Thatcher's hair wasn't as bad. Lots of women her age wore hair like that (not my choice of style however). Trump's mom's hair was in a category itself.
They made her look normal on "The Apprentice". I can't figure out why. Also, Fred was shown in the movie to be a decent guy, even a decent father -- except as concerned Fred, Jr. I kept thinking: what gives??! Looked like the writer chose to put all the blame on Roy Cohn.
kdsherpa, you mean on The Apprentice Fred was portrayed as a decent guy, is that right? I don't think you could possibly be saying that he actually was a decent guy.
Hillary cuts to the heart of the question succinctly and accurately. And of course, she was 100% right when she warned about all the evil, stupid, crooked shit that he would pull if he won.
Yep, she or whoever made those campaign decisions screwed up royally. Dems will never make that mistake again. And as she said, Comey really messed up her chances with reopening the email investigation 11 fucking days before election day. That pushed things over the edge.
I do hope the Pentagon is at least concerned about how involved Phony Stark's businesses are in the Pentagon's bidness. Elno sure looks like a serious security risk for this country.
I was driving last night listening to Chris Hayes and he played that clip of fucker Carlson and I almost threw up in my mouth! What a creepy little weasel! 🤮
Yeah, I forgot about him. Hopefully this is the year Texans finally grow some brain cells and get rid of him. Al Franken famously said, "I like Ted Cruz more than most of my colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz."
Boy, this is a tough vote, but I have to go with Fidel Cancun, the asshole that's closest geographically, here in Texas. At least he might be in TX; depends on how badly he's polling next to Allred. He might already be heading for Cuba or Argentina...
GQP are so anti-intellectual, they see no irony or implausibility in making a guy, Jordan, who never passed the bar (he says he never took the bar exam) and has therefore never practiced law, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
If Dems take over in the House, do Dems get to reassign committee chairs & which members sit on the various committees? I'd LOVE to see Speaker of the House Hakeem Jeffries! 🇺🇸🗽🌊🌊
I would like to take some of that “irony” and slap Feckless Jim Bob upside the head with it -he might learn something. Or not. Some people are just unreachable.
I find it so shocking when men (it's never women) air their perversions in public. Jebus, guys. Just keep it in the family! We don't need to be exposed to your kink.
Yup, spanking the night away. That magazine with Stormy's picture must be beyond worn out by now so they could be thinking about another bizarre product that fuckface would attempt to market,Trump spanking paddles made in China. Like all of his other weird merchandise, there are still those who would actually buy this crap.
A lawyer friend once had a prospective client list her occupation as dominatrix. He quizzed her, thinking his office mates were pranking him, but he concluded she was serious. This was in a medium sized city about 20 years ago. He was nonplussed
According to Stormy, when she was somewhat coerced into hooking up with the obese orange creep, she spanked him (lightly) with a copy of a magazine with his picture on the cover. Not sure which mag but you can Google it
Current resident of the Tarheel State here. Talk about exposed to kink, we have commercials against Choirboy Mark Robinson that regale us with tales of his perversions. These commercials tell the truth and are necessary, but I can't stand them any more.
Other commercials for Rachel Hunt, running for Lieutenant Governor--Robinson's current gig--show her with a gallon of hydrogen peroxide and her comment that she'll have to clean out Robinson's office space before she moves in. Truer words...
To be fair, the hydrogen peroxide that Hunt showed is a 12% solution. Common household H2O2 is a 3% solution, safe for putting on minor cuts, etc. So, 4x the strength. I think it would do the job. :D
I would recommend buying an electrolytic kettle and producing hypochlorous acid. The chlorine ion adds virucidal and bacteriocidal action. Ingredients are only water, non-iodized salt, and vinegar. Hypochlorous acid does not cause discoloration like bleach and is less (but somewhat) corrosive
I didn't know that. Thank you! I'm always happy to learn something new.
If there were something to get rid of left-behind pervert cooties, I'm sure Hunt would have shown that. I'm sure she wanted to show something that the majority of viewers would recognize and whose use they would agree with, instead of, for example, nuking the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. ;)
PS, If I'd known of your knowledge and expertise, I'd not have explained the 3% vs 12% H2O2 difference. I'm sure you had that one down pat. :D Edit: in other words, I was by no means trying to insult your intelligence.
They spend so much time in the bubble of carefully-curated like-minded hive members that they forget (or don't acknowledge) that other people are shocked by what they say. Remember Mittens with his "Betcha $10,000" during the debate when he ran for president? The other candidates were stunned - they, at least, remembered that not everybody in America can just casually bet that kind of money. Or we can revisit the same doofus's infamous "47%" speech, or I can tell you about the golfers my dad used to play with who just assumed that the other guys at the country club agreed with their racist hatred of President Obama.
It's really not good for them, but it does help us. Let's not tell them.
I’ve said it before when Mark Robinson was “exposed” (blech). Your kink is your kink but the rest of us don’t need to be a party to it unless we were explicitly invited.
Kay-El, that is one invitation I would not RSVP to. Robinson is a total degenerate. The MAGATS know he is lying about his gay and trans porn addiction. By choosing “willful ignorance” over what is obviously true, those cult members descend to his subterranean level.
The more I hear about these MAGATS comprising nearly half of our society, the more a split from southern states seems less outrageous. How do we bring these people back on the side of democracy?
We really need to address this. I can’t stand the thought of it because trying to understand these people is more than I want to handle. I don’t fancy smacking my head against a wall til it bleeds. But we’ve got to try. Question is “how”?
Did you say "a split"? Sorry, Jeff, but I have to plug THE SPLIT, currently being serialized (via Substack!) at Wonkette. Set among the Confederation of Conservative States of America after their (peaceful) separation from the US in the near (?) future. Free to read--and ending in two weeks. Start here: https://tinyurl.com/2czr9ahj
Mary Trump’s cyclone hairdo and mean, scrunched up lemon pucker face make her the stuff of nightmares. And we thought the old man caused Diaper Donny’s deformities.
According to Mary Trump, she was a cold, distant parent while as Jeff said, Fred Sr. was a withholding, manipulative POS. This was a toxic parenting brew that has brought America to the brink of ruin.
Yeah but I was “raised” the same way, without the money. Really ugly. In mid twenties, realized I didn’t like my behavior, and chose change. I’m not special. People have choices. He took the sketchy path.
Interesting. But I do know something about that. The best way to describe it is that, if I ever write that book people encourage me to write, emphasis will be on what one does not get…does not receive…is not taught, in these bad family situations. We don’t learn so very much. Whether it’s understanding what genuine love feels like, or how to recognize it if it should come your way. Or how to resolve conflict without someone getting humiliated or beat up. Or simply how to feel good about yourself because you’ve always been told you’re nothing.
I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I did hang onto the gifts of great curiosity and creativity. Somehow these elements caused me to wonder about a “different way”. I think my “judgement” about Trump is that he was in a world of diversity, complexity, privilege, and could have chosen to do it differently even at an older age than I shifted. He has had plenty of feedback that he’s not ok. Maybe the real difference is that, during the years I decided to change, I had no money. Couldn’t bury my uncomfortableness and dissatisfaction with myself with monied distractions.
I give up on him. I’m not his shrink. He sucks. And he keeps choosing to suck. He’s gotta go.
I think what saved me was it was clear that something was awfully wrong. Even as a toddler, parental shit was scary. Never bought into it. Luckily I was built that way. Not that building something better was easy.
Yes. I heard things and saw things when I was very young for which I had no vocabulary. Racism was one of the first things that I started having words for. I remember thinking “this is just wrong”. But didn’t understand much. Around age 11-ish?
“Built that way” resonates. I remember a time at age 4. He was coming after me with a belt. I turned around, faced him, and put my little fists up like a boxer shielding her face. It didn’t stop the damage that time, but the idea of it had something to do with me learning how to cope and reject that crap.
Absolutely. What is his excuse? Raised with all the material privilege. Emotionally abused and manipulated, but not physically and not nearly as much as many, many others. He chooses to be a malignant narcissist. He chooses not to evolve. He enjoys being cruel and selfish.
I think you are special. Not many have that ability to be honest with themselves, let alone actually do something about it. Look at the whole trump family, except for Mary. Perfect examples of awful people who pursue being awful, which is bad enough, except they inflict damage upon others. Congratulations on becoming a better person, and as a result, I warrant, a happier person. Miserable people like trump and his ilk don't usually find the fulfillment that circumspect people do.
Yes to all. 🤗 A very important thing you said is the reference to being happier. Yes. Yes. Yes. An emotionally barren childhood led me to overeating. Literally building a protective wall. Filled with anger. Anger was my engine. I didn’t stop overeating until I reached 350 lbs. (5’4”—yikes!). Took me a long time to resolve that because it was all like learning to “give up my blankie”. I finally got it all together approx 20 years ago—changed my relationship with food and exercise entirely. I’m 76 now.
Mentioning this because this was self-imposed unhappiness resulting from not having emotional intelligence. Not having an emotional vocabulary. About not having positive emotional interactions.
I’m passionate about people finding their path out of this jungle…into the light. Because “being happy” is not so much about being bubbly and smiley (although that’s nice). It’s about one’s heart being freed of pain sufficiently to love or at least care for “the other”.
There’s a very important concept in Buddhism called Tonglen. Essentially, it’s about developing one’s ability to be compassionate. To care about others. To learn to care for those close to you, and those you are associated with, and those you don’t know, until you can have compassion for everyone all around the world, everywhere. That is typically unavailable to people burdened with bad childhoods and resulting bad behaviors. We need that. It doesn’t come naturally to everyone. It needs to be taught. It can be learned. The world needs this in order to heal the world.
Jeff, what I heard from Tucker Carlson brought me to tears. This rant is so misogynistic, targeting “bad little girls”, my stomach turned at the permission given to beat girls. And, the sexual implication was huge. I don’t quite get your point that it was adult men asking for a dear leader spanking, it was definitely targeting females.
I’m sorry. I’m really sorry. We live an a majority red community. But there are HOA rules against campaign time signs. We do see huge Stars and Stripes. And the larger they are, the more apt they are to belong to trumpers. So the HOA’s put a 30x40” limit on those too … because huge flags are also a political message. Generally speaking though, most everyone here does have the common sense to realize we all have to live together here, so there are practically no overt issues. However. I’d lose my emotional steadiness, if not my mind, if I had to look at trump flags everywhere. Hugs to you.
The ways that the right have co-opted our flag are more than nauseating. Whether it is an enormous US flag being dragged around by a diesel exhaust spewing pickup,or tRump wrapping himself around our flag at a MAGAT rally, or maybe one of those hot MAGAT gals wearing US flag bikinis, it’s not the proud image it was before. Chalk another one up for the MAGAT movement.
I hate the way their “culture” has hijacked so many things. Flags, red caps (I wouldn’t wear a red cap that was totally unbranded), to white trucks (around here, you’re pretty certain to be correct if you think ‘trumper’ when you see any white truck), to the fact that his damn name can’t be used. I was surprised to learn how often I use “this trumps that”. All the little markers that have made us some how be able to identify trumpers a mile away. Ugh.
Yesterday my family and I voted for Harris/Walz and Harris. The other Harris is Shawn Harris, the retired General running against three-toes Greene. (Yes, I live there) I can't wait until the whole putrid rancid cabal of fucksticks are out of our lives forever. Vote, vote, vote!
I would not have believed his thoughts on spanking if you hadn't provided the goods. I just can't!! America is in deep shit if these are the people they are voting for. And that hair on his mom? JFC! How much AquaNet?? They ARE weird...and Walz was also right when he called Vance a "disphit". I wonder if Tim got in trouble for that because it was spot on! 👏👏👏👏
Susan: are you old enough to remember when we sprayed pure lacquer on our hair to make styles like that stay put? I am. Small, multi-sided, clear glass bottle with amber liquid, and a black, rubbery weird spray nozzle. Truly it’s likely the root source of lots of the COPD in elderly these days. Horrid horrid stuff. But WOW! The helmets we made!!! 🤣
I live with the constant, fervid desire that when Trump loses, we will be rid of both his visage and his voice once and for all! As much as Trump disappearing is my hope, I also want to see ALL of Trump's crazy, entitled, sychophants like Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk disappear as well. I want them all gone. Poof! I swear, that even if I lived next to a huge landfill, the air would instantly be cleaner and the sun brighter! Oh, and the birds would sing, too, like they were cheerfully ready to land on Sleeping Beauty's hand! 💙
I can picture that world without any fascists and Republicans!!! Does Tuck have kids? Someone might want to check their safety!!
I feel so sick about the Presidential election!! I don’t even watch the local news!! I have no doubt VP Harris will have the votes but I am concerned about what is going on behind the scenes and also the notsupreme court! I hope Tuck reads your stack Jeff !! Thank you!!
Sterling Hayden’s Oscar worthy portrayal of General Jack D Ripper in Dr. Strangelove is honored here!
I wonder how many will even remember the Best movie of all time ?!! Peter Sellers in multiple roles , the best being his eerily forecast portrayal of a Henry Kissinger style Nazi import from WW ll. So spot on!
Kate: yes. Although he did more later in life than most by acknowledging his acts. Called himself some pretty awful names for behaving as he did. I know it doesn’t turn around the damage.
I saw it for the first time at a ‘sneak preview’- No one knew what movie would be played, only that it was a brand new release- in 1964-5 on a SAC Air Force Base in Puerto Rico. The last two rows of the theater were reserved for the Alert crews who were charged with getting their B-52 bombers in the air as fast as possible in the event of an attack. Well, they howled and guffawed all through the whole movie, especially when Slim Pickens rode the nuke out of the bomb bay!
Nice to know that had a sense of humor about the absurdity of it all.
Mutually assured destruction, now there’s a policy for you
“Fishstick McBallroaster” for the win! And the HAIRDO on dear mother trump…is that who he styles after??!! Dear God-when will this be over?!!!!
Some stylist must have hated her guts. Probably hired by Fred.
Fungus 45 looks exactly like her. She is simply his drag persona.
Are you sure it isn't dipshit 45 in drag? Sure looks like it!
Yeah the parents looked pretty gruesome. Ugly genes from both sides. They must have used cement hair spray on mom's hair to get it to stay that way.
Old insult from the rural South, where I grew up:
"Someone's been beatin' them with the ugly stick."
We used to say that on the left coast too.
Up North we say that they fell out of an ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down:-)
Kind of like a reverse rudder
LOL!!!
Yes, honey bun. Donald has been emulating his mother since before Psycho.
The first time I saw a photo of her I thought it was fake. Who looks like that?!?!?!?
Donald is Psycho. https://youtu.be/n7RPfkom7YI?si=NFI2GdtbUJileJiz
I never noticed before, but if Donnie Fuckface dressed in drag, he'd look just like his mother.
I said the same thing! Donny looks exactly like her. I did a double take thinking it was his face
Yeah, the guy who faked Tim Walz’s college student is working on it now!
When I first glanced at the photo, I thought it was Margaret Thatcher. She wore her hair exactly the same way.
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/images/margaret-thatcher-21.jpg
it's snap-on, like the Lego people have
Yes, like Brett bair and Sean Hannity-the are total lego-heads lol
That made me lol.
😂😂🤣
Thatcher's hair wasn't as bad. Lots of women her age wore hair like that (not my choice of style however). Trump's mom's hair was in a category itself.
The personification of the WEAVE!
It defies gravity.
Exactly Kathleen, the ghoulish look that birthed the prevaricating tosspot!
Helmet hair, sprayed to an inch of its life. A wig might have been preferable.
Say what you want about old iron-drawers, but she actually had style. Old mcTrumpy though could not mimic that. She looks like a caricature of Donny.
Stuffing his malodorous codpiece into a pot pie, then baking for 35 minutes at 400 degrees might be why he’s such a fucking mook Tess!
They made her look normal on "The Apprentice". I can't figure out why. Also, Fred was shown in the movie to be a decent guy, even a decent father -- except as concerned Fred, Jr. I kept thinking: what gives??! Looked like the writer chose to put all the blame on Roy Cohn.
kdsherpa, you mean on The Apprentice Fred was portrayed as a decent guy, is that right? I don't think you could possibly be saying that he actually was a decent guy.
YES! Thanks for the correction. I just corrected it.
My thoughts too
LOL!!!
Hillary cuts to the heart of the question succinctly and accurately. And of course, she was 100% right when she warned about all the evil, stupid, crooked shit that he would pull if he won.
But she was wrong taking her foot off the gas pedal the last few weeks of the campaign. Kamala- keep applying the pressure 11 days to go!
Yep, she or whoever made those campaign decisions screwed up royally. Dems will never make that mistake again. And as she said, Comey really messed up her chances with reopening the email investigation 11 fucking days before election day. That pushed things over the edge.
And, by the way, screw Kaitlin. What a little piece of shit work she’s become!
The hypocrisy gets more obvious every day. Can't wait for the rest of the Elon Musk/Vladimir Putin relationship to come out. Elon is the new Manafort.
Who knew "the Richest Man in the World" is also the world's biggest dipshit?
"Skipping around like a Dipshit" - according to Tim. Loved that line.
Saw it many years ago. He is worse than Sick !!
IDK, there's a lot of serious competition for that seat.
Like Putin, Leon's new bestie. Rape and pillage are their code words.
Do our federal agencies screen ANYONE anymore for security risk before awarding multi-million dollar contracts to them?
I knew as soon as I figured out who he was in the first place. His grandfather was pretty unhinged in Canada.
Musk is way more dangerous than Manafort. He's super rich and nutty. Manafort was just greedy.
I do hope the Pentagon is at least concerned about how involved Phony Stark's businesses are in the Pentagon's bidness. Elno sure looks like a serious security risk for this country.
I was driving last night listening to Chris Hayes and he played that clip of fucker Carlson and I almost threw up in my mouth! What a creepy little weasel! 🤮
Imagine inviting him over for Thanksgiving!
...in a Hannibal Lecter sense? Yes, please.
Ewww
Dave:
Do I have to?
Yikes Dave, Colour me disgusted!!
Sure, but only if I have a viciously spiked, razor wire baseball bat to greet him on the porch. No witnesses.
I did throw up a bit.
😂
I nominate Fucker Carlson for the Most Punchable Face award in perpetuity
The “Most Punchable” crown is…
a dead heat, tied, to close to call.
Ted Cruz says, “hold my beer.”
Yeah, I forgot about him. Hopefully this is the year Texans finally grow some brain cells and get rid of him. Al Franken famously said, "I like Ted Cruz more than most of my colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz."
Over on Wonkette, he's been renamed Fuck Ted Cruz.
Fittingly.
Somebody smart said, there are two kinds of people in the world: Ted Cruz and people who hate Ted Cruz
Yep!👍😂😂
Boy, this is a tough vote, but I have to go with Fidel Cancun, the asshole that's closest geographically, here in Texas. At least he might be in TX; depends on how badly he's polling next to Allred. He might already be heading for Cuba or Argentina...
I wish it were mine, but I lifted it from Tiedrich himself (a few weeks back)
So speculation is he did some Botox before the RNC. That was wasted money
Reminiscent of a vintage insult from MASH, where Klinger tells Zale, "If my dog had your face, I'd shave his butt and teach him to walk backwards."
👏👏👏
I always thought dear Mattie could have a side gig, renting out his forehead to show drive-in movies on! Seems he missed his calling, there.
Lots of contestants in that race.
Plankhead.😂😂
😂🤣😂
I don’t know, Ted Cruz and JD Vance are running a very close second for “most punchable face”, IMHO.
And Gym Jordan, Human Earthworm!!
GQP are so anti-intellectual, they see no irony or implausibility in making a guy, Jordan, who never passed the bar (he says he never took the bar exam) and has therefore never practiced law, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
If Dems take over in the House, do Dems get to reassign committee chairs & which members sit on the various committees? I'd LOVE to see Speaker of the House Hakeem Jeffries! 🇺🇸🗽🌊🌊
I would like to take some of that “irony” and slap Feckless Jim Bob upside the head with it -he might learn something. Or not. Some people are just unreachable.
I LOVE it - human earthworm, how appropriate!!! 🤩
I read "Gym Jordan" or "shirtsleeves Jordan" as Jeff's "shouty Jim"
Nasty nicknames cling to Jimmy.
I don't know about that...earthworms have a purpose in the ecosystem. Gym Jordan is about as worthless--and useless--a tool as any I have yet seen.
Very true. He just has an earthwormy look to him. Worthless Earthworm. 🤣
We used to say in High School he looks too scuzzy and smells like piss and poop!
Darn, so many candidates from the GQP!
Tucker out here ruining daddy kink for everyone
I find it so shocking when men (it's never women) air their perversions in public. Jebus, guys. Just keep it in the family! We don't need to be exposed to your kink.
Another shining example from the "party of family values."
Yup, spanking the night away. That magazine with Stormy's picture must be beyond worn out by now so they could be thinking about another bizarre product that fuckface would attempt to market,Trump spanking paddles made in China. Like all of his other weird merchandise, there are still those who would actually buy this crap.
Rick, if grownass people wear diapers on the outside, they surely will buy spank paddles.
I think I threw up a bit just typing that.
A lawyer friend once had a prospective client list her occupation as dominatrix. He quizzed her, thinking his office mates were pranking him, but he concluded she was serious. This was in a medium sized city about 20 years ago. He was nonplussed
A neighbor for a brief time, was a dominatrix. I still don't quite know what she was about. Definitely different.
According to Stormy, when she was somewhat coerced into hooking up with the obese orange creep, she spanked him (lightly) with a copy of a magazine with his picture on the cover. Not sure which mag but you can Google it
Current resident of the Tarheel State here. Talk about exposed to kink, we have commercials against Choirboy Mark Robinson that regale us with tales of his perversions. These commercials tell the truth and are necessary, but I can't stand them any more.
Other commercials for Rachel Hunt, running for Lieutenant Governor--Robinson's current gig--show her with a gallon of hydrogen peroxide and her comment that she'll have to clean out Robinson's office space before she moves in. Truer words...
I would use something stronger than peroxide
To be fair, the hydrogen peroxide that Hunt showed is a 12% solution. Common household H2O2 is a 3% solution, safe for putting on minor cuts, etc. So, 4x the strength. I think it would do the job. :D
I would recommend buying an electrolytic kettle and producing hypochlorous acid. The chlorine ion adds virucidal and bacteriocidal action. Ingredients are only water, non-iodized salt, and vinegar. Hypochlorous acid does not cause discoloration like bleach and is less (but somewhat) corrosive
I didn't know that. Thank you! I'm always happy to learn something new.
If there were something to get rid of left-behind pervert cooties, I'm sure Hunt would have shown that. I'm sure she wanted to show something that the majority of viewers would recognize and whose use they would agree with, instead of, for example, nuking the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. ;)
PS, If I'd known of your knowledge and expertise, I'd not have explained the 3% vs 12% H2O2 difference. I'm sure you had that one down pat. :D Edit: in other words, I was by no means trying to insult your intelligence.
They spend so much time in the bubble of carefully-curated like-minded hive members that they forget (or don't acknowledge) that other people are shocked by what they say. Remember Mittens with his "Betcha $10,000" during the debate when he ran for president? The other candidates were stunned - they, at least, remembered that not everybody in America can just casually bet that kind of money. Or we can revisit the same doofus's infamous "47%" speech, or I can tell you about the golfers my dad used to play with who just assumed that the other guys at the country club agreed with their racist hatred of President Obama.
It's really not good for them, but it does help us. Let's not tell them.
As much as it pisses me off to hear things like that, I'd rather learn they're perverts from a distance. A LOT of distance.
un Poco loco, my sentiment exactly.
Arne, thanks. You're right.
I bet Stormy would spank him for free. With a spiked paddle rather than a rolled up magazine
How about she hammer his oven-baked balls into tortillas?
😂
I’d prefer she used a cudgel HI2!
I’ve said it before when Mark Robinson was “exposed” (blech). Your kink is your kink but the rest of us don’t need to be a party to it unless we were explicitly invited.
Kay-El, that is one invitation I would not RSVP to. Robinson is a total degenerate. The MAGATS know he is lying about his gay and trans porn addiction. By choosing “willful ignorance” over what is obviously true, those cult members descend to his subterranean level.
The more I hear about these MAGATS comprising nearly half of our society, the more a split from southern states seems less outrageous. How do we bring these people back on the side of democracy?
Frontal lobotomies perhaps Walter!
We really need to address this. I can’t stand the thought of it because trying to understand these people is more than I want to handle. I don’t fancy smacking my head against a wall til it bleeds. But we’ve got to try. Question is “how”?
Did you say "a split"? Sorry, Jeff, but I have to plug THE SPLIT, currently being serialized (via Substack!) at Wonkette. Set among the Confederation of Conservative States of America after their (peaceful) separation from the US in the near (?) future. Free to read--and ending in two weeks. Start here: https://tinyurl.com/2czr9ahj
I will not be surprised when he's reelected anyway.
Mebbe they are proud of their weird-ass proclivities
This… doesn’t crack the usual smile Kay-EI, it’s getting to be harder for them in this insane fuckery epoch!
😂😂
LOL
The bow tied fuckery he displayed in his early years showed the world what a mook looks like Alison!
LMAO.
Mary Trump’s cyclone hairdo and mean, scrunched up lemon pucker face make her the stuff of nightmares. And we thought the old man caused Diaper Donny’s deformities.
According to Mary Trump, she was a cold, distant parent while as Jeff said, Fred Sr. was a withholding, manipulative POS. This was a toxic parenting brew that has brought America to the brink of ruin.
H12thDoc:
Yeah but I was “raised” the same way, without the money. Really ugly. In mid twenties, realized I didn’t like my behavior, and chose change. I’m not special. People have choices. He took the sketchy path.
Marie, indeed. Having shitty parents is practice for being a better person. Why people repeat the damage makes no sense.
Interesting. But I do know something about that. The best way to describe it is that, if I ever write that book people encourage me to write, emphasis will be on what one does not get…does not receive…is not taught, in these bad family situations. We don’t learn so very much. Whether it’s understanding what genuine love feels like, or how to recognize it if it should come your way. Or how to resolve conflict without someone getting humiliated or beat up. Or simply how to feel good about yourself because you’ve always been told you’re nothing.
I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I did hang onto the gifts of great curiosity and creativity. Somehow these elements caused me to wonder about a “different way”. I think my “judgement” about Trump is that he was in a world of diversity, complexity, privilege, and could have chosen to do it differently even at an older age than I shifted. He has had plenty of feedback that he’s not ok. Maybe the real difference is that, during the years I decided to change, I had no money. Couldn’t bury my uncomfortableness and dissatisfaction with myself with monied distractions.
I give up on him. I’m not his shrink. He sucks. And he keeps choosing to suck. He’s gotta go.
I'm sorry you experienced bad parenting. You were brave to put in the work to improve your life.🪻🌼
Thank you for that. As I said, there are so many of us … ❤️
I think what saved me was it was clear that something was awfully wrong. Even as a toddler, parental shit was scary. Never bought into it. Luckily I was built that way. Not that building something better was easy.
Ah. You too? How many of us are there?
Yes. I heard things and saw things when I was very young for which I had no vocabulary. Racism was one of the first things that I started having words for. I remember thinking “this is just wrong”. But didn’t understand much. Around age 11-ish?
“Built that way” resonates. I remember a time at age 4. He was coming after me with a belt. I turned around, faced him, and put my little fists up like a boxer shielding her face. It didn’t stop the damage that time, but the idea of it had something to do with me learning how to cope and reject that crap.
Absolutely. What is his excuse? Raised with all the material privilege. Emotionally abused and manipulated, but not physically and not nearly as much as many, many others. He chooses to be a malignant narcissist. He chooses not to evolve. He enjoys being cruel and selfish.
I think you are special. Not many have that ability to be honest with themselves, let alone actually do something about it. Look at the whole trump family, except for Mary. Perfect examples of awful people who pursue being awful, which is bad enough, except they inflict damage upon others. Congratulations on becoming a better person, and as a result, I warrant, a happier person. Miserable people like trump and his ilk don't usually find the fulfillment that circumspect people do.
Yes to all. 🤗 A very important thing you said is the reference to being happier. Yes. Yes. Yes. An emotionally barren childhood led me to overeating. Literally building a protective wall. Filled with anger. Anger was my engine. I didn’t stop overeating until I reached 350 lbs. (5’4”—yikes!). Took me a long time to resolve that because it was all like learning to “give up my blankie”. I finally got it all together approx 20 years ago—changed my relationship with food and exercise entirely. I’m 76 now.
Mentioning this because this was self-imposed unhappiness resulting from not having emotional intelligence. Not having an emotional vocabulary. About not having positive emotional interactions.
I’m passionate about people finding their path out of this jungle…into the light. Because “being happy” is not so much about being bubbly and smiley (although that’s nice). It’s about one’s heart being freed of pain sufficiently to love or at least care for “the other”.
There’s a very important concept in Buddhism called Tonglen. Essentially, it’s about developing one’s ability to be compassionate. To care about others. To learn to care for those close to you, and those you are associated with, and those you don’t know, until you can have compassion for everyone all around the world, everywhere. That is typically unavailable to people burdened with bad childhoods and resulting bad behaviors. We need that. It doesn’t come naturally to everyone. It needs to be taught. It can be learned. The world needs this in order to heal the world.
And frump doesn’t have a clue as to any of this.
Doesn't seem like conservatives are interested in developing or studying Tonglen.
😉😆😆😆😆 Not likely.
'Twas a symbiotic effort.
Let's focus, just briefly, on the woman with the diaper. Does anyone think there is any value in attempting to communicate with such a person?
Use the time that's left getting habitual non-voters to vote BLUE!
Absolutely no value at all. She's beyond reach. Reveling in the crazy, like a teen with a crush.
Funny haha:
And a gallon or two or three of extremely low self esteem.
This!
Jeff, what I heard from Tucker Carlson brought me to tears. This rant is so misogynistic, targeting “bad little girls”, my stomach turned at the permission given to beat girls. And, the sexual implication was huge. I don’t quite get your point that it was adult men asking for a dear leader spanking, it was definitely targeting females.
Julie, it was APPALLING
Walter: Doubly so, to those of us who were raised with those very attitudes, words, behaviors, nasty outcomes.
I’m sorry. I’m really sorry. We live an a majority red community. But there are HOA rules against campaign time signs. We do see huge Stars and Stripes. And the larger they are, the more apt they are to belong to trumpers. So the HOA’s put a 30x40” limit on those too … because huge flags are also a political message. Generally speaking though, most everyone here does have the common sense to realize we all have to live together here, so there are practically no overt issues. However. I’d lose my emotional steadiness, if not my mind, if I had to look at trump flags everywhere. Hugs to you.
The ways that the right have co-opted our flag are more than nauseating. Whether it is an enormous US flag being dragged around by a diesel exhaust spewing pickup,or tRump wrapping himself around our flag at a MAGAT rally, or maybe one of those hot MAGAT gals wearing US flag bikinis, it’s not the proud image it was before. Chalk another one up for the MAGAT movement.
I hate the way their “culture” has hijacked so many things. Flags, red caps (I wouldn’t wear a red cap that was totally unbranded), to white trucks (around here, you’re pretty certain to be correct if you think ‘trumper’ when you see any white truck), to the fact that his damn name can’t be used. I was surprised to learn how often I use “this trumps that”. All the little markers that have made us some how be able to identify trumpers a mile away. Ugh.
Spray paint ?
You're right, it was nauseating. Even if I didn't already have 47 other reasons to not bring up a child like this, this one is enough.
Julie, me too.
I haven’t even read this yet and I’m cracking up at the first picture and subject! Thank you Jeff, Happy Friday!
my work here is done
NEVER !
Yesterday my family and I voted for Harris/Walz and Harris. The other Harris is Shawn Harris, the retired General running against three-toes Greene. (Yes, I live there) I can't wait until the whole putrid rancid cabal of fucksticks are out of our lives forever. Vote, vote, vote!
Btw Brad - what kind of guitar is that? if it’s actually yours…
Gibson Les Paul Standard 50's Goldtop. And yes, it's mine. And she is lovely!
She’s a beaut!
"soft, pampered frozen-fish-stick heir Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson" 🤣🤣
I would not have believed his thoughts on spanking if you hadn't provided the goods. I just can't!! America is in deep shit if these are the people they are voting for. And that hair on his mom? JFC! How much AquaNet?? They ARE weird...and Walz was also right when he called Vance a "disphit". I wonder if Tim got in trouble for that because it was spot on! 👏👏👏👏
She looks like a bizzaro Betty Ford
Didn't Walz call Musk a dipshit? Not that Vance isn't also.
he said Musk was "skipping like a dipshit", which could almost be part of a country song lyric lol
I just love Walz...he says what we're all thinking! 😂😂
Agree! I 💙 #TimWalz !
Enough AquaNet to get her declared a Superfund site.😂😂
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Might be where Sen. Marsha Blackburn got the idea for her rats nest.
Susan: are you old enough to remember when we sprayed pure lacquer on our hair to make styles like that stay put? I am. Small, multi-sided, clear glass bottle with amber liquid, and a black, rubbery weird spray nozzle. Truly it’s likely the root source of lots of the COPD in elderly these days. Horrid horrid stuff. But WOW! The helmets we made!!! 🤣
I dont remember lacquer but I remember the BIG HAIR days and all that damned hair spray 🤣🤣🤣
Running out of Aquanet was like a real emergency.
😂😂. It was!
There is not one salvageable person in the entire MAGAsphere. They should all be relegated to the ash heap of history!
Sadly, imo you are correct.
"...what a better world this would be if old Fred Senior had..." just pulled out.
...or worn three condoms.
I live with the constant, fervid desire that when Trump loses, we will be rid of both his visage and his voice once and for all! As much as Trump disappearing is my hope, I also want to see ALL of Trump's crazy, entitled, sychophants like Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk disappear as well. I want them all gone. Poof! I swear, that even if I lived next to a huge landfill, the air would instantly be cleaner and the sun brighter! Oh, and the birds would sing, too, like they were cheerfully ready to land on Sleeping Beauty's hand! 💙
I can visualize that!! 😊
I can picture that world without any fascists and Republicans!!! Does Tuck have kids? Someone might want to check their safety!!
I feel so sick about the Presidential election!! I don’t even watch the local news!! I have no doubt VP Harris will have the votes but I am concerned about what is going on behind the scenes and also the notsupreme court! I hope Tuck reads your stack Jeff !! Thank you!!
Jeff, thanks for dropping your work early. It really helps me get on with my day.
Sterling Hayden’s Oscar worthy portrayal of General Jack D Ripper in Dr. Strangelove is honored here!
I wonder how many will even remember the Best movie of all time ?!! Peter Sellers in multiple roles , the best being his eerily forecast portrayal of a Henry Kissinger style Nazi import from WW ll. So spot on!
Too bad Hayden was a turncoat and named names…hard to watch him in anything knowing that.
Kate: yes. Although he did more later in life than most by acknowledging his acts. Called himself some pretty awful names for behaving as he did. I know it doesn’t turn around the damage.
Ole Anderson:
Are you kidding? We watch it at least 2x a year. Laugh til we cry every time. Brilliant movie.
I saw it for the first time at a ‘sneak preview’- No one knew what movie would be played, only that it was a brand new release- in 1964-5 on a SAC Air Force Base in Puerto Rico. The last two rows of the theater were reserved for the Alert crews who were charged with getting their B-52 bombers in the air as fast as possible in the event of an attack. Well, they howled and guffawed all through the whole movie, especially when Slim Pickens rode the nuke out of the bomb bay!
Nice to know that had a sense of humor about the absurdity of it all.
Mutually assured destruction, now there’s a policy for you
Love that movie.
Always worth a rewatch.