I don't have a Shit That Happened While I Was Busy Writing This Shit for today. I got too wrapped up in actual writing to play with my phone. so tell me, commenters — what have a missed?
Not much, but everyone should know that Steve Scalise is a total POS on any day. When he got shot by a crazy person while playing softball with his congressional budds, he got a small sympathy bump, but not from me. Also, I always liked Jimmy Carter. He was not a great prez, but on the other hand he also, tragically, expected Americans to behave and think like adults. You know, "and when I became a man I put away childish things..." and like that.
He didn't understand how rootbound Congress and the Senate were, and he started off as an outsider who was perceived as naive and arrogant. There was mutual scorn, and he got set up for a lot of failures. He was elected as a rejection of Nixon's corruption, but the insiders made sure to sandbag him while they polished up their REAL piece of shit, the cue-card reading Guy Who Really Broke America Saint Ronald.
Thank you for bringing up the second worst US president in our history! And let us not forget, that while Reagan was crushing the unions and pushing his phony trickle-down economics that mainly trickled up to the rich, he was already in the early stages of Alzheimer's in his first term.
DC Swamp-Things can take down a newbie np… Why didn’t Carter get the benefit of the doubt through HIS learning curve???… Donny gets slack on EVERY. DAMN. THING. It’s just f’n uncanny
Jimmy was just not popular, as he presided over a terrible economy with few friends or allies in Congress. His rivalry with Sen. Ted Kennedy distracted him from his attempts to introduce universal healthcare and fight inflation.
The rightwing D.C. establishment decided long ago that ANY Democrat was illegitimate no matter what the voters wanted. That's why they spent 8 years going after Clinton for any random crap they could find: filegate and troopergate and whitewater all turned out to be nothing, so they had to resort to Monica Lewinsky which wasn't a real scandal at all. I still say Bill Clinton was the least corrupt president in our history because of how much effort the Republicans put into investigating him — and finding nothing.
in frump's case mentally weak, pretending to be 'strong'. But the flim-flam grifter conman sold the idea of a supposedly 'rich' man (he wasn't) deigning to take time away from his rich, leisurely life to 'work for them'. Magats ARE dumb-fucks and bought it all.
Jimmy Carter swung his hammer for Habitat for Humanity. Reagan and both Bushes immediately went on the rubber chicken speech circuit and raked in the moolah
Some, mebbe _all_ of Reagan's speaking fees were pre-arranged bribes. After giving away high paying American jobs to the Pac Rim, Ronnie went to Japan, where he received $2 Million for his speaking tour. That was a lot of money back then, still respectable amount today, an oddly excessive amount of money for someone who could only reflect on his presidency and had precious little useful advice for the Japanese . I assume the same holds true for the Bushes.
Remember - at that point Ronnie was already in his dotage and Nancy was running the show with the help of her astrologer (FFS). I far prefer the Ads Ron Jr. still does supporting freedom from religion while specifying he's NOT afraid of 'burning in hell'.
Agree. His Habitat for Humanity has helped provide homes for thousands of people in the US and around the world. He lived a life of service, without fanfare, until the day he died.
My cousin got a Habitat house about 35 years ago. It was a great way to build wealth for her family. Seattle area real estate prices are insane. I bought a WWII house in 1989 for $135K that I lived in for 20 years. It just sold for $1.6M.
In a post above, I was posting about Ronnie's $2M Japanese speaking tour. At the same Ronnie was raking in the bucks, Jimmy Carter was building homes for the homeless. Rosalyn right at his side feeding him nails.
Oops - I just posted about her! Maybe later on as her health deteriorated, but earlier on SHE was up there on girders hammering nails with the best of 'em.
Carter signed the Panama Canal Treaty; SALT II; Camp David Accord; Superfund (to clean up toxic waste dumps; deregulated airlines; created Departments of Energy and Education; established diplomatic relations with China; appointed a record number of women, Blacks, and Hispanics to federal positions; and had an increase of 8 million jobs over the course of his presidency.
Ronnie Ray-gun and his boys sure did a good job of re-framing Carter's term.
He was a terrible president. I used to think he was the worst of my lifetime, but then Bush Jr. came along. And both of them are candidates for Mt. Rushmore compared to Trump.
And Carter's ineptitude paved the way for 12 years of Reagan/Bush.
Hi Joyce - was reading above very negative Jimmy Carter notes, and was puzzled. I had always thought he was a very good president, in addition to both he and Rosalind being super good human beings. So I was very happy to read yours! Thank you! 🇨🇦
Thank you, Joyce. Jimmy Carter gets such a bad rap, but he was my hero and the first president I voted for. I thought he did a great job. Young voters loved him and he was pals with cool people like Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and the Allman Brothers. Jimmy was a rock star in 1976. Everybody, if you haven’t yet - please watch the excellent documentary, “Jimmy Carter, Rock & Roll President.” You will understand how much we loved him. Here’s the trailer: https://youtu.be/AfFF-PP78iA
People can have their opinions of course, but they can NOT state their opinions as if they are facts. YOU are correct and I do wonder about those who fell for the trashing of 'the peanut farmer'. Did they live through his Presidency and listen to or pay attention to him at all? Would they likewise have fallen for it if they rotters had trashed him for being a Navy Captain since, unlike the current fraud/tax cheat coward, Jimmy Carter gave up his peanut farming according to the requirements of the Presidency. I believe it was put into a trust - or sold outright?
I haven't had a chance to watch it yet (computer fritzing away these last few days - again), but I will. I simply don't yet get the constant negativity about Jimmy Carter - UNless those dumping on him were practicing for what they did to Joe Biden? ANY Democratic President was going to be lied about...trounced -as the orange fuckwit tried with 'birthering' Barack Obama, but HE was so beloved by everyone he sailed through both of his elections so their setting out to 'get him good' didn't work. When Joe Biden won in 2020 (so many republicans even acknowledging this now - putting the big fat lie to frump's incessant whining), we need to look at it as a pattern -and perhaps the beginnings of project 2025? Jimmy was far too nice a human to fight back in kind. WE can, though - and refuse to accept the bullshit people still spew about a really good man who set out to do good things for Americans and accomplished most of what he believed in.
Jimmy Carter was the first president I was old enough to vote for and still the only president I was 100% psyched about voting for. The rest were all the lesser of two evils. I liked Obama, but I didn't like the fact that he talked about going to war in Afghanistan even before he was elected. And he should've gotten rid of computer voting because it's easily tampered with and why are they doing nothing about the fact that there's evidence that Russia interfered in the 2016 election? Well, now I'm all over the place. And I was standing on the street once when Bill Clinton's limousine drove by preceded by the Secret Service and we were all standing out on the sidewalks and waving and cheering and he couldn't be bothered to turn his head and look at us. I've held a grudge ever since. 😁 When Ronald Reagan was elected I said to myself, well, there goes the country – anything can happen. I never thought I'd miss Tricky Dick. And I hated him!
Obama increased the war. And I'm not talking about Russian propaganda – I'm talking about the election interference that they found, but nothing was done about it. I was just hoping that he would be more proactive. I know he had everyone against him because he was our first black president, but I just didn't think he was as progressive as I hoped. During his first two years we had the house and the Senate and I just thought more could be done.
Carter was double fucked by the Iranians, first when took over the US embassy in Tehran and second when they did a deal with that great 'Murkan pat-rot Reagan to delay the release of the hostages until after the 1980 election. Sorry to say but I think it is poetically just that they are now giving the Republicans a fucking like they have never had. What's wrong, MAGA, don't you like being raped? REAEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!
Jimmy Carter WAS a great President for NOT declaring war on Iran. He did NOT get the Straight Of Hormuz closed, and all of the American hostages were released unharmed.
He did NOT explode the National Debt, and hired Paul Volcker to head the Fed and Volcker tamed inflation for decades, anthough the solution took enough time for Reagan to get the credit. BUT it was Carter’s apppointee who got the job done!
The supposedly “liberal media” portrayed Carter as a weak President but now in the fullness of time we can appreciate that he was a President who exercised wise restraint, truly did have a long term strategic plan, and that plan proved to be successful!
Then Regan initiated his own long term strategic plan, seeding SCOTUS with Federalist Society extremists who pointed this country in the wrong direction. And now we are well and truly FUCKED
Thank you Bob! I’d always admired Jimmy Carter. Perhaps the problem was that nobody looked under the hood of his humility. No one who was a bad president could have worked a post presidency like he and Rosalind did. And we must give much credit to Rosalind - he certainly did. He wasn’t an arrogant puss about American exceptionalism - he very simply just lived it. He was the EMBODIMENT of it. Bless him. Don’t torch him. 🇨🇦
Yep. Some media elites scorned Southerners, including Carter, and treated him with disdain. Southern Exposure magazine, many years ago, featured an interview with a Southern TV crew member who used to have to watch his coworkers replaying cuts from people with Southern accents and yucking it up -- he quit as a result. And I was asked to change a quote from a Southerner to standard English for a magazine story one time because "who talks like that?!" (The factchecker also keep repeating the line and guffawing.) Having grown up in Georgia and Alabama, I was disgusted. This has been going on for a long time, including people who should know better looking down on poor people, the working class, farmers, you name it.
Paul Volcker pushed the Prime Rate to 20% to combat inflation after a decade of Miller's Easy Money policy as well as things like Nixon abandoning the gold standard, the oil embargo, and years of spending on the Vietnam War. This could be a cautionary tale for what happens when the Fed decides to take interest rates down too low when inflation is getting higher and all this extraneous crap is going on!
What makes one “a great president”? Jimmy Carter inherited a fucking mess from the Nixon regime (several who went to prison and one who was forced to resign the presidency because of corruption and dirty tricks), not to mention the continued fallout from the Vietnam “police action”.
I don’t blame Jimmy Carter for those things at all. In fact, I commend him for upholding the US Constitution and righting the Ship of State.
That’s what a great President does when the above are under attack.
I agree! Too bad Reagan bought ot the Iranians and kept the hostages except for my TA, who gave me a B+ instead of an A because even though all my work was A, he told me he had to grade on the curve and had to save the A's for the "white men" in the class. Still, I survived and that TA did not.
My first job (in the 50s) the employer explained to me that I would be paid less than the men because they had to support families. I was not surprised or offended. It was just the way things were.
I was hired to work as a proofreader for a newspaper in the sixties. The employer said he hired me over the other applicant, a man, because the pay was so low the guy needed a job with higher pay. That afternoon I was hired by a nursing home for much higher pay. It gave me more pleasure than I can express to tell that newspaper guy to go pound salt.
In the 70s when my aunt got divorced she lost all her credit although she had been working full time too. It was the way things were, but we have come a long way, and not gonna let those Christian Nationalists take us back.
In the '70s I was told directly that I would be paid less for doing the same job as a man. Both times I was told that men needed more money and like you, I didn't complain because that was the way it was. The ERA has not been passed yet.
Seriously Linda?! Evil bastard with the exception that at least on that he was honest. Karma can be a real bitch when it does eventually come for you! 😝🇨🇦🎶 On an emoji kick today. 🖤
The irony was that he did not know the history that well, it was not his area, and he was totally dependent on me for the class discussions because it covered areas that my fiction reading as a child covered. Good fiction can teach a lot. In fact, men in the class would call me to discuss the readings, and topics for papers. I am fortunate I could not see in their minds. One guy who constantly floored me when one day he told me I was the reason his friend did not get into the university.
So, all the men felt entitled and there was a lot of racism on campus in direct and indirect ways. I have always had to contend with the double whammy of racism and sexism, but I have a loving family, and it has carried me through. I was taught to have the strength of my convictions. My mom may be 92 and have dementia, but she has been there for me and I know to appreciate it.
You my friend are amazing. I’m honoured to be in contact with you, with such an incredibly strong, smart and grounded woman. Thank you so much for the contact!! Be well! 🇨🇦
Carter also inherited a screwed-up economy, thanks Nixon, and a nation full of yahoos itching to prove America is still John Wayne, Rambo and Randolph Scott rolled into one. He should have let the shah figure it out for himself, but Exxon and BP would have thrown a shit fit.
And if you look at the Democrats today, who not only DID NOT endorse Mamdani, they actively worked against him and fulsomely supported ANDREW CUOMO!!! For heavens sake! So I think that bears some looking at from that perspective. Again, thank you Bob! 🇨🇦
And Janet Mills. Schumer picked her and voters said, no, we want more of a fighter, despite Mills standing up to Trump. The Post suggests this is some indication that Democrats want something other than a fighter against Trump, but that’s not really it. It’s that the old line process of picking candidates who check all the boxes to fit in and work within the staid structure of Congress is a method voters no longer trust. Witness Obama in 2008 and that real estate crook in 2016.
I just do not understand why, Bob, when they have obviously stellar candidates, they would not only not endorse, but would actively work against them. This is not new. To me there’s more amiss than we can see.
Why was he not a "great prez"? This is too often parroted as an article of faith, but I seldom see anyone support it. Personally I think Reagan was not a "great prez" no matter how popular he was in some quarters because he really turbocharged the wealth gap and of course there was Iran Contra too.
AND James Earl Carter served HIS Country in the Navy - all while those who attacked him insulted him as merely a 'peanut farmer'. ZERO respect even then for Democrats who served in our Military. He was indeed a stellar human being, the number of homes he helped build with and for Habitat for Humanity are countless. He indeed 'loved his neighbour as himself'.
Carter, like Joe Biden, was hurt by inflation, which in their cases was due to macroeconomic forces. Now, this inflationary climate is solely due to the incredible, intentional stupidity of the Epstein pal in the WH. Tariffs and disruption of the Persian Gulf petroleum are completely unnecessary for any reason other than fucking us over to distract from his complicity with Epstein.
What happened to the $300-400 million he claimed to already have collected from billionaire "friends of his" for the dancehall? Did he put that in his pocket and expect us to pretend we never heard him say "no charge to the taxpayer whatsoever"? Fuck that guy.
Dumpy put that $300-400 million in his greedy little hands and shoved it far away, to some offshore account, which we, the people, will never have proper accounting for. Cause the Six Supremes believe OldOrangeDiaper is a very special boy.
For those who not old enough to recall, we were dealing with inflation from LBJ, through Nixon and Ford and of course into Jimmy Carter’s presidency. Carter doesn’t get credit for appointing Paul Volcker as Chairman of the Fed. Unlike his predecessors, Volcker took the painful step of jacking interest rates, and essentially pushing the US into recession. It hurt a lot, accords the board, and it probably ended Carter’s presidency. Leave it to Jimmy Carter to do the right thing, pay the price for it, and get no credit for it even 50 years later.
Yes, Kim! Carter got handed the bill for the repugcon's Vietnam war that was their big winning issue. It's been the story of my working life. Rs run up the bill and get love. Then recession. Ds do the hard work of cleaning up the mess and are vilified. I don't know that we will be able to clean up the mess this time.
*Republican* Vietnam War? We started "advising" or whatever euphemism they used during the Kennedy, a Democrat, admin. Then LBJ, another Dem, ramped it up. "Hey, Hey, LBJ. How many kids did you kill today?" Then Republican Nixon continued the quagmire. But it also ended, ignominiously, under Republican Ford.
Eisenhower first got us involved in Vietnam by providing advisors and providing military, economic and technical support to SV President Ngo Din Diem. The Democrats who followed continued and escalated the involvement. That tells us how much anti-communist paranoia pervaded our government and both parties at the time. This was after the French were beaten and kicked out in 1954. America learned nothing from that.
Yes, yes, yes PollyP! Same here - conservatives, of any stripe, torch it and the Liberals bring it back. May I suggest a read by substacker Canadian 🇨🇦 Returnee titled “Nice Is Not The Same As Good?” It is just an excellent analysis of this exact point - of the ideology behind this pattern and why it’s been getting worse. 🇨🇦
Treasury yields peaked at over 15% in September 1981, almost a year after Carter lost to Ronnie Raygun. Conservatives and especially MAGAs cannot understand that inflation does not start and end overnight. Carter took the blame and because of Paul Volcker's hard decisions, Reagan got the credit as inflation eased. Damn, the American public is so short attention-spanned and downright shallow.
I'm guessing, but I bet at least half of Americans weren't alive then. The population when I was in school in the 70s was ~150 million. Now it's ~330 million.
Don't ferget all them immi-grants that musta come over. I'm a late boomer, whose span is 1945-1964, so there are many who were around then. The birth rate has declined steadily since 1957, according to Google AI
Everyone ignorantly thinks only in terms of the four year election cycle - same thing here. No critical thinking evident thinking ever. Maybe that’s why republicans and conservatives are trying to kill it, in all manner of ways. 🇨🇦
Well, what CERTAINLY "ended Carter’s presidency" was the treasonous secret side-deal Candidate Reagan made w/ Iran to hold on to the hostages until after the election, which Ronnie then won.
St. Ronny Raygun also made a deal with Iran to keep the American hostages until after the election, because releasing them before would have given Carter a boost, which meant the Reich-winged Reign of Terror would not have begun. When the hostages were released on Raygun's Inauguration Day, he was hailed as a hero, but in fact, he was a mofo traitor. Never, ever, ever trust a Rethuglican. Ever!!!!
Which guy? The “setup guy” in Butler? That was completely faked. There’s an excellent post on that explaining why. First point was that the tRump’s ear would have been shredded. Just saying. Or are you talking about Reagan? 🇨🇦
Today it was announced that Iran has another peace deal, and according to Zev Shalev, Trump is being briefed on another series of air strikes that is supposed to make Iran more amenable to dealing. Why do I hate the US president so much? It is strategies like this!
The Iran Hostage Crisis overshadowed Carter. Never forget that Reagan's team was negotiating with Iran BEFORE THE ELECTION, encouraging the country NOT TO RELEASE the hostages until AFTER THE ELECTION. And that indeed was what happened...
Also, it was Carter that first introduced the United States to renewable energy. Remember the solar panels Carter installed on the roof of the White House? Probably not... that's because Reagan ripped them down as soon as he took office. And now Trump is using our taxpayer money to stop wind farms from finishing construction.
“soaring inflation and unaffordable goods and services are just small price we pay for the privilege of living in a fascist kleptocracy headed by a racist imbecile in steep cognitive decline.” Says it all. 🤬
TV fare is looking like streaming garbage these days so I've taken to reading "A Tale of Two Cities." Charles Dickens was incredibly funny in his descriptions of the horrors of his day and the prior century. I'm especially enjoying the scenes with citizen Madame DeFarge and her incessant knitting, even as the guillotine rose and fell.
Can you believe it? I’m so glad I’ve never watched it when Orange 🍊 Man had it- I’ll be upstairs reading when and if Jr. sits behind the desk- I get nauseous just thinking about it‼️
I read Trump wants him to run for President next term. He thinks if he is on a scripted TV show, like he was, people will love him. He might be right. Lot of stupid people out there.
Scott Jennings is a a little whiney bitch man baby and was getting his ass handed to him by Adam Mockler (last night on Abby Phillips CNN show) and since he is a bootlicker that can’t debate a coherent thought he screamed at Adam “GET YOUR FUCKING HAND OUT OF MY FACE!” Instead of, you know, *debating.
FWIW Adam’s hands were absolutely no where near Screaming Scott’s face, it’s just when idiots can’t debate you they indict you.
May Day is world protest to buy nothing, don't work, etc. This is great because a lot of people are laid off and have no money to spend on anything anyway.
I am just so fucking tired of these assholes. How smug they are in the lying. How incompetent they are. The lack of morals doesn't bother me as much as the WAY they behave with no morals. Makes me really hope that Hell is real and that these supposed Christians will actually have that afterlife experience
It's May 1st, so we're supposed to be protesting by not working, going to school, or shopping. I'm retired, I don't go to school, but I'm doing my part by not shopping today. I really don't know if it will have an effect or not.
Nothing missed. But, I still think we should be hammering home the humiliation CIII delivered with silky tongue. Donald et al were so completely clueless, especially the bit about if it weren't for Britain we would be speaking French.
OMG! If it wasn't for the French coming to our aid, we would STILL be British citizens!! It's obvious this fuckhead did NOT pay attention in American History class...and here we are...thanks to Musk, his money and band of computer geeks...
Any deal will inevitably blow up if dumbass continues to use greedos Witkoff and Kushner to negotiate. Holy shit, diplomacy should be in the hands of diplomats, not crypto grifters and drooling real estate leeches.
Like so many other enormously unconstitutional, unethical, unprecedented, downright stupid, openly corrupt shit he's pulled, where is the media, where are the elected officials who should be raising holy hell? What would have been said if any Democratic president had done even one of these?
They are licking their chops and re-districting their states to disenfranchise voters of color after the SCOTUS disaster. Ogles and co in TN. All the shitwits in Alabama. At least Kemp said it was not in the cards for Georgia, for this year. But 2028 is on the table. God I hate being governed by racist idiots.
I think Iran's proposal is: we own the Strait forever and anybody who wants to use it has to pay us but the US ships should go home and let us sell our oil without a hitch, and oh, by the way, we're keeping all our enriched uranium.
Remember that semimythical time not long ago, when there was a competent, rational president in office, who negotiated the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, a multilateral treaty to ensure Iran did not enrich uranium into weapons grade plutonium, and the Strait of Hormuz was open, the flow of worldwide oil was unimpeded, and petrodollars were unthreatened? We had everything working well. And now NONE of that is. Because of one stupid, evil, corrupt asshole and his minions. Ineptitude, arrogance, malevolence and downright idiocy are a lethal combination.
Someone besides this craven regime will have to put a stop on it. Donnie’s brain is too gone and all the others are only out to take advantage of the pandemonium he’s creating. In our own words, Iran has all the cards so even with a pair of deuces, they’re winning the pot.
I made the mistake of reading HCR right before bed last night. I dreamt of hurting Little Johnson:
"And yet, today Senate Republicans blocked another Democratic measure—the sixth, introduced by Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA)—to require Trump to end his war on Iran. House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) told Ryan Nobles, Monica Alba, and Alexandra Marquez of NBC News that Congress doesn’t have to meddle with Trump’s actions in Iran because the U.S. is currently “not at war.”" They're a band of professional gaslighters and we're paying their salaries.
A blockade is an act of war. Our sailors have been deployed for an unconscionably long time under unacceptable conditions to commit an utterly unauthorized act of war, and need to be brought home.
Yeah I have to limit her to about 2-3 times a week. It's too much cold reality. I'll take Jeff's content, tone, humor, heart, Yiddish, and well-placed Monty Python gifs every day of the week .
Am I allowed to recommend another writer? Everyone should follow The Pugilist. She connects ALL the dots on Epstein. The girls were only the bait. The rest is fascinating.
I've been very sad lately that alcohol has ceased to agree with me in the last couple years, just when I need it the most. Indeed, no substances seem to do much anymore. Sigh.
Speaking of Reagan, my ex-husband professed to being a Democrat. I once said to him, “You always vote for losers!” He said, “What do you mean? I voted for Nixon and Reagan!” I said, “Exactly.” 🤪
This is from someone on Malcolm Nance's Substack Podcast. "There once was a chump named Trump Who's head was stuck in his Rump It developed a boil He drilled it for oil And charged you to keep up the pump."
And more Republican from Florida (former roommate of Liddle big shoes Marco) was found guilty of corruption and bribery today in—-guess where—- Florida.
I doubt it will ever happen, but what if a dozen prominent Dems -- Mr. and Mrs. Obama, Mr. and Mrs. Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, AOC, J.B. Pritzker, Gavin Newsom, etc. all showed up and took Trump's cognitive exam -- on Jimmy Kimmel's show?
Did badly, does ‘bigly fit here’ does ‘oozing diaper’ fit? It does to me his questioned the military asylum he was locked up in said he was the biggest dumbest fool to ever walk through the door.
Let’s demand trump take a civics and geography quiz geared to the third grade level. Would he pass? I dare say he would be held back or maybe even required to redo his 2nd grade year. He obviously had daddy advance him in his early years. He missed some basic lessons.
Can we please enact a caning statute in the house and Senate that can be enacted when butthurt betacuck magatard bitchbois like Peak Kegsbreath start foaming at the mouth about non-sequitur “what about Biden” bullshit after being asked simple “yes or no” questions like “Do *you* think President Trump is crazier than a shithouse rat?”
“Mr. Chairman, I reclaim my time, and invoke the caning provision on the witness until such time as he is willing to give a topical answer to my simple question?”
“So ordered. The sergeant-at-arms shall brandish the stick and menace the witness now.”
“Failing that, can you enlighten the committee again with an explanation of the means whereby you manage to fog a mirror? To walk erect without bumping into things?”
Substack is rolling in schadenfreude today over the approval ratings. I'd say stop the insanity but the craziness is cratering the GOP, so rock on, nutjobs! Drag the approval ratings down to single digits. You can do it! I have faith in you!
On an up note, Trump's LIV Golf Tournament was an absolute failure, with zero fans attending and several major players not showing up. He'd even erected a Stalinesque 15-foot gold statue of himself in the "Fight! Fight! Fight!" pose at the entrance to the club. En plus, "The Saudi-backed LIV Golf league, which heavily featured Donald Trump's golf courses for tournaments, is facing a potential collapse following reports that Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) is pulling its funding." (AI Overview) It's crumbling, folks.
Splendid, Jeff. A day away always brings you back sharper and better than ever.
The Trump-Bubba rolling-coal crowd thought they were hilarious using their oversized pickups to belch black carcinogen clouds on the Prius driving behind them because dear leader told them that cruelty and waste were patriotic. Now diesel is kissing seven bucks a gallon in Washington, and we get to watch the pump deliver the punchline.
That’s the thing about cults. The first act is belonging and swagger, the last act is sacrifice and denial. You hand over your judgment, then your empathy, then your wallet, and by the time the fuel bill, the rent, and the medical costs come due, you’re so invested you have to call it freedom while you stare at an empty refrigerator.
The leader never pays; the flock does. And it's all Biden's fault anyway!
MAGA is like Joel Osteen, a prosperity gospel for rage addicts. The theology of owning the libs substitutes for policy while the same corporations bankrupt the morons with tariffs, bailouts, and windfall profits.
Like every cult, when reality intrudes—whether it’s gas prices, indictments, or lost wars—the answer is never “we were conned,” it’s “we must suffer more to prove we still believe.” Double down. What you see is not real.
Of course, when they studied the bodies in Jonestown there were an astonishing amount of the dead who had been forcibly injected at gunpoint. They realized too late.
Also, Pete Hegseth's smugness is even more irritating than his rage. What a piece of shit.
I always hated Steve Scalise. And now he has a moniker-White Supremacy’s middle manager. That is fucking hilarious. But $6 a gallon under Biden? Were these clowns that out of touch or do they just pull shit out of their ass now?
They knowingly lie. All the time. In this case Scalise fucked up because he was on CNBC, not Fox, where lies go unchallenged. And amazingly even Kernen had a flash of reality.
I voted yesterday in the Democrat primary in Fulton County, GA. As I submitted my ballot, I wondered who will confiscate it and where it will travel from here.
In 2020 I convinced my then-92-yo mother that it was safer to vote absentee. At one point there were 6 lawsuits threatening her vote. It took until December before they were all settled and we knew her vote would be counted, and that was only because one conservative WI State Supreme couldn't betray his legal ethics and vote with his peers to toss the absentee votes. They just filed another lawsuit, this time over voting registration. You would think they had filed everything that could be conceivably challenged by now, but there's always a few more. I will always vote in person on Election Day. Just a little harder to steal my vote in the courts.
Why aren't the mainstream media yelling about those THREE terms Donny thinks he's served? Why aren't they shouting about his obvious mental shortcomings? Why? Oh, that's right. They're all run by oligarchs and they're all down in the gutter licking his boots. Pfft. Never forget!
You may be right, Lynne, but "I took the exam three times during my three terms as President" sounds to me as if he thinks this IS his third term! And he's already taken it three times!
I took it as a nod to the Maga loyalists believing the lie that he was cheated out of being POTUS in 2020 by the Democrat party stealing that election for Biden. Thus also lionising those involved in his 2021 insurrection.
Whiskey Pete in Congress yesterday...I could feel my blood pressure rise as he lied and laughed like he knows what he's doing. I had to turn it off. We are in serious trouble with that POS.
And I saw a headline that said the felon was super pissed off that 86 47 is popping up all over everywhere... in the world. 🤣🤣🤣 Good. Maybe that coronary will finally do us a solid.
I think unless there is a massive blue wave, a third impeachment of Trump will fail once again. However impeaching Hegseth would put a lot of Republicans on the spot. It is beyond question that he is responsible for actual war crimes.
The thing that gets me about that Chris Hayes clip (or pick a shitty network from a hat) is that they're talking approval ratings and poll numbers like this is just any other president, when the reality is there is a fucking dangerous lunatic in the WH who has full blown dementia. That's the only thing any of them should be talking about.
well said! Tom Nichols was on Nicole Wallace's show yesterday and he made a point of saying that Trump is seriously losing it, and that we ignore his dementia at our peril.
I don't have a Shit That Happened While I Was Busy Writing This Shit for today. I got too wrapped up in actual writing to play with my phone. so tell me, commenters — what have a missed?
Not much, but everyone should know that Steve Scalise is a total POS on any day. When he got shot by a crazy person while playing softball with his congressional budds, he got a small sympathy bump, but not from me. Also, I always liked Jimmy Carter. He was not a great prez, but on the other hand he also, tragically, expected Americans to behave and think like adults. You know, "and when I became a man I put away childish things..." and like that.
Jimmy Carter was not a great prez but he was a stellar human being, and the gold standard for how to spend a post-presidency
He didn't understand how rootbound Congress and the Senate were, and he started off as an outsider who was perceived as naive and arrogant. There was mutual scorn, and he got set up for a lot of failures. He was elected as a rejection of Nixon's corruption, but the insiders made sure to sandbag him while they polished up their REAL piece of shit, the cue-card reading Guy Who Really Broke America Saint Ronald.
Thank you for bringing up the second worst US president in our history! And let us not forget, that while Reagan was crushing the unions and pushing his phony trickle-down economics that mainly trickled up to the rich, he was already in the early stages of Alzheimer's in his first term.
IOKIYAR
IOKIYAR= It's OK if you're a Republican. Don't forget the corollary IACIYAD It's a crime if you're a Democrat.
I had to resort to the Urban Dictionary for this one!
DC Swamp-Things can take down a newbie np… Why didn’t Carter get the benefit of the doubt through HIS learning curve???… Donny gets slack on EVERY. DAMN. THING. It’s just f’n uncanny
Jimmy was just not popular, as he presided over a terrible economy with few friends or allies in Congress. His rivalry with Sen. Ted Kennedy distracted him from his attempts to introduce universal healthcare and fight inflation.
The rightwing D.C. establishment decided long ago that ANY Democrat was illegitimate no matter what the voters wanted. That's why they spent 8 years going after Clinton for any random crap they could find: filegate and troopergate and whitewater all turned out to be nothing, so they had to resort to Monica Lewinsky which wasn't a real scandal at all. I still say Bill Clinton was the least corrupt president in our history because of how much effort the Republicans put into investigating him — and finding nothing.
💣💥💥💣P.R.E.C.I.S.E.L.Y‼️
Both Carter and Biden also assumed their records would ‘speak for themselves’… just ain’t that simple nowadays :/
(As Clinton said: Americans prefer ‘wrong and strong’…)
And since R voters don’t even require policies now . Rs have the time & both hands free to sharpen their foot-tripping & rug-pulling skills!
in frump's case mentally weak, pretending to be 'strong'. But the flim-flam grifter conman sold the idea of a supposedly 'rich' man (he wasn't) deigning to take time away from his rich, leisurely life to 'work for them'. Magats ARE dumb-fucks and bought it all.
He also sold the idea that
”Everyone cheats!” (Esp smart, successful ppl)?!
SO WHY SHOULDN’T HE?🤬
Strongly agree!
Succinct.
He was honest, and he had a strong moral core and empathy.
These fascist fucks think empathy is for pussies.
Jimmy Carter swung his hammer for Habitat for Humanity. Reagan and both Bushes immediately went on the rubber chicken speech circuit and raked in the moolah
Some, mebbe _all_ of Reagan's speaking fees were pre-arranged bribes. After giving away high paying American jobs to the Pac Rim, Ronnie went to Japan, where he received $2 Million for his speaking tour. That was a lot of money back then, still respectable amount today, an oddly excessive amount of money for someone who could only reflect on his presidency and had precious little useful advice for the Japanese . I assume the same holds true for the Bushes.
Remember - at that point Ronnie was already in his dotage and Nancy was running the show with the help of her astrologer (FFS). I far prefer the Ads Ron Jr. still does supporting freedom from religion while specifying he's NOT afraid of 'burning in hell'.
Agree. His Habitat for Humanity has helped provide homes for thousands of people in the US and around the world. He lived a life of service, without fanfare, until the day he died.
1,000% polar opposite of squatter🍊🤡🐖y currently in The People’s House
My cousin got a Habitat house about 35 years ago. It was a great way to build wealth for her family. Seattle area real estate prices are insane. I bought a WWII house in 1989 for $135K that I lived in for 20 years. It just sold for $1.6M.
In a post above, I was posting about Ronnie's $2M Japanese speaking tour. At the same Ronnie was raking in the bucks, Jimmy Carter was building homes for the homeless. Rosalyn right at his side feeding him nails.
Oops - I just posted about her! Maybe later on as her health deteriorated, but earlier on SHE was up there on girders hammering nails with the best of 'em.
Rosalyn too! They were side by side wielding their hammers, wearing boots, jeans and hard-hats. What a couple to admire!
Carter signed the Panama Canal Treaty; SALT II; Camp David Accord; Superfund (to clean up toxic waste dumps; deregulated airlines; created Departments of Energy and Education; established diplomatic relations with China; appointed a record number of women, Blacks, and Hispanics to federal positions; and had an increase of 8 million jobs over the course of his presidency.
Ronnie Ray-gun and his boys sure did a good job of re-framing Carter's term.
Right. I’m always puzzled by people saying he was a good person but a bad president. He was a fantastic president, surrounded by assholes.
Oh--and let's not forget the solar panels on the White House--part of Carter's support of alternative energy--which Ray-gun immediately ripped away.
I stand corrected.
My thoughts precisely.
The best!!
He was a terrible president. I used to think he was the worst of my lifetime, but then Bush Jr. came along. And both of them are candidates for Mt. Rushmore compared to Trump.
And Carter's ineptitude paved the way for 12 years of Reagan/Bush.
Hi Joyce - was reading above very negative Jimmy Carter notes, and was puzzled. I had always thought he was a very good president, in addition to both he and Rosalind being super good human beings. So I was very happy to read yours! Thank you! 🇨🇦
Thank you, Joyce. Jimmy Carter gets such a bad rap, but he was my hero and the first president I voted for. I thought he did a great job. Young voters loved him and he was pals with cool people like Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and the Allman Brothers. Jimmy was a rock star in 1976. Everybody, if you haven’t yet - please watch the excellent documentary, “Jimmy Carter, Rock & Roll President.” You will understand how much we loved him. Here’s the trailer: https://youtu.be/AfFF-PP78iA
Agree! I saw that documentary. Really good.
Thanks, friend! 💙
People can have their opinions of course, but they can NOT state their opinions as if they are facts. YOU are correct and I do wonder about those who fell for the trashing of 'the peanut farmer'. Did they live through his Presidency and listen to or pay attention to him at all? Would they likewise have fallen for it if they rotters had trashed him for being a Navy Captain since, unlike the current fraud/tax cheat coward, Jimmy Carter gave up his peanut farming according to the requirements of the Presidency. I believe it was put into a trust - or sold outright?
I haven't had a chance to watch it yet (computer fritzing away these last few days - again), but I will. I simply don't yet get the constant negativity about Jimmy Carter - UNless those dumping on him were practicing for what they did to Joe Biden? ANY Democratic President was going to be lied about...trounced -as the orange fuckwit tried with 'birthering' Barack Obama, but HE was so beloved by everyone he sailed through both of his elections so their setting out to 'get him good' didn't work. When Joe Biden won in 2020 (so many republicans even acknowledging this now - putting the big fat lie to frump's incessant whining), we need to look at it as a pattern -and perhaps the beginnings of project 2025? Jimmy was far too nice a human to fight back in kind. WE can, though - and refuse to accept the bullshit people still spew about a really good man who set out to do good things for Americans and accomplished most of what he believed in.
Well said, Elizabeth! Thank you. 🌸
Jimmy Carter was the first president I was old enough to vote for and still the only president I was 100% psyched about voting for. The rest were all the lesser of two evils. I liked Obama, but I didn't like the fact that he talked about going to war in Afghanistan even before he was elected. And he should've gotten rid of computer voting because it's easily tampered with and why are they doing nothing about the fact that there's evidence that Russia interfered in the 2016 election? Well, now I'm all over the place. And I was standing on the street once when Bill Clinton's limousine drove by preceded by the Secret Service and we were all standing out on the sidewalks and waving and cheering and he couldn't be bothered to turn his head and look at us. I've held a grudge ever since. 😁 When Ronald Reagan was elected I said to myself, well, there goes the country – anything can happen. I never thought I'd miss Tricky Dick. And I hated him!
A. he didn't go to war with Afghanistan. Bush did, early in his first term.
B. the president has no power to dictate elections systems; that's up to the states.
C. What could Obama have done about Russian propaganda in the 2016 election?
Obama increased the war. And I'm not talking about Russian propaganda – I'm talking about the election interference that they found, but nothing was done about it. I was just hoping that he would be more proactive. I know he had everyone against him because he was our first black president, but I just didn't think he was as progressive as I hoped. During his first two years we had the house and the Senate and I just thought more could be done.
Carter was double fucked by the Iranians, first when took over the US embassy in Tehran and second when they did a deal with that great 'Murkan pat-rot Reagan to delay the release of the hostages until after the 1980 election. Sorry to say but I think it is poetically just that they are now giving the Republicans a fucking like they have never had. What's wrong, MAGA, don't you like being raped? REAEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!
Republicans love to be the rapers, but not the rapees
Jimmy Carter WAS a great President for NOT declaring war on Iran. He did NOT get the Straight Of Hormuz closed, and all of the American hostages were released unharmed.
He did NOT explode the National Debt, and hired Paul Volcker to head the Fed and Volcker tamed inflation for decades, anthough the solution took enough time for Reagan to get the credit. BUT it was Carter’s apppointee who got the job done!
The supposedly “liberal media” portrayed Carter as a weak President but now in the fullness of time we can appreciate that he was a President who exercised wise restraint, truly did have a long term strategic plan, and that plan proved to be successful!
Then Regan initiated his own long term strategic plan, seeding SCOTUS with Federalist Society extremists who pointed this country in the wrong direction. And now we are well and truly FUCKED
Thank you Bob! I’d always admired Jimmy Carter. Perhaps the problem was that nobody looked under the hood of his humility. No one who was a bad president could have worked a post presidency like he and Rosalind did. And we must give much credit to Rosalind - he certainly did. He wasn’t an arrogant puss about American exceptionalism - he very simply just lived it. He was the EMBODIMENT of it. Bless him. Don’t torch him. 🇨🇦
Yep. Some media elites scorned Southerners, including Carter, and treated him with disdain. Southern Exposure magazine, many years ago, featured an interview with a Southern TV crew member who used to have to watch his coworkers replaying cuts from people with Southern accents and yucking it up -- he quit as a result. And I was asked to change a quote from a Southerner to standard English for a magazine story one time because "who talks like that?!" (The factchecker also keep repeating the line and guffawing.) Having grown up in Georgia and Alabama, I was disgusted. This has been going on for a long time, including people who should know better looking down on poor people, the working class, farmers, you name it.
Paul Volcker pushed the Prime Rate to 20% to combat inflation after a decade of Miller's Easy Money policy as well as things like Nixon abandoning the gold standard, the oil embargo, and years of spending on the Vietnam War. This could be a cautionary tale for what happens when the Fed decides to take interest rates down too low when inflation is getting higher and all this extraneous crap is going on!
Exactly.
If Carter hadn't been such a lousy president, Reagan might not have been elected in the first place.
I disagree, respectfully!
What makes one “a great president”? Jimmy Carter inherited a fucking mess from the Nixon regime (several who went to prison and one who was forced to resign the presidency because of corruption and dirty tricks), not to mention the continued fallout from the Vietnam “police action”.
I don’t blame Jimmy Carter for those things at all. In fact, I commend him for upholding the US Constitution and righting the Ship of State.
That’s what a great President does when the above are under attack.
I agree! Too bad Reagan bought ot the Iranians and kept the hostages except for my TA, who gave me a B+ instead of an A because even though all my work was A, he told me he had to grade on the curve and had to save the A's for the "white men" in the class. Still, I survived and that TA did not.
My first job (in the 50s) the employer explained to me that I would be paid less than the men because they had to support families. I was not surprised or offended. It was just the way things were.
I was hired to work as a proofreader for a newspaper in the sixties. The employer said he hired me over the other applicant, a man, because the pay was so low the guy needed a job with higher pay. That afternoon I was hired by a nursing home for much higher pay. It gave me more pleasure than I can express to tell that newspaper guy to go pound salt.
In the 70s when my aunt got divorced she lost all her credit although she had been working full time too. It was the way things were, but we have come a long way, and not gonna let those Christian Nationalists take us back.
happened to me on my divorce in the 90s because the only credit card we used we got in the mid 60s and my SSN could not be on the account.
In the '70s I was told directly that I would be paid less for doing the same job as a man. Both times I was told that men needed more money and like you, I didn't complain because that was the way it was. The ERA has not been passed yet.
We need to pass the ERA.
Was it ever passed PollyP? I remember the fight for it, but do not recall that the amendment was passed.
Wow, how terrible that he treated you that way! Did your TA die overseas?
He was the hostage that had MS and the Iranians sent him home after he had a diagnosis. He did eventually die, but not in Iran.
Omg, I didn't know that...
😧🤯😠
Seriously Linda?! Evil bastard with the exception that at least on that he was honest. Karma can be a real bitch when it does eventually come for you! 😝🇨🇦🎶 On an emoji kick today. 🖤
The irony was that he did not know the history that well, it was not his area, and he was totally dependent on me for the class discussions because it covered areas that my fiction reading as a child covered. Good fiction can teach a lot. In fact, men in the class would call me to discuss the readings, and topics for papers. I am fortunate I could not see in their minds. One guy who constantly floored me when one day he told me I was the reason his friend did not get into the university.
So, all the men felt entitled and there was a lot of racism on campus in direct and indirect ways. I have always had to contend with the double whammy of racism and sexism, but I have a loving family, and it has carried me through. I was taught to have the strength of my convictions. My mom may be 92 and have dementia, but she has been there for me and I know to appreciate it.
You my friend are amazing. I’m honoured to be in contact with you, with such an incredibly strong, smart and grounded woman. Thank you so much for the contact!! Be well! 🇨🇦
Carter also inherited a screwed-up economy, thanks Nixon, and a nation full of yahoos itching to prove America is still John Wayne, Rambo and Randolph Scott rolled into one. He should have let the shah figure it out for himself, but Exxon and BP would have thrown a shit fit.
And if you look at the Democrats today, who not only DID NOT endorse Mamdani, they actively worked against him and fulsomely supported ANDREW CUOMO!!! For heavens sake! So I think that bears some looking at from that perspective. Again, thank you Bob! 🇨🇦
And Janet Mills. Schumer picked her and voters said, no, we want more of a fighter, despite Mills standing up to Trump. The Post suggests this is some indication that Democrats want something other than a fighter against Trump, but that’s not really it. It’s that the old line process of picking candidates who check all the boxes to fit in and work within the staid structure of Congress is a method voters no longer trust. Witness Obama in 2008 and that real estate crook in 2016.
I just do not understand why, Bob, when they have obviously stellar candidates, they would not only not endorse, but would actively work against them. This is not new. To me there’s more amiss than we can see.
Why was he not a "great prez"? This is too often parroted as an article of faith, but I seldom see anyone support it. Personally I think Reagan was not a "great prez" no matter how popular he was in some quarters because he really turbocharged the wealth gap and of course there was Iran Contra too.
What was “not great” about him. And compared to who? (Whom?)
Depends on who’s defining ‘great’
AND James Earl Carter served HIS Country in the Navy - all while those who attacked him insulted him as merely a 'peanut farmer'. ZERO respect even then for Democrats who served in our Military. He was indeed a stellar human being, the number of homes he helped build with and for Habitat for Humanity are countless. He indeed 'loved his neighbour as himself'.
Jimmy carter is one of my few heros
And for me, defined greatness and courage.
Yes. Exactly this.
Unless it was claiming that Hamas wasn't a terrorist organization.
Criticize the Netanyahu rightwing regime all you want. Many Israelis do. But when it comes to Hamas, Carter was a fool.
https://abcnews.com/ThisWeek/story?id=4641150&page=1
Carter, like Joe Biden, was hurt by inflation, which in their cases was due to macroeconomic forces. Now, this inflationary climate is solely due to the incredible, intentional stupidity of the Epstein pal in the WH. Tariffs and disruption of the Persian Gulf petroleum are completely unnecessary for any reason other than fucking us over to distract from his complicity with Epstein.
What happened to the $300-400 million he claimed to already have collected from billionaire "friends of his" for the dancehall? Did he put that in his pocket and expect us to pretend we never heard him say "no charge to the taxpayer whatsoever"? Fuck that guy.
Nothing he says can ever be trusted. He is the most prolific liar ever in a prominent position.
Yup…“you know tRUMP is lying because his lips are moving”
Yet he inexplicably got another shot…
Oh.....you meant at the presidency.
Not at the president............
Or as ‘Jeffrey’ put it: “He has a talent for telling people what they want to hear”… 😒
Dumpy put that $300-400 million in his greedy little hands and shoved it far away, to some offshore account, which we, the people, will never have proper accounting for. Cause the Six Supremes believe OldOrangeDiaper is a very special boy.
Exactly, along with the money from Venezuela's oil. "Flood the zone with more and more calamitous bullshit and they'll forget."
I think by "collected" you mean "pocketed"
100%
Remember “Mexico will pay for the wall?”
A (great) question that inquiring minds would love to have an answer to, however, given the source of the statement, it’s a redundant question
For those who not old enough to recall, we were dealing with inflation from LBJ, through Nixon and Ford and of course into Jimmy Carter’s presidency. Carter doesn’t get credit for appointing Paul Volcker as Chairman of the Fed. Unlike his predecessors, Volcker took the painful step of jacking interest rates, and essentially pushing the US into recession. It hurt a lot, accords the board, and it probably ended Carter’s presidency. Leave it to Jimmy Carter to do the right thing, pay the price for it, and get no credit for it even 50 years later.
Yes, Kim! Carter got handed the bill for the repugcon's Vietnam war that was their big winning issue. It's been the story of my working life. Rs run up the bill and get love. Then recession. Ds do the hard work of cleaning up the mess and are vilified. I don't know that we will be able to clean up the mess this time.
*Republican* Vietnam War? We started "advising" or whatever euphemism they used during the Kennedy, a Democrat, admin. Then LBJ, another Dem, ramped it up. "Hey, Hey, LBJ. How many kids did you kill today?" Then Republican Nixon continued the quagmire. But it also ended, ignominiously, under Republican Ford.
Eisenhower first got us involved in Vietnam by providing advisors and providing military, economic and technical support to SV President Ngo Din Diem. The Democrats who followed continued and escalated the involvement. That tells us how much anti-communist paranoia pervaded our government and both parties at the time. This was after the French were beaten and kicked out in 1954. America learned nothing from that.
Yes, yes, yes PollyP! Same here - conservatives, of any stripe, torch it and the Liberals bring it back. May I suggest a read by substacker Canadian 🇨🇦 Returnee titled “Nice Is Not The Same As Good?” It is just an excellent analysis of this exact point - of the ideology behind this pattern and why it’s been getting worse. 🇨🇦
Thank you, Patricia. I will check it out. Appreciate your suggestion!
Treasury yields peaked at over 15% in September 1981, almost a year after Carter lost to Ronnie Raygun. Conservatives and especially MAGAs cannot understand that inflation does not start and end overnight. Carter took the blame and because of Paul Volcker's hard decisions, Reagan got the credit as inflation eased. Damn, the American public is so short attention-spanned and downright shallow.
I'm guessing, but I bet at least half of Americans weren't alive then. The population when I was in school in the 70s was ~150 million. Now it's ~330 million.
Don't ferget all them immi-grants that musta come over. I'm a late boomer, whose span is 1945-1964, so there are many who were around then. The birth rate has declined steadily since 1957, according to Google AI
Everyone ignorantly thinks only in terms of the four year election cycle - same thing here. No critical thinking evident thinking ever. Maybe that’s why republicans and conservatives are trying to kill it, in all manner of ways. 🇨🇦
Well, what CERTAINLY "ended Carter’s presidency" was the treasonous secret side-deal Candidate Reagan made w/ Iran to hold on to the hostages until after the election, which Ronnie then won.
Yes!
St. Ronny Raygun also made a deal with Iran to keep the American hostages until after the election, because releasing them before would have given Carter a boost, which meant the Reich-winged Reign of Terror would not have begun. When the hostages were released on Raygun's Inauguration Day, he was hailed as a hero, but in fact, he was a mofo traitor. Never, ever, ever trust a Rethuglican. Ever!!!!
Agreed. Never trust a republican
Do read substacker Canadian Returnee’s post “Nice Is Not The Same As Good.” My reaction was “OMGAWD of course. That makes SO much sense.”
I think R media bullying hurt them… not buying it.
Too bad the guy wasn't a better shot.
Which guy? The “setup guy” in Butler? That was completely faked. There’s an excellent post on that explaining why. First point was that the tRump’s ear would have been shredded. Just saying. Or are you talking about Reagan? 🇨🇦
Scalise.
They sure don’t make ‘em like Wilkes-Booth anymore.
More's the pity....
What a wonderful would it could be. 💙
Careful, you might get indicted 🤣🤣🤣
He never got a shot at Donald.
Referring to Scalise....
Oh. Oops.. 😳
So many replies to replies that some of them are so far down they get disconnected entirely!
Really like
Today it was announced that Iran has another peace deal, and according to Zev Shalev, Trump is being briefed on another series of air strikes that is supposed to make Iran more amenable to dealing. Why do I hate the US president so much? It is strategies like this!
Why? My dear, let us count the reasons.....
The Iran Hostage Crisis overshadowed Carter. Never forget that Reagan's team was negotiating with Iran BEFORE THE ELECTION, encouraging the country NOT TO RELEASE the hostages until AFTER THE ELECTION. And that indeed was what happened...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/expert-analyzes-new-account-of-gop-deal-that-used-iran-hostage-crisis-for-gain
Also, it was Carter that first introduced the United States to renewable energy. Remember the solar panels Carter installed on the roof of the White House? Probably not... that's because Reagan ripped them down as soon as he took office. And now Trump is using our taxpayer money to stop wind farms from finishing construction.
I remember those solar panels! I was in college. Carter was ahead of his time.
I believe R Cohn was behind the scenes on that… unREAL
I just want to make it to next Friday. Please let me make it to next Friday.
You are a funny 🖤 lady!! 🇨🇦
Also, Jimmy Carter got double-crossed by that walking bucket of weasel piss, Ronnie Reagan, who did the shiv-in-the-back deal with the Iranians.
‘Middle Management’ Steve?…
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Jeff🏆‼️
“soaring inflation and unaffordable goods and services are just small price we pay for the privilege of living in a fascist kleptocracy headed by a racist imbecile in steep cognitive decline.” Says it all. 🤬
I may or may not have written that line last night, after having had a couple of cocktails. all I'm saying is I'm not saying
full disclosure: last night's draft was 'racist game show host in steep cognitive decline'
I still laugh at your post "I'll take Things that Never Happened for $500, Alex".
OOOO--I like it!
Personally, I liked the 'rat’s nest of piss-colored straw is a decent hairstyle' line. That Sir, is a Magnus Opus.
I read that line out loud to my husband!!
“In vino veritas.”
Your “human” tendencies are showing;))))))))
Channelling your inner Christopher Hitchens?
Sounds right to me.
I said fuck it, and posted an all day stream of every showa era godzilla movie. Because I just cant today.
Happy Beltane everyone.
Jeff, you are supposed to be resting and relaxing. Take a day , Mon Amis
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-what-may-day-cost#fun-times-stream
I forgot about Beltane! Happy Beltane to you too!
Always...I am a good mother, or try to be, to the earth as much as my kids.
Slàinte 🍻. Same to you Wendy.
Hearts.
Cheers to celebrating Beltane!
Well…in yet more disgusting news I read The Apprentice might come back with Don Jr. as host. 🤢🤢
Fuck Mark Burnett, whether he's involved with this or not. I wish for him lifelong diarrhea and ginormous hemorrhoids
Yep, he opened the door for the worst narcisstic jackass ever.
MaryT is right there w/you!
Oh yes! The diarrhea for the extra burn on those hemorrhoids.
NO! F*ck no. Ugh.
These f'n guys are the very faces of evil. Suppose they believe it's logical step to becoming POTUS. 'Idiocracy' would actually be better.
TV fare is looking like streaming garbage these days so I've taken to reading "A Tale of Two Cities." Charles Dickens was incredibly funny in his descriptions of the horrors of his day and the prior century. I'm especially enjoying the scenes with citizen Madame DeFarge and her incessant knitting, even as the guillotine rose and fell.
Electrolytes
Saw that. Vomit gif somewhere
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Can you believe it? I’m so glad I’ve never watched it when Orange 🍊 Man had it- I’ll be upstairs reading when and if Jr. sits behind the desk- I get nauseous just thinking about it‼️
The greasy, cokehead, air quoting, obnoxious son. I never watched it the first time around, and I sure won't be now.
I read Trump wants him to run for President next term. He thinks if he is on a scripted TV show, like he was, people will love him. He might be right. Lot of stupid people out there.
Another gift from Bezos. Shoot me now.
Gag
Oh good! Another show I can not watch.
I read…
Someday ma ga will say ENOUGH?😒
Disgusting. What the F is wrong with Bezos?
On NBC??
Not NBC…Amazon…possibly via MGM?
Amazon Prime
AARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!🤮🤮😵💫😵💫😵💫😖😖😖
Thankfully I don’t watch “reality” TV.
Well maggots can gag I guess.
Scott Jennings is a a little whiney bitch man baby and was getting his ass handed to him by Adam Mockler (last night on Abby Phillips CNN show) and since he is a bootlicker that can’t debate a coherent thought he screamed at Adam “GET YOUR FUCKING HAND OUT OF MY FACE!” Instead of, you know, *debating.
FWIW Adam’s hands were absolutely no where near Screaming Scott’s face, it’s just when idiots can’t debate you they indict you.
Love Adam.
He looks to me like he's twelve years old, but very precocious.
He does have a sweet baby face, then he pounces on these arrogant assholes who think they can school him. He knows his stuff!
That was a beautiful thing that happened. Scott Jenning is and always will be a "CU Next Tuesday" kinda guy.
May Day is world protest to buy nothing, don't work, etc. This is great because a lot of people are laid off and have no money to spend on anything anyway.
Moderation in all things, including moderation.
I am just so fucking tired of these assholes. How smug they are in the lying. How incompetent they are. The lack of morals doesn't bother me as much as the WAY they behave with no morals. Makes me really hope that Hell is real and that these supposed Christians will actually have that afterlife experience
Not enough publicity about this I'm afraid.
Didn't buy a thing.
Count me in.
It's May 1st, so we're supposed to be protesting by not working, going to school, or shopping. I'm retired, I don't go to school, but I'm doing my part by not shopping today. I really don't know if it will have an effect or not.
Amazon will know, believe me!!
Hope so!
Same here Joanne😉
Nothing missed. But, I still think we should be hammering home the humiliation CIII delivered with silky tongue. Donald et al were so completely clueless, especially the bit about if it weren't for Britain we would be speaking French.
OMG! If it wasn't for the French coming to our aid, we would STILL be British citizens!! It's obvious this fuckhead did NOT pay attention in American History class...and here we are...thanks to Musk, his money and band of computer geeks...
Iran sent a peace deal to Pakistan, though I srsly doubt Donnie will go for it.
Any deal will inevitably blow up if dumbass continues to use greedos Witkoff and Kushner to negotiate. Holy shit, diplomacy should be in the hands of diplomats, not crypto grifters and drooling real estate leeches.
Their arrogance is astounding to think they can even do this. 🤦♀️🤦♀️
Like so many other enormously unconstitutional, unethical, unprecedented, downright stupid, openly corrupt shit he's pulled, where is the media, where are the elected officials who should be raising holy hell? What would have been said if any Democratic president had done even one of these?
They are licking their chops and re-districting their states to disenfranchise voters of color after the SCOTUS disaster. Ogles and co in TN. All the shitwits in Alabama. At least Kemp said it was not in the cards for Georgia, for this year. But 2028 is on the table. God I hate being governed by racist idiots.
That's absolutely true. It makes me sick...
Sick is too polite a word to describe how virtually everyone feels today 🤢🤬
I noticed the "Witkoff Family" is listed as a donor to the Ballroom Boondoggle. Not sure how much they pledged but I'm sure it's not their own money.
Poetry!
Because he can’t read and doesn’t want to
But also doesn’t HE get bored easily? I’ve read that his briefings are short and sweet or he “long blinks”
I think Iran's proposal is: we own the Strait forever and anybody who wants to use it has to pay us but the US ships should go home and let us sell our oil without a hitch, and oh, by the way, we're keeping all our enriched uranium.
Remember that semimythical time not long ago, when there was a competent, rational president in office, who negotiated the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, a multilateral treaty to ensure Iran did not enrich uranium into weapons grade plutonium, and the Strait of Hormuz was open, the flow of worldwide oil was unimpeded, and petrodollars were unthreatened? We had everything working well. And now NONE of that is. Because of one stupid, evil, corrupt asshole and his minions. Ineptitude, arrogance, malevolence and downright idiocy are a lethal combination.
Period.
unless they add: the US should pay us a bajillion dollars to rebuild all the damage they did and for the families of the schoolgirls
Someone besides this craven regime will have to put a stop on it. Donnie’s brain is too gone and all the others are only out to take advantage of the pandemonium he’s creating. In our own words, Iran has all the cards so even with a pair of deuces, they’re winning the pot.
As I read somewhere, 'the markets don't manipulate themselves'!
he's busy today. 2 events outside the WH. Event at the Villages at 3. Some diiner in Palm Beach at 6.
& that doesn't even included playing with his ballroom plans or chit chats with his buddy Putin.
I made the mistake of reading HCR right before bed last night. I dreamt of hurting Little Johnson:
"And yet, today Senate Republicans blocked another Democratic measure—the sixth, introduced by Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA)—to require Trump to end his war on Iran. House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) told Ryan Nobles, Monica Alba, and Alexandra Marquez of NBC News that Congress doesn’t have to meddle with Trump’s actions in Iran because the U.S. is currently “not at war.”" They're a band of professional gaslighters and we're paying their salaries.
A blockade is an act of war. Our sailors have been deployed for an unconscionably long time under unacceptable conditions to commit an utterly unauthorized act of war, and need to be brought home.
I started reading that one, and got so depressed I deleted it w/o finishing.
Yeah I have to limit her to about 2-3 times a week. It's too much cold reality. I'll take Jeff's content, tone, humor, heart, Yiddish, and well-placed Monty Python gifs every day of the week .
Oh, and I can't leave out Flippy McCrushnuts. 😂
I always keep this link handy for those who need their fix: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1163744692219223/
🤣 Nutcracker soundtrack is 🤌. Thanks, I'll keep it handy now too!
Am I allowed to recommend another writer? Everyone should follow The Pugilist. She connects ALL the dots on Epstein. The girls were only the bait. The rest is fascinating.
Yep! Been following her! She’s truly amazing. We need to get all her discoveries & connections out into the world! So many rotten people!
I think we all need a couple of cocktails..responsibly of course
I've been very sad lately that alcohol has ceased to agree with me in the last couple years, just when I need it the most. Indeed, no substances seem to do much anymore. Sigh.
Speaking of Reagan, my ex-husband professed to being a Democrat. I once said to him, “You always vote for losers!” He said, “What do you mean? I voted for Nixon and Reagan!” I said, “Exactly.” 🤪
3 days ago Forbes did a piece on Eric Jr Crypto fraud losing 92% of original value in one year.. Today Eric 'moved on" to the next Ponzi.
This is from someone on Malcolm Nance's Substack Podcast. "There once was a chump named Trump Who's head was stuck in his Rump It developed a boil He drilled it for oil And charged you to keep up the pump."
And more Republican from Florida (former roommate of Liddle big shoes Marco) was found guilty of corruption and bribery today in—-guess where—- Florida.
I doubt it will ever happen, but what if a dozen prominent Dems -- Mr. and Mrs. Obama, Mr. and Mrs. Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, AOC, J.B. Pritzker, Gavin Newsom, etc. all showed up and took Trump's cognitive exam -- on Jimmy Kimmel's show?
Donny would probably claim it was rigged.
He would.
They give a cognitive test to see if you have age related dementia.
I wish someone would have the balls to bring that up to him.
Maybe cognitive tests aren’t really Trump’s game. I know, let’s have a spelling contest! (RIP Val Kilmer)
https://youtu.be/75AmXVSF-wM?si=Uh1GwcxOpybfxxIM
I believe he did badly in school and got low scores on his IQ test which is why he is fixated on telling people he hates that they have low IQs.
From the department of "Every accusation is an admission".
He doesn’t say that they have low IQs; he says that they ARE low IQ, which sums it up nicely.
Did badly, does ‘bigly fit here’ does ‘oozing diaper’ fit? It does to me his questioned the military asylum he was locked up in said he was the biggest dumbest fool to ever walk through the door.
A reading contest?
That made me really 😊
Kimmel already took the test himself on the show.
How did he do?
Got it all correct in a fairly short period of time.
Let’s demand trump take a civics and geography quiz geared to the third grade level. Would he pass? I dare say he would be held back or maybe even required to redo his 2nd grade year. He obviously had daddy advance him in his early years. He missed some basic lessons.
Excellent idea!
Don't forget Bernie!!
Omg, love that idea!
Can we please enact a caning statute in the house and Senate that can be enacted when butthurt betacuck magatard bitchbois like Peak Kegsbreath start foaming at the mouth about non-sequitur “what about Biden” bullshit after being asked simple “yes or no” questions like “Do *you* think President Trump is crazier than a shithouse rat?”
“Mr. Chairman, I reclaim my time, and invoke the caning provision on the witness until such time as he is willing to give a topical answer to my simple question?”
“So ordered. The sergeant-at-arms shall brandish the stick and menace the witness now.”
I don’t see the benefit of giving them for free what they undoubtedly pay good money for in their private lives :)
Well played, sir. I often say, “some people pay good money to be treated that way,” or “don’t threaten me with a good time.”
Hilarious!
“… menace the witness right now.” LOVE IT ! 😁😁😁
"One more thing Mr Hegseth, can you enlighten the committee again with your qualifications for your position of Secretary of Defense... er... War?
Please use his proper title: Secretary of War Crimes.
“Failing that, can you enlighten the committee again with an explanation of the means whereby you manage to fog a mirror? To walk erect without bumping into things?”
"And for the record, Jim Beam or Jack Daniel's?"
Please. A distinguished man like that prefers McCormick Gin in the handy one-liter plastic bottles.
While dragging your knuckles?
👏👏👏👏👏
Brilliant.
This is perhaps the finest idea of my lifetime. At least with regard to Congress.
Donnie wants to win the war by a bigger margin just so he can say the word “bigly”.
You are yooogely on the right track
(like that’s even a word!) lol
Tell me again, how big is the margin of our current "win"?
One Scaramucci.
Why doesn’t fatfuck livestream his next cognitive exam?
If that happens it will be rigged.
Dude can’t read well enough to use cue cards, and the audio feed to an earpiece could be hacked.
👏👏👏
Along with his tax returns? Please. Give me a break. (not him)
Substack is rolling in schadenfreude today over the approval ratings. I'd say stop the insanity but the craziness is cratering the GOP, so rock on, nutjobs! Drag the approval ratings down to single digits. You can do it! I have faith in you!
On an up note, Trump's LIV Golf Tournament was an absolute failure, with zero fans attending and several major players not showing up. He'd even erected a Stalinesque 15-foot gold statue of himself in the "Fight! Fight! Fight!" pose at the entrance to the club. En plus, "The Saudi-backed LIV Golf league, which heavily featured Donald Trump's golf courses for tournaments, is facing a potential collapse following reports that Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) is pulling its funding." (AI Overview) It's crumbling, folks.
How delightful !
That gold statue was sickening, reminds me of North Korea. Wonder who's paying for it as if i even need to ask.
I read that LIV pullout predicted a few weeks ago cannot remember where. Trump won't like that. He may really sundown.
Splendid, Jeff. A day away always brings you back sharper and better than ever.
The Trump-Bubba rolling-coal crowd thought they were hilarious using their oversized pickups to belch black carcinogen clouds on the Prius driving behind them because dear leader told them that cruelty and waste were patriotic. Now diesel is kissing seven bucks a gallon in Washington, and we get to watch the pump deliver the punchline.
That’s the thing about cults. The first act is belonging and swagger, the last act is sacrifice and denial. You hand over your judgment, then your empathy, then your wallet, and by the time the fuel bill, the rent, and the medical costs come due, you’re so invested you have to call it freedom while you stare at an empty refrigerator.
The leader never pays; the flock does. And it's all Biden's fault anyway!
MAGA is like Joel Osteen, a prosperity gospel for rage addicts. The theology of owning the libs substitutes for policy while the same corporations bankrupt the morons with tariffs, bailouts, and windfall profits.
Like every cult, when reality intrudes—whether it’s gas prices, indictments, or lost wars—the answer is never “we were conned,” it’s “we must suffer more to prove we still believe.” Double down. What you see is not real.
Of course, when they studied the bodies in Jonestown there were an astonishing amount of the dead who had been forcibly injected at gunpoint. They realized too late.
Also, Pete Hegseth's smugness is even more irritating than his rage. What a piece of shit.
Yes, a genuine P O S!
I always hated Steve Scalise. And now he has a moniker-White Supremacy’s middle manager. That is fucking hilarious. But $6 a gallon under Biden? Were these clowns that out of touch or do they just pull shit out of their ass now?
They knowingly lie. All the time. In this case Scalise fucked up because he was on CNBC, not Fox, where lies go unchallenged. And amazingly even Kernen had a flash of reality.
People are stupid and belive what they hear on TV.
If only people voted how they poll.
If only votes were counted as we cast them
I agree 100%
that too...
Remember all those great progressive policies southerners voted for while ALSO voting for Trump? It's a both/and problem is what I'm saying.
In IL where I was as a poll worker, the individual voting machines do count the votes but only on that machine.
I voted yesterday in the Democrat primary in Fulton County, GA. As I submitted my ballot, I wondered who will confiscate it and where it will travel from here.
In 2020 I convinced my then-92-yo mother that it was safer to vote absentee. At one point there were 6 lawsuits threatening her vote. It took until December before they were all settled and we knew her vote would be counted, and that was only because one conservative WI State Supreme couldn't betray his legal ethics and vote with his peers to toss the absentee votes. They just filed another lawsuit, this time over voting registration. You would think they had filed everything that could be conceivably challenged by now, but there's always a few more. I will always vote in person on Election Day. Just a little harder to steal my vote in the courts.
Fucking crooks - fuck the Republitards - they do nothing for the common man but steal,and plunder
It is absolutely horrible that we have to think this way. Horrible.
Agree.
Hegseth is a stupid-ass scrotum
Who should never be let near a modem
He's dumb and insane
He's corrupt and inane
And his nose is stuck up Orange Bloat'em!
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OT: That fucking travesty of his Epstein ballroom
The evil orange 'shroom
Covets that golden ballroom
Another grift and more waste
Devoid of usefulness and taste
Unless it serves as his tomb
Yes…one fuck of a week Jeff. We need PEACE ON THIS EARTH!!! To whom it may concern: Please start PEACE in America! Have a nice weekend everyone!
Why aren't the mainstream media yelling about those THREE terms Donny thinks he's served? Why aren't they shouting about his obvious mental shortcomings? Why? Oh, that's right. They're all run by oligarchs and they're all down in the gutter licking his boots. Pfft. Never forget!
It's become the state run media trying to emulate Russia.
I took it as the next term he thinks he will serve.
You may be right, Lynne, but "I took the exam three times during my three terms as President" sounds to me as if he thinks this IS his third term! And he's already taken it three times!
He means that since he "really won" in 2020, he was the "real" President all during Biden's term.
Yep. That sums it up well, Robert. And that means he thinks he’s allowed to serve three terms! More lunacy!
That makes more sense can’t keep up with that lunatic.
I took it as a nod to the Maga loyalists believing the lie that he was cheated out of being POTUS in 2020 by the Democrat party stealing that election for Biden. Thus also lionising those involved in his 2021 insurrection.
I forgot about the “stolen” term.🙄
Prices go up and some lying liars like Tim Scott say it's going down. They just relish in playing in our faces.
Ahh, Murc's Law. It's Cruise Control for Cool!
Tim Fucking Scott - Trump’s bobblehead while Jay Powell was embarrassing Orange Hitler over renovation costs for the Federal Reserve Building.
Whiskey Pete in Congress yesterday...I could feel my blood pressure rise as he lied and laughed like he knows what he's doing. I had to turn it off. We are in serious trouble with that POS.
And I saw a headline that said the felon was super pissed off that 86 47 is popping up all over everywhere... in the world. 🤣🤣🤣 Good. Maybe that coronary will finally do us a solid.
It really pisses me off about Kegstand too how he’s so arrogant, smug, and sarcastic to congress members! He’s such a narcissist sociopath!
Sort of like pam Bondi before she was booted
Kegsbreath behaves like privileged, adolescent shit head. I’m glad he’s getting grilled by congress. It’s about damned time!
I think unless there is a massive blue wave, a third impeachment of Trump will fail once again. However impeaching Hegseth would put a lot of Republicans on the spot. It is beyond question that he is responsible for actual war crimes.
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To paraphrase Karl Marx, "Fox News is the opium of the MAGA masses".
MAGA masses can be used to solve the problem of cattle waste, since they love to eat bullshit
With the oil prices going through the roof, people will be burning dried cow pies for fuel this winter.
Great for the environment too
It's a form of biofuel
A thunderdome type situation may work
The thing that gets me about that Chris Hayes clip (or pick a shitty network from a hat) is that they're talking approval ratings and poll numbers like this is just any other president, when the reality is there is a fucking dangerous lunatic in the WH who has full blown dementia. That's the only thing any of them should be talking about.
well said! Tom Nichols was on Nicole Wallace's show yesterday and he made a point of saying that Trump is seriously losing it, and that we ignore his dementia at our peril.