The skateboard gif still makes me laugh every time I see it, so please Ms. Spouse, let him keep using it!
Got my No Kings t-shirt on and heading out to the protest now. It’s a beautiful clear day here in Knoxville, and we are psyched! Stay safe and have peaceful fun, everyone! 🇺🇸❤️🔥💪🏻👊🏻
Hey 2Cats — It was extraordinary! TONS of people downtown, we had about 7,000 at the June NK protest — there were I bet 2x that many today. And I’ve heard from friends in smaller towns here in the E. Jesus area like Clinton, Oak Ridge, and Kingsport — VERY red areas — that have had outstanding crowds, too! So many great signs! Drivers going by honking their horns, waving big-ass flags, and giving the thumbs-up. All VERY much the reverse of what I’ve usually experienced over 4 decades of attending lots of different protests here. Makes me so happy. All was calm and fun here in Knoxville w/ music, frog suits, etc. Really uplifting and inspiring! Lots more young people there today, too, than at previous protests I’ve been to here — as well as tons of us olds. This has been MzNicky, reporting from East Jesus, TN, where the chant of the day is NO KINGS!
Went to No Kings today in Evanston, IL, where there were probably about 3,000 protestors -- far more than attended previous protests there. It was peaceful and determined. Inflatable costumes were seen, too, along with flags and creative signage. Many seniors, as usual, but far more younger folk than usual, and far more people of color, too. Music, too. Excellent event.
I just returned from No Kings in east Mesa AZ. Thousands of people at a major intersection both sides of the street north and south for 1/4 mile. It also extended nearly 1/4 mile east and west. Many good signs, lots of frog costumes. I didn't see Antifa but Grantifa as you call them. No pro-Hamas or terrorists either. The only hate I saw was the minority of angry drivers flipping people off. Why waste so much time and energy being so angry.
Yes, getting flipped off and yelled at has usually been the norm, but I didn’t witness any of that today. Also, I have to confess the “Grantifa” thing isn’t mine, I saw it on a t-shirt a few days ago. Glad you had a good gathering, too! Also a noticeable lack of Hamas-supporters, violent leftwing antifa, or terrorists who ‘hate America’ here as well.
Yes! Such great vibes from being around like-minded people who are as fed up as we are! Makes you realize we’re not alone with our feelings. Where are you, Cheri?
Hi MzNicky, here's my report for ruby red MO where I'm guessing 2,000 to 4,000 showed up at a protest in Springfield, MO. About twice the number last June's No Kings protest. It would have been more if not for the pouring rain. There was a guy in a baby Trump blow up costume bouncing around. Yes, lots of frogs. Clever signs. Kids handing out candy. People handing out flowers. We chanted "Love, not hate, makes America great!" The ratio of getting the finger to horns honking in support was about 20 to 1. There were several trucks driving around with a huge FUCK TRUMP flag waving. It was glorious!
No, no, NO! McEnany - she of the blabby bullshit from orange fuckwit's first attack on America, SPEWED on fox that there just isn't that much appetite for anti-frump sentiment so y'all MUST be mistaken about all this turnout, at so many of these wonderful, peaceful and JOYOUS rallies. SEVEN MILLION of us! but no. She insisted there are more people at one of the orange moron's 'rallies' -even as one of their reporters had JUST TOLD HER how many people were expected in the streets right behind her! In a nutshell: 'magats: don't you DARE believe your own LYING EYES!'
Had a great day in Bucks County PA. 2K (est) crowd at the rally I attended. Very little negative reaction from the passersby. Lots of smiles, commiseration, camaraderie and support from the attendees. Heartwarming.
It doesn’t get old, but that WAS a lot of repeats, wasn’t it? It takes a lot of stupid to hit yourself in the nuts with your skateboard, and when it’s old Kegsbreath, that just makes it fun.
I love the skateboard .gif too. My mother confiscated my board after Uncle Ernie’s yarn about a skateboarder who had both arms torn off by colliding with a Model T. In 1967, a Model T? The garage in which I later deftly parked a Ford Country Squire wagon (deluxe, with the fake wood) was built in 1912 to house a Model T, so they once had been present in town.
And both arms from one impact? I could counter with a recent photo on Reddit of an addict who lost both arms to necrotizing fasciitis after shooting krokodil. He’s long gone, like all those arms, after becoming the handsy Wicked Uncle Ernie of “Tommy,” though I can’t prove causality.
The image of No Fat Chicks Pete misthrowing the axe isn’t as visually satisfying as the skateboard. Sorry, Ms. Spouse. My husband takes my advice, but his clients count too. The band member whose arm Pete gashed saved his junk thanks to the giant drum suspended from his waistline.
How did we get to a Pentagon with a personal makeup room, Jeff? We had manly men like Leon Panetta, my favorite SecDef—I’m a girl who has one. He returned a staffer’s phone message and devoted more than an hour on a Friday night explaining otter habitat in his district when I worked at the Sierra Club.
I'm sorry, Ms. Spouse, but waiting to see how Mr. Spouse works that gif into his daily report is one of the few things we have to look forward to these days.
Especially since the clown wore a tie representing the order of the colors of the Russian flag: white, blue, red; to the meeting with Zelenskyy.
Let Jeff keep busting him about his pratfall in peace. It's good for the country to be reminded what an asshole Kegsbreath really is.
Linda McMahon is ensuring a steady stream of uneducated, molestable applicants for all of those WWE ring boy openings. (I didn’t intend to say “openings.” Stet!)
Terribly sorry to disagree with Ms Spouse. Keep it going, Jeff. The No Kings Livestream is about to kick off any minute. My best wishes, thoughts and prayers to you over there, from across the other side of the pond. Start doing something about this mess already. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
I’m getting ready to go to No Kings in about a half hour. I found one that doesn’t walk, and since I’m disabled, I can just sit in my chair with a sign.
So did I, in my own neighborhood no less! It was wonderful! Great visibility! I couldn’t figure out why our town’s finest needed to photograph every participant, though. And I swear I could figure the embedded, disguised ICE agents.
Could someone please tell Speaker Johnson that being accused of "hating America" by a fake-Christian and coward who has sold out his country, faith and family to a demented pedophile doesn't have quite the sting he might imagine.
It has been greatly diminished! because we figured out that AMERICA isn't what it was advertised as...a SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE SHUTS DOWN THE US Government at the command of COMMANDER BONESPURS. THAT'S ALL FOLKS
I don't GAF what he would 'accept' or not! Tammy dubbed him that years ago - and he hasn't ONCE dared to fire back at HER about that name. I'm with HER!.
Appreciate the sentiment (and your post) completely but do NOT elevate him: HERO Tammy Duckworth dubbed him 'Cadet Bonespurs', and forever he shall remain, the fucking chickenshit, NEVER 'commander'. who has the NERVE to attack someone ELSE for not going to Vietnam? I swear, he's so fucking demented he's convinced himself he actually went, fought and now deserves the Purple Heart (he took out of the hand of a very old WWII veteran saying: 'I've always waned one of these'!!!) for his 'brave exploits' there. Those mock-ups of his fixed-up face on Sly Stallone's 'Rambo' body have him living in his usual Movie Fantasy world. That is ALL he's ever been, a walk-on bit character in a movie who imagined he wuz a 'Star'.
MAGAfluencer David Reilly… has the shittest sunglasses ever … “as one does” (who in Alabama has ever used that phrase??) … look up Douche Bag in the DICKtionary and I bet you will see MAGAfluencer David Reilly…
I read the reviews of Virginia G's book. It sounds as if it might be the saddest memoir ever written. I will buy it so it gets a bump on the best-seller list, but I don't think I can bear to read it. Those poor girls. They were just kids who fell into the hands of monsters.
It takes a 💯 percent MAGAT to ignore the pain inflicted on young girls by rich and powerful men. Though the MAGATS campaigned for years to release the Epstein Files, their silence now is deafening.
Going to do the same, and not read it. I can't seem to see a young child and not think of the horrors that adults are capable of doing to other human beings. And one of them is currently destroying our country, one grift at a time.
That's kind of how I felt about Mary Trump's book, although I got it at a used book place. It took me six months to read it because it was so depressing, I could only read a chapter every few weeks.
I get cold shivers thinking about those young people. I could have been one of them. But my father as withdrawn as he was, warned me of dangers such as those these poor young people encountered. He gave me the language to use the vision to know when something wasn’t right.
Shivers!!!!
Onward and upward.
Trump should be in jail for a number of things. Insurrection.
We need to stand behind these young people who were the fodder for these sleezebags.
I survived my own hell on earth at 19 so I WILL read it and any other survivor story (and have read so many others) - mainly to bear witness to their suffering. Once you've been there you can handle it even AS the tears fall (even helping me heal a wee bit, knowing I hadn't been alone all along, as I'd believed). I am NOT suggesting other much-too-empathetic people put themselves through that kind of awfulness. Don't, it is terrible. I'm able to, that's all.
Not gonna lie, Jeff. Today's read was a quick scroll-thru because sometimes the litany of stupid is like watching sewage flow through an open drain. The antisemites can go fuck a bagel and then kiss my kosher ass. I'm getting ready for the No Kings rally in my neighborhood.* There are at least a half-dozen scheduled in Portland. My sign says UNPAID PROTESTER.
Just returned from the No Kings protest in Lexington, MA, where several thousand people of all ages and abilities showed up, with plenty of police officers on hand (but NO ICE!). We had barn burner speeches from the Lexington Pride group, the ACLU, the creator of the LexSeeHer group, which erected the USA's first monument to women's liberty and political justice (in Lexington a year ago), the first poet laureate of MA (Reg[g]ie Gibson), Senator Ed Markey, and Bill McKibben, environmental speaker/activist and creator of Third Act (activism for people over 60), and author of such books as "The End of Nature" and "The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon."
.....Senator Elizabeth Warren was appearing elsewhere and so could not be in Lexington in person, so she sent a letter to the gathering instead, and it ended with "Persist." Fine fall weather, great signs, and good creature costumes (a peacock, a flamingo, a few different T-rexes, including a purple one, The Gingerbread Man, Big Bird, Winnie the Pooh, a quetzalcoatl, a cow, and a zebra). No frogs, but they were mentioned in speeches whenever Portland came up. ICE has a facility in a nearby town (Burlington), where they abuse people regularly, and a first hand account of what happened to a woman there was rather horrible. More than 4,000 people: citizens, legal residents, people on visas, and the undocumented, have been taken by ICE in MA since January. It's not a big state!
.....My last-minute sign: "Having fun here at Camp Mordor?" One of the O's in "Mordor" was the Eye of Sauron. Anyway, only the SF nerds and the well read folks got it, so next time I should be less subtle. Thank you for coming to my Tedx talk on what real patriotism looks like.
Just got back home from my local No Kings protest. It was fucking amazing!! Considering that I live in beet-red southern North Carolina, I figured there would be five other people there. Glad I was so wrong, there was about 400 of us there! Older folks, veterans, kids, Black, white…from all over. Lots of positive feedback (and a few asshole Trumpers) from the passing traffic, too. Restored my spirit! West Coast folks, get out there!❤️
Infuriating that Santos was left suffering in the slam long enough to sharpen his gratitude to Daddy. Today’s distraction sends a message to a vacationing Congress: Afraid of a hand-picked primary opponent? Loyalty matters!
Santos may be a bit hefty for a pool boy. Although maybe the Throuple for Jesus would be interested. I used them to explain the concept to my incredulous husband: the head of Dade GOP, the local head of Moms for Liberty, the unicorn only interested in the wife, so he broke into her house and raped her over a barstool.
After hearing recently of the Dartmouth Odd Throuple—Dinesh D’Souza, Laura Ingraham, and Ann Coulter—I found a wholesome palate cleaner in Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel, SPENT. Her cast of characters has aged in real time, now sporting white hair and mastectomy scars.
Those wacky homos! No wonder NAGA fear and envy them so.
Preznut has one just waiting for him to stop breathing. He has to have seen the former James Donald in his platinum wig from Yale. Peter Thiel doesn’t care enough about his buttboy to scrub the Internet.
George Santos is a soft, relatively inoffensive release compared with letting Ghislaine out. Which he will. Though she’s safer with her five-star hotel treatment than outside, she’ll take her chances. He’s unhinged by the fact that hands tied, he’s up to his neck in his own shit.
If he'd been a democrat, he'd be incarcerated forever. That's the real tear-jerker part. trump would lock us all away if he could. But to blatantly say he let him out because he's republican, admitting (or lying) that he doesn't really know the guy? That's ripe.
What a slap in the face, it is to people who’ve served as jurors on cases like George Santos and the insurrectionists, only to have their verdicts ignored or overturned. The next time I get called in for jury duty, I’m going to tell the judge I can’t serve because I have no faith in the justice system. I have no intention of wasting my time, gas and toll money, when in the end, it all means nothing.
Also, to everyone attending rallies today, I hope we can all stay safe!
Another abuse of the system by Donny Dachau …. I want all pardons REMOVED from presidential authority. It’s obvious irma bypasses the judicial system, and there is no reason to have it exist anymore. Biden, Obama , Bush all abused it to a certain degree, but of course Drumpf goes extreme with it.
Hegseth in that stupid Pee Wee Herman suit taking one to the plums is going to be your answer for everything, I see. Well, a good answer it is. I'm amazed there isn't more ink about that dying grifter raising $116 million...for what??
I've been reading the New Yorker story about how much Trump and his spawn have made off the presidency. You want to talk depressing ...! And does anyone remember — it wasn't that long ago — when the Republicans in Congress had a meltdown over Joe Biden loaning his son a mere tens of thousands of dollars to buy a car? These clowns have no business ever uttering Hunter Biden's name again.
It was a long hard horrid workweek so I didn't get my sign done. I was talking about getting a No Smoking sign from the Ace Hardware and vandalizing it so it said No Mo'Kings. But I think it's actually going to show a tub of Sabra's and "HUMMUS SUPPORTER, PAID BY 'SAURUS" (with a t-rex in a tux and little dollar signs floating about.
That url will take people to my spreadsheet! Use/share the spreadsheet as a resource to call/email/write members of Congress, the Cabinet and news organizations. Reach out to those in your own state, and those in a committee that fits your topic. Call. Write. Email. Protest. Unrelentingly. We deserve better ❤️🩹🤍💙
Reach out (beyond your own) to as many in the Senate and House as you can. All of this is bigger than an “I only represent my constituents” issue.
I think there is a team in the White House in charge of coming up with distractions. So George Santos gets pardoned, setting the expectation that siding with Trump will get anyone a pardon. It’s not exactly a shocker, but it replaces Epstein for a news cycle or two.
Just wanted to explain Santos got a commutation, not a pardon, which means he's still a convicted jailbird, but doesn't have to finish his sentence or pay off the $350K he was fined. Donnie of course, said the Donnie-est thing: "I never met him 😂 but he said nice things about me" . A pardon is your record is wiped clean like it never happened.
Nothing will replace any news cycle when Ghislaine Maxwell is pardoned or commuted, picked up by a limo, flown first class to London and then ensconced in a mansion in the Cotswalds (maybe she and Prince Andrew and Fergie will get a place together because they are all radioactive) or Qatar or some other place, and threatened Tony Soprano style that if she opens her mouth she will wind up like her BF Jeffrey..and it "won't be cinematic" (Sopranos episode when Patsy Parisi says to Tony's GF Gloria Trillo in a Mercedes when she threatens to tell Carmella about her affair with Tony and Patsy tells her her the last face she will see is his, and her nipples will wind up on on the fine leather seats and the dashboard). 😱
New article today in the NY Times about Jeffrey Epstein and Leon Black who was his next sugar daddy "friend" he blackmailed after Les Wexner dropped him. .Wow. It's going to start coming out...drip drip drip...until it's a gusher. Whoever was involved with him should being shaking by now. . I feel it in my bones. You can't stop the freight train Donnie.
oh dear, wonder if leon's "black family visual arts center" at dartmouth will have new signage in the middle of the night..."epstein pedophile headquarters"
I know nothing about Dartmouth. Is there really a residence hall in her name? Good for her. She earned her fortune. I’m against pedophiles associated with Jeffrey Epstein.
“This weenie who goywashed her children’s names—Mackenzie, Jackson—is terrified and offended by sidewalk chalk…” Someone is using what I wrote to further inflame spicy Latina Katie Miller! Hot-cha-cha-cha! NO KINGS, Proud Goi and your self-loathing, mayonnaise-huffing, diminutive mister!
I may have missed something because I'm not here all the time, but I love your posts.
The "goywashing" of the names made me laugh. I don't know if you ever saw the great "Angels in America" mini-series directed by Mike Nichols years ago on HBO that starts at the Jewish funeral of the dead immigrant matriarch (mother/grandmotber/great-grandmother) of the family of one of the main characters, and the old male.rabbi with a Jewish accent (played by Meryl Streep-unrecognizable-fantastic) starts rattling off the name of the grandkids and I think one was "Eric" and the rabbi goes Eric? What kind of name is Eric? and the family laughed. (I know younger Jewish people named Eric but not in my generation) so those names reminded me so much of it.
I did read the other day that they had to put their house up in Arlington, Va for sale because of all the hate they were getting and things people were writing by their house and they left in a hurry and took down the Halloween decorations. Good.. The story of them having to flee their multi-million dollar house with 6 bedrooms and 6.5 bathrooms with the heated floors and spa bathroom like in the middle of the night was almost as much of a palate cleanser as GI Pete getting hit in the nuts with the skateboard. 😂
Thank you so much, Robin D. I love your comments. I haven’t seen AinA, but now I will. When Woody Allen howled and sobbed at Diane Keaton’s memorial service, everyone was thunderstruck. Meryl Streep commented, “I’ve never seen him like this before.”
My husband does stand-up, so his kind of wit isn’t political and prolix like my attempts. If I can find something he can use, I beam. The codger rehoused briefly from the Cracker Barrel logo is named Uncle Herschel. “A Jew playing checkers at a Cracker Barrel?” I forget how he phrased it, but it was the hit of his set.
Having “a good line” is a family trait. He recently reminded me that while teaching manners, he’d advised our boys that “Please Please Please” was James Brown’s first number-one song. When our middle son asked for a juice box please please please, I’d said, “You only have to say it once.”
“But that’s not the number-one hit!” he protested. I’ve found a home on Substack, going commando under my name online for the first time.
Thank you Leslie. The feelings are mutual. I love that you are married to a stand up comedian, because you are so funny! (If you have HBO or HBO Max it's still there if you want to see) I have no doubt Woody was hysterical. He's 89 and all his movies usually touch on his fear of death and they always remained friends and she stood by him. There is short video online at YT of him introducing Diane (she was one of my favorite actresses who, like me, was terrified to die) for her AFI Lifetime Achievement award in 2017, and it was heartfelt and funny. He said "Diane, death is like a colonoscopy. You know how they inject you and you're out? Life is like the prep the day before" 😂
That is hysterical about the "Crackel Barrel codger"Uncle Herschel. Glad your hubby got a hit with it, and and that your whole family is funny. How can it not be? Good you went commando here with your real name too. Funny and brave! Xoxo
I love being put under anesthesia, and waking up somewhere different. The drugs, of course, and joking about them, calling Versed “the Tammy Wynette drug,” holding my anesthesiologist spellbound (“Her internist ships it from Pittsburgh? Administered by her husband in a non-medical facility? My word!”), until the surgeon rudely interrupts, “Knock her out so I can get started.”
That dreamboat I got twice. Thank you, Mount Sinai Miami, with its panoramic view of the Skolnick Surgical Wing, the same dinner every night in cardiology of impenetrable chicken breast that breaks your fork, the virtuous heap of dry, steamed veg! “I guess I’m lonely. I don’t have anyone to talk to,” he’d mournfully confided. “My family won’t talk shop, and my patients are all asleep.”
The absolute last person I’d want to be is Soon-Yi. Dour, a heating pad, not a blazing star and creative muse like Diane. The old reprobate will grieve his remaining days. Robert Reich’s recent meditation on health, in which he compares himself to ten-days-older Trump to the horror of Substack, is not to be missed. I love that he does his own drawings. He’s terribly impressed by Steve’s moxie at stand-up, as well as describing himself as “the Yoda of D.C. law-practice management,” after his last interview with the WSJ. Clients are grumpy, though, when he calls them back from Key West, where we are rental snowbirds. Medical types get a dreamy look when I say that you can only get a root canal on alternate Tuesdays in Key West (“Do they need an endo to fly in?”).
We could be here all night! Don’t forget to tip your server, and lie about No Tax on Tips!
“Lord, Lord, they laid him in the ground,” would stop me. Fun fact: Jackson Browne’s real first name is Clyde, Jackson is the middle one. I call him and Joni Mitchell Clyde and Roberta.
It is perfect that on No Kings Day we read about Trump waiving his tiny little King wand to pardon another grifter, George Santos. Hey Man, Grifters gotta grift and you can’t do that very well from prison. Trump has his own little pardon army of losers.
Being a half full kinds girl before I march out to my local rally, I am heartened that at least we’ll get to see Bowen Yang’s character again on SNL….
Bitsy, In my imagination I had always thought of a ‘ story teller’ all fiction but in prison all the felons gather around before bed like ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ one of the best movies ever.
Ms Spouse would like it to be known that she is over the skateboard gif, and she would prefer that I 'find something else'
The skateboard gif still makes me laugh every time I see it, so please Ms. Spouse, let him keep using it!
Got my No Kings t-shirt on and heading out to the protest now. It’s a beautiful clear day here in Knoxville, and we are psyched! Stay safe and have peaceful fun, everyone! 🇺🇸❤️🔥💪🏻👊🏻
Be safe and protest on my behalf, MzNicky!
Hey 2Cats — It was extraordinary! TONS of people downtown, we had about 7,000 at the June NK protest — there were I bet 2x that many today. And I’ve heard from friends in smaller towns here in the E. Jesus area like Clinton, Oak Ridge, and Kingsport — VERY red areas — that have had outstanding crowds, too! So many great signs! Drivers going by honking their horns, waving big-ass flags, and giving the thumbs-up. All VERY much the reverse of what I’ve usually experienced over 4 decades of attending lots of different protests here. Makes me so happy. All was calm and fun here in Knoxville w/ music, frog suits, etc. Really uplifting and inspiring! Lots more young people there today, too, than at previous protests I’ve been to here — as well as tons of us olds. This has been MzNicky, reporting from East Jesus, TN, where the chant of the day is NO KINGS!
Went to No Kings today in Evanston, IL, where there were probably about 3,000 protestors -- far more than attended previous protests there. It was peaceful and determined. Inflatable costumes were seen, too, along with flags and creative signage. Many seniors, as usual, but far more younger folk than usual, and far more people of color, too. Music, too. Excellent event.
Well, it's nice to know those who really would be affected were showing up.
I just returned from No Kings in east Mesa AZ. Thousands of people at a major intersection both sides of the street north and south for 1/4 mile. It also extended nearly 1/4 mile east and west. Many good signs, lots of frog costumes. I didn't see Antifa but Grantifa as you call them. No pro-Hamas or terrorists either. The only hate I saw was the minority of angry drivers flipping people off. Why waste so much time and energy being so angry.
Yes, getting flipped off and yelled at has usually been the norm, but I didn’t witness any of that today. Also, I have to confess the “Grantifa” thing isn’t mine, I saw it on a t-shirt a few days ago. Glad you had a good gathering, too! Also a noticeable lack of Hamas-supporters, violent leftwing antifa, or terrorists who ‘hate America’ here as well.
I felt so happy at my local protest! Like being among accepting family. Most of the cars honking encouragement and agreement. 😁😁😁❤️❤️❤️
Yes! Such great vibes from being around like-minded people who are as fed up as we are! Makes you realize we’re not alone with our feelings. Where are you, Cheri?
Hi MzNicky, here's my report for ruby red MO where I'm guessing 2,000 to 4,000 showed up at a protest in Springfield, MO. About twice the number last June's No Kings protest. It would have been more if not for the pouring rain. There was a guy in a baby Trump blow up costume bouncing around. Yes, lots of frogs. Clever signs. Kids handing out candy. People handing out flowers. We chanted "Love, not hate, makes America great!" The ratio of getting the finger to horns honking in support was about 20 to 1. There were several trucks driving around with a huge FUCK TRUMP flag waving. It was glorious!
That’s fantastic. I love all this so much.
My hometown! I’m happy to hear this.
Thank you, MzNicky, for your excellent report from the front lines! I’m so happy to hear there was a great time had by all!! 🥰
No, no, NO! McEnany - she of the blabby bullshit from orange fuckwit's first attack on America, SPEWED on fox that there just isn't that much appetite for anti-frump sentiment so y'all MUST be mistaken about all this turnout, at so many of these wonderful, peaceful and JOYOUS rallies. SEVEN MILLION of us! but no. She insisted there are more people at one of the orange moron's 'rallies' -even as one of their reporters had JUST TOLD HER how many people were expected in the streets right behind her! In a nutshell: 'magats: don't you DARE believe your own LYING EYES!'
::snicker:: oh, my, pretty paranoid about real crowd sizes, huh! you can smell the reek of inferiority & desperation.
::snicker:: oh, my, pretty paranoid about real crowd sizes, huh! you can smell the reek of inferiority & desperation.
Had a great day in Bucks County PA. 2K (est) crowd at the rally I attended. Very little negative reaction from the passersby. Lots of smiles, commiseration, camaraderie and support from the attendees. Heartwarming.
Good for you!!!😍🥰
It doesn’t get old, but that WAS a lot of repeats, wasn’t it? It takes a lot of stupid to hit yourself in the nuts with your skateboard, and when it’s old Kegsbreath, that just makes it fun.
well, it was covering the entire week...a synopsis, if you will. So, more than once seemed necessary (as I see it). ;)
Honestly, it never gets old.
IT NEVER GETS OLD
Skateboard GIF forever. Ms. Spouse, just close your eyes and sigh, the way I do when my husband or son open their mouths.
There is no nice with that creature. I love the skateboard.
I love the skateboard .gif too. My mother confiscated my board after Uncle Ernie’s yarn about a skateboarder who had both arms torn off by colliding with a Model T. In 1967, a Model T? The garage in which I later deftly parked a Ford Country Squire wagon (deluxe, with the fake wood) was built in 1912 to house a Model T, so they once had been present in town.
And both arms from one impact? I could counter with a recent photo on Reddit of an addict who lost both arms to necrotizing fasciitis after shooting krokodil. He’s long gone, like all those arms, after becoming the handsy Wicked Uncle Ernie of “Tommy,” though I can’t prove causality.
Too bad. I like it.
(I didn't say I was going to listen to her.)
You listen, Jeff, or you wouldn’t still be married. You don’t have to comply.
🤣🤣🤣
Jeff you probably shouldn’t have posted that! Especially if you don’t want to sleep on the floor, couch or dog house😂😂😂💕
COUCH?!?
😂🤣😂
Ugh. Make sure JD McNasty has not been there!
What Leslie says...
Thank you so much! What a wonderful day this is.
That Pete Hegseth/skateboard gif will never get old. NEVER.
AGREE Anastasia
The image of No Fat Chicks Pete misthrowing the axe isn’t as visually satisfying as the skateboard. Sorry, Ms. Spouse. My husband takes my advice, but his clients count too. The band member whose arm Pete gashed saved his junk thanks to the giant drum suspended from his waistline.
How did we get to a Pentagon with a personal makeup room, Jeff? We had manly men like Leon Panetta, my favorite SecDef—I’m a girl who has one. He returned a staffer’s phone message and devoted more than an hour on a Friday night explaining otter habitat in his district when I worked at the Sierra Club.
Yours is a prize!
I LOVE the skateboard gif! I laugh every time 🤣. I’m glad nobody ever told him alcohol and skateboards are a bad idea.
Politely, I decline. More nut smashing palate cleansing!
I'm sorry, Ms. Spouse, but waiting to see how Mr. Spouse works that gif into his daily report is one of the few things we have to look forward to these days.
Especially since the clown wore a tie representing the order of the colors of the Russian flag: white, blue, red; to the meeting with Zelenskyy.
Let Jeff keep busting him about his pratfall in peace. It's good for the country to be reminded what an asshole Kegsbreath really is.
Claudia— way to pick up on that little detail about piss drunk Pete’s tie.
I'm on Team Skateboard.
Team Skateboard. 😂. I bet you could sell a lot of Team Skateboard merch!
How about one of Linda McMahon getting "tombstoned" onstage? She is destroying public education. That's what she was appointed to do.
Linda McMahon is ensuring a steady stream of uneducated, molestable applicants for all of those WWE ring boy openings. (I didn’t intend to say “openings.” Stet!)
😂
Terribly sorry to disagree with Ms Spouse. Keep it going, Jeff. The No Kings Livestream is about to kick off any minute. My best wishes, thoughts and prayers to you over there, from across the other side of the pond. Start doing something about this mess already. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
I’m getting ready to go to No Kings in about a half hour. I found one that doesn’t walk, and since I’m disabled, I can just sit in my chair with a sign.
Doing it like this is what the people organizing suggested. Good on you. Stay safe and brave!
So did I, in my own neighborhood no less! It was wonderful! Great visibility! I couldn’t figure out why our town’s finest needed to photograph every participant, though. And I swear I could figure the embedded, disguised ICE agents.
Fortunately, we didn’t even have police in the area. They drove by two or three times, but they just waved and went on their way.
I’m sure that’s not the first time Kegsbreath has done that, Jeff. You just need to find the footage.
Nor the last!!
We also would like to replace Pete but so far no luck.
🙌🏼
Not me. It brings joy every time.
Am I hallucinating or is "HOMAN" printed on the bottom of that skateboard? Was that a cry for help?
That's what I thought too, but I looked closer and it could be HOMAGE. I just searched and that indeed is a brand of skateboards.
Could someone please tell Speaker Johnson that being accused of "hating America" by a fake-Christian and coward who has sold out his country, faith and family to a demented pedophile doesn't have quite the sting he might imagine.
I always think of him as a grimy little Hummel figurine that had its head glued on (badly) with Elmer's.
🤣🤣 Hummel figures?
The actual ceramic figures were designed to be cute. He only thinks he's cute, while he insults us all and undermines democracy.
Ahahahhahahaha!!!
😂😂😂
They’re running out of witty insults. This “hating America” shit ain’t gonna stick to anyone…except maybe Republicons.
Personally I take it as a compliment!
He is right. I hate his MAGA version of America.
It has been greatly diminished! because we figured out that AMERICA isn't what it was advertised as...a SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE SHUTS DOWN THE US Government at the command of COMMANDER BONESPURS. THAT'S ALL FOLKS
You forgot "COMMANDER BABYRAPER BONESPURS".
CADET BABYRAPER BONESPURS.
Nah! Trump would NEVER accept having to be a mere cadet where he'd have to TAKE orders rather than GIVE them!
He has to be The Big Cheese, or no go.
I don't GAF what he would 'accept' or not! Tammy dubbed him that years ago - and he hasn't ONCE dared to fire back at HER about that name. I'm with HER!.
Appreciate the sentiment (and your post) completely but do NOT elevate him: HERO Tammy Duckworth dubbed him 'Cadet Bonespurs', and forever he shall remain, the fucking chickenshit, NEVER 'commander'. who has the NERVE to attack someone ELSE for not going to Vietnam? I swear, he's so fucking demented he's convinced himself he actually went, fought and now deserves the Purple Heart (he took out of the hand of a very old WWII veteran saying: 'I've always waned one of these'!!!) for his 'brave exploits' there. Those mock-ups of his fixed-up face on Sly Stallone's 'Rambo' body have him living in his usual Movie Fantasy world. That is ALL he's ever been, a walk-on bit character in a movie who imagined he wuz a 'Star'.
Diagnosis: Dementia. Plus he's also a crazy mean SOB.
Well said!
MAGAfluencer David Reilly… has the shittest sunglasses ever … “as one does” (who in Alabama has ever used that phrase??) … look up Douche Bag in the DICKtionary and I bet you will see MAGAfluencer David Reilly…
Actually, if you wrote it out as an equation, hating America and fake-Christian cowards crosses the other out.
I read the reviews of Virginia G's book. It sounds as if it might be the saddest memoir ever written. I will buy it so it gets a bump on the best-seller list, but I don't think I can bear to read it. Those poor girls. They were just kids who fell into the hands of monsters.
It takes a 💯 percent MAGAT to ignore the pain inflicted on young girls by rich and powerful men. Though the MAGATS campaigned for years to release the Epstein Files, their silence now is deafening.
Donate it to your local library
Brilliant.
I did! All their copies were checked out.
📚🥰👏
Going to do the same, and not read it. I can't seem to see a young child and not think of the horrors that adults are capable of doing to other human beings. And one of them is currently destroying our country, one grift at a time.
That's kind of how I felt about Mary Trump's book, although I got it at a used book place. It took me six months to read it because it was so depressing, I could only read a chapter every few weeks.
I get cold shivers thinking about those young people. I could have been one of them. But my father as withdrawn as he was, warned me of dangers such as those these poor young people encountered. He gave me the language to use the vision to know when something wasn’t right.
Shivers!!!!
Onward and upward.
Trump should be in jail for a number of things. Insurrection.
We need to stand behind these young people who were the fodder for these sleezebags.
I read that too. I could barely read due to tears, but I’ll buy it.
I survived my own hell on earth at 19 so I WILL read it and any other survivor story (and have read so many others) - mainly to bear witness to their suffering. Once you've been there you can handle it even AS the tears fall (even helping me heal a wee bit, knowing I hadn't been alone all along, as I'd believed). I am NOT suggesting other much-too-empathetic people put themselves through that kind of awfulness. Don't, it is terrible. I'm able to, that's all.
Not gonna lie, Jeff. Today's read was a quick scroll-thru because sometimes the litany of stupid is like watching sewage flow through an open drain. The antisemites can go fuck a bagel and then kiss my kosher ass. I'm getting ready for the No Kings rally in my neighborhood.* There are at least a half-dozen scheduled in Portland. My sign says UNPAID PROTESTER.
*Antifa cell meeting, sign mandatory/snacks optional
Just returned from the No Kings protest in Lexington, MA, where several thousand people of all ages and abilities showed up, with plenty of police officers on hand (but NO ICE!). We had barn burner speeches from the Lexington Pride group, the ACLU, the creator of the LexSeeHer group, which erected the USA's first monument to women's liberty and political justice (in Lexington a year ago), the first poet laureate of MA (Reg[g]ie Gibson), Senator Ed Markey, and Bill McKibben, environmental speaker/activist and creator of Third Act (activism for people over 60), and author of such books as "The End of Nature" and "The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon."
.....Senator Elizabeth Warren was appearing elsewhere and so could not be in Lexington in person, so she sent a letter to the gathering instead, and it ended with "Persist." Fine fall weather, great signs, and good creature costumes (a peacock, a flamingo, a few different T-rexes, including a purple one, The Gingerbread Man, Big Bird, Winnie the Pooh, a quetzalcoatl, a cow, and a zebra). No frogs, but they were mentioned in speeches whenever Portland came up. ICE has a facility in a nearby town (Burlington), where they abuse people regularly, and a first hand account of what happened to a woman there was rather horrible. More than 4,000 people: citizens, legal residents, people on visas, and the undocumented, have been taken by ICE in MA since January. It's not a big state!
.....My last-minute sign: "Having fun here at Camp Mordor?" One of the O's in "Mordor" was the Eye of Sauron. Anyway, only the SF nerds and the well read folks got it, so next time I should be less subtle. Thank you for coming to my Tedx talk on what real patriotism looks like.
Excellent!
"The antisemites can go fuck a bagel and then kiss my kosher ass"
That is the best! . 😂 Be safe today Ann.
That’s gold, Ann! Wave that sign proudly! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
My sign read “Antifa never sent my tote bag”
Love it!!
Just got back home from my local No Kings protest. It was fucking amazing!! Considering that I live in beet-red southern North Carolina, I figured there would be five other people there. Glad I was so wrong, there was about 400 of us there! Older folks, veterans, kids, Black, white…from all over. Lots of positive feedback (and a few asshole Trumpers) from the passing traffic, too. Restored my spirit! West Coast folks, get out there!❤️
Schnauzermom (I had a mini--was the love of my life) Thank you for such a great positive post. Especially the diversity! Thank you so much! 🙏
One of life’s little pleasures was knowing that George Santos was incarcerated. I want to cry.
Trump never met another grifter he didn't love.
Infuriating that Santos was left suffering in the slam long enough to sharpen his gratitude to Daddy. Today’s distraction sends a message to a vacationing Congress: Afraid of a hand-picked primary opponent? Loyalty matters!
Maybe Georgie boy will join the regime in some capacity
yup, matt schlapp's pool boy
Santos may be a bit hefty for a pool boy. Although maybe the Throuple for Jesus would be interested. I used them to explain the concept to my incredulous husband: the head of Dade GOP, the local head of Moms for Liberty, the unicorn only interested in the wife, so he broke into her house and raped her over a barstool.
After hearing recently of the Dartmouth Odd Throuple—Dinesh D’Souza, Laura Ingraham, and Ann Coulter—I found a wholesome palate cleaner in Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel, SPENT. Her cast of characters has aged in real time, now sporting white hair and mastectomy scars.
Those wacky homos! No wonder NAGA fear and envy them so.
yeah, that MFL story made my head spin.
now stay tuned for leon black's fall at dartmouth with the epstein files...wondering if his name finally gets yanked from the arts center.
Minister of Truth
😂
He's normal compared to the others in trumps cabinet.
Preznut just pardoned a drag queen!
Preznut has one just waiting for him to stop breathing. He has to have seen the former James Donald in his platinum wig from Yale. Peter Thiel doesn’t care enough about his buttboy to scrub the Internet.
Right? The man is so damned stupid.
It was a ‘Liars brotherhood club and mutual admiration religion’ it’s a thing now.
Yeah, who asked for that lying pipsqueak to be let out of prison? He actually harmed other people he lied to and stole from, IIRC
George Santos is a soft, relatively inoffensive release compared with letting Ghislaine out. Which he will. Though she’s safer with her five-star hotel treatment than outside, she’ll take her chances. He’s unhinged by the fact that hands tied, he’s up to his neck in his own shit.
If he'd been a democrat, he'd be incarcerated forever. That's the real tear-jerker part. trump would lock us all away if he could. But to blatantly say he let him out because he's republican, admitting (or lying) that he doesn't really know the guy? That's ripe.
Time to rent an advertising plane with a big banner "Epstein Files" flying behind it over the White House, the Capitol, etc.
What a slap in the face, it is to people who’ve served as jurors on cases like George Santos and the insurrectionists, only to have their verdicts ignored or overturned. The next time I get called in for jury duty, I’m going to tell the judge I can’t serve because I have no faith in the justice system. I have no intention of wasting my time, gas and toll money, when in the end, it all means nothing.
Also, to everyone attending rallies today, I hope we can all stay safe!
Think how the jury felt who convicted t of 34 felonies. His punishment was to sit in an office in the White House decorated with faux gold.
Another abuse of the system by Donny Dachau …. I want all pardons REMOVED from presidential authority. It’s obvious irma bypasses the judicial system, and there is no reason to have it exist anymore. Biden, Obama , Bush all abused it to a certain degree, but of course Drumpf goes extreme with it.
I’d like to make convicted criminals ineligible for some offices (like president, of course)
“No one wants that book you didn’t write lol”
No one wants that book if you somehow did manage to write it, either
I actually have a joke photo of Airwick's book titled "I Eat Paste." Wish I could post it here.
If the photo exists online, post the link. If not, upload it to https://imgbb.com/ and post the link they provide to you.
Hegseth in that stupid Pee Wee Herman suit taking one to the plums is going to be your answer for everything, I see. Well, a good answer it is. I'm amazed there isn't more ink about that dying grifter raising $116 million...for what??
I've been reading the New Yorker story about how much Trump and his spawn have made off the presidency. You want to talk depressing ...! And does anyone remember — it wasn't that long ago — when the Republicans in Congress had a meltdown over Joe Biden loaning his son a mere tens of thousands of dollars to buy a car? These clowns have no business ever uttering Hunter Biden's name again.
Republitards create bullshit diversions to cover up that they are fully 100% fraudulent and worthless politicians
Imagine having so much cash and so little dignity that you'd go to a dinner and listen to Dear Leader wax poetic for hours about squat. barf.
To fill the gaping black hole in his soul.
It was a long hard horrid workweek so I didn't get my sign done. I was talking about getting a No Smoking sign from the Ace Hardware and vandalizing it so it said No Mo'Kings. But I think it's actually going to show a tub of Sabra's and "HUMMUS SUPPORTER, PAID BY 'SAURUS" (with a t-rex in a tux and little dollar signs floating about.
Great puns that will not be caught by MAGAts
"I’m going to take another look at Jewish group behavior"
What, arguing and eating? That's all we do in groups.
Hahaha! Yelling over each other to be heard. That was my family last month!
Oh, too true. Very funny.
We are literally able to listen and reply to the conversations of different people at the same time.
No Kings protesting/marching today!
My sign for today says:
Let your voice ring!
Go to
Bit.ly/Nokings
The other side -
Tell Congress to do the right thing
At bit.ly/Nokings
That url will take people to my spreadsheet! Use/share the spreadsheet as a resource to call/email/write members of Congress, the Cabinet and news organizations. Reach out to those in your own state, and those in a committee that fits your topic. Call. Write. Email. Protest. Unrelentingly. We deserve better ❤️🩹🤍💙
Reach out (beyond your own) to as many in the Senate and House as you can. All of this is bigger than an “I only represent my constituents” issue.
I think there is a team in the White House in charge of coming up with distractions. So George Santos gets pardoned, setting the expectation that siding with Trump will get anyone a pardon. It’s not exactly a shocker, but it replaces Epstein for a news cycle or two.
Nothing should replace Epstein until the files are released.
Just wanted to explain Santos got a commutation, not a pardon, which means he's still a convicted jailbird, but doesn't have to finish his sentence or pay off the $350K he was fined. Donnie of course, said the Donnie-est thing: "I never met him 😂 but he said nice things about me" . A pardon is your record is wiped clean like it never happened.
Nothing will replace any news cycle when Ghislaine Maxwell is pardoned or commuted, picked up by a limo, flown first class to London and then ensconced in a mansion in the Cotswalds (maybe she and Prince Andrew and Fergie will get a place together because they are all radioactive) or Qatar or some other place, and threatened Tony Soprano style that if she opens her mouth she will wind up like her BF Jeffrey..and it "won't be cinematic" (Sopranos episode when Patsy Parisi says to Tony's GF Gloria Trillo in a Mercedes when she threatens to tell Carmella about her affair with Tony and Patsy tells her her the last face she will see is his, and her nipples will wind up on on the fine leather seats and the dashboard). 😱
New article today in the NY Times about Jeffrey Epstein and Leon Black who was his next sugar daddy "friend" he blackmailed after Les Wexner dropped him. .Wow. It's going to start coming out...drip drip drip...until it's a gusher. Whoever was involved with him should being shaking by now. . I feel it in my bones. You can't stop the freight train Donnie.
oh dear, wonder if leon's "black family visual arts center" at dartmouth will have new signage in the middle of the night..."epstein pedophile headquarters"
LOL. It can join the other headquarters at OSU when it comes out about Les Wexner.
looky here, dartmouth did not sign the compact for higher ed. maybe shonda rhimes threatened to pull funding from a residence hall in her name?
I know nothing about Dartmouth. Is there really a residence hall in her name? Good for her. She earned her fortune. I’m against pedophiles associated with Jeffrey Epstein.
Freight Train Donnie? Or can’t stop the freight train, Donnie. I hope it’s the latter.
Lol. It is the latter and my grammar and punctuation is awful, but you know what I meant.
We may as well reduce it to an acronym: What's today's DFE (Distraction From Epstein)?
“This weenie who goywashed her children’s names—Mackenzie, Jackson—is terrified and offended by sidewalk chalk…” Someone is using what I wrote to further inflame spicy Latina Katie Miller! Hot-cha-cha-cha! NO KINGS, Proud Goi and your self-loathing, mayonnaise-huffing, diminutive mister!
Goywashed. Priceless.
I may have missed something because I'm not here all the time, but I love your posts.
The "goywashing" of the names made me laugh. I don't know if you ever saw the great "Angels in America" mini-series directed by Mike Nichols years ago on HBO that starts at the Jewish funeral of the dead immigrant matriarch (mother/grandmotber/great-grandmother) of the family of one of the main characters, and the old male.rabbi with a Jewish accent (played by Meryl Streep-unrecognizable-fantastic) starts rattling off the name of the grandkids and I think one was "Eric" and the rabbi goes Eric? What kind of name is Eric? and the family laughed. (I know younger Jewish people named Eric but not in my generation) so those names reminded me so much of it.
I did read the other day that they had to put their house up in Arlington, Va for sale because of all the hate they were getting and things people were writing by their house and they left in a hurry and took down the Halloween decorations. Good.. The story of them having to flee their multi-million dollar house with 6 bedrooms and 6.5 bathrooms with the heated floors and spa bathroom like in the middle of the night was almost as much of a palate cleanser as GI Pete getting hit in the nuts with the skateboard. 😂
Thank you so much, Robin D. I love your comments. I haven’t seen AinA, but now I will. When Woody Allen howled and sobbed at Diane Keaton’s memorial service, everyone was thunderstruck. Meryl Streep commented, “I’ve never seen him like this before.”
My husband does stand-up, so his kind of wit isn’t political and prolix like my attempts. If I can find something he can use, I beam. The codger rehoused briefly from the Cracker Barrel logo is named Uncle Herschel. “A Jew playing checkers at a Cracker Barrel?” I forget how he phrased it, but it was the hit of his set.
Having “a good line” is a family trait. He recently reminded me that while teaching manners, he’d advised our boys that “Please Please Please” was James Brown’s first number-one song. When our middle son asked for a juice box please please please, I’d said, “You only have to say it once.”
“But that’s not the number-one hit!” he protested. I’ve found a home on Substack, going commando under my name online for the first time.
Thank you Leslie. The feelings are mutual. I love that you are married to a stand up comedian, because you are so funny! (If you have HBO or HBO Max it's still there if you want to see) I have no doubt Woody was hysterical. He's 89 and all his movies usually touch on his fear of death and they always remained friends and she stood by him. There is short video online at YT of him introducing Diane (she was one of my favorite actresses who, like me, was terrified to die) for her AFI Lifetime Achievement award in 2017, and it was heartfelt and funny. He said "Diane, death is like a colonoscopy. You know how they inject you and you're out? Life is like the prep the day before" 😂
That is hysterical about the "Crackel Barrel codger"Uncle Herschel. Glad your hubby got a hit with it, and and that your whole family is funny. How can it not be? Good you went commando here with your real name too. Funny and brave! Xoxo
I love being put under anesthesia, and waking up somewhere different. The drugs, of course, and joking about them, calling Versed “the Tammy Wynette drug,” holding my anesthesiologist spellbound (“Her internist ships it from Pittsburgh? Administered by her husband in a non-medical facility? My word!”), until the surgeon rudely interrupts, “Knock her out so I can get started.”
That dreamboat I got twice. Thank you, Mount Sinai Miami, with its panoramic view of the Skolnick Surgical Wing, the same dinner every night in cardiology of impenetrable chicken breast that breaks your fork, the virtuous heap of dry, steamed veg! “I guess I’m lonely. I don’t have anyone to talk to,” he’d mournfully confided. “My family won’t talk shop, and my patients are all asleep.”
The absolute last person I’d want to be is Soon-Yi. Dour, a heating pad, not a blazing star and creative muse like Diane. The old reprobate will grieve his remaining days. Robert Reich’s recent meditation on health, in which he compares himself to ten-days-older Trump to the horror of Substack, is not to be missed. I love that he does his own drawings. He’s terribly impressed by Steve’s moxie at stand-up, as well as describing himself as “the Yoda of D.C. law-practice management,” after his last interview with the WSJ. Clients are grumpy, though, when he calls them back from Key West, where we are rental snowbirds. Medical types get a dreamy look when I say that you can only get a root canal on alternate Tuesdays in Key West (“Do they need an endo to fly in?”).
We could be here all night! Don’t forget to tip your server, and lie about No Tax on Tips!
Back in the day, my boyfriend and thought we'd name a baby boy Jackson, after George Jackson.
“Lord, Lord, they laid him in the ground,” would stop me. Fun fact: Jackson Browne’s real first name is Clyde, Jackson is the middle one. I call him and Joni Mitchell Clyde and Roberta.
Did not know that about Jackson Browne. That is a fun-fact.
It is perfect that on No Kings Day we read about Trump waiving his tiny little King wand to pardon another grifter, George Santos. Hey Man, Grifters gotta grift and you can’t do that very well from prison. Trump has his own little pardon army of losers.
Being a half full kinds girl before I march out to my local rally, I am heartened that at least we’ll get to see Bowen Yang’s character again on SNL….
Bitsy, In my imagination I had always thought of a ‘ story teller’ all fiction but in prison all the felons gather around before bed like ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ one of the best movies ever.