“Emission from God” shows awfully fine craftsmanship in the wordsmithery department.
JD Vance is always going to be strange. To the end of his days. Soulless, but uniquely incapable of imitating human thought and expression. Like a cult acolyte priest for a cult he has no idea about but for whose ceremonies has learned the moves.
Poor JD Vance. He’s caught up in a game but has no idea what the rules are or how to fake it. I blame that on his handlers who didn’t have the brains to choose a decent front man and instead accelerated the unfortunate, inept boy child into a position far over his innate stature. He must dread waking up in the morning.
The howling at sirens is the old "howl with the pack" response, a hold-over from their wolfish ancestors. But I wouldn't expect Vance to have a clue about that. He doesn't have a clue about how to "people," much less how to "dog."
I think that therein lies Vance’s main problem. He’s living proof, along with fascist/racist Peter & Elon, of how computer tech has eviscerated the humane & relational natural abilities of the past/current generations x, y & z.
They don’t have to interact and learn humane & relational skills. Thus, they don’t learn conversation. In Vance’s case he always had his families in WVA and Eastern KY to feel superior toward and down on from the cultural heights of western OH & Cincinnati.
The Georgian Civil War - Reconstructionist writer, Sidney Lanier proved at least twice in his thirty-nine years that one doesn’t require more than a few weeks living in an area to caricature the area so very obscenely as to make it unrecognizable to any native resident.
Vance became a Yale prof and Lanier a Johns Hopkins prof. Neither did anything to earn their institutional cachets. So American: that plumping our “earned-but-nonexistent-amazing-abilities-and-experiences.”
Color me very unimpressed with the entire lot! Let’s reproduce two or three Ta-Hanisi Coates, Andrahati Roys and Erin Morgensterns and then brag about our earned abilities and experiences.
I don't think computer tech or elitist universities created them out of nothing; I just think neurodivergent people tend to gravitate to tech and finance (and elitist universities) and do well there. (I should know: I are one, I've worked in tech for years, and I'm happier than I would have been as a lawyer or political scientist.) It's hard to view neurodivergents working in tech as a bad thing in and of itself -- brilliant people finding a place where they belong and work they do well is critical to surviving the climate crisis, for one thing.
The thing is, these guys got hugely rich and stayed that way because the US's system of taxation is broken, for one thing. Piling up huge fortunes and not being required to even pay as much in taxes as ordinary people do puts them above everyone else. They use their money to insulate themselves from any semblance of reality. And when it comes to solving problems that they've likely contributed to creating, they say "let the peasants eat cake". (They probably also keep some Moet et Chandon in a pretty cabinet.)
So they're mind-bogglingly rich and have innate issues developing any empathy with their fellow humans. What could possibly go wrong?
Americans are always using psychological bs to bring ourselves to the heights of intelligence and brags about how their beachy sandcastle is far more sophisticated than anyone else’s have ever been.
Who does that sound like pocoloco?
Hmmm, can’t quite place it myself.
Honey, each of us is neurodivergent insofar as we have unique neuronal pathways and unique experiences that we react to and interpret through those individually unique biological constructs.
I don’t claim to be someone who falls into a niche (upper-level, of course) on “The Spectrum.” Although, after thirty-plus years as a clinical therapist I’m pretty fully aware of how massive outrage by upper middle class parents at having their own “highly intelligent” babies lumped together with children who met almost no developmental milestones doctors had made up.
But, we’ve cured that problem by turning “neurodivergent” into a word which folks embrace with the fervor evangelicals embrace “Saved.”
Shakespeare probably summed up our psychological terminologies best as “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” So it goes.
Try to learn not to self-associate yourself with the attributes Americans laud this week. Learn words like “compassionate,” “humane,” “open,” “loving” and “equanimous.” That will build confidence and an ability to see that in describing what I see in the world that if your name wasn’t Trump, Musk or Vance then I wasn’t meaning to hit anyone else with the stone that caused your yelp.
He was the editor of the Law School Journal. My mistake. Although he also claims that Yale hurt his feelings and made him feel less worthy due to his lack of family income, of course apparently was given a full ride or mostly full ride to law school.
“Following his clerkship, Vance joined the Columbus, Ohio office of Sidley Austin LLP one of the prestige law firms in the United States where he focused on complex litigation and regulatory compliance matters, gaining exposure to high-stakes corporate legal issues.”
I really hope so, but with that crook, Ken Paxton doing who-knows-what with however many millions of Texan votes, I'm not sure the good people in Texas will ever have a really fair election until a whole bunch of people in power in that state either end up in jail or die!
My favorite was being told I needed to apologize to someone I worked with, whom I'd had a technical disagreement with. I was right; it was obvious pretty quickly. But I'd hurt the poor guy's fee-fees by not just agreeing and keeping my mouth shut.
I was once ordered to apologize for saying to a mid-level female manager “are we okay with the repercussions of these actions?”. My husband came up with the best non-apology apology, “I meant to show no signs of disrespect”. Then a project I was in charge of cleared a boatload of money, so they left me alone for the rest of my career.
It sounds like what happened to me in a meeting:”Say that again, your brain is too fast”!!😅😅😂😂🤣I wanted to say : maybe yours is too slow, but I needed the job😁
I asked my ex-husband, did you hit your first wife? No, I didn’t have to. Why me? Because you know how to do things. (Truthfully, that was decades ago and I still cannot figure out what he meant.)
It's just too threatening to insecure men. Not all men are insecure, but too many are. It's just sad. They should find something meaningful in their lives.
That's because there are so few of them. The Peter principle is alive and malignant in corporate hierarchies.
Peter Principle and Dunning-Kruger all at once.
For five years I was site supervisor in a national corporate security office at a company whose name you all would recognize.
We used to say all the time what a fucking idiot the division guy was. Grade-A asshole, too.
Of course, he never heard it; it's one of the conceits of 'leadership'. They never hear a bad thing about themselves because it would mean the loss of a job; so they go around believing how great they are.
On the other hand, I worked in a (major defense and aerospace company) group in which all my co-workers were excellent at what they did, regardless of sex/gender.
Our attitude was the smarter the better, bring 'em in here.
There are even quite a few women who can’t stand strong competent women. I know - I’ve worked with a few. Probably explains why so many women are still MAGAts. It still boggles my mind though.
Even by her female co-workers. For 13 yrs I ran a small management firm with all female staff, and a few male subcontractors. I'm a straight woman, married forever, with grown children. If you are a driven workaholic, manic, and have high expectations as to follow through from others, as a woman, people think they can get by you because you want to be "nice". I was super nice, but demanded performance as it was critical in my industry. My female employees thought I was too much "like a man," the guys, I just treated like my brothers. You can't win for losing in this double standard paradox, catch 22 and all. However, I think Kamala can beat out the Trolls at the Bridge. My mother used to say, don't take any wooden nickels, kiddo, beat em at their own game--and Kamala is going to use the female wiles and ferocious maternal prosecuting critical power to knock Trump off his feet and lose his hairpiece at the debate (wishful thinking here....)...speaking of which, what is this about he doesn't want lifts so he can stand tall against the "little woman" like he towered and glowered over Hillary....VOTE BLUE
Kamala is going to fucking destroy LDFF with a cool and competent demeanor. This action will force the orange mango moron to ratchet up the hate speech rhetoric and he will fucking implode on National TV. I can’t wait!
A powerful, tough, extremely competent, brilliant, experienced person who wants equally competent intelligent people around them? Why that's EXACTLY what we need as President---wait, did you say this was a FEMALE? EWWWWWW
"our dogs often howl at ambulances passing by, because they’re idiotic, but whatever."
"I'm on the phone with Donald Trump," Vance told conservative podcasters the Nelk Boys. "I'm like, 'Son [who was nearby, talking about Pokemon], shut the hell up for 30 seconds.'"
A person with zero empathy, zero insight into other living creatures, and zero self-awareness should not be in office and running for even higher office; he should be looking for an excellent psychotherapist who can help him cope with the rage that guides him (understandably, given his unstable upbringing). He should not be using public office to punish others as proxies for the people he truly (unconsciously) wants to destroy: mother, father, stepfather, grandparents, everyone else who harmed him and/or failed to protect him.
Sick sick sick person doing a massive amount of harm. If he had been born about 10 years later, there's a good chance that he would have been a school shooter -- *that's* how angry he is, though he's careful not to let it show in overt ways (raised voice, angry gestures, physical violence).
Both Shady Vance and DonOld TRump are despicable cretins. How anyone in their right mind could support these disgusting men is beyond my comprehension.
That’s what I keep asking myself these days: “how on earth is over 40% of the population in the polls still voting for the cretins?” Though I just nicked your word “cretins.” Thank you. It’s perfect.
Damn right Dee. That guy is (just like his idiot boss) completely dead inside. No empathy, no warmth, no ability to interact with other humans. And he says nothing but idiotic MAGA stuff. That kind of Sociopathic behavior should never be a heartbeat from the presidency. Plus, I bet you a donut that if trump does win, his backers are gonna show his dumb ass to a window exit and project 2025 will be implemented for real by this pathological shitnozzle
I do think JD is crying out for help who resolving his issues from his very unfortunate childhood includudib his low opinion of women and need to suppress them. Marines and Yale Law school don’t see to have helped. Like all the people who morphed from never Trumpers to cultists he is an empty shell
And you are so right that vance will try his own coup as soon after January 6th as he can.
VOTING FOR TRUMP IS ACTUALLY VOTING FOR PRESIDENT VANCE AND PROJECT 2035.
My wife and I just asked Alexa if we should vote for Kamala or anus assholiness. Her answer was she didn't think she should influence elections. Just think about the MAGA meltdown if she would've said vote for Harris. The dipshits with the sledgehammers would smashing Alexas faster than warp speed.
Hahahaha, I was just going to type that in but couldn’t get myself to push the button! The thought of anything tRump coming into my inbox box creeps me out… Let me know how you make out! 😂
I cancelled WaPo yesterday. I had my (scathing!) reason all queued up, but the fragile snowflake ostriches do not offer a box in the cancellation form to add it. I had to send it in an email. So inelegant.
1. I no longer shop on Amazon but I don’t go around destroying the things I bought and paid for when I did. Not a fan of Bezos (see WaPo), but he doesn’t care if you have already paid him then cut your nose off to spite your face.
2. Julie’s just trying to get in on the grift, but Donny Orange doesn’t want to split the funds.
Yes, yes! You should only buy your books at Barnes & Noble. They finance their "progress" by over-ordering books and then returning them for "publisher's credit" which they use to "pay" for the next batch of books they over-order on. The "publisher's credit" they get for the returned books comes out of that book's author's royalties. And then they pay late for what books they do sell, meaning the author's royalties are reduced again because of them.
Don't tell me about all the wonderful independent bookstores, most of which are under-capitalized and do that shit even more than B&N does.
Yes, stay away from that awful Amazon, which sells every book they order, no returns ever, and always pays on time.
Why would any good progressive want to do something that helps the author they like, when by not doing so they get to feel all warm and fuzzy about themself?
If people would just order the books they want from the library we could save a lot of forests. Or you can get e- books free from your library to read on whatever reader you happen to favor. I have loved libraries all my life.
I had to buy books in the old days, because I never knew with work demands (60 hour work weeks; 24/7 on call; a daughter in fragile health) -- and not only often couldn't make it to the library, but never had a clue when I would have any time to read. Now the library is my home. I love it!
I have really good friends who sell their homemade jewelry and such on Amazon and they make a lot more money than if they had their wares in a big box store. I'm happy to support the sellers on Amazon. Plus, I really detest shopping!
i hear you on the shopping...it gets so awkward when engagement ensues by sales reps..and then if I really need help there is no one ever around. And then standing in line to check out. And the travel there and back. IDK it takes up a lot of time. Amazon has been amazing since I started using it full time in 2018.
Don't condemnation all book stores. Where I live there is a gem of an independent book store, Quail Ridge Books. Apart from being a great place to visit and buy books they get authors to attend book siging events. We have seen the like of Henry Winkler to John Meacham. Last month Frances Mayes of ("Under the Tuscan Sun") fame and just before Colm Toibin of ("Brooklyn") fame. B&N is a large chain, very different than the independents.
I love just about all bookstores, to tell the truth, from small independents to B&N. I also like political thrillers that involve libraries or bookstores, like The Cemetery of Forgotten Books (Zafon).
I expect that if I ever met Kamala Harris she'd look me in the eye, listen and ask an incisive question or two. I find that fairly normal, and not intimidating in the least.
It's a coucfuck twofer, hooray! Does this idiot think calling his dogs idiots makes him more relatable? Bc it's doing the opposite.
Also! Marcy Kauptur is a serious badass & extraordinarily principled member of Congress - she came to Brownsville TX when Drumpf was forcing families to camp out on the Mexico side. She helped plow some moms w their kids straight past the border patrol to safety on the other side (the indomitable Rosa DeLauro was part of that - she straightened up her wig and got to it). I thought I couldn't love Kaptur more, then Labor Day happened. Priceless, no notes.
Why should I vote for Kamala Harris. Love the AI response. Of course, the MAGA types are spouting “DEI” hire. Ok, let’s pull it apart. Diversity, you bet. Didn’t our Country for many years brag about being the melting pot? Of course, we did and we still are—diversity is a strength. Equity is the American dream—we work, we achieve, we share in the profit of product (or should). And inclusion. Pretty easy, we tried exclusion in the form of slavery and bigotry. Not so cool. So, I’m all in on DEI. As for DEI hire, that’s what vote is about. As for words from God, Jeff nailed it. If God wanted the Orange Jesus to be President, he would be now. Love it Jeff, keep up the work. BTW good managers do ask tough questions and expect good results.
Excellent gathering this week, Jeff. You did surprise me. Trump, with his great ‘child care plan’ he gave this week at “The Economy Club of New York” was epic! Just about as good as the plan he had 7 years ago, which he never did anything with during his term as president.
I know Julie Green has a kindred spirit in the "Queen of Canada". Maybe we should send them both to Russia to advise Putin. He can find them offices on the 20th floor with lots of windows.
Thanks Jeff! Waking up to your humor always sets the tone for the rest of my day. Yes, the headline about Kamala's disgruntled staffers was egregious. I laughed out loud reading that one staffer complained that when she worked with Kamala, she got irritated when Kamala would ask her "Why?" Oh, the horror! The lame-stream media is doing everything in their power to smear Harris and paint her as incompetent. It's not working.
Favorite tweet, with side-by-side photos of Mark Hamill and Cheney: "Kamala Harris is so unifying that she got the endorsement of Luke Skywalker AND Darth Vader."
When I opened the text my sister sent me that Cheney was endorsing Kamala and I had a moment of glee thinking it was an announcement that he was dead. Oh well, at least he can do one useful thing in his life.
Damn! That was an excellent STUPID week Jeff!! The Couchfuck two-fer, the Maga prophet (I never heard of), alexa, grok….and God forbid Kamala doing her job as anyone in charge would do (except LDFF). Woo Hoo!!!Thanks for the laughs!
“Emission from God” shows awfully fine craftsmanship in the wordsmithery department.
JD Vance is always going to be strange. To the end of his days. Soulless, but uniquely incapable of imitating human thought and expression. Like a cult acolyte priest for a cult he has no idea about but for whose ceremonies has learned the moves.
Also enjoyed ‘mouth-sounds at the whoop whoop’ 😆‼️
Was he saying dogs are stupid or ambulances are ? Probably both, because he's so weirdly stupid.
Poor JD Vance. He’s caught up in a game but has no idea what the rules are or how to fake it. I blame that on his handlers who didn’t have the brains to choose a decent front man and instead accelerated the unfortunate, inept boy child into a position far over his innate stature. He must dread waking up in the morning.
Either way, voters won’t be happy about it.
You’re reading it right. Between them, he’s the idiot. I worry for his dogs and his children.
Justa Dick, wouldn't surprise me if he pulled a NOEM.
Really. If you want to win over humans you must not diss their beloved stupid dogs. Practice this skill, JD.
The howling at sirens is the old "howl with the pack" response, a hold-over from their wolfish ancestors. But I wouldn't expect Vance to have a clue about that. He doesn't have a clue about how to "people," much less how to "dog."
It's an ingrained DNA response in the computers.
He is really awkward… perhaps another Melon Musk or Peter Theil?
Ronny desantis too!
That’s exactly who I was thinking of!
Me too!! 😄 Both lack interpersonal skills. Can't see how anyone would have voted for them.
It’s all explained by tons of money & expensive marketing.
Are they related?
I think that therein lies Vance’s main problem. He’s living proof, along with fascist/racist Peter & Elon, of how computer tech has eviscerated the humane & relational natural abilities of the past/current generations x, y & z.
They don’t have to interact and learn humane & relational skills. Thus, they don’t learn conversation. In Vance’s case he always had his families in WVA and Eastern KY to feel superior toward and down on from the cultural heights of western OH & Cincinnati.
The Georgian Civil War - Reconstructionist writer, Sidney Lanier proved at least twice in his thirty-nine years that one doesn’t require more than a few weeks living in an area to caricature the area so very obscenely as to make it unrecognizable to any native resident.
Vance became a Yale prof and Lanier a Johns Hopkins prof. Neither did anything to earn their institutional cachets. So American: that plumping our “earned-but-nonexistent-amazing-abilities-and-experiences.”
Color me very unimpressed with the entire lot! Let’s reproduce two or three Ta-Hanisi Coates, Andrahati Roys and Erin Morgensterns and then brag about our earned abilities and experiences.
I don't think computer tech or elitist universities created them out of nothing; I just think neurodivergent people tend to gravitate to tech and finance (and elitist universities) and do well there. (I should know: I are one, I've worked in tech for years, and I'm happier than I would have been as a lawyer or political scientist.) It's hard to view neurodivergents working in tech as a bad thing in and of itself -- brilliant people finding a place where they belong and work they do well is critical to surviving the climate crisis, for one thing.
The thing is, these guys got hugely rich and stayed that way because the US's system of taxation is broken, for one thing. Piling up huge fortunes and not being required to even pay as much in taxes as ordinary people do puts them above everyone else. They use their money to insulate themselves from any semblance of reality. And when it comes to solving problems that they've likely contributed to creating, they say "let the peasants eat cake". (They probably also keep some Moet et Chandon in a pretty cabinet.)
So they're mind-bogglingly rich and have innate issues developing any empathy with their fellow humans. What could possibly go wrong?
Americans are always using psychological bs to bring ourselves to the heights of intelligence and brags about how their beachy sandcastle is far more sophisticated than anyone else’s have ever been.
Who does that sound like pocoloco?
Hmmm, can’t quite place it myself.
Honey, each of us is neurodivergent insofar as we have unique neuronal pathways and unique experiences that we react to and interpret through those individually unique biological constructs.
I don’t claim to be someone who falls into a niche (upper-level, of course) on “The Spectrum.” Although, after thirty-plus years as a clinical therapist I’m pretty fully aware of how massive outrage by upper middle class parents at having their own “highly intelligent” babies lumped together with children who met almost no developmental milestones doctors had made up.
But, we’ve cured that problem by turning “neurodivergent” into a word which folks embrace with the fervor evangelicals embrace “Saved.”
Shakespeare probably summed up our psychological terminologies best as “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” So it goes.
Try to learn not to self-associate yourself with the attributes Americans laud this week. Learn words like “compassionate,” “humane,” “open,” “loving” and “equanimous.” That will build confidence and an ability to see that in describing what I see in the world that if your name wasn’t Trump, Musk or Vance then I wasn’t meaning to hit anyone else with the stone that caused your yelp.
Peace to you.
Apologies to Arundhati Roy and Ta-Nehisi Coates for my earlier misspellings of their names.
Whew…Radha! That’s a JT post winning comment if ever I’ve read one!!
Thank you.
was JD Vance a professor at Yale...I thought he just want to law school there..I didn't know he was a professor...
He was the editor of the Law School Journal. My mistake. Although he also claims that Yale hurt his feelings and made him feel less worthy due to his lack of family income, of course apparently was given a full ride or mostly full ride to law school.
I wonder what type of law JD specialized in?
Accordg to this rundown at Law Fuel:
“Following his clerkship, Vance joined the Columbus, Ohio office of Sidley Austin LLP one of the prestige law firms in the United States where he focused on complex litigation and regulatory compliance matters, gaining exposure to high-stakes corporate legal issues.”
Many thanks for the correction, Julie Sisk.
Melon Musk!
Laugh laugh laugh laugh.
Isn't Vance Peter's boyfriend? Didn't the Big P fund his campaign?
That’s the only reason Vance won that Senator seat, Peter Thiel’s money, to be able to buy the very best marketing
What about Ted Cruz? There's another charmer.
With any luck, Ted will soon be able to travel to Cancun when he wants -- and just STAY there.
I really hope so, but with that crook, Ken Paxton doing who-knows-what with however many millions of Texan votes, I'm not sure the good people in Texas will ever have a really fair election until a whole bunch of people in power in that state either end up in jail or die!
As a fellow Texan, I’ve got my fingers, toes and eyes crossed that Turd Cruz is an ex-senator real soon now
Because it has to be said,
Fuck Ted Cruz.
And fuck Josh Hawley and Moscow Mitch,too!
I think JD and the asshat Governor of Florida are twin sons of different mothers.
Brothahs from different muthahs.
Perfect
Not strange, WEIRD!
Exactly. He’s like artificial intelligence without the intelligence part. Artificial buffoonery maybe.
Natural stupidity
He's ChatbotJDV
Can’t have a bossy woman running things.
I know, right?
My supervisor told me once: you are so competent it creeps me out. I managed not to laugh, kept my face blank and said nothing.
I was told I was “worrying the other partners”
(At a CPA firm after I refused to turn back a date stamp in the mail room)
The true words of a weasel among men, “understand it’s not me but certain ‘other partners’ want you to break the law” that’s what I hear.
Yes - also assuming I didn’t know it was illegal. a complete jackass. I quit a few weeks later.
My favorite was being told I needed to apologize to someone I worked with, whom I'd had a technical disagreement with. I was right; it was obvious pretty quickly. But I'd hurt the poor guy's fee-fees by not just agreeing and keeping my mouth shut.
I was once ordered to apologize for saying to a mid-level female manager “are we okay with the repercussions of these actions?”. My husband came up with the best non-apology apology, “I meant to show no signs of disrespect”. Then a project I was in charge of cleared a boatload of money, so they left me alone for the rest of my career.
Wow. An intelligent woman with integrity. That is awesome.
Yeesh
It sounds like what happened to me in a meeting:”Say that again, your brain is too fast”!!😅😅😂😂🤣I wanted to say : maybe yours is too slow, but I needed the job😁
I asked my ex-husband, did you hit your first wife? No, I didn’t have to. Why me? Because you know how to do things. (Truthfully, that was decades ago and I still cannot figure out what he meant.)
Omg
He meant he would. I don’t know either one of you but he’s afraid of smart women and I’d be very careful around a man that says that.
Apparently, your blank face is outstanding too!
You have subtitles on your face too? No matter how hard you try to keep it blank?I hear you…😂
'I'm sorry....did I just roll my eyes out loud?'
I can so relate to this.
We would never hear anyone say anything similar about a man’s leadership style. A strong competent woman is still considered a bitch in this world.
And a strong competent woman who shows so much confidence, joy, and compassion, too. For some, that simply does not compute.
It's just too threatening to insecure men. Not all men are insecure, but too many are. It's just sad. They should find something meaningful in their lives.
That's because there are so few of them. The Peter principle is alive and malignant in corporate hierarchies.
Peter Principle and Dunning-Kruger all at once.
For five years I was site supervisor in a national corporate security office at a company whose name you all would recognize.
We used to say all the time what a fucking idiot the division guy was. Grade-A asshole, too.
Of course, he never heard it; it's one of the conceits of 'leadership'. They never hear a bad thing about themselves because it would mean the loss of a job; so they go around believing how great they are.
On the other hand, I worked in a (major defense and aerospace company) group in which all my co-workers were excellent at what they did, regardless of sex/gender.
Our attitude was the smarter the better, bring 'em in here.
There are even quite a few women who can’t stand strong competent women. I know - I’ve worked with a few. Probably explains why so many women are still MAGAts. It still boggles my mind though.
🎯🎯🎯
Even by her female co-workers. For 13 yrs I ran a small management firm with all female staff, and a few male subcontractors. I'm a straight woman, married forever, with grown children. If you are a driven workaholic, manic, and have high expectations as to follow through from others, as a woman, people think they can get by you because you want to be "nice". I was super nice, but demanded performance as it was critical in my industry. My female employees thought I was too much "like a man," the guys, I just treated like my brothers. You can't win for losing in this double standard paradox, catch 22 and all. However, I think Kamala can beat out the Trolls at the Bridge. My mother used to say, don't take any wooden nickels, kiddo, beat em at their own game--and Kamala is going to use the female wiles and ferocious maternal prosecuting critical power to knock Trump off his feet and lose his hairpiece at the debate (wishful thinking here....)...speaking of which, what is this about he doesn't want lifts so he can stand tall against the "little woman" like he towered and glowered over Hillary....VOTE BLUE
Kamala is going to fucking destroy LDFF with a cool and competent demeanor. This action will force the orange mango moron to ratchet up the hate speech rhetoric and he will fucking implode on National TV. I can’t wait!
God help us NOT a competent one!!
A powerful, tough, extremely competent, brilliant, experienced person who wants equally competent intelligent people around them? Why that's EXACTLY what we need as President---wait, did you say this was a FEMALE? EWWWWWW
vance, on vulnerable creatures:
"our dogs often howl at ambulances passing by, because they’re idiotic, but whatever."
"I'm on the phone with Donald Trump," Vance told conservative podcasters the Nelk Boys. "I'm like, 'Son [who was nearby, talking about Pokemon], shut the hell up for 30 seconds.'"
A person with zero empathy, zero insight into other living creatures, and zero self-awareness should not be in office and running for even higher office; he should be looking for an excellent psychotherapist who can help him cope with the rage that guides him (understandably, given his unstable upbringing). He should not be using public office to punish others as proxies for the people he truly (unconsciously) wants to destroy: mother, father, stepfather, grandparents, everyone else who harmed him and/or failed to protect him.
Sick sick sick person doing a massive amount of harm. If he had been born about 10 years later, there's a good chance that he would have been a school shooter -- *that's* how angry he is, though he's careful not to let it show in overt ways (raised voice, angry gestures, physical violence).
Both Shady Vance and DonOld TRump are despicable cretins. How anyone in their right mind could support these disgusting men is beyond my comprehension.
That’s what I keep asking myself these days: “how on earth is over 40% of the population in the polls still voting for the cretins?” Though I just nicked your word “cretins.” Thank you. It’s perfect.
36 years' worth of Rightie media brainwashing will do it. From Limbaugh to Faux to these Russian dupes. It never lets up.
They’ll be paying off favors more than even Nixon did
Damn right Dee. That guy is (just like his idiot boss) completely dead inside. No empathy, no warmth, no ability to interact with other humans. And he says nothing but idiotic MAGA stuff. That kind of Sociopathic behavior should never be a heartbeat from the presidency. Plus, I bet you a donut that if trump does win, his backers are gonna show his dumb ass to a window exit and project 2025 will be implemented for real by this pathological shitnozzle
You know it. Putin will be glad to assist.
I do think JD is crying out for help who resolving his issues from his very unfortunate childhood includudib his low opinion of women and need to suppress them. Marines and Yale Law school don’t see to have helped. Like all the people who morphed from never Trumpers to cultists he is an empty shell
And you are so right that vance will try his own coup as soon after January 6th as he can.
VOTING FOR TRUMP IS ACTUALLY VOTING FOR PRESIDENT VANCE AND PROJECT 2035.
He sounds like if Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis had a baby.
Careful, Karla. The gender police are taking names…now you’ve got DonandRon on their lust.
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But…but…who would run as a Republican in any race?
Thanks for your input Dee!!
Let's not forget Vance writing about himself in his memoir:
“I can be defused, but only with skill and precision. It’s not just that I’ve learned to control myself, but that Usha has learned how to manage me.”
How fun for Usha. Nothing more uplifting than having to "manage" your ticking time bomb hubby.
I’m not a psychologist but I firmly agree with your assessment of Vance’s subconscious motivations.
He definitely has tons of suppressed rage.
Did he really say that to his son? Tell me it ain't so. Who says that to their kid? Some fine parenting.
They’re sociopaths.
That’s probably right. I mean we’re certain Trump is, and Vance’s anger and antipathy toward humans ( dogs too?) is palpable.
Now…or later anyway, I’m going to have to ask Alexa why I should vote for the Felon. 🤦🏻♀️
Please let us know the answer. I could use the laughs.
My wife and I just asked Alexa if we should vote for Kamala or anus assholiness. Her answer was she didn't think she should influence elections. Just think about the MAGA meltdown if she would've said vote for Harris. The dipshits with the sledgehammers would smashing Alexas faster than warp speed.
Oof.
Hahahaha, I was just going to type that in but couldn’t get myself to push the button! The thought of anything tRump coming into my inbox box creeps me out… Let me know how you make out! 😂
I did after reading this. She says she doesn’t comment on politics. I asked her why I should vote for Kamala and got the same.
I saw that video, it's true.
I cancelled WaPo yesterday. I had my (scathing!) reason all queued up, but the fragile snowflake ostriches do not offer a box in the cancellation form to add it. I had to send it in an email. So inelegant.
But great that you made the effort to share your reasons. Thank you, says democracy.
I did the exact same thing.
1. I no longer shop on Amazon but I don’t go around destroying the things I bought and paid for when I did. Not a fan of Bezos (see WaPo), but he doesn’t care if you have already paid him then cut your nose off to spite your face.
2. Julie’s just trying to get in on the grift, but Donny Orange doesn’t want to split the funds.
julie is a freaking idiot.
Religion is a Death Insurance SCAM &
GRIFT.
A racket.
Yes, yes! You should only buy your books at Barnes & Noble. They finance their "progress" by over-ordering books and then returning them for "publisher's credit" which they use to "pay" for the next batch of books they over-order on. The "publisher's credit" they get for the returned books comes out of that book's author's royalties. And then they pay late for what books they do sell, meaning the author's royalties are reduced again because of them.
Don't tell me about all the wonderful independent bookstores, most of which are under-capitalized and do that shit even more than B&N does.
Yes, stay away from that awful Amazon, which sells every book they order, no returns ever, and always pays on time.
Why would any good progressive want to do something that helps the author they like, when by not doing so they get to feel all warm and fuzzy about themself?
I rarely bought books on Amazon, I use my public library. I don’t judge those that do use it.
If people would just order the books they want from the library we could save a lot of forests. Or you can get e- books free from your library to read on whatever reader you happen to favor. I have loved libraries all my life.
I despise Bezos, I don't do Amazon.
Billionaires shouldn't even be a thing.
"Billionaires shouldn't even be a thing." Absolutely not.
I use ThriftBooks.com a bunch!
I do too. TC, what are their policies?
I don't know them. Since they're selling used books, I see nothing from any of mine sold there.
It's great, isn't it!
I had to buy books in the old days, because I never knew with work demands (60 hour work weeks; 24/7 on call; a daughter in fragile health) -- and not only often couldn't make it to the library, but never had a clue when I would have any time to read. Now the library is my home. I love it!
I have really good friends who sell their homemade jewelry and such on Amazon and they make a lot more money than if they had their wares in a big box store. I'm happy to support the sellers on Amazon. Plus, I really detest shopping!
i hear you on the shopping...it gets so awkward when engagement ensues by sales reps..and then if I really need help there is no one ever around. And then standing in line to check out. And the travel there and back. IDK it takes up a lot of time. Amazon has been amazing since I started using it full time in 2018.
Ditto. I had to stop driving several years ago (Parkinson's), and Amazon has truly been a godsend for me.
My sister sells her jewelry on ETSY,
MOTHER MOON ROCKS , beautiful semi precious stones, crystals , specifically for each customers health needs.
I just looked at her Etsy shop, Kristy...beautiful work!
Don't condemnation all book stores. Where I live there is a gem of an independent book store, Quail Ridge Books. Apart from being a great place to visit and buy books they get authors to attend book siging events. We have seen the like of Henry Winkler to John Meacham. Last month Frances Mayes of ("Under the Tuscan Sun") fame and just before Colm Toibin of ("Brooklyn") fame. B&N is a large chain, very different than the independents.
Small independent bookstores are a completely different animal from huge chain bookstores like B&N, it seems.
Yes, very different and hard to fìnd
And, sadly, that sure wasn't the way a couple of decades ago.
I love just about all bookstores, to tell the truth, from small independents to B&N. I also like political thrillers that involve libraries or bookstores, like The Cemetery of Forgotten Books (Zafon).
TC, thanks for this info. I had no idea.
Julie reminds me of Candace Owens only white.
I think Julie is a reanimated corpse, running some extremely limited AI.
She does look weird. Otherworldly.
My oldest daughter Isabella has Julie Green for a godmother… thankfully not that vapid wastrel!!
Love “thankfully not that vapid wastrel.” 🤣🤣
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I expect that if I ever met Kamala Harris she'd look me in the eye, listen and ask an incisive question or two. I find that fairly normal, and not intimidating in the least.
It's a coucfuck twofer, hooray! Does this idiot think calling his dogs idiots makes him more relatable? Bc it's doing the opposite.
Also! Marcy Kauptur is a serious badass & extraordinarily principled member of Congress - she came to Brownsville TX when Drumpf was forcing families to camp out on the Mexico side. She helped plow some moms w their kids straight past the border patrol to safety on the other side (the indomitable Rosa DeLauro was part of that - she straightened up her wig and got to it). I thought I couldn't love Kaptur more, then Labor Day happened. Priceless, no notes.
Mebbe Vance grabbed her fist so she couldn't sock him
A fair point.
Why should I vote for Kamala Harris. Love the AI response. Of course, the MAGA types are spouting “DEI” hire. Ok, let’s pull it apart. Diversity, you bet. Didn’t our Country for many years brag about being the melting pot? Of course, we did and we still are—diversity is a strength. Equity is the American dream—we work, we achieve, we share in the profit of product (or should). And inclusion. Pretty easy, we tried exclusion in the form of slavery and bigotry. Not so cool. So, I’m all in on DEI. As for DEI hire, that’s what vote is about. As for words from God, Jeff nailed it. If God wanted the Orange Jesus to be President, he would be now. Love it Jeff, keep up the work. BTW good managers do ask tough questions and expect good results.
Excellent gathering this week, Jeff. You did surprise me. Trump, with his great ‘child care plan’ he gave this week at “The Economy Club of New York” was epic! Just about as good as the plan he had 7 years ago, which he never did anything with during his term as president.
That’s because child care is child care
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Haha. His "childs care plan" is actually more specific than his "better than Obamacare" health plan.
I know Julie Green has a kindred spirit in the "Queen of Canada". Maybe we should send them both to Russia to advise Putin. He can find them offices on the 20th floor with lots of windows.
And a really windy staircase.
Money on he gets tired of them really soon and those windows come in handy
Thanks Jeff! Waking up to your humor always sets the tone for the rest of my day. Yes, the headline about Kamala's disgruntled staffers was egregious. I laughed out loud reading that one staffer complained that when she worked with Kamala, she got irritated when Kamala would ask her "Why?" Oh, the horror! The lame-stream media is doing everything in their power to smear Harris and paint her as incompetent. It's not working.
Keep up the brilliant work, Jeff. You make the world a better place. Nice to see some sane perspective.
Saturday, and I am suffering from PTCD*. Dick Cheney was the last one out, and he closed the door.
* OMG, agreement from Dick Cheney. Darth V and all that.
Favorite tweet, with side-by-side photos of Mark Hamill and Cheney: "Kamala Harris is so unifying that she got the endorsement of Luke Skywalker AND Darth Vader."
https://x.com/RuNoseP/status/1832134853262737841
When I opened the text my sister sent me that Cheney was endorsing Kamala and I had a moment of glee thinking it was an announcement that he was dead. Oh well, at least he can do one useful thing in his life.
Waiting for one of those moments of glee announcements about The Felon.
Everyday one of the first things husband and I ask “is he de@d yet.” For YEARS we’ve been doing this.
One. He has done one.
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LOL 😂👍
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Dick & Liz have given other Republicans
PERMISSION, to vote to save DEMOCRACY
once again, I have questions. isn’t JD Vance a hedge-fund millionaire? why does JD’s home look like the stockroom of a Dollar Store?
They've removed all upholstered furniture from his house. Helps control those "emissions from God"
OMG! I think you might have won the internet today. Brilliant.
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Damn! That was an excellent STUPID week Jeff!! The Couchfuck two-fer, the Maga prophet (I never heard of), alexa, grok….and God forbid Kamala doing her job as anyone in charge would do (except LDFF). Woo Hoo!!!Thanks for the laughs!