It’s no longer just Trump the world blames for his cruel idiotic incompetence.
Those at Davos blame American voters.
I have never once voted for Trump. I’ve never watched the “Apprentice”.
In the future people who deny voting for Trump. For many that will be a lie. Then there’s the ridiculous group of Democrats who think not voting is a worthwhile protest, it’s lazy&stupid
I write about this occasionally: In the Erica Jong book “Fear of Flying” she spoke about a time when her then husband was stationed in Germany. Ms Jong worked for a small local paper. She was trying to locate a Nazi era amphitheater. No one would admit to knowing its existence or whereabouts.
There will always be maga in the walls&carpets, but many Americans will deny supporting Trump.
That's a good story. She finds the amphitheater and writes a self-righteous OpEd about Truth and Art and Beauty for a local paper. The editor agrees to print it, but tells her she doesn't understand the German people.
"The Germans LOVED Hitler," he said. "If they were to be honest, you wouldn't like what you would hear. But they are not honest. For 25 years they have not been honest. They never cried for their war dead and they never cried for Hitler. ... Even they don't know their real feelings. If they were honest, you would hate it worse than their hypocrisy."
I'll go out on a limb and speculate that MAGA loves Trump for the same reason Germans loved Hitler: Both men appeared at a time when a segment of their countries's population felt beaten-down and losing ground, and for a few glorious years, they made them feel like the winners of life's lottery.
And then, when it's over, MAGA will pack away the Trump flags and other memorabilia, just like the Germans packed away their Nazi merch, and soothe their broken hearts with drugs, alcohol and the most powerful substance of all: Denial.
AND - gathering from some of what I've heard from extended family members who were all in for him then, despite acknowledging just how stupid he was and is, they voted for him anyway because 'he told it like it was'...'spoke his mind', 'spoke our language', etc. To me it's that THEY finally found someone dumber and far more stupid than them, which made them finally feel more superior to but just as racist and misogynistic as themselves. Why would they want a stupid leader is the question? I've always preferred a President who's FAR more intelligent than myself. When every cat and dog I've ever raised is smarter than the orange fool ripping apart OUR White House, you know a huge wrong turn was made. They will happily go back underground with their racist bigotry - until their next opportunity comes along. I don't blame ANYONE for thinking the American 'voter' is at fault - but it is a bit galling when so many of us never have, never did and never would vote for this 'stupido' and are doing everything possible to fight back.
Yeah, I always loved me some Germans. They have a special word for people who supported Hitler but only did it for the sake of their families. They're called Nazis.
Back in the 80's, I got into a conversation with a nice young German couple. They were complaining bitterly about how Americans were stomping around in their Black Forest with NATO on maneuvers. I just observed that they are a sovereign nation, the Bundestag could toss the American army out of Germany if it chose. Their reply wasn't legal or procedural, it had nothing to do with the NATO alliance being binding. It was just pure, visceral horror at the very idea. The man blurted out, in a near panic "No! We cannot! You are here protecting us from ourselves!".
I won't let my 3 Trumpian brothers off the hook and go revisionist history on me! My Uncle, who was born in the early 20's told me he saw the KKK meeting in Arlington VA at an old stadium, which is the site of a mall now, when he was a little kid. He snuck in with a few neighborhood kids and saw them burning crosses with their hoods on and all. After a big march on DC in mid-late 20's, the populace woke up and banned the secrecy of members in the group, whose headquarters was in Arlington VA. (Similarly, we should ban dark money in politics today AND the MASKING of ICE.) The KKK now had to publish the names of those people in the organization which essentially forced it too disband as the hypocritical members were local racist businessmen and politicians who could then be held accountable for the lynchings and burnings. The headquarters left the state of Virginia then.
THIS! I will not let any die-hard trumpian magats off the hook, especially through the horrors we've witnessed (and the arguments I've had with those I'm still dealing with here). This one neighbour is STILL determined to prove that he's been 'good for the US' and that she is 'right' about this 'good christian who's repented' as she sees him (or claims she does., We've had blow-outs but it's a small cul-de-sac, we've been very good to her (and her now-deceased parents) over the years - hubby still doesn't want to end our relationship with her (he was in the hospital during the first couple of episodes so wasn't aware)...and so puts me in an awkward position. He paid HIS dues in Combat so I can't fight him on this but it is most frustrating when he leaves it to me to 'handle' things with her - and she just shows up at our door. Augh. His kind of racism (frump's) for me cannot be glossed-over or forgiven.
A friend from Howell Michigan ("Michigan Militia" territory) told of watching a Klan march in his youth, everybody all hooded up but from the leader's shoes he could tell that it was the mayor.
I never for one minute believed the "Intel" on why we went in or supported it. Lo and behold, those of us who did not support it turned out to be right. We were lied to and lots of people died for that, and marriages broke up and children grew up without one or both parents. Devastating lies.
I'll never forget going into Sears for some appliance and taking the escalator down to a yellow ribboned area with Matell plastic Soldiers and Kids Camo War paraphenalia for sale. I almost screamed with disbelief when my Mother said, "Oh, let's hope the "boys" come back soon" No, Mom, this is not your righteous WWII military saving the World...20 years later with those stupid senseless destructive but $$ making for the Republican cronies wars and covering up Republican dirty dealings these greedy bastards are still at it.
Same here, Linda. The rationale for invading was ridiculous on the face of it, and I didn't understand why the whole country---especially Congress---didn't see that.
In the Bay Area, thousands of people were in the streets opposing the second Gulf War, but the news intentionally under-reported the numbers. We get lied to in both directions.
Not all. No one I knew believed it. And, I might point out that our allied countries that Trump has now dissed and threatened also gave their sons to the cause, many of whom lost their lives or shed blood to support the lie of an unpopular US president to up his poll ratings.
Powell should have resigned on the spot. We know he knew invading Iraq was going to be a cluster because leading up to it he warned the famous Potterybarn rule: "You break it, you own it."
It's time for us to think about another rule. When Russia was losing, Ukraine was ready to take advantage of their dismal performance and with our help, could have crushed Russia - set them way back. But no, Speaker Mike Johnson slow-walked the funding of munitions and completely gave Russia time to regroup to fight another day.
Same for us during this war with our illegal government. ICE is obviously a lawbreaking nightmare. We need to double down on national, persistent protests to show that we will not tolerate this new normal gestapo.
Unfortunately, 7 Democrats voted to fund ICE. So, call your senators and tell them NO! Tell them to retire Senator Schumer and stop being complete idiots by giving away our leverage. When we are winning the war, it's time to finish them off.
New rule: "We are mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore!"
Are you just going for hyperbole to make a [valid] point, or do you really think it was 90%? I seem to recall hundreds of thousands protesting across the country.
The protest here in Cleveland was small but loud. We probably covered a city block.
Then count me in the other 10% of those that didn't support the Iraq War. If you think about it, every full on elective war the US has been involved in has been a total shit show. Vietnam springs to mind, Afghanistan another, and also started by the same administration, the Iraq War. And I knew it was total bullshit when Dubya & Cheney complained that Saddam wasn't allowing the UN inspectors full access, when the UN didn't say a word about denial of access. Dick Cheney was in a fucking hurry to get his little war of Colonialism going. I did not/could not predict the full on shit show & murder of 1M Iraqis, nor the complete breakdown of the Iraq's government, but there's a line from the movie Body Heat. "For any crime, there's a 100 ways it can go wrong, and if you can think of 50 of them, you're a genius." Same holds true for any military invasion, with enough firepower you can destroy the smaller country's military. But unless you're embraced as a liberator and invited (and Dubya was NOT invited to that party) your military intervention will turn into a fucking hell hole.
My God people are so easily brainwashed by a truly wicked Government. Why can’t America “ leave well alone” 1 million Iraqis died for nothing, the stupidity of George W Bush! do they feel any guilt… of course not, they justify some bullshit in their head to satisfy all the killings…OMG
Not just those at DAVOS. I am living in Germany and a friend who is American was at a restaurant last week talking with a friend, and person at a nearby introduced himself and asked if they were from the US. Then he told them that he had been there in Wisconsin and had a wonderful time, but he wanted to warn them that everyone hates Americans now, not him, but people in general, and that he was warning them not to be so obvious about being American in public. I think he meant don't speak in English. It made me think of how immigrants are feeling in the US right now. Boycotts against US goods are being organized and I think that wave will grow.
Also, as for Canada. I read that Trump said he wanted Alberta. Alberta is filled with Maple MAGAs as Dean Blundell call them, and some want to join the US. I would be glad to trade my state Illinois for Alberta, since we would love the Canadian health care system and to allow our universities to be funded for research again and our children to get vaccines, etc...
Trumps Silicon Valley billionaire cabal, wanted all of Canada’s vast lands, with gold, silver, and a plethora of other rare earth minerals, would be my assumption Linda.
Calgary was a fun place to visit, I had no idea about Alberta though. One of my sailor-guy friends just purchased property on the water in BC, his Canadian wife never mentioned anything so bizarre about such a beautiful place.
Life in Germany after Trump’s Davos fuckery shouldn’t be so troubling, I m surprised at reading this.
Not only Democrats.. And as to all Americans being blamed: Welcome to being on the other side of collective guilt. How does it feel? Perhaps Americans can learn something from this, like the dangers of generalization. We might start by applying it to the Palestinians, Muslims and Jews.
Collective attribution of guilt may be wrongful, but collective punishment is simply unavoidable. Not every German supported Hitler but all of Germany suffered for it. America as a whole is going to be seriously diminished and all of us will feel it.
Two versions: We reject the notion of collective guilt; We recognize that all people are individuals, so that, for instance, there's no causal connection between appearance and intelligence.
I think that was different. Trump refused to release SNAP funds and there were literally people going hungry. I think these senators took pity on the poor. I have a friend who is a social worker and she said the food banks were over run.
Well I understand why Dems voted for Dipshit McDogdoo! They were concerned about the price of FUCKING EGGS. And that’s why they voted for a chicken. #bawkbawkbawk
Because the republican voting elders, always vote religiously for anything with a pulse, that has an "R" next to their name. In Reno, they once voted for a dead Pimp. Democratic voters, and it is a dichotomy because of our political system, is a much more loosely attached contingency, they aren't as loyal, in fact, at the least excuse some people vote D only when they realize how useless their reps are. (then expect the newly elected D to fix everything with a magic wand on day one, despite not voting enough of them in to actually fix things.) There are roughly a third of voters who are committed racists and then a little less than a third are Independents who vary greatly in their make-up. Some are embarrassed republicans, others refuse to commit to a party. These are the squishy middle that if they don't vote it comes down to the R's winning because they always vote their con-person. The D's can be very fickle and decide not to vote when unhappy, which is a trick that never works because of our system. I have argued with naive foreigners who think "protest votes" send a message, which no one knows why you vote, so, it counts as a vote for someone you didn't really want. Stupid really.
I agree with your analysis of how things break down, of course.
But my question was, strictly by the numbers, how does a not-vote translate to an R vote? Maybe the person who didn't vote would have voted R. Maybe that person's failure to vote benefitted the Dem. Maybe not as likely, but certainly possible.
Not to make this a huge thing, but I personally think the whole "not voting = voting R" mantra is a myth.
Here's my reasoning:
For the sake of argument, say there are 100 total votes cast. Therefore, each candidate theoretically has a chance to get 100 votes. When all is said and done, whoever gets 51 votes wins.
But suppose only 90 people out of 100 cast votes. So each candidate is fighting to get 46 votes. The other 10 votes aren't in contention.
The pie is the pie. It doesn't matter how big it is; the candidate who gets the majority of votes wins. Any non-voters don't affect the outcome.
Anybody think this logic is flawed? Please do point out any errors.
Republican voters nearly always vote because they are ideological voters, especially the elderly, as they are the largest voting demographic. Third party votes siphon away from the candidates who could actually win, that is how that part works. Non-voters should be aware of the responsibility to not use your voice when it is needed to ward off an authoritarian, is pretty fucking negligent. When Republican voters vote in lock-step as they do, we need a large number of votes to off-set them and limit the damage they can do. When we don’t vote, it allows those numbers to win even, if it isn’t a majority abstaining over purity policies, because no one in politics can ever be pure enough, it gives the election to those who show up to vote.
"Maybe the person who didn't vote would have voted R" No, the people who would vote R show up solidly, even for candidates they don't totally agree with, because they understand that politics is about exerting power, not a performance art about self-expression. If Republicans were like Democrats they would have not voted for Reagan's second term because he didn't abolish abortion in his first year.
They have fallen for the Russian propaganda "Both sides are the same". lie. Do we have some bad apples we need to oust, obviously, but the other side is killing women by taking away reproductive rights, and bodily autonomy, not to mention reversing decades of progress and pushing us into a fucking Theocracy. I guess if you are a white young, edge-lord you can be a smug little shit
…paid by Russia and the Koch machine (since only one brother, Charles and his adopted son Chase are left) like Charlie Kirk was, to spout evil. Did you notice Tim Poole found out he was being paid directly by Russia, and did not change a thing about his really stupid propaganda?
Not voting is what put the traitor back in our White House. Telling anyone not to use their voice is the stupidest, irresponsible statement I've ever heard. It must have come from Democrats who know they'll lose their bid for re-election. They should.
Yes and the 7 Democrats who voted this week to fund ICE with more money. They either are not true Democrats or they have been promised some kind of financial win for casting their votes to fund ICE even more.
Jeff, in "things that happened while you were writing this", did you see his post about the impending major winter storm and "global warming"???....holy shit, this idiot has gone so far passed "embarrassing", that you can't even see "embarrassing" in the rear view mirror!!
Remember in Orwell's "1984," WAR IS PEACE. So the Board of Peace is really the Board or War. I am wondering whether that means that the countries that paid to be on this board are either going to expect Trump won't use his powerful military to make war on their countries; or that they will have to join him when he uses his powerful army to make war on other countries, like countries that did not ante up to join his board. Greenland is in trouble because Denmark did not join his board. Trump must be getting frustrated, he has given European countries endless opportunities to pay him grift, and he is trying again and again. Will it work, or will they eschew it altogether?
President of Finland says the EU is a safer place to do business because it is calmer and more reliable in this piece of interview of him at DAVOS. https://youtu.be/1UXY-Y0nJjk?si=jDw0gXpe63HY9t3T
I stand with Minnesota in their GENERAL STRIKE DAY, even though I am living abroad. My friend in Chicago told me that the actual temp was -34 and that with windchill could go down to -50 in Chicago and Wisconsin. She showed me a weather map that showed that Nuuk is warmer than Chicago and Wisconsin, so I am hoping that Minnesota is really cold too, and that ICE agents are not out.
Chicagoan here -- current temp in our far north neighborhood is -2, but wind chill is -12. In Milwaukee, it's -9, but feels like -31. The Wisconsonites will have no trouble coping with these temps, but ICE may very well find themselves frozen out.
Michelle, I hope you are keeping cosy and warm. I was saying to my friend in Chicago about Minnesota that I hoped it was too cold for ICE to go out. My daughter's boyfriend is in Texas and driving to a friend in Austin who has a fireplace, in case the energy grid fails them again. No one in Texas trusts their governor when he says things are fine now. At least, no one with any sense.
Our arctic freeze here in Germany has us with temps in the 20s in Northern Germany. Eastern Germany is supposed to be colder though. Last week it was colder in Southern Germany than here in the north.
entiendo amigo i do understand friend. i am almost out of words that i feel i must say.
this is the closet i have ever been scared for the future.
me? i lov a good fight! especially when it involves our freedoms and the government sponsored violence attempting to trample both with the physical force of gestapo.
i applaud your efforts that so many don't have the opportunity to freely express their concerns their gripes their fears.
what is my one fear? that what i do isn't going to be enough with helping the efforts to protect our protected and guaranteed rights.
my promise ... until my last breath when i mouth , fuk you donnie boy!
You're going to hate the next couple of days, Jeff. ANOTHER so-called 'ice' shooting in Minnesota (I haven't watched since I don't know if my heart can take it, but I have heard an audio transcript and it's soul-crushing)...finding out that I've BEEN right (with others) about the fucking 'proud bois' and 'oath keepers' BEING members of 'ice' and even 'border patrol' - these damned white supremacist criminals given FREE REIN to hurt and even murder ordinary citizens at frump's/miller's whims, SO MANY awful things- but we will NOT give in, no matter what that nazi miller keeps trying. THEY will not win. IF you need writing help - Adam Mockler or others from the Meidas Touch I'm sure could lend a hand for a day or so until you can catch your breath. YOU need to stay safe, well-rested and the strain of all of this can get exhausting. I'M so exhausted by so much going on I misspelled PM Carney's name and I admire him SO MUCH right now. So PLEASE don't listen to anyone having the temerity to call you 'unhinged' or 'having tds' That's as nutty as anything I've ever read. Let 'im say what he wants about me: I could give a rat's azz, but no - NO ONE gets to insult you with that kind of bullshit on your own page when your very brilliant and funny take on things is EXACTLY what keeps us all coming back and reading, interacting with each other every day.
PS: A wee bit to hopefully cheer you up:: I don't have the video handy (except on instagram) but TizzyEnt (Michael McWhorter) showed the full reel of this woman who's I guess a protester? She has bumper stickers on her car which drives one of 'them' crazy...so he flips her off every time he sees her (I think they live near each other). THIS time when she saw his pick-up truck coming towards her she stopped and began filming him, so AS he passed her and gave her the usual finger with his window open THEN smacked into the rear fender of the SINGLE parked car across the street, knocking HIS wheel off amid a ton of noise, it was downright hilarious to see FAFO in live action. To her credit SHE didn't burst out laughing. HE began screaming: 'goddamnit' and 'I hate you' as he got out of his pick up while she continued to film him (a skinny long-haired white dude). She then calls over calmly: 'are you ok'? He screams back NO!!!! She tries again: 'Are you hurt' He screams: 'YES' - all while he's stomping around looking at any damage to his precious ve-hi-cle. One of the cheerier moments of my morning, showing the huge difference between them and us normal humans. :) Have a nice cuppa tea or coffee, hot chocolate - or whatever warms you, and enjoy the comments. It's going to SNOW in NY tomorrow - a ton more than we usually get, so we're battening down the hatches to get the animals ready and now I have to see 'that' horrid video. :'(
It's interesting. We just gave Argentina 40 billion to bail them out, and now they give Trump back 1 billion for his Board of Piece. Trump always wants a Piece of the Action!
Where does the money go? Who gets it? Does it go into Trump's bank account? He is going to be worth a lot of money when he dies. His kids will fight over it for years.
I was really impressed by Jack Smith. It’s absolute fucking bullshit that he didn’t get to prosecute HIM. Shame on all of the traitors to this country for not following the law and putting us through the nightmare that is trump!
Justice Roberts and his bought and paid for SCOTUS are responsible. They have the fanciest degrees, the best education and they nonetheless tossed their intelligence aside for greedy gain. Scumbag traitors, all of them.
The thing I don't get is Trump is NOT a member of the old guard "club." He's a scary mutation of their power hungry antics. A slithering green slime that escaped from the laboratory. He disgusts them. Sometimes I wonder what Kompromat Donny has on them via Putin and Epstein.
He was weirdly able to cobble together a coalition (and activate a cohort disenfranchised ppl who didn’t normally vote). And his entertainment quality distracts from no poilcies… but 🦊 news and Mark Burnett(The Apprentice-Effect) were major contributors to this PR debacle!
They are religious fanatics who have been promised to force us into being a 'christians only' nation. Oh, a White christian only nation, in case you missed the implication.
Sorry, I have no big issues with Biden, but it is on him that we got Merrick Garland. Smith can hold his own with anyone, especially the moronic MAGA trolls.
Yes, and Obama only picked him as a compromise candidate, because in his previous position, he got 100% approval from them, he was not Obama's first choice.
Shame on him for not independently vetting the info he was given. IIRC, he initially had doubts, but allowed himself to be maneuvered into backing Dubya. In his position, he obviously could have tapped his own sources.
Jumpin' Jim Jordan was literally like a monkey in a cage, jumping up and down in his chair. WTF was he on, cuz I don't want ANY OF THAT SHIT. I like my sleep. Either that or he had some sort of toy buzzing his nuts....
I hope that Jack Smith sees this thing through with us. I hope all of it is properly memorialized and safely stored away!! The DOJ is at this point nothing else but a hollowed out Agency. Agents who had been part of the case vs. TRUMP , are being purged right & left.
First of all…what the fuck is a “big aspirin?” Geez. Love Fanone’s actions-the Republicans were disgustingly rambling throughout! More of Jack Smith please! Have a nice WARM weekend (🥶) everyone and STAY SAFE!
I didn't want to get into details because I did a whole post about it three weeks ago, but he's talking about 325 milligram tablets, which is four times the recommended dose, which technically even isn't recommended any more
No one would keep getting their hands bruised on a precise scheduled basis by accident. It's clearly from IVs. Looks like necrosis. When do the hand veins collapse?
Butterfly needles. He's being propped up with some big-boy drugs. Then they have to come back around to pump more into him to try and counter the crippling side-effects.
He's so germaphobic he only shakes hands with men he tries to dominate. I loved when Trudeau nearly pulled him off his feet, when he tried that with him, (he did some amateur boxing so his upper body strength was excellent.)
Yep. But, Donnie’s not an average adult. He’s a “special boy!” In light of his superior knowledge about every damned thing, I’m hoping he’ll double the dose, soon.
Yes. I sure hope those that felt adulting is too boring have had enough childish games. "Messaging" alone isn't enough, it has to have solid work behind it. Jack Smith's testimony seems solid. What is being said to discredit him sure doesn't seem to be solid, it sounds like character assignation & accusation of partisanship, not any legit challenge to Jack Smith's work.
Asshole probably heard the doctor say take a baby aspirin every day and he had a tantrum. "I'm not a baby, I am a big boy. The biggest boy! Give me the big boy aspirin!!!!!!!"
Do we wonder how Malaria will try to reinvent herself once the shit stain has gone to hell? Back to soft porn? Hooking in Vegas? She's a bit long in the tooth for that. Back to Daddy Putin? She won't be able to join the ranks of polite society in this beleaguered country. Even the Magas won't want her. I don't even know why I'm asking. I don't give a shit. Fuck all of them.
She will spend the rest of her life grifting the gullible MAGAs, like the Pumpkin Spice Antichrist taught her to do, although Bezos will not be offering her millions to do a hagiography, after he is no longer among the living. That’s why she is grifting so hard now, she knows given who she has sold-out to, her shelf life is limited.
Fuck her and her movie. Not one shred of self awareness. Hey, I know this pedophile who has been drummed out of LA by decent people. How about we make a movie of your fabulous life? No, we won't mention the porn, or Jeffrey or all the drugs we made you take to have sex with that orange slob. Remember how you stole Mrs Obama's speech? We'll steal her life for the movie! Everybody loves her, it doesn't matter that we all know you're nothing but a two bit whore. Even YOU know it, right Melanie?
1/16 of a scruple (there are 3 scruples in a dram, and 8 drams in an apothecary's ounce, which is not the same as an ounce avoirdupois or a troy ounce or a fluid ounce although they are all close to 30 grams), originating by cutting the old dose of 1/4 scruple by a factor of 4.
Interesting that the logo doesn't include the territories of any of the current signatories except the U.S. Or more specifically, it includes pretty much nothing besides the U.S.
And while we are glory standing, lets remember what Jim Jordan said.
"We should never forget what they did to the guy that we the people elected president twice."— Rep. Jim Jordan, twisting accountability into victimhood like a dickhead
DARVO is their best friend. And that's what Coach Shouty is there in Congress to do, to obstruct, bloviate and just be a general thorn in the side of America.
His every utterance is to get a byte for Fox propaganda channel. With his voice being just slightly under that pitch that only dogs can hear, I don't know how old people can even understand him.
11 of the countries on the BORED OF PEACE are currently banned from immigrant visas to the US. I say Bored of Peace because it seems like they are getting ready to take over the world. All the violent despots on Earth. What could go wrong?
These are ragged assed countries with large impoverished populations, plus two war-strapped criminal nations guilty of genocide (Russia and Israel). Truly the A-list of losers.
Netanyahu may be guilty of war crimes but NOT genocide. The only ones committing genocide was Hamas. Attacking Jews with Nazi analogies has more to do with antisemitic hate than reality.
He met privately with Putin, who probably dominated him and scared him or promised him a gold crown. I used to think he had some scandal on him. but I dont think Trump cares anymore about scandal.
I do. His pathological narcissism means he'll do anything to preserve his image of himself. Meaning that scandal must be suppressed. Otherwise, why not release the Epstein files?
It amounts to zero self-awareness, yes, but it's part of his mental illness. That is, in his mind, he really IS a genius, fantastically competent, and so on. He can't afford to have reality intrude, which is why no one around him tells him the truth about anything.
Some folks are posting links to their pages here… I dunno. Seems like bad form to me but it doesnt seem to bother anyone else. It should be apparent in your name… 🤷🏼♀️ but I appreciate you mentioning you have a stack. 👏👏👏👏
I’d rather stick to Uncle Jeff’s suggested themes from the article. The group wanders a lot, some necessary and related though and some ‘shit that happened while he writes shit that happened.
"he’s the laziest fucksnot ever to have crapped a diaper in the Oval Bordello" 😂😂
Jack Smith is an American Hero.
It's all a bad damned dream. One sort of bright spot is how the Clintons are handling Comer Fudd's little subpoena. Wouldn't that be something if the Epstein files are forced into the light of day because of them!? 🤯
"Hey, we can't defend ourselves if we havent seen whatcha got...so show it already."
For all of the in your face crime and bullshit that goes on in this current timeline, we do have our heroes.
It was heartwarming to see the clip of Fanone on the verge of punching out that repulsive man who looks like the kids game, the magnetic bald guy that you cover up with hair and beards to change appearance. Too bad he didn’t get his appearance changed right there in chambers, it would’ve been 👏
Eric Swalwell really stepped up and called out his “colleagues “ for the pieces of shit that they are while heroine Jasmine Crockett thanked Jack Smith for his bravery as we all should. And of course, Jack Smith, the consummate professional, totally unshakable in the face of these idiots.
Twatwaffle's cortex is not just cooked, the motherfucker is CRISPY! He is in horrible physical and mental condition. The fuckin retrumplicans won't do a damn thing. It's just a fuckin shame
It was a masterclass in dealing with lying hacks in Congress. And I love that he called out what they were going to do (some false charges).
Now the thing is, Maladministration 2.0 seems to have a deep bench of lolyers, even with the recent quitting of Halligan. This clownshoes lolyer fuckery is only going to stop when consequences (sanctions and contempt of court) start being assessed. Till then these creatures in Congress and in the White House know they can keep doing this, knowing they're shielded by both Murc's Law and the inbuilt deference to the unreconstructed in the political and legal systems.
sorry to post so late. this one was another bear to write. COULD THE TORRENT OF NEWS PLEASE SLOW DOWN AND LET ME CATCH MY BREATH?
It’s no longer just Trump the world blames for his cruel idiotic incompetence.
Those at Davos blame American voters.
I have never once voted for Trump. I’ve never watched the “Apprentice”.
In the future people who deny voting for Trump. For many that will be a lie. Then there’s the ridiculous group of Democrats who think not voting is a worthwhile protest, it’s lazy&stupid
Yes, remember when 90% of Americans supported the war in Iraq?
Well, you could co😊
unt them on one hand now.
AND---I was an adult during the Vietnam War. I lived in a conservative state at the time, and, believe
me, most of the people you
knew or met were cheerleaders for that war. Going back to that state now, no one admits it.
I write about this occasionally: In the Erica Jong book “Fear of Flying” she spoke about a time when her then husband was stationed in Germany. Ms Jong worked for a small local paper. She was trying to locate a Nazi era amphitheater. No one would admit to knowing its existence or whereabouts.
There will always be maga in the walls&carpets, but many Americans will deny supporting Trump.
That's a good story. She finds the amphitheater and writes a self-righteous OpEd about Truth and Art and Beauty for a local paper. The editor agrees to print it, but tells her she doesn't understand the German people.
"The Germans LOVED Hitler," he said. "If they were to be honest, you wouldn't like what you would hear. But they are not honest. For 25 years they have not been honest. They never cried for their war dead and they never cried for Hitler. ... Even they don't know their real feelings. If they were honest, you would hate it worse than their hypocrisy."
I'll go out on a limb and speculate that MAGA loves Trump for the same reason Germans loved Hitler: Both men appeared at a time when a segment of their countries's population felt beaten-down and losing ground, and for a few glorious years, they made them feel like the winners of life's lottery.
And then, when it's over, MAGA will pack away the Trump flags and other memorabilia, just like the Germans packed away their Nazi merch, and soothe their broken hearts with drugs, alcohol and the most powerful substance of all: Denial.
So well said wow
Yes!!!
They already do the latter now, he gave them a momentary high, which even they know was fleeting.
AND - gathering from some of what I've heard from extended family members who were all in for him then, despite acknowledging just how stupid he was and is, they voted for him anyway because 'he told it like it was'...'spoke his mind', 'spoke our language', etc. To me it's that THEY finally found someone dumber and far more stupid than them, which made them finally feel more superior to but just as racist and misogynistic as themselves. Why would they want a stupid leader is the question? I've always preferred a President who's FAR more intelligent than myself. When every cat and dog I've ever raised is smarter than the orange fool ripping apart OUR White House, you know a huge wrong turn was made. They will happily go back underground with their racist bigotry - until their next opportunity comes along. I don't blame ANYONE for thinking the American 'voter' is at fault - but it is a bit galling when so many of us never have, never did and never would vote for this 'stupido' and are doing everything possible to fight back.
Dopamine
Well said.
MAGA in the carpets? That sounds so much like dog shit one tracks in stuck to the bottom of one's shoe.
So it’s a perfect description
Yep!😂😂
They never really go-away, do they? Perhaps go into remission but they're always lurking in the weeds, just waiting to return.
Thats sooo true. There millions of racists and fascists
Yes, and they pass it on to their children and grandchildren who pass it on to future generations.
Its like cockroaches. By the time you see one, your walls are infested.
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Yeah, I always loved me some Germans. They have a special word for people who supported Hitler but only did it for the sake of their families. They're called Nazis.
Back in the 80's, I got into a conversation with a nice young German couple. They were complaining bitterly about how Americans were stomping around in their Black Forest with NATO on maneuvers. I just observed that they are a sovereign nation, the Bundestag could toss the American army out of Germany if it chose. Their reply wasn't legal or procedural, it had nothing to do with the NATO alliance being binding. It was just pure, visceral horror at the very idea. The man blurted out, in a near panic "No! We cannot! You are here protecting us from ourselves!".
Now, that's fucked up.
Realistic though
I won't let my 3 Trumpian brothers off the hook and go revisionist history on me! My Uncle, who was born in the early 20's told me he saw the KKK meeting in Arlington VA at an old stadium, which is the site of a mall now, when he was a little kid. He snuck in with a few neighborhood kids and saw them burning crosses with their hoods on and all. After a big march on DC in mid-late 20's, the populace woke up and banned the secrecy of members in the group, whose headquarters was in Arlington VA. (Similarly, we should ban dark money in politics today AND the MASKING of ICE.) The KKK now had to publish the names of those people in the organization which essentially forced it too disband as the hypocritical members were local racist businessmen and politicians who could then be held accountable for the lynchings and burnings. The headquarters left the state of Virginia then.
They probably moved to Palm Beach Florida
They outsource it.
THIS! I will not let any die-hard trumpian magats off the hook, especially through the horrors we've witnessed (and the arguments I've had with those I'm still dealing with here). This one neighbour is STILL determined to prove that he's been 'good for the US' and that she is 'right' about this 'good christian who's repented' as she sees him (or claims she does., We've had blow-outs but it's a small cul-de-sac, we've been very good to her (and her now-deceased parents) over the years - hubby still doesn't want to end our relationship with her (he was in the hospital during the first couple of episodes so wasn't aware)...and so puts me in an awkward position. He paid HIS dues in Combat so I can't fight him on this but it is most frustrating when he leaves it to me to 'handle' things with her - and she just shows up at our door. Augh. His kind of racism (frump's) for me cannot be glossed-over or forgiven.
A friend from Howell Michigan ("Michigan Militia" territory) told of watching a Klan march in his youth, everybody all hooded up but from the leader's shoes he could tell that it was the mayor.
My first job, when I was in high school, was in Howell 🙀
Historian Jon Meacham has noted that even after being censured, Joe McCarthy had a 30% approval rating.
That number keeps coming up. It's the unchangeable crusty bit at the bottom of the drip-pan that is America.
"unchangeable crusty bits" , I love it ! this a great explanation for the 30%.
Trump has 40% approval rating. Must be the relatives and children of McCarthy supporters.
In some polls he's starting to dip under 40%.
He had the same dis-intellectual based on emotions, heirs.
Nixon was about at the same level when he resigned.
I never for one minute believed the "Intel" on why we went in or supported it. Lo and behold, those of us who did not support it turned out to be right. We were lied to and lots of people died for that, and marriages broke up and children grew up without one or both parents. Devastating lies.
I'll never forget going into Sears for some appliance and taking the escalator down to a yellow ribboned area with Matell plastic Soldiers and Kids Camo War paraphenalia for sale. I almost screamed with disbelief when my Mother said, "Oh, let's hope the "boys" come back soon" No, Mom, this is not your righteous WWII military saving the World...20 years later with those stupid senseless destructive but $$ making for the Republican cronies wars and covering up Republican dirty dealings these greedy bastards are still at it.
Same here, Linda. The rationale for invading was ridiculous on the face of it, and I didn't understand why the whole country---especially Congress---didn't see that.
The Republican Congress knew it was a lie. They went along with it so Bush could be re-elected for a second term.
When I say my last name, I always say "Busch like the beer, not the president."
Lots of people from many countries died in fighting along with our soldiers to defend that lie. It is sickening.
In the Bay Area, thousands of people were in the streets opposing the second Gulf War, but the news intentionally under-reported the numbers. We get lied to in both directions.
bush war crimina, powell and the corporate media knew how to lie well and sold it to the sheeple
Not all. No one I knew believed it. And, I might point out that our allied countries that Trump has now dissed and threatened also gave their sons to the cause, many of whom lost their lives or shed blood to support the lie of an unpopular US president to up his poll ratings.
Had to be a lot to get 90% approval for Iraq war. As once famously said patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel
They even lied to their Secretary of State (Powell) before he made his/our case at the UN!
Powell was a fucking liar too. Don’t fool yourself.
Powell should have resigned on the spot. We know he knew invading Iraq was going to be a cluster because leading up to it he warned the famous Potterybarn rule: "You break it, you own it."
It's time for us to think about another rule. When Russia was losing, Ukraine was ready to take advantage of their dismal performance and with our help, could have crushed Russia - set them way back. But no, Speaker Mike Johnson slow-walked the funding of munitions and completely gave Russia time to regroup to fight another day.
Same for us during this war with our illegal government. ICE is obviously a lawbreaking nightmare. We need to double down on national, persistent protests to show that we will not tolerate this new normal gestapo.
Unfortunately, 7 Democrats voted to fund ICE. So, call your senators and tell them NO! Tell them to retire Senator Schumer and stop being complete idiots by giving away our leverage. When we are winning the war, it's time to finish them off.
New rule: "We are mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Haj2egOpwKA
That’s exactly when my wife and I left the country ciao!
Maureen Fucking Dowd should have been tried at the Hague
Ever so much this^^^And the NYT investigated for propaganda.
Correction to my og comment—meant Judith Miller, but Dowd is terrible as well! https://observer.com/2015/04/judith-miller-carried-water-for-the-usas-worst-debacle-since-vietnam/
Can you explain this for those of us who don't remember or know?
https://observer.com/2015/04/judith-miller-carried-water-for-the-usas-worst-debacle-since-vietnam/
Apologies-I was thinking of Judith Miller—but Dowd is pretty awful as well!!
They handed the black man the bag and then threw him under the bus
Are you just going for hyperbole to make a [valid] point, or do you really think it was 90%? I seem to recall hundreds of thousands protesting across the country.
The protest here in Cleveland was small but loud. We probably covered a city block.
Yeah, I remember all the usual idiots supporting it, but I knew many who saw through their lame propaganda. Maybe they live in a southern, red state.
Amnesia is a wonderful thing...
Then count me in the other 10% of those that didn't support the Iraq War. If you think about it, every full on elective war the US has been involved in has been a total shit show. Vietnam springs to mind, Afghanistan another, and also started by the same administration, the Iraq War. And I knew it was total bullshit when Dubya & Cheney complained that Saddam wasn't allowing the UN inspectors full access, when the UN didn't say a word about denial of access. Dick Cheney was in a fucking hurry to get his little war of Colonialism going. I did not/could not predict the full on shit show & murder of 1M Iraqis, nor the complete breakdown of the Iraq's government, but there's a line from the movie Body Heat. "For any crime, there's a 100 ways it can go wrong, and if you can think of 50 of them, you're a genius." Same holds true for any military invasion, with enough firepower you can destroy the smaller country's military. But unless you're embraced as a liberator and invited (and Dubya was NOT invited to that party) your military intervention will turn into a fucking hell hole.
ditto ! my son served during Desert Storm ; Bush Sr had the grace to stop at the border, so to speak.
Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and the rest of them had their grand agenda (PNAC), and they used Dubya and his daddy issues. Couldn't have been plainer.
I must confess that I supported the war in Iraq. Killing a bunch of Arabs sounded like a Good Thing at the time.
That is the only one I supported. I demonstrated against the Vietnam war. And I have never voted for the trumpery.
Exactly.
All of the people I knew and hung out with hated the f'n thing.
Many of us read the Pentagon Papers in our first year in college and were draftable while the lotto was going on,
We knew Vietnam Vets who had come back and told us what a buttfucking pointless waste of life the thing was.
None of us associated with Nixon supporters, none of us. My uncle was a Nixon guy, and that was the extent of the people I knew.
My God people are so easily brainwashed by a truly wicked Government. Why can’t America “ leave well alone” 1 million Iraqis died for nothing, the stupidity of George W Bush! do they feel any guilt… of course not, they justify some bullshit in their head to satisfy all the killings…OMG
Not just those at DAVOS. I am living in Germany and a friend who is American was at a restaurant last week talking with a friend, and person at a nearby introduced himself and asked if they were from the US. Then he told them that he had been there in Wisconsin and had a wonderful time, but he wanted to warn them that everyone hates Americans now, not him, but people in general, and that he was warning them not to be so obvious about being American in public. I think he meant don't speak in English. It made me think of how immigrants are feeling in the US right now. Boycotts against US goods are being organized and I think that wave will grow.
Also, as for Canada. I read that Trump said he wanted Alberta. Alberta is filled with Maple MAGAs as Dean Blundell call them, and some want to join the US. I would be glad to trade my state Illinois for Alberta, since we would love the Canadian health care system and to allow our universities to be funded for research again and our children to get vaccines, etc...
It was nice to have a stranger looking out for them. I basically live to travel, but I’m not leaving the USA until IT is in ol’ Cypress Grove or jail.
Trumps Silicon Valley billionaire cabal, wanted all of Canada’s vast lands, with gold, silver, and a plethora of other rare earth minerals, would be my assumption Linda.
Calgary was a fun place to visit, I had no idea about Alberta though. One of my sailor-guy friends just purchased property on the water in BC, his Canadian wife never mentioned anything so bizarre about such a beautiful place.
Life in Germany after Trump’s Davos fuckery shouldn’t be so troubling, I m surprised at reading this.
I have not personally had any trouble, but it is early days with this Greenland Fuckery.
Not only Democrats.. And as to all Americans being blamed: Welcome to being on the other side of collective guilt. How does it feel? Perhaps Americans can learn something from this, like the dangers of generalization. We might start by applying it to the Palestinians, Muslims and Jews.
Collective attribution of guilt may be wrongful, but collective punishment is simply unavoidable. Not every German supported Hitler but all of Germany suffered for it. America as a whole is going to be seriously diminished and all of us will feel it.
It feels like shit…and deserved.
Hi Stephen. I apologize that I don’t understand what you’re saying. You say “we might start by applying it to the Palestinians…”. Applying what?
Two versions: We reject the notion of collective guilt; We recognize that all people are individuals, so that, for instance, there's no causal connection between appearance and intelligence.
Oh, yeah; amen, sister!!!
many dems voted for the orange mussolini....that is the sad part
Seven Democrats in the House voted yesterday to increase ICE funding by $28 billion. The measure would have failed without their vote.
I am sad about that, tending toward "irate." Like the eight senators who called off the government shutdown and got nothing in return.
I think that was different. Trump refused to release SNAP funds and there were literally people going hungry. I think these senators took pity on the poor. I have a friend who is a social worker and she said the food banks were over run.
Take a page from MAGA's book and primary their asses (and the rest of them too). No safe seats for cowards and traitors!
Yes, they think they won't lose their seats to Republicans if they vote with Republicans.
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Complaints are all over the Dems Abroad and Indivisible Abroad chats today.
Those 7 fucking Democrats will hear from me today.
Well I understand why Dems voted for Dipshit McDogdoo! They were concerned about the price of FUCKING EGGS. And that’s why they voted for a chicken. #bawkbawkbawk
Really? I you sure some of the swing states he won were heavily visited by Musk who Trump hinted at election tampering.
Not voting is vote for the opposition. No one will see your snit fit.
I too never voted for Trump (or even refrained from voting when he was on the ballot).
Never watched his game show. Not once. I do believe thats why a lot of people voted for him, though. Television is a great marketing tool.
I grew red in the face trying to explain to Puerto Ricans why a vote for trump was not in their best interests. Blank stare.
"Not voting is vote for the opposition."
How does that work, mathematically? I don't see it.
Because the republican voting elders, always vote religiously for anything with a pulse, that has an "R" next to their name. In Reno, they once voted for a dead Pimp. Democratic voters, and it is a dichotomy because of our political system, is a much more loosely attached contingency, they aren't as loyal, in fact, at the least excuse some people vote D only when they realize how useless their reps are. (then expect the newly elected D to fix everything with a magic wand on day one, despite not voting enough of them in to actually fix things.) There are roughly a third of voters who are committed racists and then a little less than a third are Independents who vary greatly in their make-up. Some are embarrassed republicans, others refuse to commit to a party. These are the squishy middle that if they don't vote it comes down to the R's winning because they always vote their con-person. The D's can be very fickle and decide not to vote when unhappy, which is a trick that never works because of our system. I have argued with naive foreigners who think "protest votes" send a message, which no one knows why you vote, so, it counts as a vote for someone you didn't really want. Stupid really.
I agree with your analysis of how things break down, of course.
But my question was, strictly by the numbers, how does a not-vote translate to an R vote? Maybe the person who didn't vote would have voted R. Maybe that person's failure to vote benefitted the Dem. Maybe not as likely, but certainly possible.
Not to make this a huge thing, but I personally think the whole "not voting = voting R" mantra is a myth.
Here's my reasoning:
For the sake of argument, say there are 100 total votes cast. Therefore, each candidate theoretically has a chance to get 100 votes. When all is said and done, whoever gets 51 votes wins.
But suppose only 90 people out of 100 cast votes. So each candidate is fighting to get 46 votes. The other 10 votes aren't in contention.
The pie is the pie. It doesn't matter how big it is; the candidate who gets the majority of votes wins. Any non-voters don't affect the outcome.
Anybody think this logic is flawed? Please do point out any errors.
Republican voters nearly always vote because they are ideological voters, especially the elderly, as they are the largest voting demographic. Third party votes siphon away from the candidates who could actually win, that is how that part works. Non-voters should be aware of the responsibility to not use your voice when it is needed to ward off an authoritarian, is pretty fucking negligent. When Republican voters vote in lock-step as they do, we need a large number of votes to off-set them and limit the damage they can do. When we don’t vote, it allows those numbers to win even, if it isn’t a majority abstaining over purity policies, because no one in politics can ever be pure enough, it gives the election to those who show up to vote.
"Maybe the person who didn't vote would have voted R" No, the people who would vote R show up solidly, even for candidates they don't totally agree with, because they understand that politics is about exerting power, not a performance art about self-expression. If Republicans were like Democrats they would have not voted for Reagan's second term because he didn't abolish abortion in his first year.
They have fallen for the Russian propaganda "Both sides are the same". lie. Do we have some bad apples we need to oust, obviously, but the other side is killing women by taking away reproductive rights, and bodily autonomy, not to mention reversing decades of progress and pushing us into a fucking Theocracy. I guess if you are a white young, edge-lord you can be a smug little shit
White, young, male edge lord with money…
…paid by Russia and the Koch machine (since only one brother, Charles and his adopted son Chase are left) like Charlie Kirk was, to spout evil. Did you notice Tim Poole found out he was being paid directly by Russia, and did not change a thing about his really stupid propaganda?
Not voting is what put the traitor back in our White House. Telling anyone not to use their voice is the stupidest, irresponsible statement I've ever heard. It must have come from Democrats who know they'll lose their bid for re-election. They should.
No, it comes from Russian bots, they want us to fail, and Republican trolls, who also want us to fail.
Emphasis on stupid! 🤬🤬🤬
Should also add dumbfuck assholes.
Yes and the 7 Democrats who voted this week to fund ICE with more money. They either are not true Democrats or they have been promised some kind of financial win for casting their votes to fund ICE even more.
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It won't Jeff. Trust me. I keep begging, but it aint happening.
We’re all running to stand still. I prefer a leisurely walk.
Amen, Kay-El!
Jeff, in "things that happened while you were writing this", did you see his post about the impending major winter storm and "global warming"???....holy shit, this idiot has gone so far passed "embarrassing", that you can't even see "embarrassing" in the rear view mirror!!
Objects are closer than they appear.
Remember in Orwell's "1984," WAR IS PEACE. So the Board of Peace is really the Board or War. I am wondering whether that means that the countries that paid to be on this board are either going to expect Trump won't use his powerful military to make war on their countries; or that they will have to join him when he uses his powerful army to make war on other countries, like countries that did not ante up to join his board. Greenland is in trouble because Denmark did not join his board. Trump must be getting frustrated, he has given European countries endless opportunities to pay him grift, and he is trying again and again. Will it work, or will they eschew it altogether?
President of Finland says the EU is a safer place to do business because it is calmer and more reliable in this piece of interview of him at DAVOS. https://youtu.be/1UXY-Y0nJjk?si=jDw0gXpe63HY9t3T
I stand with Minnesota in their GENERAL STRIKE DAY, even though I am living abroad. My friend in Chicago told me that the actual temp was -34 and that with windchill could go down to -50 in Chicago and Wisconsin. She showed me a weather map that showed that Nuuk is warmer than Chicago and Wisconsin, so I am hoping that Minnesota is really cold too, and that ICE agents are not out.
Chicagoan here -- current temp in our far north neighborhood is -2, but wind chill is -12. In Milwaukee, it's -9, but feels like -31. The Wisconsonites will have no trouble coping with these temps, but ICE may very well find themselves frozen out.
Michelle, I hope you are keeping cosy and warm. I was saying to my friend in Chicago about Minnesota that I hoped it was too cold for ICE to go out. My daughter's boyfriend is in Texas and driving to a friend in Austin who has a fireplace, in case the energy grid fails them again. No one in Texas trusts their governor when he says things are fine now. At least, no one with any sense.
Our arctic freeze here in Germany has us with temps in the 20s in Northern Germany. Eastern Germany is supposed to be colder though. Last week it was colder in Southern Germany than here in the north.
entiendo amigo i do understand friend. i am almost out of words that i feel i must say.
this is the closet i have ever been scared for the future.
me? i lov a good fight! especially when it involves our freedoms and the government sponsored violence attempting to trample both with the physical force of gestapo.
i applaud your efforts that so many don't have the opportunity to freely express their concerns their gripes their fears.
what is my one fear? that what i do isn't going to be enough with helping the efforts to protect our protected and guaranteed rights.
my promise ... until my last breath when i mouth , fuk you donnie boy!
No, you belong to us now, Jeff. Lol.
You're not on a deadline, dude. It's all good!😃
Sincere thanks, Jeff.
No rest for you, Jeff. Try espresso.
It was worth the wait Jeff
Minneapolis floods the streets to stand up to ICE
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/it3U2Qs1DCA?t=3&feature=share
You're going to hate the next couple of days, Jeff. ANOTHER so-called 'ice' shooting in Minnesota (I haven't watched since I don't know if my heart can take it, but I have heard an audio transcript and it's soul-crushing)...finding out that I've BEEN right (with others) about the fucking 'proud bois' and 'oath keepers' BEING members of 'ice' and even 'border patrol' - these damned white supremacist criminals given FREE REIN to hurt and even murder ordinary citizens at frump's/miller's whims, SO MANY awful things- but we will NOT give in, no matter what that nazi miller keeps trying. THEY will not win. IF you need writing help - Adam Mockler or others from the Meidas Touch I'm sure could lend a hand for a day or so until you can catch your breath. YOU need to stay safe, well-rested and the strain of all of this can get exhausting. I'M so exhausted by so much going on I misspelled PM Carney's name and I admire him SO MUCH right now. So PLEASE don't listen to anyone having the temerity to call you 'unhinged' or 'having tds' That's as nutty as anything I've ever read. Let 'im say what he wants about me: I could give a rat's azz, but no - NO ONE gets to insult you with that kind of bullshit on your own page when your very brilliant and funny take on things is EXACTLY what keeps us all coming back and reading, interacting with each other every day.
PS: A wee bit to hopefully cheer you up:: I don't have the video handy (except on instagram) but TizzyEnt (Michael McWhorter) showed the full reel of this woman who's I guess a protester? She has bumper stickers on her car which drives one of 'them' crazy...so he flips her off every time he sees her (I think they live near each other). THIS time when she saw his pick-up truck coming towards her she stopped and began filming him, so AS he passed her and gave her the usual finger with his window open THEN smacked into the rear fender of the SINGLE parked car across the street, knocking HIS wheel off amid a ton of noise, it was downright hilarious to see FAFO in live action. To her credit SHE didn't burst out laughing. HE began screaming: 'goddamnit' and 'I hate you' as he got out of his pick up while she continued to film him (a skinny long-haired white dude). She then calls over calmly: 'are you ok'? He screams back NO!!!! She tries again: 'Are you hurt' He screams: 'YES' - all while he's stomping around looking at any damage to his precious ve-hi-cle. One of the cheerier moments of my morning, showing the huge difference between them and us normal humans. :) Have a nice cuppa tea or coffee, hot chocolate - or whatever warms you, and enjoy the comments. It's going to SNOW in NY tomorrow - a ton more than we usually get, so we're battening down the hatches to get the animals ready and now I have to see 'that' horrid video. :'(
Nation Yearns For Relative Calm Of ‘President A Giant Pedophile’ News Cycle
https://theonion.com/nation-yearns-for-relative-calm-of-president-a-giant-pedophile-news-cycle/
Seriously. It’s shocking and exhausting.
We’re all so sick of this unnecessary 24X7 drama. Trump just provokes this drama it seems for some sadistic satisfaction. I won’t say more.
When Joe was president we only heard from him when he had an important announcement. Eight years of Obama, same thing.
Trump? Nonstop white knuckle shitshow all day and all night. All crazy all the time.
I absolutely am heartbroken and terrified for what my preteen grandson faces.
Sorry for sounding so dejected but this is how all this is affecting us right now.
When is tipping point?
Wrote this a few years ago. It's much worse these days.
https://tomsmith.bandcamp.com/track/blogging-as-fast-as-i-can
Board of Piece. Piece of Venezuela, piece of Ukraine ….
Brings to mind this Mel Brooks classic: https://youtu.be/mHaaBPn6THs?si=mvllZ4rHRKb7-_bs
Mel Brooks knew how to hit it on point! And doesn't THIS just cover Fuckface every day? https://youtu.be/uTmfwklFM-M?si=AutRBi2Yesg3nRSa
Perfect!
That's so appropriate! Right on point! One for the ages... certainly for this age!
Perfect!
Not to mention, "They call him Torquemada because you can't torquemada anything."
One of my all time-time favorites! “The Inquisition, what a show!” 🤣👏🏻🤣👏🏻🤣👏🏻
"Hey, Orange Jabba, whaddya say?" "I just got back from the Auto da Fe."
“Auto de fe? What’s the auto de fe?” “That’s when you know you oughtn’t do it but you do it anyway!” 🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂
Never forget the brilliant Zero Mostel’s personal experiences of Hitlerism and his direct input into The Producers.🐈⬛
Springtime for Hitler is a good old fashioned spoof on the Hitler third Reich an thousand years, no.
thanks for the laughs
Oh my god, how perfect!
Brilliant! Thanks, Kim! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🤣🤣🤣
or Bored of Peace.
It's interesting. We just gave Argentina 40 billion to bail them out, and now they give Trump back 1 billion for his Board of Piece. Trump always wants a Piece of the Action!
$80 Billion. It got bumped to $80 Billion
Evita rolling over in her grave
Where does the money go? Who gets it? Does it go into Trump's bank account? He is going to be worth a lot of money when he dies. His kids will fight over it for years.
I thought Trump meant “Bored of Peace”. Seems more accurate.
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Hefty piece of Gaza.
Good one!
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Very funny Mike and sadly very true.
Jack Smith isn’t theatrical. That’s what terrifies them.
No vibes. No loyalty tests. Just evidence, timelines, and consequences.
Authoritarians rely on noise and exhaustion. Prosecutors rely on memory. And memory is what they’re trying to erase.
I was really impressed by Jack Smith. It’s absolute fucking bullshit that he didn’t get to prosecute HIM. Shame on all of the traitors to this country for not following the law and putting us through the nightmare that is trump!
( Basically: M I T C H )
Justice Roberts and his bought and paid for SCOTUS are responsible. They have the fanciest degrees, the best education and they nonetheless tossed their intelligence aside for greedy gain. Scumbag traitors, all of them.
All in the same club…
The thing I don't get is Trump is NOT a member of the old guard "club." He's a scary mutation of their power hungry antics. A slithering green slime that escaped from the laboratory. He disgusts them. Sometimes I wonder what Kompromat Donny has on them via Putin and Epstein.
He was weirdly able to cobble together a coalition (and activate a cohort disenfranchised ppl who didn’t normally vote). And his entertainment quality distracts from no poilcies… but 🦊 news and Mark Burnett(The Apprentice-Effect) were major contributors to this PR debacle!
They are religious fanatics who have been promised to force us into being a 'christians only' nation. Oh, a White christian only nation, in case you missed the implication.
the traitors from within.
Religion is the beast that drives them. They want a theocracy.
Sorry, I have no big issues with Biden, but it is on him that we got Merrick Garland. Smith can hold his own with anyone, especially the moronic MAGA trolls.
I had heard back then that he had originally wanted Doug Jones… but was talked into Garland (through Ron Klain CoS?) Will have to dig a bit more…
The damage is already done. Doug Jones would have been much better. I think Garland got picked out of sympathy since McConnell screwed him over.
Yes, and Obama only picked him as a compromise candidate, because in his previous position, he got 100% approval from them, he was not Obama's first choice.
JACK SMITH is today's GENERAL COLIN POWELL!
Seriously? Powell lied about WMD.
he did lie with the report supplied by the CIA under the code CURVEBALL and the W himself.
he was given FALSE INFORMATION to keep the secret and kick him under the bus
Shame on him for not independently vetting the info he was given. IIRC, he initially had doubts, but allowed himself to be maneuvered into backing Dubya. In his position, he obviously could have tapped his own sources.
I had Republican acquaintances that did NOT go with W just because of his weak case and nobody wanted it, one of the original stupidest wars.
From The Mueller Report on …. We were lied the fucking shit out of. 😤🤬😖😠👿😾😡
The Republicans in that deposition were like fucking monkeys in a zoo cage slinging their shit at the walls, the bars, and in the end each other.
Jumpin' Jim Jordan was literally like a monkey in a cage, jumping up and down in his chair. WTF was he on, cuz I don't want ANY OF THAT SHIT. I like my sleep. Either that or he had some sort of toy buzzing his nuts....
They are good at distracting visually from actual WORDS
Have lotsa practice as they don’t sweat crafting policy. & Their voters don’t care. Wow. Pretty sweet gig
His district is so gerrymandered it looks like a duck, or a seahorse. It would be nearly impossible for him to lose.
I just had to laugh but a seahorse shape is crazy and not ez.
Considering his track record, I vote for the former.😂
Cuz he was one of the co-conspirators Jack Smith was honing in on and ole Gym knew it.
THEY fear oppositions, all of them.
they fear resistance by the public
they fear their own turning against them.
they fear their own shadows and worst of all ...
they fear knowledge and they know without any doubts
WE ARE BETTER LEARNED not just educated but prepared MORE THAN THEY WANT OR COULD BE!
a salute to the left of normal, you and you and even you are our future and i salute you!
They fear us exposing them.
I hope that Jack Smith sees this thing through with us. I hope all of it is properly memorialized and safely stored away!! The DOJ is at this point nothing else but a hollowed out Agency. Agents who had been part of the case vs. TRUMP , are being purged right & left.
Those who were purged need to step up against the criminal organization that DOJ has become.
Like olden times - before reality needed to be juiced for the (phone)camera… :/
That's because they know their audience are juvenile. Thus small short words, simple concepts.
Nailed it!
Smith (no relation) is a man of integrity, honor and righteousness. I'm glad he's on 'our side.'
You'd be right about that. And as the cliche goes....We havent seen the last of him.
Jaime Raskin invited Mr. Smith to speak again after Volume II of his report is released, sure to be a best seller.
They say that was important
He'd make a fine AG in the next Democratic administration.
Him, or Sally Yates, or Kamala, if she wanted it, she was an excellent prosecutor, and my first choice for Biden's AG.
Smith also does a stint at the Hague, so I don't know if he could hold two such major positions.
First of all…what the fuck is a “big aspirin?” Geez. Love Fanone’s actions-the Republicans were disgustingly rambling throughout! More of Jack Smith please! Have a nice WARM weekend (🥶) everyone and STAY SAFE!
I didn't want to get into details because I did a whole post about it three weeks ago, but he's talking about 325 milligram tablets, which is four times the recommended dose, which technically even isn't recommended any more
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/elderly-golfer-suffering-from-advanced
Here’s hoping he slowly bleeds out from that ulcer he’s created
Not too slowly though.
That thing on his hand looks like a hematoma.
It's from IVs. So speaketh the dementia nurses and rehab specialists on IG
No one would keep getting their hands bruised on a precise scheduled basis by accident. It's clearly from IVs. Looks like necrosis. When do the hand veins collapse?
I don't know why they keep using his hand. They usually have a port, PICC line, Hickman CVC, etc., to facilitate ongoing infusions
It looks like they blew out a vein.
Butterfly needles. He's being propped up with some big-boy drugs. Then they have to come back around to pump more into him to try and counter the crippling side-effects.
Have the other veins already collapsed?
Yes, I don't get why that isn't more common knowledge.
no, he has blown out his veins everywhere else so now his aim is also bad! gotta mainline that much evil hatred and racism!
He doesn’t do it himself. Jeez!
I vote for “quickly “!!
Not bothering to hide the bruise anymore?
His silhouette looks positively ruzzian-diplomat in that flag picture 😳🤔
This is on the left hand. Before it was the right and they tried to pass it off as shaking to many hands. Does he now shake hands with the left?
He's so germaphobic he only shakes hands with men he tries to dominate. I loved when Trudeau nearly pulled him off his feet, when he tried that with him, (he did some amateur boxing so his upper body strength was excellent.)
He needs to stop jerking off giraffes.😂😂
He does prove the "White people can't dance joke. Which as a dancer, I always resented.
couldn't pretend he shook a lot of hands at Davos. When he landed, ZERO people greeted him.
Probably blew out all the veins on the right.
Just sayin
*& ‘Biden is old’ for those keeping score @home 😒
Yes, so old.
Also, not president.
And when you take that much aspirin on a daily basis, you can bleed in other places as well, not just what you see on the outside. 🤞
Into his diaper
In your Pants!
We can hope
Aspirin and a bite will cause a bruise like that.
Strange that his bite is regularly in the same spot, isn't it?
Good point and it appears that some surface plaque or scabs. AIDS.
Ah…thanks for the explanation again! I guess my retention span is shrinking as I get older! :)
81 mg has been recommended for decades in medicine
but, but, butt! he is a trump and good sense or rules need not apply
Yep. But, Donnie’s not an average adult. He’s a “special boy!” In light of his superior knowledge about every damned thing, I’m hoping he’ll double the dose, soon.
The hypothetical MD after his name stands for Mad Dog.
Sounds like a good scrap of shredded paper could do him in…
While not dramatic ‘live’ - Jack’s clips are gonna age well - a GROWNUP has entered the chat.
A welcome change. We've had enough drama -- and tragedy -- in the past decade to last more than a lifetime.
Ready for that pendulum swing-back‼️
Sadly, I think its going to get much worse first.
😞
The United States will not get back to where it was
Yes. I sure hope those that felt adulting is too boring have had enough childish games. "Messaging" alone isn't enough, it has to have solid work behind it. Jack Smith's testimony seems solid. What is being said to discredit him sure doesn't seem to be solid, it sounds like character assignation & accusation of partisanship, not any legit challenge to Jack Smith's work.
Yyyyeeeeessssss!!!!!
I don’t know because the AMA is now recommending a baby aspirin for most heart issues.
Asshole probably heard the doctor say take a baby aspirin every day and he had a tantrum. "I'm not a baby, I am a big boy. The biggest boy! Give me the big boy aspirin!!!!!!!"
Biggest aspirin ever! People are saying no one has ever seen such a big aspirin! AND it had tears in its eyes
That or Malaria understood the assignment.
Do we wonder how Malaria will try to reinvent herself once the shit stain has gone to hell? Back to soft porn? Hooking in Vegas? She's a bit long in the tooth for that. Back to Daddy Putin? She won't be able to join the ranks of polite society in this beleaguered country. Even the Magas won't want her. I don't even know why I'm asking. I don't give a shit. Fuck all of them.
She will spend the rest of her life grifting the gullible MAGAs, like the Pumpkin Spice Antichrist taught her to do, although Bezos will not be offering her millions to do a hagiography, after he is no longer among the living. That’s why she is grifting so hard now, she knows given who she has sold-out to, her shelf life is limited.
Fuck her and her movie. Not one shred of self awareness. Hey, I know this pedophile who has been drummed out of LA by decent people. How about we make a movie of your fabulous life? No, we won't mention the porn, or Jeffrey or all the drugs we made you take to have sex with that orange slob. Remember how you stole Mrs Obama's speech? We'll steal her life for the movie! Everybody loves her, it doesn't matter that we all know you're nothing but a two bit whore. Even YOU know it, right Melanie?
Yep. 80 mg, not 325.
It comes in 81 mg size in the US.
1/16 of a scruple (there are 3 scruples in a dram, and 8 drams in an apothecary's ounce, which is not the same as an ounce avoirdupois or a troy ounce or a fluid ounce although they are all close to 30 grams), originating by cutting the old dose of 1/4 scruple by a factor of 4.
they have been for decades
It's a horse pill and he sticks it up his ass!
Disinviting PM Carney from joining the Board of Venal Shitbags is not the burn that SShitler thinks it is.
I'm waiting for NO GIRLZ ALOUD!!! to be added to their stunning logo.
Should they have a qualifier like "Unless you have big boobs and a billion dollars?"
That's understood.
…and cheek implants…
Only girlz under 13
Oooofff
Interesting that the logo doesn't include the territories of any of the current signatories except the U.S. Or more specifically, it includes pretty much nothing besides the U.S.
and the lands the US intends to annex
Just so!
LOL Its proof he's a 3 year old.
Except most three-year-olds are out of diapers by then
Ya gotta point.
😆😆😆
Truth!
👍👍
We take it as a badge of honour- thank you, Sir Fuckwit, for publishing our RSVP. Not a chance in hell we would have joined.
Never thought I would have such admiration for someone telling me to fuck off, but Mark Carney has my boundless adoration.
He's much to polite to say that and didn't mean to insult the many good people of US, but he sure got Trump rotating on his middle finger!
Lucy clip works for me 😆‼️
Did you see the guy on the Board of Venal Shitbags who looked just like Hitler? 😱
I didn't, but will look now. So fitting, though, because Hitler was a yoooge shitbag
I prefer your name for the group, Doc. Much more apropos and goes almost trippingly off the tongue. 🤣👏🏻🤣👏🏻🤣
Here, Here, Uncle Jeff.
And while we are glory standing, lets remember what Jim Jordan said.
"We should never forget what they did to the guy that we the people elected president twice."— Rep. Jim Jordan, twisting accountability into victimhood like a dickhead
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/this-week-sorta-still-sucks-but-jack-smith-kicked-trump-in-the-teeth-and-i-am-happy-about-that
DARVO is their best friend. And that's what Coach Shouty is there in Congress to do, to obstruct, bloviate and just be a general thorn in the side of America.
Any truth to what I heard about Gym being in the Epstein files? Just askin’.
It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
Seriously can anyone stand listening to Gymini? Even MAGATS?
His every utterance is to get a byte for Fox propaganda channel. With his voice being just slightly under that pitch that only dogs can hear, I don't know how old people can even understand him.
you said bloviate HA! HA!
Coach Shouty! Perfection.
Would somebody please wrestle Gym Jordan’s neck free of oxygen? Then cremate the fuckstain so that he doesn’t have to wear a suit coat.
😂😂
He is a dickhead!
What I don't see on the list of signatories to the obvious cash grab joke "Board of Peace" is any nations who USED TO BE our allies.
that's a better distinction to make
11 of the countries on the BORED OF PEACE are currently banned from immigrant visas to the US. I say Bored of Peace because it seems like they are getting ready to take over the world. All the violent despots on Earth. What could go wrong?
These are ragged assed countries with large impoverished populations, plus two war-strapped criminal nations guilty of genocide (Russia and Israel). Truly the A-list of losers.
And Jared Kushner's Power Point presentation on GAZA was disturbing to say the least. They will build their empire on the ashes? There are no words.
If people are starved enough they will become soldiers. This worries me.
Netanyahu may be guilty of war crimes but NOT genocide. The only ones committing genocide was Hamas. Attacking Jews with Nazi analogies has more to do with antisemitic hate than reality.
Unless it's directed at Stephen Miller.
I agree 100%.
He met privately with Putin, who probably dominated him and scared him or promised him a gold crown. I used to think he had some scandal on him. but I dont think Trump cares anymore about scandal.
I do. His pathological narcissism means he'll do anything to preserve his image of himself. Meaning that scandal must be suppressed. Otherwise, why not release the Epstein files?
But he has zero self-awareness. If he had any he would stop publicly humiliating himself all the time.
It amounts to zero self-awareness, yes, but it's part of his mental illness. That is, in his mind, he really IS a genius, fantastically competent, and so on. He can't afford to have reality intrude, which is why no one around him tells him the truth about anything.
Scam + sham = scham?
The coining of a new Yiddish word!
They know it's just another grift, and presumably the "entrance fee" is going straight into Mango Mussolini's pockets, so why should they?
Exactly. The only ones coughing up dough are looking to curry favor for nefarious purposes
Touché. I hope we never will
There was a Smith, name of Jack
Who ripped through these tired old hacks
"The orange one's lying
The GOP's dying
So please get the hell off my back!"
Please subscribe to my Substack! (Hope you don't mind me saying that, Mr. Tiedrich.)
Awesome, Frosty! Here's one circling back to the reason for all this distraction fuckery:
When resisted he turns all testy
His personal lawyers he likes chesty
He has no grace and tact
And runs from the fact
That for years he was Jeffrey's Bestie
You guys are awesome!! 🤣🤣
The limerick brigade!😂😂
Thank you and so are you.
I LOVE IT!
👏👏👏👏
Frosty, there's a lot of self promotion in this community... so WTH...
I didn't know that, so thank you.
Some folks are posting links to their pages here… I dunno. Seems like bad form to me but it doesnt seem to bother anyone else. It should be apparent in your name… 🤷🏼♀️ but I appreciate you mentioning you have a stack. 👏👏👏👏
I think it is okay as long as they comment on the subject at hand, now spamming an unrelated post on everyone's stack is tacky as hell.
Agree!
I’d rather stick to Uncle Jeff’s suggested themes from the article. The group wanders a lot, some necessary and related though and some ‘shit that happened while he writes shit that happened.
You won us over with your wit and talent, as you will with more people
Thank you for that! I love your writing, too.
Rickrolling racists ripped down the slavery story near the Liberty Bell… as if we’ve entered the new Age of Forgetfulness.
Pepperidge Farm remembers. And so do we.
Ain’t never forgetting the cruelty of these people. Good luck, Republicans. Good luck in fucking Hell.
"he’s the laziest fucksnot ever to have crapped a diaper in the Oval Bordello" 😂😂
Jack Smith is an American Hero.
It's all a bad damned dream. One sort of bright spot is how the Clintons are handling Comer Fudd's little subpoena. Wouldn't that be something if the Epstein files are forced into the light of day because of them!? 🤯
"Hey, we can't defend ourselves if we havent seen whatcha got...so show it already."
The pig fucker walked into a trap!🎊🎊😂😂😂
Indeed he did! 🤣🤣🤣🐷🐷
Don’t they also plan to bring Ghislane Maxwell in to testify?
I had not heard that...but I'd love to see it!
She’ll probably say she never ever met Trump … or Melania
Right...when there are photos that prove otherwise! These damned people.
Minus 21 here in the frozen north right now and I'm still betting there will be a good turnout in Minneapolis.
some of my friends are also making a move to minnesota this spring.
i am expecting there will be many refugees comin our way!
there are times to stand and times to fight! THIS IS THE TIME TO STAND AND FIGHT!
please don't expect US to do it by ourselves, join in, stand up, share your words.
stand with those standing for you as well!
For all of the in your face crime and bullshit that goes on in this current timeline, we do have our heroes.
It was heartwarming to see the clip of Fanone on the verge of punching out that repulsive man who looks like the kids game, the magnetic bald guy that you cover up with hair and beards to change appearance. Too bad he didn’t get his appearance changed right there in chambers, it would’ve been 👏
Eric Swalwell really stepped up and called out his “colleagues “ for the pieces of shit that they are while heroine Jasmine Crockett thanked Jack Smith for his bravery as we all should. And of course, Jack Smith, the consummate professional, totally unshakable in the face of these idiots.
There’s your silver lining for today😁
YES! Swalwell was PERFECT! So was Jasmine...they are the ones who should be leading the Democrats, not Jeffries...he's sooooo weak.
Eric Swalwell is going to make a wonderful governor of California.
He will!!!!
I really have liked Swalwell a brilliant prosecutor for these committees.
The Democratic Party needs an enema. They remind me of the definition of insanity.
That is THE TRUTH! Jeffries Schumer and Ken Martin are all worthless-they are NOT meeting the moment.
Time to bring a Howitzer to the gunfight.💪👊
Willy Wooly fuckface
https://www.fatbraintoys.com/toy_companies/playmonster/original_wooly_willy_magnetic_personality.cfm
bingo!!
Twatwaffle's cortex is not just cooked, the motherfucker is CRISPY! He is in horrible physical and mental condition. The fuckin retrumplicans won't do a damn thing. It's just a fuckin shame
Great piece, Jeff
Hey Jeff.. I noticed the "peace" logo only has HALF the world shown with MOST of the signers countries missing?
and OF COURSE it was gold - representing the billions that Trump expects to rake in on this latest grift of his
I caught that, yep.
Just the Technate https://bostonraremaps.com/inventory/technocracy-inc-technate-of-america-1940
It was a masterclass in dealing with lying hacks in Congress. And I love that he called out what they were going to do (some false charges).
Now the thing is, Maladministration 2.0 seems to have a deep bench of lolyers, even with the recent quitting of Halligan. This clownshoes lolyer fuckery is only going to stop when consequences (sanctions and contempt of court) start being assessed. Till then these creatures in Congress and in the White House know they can keep doing this, knowing they're shielded by both Murc's Law and the inbuilt deference to the unreconstructed in the political and legal systems.