yes I know that "we’re being RULED by a bunch of dicks" is technically more accurate, but governed is a more poetic word, looks better on the page, and is easier to say out loud.
"Good morning, Vietnam! Hey, this is not a test. This is rock and roll. Time to rock it from the delta to the DMZ! Is that me, or does that sound like an Elvis Presley movie? Viva Da Nang. Oh, viva, Da Nang. Da Nang me, Da Nang me. Why don't they get a rope and hang me? "
Robin Willams as Adrian Cronauer in Good Morning, Viet Nam
Absolutely the premier funny man. I truly miss him. I'm just waking up and Already overwhelmed because I just saw the outrageous post that RFKJR was confirmed as the new department of health czar. WTF it's no wonder I just slept 14 hours straight!! Every day is a bigger nightmare and so fucked up - my entire being musta said ' Screw this! Take a time out '. and sure enough my wakeup call is RFKJR is now in charge of killing the babies the repubes were are so hell-bent on supposedly saving!! Where is the government of the United States of America?? And who are we supposed to be right now?!
I hadn't heard that yet, Denise. Oh, FUCK, FUCK, FUCK! JFC, now it will be cider vinegar and homeopathic bullshit instead of evidence based science and medicine. Shit. I am beyond disgusted and furious.
Trump will be adding a shit-ton more deaths to his six-figure toll from covid... he might actually win "president most lethal to US citizens" but I'd rather not give him that award -- he'd probably enjoy it so much it would become a personal goal to get his total as high as possible.
Sadly, it has been reported as of 4/26/23 there have been 1.1 million Covid deaths in the US. I garnered this information from statista.com . I only state this as to reiterate Un poco loco’s frightening fact that “it would become a personal goal to get his total as high as possible.” Another “ big and beautiful number.”
If you find male junior high style jokes humorous, I suppose one might find this stuff hilarious. I find it to be evidence that these are not serious people and are not fit nominees for any sort of government job, let alone Cabinet level positions.
Both Trump and Musk are, mentally speaking, junior high boys in arrested development
I often say that the main difference between men and women is that women generally stop finding body function jokes funny at around the age of 12. Men never stop finding them funny.
In the metric system, the base is the meter and is multiplied or divided by powers of 10 to represent other units. Units smaller than the millimeter are the micron (1 x 10^-6 m), the nanometer (1 x 10^-9 m), the picometer (1 x 10^-12 m) and the femtometer (1 x 10^-15 m).
It's hard to understand what they say with King Shitpants mushroom dick in their mouths. Maybe it's when they try to move it with their tongue the message gets garbled. 🤔
I'm not sure I agree with Garcia. According to the movie Team America there are three kinds of people: pussies, dicks, and assholes. Using this taxonomy Musk would more properly be an asshole.
Thank you for clarifying. I was worried about you when I read the word "governed" in the headline. I know my Jeff; that's not him. So, I guess I can handle seeing the word "governed" if I think of it being used in an ironic or euphemistic sense. As you well know, the actual function of the Trump administration is to manage the destruction of America, including its democracy, its institutions, and its citizens.
Nicer than what I said after posting this on Bluesky. I think I said something like, “Bunch of fucking, pathetic, performative morons leading this soon-to-be-shithole country!”
Good for him. They go gross - we go grosser. Glad to see one Dem with a spine. And calling her out on her unprofessionalism in Congress. And who's going to clutch their pearls? MAGAs aren't going to vote for Dems anyway and I think most Dems are ready for a good bar brawl.
I called Jeffries office this morning and asked, " where the fuck are you hiding"? Democrats are all over the place. They're disjointed. Many have abandoned ship. 😔 They're wishing with one hand and shit dumping in the other.
Listening to the “hope and change“ nonsense is nauseating, Obama certainly killed wishful thinking Lisa…the pleasantries I keep hearing from Democrats is telling, I’m not buying! Everyone should be outraged and demanding accountability from our duly elected!!
💯!!! I just called my senators and congress rep and dropped f-bombs and vented my hostility towards the do nothing Dems!!! I even left my phone # and demanded they return my calls!!! Won’t hear from them but I feel better at channeling my rage😤😤😤 I invite ALL of you to do what I did!
LET THE DEMS KNOW WE’RE PISSED AND NOT GONNA TAKE THIS ANYMORE🤬🤬🤬
Need to give it to the maggots just as hard. I don't care if they're not my rep. I go down the GOP list to call several each day. I give my name and the name of a city in their district and then ream them out on their cowardice, meanness, and lies, and remind them that they're only in control from cheating due to voter suppression. They need to hear it from more of us.
Jumping on Dem's is only okay if you're jumping on the maggots also.
I called his office yesterday. All I could do was leave a message. I said, “you are a traitor. So many people worked so hard for your campaign. Sent money, supported you during your health crisis, cheered you on. This isn't about the people you serve. It's about you. And only you. Your personal agenda. Your needs. You said yesterday that there wasn't any Constitutional crisis. Unbelievable. For christ sakes put some pants on.”
He took a large sum of money from the far-right pro Israeli group. I can't remember what they call themselves. Maybe he's got his beachfront property all picked out in Gaza. Fuck him. I'm so disgusted by most politicians. Pathological narcissism is a problem.
I love the retaliation with the giant penis (I once brought a 4ft paper mache penis piñata, anatomically correct, to a staff meeting. It was appreciated). We need more of this kind of retaliation, where MTG is concerned. What would happen if someone brought in cat lasers?
I'm all about President JB Pritzker (D governor of Illinois) right now, although he is admittedly yet another straight white male billionaire. But my best friend was his ASL interpreter during Covid, and says he is truly a good guy. And he just did a speech where he said that you can tell who's an idiot because the idiots are cruel, or something.
Robert Garcia. Yes yes yes. WE NEED SMART PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT AFRAID. WHO HAVE BALLS. SMART THINKERS.
I MEAN, LOOK AT THESE PEOPLE TAKING US DOWN. STUPID MEAN NO PRINCIPLES DICKS CHEATERS NEVER READ ANYTHING OF VALUE NEVER INVENTED ANYTHING NEVER SUPPORTED ANYTHING GOOD NEVER GAVE UNSELFISHLY TO ANYTHING ……
You get the point.
WE NEED TO QUIT BEING SO CAREFUL. WE FOLLOW THE LAWS BUT THEY THE FUCK NEED TO FORCED TO ALSO FOLLOW THE LAWS. WHICH THEY DONT.
As a Californian, I have supported Garcia, but lately, not so much. I changed my mind watching that You Tube segment. At least he's speaking up and doing it very, very, well.
I've mentioned that I found "Civil War" disturbing because so many of the elements were already here and acting in the US (not talking artistic merit). I found it plausible, but wondered what the triggering event would be.
I think we have it now: Musk destroying the US from the inside with Trump's blessing. The courts are powerless; they need the DOJ to enforce and that's not going to happen. Besides, he'll ignore everything anyway. Congress is sitting on their thumbs, especially the GOP because they're afraid of being being primaried. Or worse.
It's a coup d'etat. That "event" in the Oval yesterday with Musk's kid wiping his snot on the Resolute desk and telling Trump he's not President capped it.
Musk is now fucking with our money to increase his. Americans don't like that. I feel (like in a vibe sense) there's a growing recognition by Trump supporters (that they won't admit to publicly) that they were had. Voted for Trump, got Sissy SpaceX running the country. Into the ground.
The sides AREN'T going to be red v blue or political parties. It's going to be like WW II: allied interests v the "Christian" nationalists.
I agree with you...I just dont think we're going to get through this without violence. Even the farmers are starting to get pissed off. And thats saying something.
One of my neighbors is a teacher. They're living in constant fear. She was in tears last night. Her twin sister is moving to Sweden to protect their gay daughter. They're making arrangements right now. This is so painful.
These morons can’t think more than 1 move ahead on their checker board… They are utterly unable to see easily predicted consequences from their actions. The fall will be epic… I just hope we can survive their depredations.
Right on! I have family members who are farmers and they are big Trump supporters. Trump gave 12 billion $$ in bribes to the farmers for votes during his first term so they are all supporting him. However, these stubborn, ignorant, hypocrites are slowly finding out that they have been had!
Also, on top of being paid to not farm their fields, my family of farmers all got PPP money during Covid. It’s public information to see who received PPP funds and the dollar amounts so I had “receipts” when I approached them about it. Funny how they babbled and justified their corporate welfare, yet bitch about the school offering free breakfast/lunch to the children who are food insecure.
Oh. Some of them have been getting paid to not grow crops, to keep prices up, and now they are getting mad? That sounds like entitlement to me. (And honestly, I love farmers. We have some in our family and they are hard working, lovely human beings.) They have been on the wrong team it seems to me.
Yeah, my brother is a rancher, and his bunch are very Repub. Naive and Repub, they go together. Good, solid people but their politics are, IMO ridiculous.
I'm just wondering when the money in the federal treasury and social security trust fund is going to "electronically transfer" to an undisclosed location which happens to look a lot like Elon's bank account.
those fuckers -- they certainly don't need it, but people who are made homeless when their houses were destroyed by a mega-hurricane sure as hell will.
We live in the land of 400M guns. At some point, the push is going to be too much, but I don’t think we’re near it yet. We’re all too busy commenting online and not ready to March into the teeth of Hegseth’s military.
As a little aside, recall that in “The Hunger Games” one of the districts was nuked due to a past rebellion. I’m not 100% sure that it can’t happen here.
I'm not sure how many people are familiar with Berkeley in the Sixties, but in my experience you need to be prepared before it starts. It only takes one tiny thing to make it start. Make sure you're wearing padded clothes, a heavy leather jacket, heavy leather square toed boots, have your hair tied back, wear a bandana over your hair, and have another one, dampened in a plastic bag in a pocket. I was in class when a speaker at a rally said "Let's go down and take the Park." The entire crowd moved down Telegraph to the Park and when I came out an hour and a half later, it took me quite a while to get off campus. The next day the National Guard was all over the place. No one planned anything. In answer to your question, I was prepared, because I had been through the Third World Strike three months before. If you go to a demonstration, expect the worst.
The defense department has spent millions on non lethal weaponry, what I knew of many years ago, is undoubtedly more sophisticated today Newton… no need for nuclear weaponry!
If Bondi should forbid the U.S. Marshals from acting on orders from the courts, the courts are allowed to contract private enforcement if necessary. Somehow, that felt encouraging.
I've watched crap like this play out, well, probably since I was about 11, when I became aware of politics. Why 1956? I was 11 in 1956, and I saw the CCCP crush the Hungarian rebellion. I watched the US Gov throw a few bones to the Black population, when it became apparent those folks might start a second revolution. I watched Clinton squander his 8 years in office. I watched Obama squander his 8 years in office, Bush's failed colonial ventures into Iraq and Afghanistan.
Then came Biden, who, with the exception of FDR, (who died when I was a two months and one day old,) Biden actually did things for the ordinary person. It wasn't accumulating power or ego with him. History is going to be very very kind to Joe Biden.
It turned out better than I expected, given that the Repugs were trying their best to kill it all along the way. I remember thinking the negotiations were going to still be in progress decades from now.
I don't think the assholes have actually thought this out, though -- if a lot of the people who aren't rich enough to buy meds the US won't supply get sick and die, there won't be much of a labor pool at all. Then they'll have to import a fuck-ton of immigrants for cheap labor; not a totally bad thing if that happens, except you know the new recruits will be treated just the same.
I would not be surprised if we got back to slavery, but using debt as the camel's nose under the tent, or for the rounded-up immigrants to "work their way" to pay for their room and board, fines (plus interest), and fees.
I started writing a story of a dystopia society where there were haves and have lots, the have nots had generational debts they worked to pay, there was no education. I wrote out my notes for the structure and it scared the shit out of me because we are THIS CLOSE to it being a reality. That was 2011, a d we've come even closer
Only immigrant geniuses are welcome anyway and they sure as shit won't be picking fruits and vegetables. Probably thinking of ways to line the pockets of the wealthy - some more!!
Happy birthday Terry! My beloved turns 80 next week and our new mantra is "80 is the new 60".
Speaking of 1956, take a look at the Republican party platform from that year to see how very far they have fallen. It reads like Bernie Sanders' wish list.
I was thrilled Garcia did what he did. It's time the cerebral Democrats fight fire with fire. SO damned frustrating...yeah, I know we're in the minority, but that shouldn't stop us from speaking out, loudly and often, calling out every single lie...every time.
"they use magnets. it’s a new theory — magnets. they’re gonna lift the planes up. and it doesn’t work." I swear to God, we are living in the dumbest timeline.
How many times have the MAGAs been in the minority and they sure were loud and obnoxious. I'm tired of this politically correct crap all the time. Keep being nice and sweet and you won't have a government anymore.
I'm not sure we aren't already there. RFKJR was confirmed to officially be allowed to kill our babies with every disease we've spent centuries eradicating. Who the hell are we anymore??!
Yes…thats why I said: "yeah, I know we're in the minority, but that shouldn't stop us from speaking out, loudly and often, calling out every single lie...every time.”
As I’m enjoying the dick pick from Rep. Garcia, I was informed that RFK Jr. had been confirmed in the Senate. My heart really can’t take this insanity. Healthcare just went in the shitter.
Katharine, thx for news. It's better to know facts. We in this community can watch for breaking news on virus, bird flu, new strains and share it here. I guess we're intern epidemiologists now.
"Information wants to be free," said Anonymous. Vaccinations are down nationwide, 1,300 people have died from the flu this season, including 57 children (10 in California, with 3 teenagers dead in San Diego). Thousands hospitalized at a rate higher than this time during the first year of Covid. That's just the flu. Viruses are salivating like Putin now, both given free rein.
🚨 *PSA* If you still need latest COVID booster, flu, RSV get them now!!
Note: RSV is a once per lifetime shot. I had RSV 2 years ago. In 68 yrs I have never been so sick. 4 weeks down in bed. Then moved into lungs, fierce cough. Had to get RX for cough. Don't blow off RSV!!
Did you see the video of Musk in the Oval Office and his kid says to Trump, you're not the President, get out, and shush (paraphrasing). Wonder where the kid heard that from:-) Elon spanking him in private and relaying messages from Vlad.
That whole scenario was epic. Musks kid picking his nose and wiping it on the Resolute Desk. The perfect image to depict what we're going through right now. 🤦♀️
Turd is in an isolation room to save him from booger germs. The WH janitorial staff is standing down, as military haz met teams deep sanitize the entire Oval. Sagers on standby. Turd demanding a new Resolute Desk & new Oval Office location.
We'd be better off with that little kid doing what mElon's trying to do. For starters, he probably knows more about coding than Daddy Dearest, he's likely on less drugs, and he sure as Trump's odor knows that Trump is a half a mental meltdown away from the Old Folk's Home.
Hi Jeff.. another episode of “Golf with MAGAS”…. I found the conversation rather muted on Tuesday except for one question from a member. He asked why I don’t care or respect Elon? I said there are many levels of concern over this guy. Number 1.. Elon came to the US on false pretenses, a student visa and yet did not attend school… so I guess he’s an “illegal immigrant” that u folks hate so much, but hey, he’s white so give him a pass. At that point I asked if they approved what doge is doing, all replied yes. I pointed out that Elon and his college frat boys are programmers, not forensic accountants, those are the people you need to conduct audits… this crew is after all your personal information, which is confirmed on a daily basis. I then pointed out this crew has no security clearances, no background checks, no budget, no approval from congress and yet they are firing and closing down agencies. If you get rid of CIA and FBI personnel your going to have a terrorist attack worse than 911.. I then ask.. is this what you voted for? Best to all.
They really don’t know how to respond.. All have become indoctrinated by FAUX, they never hear challenges to their world view. Example, Daily Mail today talking about Russia taking over Europe.. I’ve been screaming about this for the past few months, I watch Russian TV, they have been saying this same bs for months and yet MAGAS could care less… shrug shoulders and move on…
Did you ever get the feeling that we're all living in some sort of Matrix-like simulation where the residents of Arkham are actually running the asylum? Sure, you can attack Garcia for a minor breach of decorum but who can forget the endless attempts to impeach Biden without one single scintilla of, y'know, EVIDENCE. The entire first godawful month of this administration reads like one of those "What if Hitler had won?" books. One can only imagine the shitstorm and hysterics that would have greeted Biden if he tried ANY of this insanity. It's like the time the Penguin ran for mayor in the Batman TV series. Only this time the Penguin wins.
Questions for Crappypants McGibberish (if I was the journalist inquiring about replacing hydraulics): what happens if the magnets lifting the planes get wet? What if the planes are dropped over the ocean? Would they be electrocuted, or would the sharks eat them?
The people in office on the Fascist side have zero knowledge of US government or that there are three branches of government, or that our economy isn’t run exactly like their personal checking account. A record breaking number of incompetents and first time Rapist-Seditionist-Felon King and first lady of president f’ Elon
Excellent point! Musk was 3 years old when the current parliamentarian Government of South Africa was established (1968). He has zero educational grounding in any fully developed government with a solid constitution and history of democracy. So it's all a child's game to him.
You can tell that by his leaps and bounds on stage. He's a little boy gleefully playing in the sandbox of our government. Our country. And he has so much practice just blowing shit up! Welcome to the brave nut world!
As a side note to the Ozempic discovery, here's a common thing that happens. We provide millions of tax dollars for basic research, then, if a promising drug is discovered, some drug company gets to patent it and sell it at horribly inflated dollars. Instead of eliminating the NIH, we should require that the U.S. gets a return on that investment, rather than just Big Pharma. Or, better yet, make Big Pharma charge U.S. citizens the same rates as they are forced to do in other countries.
NIce job Garcia…DICK is appropriate word for leon…and trump. They make shit up as they go along and no one seems to be stopping them. I will bet Trump has no idea what the hell leon is even talking about!!
Tess I loved Garcia’s appropriate response, “He is a dick” These news people act like the word dick is offensive but normalize a seditionist-felon-rapist-Nazi in the White House illegally occupying the office! But golly! Dick is a bad word! 🙄
yes I know that "we’re being RULED by a bunch of dicks" is technically more accurate, but governed is a more poetic word, looks better on the page, and is easier to say out loud.
I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL
similarly, yes I know it's Ho Chi Min City, and not Saigon. SHUT UP, SAIGON IS A FUNNIER WORD
that used to Hanoi me but now I just let Saigons be Saigons
PLEASE!!!! NEVER lose your sense of humor. It's delightful.
I confess I stole that from an old 70's joke book
You're a comedy aggregator! Very important!
The National Lampoon had a cartoon where a reporter asked the Shah what happened. "Khomeini times Ayatollah you, I RAN!"
my dad may have also had that joke book.
Oh you kid!!
😬
I think I’ll go out to the bar and Taiwan on. 🍹
Excellent.
Get a Hanoi job with a flappy ending.
😝
Well, Jeff loves to hanoi his critics, bad dum dum.
Brilliant! Thanks pho the chuckle!
👍👍👍👍
Dang.
🏆🏆🏆🏆
👌🏼
"Good morning, Vietnam! Hey, this is not a test. This is rock and roll. Time to rock it from the delta to the DMZ! Is that me, or does that sound like an Elvis Presley movie? Viva Da Nang. Oh, viva, Da Nang. Da Nang me, Da Nang me. Why don't they get a rope and hang me? "
Robin Willams as Adrian Cronauer in Good Morning, Viet Nam
Absolutely the premier funny man. I truly miss him. I'm just waking up and Already overwhelmed because I just saw the outrageous post that RFKJR was confirmed as the new department of health czar. WTF it's no wonder I just slept 14 hours straight!! Every day is a bigger nightmare and so fucked up - my entire being musta said ' Screw this! Take a time out '. and sure enough my wakeup call is RFKJR is now in charge of killing the babies the repubes were are so hell-bent on supposedly saving!! Where is the government of the United States of America?? And who are we supposed to be right now?!
I hadn't heard that yet, Denise. Oh, FUCK, FUCK, FUCK! JFC, now it will be cider vinegar and homeopathic bullshit instead of evidence based science and medicine. Shit. I am beyond disgusted and furious.
I use homeopathics and cider vinegar. I also believe in science and in vaccinations.
Trump will be adding a shit-ton more deaths to his six-figure toll from covid... he might actually win "president most lethal to US citizens" but I'd rather not give him that award -- he'd probably enjoy it so much it would become a personal goal to get his total as high as possible.
Sadly, it has been reported as of 4/26/23 there have been 1.1 million Covid deaths in the US. I garnered this information from statista.com . I only state this as to reiterate Un poco loco’s frightening fact that “it would become a personal goal to get his total as high as possible.” Another “ big and beautiful number.”
And kerosene, the redneck favorite medical cure for well...everything.
Vicks Vapo-Rub as a chaser.
Pat Sajak was also a DJ on AFR in Vietnam, 68-69.
My God he was good. It's so sad that no one saved him.
Thx Jeff. I only know the word Saigon. Ho Chi Min City is not in my vocabulary.
Father-in-law was there when the helicopters were leaving the city.
That’s how old some of us are.
You must be much younger than many of us here Teri, excellent!!
Really, Teri? Ho Chi Minh City is what I call it.
Yes, with an "h" at the end is correct.
Well it's going to be called Donald Dick America City pretty soon, Ho Ch Minh can like it or leave, dead though he may be.
Trump's little 🍄 and Elmo's hairy balls 😂 you can't make this shit anymore hilarious ✌🏻💙
If you find male junior high style jokes humorous, I suppose one might find this stuff hilarious. I find it to be evidence that these are not serious people and are not fit nominees for any sort of government job, let alone Cabinet level positions.
Both Trump and Musk are, mentally speaking, junior high boys in arrested development
I often say that the main difference between men and women is that women generally stop finding body function jokes funny at around the age of 12. Men never stop finding them funny.
I never found them funny, just like ethnic jokes aren't funny.
When we have our first period, jokes about genitals just stop being funny. If they ever were.
I find them funny
me too and proud of it!
In school Musk was the kid the cool guys stuffed in his locker at lunchtime, so now he's getting his revenge on all of us.
Trump was just a narcissistic sociopath from the get go. That's why his folks sent him away to military school.
No offense, but I think we saw evidence long ago that they are not serious people.
I'd prefer to just see them arrested. IDGAF about their development.
True dat T L!!
I love a good dick joke, but these are not that.
Exactly. I always think 13 year old boys who at that stage barely have enough sense to get in out of a shower of rain.
I have affection for certain body parts so cannot endorse this in its totality .. but you have made me laugh so 😘🩵
Both of them a pimple on the ass of progress.
No, an infected boil.
The numnuts in charge of our government…
So you're saying we need to get the dick ruler out?
Better use a metric ruler to find the accuracy of the dick’s dick.
I don't think they make rulers that tiny.
A millimeter is 1/10 of a centimeter and a centimeter is .394 inches. I think you’d find it darn near perfect to measure both his brain and his dick.
Simultaneous total actually.😀
Oh yes they do.
In the metric system, the base is the meter and is multiplied or divided by powers of 10 to represent other units. Units smaller than the millimeter are the micron (1 x 10^-6 m), the nanometer (1 x 10^-9 m), the picometer (1 x 10^-12 m) and the femtometer (1 x 10^-15 m).
Micrometer.
Yes yes yes yes get the dicks rulers out.
Clever, vorpal. Well done.
Please don't.
LOL
It's hard to understand what they say with King Shitpants mushroom dick in their mouths. Maybe it's when they try to move it with their tongue the message gets garbled. 🤔
Ewww. 🤭
I'm not sure I agree with Garcia. According to the movie Team America there are three kinds of people: pussies, dicks, and assholes. Using this taxonomy Musk would more properly be an asshole.
I don't know; think Musk and Trump probably both qualify in multiple categories...
Well, I suppose if it's mix and match, trump is an asshole pussy and musk is an asshole dick.
As I have observed about Lindsey Graham, some people manage to be a pussy, a dick, an asshole, and a boob all at the same time.
Thank you for clarifying. I was worried about you when I read the word "governed" in the headline. I know my Jeff; that's not him. So, I guess I can handle seeing the word "governed" if I think of it being used in an ironic or euphemistic sense. As you well know, the actual function of the Trump administration is to manage the destruction of America, including its democracy, its institutions, and its citizens.
Thank the spirits you made a decision! I usually rotate through Lying Gasbag Lies or The Daily
Outrage as in Did you see what Lying gasbag lied about 2 minutes ago.
As for his side piece fElon my eyes have rolled so far back in my head it’s last week.
Nicer than what I said after posting this on Bluesky. I think I said something like, “Bunch of fucking, pathetic, performative morons leading this soon-to-be-shithole country!”
Will that work too?
I nominate Congressman Robert Garcia for President in the 2028 election, based simply on his takedown of 3-toes and Felon Mudk.
100%
Good for him. They go gross - we go grosser. Glad to see one Dem with a spine. And calling her out on her unprofessionalism in Congress. And who's going to clutch their pearls? MAGAs aren't going to vote for Dems anyway and I think most Dems are ready for a good bar brawl.
I called Jeffries office this morning and asked, " where the fuck are you hiding"? Democrats are all over the place. They're disjointed. Many have abandoned ship. 😔 They're wishing with one hand and shit dumping in the other.
Listening to the “hope and change“ nonsense is nauseating, Obama certainly killed wishful thinking Lisa…the pleasantries I keep hearing from Democrats is telling, I’m not buying! Everyone should be outraged and demanding accountability from our duly elected!!
💯!!! I just called my senators and congress rep and dropped f-bombs and vented my hostility towards the do nothing Dems!!! I even left my phone # and demanded they return my calls!!! Won’t hear from them but I feel better at channeling my rage😤😤😤 I invite ALL of you to do what I did!
LET THE DEMS KNOW WE’RE PISSED AND NOT GONNA TAKE THIS ANYMORE🤬🤬🤬
Need to give it to the maggots just as hard. I don't care if they're not my rep. I go down the GOP list to call several each day. I give my name and the name of a city in their district and then ream them out on their cowardice, meanness, and lies, and remind them that they're only in control from cheating due to voter suppression. They need to hear it from more of us.
Jumping on Dem's is only okay if you're jumping on the maggots also.
And accepting money in the invisible hand.
( ~*-*)~You gonna tell me that Fetterman isn’t bribed?
I called his office yesterday. All I could do was leave a message. I said, “you are a traitor. So many people worked so hard for your campaign. Sent money, supported you during your health crisis, cheered you on. This isn't about the people you serve. It's about you. And only you. Your personal agenda. Your needs. You said yesterday that there wasn't any Constitutional crisis. Unbelievable. For christ sakes put some pants on.”
He took a large sum of money from the far-right pro Israeli group. I can't remember what they call themselves. Maybe he's got his beachfront property all picked out in Gaza. Fuck him. I'm so disgusted by most politicians. Pathological narcissism is a problem.
I know I am
You bet.
My you bet goes to Deborah Hunter
Yo. I am too.
If only more Dems like Rep. Garcia would step up to the plate and call this shit out for what it really is. The dicks and three toes have got to go.
I love the retaliation with the giant penis (I once brought a 4ft paper mache penis piñata, anatomically correct, to a staff meeting. It was appreciated). We need more of this kind of retaliation, where MTG is concerned. What would happen if someone brought in cat lasers?
Same! I was watching PBS live when Garcia unveiled the authentic Dick Pic! FINALLY!
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Although I REALLY look forward to President Jasmine Crockett and President Pete Buttigieg, etc. That younger generation gives me hope.
I'm all about President JB Pritzker (D governor of Illinois) right now, although he is admittedly yet another straight white male billionaire. But my best friend was his ASL interpreter during Covid, and says he is truly a good guy. And he just did a speech where he said that you can tell who's an idiot because the idiots are cruel, or something.
he’s a badass! I love him
Robert Garcia. Yes yes yes. WE NEED SMART PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT AFRAID. WHO HAVE BALLS. SMART THINKERS.
I MEAN, LOOK AT THESE PEOPLE TAKING US DOWN. STUPID MEAN NO PRINCIPLES DICKS CHEATERS NEVER READ ANYTHING OF VALUE NEVER INVENTED ANYTHING NEVER SUPPORTED ANYTHING GOOD NEVER GAVE UNSELFISHLY TO ANYTHING ……
You get the point.
WE NEED TO QUIT BEING SO CAREFUL. WE FOLLOW THE LAWS BUT THEY THE FUCK NEED TO FORCED TO ALSO FOLLOW THE LAWS. WHICH THEY DONT.
As a Californian, I have supported Garcia, but lately, not so much. I changed my mind watching that You Tube segment. At least he's speaking up and doing it very, very, well.
Pride of the LBC
I like him, but still voting for Jasmine :)
I've mentioned that I found "Civil War" disturbing because so many of the elements were already here and acting in the US (not talking artistic merit). I found it plausible, but wondered what the triggering event would be.
I think we have it now: Musk destroying the US from the inside with Trump's blessing. The courts are powerless; they need the DOJ to enforce and that's not going to happen. Besides, he'll ignore everything anyway. Congress is sitting on their thumbs, especially the GOP because they're afraid of being being primaried. Or worse.
It's a coup d'etat. That "event" in the Oval yesterday with Musk's kid wiping his snot on the Resolute desk and telling Trump he's not President capped it.
Musk is now fucking with our money to increase his. Americans don't like that. I feel (like in a vibe sense) there's a growing recognition by Trump supporters (that they won't admit to publicly) that they were had. Voted for Trump, got Sissy SpaceX running the country. Into the ground.
The sides AREN'T going to be red v blue or political parties. It's going to be like WW II: allied interests v the "Christian" nationalists.
I agree with you...I just dont think we're going to get through this without violence. Even the farmers are starting to get pissed off. And thats saying something.
One of my neighbors is a teacher. They're living in constant fear. She was in tears last night. Her twin sister is moving to Sweden to protect their gay daughter. They're making arrangements right now. This is so painful.
I’m hopefully going to check out Spain and Portugal this spring/summer. If moving won’t work out oh well…I’ve never been and I need a vacation 🙄
Sounds like a great plan. Some of my family went to a wedding in Portugal last summer and they loved it there.
I’ll see. A one year visa - as a writer.
You have all my wishes for a beautiful life
These morons can’t think more than 1 move ahead on their checker board… They are utterly unable to see easily predicted consequences from their actions. The fall will be epic… I just hope we can survive their depredations.
Farmers who voted for Trump obviously have either short memories, or are the most ignorant tosspots on the planet Susan!!
Both, Patrick. Add stubborn to the list.
Right on! I have family members who are farmers and they are big Trump supporters. Trump gave 12 billion $$ in bribes to the farmers for votes during his first term so they are all supporting him. However, these stubborn, ignorant, hypocrites are slowly finding out that they have been had!
Sorry, not sorry!
Also, on top of being paid to not farm their fields, my family of farmers all got PPP money during Covid. It’s public information to see who received PPP funds and the dollar amounts so I had “receipts” when I approached them about it. Funny how they babbled and justified their corporate welfare, yet bitch about the school offering free breakfast/lunch to the children who are food insecure.
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Oh. Some of them have been getting paid to not grow crops, to keep prices up, and now they are getting mad? That sounds like entitlement to me. (And honestly, I love farmers. We have some in our family and they are hard working, lovely human beings.) They have been on the wrong team it seems to me.
Yeah, my brother is a rancher, and his bunch are very Repub. Naive and Repub, they go together. Good, solid people but their politics are, IMO ridiculous.
Some??!! More than you know!
I'm just wondering when the money in the federal treasury and social security trust fund is going to "electronically transfer" to an undisclosed location which happens to look a lot like Elon's bank account.
Already happening. Eloon and his incel goon squad have taken $80M from a NYC bank account that was earmarked for FEMA funds -- https://democraticunderground.com/100220022204
those fuckers -- they certainly don't need it, but people who are made homeless when their houses were destroyed by a mega-hurricane sure as hell will.
JFC!!!!!!!!
Saw this Mary… I’ve made a couple of spare cudgels for anyone looking!!
yeah, I'm still thinking rocket launcher.
And him strapped to it
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As soon as he puts us on his DOGE crypto
We live in the land of 400M guns. At some point, the push is going to be too much, but I don’t think we’re near it yet. We’re all too busy commenting online and not ready to March into the teeth of Hegseth’s military.
As a little aside, recall that in “The Hunger Games” one of the districts was nuked due to a past rebellion. I’m not 100% sure that it can’t happen here.
I'm not sure how many people are familiar with Berkeley in the Sixties, but in my experience you need to be prepared before it starts. It only takes one tiny thing to make it start. Make sure you're wearing padded clothes, a heavy leather jacket, heavy leather square toed boots, have your hair tied back, wear a bandana over your hair, and have another one, dampened in a plastic bag in a pocket. I was in class when a speaker at a rally said "Let's go down and take the Park." The entire crowd moved down Telegraph to the Park and when I came out an hour and a half later, it took me quite a while to get off campus. The next day the National Guard was all over the place. No one planned anything. In answer to your question, I was prepared, because I had been through the Third World Strike three months before. If you go to a demonstration, expect the worst.
waitin watchin gettin better edukated! or increasing our intellectual prowess
NO CABLE HERE but still SUKS!
The defense department has spent millions on non lethal weaponry, what I knew of many years ago, is undoubtedly more sophisticated today Newton… no need for nuclear weaponry!
If Bondi should forbid the U.S. Marshals from acting on orders from the courts, the courts are allowed to contract private enforcement if necessary. Somehow, that felt encouraging.
Really? That is encouraging. God…I hate this.
This is exactly right.
coup d'diks!
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Ok.
I became 80 years old on February 11.
I've watched crap like this play out, well, probably since I was about 11, when I became aware of politics. Why 1956? I was 11 in 1956, and I saw the CCCP crush the Hungarian rebellion. I watched the US Gov throw a few bones to the Black population, when it became apparent those folks might start a second revolution. I watched Clinton squander his 8 years in office. I watched Obama squander his 8 years in office, Bush's failed colonial ventures into Iraq and Afghanistan.
Then came Biden, who, with the exception of FDR, (who died when I was a two months and one day old,) Biden actually did things for the ordinary person. It wasn't accumulating power or ego with him. History is going to be very very kind to Joe Biden.
Here are 23 amazing things he did.
https://www.upworthy.com/joe-bidens-23-greatest-achievements-as-president-of-the-united-states-rp
Happy Belated Birthday and thanks for the list. Biden will be remembered well. ✌️💙
He also had Supreme Court immunity and let Dumpty take over.
Obama did give us the ACA, though.
It turned out better than I expected, given that the Repugs were trying their best to kill it all along the way. I remember thinking the negotiations were going to still be in progress decades from now.
I don't think the assholes have actually thought this out, though -- if a lot of the people who aren't rich enough to buy meds the US won't supply get sick and die, there won't be much of a labor pool at all. Then they'll have to import a fuck-ton of immigrants for cheap labor; not a totally bad thing if that happens, except you know the new recruits will be treated just the same.
I would not be surprised if we got back to slavery, but using debt as the camel's nose under the tent, or for the rounded-up immigrants to "work their way" to pay for their room and board, fines (plus interest), and fees.
I started writing a story of a dystopia society where there were haves and have lots, the have nots had generational debts they worked to pay, there was no education. I wrote out my notes for the structure and it scared the shit out of me because we are THIS CLOSE to it being a reality. That was 2011, a d we've come even closer
Only immigrant geniuses are welcome anyway and they sure as shit won't be picking fruits and vegetables. Probably thinking of ways to line the pockets of the wealthy - some more!!
NOW, Trump is offering a "gold card" plan for wealthy foreigners bringing at least $5 million to get their green cards
Happy birthday Terry! My beloved turns 80 next week and our new mantra is "80 is the new 60".
Speaking of 1956, take a look at the Republican party platform from that year to see how very far they have fallen. It reads like Bernie Sanders' wish list.
Eisenhower is one of the few Republicans I think highly of. I do not include his VP in that admiration, however...
No way Margaret Chase Smith, Everett Dirksen, or even Barry Goldwater would be accepted in today's Republican Party.
Barry Goldwater on gays in the military: "The only thing a soldier cares about is whether the guy next to him can shoot straight!"
I'll be 75 in a month, but I do remember the Hungarian Revolution. My mother went to Camp Kilmer (NJ) to help the refugees.
Happy belated Terry…agree 100%
Happy birthday, Man
The space Nazi and his nerd Reich?
Good one Mike!
😂😂😂 Good stuff, Mike.
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Wow. Bravo.
"Crappypants McGibberish" HAHA!
I was thrilled Garcia did what he did. It's time the cerebral Democrats fight fire with fire. SO damned frustrating...yeah, I know we're in the minority, but that shouldn't stop us from speaking out, loudly and often, calling out every single lie...every time.
"they use magnets. it’s a new theory — magnets. they’re gonna lift the planes up. and it doesn’t work." I swear to God, we are living in the dumbest timeline.
How many times have the MAGAs been in the minority and they sure were loud and obnoxious. I'm tired of this politically correct crap all the time. Keep being nice and sweet and you won't have a government anymore.
I'm not sure we aren't already there. RFKJR was confirmed to officially be allowed to kill our babies with every disease we've spent centuries eradicating. Who the hell are we anymore??!
THIS! THIS! THIS!
Fuck decorum -- we can have decorum back when we get our government back.
I definitely owe Mr. Jeff because NOW I know what the smelly old weenie was going on about, re the wet magnets.
I still don’t. Trying to understand what he’s going on about is like watching a movie playing backwards. The man is seriously not well.
We're only in the minority in government. Remember that.
Yes…thats why I said: "yeah, I know we're in the minority, but that shouldn't stop us from speaking out, loudly and often, calling out every single lie...every time.”
As I’m enjoying the dick pick from Rep. Garcia, I was informed that RFK Jr. had been confirmed in the Senate. My heart really can’t take this insanity. Healthcare just went in the shitter.
Yes...we are screwed. Completely.
Katharine, thx for news. It's better to know facts. We in this community can watch for breaking news on virus, bird flu, new strains and share it here. I guess we're intern epidemiologists now.
"Information wants to be free," said Anonymous. Vaccinations are down nationwide, 1,300 people have died from the flu this season, including 57 children (10 in California, with 3 teenagers dead in San Diego). Thousands hospitalized at a rate higher than this time during the first year of Covid. That's just the flu. Viruses are salivating like Putin now, both given free rein.
More like 13,000 people have died from the flu already this season -- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2025/02/12/flu-season-deaths-covid-cdc/78456884007/
Yes, thanks for correcting.
🚨 *PSA* If you still need latest COVID booster, flu, RSV get them now!!
Note: RSV is a once per lifetime shot. I had RSV 2 years ago. In 68 yrs I have never been so sick. 4 weeks down in bed. Then moved into lungs, fierce cough. Had to get RX for cough. Don't blow off RSV!!
🚨 Don't forget seniors & children. Get vaxes. NOW!
Amen! I got my RSV vaccine two weeks ago when it became apparent RFKJr would be in charge of our "health."
Healthcare was already in the shitter. Now it is being flushed.
Fuuuuuck…I hadn’t heard. 😱🤬
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
I think that's spelled "Xitter".
Did you see the video of Musk in the Oval Office and his kid says to Trump, you're not the President, get out, and shush (paraphrasing). Wonder where the kid heard that from:-) Elon spanking him in private and relaying messages from Vlad.
That whole scenario was epic. Musks kid picking his nose and wiping it on the Resolute Desk. The perfect image to depict what we're going through right now. 🤦♀️
I feel as if Musk is wiping HIS boogers all over our country!
It's a booger free for all.
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Turd is in an isolation room to save him from booger germs. The WH janitorial staff is standing down, as military haz met teams deep sanitize the entire Oval. Sagers on standby. Turd demanding a new Resolute Desk & new Oval Office location.
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Couldn't have said it better myself. Go ahead little boy with no decipherable name and Lord knows how much I'm praying for you ❤️!!
We'd be better off with that little kid doing what mElon's trying to do. For starters, he probably knows more about coding than Daddy Dearest, he's likely on less drugs, and he sure as Trump's odor knows that Trump is a half a mental meltdown away from the Old Folk's Home.
Donnie is obviously in thrall to Melon.
Hi Jeff.. another episode of “Golf with MAGAS”…. I found the conversation rather muted on Tuesday except for one question from a member. He asked why I don’t care or respect Elon? I said there are many levels of concern over this guy. Number 1.. Elon came to the US on false pretenses, a student visa and yet did not attend school… so I guess he’s an “illegal immigrant” that u folks hate so much, but hey, he’s white so give him a pass. At that point I asked if they approved what doge is doing, all replied yes. I pointed out that Elon and his college frat boys are programmers, not forensic accountants, those are the people you need to conduct audits… this crew is after all your personal information, which is confirmed on a daily basis. I then pointed out this crew has no security clearances, no background checks, no budget, no approval from congress and yet they are firing and closing down agencies. If you get rid of CIA and FBI personnel your going to have a terrorist attack worse than 911.. I then ask.. is this what you voted for? Best to all.
Well said Fastball! How do they respond? Or do they just say nothing?
They really don’t know how to respond.. All have become indoctrinated by FAUX, they never hear challenges to their world view. Example, Daily Mail today talking about Russia taking over Europe.. I’ve been screaming about this for the past few months, I watch Russian TV, they have been saying this same bs for months and yet MAGAS could care less… shrug shoulders and move on…
Wow…well keep up the good work…hopefully you will make them THINK a little bit anyway!
Well done Freddie- Russia is struggling with their military- getting recruits and
getting modern equipment and ammo.
Maybe they would launch a few bombs on Poland to make it easier? That would really put Drumpf in a spot. He would prob not retaliate
The terrorists are already in the WH. It's Elbow and Dumpty.
Did you ever get the feeling that we're all living in some sort of Matrix-like simulation where the residents of Arkham are actually running the asylum? Sure, you can attack Garcia for a minor breach of decorum but who can forget the endless attempts to impeach Biden without one single scintilla of, y'know, EVIDENCE. The entire first godawful month of this administration reads like one of those "What if Hitler had won?" books. One can only imagine the shitstorm and hysterics that would have greeted Biden if he tried ANY of this insanity. It's like the time the Penguin ran for mayor in the Batman TV series. Only this time the Penguin wins.
This whole thing has seemed suspiciously wrong to me since the mid-80's.
Questions for Crappypants McGibberish (if I was the journalist inquiring about replacing hydraulics): what happens if the magnets lifting the planes get wet? What if the planes are dropped over the ocean? Would they be electrocuted, or would the sharks eat them?
A Navy jet just plunged into San Diego Bay last night. (Both pilots survived.)
We'll have to wait for the subcommittee hearings...
Lisa, 🤣🤣🤣 yikes, I needed that laugh today!
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If only all this Smol Dick Energy could be harnessed as a renewable power source, we could stop climate change by fucking midnight.
The people in office on the Fascist side have zero knowledge of US government or that there are three branches of government, or that our economy isn’t run exactly like their personal checking account. A record breaking number of incompetents and first time Rapist-Seditionist-Felon King and first lady of president f’ Elon
Excellent point! Musk was 3 years old when the current parliamentarian Government of South Africa was established (1968). He has zero educational grounding in any fully developed government with a solid constitution and history of democracy. So it's all a child's game to him.
Plus, there's that whole fake autism Musk claims to cover up his all-too-real sadistic psychopathy.
He insults people genuinely on the spectrum every time he fucking BREATHES.
You can tell that by his leaps and bounds on stage. He's a little boy gleefully playing in the sandbox of our government. Our country. And he has so much practice just blowing shit up! Welcome to the brave nut world!
Someone PLEASE blow this mofo away!
As a side note to the Ozempic discovery, here's a common thing that happens. We provide millions of tax dollars for basic research, then, if a promising drug is discovered, some drug company gets to patent it and sell it at horribly inflated dollars. Instead of eliminating the NIH, we should require that the U.S. gets a return on that investment, rather than just Big Pharma. Or, better yet, make Big Pharma charge U.S. citizens the same rates as they are forced to do in other countries.
This entire argument is moot now that RFK Jr. has been confirmed. You won't see funding of drug discovery and development anymore.
Koko!! GOD NO!!! Think of ruining our economy & the DONOR 💲💸💸💸💸💸💲 at stake! Just take 1/3 of each RX, we'll be fine.
NIce job Garcia…DICK is appropriate word for leon…and trump. They make shit up as they go along and no one seems to be stopping them. I will bet Trump has no idea what the hell leon is even talking about!!
Tess I loved Garcia’s appropriate response, “He is a dick” These news people act like the word dick is offensive but normalize a seditionist-felon-rapist-Nazi in the White House illegally occupying the office! But golly! Dick is a bad word! 🙄
Or what little X was saying.
I have no words today. This is just too fucking insane.