I'm pretty sure I didn't put any cities inside the wrong states today. thank you to the seven trillion people who emailed me yesterday to inform me that Detroit isn't in Illinois. I have no idea how I fucked that up.
I mean, if you put the right cities in the right states, Jeff, I think you are doing 95% better than every other american that cant even recite all 50 states. That used to be a thing right?
While traveling in England for business with several coworkers, I was flummoxed when one of them asked me seriously how long it would take us to drive to France! I struggled a bit with how to respond without being too smug. I wasn’t sure if I was saddened, shocked or amused. Probably all three…😬🙄
I catch them - that second too late, lolol. AND then can't correct them. It 'allows' me to 'edit' but the edit doesn't take for some unfathomable reason. So I give up, not really giving a shit unless it's a MAJOR faux pas.
I live in Illinois and went to uni in Michigan so that was kinda glaring to me. But, I get it. My brain is increasingly doing things like that with each passing year.
I went to a conference in the Twin Cities in 1984, and got one of those Tees. Brought it home to Australia, and it always raised a chuckle. We enjoyed our visy there.
I must disagree!! Michigan has the biggest inland sea (Lake Superior) along with 4 more Great Lakes, Petosky stones,Sleeping Bear Dunes, Cherry Festival and so much more!
Here is the letter I sent to my 3 Congress Critters here in S GA. If you find it useful, feel free to send it to yours:
Tuesday was certainly an eye opener! The voters across the Country shifted blue. We need to Carpe Diem and go into consolidation mode. How about getting your Democratic Colleagues to find the money for a year-long advertising campaign putting our Democratic values out there in front of the voters and compare and contrast them with the evil excesses of tRumpism. It is pretty obvious that this election was a referendum on the excessive, evil, unlawful, and unconstitutional policies of this Regime. 2026 can be even more devastating for them if we make it so. Keep a stiff spine and don’t give up on our demands about Healthcare, SNAP, Heating Assistance. We need to keep rubbing the publics’ noses in the cruelty which is the major policy plank of MAGA. Thanks for all that you are doing!
I did like the bit about how Mississippi democrats broke the republican supermajority in Missouri. That was surprising.
("I’m pretty sure it’s not even legal to be a Democrat in deeply-red Mississippi, yet the Dems flipped enough seats in the Missouri Senate to break the long-standing Republican supermajority there.")
We understand that you are producing high quality stuff each day and slip ups like this happen. Since I am in the over 60 crowd, this happens to me more and more often.
In any case, I am going to out to celebrate the Blue Tsunami that swept the US yesterday. Mike Johnson can get ready to celebrate the next Blue Tsunami that will sweep the US in the mid-terms if the government stays closed until then, since Mike Johnson does not think he needs to open the House to earn his paycheck from us. Maybe the Republicans should look for a friendlier country. In fact, it is currently unsafe for people who want to go to leave via airplane due to not paying air traffic controllers. I don't think private jets will be any safer. Perhaps train is safer. I would like to send all the MAGAs to Venezuela and send them out in fishing boats so that Trump can decide just how much he likes that target practice.
Trauma and shock will do that even to the most industrious proofreader. And to prove it I just found myself writing copywriter before correcting it to proofreader 🐾
HOW do I disable autocorrect on my desktop? I STILL haven't yet gotten my 'new' Windows 11 computer (hubby and computer techie are working out the ins and outs of what 'I' need, groan). But in the meantime, both on this and my Iphone it drives me INSANE when it decides what word I'VE chosen (usually nothing remotely close).
Illinois is the one with the awesome governor who told Orange Adolph to fuck alllllll the way off the other day, thus earning my family's votes for the next two generations. JB/Newsome 2028!
Jeff I will be a jewel - I wouldn’t notice an error for anything. And if it did look a little off, with my double eyesight, nearsighted I wouldn’t suspect a thing. Also probably wouldn’t know if it was a misfit. So please continue to write without fear. 👍🥳
Whoops, Jeff! There was an election held in Mississippi and seats were flipped in Missouri?
"I’m pretty sure it’s not even legal to be a Democrat in deeply-red Mississippi, yet the Dems flipped enough seats in the Missouri Senate to break the long-standing Republican supermajority there."
Well with KKKaroline and Trump MouthAnus going off after election day yesterday, None of us should be shocked by how debase Twitterx has become. They are literally calling for jailing and killing Democrats on twitter.
I got married in 1987 at the former Riviera Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas in their wedding chapel. My dress had shoulder pads and I had the long curly, permed hair that was the hairstyle then. The only thing I want back from that era is my 33 year old body.
NO! The old orange fucker would be first on MY slap list, THEN bobby brainworms (maybe it'll knock some basic commonsense into his head) THEN oz and some others. Those vicious women need to be put in stocks and pelted with rotten fruit. Now THAT I'd love to see/be part of As for miller? THAT nasty and really vicious little fucker desperately needs to be shipped to Cecot with no hope of ever getting out.
The shoulder pads made everything fall into place!! I may have one or two relics in my closet! 😉Thank you Jeff for more laughs when I could be crying! I think Mike Collins and Dan Crenshaw might need help from the mental health community. It’s scary that they are walking around among us!!
“Bronko Nagurski called. He wants his jacket back,” my husband said during the shoulder-pad period. He periodically dusts off the old joke and says it again, but we’re still married.
Me too, Tess! Biggest Dallas-esque shoulders ever!!!!! Those pads did wonders for my then-girlish figure. 😉 I miss the Eighties! (Except for Ronnie Raygun)
I used to cut them out from ALL of my suits and dresses - hating that 'look' (I actually wore dresses to work, alternating with suits). I think I've pretty much lived in blue jeans ever since, lol - have the BIGGEST collection of those now. At first I thought they'd make good cat toys (they did), then I finally tossed them all. They DID make quite a 'collection', though. ;)
i post on twitter and 'hang out there' with like-minded folks like me. WE (the democratic types) all call out frump and his VILE 'administration', repost the horrid mess he's made of the East Wing, show him falling asleep, his nasty-azz responses to everyone, even if magats get pissed off at us. How else are they going to see facts and truth? There are TONS of true-blue people still there. It's NOT all magat cultists. Every Democratic lawmaker has a page - every MSNBC host as well, although of course they're always attacked by the vilest types.
Jeff, I received mail from a MAGA golf partner yesterday concerning Tuesdays elections. I was told that these wins were not significant due to the fact they were all in Blue states. I pointed out the numbers in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Legislatures in Georgia and Mississippi where MAGA super majorities were reduced by the election of Dems. I then pointed out that his assertion seemed to be the Party’s talking point of the day, since it was on OAN, RSB, and FAUX, so I understood the basis of his theory… To say he was pissed was putting it mildly. These folks cannot think for themselves. I pointed out my fear was no mid term elections in order to have permanent MAGA rule… at that point I was told that I’m too smart to believe that prediction… my response was … Read P2025, that’s your blueprint of what has been going on and will be MAGA future… was not taken very well.
I applaud your efforts at cognitive rehabilitation. Paraphrasing something far more eloquently put, it’s far easier to dupe than it is to convince the duped that they’ve in fact been duped.
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
you're a better man than I Gunga Din. I was disinherited by my father, I've blocked my sister, and I no longer watch or even pay attention to the nfl or the Dodgers.
Tess, as far as “Golf with MAGAS” this past week, I was compelled to explain why the DOJ is losing these retribution cases… first of all DOJ is running 3rd string prosecutors, unable to file cases for lack of knowledge of laws, getting shut down by an overwhelming majority of federal judges and just basically incompetent, and lying to federal judges….File charges first, look for evidence after filing… incompetence on every level.
Fastball, kudos for staying friends - oddly, a lot of MAGAs are, outside of their brainwashed ignorance, otherwise good people (as I'm sure you know). May the day finally arrive when they at least have to lose their arrogance and learn some of your fact telling.
Steve, the reality is I just play golf with these folks once a week.. never invited to parties or celebrations, so they are more of golf friends ….My wife’s views are similar to my own, it affects our social life in a 55+ community in AZ.
I see, that’s a different situation. It’s too bad things have broken this way in our country,.It seems like it became more evident way back around 2010, and with trump the rhetoric shot up to 11 (on scale of 10!) in 2016. Those susceptible to the propaganda coming from Fox cable (back then) felt they had to become very aggressive about stating their political views to everyone around them, whatever the occasion, and it’s left this division between people who agreed with them and their friends and acquaintances who didn’t. Sounds like you and your wife are doing all you can in the situation there.
They are apoplectic. My magat neighbor was screaming COMMUNIST all yesterday morning, proceeded to Gish gallop when I asked her relevant questions, and then called ME a communist—not that I minded that, but boy did she backpedal and get all butthurt when I called her a fascist, then she claimed to have never called me a commie. Well it was all in text so I screenshotted it and sent it back to her, and her response was to say let’s never talk politics again. The convo STARTED with her texting me “I am sure as hell glad I don’t live in NYC!” Proof they can dish it out but sure as HELL can’t take it!
Well, sorry that your neighbor thinks we can all just not talk politics anymore, since it's ALL that pretty much matters in this timeline! It irritates me so much that we've never been in this situation in politics before, but we think it'll all just work itself out. This is the time to actually fucking care about politics since it's affecting everyone and what remains of their lifetimes. We can sleep later, but now, we stay woke.
Oh and she is constantly bitching about the state of medical care and how much things cost…I have tried to steer her to the conclusion that the system is rigged by and for billionaires, but she always reverts back to “illegals and socialism.”
I told her everything is political—she is a boomer and a fux news watcher, brainwashed and hated Obama. So most of the time we avoid talking about things, but when she started with that I was not going to let it lie. She is a lost cause unfortunately, complete cognitive dissonance due to the fact that she is racist. I also know the main issue she has with Mamdani is that he’s Muslim, but she didn’t want to lead with that for some reason. She is literally the only magat I associate with, and only because of geography.
Its amazing how his anti Democratic acts seem to be okay with his die hard supporters. On one hand I can somewhat see the appeal of a executive who cuts thru beauracracy to make important decisions quickly. But Trump is an aging, dumb, former game show host who has no idea how the government works, doesnt know who is getting pardons and is basically a puppet to the fascist/autocratic authors of project 2025.
The bad part is that I have to bear witness to ICE abusing our wonderful community. These things are happening every day throughout the city and suburbs. One happened in front of my Aunt's apartment building, one happened with masked agents combing through my neighbor's backyards on a beautiful sunny afternoon, another happened 1/2 block from the middle school I attended (many years ago). These are connections that are painful. They are trying to terrorize us and make us afraid. But the unintended consequence is that they are igniting a fire in us. They are pissing us off instead of making us cower. They are uniting us instead of dividing us. Evidence of their disgusting behavior is being filmed and collected for further use down the road - every single incident. So while on the surface it looks very bad, underneath something more powerful is being awakened. Can't put the Genie back in the bottle.
I hope so. I an afraid that the "special" army of psychos can be used against anyone who Trump and Miller decides are "illegal". It needs to be disbanded.
You are absolutely correct when you say these folks can’t think for themselves. I just went thru it with a “former” friend who spews all the talking points and hasn’t had an original thought. I ended up saying that I supposed he is one of those who believes that Hilary was running a child sex ring in the basement of a pizza parlor that doesn’t have a basement and that kids are getting sex change surgery during recess at school. He didn’t reply.
Same here, Fredo. I'm thinking that Tuesday's results will make Donny Demento even more determined to ensure that, if he can't call off the midterms altogether, they'll be complete kabuki.
If the project 2025 sewer clowns in the administration and repugnanticans in congress think just trumpf was responsible for the election results, they got another thing coming. 2026. Their lying, denying and poor memories ain’t working anymore.
Incapable of governing. Hell, incapable of even reflecting reality. A gathering of fluffers, what should it be known as? The crows have the best of all possible descriptors: “a murder of crows”. Perhaps that’s the best term for these thuggish, weak, cruel, sadistic, lying, motherfucking traitors. Hey, I’m just getting warmed up.
I work part time at a bar/cigar lounge in a deeply red area of TX. Last night they hosted an meet/greet thing for our local state rep. I haven't felt that stabby in a long time. They did announce a meeting (at a church of course) next Thursday and he wouldn't even say what it was about. He said there's "a leading expert" in some field who's going to talk about "the greatest threat to our country right now" (somehow I doubt it will be about Donald Trump though). Then someone mentioned that they had this set up before "what happened in NYC on Tuesday...so that's a clue". I think I'm going to try to go because I'm curious if they're going to be idiotically railing against communism or Islam. Should be a hoot either way.
Way to dissect those ignorant comments coming from trump’s buddies…Thanks Jeff!! Keep ‘em coming rethuglicans-no one is believing a damn thing you say anymore!
I’m so proud of us Democrats showing up to vote. The Blue Wave must keep rolling into and beyond next year’s elections. No matter how small an election may seem, it’s important to vote. Keep that momentum going!
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Do these stupid Republicans really believe that being on their knees kissing a former game show hosts flabby butt is a good campaign strategy? They embarrassed and debased themselves and now can't understand how they lost.
Did you see the breakdown by religion of who they voted for in NYC? Amazing the % of Christians, Catholics & Jews that did not vote for Mamdani. High % of Other & Nones did.
I saw the handwriting on the wall and flew to visit my mother in early October. We all know that Thanksgiving is the heaviest travel day of the year. I hope the unpaid air traffic controllers will go on strike just before that holiday. That would be awesome.
It's a bit of a walk from SF Bay back to Lake Co. (Anyone actually bored enough to follow me may have noted that I've hopped across 9 time zones in recent weeks.) If it weren't for our house, cars, etc., I guess I wouldn't mind being stranded out here. We'll see what happens next week.
I looked at the list of airports that they are going to screw with - oddly enough, they’re virtually ALL in blue states or blue cities. Who’d have guessed? 🧐
Yes, I was disgusted, but not surprised, to see O’Hare International Airport (the 4th busiest airport) and Midway (the 34th busiest airport) on the list.
Healthcare - and health insurance. I can't imagine the devastation of having premiums exploding. We have "good" insurance through my husband's employer. I just found out that my portion of a surgery to remove a small cyst on a finger is $3800. This much with our "good" insurance through the local BCBS plan. $3k deductibles are now the norm on PPO plans. Ridiculous.
If Republicans wreck the ACA they should wreck it entirely, but chances are they'll keep the IRS requirement to show a full year of health insurance coverage (with high premiums and high deductibles) or pay a penalty on income taxes. So people will be punished financially either way.
Ummm....many of us would be thrilled to have a $3K deductible. On some of both the ACA and Medicare Advantage plans I've seen, deductibles go up to $9700.
But you were complaining about a $3K deductible on a "good" plan. That figure is a gift at today’s prices. Back when I was still working (2019), we hadn't seen anything below $5K in years.
Denise, I'm sorry you have a high deductible. I don't think anyone should have one and we should have universal healthcare. I'm pointing out that even with supposedly stellar insurance it's $3800 patient pay for a minor surgery. That amount would break most people's budget.
Agree about universal healthcare and the fact that most people can't afford even a simple procedure.
All I was saying is that you should consider yourself very lucky compared with most of the rest of us, and be grateful to have what you do. Your insurance isn't supposefly stellar, it IS stellar, compared with what most people face.
I know Healthcare costs are ridiculous. I believe Doctors and hospitals overcharge knowing the insurance will pay part and that they can get the rest from a patient.
I'm pretty sure I didn't put any cities inside the wrong states today. thank you to the seven trillion people who emailed me yesterday to inform me that Detroit isn't in Illinois. I have no idea how I fucked that up.
I mean, if you put the right cities in the right states, Jeff, I think you are doing 95% better than every other american that cant even recite all 50 states. That used to be a thing right?
Try naming the Seven Dwarfs without cheating.
Sneezy, Sleepy, Grumpy, Dopey, Happy and Bashful are the ones I remember.
Hickery dickery, Doc!
Usually everyone forgets Bashful, and then they start saying dirty names.
Forgot Uzi.
+1, Noble Effort.
🤣
😂
HaHaHaHaHa
Dopey,Hoax,Sleepy,Witch hunt,Fake News....
omg hahahaa!!!
Back in the day, Mrs Clayton made it clear that we could learn all 50 states and their capitals, or be content never to experience 6th grade.
(If you're wondering: No, I did not have to repeat 5th grade.)
While traveling in England for business with several coworkers, I was flummoxed when one of them asked me seriously how long it would take us to drive to France! I struggled a bit with how to respond without being too smug. I wasn’t sure if I was saddened, shocked or amused. Probably all three…😬🙄
I never get all the I and M states right.
Well I think they are both the same = Inland and Midwest so what's the difference?
😆
And I’m relieved that you’re human.
Seriously, people - if you’re not among the first 20 likes of a post, don’t bother Jeff with some minor oversight
But... but... being irritatingly pedantic is our core identity!
Cute
And also blindingly smart - our is that a tautology?!💥
... and drop-dead good looking!
😝😝😝
I just blow past those kind of mistakes. I figure we all make them. If I happen to catch my own, I correct it.
Me too
Whereas I usually don’t even catch ‘em.
😂 I’m not infallible on that score
I catch them - that second too late, lolol. AND then can't correct them. It 'allows' me to 'edit' but the edit doesn't take for some unfathomable reason. So I give up, not really giving a shit unless it's a MAJOR faux pas.
I live in Illinois and went to uni in Michigan so that was kinda glaring to me. But, I get it. My brain is increasingly doing things like that with each passing year.
as long as he doesn't fuckup his fucks
THIS! We need Jeff's fucks to remain as glorious as they are.
wait...did that come out right? oops.
Most folks in 48 states would get Wisconsin and Michigan mixed up all the time if it weren't for those cheese hats. So yours was the lesser evil.
For me, it's Wisconsin and Minnesota ('Menne-SODA'). Still get it wrong. Michigan is unique. It's got the U.P. And Yoopers are... extra.
Mom was from Minnesota...my t-shirt said, "10,000 Lakes and a few weirdos." (My in-laws were the weirdos.)
... and bachelor Norwegian farmers.
I went to a conference in the Twin Cities in 1984, and got one of those Tees. Brought it home to Australia, and it always raised a chuckle. We enjoyed our visy there.
That's funny because 1984 was the last year I ever visited Minnesota.
I feel like I’m reading a chapter from How to Talk Minnesotan by Howard Mohr.
I love that book, How to Talk Minnesotan, because it's spot on.
My cousins made fun of my SF accent and we made fun of their "cake and pop" accents. We said "soda."
Just elongate every "o" vowel and make every meal a casserole with Cream of Mushroom soup and peas and tuna.
😝😝😝
Minnie-soter... Yooper slang. Got fam in the U.P. on Lake Superior - and there were lots of Finlanders in the area, so... yeah. :D
Yup.*
(*Translation: I thoroughly agree with your assessment and think your analysis is well-founded on both objective fact and lived experience.)
:D
Yup!
Michigan has Hiawatha. Minnesota has Bullwinkle J. Moose. I love them both.
I must disagree!! Michigan has the biggest inland sea (Lake Superior) along with 4 more Great Lakes, Petosky stones,Sleeping Bear Dunes, Cherry Festival and so much more!
Two more: Asparagus festival (in Empire, outside Sleeping Bear Dunes) & morel festival (Boyne City).
Cranberry Festival!
we are so lucky to have the internet to tell us when we make a mistake, otherwise how would we even know?
Here is the letter I sent to my 3 Congress Critters here in S GA. If you find it useful, feel free to send it to yours:
Tuesday was certainly an eye opener! The voters across the Country shifted blue. We need to Carpe Diem and go into consolidation mode. How about getting your Democratic Colleagues to find the money for a year-long advertising campaign putting our Democratic values out there in front of the voters and compare and contrast them with the evil excesses of tRumpism. It is pretty obvious that this election was a referendum on the excessive, evil, unlawful, and unconstitutional policies of this Regime. 2026 can be even more devastating for them if we make it so. Keep a stiff spine and don’t give up on our demands about Healthcare, SNAP, Heating Assistance. We need to keep rubbing the publics’ noses in the cruelty which is the major policy plank of MAGA. Thanks for all that you are doing!
I did like the bit about how Mississippi democrats broke the republican supermajority in Missouri. That was surprising.
("I’m pretty sure it’s not even legal to be a Democrat in deeply-red Mississippi, yet the Dems flipped enough seats in the Missouri Senate to break the long-standing Republican supermajority there.")
sure wish Missouri would flip to democrat...
Don’t give up Anne. They were once….
Truman, anyone?
That’s OK, Missouri isn’t in Mississippi, either, but we know what you meant!
And Missoula is in neither.
Same for Mississauga.🤓
Nor Mishawaka.
We understand that you are producing high quality stuff each day and slip ups like this happen. Since I am in the over 60 crowd, this happens to me more and more often.
In any case, I am going to out to celebrate the Blue Tsunami that swept the US yesterday. Mike Johnson can get ready to celebrate the next Blue Tsunami that will sweep the US in the mid-terms if the government stays closed until then, since Mike Johnson does not think he needs to open the House to earn his paycheck from us. Maybe the Republicans should look for a friendlier country. In fact, it is currently unsafe for people who want to go to leave via airplane due to not paying air traffic controllers. I don't think private jets will be any safer. Perhaps train is safer. I would like to send all the MAGAs to Venezuela and send them out in fishing boats so that Trump can decide just how much he likes that target practice.
Trauma and shock will do that even to the most industrious proofreader. And to prove it I just found myself writing copywriter before correcting it to proofreader 🐾
Autocorrect will also mess with our posts, so we have to proofread them after we click ‘post’ and then edit them if necessary.
If I didn't disable autocorrect, I'd never get anything written.
HOW do I disable autocorrect on my desktop? I STILL haven't yet gotten my 'new' Windows 11 computer (hubby and computer techie are working out the ins and outs of what 'I' need, groan). But in the meantime, both on this and my Iphone it drives me INSANE when it decides what word I'VE chosen (usually nothing remotely close).
Illinois is the one with the awesome governor who told Orange Adolph to fuck alllllll the way off the other day, thus earning my family's votes for the next two generations. JB/Newsome 2028!
When I saw it, I just moved on. Mistakes happen. Love you!
You're forgiven. Typographical (and spelling) mistakes are inevitable, and owning up to them seems to have a liberal bias.
Jeff I will be a jewel - I wouldn’t notice an error for anything. And if it did look a little off, with my double eyesight, nearsighted I wouldn’t suspect a thing. Also probably wouldn’t know if it was a misfit. So please continue to write without fear. 👍🥳
Fun fact that I learned yesterday: Detroit is 324 years old!
Whoops, Jeff! There was an election held in Mississippi and seats were flipped in Missouri?
"I’m pretty sure it’s not even legal to be a Democrat in deeply-red Mississippi, yet the Dems flipped enough seats in the Missouri Senate to break the long-standing Republican supermajority there."
I'll bet you really enjoyed writing "Today In Stupid."
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/preznit-fuckwit-kkkaroline-leavitt-democrats-need-to-be-executed
Well with KKKaroline and Trump MouthAnus going off after election day yesterday, None of us should be shocked by how debase Twitterx has become. They are literally calling for jailing and killing Democrats on twitter.
Keep rocking it Jeff.
Keep fighting.
“mom’s 1987 shoulder pad collection” had me laughing OUT LOUD! (probably because that was me in 1987!! lol)
I got married in 1987 at the former Riviera Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas in their wedding chapel. My dress had shoulder pads and I had the long curly, permed hair that was the hairstyle then. The only thing I want back from that era is my 33 year old body.
Same here.
Karoline leavitt makes it SOOO easy.
If there was ever a person who I would love to slap in the face — KKKaroline is my #1 candidate!
Is there a line forming for the face slap? I definitely want to be in it.
And will they line up the three of them together, or will there be a separate queue for each face that wants slapping? Asking for a friend.
NO! The old orange fucker would be first on MY slap list, THEN bobby brainworms (maybe it'll knock some basic commonsense into his head) THEN oz and some others. Those vicious women need to be put in stocks and pelted with rotten fruit. Now THAT I'd love to see/be part of As for miller? THAT nasty and really vicious little fucker desperately needs to be shipped to Cecot with no hope of ever getting out.
Mine is Kristi Nome and second is Pam Bondi.
No-em and BonDEI are my candidates for a good whuppin’.
okay - we can do that first - THEN the stocks. These fuckers want to take us back to the days of the Puritans? Let's go.
I loved shoulder pads. I finally gave up my extensive collection. Sad.
The shoulder pads made everything fall into place!! I may have one or two relics in my closet! 😉Thank you Jeff for more laughs when I could be crying! I think Mike Collins and Dan Crenshaw might need help from the mental health community. It’s scary that they are walking around among us!!
“Bronko Nagurski called. He wants his jacket back,” my husband said during the shoulder-pad period. He periodically dusts off the old joke and says it again, but we’re still married.
😂😂😂
Me too, Tess! Biggest Dallas-esque shoulders ever!!!!! Those pads did wonders for my then-girlish figure. 😉 I miss the Eighties! (Except for Ronnie Raygun)
Missed that.
I used to cut them out from ALL of my suits and dresses - hating that 'look' (I actually wore dresses to work, alternating with suits). I think I've pretty much lived in blue jeans ever since, lol - have the BIGGEST collection of those now. At first I thought they'd make good cat toys (they did), then I finally tossed them all. They DID make quite a 'collection', though. ;)
Wendy, stop reading that Xitter drek.
i post on twitter and 'hang out there' with like-minded folks like me. WE (the democratic types) all call out frump and his VILE 'administration', repost the horrid mess he's made of the East Wing, show him falling asleep, his nasty-azz responses to everyone, even if magats get pissed off at us. How else are they going to see facts and truth? There are TONS of true-blue people still there. It's NOT all magat cultists. Every Democratic lawmaker has a page - every MSNBC host as well, although of course they're always attacked by the vilest types.
I expect that to start happening any day now.
Jeff, I received mail from a MAGA golf partner yesterday concerning Tuesdays elections. I was told that these wins were not significant due to the fact they were all in Blue states. I pointed out the numbers in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Legislatures in Georgia and Mississippi where MAGA super majorities were reduced by the election of Dems. I then pointed out that his assertion seemed to be the Party’s talking point of the day, since it was on OAN, RSB, and FAUX, so I understood the basis of his theory… To say he was pissed was putting it mildly. These folks cannot think for themselves. I pointed out my fear was no mid term elections in order to have permanent MAGA rule… at that point I was told that I’m too smart to believe that prediction… my response was … Read P2025, that’s your blueprint of what has been going on and will be MAGA future… was not taken very well.
Watch out for errant golf balls, the next time you play!
I'd be watching out for a golf club to the back of the head.
LOL!!!
I applaud your efforts at cognitive rehabilitation. Paraphrasing something far more eloquently put, it’s far easier to dupe than it is to convince the duped that they’ve in fact been duped.
Two Mark Twain quotes:
‘It is easier to fool someone than to convince them that they have been fooled’
‘No amount of evidence will ever convince a Fool’
There are others equally as pertinent but I can’t find them right now.
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
― Carl Sagan
Brilliant!
From The Demon-Haunted World, IIRC?
correct
"Never argue with a stupid person. They'll drag you down and beat you with experience."
- my friend the computer engineer
My high school football coach said " Don't get into a pissing contest with a skunk ; the skunk always wins --because they're a skunk " .
you're a better man than I Gunga Din. I was disinherited by my father, I've blocked my sister, and I no longer watch or even pay attention to the nfl or the Dodgers.
You have a lot of patience if you keep golfing with these guys! lol
Tess, as far as “Golf with MAGAS” this past week, I was compelled to explain why the DOJ is losing these retribution cases… first of all DOJ is running 3rd string prosecutors, unable to file cases for lack of knowledge of laws, getting shut down by an overwhelming majority of federal judges and just basically incompetent, and lying to federal judges….File charges first, look for evidence after filing… incompetence on every level.
Fastball, kudos for staying friends - oddly, a lot of MAGAs are, outside of their brainwashed ignorance, otherwise good people (as I'm sure you know). May the day finally arrive when they at least have to lose their arrogance and learn some of your fact telling.
Steve, the reality is I just play golf with these folks once a week.. never invited to parties or celebrations, so they are more of golf friends ….My wife’s views are similar to my own, it affects our social life in a 55+ community in AZ.
I see, that’s a different situation. It’s too bad things have broken this way in our country,.It seems like it became more evident way back around 2010, and with trump the rhetoric shot up to 11 (on scale of 10!) in 2016. Those susceptible to the propaganda coming from Fox cable (back then) felt they had to become very aggressive about stating their political views to everyone around them, whatever the occasion, and it’s left this division between people who agreed with them and their friends and acquaintances who didn’t. Sounds like you and your wife are doing all you can in the situation there.
That explains a lot.
Ready , fire , aim .
They are apoplectic. My magat neighbor was screaming COMMUNIST all yesterday morning, proceeded to Gish gallop when I asked her relevant questions, and then called ME a communist—not that I minded that, but boy did she backpedal and get all butthurt when I called her a fascist, then she claimed to have never called me a commie. Well it was all in text so I screenshotted it and sent it back to her, and her response was to say let’s never talk politics again. The convo STARTED with her texting me “I am sure as hell glad I don’t live in NYC!” Proof they can dish it out but sure as HELL can’t take it!
Well, sorry that your neighbor thinks we can all just not talk politics anymore, since it's ALL that pretty much matters in this timeline! It irritates me so much that we've never been in this situation in politics before, but we think it'll all just work itself out. This is the time to actually fucking care about politics since it's affecting everyone and what remains of their lifetimes. We can sleep later, but now, we stay woke.
Oh and she is constantly bitching about the state of medical care and how much things cost…I have tried to steer her to the conclusion that the system is rigged by and for billionaires, but she always reverts back to “illegals and socialism.”
Brainwashed . Zero chance that she ever escapes the cult .
Yup—she is a lost cause unfortunately.
I told her everything is political—she is a boomer and a fux news watcher, brainwashed and hated Obama. So most of the time we avoid talking about things, but when she started with that I was not going to let it lie. She is a lost cause unfortunately, complete cognitive dissonance due to the fact that she is racist. I also know the main issue she has with Mamdani is that he’s Muslim, but she didn’t want to lead with that for some reason. She is literally the only magat I associate with, and only because of geography.
NO OFFENSE TO BOOMERS—just providing her demographic info…
No offense taken. That she watches FOX explains much. Well, that and she is a fucking racist.
I can't say the same. I am offended at the stereotype.
👏👏👏👏
Boomers have nothing to do with it. I know some gun-toting, meat-eating liberal boomers who will vote for Democrats no matter what. And have.
So let's get that the fuck straight right now. Fuck that agism bias right in the piehole.
Guilty as charged. 🙂
(Feel free to pretend you know me now.)
got that right sir
They don't want facts or reality. They'd rather stay angry.
Anger must be a hell of a drug.
Anger is very addictive! And it allows the person to block out genuine emotions.
Sad for them. Carrying around anger is toxic to the person carrying and to the people around them.
No idea. I'm not addicted to it. Of course I get angry. But I don't live in it. I don't understand why people choose to.
Its amazing how his anti Democratic acts seem to be okay with his die hard supporters. On one hand I can somewhat see the appeal of a executive who cuts thru beauracracy to make important decisions quickly. But Trump is an aging, dumb, former game show host who has no idea how the government works, doesnt know who is getting pardons and is basically a puppet to the fascist/autocratic authors of project 2025.
Which also perfectly describes a lot of his voters...
Perhaps that isn't coincidental?
I don’t believe in coincidences!
I'm from Chicago. Born and raised. Moved out west my daughter went to college in CA. I'm so mad that ICE is roaming on the streets I lived on.
Is it bad there for you?
The bad part is that I have to bear witness to ICE abusing our wonderful community. These things are happening every day throughout the city and suburbs. One happened in front of my Aunt's apartment building, one happened with masked agents combing through my neighbor's backyards on a beautiful sunny afternoon, another happened 1/2 block from the middle school I attended (many years ago). These are connections that are painful. They are trying to terrorize us and make us afraid. But the unintended consequence is that they are igniting a fire in us. They are pissing us off instead of making us cower. They are uniting us instead of dividing us. Evidence of their disgusting behavior is being filmed and collected for further use down the road - every single incident. So while on the surface it looks very bad, underneath something more powerful is being awakened. Can't put the Genie back in the bottle.
I hope so. I an afraid that the "special" army of psychos can be used against anyone who Trump and Miller decides are "illegal". It needs to be disbanded.
Well written. And without typos. Good job (and I am in your camp).
You are absolutely correct when you say these folks can’t think for themselves. I just went thru it with a “former” friend who spews all the talking points and hasn’t had an original thought. I ended up saying that I supposed he is one of those who believes that Hilary was running a child sex ring in the basement of a pizza parlor that doesn’t have a basement and that kids are getting sex change surgery during recess at school. He didn’t reply.
Same here, Fredo. I'm thinking that Tuesday's results will make Donny Demento even more determined to ensure that, if he can't call off the midterms altogether, they'll be complete kabuki.
Keep on educating them, Fredo!
You’re a brave man, Fredo.
Don't waste your time any more, Fredo. They are not worth it.
You have the patience of a saint, Fastball!
I saw this gem this morning: Fox News shared a poll via their own network that blamed Trump for the huge GOP loss. 😂😂😂
Fuck Trump
also, Epstein
Always Epstein
Also, Johnson
If the project 2025 sewer clowns in the administration and repugnanticans in congress think just trumpf was responsible for the election results, they got another thing coming. 2026. Their lying, denying and poor memories ain’t working anymore.
Nope. We all know Agent Orange is just the front man for all this garbage.
Incapable of governing. Hell, incapable of even reflecting reality. A gathering of fluffers, what should it be known as? The crows have the best of all possible descriptors: “a murder of crows”. Perhaps that’s the best term for these thuggish, weak, cruel, sadistic, lying, motherfucking traitors. Hey, I’m just getting warmed up.
The resistance is building.
I like a gathering of fluffers
I was going to say it is a very apt description.
Let’s go with it- Fluffers they shall be forevermore!
I propose a Dumpster of fluffers.
on it
How about a “fluffernutter?”
Nice compound word to accurately describe their mental state.
How 'bout a floof of fluffers. Adds a lotta alliteration. 😏
Alliteration is one of my favorite iterations.
Just stop it, Neal! Just. Stop!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
A fool of floffers!
Well done
I Like it !
I thought being Donnie's fluffer was Lindsey Graham's job. He certainly can't govern either.
It would be wonderful if South Carolina finally pushed the old queen out. Also, we need term limits.
Lindsay mistook ‘govern’ for ‘grovel.’
🤣🤣🤣
They’re down the hall from the orange ass kissers
A bag of fetid peens.
Interesting. Has that added element of odor.
Oh, that made me laugh out loud!🤣 🤣
a flim-flam of fluffers.
Possible winner. Perhaps too cute, but definitely in contention.
They’re a bunch of scammers or as Wiki says:
Other terms for "scam" include confidence trick, con, con game, confidence game, confidence scheme, ripoff, stratagem, finesse, grift, hustle, bunko, bunco, swindle, flimflam, gaffle, and bamboozle.
I prefer my 1965 hardback edition of Roget’s Thesaurus. But wiki has its fans.
I have a Hardback Concordance from about 30 years ago that I bet could hurt those MAGA nuts even if I never opened it.
My late husband used to call Trump and Company a Fucknuckle of Nickles Noses!
A baffle of fluffers😁We’re all baffled at how brainwashed and stupid they are
Excellent.
A groping of fluffers?
Obviously works.
A privilege of Karens.
A festering of MAGAts.
A denial of Republicans.
A gluttony of Proud Boys.
All work. And all just disgusting to have to think about.
I work part time at a bar/cigar lounge in a deeply red area of TX. Last night they hosted an meet/greet thing for our local state rep. I haven't felt that stabby in a long time. They did announce a meeting (at a church of course) next Thursday and he wouldn't even say what it was about. He said there's "a leading expert" in some field who's going to talk about "the greatest threat to our country right now" (somehow I doubt it will be about Donald Trump though). Then someone mentioned that they had this set up before "what happened in NYC on Tuesday...so that's a clue". I think I'm going to try to go because I'm curious if they're going to be idiotically railing against communism or Islam. Should be a hoot either way.
Report back
Be safe. Many of those GQP scumwads are not just misguided and evil, but dangerous.
What's really enjoyable is when they conflate Communism with Islam.
I'm always heartened that even in Mississippi there's a patch of blue in the Delta.
You think ol William Sr. is spinning in his grave over what’s happened to his beloved News department?
I’m pretty sure he is.
Way to dissect those ignorant comments coming from trump’s buddies…Thanks Jeff!! Keep ‘em coming rethuglicans-no one is believing a damn thing you say anymore!
I’m so proud of us Democrats showing up to vote. The Blue Wave must keep rolling into and beyond next year’s elections. No matter how small an election may seem, it’s important to vote. Keep that momentum going!
Fucking David Rem has a fucking good way with fucking words, doesn’t he? lol
never heard of the guy before yesterday
who the fuck is he?
Now RUNNING FOR MAYOR IN 2025 David is dedicated to restoring safety, accountability, and opportunity in the city he loves. His activism began with the fight for merit-based education, championing fairness and hard work. As Mayor, David Rem will fight for the values that matter most to New Yorkers and deliver real solutions for a brighter future. "DONATE NOW"
Josh Fiallo, "Daily Beast", 10/28/24
David Rem wasn’t well-known outside New York City politics before Sunday, but he shot up the ranks in MAGA-world fandom after he took to Madison Square Garden TO WAVE A CRUCIFIX AND CALL KAMALA HARRIS THE "ANTICHRIST" ON STAGE. (Now do you remember?)
To use his closing salutation, he can Go Fuck Himself
I sometimes resort to selective amnesia to deal with this insanity.
That fucking guy.
David Rem has a big fat mouth with vampire teeth on the bottom rather than the top. What an asshole.
Fuck if I know
That fucking fuck is my new fucking spirit fucking animal. Right after Uncle fucking Jeff, that is.
Absolutely-fucking-lutely. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
You Fucking A!
Fucking Judas fucking betrayed that fucking Jesus!
Do these stupid Republicans really believe that being on their knees kissing a former game show hosts flabby butt is a good campaign strategy? They embarrassed and debased themselves and now can't understand how they lost.
Kissing the flabby Ass is what Fluffers do.
See previous thread for update.
"Kissing the flabby Ass is what Fluffers do." Sounds like a new job description for George Santos.
I seriously lost it at Jeff's new name for Georgie Porgie Pudding and Pardon! Too good!
Yes, the best thing the Republicans can do for us is to keep this shit up, right through the midterms.
I’m pretty sure we now have confirmation of where all of the hate and violence is coming from. So much for Christian and family values, Repubs.
Did you see the breakdown by religion of who they voted for in NYC? Amazing the % of Christians, Catholics & Jews that did not vote for Mamdani. High % of Other & Nones did.
No, I didn’t see that breakdown, but interesting.
Republicans are trying to steal Thanksgiving from us! When will they tell us our flights are cancelled?
What kind of a shiithole administration stops paying air traffic controllers who are responsible for the safety of millions of lives everyday???
How come we don’t hear of the CEOs of American, Delta, SW, United raging mad on their phone to these stupid Republicon congresspeople?
Where is their anger? Are they waiting for a collision that costs. hundreds of lives and hundreds of millions of dollars?
They think it’s a blip on the screen that will go away
Not that if there's nobody left watching the blips on the screen.
Great question. I have wondered that myself.
Perhaps when members of Congress are unable to fly home for Thanksgiving, they’ll lobby to pay air traffic controllers.
i wouldn't even want to fly at this point
I saw the handwriting on the wall and flew to visit my mother in early October. We all know that Thanksgiving is the heaviest travel day of the year. I hope the unpaid air traffic controllers will go on strike just before that holiday. That would be awesome.
I wonder if the Republicans would open the government if all air traffic controllers went on strike at the same time?
Robert Reich predicted that scenario weeks ago as the way the shutdown will end.
Well they need their private jets to fly home for the holidays, so this might be the tipping point.
Do you remember Reagan and how he dealt with the air traffic controllers? He just aimed and fired.
Good fucking luck with that.
We still haven't really recovered from that.
I certainly do remember that.
It's worth a shot. C'mon air traffic control, do the USA a solid. You aren't being paid anyway.
It's a bit of a walk from SF Bay back to Lake Co. (Anyone actually bored enough to follow me may have noted that I've hopped across 9 time zones in recent weeks.) If it weren't for our house, cars, etc., I guess I wouldn't mind being stranded out here. We'll see what happens next week.
I looked at the list of airports that they are going to screw with - oddly enough, they’re virtually ALL in blue states or blue cities. Who’d have guessed? 🧐
Yes, I was disgusted, but not surprised, to see O’Hare International Airport (the 4th busiest airport) and Midway (the 34th busiest airport) on the list.
Not Tieterboro? Color me shocked.
Well hush my mouth!
Republicans always do what Republicans do.
Healthcare - and health insurance. I can't imagine the devastation of having premiums exploding. We have "good" insurance through my husband's employer. I just found out that my portion of a surgery to remove a small cyst on a finger is $3800. This much with our "good" insurance through the local BCBS plan. $3k deductibles are now the norm on PPO plans. Ridiculous.
If Republicans wreck the ACA they should wreck it entirely, but chances are they'll keep the IRS requirement to show a full year of health insurance coverage (with high premiums and high deductibles) or pay a penalty on income taxes. So people will be punished financially either way.
Ummm....many of us would be thrilled to have a $3K deductible. On some of both the ACA and Medicare Advantage plans I've seen, deductibles go up to $9700.
Which is why I said "good" insurance.
But you were complaining about a $3K deductible on a "good" plan. That figure is a gift at today’s prices. Back when I was still working (2019), we hadn't seen anything below $5K in years.
Denise, I'm sorry you have a high deductible. I don't think anyone should have one and we should have universal healthcare. I'm pointing out that even with supposedly stellar insurance it's $3800 patient pay for a minor surgery. That amount would break most people's budget.
Agree about universal healthcare and the fact that most people can't afford even a simple procedure.
All I was saying is that you should consider yourself very lucky compared with most of the rest of us, and be grateful to have what you do. Your insurance isn't supposefly stellar, it IS stellar, compared with what most people face.
That's exactly what he was saying. This is "good" insurance, by today's standards, and it still sucks.
I know Healthcare costs are ridiculous. I believe Doctors and hospitals overcharge knowing the insurance will pay part and that they can get the rest from a patient.
The GOP is high on its own supply and I hope they never come down.
Unfortunately, they'll still in power despite stoned. The OD can't come fast enough.