I can't decide whether to pray that he goes toes up, or to pray that he's convicted of SEVERAL charges against him, and goes toes up after being in prison for long enough to be even more miserable than he is now. IF he lives to go to prison, it is my opinion that hamberder withdrawals will kill him.
Do you know those guys who are always winching up grand pianos into penthouses on skyscrapers? I don’t know why NYC permits it, it’s so dangerous. The rope could break at any time, or the pulleys could bust, and people don’t move very fast on the sidewalk when you holler “GRAND PIANO!”
Anyway, it would be a terrible, terrible thing if TFG was in the wrong place when the inevitable became evitable.
Not for me. I want him to be tried for his crimes, and pay full restitution--alive, and fully cognizant of the scorn that will be heaped upon him. He won't repent, but that's okay. He just needs to feel the consequences of his long reign of untrammeled crappiness toward his fellow man.
The bad juju is already here…it’s not going away, it’s not getting arrested, it’s spreading it’s evil everywhere. Wishing for that to be gone cannot bring on any more bad juju, we are up to our ears in it.
I agree wholeheartedly with Jodi, there just couldn’t possibly be any worse bad juju than what that dumb f*ck has already visited upon this nation….other than if he were to get back in the WH.
My personal wish for donnie is that he have a stroke big enough to paralyze his entire right side & render him incapable of recognizable speech. That would be the best payback for the many times he’s made fun of & disrespected other people with disabilities.
This can not be real life. Praying and speaking in tongues on the senate floor in Arizona? I can't even begin to understand this? I'm serious when I ask: Why are Republicans so hateful, weird, and controlling? It's like they WANT to be the enemy. Who the fuck do they think they are? 🤦♀️
I want that on a t-shirt! Also a bumper sticker, a yard sign, etc. Except I’d be afraid to wear them down here in SE Texas, in Ted Cruz’s district where the assholes think republicans are the bees knees.
I’d be willing to bet money there’s at least a few more people who think like you down there, but also like you they’re keeping their heads down for fear the crazy magats would threaten to kill them.
When TX banned abortion & especially after they doubled down on just how cruel they intend to be, I pledged not to set foot in the state nor spend a dime there. So even though it’s my birthplace, & my sister lives in Kerrville; I passed on going there to view the eclipse.
I will continue to stick by my pledge until they back down or I die. If my family wants to see me, they’ll just have to come here.
There are far right, evangelical dominionist Christians that are bankrolling this movement and have been for decades. These people are serious and scary. It's been decades of grooming in the making of this movement. The majority of the GOP don't really care about their agenda--only their votes and their money. It's a consequence of their "southern strategy" and some of them are embracing it. Some are a part of it, like Mike Johnson. But give them a hold in government and look what happens. They believe trump is their way in to cabinet appointments and positions of power. Remember his oval office photo op with all those religious leaders after he was elected? He's just using them but they are in it for the long game. He won't live forever.
And that is why, when Biden is re-elected & Dems have both Houses, we have to turn our political efforts toward pressuring them to expand the scotus to 29 justices with 3 panels of 9 to be hearing cases.
This crap of 9 unelected people ruling our lives is complete bullshit & definitely disconnected from reality
Exactly. A lot of them ARE deeply stupid. But others are cynical careerists, sincere fascists, greedy assholes, and religious lunatics (e.g., Johnson). It's a big tent! The problem is, it's swarming with the worst people in the country.
I have to remind myself that they are not the majority. America is filled with lovely people. But the idiots tend to suck the air out of the room and make it seem like they are more prevalent than they really are. The GOP has just rigged everything in their favor--citizens united, judges, gerrymandered voting districts, electoral college, the media, etc. and no one stopped them.
Those crazy zealot bastards have been laying in wait for a century,this is their moment ,or so they think …Roevember should drive the screwy freaks back into the shadows forever ,hopefully!
well, it's not hard to figure out. If he is not endorsing Joe when the other choice is the end of democracy, that speaks volumes about himself...
The Rock has expressed some regret about his 2020 endorsement for Joe Biden for president.
Regret? What on earth could be regretful?
he continues, “Am I happy with the state of America right now? Well, that answer’s no,”
he said.
“Do I believe we’re gonna get better? I believe in that. I’m an optimistic guy, and I believe we can get better."
So it's clear he isnt happy with Joe Biden but he thinks things will get better....so if joe Biden wins, it wont get better? And if the Orange Stain wins? then presumable that's when things get better? Yeah I think you might have missed some context.
The three biggest asshole opportunists in government,unemployable in the private sector ,imbeciles seem to gravitate to the phony baloney jobs ,to bad that’s where they can do the most damage .
Kern is always on his knees speaking like he has a bag of marbles in mouth because he fucking lies about everything. He was a code enforcement officer from 2005 to 2014. Not even a cop, like he told everyone. He got written up so many times for lying, that he's on the Brady shit list for bad officers. He was fired from his job. Then he gets elected and tries to change a law to get his named removed from the list. And lied about that. He's a loser. I see a Jimmy Swaggart move in his future. He's so far up Agent Orange's ass, he can brush his teeth for him.
To add to that is the Institute In Basic Life Principles. The Dugger Family peeps. Bill Gothard. Many in that Institute are under investigation for sexual assault of minors. Follow that up with the Joshua Generation. An extension of IBLP. The country's future politicians. The fucking list of Bill Gothard's followers can be found in many State and Federal government positions all across this country. This, makes me choke on my corn flakes.
Lisa, You are freaking me out. Wow. I'll never forget this part of Brian Williams' farewell speech 09-DEC-2021 (not the type of person one would accuse of hyperbole or panic driven)
"After 28 years of peacock logos on much of what I own, it is my choice now to jump without a net into the great unknown.
As I do, for the first time in my 62 years, my biggest worry is for my country.
The truth is, I’m not a Liberal or a Conservative. I’m an Institutionalist: I believe in this place; and in my love of my country, I yield to no one.
But the darkness on the edge of town has spread to the main roads and highways and neighborhoods. It's now at the local bar and the bowling alley, at the school board and the grocery store. And it must be acknowledged and answered for.
Grown men and women who swore an oath to our Constitution -- elected by their constituents, possessing the kinds of college degrees I could only dream of -- have decided to join the mob and become something they are not while hoping we somehow forget who they were.
They’ve decided to burn it all down -- with us inside.
That should scare you to no end as much as it scares an aging volunteer fireman."
Yep. Wise words. We are at our crossroads. It took decades to get here, but we are here now. It's terrifying! The worst part is our highest court is corrupted. The media is owned by Libertarians that just see their bottom dollars. Alt-right American Oligarchs in Texas buying a state government. Kinda grim. People better get off the fucking couch and haul their fat asses to the voting booth and save Democracy. This is the big one.
He's the Quiverful perv that got arrested for molesting his flock members (underage girls, if I remember correctly). He's the head of the Duggar's religious clan, he is their big kahuna. they are actually Quiverful, although they pretend to be Baptists for their shows.
They are morally upright smug assholes. I grew up with a f*cknut mother whose every accusation (I have since found out) was a confession. When I turned 17, she used to wake me up with a beating, screaming, "SLUT!" Guess who got pregnant when she was 17. Yup. The nutjob. Also, we spent too much time in churches with ppl speaking in tongues and jumping around when the spirit took them. I converted to Judaism. Much less crazy and when we speak in tongues it's Hebrew or Yiddish. As in real languages.
No way! I met a very cool rabbinical student and we became friends. I ended up converting to Judaism because for me, it was intelligent, ethical, and the focus was on "Don't do unto other what is hateful to you." I used to be able to read prayerbook Hebrew. I thought the symbolism in the religion was beautiful.
They’re the ones who want to end up with all the money and the most toys. They want to WIN while others LOSE. They want to kill but not be killed. They hate all who do not think like them.
My mom too. It was occasions. I watched her school a bartender one night in Washington DC on the proper mix - and then down two straight though.
Mostly mom loved wine - and her granddaughters loved nothing better then to ply her with it at family get togethers. While I ran interception - sometimes right out of her hand. It was like truth serum and they knew no one delivered one liners -while batting her big blue eyes - better. Miss her
That is a great memory. I am a wine lover myself. So was my mom. I remember one Thanksgiving when there was a lot of family invited. She and I over-indulged a bit with the wine and after everyone left we both fell asleep on her and Dad's bed. When we woke up we had both had a headache....and a kitchen full of dishes to do. No dishwasher either.
Small ones are the best. I saw recipes too, but you need a smoker or cedar planks (the latter being much cheaper though the price range of the former runs from $26-300).
And here's a little fun fact on the Arizona abortion bill... The punishment for providing an abortion was a choice... Either 3-5 years in prison or a duel with the town sheriff. If we're going to enforce an ancient law from before Arizona was a state, let's go all in🤬
Jeff, are you old enough to remember when The New York Times was a newspaper whose reporting could be believed and respected? Do you ever wonder, as I do, what the hell happened? Love your posts, Jeff! We need your voice!
I used to teach research using the bound copies of the NYT in the university archives. It was a wonderful way to talk about what it means to be a newspaper of record. It wasn’t that they didn’t make mistakes, it was that they corrected those mistakes in a short piece below the fold. You could count on using the NYT as a source. I simply do not know what I would use were I teaching that class today.
Sad, isn’t it? I hate that when I read a newspaper these days, or watch the news, I have to wonder who owns it, and what do they want? What that tells me is that I can’t trust the journalism, which then makes me look to other sources to get at the truth. That this is necessary, albeit difficult, doesn’t speak well of our society, as most of us have neither the time or the inclination to go to multiple sources in search of the truth.
That’s why, I think, folks have cable (Fox, Newsmax, or MSNBC) running in the background. It’s all news on a loop. My parents used to sit down with the paper and read sections each day. It was a ritual I got used to. (And newsprint all over the Formica top table.)
They published an editorial back in the fourties, saying Hitler wasn't really anti-semitic, just misunderstood, and another of their reporters lied about Stalin, and would not report on the Holodomor. They have always been the paper of keeping the status quo. They also folded like a cheap card table when threatened over the pentagon papers, Wapo published, and went to court over it, that is the paper swinging further right that upsets me.
I absoluted loved WaPo from the time I was a teen, and followed the lawsuit. I miss Marty Baron. He was their guiding light even with a publisher that was a Reagan fellow, he kept them honest.
For anyone that is interested: "Duranty was The New York Times' man in Moscow, as the line went, with a cushy apartment in which to entertain expatriates and a reputation as a leading authority on the Soviet Union. Duranty had staked his name on the idea that Josef Stalin was the strong leader the communist country needed. He is often credited with coining the term "Stalinism. In return, Duranty won rare interviews with Stalin and wrote glowingly about Stalin and his plans. The Pulitzer board cited his "dispassionate interpretive reporting" in awarding him a prize in 1932 for a series of reports the previous year. The first was a front-page article that started with the line: "Russia today cannot be judged by Western standards or interpreted in Western terms.It is worth being clear on what Stalin's plans, called "collectivization," led to: the deaths of millions of Ukrainians and more than a million Russians, according to credible estimates.
"Activists from the Communist Party locally and nationally went house to house in Ukrainian towns and villages, confiscating food," says the journalist and scholar Anne Applebaum, who has written extensively on the period. "They took wheat, they took grain, they took vegetables, they took livestock. They took everything that people had."
Talk about imperfect messengers! The fucking NYT has been playing both sides and false equivalency for years. Look at the amount of energy they devoted to Hillary’s emails, existent and non-existent, right up to Election Day. They keep trotting out their phony polls of .04% of people who still answer unknown callers on their land lines. And oh, Biden’s age. (Even though he’s younger than 1/3 of Congress!).
I’m convinced that corporate media needs a horse race and they will do anything they can to create one or make it seem tighter than it is. Then they criticize the non-insane candidate “for not communicating effectively”. Remember, Trump may be terrible for America, but he’s been great for CBS…(NYT, etc)
It’s the NYT’s constant bullshit false equivalency that has turned my stomach.I’ve been trying to terminate my New York Times subscription for a couple of months now. The bill keeps turning up even after I get confirmations that it’s been ended.
I cancelled 2 years ago and I still tell them and anyone who will listen, every chance I get. And we all need to call out any publication that walks that same path. Keep an eye on WAPO and don't let them get away with it.
They have been corrupted too, their new publisher is an ex-murdoch guy who was involved in hiding facts during the mirror's phone hacking scandal, there is a lawsuit on in the UK about it at present.
I had a friend from CA send me a bumper sticker in the 80s. It read “Every ejaculation doesn’t need a name”. As we were living in a very small town in North Carolina at the time, I did not affix it to my bumper. ☺️ Our neighbors already thought we were devil worshipers.
It should be completely and totally illegal for these fucking weirdos to take cult members and bullshit religious nuts into a proceeding of any government of the United Staes. The separation of church and state is there for a reason. Can you just imagine how f some Wiccan brought to the floor some well meaning followers to cast some spells or maybe someone set crystals all about the room for good energy? They’d lose their fucking minds! This religious bullshit has got to stop. That speaking in tongues is just a bunch of idiot uttering gibberish and rolling all over the floor. It’s disgusting.
Thank you. I've finally cancelled my subscription to the Times. Their behavior of trying to show both sides to this, tfg's crimes and dementia is more than I can take.
The NYT is a tabloid. I don't know how New Yorkers put up with that crap. Pretty soon they will be as bad as the Post. I just got a survey from WAPO about labels and headlines. I gave them hell too. I told them 'DO NOT BECOME THE NYT"! If it's opinion, label it clearly. If its conjecture, don't even publish it. Never use a clickbait headline than implies something that isn't necessarily true but you have to read the whole article to find that out. That is National Enquirer BS. Most people don't read. Do not both sides something that only has one true side. Go back to being news and make it clear what is not news. Be better than FOX. The people who read only headlines don't buy your paper or subscribe anyway.
Somebody at the NYT figured out that folks rush by the kiosk and grab the paper with the most outrageous headline. Clickbait is Pickbait: How to Sell Newspapers. I also think the digital algorithm chooses for us according to words and phrases that have attracted us on our social media. Sometimes the headline that Jeff posts is not the same headline that I get. 🤷♀️. However, headlines or not, the text is full of squishy evidence and mere speculation, false analogies. Were I using the NYT to teach today, I’d use it to nail the rhetorical fallacies in their political pieces. Though decisions come from the very top, the politics editor is no newsroom veteran; he’s mid-thirties with a BA and not a whole lot of experience. I looked him up recently; I’ll post here whether it’s the same guy or not.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/16/insider/interview-politics-editor.html. Halbfinger, politics editor, laments the divisiveness in partisan politics, thinks the media has a role in brining the nation together. [So he’s making choices and softening the distinctions.]. He appointed Gonzales, 25 years with the WSJ. There, that’s who is managing our daily NYT news.
Too late! They have a clickbait headline writer, who uses magat terminology and lies, and is seldom accurate. I dropped them because most of the accurate writers have been let go, yet they have a fullstable of far right bullshitters Thiessen, Will, Hugh Hewitt and that new guy Jason Willick, straight from the national Review.
Nextdoor here - in Utah where it's worse because they have been taught to act normal in public! Makes it harder to spot the nutjobs. Our Utah legislature has always been run by the Mormons, so the sane among us have learned that we must protest their insanity - to keep ourselves sane! We are able to get a Democrat elected here and there throughout the years to tamp down some of the off-the-ledge crap. But Utah has been an example of church absolutely running state since before they gained statehood in 1896.
Besides the fact that I never vote republican, I could never have voted for Romney. Anyone who knows anything about the history of the Mormon religion could not in good faith vote for a person who is a part of it. Started by a grifter. Aren't they all? But to includes a pathway to pedophilia, plural marriage and a patriarchy where only men can talk to god and be prophets and make the rules. How convenient. Not unlike the evangelical right-wing nut jobs trying to take over the country. I don't know how you can stand it. Around here (Wisconsin) there are fundamentalist Baptists that concern me. They have a bulk and organic food store and during the COVID mask mandates, refused to comply. They "allowed" people shopping to wear masks if they wanted to but their employees did not. Kids are home-schooled so no vaccines either. It's a nice store but I refuse to shop there. It used to be that it was mandatory that people running for office were religious and had a church affiliation. It can also be a liability. Can you imagine Jim Jones as president?
I’m in Arizona and appalled at all of this. Arizona has never progressed with the rest of large cities in the US. We’re called the Wild West for a reason. Education is extremely poor, we’re run by LDS conservative nutjobs and no one seems to care that it’s fucking hot as hell here and should have started water rationing 30 years ago like California did. It sickens me. Unfortunately I’m too old to leave but I hate it here. It’s backwards and culturally deficient.
I have a son, daughter-in-law, and grandson in Tucson. They’re sick of it too. Word is from them that conservatives from CA moved there and took over. I know that my sister and husband left WA, then CA, for AZ politics. Trumpers. Rich, well-educated golfers who love what LDFF has done.
It never ends…..however OJ Simpson died this morning…if looking for some good news!
One less asshole in the world, now for the orange diaperstain to follow in oj’s tracks.
It is my daily prayer.
Is it wrong that every morning I open my laptop in hopes of seeing that headline?
Absolutely not. I have the same wish, and the same daily prayer.
Me too!
There are literally tens of millions of us.
Hundreds of millions if you include Europe.
Nope.
If it is wrong... I don't want to be right!
I can't decide whether to pray that he goes toes up, or to pray that he's convicted of SEVERAL charges against him, and goes toes up after being in prison for long enough to be even more miserable than he is now. IF he lives to go to prison, it is my opinion that hamberder withdrawals will kill him.
Do you know those guys who are always winching up grand pianos into penthouses on skyscrapers? I don’t know why NYC permits it, it’s so dangerous. The rope could break at any time, or the pulleys could bust, and people don’t move very fast on the sidewalk when you holler “GRAND PIANO!”
Anyway, it would be a terrible, terrible thing if TFG was in the wrong place when the inevitable became evitable.
Too quick.
Try praying "in tongues".
They say, what goes around, comes around.
I say hurry the fuck up already. Piano, safe, coyote with a frayed rope and anvil...
Not for me. I want him to be tried for his crimes, and pay full restitution--alive, and fully cognizant of the scorn that will be heaped upon him. He won't repent, but that's okay. He just needs to feel the consequences of his long reign of untrammeled crappiness toward his fellow man.
Bad juju. You can hope but don't ever wish something like that on somebody. It'll come back to bite you.
The bad juju is already here…it’s not going away, it’s not getting arrested, it’s spreading it’s evil everywhere. Wishing for that to be gone cannot bring on any more bad juju, we are up to our ears in it.
I agree wholeheartedly with Jodi, there just couldn’t possibly be any worse bad juju than what that dumb f*ck has already visited upon this nation….other than if he were to get back in the WH.
My personal wish for donnie is that he have a stroke big enough to paralyze his entire right side & render him incapable of recognizable speech. That would be the best payback for the many times he’s made fun of & disrespected other people with disabilities.
My wish exactly ! A solid stroke with aphasia.
We merely wish his evil to boomerang back on him where it belongs.
Bad juju. You can hope but don't ever wish something like that on somebody. It'll come back to bite you.
I already asked God to forgive me.
I hope he get the justice he deserved on Earth , where ever his murdering ass lands ,hope it’s real hot 🥵🔥🔥 there !
He's roasting on a spit as we speak.
A slow and steady burn from here in out , I hope!
I swear this is true. Only a tiny number of people in the world make me feel vengeful.
When I heard OJ died of cancer, I said, “YES!"
Me too!
Hoping it goes in 3’s and an orange fuckface is one of them.
That's right!! It does go in threes. 🤞🤞
😂 I said the same thing to my husband. Good! He got away with murder. I'm glad he's dead.
A Facebook comment: he’s faking it so he can go underground and find the real killers
😂
BWAHAHAHA!
Tots and pears! Hope Nicole and Ron meet him at the gates with a taste for revenge. 🤷🏻♀️
May the winged Angels of hell greet him at the gates.
You paint a pretty picture.
A smile does come to the face...
I saw OJ and yelled IS HE DEAD FFS?? And he was! MADE. MY. DAY!
Yer prophetic or telepathic or something!
I'd trade OJ's demise for the Orange stain any day
Did not know that; thanks!
From what I gathered, he's been perfectly fucking miserable in these last years -- I was wishing him many, many more.
This can not be real life. Praying and speaking in tongues on the senate floor in Arizona? I can't even begin to understand this? I'm serious when I ask: Why are Republicans so hateful, weird, and controlling? It's like they WANT to be the enemy. Who the fuck do they think they are? 🤦♀️
I don't want religion invading my government.
Echoing a meme already out there: THIS IS OUR COUNTRY, NOT YOUR CHURCH
I want that on a t-shirt! Also a bumper sticker, a yard sign, etc. Except I’d be afraid to wear them down here in SE Texas, in Ted Cruz’s district where the assholes think republicans are the bees knees.
I’d be willing to bet money there’s at least a few more people who think like you down there, but also like you they’re keeping their heads down for fear the crazy magats would threaten to kill them.
When TX banned abortion & especially after they doubled down on just how cruel they intend to be, I pledged not to set foot in the state nor spend a dime there. So even though it’s my birthplace, & my sister lives in Kerrville; I passed on going there to view the eclipse.
I will continue to stick by my pledge until they back down or I die. If my family wants to see me, they’ll just have to come here.
🎯🎯🎯👏👏👏
It already has.
Sadly, Donna you are correct…..ugh.
There are far right, evangelical dominionist Christians that are bankrolling this movement and have been for decades. These people are serious and scary. It's been decades of grooming in the making of this movement. The majority of the GOP don't really care about their agenda--only their votes and their money. It's a consequence of their "southern strategy" and some of them are embracing it. Some are a part of it, like Mike Johnson. But give them a hold in government and look what happens. They believe trump is their way in to cabinet appointments and positions of power. Remember his oval office photo op with all those religious leaders after he was elected? He's just using them but they are in it for the long game. He won't live forever.
There are 5 of those scary dominionists on the Supreme Court
And that is why, when Biden is re-elected & Dems have both Houses, we have to turn our political efforts toward pressuring them to expand the scotus to 29 justices with 3 panels of 9 to be hearing cases.
This crap of 9 unelected people ruling our lives is complete bullshit & definitely disconnected from reality
I agree 100%. Perhaps 13 justices, one for each Federal district, might be enough
Good point.
Oh yes, & there are a minimum of at least 100 of those extremist religious nutcases in the highest levels of our federal government
Exactly. A lot of them ARE deeply stupid. But others are cynical careerists, sincere fascists, greedy assholes, and religious lunatics (e.g., Johnson). It's a big tent! The problem is, it's swarming with the worst people in the country.
I have to remind myself that they are not the majority. America is filled with lovely people. But the idiots tend to suck the air out of the room and make it seem like they are more prevalent than they really are. The GOP has just rigged everything in their favor--citizens united, judges, gerrymandered voting districts, electoral college, the media, etc. and no one stopped them.
Those crazy zealot bastards have been laying in wait for a century,this is their moment ,or so they think …Roevember should drive the screwy freaks back into the shadows forever ,hopefully!
The only thing I can say Susan is that the Rs elect the worst people possible, and then foist them on the rest of us.
I’d call them the most ignorant and uneducated. Just look at Marge 3-toes and Boebert and Tubbyville, the senator who has to be as dumb as a rock.
At least rocks can be useful, paperweights, weapons, landscaping, Tuberville; nothing!
and they're as dumb as The Rock, too
I’m not sure The Rock is that bad. It’s my understanding that he just said he wasn’t going to endorse any candidate this year.
Did I miss some context?
well, it's not hard to figure out. If he is not endorsing Joe when the other choice is the end of democracy, that speaks volumes about himself...
The Rock has expressed some regret about his 2020 endorsement for Joe Biden for president.
Regret? What on earth could be regretful?
he continues, “Am I happy with the state of America right now? Well, that answer’s no,”
he said.
“Do I believe we’re gonna get better? I believe in that. I’m an optimistic guy, and I believe we can get better."
So it's clear he isnt happy with Joe Biden but he thinks things will get better....so if joe Biden wins, it wont get better? And if the Orange Stain wins? then presumable that's when things get better? Yeah I think you might have missed some context.
The three biggest asshole opportunists in government,unemployable in the private sector ,imbeciles seem to gravitate to the phony baloney jobs ,to bad that’s where they can do the most damage .
You make an excellent point CaroleAnn.
Dumbass Donny says he loves the poorly educated.
We’ve been foisted upon!
Crazy people from the Dark Ages .😡
Kern is always on his knees speaking like he has a bag of marbles in mouth because he fucking lies about everything. He was a code enforcement officer from 2005 to 2014. Not even a cop, like he told everyone. He got written up so many times for lying, that he's on the Brady shit list for bad officers. He was fired from his job. Then he gets elected and tries to change a law to get his named removed from the list. And lied about that. He's a loser. I see a Jimmy Swaggart move in his future. He's so far up Agent Orange's ass, he can brush his teeth for him.
Remember this mother fucker? Or, excuse me, child fucker? https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/warren-jeffs-convicted-where-now-134343880.html
The documentary on this FLDS charmer makes it clear: religious messiah = absolute power = absolutely corrupt.
Checks and balances, people. Religious overreach is EXACTLY what the founding fathers had in mind when they designed our government framework.
To add to that is the Institute In Basic Life Principles. The Dugger Family peeps. Bill Gothard. Many in that Institute are under investigation for sexual assault of minors. Follow that up with the Joshua Generation. An extension of IBLP. The country's future politicians. The fucking list of Bill Gothard's followers can be found in many State and Federal government positions all across this country. This, makes me choke on my corn flakes.
Lisa, You are freaking me out. Wow. I'll never forget this part of Brian Williams' farewell speech 09-DEC-2021 (not the type of person one would accuse of hyperbole or panic driven)
"After 28 years of peacock logos on much of what I own, it is my choice now to jump without a net into the great unknown.
As I do, for the first time in my 62 years, my biggest worry is for my country.
The truth is, I’m not a Liberal or a Conservative. I’m an Institutionalist: I believe in this place; and in my love of my country, I yield to no one.
But the darkness on the edge of town has spread to the main roads and highways and neighborhoods. It's now at the local bar and the bowling alley, at the school board and the grocery store. And it must be acknowledged and answered for.
Grown men and women who swore an oath to our Constitution -- elected by their constituents, possessing the kinds of college degrees I could only dream of -- have decided to join the mob and become something they are not while hoping we somehow forget who they were.
They’ve decided to burn it all down -- with us inside.
That should scare you to no end as much as it scares an aging volunteer fireman."
Yep. Wise words. We are at our crossroads. It took decades to get here, but we are here now. It's terrifying! The worst part is our highest court is corrupted. The media is owned by Libertarians that just see their bottom dollars. Alt-right American Oligarchs in Texas buying a state government. Kinda grim. People better get off the fucking couch and haul their fat asses to the voting booth and save Democracy. This is the big one.
Oh good grief, I’m gonna have to look that Bill Gothard up, never heard of him. I recently have heard of the Joshua Generation.
The whole thing makes me extremely angry.
He's the Quiverful perv that got arrested for molesting his flock members (underage girls, if I remember correctly). He's the head of the Duggar's religious clan, he is their big kahuna. they are actually Quiverful, although they pretend to be Baptists for their shows.
OMG! I had no idea 😳
Do the nitwits who "speak in tongues" understand the others, or is it a personal thing?
I believe it's personal, like insane people who talk to themselves. Same, same.
They are morally upright smug assholes. I grew up with a f*cknut mother whose every accusation (I have since found out) was a confession. When I turned 17, she used to wake me up with a beating, screaming, "SLUT!" Guess who got pregnant when she was 17. Yup. The nutjob. Also, we spent too much time in churches with ppl speaking in tongues and jumping around when the spirit took them. I converted to Judaism. Much less crazy and when we speak in tongues it's Hebrew or Yiddish. As in real languages.
No way! I met a very cool rabbinical student and we became friends. I ended up converting to Judaism because for me, it was intelligent, ethical, and the focus was on "Don't do unto other what is hateful to you." I used to be able to read prayerbook Hebrew. I thought the symbolism in the religion was beautiful.
I knew I liked you!😊💗
Whoever their ‘god’ is - his anointed. (He’s using ketchup these days)
Because it’s always anthropomorphic, for them, a blond guy with abs, and a not in a good way hard on for women.
Who do they think we are?
They think you are ‘unsaved’, and as such, are imperfect and in need of Jesus. They’re kind of like the Borg. I was raised by a fundamentalist father.
The Borg! Perfect!
They have always been like this. Now they are just out of the closet.
They’re the ones who want to end up with all the money and the most toys. They want to WIN while others LOSE. They want to kill but not be killed. They hate all who do not think like them.
I know right? This is akin to public masturbation. Wank off at home you weirdos, you can do that shit all you want in private!
And he called everyone who disagrees with him “God haters”. I actually started looking into The Church of Satan out of spite. Fuck that guy.
1864 abortion law written by a pedophile - creepy
Lawmakers speaking in tongues- creepy
NYT - creeps
I can speak in tongues too: :P
I start speaking in tongues after my second Manhattan 😜
I admire anyone who can drink one of those, let alone two. 😉
My mom. In a heartbeat.
Lol, my dad
My mother wasn't much of a drinker, but when she did, that was her cocktail of choice, with brandy here in Wisconsin.
My mom too. It was occasions. I watched her school a bartender one night in Washington DC on the proper mix - and then down two straight though.
Mostly mom loved wine - and her granddaughters loved nothing better then to ply her with it at family get togethers. While I ran interception - sometimes right out of her hand. It was like truth serum and they knew no one delivered one liners -while batting her big blue eyes - better. Miss her
That is a great memory. I am a wine lover myself. So was my mom. I remember one Thanksgiving when there was a lot of family invited. She and I over-indulged a bit with the wine and after everyone left we both fell asleep on her and Dad's bed. When we woke up we had both had a headache....and a kitchen full of dishes to do. No dishwasher either.
She sounds wonderful💗
I love a smoked Old Fashion. It’s a new trendy thing but it’s de-lish! If I’m having one, I’m definitely having 2.
I looked that up because I haven’t heard of that before. Sounds interesting!
Evidently these are becoming popular among the small distilleries.
Small ones are the best. I saw recipes too, but you need a smoker or cedar planks (the latter being much cheaper though the price range of the former runs from $26-300).
Why, thank you! I am grateful for your admiration!
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You have essentially described the GOP playbook.
And here's a little fun fact on the Arizona abortion bill... The punishment for providing an abortion was a choice... Either 3-5 years in prison or a duel with the town sheriff. If we're going to enforce an ancient law from before Arizona was a state, let's go all in🤬
Love that Biden is brief and to the point. And honest.
Jeff, are you old enough to remember when The New York Times was a newspaper whose reporting could be believed and respected? Do you ever wonder, as I do, what the hell happened? Love your posts, Jeff! We need your voice!
I used to teach research using the bound copies of the NYT in the university archives. It was a wonderful way to talk about what it means to be a newspaper of record. It wasn’t that they didn’t make mistakes, it was that they corrected those mistakes in a short piece below the fold. You could count on using the NYT as a source. I simply do not know what I would use were I teaching that class today.
Sad, isn’t it? I hate that when I read a newspaper these days, or watch the news, I have to wonder who owns it, and what do they want? What that tells me is that I can’t trust the journalism, which then makes me look to other sources to get at the truth. That this is necessary, albeit difficult, doesn’t speak well of our society, as most of us have neither the time or the inclination to go to multiple sources in search of the truth.
That’s why, I think, folks have cable (Fox, Newsmax, or MSNBC) running in the background. It’s all news on a loop. My parents used to sit down with the paper and read sections each day. It was a ritual I got used to. (And newsprint all over the Formica top table.)
AP or NPR both do a good job of delivering nonpartisan news.
I miss Walter Cronkite too
Professor Heather Cox Richardson or Professor Robert Reich, maybe.
Robert Reich has his own steady page Dan Rather started steady. I read both as well as Jeff's
They published an editorial back in the fourties, saying Hitler wasn't really anti-semitic, just misunderstood, and another of their reporters lied about Stalin, and would not report on the Holodomor. They have always been the paper of keeping the status quo. They also folded like a cheap card table when threatened over the pentagon papers, Wapo published, and went to court over it, that is the paper swinging further right that upsets me.
I agree with you on that score.
I absoluted loved WaPo from the time I was a teen, and followed the lawsuit. I miss Marty Baron. He was their guiding light even with a publisher that was a Reagan fellow, he kept them honest.
For anyone that is interested: "Duranty was The New York Times' man in Moscow, as the line went, with a cushy apartment in which to entertain expatriates and a reputation as a leading authority on the Soviet Union. Duranty had staked his name on the idea that Josef Stalin was the strong leader the communist country needed. He is often credited with coining the term "Stalinism. In return, Duranty won rare interviews with Stalin and wrote glowingly about Stalin and his plans. The Pulitzer board cited his "dispassionate interpretive reporting" in awarding him a prize in 1932 for a series of reports the previous year. The first was a front-page article that started with the line: "Russia today cannot be judged by Western standards or interpreted in Western terms.It is worth being clear on what Stalin's plans, called "collectivization," led to: the deaths of millions of Ukrainians and more than a million Russians, according to credible estimates.
"Activists from the Communist Party locally and nationally went house to house in Ukrainian towns and villages, confiscating food," says the journalist and scholar Anne Applebaum, who has written extensively on the period. "They took wheat, they took grain, they took vegetables, they took livestock. They took everything that people had."
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/08/1097097620/new-york-times-pulitzer-ukraine-walter-duranty
The corporate take over of all media is what happened
And that, my friends, is one of the biggest threats to democracy today.
Talk about imperfect messengers! The fucking NYT has been playing both sides and false equivalency for years. Look at the amount of energy they devoted to Hillary’s emails, existent and non-existent, right up to Election Day. They keep trotting out their phony polls of .04% of people who still answer unknown callers on their land lines. And oh, Biden’s age. (Even though he’s younger than 1/3 of Congress!).
I’m convinced that corporate media needs a horse race and they will do anything they can to create one or make it seem tighter than it is. Then they criticize the non-insane candidate “for not communicating effectively”. Remember, Trump may be terrible for America, but he’s been great for CBS…(NYT, etc)
It’s the NYT’s constant bullshit false equivalency that has turned my stomach.I’ve been trying to terminate my New York Times subscription for a couple of months now. The bill keeps turning up even after I get confirmations that it’s been ended.
Please don't pay the bill.
You have to call and speak to somebody and tell them why, then cancel the credit card just to be sure.
I LOVE that. That is a strong campaign message! "I'm in the 21st Century."
Because it's true, and the other guy is not.
Finally, I cancelled my NYT subscription for these reasons.
I hope you told them why you were cancelling.
I cancelled 2 years ago and I still tell them and anyone who will listen, every chance I get. And we all need to call out any publication that walks that same path. Keep an eye on WAPO and don't let them get away with it.
They have been corrupted too, their new publisher is an ex-murdoch guy who was involved in hiding facts during the mirror's phone hacking scandal, there is a lawsuit on in the UK about it at present.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-washington-post-publisher-will-lewis-infuriated-news-corp-staff-during-murdoch-phone-hacking-scandal
Just saw this bumper sticker: DON'T LIKE ABORTION? THEN IGNORE IT LIKE YOU DO SCHOOL SHOOTINGS.
I had a friend from CA send me a bumper sticker in the 80s. It read “Every ejaculation doesn’t need a name”. As we were living in a very small town in North Carolina at the time, I did not affix it to my bumper. ☺️ Our neighbors already thought we were devil worshipers.
It should be completely and totally illegal for these fucking weirdos to take cult members and bullshit religious nuts into a proceeding of any government of the United Staes. The separation of church and state is there for a reason. Can you just imagine how f some Wiccan brought to the floor some well meaning followers to cast some spells or maybe someone set crystals all about the room for good energy? They’d lose their fucking minds! This religious bullshit has got to stop. That speaking in tongues is just a bunch of idiot uttering gibberish and rolling all over the floor. It’s disgusting.
Except that Wiccans are far smarter and more honorable than any Republican I have ever known.
It’s something akin to group hysteria.
It’s people like that who would have been labeled as witches & dunked in the local pond or burned at the stake
Thank you. I've finally cancelled my subscription to the Times. Their behavior of trying to show both sides to this, tfg's crimes and dementia is more than I can take.
'finally'? would be an understatement...glad you did, finally.
The NYT is a tabloid. I don't know how New Yorkers put up with that crap. Pretty soon they will be as bad as the Post. I just got a survey from WAPO about labels and headlines. I gave them hell too. I told them 'DO NOT BECOME THE NYT"! If it's opinion, label it clearly. If its conjecture, don't even publish it. Never use a clickbait headline than implies something that isn't necessarily true but you have to read the whole article to find that out. That is National Enquirer BS. Most people don't read. Do not both sides something that only has one true side. Go back to being news and make it clear what is not news. Be better than FOX. The people who read only headlines don't buy your paper or subscribe anyway.
Somebody at the NYT figured out that folks rush by the kiosk and grab the paper with the most outrageous headline. Clickbait is Pickbait: How to Sell Newspapers. I also think the digital algorithm chooses for us according to words and phrases that have attracted us on our social media. Sometimes the headline that Jeff posts is not the same headline that I get. 🤷♀️. However, headlines or not, the text is full of squishy evidence and mere speculation, false analogies. Were I using the NYT to teach today, I’d use it to nail the rhetorical fallacies in their political pieces. Though decisions come from the very top, the politics editor is no newsroom veteran; he’s mid-thirties with a BA and not a whole lot of experience. I looked him up recently; I’ll post here whether it’s the same guy or not.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/16/insider/interview-politics-editor.html. Halbfinger, politics editor, laments the divisiveness in partisan politics, thinks the media has a role in brining the nation together. [So he’s making choices and softening the distinctions.]. He appointed Gonzales, 25 years with the WSJ. There, that’s who is managing our daily NYT news.
The headlines are infuriatingly deceptive clickbait - targeted for Fox News viewers
I only keep WAPO for about four of their liberal columnists and the crosswords.
Same. I mostly kept it for Vladimir Kara Murza.
Jennifer Rubin is great and is quite plainspoken for a former republican. Dana Millbank too.
Too late! They have a clickbait headline writer, who uses magat terminology and lies, and is seldom accurate. I dropped them because most of the accurate writers have been let go, yet they have a fullstable of far right bullshitters Thiessen, Will, Hugh Hewitt and that new guy Jason Willick, straight from the national Review.
That dude that wrote the 1864 law sounds like some fucked up asshole that would be right at home in the 21st century.
If he was in the 21st Century, he would be arrested for child molestation.
You got that right Vickie.
Nextdoor here - in Utah where it's worse because they have been taught to act normal in public! Makes it harder to spot the nutjobs. Our Utah legislature has always been run by the Mormons, so the sane among us have learned that we must protest their insanity - to keep ourselves sane! We are able to get a Democrat elected here and there throughout the years to tamp down some of the off-the-ledge crap. But Utah has been an example of church absolutely running state since before they gained statehood in 1896.
Besides the fact that I never vote republican, I could never have voted for Romney. Anyone who knows anything about the history of the Mormon religion could not in good faith vote for a person who is a part of it. Started by a grifter. Aren't they all? But to includes a pathway to pedophilia, plural marriage and a patriarchy where only men can talk to god and be prophets and make the rules. How convenient. Not unlike the evangelical right-wing nut jobs trying to take over the country. I don't know how you can stand it. Around here (Wisconsin) there are fundamentalist Baptists that concern me. They have a bulk and organic food store and during the COVID mask mandates, refused to comply. They "allowed" people shopping to wear masks if they wanted to but their employees did not. Kids are home-schooled so no vaccines either. It's a nice store but I refuse to shop there. It used to be that it was mandatory that people running for office were religious and had a church affiliation. It can also be a liability. Can you imagine Jim Jones as president?
I’m in Arizona and appalled at all of this. Arizona has never progressed with the rest of large cities in the US. We’re called the Wild West for a reason. Education is extremely poor, we’re run by LDS conservative nutjobs and no one seems to care that it’s fucking hot as hell here and should have started water rationing 30 years ago like California did. It sickens me. Unfortunately I’m too old to leave but I hate it here. It’s backwards and culturally deficient.
I have a son, daughter-in-law, and grandson in Tucson. They’re sick of it too. Word is from them that conservatives from CA moved there and took over. I know that my sister and husband left WA, then CA, for AZ politics. Trumpers. Rich, well-educated golfers who love what LDFF has done.