special programming note for everyone who read the emailed version:
the eighth paragraph of this post has been updated to "The Opposite of A Kid was in the Oval Office yesterday to function as Mad King Donny’s emotional support has-been while Donny signed an executive order on who even gives a shit at this point."
My thoughts exactly. Still giggling. Note to Jeff: 'Nose goblins' was inspired. please see if, in some future post, you can find a way to work in something along the lines of 'nonresectable booger.'
Obviously you are a person of impeccable judgment in your source selection. While your writing style may have both Strunk and White turning over in their graves, your persistence in opting for - and creating as context requires -- every possible derivation of the root verb "fuck" creates a perfect environment for the profound appreciation of your political punditry in this miserable day and age. Kudos, I say (Lambchop agrees), and keep up the good work.
So many Nazis, so little time. I just saw an interview of Laura Ingraham’s brother who said their father was a most hateful man, a Nazi sympathizer and kept copies of Mein Kampf in the house. The fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree.
I wouldnt have believed the Kid Rock visit if I hadn't seen it. JEEEESUS. We are a disgrace.
"sign an executive order on who even gives a shit at this point." Right! Nobody gives flying fuck now. And Hitler cosplay? These people have no idea of reality. Another reason to skip Idaho.
Honestly, our society is scaring the hell outta me. People are just lazy, misinformed, cruel and dumb.
Now, I'm going back to watching Cory Booker on Youtube be an example all the damned Democrats should follow.
I love the idea of Booker reading constituents letters. Now if only those constituent letters were full of f bombs and spitting outrage. That's what needs to be read into the congressional record.
I appreciated a commenter on Bluesky who said that the new standard for whether you're too old for the Senate is whether you can do what Cory Booker did.
I think that IS a real consideration and one that needs to be taken seriously. There is zero chance Schumer has the right temperament for the moment even if he has the will, and add age to that and there's no there there. I'm so grateful for Corey Booker today, as I have been on many days. I hope Warnock can hold the floor and possibly see Murphy out there too, he paces himself and is very clear thinking.
According to HRC, it’s not a filibuster since they aren’t blocking the passage of a bill. There is no back and forth. Corey is blocking any business from being conducted. This is how it’s done, Democrats. Block business every day!
They should recite the constitution and the bill of rights round the clock ⏰ for most of the repugnantkins it’ll be their first time hearing it never mind having never read or understood it !
I read a piece this morning written by Thom Hartmann in RawStory about Ayn Rand. Its a good piece. That crazy malignant narcissistic psychopath fucking crazy bitch (my dad gave me her book when i was a teenager. I couldn't get through Chapter 2. I gave it back and said fuck her). He describes how this shitshow began with Reagan and his ilk embracing that fucking nutjob. Republicans hate empathy. So did Hitler. Curtis Yarvin and Ayn are required reading for techbros. Empathy is waste of time for the elected syphilis brain fucked Republicans. So here we are. This fucking shit is pathological!!!! Psychopaths (anti-social personalities) stick a knife in the front of your chest while they are smiling and shaking your hand. Sociopaths are knee jerk reactors that stab you in the back and run. Just fuck, fuck, and fuck it some more.
Kid is asswipe material. He's so greasy looking. He just gross. 🤢
He is gross...and like we've talked about, Americans are cruel and dumb. We are not an evolved society. They vote for this shit and then wonder why it's not helping them.
We are a young society. There is so much yet for us to learn. As one gentleman put it, “my pub is older than your country”.
We are getting those tattoos now that we’re gonna hate when we grow up and wise up - if that happens. Or we could die young with history shaking its head and saying, “What a shame, they had such promise.”
My husband's stepfather, a terrible person (that's how you describe a child molester, right?), told him never to get a tattoo, because it was a permanent mark. It was the only good thing he ever said and we listened carefully. Only his oldest stepson got tattoos (wild things, from his favorite book.) If you think you might violate the law, avoid tattoos.
And Paul Weyrich founder of Heritage Foundation. His version of Elon ratfucker. Strom Thurmond would sure be proud of the misogynistic bigoted dick handlers in office these days.
That outfit that Kid Cock was wearing was about the most hideous looking shit to ever be seen in the Oval Office. Then again, there's that even bigger useless piece of shit sitting like a blob with no clue of anything. So, gotta wonder what Fuckface the Last and booze soaked Hegsted are going to do now that 19 Chinese warships and an aircraft carrier are circling Taiwan?
Oh, fuck.🫣 Alcoholics do strange things when they're blacked out. The fuckers will bomb Japan. I'm sure they're on Grinder sending their military plans with the group.
Kid is one of those guys who no matter how much money he has, he'll also be poor inside. He's desperate.
Remember how disgusting it was when Kid Rock, Sarah Palin and Ted Nugent visited the WH during Trumps first term? This time The Old Kid brought his fiancé and Bill Maher "to model a little civility" in Old Kids words. LOLOLOL. Also in attendance was the never respectable Dana White! Can't wait to see how Maher explains this one. "I just had to" will get him as far as it got Morning Joe I hope.
Maher could not model civility if it hit him in the head. Years ago I used to watch him, but I've been absent for at least five years. My husband still watches and got me to watch this weekend to see Gavin and because normally I love McWhorter, but I didn't like McWhorter much and the other person, a blonde female columnist for the NY Post, wearing a red dress with a lot of cleavage and a jeweled cross was not helpful in any way, shape or form. As far as I'm concerned, it's perfectly okay to criticize Columbia's Jewish students if they support genocide in Gaza and on the West Bank. If you support genocide, it's not okay. War crimes are not okay. Perhaps they should go to college in Tel Aviv, if they don't like being criticized for supporting war crimes, regardless of their religion.
To each his own, Arne. I love Bill Maher and always have (enjoyed watching his shows from Politically Incorrect on). Not sure why he's had so many MAGA apologists on in the last year or so, amongst his other typically informed guests.I give him the benefit of the doubt that he's desperately trying against all logic to comprehend what the hell makes these MAGA people tick. By the way, he is without a doubt the first person on air to say trump would never leave office willingly -waaay back in 2016 and very regularly ever since. Give some credit, haters!
Please remember that Booker is still redeeming himself after the bad moment he had where he said "we're completely helpless". I wrote him off then, I can reconsider if he consistently drops hurt on their unworthy heads for a significant amount of time. A good start would be to gather all the Dem jellyfish who voted to censure Al Green in a room and beat them like bad junkyard dogs.
Don't put me down as giddy quite yet, but it's possible that Booker is beginning to realize that the division within the party, and among moderates, is no longer "Left/Right". It's "Fight/Cower".
The old formulations for the old politics is crumbling fast. "Smart" calculations being made by "vulnerable" politicians are now meaningless, and worms are turning everywhere. Here in my beloved state of Georgia, Senator Ossoff is preparing to defend against the likes of Marjory Taylor Greene. He is NOT making a "smart" calculation about throwing milk bones to the rubes because he is "vulnerable" (fuck the media, may they shrivel and die) in a purple-to-red state. He is going full Wolverine on their sorry asses because he knows there are a LOT of erstwhile MAGAs who have lost their jobs and are afraid of not being able to get Granny's insulin. Those MAGAs have also expressed some... errr... dismay about Trump announcing his kingship. If he loses, it will be spectacular, but the conventional calculations will not allow him to win.
Well shit. Correction: I was thinking of Jeffries, who remains a turdling. I watched a tiny part of Booker's filibuster, his eulogy to John Lewis just about made me cry. HOW could you confuse these two men, how?!? You may reasonably ask. Well, it's because I'm a dumbass prehistoric white man, and I'm sorry.
Is this Kid Rock thing appropriate for the Oval Office? It's bad enough that Presrump made it all tacky with the "gold" paraphernalia replacing the green plants. The place looks like a rummage sale. But giving this creature even one second of time in this room is an embarrassment for all of us. And is it me, or does our cheerless leader look more bored than usual, if that's possible.
Fox (not so much) News idiots are saying "it's the most unique outfit and the most patriotic thing they've ever seen". WTFWTFWTF If ANYONE would have darkened the door of the Oval office in that getup during Joe's 4 years they would be saying the COMPLETE opposite. They hypocrisy NEVER ends with these self-righteous morons.
It’s horrifying. I plan on participating Saturday. This administration can not stand. Cory Booker was inspiring today. But maybe it’s time to look for another place to live. Do the majority of Americans really want a free country? Maybe they don’t. Maybe they have been brainwashed so badly they can’t imagine anything else. Democracy takes work. Maybe they’re too lazy to sustain it. I’m seriously sad and trying to understand. I’m relieved your friend was allowed to get home. But obviously it shouldn’t be this way. Racism and misogyny are Americas downfall 😭
𝕊𝕦𝕤𝕒𝕟, I am at loss of fuck-type 𝚆𝙾𝚁𝙳𝚂 to express my (brimming with hot lava) anger over all this. I had a break this past several days at a conference down Mexico City. And then I read that one of my colleagues who teaches in New York and has been doing so since 2007, but is Colombian-born. Shewas detained briefly at the airport when she returned to the United States. She teaches at a college, has a U.S. Passport and proof of protected status as an educator. She was held for a brief time until she was "checked out," and let go home in NYC.
She is lucky.. Reading about the many others who are being swept away with ZERO due process is chilling and makes me wonder if a march on April 5 will do much more than give Krasnov a pass to declare martial law.
I naively thought France could talk some sense into George W. Bush before he started the Iraq War. Since then Republican America has become even more allergic to other countries in Europe, except for Hungary.
Exactly. Mitch has to still learn that however bad Trump was before, making him into a dictator is a lot worse.
Brazil knew better, and Lula nipped that right in the bud. Duarte's daughter is VP of the Philippines, and still they gave him up for a trial in den Haag.
South Koreans knew that they did not want martial law either, or a return to authoritarian rule.
We are in Northern Germany and will be going to Berlin to participate in Hands Off demo of Democrats Abroad in front of the US Embassy. We will start at 2pm Central European Time, which is 7 am, CST.
We are going to say,
Hands off our Consulates that are being shut down.
Hands off our voting rights abroad.
Hands off of Canada, Mexico, Greenland, Panama, the EU and all of Central America.
Shut DOGE Down and Elon Too.
There will be Hands Off rallies in countries around the world. There are the ones posted on the Democrats Abroad website. Please share this with friends in other countries.
Stephen, almost every rally I have been to in Germany has had Palestinian supporters at the rally. In fact the rally on International Women's Day had a large group with Palestinian flags and one person with an Israeli flag. It was uneventful as far as I could tell. However, I can say that Americans who have applied for German citizenship are reluctant to go to the rally, because they are worried that
1) getting arrested, which is always a risk although unlikely, may get them rejected for citizenship.
2) Right now the new Merz government in Germany is talking about taking German citizenship away from dual citizens who have another citizenship. I have had both German and US all my life, but still, I realize I have some risk if our group is perceived as being "Antisemitic" which in Germany is currently defined by politicians as any statement against the Israeli government, or Israel. Even Jewish Germans who are dual nationals are at risk of losing German citizenship. This is a whole other story, but Germany has no free speech around this. So, in Germany it might be different than in Spain. In the US, it is going in that direction too.
Ecstatic to find the older pals in my neighborhood were going to Woodstock, they approaching my mother with the idea of dragging me along, my excitement was severely crushed!
Having seen nearly every act that played there, I’m excited to be part of this new revolution, everyone should!!
Plenty of music, love and…protests as well Ole. I’ve been involved in plenty of movements that required protests, some turned violent, this one I truly believe will require an organized revolution!!
Signs are ready, we’re registered and ready to go. It’s going to rain all day in Washington, PA but I’m so ready. I’m so pissed!
I told my husband when grandma and her 72 yo friend have to get themselves outside because letters and phone calls are not enough, we’re not fooling around anymore!
If you've spent your entire life opposing illegal actions by the government, and now you're old and not in such good shape, you're entitled to a pass. If you are completely aware of what can happen at demonstrations and you're not in good shape, you should pass. I did my time in demonstrations, et al, and now I live a counterculture life all the time, and have all my life, so I will continue to do so. I don't see anyone here espousing my values, Power to the People, and the Black Panther Party 10 Point Program (slightly later edition), but that's what I attempt to live by. No money to corporations, if you can help it.
I will never understand how that felonious fuck was allowed to run for president as a convicted felon. But even more mind-boggling is the fact that the American voters had the ability to keep him out of office and failed to do so. We are officially the dumbest country on the planet.
I was very upset when Hillary didn’t call for a recount. She actually won the popular vote by almost 3 million votes. If she won none of this would have happened.
Shit stain was telling people ‘we have all the votes we need’ a few weeks before the vote. And the now infamous ‘ Vote this time and you will never have to vote again’
Helloooo! Were any of those Dimwits even listening?!
It sorta feels like we (the country) are in boot camp on the day we go through the tear gas routine and come out puking with eyes burning. I guess we voted for this crap.
67 going on 15! I want a good old fashion Vietnam War protest song or any protest song to bring us even closer together! The music will keep us moving forward together.
Thick in the waist and thin on the ground. The church that seized their name can sue individuals for displaying it in public in an "official" function. Gonna be some bass boats up for auction, Clem, let's go down and look for some bargains!
Live in Boise (adjacent to Meridian). Plan to attend the April 5 rally at the State Capitol. Suspect there will lots of Proud Boy presence. I call them Gravy Seals
And Republicans seem to have completely forgotten how Elon dressed in the Oval Office the day he brought in his snotwiper son. Isn’t it against the law to wear a hat with a political statement in any government building? That was, I believe, a black MAGA hat! Did any Republicans call him out on that???? Or on MTG wearing a red MAGA hat during President Biden’s last State of the Union speech? They break rules with impunity. Time for people to protest more loudly! No double standards!
So appalled and sickened by my home state becoming the Nazi safe home. Idaho has always had the worst of so many categories…education, healthcare, racism and controverted conservatism. But I was blithely ignorant of the depths of hatred EVEN while working among the republicans in local governments. My gawd, how could I have been so blinded by the reality? I had always been a Blue girl in a red state but to me it was just a bumper sticker platitude. The irony is I grew up in the Cecil Andrus era and was lulled into a false sense of democratic values and beliefs. Fuck.
So much shit has happened since the mad king has resumed power that many of us have already forgotten that he has been convicted of 34 felonies and would have been convicted of many more had the courts been allowed to function properly.
"I ain't here on business baby, I'm only here for fun."--Bruce Springsteen, 'Rosalita.' You ever get the feeling that the entire Trump Cabinet is into some serious cosplay. Has there ever been a group of self-entitled, emoji-texting amoral reprobates with absolutely zero regard for optics? And aren't we approaching the time when Orange Jabba summons his ethically-compromised band of misfit enablers to declare why he's the greatest president in U.S. history since James Buchanan?
There's so much shit flying these days it's very hard to keep up.
Hegseth taking his emotional support wife (is she his sponsor or something?) to high security meetings and flying around the world with his other emotional support human (his unqualified brother, the podcast developer) and all the news about other Signal chats these grossly incompetent people have been having, something has to give and it's clear now that in the coming weeks Waltz will wish he never left the House.
VOTE WISCONSIN! VOTE FLORIDA!!!! We really need to win those house seats and the SC seat in Wisconsin if democracy has any chance of surviving.
Meanwhile, the tRump administration admits that it wrongfully sent man with temporary protected statue, who committed NO CRIMES, to the Salvadoran gulag & will not attempt to get him out
Worse - the man had asylum because he had been threatened if he didn't join a Salvadoran gang. So they sent him to a prison full of Salvadoran gang members. Why not just announce Brown Lives Don't Matter?
special programming note for everyone who read the emailed version:
the eighth paragraph of this post has been updated to "The Opposite of A Kid was in the Oval Office yesterday to function as Mad King Donny’s emotional support has-been while Donny signed an executive order on who even gives a shit at this point."
"Opposite-of-a-Kid Rock", "No-longer-a-Kid Rock", and "nose goblins" are just what I needed this morning, Jeff.
Thanks for the giggle.
My thoughts exactly. Still giggling. Note to Jeff: 'Nose goblins' was inspired. please see if, in some future post, you can find a way to work in something along the lines of 'nonresectable booger.'
full disclosure: I believe I stole 'nose goblins' from a decades-old episode of Ren and Stimpy
Obviously you are a person of impeccable judgment in your source selection. While your writing style may have both Strunk and White turning over in their graves, your persistence in opting for - and creating as context requires -- every possible derivation of the root verb "fuck" creates a perfect environment for the profound appreciation of your political punditry in this miserable day and age. Kudos, I say (Lambchop agrees), and keep up the good work.
Ren and Stimpy. God, that takes me back.
How about "'snot butter"?
Yes. And thank you for that throwback.
I will remember to my dying day, this dialogue between Stimpson J. Cat and Ren Hoek in the episode "Son of Stimpy."
Stimpy: "Something came out of my... Butt!"
Ren: "That's nice, Stimpy. Something came out of your butt."
Stimpy: "No, no, Ren. I'm serious... And not only that. It made a SOUND."
Ren: "Let's see if I got this straight, something came out of your butt... and it made a *sound*."
Stimpy: "And it smelt funny."
My favorite episode was Nurse Stimpy when Ren has a fever and unzips his fur coat to get into the bath.
On this family they are nose nuggets, and one mines for them before wiping them on desks.. Just in case.
“emotional support has-been” is another winner, Jeff.
A good answer to stupid Executive Orders is "No. I'm not doing that."
Executive Order to Rewrite History to Satisfy the Leader. "No. I'm not doing that."
The Stupids are in charge now. Just say, "No. We are not going to do that."
Not that it matters much, but you’ve got counties instead of countries down there where you’re talking about France’s election.
And he forgot the South Koreans.
El Supremo thinks 'Europe' is a country, not a continent made up of countries.
If that helps.
"the author of hit songs such as … um … I’m sorry, did he ever have one?"
There was Sweet Werewolves of Alabama. It's not many who can plagiarize two songs at the same time.
When you’re out with your honey and your nose gets runny, don’t think it’s funny ITSNOT!!!!!
So many Nazis, so little time. I just saw an interview of Laura Ingraham’s brother who said their father was a most hateful man, a Nazi sympathizer and kept copies of Mein Kampf in the house. The fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree.
In Laura's case. At least her brother isn't a piece o shit like her
Wonder what Laura Ingraham would look like with a little Hitler mustache on her face while she was doing her horrid Nazi woman show.
You’ve painted a rather phantasmic portrait Linda!!
And her Mom (supposedly) worked as a cleaning woman to put her through law school & she turns into this??
That was her story. I don't put much stock into anything she says
I mean theres just not enough time in the world, Mike.
The old cosmic blueball is currently a place of submission, or penance Wendy!
The ethos of chaos and nonsense!!
I wouldnt have believed the Kid Rock visit if I hadn't seen it. JEEEESUS. We are a disgrace.
"sign an executive order on who even gives a shit at this point." Right! Nobody gives flying fuck now. And Hitler cosplay? These people have no idea of reality. Another reason to skip Idaho.
Honestly, our society is scaring the hell outta me. People are just lazy, misinformed, cruel and dumb.
Now, I'm going back to watching Cory Booker on Youtube be an example all the damned Democrats should follow.
Go Cory Booker! He and Chris Murphy should be the Dems’ leaders in the Senate.
I agree. This is something!
Did anyone help him keep the filibuster going? Couldn’t find anything on that this morning.
I couldn't either, which is the main reason I didn't include it in today's post.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5347318/cory-booker-senate-speech
Thank you.
He's still at it now as of 1:26pm
Still there at 2:21.
He up there answering questions from other senators, still so present and eloquent even at this hr...
4pm
Jeff, apparently several other Dems stepped in when he needed breaks.
I just saw that Rev. Warnock has taken the floor, not sure how long he plans to be there.
Thanks to Cory Booker for making Fox (not so much) News heads explode.
I really like Sen. Warnock, so this comment is meant positively. He's a pastor, so he probably can speak for a loooong time, haha
I love the idea of Booker reading constituents letters. Now if only those constituent letters were full of f bombs and spitting outrage. That's what needs to be read into the congressional record.
Fox, Fake News.
I appreciated a commenter on Bluesky who said that the new standard for whether you're too old for the Senate is whether you can do what Cory Booker did.
I think that IS a real consideration and one that needs to be taken seriously. There is zero chance Schumer has the right temperament for the moment even if he has the will, and add age to that and there's no there there. I'm so grateful for Corey Booker today, as I have been on many days. I hope Warnock can hold the floor and possibly see Murphy out there too, he paces himself and is very clear thinking.
Love Rev. Warnock.
Can you imagine Mitch the Glitch trying that?
According to HRC, it’s not a filibuster since they aren’t blocking the passage of a bill. There is no back and forth. Corey is blocking any business from being conducted. This is how it’s done, Democrats. Block business every day!
They should recite the constitution and the bill of rights round the clock ⏰ for most of the repugnantkins it’ll be their first time hearing it never mind having never read or understood it !
i believe I read that Andy Kim had joined Cory..
I saw Adam Schiff, Chris van Hollen and read E. Warren was up there , too,
yes. other senators started asking questions so he could catch his breath and save his voice.
A-MAZ-ing💙
I read a piece this morning written by Thom Hartmann in RawStory about Ayn Rand. Its a good piece. That crazy malignant narcissistic psychopath fucking crazy bitch (my dad gave me her book when i was a teenager. I couldn't get through Chapter 2. I gave it back and said fuck her). He describes how this shitshow began with Reagan and his ilk embracing that fucking nutjob. Republicans hate empathy. So did Hitler. Curtis Yarvin and Ayn are required reading for techbros. Empathy is waste of time for the elected syphilis brain fucked Republicans. So here we are. This fucking shit is pathological!!!! Psychopaths (anti-social personalities) stick a knife in the front of your chest while they are smiling and shaking your hand. Sociopaths are knee jerk reactors that stab you in the back and run. Just fuck, fuck, and fuck it some more.
Kid is asswipe material. He's so greasy looking. He just gross. 🤢
He is gross...and like we've talked about, Americans are cruel and dumb. We are not an evolved society. They vote for this shit and then wonder why it's not helping them.
We are a young society. There is so much yet for us to learn. As one gentleman put it, “my pub is older than your country”.
We are getting those tattoos now that we’re gonna hate when we grow up and wise up - if that happens. Or we could die young with history shaking its head and saying, “What a shame, they had such promise.”
My husband's stepfather, a terrible person (that's how you describe a child molester, right?), told him never to get a tattoo, because it was a permanent mark. It was the only good thing he ever said and we listened carefully. Only his oldest stepson got tattoos (wild things, from his favorite book.) If you think you might violate the law, avoid tattoos.
You make a great point. 👍👍
Ronnie Raygun. He just won't leave us alone. He started this shit.
And Paul Weyrich founder of Heritage Foundation. His version of Elon ratfucker. Strom Thurmond would sure be proud of the misogynistic bigoted dick handlers in office these days.
That outfit that Kid Cock was wearing was about the most hideous looking shit to ever be seen in the Oval Office. Then again, there's that even bigger useless piece of shit sitting like a blob with no clue of anything. So, gotta wonder what Fuckface the Last and booze soaked Hegsted are going to do now that 19 Chinese warships and an aircraft carrier are circling Taiwan?
Oh, fuck.🫣 Alcoholics do strange things when they're blacked out. The fuckers will bomb Japan. I'm sure they're on Grinder sending their military plans with the group.
Kid is one of those guys who no matter how much money he has, he'll also be poor inside. He's desperate.
Not a kid anymore Rock prolly figured out that MAGAs are easy marks to glean some $ from. Hateful rubes are easier to grift than informed libs
You got that right. Make America Smart 'Again'... or at least smarter. ☹️
MASA. Isn't that what the slaves had to call their "owners" on the Plantations?
I like the Greenland version that Jeff shared when JDV went to visit.
Make America Go Away!
That was a perfect response!!!! Vance is so full of himself, did he even get a clue that nobody wanted him or his wife there?
Plus he’s an idiot , Doc
Remember how disgusting it was when Kid Rock, Sarah Palin and Ted Nugent visited the WH during Trumps first term? This time The Old Kid brought his fiancé and Bill Maher "to model a little civility" in Old Kids words. LOLOLOL. Also in attendance was the never respectable Dana White! Can't wait to see how Maher explains this one. "I just had to" will get him as far as it got Morning Joe I hope.
I hate Bill Maher and always have. He is repugnant and always has been.
Maher could not model civility if it hit him in the head. Years ago I used to watch him, but I've been absent for at least five years. My husband still watches and got me to watch this weekend to see Gavin and because normally I love McWhorter, but I didn't like McWhorter much and the other person, a blonde female columnist for the NY Post, wearing a red dress with a lot of cleavage and a jeweled cross was not helpful in any way, shape or form. As far as I'm concerned, it's perfectly okay to criticize Columbia's Jewish students if they support genocide in Gaza and on the West Bank. If you support genocide, it's not okay. War crimes are not okay. Perhaps they should go to college in Tel Aviv, if they don't like being criticized for supporting war crimes, regardless of their religion.
He’s a conceited fuck, for sure. But he’s not afraid to speak the inconvenient truth when no one else will.
To each his own, Arne. I love Bill Maher and always have (enjoyed watching his shows from Politically Incorrect on). Not sure why he's had so many MAGA apologists on in the last year or so, amongst his other typically informed guests.I give him the benefit of the doubt that he's desperately trying against all logic to comprehend what the hell makes these MAGA people tick. By the way, he is without a doubt the first person on air to say trump would never leave office willingly -waaay back in 2016 and very regularly ever since. Give some credit, haters!
Maher's video regarding Republicans and the dumb decisions they make,"What Would A Dick Do" is hilarious!
You and my husband should watch it together...
Please remember that Booker is still redeeming himself after the bad moment he had where he said "we're completely helpless". I wrote him off then, I can reconsider if he consistently drops hurt on their unworthy heads for a significant amount of time. A good start would be to gather all the Dem jellyfish who voted to censure Al Green in a room and beat them like bad junkyard dogs.
Don't put me down as giddy quite yet, but it's possible that Booker is beginning to realize that the division within the party, and among moderates, is no longer "Left/Right". It's "Fight/Cower".
The old formulations for the old politics is crumbling fast. "Smart" calculations being made by "vulnerable" politicians are now meaningless, and worms are turning everywhere. Here in my beloved state of Georgia, Senator Ossoff is preparing to defend against the likes of Marjory Taylor Greene. He is NOT making a "smart" calculation about throwing milk bones to the rubes because he is "vulnerable" (fuck the media, may they shrivel and die) in a purple-to-red state. He is going full Wolverine on their sorry asses because he knows there are a LOT of erstwhile MAGAs who have lost their jobs and are afraid of not being able to get Granny's insulin. Those MAGAs have also expressed some... errr... dismay about Trump announcing his kingship. If he loses, it will be spectacular, but the conventional calculations will not allow him to win.
He's doing something now. That's important to me.
Well shit. Correction: I was thinking of Jeffries, who remains a turdling. I watched a tiny part of Booker's filibuster, his eulogy to John Lewis just about made me cry. HOW could you confuse these two men, how?!? You may reasonably ask. Well, it's because I'm a dumbass prehistoric white man, and I'm sorry.
Is this Kid Rock thing appropriate for the Oval Office? It's bad enough that Presrump made it all tacky with the "gold" paraphernalia replacing the green plants. The place looks like a rummage sale. But giving this creature even one second of time in this room is an embarrassment for all of us. And is it me, or does our cheerless leader look more bored than usual, if that's possible.
Yaaay Corey Booker!!!
Not a kid anymore rock modeled the latest in white trash Fourth of Joo-lie fashion for his base while visiting President Putinsbitch. A twofer
Fox (not so much) News idiots are saying "it's the most unique outfit and the most patriotic thing they've ever seen". WTFWTFWTF If ANYONE would have darkened the door of the Oval office in that getup during Joe's 4 years they would be saying the COMPLETE opposite. They hypocrisy NEVER ends with these self-righteous morons.
But - did The Kid say "Thank you!"?
LOL!!! 😂😂😂
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Cory is an excellent example of what America should be Susan!!
It’s horrifying. I plan on participating Saturday. This administration can not stand. Cory Booker was inspiring today. But maybe it’s time to look for another place to live. Do the majority of Americans really want a free country? Maybe they don’t. Maybe they have been brainwashed so badly they can’t imagine anything else. Democracy takes work. Maybe they’re too lazy to sustain it. I’m seriously sad and trying to understand. I’m relieved your friend was allowed to get home. But obviously it shouldn’t be this way. Racism and misogyny are Americas downfall 😭
𝕊𝕦𝕤𝕒𝕟, I am at loss of fuck-type 𝚆𝙾𝚁𝙳𝚂 to express my (brimming with hot lava) anger over all this. I had a break this past several days at a conference down Mexico City. And then I read that one of my colleagues who teaches in New York and has been doing so since 2007, but is Colombian-born. Shewas detained briefly at the airport when she returned to the United States. She teaches at a college, has a U.S. Passport and proof of protected status as an educator. She was held for a brief time until she was "checked out," and let go home in NYC.
She is lucky.. Reading about the many others who are being swept away with ZERO due process is chilling and makes me wonder if a march on April 5 will do much more than give Krasnov a pass to declare martial law.
Good on Corey Booker. An old school filibuster. Hopefully there are more to come
Re: Marine le Pen - that could have been US.
Looking at you, Mitch McConnell.
We want to be France when we grow up.
I naively thought France could talk some sense into George W. Bush before he started the Iraq War. Since then Republican America has become even more allergic to other countries in Europe, except for Hungary.
Oooh, can we start with guillotines, pretty please?
Exactly. Mitch has to still learn that however bad Trump was before, making him into a dictator is a lot worse.
Brazil knew better, and Lula nipped that right in the bud. Duarte's daughter is VP of the Philippines, and still they gave him up for a trial in den Haag.
South Koreans knew that they did not want martial law either, or a return to authoritarian rule.
Let us hope the former East Germans know it too.
That was wonderful news. FAFO 🙄
This is going to be remembered the way Woodstock was remembered. And YOU have a chance to be there.
Democracy is NOT a spectator sport.
💥💥💥 DONT MISS THIS!!! “Hands Off” 🧨🧨🧨
🙋♂️🙋♀️🙋♂️ Gigantic nationwide demonstration! 🙋♂️🙋♀️🙋♂️
Saturday April 5 National “Hands Off” Day of Action
on the National Mall and 657 local demonstrations
Click this link to find a “Hands Off” demonstration near you.
https://handsoff2025.com/
We’re holding one at the US Embassy on Sussex Drive. starting @ 1:30. Hands Off! Ottawa CANADA Fights Back.
https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/event/769545/
Ditto for Democrats Abroad in Germany, which will be in front of the US Embassy in Berlin. Solidarity. Ours will start at 2 pm CET.
We are in Northern Germany and will be going to Berlin to participate in Hands Off demo of Democrats Abroad in front of the US Embassy. We will start at 2pm Central European Time, which is 7 am, CST.
We are going to say,
Hands off our Consulates that are being shut down.
Hands off our voting rights abroad.
Hands off of Canada, Mexico, Greenland, Panama, the EU and all of Central America.
Shut DOGE Down and Elon Too.
There will be Hands Off rallies in countries around the world. There are the ones posted on the Democrats Abroad website. Please share this with friends in other countries.
Berlin, Germany https://www.democratsabroad.org/347793/hands_off_rally_in_berlin
Portugal https://www.democratsabroad.org/krup/hands_off_mass_mobilization
Cape Town, South Africa https://www.democratsabroad.org/lizoleary/hands_off_cape_town
Johannesburg, South Africa https://www.democratsabroad.org/lizoleary/hands_off_johannesburg
Toulouse, France https://www.democratsabroad.org/scottstroud/hands_off_protest_rally_on_april_5th
Lyon, France https://www.democratsabroad.org/212355/hands_off_our_democracy_rally_in_lyon
Nice, France
https://www.democratsabroad.org/ronny/hands_off_protest_in_nice_on_april_5th_dayvgemwhgl9au3gnwbj2w
Guadalajara, Mexico https://www.democratsabroad.org/brigit/hands_off_rally_in_guadalajara
Ajijic, Mexico https://www.democratsabroad.org/312781/hands_off
Toronto, Canada https://www.democratsabroad.org/juliabuchanan/hands_off_protest-toronto
Bravo Linda!!
Don't forget Palestine!
Stephen, almost every rally I have been to in Germany has had Palestinian supporters at the rally. In fact the rally on International Women's Day had a large group with Palestinian flags and one person with an Israeli flag. It was uneventful as far as I could tell. However, I can say that Americans who have applied for German citizenship are reluctant to go to the rally, because they are worried that
1) getting arrested, which is always a risk although unlikely, may get them rejected for citizenship.
2) Right now the new Merz government in Germany is talking about taking German citizenship away from dual citizens who have another citizenship. I have had both German and US all my life, but still, I realize I have some risk if our group is perceived as being "Antisemitic" which in Germany is currently defined by politicians as any statement against the Israeli government, or Israel. Even Jewish Germans who are dual nationals are at risk of losing German citizenship. This is a whole other story, but Germany has no free speech around this. So, in Germany it might be different than in Spain. In the US, it is going in that direction too.
you are NOT wrong, Kathleen, I assure you.
Ecstatic to find the older pals in my neighborhood were going to Woodstock, they approaching my mother with the idea of dragging me along, my excitement was severely crushed!
Having seen nearly every act that played there, I’m excited to be part of this new revolution, everyone should!!
Woodstock! Sounds like more of a vacation than a protest.
Plenty of music, love and…protests as well Ole. I’ve been involved in plenty of movements that required protests, some turned violent, this one I truly believe will require an organized revolution!!
It might well, Pat
I wish we didn't have to have one......
There are several planned in the greater Phoenix area…so excited to attend 💙
Signs are ready, we’re registered and ready to go. It’s going to rain all day in Washington, PA but I’m so ready. I’m so pissed!
I told my husband when grandma and her 72 yo friend have to get themselves outside because letters and phone calls are not enough, we’re not fooling around anymore!
If you've spent your entire life opposing illegal actions by the government, and now you're old and not in such good shape, you're entitled to a pass. If you are completely aware of what can happen at demonstrations and you're not in good shape, you should pass. I did my time in demonstrations, et al, and now I live a counterculture life all the time, and have all my life, so I will continue to do so. I don't see anyone here espousing my values, Power to the People, and the Black Panther Party 10 Point Program (slightly later edition), but that's what I attempt to live by. No money to corporations, if you can help it.
I will be in front of the Federal Office building on Saturday, 1/5 in the proud Blue island in a sea of Red of West Palm Beach, Florida.
We are not all crazy down here, and we’re not all Florida Man.
But if I ever do turn I want a suit just like Not a Kid!
I also wanted to give a shout out to all intelligent people up in N. Florida
who can begin to help pull this country out of the depths by electing both Democrats running in the special election today.
Nothing could send a more clear message to the orange shit stain and his brain dead cultist followers than that! Get out and Vote!!!!
Be careful, Ole, I'm proud of you.
Ditto Ole!!
Going to the one in Glenwood Springs CO!
I will never understand how that felonious fuck was allowed to run for president as a convicted felon. But even more mind-boggling is the fact that the American voters had the ability to keep him out of office and failed to do so. We are officially the dumbest country on the planet.
I still contend that Kamala was robbed. NFW did T💩p win all seven swing states. He and Eloon were bragging about it.
I heartily agree!!! Not all 7 swing states....no way.
It is statistically impossible so something sure happened. What galls me is that Kamala did not demand a recount.
I was very upset when Hillary didn’t call for a recount. She actually won the popular vote by almost 3 million votes. If she won none of this would have happened.
I agree 100%.
It was never a fair and honest election. There was "Fuckery", as Jeff would say. I hope our next election will be honest but not so sure.
Shit stain was telling people ‘we have all the votes we need’ a few weeks before the vote. And the now infamous ‘ Vote this time and you will never have to vote again’
Helloooo! Were any of those Dimwits even listening?!
Obviously not.
It sorta feels like we (the country) are in boot camp on the day we go through the tear gas routine and come out puking with eyes burning. I guess we voted for this crap.
Voted this morning in Wisconsin…hopefully Susan Crawford wins! Crazy world we live in when trump is in the white house instead of jail.
We are all keeping our fingers crossed Tess. Thanks for your vote for our democracy!
Man, those proud bois all look like Meal Team 6 snacktivists
And few proud geezers in there too😂(no agism - I’m 69)
Me too! 69 going on 17. 😂😂😂
67 going on 15! I want a good old fashion Vietnam War protest song or any protest song to bring us even closer together! The music will keep us moving forward together.
Let’s hear some suggestions!
I am 75, going on 15. I still have the sense of humor of an adolescent boy.
Now, I have an earworm from The Sound of Music.
Haha some days I’m 12 and a little shit😉😜
Perfect! Never stop! 👏👏👏
you don’t look a day over 68!!!!
Only my hairdresser knows for sure. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Right behind ya as 60 going on 13! 🤭
Me three!
Thick in the waist and thin on the ground. The church that seized their name can sue individuals for displaying it in public in an "official" function. Gonna be some bass boats up for auction, Clem, let's go down and look for some bargains!
Make them watch when I take a chainsaw to them.😈😂
LOL
Live in Boise (adjacent to Meridian). Plan to attend the April 5 rally at the State Capitol. Suspect there will lots of Proud Boy presence. I call them Gravy Seals
Mary, please be safe. Remember that those Gravy Seals may be lurking, gathering whatever in their mind is "intel" on anti-Elon protesters.
Ended up with one right next to me, inches away. Black kilt and holstered sidearm. Chose to make my exit
Wow. I feel like Nostradamus.
Glad there was no trouble.
Shit. This should have said "Glad there was NO trouble."
Good Trouble !
Re: Kid
(As someone on BSky said): “He looks like a parade float and NASCAR had a baby”…
😳😬
😂😂😂😂
What a doofus!
😂😂😂😂
And Republicans seem to have completely forgotten how Elon dressed in the Oval Office the day he brought in his snotwiper son. Isn’t it against the law to wear a hat with a political statement in any government building? That was, I believe, a black MAGA hat! Did any Republicans call him out on that???? Or on MTG wearing a red MAGA hat during President Biden’s last State of the Union speech? They break rules with impunity. Time for people to protest more loudly! No double standards!
She looked like she worked for "Cluck-in-a-Bucket" and should be asking if they want fries with that..
... and a diet Coke!
Oh yes!
Staying classy very consistent.
She and Boobert looked like a pair of Howler monkeys one year.
I hope that’s her next job.
So appalled and sickened by my home state becoming the Nazi safe home. Idaho has always had the worst of so many categories…education, healthcare, racism and controverted conservatism. But I was blithely ignorant of the depths of hatred EVEN while working among the republicans in local governments. My gawd, how could I have been so blinded by the reality? I had always been a Blue girl in a red state but to me it was just a bumper sticker platitude. The irony is I grew up in the Cecil Andrus era and was lulled into a false sense of democratic values and beliefs. Fuck.
Wonder how many of your Idaho neighbors had fathers& grandfathers and
uncles fight in WWII? against a demagogue facist?
Idaho has so much natural beauty, and yet they support a guy who would turn the state (and every state) into an industrial hellscape.
taint your fault… just the hand you been dealt
I was such an idealistic person. That’s been stripped away and it’s depressing as shit.
We're all depressed.
You still have ideals but now you’re a realist as well 🙂🤨
So much shit has happened since the mad king has resumed power that many of us have already forgotten that he has been convicted of 34 felonies and would have been convicted of many more had the courts been allowed to function properly.
Guess France's courts aren't owned by corporations or intimidated by nazis.
I bet in France, there is no Fox News.
"I ain't here on business baby, I'm only here for fun."--Bruce Springsteen, 'Rosalita.' You ever get the feeling that the entire Trump Cabinet is into some serious cosplay. Has there ever been a group of self-entitled, emoji-texting amoral reprobates with absolutely zero regard for optics? And aren't we approaching the time when Orange Jabba summons his ethically-compromised band of misfit enablers to declare why he's the greatest president in U.S. history since James Buchanan?
The chat was not even a planning session. The plan was already made. Baby Hegseth wanted to show off and impress the others.
There's so much shit flying these days it's very hard to keep up.
Hegseth taking his emotional support wife (is she his sponsor or something?) to high security meetings and flying around the world with his other emotional support human (his unqualified brother, the podcast developer) and all the news about other Signal chats these grossly incompetent people have been having, something has to give and it's clear now that in the coming weeks Waltz will wish he never left the House.
VOTE WISCONSIN! VOTE FLORIDA!!!! We really need to win those house seats and the SC seat in Wisconsin if democracy has any chance of surviving.
Fuck Elon.
Somebody said Hegseth's wife is his designated driver.
😂😂😂😂
I would think SecDef would have an official car and driver...
Nazi Dave knows how Hitler meet his end, ja?
Likewise with Trump-as-Caesar. Those who don't learn history are doom to get badly fucked up.
Can we say beware of the "Ides of April?"
Give him a loaded pistol
That is one very fucked up dude as is his fellow assholes.
Meanwhile, the tRump administration admits that it wrongfully sent man with temporary protected statue, who committed NO CRIMES, to the Salvadoran gulag & will not attempt to get him out
Worse - the man had asylum because he had been threatened if he didn't join a Salvadoran gang. So they sent him to a prison full of Salvadoran gang members. Why not just announce Brown Lives Don't Matter?
I think that's pretty clear.
THAT is horrifying.
Disgusting & purposefully cruel