"you need to take your head out of Trump’s ass" that should be the first thing Democratic leadership in Congress says in the morning and the last thing they say at night.
I took pills the last time I had a colonoscopy, and it cleans you out just as effectively.
Unfortunately, the Anesthesiologist was this crazy Slavic guy (imagine Doc Brown, only with a Eastern European accent) who kept insisting that he couldn't put me under because of my COPD, so I got a local...and the chance to watch 4K video of the inside of my colon.... 🤢
The gerrymander fight is on. There is a new playbook. The old rules have been struck down by the Supreme Court. We need to change the gears here as fast as possible for deadly preemptive strikes. Newsom has moved out on this already. Who is next? Hochul, where are you? Pritzker, what are you doing? Will you promote this new move?
Yeah, that old farmer is clearly a commie who's out of touch with the American People. He does not understand the dictum that L'État, c'est Trump. Patriotism begins and ends with fealty to the Mango's rule and person. He is getting the day he voted for.
Hakeem sent a sternly worded letter too. And instead of refuting the #47 administration's claim that Zohran Mamdani lives in a rent controlled apartment (frankly, I could respect that if he did, in other words, great, if you can get it), confirmed it. Hakeem, theoretically representing the region that includes New York City doesn't know the difference between rent controlled, and rent stabilized. Half of NYC's rented living space is rent stabilized. So apparently, cluelessness about one's own district is not restricted to rich, entitled, useless loser Republicans. Zohran lives in a rent stabilized apartment, which means the owners can't jack up the rent to whatever ridiculous number they want, when they want. Hakeem, despite giving great interviews is a shit pol, shit rep, and double shit House Speaker. (except the opinion at the end, the rest of this post is the Keith Olbermann's journalism. Thank you Keith).
Hakeem is at the very young end of the "old man in congress" bunch. I've never much liked the guy, and it doesn't really have to do with his political stance other than he's in the OLD MAN faction. But watching him speak is like having teeth pulled without novocaine. I just want to jump up and yell "Would you get on with it already?"
Hakeem Jeffries is not even a very good interview, at least not according to The Majority Report—they HATE him there, and beg the DSA to primary his Clinton Neolib ass!
Unfortunately, Tim Walz and J.B. Pritzker aren't the "leaders" of the Democratic Party—appeasing assholes like Schmuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are, and they think if they say and do nothing, that Trump will fuck up so badly they'll sweep to victory without having done a fucking thing!
"the press finds the need to talk about, ‘oh, there’s a division in the Democratic Party.’ there’s a division in my damn house, and we’re still married and things are good. that’s life. that’s life. we are strong" 😂😂 Uncle Tim is just like every other working American. I heard this speech yesterday and was applauding in my kitchen! And Pritzker has always been amazing! 👏👏
DID YOU GUYS SEE THE VET burn an American flag in DC yesterday right after Cankles McFuck signed his little order?? That Vet had a few things to say and it was glorious!
Right. Of course he was. I'm sure he knew he would be going into it. I think a whole lot more people are going to get arrested. Hope theres room for everybody. 🤦♀️
As a veteran we need a whole lot of flag burning and in front of FOX headquarters in NY would be a great start. I took my flag down over a year ago because it has been desecrated by the orange idiot and I’m not sure when I will look favorably on it again and that’s fucking sad as hell.
I am a vet from the late 1960s through the early 1970s, and a bit of an old-fashioned guy, so burning the American flag would not even appeal to me, but burning a Trump flag would give me a big thrill.
AND - as I just described, being done BY the Veterans protesting in Union Square! We ARE right square IN emergency conditions and flying the flag upside down as THEY are doing - who better to judge this? expresses exactly how far over the threshold into a dictatorship frump/miller has taken this country? My husband, a Combat Vet will not fly a flag - since the only ones doing so here are magats.
I should have specified: he won't fly one on our home, premises or vehicles. The Union Square veterans carried theirs over their shoulders affixed to poles. I do wear my gorgeous flag pin given to me when I became a US Citizen. I haven't yet turned it upside down. think it's now time. ...Dashing off a response AS one is dozing off does not help provide accurate descriptions of one's points as I can attest.
Because trump and his idiots basically stole our flag is, to me, the very reason I keep mine flying. I refuse to let them have our flag. I refuse. And we all should refuse. Please, fly your flag, high and proud. We need to all refuse to let the dipshits have our flag. It's our symbol of the freedoms trump is trying to take away from us. Do not let them have it.
We should also honor annually the day of the burning of the Fox "All American" Xmas tree four years ago. December 8th: a day that shall live in ignominy!
And tear off their combat medals while they’re at it!!
I was 12 years old in 1971, and have never forgotten this incredible act of defiance:
“On April 23, 1971, Vietnam Veterans Against the War staged one of the most dramatic and influential events of the antiwar movement as hundreds of Vietnam veterans, dressed in combat fatigues and well-worn uniforms, stepped up and angrily, one after another for three straight hours, hurled their military medals, ribbons, discharge papers, and even a cane onto the steps of the U.S. Capitol. Many of them paused to speak. There has never been an antiwar or anti-government protest anything like this in the U.S., before or since.” (Wikipedia)
My family saw the protest on the nightly news with Walter Cronkite. I was just a kid, but the veterans’ phenomenonal act of courageous resistance has stayed with me for 54 years. I honor them still!
Oh yes, I remember that too. Pretty sure that was the protest in which John Kerry, Vietnam vet and Dem nominee for POTUS in 1994, took part and threw his dogtags and medals over the fence. It was pretty amazing, and may have helped speed up the end of that war.
I admired John Kerry and voted for him. He would have made a fine president. Of course the evil Repukes had to torpedo his candidacy with that bullshit Swiftboat attack, which gave us war criminal Dubya for four more years. 😖 I am still pissed about that.
Nicky, getting arrested is not going to end the conversation anymore, it'll start it.
A LOT of people are going to be getting arrested for yelling disrespectful things to authority figures strutting around in Hitler drag. Things like "sorry about your penis!" or "does your mother know you left the basement, loser?". Not to mention all of the attacks with a deli weapon. It'll be a bloodbath, I tell you.
The NG occupation forces have now been ordered to be armed (this from our impaired SecDef). This will go quite swimming. Amazingly enough, a few of us Libs know a couple of things about firearms ( https://theliberalgunclub.com/ ). We will be engaging those Weekend Rambos in some scintillating conversations about whether their weapons are loaded, whether they're pre-chambered, and how many civilians they plan to slaughter today. I personally want to know what explosive weapons they've been issued since a hand grenade would be able to effectively kill and maim large numbers of us. The toadies will be getting some feedback on their stance, trigger-finger positioning, and how their gear appears to be configured.
They will soon pass laws, and probably Executive Orders, criminalizing talking to the zoo animals. We will then be reduced to pointing and laughing. Or maybe just go to jail. Fuck it.
Well damn, I thought they were allowed only to shoot protesters in the legs. Oh, maybe that was last week. It's so hard to keep up, between an alcohol impaired and a brimstone impaired calling the shots.
Forget talking to zoo animals. If you have the misfortune of being cross eyed (as was a classmate of mine - unsettling at times) and look at one of the, it will be “Go straight to jail “
"When he signed the order, Trump said: "'When you burn the American flag, it incites riots at levels that we’ve never seen before. People go crazy.'"
Oh, so it's kind of like when someone in a position of power and influence, who leads a cult, tells his followers that Democrats rigged and stole an election and the people must march to the Capitol and STOP THE STEAL?!?
THAT vet is part of a small group let by a guy who calls himself (on instagram) Jolly good ginger (with some __ __) in between. HE's a real vet and followed by everyone good. He filmed his friend Jim (the one who carefully announced why then did the lighting up of the folded flag, THEN 'jolly' did another post introducing his pal after his 4-hour 'arrest' asking him to talk about what happened during said arrest. The original opening was fantastic: they showed up in Union Square with bullhorns walking about with upside down flags (signs of distress) AND within minutes every one of the cosplaying fake-azz 'agents' slouched off to their two ice vehicles parked where they's NOT ALLOWED TO PARK, leaving without a word AS these Veterans cursed them out. There are several vids on 'Jolly good ginger's' account, including an older white woman leaning out of her opened passenger window yelling at them about how frump is 'saving black people'!!! Something ultra magat stupid along the lines of 'they're killing each other' and by his invasion they're being stopped 'from killing each other'. I was itching to reach through the screen to smack her silly - but after they trounced her talking points, she exited the scene after giving the finger (ON BOTH HANDS) to these VETERANS! So much for right-wing magat 'patriotism' Prior to, a young woman vet had asked ANY veteran or family member to show up in Union Square if possible to support them. I believe that is still ongoing?
I was fortunate to watch JB Pritzker’s entire presser yesterday. We also watched US Senator Tammy Duckworth, US Senator Dick Durbin, Illinois AG Kwame Raoul, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, and several others speak.
We need to flood the zone and it’s become more obvious as each day passes. Newsom, Walz, Pritzker, Sanders and everyone else needs to keep up these barn burning speeches and find consistent methods of yanking the attention away from the gaslighting a-hole MAGAts and the propganda machine.
The Missouri constituent telling the truth, and all the other “little people” at town halls giving Republicans an earful are powerful. “Take your father’s Constitution and do your own underlining. . .Get your head out of Trump’s ass!” Plain language from plainspoken citizens may open the eyes of a few Fox captives.
There is no MSM. The so called MSM is all oligarch owned and creates disinformation because that is their job now. Any truth that seeps out is the exception, not the rule.
Ladies and gentlemen, WE are the mainstream media now. Let’s take our responsibility seriously.
Yes, they’re all corporately owned, bought and paid for. But NBC, CBS, CNN, Fox, NYT, WaPo, etc. are still the media with the largest megaphones for most people who follow the news. We’re not the media, mainstream or otherwise; we don’t track down and write up the news. We’re news consumers, like everybody else.
But they just can’t be the megaphone for most people. That’s my point. The disinformation and outright lying by FAUX News and now all oligarch owned media is what got us into this mess. We need to recognize the oligarch owned media for what it is - PROPAGANDA.
The truth is out there and you don’t need a TV to see it. I feel I’m well informed, but I wouldn’t watch Good Morning America at the point of a gun.
You and I and many others know that, but we’re political-news junkies. We pay close attention; most people don’t. I haven’t watched TV news in years, but when I research a topic on Google, unless I’m doing a deep dive for primary sources, the search will initially turn up pages and pages of MSM reporting, with maybe a few obviously slanted takes from more esoteric sources on the topic. So, I’m still receiving the news from CNN, MSNBC, Fox, and the NYT.
The fact remains that most people (especially the oldsters) get their news from broadcast or cable media, not from independent online sources. Youngsters use primarily online news, mostly from FB, X, YouTube, and TikTok. But via whichever medium they choose, the sources for the news most people consume still originate in mainstream/legacy reporting.
I agree that is where most Americans get their tainted news. Many don’t realize they are being manipulated by what is being presented as fact.
Allowing the fascist oligarchs to buy up all of the MSM was a critical mistake. Where were the democracy loving billionaires when this was happening? Why is no one making an effort now to host a truthful, non-propaganda network that is NOT owned by a fascist? There’s a dozen pure propaganda networks hosted by Heritage Foundation loving MAGATS. We have zero…and please don’t mention MSNBC.
It looks to me like it's simpler than that. There used to be 3 networks plus the Big (very literal) Press for Authoritative News. The high cost of entry gave it credibility and motivated protection of the high levels of investment. MSM was an artifact of economics and is now gone. Being the 'voice for the people' was merely a temporary side effect, one noted even by the Founders as messy and unreliable. They gave it protections, held their breath, and hoped for the best.
Today, what used to be news corps are unloading news operations ASAP. They want and are setting up Big Entertainment. That's where the profits are as well as the plausible deniability protection from politics (as much as is possible). News is banished to the hinterlands. Tens of thousands of channels and outlets from organized groups to hit-and-run pirates are ALL there is*. The news space actually looks more like colonial America than the 20th Century did. Credible editorial power is now more valuable than it's ever been. How many of us have Snopes and Ground News on speed-dial? The remaining physical press, like NYT and WSJ, are feeling *crushing* levels of pressure to not knuckle under to the regime. That is growing, fast.
(* There are outliers, of course. The AP told Trump to fuck right off about the Gulf of Mexico. Their credibility held as a result.)
You make a lot of sense, George. How much do you think Reagan’s dismissal of the Fairness Doctrine in 1987 impacted the current state of our news organizations?
Those with social media accounts need to flood those platforms with this stuff. Just like the looney-tunes MAGAts post the horseshit about vaccines and space lasers and no one daring to walk the streets of [fill in the blank with city name with a largely Democratic and/or Black population].
Happy but where's Whitmer? Shapiro? Where's Buttigieg? Where's Mark Kelly?
Instead of trying to lie low in case they make the cut for 2028, every coherent, progressive Dem needs to be out there DAILY making some sort of news. Shock and awe back at the White House.
I also think the governors need to form a "coalition of the willing" and start taking over areas sabotaged by the trump admin.
For example, a task force on pollution - have boilerplate laws written, or orders or whatever, that states can quickly adopt to counteract the dismantling of the EPA.
health - a task for figuring out how to support vaccinations at the state level. Or even maybe how to do state-level ACAs like Massachusetts did "Romneycare."
redistricting - obviously
sanctuary and legal representation of asylum seekers, foreign students, etc. --
candidates - task forces on how to put a Dem candidate on deck for every office coming up in 2026. No uncontested.
The list goes on but if they pool resources instead of every state going off willy nilly, and show united force against the evil regime, maybe something could get done.
I'm a former journalist. They need to get out there doing things the media cannot ignore, like Newsome's tweets. They need to get out at rallies and they need to be filing lawsuits and otherwise pushing back, but in a manner that gets attention.
Buttigieg is on Instagram (where young people are) EVERY DAY. So is Duckworth and Rachel Maddow.
Mark Kelly is too busy writing letters asking for money to Fight Trump after voting his consent for most Trump's Cabinet...the very people who are screwing our country. Kelly won't do anything to rock Trump's boat. Whitmer went to see Trump probably saying "Sir, we love you. Please do not harm Michigan" . A lot of Democrats loved Trump's choices. Look it up!
Whitmer has to throw flatteries at Trump for the same kind of reason that Zelenskyy and the Europeans had to. Pritzker and Newsom have solid Democratic majorities backing them up. Whitmer does not have that luxury.
Just paid $187 for a scant basket of groceries. Inflation is here, folks and it is going to tear your household budget a new one and toss you and it into the gutter.
I’m putting in collards, salsify, beets. Lettuce and spinach once it cools off. Maybe some broccoli rabe too. We have mild, coolish winters, so there is a lot we can grow.
It’s been a fantastic blackberry season here, as well. My early morning walks with my doggos have taken us by many loaded bushes. They have been supplying me a “blackberry breakfast” for weeks now.
Thank you for including that video of the Missouri farmer who is supporting his great-grandchildren on his retirement savings. Sad as shit how little his congressman cares.
Mine too! Neil is aces. He turns 80 in November and is still out there (with spouse Darryl Hannah) protesting against the establishment. Back in April, my lucky amiga in Los Angeles attended Bernie and AOC’s Fighting Oligarchy rally, with special performances by Neil Young and Joan Baez. The massive crowd of 36,000 went nuts!
"you need to take your head out of Trump’s ass" that should be the first thing Democratic leadership in Congress says in the morning and the last thing they say at night.
It’s no surprise that after 77 Million Americans choose to live in tRump’s ass, America quickly starts to resemble the interior of a loaded colon
America needs a colonoscopy!
I would suggest an enema
Basically you get the enema before the colonoscopy so you are clean as whistle.
Yes, the most fun you can have outside of a root canal. Drink down all that saline solution and you are jet-propelled. Yee haw!
Been there and done that!
I took pills the last time I had a colonoscopy, and it cleans you out just as effectively.
Unfortunately, the Anesthesiologist was this crazy Slavic guy (imagine Doc Brown, only with a Eastern European accent) who kept insisting that he couldn't put me under because of my COPD, so I got a local...and the chance to watch 4K video of the inside of my colon.... 🤢
HA! Yes! 👏👏👏
America needs a nitroglycerine colonic!
😂😂😂
I'd settle for TNT...
More like an enema.
Well, that's what The Joker thought....
It's sad that most of the time I think HE'd be a better leader than most of the ones we have, and he's a known pyschopath!
Quick Watson! The clyster pipe!
AHA! A Shakespeare man!
🤣😂🤣
😂😂😂
YES! 👏👏👏👏 Every damned day!
The gerrymander fight is on. There is a new playbook. The old rules have been struck down by the Supreme Court. We need to change the gears here as fast as possible for deadly preemptive strikes. Newsom has moved out on this already. Who is next? Hochul, where are you? Pritzker, what are you doing? Will you promote this new move?
https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/gerrymander-fight?r=3m1bs
Yes indeed and that goes for the news media as well.
I'll buy the T-shirt!
Best line ever! from a Missouri farmer. Repeat after him!
"You need to get your head out of Trump's ass!"
I think that needs to be meme'd and go viral.
OH YEA- Cartoons too! Paintings! Photos (NO‼️)
Yeah, that old farmer is clearly a commie who's out of touch with the American People. He does not understand the dictum that L'État, c'est Trump. Patriotism begins and ends with fealty to the Mango's rule and person. He is getting the day he voted for.
George- My brain is turning to cement, but I finally got your “point of view”. That of the acehole sitting on the stage.
Yup. Thank you for the clarification. I really do need to use my *sarcasm* warning more.
And if they don't, we'll send them a "sternly worded letter."
I'm talking to you and those like you, Mr. Schumer.
Hakeem sent a sternly worded letter too. And instead of refuting the #47 administration's claim that Zohran Mamdani lives in a rent controlled apartment (frankly, I could respect that if he did, in other words, great, if you can get it), confirmed it. Hakeem, theoretically representing the region that includes New York City doesn't know the difference between rent controlled, and rent stabilized. Half of NYC's rented living space is rent stabilized. So apparently, cluelessness about one's own district is not restricted to rich, entitled, useless loser Republicans. Zohran lives in a rent stabilized apartment, which means the owners can't jack up the rent to whatever ridiculous number they want, when they want. Hakeem, despite giving great interviews is a shit pol, shit rep, and double shit House Speaker. (except the opinion at the end, the rest of this post is the Keith Olbermann's journalism. Thank you Keith).
Hakeem is at the very young end of the "old man in congress" bunch. I've never much liked the guy, and it doesn't really have to do with his political stance other than he's in the OLD MAN faction. But watching him speak is like having teeth pulled without novocaine. I just want to jump up and yell "Would you get on with it already?"
Hakeem Jeffries is not even a very good interview, at least not according to The Majority Report—they HATE him there, and beg the DSA to primary his Clinton Neolib ass!
totally agree!!!
Removing one’s head from an ass, especially one that’s diapered sound dangerous Run… but it’s a good thought!
T-shirts. Incoming!
Trumpus delenda est.
AMEN!
Amen to that!
Unfortunately, Tim Walz and J.B. Pritzker aren't the "leaders" of the Democratic Party—appeasing assholes like Schmuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are, and they think if they say and do nothing, that Trump will fuck up so badly they'll sweep to victory without having done a fucking thing!
Sadly.
"the press finds the need to talk about, ‘oh, there’s a division in the Democratic Party.’ there’s a division in my damn house, and we’re still married and things are good. that’s life. that’s life. we are strong" 😂😂 Uncle Tim is just like every other working American. I heard this speech yesterday and was applauding in my kitchen! And Pritzker has always been amazing! 👏👏
DID YOU GUYS SEE THE VET burn an American flag in DC yesterday right after Cankles McFuck signed his little order?? That Vet had a few things to say and it was glorious!
I guess in Trumpland you’re only allowed to sexually assault our flag.
Where the men are men, and the furniture is scared.
And so are the little girls.
AND every normal (a/k/a sane woman)
HAH! Good one, George!
😂😂😂😂😂
I got a GREAT laugh out of that one. Thank you!
So many memes, and so little time to learn how to make them. I have a friend who can do them in minutes. May I use this? I'll give you credit!
😂😂
his humping of the flags is an indelible image which I still find ultra-sickening.
Only if you’re a Repugnant
And then, he was arrested.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/man-arrested-burning-flag-white-house-trump-executive-order-rcna226727
Right. Of course he was. I'm sure he knew he would be going into it. I think a whole lot more people are going to get arrested. Hope theres room for everybody. 🤦♀️
As a veteran we need a whole lot of flag burning and in front of FOX headquarters in NY would be a great start. I took my flag down over a year ago because it has been desecrated by the orange idiot and I’m not sure when I will look favorably on it again and that’s fucking sad as hell.
I'd like to see an en masse burning of the damned confederate flags!
I am a vet from the late 1960s through the early 1970s, and a bit of an old-fashioned guy, so burning the American flag would not even appeal to me, but burning a Trump flag would give me a big thrill.
I remember back during the Vietnam era, flag-burning meant something quite different. Things have turned upside-down.
Re-install your US flag upside down. That's a distress signal.
Please don't.
1. Not an actual emergency.
2. Trumpers already doing this.
Thanks.
A fascist takeover is "not" an actual emergency?
AND - as I just described, being done BY the Veterans protesting in Union Square! We ARE right square IN emergency conditions and flying the flag upside down as THEY are doing - who better to judge this? expresses exactly how far over the threshold into a dictatorship frump/miller has taken this country? My husband, a Combat Vet will not fly a flag - since the only ones doing so here are magats.
I should have specified: he won't fly one on our home, premises or vehicles. The Union Square veterans carried theirs over their shoulders affixed to poles. I do wear my gorgeous flag pin given to me when I became a US Citizen. I haven't yet turned it upside down. think it's now time. ...Dashing off a response AS one is dozing off does not help provide accurate descriptions of one's points as I can attest.
Because trump and his idiots basically stole our flag is, to me, the very reason I keep mine flying. I refuse to let them have our flag. I refuse. And we all should refuse. Please, fly your flag, high and proud. We need to all refuse to let the dipshits have our flag. It's our symbol of the freedoms trump is trying to take away from us. Do not let them have it.
We should also honor annually the day of the burning of the Fox "All American" Xmas tree four years ago. December 8th: a day that shall live in ignominy!
Yes. I feel like it isn’t my flag anymore. I cringe when I see it on the houses and pick-ups near me.
I agree and especially when I see some pickup festooned with a whole bunch of maggot shit.
I’d love to see about 500 vets burning flags on the mall in DC. Shades of the Vietnam war.
And tear off their combat medals while they’re at it!!
I was 12 years old in 1971, and have never forgotten this incredible act of defiance:
“On April 23, 1971, Vietnam Veterans Against the War staged one of the most dramatic and influential events of the antiwar movement as hundreds of Vietnam veterans, dressed in combat fatigues and well-worn uniforms, stepped up and angrily, one after another for three straight hours, hurled their military medals, ribbons, discharge papers, and even a cane onto the steps of the U.S. Capitol. Many of them paused to speak. There has never been an antiwar or anti-government protest anything like this in the U.S., before or since.” (Wikipedia)
My family saw the protest on the nightly news with Walter Cronkite. I was just a kid, but the veterans’ phenomenonal act of courageous resistance has stayed with me for 54 years. I honor them still!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Vietnam_veteran_medal-throwing_protest
Oh yes, I remember that too. Pretty sure that was the protest in which John Kerry, Vietnam vet and Dem nominee for POTUS in 1994, took part and threw his dogtags and medals over the fence. It was pretty amazing, and may have helped speed up the end of that war.
I admired John Kerry and voted for him. He would have made a fine president. Of course the evil Repukes had to torpedo his candidacy with that bullshit Swiftboat attack, which gave us war criminal Dubya for four more years. 😖 I am still pissed about that.
nominee for POTUS in *2004
At the Vietnam Veterans memorial, one of the most solemn and moving monuments in all of DC. Maybe THAT would get folks attention.
Yes!
💯‼️and if not then this Country really is BIGLY fvcked🤬🤬
He’s already out after 4 hours
Yay! Thanks.
4 hours too damned long. Donald…. PISS OFF🖕🖕🖕🖕
Charged with lighting a fire in a park 🤣🤣
Good!
Piro is a drunken disASSter. Yay for the vet!!
Nicky, getting arrested is not going to end the conversation anymore, it'll start it.
A LOT of people are going to be getting arrested for yelling disrespectful things to authority figures strutting around in Hitler drag. Things like "sorry about your penis!" or "does your mother know you left the basement, loser?". Not to mention all of the attacks with a deli weapon. It'll be a bloodbath, I tell you.
The NG occupation forces have now been ordered to be armed (this from our impaired SecDef). This will go quite swimming. Amazingly enough, a few of us Libs know a couple of things about firearms ( https://theliberalgunclub.com/ ). We will be engaging those Weekend Rambos in some scintillating conversations about whether their weapons are loaded, whether they're pre-chambered, and how many civilians they plan to slaughter today. I personally want to know what explosive weapons they've been issued since a hand grenade would be able to effectively kill and maim large numbers of us. The toadies will be getting some feedback on their stance, trigger-finger positioning, and how their gear appears to be configured.
They will soon pass laws, and probably Executive Orders, criminalizing talking to the zoo animals. We will then be reduced to pointing and laughing. Or maybe just go to jail. Fuck it.
Well damn, I thought they were allowed only to shoot protesters in the legs. Oh, maybe that was last week. It's so hard to keep up, between an alcohol impaired and a brimstone impaired calling the shots.
Forget talking to zoo animals. If you have the misfortune of being cross eyed (as was a classmate of mine - unsettling at times) and look at one of the, it will be “Go straight to jail “
"When he signed the order, Trump said: "'When you burn the American flag, it incites riots at levels that we’ve never seen before. People go crazy.'"
Oh, so it's kind of like when someone in a position of power and influence, who leads a cult, tells his followers that Democrats rigged and stole an election and the people must march to the Capitol and STOP THE STEAL?!?
Cankles McFuck 🤣😂🤣😂 that’s my new one!! Thanks 🤣
THAT vet is part of a small group let by a guy who calls himself (on instagram) Jolly good ginger (with some __ __) in between. HE's a real vet and followed by everyone good. He filmed his friend Jim (the one who carefully announced why then did the lighting up of the folded flag, THEN 'jolly' did another post introducing his pal after his 4-hour 'arrest' asking him to talk about what happened during said arrest. The original opening was fantastic: they showed up in Union Square with bullhorns walking about with upside down flags (signs of distress) AND within minutes every one of the cosplaying fake-azz 'agents' slouched off to their two ice vehicles parked where they's NOT ALLOWED TO PARK, leaving without a word AS these Veterans cursed them out. There are several vids on 'Jolly good ginger's' account, including an older white woman leaning out of her opened passenger window yelling at them about how frump is 'saving black people'!!! Something ultra magat stupid along the lines of 'they're killing each other' and by his invasion they're being stopped 'from killing each other'. I was itching to reach through the screen to smack her silly - but after they trounced her talking points, she exited the scene after giving the finger (ON BOTH HANDS) to these VETERANS! So much for right-wing magat 'patriotism' Prior to, a young woman vet had asked ANY veteran or family member to show up in Union Square if possible to support them. I believe that is still ongoing?
I was fortunate to watch JB Pritzker’s entire presser yesterday. We also watched US Senator Tammy Duckworth, US Senator Dick Durbin, Illinois AG Kwame Raoul, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, and several others speak.
Do NOT mess with Chicago!!!
🎯💯Everyone was out in a united force yesterday. It was awesome to see it live on ALL the networks #CHICAGOSTRONG Donald….PISSOFF🖕🖕🖕🖕
Uh, no. Do not.
They got the spine, they got the stones, they got the heart, and we got their backs.
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We need to flood the zone and it’s become more obvious as each day passes. Newsom, Walz, Pritzker, Sanders and everyone else needs to keep up these barn burning speeches and find consistent methods of yanking the attention away from the gaslighting a-hole MAGAts and the propganda machine.
The Missouri constituent telling the truth, and all the other “little people” at town halls giving Republicans an earful are powerful. “Take your father’s Constitution and do your own underlining. . .Get your head out of Trump’s ass!” Plain language from plainspoken citizens may open the eyes of a few Fox captives.
Just don’t count on MSM to be part of the zone, as Jeff points out.
There is no MSM. The so called MSM is all oligarch owned and creates disinformation because that is their job now. Any truth that seeps out is the exception, not the rule.
Ladies and gentlemen, WE are the mainstream media now. Let’s take our responsibility seriously.
Yes, they’re all corporately owned, bought and paid for. But NBC, CBS, CNN, Fox, NYT, WaPo, etc. are still the media with the largest megaphones for most people who follow the news. We’re not the media, mainstream or otherwise; we don’t track down and write up the news. We’re news consumers, like everybody else.
But they just can’t be the megaphone for most people. That’s my point. The disinformation and outright lying by FAUX News and now all oligarch owned media is what got us into this mess. We need to recognize the oligarch owned media for what it is - PROPAGANDA.
The truth is out there and you don’t need a TV to see it. I feel I’m well informed, but I wouldn’t watch Good Morning America at the point of a gun.
You and I and many others know that, but we’re political-news junkies. We pay close attention; most people don’t. I haven’t watched TV news in years, but when I research a topic on Google, unless I’m doing a deep dive for primary sources, the search will initially turn up pages and pages of MSM reporting, with maybe a few obviously slanted takes from more esoteric sources on the topic. So, I’m still receiving the news from CNN, MSNBC, Fox, and the NYT.
The fact remains that most people (especially the oldsters) get their news from broadcast or cable media, not from independent online sources. Youngsters use primarily online news, mostly from FB, X, YouTube, and TikTok. But via whichever medium they choose, the sources for the news most people consume still originate in mainstream/legacy reporting.
I agree that is where most Americans get their tainted news. Many don’t realize they are being manipulated by what is being presented as fact.
Allowing the fascist oligarchs to buy up all of the MSM was a critical mistake. Where were the democracy loving billionaires when this was happening? Why is no one making an effort now to host a truthful, non-propaganda network that is NOT owned by a fascist? There’s a dozen pure propaganda networks hosted by Heritage Foundation loving MAGATS. We have zero…and please don’t mention MSNBC.
MzNicky, I am 73, and wouldn’t watch or read mainstream news on a bet! Don’t disparage us elders!
Um, aren't we the Oldsters? We're getting our news from substacks and Youtube.
It looks to me like it's simpler than that. There used to be 3 networks plus the Big (very literal) Press for Authoritative News. The high cost of entry gave it credibility and motivated protection of the high levels of investment. MSM was an artifact of economics and is now gone. Being the 'voice for the people' was merely a temporary side effect, one noted even by the Founders as messy and unreliable. They gave it protections, held their breath, and hoped for the best.
Today, what used to be news corps are unloading news operations ASAP. They want and are setting up Big Entertainment. That's where the profits are as well as the plausible deniability protection from politics (as much as is possible). News is banished to the hinterlands. Tens of thousands of channels and outlets from organized groups to hit-and-run pirates are ALL there is*. The news space actually looks more like colonial America than the 20th Century did. Credible editorial power is now more valuable than it's ever been. How many of us have Snopes and Ground News on speed-dial? The remaining physical press, like NYT and WSJ, are feeling *crushing* levels of pressure to not knuckle under to the regime. That is growing, fast.
(* There are outliers, of course. The AP told Trump to fuck right off about the Gulf of Mexico. Their credibility held as a result.)
You make a lot of sense, George. How much do you think Reagan’s dismissal of the Fairness Doctrine in 1987 impacted the current state of our news organizations?
There are several outliers. The Guardian, for one.
I wouldn’t either, Walt,
Tell it, Walt! 💪🏼💙
We're trying to fill that huge media hole... http://watdmedia.substack.com
Those with social media accounts need to flood those platforms with this stuff. Just like the looney-tunes MAGAts post the horseshit about vaccines and space lasers and no one daring to walk the streets of [fill in the blank with city name with a largely Democratic and/or Black population].
Love my Gov Pritzker!
Good to see Gov Walz back in action! That man needs to be more out front.
They've got the winning message to run with. Not crafted by AI and consultants to the DNC. So alive, real, and inspiring.
I agree
“Facism with morons!” Hell yes! Love Pritzer, Walz, Lisa Cook…..keep it up and GROW!
"Facism" is discriminating on the basis of face
Happy but where's Whitmer? Shapiro? Where's Buttigieg? Where's Mark Kelly?
Instead of trying to lie low in case they make the cut for 2028, every coherent, progressive Dem needs to be out there DAILY making some sort of news. Shock and awe back at the White House.
I also think the governors need to form a "coalition of the willing" and start taking over areas sabotaged by the trump admin.
For example, a task force on pollution - have boilerplate laws written, or orders or whatever, that states can quickly adopt to counteract the dismantling of the EPA.
health - a task for figuring out how to support vaccinations at the state level. Or even maybe how to do state-level ACAs like Massachusetts did "Romneycare."
redistricting - obviously
sanctuary and legal representation of asylum seekers, foreign students, etc. --
candidates - task forces on how to put a Dem candidate on deck for every office coming up in 2026. No uncontested.
The list goes on but if they pool resources instead of every state going off willy nilly, and show united force against the evil regime, maybe something could get done.
I’d settle for any tiny bit of actual progress the Dems can put forward. We need a unified voice and action.
They are doing a lot more than you think! The news ignores them. http://watdmedia.substack.com
I'm a former journalist. They need to get out there doing things the media cannot ignore, like Newsome's tweets. They need to get out at rallies and they need to be filing lawsuits and otherwise pushing back, but in a manner that gets attention.
Thanks for the link, Deb! Good info. I just signed up.
Thank you!
Buttigieg is on Instagram (where young people are) EVERY DAY. So is Duckworth and Rachel Maddow.
Mark Kelly is too busy writing letters asking for money to Fight Trump after voting his consent for most Trump's Cabinet...the very people who are screwing our country. Kelly won't do anything to rock Trump's boat. Whitmer went to see Trump probably saying "Sir, we love you. Please do not harm Michigan" . A lot of Democrats loved Trump's choices. Look it up!
Whitmer has to throw flatteries at Trump for the same kind of reason that Zelenskyy and the Europeans had to. Pritzker and Newsom have solid Democratic majorities backing them up. Whitmer does not have that luxury.
I've seen all of the ones you mention on the news. Those aren't the ones lying low.
Wow, this citizen in Missouri ripped that MAGA rep a new one. Awesome summation of how America is getting screwed by trumpism
1. Uncle Tim for the win
2. Donny for the Nobel Piece of Shit prize (stolen from Mersault)
3. Piss Drunk Pete for losing at World of Warcraft
I’ll bet you dollars to donuts (which probably now cost more than a dollar) that Kegsbreath couldn’t even win a game of “Battleship.”
Just paid $187 for a scant basket of groceries. Inflation is here, folks and it is going to tear your household budget a new one and toss you and it into the gutter.
It is a daily challenge on a fixed budget, Stephen. Thankfully, my little garden is producing well this summer.
I am going to plant a Fall/Winter Garden (I'M in SW GA) in the next couple of weeks.
You must have fairly good growing weather in the fall/winter months? What would you grow?
I’m putting in collards, salsify, beets. Lettuce and spinach once it cools off. Maybe some broccoli rabe too. We have mild, coolish winters, so there is a lot we can grow.
I am too.
Mine’s doing ok, but my blackberries were a bonanza.
It’s been a fantastic blackberry season here, as well. My early morning walks with my doggos have taken us by many loaded bushes. They have been supplying me a “blackberry breakfast” for weeks now.
Just don’t sink the supply ship… it’s got 6 cases of vodka on it.
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A single donut is $1.25 each here in the local supermarket bakery.
But I'm not divulging how I know that fact....😎
Well, there goes that adage down the crapper.
Kegsbreath- Good one👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼
It made me cry to hear Tim Walz - what a lovely man and what a huge loss to the Vice- Presidency
“Vigorous clownfucking”. Yes, that is what we are getting from the Velveeta Voldemort. He’s definitely a clown, but a clown with a blowtorch.
And a load in his pants
Thank you for including that video of the Missouri farmer who is supporting his great-grandchildren on his retirement savings. Sad as shit how little his congressman cares.
Yep. Can't even be bothered to look at the man speaking directly to him. That's some first class chickenshit!
The congressman was acting the only way he knows how. Shut the FU until the furor settles and then shuttled out the back door.
They're good guys. Dems please remember to share their social media hits too! Keep spreading the message!
His comment about magnets reminds me of a button I used to have: Don't blame me for gravity -- I voted for Velcro.
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Cue Neil Youngs 🎼 OHIO.
I can't get "Ohio" out of my head. Defining song, defining moment. Never thought we'd be here again.
Love Neil Young, he’s my kind of guy.
Crosby Stills, Nash & Young, was the first concert I ever attended.
I'm still searching for A Heart of Gold. 💙
I was 17.
I was still in Jr High near Cleveland when the Kent State Massacre happened. “Four Dead in Ohio” still reverberates in me.
Neil Young made common sense cool. He spoke the plain truth that an entire generation could appreciate. And his music!
Mine too! Neil is aces. He turns 80 in November and is still out there (with spouse Darryl Hannah) protesting against the establishment. Back in April, my lucky amiga in Los Angeles attended Bernie and AOC’s Fighting Oligarchy rally, with special performances by Neil Young and Joan Baez. The massive crowd of 36,000 went nuts!