12:40 pm update: folks, I've completely rewritten the lede of today's post. while mowing the lawn just now I realized the original one didn't really have a point, and devised this new, more to-the-point one.
the lesson here is that I should mow the lawn first, at 5:00 am, and then write my post
Just to point out, US bases in GERMANY are the staging areas for the Middle East as well as Europe, and Trump is removing troops. Donny's hatred of NATO and thin skin probably needed no encouragement, but I bet Putin told him it was a smart idea.
True. I would like to know a lot more about Donnie's hour and a half chat with Putin. Does anyone in our government monitor this stuff? What are they talking about like two teenagers for an hour and a half?
I think they're at least talking about maybe having to sell they're secret hideaway in Hungary on account of things not going as well as planned along with all the suicidal stupidity they've been involved with.
Yeah, and what about Israel’s role in this debacle?! I hear very little about it. Maybe they’ve just given up on Iran and are focusing on annihilating Lebanon and Gaza. 🤷🏻♀️
Remind me what Rubio's job is again? He's been silent for weeks since polling identified him as the likely frontrunner, ahead of Vance, for MAGA candidate in 2028. Maybe those oversized shoes have swallowed him up.
I don't doubt it for a minute. I'm sure Vlad supplies the only translator and it takes an hour and a half to pound Daddy Vlad's instructions into the Orange menace's thick skull.
Sometimes I think we don't want to know the truth. This is nothing compared to how we're gonna feel when this is all over and people start spilling the (verifiable) beans.
I’m sorry for sounding stupid, but I can’t figure out who Trump’s “representatives” are. Does he know who they are? Is he talking about Piss-drunk? Little Marco? Maybe he just barks out an order to Walt? WTF? This week is off to a bad start. And after Krugman’s homage to Star Wars this morning, I’m thinking about all the workers on the Death Star who got blown to smithereens. They didn’t support the Emperor, they were just trying to feed their families. We, like they, are doomed.
Absolutely beautiful picture of Claudia, Jeff! Please don't do anything that makes anything harder for you.
I still can't have a picture of my late husband in my apartment. I cry everytime I see it, and he's been gone too many years now. Grief is different for everyone. Just take care of yourself! 💙
Our Constitution, a rogue SCOTUS and 77MM of the most ignorant Americans took the most morally flawed, broken-inside person this country has ever produced whose a brain is an amalgam of a mob boss and a lizard driven to grab whatever he desires without inhibition, and has handed him de facto dictatorial authority. So now he has total immunity from being charged with crime, has unlimited power to pardon operatives, and has the codes to a nuclear arsenal capable of destroying the world. On top of that, he’s a f*cking moron and for the cherry on top, he has developed mid stage dementia which is progressing.
I read somewhere on this platform that Americans are now self-deporting…places like Portugal and Spain. Two point two MILLION Americans have left this insane circus. I’m thinking even the midterms if we would win them, may be too late. We’re a failed state.
The problem with the pendulum swinging back, while welcome, doesn't change the fact that it could swing back. All of the low information voters, racists, mysogynists, oligarchs, aren't going to change their spots. I'm pretty sure every other nation has figured out we can't be relied upon.
Once again, when the pendulum swings back the Dems will have 4-8 years to right our ship and just in time for the Republicans to muck everything up. And so it goes...
It’s hard-but people are selling their stuff, giving it away or storing it to experience something different. It’s just stuff!! I look at my house and think about a bonfire 😂😂
“Pinche” is another Spanish one, not quite as vulgar as “chinga” I don’t think. I used to own a business and I’d hear my employees use it, and look embarrassed if they thought I heard them. I think the English equivalent would be “shitty” or to use it like “damn” or “f——ing”.
What about people that have jobs and family and can't move? We have to fight back. Win the midterms, if Trump doesn't cancel them. Or the Supreme Court traitors don't declare the elections null and void if Democrats win.
People with kids and families ARE moving. It’s not for everyone. We get used to our way of life and our comforts. I’m not advocating it-just sharing what I read. In my case, I have no one except me. And it’s definitely less expensive to live in Spain.
A former colleague and his husband moved from Southern California to Portugal. They love eating and traveling in Europe and Portugal is the least expensive western European country. The shipping of belongings is the worst and most expensive part.
If Trump doesn't cancel them? So what we do or not is contingent on what he tries to do? We have no viable way to reform the Supreme Court and the whole system of checks and balances is neutered with Congress being effectively dead. I have no doubt that there will be a massive 'swing', but I do doubt that it will be 'back' to anything we've experienced before.
Riddle me this: if the United States fundamentally changes it's entire form of government, will it still be the United States? Could the nation's unity survive such a change? The question is not all that academic. The 'swing' will certainly include such changes, in whole or in part. What remains to be seen is how far the score-settling will go.
some of us feel compelled to stay and fight, as ugly as these sociopathic trumpers are. We in Vermont have a progressive, wonderful, and quickly rising underdog candidate for governor, Amanda Janoo, who is well worth staying here to work for. She is a wellbeing economist who has realistic plans to turn the state from "managed decline" to the state we can build if we fairly allocate our resources!
As someone who wants to move to another country asap, I’ve been hearing that US Americans are considered “toxic” around the world. 😩 Are we “great again” yet?!
I try not to think in such generalities- when I was in Spain people were very sorry and understanding-of course they had endured Franco for 31 years. If you’re kind and respectful you will usually get it back.
As that MDC song had it, "I'd run if I had a place to run too." Just staying put in my safe ultra-violet blue East Bay though. If I was a single man without wife and chattel (furred and feathered, respectively) I'd run for France.
Exactly, its not thst easy especially if you dont have a lot of money or if you like your contributing something significant. Lots of money or a useful skill.
Me too. Too old that is. Still trying to get my primary care doc (he's from Canada) to take me with him when he goes. I'm seeing him today so we'll see . . .
I went to Portugal last year and fell in love with it. So beautiful and such lovely people. But my first choice would be Ireland. I’m working on getting Irish citizenship because my paternal grandparents were born there … and I speak the language!
And drove around with images of Biden hog-tied on the back of their penis extensions? I mean, trucks? What about the gallows waiting for Pence’s neck on J 6? The hipocrisy.
Yes Diana — their memories are about as long as their penises (how long is a mushroom anyway?)
I think republicans refer to them as their “broomsticks”; which, of course, is a complete fabrication and exaggeration—and to be expected coming from them.
Today in Shit That Happened at Some Point on This Shitty Timeline, I Want to Say...Friday? Judicial confirmation hearings were happening and of the nominees, only ONE could answer correctly that the 22nd Amendment states that a president shall only serve for two terms and NONE of them would affirm on the record that Trump is ineligible to serve a third term.
So that's fun.
Post pics as often as you want but only as often as you can. <3
Thx for that bit about the 22nd. I'm paying attention, but a lot gets by me anyway. When we get through this, we're gonna need a book the size of the 9/11 Commission report to tell us what we missed.
They'll have to prop Trump up for a 3rd term. Because he's already decrepit. But his puppeteers might just position him in a chair behind bullet proof glass.
Also, he has Vance behind him who, I'm sure, will have something to say about Trump staying one second longer in the oval office.
He won't live long enough for a third term but he's already making noise about not leaving should the midterms go south. It's just incredibly messed up that SO many people would trample the Constitution for a loser like him.
because I'm a RESPONSIBLE JOURNALIST AND EVERYTHING and it was my job to research this stuff back in the 1980s because I knew the knowledge would come in handy someday
Touché Jeff! I’ve heard of fast women but I don’t think they’re as fast as you Jeff (well, except for my wife maybe) (no offense meant to any women in the audience)
Why do I get the horrible feeling that someone (probably miller) is whispering this shit into Trump's ear in hopes of manufacturing an excuse to drop a nuke?
Jeff, you take all the time you need to heal. Losing a soulmate, as Claudia so obviously was, is crushing. But if these substack posts help in the process, I want you to know we support every one!
no. Tipsy Jeanine was on TV yesterday claiming she has proof that the would-be assassin shot first, but again: these people about EVERYTHING. who knows what to believe?
In the meantime, this week Trump attended the PGA tournament, visited the Villages in FL and has made a couple other public appearances since last weekend’s brush with death. I’d love for some brave soul to tell him that if he feels safe attending these events, he doesn’t need a fucking ballroom.
Definitive? With this buncha liars? Sure, just like what happened in Butler, PA, and the Kirk shooting, and fat fuck's medical records, etc., ad nauseum
12:40 pm update: folks, I've completely rewritten the lede of today's post. while mowing the lawn just now I realized the original one didn't really have a point, and devised this new, more to-the-point one.
the lesson here is that I should mow the lawn first, at 5:00 am, and then write my post
Unless it’s a push mower, I’m not sure the neighbors would appreciate your mowing the lawn at 5 AM
today in Shit That Happened While I Was Writing This Shit—
Donny now claims that two American-flagged vessels have gone through the Strait.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/04/world/live-news/iran-war-hormuz-trump
gee, if only these lying liars didn't lie about everything, this might actually be credible information. who the fuck knows?
No one has been talking about Putin's little moves behind all this incredible information.
Just to point out, US bases in GERMANY are the staging areas for the Middle East as well as Europe, and Trump is removing troops. Donny's hatred of NATO and thin skin probably needed no encouragement, but I bet Putin told him it was a smart idea.
So Putin gets to help himself and his ally Iran at the same time. Heckuva job team, Trump.
team treason.
Anything that drives a wedge or lessens the ties between the U.S. and NATO is a huge win for Putin.
Pretty sure Putin tells him that every stupid brainstorm that breaks out in his empty punkin’ head is a good idea. The worst the idea, the better.
True. I would like to know a lot more about Donnie's hour and a half chat with Putin. Does anyone in our government monitor this stuff? What are they talking about like two teenagers for an hour and a half?
God only knows but whatever it is, it for sure isn’t good for humanity.
"Hang up now."
"No, YOU hang up"
(giggling) "No, YOU hang up, Silly."
"I'm hanging up now."
"No, I'M hanging up."
(Repeat ad nauseum.)
Donny begs that pee tape not be released and Putin tells him to do all kinds of pro Russia stuff
I think they're at least talking about maybe having to sell they're secret hideaway in Hungary on account of things not going as well as planned along with all the suicidal stupidity they've been involved with.
Yeah, and what about Israel’s role in this debacle?! I hear very little about it. Maybe they’ve just given up on Iran and are focusing on annihilating Lebanon and Gaza. 🤷🏻♀️
90 minutes alone on the phone with Trump is barely a blip in the news.
I’ll believe it when someone reputable can confirm it. That leaves out everyone in this fucked up admin.
It's a sad damned day when I believe IRAN before my own country. But Jeff is right; we can't believe anyone.
Remind me what Rubio's job is again? He's been silent for weeks since polling identified him as the likely frontrunner, ahead of Vance, for MAGA candidate in 2028. Maybe those oversized shoes have swallowed him up.
Rubio’s unofficial title is Secretary of Ass-Kissing
Those ridiculous shoes will never ever leave his little feet.
I don't doubt it for a minute. I'm sure Vlad supplies the only translator and it takes an hour and a half to pound Daddy Vlad's instructions into the Orange menace's thick skull.
Sometimes I think we don't want to know the truth. This is nothing compared to how we're gonna feel when this is all over and people start spilling the (verifiable) beans.
I’m sorry for sounding stupid, but I can’t figure out who Trump’s “representatives” are. Does he know who they are? Is he talking about Piss-drunk? Little Marco? Maybe he just barks out an order to Walt? WTF? This week is off to a bad start. And after Krugman’s homage to Star Wars this morning, I’m thinking about all the workers on the Death Star who got blown to smithereens. They didn’t support the Emperor, they were just trying to feed their families. We, like they, are doomed.
Witkoff and Kushner?
The Straits of Schrödinger are a magical place, a special dimension where everything is true and false at the same time!
Aren't all these ships being tracked on a website? Not naval ships, obvs but the ones being "escorted"?
Leave it to Trump to pimp the U.S. Navy as an "escort service."
Remind me of Trump's expertise in any military experience whatsoever.
He fought a personal war against STDs and probably won a lifelong case of syphilis.
LOL
I'm sure they're being tracked by Vlad's satellites which feed real time information to Iran.
btw, I like your name.
Listen to this stupid shit if you want to get a thrill out of what the House is really up to; and it ain’t the people’s business.
https://youtu.be/oddC4xUvrCo?si=CQxQB7ehbzKFzr-n
Oh brother! 🤦♀️
And what a beautiful photo of mama Claudia! ❤️
It’s is very touching and personal. I love when you share but I absolutely understand if you cannot. ❤️
Absolutely beautiful picture of Claudia, Jeff! Please don't do anything that makes anything harder for you.
I still can't have a picture of my late husband in my apartment. I cry everytime I see it, and he's been gone too many years now. Grief is different for everyone. Just take care of yourself! 💙
Well, we're at war when it serves trump to say we are. And we're not at war when it doesn't serve trump's interests. Hope that clears it up.
Yep. We are/aren't at war when the stock market needs to sell high/buy low, respectively.
Our Constitution, a rogue SCOTUS and 77MM of the most ignorant Americans took the most morally flawed, broken-inside person this country has ever produced whose a brain is an amalgam of a mob boss and a lizard driven to grab whatever he desires without inhibition, and has handed him de facto dictatorial authority. So now he has total immunity from being charged with crime, has unlimited power to pardon operatives, and has the codes to a nuclear arsenal capable of destroying the world. On top of that, he’s a f*cking moron and for the cherry on top, he has developed mid stage dementia which is progressing.
What could go wrong?
I read somewhere on this platform that Americans are now self-deporting…places like Portugal and Spain. Two point two MILLION Americans have left this insane circus. I’m thinking even the midterms if we would win them, may be too late. We’re a failed state.
I need to brush up on my Spanish. 🙄
And miss out on all the fun when the pendulum swings back?
The problem with the pendulum swinging back, while welcome, doesn't change the fact that it could swing back. All of the low information voters, racists, mysogynists, oligarchs, aren't going to change their spots. I'm pretty sure every other nation has figured out we can't be relied upon.
We don’t let it. It’s how we bend justice.
You are right.This too shall pass and that pendulum WILL swing back big time.
Once again, when the pendulum swings back the Dems will have 4-8 years to right our ship and just in time for the Republicans to muck everything up. And so it goes...
Sadly, I'm too old to leave now. I'll have to ride it out.
And I don’t think I could pack this house…we’re pretty old too- but we think about it🤨 a lot‼️
It’s hard-but people are selling their stuff, giving it away or storing it to experience something different. It’s just stuff!! I look at my house and think about a bonfire 😂😂
¿Como se dice ‘Trump is a dumbass’ en español?
One Spanish word I learned by watching “Narcos Mexico” is ‘chinga.’
"Pendejo" comes to mind.
Y mierda.
“Pinche” is another Spanish one, not quite as vulgar as “chinga” I don’t think. I used to own a business and I’d hear my employees use it, and look embarrassed if they thought I heard them. I think the English equivalent would be “shitty” or to use it like “damn” or “f——ing”.
Trump can chuparle mis bolas. (I think I got that right)
A news photographer I know was covering May Day in Juarez for the El Paso Times in the late 1970s, and this part of his recounting of that day:
Minutes after this frame, the crowd thinned. The socialist party marched into the square, voices rising in unison: "PRI chinga su madre."
Leigh, I think “chupar mi cojones” might be closer to what you mean but I’m not Spanish and know very little of the language
What about people that have jobs and family and can't move? We have to fight back. Win the midterms, if Trump doesn't cancel them. Or the Supreme Court traitors don't declare the elections null and void if Democrats win.
People with kids and families ARE moving. It’s not for everyone. We get used to our way of life and our comforts. I’m not advocating it-just sharing what I read. In my case, I have no one except me. And it’s definitely less expensive to live in Spain.
A former colleague and his husband moved from Southern California to Portugal. They love eating and traveling in Europe and Portugal is the least expensive western European country. The shipping of belongings is the worst and most expensive part.
If Trump doesn't cancel them? So what we do or not is contingent on what he tries to do? We have no viable way to reform the Supreme Court and the whole system of checks and balances is neutered with Congress being effectively dead. I have no doubt that there will be a massive 'swing', but I do doubt that it will be 'back' to anything we've experienced before.
Riddle me this: if the United States fundamentally changes it's entire form of government, will it still be the United States? Could the nation's unity survive such a change? The question is not all that academic. The 'swing' will certainly include such changes, in whole or in part. What remains to be seen is how far the score-settling will go.
States have tried to secede before. It did not work out well for them.
some of us feel compelled to stay and fight, as ugly as these sociopathic trumpers are. We in Vermont have a progressive, wonderful, and quickly rising underdog candidate for governor, Amanda Janoo, who is well worth staying here to work for. She is a wellbeing economist who has realistic plans to turn the state from "managed decline" to the state we can build if we fairly allocate our resources!
It’s a lot easier to “stay and fight” in Vermont than in the south.
I really hope SO… enough of this nonsense!
That's a tall order.
As someone who wants to move to another country asap, I’ve been hearing that US Americans are considered “toxic” around the world. 😩 Are we “great again” yet?!
I try not to think in such generalities- when I was in Spain people were very sorry and understanding-of course they had endured Franco for 31 years. If you’re kind and respectful you will usually get it back.
I've lived in Europ. Its not that easy to just move there and live unless you have a lot of money.
As that MDC song had it, "I'd run if I had a place to run too." Just staying put in my safe ultra-violet blue East Bay though. If I was a single man without wife and chattel (furred and feathered, respectively) I'd run for France.
I've tried to get into Canada. I'm too old and I don't have $2million in cash. I've thought about Portugal and Spain.
You should look into the various visas for Spain. The one year non lucrative visa is interesting to me.
Exactly, its not thst easy especially if you dont have a lot of money or if you like your contributing something significant. Lots of money or a useful skill.
Me too. Too old that is. Still trying to get my primary care doc (he's from Canada) to take me with him when he goes. I'm seeing him today so we'll see . . .
Mandarin. The line forms to the left.
I went to Portugal last year and fell in love with it. So beautiful and such lovely people. But my first choice would be Ireland. I’m working on getting Irish citizenship because my paternal grandparents were born there … and I speak the language!
Yo tambien!
I was thinking about learning Chinese. Because it’s likely I won’t be able to relocate.
"read somewhere on this platform" is one step up (maybe) from Fake News unless you've got reliable corroboration.
Sorry. Here.
https://substack.com/@ifloz/note/p-196401269?r=39x24&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
I just found this site early this morning on another subject. It’s great!
Will the DOJ be going after magats who wrote/said "Let's Go Brandon" and the more direct "Fuck Biden" for attempted rape?
And drove around with images of Biden hog-tied on the back of their penis extensions? I mean, trucks? What about the gallows waiting for Pence’s neck on J 6? The hipocrisy.
Of course they're hypocrits. If they had any ability to self reflect, they would be ashamed. But they don't so here we are.
They definitely have short memories!! I can see Jan. 6 clearly to this day-oh my goodness 😮💨
Yes Diana — their memories are about as long as their penises (how long is a mushroom anyway?)
I think republicans refer to them as their “broomsticks”; which, of course, is a complete fabrication and exaggeration—and to be expected coming from them.
I post a Fuck Trump note every day. Should I be worried?
Keep up the good work, Sistah! I'm right there with you.
Maybe. I don't do things like that because you never know.
I’m willing to take the off-chance
Mournscrolling - it should be in the dictionary. Great photo, though. Wall St. guys have a new name for Donald - NACHO. Not A Chance Hormuz Opens.
Lol. I'll be walking down the road this afternoon humming "Nacho Nacho Man."
AWESOME Susanna!
Pairs well with TACO doesn’t it
Today in Shit That Happened at Some Point on This Shitty Timeline, I Want to Say...Friday? Judicial confirmation hearings were happening and of the nominees, only ONE could answer correctly that the 22nd Amendment states that a president shall only serve for two terms and NONE of them would affirm on the record that Trump is ineligible to serve a third term.
So that's fun.
Post pics as often as you want but only as often as you can. <3
Thx for that bit about the 22nd. I'm paying attention, but a lot gets by me anyway. When we get through this, we're gonna need a book the size of the 9/11 Commission report to tell us what we missed.
There's too much. No one can get it all.
They'll have to prop Trump up for a 3rd term. Because he's already decrepit. But his puppeteers might just position him in a chair behind bullet proof glass.
Also, he has Vance behind him who, I'm sure, will have something to say about Trump staying one second longer in the oval office.
He won't live long enough for a third term but he's already making noise about not leaving should the midterms go south. It's just incredibly messed up that SO many people would trample the Constitution for a loser like him.
Ahem, Jeff, exactly how do you know what's in a strip club buffet?
because I'm a RESPONSIBLE JOURNALIST AND EVERYTHING and it was my job to research this stuff back in the 1980s because I knew the knowledge would come in handy someday
Thank you for your attention to this matter, Jeff.
ok that's a perfect reply
🤣👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
😂
😂😂😂😂. Especially about the ravioli on the buffet.
Good answer Mister 🤭
👏👏🤣
Touché Jeff! I’ve heard of fast women but I don’t think they’re as fast as you Jeff (well, except for my wife maybe) (no offense meant to any women in the audience)
I hear that there is a lot of glitter involved.
Drumpf's DOJ is trying to teach
That seashells on a beach
Constitute a threat
Which is ludicrous and yet
Isn't beyond a dictator's reach
👏👏👏👏Doc!
Good one! Poor Jeff. We have to glean what humor we can during these horrible times.
Hey, yeah - How do you know anything about that stuff, Jeff?
A friend told him. Yeah, that’s it.
👀
Asking for a friend…
Why do I get the horrible feeling that someone (probably miller) is whispering this shit into Trump's ear in hopes of manufacturing an excuse to drop a nuke?
Because you are paying attention.
yup! no question about it.
What a beautiful photo of Claudia and your daughter. Take comfort in the memories you are sharing with us. And thank you for sharing them.
Jeff, you take all the time you need to heal. Losing a soulmate, as Claudia so obviously was, is crushing. But if these substack posts help in the process, I want you to know we support every one!
That's a beautiful photo. I remember those days. Only post them when it's manageable for you, though.
Meanwhile, Mark Carney is working his ass off to join the EU and cut the cord with the US for good. How could IS Canada?
I dont blame them.
We’re out of the loop on Hormuz on so much Jeff, like everything else. Have we even heard the definitive story yet of the Ballroom Assassin?
no. Tipsy Jeanine was on TV yesterday claiming she has proof that the would-be assassin shot first, but again: these people about EVERYTHING. who knows what to believe?
In the meantime, this week Trump attended the PGA tournament, visited the Villages in FL and has made a couple other public appearances since last weekend’s brush with death. I’d love for some brave soul to tell him that if he feels safe attending these events, he doesn’t need a fucking ballroom.
The fucking Epstein Memorial Dance Hall and Airplane Hangar is so fucking gigantic they could hold a PGA tournament in it.
Jeff, in case you haven’t seen it, Kathleen Weber (“As Time Goes By”) provided (yesterday evening) the NYT analysis frame-by-frame of the shots fired as the assailant came through security. Here’s a link to her Substack (she has a NYT gift link in it): https://kathleenweber.substack.com/p/nyt-finds-assailant-fired-first?r=2xnte&utm_medium=ios . I hope it works.
She’s her usual unprofessional blabbermouth self, talking about a case under investigation before the first hearing of any substance.
Definitive? With this buncha liars? Sure, just like what happened in Butler, PA, and the Kirk shooting, and fat fuck's medical records, etc., ad nauseum
That photo of Claudia and Kate brought tears to my eyes.
Me, too...