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.
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.
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 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
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.
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! 🇨🇦
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. 🇨🇦
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!
I agree! Too bad Reagan bought of 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.
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. 🖤
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.
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.
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 natter how popular he was in some quarters because he really turbocharged the wealth gap and of course there was Iran Contra too.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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 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.
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 .
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."
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?
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?”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
💣💥💥💣P.R.E.C.I.S.E.L.Y‼️
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.
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Strongly agree!
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.
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
Succinct.
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’…)
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
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.
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.
I stand corrected.
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.
My thoughts precisely.
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! 🇨🇦
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. 🇨🇦
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!
If Carter hadn't been such a lousy president, Reagan might not have been elected in the first place.
I agree! Too bad Reagan bought of 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.
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. 🖤
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 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.
Depends on who’s defining ‘great’
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 natter 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?)
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. 🇨🇦
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? 🇨🇦
He never got a shot at Donald.
Really like
What a wonderful would it could be. 💙
Careful, you might get indicted 🤣🤣🤣
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...
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 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!! 🇨🇦
‘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.
On NBC??
Not NBC…Amazon…possibly via MGM?
Gag
Someday ma ga will say ENOUGH?😒
Oh good! Another show I can not watch.
AARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!🤮🤮😵💫😵💫😵💫😖😖😖
Thankfully I don’t watch “reality” TV.
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.
Count me in.
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.
That was a beautiful thing that happened. Scott Jenning is and always will be a "CU Next Tuesday" kinda guy.
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!
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
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.
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...
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.
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 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.
I started reading that one, and got so depressed I deleted it w/o finishing.
Oh, and I can't leave out Flippy McCrushnuts. 😂
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 .
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."
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.
I love it when that happens.
It’s not market close yet. Don’t worry, a new “peace agreement” good until Monday at 6 am in imminent
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.
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.
A reading contest?
That made me really 😊
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.
Kimmel already took the test himself on the show.
How did he do?
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!
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"?
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.”
“… 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?
“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.
Please use his proper title: Secretary of War Crimes.
Brilliant.
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.
👏👏👏
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.
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.
That gold statue was sickening, reminds me of North Korea. Wonder who's paying for it as if i even need to ask.
How delightful !
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.
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!
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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You'll laugh!
You'll cry!
It's better than CATS!
And Jeff, we are all here for you during this difficult time.❤️
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!
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!
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!
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.
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.🙄
It's become the state run media trying to emulate Russia.
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
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.
Kegsbreath behaves like privileged, adolescent shit head. I’m glad he’s getting grilled by congress. It’s about damned time!
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!
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.
🙏
Thanks, MAGA, for the master class
On taking a second mortgage for gas
The strait impasse
He pulled out of his ass
Because he lacks brain mass
can I revise the last line to…because his brain lacks critical mass. 🫣. WADRespect