Donny coats everything in fake gold to mask the shittiness of his products. A fucking sneaker salesman who's barred from doing business in NY state wants to rule - not run, but rule the country and millions of MAGA idiots can't wait. The booing is encouraging.
Yeah, who better to have a sneaker line than a bloated, whale who can’t walk down a ramp without assistance? Trump thinks he’s the new Shaq or Michael Jordan. He’s calling his new shoes Never Surrender, because Air Bone Spurs doesn’t have the right ring to it.
Melania needs to show him how to walk down ramps in lifts. She of stiletto heels, on grass even. Hey, where is Mel anyway? She must be extra pissed after the big 450 finding.
Looking for some 'love' or more likely someone that can provide the lifestyle she has become ( and likely signed an agreement to) a custom to, and is in jeopardy of losing. THAT is a full time job, especially after Friday!
The poor dear. Bless her heart. After finding out she's been designated the worst First Lady alongside the worst President in history, hopefully she is consoling herself with her next Christmas masterpiece.
For sure. Must be why she is in hiding, really "creating " a masterpiece. That or she wants someone else to portray the wife in The Terror of Stinky,Trump2.0.
A black woman can’t record at country western song? Wow, what about Country Charlie Pride, you know, the country singer with a permanent suntan? And who, during the Vietnam era made the USO route maybe every 4 months? He believed in supporting the troops.
There are neutrons, protons, and morons—from a tee shirt.
Wondering how long the gold will last on the shoes before it either tarnishes or peels off???
Only even harder to collect, hard as that is to believe!
If you donate to PBS, you can watch Ken Burns's COUNTRY MUSIC and everything else Public Television has for free—I consider that right up there with Amazon Prime as the best entertainment value out there:
I know! You watch it and you see how much country music comes from gospel, and how much comes from jazz—at least as much as comes from "hillbilly" music (a term my ex-wife HATES, because she's a self-defined hillbilly herself).
There's a YouTube music critic, Todd in the Shadows, who often talks about Country Music (because he was raised in a very Christian Conservative part of Virginia), and who comments that one of the Country trends in the last decade has been the attempts of the Bro'ish Male Country Singers to embrace Rap and Hip-Hop, and include Black Rappers as guest artists on their songs. Most of this is post-Burns's documentary....
Oh, so excited to hear it's you! I remember your brilliant writing well. I was at CIR and mainstream places; now co-editing a nonprofit news org covering mental health called MindSite News (https://mindsitenews.org/) that has an arts, books and culture section (hint:). Love to catch up sometime.
It was really funny, I recently read a review in NYT about music scene in Nashville. And it was like they were speaking a foreign language, "the valleys, which the locals call hollers..." they didn't realize it stood for hollows.
Modern-day Country is inherently male and racist though, douche-bro country is very big, women have always been back-benched. St Dolly Parton is one of the few allowed to shine, until recent decades, probably because she has universal appeal, and they couldn't keep her down.
That is actually not far off from the truth. Anger gives a dopamine hit, due to the "fight or flight primitive response. So they are Anger-addicts. (I call it "pout-rage" but I will have to add "to their spite-receptors")
I live there and Magas, period, they evidently moved here during the pandemic because they could go to work, and bars, because they hated the lockdowns.
I also refuse to visit Florida. I guess you could say that it will be an extremely cold day in hell before the husband and I go. But with climate change, that day may come sooner than any of us would ever like.
I've always questioned poll results. Also, the Republicans don't need Ms. Swift's help to lose the election - they're doing fine on their own. Even if only 60% of Americans are not morons, the Republicans should be skulking home come November.
I’ve noticed on the news that the Repubs have realized that they need to reverse their stance on early voting & mail-in voting because of losing these 2 recent special elections. They noticed the R turnout wasn’t so great
I would encourage seeing "God & Counrty," Rob Reiner's new film about the roots and rise of Christian Natiinalism. These people have been primed for 70 years to hand their money over to grifters who started this shit because they were told to integrate their private "Christian" schools or lose tax exempt status. But, the followers didn't bite, so they came with civil rights and abortion rights as proof of the world going to hell and fundraiser like crazy. (Where's that money going to go now?) The sermons they preached were based in the writings of Gerhard Kittles. He was the theological advisor to the German Chancellor in the 1930s.
As for Alpha Male Boit Camp? People are going to die. PI lawyers will shut that shit down.
And the gold sneaker? Seen on MSNBC some of the items Trump licensed. I kid you not, it included a urine test.
I saw that and, ... Christ, who is in charge of programming over at Discovery? TLC is the Great American Freak Show. Are they trying to normalize this shit as the way we're going to live if the Christofascists take over?
Oh I can tell you about Zaslav, and Robert Malone who ruined cable TV forever with that so-called "Reality TV" effluent. I believe it was during the long ago writer's strike, they realized the rubes would do anything to be on TV, and they would work really cheap. So they started making all the horrible, exploititive, crap like the Honey Boo-Boo child show who you just knew were a train-wreck waiting to happen. They turned the Learning channel into the "touching little childen" channel. with the Duggars and their breeding sickness. They cleaned them up and passed them off as mainstream Baptists when they are actually part of the quiverful cult.
By the way Malone also now owns CNN, he got controlling interest a year ago. A man so evil Al Gore called him "Darth vader.
Discovery used to be a suite of channels where you could learn things (Big "Mythbusters" fan here). Then A & E replaced shows like "America's Castles" and "Biography" with a bunch of shows that focused on the Nazis EXCEPT FOR HOW EVIL THEY W ERE. History Channel, "The Men Who Built America" focusing on the robber barons like they were heroes, with TRUMP commenting as a "successful businessman." Nowhere were there shows about the contributions of women, POC, or what Manifest Destiny really meant. (Their treatment of Chernow's "Grant" , though, was not ridiculous) Food Network is mostly competing and Guy Fieri, a Trumpist. Gone to hell.
Hi Jeff, another poster did mention Charlie Pride, however most folks forget the great Ray Charles did record at least one country album, his country music was played on an am radio station in the Seattle area back in the last century….. the folks that don’t care for Black country singers are just plain racist, straight up and no chaser.
She is a good, talented person, I love seeing her rewarded and him finally exposed for his dickishness, I'd feel sorry for his insanity, but he says such nasty, hateful things.
Oh, I know, Natalie! Part of me wishes he'd get back on his meds, and part of me thinks this is what he deserves.... 😮💨
He reminds me of The Trickster, a Flash villain who's mostly only villainous when he's off his meds. So The Flash is as much his therapist as his opponent.
That Monday thing...this is happening at the same time that redneck stole Tracy Chapman's song so he could sing about how he worked in the market as a checkout girl? Reallllllly?
He at least had the good grace to cut her in on his success, but cheering him on while shitting on Beyonce is pure horse shit.
Country folk ought to know horse shit when they smell it.
I don't think that's a fair assessment. Luke Combs didn't steal Fast Car — he didn't put his name on it and pass it off as his own — and he's been very gracious about how much Tracy Chapman means to him
But Beyonce also isn't claiming country music as hers either. Of course you're not an idiot arguing that she doesn't have the right to make country music.
Those guys at Camp ⛺️ Masochist prove that point!5 G’s to get humiliated,slapped around around and degraded!? Hey if that’s how they get off , a 20$ hooker would do the same thing,5 Grands definitely 👍 a moron move 🥴!
Donny coats everything in fake gold to mask the shittiness of his products. A fucking sneaker salesman who's barred from doing business in NY state wants to rule - not run, but rule the country and millions of MAGA idiots can't wait. The booing is encouraging.
Philly hates Trump. The booing was gratifying!
I usually cringe when my Philadelphians boo people (like they did Santa Claus) but I think that booing Trump IS A Good Thing.
Its a tough town. I'm originally from Missouri and I'm still adjusting! People here tell me I'm too nice. 😂😂🤷🏼♀️
I agree Susan. My only wish is that he would stay the F out of Pa.
Shitgibbon, meet Philly fan.
I love Philly! The people are real, and are not trying to impress anyone.
I absolutely agree!!! I thoroughly enjoyed the booing.
Yeah, who better to have a sneaker line than a bloated, whale who can’t walk down a ramp without assistance? Trump thinks he’s the new Shaq or Michael Jordan. He’s calling his new shoes Never Surrender, because Air Bone Spurs doesn’t have the right ring to it.
He can’t bend over to tie shoes so he’ll never be able to wear them himself in any case.
Skechers Step-In's for ol' Orange Diaper Load.
He won't eve ln know what they look like on him because he can't see his feet due to his fat bloat from all those *Fish Delights*
Melania needs to show him how to walk down ramps in lifts. She of stiletto heels, on grass even. Hey, where is Mel anyway? She must be extra pissed after the big 450 finding.
Maybe she's getting some comfort from the pool boy.
Looking for some 'love' or more likely someone that can provide the lifestyle she has become ( and likely signed an agreement to) a custom to, and is in jeopardy of losing. THAT is a full time job, especially after Friday!
The poor dear. Bless her heart. After finding out she's been designated the worst First Lady alongside the worst President in history, hopefully she is consoling herself with her next Christmas masterpiece.
For sure. Must be why she is in hiding, really "creating " a masterpiece. That or she wants someone else to portray the wife in The Terror of Stinky,Trump2.0.
That makes sense to me.
I suspect she's staying in Slovenia with the excuse that she needs to take care of her mother's estate.
Haha...and 1/2 my family has its roots there. Busy learning how to make Potica, surely!
Could be.
I think she is more thin skinned than 'the donald', if that is possible.
😂😂😂
All I see in those shoes is when parents used to have their baby’s shoes plated in gold.
Having a baby sell them is pretty meta though.
Bronzed, but I get the drift of it. God, I am old.
Same. I’ve seen both but when I was a baby in the 50s they were bronzed. (My parents didn’t do it; I’ve seen pics of others)
Really? I missed the gold ones but I did not grow up among people that could afford that.
I didn’t grow up around any of that; I’ve only seen pics online.
I was born in the 60's, I've seen it. Not the gold, but the bronzed ones.
No! Your hair is still as blue as the day you bought that wig!
The front of my grey hair is blue because I’m a proud Democrat! I’m 83, and was tired of boring grey.
I actually did dye my hair a dark royal blue for a while, then changed it to aqua/teal.
I just wish I had as much hair as the wig.
God, I knew you were a woman of true commitment!
😁😉
Welcome to the club Natalie.
Thank you, you guys are so amazing I had to subscribe so I could comment.
Yes, we do have a good community here, we all get along and have fun.
I fell in love with JT's writing first, then the commenters!
I know what you mean, Jeff always makes my day.
I always save his snarky goodness for last to savor it.
My Mom had my baby shoes bronzed, I don’t have them but I think my baby sister does.
Yes, it was fairly common in smaller families, I think it was a fad if I recall correctly.
Haaaa!!! You hit the nail right on the head !!!!!!
A black woman can’t record at country western song? Wow, what about Country Charlie Pride, you know, the country singer with a permanent suntan? And who, during the Vietnam era made the USO route maybe every 4 months? He believed in supporting the troops.
There are neutrons, protons, and morons—from a tee shirt.
Wondering how long the gold will last on the shoes before it either tarnishes or peels off???
Country music’s debt to black music is as unpayable as Trump’s debts
Same goes for Jazz, Blues, Rock, Pop......
Only even harder to collect, hard as that is to believe!
If you donate to PBS, you can watch Ken Burns's COUNTRY MUSIC and everything else Public Television has for free—I consider that right up there with Amazon Prime as the best entertainment value out there:
https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/country-music
Yes, it was excellent! I am not a country music fan, but that documentary almost made me like it.
I know! You watch it and you see how much country music comes from gospel, and how much comes from jazz—at least as much as comes from "hillbilly" music (a term my ex-wife HATES, because she's a self-defined hillbilly herself).
There's a YouTube music critic, Todd in the Shadows, who often talks about Country Music (because he was raised in a very Christian Conservative part of Virginia), and who comments that one of the Country trends in the last decade has been the attempts of the Bro'ish Male Country Singers to embrace Rap and Hip-Hop, and include Black Rappers as guest artists on their songs. Most of this is post-Burns's documentary....
Indeed.
Is this the Richard Von Busack from UC Santa Cruz?
I am! Spent 35 years writing for alt-weeklies, until that ship sank, and now I’m a civil servant.
Oh, so excited to hear it's you! I remember your brilliant writing well. I was at CIR and mainstream places; now co-editing a nonprofit news org covering mental health called MindSite News (https://mindsitenews.org/) that has an arts, books and culture section (hint:). Love to catch up sometime.
Very true.
Yes, but no black women allowed in that club, especially an extremely rich and successful woman. She's a threat to their micro-manhoods.
Emphasis on micro.
Ray Charles had country hits too!
1. **"I Can't Stop Loving You"** .
2. **"You Don't Know Me"**
3. **"Your Cheatin' Heart"**
4. **"Bye Bye Love"**
And let's not forget Charlie Pride, and L'il Nas X! 😁 😍
Kane Brown is really good too, he is biracial
And they do have their official token black singer: Darius Rucker. Who is great.
I liked him better as Hootie, but I loathe country music, the nasal twang grates on my nerves. Not to mention the excrable grammar.
I like Rock a Billy -- I agree on the nasal twang. The grammar isn't any worse than in a lot of songs. Just ask me and Bobby McGee /snark/
Kristofferson, although I enjoyed him kicking Toby Keith around, was also country, he wrote the song.
"Butcher Holler" (probably because I know it is supposed to be Hollow) makes me grind my teeth.
I think 'Holler' is a regionalism. But, yeah, I hear you.
It was really funny, I recently read a review in NYT about music scene in Nashville. And it was like they were speaking a foreign language, "the valleys, which the locals call hollers..." they didn't realize it stood for hollows.
Me and Bobby McGee is classic.
I'm right there with you Natalie.
Well said 👏👏 and I was wondering about the gold on the sneakers as well
Modern-day Country is inherently male and racist though, douche-bro country is very big, women have always been back-benched. St Dolly Parton is one of the few allowed to shine, until recent decades, probably because she has universal appeal, and they couldn't keep her down.
Tracy Chapman would be surprised to hear that.
Taylor Swift, too
Jeff sez: "remember, Republicans don’t want to fix the border. they want to whine about the border."
This is way too mild. Republicans want to—
--foam about the border
--rage about the border
--have heart attacks over the border
--shoot people because of the border.
--secede about the border
--choke on their own spit because of the border.
And this will go on until November 5.
…on account of their “spite-receptors”. 😂
That is actually not far off from the truth. Anger gives a dopamine hit, due to the "fight or flight primitive response. So they are Anger-addicts. (I call it "pout-rage" but I will have to add "to their spite-receptors")
Totally.
How could you miss, "LIE" about the border? LIES are the foundation of the terrorist Republican Party, after all.
Just like every caravan...
Texas is bad, but there are Seas of Blue running through Austin, Houston and Dallas. We are doing what we can to get rid of all the assholes.
Shelley- I believe Texas CAN go Blue. Florida-not so much.
Florida (like Arizona) is a magnet for retiring MAGA Boomers from the midwest. They keep replenishing the bigots and assholes that die off.
Vicious cycle
I know. All the confederate flag wavers go there. That’s why I will not visit that state. Too bad Disney World couldn’t Up Sticks to another state!
I live there and Magas, period, they evidently moved here during the pandemic because they could go to work, and bars, because they hated the lockdowns.
I also refuse to visit Florida. I guess you could say that it will be an extremely cold day in hell before the husband and I go. But with climate change, that day may come sooner than any of us would ever like.
If we fail to slow or reverse climate change, FL may be under water
Thank you
Swift psyop: If one in five Americans actually believes this (I question the poll’s credibility), did they only talk to 15 people?
Yes, and they live in Florida
Well, to make it fair, five in the Florida panhandle, five in Texas (but not Austin), three in Oklahoma and two in rural Oregon.
😄😂
I've always questioned poll results. Also, the Republicans don't need Ms. Swift's help to lose the election - they're doing fine on their own. Even if only 60% of Americans are not morons, the Republicans should be skulking home come November.
I’ve noticed on the news that the Repubs have realized that they need to reverse their stance on early voting & mail-in voting because of losing these 2 recent special elections. They noticed the R turnout wasn’t so great
Which means 4 out of 5 Americans are sane. I like those odds.
Crazy prediction: sneakers will join his kids at his university, his cool vodka and the steaks and …
And the Trump pee test!
You forgot, another wife. 😉
💯💯💯
I hope it comes true.
"duke of dipshit" LOLOLOL!!
They could not foresee the Dukes Of Hazard coming back to bite them all these years later.
This Haiku for Trump on Presidents Day has been going around.
Ha ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha fucker
Best Haiku ever!!!! 😂😂😂😂
😂👏🏻👏🏻
Love it.
I would encourage seeing "God & Counrty," Rob Reiner's new film about the roots and rise of Christian Natiinalism. These people have been primed for 70 years to hand their money over to grifters who started this shit because they were told to integrate their private "Christian" schools or lose tax exempt status. But, the followers didn't bite, so they came with civil rights and abortion rights as proof of the world going to hell and fundraiser like crazy. (Where's that money going to go now?) The sermons they preached were based in the writings of Gerhard Kittles. He was the theological advisor to the German Chancellor in the 1930s.
As for Alpha Male Boit Camp? People are going to die. PI lawyers will shut that shit down.
And the gold sneaker? Seen on MSNBC some of the items Trump licensed. I kid you not, it included a urine test.
YES! I did not believe the urine test...until I found it on eBAY! For the low price of just $500!
Now, nothing will surprise me!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/113899959679?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D777008%26algo%3DPERSONAL.TOPIC%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20230823115209%26meid%3D2ce4886e5eeb417e9635c52d25bce81a%26pid%3D101800%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26itm%3D113899959679%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D4375194%26algv%3DRecentlyViewedItemsV2SignedOut&_trksid=p4375194.c101800.m5481&_trkparms=parentrq%3Abcfffef518d0ab4c79d19c83fffef6c0%7Cpageci%3Ae36b2006-ce78-11ee-a830-06f0f82b2ea2%7Ciid%3A1%7Cvlpname%3Avlp_homepage
What surprised me was the “1 sold” claim.
"Components for Optional Tests include... tape measure." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Good one.
LOL!
WT actual Fuck? I looked at the back of the package image, and that is all 100% bullshit.
$500 for that? I am in the wrong business.
Nahhhh.... you dont wanna be a con artist! You seem like too nice of a guy!
😂😂😂
A $500 piss test??😕😕
Must of got the idea from the Ruskie golden shower hookers they made money pissing all over the place ! Donnie boy liked the cash and the Splash !💦🫧
😂😂😂
$500? OMG. Someone must collect Trump memorabilia
There is even a Penis Museum in Iceland, so yeah, there's a call for this kind of thing.
Shiny, Happy, People, too it is a documentary about the quiverful bunch including the awful (women are brood mares) Duggars.
I saw that and, ... Christ, who is in charge of programming over at Discovery? TLC is the Great American Freak Show. Are they trying to normalize this shit as the way we're going to live if the Christofascists take over?
Oh I can tell you about Zaslav, and Robert Malone who ruined cable TV forever with that so-called "Reality TV" effluent. I believe it was during the long ago writer's strike, they realized the rubes would do anything to be on TV, and they would work really cheap. So they started making all the horrible, exploititive, crap like the Honey Boo-Boo child show who you just knew were a train-wreck waiting to happen. They turned the Learning channel into the "touching little childen" channel. with the Duggars and their breeding sickness. They cleaned them up and passed them off as mainstream Baptists when they are actually part of the quiverful cult.
By the way Malone also now owns CNN, he got controlling interest a year ago. A man so evil Al Gore called him "Darth vader.
https://www.vox.com/2022/8/26/23322761/cnn-john-malone-david-zaslav-chris-licht-brian-stelter-fox-peter-kafka-column
Discovery used to be a suite of channels where you could learn things (Big "Mythbusters" fan here). Then A & E replaced shows like "America's Castles" and "Biography" with a bunch of shows that focused on the Nazis EXCEPT FOR HOW EVIL THEY W ERE. History Channel, "The Men Who Built America" focusing on the robber barons like they were heroes, with TRUMP commenting as a "successful businessman." Nowhere were there shows about the contributions of women, POC, or what Manifest Destiny really meant. (Their treatment of Chernow's "Grant" , though, was not ridiculous) Food Network is mostly competing and Guy Fieri, a Trumpist. Gone to hell.
Yes they have been shaping their narrative, programming what they want people to think for quite a while.
One of those crappy shows that just dropped my jaw was Sister Wives
damned show about polygamy fcs!!
That’s supposed to be illegal in the US & yet there they are having a program about it. The husband was ugly as shit
Yes, he was gross and the women were emotionally stunted to say the least.
Sounds like The Handmaid’s Tale, but I don’t recall seeing TV’s in any of the houses those weirdos lived in.
Oh no! Duggars!!!
They should have a neutering spray for that.
He'll yeah.😄😄😄
Hell (Fucking AI keyboard!)
I only *wish* Taylor Swift could guarantee that rump is never selected again!
It may be in her power to save the nation.
Hi Jeff, another poster did mention Charlie Pride, however most folks forget the great Ray Charles did record at least one country album, his country music was played on an am radio station in the Seattle area back in the last century….. the folks that don’t care for Black country singers are just plain racist, straight up and no chaser.
Willie and Ray loved making music together.
Between them they covered hundreds of tunes.
So did Sammy Davis
It’s more about a black woman folks. I trust Jay Z to be her defender on this. Maybe Kanye will come out of his cave and defend her too.
Only if it involves pushing Taylor Swift out of the way. That man is a crazy dick.
Taylor should have knocked him out.
Unfortunately, thanks to an unforced error on Swift's part Kanye (when he was still with Kim) scored a knockdown.
Since she's smart (and not a loon who thinks he's a Trump Nazi now!), I think she's learned from her mistake....
Worse, a crazy dick who's got the hots for Taylor Swift!
She is a good, talented person, I love seeing her rewarded and him finally exposed for his dickishness, I'd feel sorry for his insanity, but he says such nasty, hateful things.
Oh, I know, Natalie! Part of me wishes he'd get back on his meds, and part of me thinks this is what he deserves.... 😮💨
He reminds me of The Trickster, a Flash villain who's mostly only villainous when he's off his meds. So The Flash is as much his therapist as his opponent.
I blame the Karkrashians they exploited his, and Kim's other husband's pain.
That Monday thing...this is happening at the same time that redneck stole Tracy Chapman's song so he could sing about how he worked in the market as a checkout girl? Reallllllly?
He at least had the good grace to cut her in on his success, but cheering him on while shitting on Beyonce is pure horse shit.
Country folk ought to know horse shit when they smell it.
I don't think that's a fair assessment. Luke Combs didn't steal Fast Car — he didn't put his name on it and pass it off as his own — and he's been very gracious about how much Tracy Chapman means to him
To anyone who hasn't pulled out that first Tracey CD from 1988 yet, OMG. What an incredible talent.
I love her. So much heart and soul.
And she called on him to do their beautiful duet.
But Beyonce also isn't claiming country music as hers either. Of course you're not an idiot arguing that she doesn't have the right to make country music.
I think his point is that Luke Combs is good people.
Eh. I'm still raw that he made more off it than she did. Don't mind me. I'm still raw about Elvis.
Throw her some bucks. Buy her CD. You won't be sorry.
...I have the cassette.
"Cassette"? Dude! That'll get eaten up in your car stereo!
Buy the CD, or the songs on iTunes or Amazon Music.
Young people. /Magneto
I'm not THAT young, but I switched to CDs and later digital very happily because I remember what happened to audiocassettes....
Buy all 5, even better.
Yeah, Combs isn't one of the ones shitting on Beyonce—actually, is anybody beyond John Schneider and the meatheads on Right Wing Hate Media?
Well he couldn't be, could he?
Oh right it's the hypocrite party complaining so yeah just about everyone can jump in.
Or eat it.
"They steal a lot of good music and make it worse." (Quote from the cartoon character Hank Hill.)
Best line from JT: one in five Americans is a moron
Those guys at Camp ⛺️ Masochist prove that point!5 G’s to get humiliated,slapped around around and degraded!? Hey if that’s how they get off , a 20$ hooker would do the same thing,5 Grands definitely 👍 a moron move 🥴!
The worst part of reading your column is that it ends.