fun true fact: many years ago, I responded to a Paul Ryan tweet with "why don’t we just grind up half the poors and feed them to the other poors?" and ended spending a week in twitter jail for 'promoting violence'
I did an essay on that film for Space and Time magazine last year, and warned I was going to give the ending away. The movie is more than 50 years old. The statute of spoiler limitations has expired.
Oh, it was his sled. Hamlet dies. The Titanic sinks. The South loses the war.
Actually I think the "Statue" of limitations (like limiting those filthy tired and poor migrants from invading us I mean the U.S.) on spoilers graces New York harbor and she's seen a f-load of them over the years. [Sorry Jeff, I couldn't resist. I make a f-load of typos myself. Don't most of us?]
Yes, and I would like to remind the forgetful below the Mason-Dixon Line that THE SOUTH LOST THE WAR! The other states don't have to contribute their taxes to you.
We watched Soylent Green again after a lapse of 53 years a few nights ago. The homelessness and the pollution visually portrayed in it were so prescient. I was grieving for all those who could see back then in 1973 so clearly just what so many innocents lives would be ground down into by The Rich. And at age 79 Edward G Robinson (!) acted hulky Heston off the screen.
Actually it was based on the novel "Make Room! Make Room" by Harry Harrison. "To Serve Man" was based on the short story of the same name by Damon Knight.
I'll go one better: I spent a month in Facebook jail when I suggested that when they do Trump and Melania's portraits they should be hung by the White House dumpster. Everyone except their witless software got that I was referring to the PAINTINGS.
I can top that -- I was booted from the Daily Kos about 20 years ago for daring to say that "intelligent people still have questions about what happened on 9/11/01."
Sorry but most of the "questions" weren't that intelligent. 9/11 truthers were kind of the root of MAGA. Sure, the official story had "holes." The alternative stories had bigger ones.
The whole chain of events was very clear — they didn't cause 9/11 but they didn't stop it because they saw how they could use it to achieve some longstanding goals. I can't believe how I once thought no one could ever more despicable.
Most of us who know a bit about construction, science, physics, along with the fact we aren’t coincidence theorists, have always questioned NIST nonsensical report Mary!!
That wasn't some government-organized scheme. The backstory is clear. This was likely to happen and they knew it —and welcomed it. It was in the Hart-Rudman report which was finished in December 2000, saying that the most likely source of terrorism in the U.S. was bin Laden. Because Bush has just been elected, they delivered it to him once he was in office. He handed it off to Cheney who never called a meeting on it — too busy meeting with his oil company buddies about divvying up the natural resources. But Cheney was also a core member of Project for a New American Century (along with people like Rummy, Wolfie and that entire cast and crew of uglies I once thought were the worst presidential administration ever). Their goal was to attack Iraq, and when they began to get signals in 2001 that the "systems were blinking red," they figured that if they ignored it something might happen they could use. In early August when Bush was on his annual six-week vacation back when we thought he was the laziest a president could ever be, he received a presidential daily briefly in early August titled "Bin Laden determined to strike within the U.S." Word was he said "Now my ass is covered." So it's likely they KNEW, but didn't actually engineer it. That's bad enough without adding the conspiracy stuff. They used Bush's terror-driven popularity to do something off mission, and people who objected got savaged because "We need to come together."
I can't believe I dredged this all up and can still remember it. Please don't get me started on the 2004 election in Ohio because I might have a meltdown. No, it wasn't stolen, there was no secret war room in Chattanooga where Karl Rove was changing votes, and no, Michael Connell's plane wasn't sabotaged!
As for Daily Kos, it's become a cesspool of navel-gazing old white male know-it-alls trying to one-up each other on things like obscure movie references. I was banned three years ago (after 17 years) for I don't know what because they won't tell me, but I suspect it was because I posted that their idol Elizabeth Warren had her figures wrong on who would benefit the most from total college debt forgiveness. That's a sin over there.
There was far too much hinky sh!t going on that day. If there is ever a REAL investigation into the events of 9/11/01, the Rethuglican's "Project for a New American Century" should be Exhibit "A".
“The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) was a neoconservative think tank that focused on U.s. foreig policy. It was established as a non-profit educational organization in 1997, and founded by William Kristol and Robert Kagan. The organization stated that "American leadership is good both for America and for the world” and sought to build support for "a Reaganite a policy of military strength and Moral clarity.” Of the twenty-five people who signed PNAC's founding statement of principles, ten went on to serve in the administration of President George W. Bush, including Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz. Observers have suggested that the PNAC played a key role in shaping the foreign policy of the Bush Administration, particularly in building support for the Iraq War.”
Interestingly both Kristol and Kagan are strongly anti-Trump. Kristol endorsed Harris, and Kagan quit The Washington Post over its refusal to run the endorsement of Harris. I never through there'd be any reason for me to have any positive thoughts about PNAC'ers. It was such a bugaboo for me.
I heard Melania came to Dr Jill Biden's defense yesterday when dRumpy suggested Dr. Biden should be dragged before a sham GQP committee and questioned about why she "covered up" her husband's illness.
Oh wait. No Melania didn't. Being best? What a f'ing joke.
YES!!! Or, at one of his rallies...oh, wait he doesn't do those any more...so maybe at a presser, for all the MAGAs to see (so they won't start stupid nonsensical rumors)
Bob Woodward is not getting enough blowback from his holding onto Trump tapes until after he was out of office. Trump saying he knew how bad COVID was early on and he lied about it.
@therickwilson got thrown off Twitter for a whole month because he was mean to the dope addict that currently owns the platform. BTW, did you hear that the new Pope is going to be putting on some big event in Chicago on the same day that the wannabe Pope Donald is throwing himself a birthday parade in Washington DC? I thought that was pretty canny of Pope Leo, and he’s not even a Jesuit like his predecessor. 🤭
Yes, I read that yesterday and I cheered. Good for Pope Leo! He's not just following Pope Francis' path, but he's hit the ground running on it! I'm right in love with the new Pope and I'm not even Catholic.
As Thom Hartmann calls it now Musk’s NAZI infested website. Not sure I got that last word right. Anyhoo Xitter would be cheering you for that question today!
Yeah, I commented on a video of a giant spider crawling out from behind some poor guy’s driver’s side sun visor by saying that I’d just pull over and set the car on fire, and I, too, spent a week in jail for promoting violence (against giant spiders)
I need a towel to absorb the beautiful drips of sarcasm here, perhaps the best immersion to date. OMG! Another stellar piece of writing as only you can do.
On the other hand, at least in Chicago, the Pope will be stealing the Trump's thunder on June 14. The Pope is coming to the South Side of Chicago to the White Sox Ball Park on June 14 to speak to the youth. I will be at a No Kings rally on that day, but I will be interested to see how these completing news stories will be covered. The first US Pope appears in the US, or the first US president trying to be King of the USA. The Pope vs. the Trump. Who would you rather watch. As an atheist I pick the Pope, but I don't expect to be watching either. I will be rallying around.
I have no doubt that the media will give loving coverage to the parade and at most incidental coverage of the Pope. Separation of church and state, you know unless it's christofascists.
I just figured that out when I friend asked if it would be live streamed that the Pope is only streaming a message at the ball park, not actually going to be there in person. Looking for her caused me to look more closely at the event. Sorry if I spread misinformation.
As a former Nebraskan, she's ALWAYS been a "you know what". Again with Ms. Angelou's eternal wisdom. "When people show you who they are the first time, believe them.
Is this why Stephen Miller and his ilk are encouraging people to have more children? The young, tender ones are the best. Sweet baby Jesus, what is WRONG with these people???
Joni will have a lot of company down there. They might even get short on space with all of the fucksticks who meet the qualifications for a permanent stay. Once dear lardass gets his turn, he'll probably try to tell the devil how to run the place. If anyone remembers the movie Little Nikki, that would be some hilarious shit if Dump like Hitler, had to wear a wedding dress and pick out a pineapple for his daily punishment. He's earned it.
This whole "evil Biden purposefully did all of these bad things to good people" juxtaposed with "Biden is so senile he couldn't even use his own autopen" rhetoric is making my brain itch. Can we fast forward to the time when Republicans stop contradicting their own points in the same paragraph they make them, please?
Exactly Walt, this bullshit revisionist history by a perpetual prevaricating poltroon needs to be spelled out for the cult who believes everything that he regurgitates!!
The only thing you need to remember about Rethuglicans is that they are evil motherfking liars who hate Americans and that everything they say is projection.
Distract, distract, distract. Their MO for decades. So is Jakey gonna write another tell-all after rump's out, basically just change out Biden's name for turd's. Easy peasy.
Tapper is going to be pod-casting out of his basement like Tucker Carlson, because no one values him as a journalist now. He's earned his ass clown credentials.
I've been asking Magats that question for a couple of years now. Question: If Sleepy Joe is not functioning, how is Sleepy Joe doing crimes? And of course the answer is that it's his family and the wicked people in his cabinet doing the crimes. Next question: So it *isn't* Sleepy Joe then? That usually has them scratching their heads.
It's all about winning the moment. It need not even be consistent with what is even uttered in the same paragraph. Without accountability one is free to do this. It's part of the fascist playbook even.
“at the risk of repeating myself for the umpteenth time, the first reporter to stand up and ask “what the fuck is wrong with you” should get a lifetime Pulitzer.” EVERY PERSON WHO MEETS A “JOURNALIST” SHOULD ASK WHY THEY AREN’T DOING THIS!
Nice weekend wrap-up. They sound more idiotic as each day passes. Leave Biden alone for crying out loud!
I think we should come up with a list of perfect questions to be posed to AnusMouthPantLoad daily. No doubt we all have a favorite “question du jour” for our rank, stinking POTUS. I’ll start:
“Sir! Sir! Your IQ has been documented at 72, lower than snail excrement. Sir, sir, how do you respond?”
Also too, "Sir, sir, your NY arrest records state that you are actually 5'10" and weigh 287# which puts you in the 'lardass' category of the BMI chart. You've always said that you are 6'3" and 239#. Did you shrink?"
Biden did a damn good job of fixing Trump’s fuckery! Although his Israel policy was insidious to the Palestinians he claimed deserved their own freedom and statehood… he’ll have to live with the blood on his hands Tess!!
Leaving a note that looks like it could have been written by a child, on a cute, colorful, cartoon speech balloon shaped note, Scotch taped to a bumper is "defacing?"
I read Chris’s post without realizing that he was whining about a sticker. Frankly, had I read with even a modicum of care, I would have said this: Free speech and no paint was damaged. I’m sure there are lots of decent people who own Teslas. If protesting is limited to a sticker, I’m good with it.
So little time, so many idiots. And drugs. Love everything in This Week in Stupid, and will just affix the appendix: South African Illegal Immigrant Vice President bids farewell from the Oval Office, so stoned he can barely mumble out a coherent word.
I know I shouldn't, but in some ways I feel kinda sorry for Elon (OK,OK, I SAID I know I shouldn't) - he grew up in a country ruled by shits, and his dad was an uber-shit. Then he gets all that money and privilege which obviously went straight to his head - and now he's on enough drugs to stone an elephant.
What a waste of a life and a truck load of opportunity for good.
As it is, he'll probably end up face down in a swimming pool - or like Howard Hughes, alone in a hotel room with six inch toenails and a mania for cleanliness.
I'm poor and reasonably honest - and I'd bet my boots I'm a LOT happier than he is.
Imagine having the wealth and influence to change the world, literally, for the better, and instead choosing to be an awful, hateful person who intentionally ruins peoples' lives and careers and has literally caused many deaths, including children. How can we even understand the pathos of someone like that? He, and Jabba the trump, along with the entire cadre of equally terrible douchebags around them, are all broken people. What is so indescribably evil is they choose to inflict their brokenness on the world. So I would agree that us "regular" folk are happier than these cruel, greedy pieces of shit.
Yes, and: Imagine being a Republican in the House or Senate and allowing this to happen EVERY DAMN DAY. Eliminating scientific research. Predictably causing tens of thousands of deaths overseas. Allowing the most obscene kind of open corruption. Making the poor much poorer so the morbidly rich can get somewhat richer. And then flaunting your "Christian" faith.
In some ways I don't blame Trump--he's a sicko who can't help himself and doesn't want to. But the GOP? They can all go straight to hell. Where is Dante when you need him?
Exactly.....You are Elonia and have the most money in the known universe. You could, for instance, without making a dent in your obscene fortune, set up a foundation that would provide free breakfasts and lunches to all schoolchildren. public and private, throughout the US. You could fund traveling free clinics in rural communities without medical services. You could create an endowment to support community gardens in food desert areas in inner cities. On and on.....
Instead, you get plastic surgery, drug yourself into incoherency, and convince yourself that you build the bestest cars and rockets that blow up because of other people's incompetence. With all his money, Elonia could still do that and yet afford the philanthropy.
I think that, even without the drugs, Elonia is not the brightest person--cunning, yes.....but not really all that intelligent. Steely Dan must've known him: "You've been telling me you're a genius since you were 17/In all the years I've known, I still don;t know what you mean/The weekend at the college didn't turn out like you planned/The things that pass for knowledge I can't understand."
Compare and contrast Eloon and his evil, racist, drug-addled bullshit with Bill Gates who recently said that "The world's richest man killing the world's poorest children is not a good look."
I knew the Gates family back in the 1970s and 80s when I worked for Bill Gates, Sr.'s law firm for six years. He was a kind and wonderful man unlike Eloon's evil father. The Gates family was all about giving back to the community. If you're ever in Seattle go to the Gates Foundation Visitor Center (by the Space Needle) to see their amazing work.
I look at it this way, Lady Em: along with his batshit family, Muck had advantages beyond most people's wildest dreams. He didn’t live in a vacuum, so he saw examples of honest, caring people, but still chose to be a monster. His autism-spectrum diagnosis(?) doesn't account for that. Either he's literally sociopathic, or....well, maybe the only conclusion we can draw is that he IS a sociopath, I'm thinking as I write this. That would seem to be the only explanation for his behavior. Doesn't excuse him, of course
Not Hell if you don't know what a soul is and don't care if you have one. That's what distinguishes sociopaths from the rest of us, in non-technical terms.
And here I thought it was just me who couldn’t understand him. What am I saying 🤦♀️I can barely understand him ANY TIME he opens his gob🤬He always sounds like it’s filled with cotton balls or something
Rumor has it that was inflicted by Stephen Miller, the left handed goon whose wife just left the WH for a full time job with Musk. Yet another baby incubator?
Thank you for NOT highlighting and giving an ounce of attention to the pardoning rampage the taco chicken felon forgiving creepy fraud felons and the sheer irony this represents. Thought I was going to lose my mind at the insanity. Wait, I did. Well shit.
My biggest bug up my a**- is why do Presidents pardon ANYBODY? i know it’s somewhere in the Constitution- but c’mon it’s getting ridiculous- even Obama abused this power. Go commit a Federal crime, and get out because the Prez sez so?!?!?
I’ve always said Republican are mean and cruel and Joni Ernst epitomizes this. Particularly when someone has lifetime health care as a member of Congress. I got mine so the rest of you can f…off
Those Iowans will re-elect as soon as those farmers are “promised” some bullshit relief from DC- that’s all they care about. Look at their representatives in the past.
As usual with Donny, the accusation is a confession. Not smart? Vicious? Hurt a lot of people? Check, check, and check.
And I hope whichever Democrat runs against Ernst hits her over the head with that quote again and again, without mercy. What is her reelection slogan going to be? “Vote for Ernst, you’ll die anyway!”
Maybe the next time Joni goes out to castrate her hogs, she'll slip and end up like the screamers in the movie "Hannibal." I mean, she's just going to die anyway.
Gee Joni, you rich bitch sociopath, next town hall, have your dancing shoes on to cheer up your poors and their manifest destiny to die so their betters can buy an additional yacht.
Yes, we will all die. Some of preventable diseases, some of being a worthless poor who could have chosen to be a billionaire, lighting cigars with $100 bills and eating steak every night. And some may die on the guillotine.
There was so much unforgivable howling stupidity this week, but you chose well, and didn't even have to go to the Miller/Musk/Miller thruple: "Who is the Big Spoon in this tangle?"
The next time you see the femme fatale who is in the middle of this sick menage’, remember that she actually allowed Nosferatu to penetrate her. She may look human, but there’s no fucking way she is.
The NYT piece on Musk peeing himself from his Ketamine, Ecstasy, and Adderall pill box cocktail was a sparkle in the void. Also his lame claim at the WH press conference that little X gave him a black eye.
"unforgivable howling stupidity" - great phrase - once upon a time we would say BAND NAME and chuckle...now we just quietly weep into the beverage of our choice (mine currently is trying-to-be-optimistic coffee)
Democratic politicians need to start talking about the CONSEQUENCES of all of the cuts to government aid. For example, we need to do a better job of saying things like "if we kick millions of people off of healthcare then hospitals will close, tens of thousands of healthcare workers will lose their jobs and the taxpayers will still be on the hook for the money because congress will just SUBSIDIZE the shit out of the healthcare and insurance businesses to make up for their lost revenue". In the end we will pay more for health insurance and get less and still have the same tax burden.
Who do these people think will pay for the people that get sick and because they have no insurance will wait until their disease is so far gone it takes many more thousands of dollars to cure? Then they go to the hospital and lose everything they own, and WE STILL PAY for the care they get because FFS someone has to.
Wait a minute everyone. We may have misjudged the trump maga minions. Just look at Dan Bongino for example. Every day he goes in to a job and stays for hours before leaving the job. All for us. Oh the humanity.
Gawd what a blithering ijit. I threw up in my mouth listening to him cry about staring at 4 walls all day getting big bucks and doing absolutely nothing. Suck it jerk.
fun true fact: many years ago, I responded to a Paul Ryan tweet with "why don’t we just grind up half the poors and feed them to the other poors?" and ended spending a week in twitter jail for 'promoting violence'
Jonathan Swift was ahead of his time. Who remembers Soylent Green?
Charlton Heston. ‘It’s people! Soylent green is people!’
And that Twilight Zone episode "To Serve Man" -- 'It's a cookbook!!'
SPOILER!
I did an essay on that film for Space and Time magazine last year, and warned I was going to give the ending away. The movie is more than 50 years old. The statute of spoiler limitations has expired.
Oh, it was his sled. Hamlet dies. The Titanic sinks. The South loses the war.
I think the statue of limitations on spoilers is five years
Actually I think the "Statue" of limitations (like limiting those filthy tired and poor migrants from invading us I mean the U.S.) on spoilers graces New York harbor and she's seen a f-load of them over the years. [Sorry Jeff, I couldn't resist. I make a f-load of typos myself. Don't most of us?]
Have you informed the South that they lost? Because they sure don't act like it.
Three more spoilers! Shame!
I know your kind! “And, then at the end, the Little Tramp walks away as the camera irises in!” “Damn it! Now the movie’s spoiled!”
Yes, and I would like to remind the forgetful below the Mason-Dixon Line that THE SOUTH LOST THE WAR! The other states don't have to contribute their taxes to you.
SOYLER!
New nickname for Donold.
You win the interwebs with that one 🏆
LOL!!!
We watched Soylent Green again after a lapse of 53 years a few nights ago. The homelessness and the pollution visually portrayed in it were so prescient. I was grieving for all those who could see back then in 1973 so clearly just what so many innocents lives would be ground down into by The Rich. And at age 79 Edward G Robinson (!) acted hulky Heston off the screen.
Edward G. Robinson's last role. His death scene STILL chokes me up fifty years later.
A great actor indeed
Images of him holding a cigar and
saying: “See?”
Also the model for Chief Wiggum.
That movie needs to be remade, this time show the bodies flopping around instead of in spotless white sheets.
Hell YEAH!!! Edward G. Robinson and Charleton Heston. Great movie!!!
Soylent Green, itself, was derivative. Remember the Twilight Zone episode, To Serve Man? (Spoiler: IT'S A COOKBOOK!)
Actually it was based on the novel "Make Room! Make Room" by Harry Harrison. "To Serve Man" was based on the short story of the same name by Damon Knight.
Hard to forget Kay, who remembers A Boy and His Dog, with a young Don Johnson, a more amusing dystopian flick I highly recommend!!
The religious buggers who wanted him for his sperm, were probably prescient!
You’ve seen it Natalie, it’s the ending burp that amuses!!
It was a better short story.
Any relation to Marjorie?
It’s a solution.
I was going to say that exact thing!
I'll go one better: I spent a month in Facebook jail when I suggested that when they do Trump and Melania's portraits they should be hung by the White House dumpster. Everyone except their witless software got that I was referring to the PAINTINGS.
I can top that -- I was booted from the Daily Kos about 20 years ago for daring to say that "intelligent people still have questions about what happened on 9/11/01."
Sorry but most of the "questions" weren't that intelligent. 9/11 truthers were kind of the root of MAGA. Sure, the official story had "holes." The alternative stories had bigger ones.
Agreed. The “inside job” shit drove me crazy. That the government had knowledge that this was on the table, and did jack shit about it, absolutely.
The whole chain of events was very clear — they didn't cause 9/11 but they didn't stop it because they saw how they could use it to achieve some longstanding goals. I can't believe how I once thought no one could ever more despicable.
Most of us who know a bit about construction, science, physics, along with the fact we aren’t coincidence theorists, have always questioned NIST nonsensical report Mary!!
I watched it on CNN. Towers, bin Laden, Pentagon, bin Laden, bin Laden, Towers, bin Laden, bin Laden, bin Laden, bin Laden.
And a month before, Bush threatened to attack the Taliban over the Oil Tube, which was politically infeasible, and suddenly it wasn't.
Yeah, sure.
That wasn't some government-organized scheme. The backstory is clear. This was likely to happen and they knew it —and welcomed it. It was in the Hart-Rudman report which was finished in December 2000, saying that the most likely source of terrorism in the U.S. was bin Laden. Because Bush has just been elected, they delivered it to him once he was in office. He handed it off to Cheney who never called a meeting on it — too busy meeting with his oil company buddies about divvying up the natural resources. But Cheney was also a core member of Project for a New American Century (along with people like Rummy, Wolfie and that entire cast and crew of uglies I once thought were the worst presidential administration ever). Their goal was to attack Iraq, and when they began to get signals in 2001 that the "systems were blinking red," they figured that if they ignored it something might happen they could use. In early August when Bush was on his annual six-week vacation back when we thought he was the laziest a president could ever be, he received a presidential daily briefly in early August titled "Bin Laden determined to strike within the U.S." Word was he said "Now my ass is covered." So it's likely they KNEW, but didn't actually engineer it. That's bad enough without adding the conspiracy stuff. They used Bush's terror-driven popularity to do something off mission, and people who objected got savaged because "We need to come together."
I can't believe I dredged this all up and can still remember it. Please don't get me started on the 2004 election in Ohio because I might have a meltdown. No, it wasn't stolen, there was no secret war room in Chattanooga where Karl Rove was changing votes, and no, Michael Connell's plane wasn't sabotaged!
As for Daily Kos, it's become a cesspool of navel-gazing old white male know-it-alls trying to one-up each other on things like obscure movie references. I was banned three years ago (after 17 years) for I don't know what because they won't tell me, but I suspect it was because I posted that their idol Elizabeth Warren had her figures wrong on who would benefit the most from total college debt forgiveness. That's a sin over there.
As I recall, Condie had something to do with it, another blackening of Stanford's reputation. (I just can't let that go.)
There was far too much hinky sh!t going on that day. If there is ever a REAL investigation into the events of 9/11/01, the Rethuglican's "Project for a New American Century" should be Exhibit "A".
“The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) was a neoconservative think tank that focused on U.s. foreig policy. It was established as a non-profit educational organization in 1997, and founded by William Kristol and Robert Kagan. The organization stated that "American leadership is good both for America and for the world” and sought to build support for "a Reaganite a policy of military strength and Moral clarity.” Of the twenty-five people who signed PNAC's founding statement of principles, ten went on to serve in the administration of President George W. Bush, including Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz. Observers have suggested that the PNAC played a key role in shaping the foreign policy of the Bush Administration, particularly in building support for the Iraq War.”
Interestingly both Kristol and Kagan are strongly anti-Trump. Kristol endorsed Harris, and Kagan quit The Washington Post over its refusal to run the endorsement of Harris. I never through there'd be any reason for me to have any positive thoughts about PNAC'ers. It was such a bugaboo for me.
No need to hang Melania.
Define “hang.”
Oh, the portrait, of course.
I heard Melania came to Dr Jill Biden's defense yesterday when dRumpy suggested Dr. Biden should be dragged before a sham GQP committee and questioned about why she "covered up" her husband's illness.
Oh wait. No Melania didn't. Being best? What a f'ing joke.
👆🎯The vapid bimbo has absolutely no class. Melania bailed on her spouse the first chance she got and only shows up when they pay her to.
I prefer the software's interpretation.
Everyone knows that Trump is well hung.
Like a button mushroom.
Like a cashew.
One day…one day…he will be hung. Hope springs eternal.
I still pray he will be marched to prison in handcuffs although that looks less and less likely.
I would settle for him popping his clogs face down, on camera, at one of his greed-fests.
YES!!! Or, at one of his rallies...oh, wait he doesn't do those any more...so maybe at a presser, for all the MAGAs to see (so they won't start stupid nonsensical rumors)
"Popping his clogs". That's a keeper.
His head will come off
🙏🏻
I just assumed that all his bluster was due to overcompensating for both a small dick and a small dick.
I’m making myself nauseous thinking of his diaper. Mushrooms do grow in shit🤢🤮
Gross, but still L to the O to the L!!
Ugh, please!
🤮🤮🤮
We would be better off knowing that Trump the traitor, had been “well hung” as traitors and tyrant often used to be Suessi!!
Like a squirrel
Like a Yeti.
Right because M & D would be "hanged".
They hire Indians.
Bob Woodward is not getting enough blowback from his holding onto Trump tapes until after he was out of office. Trump saying he knew how bad COVID was early on and he lied about it.
This is so true. he could have told us at the time and still written a blockbuster book.
Yes - Woodward is culpable and should "admit" it. Unlike Tapper, who has turned himself into a book promoter.
These "books" by "journalists" holding back info until they can monetize it are a blight on journalism — and democracy.
👆👆👆🎯Especially that execrable Maggie Habberman!
I'm sure t's lips were moving.
That was shocking, because he almost sounded normal in that tape.
I am always impressed about how you can put out such a funny, informative, and biting column every single day. Thank you!
Well, he’s got the raw material. Thank goodness he’s not too depressed by it to write about it.
"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you..." Will Rogers.
Sure, 'cuz you obviously were dead serious
Subtlety is lost on the unsubtle.
@therickwilson got thrown off Twitter for a whole month because he was mean to the dope addict that currently owns the platform. BTW, did you hear that the new Pope is going to be putting on some big event in Chicago on the same day that the wannabe Pope Donald is throwing himself a birthday parade in Washington DC? I thought that was pretty canny of Pope Leo, and he’s not even a Jesuit like his predecessor. 🤭
Yes, I read that yesterday and I cheered. Good for Pope Leo! He's not just following Pope Francis' path, but he's hit the ground running on it! I'm right in love with the new Pope and I'm not even Catholic.
Ah the good old days of love❤️ and peace✌🏻
Is it really "promoting violence" when you end the sentence with a question mark?
As Thom Hartmann calls it now Musk’s NAZI infested website. Not sure I got that last word right. Anyhoo Xitter would be cheering you for that question today!
It’s a badge of honor, a couple of brushes with FB. I suspect it is an incel’s passive-aggressive behavior “dime’ing” one.
Worth it.
*snort* Did Ryan bother to respond?
chef's kiss for the savage treatment of Joke Tapper, especially for the Snoopy Dance!
Illiterate bunch, those Twatter censors.
...as opposed to EVERY fucking Right Winger who actually does, because—Engagement!
Yeah, I commented on a video of a giant spider crawling out from behind some poor guy’s driver’s side sun visor by saying that I’d just pull over and set the car on fire, and I, too, spent a week in jail for promoting violence (against giant spiders)
Yeah, then there's JD's pal Curtis Yarvin.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/where-j-d-vance-gets-100000608.html
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I need a towel to absorb the beautiful drips of sarcasm here, perhaps the best immersion to date. OMG! Another stellar piece of writing as only you can do.
And Joni Ernst will rot in hell.
Have a nice weekend everyone! 💙✌️
On the other hand, at least in Chicago, the Pope will be stealing the Trump's thunder on June 14. The Pope is coming to the South Side of Chicago to the White Sox Ball Park on June 14 to speak to the youth. I will be at a No Kings rally on that day, but I will be interested to see how these completing news stories will be covered. The first US Pope appears in the US, or the first US president trying to be King of the USA. The Pope vs. the Trump. Who would you rather watch. As an atheist I pick the Pope, but I don't expect to be watching either. I will be rallying around.
"As an atheist I pick the Pope,..."
Stellar, Linda. And I'm totally with you on that.
I have no doubt that the media will give loving coverage to the parade and at most incidental coverage of the Pope. Separation of church and state, you know unless it's christofascists.
Ditto Linda, fellow atheist who applauds the Pope’s timing, but we have more important things to do, Sla’inte!!
I’ll be at the Chicago rally as well
My hubby and I will be rallying in Evanston. 👏🏻
Perhaps our paths will cross. In Solidarity!! ✌🏽
I plan on watching the Pope. Time differences being what they are, I could probably do them all, although I avoid t at all costs.
I am realizing that he is not coming to Chicago. I had to look at a lot of discussions to figure this out. Here is what the Catholic Star says.
https://catholicstarherald.org/pope-leo-video-message-to-feature-at-chicago-archdiocese-white-sox-celebration/
He's not physically coming to Chicago. It's going to be a video cast.
I just figured that out when I friend asked if it would be live streamed that the Pope is only streaming a message at the ball park, not actually going to be there in person. Looking for her caused me to look more closely at the event. Sorry if I spread misinformation.
No problem. They're are going to have a mass by the pope at about 4 pm. 5 bucks per person. Don't know who gets the money.
Isn't this just the perfect summary of where we are as a society these days: "And JE will rot in hell. Have a nice weekend everyone".
I'm with you, by the way.
Seriously. These people are beyond the pale. Our society is on its way to the bottom with people like JE... I still cant believe she said that. 🤦♀️
As a former Nebraskan, she's ALWAYS been a "you know what". Again with Ms. Angelou's eternal wisdom. "When people show you who they are the first time, believe them.
Is this why Stephen Miller and his ilk are encouraging people to have more children? The young, tender ones are the best. Sweet baby Jesus, what is WRONG with these people???
Jan, they're not encouraging, they're forcing.
I'm so glad I'm past childbearing age. Now they can't come after me for the tubal ligation I had a thousand years ago.
Praise be. Under his eye.
Joni will have a lot of company down there. They might even get short on space with all of the fucksticks who meet the qualifications for a permanent stay. Once dear lardass gets his turn, he'll probably try to tell the devil how to run the place. If anyone remembers the movie Little Nikki, that would be some hilarious shit if Dump like Hitler, had to wear a wedding dress and pick out a pineapple for his daily punishment. He's earned it.
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Joni can keep DJT, McConnell, Vance, Musk, Thiel, Murdoch, Cruz, Rubio, Miller and a host of others. I am convinced there is a GOP Village in Hell.
Is it just me or does Joni look like she might be a trans woman?
💯 stellar, AGREE
Ernst Is just another MAGA dimwitted klafte Susan, Bon Weekend to you as well!!
In Re: Ernst /. read JojofromJerz today.
Fantastic post! She CRUCIFIES Ernst!
This whole "evil Biden purposefully did all of these bad things to good people" juxtaposed with "Biden is so senile he couldn't even use his own autopen" rhetoric is making my brain itch. Can we fast forward to the time when Republicans stop contradicting their own points in the same paragraph they make them, please?
They are attempting to turn the Biden narrative on its’ head:
-Joe didn’t save our economy from the abuses of tRump’s first presidency
-Joe didn’t rebuild our relationships with our allies after tRump’s first presidency
-Joe didn’t put sanity back into the fight against COVID
-Joe didn’t help the working man by promoting unions
-Joe didn’t help negotiate a bipartisan border plan that was sabotaged by tRump, who wasn’t even in office
We need to support the truth about the Biden presidency.
Exactly Walt, this bullshit revisionist history by a perpetual prevaricating poltroon needs to be spelled out for the cult who believes everything that he regurgitates!!
Well, we can't refute things everyone saw, so good luck with that.
The only thing you need to remember about Rethuglicans is that they are evil motherfking liars who hate Americans and that everything they say is projection.
True dat Mary!!
They don't need to, since no one holds them accountable.
We are trying, Andrew. Gaining some momentum. Keep the faith.
Nor do they comprehend the contradiction…
Certainly not the scribblers of the MSM
Distract, distract, distract. Their MO for decades. So is Jakey gonna write another tell-all after rump's out, basically just change out Biden's name for turd's. Easy peasy.
Tapper is going to be pod-casting out of his basement like Tucker Carlson, because no one values him as a journalist now. He's earned his ass clown credentials.
Exactly. No one should refer to him as a "journalist" ever again.
Nicely said Sharon, you’re likely right!!
He needs to write and release that book in the next 6 months or it's nothing but a useless doorstep making further mockery of his credibility.
I've been asking Magats that question for a couple of years now. Question: If Sleepy Joe is not functioning, how is Sleepy Joe doing crimes? And of course the answer is that it's his family and the wicked people in his cabinet doing the crimes. Next question: So it *isn't* Sleepy Joe then? That usually has them scratching their heads.
It's all about winning the moment. It need not even be consistent with what is even uttered in the same paragraph. Without accountability one is free to do this. It's part of the fascist playbook even.
“at the risk of repeating myself for the umpteenth time, the first reporter to stand up and ask “what the fuck is wrong with you” should get a lifetime Pulitzer.” EVERY PERSON WHO MEETS A “JOURNALIST” SHOULD ASK WHY THEY AREN’T DOING THIS!
Nice weekend wrap-up. They sound more idiotic as each day passes. Leave Biden alone for crying out loud!
I think we should come up with a list of perfect questions to be posed to AnusMouthPantLoad daily. No doubt we all have a favorite “question du jour” for our rank, stinking POTUS. I’ll start:
“Sir! Sir! Your IQ has been documented at 72, lower than snail excrement. Sir, sir, how do you respond?”
Also too, "Sir, sir, your NY arrest records state that you are actually 5'10" and weigh 287# which puts you in the 'lardass' category of the BMI chart. You've always said that you are 6'3" and 239#. Did you shrink?"
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What a nasty question- get out of here!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Perfect!
Sir, oh sir…. it was recorded in your first
attempt as Prez- you had over 30,000
lies/ half truths/ boasts. Are you looking to break that 30,000 mark by the end of
2026?
😂😂😂 Good one Walt!
Biden did a damn good job of fixing Trump’s fuckery! Although his Israel policy was insidious to the Palestinians he claimed deserved their own freedom and statehood… he’ll have to live with the blood on his hands Tess!!
1. Tapper’s book is headed for the remainder bin. Sad! 😂
2. Everything dies, and with that remark, perhaps Joni’s career 🙄
3. Didn’t the Orange Turd originally send a thoughtful post on Biden’s diagnosis? That sentiment didn’t last long
Yes, but he didn’t write that one, Kay-El. It had proper punctuation, grammar, etc.
Exactly and none of it was sincerely meant.
Joni's career would only die from a remark like that in a sane world; not in the bizarro world we currently inhabit.
Maybe not yet, but in my crystal ball, Joni is rounded up, incarcerated, tenderized, slow cooked over an open flame and eaten.
Or thrown to the hogs. Let them decide her fate.
That would be a tough, flavorless, dish... no matter how hard you try! 😂😂
Relevant question, Walt. Do awful shitbags taste good?
Hence the “perhaps”.
I expect to see it on the $1 shelf at the far back of the used bookstore, between Ann Coulter and Glen Beck.
I’ll buy all three Kay-EI!!
Leaving a note that looks like it could have been written by a child, on a cute, colorful, cartoon speech balloon shaped note, Scotch taped to a bumper is "defacing?"
It was a vicious attack.
Mebbe the tape left a mark
He had to login to Amazon and order a bottle of Goo Gone, for crying out loud. Not a victimless crime!
You scooped me on the Goo Gone. Well done!
he would have shown a picture of that if it did.
Does the dude have kids? How embarrassing for them to have such a nincompoop for a father.
He was at his son’s soccer game when the heinous defacement occurred
Oh duh, thanks Doc:) I’m overwhelmed….
Living in these times is fucking up our hearts and minds
Ok, conspiracy theorist here, maybe one of his kids slapped it on in a small act of subversion?
Hmmm, interesting. Well I take back my opinion of him as he may have raised a very kind passive- aggressive kid. I like it!
Imagine going to his local constable, waving the note, “I’ve been harassed!!!”
“Oh, we will definitely find that felon,sir; now please give us all the details of this criminal event!”
I read Chris’s post without realizing that he was whining about a sticker. Frankly, had I read with even a modicum of care, I would have said this: Free speech and no paint was damaged. I’m sure there are lots of decent people who own Teslas. If protesting is limited to a sticker, I’m good with it.
Some of these white male mainstream media "journalists" are too fragile to be out in public.
The very definition of odious cretin Doc!!
So little time, so many idiots. And drugs. Love everything in This Week in Stupid, and will just affix the appendix: South African Illegal Immigrant Vice President bids farewell from the Oval Office, so stoned he can barely mumble out a coherent word.
I know I shouldn't, but in some ways I feel kinda sorry for Elon (OK,OK, I SAID I know I shouldn't) - he grew up in a country ruled by shits, and his dad was an uber-shit. Then he gets all that money and privilege which obviously went straight to his head - and now he's on enough drugs to stone an elephant.
What a waste of a life and a truck load of opportunity for good.
As it is, he'll probably end up face down in a swimming pool - or like Howard Hughes, alone in a hotel room with six inch toenails and a mania for cleanliness.
I'm poor and reasonably honest - and I'd bet my boots I'm a LOT happier than he is.
Imagine having the wealth and influence to change the world, literally, for the better, and instead choosing to be an awful, hateful person who intentionally ruins peoples' lives and careers and has literally caused many deaths, including children. How can we even understand the pathos of someone like that? He, and Jabba the trump, along with the entire cadre of equally terrible douchebags around them, are all broken people. What is so indescribably evil is they choose to inflict their brokenness on the world. So I would agree that us "regular" folk are happier than these cruel, greedy pieces of shit.
Yes, and: Imagine being a Republican in the House or Senate and allowing this to happen EVERY DAMN DAY. Eliminating scientific research. Predictably causing tens of thousands of deaths overseas. Allowing the most obscene kind of open corruption. Making the poor much poorer so the morbidly rich can get somewhat richer. And then flaunting your "Christian" faith.
In some ways I don't blame Trump--he's a sicko who can't help himself and doesn't want to. But the GOP? They can all go straight to hell. Where is Dante when you need him?
Exactly.....You are Elonia and have the most money in the known universe. You could, for instance, without making a dent in your obscene fortune, set up a foundation that would provide free breakfasts and lunches to all schoolchildren. public and private, throughout the US. You could fund traveling free clinics in rural communities without medical services. You could create an endowment to support community gardens in food desert areas in inner cities. On and on.....
Instead, you get plastic surgery, drug yourself into incoherency, and convince yourself that you build the bestest cars and rockets that blow up because of other people's incompetence. With all his money, Elonia could still do that and yet afford the philanthropy.
I think that, even without the drugs, Elonia is not the brightest person--cunning, yes.....but not really all that intelligent. Steely Dan must've known him: "You've been telling me you're a genius since you were 17/In all the years I've known, I still don;t know what you mean/The weekend at the college didn't turn out like you planned/The things that pass for knowledge I can't understand."
Damn right.
I know what you meant here, Doc, but I'd strike, "pathos" and substitute, "psychopathy."
Compare and contrast Eloon and his evil, racist, drug-addled bullshit with Bill Gates who recently said that "The world's richest man killing the world's poorest children is not a good look."
I knew the Gates family back in the 1970s and 80s when I worked for Bill Gates, Sr.'s law firm for six years. He was a kind and wonderful man unlike Eloon's evil father. The Gates family was all about giving back to the community. If you're ever in Seattle go to the Gates Foundation Visitor Center (by the Space Needle) to see their amazing work.
Kudos to Bill for that amazing statement about the second most despicable man in the Universe.
I look at it this way, Lady Em: along with his batshit family, Muck had advantages beyond most people's wildest dreams. He didn’t live in a vacuum, so he saw examples of honest, caring people, but still chose to be a monster. His autism-spectrum diagnosis(?) doesn't account for that. Either he's literally sociopathic, or....well, maybe the only conclusion we can draw is that he IS a sociopath, I'm thinking as I write this. That would seem to be the only explanation for his behavior. Doesn't excuse him, of course
I accept what you're saying - but how awful to live life without a soul. It's my idea of Hell.
Not Hell if you don't know what a soul is and don't care if you have one. That's what distinguishes sociopaths from the rest of us, in non-technical terms.
In fact, Muck probably sees his total lack of empathy as a superpower.
And here I thought it was just me who couldn’t understand him. What am I saying 🤦♀️I can barely understand him ANY TIME he opens his gob🤬He always sounds like it’s filled with cotton balls or something
Wonder if little X said to him "Shut your fucking mouf." Before the black eye thing.
Rumor has it that was inflicted by Stephen Miller, the left handed goon whose wife just left the WH for a full time job with Musk. Yet another baby incubator?
Oooh I hadn’t thought of that one🫨One’s sleazier than the other and they all deserve what they get
NO!
😂😂😂😂 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂A practice shot for more color in the future 🤷♀️
Thank you for NOT highlighting and giving an ounce of attention to the pardoning rampage the taco chicken felon forgiving creepy fraud felons and the sheer irony this represents. Thought I was going to lose my mind at the insanity. Wait, I did. Well shit.
I wonder if there is a way to un-pardon all the unworthy criminals pardoned by a president who will be impeached for treasonous treachery?
Yeah unfortunately not…but we can snag these criminals for the next crimes they commit bc that’s what and who they are, loser ass criminals.
At least Steve Bannon finally got to spend some quality time in jail.
My biggest bug up my a**- is why do Presidents pardon ANYBODY? i know it’s somewhere in the Constitution- but c’mon it’s getting ridiculous- even Obama abused this power. Go commit a Federal crime, and get out because the Prez sez so?!?!?
I’ve got a spare straight jacket Tama!!
Why? Leftover from the time when....
Nicely played Hannah!!
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I’ve always said Republican are mean and cruel and Joni Ernst epitomizes this. Particularly when someone has lifetime health care as a member of Congress. I got mine so the rest of you can f…off
And yet I wouldn't be surprised if she's re-elected
Those Iowans will re-elect as soon as those farmers are “promised” some bullshit relief from DC- that’s all they care about. Look at their representatives in the past.
Yup. The farmers love socialism. It’s a tough business but they’re a taker state rather than giver state
As usual with Donny, the accusation is a confession. Not smart? Vicious? Hurt a lot of people? Check, check, and check.
And I hope whichever Democrat runs against Ernst hits her over the head with that quote again and again, without mercy. What is her reelection slogan going to be? “Vote for Ernst, you’ll die anyway!”
Maybe the next time Joni goes out to castrate her hogs, she'll slip and end up like the screamers in the movie "Hannibal." I mean, she's just going to die anyway.
Gee Joni, you rich bitch sociopath, next town hall, have your dancing shoes on to cheer up your poors and their manifest destiny to die so their betters can buy an additional yacht.
🎶 and it's 1, 2, 3, what're we fighting for?
don't ask me, I don't give a damn
next stop is vietnam
and it's 5, 6, 7, open up the pearly gates
well there ain't no time to wonder why
whoopee! we're all gonna die 🎶
Yes, we will all die. Some of preventable diseases, some of being a worthless poor who could have chosen to be a billionaire, lighting cigars with $100 bills and eating steak every night. And some may die on the guillotine.
Guillotine = some cuts will be necessary to restore order.
100% brilliant, Mary!
You managed to strike the perfect chord for this week’s performances.
There was so much unforgivable howling stupidity this week, but you chose well, and didn't even have to go to the Miller/Musk/Miller thruple: "Who is the Big Spoon in this tangle?"
The next time you see the femme fatale who is in the middle of this sick menage’, remember that she actually allowed Nosferatu to penetrate her. She may look human, but there’s no fucking way she is.
The NYT piece on Musk peeing himself from his Ketamine, Ecstasy, and Adderall pill box cocktail was a sparkle in the void. Also his lame claim at the WH press conference that little X gave him a black eye.
"unforgivable howling stupidity" - great phrase - once upon a time we would say BAND NAME and chuckle...now we just quietly weep into the beverage of our choice (mine currently is trying-to-be-optimistic coffee)
Are Kristi Noem and Joni Ernst twins separated at birth? Two sociopaths from one egg!
Just the top of the iceberg for those Republitards
Democratic politicians need to start talking about the CONSEQUENCES of all of the cuts to government aid. For example, we need to do a better job of saying things like "if we kick millions of people off of healthcare then hospitals will close, tens of thousands of healthcare workers will lose their jobs and the taxpayers will still be on the hook for the money because congress will just SUBSIDIZE the shit out of the healthcare and insurance businesses to make up for their lost revenue". In the end we will pay more for health insurance and get less and still have the same tax burden.
Who do these people think will pay for the people that get sick and because they have no insurance will wait until their disease is so far gone it takes many more thousands of dollars to cure? Then they go to the hospital and lose everything they own, and WE STILL PAY for the care they get because FFS someone has to.
Thanks for listening, that's my rant for the day.
Have a great Saturday everyone.
86-47
You make a great point, Jayme. Send this in a letter to the DNC because they clearly need all the help they can get with this messaging. 👏👏👏
Wait a minute everyone. We may have misjudged the trump maga minions. Just look at Dan Bongino for example. Every day he goes in to a job and stays for hours before leaving the job. All for us. Oh the humanity.
Gawd what a blithering ijit. I threw up in my mouth listening to him cry about staring at 4 walls all day getting big bucks and doing absolutely nothing. Suck it jerk.