Consider Grassley, Tuberville, Johnson from Wisconsin, Turtle McConnell, Susan Collins, John Cornyn, Lindsay Graham, the list of decrepit, brain dead old fogies goes on and on and on. Why are the young people of our country voting for this swill?
We have some oldies on our side too. Need age and term limits. As it's been said before, the Senate is a government nursing home. Not picking on old people because I'm a Boomer too.
For Bernie? I don't think so. Aging is individual. Term limits leads to people without experience. Take California's Assembly and Senate as an example. You get a senator up to snuff and oops,. their 12 years is up.
Perhaps candidates over, oh, say 50, should be required to pass a mental competency test performed by a neutral, nonpartisan party. If it were up to me the test would also measure OCEAN and Dark Triad scores, but then I'm a notorious over-reacher.
Agreed, need age & term limits. The calcification of Chuckie Schumer's brain is frightening. His leadership has been substandard at best, and now his incompetence both cognitively and politically is a dire threat to our democracy in these perilous times. CHUCK! You of all people should know that you cannot reason with the MAGApols, they waste your time, then yank the football away as you try to kick the field goal. Stop playing defense, go to the screen pass and run over all of these lying, delusional R losers who think they're not going to be herded into the box cars.
Add Bernie Sanders, NOT the most progressive Senator from Vermont. (That would be Peter Welch, also not spring chicken.) And while we're on the subject, no, I don't think Bernie and his sidekick are heroes for holding large rallies, until and unless they are urging the crowd to do something more than attend a rally and providing more practical, immediate things for them to do. Otherwise, they're taking attention from those who are doing the in-the-trenches fighting.
Only a handful of voters went to his rallies, and that number dropped off last year. The racism didn't. He promised white people he would make sure they got everything and people of color got nothing.
You’re correct. Trump has been, and will always be, a racist. He stokes fear and deeply seated hatred. He didn’t have as many rally goers this time around but didn’t have to. His followers were never going to change their minds. Some of them are now seeing their lives affected by his actions. Hopefully more of them will find life more difficult because of their choices.
You nailed it Anastasia! Look at all the love filled, enthusiastic, overflowing rallies before November's election. So many of us - me included - deluded ourselves into believing the polls were wrong, to our profound disappointment.
If you mean interference in the sense of massive donations and vote buying, I think the evidence is compelling (though thanks to Citizens United massive donations are not illegal). On the other hand, there is not a shred of evidence to support the conspiracy myths about his having hacked the voting machines.
Are the young people even bothering to vote, would be more the question I’m asking Walt…the young people I know want the blue/ no haired tosspots gone!
I mean, he's old, white, and republican. After that, who cares how old they are. I mean Dole made it to I think almost 100. Grassley wont be any different. I just hope hes LONG out of office by then.
That was brilliant. Jeff hangs in there, in spite of all the misery that surrounds us. I think you can use laugh emojis if you read the column on your phone? IDK, but I have seen them employed.
Thanks, Kathleen. I'm on an Apple computer, I hate smartphones, I'm an old, cranky Luddite who needs a 14 year old on staff to show me how any of this stuff works.
He's a 152 year old who's been on the evil gummint teat collecting Senatorial salary, free health care and likely - Social Security and whatever else these gangsters get from lobbyists. A classic "taker." Iowa farmers are finally sick of his act.
Blind, big fingers, little buttons, AT&T crap service, a big glorious computer at my disposal. The smartphone comes in handy when my hot rod breaks down on the freeway, (insert laugh emoji)
Haha, I had a flip phone until a few years ago. It was because when I saw all the apps and icons on my kids' phones, I was like, WTF?! It was intimidating AF
The police and FBI can track you on your phone. I've never had one. My time with the police is done. If Gary thinks he's a Luddite, my brother accused me of that 30 years ago. The best thing about my MAC is that I can read Wikipedia on it, and can actually read the print.
On my Apple iMac, if I go up to "Edit" up along the top, there's "Emojis & symbols" at the bottom. Sometimes it takes a try or two but I can do them that way. The downside is, I can only do one at a time. 🤷🏻♀️
If you have Microsoft Windows Programs on your computer, such as Edge. You will find the windows key on the bottom row, 2 keys left from the space bar. This may not work on a smartphone. And it definitely doesn't work on Apple products.
What it has is excellent footage of AOC. That beats looking at MTG and Chuck Grassley at their town halls. That is a big crowd and they are people who are getting to hear the truth, the truth like Jeff tells it!
The crowd in Bakersfield for AOC and Bernie knocked my socks off. I hope the Gulag Republicans shit a brick and pissed their pants. We’re coming for them with brainpower while they taser their own constituents.
Regarding Jeff's last thought "stay angry, people. stay loud", it's all about our presence. These town halls are great and will continue. But please, if at all possible, take to the streets whenever there is a rally, a protest, a march, anything. We need to rebuild our muscles as a nation to fight for what has made our country great, and it ain't MAGA.
Outstanding! And next time, ask a friend! Make it fun! As the numbers grow, it is impossible for the press to ignore us. And when they can't ignore us, neither can the fascist regime and clownfuckers. We will own the narrative!
It is always possible for the press to ignore demonstrations. In 2005, the largest demonstration since the Vietnam era was held in D.C. I was there. The march was something like 20 blocks long. I was at the beginning and when I got to the end people were still waiting to step off. Estimates ranged to half a million or more. Our daily paper gave 2/3rds of their article to the "pro war" counterdemonstration held by a rightwing talk show host (I think Glenn Beck but I'm not sure). That counter rally was so tiny you could literally count the 100 people or so that were there.
They do that with the forced birthers too, they'll show a group of them making the crowd look larger than it is, then show two ladies from the pro-bodily autonomy group, away from the crowd so they look less than. WaPo did it even before they went dark.
An activist said that protesting E's stuff is impressive but protesters should be concentrating on doing it in front of the VA,or Social Security Admin or the Dept/Education where it would have a more focused impression. I kinda agree....cause THOSE are the things most important, no??
Just stay well away from Sporkfoot- looks like she’s got quite a few fan boys wearing police uniforms.
Protect and Serve, indeed
Every Cop who laid a hand on that man should be fired. And whoever tased him should be prosecuted
Fat chance these days. It’s just as bad as I had figured it would be, maybe a little worse.
Shit stain hasn’t sprung his crypto currency scam yet where he converts a couple $Trillion of Govt. cash reserves into crypto, most likely his own. With a token amount into Skippy the Dipshit’s appropriately named Doge Bitcoin. What could possibly go wrong?
Police are not always your friends. Look carefully at any cars you walk by. Make sure they're not filled with police just waiting to open the doors and jump out.
I understand it's Georgia, but I've found that despite these perilous times, there are conservatives, young and old, still have moral & human rights standards. Maybe sporkfoot will get re-elected, maybe. But tasing a tax paying voter is NOT a good look.
Dog E actually precludes Musk, he just picked it and tried to pump it. The highest it ever got before some idiots elected the orange elephant was 7$ It is an internet idiots misspelling of Doggy. it was started as a joke and is the first meme coin, using the Shibu dog as it's mascot. Today it is worth .16 cents.
The operative word here — very revealing — is "party." I think demonstrations and rallies are great but it's what we do when we go home that matters. The Heritage Foundation never held rallies.
That's fine and all but I think a lot of people come to rallies and demonstrations and feel like their job is done and they've had a good time and all. The real muscles we need to rebuild are those driving day-to-day activism — making the calls, talking to friends, testifying to our state legislatures, hounding our media.
Indeed, Anastasia, there's a lot to do and there are pitfalls to all of these. Surely hounding our representatives everywhere to express our alarm and talking to friends to spread the word is vitally important. My point is simply trying to emphasize what those who know about this stuff (Anne Applebaum, Anat Shenker-Osorio, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, etc) have noted, specifically that we need to demonstrate "social proof" of our large scale objection to this regime. Apparently just getting out 3.5% of the population into the streets is enough to effect change from and possibly even the downfall of an authoritarian regime. And yes, we need to do it again and again and continue to grow the numbers. We can even put the message in the face of Fox "News" by surrounding their offices while we're at it.
Many are doing both. The group I’m involved with has gone to the offices of our ruby-red Senators every two weeks. They also staged the 4/5 protest, which had 500 people marching outside the Capitol in Jackson, MS. We were out of town, so we joined a group in St. Louis, but we will join locally this Saturday. Anything you do is important. Don't give up; show up.
Don’t know why but your reply made tears come to my eyes. (May have been the gin and tonic I’m drinking lol). My husband and I will be out for the protest this weekend as we’ve been for the last 6 weeks. Being out there is so important. I hope we’re making a difference but regardless we will be out making good trouble because this is no time to sit on the sidelines. We’re in our 70s btw.
Want to really be angry?! Guess who sent all those factory jobs across the pacific ocean. Us old folks know. It was St. Ronnie the Senile. For those brave enuf to understand what was really happening, the economists called his industrial policy change, "Brave". Today, we'd have called such nonsense what it was. War on the middle & working class. The end result is that moving those high paying jobs overseas, made the working class permanently poor. No working for 30 years and collecting a pension, or saving their money and re-inventing their careers and moving up the income ladder. Nope. Poor, and unable to get proper educations, they're imprisoned to voting emotionally, not rationally, if they had the time to vote at all. Ronnie and his crew of criminals (MOST Indicted Administration at the time, more so than ALL previous administrations combined). By the way, the R's are NEVER go actually bring those jobs back. They've been riding that voter cocaine high for decades, and going back to a level playing field is never going to happen.
It will be VERY INTERESTING to see what happens when the Senator arrives in El Salvador. I’ll bet you dollars to donuts(wait, aren’t donuts more than a dollar?) that the Senator is not allowed to see Garcia. AnusMouthPantLoad will have his autocratic buddies there lock the entire place down. We may never know what happened to Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
I'm sure Van Hollen will get shut out and come home empty-handed — but it's important that he (and other electeds!) stay, y'know, angry and loud, and make the effort
I read this morning that Maxwell Frost among others is trying to form a group to go. I also read yesterday that the agreement with Bukele shown to the judge says they’re all in CECOT “pending” the administration’s decision on their “disposition,” which I read as blob l’orange could get him out of there any time his emptiness feels like it.
Soooo, what, let's all be 'smart'? That's gotten us exactly where we are, and where's that?
The 'smart' people say he's all-powerful, that no one dare raise their voice lest they be branded a criminal and hauled away. Better to just capitulate.
Awful lot of implied meaning going on now, based on... nothing. "Having them all in one place" would allow them to be executed by a Salvadoran kill squad all at once rather than one at a time. Or rounded up and disappeared all at once rather than one at a time. And the murder of elected US officials, subsequently labelled "enemies of the people" by a bloated mango with a microphone, would have absolutely no effect on anything. Nobody would remember, because Americans, who are too stupid to breathe, will just be distracted by the next TicToc video.
That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works.
We need an organized protest from US citizens opposed to these illegal prisons as well as sending home-grown criminals and ANYONE that the Orange kleptocrat has a grudge against from being sent there. His administration is clearly breaking the law by disallowing due process.
I see that the chameleon Corey Booker has belatedly jumped on the bandwagon. Too late and too little, Corey boy.
He wants so desperately to be the new Obama but he just doesn’t have the chops for it.
Nor does the equally desperate Hakeem Jeffries. Blowing in the wind and press releasing like mad but I don’t see them out among the public who are hungry for true leaders.
Did you actually watch that speech Booker gave for more than 25 hours in early
April? It's called making good trouble, and it is just one approach of thousands. Yes, the Dems should be doing a lot more, collectively and individually, but better late than never. Also, referring to a Black man as "Corey boy" is offensive.
He knows it's offensive. But we've been given license by the new Overlords that using the N word is completely acceptable. In fact NOT using it is probably suspect since it reeks of DEI and Woke.
That said, I don't think he's really wrong. The Dem leadership is dead, it just hasn't fallen down yet.
No, "we" haven't been given carte blanch to use racist language about our Black politicians. That is MAGA/repugnican. I don't give a fuck whether DEIA bothers them. They stole and misuse the word "woke" from POC, and again, MAGA/repugnicans/fascists/bigots are not the boss of me.
or any of the others - none have been tried and found guilty, and what about that poor gay make-up artist? I shudder for what he's experiencing... good god, auszwitz already
If there is one Kilmar Abrego Garcia in there, there are hundreds. All were denied due process, even the alleged gang members. The "Cool Dictator" of Venezuela has made a lucrative $6 million annual financial deal with Slump to provide death gulags for the MAGA regime. As with another cool playboy dictator, "Bone Saw" MBS of Saudi, it's transactional, not moral.
Hoping Sen. Van Hollen brought plenty of security with him. If nine wrongfully detained immigrants have already been brought back from El Salvador, you'd think we could get this poor guy back from that hellhole. Of course, it would be for the right price. If only we could do an exchange like Marco Stoolio or Krusti Noem for this guy. Those two pieces of shit sure along with others in this fascist administration sure deserve it.
Yeah, I was thinking Rep. Leo Ryan and Jonestown. I hope Sen. Van Hollen has lots of security. Our fake president is a cruel asshole enabled by other cruel assholes like those you mentioned. Fuck 'em all
Or even show pictures that he's alive. They're backed into a corner. They've been ordered to return him. You can't return a dead person that you are responsible for their death. So you make up a story that you can't get him back and hope the furor about this only lasts a couple more days (like Signalgate). This needs to stay on the front page. Americans have very short memories.
Andrew Jackson I believe you meant. He was a notorious racist. But Johnson was no friend of the newly emancipated blacks after he was thrust into the presidency either.
Ole, it was Andrew Johnson that I meant. While Jackson was abominable as a proponent of slavery and the forced relocations of Native Americans, Johnson destroyed the civil rights of freed slaves and all other African Americans following the assassination of Lincoln. He retracted Lincoln’s policies (including “40 acres and a mule”) which would have given African Americans an honest chance to be productive citizens after the Civil War. That led to a significant regression in all of the civil rights Lincoln attempted to initiate. Civil rights have suffered ever since.
Weird how the two most racist presidents (before tRump) have almost identical names.
I'm concerned as well. He came to this country because his life was in danger from Salvadorean gangsters. El Salvador is literally the most dangerous place for him to be. If so, Trump should be charged with murder.
My buddy in Boise attended a Bernie Sanders / AOC Rally there Monday! Folks, if it can happen in Idaho, it can happen in Flori-Duh, Missouri, Texas, Alabama, etc.
Kay-El, that's accurate. But it's a tiny island in an archipelago of LDS and military, I think the D-to-R ratio there in Ada County is 51%D and 49%R with the remaining 1% thinking Richard Nixon is still president.
I often picture seeing the screen say "He's dead." and me just jumping up and down for hours, ecstatic and joyous happiness!!! Finally, an end to this madness.
A Russian friend told me this classic old joke which has applied to various figures over the years:
A guy goes to a kiosk, buys the paper, scans the front page, and throws it in the trash. The next day, he does the same thing. On the third day, the owner of the kiosk has to ask, "Why do you even bother to buy the paper if you don't want to read it?"
"I'm just checking the obituaries."
"What? Obituaries are deep inside. They're not on the front page!"
Mmmmm. Seize the guns, Donald. What could possibly go wrong? It'll make you safer and you'll have better control over civil society! No one will ever criticize you again!
I taught and lived in Fresno County for 32 years (farmworker students). Driving Highway 99 with the Burma Shave-like signs denouncing the “man-made drought” and praising Frump was (and is) the hellish landscape of the San Joaquin Valley. When I was coaching Academic Decathlon, we would bus students down to Bakersfield for an introduction to the music section presented by Cal State-Bakersfield, an interesting contrast to the stereotype. Of course, one year country and western was the music and Buck Owens made an appearance. Behind the curtain you could see him sidling up to a young woman, not sure of any groping and unclear how many students saw it. 😂 The Bakersfield Sound and sights—
The armpit of CA! I too, am so happy that Bakersfield turned out like they did. Maybe people there are finally really tired of the Repubs hovering over them. I went with a bunch of Dems sponsored by Congressman Mike Thompson to that area to canvas voters years ago. One couple said they were sick of Nunes and that they leaving the area.
Word up: Margie is challenging Ossoff for his Senate seat in the midterm. She will have to take her Batshit World Tour on the road across the whole state now.
Her brand of spittle-slinging hate-vomit doesn't play particularly well here in Atlanta. Maybe she can overcome the headwinds of 2026 and prevail anyway, but the spectacle of how she's treated by 10,000 people like this poor sap will be amusing. They may not have enough tasers to go around.
If the country continues to turn against Dictator Donny, and it looks like that is a possibility, he will quickly and unmercifully respond by some instituting some emergency declaration that provides him with absolute power with no Congressional or Judicial oversight. He will react as any mob boss would react when under siege by killing, yes, I do mean killing anyone that stands in his way. One man rule that dictates all things is what Dictator Donny wants and if he sees that slipping away his reaction will not be pleasant and be totally destructive to the U.S.
He has pissed off the Koch machine (Charles and his adopted son) and many other actual business moguls, who are starting to realize they can't control his idiocy.
I know. Funny how that works. He has managed to piss off people who are much shittier than him. The Koch's and Mr. Dimon are pros. He is just an evil piece of meat.
Dicktater has his own sadistic squad egging him on to total violence. Bum Piss Bannon, Nosferatu, all of Fox News and its owners, his slobbering cabinet of butthole lickers and special advisors. It's going to take a lot of gallows.
He likes the show so he will have some type of televised event when he signs the document taking total control everything because he needs everyone to see him being the strongman dictator.
Protestors will eventually be shot. It's obvious that it is going to happen. Scary, indeed. I'm going to my first ever protest this Saturday. If I don't get shot I will attend one every Saturday until he is gone.
Bob, as we progress through this fascist coup it is imperative that we take it to the streets, where we cannot be easily ignored. Rub it in the faces of the lamestream media!
"Streets" being the key word. We always got permits for streets. I never went to a demonstration that was a) in a place, like a square or b) on a sidewalk. I've been to lots of demonstrations, and they've all been in the streets.
"Taking to the streets" is very romantic, but it's not where things get done. I'm more impressed by the people showing up at town halls and the tireless attorneys suing the pants off MAGA, applying a lot of pressure. We should also be actively pressuring and shaming anyone who caves to MAGA including universities, media and law firms. I've already taken my university off my resume for abolishing their "DEI" efforts (the Social Justice department has been my main point of connection since getting my degree) and written to the president to let him know. I got a form letter about how they had to cave because threats.
Anastasia, I don't know how old you are, but I do know how we built the opposition to that illegal war of aggression we fought in Vietnam. We started with maybe 15,000 in the streets in October 1965, and by the time I was gone, 1970, a million people were demonstrating in Washington. A million people in the streets in your nation's capitol speaks loudly. If t cuts off Social Security, and millions of people show up in the streets, especially in D.C., I guarantee you, he'll rethink it.
Another great column, Jeff! BTW, have you heard of XCancel? Jay Kuo uses their links so we don't have to visit the feted swamp of Not Twitter. It's a non-profit out of Iceland that replicates Twitter posts without having to actually go there.
Becky, if watching police officers - paid with our tax dollars - drag that poor guy out of the room and taze him for speaking out about injustice doesn’t fire you up, you’re dead inside.
They literally threatened the first guy who ran against her gf out of town, then they threatened him, so he withdrew, sadly too late to get anyone else to run, so she had her gym rats cheat her way in in the first place.
"152-year-old Chuck Grassley"
Why doesn't this damned blog have laugh emojis? :v
fun fact: every time I write about Grassley, I increase his age by at least a decade over the last time I wrote about him. at least I think I do
Consider Grassley, Tuberville, Johnson from Wisconsin, Turtle McConnell, Susan Collins, John Cornyn, Lindsay Graham, the list of decrepit, brain dead old fogies goes on and on and on. Why are the young people of our country voting for this swill?
We have some oldies on our side too. Need age and term limits. As it's been said before, the Senate is a government nursing home. Not picking on old people because I'm a Boomer too.
I'm another Boomer (1947) & I refer to our government as a fossilocracy.
Oh I like that one....fossilocracy....that's perfect!!
"gerontocracy" is an actual technical term for this
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Same. Accurate.
For Bernie? I don't think so. Aging is individual. Term limits leads to people without experience. Take California's Assembly and Senate as an example. You get a senator up to snuff and oops,. their 12 years is up.
Exactly. You end up throwing out the good ones along with the incompetent ones who should go.
Perhaps candidates over, oh, say 50, should be required to pass a mental competency test performed by a neutral, nonpartisan party. If it were up to me the test would also measure OCEAN and Dark Triad scores, but then I'm a notorious over-reacher.
Agreed, need age & term limits. The calcification of Chuckie Schumer's brain is frightening. His leadership has been substandard at best, and now his incompetence both cognitively and politically is a dire threat to our democracy in these perilous times. CHUCK! You of all people should know that you cannot reason with the MAGApols, they waste your time, then yank the football away as you try to kick the field goal. Stop playing defense, go to the screen pass and run over all of these lying, delusional R losers who think they're not going to be herded into the box cars.
Add Bernie Sanders, NOT the most progressive Senator from Vermont. (That would be Peter Welch, also not spring chicken.) And while we're on the subject, no, I don't think Bernie and his sidekick are heroes for holding large rallies, until and unless they are urging the crowd to do something more than attend a rally and providing more practical, immediate things for them to do. Otherwise, they're taking attention from those who are doing the in-the-trenches fighting.
Rallies get the masses riled up AND excited to fight! How do you think the Dotard got so many dotards to follow him?
How? Racism.
Only a handful of voters went to his rallies, and that number dropped off last year. The racism didn't. He promised white people he would make sure they got everything and people of color got nothing.
You’re correct. Trump has been, and will always be, a racist. He stokes fear and deeply seated hatred. He didn’t have as many rally goers this time around but didn’t have to. His followers were never going to change their minds. Some of them are now seeing their lives affected by his actions. Hopefully more of them will find life more difficult because of their choices.
You nailed it Anastasia! Look at all the love filled, enthusiastic, overflowing rallies before November's election. So many of us - me included - deluded ourselves into believing the polls were wrong, to our profound disappointment.
Question. Do any of us think Musk interfered with the election? I do.
I do. At the very least, he interfered it with his money.
YesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes! Any questions? YesYesYesYesYesYesYes!!!
If you mean interference in the sense of massive donations and vote buying, I think the evidence is compelling (though thanks to Citizens United massive donations are not illegal). On the other hand, there is not a shred of evidence to support the conspiracy myths about his having hacked the voting machines.
i absolutely believe he did
Young people either don’t think it’s important to vote or they like single issues; no thoughts for overall welfare of everyone in the country.
Orange Hitler is fast approaching 79 and his Red Square parade
They aren’t voting for him., Walt. They aren’t voting for anybody. They sat it out and let Democracy slide right down the shitter.
and Marsha Blackburn, they're all demented LOL
Are the young people even bothering to vote, would be more the question I’m asking Walt…the young people I know want the blue/ no haired tosspots gone!
Because they're the ones that are running? just a guess
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I mean, he's old, white, and republican. After that, who cares how old they are. I mean Dole made it to I think almost 100. Grassley wont be any different. I just hope hes LONG out of office by then.
So did Strom Thurmond. And that wasn't a good thing!
Long out of office should have been 15 years ago!
Chuck is a perfect example why his, and ALL the Congress's Healthcare is the best in the universe....it might be called Obamacare
I’m from California and CRINGED the last time CA elected Dianne Feinstein. This is not just a ReTHUGliCON problem.
And it makes me laugh every time! 🤣
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I loved the Grassley age comment. He's running in '26 isn't he?
He is the definition of term limits!
Well at this point, he probably FEELS like he's aging that quickly, so you're right on target!
Uh, oh. You might be too old to remember.
Doubt he'd notice.
👴🏻 ⚰️ avg age of Congress 88 😄
Actually, while I haven't one the Senate (and it's probably in the 60s) in the House it's much younger: GOP 59, Democrat 53.
That was brilliant. Jeff hangs in there, in spite of all the misery that surrounds us. I think you can use laugh emojis if you read the column on your phone? IDK, but I have seen them employed.
🤪🤪🤪🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂You have to hit Reply—then you can access emojis.
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I have my own laugh track here every day, self-generated - and if I’m drinking coffee it comes with a spit take!
Nasal coffee enemas are always refreshing!
A much needed “brain cleanse”!
Much better than brainworms.
Worm remedy from RFKJr: Melt one Ivermectin tab into a cup of coffee before performing a hearty Tiedrich-induced brain-cleansing spit take
I'm rolling on the floor!! that's the laugh of the week!!
And soothing 😌 😴 ☺️
Tea works pretty well too
Hilarious! I have experienced a couple of those reading Jeff. Who the f needs Navage? (The nasal cleaning system for those not in the know.)Teehee
I can add emojis with windows key + ; 😁😆😅🤣😂
Thanks, Kathleen. I'm on an Apple computer, I hate smartphones, I'm an old, cranky Luddite who needs a 14 year old on staff to show me how any of this stuff works.
BTW, what I wanna know is whether 152-year-old Chuck Grassley is one of those people collecting Social Security !!!
He's a 152 year old who's been on the evil gummint teat collecting Senatorial salary, free health care and likely - Social Security and whatever else these gangsters get from lobbyists. A classic "taker." Iowa farmers are finally sick of his act.
Nah. He's just getting all the federal farm subsidies for being a partner in his family "farm".
He, like Howie the Lut, doesn't really need it.
Gary, why do you hate smartphones? It’s like having a library in your pocket.
Blind, big fingers, little buttons, AT&T crap service, a big glorious computer at my disposal. The smartphone comes in handy when my hot rod breaks down on the freeway, (insert laugh emoji)
Haha, I had a flip phone until a few years ago. It was because when I saw all the apps and icons on my kids' phones, I was like, WTF?! It was intimidating AF
Gary take your pick : 🤭😆😁🤣😝😛
Stop showing off!
The police and FBI can track you on your phone. I've never had one. My time with the police is done. If Gary thinks he's a Luddite, my brother accused me of that 30 years ago. The best thing about my MAC is that I can read Wikipedia on it, and can actually read the print.
^^Ever so much this!
On my Apple iMac, if I go up to "Edit" up along the top, there's "Emojis & symbols" at the bottom. Sometimes it takes a try or two but I can do them that way. The downside is, I can only do one at a time. 🤷🏻♀️
Let's check this out ... 😃
I owe you dinner, Dina. 😂
I like Thai food. 😁
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Happy for you Gary D.🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
But it makes sense. If Apple didn't offer emojis the entire Steve Jobs empire would fall!!
Where is the windows key? I don't see it on my keyboard. Can you educate me?
If you have gmail, you can copy/paste emojis from that
If you have Microsoft Windows Programs on your computer, such as Edge. You will find the windows key on the bottom row, 2 keys left from the space bar. This may not work on a smartphone. And it definitely doesn't work on Apple products.
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What it has is excellent footage of AOC. That beats looking at MTG and Chuck Grassley at their town halls. That is a big crowd and they are people who are getting to hear the truth, the truth like Jeff tells it!
Chuck Grassley is a madman NAZI supporting the NAZI policies and practices of this administration. He is complicit in murder and thus is a murderer.
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It was a pleasure to end this reading watching AOC in all her glory!
The crowd in Bakersfield for AOC and Bernie knocked my socks off. I hope the Gulag Republicans shit a brick and pissed their pants. We’re coming for them with brainpower while they taser their own constituents.
Props to Chuck for facing his constituents. I guess being 152 has its good points.
Props to Chuck's audience for the confrontation!
Not to sound racist, but I did not expect that from those folks. I was pleasantly surprised
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Gary: right-click inside your post dialog. On Windows, a menu will appear and at the top, "Emoji" will be there.
Or hit the Win key and period (.).
Mine doesn't give me emojis; lots of other options like 'font, speech.' I hate computers.
Thanks for the help though.
I don't care for emojis anyhow.
Dang. I do too. I have to work with the things.
Seriously, my coffee came out of my nose when I read that 😆
Because they're not necessary.
Absolutely, Gary! I want to add
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Regarding Jeff's last thought "stay angry, people. stay loud", it's all about our presence. These town halls are great and will continue. But please, if at all possible, take to the streets whenever there is a rally, a protest, a march, anything. We need to rebuild our muscles as a nation to fight for what has made our country great, and it ain't MAGA.
I'm doing my first-ever protest on Saturday. I live in a safe place so I don't think I'll get tased. I hope not.
Outstanding! And next time, ask a friend! Make it fun! As the numbers grow, it is impossible for the press to ignore us. And when they can't ignore us, neither can the fascist regime and clownfuckers. We will own the narrative!
It is always possible for the press to ignore demonstrations. In 2005, the largest demonstration since the Vietnam era was held in D.C. I was there. The march was something like 20 blocks long. I was at the beginning and when I got to the end people were still waiting to step off. Estimates ranged to half a million or more. Our daily paper gave 2/3rds of their article to the "pro war" counterdemonstration held by a rightwing talk show host (I think Glenn Beck but I'm not sure). That counter rally was so tiny you could literally count the 100 people or so that were there.
They do that with the forced birthers too, they'll show a group of them making the crowd look larger than it is, then show two ladies from the pro-bodily autonomy group, away from the crowd so they look less than. WaPo did it even before they went dark.
An activist said that protesting E's stuff is impressive but protesters should be concentrating on doing it in front of the VA,or Social Security Admin or the Dept/Education where it would have a more focused impression. I kinda agree....cause THOSE are the things most important, no??
Just stay well away from Sporkfoot- looks like she’s got quite a few fan boys wearing police uniforms.
Protect and Serve, indeed
Every Cop who laid a hand on that man should be fired. And whoever tased him should be prosecuted
Fat chance these days. It’s just as bad as I had figured it would be, maybe a little worse.
Shit stain hasn’t sprung his crypto currency scam yet where he converts a couple $Trillion of Govt. cash reserves into crypto, most likely his own. With a token amount into Skippy the Dipshit’s appropriately named Doge Bitcoin. What could possibly go wrong?
Oh Woe is us!
The person who was tased oughta sue her and her goon squad
The Gestapo is here.
Police are not always your friends. Look carefully at any cars you walk by. Make sure they're not filled with police just waiting to open the doors and jump out.
I have a friend who is retired from the sheriff's department, and a neighbor who is a police officer, and both are how I wish all would be.
I understand it's Georgia, but I've found that despite these perilous times, there are conservatives, young and old, still have moral & human rights standards. Maybe sporkfoot will get re-elected, maybe. But tasing a tax paying voter is NOT a good look.
Dog E actually precludes Musk, he just picked it and tried to pump it. The highest it ever got before some idiots elected the orange elephant was 7$ It is an internet idiots misspelling of Doggy. it was started as a joke and is the first meme coin, using the Shibu dog as it's mascot. Today it is worth .16 cents.
Cops always take the side of the state. Always!
They tend to be paid to watch rich guys property.
On the cops being "fired" or "prosecuted".....Ha! It is GEORGIA.
I'm thinking law suit.
I attended the April 5th party and wouldn’t miss the next one for anything. Resist!
https://www.newsweek.com/nationwide-trump-protest-april19-50501-handsoff-2056119
We're heading into London again on Saturday for the one there.
The operative word here — very revealing — is "party." I think demonstrations and rallies are great but it's what we do when we go home that matters. The Heritage Foundation never held rallies.
Good for you Arne!!! Everyone- get out and march. It pisses them off. That is worth it!!!!
Good luck. Have a blast!!!
This Saturday, April 19. Be there or be square. :-)
There --> where? <--
I have a bit more; being put on by 5050-1,
https://www.fiftyfifty.one/
That's fine and all but I think a lot of people come to rallies and demonstrations and feel like their job is done and they've had a good time and all. The real muscles we need to rebuild are those driving day-to-day activism — making the calls, talking to friends, testifying to our state legislatures, hounding our media.
Indeed, Anastasia, there's a lot to do and there are pitfalls to all of these. Surely hounding our representatives everywhere to express our alarm and talking to friends to spread the word is vitally important. My point is simply trying to emphasize what those who know about this stuff (Anne Applebaum, Anat Shenker-Osorio, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, etc) have noted, specifically that we need to demonstrate "social proof" of our large scale objection to this regime. Apparently just getting out 3.5% of the population into the streets is enough to effect change from and possibly even the downfall of an authoritarian regime. And yes, we need to do it again and again and continue to grow the numbers. We can even put the message in the face of Fox "News" by surrounding their offices while we're at it.
For those of us who have consistently protested in these rallies, we have brought Elon’s stock prices way down. That is a very satisfactory feeling!
Meh. $30-$50 would be a reasonable range for TSLA based on its earnings. It is still way up in "meme stock" territory.
Many are doing both. The group I’m involved with has gone to the offices of our ruby-red Senators every two weeks. They also staged the 4/5 protest, which had 500 people marching outside the Capitol in Jackson, MS. We were out of town, so we joined a group in St. Louis, but we will join locally this Saturday. Anything you do is important. Don't give up; show up.
Be very careful!!!
Don’t know why but your reply made tears come to my eyes. (May have been the gin and tonic I’m drinking lol). My husband and I will be out for the protest this weekend as we’ve been for the last 6 weeks. Being out there is so important. I hope we’re making a difference but regardless we will be out making good trouble because this is no time to sit on the sidelines. We’re in our 70s btw.
Want to really be angry?! Guess who sent all those factory jobs across the pacific ocean. Us old folks know. It was St. Ronnie the Senile. For those brave enuf to understand what was really happening, the economists called his industrial policy change, "Brave". Today, we'd have called such nonsense what it was. War on the middle & working class. The end result is that moving those high paying jobs overseas, made the working class permanently poor. No working for 30 years and collecting a pension, or saving their money and re-inventing their careers and moving up the income ladder. Nope. Poor, and unable to get proper educations, they're imprisoned to voting emotionally, not rationally, if they had the time to vote at all. Ronnie and his crew of criminals (MOST Indicted Administration at the time, more so than ALL previous administrations combined). By the way, the R's are NEVER go actually bring those jobs back. They've been riding that voter cocaine high for decades, and going back to a level playing field is never going to happen.
Yes we are fighting Christian Nationalists.
We defeat them by not backing down and being loud.
It will be VERY INTERESTING to see what happens when the Senator arrives in El Salvador. I’ll bet you dollars to donuts(wait, aren’t donuts more than a dollar?) that the Senator is not allowed to see Garcia. AnusMouthPantLoad will have his autocratic buddies there lock the entire place down. We may never know what happened to Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
I'm sure Van Hollen will get shut out and come home empty-handed — but it's important that he (and other electeds!) stay, y'know, angry and loud, and make the effort
Who is he going with? Are there no other Dems with a thirst for justice? They should send The Squad.
that I don't know
I read this morning that Maxwell Frost among others is trying to form a group to go. I also read yesterday that the agreement with Bukele shown to the judge says they’re all in CECOT “pending” the administration’s decision on their “disposition,” which I read as blob l’orange could get him out of there any time his emptiness feels like it.
No, it's too dangerous to have them all in one place.
Remember Jonestown?
I just posted about that! Hadn't seen yours.
Soooo, what, let's all be 'smart'? That's gotten us exactly where we are, and where's that?
The 'smart' people say he's all-powerful, that no one dare raise their voice lest they be branded a criminal and hauled away. Better to just capitulate.
Awful lot of implied meaning going on now, based on... nothing. "Having them all in one place" would allow them to be executed by a Salvadoran kill squad all at once rather than one at a time. Or rounded up and disappeared all at once rather than one at a time. And the murder of elected US officials, subsequently labelled "enemies of the people" by a bloated mango with a microphone, would have absolutely no effect on anything. Nobody would remember, because Americans, who are too stupid to breathe, will just be distracted by the next TicToc video.
That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works.
'If D wants to lock up criminals he should look in the mirror!'. AOC has balls! You'd never hear that out of Chuck (Hebrew Wall St.) Schumer
She has ovaries and a vagina, which can be very powerful indeed. And what the what was that parenthetical remark you just made about Schumer?
Thefuq? Dogwhistle much, jackass?
Excuse me but what do you mean by “Hebrew Wall St”?
Yeah that was uncomfortable.
Cory Booker is going
Marines, we should send at least a squad, or platoon, or regiment...
Who is Commander-In-Chief now?
We need an organized protest from US citizens opposed to these illegal prisons as well as sending home-grown criminals and ANYONE that the Orange kleptocrat has a grudge against from being sent there. His administration is clearly breaking the law by disallowing due process.
I'll consider it a win IF he gets home. Thoughts of Jonestown II.
Thoughts of Neville Chamberlain.
Congressman Leo Ryan.
I see that the chameleon Corey Booker has belatedly jumped on the bandwagon. Too late and too little, Corey boy.
He wants so desperately to be the new Obama but he just doesn’t have the chops for it.
Nor does the equally desperate Hakeem Jeffries. Blowing in the wind and press releasing like mad but I don’t see them out among the public who are hungry for true leaders.
Did you actually watch that speech Booker gave for more than 25 hours in early
April? It's called making good trouble, and it is just one approach of thousands. Yes, the Dems should be doing a lot more, collectively and individually, but better late than never. Also, referring to a Black man as "Corey boy" is offensive.
He knows it's offensive. But we've been given license by the new Overlords that using the N word is completely acceptable. In fact NOT using it is probably suspect since it reeks of DEI and Woke.
That said, I don't think he's really wrong. The Dem leadership is dead, it just hasn't fallen down yet.
No, "we" haven't been given carte blanch to use racist language about our Black politicians. That is MAGA/repugnican. I don't give a fuck whether DEIA bothers them. They stole and misuse the word "woke" from POC, and again, MAGA/repugnicans/fascists/bigots are not the boss of me.
Whenever one of them throws the word "woke" at me, I point out that woke people know what is going on, and ask if they prefer to be "comatose"?
Well, that's the spirit! Time to drop the nicey-nice shit and open some whup-ass.
Maybe the people who are hungry for "true" leaders, should have voted. Better yet, run for office themselves.
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or any of the others - none have been tried and found guilty, and what about that poor gay make-up artist? I shudder for what he's experiencing... good god, auszwitz already
I was thinking about that poor man this morning and how this could happen to ANYONE. Trump should get the karma he deserves soon.
Karma would be him being incarceratedin a Salvadoran Gulag
If there is one Kilmar Abrego Garcia in there, there are hundreds. All were denied due process, even the alleged gang members. The "Cool Dictator" of Venezuela has made a lucrative $6 million annual financial deal with Slump to provide death gulags for the MAGA regime. As with another cool playboy dictator, "Bone Saw" MBS of Saudi, it's transactional, not moral.
BTW, boycott coffee from El Salvador. It's a start.
"Cool Dictator" of *El Salvador
Andry Hernandez Romero.
Hoping Sen. Van Hollen brought plenty of security with him. If nine wrongfully detained immigrants have already been brought back from El Salvador, you'd think we could get this poor guy back from that hellhole. Of course, it would be for the right price. If only we could do an exchange like Marco Stoolio or Krusti Noem for this guy. Those two pieces of shit sure along with others in this fascist administration sure deserve it.
Yeah, I was thinking Rep. Leo Ryan and Jonestown. I hope Sen. Van Hollen has lots of security. Our fake president is a cruel asshole enabled by other cruel assholes like those you mentioned. Fuck 'em all
I've been thinking about Jonestown and Leo Ryan a lot, too. I hope Van Hollen stays safe and gets some answers.
I can just hear him saying shoot them, threaten them.
Are you from the Bay Area, or were you listening to the 49ers game when the news came on and announced it?
No. I did not hear it in real time. I was a freshman in college in Hawaii
Lon Simmons made the announcement, I believe. It was a shock about Leo Ryan, even though I never knew anyone who followed Jim Jones.
I've heard Jackie Spiers, who was there with Ryan and was injured, speak about it. It is heartbreaking and terrifying at the same time.
I fear that Garcia is deceased and that's why they're refusing to release him. 😞
Or even show pictures that he's alive. They're backed into a corner. They've been ordered to return him. You can't return a dead person that you are responsible for their death. So you make up a story that you can't get him back and hope the furor about this only lasts a couple more days (like Signalgate). This needs to stay on the front page. Americans have very short memories.
Could very well be true. If so, it'll be another deadly act on Dump's disasterous record.
I believe they will kill him, if they have not already done so. On the orange elephant's orders.
Sadly, I assume that he has already been killed and his ashes scattered.
I agree, arne. This is all window dressing. This is the most blatant display of racism by an American president since Andrew Johnson.
Yes, Trump is a blatant racist. He needs to go. If he wants to run the country, it should not include the West Coast.
Andrew Jackson I believe you meant. He was a notorious racist. But Johnson was no friend of the newly emancipated blacks after he was thrust into the presidency either.
Both!
Ole, it was Andrew Johnson that I meant. While Jackson was abominable as a proponent of slavery and the forced relocations of Native Americans, Johnson destroyed the civil rights of freed slaves and all other African Americans following the assassination of Lincoln. He retracted Lincoln’s policies (including “40 acres and a mule”) which would have given African Americans an honest chance to be productive citizens after the Civil War. That led to a significant regression in all of the civil rights Lincoln attempted to initiate. Civil rights have suffered ever since.
Weird how the two most racist presidents (before tRump) have almost identical names.
I'm concerned as well. He came to this country because his life was in danger from Salvadorean gangsters. El Salvador is literally the most dangerous place for him to be. If so, Trump should be charged with murder.
Absolutely! Charge him with murder
I fear that Mr. Abrego Garcia is dead and that Trump knows it.
That's why he doesn't say he WON'T bring him back—he says he "CAN'T."
I agree, sadly. The MAGAts will see it as a victory, but it’s a strong additional nail in Trump’s demise.🤞🏼
1. Wow! When a Dem gets that kind of welcome in ruby red Bakersfield, located in ruby red Kern County, home to Kevin McCarthy….. enough said
2. Watters = drip, drip, drip
My buddy in Boise attended a Bernie Sanders / AOC Rally there Monday! Folks, if it can happen in Idaho, it can happen in Flori-Duh, Missouri, Texas, Alabama, etc.
IIRC, Boise is the only blue dot in Idaho, but if that rally brought in people from red areas then that’s a huge win. 👏🏼👏🏼
If Boise is blue it's gonna be by a razorblade-thin margin. Idaho's as redneck as Texas and I've lived in both.
My understanding is that Boise is the only Dem stronghold in Idaho. I’d hate to be wrong, but will stand corrected if so.
Kay-El, that's accurate. But it's a tiny island in an archipelago of LDS and military, I think the D-to-R ratio there in Ada County is 51%D and 49%R with the remaining 1% thinking Richard Nixon is still president.
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Lol, thank you.
I am astonished at the huge turnouts in red areas. It is encouraging to see.
I'll be encouraged when I see Dumpty's grave.
I'll join you, because I have to see it.
I have a bottle of Champagne in reserve for that glorious day.
I likewise have my favorite beverage waiting! The world will celebrate with us!
I often picture seeing the screen say "He's dead." and me just jumping up and down for hours, ecstatic and joyous happiness!!! Finally, an end to this madness.
A Russian friend told me this classic old joke which has applied to various figures over the years:
A guy goes to a kiosk, buys the paper, scans the front page, and throws it in the trash. The next day, he does the same thing. On the third day, the owner of the kiosk has to ask, "Why do you even bother to buy the paper if you don't want to read it?"
"I'm just checking the obituaries."
"What? Obituaries are deep inside. They're not on the front page!"
"Oh, the one I'm looking for will be."
I'd like to see it happen for people of more substance.
Hmm, ruby red, rubes. Are those rubes finally waking up to the fact that getting screwed by billionaires is not in their best interests?
Mmmmm. Seize the guns, Donald. What could possibly go wrong? It'll make you safer and you'll have better control over civil society! No one will ever criticize you again!
Lol, when you smack them upside the head with a 2x4, something is bound to happen.
Subtlety is not effective with MAGAts
I taught and lived in Fresno County for 32 years (farmworker students). Driving Highway 99 with the Burma Shave-like signs denouncing the “man-made drought” and praising Frump was (and is) the hellish landscape of the San Joaquin Valley. When I was coaching Academic Decathlon, we would bus students down to Bakersfield for an introduction to the music section presented by Cal State-Bakersfield, an interesting contrast to the stereotype. Of course, one year country and western was the music and Buck Owens made an appearance. Behind the curtain you could see him sidling up to a young woman, not sure of any groping and unclear how many students saw it. 😂 The Bakersfield Sound and sights—
Yep. Attended soccer tournaments for one kid in Bakersfield. Hated going there.
I never stopped there for a reason.
I drove through once when we lived in Cali, I got the willies and requested we not stop.
The armpit of CA! I too, am so happy that Bakersfield turned out like they did. Maybe people there are finally really tired of the Repubs hovering over them. I went with a bunch of Dems sponsored by Congressman Mike Thompson to that area to canvas voters years ago. One couple said they were sick of Nunes and that they leaving the area.
I greatly appreciate your transcripts of videos in your essays. 👍
Seriously. Some of that stuff I can't even bring myself to watch, I'd rather read the transcript instead.
It's the audio that I can't tolerate.
+1,000, I can't stand to hear their lying bleating voices.
I am SO PROUD of those Iowans. Nothing like hearing a midwestern white guy call out bullshit these days. Gives me hope.
So much of this gives me hope. I will help fight.
And I will fight MTG till the end of my days! She is everything that’s wrong with our country.
I hope she and her mother (that tree is too much like its apple) get charged and convicted for insider trading! Go get them, Leticia!
I heard she made millions by buying at the dip...see what happens when you know stuff?! I lost big cause I was always 9 hours late...
Yep, her total net worth her vastly exploded in questionable ways. She deserves an investigation on this along with so many suspicious things.
Of course she had insider trading information
Letitia James has no power in Georgia. She only has power in New York.
Wall street is the bailiwick of New York, and thus trading done there.
James has jurisdiction over Wall Street. She can certainly charge people with insider trading on the stock market.
May I just add that Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is my hero. Viva AOC!
I’ll second that devotion (sly mis-take on Smokey and the Miracles) 😎
She is the best 💋💋💋
Yes, by all means, stay angry! Stay loud! Do not comply with the dump fascist regime!👊👊👊
Of course marge has her very own "gazpacho" to remove any who's not dumber than a fucking rock like her and the maga moron fuckwits who support her.
Word up: Margie is challenging Ossoff for his Senate seat in the midterm. She will have to take her Batshit World Tour on the road across the whole state now.
Her brand of spittle-slinging hate-vomit doesn't play particularly well here in Atlanta. Maybe she can overcome the headwinds of 2026 and prevail anyway, but the spectacle of how she's treated by 10,000 people like this poor sap will be amusing. They may not have enough tasers to go around.
Please let it be true. Hopefully she is too stupid and arrogant to let anyone talk her out of it.
Oh, her stupidity is so reliable that if, it were a currency, it would be the world reserve.
If the country continues to turn against Dictator Donny, and it looks like that is a possibility, he will quickly and unmercifully respond by some instituting some emergency declaration that provides him with absolute power with no Congressional or Judicial oversight. He will react as any mob boss would react when under siege by killing, yes, I do mean killing anyone that stands in his way. One man rule that dictates all things is what Dictator Donny wants and if he sees that slipping away his reaction will not be pleasant and be totally destructive to the U.S.
TRump will be taken out by someone who serves in one of our intelligence agencies and takes their oath to our Constitution seriously.
I doubt we’ll be that lucky
They will obey their bosses.
He has pissed off the Koch machine (Charles and his adopted son) and many other actual business moguls, who are starting to realize they can't control his idiocy.
I know. Funny how that works. He has managed to piss off people who are much shittier than him. The Koch's and Mr. Dimon are pros. He is just an evil piece of meat.
I do hope they neuter him, in a most public way. I think they and other donors told the supreme court to find against him.
Dicktater has his own sadistic squad egging him on to total violence. Bum Piss Bannon, Nosferatu, all of Fox News and its owners, his slobbering cabinet of butthole lickers and special advisors. It's going to take a lot of gallows.
He doesn't need a "declaration." He's already abolished the power of the courts and Congress.
He likes the show so he will have some type of televised event when he signs the document taking total control everything because he needs everyone to see him being the strongman dictator.
D will sic his militias on the American people.
He will institute Martial law and start shooting American protestors
Protestors will eventually be shot. It's obvious that it is going to happen. Scary, indeed. I'm going to my first ever protest this Saturday. If I don't get shot I will attend one every Saturday until he is gone.
Bob, as we progress through this fascist coup it is imperative that we take it to the streets, where we cannot be easily ignored. Rub it in the faces of the lamestream media!
"Streets" being the key word. We always got permits for streets. I never went to a demonstration that was a) in a place, like a square or b) on a sidewalk. I've been to lots of demonstrations, and they've all been in the streets.
"Taking to the streets" is very romantic, but it's not where things get done. I'm more impressed by the people showing up at town halls and the tireless attorneys suing the pants off MAGA, applying a lot of pressure. We should also be actively pressuring and shaming anyone who caves to MAGA including universities, media and law firms. I've already taken my university off my resume for abolishing their "DEI" efforts (the Social Justice department has been my main point of connection since getting my degree) and written to the president to let him know. I got a form letter about how they had to cave because threats.
Anastasia, I don't know how old you are, but I do know how we built the opposition to that illegal war of aggression we fought in Vietnam. We started with maybe 15,000 in the streets in October 1965, and by the time I was gone, 1970, a million people were demonstrating in Washington. A million people in the streets in your nation's capitol speaks loudly. If t cuts off Social Security, and millions of people show up in the streets, especially in D.C., I guarantee you, he'll rethink it.
What University?
Another great column, Jeff! BTW, have you heard of XCancel? Jay Kuo uses their links so we don't have to visit the feted swamp of Not Twitter. It's a non-profit out of Iceland that replicates Twitter posts without having to actually go there.
Becky, if watching police officers - paid with our tax dollars - drag that poor guy out of the room and taze him for speaking out about injustice doesn’t fire you up, you’re dead inside.
I do not believe I've ever been tased by my elected representstive. This seems a bad way to earn my support.
She’s a fucking boot strapping Nazi -
that district voted for her- and they deserve her… dumbasses!
They literally threatened the first guy who ran against her gf out of town, then they threatened him, so he withdrew, sadly too late to get anyone else to run, so she had her gym rats cheat her way in in the first place.
That crowd there for AOC in a supposedly republican red state is huge! Time to call for a new presidential election. Impeach and Vote New!