runner up for Friday: George Stephanopoulos, who wasted an entire interview on pestering Joe Biden with endless variations of "but aren't you old?" while not asking one question about policy
I watched that whole non-interview, screaming at the TV. Asshole-pretend-journalist-George can go fuck himself all the way to hell. Not only did he not ask any questions about policy, he totally dismissed them when Joe highlighted them. His comment about "that was in the past; the election is not about the past it's about the future" nearly cost my TV screen its life. The only good thing about that fiasco was that it was fairly short...had to turn off the somber idiot talking heads at the end with their fakey doom and gloom faces. All performance, no substance. Hey, all you MSM.....FFFFFUUUUUUCCCCKKKKK YOU!!!
Same here!!! Pissed me right off too!!! Idiot blowhards trying jam their narrative down everyone's throat!! George; 'The polls say you have a 36% approval rating' Are you freakin' kidding me?? You're just making shit up now?? The look on President Biden's face was 'You're just as full of shit as Trump' briefly.
I can't keep track of the pearl-clutching. I've stopped watching TV (unless I know something is coming up) and I've given up my print subscriptions. Spending the $ I've saved (which isn't much) on blogs to support their work. I'm posting and amplifying for DemCast on Spoutible and Twitter/X as @PeggyStuart, and Facebook as Summit and Wasatch Counties' Moosetracks for Progress. If you follow me on any of those, you can notify me.
Is everyone here aware that the Rethugs have been working for decades to get enough states to approve a NEW Constitutional Convention???!!!!! ‼️‼️ They have 19 states that have fully passed the resolution through both state houses & another 25 have passed it through at least 1 house.
Everyone must pay attention & know this. Check the map on this & see what your state is doing that you may not be aware of. This makes my stomach knot up
Do not watch these dog and pony shows. Just support the Biden-Harris ticket. No interviews, no debates. Look at his accomplishments and let that stand.
No shit! And love the way they inserted commentary between sections of the interview to elongate their viewer time! Such bullshit.. This is the way I counter and cope with their literal insanity HOL:
I'm repeating myself, but this needs to be known. From HCR's Substack:
'Tonight, George Stephanopoulos of ABC interviewed Biden without a teleprompter or notes, focusing only on Biden’s age without any questions about policy. ABC News posted the interview transcript with the president’s conversation portrayed with the “g”s dropped off the words and with other colloquial pronunciations spelled out, as if it were dialect. Trump, whose words the press tends to turn into clean prose, has refused to do an interview under the same conditions.'
Exactly! I’ve been proclaiming it’s like Chicken Little! In some versions everyone who bought into the “sky is falling" narrative falls prey to the fox. 🙄
I noticed, but after the first Trump spout my yelling also drowned out almost anything else. So I read the transcript. WTF is the problem???? He was perfectly sane and connected, unless cut off mid sentence (that attempt to talk about Medicare)
My mother's biggest hatred in life was liars, and I have followed in her footsteps. I had to turn it off after the first 20 minutes. I can't imagine how I would have responded to that bullshit blizzard. I have a feeling President Biden has the same dim view of liars. I also doubted that muting Trump would shut him up.
Response time should have started once The Felon Guy shuts TFU. No cameras no mics so the viewing audience doesn’t have to listen to his tripe filled rants. He should also have been cautioned on live air by the incompetent moderators with no time penalty, perhaps awarding the time wasted to the responder. If that doesn’t work, perhaps activate a shock collar next time?
We all knew a muted Trump would yell in an attempt to be heard on Biden’s mic. I’m surprised he didn’t come onstage with a megaphone. If he had, I have no doubt CNN would give him a pass.
Thank you as always with breaking through to transcendent absurdity and pointing the way out of the slough of despair in these darkening days by a laugh. I have a problem with cussing too much for a lady as I grew up with all brothers and worked in an industrial environment. So I get my YAs YAs out enjoying your colorful language which expresses such glowing truths no other method is capable of.
I turned off the power to my TV system about two weeks ago. It's still off.
There *is* a withdrawal period. Like a noise-hole that is hungry to be fed meaningless racket, distraction, and conflict and irritation and car commercials and News You Can't Do Anything About.
After about a week, I started to remember there is a real world outside. Without all the Republican horseshit and threats and violence.
I used to think ABC was a second-rate news organization. I was wrong - calling them a "news" organization is totally missing the point. Fuck off, ABC-fucktards.
That is exactly my take on the interview. Biden attempted to throw in some policy accomplishments after Georgy Boy asked virtually the same question the sixth time. What a waste of an interview!
HRC found out its not about policy....just performance. And Donny Dipshit is a world class performer...Biden will NEVER get any credit for stuff. That said we are in a sad situation & how he failed in the 'debate' can't be undone & millions saw it. I have no solutions---overwhelmed
ABC Fake News has been BS back to 2017 (maybe 2016). Where GMA was broadcasting Convicted Felon Donald Dumbsterfire's Tweets, before he was banned, verbatim. No follow-on that the Dickless Donnie was lying or spreading misinformation. Just, here you go Donnie, here's your unedited or un-commented propaganda being sent to old folks who will take it at face value.
Jeff, I love ya, but you and Joe both need an intervention. Joe did the interview at a moment of emergency post-debate, specifically to counter the widespread impression that he’s become too old for the job. So of course the questioning was all about that subject.
When asked whether he watched (a replay of) the debate, Joe stared into space for a few seconds and then said “I’m not sure.”
Joe can’t cut it anymore, and his handlers have been gaslighting us. Et tu, Jeff?
Let’s go to the tape. You’re right that my quote was not accurate, for which I apologize. But his response indicated uncertainty: a pause searching his memory followed by saying “I don’t think I did, no.” How could he possibly be unsure about whether he saw that debacle? Here it is, judge the answer for yourself: https://youtu.be/3aUye7DoWxs?si=FCCN8J-7hIk6Ld34
OK, so let's hear your substitute for the man who won the nomination handily. Let us hear the pick that is going to unite an unresentful Democratic party. Let's hear who should win at a brokered convention which will be ever so much fun for the delegates.
I choose the guy who flubbed his words who repeatedly says he beat Obama and that Biden may start WWII. I’m with Joe. All the naysayers need to ask who in the Democratic Party has 100% name recognition? And is willing to be veep for eight years to Kamala. None.
I apologize for misquoting Biden, but his actual words are tantamount to my characterization. Here’s what actually happened - judge for yourself https://youtu.be/3aUye7DoWxs?si=FCCN8J-7hIk6Ld34
Go back and watch it again, this time with an open mind. You’ve bought into the narrative, and it’s the kind of thing we have to overcome if we want to keep Trump out of a job.
Joe was seen losing his train of thought in the debate v. The Donald. ( I hear he hates being called The Donald.) Trump’s train of thought was on a circular track— immigrants horrible, Biden has done terrible things, the country is laughed at, we had the best water, etc., everything was terrific when he was in charge, around and around. Biden found his train of thought again.
Better speakers, better debaters are a dime a dozen. They probably are at their best when well-rested and not hoarse, and not president.
I would vote for a potted plant over tRump. And I gladly voted Biden in the PA primary. Now I learn his diminished communication capabilities are just one step above the potted plant level. I am very upset!
Potted plant communication skills? He was asked by Stepanopoulos about the debate, was he aware he was screwing up? Not terribly different from “Have you stopped bearing your wife?”
Stop the gaslighting… This answer is clearly a lie, or an uncertain answer from someone with failing memory. If your grandparent was seen naked on TV by all of America, a site as traumatic as seeing Biden’s debate performance, and you were asked whether you saw a replay of it, you wouldn’t pause and look puzzled and give an answer lacking conviction https://youtu.be/3aUye7DoWxs?si=FCCN8J-7hIk6Ld34
I wrote to several reporters and columnists earlier today, noting something that HCR included in her Substack today and asking them to urge the higher-ups to stop skewing their coverage:
"Journalist Jennifer Schulze of Heartland Signal noted today that as of 8:00 this morning [7-5-24], the New York Times had published 192 pieces on Biden’s debate performance: 142 news articles and 50 opinion pieces. Trump was covered in 92 stories, about half of which were about the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling. Although Trump has frequently slurred his words or trailed off while speaking and repeatedly fell asleep at his own criminal trial, none of the pieces mentioned Trump’s mental fitness."
To get contact info for NYT personnel, google for each person's page; most of them contain a Contact link. (The email format is usually Firstname.Lastname (at) nytimes (dot) com, but it varies.)
The entire world is watching as Americans are once again being gaslighted by the media.
Your "news" coverage and opinions are among the worst America has to offer!
You are trying to twist the minds of your readers to believe that what they see is not real. Congratulations, you are going to be controlled by the trump monarchy if you are successful in your traitorous gaslighting.
Yours in service, Kaye Stone"
Thank you, Dee!! I am not the best writer, but I wanted to keep it short.
I can’t take credit for it, but I appreciate your kind words — and (not to sound corny but it’s true) your solidarity helps me feel a little less anxious about the future. Best wishes.
Did that when I cancelled a couple of months ago. Never received a response, but I didn't expect one. Same was true of Frank Bruni, who has become a toady also.
🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯 Tweet, email, contact! Take 5 minutes, 20, 40, or more. Or devote time every day!! Crash their email boxes. Blow up Twitter! I donated again today to Joe Biden. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Especially if writers like asshat MAGA Matthew Goebbels are dominating their coverage. Had a good laugh at his ridiculous Fuhrer-looking appearance but at the same time,, this shit is scary as hell. My wife's question was, I wonder if he has a girlfriend? If he does, he's probably keeping her in a bunker.
I only read last month that "incel" wasn't a terrorist. "Incel" these days are rw Nazis who can't get laid. "Incel" Involuntary Celibate" or some damn thing. Maybe they should find the local "Q" dance in a smelly barn. Romance may ensues! /s
That's the fate they plan for every woman in this country who is of "child-bearing age". The rest of us - who knows? The Handmaid's Tale comes to mind.
I finally quit my subscription - I'd put it off, thinking I'd lose my 'puzzle rights'. But I can pay for the puzzles separately, so I kept that subscription only. I feel better now :) Oh, and yes, I did tell them why!
I did and it felt great! Subscribed to the Philadelphia Inquirer when I learned their headline story in response to the Biden should step aside for the good of the country was FOR THE GOOD OF THE COUNTRY, TRUMP SHOULD WITHDRAW. Hell yeah!
Canceled it a year ago. I firget whose Substack i was on, one of the big ones and there were over 30 people in a row who said they just canceled. I stopped counting at that point.
Ahh....the venerable NYT....the same paper that cheerleaded Hitler in 1935....they thought he was great. It seems to love fascists and dictators. Why do they have this golden boy reputation.
Donny called them “the failed New York Times” once. I don’t think he feels that way anymore. I wonder why the media wants an authoritarian president since more than likely they all will be merged into one “US TV” and there will be limited news coverage & jobs for so called journalists
Because the owners think they'll get big tax breaks and they don't give a damn about journalism. They live in a fool's paradise and will find themselves in prison before they even realize what hit them. Selling out democracy to line their pockets in the short term.
Just like the despicable Les Moonves did with CBS in 2016. Laughing all the way to the bank, and saying it was OK to rake in billions "because he'll never win". POS.
Only in America will you hear: "Cult of Science" and "I wouldn't eat a human". JFC! WHAT IS HAPPENING TO PEOPLE!!!! And seriously, does anyone give a shit what Megan McCain has to say. 🙄 Have a nice weekend, fine people. Let's keep working towards a more sane society. ✌️
Weyrich has put some fine touches on the final solution, but it started way back when Ford pardoned criminal Nixon! Reagan added much more to the repukelicans' bag of shitmongering by killing off decent education, and giving us the shitty gift of trickle-down economics.
I am beginning to wonder if it was more than a coincidence that the Lewis Powell Memo was successful in 1971, the same year the Christo fascist Reverend Ian Paisley founded his militant British Protestant Democratic Unionist Party in Northern Ireland. Such white supremacist folk believe all Catholics, like President Joe Biden, are mere pawns of the Pope, their anti Christ.☘️
News Bulletin: DFF claimed yesterday he didn't know ANYTHING about Project 2025 (just like he once said he didn't know anything about Q Anon), but then he contradicted himself when he said that he disagreed with some of their proposals.
Quote from Trump: I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they're saying and some of the things they are saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal. Anything they do, I wish them luck, But I have nothing to do with them.
MY TAKE: While I agree that Trump authorized writing this "Truth," I don't think he did it himself. No misspelled words, perfect punctuation, and no CAPITAL LETTERS. My guess is a campaign aide came in the room and suggested he post something, and he just said, "Okay, you do it. I'm going to visit the bathroom and make sure the last boxes are still there."
💯! It’s not all caps, the grammar is correct and even if he used the word “abysmal”, he couldn’t spell it. This is crazy but I bet the original was far worse and I predict we will see a lot of these cleaned up posts as he keeps mentally declining.
Look no further than ghost boy Stephen Miller, who ‘is an American political advisor who served as a senior advisor for policy and White House director of speechwriting to President Donald Trump.[2] His politics have been described as far-right and anti-immigration.’ Wikipedia intro.
Re Meghan McCann, that bitch is another fking idiot who’s intelligence level is Housewives of you name it town. She idolizes fakery and red lipstick but will never reach her aspirations of being an Erica Jayne. WTF is she even doing commenting on politics in any capacity? Shut that ugly thin lipped little mealy mean mouth the fuck up.
Character is everything. Christ, did you ever imagine that there were so many fucking racists among us? Still? So many know-nothings claiming simple idiocy as the one true faith? Or so many loathesome greedheads willing, even eager, to let children starve, to let women die, just to avoid paying a fair share of taxes? Fuck every single one of them. As wiser people have proclaimed in this curse: may all their teeth fall out save one, so they may have a terrible toothache the rest of their days.
I imagined that there were this many fucking racists amongst us. They used to be somewhat submerged, almost embarrassed to surface, but Trump, and the last 15 years of the Republican party have given them air and ground cover to fly their freak flag and go full Bull Connor.
I have experienced racism my whole life with micro aggressions. As a Native Hawaiian from the 50 th fucking state in the union.. living on the west coast.. I get looked up and down and I’m always asked WITHOUT FAIL. ever since I was a kid: WHAT ARE YOU? Rudest fucking question EVER. I always answer with: HUMAN..what’s going thru my head is: FUCK YOU ASSHOLE
Wow. Hawaiians are beautiful. What kind of dick would ask that? Maybe they just think that you are exotically beautiful? I mean, we have every shade of human in California and that's a great thing.
A Dick .. (Arne I get asked ).. what are you.. all the damn time.. some are just curious and there are others .. I went to this gala with my husband and it was for charity. Everyone knows my hubby but only a very few know me. He grew up in the area we live in..so when he introduced me to some of his acquaintances mostly men some with their wives.. the men who were solo. How’d you find her. What is she? Then he tells them I’m Native Hawaiian.. one guy said oh does she walk around naked for you.. my hubby caught my fist before I could clock that MFKR.. then our entire table of hubby’s stood up.. and our attorney who is my hubby’s bestie.. former football player.. grabbed that fuck face asshat by his shirt.. “ you wanna say that again?” He back peddled .. Dude, I was only kidding.. our attorney said APOLOGIZE now.. he gave a half ass apology and ran away.. but here’s the beauty of this moment. My hubby knows everyone and everyone in this town knows him.. he said he’ll never do business with him again and he can get his fucking materials elsewhere.. that fuckface asshole..is screwed.. no one will give him the time of day. And no one is supplying him jack shit.. it’s truly a FAFO moment.
Is not about every shade of human in California.. Being exotic isn’t a great comment. It gives a weird sexual connotation to the person they are speaking about. How bout everyone treats everyone with respect. And we don’t talk about a persons looks. Weight.. age.. or income.. how about we neutralize speech that sexualizes others and to define people by their actions.. are you a good person are you kind are you a person with strong character and integrity.. let’s start with that first and leave peoples looks alone.. I don’t want nor need some strange man touching me.. touching my hair or my skin.. like he has some fucking right to touch me without my fucking permission. No one should lay one fucking finger on anyone they don’t know no matter how beautiful they think they are.. it’s not a fucking compliment. It sends me into a fucking full blown panic attack.
These greedy racists people are everywhere. Some hide it, but if you listen carefully it springs out. They are usually haters of those who are poor, immigrants, anyone in a disadvantaged position.
I was never disadvantaged. I grew up in Newport Beach on the water. My Dad is white and my Mom is Native Hawaiian. They had a company that worked with the US government. I never understood why everyone would always ask me.. what are you?? Then in 4 th-5 th grade I had a girl ask me over for a play date she lived in a poorer part of the area and her Mom asked what I was and I always answered Hawaiian.. she called me a CHINK looking GOOK NIGGER.. I started to cry and rode my bike home and told my Dad.. he turned beet red and took me back to the girls house marched me right to the door and politely knocked. The mother answered and he asked her: Did you call my daughter a “Chink looking gook nigger.. “ she said she was only kidding.. my Dad was 6’4” and this skank was my about my moms height 5’ he continued: You EVER come anywhere near my daughter again including your daughter I’ll have you in a court room in front a judge for defamation and threatening my child. They moved after that school year and I never saw them again.
Exactly. My daughters get tan but no where near how dark I can get if I’m out in the sun. But I don’t tan very well any longer I just get sunburn..then it tans.. my Hawaiian cousins range from super dark to fairly pale .. dark eyes to green and mine are kinda a weird copper color. My older cousins have really dark eyes and the next gen is lighter and my nieces and nephews eyes are green and my youngest daughter has green hazel eyes and she’s translucent lol and barely gets tan..
I have eyes with epicanthus folds. I’m totally northern European extraction (disappointingly; I wanted to find something interesting, but I’m so white I turn lavender when I get cold), but some Swedes and Finns (and Russians) have the epicanthus fold. As a child (1960’s), people would comment on my “oriental eyes”; I would catch them staring at me, and that was scary to a child! The uncle of one of my friends asked her, right in front of me, who her little “nip” friend was! I was raised to respect my elders, never answer them back; but if I saw that guy today I would ask him when his DNA was scheduled to branch off from amoebas.
Exactly!! Just because we look different.. my hubby’s line.. he has pics from his family over 100 years ago they have bright blue electric light eyes but they’re full blown Asian eyes.. he’s family were reindeer herders in northern Norway his ancestors look totally Asian except for the eyes.. it actually freaked me out at first..
My mother’s mother is from Naarpes, Finland, but her mother died when she was a year old. I grew up knowing my mother’s stepmother as my grandmother. She was from Mona, Munsala, Finland, and I went there with her for six weeks when I was turning 14. I loved it!
That's really awful,my father was a run-of-the-mill racist, threw around the 'N' daily,(I've never used that word,ever),so was my stepfather,he was Japanese growing up in Brooklyn,NY in the 50s,he was bullied with racial slurs,he decided to respond in kind his whole life. A lot of young men their Dads are their heros, I've spent my entire life trying not to be like them.
Bruce you’re a good soul.. my Dad was my hero. The woman who raised me had 3 children from her first marriage. I’m the only child from her second marriage. And I’m happy to say she’s not my mother!! She couldn’t have more children. My dad wanted a child with her.. so a family member who I adore gave birth to me for them.. and my birth mother is amazing and kind. We have the same dimples and I’m thankful to be here and I’m really thankful I’m not in any way related to those unemployed grifting assholes!! I went home to Hawai’i and I literally almost ran into them.. I thought I was going to hyperventilate.. I pulled my baseball cap down and walked right past them.. whew.. my family’s and I decided we won’t go back to the Big island where I grew up.. we decided to only go to another island where I have family and I won’t have to worry about running into those Aholes.
I'm not ashamed to admit, I was a complete ‘mama’s boy',and it was an honor to help take of her the last few years of her life,she was my hero. She faced life with love and compassion for everyone,and with a smile for everyone, because she believed when you smile at people,most will smile back,I try to be the same way,as difficult as it seems sometimes,but I try…
You brought tears to my eyes my friend. Your Mom sounds absolutely wonderful and kind.. she sounds like the most lovely roll model for how to be in life.. and that is something we should all strive to emulate.. if we as a collective can be anything in this world.. let us all try to be kind.
“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.”
I woke up last night at 3:30, agitated about my very own Senator Mark Warner joining the anti-Joe feeding frenzy. My own Senator would deny my primary vote, my involvement with choosing VA delegates to the DNC, with the postcards and yard signs and volunteer recruitment I and so many others have been engaged in for months.
To hell with Warner. Today I'm wearing a Biden aviator glasses t-shirt.
A few days ago I posted your brilliance (with your link) on FB: "Kevin D. Roberts is the head of the Heritage Foundation, and he’s promising a violent, bloody revolution if he doesn’t get his way. We should all be terrified by this, considering it’s coming from the same people hell-bent on inflicting their democracy-destroying Project 2025 should Donny be installed as King Fuckface the First.
Did any of this get any coverage in the press? No, it did not — because the entire political media ecosystem is instead laser-focused in waiting for Joe Biden to mispronounce the name of the 14th undersecretary for the Bureau of Land Management."
Linda, you are so correct. Yesterday wearing my Re Elect Biden shirt, I decided to run for the store... Oh, should I change my shirt? I decided to wear it... not a single negative comment. At least 4 people looked me right in the eye and smiled looking back at the shirt. I know one day I will meet the asshole, who will try to create conflict, I will try to keep my, fuck you, at least a little lady like....😂🤬
My brother sent me a “ Make America Great Again”hat — in Russian! I plan on wearing it to any tRump event in my area! Can’t wait for the questions from the Maga intelligencia…
These people are all so pathetic and disrespectful of all of us. All these fucking “christians” want nothing more than to take control of my body, mind and spirit…it ain’t happening! Even though I am scared to death that tRUMP will steal the election again, I know we are better than this! I know it to my core. We cannot let these fuckers win…but man, am I tired of all of this 😪
Actually, the earth is an oblate spheroid, but round is close enough for conversation. Was it Reagan who kept jelly beans in the Oval Office? I could be wrong, because I'm 81, like the President, so I must have dementia.
Yup Jelly Beans!! My Dad always had them on hand when he would visit. Yes my father was friends with President Reagan. He was a very kind man. My Dad kinda chewed ass on him for his fuck up with the Iran Contra stuff..I just remember my Dad saying: you really thought that was a good fucking idea? Yup he actually said that..
Didn't Reagan have Alzheimer's while president? Didn't everyone know? It's such common knowledge now that I can't remember if it was reported at the time.
Yes actually but not during his presidency.. it’s kinda splitting hairs because we know now that Alzheimer’s starts earlier than we thought.. and it’s now categorized as Type 3 Diabetes..
'Tonight, George Stephanopoulos of ABC interviewed Biden without a teleprompter or notes, focusing only on Biden’s age without any questions about policy. ABC News posted the interview transcript with the president’s conversation portrayed with the “g”s dropped off the words and with other colloquial pronunciations spelled out, as if it were dialect. Trump, whose words the press tends to turn into clean prose, has refused to do an interview under the same conditions.'
Meghan McCain is human garbage of the maximal degree.
Then there is Chris Cilizza whose take on the interview was that Biden held his own enough that he would continue to muddle around and prevent the (points to better candidates) better choice. What the actual fuck? You are just a media whore who is looking for clicks and traffic to fucking monetize.
Then she must stop using all electric and electronic devices, because they wouldn't exist if not for the "cult of science." She must stop posting online. She must stop appearing on TV or radio, or being quoted in any print or online publication. She must stop eating anything she didn't grow/butcher herself, and she must stop wearing factory-made garments and using factory-made cloth.
She would be free, of course, to knit herself a caftan (from wool she sheared from sheep she raised) and stand on a soapbox at any corner of her choosing and shout herself hoarse.
(Edited to remove two typos. Prob'ly missed others.)
Damn, Candace! Luddite for Dollars now??!💵💵 Bobby should eat Kevin McCarthy. With fava beans and a fine chianti. What! A Hitler impersonator? Congrats, NYT. There goes another 100,000 subscribers. John McCain's ghost needs to come back and kick his daughter in the ass. Well, that about takes care of it. Have a good weekend, everybody.😀
Stupid is as Stupid is. Amerikkka's Stupidity just can't quit. To the Candices and the Meghans....I fart in your general direction. You keep us entertained, Jeff! Thanks!
runner up for Friday: George Stephanopoulos, who wasted an entire interview on pestering Joe Biden with endless variations of "but aren't you old?" while not asking one question about policy
I watched that whole non-interview, screaming at the TV. Asshole-pretend-journalist-George can go fuck himself all the way to hell. Not only did he not ask any questions about policy, he totally dismissed them when Joe highlighted them. His comment about "that was in the past; the election is not about the past it's about the future" nearly cost my TV screen its life. The only good thing about that fiasco was that it was fairly short...had to turn off the somber idiot talking heads at the end with their fakey doom and gloom faces. All performance, no substance. Hey, all you MSM.....FFFFFUUUUUUCCCCKKKKK YOU!!!
Same here!!! Pissed me right off too!!! Idiot blowhards trying jam their narrative down everyone's throat!! George; 'The polls say you have a 36% approval rating' Are you freakin' kidding me?? You're just making shit up now?? The look on President Biden's face was 'You're just as full of shit as Trump' briefly.
Biden is too much of a gentleman to tell Geo he is full of grunt.
#itsthemediastupid
Use this hashtag liberally. It’s like salt. It will give your comments true flavor.
I simply say #Nevertrump
That's all the media needs to know
That’s a great one to use too. Easy to understand. Have added it to my collection as well. Thanks.
I’ve been using the similar but opposite #ActuallyHonestNews to demand the media grow up and start acting like adults.
I've been tweeting media outlets daily, every time they bash or pearl-clutch over Joe.
Imagine the Twitter pages we could blow up if everyone sent 3, 4, 10 per day. Takers?
I can't keep track of the pearl-clutching. I've stopped watching TV (unless I know something is coming up) and I've given up my print subscriptions. Spending the $ I've saved (which isn't much) on blogs to support their work. I'm posting and amplifying for DemCast on Spoutible and Twitter/X as @PeggyStuart, and Facebook as Summit and Wasatch Counties' Moosetracks for Progress. If you follow me on any of those, you can notify me.
All day Sat I did:
#Project2025IsTreason
on tons of retweets about it.
Is everyone here aware that the Rethugs have been working for decades to get enough states to approve a NEW Constitutional Convention???!!!!! ‼️‼️ They have 19 states that have fully passed the resolution through both state houses & another 25 have passed it through at least 1 house.
Everyone must pay attention & know this. Check the map on this & see what your state is doing that you may not be aware of. This makes my stomach knot up
Thanks for this one. I’ve added it to my “go to” hashtag list.
Love it!
I decided not to watch it. Sounds like it was the right choice. Fuck all the way off, Georgie and take the rest of the bloviating MSM with you.
I've despised George S. since he left the Clinton Admin. and immediately released a tell-all book. That was before EVERYONE WROTE BOOKS. What a rat.
He acted like the FBI interviewing an espionage suspect.
Good one Anita...how bout terrorism subject at GITMO. stuck in a black box with the boy man yelling....'effing admit your old!! Do it!¡! 😂
Exactly!
Do not watch these dog and pony shows. Just support the Biden-Harris ticket. No interviews, no debates. Look at his accomplishments and let that stand.
By the end of that "interview," there were no fewer than five crackers glued to my TV screen by peanut butter. Thank GOD I wasn't snacking on bricks!
or catsup.
No shit! And love the way they inserted commentary between sections of the interview to elongate their viewer time! Such bullshit.. This is the way I counter and cope with their literal insanity HOL:
https://hol4justice.substack.com/p/trump-guarantees-win-for-joe-or-kamala?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
I'm repeating myself, but this needs to be known. From HCR's Substack:
'Tonight, George Stephanopoulos of ABC interviewed Biden without a teleprompter or notes, focusing only on Biden’s age without any questions about policy. ABC News posted the interview transcript with the president’s conversation portrayed with the “g”s dropped off the words and with other colloquial pronunciations spelled out, as if it were dialect. Trump, whose words the press tends to turn into clean prose, has refused to do an interview under the same conditions.'
My rage and depression grow ...
Please don't get depressed... but we should all be rageful... but comically so! Dispshit D isn't going to win! HOL
https://open.substack.com/pub/hol4justice/p/trump-guarantees-win-for-joe-or-kamala?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Exactly! I’ve been proclaiming it’s like Chicken Little! In some versions everyone who bought into the “sky is falling" narrative falls prey to the fox. 🙄
During the ABC interview Biden said that when it was his turn to speak, trump was still shouting and it distracted him as he tried to answer.
It distracted me, too. I was busy yelling at Trump for lying I didn't even notice Joe was having a bad time.
I noticed, but after the first Trump spout my yelling also drowned out almost anything else. So I read the transcript. WTF is the problem???? He was perfectly sane and connected, unless cut off mid sentence (that attempt to talk about Medicare)
My mother's biggest hatred in life was liars, and I have followed in her footsteps. I had to turn it off after the first 20 minutes. I can't imagine how I would have responded to that bullshit blizzard. I have a feeling President Biden has the same dim view of liars. I also doubted that muting Trump would shut him up.
I can believe that having seen trump in action before.
He's as rude, crass, disgusting and deceitful as Biden is classy, usually polite, and honest.
Response time should have started once The Felon Guy shuts TFU. No cameras no mics so the viewing audience doesn’t have to listen to his tripe filled rants. He should also have been cautioned on live air by the incompetent moderators with no time penalty, perhaps awarding the time wasted to the responder. If that doesn’t work, perhaps activate a shock collar next time?
There does not need to Ben a next time.
‘be a next time
Tranq dart.
I like that idea. 😤
We all knew a muted Trump would yell in an attempt to be heard on Biden’s mic. I’m surprised he didn’t come onstage with a megaphone. If he had, I have no doubt CNN would give him a pass.
Next time put Trump in a sound proof booth and turn the light off inside when it's not his turn! HOL.
https://open.substack.com/pub/hol4justice/p/trump-guarantees-win-for-joe-or-kamala?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
that's what I predicted that D would keep talking....but still there's a way to handle that...he didn't.
I think Joe passed his "independent cognitive test" by refusing to fall for that (am I allowed to use the s-word here?) horse poopie.
NO FUCKING SWEARING IN THE FUCKING COMMENTS
I do not spew profanities ! I enunciate, like a fucking lady.
Fuck you, you started it! I want my money back. 😂
I believe that's your fucking money the fuck back, for fuck's sake.
Well, there's another dollar in the cuss jar!
Thank you as always with breaking through to transcendent absurdity and pointing the way out of the slough of despair in these darkening days by a laugh. I have a problem with cussing too much for a lady as I grew up with all brothers and worked in an industrial environment. So I get my YAs YAs out enjoying your colorful language which expresses such glowing truths no other method is capable of.
Fuckin' A.
right on bro
Snort.
WHAT HE SAID!
Well, fuck.
Speaking of assholes, let's all yell out a joyous **BIG WAHOO!!** This is SloppySteve's fourth day in prison!! 🥳⚖️😂🇺🇸🤯💃🗽
I wonder how detoxification is going…
Holy shit! No swearing!🤬 🥰
My favorite fucking movie.
https://youtu.be/flGiwfh_9Og?si=1lhoC-PAsBkDlkO6
That's fucking right, Gawddammit!
I won't do it, then.
'kna!
Ding dang blast it to blazes!
SHIT. I'd go back and edit mine if I could find it. 🤣🤣🤣 Gotcha.
Reminds me of one of my favorite Peaky Blinders scenes.
😂😂😂😂
Wow...Does your therapist take new patients?
I think President Biden's response was perfect, 'I take a test everyday,as the leader of the free world'
Marvelous come back!!
Can you write SHIT? FUCK No!!!
If Biden could think on his feet...he could've said THAT to Georgy Boy....that would be his Reagan moment..
He can, but they had him sit. Sneaky bastards!
I turned off the power to my TV system about two weeks ago. It's still off.
There *is* a withdrawal period. Like a noise-hole that is hungry to be fed meaningless racket, distraction, and conflict and irritation and car commercials and News You Can't Do Anything About.
After about a week, I started to remember there is a real world outside. Without all the Republican horseshit and threats and violence.
It's pretty nice.
I used to think ABC was a second-rate news organization. I was wrong - calling them a "news" organization is totally missing the point. Fuck off, ABC-fucktards.
Where I live, the local news is an ABC affiliate & owned by Sinclair-that tells you all you need to know
That is exactly my take on the interview. Biden attempted to throw in some policy accomplishments after Georgy Boy asked virtually the same question the sixth time. What a waste of an interview!
That's fine. There were no newsworthy clips for the gop to feed off of
HRC found out its not about policy....just performance. And Donny Dipshit is a world class performer...Biden will NEVER get any credit for stuff. That said we are in a sad situation & how he failed in the 'debate' can't be undone & millions saw it. I have no solutions---overwhelmed
That explains why all of Donny’s cult members say that they vote for him because of his policies-what policies?
100%
It's all storytelling!!! That's it.
Let's weave our own story
ABC Fake News has been BS back to 2017 (maybe 2016). Where GMA was broadcasting Convicted Felon Donald Dumbsterfire's Tweets, before he was banned, verbatim. No follow-on that the Dickless Donnie was lying or spreading misinformation. Just, here you go Donnie, here's your unedited or un-commented propaganda being sent to old folks who will take it at face value.
Jeff, I love ya, but you and Joe both need an intervention. Joe did the interview at a moment of emergency post-debate, specifically to counter the widespread impression that he’s become too old for the job. So of course the questioning was all about that subject.
When asked whether he watched (a replay of) the debate, Joe stared into space for a few seconds and then said “I’m not sure.”
Joe can’t cut it anymore, and his handlers have been gaslighting us. Et tu, Jeff?
Bob, I watched that. Biden did not say “I’m not sure” He did pause and said, No I didn’t.
Let’s go to the tape. You’re right that my quote was not accurate, for which I apologize. But his response indicated uncertainty: a pause searching his memory followed by saying “I don’t think I did, no.” How could he possibly be unsure about whether he saw that debacle? Here it is, judge the answer for yourself: https://youtu.be/3aUye7DoWxs?si=FCCN8J-7hIk6Ld34
OK, so let's hear your substitute for the man who won the nomination handily. Let us hear the pick that is going to unite an unresentful Democratic party. Let's hear who should win at a brokered convention which will be ever so much fun for the delegates.
I choose the guy who flubbed his words who repeatedly says he beat Obama and that Biden may start WWII. I’m with Joe. All the naysayers need to ask who in the Democratic Party has 100% name recognition? And is willing to be veep for eight years to Kamala. None.
Joe gets my vote, of course. The problem is not MY vote
Trakhni sebya, tovarich.
Well said.
Trusting Google translate isn’t also a pro Russian operative 🙀
I apologize for misquoting Biden, but his actual words are tantamount to my characterization. Here’s what actually happened - judge for yourself https://youtu.be/3aUye7DoWxs?si=FCCN8J-7hIk6Ld34
We HAVE judged. Four more years!
Putin will be thrilled if Biden vs. tRump is the choice we get, tovarich
Go back and watch it again, this time with an open mind. You’ve bought into the narrative, and it’s the kind of thing we have to overcome if we want to keep Trump out of a job.
Joe was seen losing his train of thought in the debate v. The Donald. ( I hear he hates being called The Donald.) Trump’s train of thought was on a circular track— immigrants horrible, Biden has done terrible things, the country is laughed at, we had the best water, etc., everything was terrific when he was in charge, around and around. Biden found his train of thought again.
Better speakers, better debaters are a dime a dozen. They probably are at their best when well-rested and not hoarse, and not president.
I would vote for a potted plant over tRump. And I gladly voted Biden in the PA primary. Now I learn his diminished communication capabilities are just one step above the potted plant level. I am very upset!
Potted plant communication skills? He was asked by Stepanopoulos about the debate, was he aware he was screwing up? Not terribly different from “Have you stopped bearing your wife?”
Ask him about policy, it’s not potted plant.
Stop the gaslighting… This answer is clearly a lie, or an uncertain answer from someone with failing memory. If your grandparent was seen naked on TV by all of America, a site as traumatic as seeing Biden’s debate performance, and you were asked whether you saw a replay of it, you wouldn’t pause and look puzzled and give an answer lacking conviction https://youtu.be/3aUye7DoWxs?si=FCCN8J-7hIk6Ld34
HIS THIS WEEK HAS GONE TO SHIT.
Jeff - You forgot one for this week! HOL
https://open.substack.com/pub/hol4justice/p/trump-guarantees-win-for-joe-or-kamala?r=f09mi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
If you still have a subscription to the New York Times, cancel it and tell them why you're doing so. A once-great paper has become a right-wing rag.
EMAIL THEM: editorial@nytimes.com
Share this far and wide....I would love to see their inbox explode.
I wrote to several reporters and columnists earlier today, noting something that HCR included in her Substack today and asking them to urge the higher-ups to stop skewing their coverage:
"Journalist Jennifer Schulze of Heartland Signal noted today that as of 8:00 this morning [7-5-24], the New York Times had published 192 pieces on Biden’s debate performance: 142 news articles and 50 opinion pieces. Trump was covered in 92 stories, about half of which were about the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling. Although Trump has frequently slurred his words or trailed off while speaking and repeatedly fell asleep at his own criminal trial, none of the pieces mentioned Trump’s mental fitness."
To get contact info for NYT personnel, google for each person's page; most of them contain a Contact link. (The email format is usually Firstname.Lastname (at) nytimes (dot) com, but it varies.)
"Editor:
The entire world is watching as Americans are once again being gaslighted by the media.
Your "news" coverage and opinions are among the worst America has to offer!
You are trying to twist the minds of your readers to believe that what they see is not real. Congratulations, you are going to be controlled by the trump monarchy if you are successful in your traitorous gaslighting.
Yours in service, Kaye Stone"
Thank you, Dee!! I am not the best writer, but I wanted to keep it short.
It's not just us.
A couple of friends are in Hydra, Greece today. I asked them what is the attitude about America right now?
They said, the most common comment is, "Joe Biden is too old."
From Greece.
Well, there goes the Greek vote.
Great, Dee! We should all do this.
Just adding to *your* idea -- I didn't think to urge others to do so until i read your post. Good for you!
Jennifer Schulze's piece was an excellent read! Thankful for the link provided by HCR.
Data matters. Great post.
I can’t take credit for it, but I appreciate your kind words — and (not to sound corny but it’s true) your solidarity helps me feel a little less anxious about the future. Best wishes.
Thanks for giving us the address since I am unfortunately lazy. But my email has now swooshed into their inbox.
Did that when I cancelled a couple of months ago. Never received a response, but I didn't expect one. Same was true of Frank Bruni, who has become a toady also.
Huzzah!!! I'm on it...
🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯 Tweet, email, contact! Take 5 minutes, 20, 40, or more. Or devote time every day!! Crash their email boxes. Blow up Twitter! I donated again today to Joe Biden. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I sent one of my better letters. As my mother used to say, "Outsnoot the Snoots".
Just did!
Especially if writers like asshat MAGA Matthew Goebbels are dominating their coverage. Had a good laugh at his ridiculous Fuhrer-looking appearance but at the same time,, this shit is scary as hell. My wife's question was, I wonder if he has a girlfriend? If he does, he's probably keeping her in a bunker.
No doubt he's an incel. What self-respecting woman would go near that thing?
Why aren't the douchebag incels able to get repukelican women??
I suspect even fascist women can't deal with the little Hitlers.
I only read last month that "incel" wasn't a terrorist. "Incel" these days are rw Nazis who can't get laid. "Incel" Involuntary Celibate" or some damn thing. Maybe they should find the local "Q" dance in a smelly barn. Romance may ensues! /s
(Is there such a thing as a "left wing Nazi"?)
Or maggot women, at the least.
Candace Owens??
Nah. She's Black. This little Hitler wannabe would only want an Aryan girl - and I mean girl.
Or guy!
Definitely a guy.
Whose Matt 'Goebbels'??? I'm out of loop 😂
Hahahahaha!!! Brilliant!
Wow. Bam!
I think his bio at the end of the op-ed says that he lives with his wife on a farm in Michigan.
Ellis, his “wife” is probably a farm animal. 😄
😂😂😂😂😂
I didn't think of that!
She's probably just a baby machine.
Hotsie totsie, we have another Nazi dear.
Just spit out my coffee. Thanks.
She'd better be! Hubby is a Catholic zealot.
That's the fate they plan for every woman in this country who is of "child-bearing age". The rest of us - who knows? The Handmaid's Tale comes to mind.
I finally quit my subscription - I'd put it off, thinking I'd lose my 'puzzle rights'. But I can pay for the puzzles separately, so I kept that subscription only. I feel better now :) Oh, and yes, I did tell them why!
Did that a few months ago. (I still get the games, though, for $1/wk., or something like that.)
They profit from that $52.
That’s my take. There are other ways to be entertained that don’t require my giving my money to the NYT
Google Play store has free or you can pay for ad-free games. Wordle too
I did and it felt great! Subscribed to the Philadelphia Inquirer when I learned their headline story in response to the Biden should step aside for the good of the country was FOR THE GOOD OF THE COUNTRY, TRUMP SHOULD WITHDRAW. Hell yeah!
The Inquirer is a damn good newspaper and also has a wonderful political columnist, Will Bunch.
Canceled it a year ago. I firget whose Substack i was on, one of the big ones and there were over 30 people in a row who said they just canceled. I stopped counting at that point.
Ahh....the venerable NYT....the same paper that cheerleaded Hitler in 1935....they thought he was great. It seems to love fascists and dictators. Why do they have this golden boy reputation.
THEY DID??!!! That's the first time I've heard that. Now THAT should be the Sunday headline news in the WaPo, and every other decent MSM that's left!
I did. Now I'm using the hashtag #ActuallyHonestNews on SM to elicit suggestions. This blog is one reliable source, and fun to read.
I did two years ago. They're getting worse every day.
I dropped it earlier but picked it up again because I missed Charles M. Blow and Jamal’s Bouie!
They really are great. I get to see them from time to time on MSNBC, but not nearly often enough.
Donny called them “the failed New York Times” once. I don’t think he feels that way anymore. I wonder why the media wants an authoritarian president since more than likely they all will be merged into one “US TV” and there will be limited news coverage & jobs for so called journalists
Because the owners think they'll get big tax breaks and they don't give a damn about journalism. They live in a fool's paradise and will find themselves in prison before they even realize what hit them. Selling out democracy to line their pockets in the short term.
Just like the despicable Les Moonves did with CBS in 2016. Laughing all the way to the bank, and saying it was OK to rake in billions "because he'll never win". POS.
Done.
Only in America will you hear: "Cult of Science" and "I wouldn't eat a human". JFC! WHAT IS HAPPENING TO PEOPLE!!!! And seriously, does anyone give a shit what Megan McCain has to say. 🙄 Have a nice weekend, fine people. Let's keep working towards a more sane society. ✌️
Maybe RFK Jr. will eat them.😂😂
LOL! YES! Damn, is he a wing nut or what??? 🤣
Definitely wing nutty
The nuttiest!!🥴🥴🥴
He and Guv puppy goat killer must coordinate their dinner menus
He'll tell us all that human flesh tastes “just like goat." AND "goat tastes just like dog”.
With fava beans and a fine chianti.
Good one Charlie!
🤣🤣🤣
I am quite certain that we are all sitting in front row seats, watching the complete decline of western civilization…
🖖
You too Susan
It’s a thorough coup and has been planned for years.
Weyrich has put some fine touches on the final solution, but it started way back when Ford pardoned criminal Nixon! Reagan added much more to the repukelicans' bag of shitmongering by killing off decent education, and giving us the shitty gift of trickle-down economics.
I am beginning to wonder if it was more than a coincidence that the Lewis Powell Memo was successful in 1971, the same year the Christo fascist Reverend Ian Paisley founded his militant British Protestant Democratic Unionist Party in Northern Ireland. Such white supremacist folk believe all Catholics, like President Joe Biden, are mere pawns of the Pope, their anti Christ.☘️
News Bulletin: DFF claimed yesterday he didn't know ANYTHING about Project 2025 (just like he once said he didn't know anything about Q Anon), but then he contradicted himself when he said that he disagreed with some of their proposals.
Quote from Trump: I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they're saying and some of the things they are saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal. Anything they do, I wish them luck, But I have nothing to do with them.
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/trumps-project-2025
MY TAKE: While I agree that Trump authorized writing this "Truth," I don't think he did it himself. No misspelled words, perfect punctuation, and no CAPITAL LETTERS. My guess is a campaign aide came in the room and suggested he post something, and he just said, "Okay, you do it. I'm going to visit the bathroom and make sure the last boxes are still there."
this will be the subject of either my Sunday or Monday post, unless something more newsworthy happens
You'll have more and better to say than I do.
now I have performance anxiety
LOL
Don't you dare. I've had anxiety for 60 years now and I will sue you for patent infringement. Besides, Jeff jokes are the best sauce.
😂😂
The Rethuglican party doesn't have a platform other than "Whatever Felon 45 and the Heritage Foundation say."
💯! It’s not all caps, the grammar is correct and even if he used the word “abysmal”, he couldn’t spell it. This is crazy but I bet the original was far worse and I predict we will see a lot of these cleaned up posts as he keeps mentally declining.
It would be interesting to hear Trump pronounce that word. It could go on for hours. They'd need an intermission.
You’re funny
😂💥
😆😅😂
Yeah, I choked on "abysmal". He would not know what that meant nor how to spell it. That's a tell.
If it doesn't say 'radical' in there somewhere, it's not Trump.
Or crooked
https://www.bloomberg.com/
Well, we know that the orange sadist has never told the Truth about anything in the past nine years, so he's certainly not going to start now.
Look no further than ghost boy Stephen Miller, who ‘is an American political advisor who served as a senior advisor for policy and White House director of speechwriting to President Donald Trump.[2] His politics have been described as far-right and anti-immigration.’ Wikipedia intro.
Re Meghan McCann, that bitch is another fking idiot who’s intelligence level is Housewives of you name it town. She idolizes fakery and red lipstick but will never reach her aspirations of being an Erica Jayne. WTF is she even doing commenting on politics in any capacity? Shut that ugly thin lipped little mealy mean mouth the fuck up.
It is suspected there was a hint of Jewish in Hitlers lineage....Reich kept that secret.
He hasn't read the history of Nazi Germany. Nobody was safe. Especially Jews.
😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Character is everything. Christ, did you ever imagine that there were so many fucking racists among us? Still? So many know-nothings claiming simple idiocy as the one true faith? Or so many loathesome greedheads willing, even eager, to let children starve, to let women die, just to avoid paying a fair share of taxes? Fuck every single one of them. As wiser people have proclaimed in this curse: may all their teeth fall out save one, so they may have a terrible toothache the rest of their days.
I imagined that there were this many fucking racists amongst us. They used to be somewhat submerged, almost embarrassed to surface, but Trump, and the last 15 years of the Republican party have given them air and ground cover to fly their freak flag and go full Bull Connor.
Sadly, this is who we are.
I have experienced racism my whole life with micro aggressions. As a Native Hawaiian from the 50 th fucking state in the union.. living on the west coast.. I get looked up and down and I’m always asked WITHOUT FAIL. ever since I was a kid: WHAT ARE YOU? Rudest fucking question EVER. I always answer with: HUMAN..what’s going thru my head is: FUCK YOU ASSHOLE
Wow. Hawaiians are beautiful. What kind of dick would ask that? Maybe they just think that you are exotically beautiful? I mean, we have every shade of human in California and that's a great thing.
A Dick .. (Arne I get asked ).. what are you.. all the damn time.. some are just curious and there are others .. I went to this gala with my husband and it was for charity. Everyone knows my hubby but only a very few know me. He grew up in the area we live in..so when he introduced me to some of his acquaintances mostly men some with their wives.. the men who were solo. How’d you find her. What is she? Then he tells them I’m Native Hawaiian.. one guy said oh does she walk around naked for you.. my hubby caught my fist before I could clock that MFKR.. then our entire table of hubby’s stood up.. and our attorney who is my hubby’s bestie.. former football player.. grabbed that fuck face asshat by his shirt.. “ you wanna say that again?” He back peddled .. Dude, I was only kidding.. our attorney said APOLOGIZE now.. he gave a half ass apology and ran away.. but here’s the beauty of this moment. My hubby knows everyone and everyone in this town knows him.. he said he’ll never do business with him again and he can get his fucking materials elsewhere.. that fuckface asshole..is screwed.. no one will give him the time of day. And no one is supplying him jack shit.. it’s truly a FAFO moment.
Is not about every shade of human in California.. Being exotic isn’t a great comment. It gives a weird sexual connotation to the person they are speaking about. How bout everyone treats everyone with respect. And we don’t talk about a persons looks. Weight.. age.. or income.. how about we neutralize speech that sexualizes others and to define people by their actions.. are you a good person are you kind are you a person with strong character and integrity.. let’s start with that first and leave peoples looks alone.. I don’t want nor need some strange man touching me.. touching my hair or my skin.. like he has some fucking right to touch me without my fucking permission. No one should lay one fucking finger on anyone they don’t know no matter how beautiful they think they are.. it’s not a fucking compliment. It sends me into a fucking full blown panic attack.
I still believe they are a loud petulant minority.
Trump is the new Grand Wizard or Poohbah or something...
Yup POO baaaaaaaa🐏
These greedy racists people are everywhere. Some hide it, but if you listen carefully it springs out. They are usually haters of those who are poor, immigrants, anyone in a disadvantaged position.
I was never disadvantaged. I grew up in Newport Beach on the water. My Dad is white and my Mom is Native Hawaiian. They had a company that worked with the US government. I never understood why everyone would always ask me.. what are you?? Then in 4 th-5 th grade I had a girl ask me over for a play date she lived in a poorer part of the area and her Mom asked what I was and I always answered Hawaiian.. she called me a CHINK looking GOOK NIGGER.. I started to cry and rode my bike home and told my Dad.. he turned beet red and took me back to the girls house marched me right to the door and politely knocked. The mother answered and he asked her: Did you call my daughter a “Chink looking gook nigger.. “ she said she was only kidding.. my Dad was 6’4” and this skank was my about my moms height 5’ he continued: You EVER come anywhere near my daughter again including your daughter I’ll have you in a court room in front a judge for defamation and threatening my child. They moved after that school year and I never saw them again.
AH: What are you?
You: Intelligent. What are you?
That’s a great response and I’m gonna use it!! Thank you so very much!!
That's brilliant.
Wow - bad experience! Notice how its easy to say the bad words, but once confronted they shirk back into their racist shell.
Exactly. My daughters get tan but no where near how dark I can get if I’m out in the sun. But I don’t tan very well any longer I just get sunburn..then it tans.. my Hawaiian cousins range from super dark to fairly pale .. dark eyes to green and mine are kinda a weird copper color. My older cousins have really dark eyes and the next gen is lighter and my nieces and nephews eyes are green and my youngest daughter has green hazel eyes and she’s translucent lol and barely gets tan..
They really do.
I have eyes with epicanthus folds. I’m totally northern European extraction (disappointingly; I wanted to find something interesting, but I’m so white I turn lavender when I get cold), but some Swedes and Finns (and Russians) have the epicanthus fold. As a child (1960’s), people would comment on my “oriental eyes”; I would catch them staring at me, and that was scary to a child! The uncle of one of my friends asked her, right in front of me, who her little “nip” friend was! I was raised to respect my elders, never answer them back; but if I saw that guy today I would ask him when his DNA was scheduled to branch off from amoebas.
Exactly!! Just because we look different.. my hubby’s line.. he has pics from his family over 100 years ago they have bright blue electric light eyes but they’re full blown Asian eyes.. he’s family were reindeer herders in northern Norway his ancestors look totally Asian except for the eyes.. it actually freaked me out at first..
Oh excuse me my hubby is Finn he just corrected me.. I always think Norway I have no idea why..
My mother’s mother is from Naarpes, Finland, but her mother died when she was a year old. I grew up knowing my mother’s stepmother as my grandmother. She was from Mona, Munsala, Finland, and I went there with her for six weeks when I was turning 14. I loved it!
That is cool! Is he Sami?
That's really awful,my father was a run-of-the-mill racist, threw around the 'N' daily,(I've never used that word,ever),so was my stepfather,he was Japanese growing up in Brooklyn,NY in the 50s,he was bullied with racial slurs,he decided to respond in kind his whole life. A lot of young men their Dads are their heros, I've spent my entire life trying not to be like them.
Bruce you’re a good soul.. my Dad was my hero. The woman who raised me had 3 children from her first marriage. I’m the only child from her second marriage. And I’m happy to say she’s not my mother!! She couldn’t have more children. My dad wanted a child with her.. so a family member who I adore gave birth to me for them.. and my birth mother is amazing and kind. We have the same dimples and I’m thankful to be here and I’m really thankful I’m not in any way related to those unemployed grifting assholes!! I went home to Hawai’i and I literally almost ran into them.. I thought I was going to hyperventilate.. I pulled my baseball cap down and walked right past them.. whew.. my family’s and I decided we won’t go back to the Big island where I grew up.. we decided to only go to another island where I have family and I won’t have to worry about running into those Aholes.
I'm not ashamed to admit, I was a complete ‘mama’s boy',and it was an honor to help take of her the last few years of her life,she was my hero. She faced life with love and compassion for everyone,and with a smile for everyone, because she believed when you smile at people,most will smile back,I try to be the same way,as difficult as it seems sometimes,but I try…
You brought tears to my eyes my friend. Your Mom sounds absolutely wonderful and kind.. she sounds like the most lovely roll model for how to be in life.. and that is something we should all strive to emulate.. if we as a collective can be anything in this world.. let us all try to be kind.
“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Brilliant!!!🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟I think we know which political
party this refers to!
I met Heller some 55 years ago after a talk. Haven’t thought about him recently as much as I should. He sure knew what he was talking about. Thanks.
And the congregation says "Amen"!
I woke up last night at 3:30, agitated about my very own Senator Mark Warner joining the anti-Joe feeding frenzy. My own Senator would deny my primary vote, my involvement with choosing VA delegates to the DNC, with the postcards and yard signs and volunteer recruitment I and so many others have been engaged in for months.
To hell with Warner. Today I'm wearing a Biden aviator glasses t-shirt.
A few days ago I posted your brilliance (with your link) on FB: "Kevin D. Roberts is the head of the Heritage Foundation, and he’s promising a violent, bloody revolution if he doesn’t get his way. We should all be terrified by this, considering it’s coming from the same people hell-bent on inflicting their democracy-destroying Project 2025 should Donny be installed as King Fuckface the First.
Did any of this get any coverage in the press? No, it did not — because the entire political media ecosystem is instead laser-focused in waiting for Joe Biden to mispronounce the name of the 14th undersecretary for the Bureau of Land Management."
I hope you have a few new subscribers.
It's almost like these bed-wetters think we'll all forget about their fuckery.
'I'd like to join the Resistance please!!'
What are your qualifications??
'I've read a lot history books,and remember the last 9 years'
We ARE the resistance!!
👍👍 That will do.
TBF they are not wrong. About us yes but your average voter?
Foolery and fuckery on a scale never seen before, to borrow Pigface's locution.
Linda, you are so correct. Yesterday wearing my Re Elect Biden shirt, I decided to run for the store... Oh, should I change my shirt? I decided to wear it... not a single negative comment. At least 4 people looked me right in the eye and smiled looking back at the shirt. I know one day I will meet the asshole, who will try to create conflict, I will try to keep my, fuck you, at least a little lady like....😂🤬
My brother sent me a “ Make America Great Again”hat — in Russian! I plan on wearing it to any tRump event in my area! Can’t wait for the questions from the Maga intelligencia…
These people are all so pathetic and disrespectful of all of us. All these fucking “christians” want nothing more than to take control of my body, mind and spirit…it ain’t happening! Even though I am scared to death that tRUMP will steal the election again, I know we are better than this! I know it to my core. We cannot let these fuckers win…but man, am I tired of all of this 😪
No 'American Taliban' for this guy.
Actually, the earth is an oblate spheroid, but round is close enough for conversation. Was it Reagan who kept jelly beans in the Oval Office? I could be wrong, because I'm 81, like the President, so I must have dementia.
Yup Jelly Beans!! My Dad always had them on hand when he would visit. Yes my father was friends with President Reagan. He was a very kind man. My Dad kinda chewed ass on him for his fuck up with the Iran Contra stuff..I just remember my Dad saying: you really thought that was a good fucking idea? Yup he actually said that..
Didn't Reagan have Alzheimer's while president? Didn't everyone know? It's such common knowledge now that I can't remember if it was reported at the time.
That’s okay his astrologer took charge with the decision making.
Yess and that was his wife doing that..
Yes actually but not during his presidency.. it’s kinda splitting hairs because we know now that Alzheimer’s starts earlier than we thought.. and it’s now categorized as Type 3 Diabetes..
The only reason I know this is because my Mom has full blown Alzheimer’s now.. so I’ve been dealing with this for 20 years.
There's been many politicians in obvious mental decline over the years,and yet,they usually get re-elected anyway, because incumbents usually win.
The science nerd in me knew "oblate spheroid".
And the trivia nerd in me knows that the jelly beans were specifically Jelly Belly, especially the licorice ones. Yuck 🤮
Yuck don’t like black licorice
Anyone who knows what an oblate spheroid is, has to be a geometry teacher! 🌏🪐🌎🪐
No, but I did well in geometry. Algebra not so much.
I loved both algebra and geometry.
Oh God I suck at math.. but with words I’m much better.. specifically adjectives LOL just ask Charlie!!
I’m 84, but yes, it was Reagan with the “Jelly Bellies”!
So maybe I don't have dementia after all.
During the ABC interview Biden said that when it was his turn to speak, trump was still shouting and it distracted him as he tried to answer.
I believe that. Too bad he didn’t tell him to shut up again.
Some repulsiveness from ABC, per HCR's Substack:
'Tonight, George Stephanopoulos of ABC interviewed Biden without a teleprompter or notes, focusing only on Biden’s age without any questions about policy. ABC News posted the interview transcript with the president’s conversation portrayed with the “g”s dropped off the words and with other colloquial pronunciations spelled out, as if it were dialect. Trump, whose words the press tends to turn into clean prose, has refused to do an interview under the same conditions.'
My rage and depression grow ...
I noticed that Biden said that too.
I didn't hear that -- but I sure saw it.
They each should have been isolated in a booth. We know what Drumpf is.
Received this from a friend this morning. Truth.
When asked how Fascism starts, Bertrand Russell once said: "First, they fascinate the fools. Then, they muzzle the intelligent."
Truth 🙌🏽
Meghan McCain is human garbage of the maximal degree.
Then there is Chris Cilizza whose take on the interview was that Biden held his own enough that he would continue to muddle around and prevent the (points to better candidates) better choice. What the actual fuck? You are just a media whore who is looking for clicks and traffic to fucking monetize.
Succinct my friend spot on and brilliant.. as always.. I just end up swearing..
" I left the cult of science.” Huh?
(Fabulous column today, Jeff!)
Then she must stop using all electric and electronic devices, because they wouldn't exist if not for the "cult of science." She must stop posting online. She must stop appearing on TV or radio, or being quoted in any print or online publication. She must stop eating anything she didn't grow/butcher herself, and she must stop wearing factory-made garments and using factory-made cloth.
She would be free, of course, to knit herself a caftan (from wool she sheared from sheep she raised) and stand on a soapbox at any corner of her choosing and shout herself hoarse.
(Edited to remove two typos. Prob'ly missed others.)
Love it!
Well said! Candace spews stupid shit to make money...she's just gross.
But a little thing called reality is still going to bite her hard in the butt.
Damn, Candace! Luddite for Dollars now??!💵💵 Bobby should eat Kevin McCarthy. With fava beans and a fine chianti. What! A Hitler impersonator? Congrats, NYT. There goes another 100,000 subscribers. John McCain's ghost needs to come back and kick his daughter in the ass. Well, that about takes care of it. Have a good weekend, everybody.😀
"Bobby should eat Kevin McCarthy". 🤣🤣🤣 I'll serve the wine with that! HAHA!
You too Charles!
Stupid is as Stupid is. Amerikkka's Stupidity just can't quit. To the Candices and the Meghans....I fart in your general direction. You keep us entertained, Jeff! Thanks!
"fart in your general direction" HAHAHA! 👍
Hehehe Fart in your general direction!! Booyah!! MIC DROP 🎤
Stupid asses showing their stupidity in yet another stupid week! Enjoy the weekend everyone!!!
... damn ...
I'm really glad he's so clear about not eating a human.
😕