I have read a lot of unhinged horseshit in my fifty-odd years, but a billionaire warning a megachurch that democratic socialism will leave them with "no nothing" while he guts their food assistance in broad daylight is a special vintage of gaslighting, bottled and aged.
ME three - my mother was the ultimate narcissist, but she'd have LUVED donny, since she thought ONLY blonde, blue-eyed aryan males were good enough. (My Dad had gorgeous, thick, very dark almost black hair). SHE had what I call mouse-brown hair. Go figure.
Yup! And all you really had to post was….”here is the fucking idiot!” with one sleepy picture…and that would cover everything! Thanks for the laughs and Claudia!!
LOL! My eyes don't permit me to see the emoji 'expressions' so I'm forced to use my 'outdated' lols and typed 'expressions'. That's ok. I can't read others' emojis either - sorry about that. It is what it is.
the assholes who set their AC's to 68° in the summer will then set their thermostats to 78° in the winter. because they're greedy, entitled, resentful, selfish assholes who would then point fingers and screech like crazy if there's a brownout or the grid goes down . . .
I recently purchased a Frigidaire portable air conditioner. The instructions tell me to keep it set at 78°. I don't think they're Communists and I don't think Mamdani wrote those instructions. Could be wrong.
Me too. Even in humidity soaked VA. And because my electric co-op asked us to turn it up I have been at 82 or 83 most of the week with a fan. It's easy. I do need to turn it all down to 80 to sleep.
What is this "microwave" you think he's smuggling in his pants? Is that some term like the recently unearthed "grocery"? Or did you really mean RadarRange?
(I LOL'd at that and "all the diapers" sitting in the hotel lobby, so thanks.)
I think it's the telephone book he has to carry around so when he sits down he looks "taller." Like lifts in his shoes. I imagine he is shrinking in height and everything collapses to the middle, fat and all! So add a diaper and you have a LOT of "junk in the trunk!"
I would think the human printer that follows him had the day off. So, that big bag she carries with his diapers, wipes, etc. is strapped to him for safe keeping and obvious reasons.
I hope the power goes out for all of these people. I am generating my own energy with solar and a battery mostly in the summer, and I still try not to suck energy up with running washing machine, dishwasher (I only run at night anyway) during a heatwave. It is just common sense.
As the thermostat responses, the desk responses and the inclement weather responses show us. Currently my book club is reading "Conspiracists: Women, Extremism, and the Lure of Belonging" by Noelle Cook. It is really a trip the way they are thinking.
I can relate just reading it. You reported some really stupid stuff. MAGA doesn't know how to google the info about the George Washington partner's desk but more than happy to shoot off their mouths. and the 78 degrees stuff.. OMG...so stupid.
It's indignation first, facts never. It's like those "top ten Obama Scandals" from The Daily Show, where each one is accompanied by a previous president doing it, like Reagan wearing a tan suit:
When we were young and living in NY we didn’t have air conditioning but in the winter we never raised the thermostat above 68. I guess my parents were communists.
did you know that those big-ass New York City apartment radiators were deliberately designed to be a huge waste of energy? it's a holdover from the Spanish Flu epidemic of over a hundred years ago.
"Many pre-war apartment radiators in NYC were deliberately designed to overheat spaces so that tenants could leave their windows wide open to fight infectious diseases. This was the result of the "Fresh Air Movement" during the 1918 flu pandemic, where health boards mandated ventilation to control airborne pathogens."
May I make a suggestion for people who like to read? Although it is strictly a NON-FICTION book, holy (bad word!) will it scare the (more bad words!) out of you worse than any horror book you can imagine!
"Shall We Wake The President: Two Centuries of Disaster Management by the Oval Office" by Tevi Troy.
I read this early on in COVID and I am NOT JOKING--it literally kept me awake at night and gave me a few nightmares. This is when I FINALLY decided I needed to prepare a "go bag" (which we did).
Actually, this describes my condo in Cleveland, built in 1911 as a "weekend getaway' for millionaires on Millionarres Row in the city. We have radiator heat and it gets very hot in the winter.
When I was younger living Chicago we didnt have air conditioning in my old apartment because I was poor. Guess what. I didnt die of the heat. Do people realize how long people lived without air conditioning before it was invented? Its not a death sentence.
I'm not saying the heat doesn't kill people, I'm just saying that weather events kill people and we can't always say that is due to malfeasance. People every year in Chicago die from heart attacks from shoveling snow or falling on ice. They also die from tornadoes. People in Fla die from hurricanes. Its sad and regrettable but they are filed ( literally) under Acts of God.
I read that the first few months ( years?) of a baby’s life are when their bodies learn to regulate temperature. So if they are always in AC or toasty warm it’s actually a disservice to them.
I lived with my grand parents and they didnt die either. And, although i cant remember, I must have lived through my infancy. My grandmother had stories of working as a secretary and the sweat dripping off her as she took dictation. It didn't kill her though. She did have a box fan that she put in the upstairs hallway, which she swore cooled the whole house. (It did not)
50 years ago, government notices asking to conserve energy when possible-aka temperatures on hottest of days-was an ask and do what you can or need to only. Same story now. Not demanded, just practical advice-again what you can or need to for your situation. Let’s work together more and pull more people up than fight and tear people down.
In our house only my parents' bedroom and my sisters' bedroom, a converted attic that was very hot, had air conditioning. It's possible the living room did later but I'd have to ask my sisters. We lived in a bungalow on the South Side of Chicago. We were not poor. No one died.
Mike, I guess my parents were Communists too. Growing up in western Mass in the 60's nobody had central AC. Just box fans and oscillating fans. No ceiling fans either. Just hot, humid weather. BTW- King Jabba the Hut looks like he's packing on the pounds. Since you're a retired MD is he on prednisone? Other than his poor diet and no exercise why else is he blowing up to the size of a Macy's parade float.
The MAGAt whose handle implies she's from Tennessee? How much of her a.c. electricity is cheap because of the socialist FDR Tennessee Valley Authority, which still provides cheap power to the red states so moron MAGAts have electricity to cool their fat asses and charge their "smart" phones so they can post stupid shit?
And it's a fucking "partner desk"--a desk that business partners can share, seated face-to-face.
P.S. Thank you for the Claudia-in-a-Hat pictures. I wish I'd known her.
The way these idiots lost their shit over the Mayor's suggestion is typical of MAGAts and conservatives in general. a) They only care about themselves and can completely ignore the fact that by preserving the power supply, not only does everyone else's A/C stay on but theirs does too; b) They think a suggestion or appeal is telling them what to do; c) Any idea, regardless of how sensible it is, is COMMUNISM! if they don't agree with it (see vaccines); d) They can cast blame, like the dipshit Pratt, completely dislocated from fact whenever and wherever it's convenient. The grid has been strained by data centers, crypto mining, the crippling of renewable projects by Preznit Windmills Cause Cancer, and the long lead time in constructing power generation of all types. Raising thermostats to 78 degrees can be done right now, ya cretin. e) Even if it's an idea that they themselves have promoted, if a libtard suggests the same, it's bad, dictatorial, communist, socialist, unworkable, etc. These fucking assholes just wear me out.
Not to mention all those other socialist programs that came later, like Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment, ADC, WIC, and so on. But, ya know, MAGAats want the government kept outta their business....
We lived in TN in 03'-04'. Our electricity wasn't cheap and went off a lot. TVA was in Chattanooga, about 25 minutes from us, not far though from where my hubby worked at the time.
A few years back I checked out the TVA (because I hadn't thought about it since learning about it in grade school, right?). I was surprised to see that it was still operational and serving parts of several states. All red states, of course. Bunch of ingrates!
We had moved to TN from IL because my hubby's company moved to TN. A manufacturing plant. Biggest mistake in their 53 yr history was picking up and moving to TN for cheap labor, but they didn't ask me. At first, it was like being on vacation. Our land was natural with so many native plants, I was in Heaven. Hearing "go home Yankee" multiple times a days was so wearing on my nerves. The other was how we were there "stealing" their jobs. It was the other way around. They stole over 300 jobs from people from my hometown area that had worked for this company an average of 25 yrs, because the powers that be wanted cheap labor. They couldn't get cheap labor, so within 17 months they went bankrupt. Our daughter and I came home to IL, I went home, Yank that I am...lol...my husband followed in 4 months when all equipment was sold and moved to....Mexico.
It figures TVA sells power to red states. They probably jack the price and no one is the wiser.
Here is what a sitting president told a room of self-described Christians this week, about his own neighbors: "There will be no food, there will be no housing... there will be no nothing." He was describing what happens if Americans elect people who want them to have healthcare. And that's the whole pitch — vote for us or the guy who wants to freeze your rent will personally starve you. It'd be a masterpiece of projection if the son of a bitch knew he was doing it.
Ok, double negatives are forbidden now in English, but it wasn't always that way. Chaucer used four negatives in the sentence describing his Knight to emphasize how good he was. And most languages around the world use double negatives.
I wouldn't say they are forbidden. They are used in casual vernacular and get a pass there, such as Pink Floyd's "We don't need no education." But when trying to make a valid point, grammatical precision would be nice since double negatives change the meaning to the opposite.
I think it's artificial grammatical precision. Somebody 150 years ago decided that English should be like math. One negative in a sentence means negative. Two negatives cancel each other out. But it's an artificial imposition. As I said, English hasn't always been this way, and most languages around the world use double negatives. Where do you think we got the Bs in "debt" and "doubt"? Not because they organically grew that way as English developed over time. It's because, in the 1700s, some scholars decided that Latin was the greatest language ever, therefore English should be more like Latin. The Latin roots of "debt" and "doubt" had Bs in them, so the English forms should have Bs in themtoo. But we don't pronounce the Bs in those words. They're there because of Latin relics.
Yes, I'm being pedantic, and I loathe Donald Trump too. Yes, he sounds ignorant saying "no nothing." But in this case, on a Sunday morning while I have nothing much better to do, I decided to point out the idiocy of disdain for double negatives in English syntax.
Okay. I take you at your word about the Latin roots and silent letters, which make English a hard language to learn. Look at how many born in America folks can't spell or use proper grammar. My disdain in this case is for him and his ignorance. I am approaching the literal meaning of "no nothing" which means there will be something.
"Where do you think we got the Bs in "debt" and "doubt"? Not because they organically grew that way as English developed over time." Actually the b sound did survive from the Latin root into some English dialects that said "debit" (now treated as a separate word with the minor vowel written; it is not really a separate word because it means the same as just "debt") and "dubit" (does not survive except in "indubitably" as an alternate form of "undoubtedly")
Oh, Doc, sorry, but I'm going to disagree again. I'm a devout Christian (Episcopalian), and not all Christians claim the high ground on decency and morality. But we try very hard to be self-reflective and decent.
They aren't fakers. Hypocritical dipshittery has been Christianity's default state since the beginning. Look up the things people said about Christians before Christianity got powerful enough to genocide it's way across the planet for fun and prophet. It's very enlightening.
I'm entirely comfortable saying that Christians who don't claim moral authority are vanishingly rare. It's baked into the vast majority of denominations and sects. Including the liberal-ish ones. Most Christians don't notice because it's just as intrinsic to their faith as white supremacy is intrinsic to this useless fucking shithole of a country, but it becomes real obvious once you leave the religion and try having any kind of conversation with Christians.
They aren't fake. They're just as Christian as all the others. Just because someone is Christian doesn't stop them from being evil, and being evil doesn't revoke someone's Christianity. That's a no true scotsman fallacy.
Wendy, I believe it was Nixon (commie nerdowell) that mandated 55 mph to save gas, and the 68f in winter during a time when a/c was not that common people died from heat stroke as well.
He should have a shawl he is frail in every way fucking frail. I really couldn’t remember so it seems Carter did have the credentials for science. How about the ‘double nickels ‘ 55mph?
That was Nixon -- iirc it came when we were lining up for gas and only being allowed to buy it on alternating days, depending on the las number on your license plate.
Fun Fact: Since 1912 Denmark has marked our Independence Day with a festival to celebrate the friendship between our countries. It's normally the largest event outside of the US. This year they asked that the organizers not invite one US official from the Trump admin because of the tensions mounting from the Greenland fiasco. Once again, we are shunned on the world stage because we have a mad cow wannabe dictator in charge of US. Nice.
Letters from God has an awesome photo of a horde of Magats who found shelter from the storm yesterday afternoon in (wait for it) … the African-American History Museum!!! Isn’t that delicious! 💙
Jeff, it seems we are getting deeper into the stupid for the past few days, more stupid than usual.. First off, using the term “communist” revived from days of yesteryear in typical Joe McCarthy style. It’s MAGAs new shiny word that they are unable to define. They have no winning issues so they trot out uber patriotic memes and sayings and anyone who opposes their ideology is a “communist”. Second, that sh**show at the capitol, the failed “State Fair”, the baptism tent, all those preachers, people tipping over from the heat, a slap shod excuse for a fair. And finally to top it off, Men with Tiny Penises on display marching around shouting Nazi slogans, dressed in their cute little uniforms so that others could not identify who were in those uniforms.. Calgon… take me away. I hope all fellow travelers had a better 4th than the chuds, Nazis and White supremicists that took over our Capitol yesterday… I’m sure Jefferson Davis would be smiling.
Two hundred masked, marching-in-unison incels carrying flags of defeat and showing off their Fachismo. It was Crazy MAGAT Day on the Mall. I'm sure Shitler knew they were coming.
I'm still sticking with my theory that if he's not already dead, victim of cardiac arrest, then he's comatose on a ventilator someplace. No word on his condition for several weeks. So much secrecy.
elseweb:People are now speculating that Mitch McConnell is incapacitated and/or passed away but if they announce it before the first Tuesday in August, it would be required to have a special election and somebody like Massey might run and win.
McConnell remaining technically alive for an extra few weeks as part of a manipulative procedural maneuver is exactly how he would have wanted to go.
OK. Face down in the Reflecting Pool with a 15-pound scuba tank on your back sticking up out of the water. You won't be standing up anytime and soon.
How about a MAGA baseball cap with a rubber face of a cabinet member or JD Vance as a disguise. Breathe through snorkel with an American flag attached flying. They'll never figure it out. Your story: “I'm documenting vandalism to the reflecting pool by those rat commie bastards.”
In addition to everything else that I love about your posts , I particularly love that you took so many pictures of your wife! The connection between the two of you lives on and honestly benefits all of us in my opinion .
Kathryn, I commented a few days ago that it is making me take more random casual photos these days. It occurred to me that I take very few photos of my husband/family except on holidays and birthdays, all posed, and I wouldn't have the wonderful collection of photos that Jeff has. They show the personality of Ms. Spouse, and have inspired me to take more photos.
Those desks may be what I have known as partner desks, because two people could work at the desk at once, one on each side. The commenters ask whether Mamdani understands how a desk works, but clearly the commenters themselves don't know much about desks.
When he said "we won here every time" he meant that South Dakota went for him in each of three elections. Which is not a surprise. The people of SD also elected Puppy and Goat Killer Kristi Noem as governor.
I think I just got stupider from spending four hours writing about all that stupid
I suffer the same stupid Jeff
I have read a lot of unhinged horseshit in my fifty-odd years, but a billionaire warning a megachurch that democratic socialism will leave them with "no nothing" while he guts their food assistance in broad daylight is a special vintage of gaslighting, bottled and aged.
Fuck Ackman, too. He's a hedge fund billionaire, which means he's conniving, sketchy, and selfish, so of course he's a MAGAt.
Oh yeah. I’ll root for anyone and anything Ackman is against. What a tool.
Every day feels like a century with this moldering, racist carnival barker. This is what it is like being trapped in a relationship with a narcissist.
Yes, exactly, Seth! And I know this from personal experience.
Me too.
ME three - my mother was the ultimate narcissist, but she'd have LUVED donny, since she thought ONLY blonde, blue-eyed aryan males were good enough. (My Dad had gorgeous, thick, very dark almost black hair). SHE had what I call mouse-brown hair. Go figure.
Yup! And all you really had to post was….”here is the fucking idiot!” with one sleepy picture…and that would cover everything! Thanks for the laughs and Claudia!!
YES, thanks
Somebody (Jordan Klepper?) tested Europeans by saying "fuck that asshole". Pretty much 100% knew exactly who was being referred to.
But “cosplaying as the front half of a centaur” is absolutely pure gold — my first belly laugh of the day. Thank you, Jeff!
Do you think he prefers Huggies or Pampers? Depends.
I'm just waiting for when he starts wearing the Huggies/Pampers/Depends on his head...
😆
LOL! My eyes don't permit me to see the emoji 'expressions' so I'm forced to use my 'outdated' lols and typed 'expressions'. That's ok. I can't read others' emojis either - sorry about that. It is what it is.
Good one!
Unnecessary roughness!
Ooooh, there's an idea! Slip some sandpaper into the diaper.
Or his vasoline.
when in reality he is the rear half of a centaur
Omg yes I laughed at that one. Imagined any one of his ass lickers as the rear of the centaur😂🤢🤮🤣
Michelle: For me it was a toss-up between that and 'junk in his trunk'! I was DYING...and on NO sleep, mind you.
Right? Jeff is so good at this stuff!
Thanks for taking one for the team!
1. I think I “blinked” halfway through this because of all the stupid (kidding of course, I rolled my eyes through the whole fucking Trump mess)
2. Cheers to Mamdani and our new citizens.
3. I’ve always set my a/c to 75-78° because I’m not an energy hog.
the assholes who set their AC's to 68° in the summer will then set their thermostats to 78° in the winter. because they're greedy, entitled, resentful, selfish assholes who would then point fingers and screech like crazy if there's a brownout or the grid goes down . . .
cuz it's either Obama's or Biden's fault.
May their energy bills be forever unmanageable
Amen sister!
I've had mine on 79 since early April when I turned on the AC (SW GA).
I recently purchased a Frigidaire portable air conditioner. The instructions tell me to keep it set at 78°. I don't think they're Communists and I don't think Mamdani wrote those instructions. Could be wrong.
Exactly. When my folks first got a/c (about 1000 years ago) that was the setting. Always.
I set it at 78 because I don't want to blow up my air conditioner. Or spend half my paycheck on my electric bill.
Another excellent reason
I keep mine at 80. l live in the desert. It's fine.
I’m in Albuquerque… 80 sounds chilly! 😆
Me too. Even in humidity soaked VA. And because my electric co-op asked us to turn it up I have been at 82 or 83 most of the week with a fan. It's easy. I do need to turn it all down to 80 to sleep.
You can cheer previous NYC mayor Eric Adams too (as loathsome as he was) because he recommended people set their AC thermosets to 78!
I won’t cheer him because he’s an asshole, but I’ll give him credit for being correct.
What is this "microwave" you think he's smuggling in his pants? Is that some term like the recently unearthed "grocery"? Or did you really mean RadarRange?
(I LOL'd at that and "all the diapers" sitting in the hotel lobby, so thanks.)
It is one of those bags they put on the back end of the carriage horses in NYC and NOLA.
OK - so now I'm waiting for them to strap a Big Mac 'feed bag' around Trump's neck
and maybe a Diet Coke Beer Hat . . .
along with the catheter he'll certainly need for 'drainage'
because there's only so much moisture that an overloaded 'man diaper' can retain
😂
okay, that one gave me a laugh!
I think it's the telephone book he has to carry around so when he sits down he looks "taller." Like lifts in his shoes. I imagine he is shrinking in height and everything collapses to the middle, fat and all! So add a diaper and you have a LOT of "junk in the trunk!"
I think that he’s probably got an appliance pumping his blood for him because he’s so close to the grave.
My thought was, "I-V bags."
Dear Lord, hear our prayer.
that's in his chest.
I would think the human printer that follows him had the day off. So, that big bag she carries with his diapers, wipes, etc. is strapped to him for safe keeping and obvious reasons.
His ass is swollen from the human printer lady’s strap-on
I hope the power goes out for all of these people. I am generating my own energy with solar and a battery mostly in the summer, and I still try not to suck energy up with running washing machine, dishwasher (I only run at night anyway) during a heatwave. It is just common sense.
Common sense. Of which they have none
As the thermostat responses, the desk responses and the inclement weather responses show us. Currently my book club is reading "Conspiracists: Women, Extremism, and the Lure of Belonging" by Noelle Cook. It is really a trip the way they are thinking.
Please keep your AC at a moderate temp = COMUSOCHULISM
You can only afford two dolls for christmas because of my pointless tariffs so suck it up = GENIUS
Every Trump speech makes me think of that famous quote from “Billy Madison”:
“All of us are now stupider for having listened to you. I give you no credit, and may God have mercy on your soul.”
I can relate just reading it. You reported some really stupid stuff. MAGA doesn't know how to google the info about the George Washington partner's desk but more than happy to shoot off their mouths. and the 78 degrees stuff.. OMG...so stupid.
It's indignation first, facts never. It's like those "top ten Obama Scandals" from The Daily Show, where each one is accompanied by a previous president doing it, like Reagan wearing a tan suit:
Always worth re-watching for a laugh!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MWxq80oze0
You can recover. Them? They'll go with ivermectin.
Trust me you did not. Though I can understand why you feel that way.
Well, I like your new descriptive phrase "the f,..ing idiot" gonna adopt that one, thanks, Jeff
Looking at it can do terrible things to your brain. I sneak out at night and prune my neighbors plastic flowers. Staying busy at night helps.
I think you got smarter, as at least—unlike the purveyors—you know it's stupid, while they think they're brilliant.
Being anywhere near the pisshead’s stuff, is like being contaminated with feceshead’s horrid shit and all that goes with it.
When we were young and living in NY we didn’t have air conditioning but in the winter we never raised the thermostat above 68. I guess my parents were communists.
did you know that those big-ass New York City apartment radiators were deliberately designed to be a huge waste of energy? it's a holdover from the Spanish Flu epidemic of over a hundred years ago.
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/10/945136599/how-spanish-flu-pandemic-changed-home-heat-radiators
"Many pre-war apartment radiators in NYC were deliberately designed to overheat spaces so that tenants could leave their windows wide open to fight infectious diseases. This was the result of the "Fresh Air Movement" during the 1918 flu pandemic, where health boards mandated ventilation to control airborne pathogens."
Funny how we were smarter during that pandemic 108 years ago
May I make a suggestion for people who like to read? Although it is strictly a NON-FICTION book, holy (bad word!) will it scare the (more bad words!) out of you worse than any horror book you can imagine!
"Shall We Wake The President: Two Centuries of Disaster Management by the Oval Office" by Tevi Troy.
I read this early on in COVID and I am NOT JOKING--it literally kept me awake at night and gave me a few nightmares. This is when I FINALLY decided I needed to prepare a "go bag" (which we did).
Is it a Go To Canada bag?
LOL!
Thanks! Just requested it at my library!
We didnt have a TV game show host mesmerizing the dim witted.
Back then they didn't have vaccines or effective treatments for serious diseases that swept thru communities.
And now we have a nutcase like RFK jr trying to take us back to HIS version of the good ol' days
Also because of tuberculosis.
Actually, this describes my condo in Cleveland, built in 1911 as a "weekend getaway' for millionaires on Millionarres Row in the city. We have radiator heat and it gets very hot in the winter.
Huh.
Well, that explains the two setting: Off and Eyeball-Shriveling Hot.
These MAGAs are just baby whiners. Worthless.
Can you imagine being such a whiner that you scour social media for content you hate? Who spends their time making fun of a desk?
Excellent point!
When I was younger living Chicago we didnt have air conditioning in my old apartment because I was poor. Guess what. I didnt die of the heat. Do people realize how long people lived without air conditioning before it was invented? Its not a death sentence.
You didn't die because you were young and healthy. Older people, infants, and those with health problems died then and still die from the heat.
A heat wave in the 90’s in Chicago killed a lot of people, mostly elderly.
I'm not saying the heat doesn't kill people, I'm just saying that weather events kill people and we can't always say that is due to malfeasance. People every year in Chicago die from heart attacks from shoveling snow or falling on ice. They also die from tornadoes. People in Fla die from hurricanes. Its sad and regrettable but they are filed ( literally) under Acts of God.
I read that the first few months ( years?) of a baby’s life are when their bodies learn to regulate temperature. So if they are always in AC or toasty warm it’s actually a disservice to them.
No doubt.
I lived with my grand parents and they didnt die either. And, although i cant remember, I must have lived through my infancy. My grandmother had stories of working as a secretary and the sweat dripping off her as she took dictation. It didn't kill her though. She did have a box fan that she put in the upstairs hallway, which she swore cooled the whole house. (It did not)
Right! Heat kills more people globally than cold exposure.
People DO and DID die of heat. But cooling to a reasonable 78-80º is quite different than cooling to 65º.
50 years ago, government notices asking to conserve energy when possible-aka temperatures on hottest of days-was an ask and do what you can or need to only. Same story now. Not demanded, just practical advice-again what you can or need to for your situation. Let’s work together more and pull more people up than fight and tear people down.
People die in 95-100 degree heatwaves. They don't die because the air conditioning is set at 78.
Yes, but not most people. We opened the windows, sat outside on the porch.
The dead likely don't care about "most people." And I, too grew up without A/C.
And clearly you're still here to tell about how you survived.
What's your problem? Not everyone did. Older people are at great risk with extreme heat.
In our house only my parents' bedroom and my sisters' bedroom, a converted attic that was very hot, had air conditioning. It's possible the living room did later but I'd have to ask my sisters. We lived in a bungalow on the South Side of Chicago. We were not poor. No one died.
Mike, your parents were fucking rat commie bastards!
Mike, I guess my parents were Communists too. Growing up in western Mass in the 60's nobody had central AC. Just box fans and oscillating fans. No ceiling fans either. Just hot, humid weather. BTW- King Jabba the Hut looks like he's packing on the pounds. Since you're a retired MD is he on prednisone? Other than his poor diet and no exercise why else is he blowing up to the size of a Macy's parade float.
The MAGAt whose handle implies she's from Tennessee? How much of her a.c. electricity is cheap because of the socialist FDR Tennessee Valley Authority, which still provides cheap power to the red states so moron MAGAts have electricity to cool their fat asses and charge their "smart" phones so they can post stupid shit?
And it's a fucking "partner desk"--a desk that business partners can share, seated face-to-face.
P.S. Thank you for the Claudia-in-a-Hat pictures. I wish I'd known her.
The way these idiots lost their shit over the Mayor's suggestion is typical of MAGAts and conservatives in general. a) They only care about themselves and can completely ignore the fact that by preserving the power supply, not only does everyone else's A/C stay on but theirs does too; b) They think a suggestion or appeal is telling them what to do; c) Any idea, regardless of how sensible it is, is COMMUNISM! if they don't agree with it (see vaccines); d) They can cast blame, like the dipshit Pratt, completely dislocated from fact whenever and wherever it's convenient. The grid has been strained by data centers, crypto mining, the crippling of renewable projects by Preznit Windmills Cause Cancer, and the long lead time in constructing power generation of all types. Raising thermostats to 78 degrees can be done right now, ya cretin. e) Even if it's an idea that they themselves have promoted, if a libtard suggests the same, it's bad, dictatorial, communist, socialist, unworkable, etc. These fucking assholes just wear me out.
I'm outside Phoenix and I keep my thermostat set at 79. I have a smart thermostat that's smarter than most MAGAT's. Lord please give me strength.
In Gilbert, AZ and in my old lady apartment it’s set no lower than 80. And I’m cold if it’s set on that. 🙄
Great point about the TVA, skangirl. Just one of the many pinko commie programs that FDR set in motion to help people and enrich the country.
A few years ago, I looked it up (Ah did mah research!) and was surprised to see how many states and likely-MAGAts are on the TVA teat.
Totally figures!!
Not to mention all those other socialist programs that came later, like Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment, ADC, WIC, and so on. But, ya know, MAGAats want the government kept outta their business....
Thank-you for posting the proper name for the desk. I was going to but you did it for me.
As always, I live to serve!
I love everything about this reply. 😜
I loved the “Claudia In A Rain Hat” pictures!!
The MAGAts think TVA stands for Trans-Vaginal Anus
Joe! HR wants a word. Line One.
We lived in TN in 03'-04'. Our electricity wasn't cheap and went off a lot. TVA was in Chattanooga, about 25 minutes from us, not far though from where my hubby worked at the time.
A few years back I checked out the TVA (because I hadn't thought about it since learning about it in grade school, right?). I was surprised to see that it was still operational and serving parts of several states. All red states, of course. Bunch of ingrates!
We had moved to TN from IL because my hubby's company moved to TN. A manufacturing plant. Biggest mistake in their 53 yr history was picking up and moving to TN for cheap labor, but they didn't ask me. At first, it was like being on vacation. Our land was natural with so many native plants, I was in Heaven. Hearing "go home Yankee" multiple times a days was so wearing on my nerves. The other was how we were there "stealing" their jobs. It was the other way around. They stole over 300 jobs from people from my hometown area that had worked for this company an average of 25 yrs, because the powers that be wanted cheap labor. They couldn't get cheap labor, so within 17 months they went bankrupt. Our daughter and I came home to IL, I went home, Yank that I am...lol...my husband followed in 4 months when all equipment was sold and moved to....Mexico.
It figures TVA sells power to red states. They probably jack the price and no one is the wiser.
A damaged man baby in charge
Makes the national debt go real large
What he's done all his life
To his jobs and his wife
With that fat fucking stomach, that barge.
A pig and an empty-souled prick
His black hole of a soul makes us sick
But try to remember
That come this November
With a solid strong swift left wing kick!
Good one!
I saw that that lazy-assed fool
Rode his motorcade through the Reflecting Pool
That must have damaged the paint
'Cuz it definitely ain't
Some antifa box-cutting tool
I love that we have dueling poets!
Cool, isn’t it?
Nice one, Doc!
Hooray!!! I’m saving this one, Frosty.
Thank you, Pam!
Re: Wide load. I saw this comment on Facebook yesterday on that same photo, "I knew he was sitting on the Epstein Files!"
Or it could be Mike Johnson under there.
His arse pokes out bigly; plenty of room there for both Mikey and Lindsey in there.
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or Lindsay Graham could be busy kissing the large anatomical rump.
Blood pressure alert on little Mikey just seeing his name. Hate is not good for the hater so I need training.
I recall someone commenting that his bent over posture is the result of Lindsey Graham being stuffed ALL the way up his large intestine.
Bwahahaha 🤣🤣
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😂😂😂
HaHaHa
How come he can have his fireworks after midnight on July 5 but all the votes MUST be counted on Election Day or it's "cheating?"
Good point, Daniel, no fairness in this rule!
Jeff it’s Sunday the 5th
Fuck I’m tired
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-the-grammar-of-cruelty-and-the-long-work-of-building-anyway
Here is what a sitting president told a room of self-described Christians this week, about his own neighbors: "There will be no food, there will be no housing... there will be no nothing." He was describing what happens if Americans elect people who want them to have healthcare. And that's the whole pitch — vote for us or the guy who wants to freeze your rent will personally starve you. It'd be a masterpiece of projection if the son of a bitch knew he was doing it.
The guy who cannot even speak English as his first language doesn't know "no nothing" is a double negative, meaning there will be something. JFC.
Ok, double negatives are forbidden now in English, but it wasn't always that way. Chaucer used four negatives in the sentence describing his Knight to emphasize how good he was. And most languages around the world use double negatives.
I wouldn't say they are forbidden. They are used in casual vernacular and get a pass there, such as Pink Floyd's "We don't need no education." But when trying to make a valid point, grammatical precision would be nice since double negatives change the meaning to the opposite.
"We don't need no education" is an intentional irony, since if they were educated they would know that doesn't mean what they think it means.
I think it's artificial grammatical precision. Somebody 150 years ago decided that English should be like math. One negative in a sentence means negative. Two negatives cancel each other out. But it's an artificial imposition. As I said, English hasn't always been this way, and most languages around the world use double negatives. Where do you think we got the Bs in "debt" and "doubt"? Not because they organically grew that way as English developed over time. It's because, in the 1700s, some scholars decided that Latin was the greatest language ever, therefore English should be more like Latin. The Latin roots of "debt" and "doubt" had Bs in them, so the English forms should have Bs in themtoo. But we don't pronounce the Bs in those words. They're there because of Latin relics.
Yes, I'm being pedantic, and I loathe Donald Trump too. Yes, he sounds ignorant saying "no nothing." But in this case, on a Sunday morning while I have nothing much better to do, I decided to point out the idiocy of disdain for double negatives in English syntax.
Okay. I take you at your word about the Latin roots and silent letters, which make English a hard language to learn. Look at how many born in America folks can't spell or use proper grammar. My disdain in this case is for him and his ignorance. I am approaching the literal meaning of "no nothing" which means there will be something.
"Where do you think we got the Bs in "debt" and "doubt"? Not because they organically grew that way as English developed over time." Actually the b sound did survive from the Latin root into some English dialects that said "debit" (now treated as a separate word with the minor vowel written; it is not really a separate word because it means the same as just "debt") and "dubit" (does not survive except in "indubitably" as an alternate form of "undoubtedly")
I am impressed you knew this about Chaucer. Shakespeare also used multiple negatives in his plays.
What can I say? Language and literature nerd here. And 100% on Shakespeare's use of double negatives.
No one ever accused Christians of intelligence. Or self reflection. Or basic human decency.
Only they themselves claim to have a surfeit of all those
And just like their claims to moral authority or…well, moral anything, it's bullshit.
Oh, Doc, sorry, but I'm going to disagree again. I'm a devout Christian (Episcopalian), and not all Christians claim the high ground on decency and morality. But we try very hard to be self-reflective and decent.
I have no problem with you and those like you. It's the fakers and hypocrites that think they can tell others what to do that I despise.
They aren't fakers. Hypocritical dipshittery has been Christianity's default state since the beginning. Look up the things people said about Christians before Christianity got powerful enough to genocide it's way across the planet for fun and prophet. It's very enlightening.
I'm entirely comfortable saying that Christians who don't claim moral authority are vanishingly rare. It's baked into the vast majority of denominations and sects. Including the liberal-ish ones. Most Christians don't notice because it's just as intrinsic to their faith as white supremacy is intrinsic to this useless fucking shithole of a country, but it becomes real obvious once you leave the religion and try having any kind of conversation with Christians.
Self-reflection is, if anything, even rarer.
It's the hateful fake Christians that I cannot tolerate. Those people deserve to go straight to Hell.
They aren't fake. They're just as Christian as all the others. Just because someone is Christian doesn't stop them from being evil, and being evil doesn't revoke someone's Christianity. That's a no true scotsman fallacy.
I'm not fake, and I'm not evil. Christians aren't a monolith any more than women, Black people, Hispanic people, and gay people are.
Fine. I don't like them much either. But don't tar us all with the same brush.
Wow! I beg to differ. Just not all who proclaim to be Christian! ❤️
Wendy-informative post on thistle and moss. I think we are all tired of this fucking mess of an administration!
Wendy, I believe it was Nixon (commie nerdowell) that mandated 55 mph to save gas, and the 68f in winter during a time when a/c was not that common people died from heat stroke as well.
I thought it was Carter with the thermostats...?
That's my recollection as well
I just remember his wearing a sweater in the White House.
The original Tan Suit Outrage™
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He should have a shawl he is frail in every way fucking frail. I really couldn’t remember so it seems Carter did have the credentials for science. How about the ‘double nickels ‘ 55mph?
That was Nixon -- iirc it came when we were lining up for gas and only being allowed to buy it on alternating days, depending on the las number on your license plate.
Fun Fact: Since 1912 Denmark has marked our Independence Day with a festival to celebrate the friendship between our countries. It's normally the largest event outside of the US. This year they asked that the organizers not invite one US official from the Trump admin because of the tensions mounting from the Greenland fiasco. Once again, we are shunned on the world stage because we have a mad cow wannabe dictator in charge of US. Nice.
8647 and his big ass
Separately, or together?
In one giant shitload.
Thanks, Jeff! Great recap. 👏🏼
Letters from God has an awesome photo of a horde of Magats who found shelter from the storm yesterday afternoon in (wait for it) … the African-American History Museum!!! Isn’t that delicious! 💙
Thanks for that piece of information, Punkette! Made my day.
You are welcome, my sister! Made my day too! 😈
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That is totally delicious!!!!
Yes! Reminds me of Marilyn Monroe in the Seven Year Itch!
https://youtu.be/fIh6HDeXKGY?si=N798cNk2KqZaAe9s
Tasty, indeed!!!
Brilliant.
Jeff, it seems we are getting deeper into the stupid for the past few days, more stupid than usual.. First off, using the term “communist” revived from days of yesteryear in typical Joe McCarthy style. It’s MAGAs new shiny word that they are unable to define. They have no winning issues so they trot out uber patriotic memes and sayings and anyone who opposes their ideology is a “communist”. Second, that sh**show at the capitol, the failed “State Fair”, the baptism tent, all those preachers, people tipping over from the heat, a slap shod excuse for a fair. And finally to top it off, Men with Tiny Penises on display marching around shouting Nazi slogans, dressed in their cute little uniforms so that others could not identify who were in those uniforms.. Calgon… take me away. I hope all fellow travelers had a better 4th than the chuds, Nazis and White supremicists that took over our Capitol yesterday… I’m sure Jefferson Davis would be smiling.
Fredo, this is a redux but I wrote it with your MAGA golfers in mind, way back in February:
Hey MAGA turds
Did you proud anti-nerds
Catch in that garbled and tangled
Speech that he mangled
That lies suffused all his words?
Beautiful and very relevant today… Hope you enjoyed a peaceful and fun 4th..
Two hundred masked, marching-in-unison incels carrying flags of defeat and showing off their Fachismo. It was Crazy MAGAT Day on the Mall. I'm sure Shitler knew they were coming.
He probably invited them. 😡
And probably paid them too
Oh great. We are back to the revival of Nazis and the Red Scare. Zzzzzz
We could use the "Sir, have you no decency?" speech right now.
But they don’t have any, and they’re proud of it 👹
Unfortunately we've passed the time where that actually meant something. I think they consider lack of decency a badge of honor
And evangelicals running their mouths..
"When fascism comes to America, it will wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."
Attributed to James Waterman Wise Jr., from a speech he gave in the 1930s
Where' missing Mitch
drumpf's Senate bitch
If he had only impeached
We would not have reached
Being driven into this ditch
I'm still sticking with my theory that if he's not already dead, victim of cardiac arrest, then he's comatose on a ventilator someplace. No word on his condition for several weeks. So much secrecy.
His wife immediately headed to China for further instructions. Interesting.
Excellent! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
elseweb:People are now speculating that Mitch McConnell is incapacitated and/or passed away but if they announce it before the first Tuesday in August, it would be required to have a special election and somebody like Massey might run and win.
McConnell remaining technically alive for an extra few weeks as part of a manipulative procedural maneuver is exactly how he would have wanted to go.
Have a at least a semi-non-stupid Sunday, everyone! And keep your Antifa scuba gear and Antifa Exacto knives outta that reflecting pool!
Don't tell me what to do.😂
And don't tell me what NOT to do, goddammit!
Kinda getting philosophically deep. Let me consult my Spinoza.
Hats off, mate! Outstanding.
It's the giant invisible pool knives from the Antifa Store that are doing the real damage.
checking Amazon right now
The reflecting pool is two feet deep.. Scuba gear?
If you have to be cutting that tough rubber, you’re gonna need to stay under. Also to obscure your face from the Flock cameras.
OK. Face down in the Reflecting Pool with a 15-pound scuba tank on your back sticking up out of the water. You won't be standing up anytime and soon.
How about a MAGA baseball cap with a rubber face of a cabinet member or JD Vance as a disguise. Breathe through snorkel with an American flag attached flying. They'll never figure it out. Your story: “I'm documenting vandalism to the reflecting pool by those rat commie bastards.”
You wear a white moron mask on the back of your head so the cameras SEE you but register FRIEND. A classic maneuver.
All this tomfoolery will make sense soon… I think.
In addition to everything else that I love about your posts , I particularly love that you took so many pictures of your wife! The connection between the two of you lives on and honestly benefits all of us in my opinion .
Kathryn, I commented a few days ago that it is making me take more random casual photos these days. It occurred to me that I take very few photos of my husband/family except on holidays and birthdays, all posed, and I wouldn't have the wonderful collection of photos that Jeff has. They show the personality of Ms. Spouse, and have inspired me to take more photos.
That is exactly the kind of thing I meant .
Those desks may be what I have known as partner desks, because two people could work at the desk at once, one on each side. The commenters ask whether Mamdani understands how a desk works, but clearly the commenters themselves don't know much about desks.
Typical of them!
When he said "we won here every time" he meant that South Dakota went for him in each of three elections. Which is not a surprise. The people of SD also elected Puppy and Goat Killer Kristi Noem as governor.
Yeah and isn’t there only a couple hundred of them anyway?
Are she and her husband shopping together these days, as a bonding experience?
Deeply disappointed that my Jewish Space Laser did not get the credit for the weather in D.C.