Kavanaugh, Alito, Gorsuch and Long Dong Silver Thomas…the worst of the worst. Despicable shitheads interested only in the “new MAGAT values,” and intent on destroying our democracy. Though Chief Injustice John Roberts did the right thing on this occasion, he is still the dirtiest motherfucker to ever wear a robe and I award him nothing.
I agree wholeheartedly. Not one of them is impartial enough to be a Supreme Court judge. In fact, not one of them has a sense of right versus wrong, good versus evil. They would not even be able to define what a moral compass is.
Thanks for the info Kathleen; which leads to a question. If the the DOJ argued that a lower court judge can't make a ruling on USAID, how is that a non elected ass wipe like Skunky Musky allowed to dismantle the government without any consequences? Just asking for 77 million friends.
I believe his terminology was ‘unelected bureaucrats making decisions’. And the dense bastard was able to mouth that with the muskrat sitting right in front of him.
We’re going to need some new vocabulary to deal with this senile reprobate- hate & detest & loathe are just not sufficient to convey my feelings towards him.
He got nabbed by his own lies. First admitting that Muskette is definitely in charge of DOGE, not the lady on permanent vacation in Mexico; then that “Unelected Bureaucrats” won’t be making decisions. If Muskette isn’t an unelected bureaucrat, what the hell is he?
A divinely knighted emissary from the 👑, what else could he possibly be? Oh the decrepitude of the mental flotsam, it's like swimming in poo every day.
They are doing whatever they want, stealing as much as they can as fast as they can and daring anyone to stop them. When you have the Corrupt Supremes on your side, who’s gonna stop you?
Here's hoping Trump doesn't pull an Andrew Jackson and ignore the Court's ruling. (Jackson did exactly that when he expelled the Cherokee and other Native peoples from the Southeast, the beginning of the Trail of Tears.)
Even the reason for ignoring the Court ruling is apropos here... the Cherokees owned land in Georgia where gold had been found, kicking off a gold rush, so Georgia wanted the land and for the Cherokees to disappear.
As I travel through Wisconsin on my many fishing trips every year, I see billboard sized "Trump 2024" signs in the corn and soybean fields of the farms there. They elected him, let the food rot. FAFO.
My husband and I went out for a Mardi Gras dinner. We sat and enjoyed gumbo, jambalaya, and ratatouille, sipped a Hurricane, and generally basked in the atmosphere of a restaurant built to look like a venue in the French Quarter. SO much better than staying home and NOT watching the orange blob.
Went to the bar, had a meal, and played trivia! Drinking mightily. Of course, in a crimson red state, finding a TV that had college BB on....not the insolent bastard.
I have followed Greg Olear for about 3 years. He’s terrific and knows everything about Leonard Leo and the Heritage Foundation inner workings as well as Project 2025 and the influence of the Federalist Society.
Me either! I’ve read and seen enough this morning and we made the right decision. Jeff is so right, all democrats should have boycotted this travesty of a state of the union.
Same here Elaine. I was going to try to watch, then he opened his mouth and I had to move on. Kept checking back in and exiting again. Caught commentary later. Can't take him any more.
He’s as hard to watch as he is to listen to but I want someone to explain that smarmy way he has of cocking his shoulders to one side as he reads the teleprompter, like he’s strangling a baby kitten & can’t contain his glee. Eeeww.
Elaine I love your handle. I had to stop after the MSNBC pre-mortem and then turn it back on for the post-mortem. I did want to see what they are saying and how they are framing it for people who might give a shit and tune in. It's all so superficial it's fairly easy to fact check but doesn't change the insidiousness of it all. Attend and heckle would have been my preferred stance ONLY because of the average people watching, trying to grasp what is happening. Everyone here gets it. Lots of people apparently still don't and the clock is ticking. If Dems stand and aren't afraid to heckle this mobster then maybe people at home see there's something wrong. If Dems just don't show up, the GOP gets to run their mouth about them. Dems need to take the microphone and not let it go. I say show up and heckle him to death, everywhere. Start posting pics of carnage in Ukraine or vets who have lost jobs in response to every story/tweet etc. give them no relief. Bring receipts all day long.
Senator Elissa Slotkin, who is a truly awesome badass in her own right, did an excellent response to the rambling crap Mango Mussolini uttered over 98 minutes. President Joseph Biden did a finer and clearer speech in each of 4 years. The lies that were uttered over that 98 minutes were truly disrespectful to every one who heard them.
I didn't get through half an hour. When Al left, we started watching our zombie show. At the end of the episode we checked back, and his lips were still moving. Watched another episode, and came back for the last five minutes. I was surprised to see there were still some Democrats there. Maybe they had earplugs and were listening to their favorite music.
😂 zombie show. he-he. Though how could you tell when you switched channels? the face makeup on the live zombie? The 'costumes' were different? Were the plots really different because I swear some days we are caught in a zombie movie with a submental plot?
Oh, it was easy. The lead is a black woman, not orange. Z Nation. It has plot twists so crazy, t could have made it up, but I love Roberta Warren and Doc. A bit heavy on the gunfire and bizarre plot twists.
Church leaders? Children? Hmmmm ... where have I heard that before?
Every time I hear our GOP state legislators bloviate about trans kids and "grooming" and "pedophiles," I immediately ask why we're giving vouchers for kids to go to Catholic schools. Doesn't that make our legislature (the R side) "groomers"?
In a bit of Bible Belt news that happened around here last week, some church worker started a campaign about a year ago to get 'the faithful' to put these yellow 'Thank You Jesus' signs on their front lawns. Well, you'll never guess what happened..... After a month-long investigation, that guy, a 25-year-old incel type, was arrested on felony possession of child porn.
True, and I've had this conversation with my devoutly Catholic friend. The difference from almost every other church is the coverup — only the Catholic Church has the hierarchy that can conceal it. When my Episcopal diocese hired a new bishop, we spent almost two years in diocese-wide discernment meetings, creating lists of what we were looking for, soliciting candidates, interviewing them, probably checking out their kindergarten report cards. Nobody was just "sent" by higher authorities who concealed that he was leaving his previous post due to child molesting charges.
JD looks like the guy who would attack campers with a chainsaw late at night. Mikey looks like the youth minister with a van parked out behind the church dumpsters.
Everything about JD feels calculated and phony. I mean, he "converted" to Catholicism when he was 35? No, he didn't have a spiritual conversion —come on. He converted to a political power base of right-wing Catholics like the Federalist Society and Opus Dei.
Seriously, JD is a smart guy. He is absolutely a phony, in every way. He was denouncing donnie as a fraud and a menace in 2016. That didn't "work" for him. He remade himself into a lying demonic MAGA lunatic that says stupid shit in order to gain power. That "worked". He has been bought and paid for by Peter Thiel. There is a new circle in hell being built for cynical hacks that will sell their souls for power. He's done all that, and there are many more like him out there now.
Honestly he looks like a robot that knows two face positions like the robots from years ago it hasn’t evolved, dumb looking the way dear leader needs to have them.
And there they sit, like tweedeldee & tweedeldum, with their smug smirks & matching suits, trying desperately to please a daddy who loves no one but himself.
Maddow mentioned someone lip reading their convo prior to start, something about "it's a good speech but idk how it/he can last 90mins" and the commentary that followed questioned whether orange menace had been switched from Adderall to ketamine...a clown car of drunks, druggies and pervs are in control of the world's largest nuke stockpile and military? Honestly, wake me up from this. It's hard to believe the sheer stupidity of it all.
I wanted to punch them. They reminded me of not very intelligent, rude people you had in general. ed. classes. Goons, to be exact. They are the exact opposite of what I'd want my child to be. They are creepy looking and acting.
That smug "meeting with Jesus any moment" expression is truly nasty. I have trouble believing one word that man says. He is a perfect representation of so many church people who do not believe the word they claim to follow.
I didn't watch the shitshow either...but, what I learned afterwards is that once Al Green was ejected, the rest of the Democrats (that did attend) sat on their hands and didn't offer any resistance! What is it going to take to get them to finally DO something??? Do we need a new 3rd party that resists this fuckface?
We seen that happen in pretty much every national election that Dems have lost. A special thanks to 3rd party voters who have helped to elect trump twice. 🤬
No new party. We’d get destroyed. We have deep benches of possible candidates that are willing to primary ineffective and goldbricking representatives and senators. Sorry, but the reps and senators that are deep into their 80’s must be willing to step down. We need youth, energy, a willingness to show solidarity in our democracy.
This is something that I don't get. Everyone who's seen a baseball game knows you have to prep your minor league because the day always comes that you have to give up the bat to a younger better player. Where is the transfer of institutional knowledge? Color me concerned about the lack of mentorship esp for AOC who is eager and competent beyond her yrs. Same re KH. I imagine some nights if things would have been different if Joe had resigned midterm post-scotus and KH had tested the immunity ruling.
The stubbornness of the old people in the Democratic party is disgusting. (I write this as a 72-year-old.) Biden's refusal to step down; Pelosi over-riding the plan to have AOC take over as Ranking Member on the House Oversight Committee (using seniority to put 74-year-old Gerry Connolly, suffering from throat cancer, in her place); and Chuck Schumer's seemingly increasing incompetence. I'm DISGUSTED. We're in a "whole new world": one that is terrifying, and is also the place in which YOUNGER people will be forced to live. Give THEM the power!!
Same! Plus the reality is that these problems have come about on the elders watch and clearly older Dems have struggled to find solutions or purchase anywhere to make a dent in the corruption etc, but young people see all sorts of possibilities we don't and have different ideas, and if boomers (sorry you guys have way more control than X just by numbers) don't trust younger people to take power and move the ball we are all going to get sucked into this vortex of shit. The people running our gvmt are younger and have a lot of angry bird energy to grind. We need mass retirements in Dem party. Not everyone needs to be a college prof level expert to work on policy. I'd rather have jasmine crocket behind me in a real fight and Nancy Pelosi behind her telling her where to land a punch, you know?
"don't trust younger people to take power" Actually, I think it's not as simple or as nice as that. I think it comes from self-centeredness, from enjoying power, from not knowing what they'll do with themselves when they retire.
It absolutely will. Just look at the green party and how they're just a branch of the Republicans looking to get liberals to waste their votes. See also: Bernie bros refusing to vote because something something DNC silenced him or something.
That was a long time ago, Lucius. Bernie, the elderly statesman, is out there now doing the heavy lifting for the rest of us, working his ass off at town meetings and reading midnight statements of protest into the congressional record. And veterans need to march on Washington en masse -- they're 30% of the federal workforce that's being decimated. Stop being victims!
I'd rather see Bernie directing the young turks like a Dem army. There are people who can do the work, they just need the leadership or mentorship. He inspired a lot of people but I'd didn't see a bunch of them get involved and make a Bernie gang inside Congress.
I think you're right, Lucius, but solely because the Ds and Rs only want to split donor money two ways. They'll fight a third recipient tooth and nail.
We need a new party in the worst way. Dems and Republicons have epically failed the electorate. Full scale changes in our government need to occur and the #1 task to get started is to overturn Citizens (Billionaires) United.
A new party would propel the absolute monarchy of Republicans. We do NOT need a "new party." I'm sick of these romantic, tilting-at-windmills notions when we should be focusing on how we reach people in a media climate determined to shut us down. And we need to stop being our own enemies.
I’m talking about the abolishment of both parties. We need a hard reboot for our government that simply DOES NOT work for the people, does not represent the majority of Americans and elected representatives are more concerned with insider trading and donation raising than their jobs.
We are getting a hard forced reboot to the ass right now, that's what Mump would call what they are doing. I think the problem has been narrative and media and CU telling us gvmt doesn't work when it's been chronically underfunded for decades due to a swing right after Reagan and demonizing liberals as 'tax and spend' - even Clinton was a conservative Dem, otherwise known as GOP in drag, machine Dem - a group controlling NY Dem party to the exclusion or progressive Dems - to their detriment. Making deals wGOP here to hold onto power. Hence trumps rise.
Stranger, getting Citizens United overturned would go a long way to restoring intelligent, dedicated public servants back into government. All this dark money does is invite criminals into government. Get rid of it!
Sitting on their hands makes a powerful statement. And a group of them did walk out mid-speech. I'm really sick of our self-destructive tendency to attack our own elected officials while worshipping some of the most superficial gestures.
96 members of the Democratic Women's Caucus wore pink in protest while attending the address. I nearly threw up. Couldn't find their pussy hats? Was this a Pelosi idea? Dems excel at being mockably ineffectual, handing the bricks to MAGATS to bean them with.
Stupid pink I agreed not because I don't agree with the pink sentiment, but that's not where the country is right this minute. People are insenced about Ukraine sitch and they could have rode that anger right into the speech wearing Ukrainian colors. Disconnected again and losing the momentum of the moment and having people trying to figure out what their point is. Bad at symbols? All their PR firms are circle jerking clueless.
Yes, couldn't they speak up? They did vote didn't they? By my count there are three of them, but only one r. Of course, he couldn't wait to start two illegal wars of aggression.
I'd love to champion a third party, but (obviously) it needs to pull in sane Republicans, too, if there are enough of them like Adam K and Liz C. Forward party made a lot of sense, but fizzled.
There's no such thing as a sane republican. The only difference between Cheney and trump is that Cheney wants fascism done through proper channels. The polite way.
Trump is the embodiment of the Republican party and everything it stands for.
And Yang's forward party was just green party 2.0 with extra techbro horseshit sprinkled on top.
Pete Buttigieg was on Colbert after the tRump Shitshow. It is so depressing to see true competence sent home to Michigan while a band of Howler Monkeys roam through our Government flinging shit at everything.
Michigan already has a terrific — and appropriately experienced — candidate for governor, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson. I think Buttigieg is promising, but I think he's another Democratic romance. I'd like to see him run for Congress first.
Senate, more likely. It is rather rude to take on a Governorship and think of running for President two years later, but it is not unusual for a Senator to try to move up.
Well, Anastasia, we may be not completely devoid of leadership, (Green, Crockett, AOC, Wyden) but, the rest of our “leaders” remain muted during a crisis of epic proportions. Where are the cries to march? To rebel? To resist?
Granted, the corrupt “mainstream media” gives little to no coverage of Dems and truth, so, it is up to We the People to carry the message.
We are now living in an authoritarian regime with a rubber stamp congress. Our Democrat representatives are the worst bunch of passive, old tired sloths we’ve ever seen. Sorry to malign sloths who are so much better than them. The level 10 of insane actions of MuskRump and their moron enablers has been met by Democrats digging us a deep grave. SOMEBODY TELL THEM WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE TO PROTEST EN MASSE AND FIGHT BACK. WTF!!!
THE PASSIVITY OF THE DEMOCRATS IS WHAT HORRIFIED ME, truly SICKENED ME. Guys, if you can't do better than that, don't you get it??? It's OVER. And YOU'RE letting it happen!!!
I still cannot understand how most Democrats are just acting as if this is all normal politics. Screaming and jumping up & down and protesting out here on the left coast.
Democrats need a pro-worker, pro-democracy, anti-corruption agenda. It's sitting right there in their laps. They need to stick to the message the rich get richer and we're fucking broke ass. The message is we can't afford to live here. This isn't rocket science.
They have such an agenda and are articulating it every day. My own congresswoman did this at a packed town hall two weeks ago. What we need is a media strategy to get past a billionaire-funded "mainstream" media determined to silence it. The fact that you are here and have no idea this already exists shows how successful the so-called "mainstream" media has been in promoting MAGA.
There are a few Dems who are articulating the agenda, but thus far, they're outliers. They're so small a handful, they can be easily dismissed. The entire Dem party needs to get with the program that Lisa describes, and get LOUD. Get PUBLIC. Stick together, with every one of them channeling Al Green. And FFS, stop the mealy-mouthed Establishment Dem platitudes, as in Slotkin's response last night. Holding up REAGAN as an example??? Give me a break! Talk about a circular firing squad!
THIS. Right here. No, they shouldn't have all stayed home, or simply wore more t-shirts, held up more auction signs, or quietly walked out - they should've had the *balls* like Al Green did, and stood up one by one and shouted that asshole down for every single lie he blurted out. Do what the constituents are doing and get *mad*, and if need be, get *kicked out*. That was the place to do it, for all the world to see, in addition to the left-leaning media outlets where they're preaching to the choir. What Al did was electric and I was begging for more.
Slotkin, for all the good she did bring up, was not pointed enough in calling out Trump's bullshit. And she voted for *eight* of these miserable cabinet members, not to mention working in the CIA under Bush. These Dems don't have the fire we need in this absolute catastrophic situation we are in.
I'm afraid that history will look back on this, after Trump purposefully tanks the economy, sends millions into the streets, and then institutes martial law. I hope it doesn't happen, but it's increasingly looking like it may.
I have the same sense of despair when I hear someone on our side praising Reagan, because I lived through 8 years of that misery. However, the Hopium blog had a good point: this comment wasn’t for Democrats, it’s for Republicans who can’t figure out why Trump is such a lover of the Evil Empire. Hence the speech was in essence opening a new front against Trump.
Jeff I don’t know where to start. Habba Habba Yam Yam trashing our vets like they are “losers and suckers” WTAF? Donnie’s cascade of lies or watching Canadian TV as liquor stores remove American liquor with a majority of liquor from Kentucky along with tobacco products from the US. As for “Golf with MAGAs” yesterday they were unusually quiet considering the precipitous fall in the American stock markets coupled with the tariffs..virtually no defense of the defenseless and I’m here for that, also collecting money from MAGAS playing golf. Best comment last night? It was the moment the great Texas Congresswoman, Jasmine Crockett called Donald “Putin’s ho”. I’ll take the humor in this time of darkness. Best to All.
Golfing with MAGA's was quiet because they've heard the ruminations coming from Elon about Social Security being a Ponzi scheme. Your terminally enlarged prostrate buddies are all on SS and get Medicare as I do. Plus they probably have 401K's as I do. Sprinkle a vet or two in there and they're worried about VA benefits being cut. They do love their Tricare.
I work for a multinational TRANSportation company. Its name is TRANSdev. I’ve thought I would love to wander around certain parts of Florida where our golfer-in-chief or the illustrious governor of the state hang out with as much TRANSdev merch as I can wear and carry.
I'd advise against it. You could very well be killed for that. Trump's cultists will take any opportunity they can get to murder people if they think they can get away with it.
I couldn't watch it. But I switched to it briefly a couple times just to see if it was over - oh my gawd the man looks bad. Such a sick, old, weak man. Seemed to be hanging on to the lectern just to stay standing (granted, this was a brief look). Dorian Gray's picture is back in the man.
I wouldn't have watched that shitshow if you paid me. Speaking of getting paid, I read yesterday that former cowpoke Devin Nunes made $47M last year as CEO of DJT which posted $401M in losses last year.
Every time I don't think they can go any lower, you push the TV remote and it's like you're in a new level in a video game where the bad guys are now supposed to be the new good guys and the old good guys are now just yesterdays lunch. We are now officially Germany in 1933.
I didn't watch. Couldn't bear to. I've been watching the reviews, so to speak, and I think I made the right choice.
Good news! The Supreme Court has just ruled 5-4 to support USAID!
https://kathleenweber.substack.com/p/scotus-supports-usaid-5-4
Kavanaugh, Alito, Gorsuch and Long Dong Silver Thomas…the worst of the worst. Despicable shitheads interested only in the “new MAGAT values,” and intent on destroying our democracy. Though Chief Injustice John Roberts did the right thing on this occasion, he is still the dirtiest motherfucker to ever wear a robe and I award him nothing.
Agreed Walt!!
The Donger has never recovered from the trauma of finding a pubic hair on his Coke can decades ago
Even though it was his own pubic hair.
Four justices did indeed vote to make Trump a dictator.
They're partisan hacks. And three of them, at least, are utterly corrupt and take bribes.
The question was does a contract have to be honored. JFC, isn't that Law 101?
yeah, I think we're all supposed to forget that part.
I agree wholeheartedly. Not one of them is impartial enough to be a Supreme Court judge. In fact, not one of them has a sense of right versus wrong, good versus evil. They would not even be able to define what a moral compass is.
Thanks for the info Kathleen; which leads to a question. If the the DOJ argued that a lower court judge can't make a ruling on USAID, how is that a non elected ass wipe like Skunky Musky allowed to dismantle the government without any consequences? Just asking for 77 million friends.
I believe his terminology was ‘unelected bureaucrats making decisions’. And the dense bastard was able to mouth that with the muskrat sitting right in front of him.
We’re going to need some new vocabulary to deal with this senile reprobate- hate & detest & loathe are just not sufficient to convey my feelings towards him.
He got nabbed by his own lies. First admitting that Muskette is definitely in charge of DOGE, not the lady on permanent vacation in Mexico; then that “Unelected Bureaucrats” won’t be making decisions. If Muskette isn’t an unelected bureaucrat, what the hell is he?
A divinely knighted emissary from the 👑, what else could he possibly be? Oh the decrepitude of the mental flotsam, it's like swimming in poo every day.
They are doing whatever they want, stealing as much as they can as fast as they can and daring anyone to stop them. When you have the Corrupt Supremes on your side, who’s gonna stop you?
Many bullets! That's what it will come down to.
Now Charles, indulging in fantasies is not appropriate on Substack…😈
I fantasize about that every damned day. I’d do it myself if I wasn’t old & decrepit. 🤬🤬
Hmmmm???
Well played Rick!!
Thanks Patrick.
Because they see him as our king, silly.
Thanks for the great news! At least Roberts and Barrett did the right thing, for once.
But will he comply is the question now…💙💙
Nope. Non-compliance is their new rule.
Here's hoping Trump doesn't pull an Andrew Jackson and ignore the Court's ruling. (Jackson did exactly that when he expelled the Cherokee and other Native peoples from the Southeast, the beginning of the Trail of Tears.)
Yes, I believe Jackson said something to the effect that the Court has made their ruling- now let them enforce it.
Guaranteed that will be the gist of his response, too.
Even the reason for ignoring the Court ruling is apropos here... the Cherokees owned land in Georgia where gold had been found, kicking off a gold rush, so Georgia wanted the land and for the Cherokees to disappear.
About fucking time after our farmers food has rotted and caused deaths and destruction! SCOTUS, well, the Injustices6, are responsible for that too.
As I travel through Wisconsin on my many fishing trips every year, I see billboard sized "Trump 2024" signs in the corn and soybean fields of the farms there. They elected him, let the food rot. FAFO.
Thanks for sharing Kathleen!!
Lordy!! 🙏
Too close for comfort.........
I didn't watch it either...I had to pee for 99 minutes outside.
I had to clean my kitties' litter boxes after I clipped their nails. That takes and hour and thirty-nine minutes.
My husband and I went out for a Mardi Gras dinner. We sat and enjoyed gumbo, jambalaya, and ratatouille, sipped a Hurricane, and generally basked in the atmosphere of a restaurant built to look like a venue in the French Quarter. SO much better than staying home and NOT watching the orange blob.
Laissez les bons temps rouler
And with your spirit, Steve
et les Pétaines meurent de faim
Went to the bar, had a meal, and played trivia! Drinking mightily. Of course, in a crimson red state, finding a TV that had college BB on....not the insolent bastard.
😂😂😂
Thank you - I really needed to laugh at something today. 🥰
I didn't watch it either, I streamed it.
I rewatched Greg Olear’s brilliant SOTU address, it was exactly what all democrats needed to hear!!:
https://youtu.be/3nzAkcq2efA?si=CcybNfAzkCAz2cLJ
That was good. Thx for posting.
I have followed Greg Olear for about 3 years. He’s terrific and knows everything about Leonard Leo and the Heritage Foundation inner workings as well as Project 2025 and the influence of the Federalist Society.
I didn't watch as I was much too busy doing nothing
Me too 😁
Me either! I’ve read and seen enough this morning and we made the right decision. Jeff is so right, all democrats should have boycotted this travesty of a state of the union.
I promise you , you did.
Same here Elaine. I was going to try to watch, then he opened his mouth and I had to move on. Kept checking back in and exiting again. Caught commentary later. Can't take him any more.
He’s just so CRINGE
That voice! Droning on and on-it’s torture!
He’s as hard to watch as he is to listen to but I want someone to explain that smarmy way he has of cocking his shoulders to one side as he reads the teleprompter, like he’s strangling a baby kitten & can’t contain his glee. Eeeww.
Akin to waterboarding?
Same
Me too Elaine. No need to raise my blood pressure unnecessarily.
I didn’t watch either. And it sounds like it was a good decision not to subject myself to that diatribe of self-aggrandizement and lies. 🤮
You sure it’s just rain? Could be a monsoon, or a hurricane even, but sadly we won’t know about these things heading our way anymore.
You didn’t miss anything. Heard it all before… just an another Trump rally, rolling right along…it rained where I live this morning.
Elaine I love your handle. I had to stop after the MSNBC pre-mortem and then turn it back on for the post-mortem. I did want to see what they are saying and how they are framing it for people who might give a shit and tune in. It's all so superficial it's fairly easy to fact check but doesn't change the insidiousness of it all. Attend and heckle would have been my preferred stance ONLY because of the average people watching, trying to grasp what is happening. Everyone here gets it. Lots of people apparently still don't and the clock is ticking. If Dems stand and aren't afraid to heckle this mobster then maybe people at home see there's something wrong. If Dems just don't show up, the GOP gets to run their mouth about them. Dems need to take the microphone and not let it go. I say show up and heckle him to death, everywhere. Start posting pics of carnage in Ukraine or vets who have lost jobs in response to every story/tweet etc. give them no relief. Bring receipts all day long.
Senator Elissa Slotkin, who is a truly awesome badass in her own right, did an excellent response to the rambling crap Mango Mussolini uttered over 98 minutes. President Joseph Biden did a finer and clearer speech in each of 4 years. The lies that were uttered over that 98 minutes were truly disrespectful to every one who heard them.
I did the same. I couldn’t listen to the Felons voice sputtering lies for 96? minutes. Don’t think I got the minute tally correct.
Ugghhh
98, but who's counting? (Lots of people were: he did set a new record for longest State of the Union ever)
There you are I lost you for a couple minutes so I could again thank you. He makes me ill.
One good thing happened to me today I finally had my passport renewed filed and sent so hopefully I get it back.
I couldn’t remember my dad’s birth year.
Thanks again for the correct amount of minutes lol
It wasn't a SOTU. It was just a stupid speech.
I didn't get through half an hour. When Al left, we started watching our zombie show. At the end of the episode we checked back, and his lips were still moving. Watched another episode, and came back for the last five minutes. I was surprised to see there were still some Democrats there. Maybe they had earplugs and were listening to their favorite music.
😂 zombie show. he-he. Though how could you tell when you switched channels? the face makeup on the live zombie? The 'costumes' were different? Were the plots really different because I swear some days we are caught in a zombie movie with a submental plot?
Oh, it was easy. The lead is a black woman, not orange. Z Nation. It has plot twists so crazy, t could have made it up, but I love Roberta Warren and Doc. A bit heavy on the gunfire and bizarre plot twists.
Me, too. Even Jeff's clips have made me rethink the decision to read today's column. I need a glass of wine or ten.
Vance looks like he’s storing someone’s nuts in his cheeks and Mike Johnson really has a face, you know ..
He does pervy face really well. I wonder about that guy.
Johnson looks like a guy who has women tied up in his basement.
With his son watching him so he can include the activities on his “porn app.”
How fucked up is that?! They have to hall monitor each other incase one is getting a porn peekaboo. 😅
Lisa, why would they. even think of that? They must have a serious porn problem.
Oh yeah. He's the church leader with a secret history involving children.....
Church leaders? Children? Hmmmm ... where have I heard that before?
Every time I hear our GOP state legislators bloviate about trans kids and "grooming" and "pedophiles," I immediately ask why we're giving vouchers for kids to go to Catholic schools. Doesn't that make our legislature (the R side) "groomers"?
In a bit of Bible Belt news that happened around here last week, some church worker started a campaign about a year ago to get 'the faithful' to put these yellow 'Thank You Jesus' signs on their front lawns. Well, you'll never guess what happened..... After a month-long investigation, that guy, a 25-year-old incel type, was arrested on felony possession of child porn.
It's always the ones you most expect, ain't it?
Oh so predictable, right? The more conspicuously "holy" they act, the more likely they're hiding something.
Not just Catholics...it's everywhere including other religious and secular orgs.
True, and I've had this conversation with my devoutly Catholic friend. The difference from almost every other church is the coverup — only the Catholic Church has the hierarchy that can conceal it. When my Episcopal diocese hired a new bishop, we spent almost two years in diocese-wide discernment meetings, creating lists of what we were looking for, soliciting candidates, interviewing them, probably checking out their kindergarten report cards. Nobody was just "sent" by higher authorities who concealed that he was leaving his previous post due to child molesting charges.
It puts the lotion in the basket.
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Lisa: remember the wide stance guy?I can’t recall his name, but the one who was caught in a toilet stand.
Larry Craig. Esteemed toe tapping senator from the great state of Idaho. A man with rhythm in the can.
How could we forget? A real republican...
YES!!!
Larry Craig.
Remember this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Haggard
Thanks so much for the info on Haggard. Jesus!!!
No, little boys would be my first guess.
Nah.. MEN tied up in basement.
Agree in part Lisa, although it s it’s more likely, young Hispanic boys that he has in chains in his basement!!
Holy Mike's Covenant Eyes app was working overtime last night. I'm sure he needed to reward himself for being such a good boy up there!
OMG, Lisa - that’s the best description yet! 🤭
Allegedly he lives in an evangelical pastor’s basement.
JD looks like the guy who would attack campers with a chainsaw late at night. Mikey looks like the youth minister with a van parked out behind the church dumpsters.
Makes you wonder if Johnson was a “youth minister.”
I'm willing to bet cold, hard cash on it. And he still has the collection of videos hidden behind the drywall.
Why else would he have to have a porn monitoring app that he shares with his son? That is fking weird.
Well, there's porn monitoring and then there's porn monitoring, eh?
Everything about JD feels calculated and phony. I mean, he "converted" to Catholicism when he was 35? No, he didn't have a spiritual conversion —come on. He converted to a political power base of right-wing Catholics like the Federalist Society and Opus Dei.
Seriously, JD is a smart guy. He is absolutely a phony, in every way. He was denouncing donnie as a fraud and a menace in 2016. That didn't "work" for him. He remade himself into a lying demonic MAGA lunatic that says stupid shit in order to gain power. That "worked". He has been bought and paid for by Peter Thiel. There is a new circle in hell being built for cynical hacks that will sell their souls for power. He's done all that, and there are many more like him out there now.
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Perfect!
Honestly he looks like a robot that knows two face positions like the robots from years ago it hasn’t evolved, dumb looking the way dear leader needs to have them.
And there they sit, like tweedeldee & tweedeldum, with their smug smirks & matching suits, trying desperately to please a daddy who loves no one but himself.
Maddow mentioned someone lip reading their convo prior to start, something about "it's a good speech but idk how it/he can last 90mins" and the commentary that followed questioned whether orange menace had been switched from Adderall to ketamine...a clown car of drunks, druggies and pervs are in control of the world's largest nuke stockpile and military? Honestly, wake me up from this. It's hard to believe the sheer stupidity of it all.
I suspect he uses something, considering the ramblings coming out of his mouth in during campaign speeches
Perfectly said. Two hand puppets with 2 tiny hands up inside squeezing their innards.
Dumb and Dumber there they are dartboard material.
Putin’s hand is so far up the Golden Steer’s aperture that he can twiddle his tonsils.
Tweedledee and Tweedledumber
Nailed it Let!!
Okay, Mike Johnson and Ted Cruz are standing right in front of you…who ya gonna punch first, Mike?
I have two hands
No prob
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As long as I get to punch both of them, the order doesn't matter.
Definitely
Tough choice.
Why not both Walt? Two brass knuckled fists meet two ugly mugs!!
Yep!
Cruz- for me!
Decisions, decisions….
Man, I loathe a Tartuffe.
Backpfeifengesicht. German for a face that needs a punch. There’s a word for it and if you can say it, I applaud you.
Two years of German. I'm pretty sure I said it correctly. Seriously, if we can pronounce English correctly, we can do German.
I wanted to punch them. They reminded me of not very intelligent, rude people you had in general. ed. classes. Goons, to be exact. They are the exact opposite of what I'd want my child to be. They are creepy looking and acting.
Johnson isn't the only one.
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Chuckie!
I would really like to slap Johnson face.
He'd much prefer a spanking, I think.
That smug "meeting with Jesus any moment" expression is truly nasty. I have trouble believing one word that man says. He is a perfect representation of so many church people who do not believe the word they claim to follow.
Holy Mike looks like the guy in the ER triage who “fell” onto a shampoo bottle but only slightly regrets it.
Repeatedly!!
I didn't watch the shitshow either...but, what I learned afterwards is that once Al Green was ejected, the rest of the Democrats (that did attend) sat on their hands and didn't offer any resistance! What is it going to take to get them to finally DO something??? Do we need a new 3rd party that resists this fuckface?
A third party is guaranteed to fail. We're unfortunately stuck with the spineless fucking cowards we have.
Yes, but it will split the votes !?
We seen that happen in pretty much every national election that Dems have lost. A special thanks to 3rd party voters who have helped to elect trump twice. 🤬
No new party. We’d get destroyed. We have deep benches of possible candidates that are willing to primary ineffective and goldbricking representatives and senators. Sorry, but the reps and senators that are deep into their 80’s must be willing to step down. We need youth, energy, a willingness to show solidarity in our democracy.
This is something that I don't get. Everyone who's seen a baseball game knows you have to prep your minor league because the day always comes that you have to give up the bat to a younger better player. Where is the transfer of institutional knowledge? Color me concerned about the lack of mentorship esp for AOC who is eager and competent beyond her yrs. Same re KH. I imagine some nights if things would have been different if Joe had resigned midterm post-scotus and KH had tested the immunity ruling.
The stubbornness of the old people in the Democratic party is disgusting. (I write this as a 72-year-old.) Biden's refusal to step down; Pelosi over-riding the plan to have AOC take over as Ranking Member on the House Oversight Committee (using seniority to put 74-year-old Gerry Connolly, suffering from throat cancer, in her place); and Chuck Schumer's seemingly increasing incompetence. I'm DISGUSTED. We're in a "whole new world": one that is terrifying, and is also the place in which YOUNGER people will be forced to live. Give THEM the power!!
Same! Plus the reality is that these problems have come about on the elders watch and clearly older Dems have struggled to find solutions or purchase anywhere to make a dent in the corruption etc, but young people see all sorts of possibilities we don't and have different ideas, and if boomers (sorry you guys have way more control than X just by numbers) don't trust younger people to take power and move the ball we are all going to get sucked into this vortex of shit. The people running our gvmt are younger and have a lot of angry bird energy to grind. We need mass retirements in Dem party. Not everyone needs to be a college prof level expert to work on policy. I'd rather have jasmine crocket behind me in a real fight and Nancy Pelosi behind her telling her where to land a punch, you know?
"don't trust younger people to take power" Actually, I think it's not as simple or as nice as that. I think it comes from self-centeredness, from enjoying power, from not knowing what they'll do with themselves when they retire.
It absolutely will. Just look at the green party and how they're just a branch of the Republicans looking to get liberals to waste their votes. See also: Bernie bros refusing to vote because something something DNC silenced him or something.
That was a long time ago, Lucius. Bernie, the elderly statesman, is out there now doing the heavy lifting for the rest of us, working his ass off at town meetings and reading midnight statements of protest into the congressional record. And veterans need to march on Washington en masse -- they're 30% of the federal workforce that's being decimated. Stop being victims!
Bernie is doing what the rest of the Dems should be doing.
Spot on, Sharon!
I'd rather see Bernie directing the young turks like a Dem army. There are people who can do the work, they just need the leadership or mentorship. He inspired a lot of people but I'd didn't see a bunch of them get involved and make a Bernie gang inside Congress.
The DNC did, in fact, tank Bernie's chances in 2016 because he wouldn't toe the line and Hillary was the darling of Wall Street.
VOTERS tanked Bernie in 2016, for excellent reasons.
Excellent?
Ah, found the 2016 third party voter. How'd that work out?
Third parties always do.
We have to primary them. Enough is enough!
I think you're right, Lucius, but solely because the Ds and Rs only want to split donor money two ways. They'll fight a third recipient tooth and nail.
In Ohio, the Dems knifed the Greens. The GQP knifed the Libertarians.
No pushback? WTF already? The brave ones simply didn’t attend.
Exactly: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/democrats-skip-trumps-joint-address-congress/story?id=119441526
Heroes like Max Frost and Jasmine Crockett don 't deserve this contempt.
Did you see the back of Maxwell's t-shirt?
We need a new party in the worst way. Dems and Republicons have epically failed the electorate. Full scale changes in our government need to occur and the #1 task to get started is to overturn Citizens (Billionaires) United.
A new party would propel the absolute monarchy of Republicans. We do NOT need a "new party." I'm sick of these romantic, tilting-at-windmills notions when we should be focusing on how we reach people in a media climate determined to shut us down. And we need to stop being our own enemies.
I’m talking about the abolishment of both parties. We need a hard reboot for our government that simply DOES NOT work for the people, does not represent the majority of Americans and elected representatives are more concerned with insider trading and donation raising than their jobs.
We are getting a hard forced reboot to the ass right now, that's what Mump would call what they are doing. I think the problem has been narrative and media and CU telling us gvmt doesn't work when it's been chronically underfunded for decades due to a swing right after Reagan and demonizing liberals as 'tax and spend' - even Clinton was a conservative Dem, otherwise known as GOP in drag, machine Dem - a group controlling NY Dem party to the exclusion or progressive Dems - to their detriment. Making deals wGOP here to hold onto power. Hence trumps rise.
A third party is guaranteed to fail. Not only that, it will split votes and keep Republicans entrenched. Look at the green party ffs.
Stranger, getting Citizens United overturned would go a long way to restoring intelligent, dedicated public servants back into government. All this dark money does is invite criminals into government. Get rid of it!
Have to write to them and tell them how angry and disgusted I am with their pathetic norms-holding. Worse than Felon 47 humping the flag
Sitting on their hands makes a powerful statement. And a group of them did walk out mid-speech. I'm really sick of our self-destructive tendency to attack our own elected officials while worshipping some of the most superficial gestures.
96 members of the Democratic Women's Caucus wore pink in protest while attending the address. I nearly threw up. Couldn't find their pussy hats? Was this a Pelosi idea? Dems excel at being mockably ineffectual, handing the bricks to MAGATS to bean them with.
Stupid pink I agreed not because I don't agree with the pink sentiment, but that's not where the country is right this minute. People are insenced about Ukraine sitch and they could have rode that anger right into the speech wearing Ukrainian colors. Disconnected again and losing the momentum of the moment and having people trying to figure out what their point is. Bad at symbols? All their PR firms are circle jerking clueless.
Yes, I thought they would all turn up in blue and yellow. Even my husband has ordered a shirt like Zelenskyy was wearing.
Oh, was that what that was?
It’s embarrassing to find democrats so spineless RZ, past presidents are lifelong members, who should be ashamed of themselves for their silence!!
Yes, couldn't they speak up? They did vote didn't they? By my count there are three of them, but only one r. Of course, he couldn't wait to start two illegal wars of aggression.
I'd love to champion a third party, but (obviously) it needs to pull in sane Republicans, too, if there are enough of them like Adam K and Liz C. Forward party made a lot of sense, but fizzled.
There's no such thing as a sane republican. The only difference between Cheney and trump is that Cheney wants fascism done through proper channels. The polite way.
Trump is the embodiment of the Republican party and everything it stands for.
And Yang's forward party was just green party 2.0 with extra techbro horseshit sprinkled on top.
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Pete Buttigieg was on Colbert after the tRump Shitshow. It is so depressing to see true competence sent home to Michigan while a band of Howler Monkeys roam through our Government flinging shit at everything.
Well said! I love Pete - if there wasn't such a prejudice in this ridiculous country - he would be our next president!!
I read where he might run for governor of Michigan.
Michigan already has a terrific — and appropriately experienced — candidate for governor, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson. I think Buttigieg is promising, but I think he's another Democratic romance. I'd like to see him run for Congress first.
I agree that Buttigieg would be more effective in Congress.
Senate, more likely. It is rather rude to take on a Governorship and think of running for President two years later, but it is not unusual for a Senator to try to move up.
Senator Pete❗️💙😊
Pete needs to be in a federal capacity. He is a leader in a land devoid of them.
Democrats aren't devoid of leaders.
Well, Anastasia, we may be not completely devoid of leadership, (Green, Crockett, AOC, Wyden) but, the rest of our “leaders” remain muted during a crisis of epic proportions. Where are the cries to march? To rebel? To resist?
Granted, the corrupt “mainstream media” gives little to no coverage of Dems and truth, so, it is up to We the People to carry the message.
He’d be another of my choices for a media blitz (see my comment on Steve Schmidt’s most recent post).
Steven Colbert said of Al Greene that someone smuggled a spine into the room last night.
We are now living in an authoritarian regime with a rubber stamp congress. Our Democrat representatives are the worst bunch of passive, old tired sloths we’ve ever seen. Sorry to malign sloths who are so much better than them. The level 10 of insane actions of MuskRump and their moron enablers has been met by Democrats digging us a deep grave. SOMEBODY TELL THEM WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE TO PROTEST EN MASSE AND FIGHT BACK. WTF!!!
THE PASSIVITY OF THE DEMOCRATS IS WHAT HORRIFIED ME, truly SICKENED ME. Guys, if you can't do better than that, don't you get it??? It's OVER. And YOU'RE letting it happen!!!
I still cannot understand how most Democrats are just acting as if this is all normal politics. Screaming and jumping up & down and protesting out here on the left coast.
Democrats need a pro-worker, pro-democracy, anti-corruption agenda. It's sitting right there in their laps. They need to stick to the message the rich get richer and we're fucking broke ass. The message is we can't afford to live here. This isn't rocket science.
They have such an agenda and are articulating it every day. My own congresswoman did this at a packed town hall two weeks ago. What we need is a media strategy to get past a billionaire-funded "mainstream" media determined to silence it. The fact that you are here and have no idea this already exists shows how successful the so-called "mainstream" media has been in promoting MAGA.
I have no idea what AOC, Bernie, Warren, Frost, Murphy, Jasmine and few others are saying and I'm sucking up maga media? 🤔 I don't think so.
There are a few Dems who are articulating the agenda, but thus far, they're outliers. They're so small a handful, they can be easily dismissed. The entire Dem party needs to get with the program that Lisa describes, and get LOUD. Get PUBLIC. Stick together, with every one of them channeling Al Green. And FFS, stop the mealy-mouthed Establishment Dem platitudes, as in Slotkin's response last night. Holding up REAGAN as an example??? Give me a break! Talk about a circular firing squad!
THIS. Right here. No, they shouldn't have all stayed home, or simply wore more t-shirts, held up more auction signs, or quietly walked out - they should've had the *balls* like Al Green did, and stood up one by one and shouted that asshole down for every single lie he blurted out. Do what the constituents are doing and get *mad*, and if need be, get *kicked out*. That was the place to do it, for all the world to see, in addition to the left-leaning media outlets where they're preaching to the choir. What Al did was electric and I was begging for more.
Slotkin, for all the good she did bring up, was not pointed enough in calling out Trump's bullshit. And she voted for *eight* of these miserable cabinet members, not to mention working in the CIA under Bush. These Dems don't have the fire we need in this absolute catastrophic situation we are in.
I'm afraid that history will look back on this, after Trump purposefully tanks the economy, sends millions into the streets, and then institutes martial law. I hope it doesn't happen, but it's increasingly looking like it may.
I have the same sense of despair when I hear someone on our side praising Reagan, because I lived through 8 years of that misery. However, the Hopium blog had a good point: this comment wasn’t for Democrats, it’s for Republicans who can’t figure out why Trump is such a lover of the Evil Empire. Hence the speech was in essence opening a new front against Trump.
Hakeem Jeffries told us they are “waiting for a good pitch to hit.”
OMG !
What Jeffries needs to do is get all his players out on the field in protest and stop the damn game!
Meanwhile, Dems went on to help confirm all of Pig Dick's cabinet choices, except for Matt Gaetz who repulsed even Republicans.
There have ALREADY BEEN A HUNDRED "GOOD" PITCHES!!! Dems, you are letting down the entire country.
He already struck out looking.
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They were muzzled.
They put the muzzles on themselves.
Jeff I don’t know where to start. Habba Habba Yam Yam trashing our vets like they are “losers and suckers” WTAF? Donnie’s cascade of lies or watching Canadian TV as liquor stores remove American liquor with a majority of liquor from Kentucky along with tobacco products from the US. As for “Golf with MAGAs” yesterday they were unusually quiet considering the precipitous fall in the American stock markets coupled with the tariffs..virtually no defense of the defenseless and I’m here for that, also collecting money from MAGAS playing golf. Best comment last night? It was the moment the great Texas Congresswoman, Jasmine Crockett called Donald “Putin’s ho”. I’ll take the humor in this time of darkness. Best to All.
Golfing with MAGA's was quiet because they've heard the ruminations coming from Elon about Social Security being a Ponzi scheme. Your terminally enlarged prostrate buddies are all on SS and get Medicare as I do. Plus they probably have 401K's as I do. Sprinkle a vet or two in there and they're worried about VA benefits being cut. They do love their Tricare.
Crockett is a treasure. If she and AOC were in charge, the Dems might have a chance.
Still hanging out with Nazis. Nice.
I work for a multinational TRANSportation company. Its name is TRANSdev. I’ve thought I would love to wander around certain parts of Florida where our golfer-in-chief or the illustrious governor of the state hang out with as much TRANSdev merch as I can wear and carry.
I'd advise against it. You could very well be killed for that. Trump's cultists will take any opportunity they can get to murder people if they think they can get away with it.
I know, but a girl can dream. 😉 Honestly, I have planned for a number of years now to never go to Florida. DeSantis will get none of my money.
I completed my longtime goal of going to all 50 states last fall and I will never set foot in a red state again if I can help it.
I've hit 48: got Hawai'i but not Alaska, Rhode Island but not Delaware.
I have two friends who have moved back north from Florida in the last two years.
Wise choice.
An unfortunate reality. That’s why it angers me that the military hasn’t protected us from traitors and attackers!
I see what you did there, kate. Keep doing it.
Exactly, I have no idea. And we tried to pick it all apart.
Here: https://thistleandmoss.com/p/wendys-comparative-lies-list-orange
And Here: https://thistleandmoss.com/p/the-bullshit-ass-circus-orange-crusty
Thank you by the way Jeff for everything you do and your day to day effort.
Listening now. I like you.
You wont eventually I promise you. :)
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what the fuck was that?
I believe it was evidence that we are totally fucked thanks to a fucking lunatic controlling fucking cowards and brainwashed fucking idiots.
Probably so, yes. I got so mad about it, I had to boot up Overwatch2 and take a firm losing by high ranking pros in the game to get over the anger.
I couldn't watch it. But I switched to it briefly a couple times just to see if it was over - oh my gawd the man looks bad. Such a sick, old, weak man. Seemed to be hanging on to the lectern just to stay standing (granted, this was a brief look). Dorian Gray's picture is back in the man.
The moist, light brown complexion of a floating doody
Floating doodies float because of a high fat content.
I watched my cat hurl up fur balls. Way more entertaining than watching a Russian asset and his cigarette holders worship fascism.
I wouldn't have watched that shitshow if you paid me. Speaking of getting paid, I read yesterday that former cowpoke Devin Nunes made $47M last year as CEO of DJT which posted $401M in losses last year.
That's a good gig if you can get it.
Failing upward, it’s the MAGAT way.
And somehow, we're being told that fking propaganda company is worth eleventy-zillion dollars.
All of Trump’s people are making millions- Habba, Bove, Nunes, Sauer, Bondi. That’s why they support him. Money
Every time I don't think they can go any lower, you push the TV remote and it's like you're in a new level in a video game where the bad guys are now supposed to be the new good guys and the old good guys are now just yesterdays lunch. We are now officially Germany in 1933.
You state "we're being governed by imbeciles." Well, they have been telling us all along .. "Morons Are Governing Again" ..
Morons Are Governing Again! I love it! Where can I buy merch?
I don't know, I just made it up.. But it appears I am not the first. Google is your friend. Lots of stuff out there!
An infantile gripe fest full of lies. Imagine that.
I did not watch that piece of shit
I do not like “King” Don of Fuckwit
Found in Mother Kay’s book of fucked up nursery rhymes
I I meant what I said and I said what I meant, MAGATS are douchebags, 💯 percent!
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“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”
Leaving this one intact.
“Look at me!
Look at me!
Look at me NOW!
It is fun to destroy democracy,
But you have to know how.”
I like it king of Fuckwit of Greenland.
More Kay-El!
Maybe Fascism, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Fascism perhaps…means that I’m just a whore.
Love it!