: I've NEVER once referred to him as 'President'. It's either the presiDUNCE, or much worse terms which fit. I've watched this conman critter for decades here in NY. Like you, find him SO cringeworthy so REFUSE to accept him as MY President. Much as I disliked the Bushes I still called them President (which should show you the level of my disdain)! IF I have to talk 'about' him, it's 'frump', drumpf (his actual family name) or as previously stated. :)
Totally with you on all counts….I just refer to him as “the trump” or sometimes Donald Dick and have since 2016.
Great intro....
Thank you for giving me some laughs this morning. You truly are keeping me sane.
No, actually. But I keep thinking it's Sunday and why isn't You Know dead yet.
Well it’s Sunday now and I have already asked if he is dead yet.
That’s how start each day! One of these days !!!!!!!!
There are a few hours left.
I had to memorize “Chicago” for English class in hs. It isn’t obscure to me.
Yay! Windy City Sharon, I worked in Chicago every month for a very long time.
Illinois is one state I've never been to
Wow! I honestly thought your show would have made all the blue state rounds Kristy. I photographed for a couple of catalogues and ad agencies there. Sadly, they tore down the hotel I always stayed, tons of musicians made it their northern Chelsea. You’d probably like it there, with one exception being the weather!
Well, Carl Sandburg’s ‘I am the People, the Mob’ was our Indivisible meeting’s ‘prelude’ a few days ago…Carl Sandburg is a good name to invoke, even though we know the Bordello Dipshits probably have no clue who he is.
Nah. We old.
I just got a YEAR older.
Happy Birthday. Cutting it close; my wife’s uncle was born on Christmas. Sucked.
It sucked for those of us born even a week earlier: my sister's birthday's on the 11th, mine the 17th. SHE got to choose the SINGLE gift we had to share for BOTH birthdays and Xmas. Me? Bupkis. AND of course, she'd pick something SHE loved and I'd despise - always. Only once did I get (courtesy of my Dad) my chromatic harmonica, which I kept for years upon years, playing every chance I got (self-taught). Of course - a few years ago my sister (before our estrangement), seeing a photo of it claimed that it was 'the family harmonica' having zero recollection that I was the sole person in our family who EVER played it - or could. Same with the battered, 2nd-hand old piano I was brought out to 'entertain' guests on.
But I do love playing harmonica. They’re so expensive now.
Neal, it depends on the 'type'. I play chromatics only (although I have a few regular and even custom diatonics which I really should relinquish to the new younger players who'd treasure them. (I also became very good friends with Jason Ricci - whom all the new 'young guns' revere as their hero). For me, those are a mystery with the OverBlows, Bends, etc.) For a BIG Birthday a couple of years ago - I finally got (made just for me) a gold-plated $2,500 'GoldBar' Chromatic Harmonica in key of A (my preferred key) - I believe the first one in that key. Psardo Harmonica. Unsure if he's still around...he was already heading into his 80's when Phil Sardo brought his invention to fruition. The sole problem is it's SO heavy and my hand had chosen that time to get worse, but I am working on being able to hold and play it. I usually play Hohner's CX-12's - much lighter and easy to dissasemble sans tools -have quite a collection of those (among others), accumulated over a couple of decades. I also belong to SPAH (Society for the Preservation and Advancement of the Harmonica) and SlideMeister (although the guy running that has changed the format and my computer glitched so I haven't signed in for a long while). Yup, a real thing, although I haven't attended SPAH or the Long Island Club in a few years due to hubby's illnesses and getting my latest rescue dog. THIS year's SPAH Convention was held in San Antonio (they have quite a few Texas harmonica groups who're willing to do the work for 500 players coming from all over the World. That's the criteria: willing volunteers. The Harmonica Happenings magazine (sent to members) showed the obits of so many people I used to know - and the new 'stars' are all brand new to me, so, unsure I'd even fit in. But it IS fantastic - and I'd spend most of MY time videorecording and in the Jams (of all kinds of genres) which works for me. SO fun. It's a world I never knew existed. Btw, never buy a 'junk' harp, they're simply not worth the cost, time and effort. An average cost (for me - from before) ran around $100 for my CX-12's. Now, if they're even available, are probably far more - but I donate those I won't use. It's time to pass on more of those since I no longer have the time (or ability) to work on mine.
You must’ve been bad in a previous life.
Lol!
Ah yes, the combo birthday / christmas gift
It should be illegal to be born in December ☹️😉
It’s too obscure for the people you are skewering.
I'm skewered 🥺
🎼 CHICAGO, He's got it coming . . .
No. Not at all. I’m impressed that you have it in your memory bank.
Not too obscure. Perfect, in fact. And Handy Oakley is none the wiser.
Sandburg's favorite poem of mine is "To a Contemporary Bunkshooter" which eviscerates "preachers"
1. John:Lennon - I am he as you are he as you are me / And we are all together
2. Trump’s ridiculous cowboy hat reminds me of Rick Moranis oversized Darth Vader helmet in Spaceballs. Same vibe.
Disappointed we were cheated out of the spectacle of Kash Patel in an enormous cowboy hat. With those eyes. Worthy of an AI mockup.
True. I noticed that as well. So disappointed - I could have used the laugh.
Yes!!! Exactly Dark Helmet from Space Balls!!!
Mel Brooks is still with us also, and promises to reprise "Yogurt" for Space Balls II
Maybe SNL will pick up on it this weekend🤠
Exactly what I was thinking Kay-El about that hat!
tRump didn't want the hat to muss his coiffure.
😂😂😂
🎯🎯
Trump is all hat and no cattle.
Put that 79-year old fragile accident-in-progress on a fast horse, and let God do the rest
Put a burr under the saddle.
🤣😂🤣 Preferably a reactive one like my horse, who bucked at the slightest provocation ( former race horse).
Put him on an ornery burro going down the Grand Canyon trail… see what happens.
hahahahaha
Heck, a child's hobby horse will do that 🐴😂
Put him on a prize bucking bull.
Or all hat and no head
Two gallons of mush brain swimming around in that ten gallon hat.
Or, all hat and no brain.
True dat Eric!
🎯🎯🎯
All I can say is — ANOTHER STUPID week in America— who saw that coming?!?!
Yes, America used to have space to grow lots of fresh smelling green trees, but do you know where the fake trees all come from?
CHINA!
One day we will want a Christmas tree, and China will tell us, “Go fuck yourselves. No tree for you, no rare earth for you, and only two pencils! "
& ppl seem oddly chill abt that…🤔
That's because it was the trump administration saying it. If a Democrat said, "You get two pencils, now shutup and go buy a plastic tree" they'd be screaming "TYRANNY!" and driving their oversized trucks through crowds of shoppers.
🎯‼️
Yep. Only the repubs get to boss us around!
"But thanks to yer idiot preznit, we have the most advanced Nvidia AI chips!"
Exactly- just give away our top level chip technology - and RedChina will soon wipe out another of our industries and leadership in technology.
😆
Hear ya knocking Kathleen!
Moulton Introduces the NOEM Act to Hold ICE Officers ...
moulton.house.gov/news/press-releases/moulton...
4 days ago · SALEM, MA - Congressman Seth Moulton (MA-06) has introduced the National Oversight and Enforcement of Misconduct Act (NOEM Act) which would permit victims of constitutional violations committed by federal immigration enforcement officers—including masked agents running roughshod on our streets—to sue those officers in federal court.
Yay! But idk about the name-on one hand, a good burn against Kristi but at the same time, NOTHING should be named after her.
Kristi NO EMpathy
Wearing a cowboy hat 🤠 is another thing that DJT should never, ever do. Even George W. Bush could put one on without losing a precious brain cell. May I point out that the 1980 Winter Olympics actually took place? Those aging hockey champs got their gold medals, so this was another Oval Bordello group fap.
GeeDumbya Bush is not a real cowboy and only bought the Crawford, Texas ranch because KKKarl Rove told him it made him look more "Reaganesque." Truth is that war mongering jerkhole is afraid of horses. Mofo had the temerity to show up to the amputation ward at Walter Reed after his disastrous. illegal, and immoral invasion of Iraq telling the patients there that he too had a wound -- a little fking scratch from "clearing brush" which is all he ever did there. Fking phoney should have been on trial in The Hague. Rethuglicans suck, all of 'em, Katie!
No fan of W. During the first term we veterans of his admin said the lonely painter’s intense relief came from no longer being the worst president.
Maybe that's why W never criticizes The Dumpty. A form of courtesy born of gratitude.
I think you’re right.
I spent a few weekends sleeping in a ditch at Camp Casey, outside of W’s Crawford ranch. He just rolled through in the back of a big black SUV a couple times. Never saw a hat or cattle.
Good for you! I remember that story. A woman wanted to know for what noble cause her son Casey died in GWB’s BS wars. She never got an answer IIRC.
The cowboy hats are probably from their opening ceremony looks (not just them, all of Team USA), designed by Ralph Lauren. Shearling coats and cowboy hats.
That was also the Olympics of Eric Heiden, and I was at an impressionable age. I've always had a thing for robust thighs on a man.
Eric Heiden, the Thighmaster, has saved who-knows-how-many as an orthopedic surgeon.
My now-husband was a kicker on his high school football team. I’ll just say…the thighs have it!😉
Very, very nice, I say, safely offering my admiration from afar.
Good male thighs are wonderful indeed.
Callipiginous , thighs. ( sp? )
Unfortunately I had graduated by the time Heiden attended my alma mater. A close friend happened to sit near him in a lecture hall but didn’t know who he was.
Exactly Leslie, I knew a couple of them from younger days.
Damn-that was a great summary of the stupid shit that occurred this week! ANYTHING to distract from the Epstein files. From George Washington to lap-hockey champion Handy Oakley, Appalling Lunatic, fake tree, pronouns (idiot) and the condom (why is “finally” under the $4.50 condem—-because he didn’t use it before??????!!!) GROSS
The thing about those condoms: Why would Donny allow the use of such an unflattering picture of himself? 🧐
Instead of huuuge the condom wrappers shoulda said I am a Fungi!
He thinks all pictures of himself are flattering. 'Cause he's just so breathtakingly handsome. So irresistible.
can I puke now?
Me first! I've never found him even the TINIEST bit attractive or 'handsome'. He's one of those pasty, weaselly-faced pudgy, whiny wanna-be's who ALWAYS turned me off at first glance.
He is ugly and always has been. That poochy little mouth is just disgusting, so anal in appearance.
The image of him that scarred me for life is the one of him lounging in a shorty white bathrobe......AAAAAAAACCCKKKKK
On his daughter's bed, with "Strawberry Shortcake" sheets
Arrrrgh! So disgusting.
Yes, you can. Projectile vomiting preferably.
A perfect specimen!
Jane - of vileness!
I'm kinda surprised that Handy and Lunatic were invited to the party--they were pro-"release the files"...
Ew?
Bon weekend Tess, and all here!
I don’t think he believed in using them.
In the hat he looks like if Boss Hogg had the Benjamin Button disease.
Good to see they are making some time to squeeze in dress up over at the old folks home, I hear that is good for dementia patients.
Ew!
“Jesus said: I am he.”
The brevity. The brilliance. The fuck you on a stick!!! 👏🏻🤣👏🏻🤣👏🏻🤣👏🏻🤣👏🏻🤣
I want to be the one that says “What the fuck is wrong with you “. Except, unfortunately I am not a reporter 🙄
Apparently, neither are most of the members of the MSM.
Zing.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bam!
Desi Lydic did it this week, though unfortunately not to his face.
Honoring a 1980 hockey team? Someone introduced a bill to do that?
That Kurt Russell movie must have been on tv.
You're in fine form today, Richard! lol
Ha. That must be it. He saw it on tv.
Epstein distractions don’t simply grow on trees Butch!
They must get raked up in the forest.
“Deck the halls with what in the actual fuck” and it’s game over. Good morning. I am dead.
Good morning, Cindy! We're all dead.
My mom's funeral is today, on the opposite coast. I am with her in spirit. She was 99.
Oh my goodness, so sorry. Such a long life. She saw a lot of changes. I would love to make it to 99.
I bitterly regret that I did not get her to make a video talking about all she's seen in the last century. She was crystal clear in her mind until the day before her stroke - fortunately, we had a long phone conversation that night. She was a warm light in the lives of many, and beloved by all who knew her. My son and daughter are there, and I asked them to record the eulogies, if they are able to be discreet. If she could somehow see how much she is loved, and how grateful so many people are to have known her, that would be a wonderful thing. ❤️ 💔❤️💔❤️
Sorry for your loss. My mother is 98 and still funny and lucid. We can hope that we will follow in our mother's footsteps, Paula.
My mother had her first stroke when I was caring for her .I was her caregiver for 13 years. She had to have speech therapy, & to be reminded to swallow, but she was funny & lucid to the end.
💔 I am envious that you had those years with her, though I know how difficult it was. AND she recovered from her stroke! My mom had been saying for a while how she was ready to go. She was fearless and grateful. I am grateful too - that we had this last decade to get to know each other better, without the constant clamor of kids and so many family members vying for attention. We've been able to talk much more easily about everything under the sun! She only felt regret about leaving while the country was in such a mess, though she was confident it would pass the way of all the hard times she'd lived through. She outlived her family - except my kids and I - and all her close friends. I am not so selfish I would keep her here beyond her time. She lived exactly as long as she wanted to. I hope that for myself and everyone I care about: A finished life.
It must be nice to look forward to a long, long life. I, however, do not.
For the last 40+ years I've been living with chronic pain and depression. Since 2002, I have lived alone, missing my husband every day. For the last 6+ years, I have been bedridden. My mom was the only person who talked - really talked! - with me. My kids text me occasionally. My cat is an okay listener, but I tend to talk baby-talk to him....mostly about how adorable and precious he is. And then there's Substack. It's the only 'social media' I use, because here I learn so much, and the conversations are intelligent. I spend most of my time reading on my kindle. Thank God for the infinite worlds of books to escape to!
Sorry Arne! I didn't mean to dump a sad rant on you! But this is what happens when something shakes up my world and I only have Mr. Peanut to share it with.
I appreciate all the support from my friends here! Thank you thank you thank you...and I apologize. That's all, folks! I promise! ❤️
Big hugs Paula ! 🫂
Not in the chaos and absence of a more altruistic and humane society Cindy! Those who have survived 99 years on this blue spinning cosmic stone, should be applauded!
I guess I would too, if I stay reasonably healthy.
Sorry for your loss….❤️
Thank you, Tess ❤️
My condolences Paula!
Thank you, Patrick ❤️
Sympathy. Peace to her memory.
Someday we’re all measured for the dirt nap Cindy, Trumps time is long overdue… we’ll likely survive this insanity driven fuckery!
We’re all on a road. I just hope mine’s a long one. Yours, too.
Thanks Cindy!
🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼
I bet not one single member of the 1980 Olympic Hockey Team came from a state where people wear cowboy hats.
Most were from Minnesota, with 3 or 4 more from Michigan and Massachusetts
Apparently there were many players on that team that hailed from Massachusetts. And no, cowboy hats are not generally worn in Massachusetts
Not much either in Minnesota. That would be a John Deere cap.
I can testify: Here in the Boston area, I have never seen a cowboy hat.
They used to be standard here in Texas, but you don’t see them much any more. The new Texas uniform: shorts with a hoodie. See that everywhere.
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MN and Canada they were the MN Northstars all those names you heard a million times but I have forgotten. Then hey were Dallas Lone Stars when they bought the team. It was exciting and tells me Tramp is now reliving his better days.
They're their opening ceremony hats: https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/opening-ceremony-1980-winter-olympics-view-of-team-usa-news-photo/81373192
I had to pull brain files. The only cowboy hats I could remember were in the 1988 Calgary Olympics, which makes sense because that is DEFINITELY cowboy country with the Stampede an all. Sure enough they had on white hats. Getty had the proof. Also, I remember that in the early 80s, cowboy hats were a big trendy thing mostly from the John Travolta movie "Urban Cowboy" (1980). So the hats make sense pop culturally.
I miss the 80s. Graduated from college, future was wide open. Worked for federal government, NEVER HEARD OF DONALD TRUMP.
The eightie I was doing game shows & Miss Olga Hungova, in the nineties just
Miss Olga. I gave up performing to take care of my Mom.
That was unfortunate, wasn’t it?
Agree.
And here I thought cowboys blew off steam with ice hockey
Poignant, those hats can only be found on kids in this state Janet.
More like balaclavas.
Handy Oakley stands like that because she watched the episode of Ted Lasso where Keeley advised Rebecca on how to stand on the red carpet for pictures. Needs a little more "claw", though, I'd say, and a little less chest-thrust.
Oh but the Mae West meme 💋👌
Indeed Sunny!
Which I guess is the final proof that we are indeed reliving the Roaring 20’s - which didn’t end fk’n well. AT ALL…
Very poignant Sunny, I’m with you on that!
"Come on up and see me sometime!"
" Why dontcha come up & seee sometime ?"
It's just grotesque. The whole thing.
I love how every week, Friday is always "the further adventures of some fucking idiot"
honestly, every Friday I wonder 'is the the day Donny shuts the fuck up,' but no, he never disappoints
“The Great Content Provider”
fuckin' A
At least he’s good for something. Maybe.
Or drops dead
Well, I actually looked up his Dec 2019 presidential schedule, because I wanted to see when the WH xmas parties were to compare to this year.
Trump was busy in 2019. All sorts of stuff on his schedule. Traveling everywhere. In 2025? He does 1 stupid event a day like that sitting in the Oval Office for a photo op with a past Olympic team. He’s going to the Army-Navy game today. Has 2 holiday parties Sun. Early in the day (that darn sundowning). I didn’t find exactly what I was looking for, but I’m convinced that they are coming up with stuff to keep him in DC on the weekends because commuting to FL is too hard on his cankles.
Whatever it takes to keep him away from here! We are going broke in Palm Beach County paying for his security needs when he is at Mar a Lardo- $45 Million in Overtime for the Sheriffs deputies who hang around in their cruisers doing Fuck All at $230/hr. since he took office. And another $22 Million request last month from the Sheriff for more OT expenses. Really Pisses me Off! Let the Secret Service protect him, not shuffle the Bill onto the backs of the Citizens of one County!
But we are an island of Blue in a Sea of Red so Lard Ass laughs about it every trip he makes, I am sure.
Not the Army-Navy game. He’s gone to that before. Captive audience; the cadets can’t boo him.
You probably owe ol’ shit stain some royalties for all the material he provides you, Jeff. Kind of like a gold mining lease.
You’d be dead in the water if anybody else were Prez. But probably not; you are clever enough to shift tracks if the need arises.
And I hope it arises Soon 🔜!
He wasn’t dead in water when Biden was Prez - Drumpf & the Republitards gave him more than enuf material.
You proved my point. Shit stain provided most of Jeff’s material even when Biden was in office. Once he kicks the bucket the pickings will be a lot thinner and harder to find.
It’s like a loose tooth; it hurts but you like to move it around trying to get it to come out. Then when it finally does you kinda miss it. I’m not trying to sound perverse but we are living in the middle of a Chinese curse, living in interesting times.
It won’t be near as interesting when the orange moron is gone. And I am ready for those boring days when I don’t wake up wondering what new atrocity has taken place.