Actually, I do have a contribution. I saw a tweet from a MAGA woman, claiming that the only reason why there are so many pictures of Trump with Epstein is that… (wait for it)… he bravely undertook to infiltrate Epstein’s close circle in order to get evidence that he (Epstein) was a pedophile. Trump did this even though he knew that Epstein might have him killed.
Seriously Lisa, hmm…I’ve used it for many years with a word salad of different descriptors. I’ve never been much of a “Duke” fan, only remember one line about listening up pilgrim…
he’s right. Today the Cubs beat the Yankees 5-2. Now, if Donny Dachau said that, no the Yankees beat the Cubs 5-2; you would believe him? But he’s wrong!
This is what happens to FUCKING CULT MEMBERS! Their brains are hay wired !
I know a really smart, funny woman who I'm friends with. At a dinner party she was saying to her friend sitting next to her how great Trump is and how she just loves him. I wanted to shout at her, "WHO ARE YOU? AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH MY FRIEND? I just can't see being her friend anymore. Such a lack of judgement.
My supposed BFF of 36 years ghosted me about five years ago. We never had a fight, so I'm not sure but what I think happened is I didn't want to have dinner at the T💩p Tower when we met in Chicago. She later posted a photo of herself having lunch there after I had left town. I reached out three times with no response. I know she's not dead because she still posts stupid sh!t on FB (she blocked me, but my husband can still see it).
Her husband was in the St. Ronny Raygun administration (both terms), and the foyer of their impressive suburban DC home is festooned with photos of him with all of the Rethuglican bad guys. All of 'em, Katie!
She was non-political when we met at a law firm in 1984 and she knows that I have always been a progressive, and we never talked politics. She's been married for 35 years, became a die-hard Rethuglican, and then a MAGAt who was gung-ho about the "stop the steal" bullshit.
It was painful at first, but I don't want that low vibe MAGAt bullsh!t in my orbit. My New Year's resolution for the last several years has been to keep fidiots and jerkholes out of my life. I recommend it to everyone. Peace and love to you!
I think it’s way more fun to be a maggot than it is to be a boring lib - who has to obsess over complicated bullshit government policy all the time and feel bad about things like integrity. Much more entertaining and much less work to hang with all the take charge, alpha guys, with all that virility, causing them to dip into the young teen pool to release some of their “precious bodily fluids.” My husband is such a MAN. It’s so much fun when everyone is just like I am!!!
My 6 week sabbatical in Spain begins in mid November. Meet me in Madrid, Barcelona, or Gran Canaria. I'm going to check it out thoroughly this time... and see what I can do. 💙💙✌️✌️
Wow, I never thought about that, but it makes sense. That must also be why Donny Detective has pretended to be buddies with Putin for so long, he's infiltrating Putin's inner circle to overthrow his autocratic rule.
And THIS is why we cannot possibly have the delusionary reasoning of "meeting these people where they're at to better understand them." No. Fucking. Way.
Remember after 9/11 when there was all this crying and moaning about, 'why do they hate us'? Well, who cares why a bunch of religious fanatics hate us? Are we going to change everything about ourselves to satisfy a bunch of people who believe in a 9th century belief system as superior to modern-day Western society? No, of course not.
Any more than the rest of us are going to go along with these so-called Christians who want everyone to live and believe as they do.
In one of my political book clubs we are reading "All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America" by Michael Wolff. Not only does it makes me feel somewhat sordid reading it, I am learning more about Trump than I ever wanted to know.
And probably hating him even more and wondering how much therapy Wolff had to go through to cleanse all the horrible, batshit, dumb fuck things Trump told him during their conversations.
Wolff has stated that he's actually seen the compromising photos of Trump and Epstein dallying physically with nude adolescent girls. Of course, Trump would keep those and want to brag about them, like a serial predator.
Luckily in my other book club, the one that meets weekly and slow reads books, we are reading "Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism" by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchinson. It makes me hopeful, and understand a different sort of big picture. He is talking about how things got to be the way they are and in the end about creating a new Restoration story from the one neoliberals use, and keep pushing on us. I recommend it. However the Trump book is interesting.
Oh, one of the books I inherited from my father. I haven't been able to read it because I really don't care for Monbiot. Tiedrich should erase us from his comments, they're the first serious comments this morning, breaking a great chain.
I am not a Marxist, and I don't agree blanketly with what he is saying, but I do think he provides a lot of credible information that is good food for thought. I don't know any of his other writings. I have not read him in the Guardian. The Wolff book is getting into daily details of Trump World, and I am not normally enamored of reading about narcissists. My husband and daughter cannot even convince me to watch any series they watch where I don't like any of the characters and dislike them all.
Gives themes to spread. O don'y think it deserves tp be called mis or dis information. Call a spade a spade ...It's lies and more lies and change the story with even more lies. Neverending
No, it's in front of the TV, but I can't see it. WiggleB, our large cat, appears to be sleeping on top of it. Anyway, I was so taken aback with Wendy the Druid's comment and column today (see below, think), that I immediately subscribed and am rushing through everything I have to do today, to read it slowly. Seriously, it looks like one of the most important things I've ever read and I read all the time, everything, but this is incredible, in terms of enlightenment regarding the Bible. Take care.
We are being played for fools, the only country in the world where heathcare is not a human right. You are scammed day-in and day-out by insurance companies and big pharma. Insurance premiums paid monthly only for you to see Claim Denied. Drug costs that are 2-3 times the cost for the same drug in the next country. It is carnage on the American stage. You accept all that. ?????? https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/health-inequity?r=3m1bs
One of my political groups is developing a website to share health care stories from around the world so that people can have a go to source for comparison.
I mean, I could tell a story. My husband and I went on vacation to London last month and I ended up in the ER and was hospitalized for four days. Best hospital experience of my life.
This should be the number one issue in this country today. We've been led to believe that the border and immigration is a crisis. It is a problem, but a manufactured crisis. Healthcare is a crisis and neither party wants to address it; because they're both on the take. The propaganda that a great deal of Americans have bought into is that socialized healthcare will be the bane of our existence. How anyone could assess the system we have as the best we can do is baffling.
David, That is why my group decided if we could choose one thing we would choose that, particularly since living abroad we have many different perspectives on it. So many pressing things keep coming up, and we try to refocus on where to go. Right now we are dealing with the legal logistics of getting our site out into the world. Since we are in a volunteer organization that takes time. When it is, I will be sharing links to it in Substack.
Not true. My former French sister-in-law had a baby in France. The hospital was beautiful and clean room. She had a normal birth and stayed a week in the hospital. My daughter just had a baby in a hospital in Las Vegas. Small crowded room. 24 hours in labor! After one day she asked to stay an extra day because she was in pain, the hospital said no because her private insurance wouldn't pay for an extra day. She could barely walk to the car. Unbelievable!
Truth. My daughter did have a private, my sister-in-law had a roommate.
I agree that Bongino hated his job, but I think the real reason Dan wants out is to preserve his image as a MAGA. He realizes if he continues to be associated with Bondi, his gravy train podcast is over. No more financial bonanza for simply rambling on about MAGA conspiracies .
This will be the only time I'll ever agree with batshit wackadoddle Bongino on anything. She does need to go as Dump's personal attorney and her DOJ law firm of Bondi, Cheatem and Howe. The most corrupt AG in modern times has gone to extreme lengths to protect Dear Cheater and the sudden disappearance of the Epstein files is no coincidence. Someone suggested the other day if we really want to know the content of the files, give Hegseth a copy and it will all be taken care of.
Every time Dan gets in front of a camera he whines about having to be away from his wife, I'm wondering if he has an issue with her having some freedom now that he's not doing his podcast from the garage (or wherever) every day. And as he says he "has to sit inside with 4 blank walls" and actually work. BOO FUCKING HOO. Maybe he can bring her to work with him? Or RESIGN, that would be better and he can have all the free time he wants.
The week in stupid, but it is most definitely Kristi-Dog-Killer-Noem. Her “who could have seen this coming” comment with “once in 500, no a thousand, years” is special. As I read, there have been at least three other large floods in the past years. The area had been identified as a flood way. In the midst of Tragedy, Noem was taking votes on best photo, and unavailable to sign off on FEMA for 72 hours. I note the $100K threshold is absurdly low.
As for the Epstein business. Goodness. We don’t need a “client list.” Trump’s proclivity for the young is well known, his adultery trite from repetition, his association with Epstein well documented. What we need is a GOP to stop whistling past the graveyard of Trump’s larger depravity and incompetence.
But Texas builds children's Christian summer camps there. Then fails to invest in disaster warning systems. Because Gabriel will blow his horn when it's time to GTFO?
I kid you not, the warning system they settled on was this: The camp closest to the rising water would phone the next camp down river, then that second camp would phone the third one, and so on.
It's so fucking stupid it sounds like a parody, but that's how they decided to do it. That way, there weren't any sirens that would disturb people. They REALLY didn't want sirens.
Sirens cost money. Texans don't want to pay a few more property tax dollars for ANYthing, and they will generally vote for a can of soup if it promises to lower (or abolish) property taxes.
When I read that, I thought of the cans and pulley system between my bedroom window and my best friend’s next door. Worked great … as long as called ahead to advise something was coming. That was the late ‘50s.
Biden's administration offered them something like $7 to $10 million to upgrade their warning systems in that area, which is in a flood plain and known to flood. The local officials (maybe even Abbott himself) refused the funds because the money was tainted, seeing as how it was from the Demon Democrats.
And now, over 140 dead + another 160 or so still missing. Reap what you sow, I guess.
ProPublica has an article today about the flooding. Logan Jaffe wrote it. She even has newspaper articles from way back. Check it out. Priorities are off for everyone who runs Texas from the top down. I hope they all get sued in a class action. But I am not an attorney.
I'm convinced he has handlers that control him by putting shiney objects like gold planes and awards and maga audiences in front of him so they can divert millions into their own pockets. As long as he can get revenge on blacks, immigrants, women, liberals, Democrats, he's happy and no one can see these thieves emptying the Treasury out the back door.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding here, but real men DON’T talk about (their own) masculinity. Because they don’t need to. I have been married to a man for more than 20 years, and he’s never once needed to boast about masculinity to prove to me that he’s a man. 🤷♀️
In an interview, the late James Caan was asked, when you walk into a crowded room, who do you think are the tough guys? To which he replied, the ones who aren't putting on a display, the quiet ones. Don't fuck with them.
Sounds valid to me. James Caan didn't seem like someone to fuck with. OT, that interview was published in Men's Journal, which I really enjoyed. It had a wide range of topics like travel, gadgets, cooking, general interest stuff, and seemed to keep the patriarchy bullshit to a minimum. It had progressive environmental takes. Then I found out it was part of trumphumper David Pecker's American Media group, so I cancelled my subscription. Oh well.
I think men who feel compelled to tell us all what “real men” say and do are secretly terrified of their own inner femininity. In fact, men who recognize their inner feminine and integrate it into their masculinity are the “real men.” And by “real man,” I mean “sexy as hell.”
Along those lines I'd like to see a psychological analysis of the most influential people in Trump's inner circle- that would be Roy Cohn and Stephen Miller - focusing on their sexuality and what the common elements might say about their attractiveness to Trump.
as are all the trumpettes, sadly. I like good work. As a retired surgical assistant, "bad work" hurts my brain, as I think of how I could fix it, like Melania's lopsided boobs (very obvious when she wears a sundress with no bra.) I mean they can afford the best, and they cheap out and get substandard work.
I am a fat and ugly abortion rights activist. I own it. Unlike abortion opponents, who are always trying to lie about their motivations, I put mine right out there.
According to Zev Shalev who has been following the Epstein story for years, the reason there are so many Democrats in the Epstein files is because he was an Israeli Asset and he was trying to influence Democratic presidents like Clinton's policy on Israel by compromising them. That is then why Netanyahu paid a visit to Trump to put the Kabosh on file releasing. Here is a link. If you don't want to watch the podcast scroll down to read a brief summary of what he is saying.
“Something extraordinary happened in February 2025. After years of promising MAGA supporters she would release the "Epstein files," Attorney General Pam Bondi suddenly discovered thousands of previously hidden FBI documents—then immediately declared there was nothing to see. No client lists. No blackmail evidence. No intelligence connections.”
Well, we know that Zev has been following the story for years, so I assume February 2025 would be the beginning of the MAGA backtracking on the story. The big story that QAnon was spreading about the democrats and pedophilia makes more sense based on this story. I did not know what was being peddled because I do not frequent the same media as QAnon believers. However, it does not sound like we are going to find out the truth unless/until someone leaks the files. Do you think Musk will be the one doing that?
Donnie from Queens probably suffers from Body Dysmorphic Disorder. No amount of airbrushing and bronzer will cover up the man boobs and a pant waist that starts under the armpits. I'm surprised he hasn't had the disfiguring plastic surgery endemic to MAGA women. He could use a good filler.
I weep for the IQ of the nation, but rejoice that scribes like you are documenting the fall like it’s the Book of Lamentations, Florida Edition. If a Kryptonian in a onesie counts as a legal immigrant just because he landed here, then I’m invoking sanctuary status for E.T., Mork, and Archangel Michael. And Dan Bongino giving himself a time-out over Epstein? Sweetheart, that's not a protest, that's called needing a snack and a nap. This wasn’t just a week in stupid. It was a full-blown morality play, sponsored by gas station boner pills and raw chicken memes. Keep sounding the trumpet.
Actually, I do have a contribution. I saw a tweet from a MAGA woman, claiming that the only reason why there are so many pictures of Trump with Epstein is that… (wait for it)… he bravely undertook to infiltrate Epstein’s close circle in order to get evidence that he (Epstein) was a pedophile. Trump did this even though he knew that Epstein might have him killed.
I would like to leave this planet now.
I once saw a maga woman on TV say when asked about trump "I know he's wrong - but I believe he's right."
You can't argue with that. . .
Life is hard Lady, even harder when you’re stupid!!
“Mama always says, stupid is as stupid does”—noted philosopher Forrest Gump
Credit to John Wayne:)
Seriously Lisa, hmm…I’ve used it for many years with a word salad of different descriptors. I’ve never been much of a “Duke” fan, only remember one line about listening up pilgrim…
You know he’s wrong but you believe
he’s right. Today the Cubs beat the Yankees 5-2. Now, if Donny Dachau said that, no the Yankees beat the Cubs 5-2; you would believe him? But he’s wrong!
This is what happens to FUCKING CULT MEMBERS! Their brains are hay wired !
Who’d even want to??
Take me with you. I can't stand this bullshit another second.
Aaaauuuggghhh! Sweet Jesus save me !!!
I know a really smart, funny woman who I'm friends with. At a dinner party she was saying to her friend sitting next to her how great Trump is and how she just loves him. I wanted to shout at her, "WHO ARE YOU? AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH MY FRIEND? I just can't see being her friend anymore. Such a lack of judgement.
My supposed BFF of 36 years ghosted me about five years ago. We never had a fight, so I'm not sure but what I think happened is I didn't want to have dinner at the T💩p Tower when we met in Chicago. She later posted a photo of herself having lunch there after I had left town. I reached out three times with no response. I know she's not dead because she still posts stupid sh!t on FB (she blocked me, but my husband can still see it).
Her husband was in the St. Ronny Raygun administration (both terms), and the foyer of their impressive suburban DC home is festooned with photos of him with all of the Rethuglican bad guys. All of 'em, Katie!
She was non-political when we met at a law firm in 1984 and she knows that I have always been a progressive, and we never talked politics. She's been married for 35 years, became a die-hard Rethuglican, and then a MAGAt who was gung-ho about the "stop the steal" bullshit.
It was painful at first, but I don't want that low vibe MAGAt bullsh!t in my orbit. My New Year's resolution for the last several years has been to keep fidiots and jerkholes out of my life. I recommend it to everyone. Peace and love to you!
I think it’s way more fun to be a maggot than it is to be a boring lib - who has to obsess over complicated bullshit government policy all the time and feel bad about things like integrity. Much more entertaining and much less work to hang with all the take charge, alpha guys, with all that virility, causing them to dip into the young teen pool to release some of their “precious bodily fluids.” My husband is such a MAN. It’s so much fun when everyone is just like I am!!!
That’s some kinda hard to read sarcasm there my dude but I persisted for lack of anything better to do
Its heartbreaking that people who you are close to break up a friendship and choose Trump over you. He's so awful.
Yes, it is and yes, he is.
It's a cult , has to be.
Well, yes. Many are primed with religious indoctrination to be gullible.,
From your followers.
I'm atheist. Maybe could you put in a good word for me? Thanks! :)
Always.
STOP IT! Seriously?? I'll get the tickets to get the fuck outta here. 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Y’all ridin’ one of them explodin’ Musk rockets the fuck outta here young ladies?
Bon Chance!!
Take me with you Susan! Where are we going?
My 6 week sabbatical in Spain begins in mid November. Meet me in Madrid, Barcelona, or Gran Canaria. I'm going to check it out thoroughly this time... and see what I can do. 💙💙✌️✌️
Oooooohhh.... Sounds wonderful!
I'd rather THEY left this planet now.
Destination? Mars or Hell, I don't care.
I vote for somewhere in a Florida swamp...
Daffy Don has tariffed them both!
Wow, I never thought about that, but it makes sense. That must also be why Donny Detective has pretended to be buddies with Putin for so long, he's infiltrating Putin's inner circle to overthrow his autocratic rule.
😂 anyone who believes that needs their head examined.
Yes, and...?
Grasping at straws... Because the truth is extremely ugly.
And THIS is why we cannot possibly have the delusionary reasoning of "meeting these people where they're at to better understand them." No. Fucking. Way.
Lisa, I blame Reagan, these delusional sorts used to be quietly institutionalized.
Remember after 9/11 when there was all this crying and moaning about, 'why do they hate us'? Well, who cares why a bunch of religious fanatics hate us? Are we going to change everything about ourselves to satisfy a bunch of people who believe in a 9th century belief system as superior to modern-day Western society? No, of course not.
Any more than the rest of us are going to go along with these so-called Christians who want everyone to live and believe as they do.
Not gonna do it. Nunh unh.
The creative juices in delusional thinking surpass regular human cognitive powers. 😳😳
Be careful which planet you land on, you alien, you.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Epistemic closure is one hell of a drug.
I guaran-fuckin-tee you someone in MAGA goes this route. "All aboard the Lolita Express!"
🤣😂😄, and anyone who believes that needs to be committed to an asylum. HOW can anyone be that stupid...🤪
Right there with you.
Or at least this time line!!
An unpredictable Saturday awaits us.
and this is why the media outlets fucking love that fat Nazi grifter.
In one of my political book clubs we are reading "All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America" by Michael Wolff. Not only does it makes me feel somewhat sordid reading it, I am learning more about Trump than I ever wanted to know.
And probably hating him even more and wondering how much therapy Wolff had to go through to cleanse all the horrible, batshit, dumb fuck things Trump told him during their conversations.
Wolff has stated that he's actually seen the compromising photos of Trump and Epstein dallying physically with nude adolescent girls. Of course, Trump would keep those and want to brag about them, like a serial predator.
Luckily in my other book club, the one that meets weekly and slow reads books, we are reading "Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism" by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchinson. It makes me hopeful, and understand a different sort of big picture. He is talking about how things got to be the way they are and in the end about creating a new Restoration story from the one neoliberals use, and keep pushing on us. I recommend it. However the Trump book is interesting.
Oh, one of the books I inherited from my father. I haven't been able to read it because I really don't care for Monbiot. Tiedrich should erase us from his comments, they're the first serious comments this morning, breaking a great chain.
I am not a Marxist, and I don't agree blanketly with what he is saying, but I do think he provides a lot of credible information that is good food for thought. I don't know any of his other writings. I have not read him in the Guardian. The Wolff book is getting into daily details of Trump World, and I am not normally enamored of reading about narcissists. My husband and daughter cannot even convince me to watch any series they watch where I don't like any of the characters and dislike them all.
I know, I usually go in the bedroom and read. I cut my husband some slack because he's dyslexic and doesn't read well. TV shows are his books...
He’s like catnip, or maybe crack, to the media. Always has been. They just don’t know how to quit him, and they don’t want to.
Yep. He writes all the lines for them. All they need to do is sanewash them.
The sanewashing is optional, and them what does it are sad sacks of shit (and know it).
Gives themes to spread. O don'y think it deserves tp be called mis or dis information. Call a spade a spade ...It's lies and more lies and change the story with even more lies. Neverending
I believe Dante may have alluded to possible endings.
I'll check. The book is sitting right across the room, in front of the TV.
So you have to go through the book to get to the TV?
No, it's in front of the TV, but I can't see it. WiggleB, our large cat, appears to be sleeping on top of it. Anyway, I was so taken aback with Wendy the Druid's comment and column today (see below, think), that I immediately subscribed and am rushing through everything I have to do today, to read it slowly. Seriously, it looks like one of the most important things I've ever read and I read all the time, everything, but this is incredible, in terms of enlightenment regarding the Bible. Take care.
I stand corrected. It was behind the tv...
We are being played for fools, the only country in the world where heathcare is not a human right. You are scammed day-in and day-out by insurance companies and big pharma. Insurance premiums paid monthly only for you to see Claim Denied. Drug costs that are 2-3 times the cost for the same drug in the next country. It is carnage on the American stage. You accept all that. ?????? https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/health-inequity?r=3m1bs
One of my political groups is developing a website to share health care stories from around the world so that people can have a go to source for comparison.
I mean, I could tell a story. My husband and I went on vacation to London last month and I ended up in the ER and was hospitalized for four days. Best hospital experience of my life.
I’m delighted to hear you praise our NHS staff
That'll make 'Murikkka look bad. Good.
This should be the number one issue in this country today. We've been led to believe that the border and immigration is a crisis. It is a problem, but a manufactured crisis. Healthcare is a crisis and neither party wants to address it; because they're both on the take. The propaganda that a great deal of Americans have bought into is that socialized healthcare will be the bane of our existence. How anyone could assess the system we have as the best we can do is baffling.
David, That is why my group decided if we could choose one thing we would choose that, particularly since living abroad we have many different perspectives on it. So many pressing things keep coming up, and we try to refocus on where to go. Right now we are dealing with the legal logistics of getting our site out into the world. Since we are in a volunteer organization that takes time. When it is, I will be sharing links to it in Substack.
Not true. My former French sister-in-law had a baby in France. The hospital was beautiful and clean room. She had a normal birth and stayed a week in the hospital. My daughter just had a baby in a hospital in Las Vegas. Small crowded room. 24 hours in labor! After one day she asked to stay an extra day because she was in pain, the hospital said no because her private insurance wouldn't pay for an extra day. She could barely walk to the car. Unbelievable!
Truth. My daughter did have a private, my sister-in-law had a roommate.
I agree that Bongino hated his job, but I think the real reason Dan wants out is to preserve his image as a MAGA. He realizes if he continues to be associated with Bondi, his gravy train podcast is over. No more financial bonanza for simply rambling on about MAGA conspiracies .
This will be the only time I'll ever agree with batshit wackadoddle Bongino on anything. She does need to go as Dump's personal attorney and her DOJ law firm of Bondi, Cheatem and Howe. The most corrupt AG in modern times has gone to extreme lengths to protect Dear Cheater and the sudden disappearance of the Epstein files is no coincidence. Someone suggested the other day if we really want to know the content of the files, give Hegseth a copy and it will all be taken care of.
Even better, the split-the-baby answer.
Can't decide? Fire 'em both!
So true. She might even make John Mitchell look good...
She would definitely qualify for a much longer stay at the big house than Mitchell.
Every time Dan gets in front of a camera he whines about having to be away from his wife, I'm wondering if he has an issue with her having some freedom now that he's not doing his podcast from the garage (or wherever) every day. And as he says he "has to sit inside with 4 blank walls" and actually work. BOO FUCKING HOO. Maybe he can bring her to work with him? Or RESIGN, that would be better and he can have all the free time he wants.
KegsBreath brings his wife everywhere with him.
Asswipes, the entire lot of them.
She might escape, otherwise. He is a known abuser.
Perhaps. Just maybe.
He has figured out that if he stays he might have to ...tell the truth?
Not in this administration.
Too true, unfortunately.
The week in stupid, but it is most definitely Kristi-Dog-Killer-Noem. Her “who could have seen this coming” comment with “once in 500, no a thousand, years” is special. As I read, there have been at least three other large floods in the past years. The area had been identified as a flood way. In the midst of Tragedy, Noem was taking votes on best photo, and unavailable to sign off on FEMA for 72 hours. I note the $100K threshold is absurdly low.
As for the Epstein business. Goodness. We don’t need a “client list.” Trump’s proclivity for the young is well known, his adultery trite from repetition, his association with Epstein well documented. What we need is a GOP to stop whistling past the graveyard of Trump’s larger depravity and incompetence.
There is documentation that it has been flooding there since 1900 yet everyone acts like it is so unexpected. It most assuredly was not unexpected.
To your point, one report noted the flood gauges were inundated. Note: you don’t put flood gauges in areas that don’t flood.
But Texas builds children's Christian summer camps there. Then fails to invest in disaster warning systems. Because Gabriel will blow his horn when it's time to GTFO?
I kid you not, the warning system they settled on was this: The camp closest to the rising water would phone the next camp down river, then that second camp would phone the third one, and so on.
It's so fucking stupid it sounds like a parody, but that's how they decided to do it. That way, there weren't any sirens that would disturb people. They REALLY didn't want sirens.
Sirens cost money. Texans don't want to pay a few more property tax dollars for ANYthing, and they will generally vote for a can of soup if it promises to lower (or abolish) property taxes.
When I read that, I thought of the cans and pulley system between my bedroom window and my best friend’s next door. Worked great … as long as called ahead to advise something was coming. That was the late ‘50s.
Prayer will part the waters. Don't we all know this?
Biden's administration offered them something like $7 to $10 million to upgrade their warning systems in that area, which is in a flood plain and known to flood. The local officials (maybe even Abbott himself) refused the funds because the money was tainted, seeing as how it was from the Demon Democrats.
And now, over 140 dead + another 160 or so still missing. Reap what you sow, I guess.
Very true!
It has been flooding in that zone for years. However, in all fairness, it has never before Iin recorded history involved so much water all at once.
Lake Travis water level rose by 16 feet in less than 24 hours.
Noem is still an idiot, though.
ProPublica has an article today about the flooding. Logan Jaffe wrote it. She even has newspaper articles from way back. Check it out. Priorities are off for everyone who runs Texas from the top down. I hope they all get sued in a class action. But I am not an attorney.
It would be justice. But, frankly, if they at least learn and take future precautions it would be a big plus. Nothing will change the tragic loss.
It has been more than 100 years. People have died during the numerous past floods. I think it may take a class action lawsuit to get change.
I'm convinced he has handlers that control him by putting shiney objects like gold planes and awards and maga audiences in front of him so they can divert millions into their own pockets. As long as he can get revenge on blacks, immigrants, women, liberals, Democrats, he's happy and no one can see these thieves emptying the Treasury out the back door.
“real men don’t talk about masculinity.”
Maybe I’m misunderstanding here, but real men DON’T talk about (their own) masculinity. Because they don’t need to. I have been married to a man for more than 20 years, and he’s never once needed to boast about masculinity to prove to me that he’s a man. 🤷♀️
In an interview, the late James Caan was asked, when you walk into a crowded room, who do you think are the tough guys? To which he replied, the ones who aren't putting on a display, the quiet ones. Don't fuck with them.
Yes, quite right
Sounds valid to me. James Caan didn't seem like someone to fuck with. OT, that interview was published in Men's Journal, which I really enjoyed. It had a wide range of topics like travel, gadgets, cooking, general interest stuff, and seemed to keep the patriarchy bullshit to a minimum. It had progressive environmental takes. Then I found out it was part of trumphumper David Pecker's American Media group, so I cancelled my subscription. Oh well.
My man in a nutshell. Thank you for this comment! I'm going to show this to him and ask him to never change.
Good for you! A good man is hard to find
Or, as Melania would say: A hard man is a good find!
Or “Reech men I bang for mah-nee”
Well, he was my second try actually:) I'm a quick learner from past mistakes.
I hear you, I won the love lotto with my second.
👍👍
I think men who feel compelled to tell us all what “real men” say and do are secretly terrified of their own inner femininity. In fact, men who recognize their inner feminine and integrate it into their masculinity are the “real men.” And by “real man,” I mean “sexy as hell.”
Damn straight!
My man has been proving he's a man to me once a week on the dot every week for the last 40 years.
Every Thursday he takes the bins out. . .
That's what we do! That's why we get the extra 23 cents an hour.
😁😂🤣😂
Real men eat quiche. Teenagers brag about puberty.
Along those lines I'd like to see a psychological analysis of the most influential people in Trump's inner circle- that would be Roy Cohn and Stephen Miller - focusing on their sexuality and what the common elements might say about their attractiveness to Trump.
Mebbe that's some of the kompromat Pooty has on him--he got pegged by Russki trans hookers 🤣
Miller is a sadistic serial killer of homeless people would be my guess.
1. Kal-El isn’t my brother, but if he was, there’d be no Trump in the White House.
2. Jesse doesn’t know when to quit. Several years ago would have been the right time.
I am laughing so hard, I spit up a bit of breakfast. I thought of you the second I read that name wondering where Jeff was going with this. Hahahaha
Kay-El, you are one of my favorite commenters on this stack!
Thank you for the unforgettable laugh!
Thanks, Dana! Much appreciated.
In fact, I’m repeating it out loud several times and laughing even more.
Would someone PLEASE give the tyrant a man-bra??
Man-ssiere!
He needs a boob lift, callinng
Dr. Dubrow !
He was already “botched,” eh Kristy?
as are all the trumpettes, sadly. I like good work. As a retired surgical assistant, "bad work" hurts my brain, as I think of how I could fix it, like Melania's lopsided boobs (very obvious when she wears a sundress with no bra.) I mean they can afford the best, and they cheap out and get substandard work.
I am a fat and ugly abortion rights activist. I own it. Unlike abortion opponents, who are always trying to lie about their motivations, I put mine right out there.
I'm slim & a cute old thing, and I think SETH is " secretly exciting " ( gay )
I think of him as Dan Boingo, as in oingo-boingo
But without any of the talent or appeal
I was thinking more of the apocryphal interpretation that says oingo-boingo means “thinking while dancing” in Swahili.
Well, thinking is not what i associate with him
It’s funny. “Boingo” is inherently funny.
America is taking another big hit off the Bongino.
I always read it as Boing-Boing. like his brain
He looks like some kind of HIT MAN!
Yes. The really stupid ones that get caught.
According to Zev Shalev who has been following the Epstein story for years, the reason there are so many Democrats in the Epstein files is because he was an Israeli Asset and he was trying to influence Democratic presidents like Clinton's policy on Israel by compromising them. That is then why Netanyahu paid a visit to Trump to put the Kabosh on file releasing. Here is a link. If you don't want to watch the podcast scroll down to read a brief summary of what he is saying.
https://www.narativ.org/p/special-report-the-secret-life-of?r=f0qfn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
It starts off:
“Something extraordinary happened in February 2025. After years of promising MAGA supporters she would release the "Epstein files," Attorney General Pam Bondi suddenly discovered thousands of previously hidden FBI documents—then immediately declared there was nothing to see. No client lists. No blackmail evidence. No intelligence connections.”
February 2025?
Well, we know that Zev has been following the story for years, so I assume February 2025 would be the beginning of the MAGA backtracking on the story. The big story that QAnon was spreading about the democrats and pedophilia makes more sense based on this story. I did not know what was being peddled because I do not frequent the same media as QAnon believers. However, it does not sound like we are going to find out the truth unless/until someone leaks the files. Do you think Musk will be the one doing that?
About QAnon. Who does frequent the media it reads?
I believe it.
Oh. Oh. Oh.
Well Shit, Jeff.
I just preached from the republican bible, Trump, Chapter 3. Verse 16.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/hey-republicans-if-you-gave-a-shit
Donnie from Queens probably suffers from Body Dysmorphic Disorder. No amount of airbrushing and bronzer will cover up the man boobs and a pant waist that starts under the armpits. I'm surprised he hasn't had the disfiguring plastic surgery endemic to MAGA women. He could use a good filler.
He should go for FAT TRANSFER, instead .
And maybe a ton of botox around his mouth to keep it from moving.
Wouldn't that be wonderful. Imagine a day without hearing that imbecile's voice or rants.
❤️❤️❤️
He is too narcissistic to have BDD.
How about men who wear more makeup than most drag performers, Jesse? Are they "women?"
I don't think Twatters thinks WOMEN are
WOMEN. He's very confused.
He is a terrible representation of male homo sapiens. Damn, he embarrasses me every time he opens his trap.
Twatters… good one Kristy!♥️
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Oh Kristy, I am so stealing Twatters.
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Every single day... it's another disgraceful event in America. Maybe it's a genetic mutation or too many pesticides....
I hate it here.
Me too. I want to run away but there's no where for me to go.
I’m looking seriously at Spain.
I love Spain but I'm too old to relocate.
Spain is good. My sister has a place in Rota, on the beach ⛱️.
It's Republicanism.
You bet… in its most aggressive form.
I weep for the IQ of the nation, but rejoice that scribes like you are documenting the fall like it’s the Book of Lamentations, Florida Edition. If a Kryptonian in a onesie counts as a legal immigrant just because he landed here, then I’m invoking sanctuary status for E.T., Mork, and Archangel Michael. And Dan Bongino giving himself a time-out over Epstein? Sweetheart, that's not a protest, that's called needing a snack and a nap. This wasn’t just a week in stupid. It was a full-blown morality play, sponsored by gas station boner pills and raw chicken memes. Keep sounding the trumpet.