This remains my all time favorite clip of the orange shit stain. It is a graphic demonstration of the Cowardice that defines him and fills the core of his soul.
Sweet Nutcracker, RatATat Tate pasted, the Patriotic Eagle--the only video that would shoot to the top would be Major the German shepherd turned loose in the Oval Bordello: we'd find out, on the spot, what speed Donnie Demento is capable of, if truly motivated.
The media always stupidly bombards us with year-in-retrospect images, as if we want to be tortured twice! But I'd relish a segment titled The Year in Jeff's gifs.
You ALL know this really happened, right? I don't know who - but someone was doing a 'segment' on him and HE wanted to show that eagle as if it would denote his (fake-ass) 'patriotism' when those of us who knew, were fully aware he didn't give ONE SHIT about this Country. A true symbol of him then (and now) would be a screenshot of the Studio 54 logo with him standing in the doorway snorting cocaine. EVERYBODY KNEW!
Absolutely. Which says it all about the whole Trumpian, MAGA macho culture. You know, shooting deer with high-powered rifles with fancy scopes at 100 yards and missing, or wounding the animal and then being too lazy to go find it, because that would require exercise and maybe bushwacking through thick grass for 30 minutes.
That's not a 'gif', Kathleen, if that's what you're thinking? It really happened! I saw the original video. HE wanted them to film him with a real, honest-to-goodness AMURRICAN bald eagle on his fucking desk - then the stoopid fuck (after being told NOT to get any closer to this eagle on its perch (you can see its tether AND the microphone at the top left), reaches his DUMBFUCK HAND underneath - WTF was he NOT thinking? That look on his stoopid face has been MY absolute JOY for years, now. I think THIS should be shown to every. single. one. of. our young enlisted military who believe the AI'd version phonied up to make him look like a real 'military guy' in uniform. THEY should be made aware of just how 'pretend strong' he actually is, and what a fucking chicken-shit COWARD! (not to mention his having his daddy pay for a podiatrist to fake bonespurs giving him FIVE deferments while other decent young men answered their Country's call despite being terrified. My husband was one of them: VERY young, VERY sure he wouldn't make it back home but went anyway because that is what one did. He made friends, there. One of them was his wingman as he drove what became his truck in a convoy. The truck immediately behind them on a muddy road was blown up with no survivors.) I still have the photos he took of it and his time there - but didn't see them until years later (after we'd met). I still wonder whose names from that blown-up truck are on 'the wall'.
Somehow it seems that Fascism experts like Ruth Ben-Ghiat are saying do not normalize Trump, yet the media does not listen to fascism experts it listens to corporate owners who all want to make a buck off of Trump while buddying up to him as well. Yeech! Thanks for reminding me again why I swore off these forms of media and still write complaints to the independent media I do support when I feel they have messed up.
Are Dump’s actions unprecedented? Fuck no. There are very few members of the military left that stormed the beaches on D-Day to battle the German Dump, namely Adolf Hitler. Marcos sold access in the PI via tariffs and embezzled $10 billion from his countrymen. Dump is now ahead of that piker. All the big businesses of the 1930s cooperated with Hitler. Look at the parade of shitweasels in the Oval Office buying access to this orange fuckwitz! We refuse to recognize evil, in fact, we normalize it every day. Doesn’t anyone see the resemblance between today’s ICE thugs and the Gestapo of the 1930s. Wake. The. Fuck. Up!
WE do, Larry - but every. single. magat. fuckwit I interact with elsewhere REFUSES to accept that their orange HERO has the remotest connection to fascism (that's YOU, tjhey cry) or to Adolph, no matter how painstakingly it might be laid out for their perusal. I can only come to the conclusion that they truly are dumbfucks like their presiDUNCE. They claim that he's never been racist, either. It's SMH time every time.
They may be unprecedented *for a U.S. president* but they didn't come out of nowhere either. The degeneration of the Republican Party has been going on for decades. The end of the Fairness Doctrine, the deterioration of mainstream media, and the Citizens United decision sure didn't help.
A typical asshole move. Asking the same question again and again, hoping for either a different answer or a mistake that can be exploited. Akin to forum shopping -- e.g., ask Dad in the hopes of a different answer than Mom.
The NYT went to a diner in BumFuck, Iowa, where the three regulars all agreed that the water when Obama and Biden over-regulated it was not actually wet. Once the female Mexican illegals the Democrat party put in charge were fired and sent to Neptune, the water became much wetter. Democrats, in the opinion of the NYT editorial board, should focus far more on this issue by reaching out to voters who are feeling disenfranchised by unwet water.
We have the best water. In the history of the world, no one has had better water. People tell me all the time how great our water is... On and on and on ad nauseum
Even Stallone said so! (Oops, he actually said he wouldn't wash his socks in 'trump water' meant for drinking in wee bottles with that stupid name slapped on them and sold at the golf motel...likely right out of the toilets, but who's counting)? It's his NAME that matters. Stallone's of course, 'cos he's a STAR!
I’d say unprecedented for our current democracy yes — but over the course of time? No, absolutely not.
This is all a VERY predictable arc when looking at it from a Birds Eye view. Even Greek tragedies feature it over and over again.
Right now, we find ourselves in the “nemesis” phase — activated by both gross hubris and overreach on several fronts. The nemesis phase is the downfall.
This regime is not immune. And process and oversight are an accelerant.
Take comfort in that. It sucks to live through, but these overinflated clowns are speed-running their own downfall.
For anyone doubting it, read my piece “Dumbfellas” I deep dive into it there.
True - I consider that daily. I do keep in mind that the Roman Empire took quite a long time to “end”, which it did in a series of fits and starts. Same with the British Empire.
That's because most of the media which provides speedy titwringing for erring Dems with obvious pleasure, seems v-e-r-y s-l-o-w to rev up the same energy for visiting similar wringing on Repubbie tits.
Thank you for smacking the hands of all these weak a$$ fools and speaking loud that we are about looking for folks with SPINES to be in Congress next go round.
Me too - BUT couldn't wait to. Everything Jeff writes hits me similarly. HOW on EARTH does he come up with this? For me, somebody vile had written something REALLY awful about Rob Reiner 'deserving' his awful murder and I lost it right there - ranting in writing for a LONG passage about how could ANYONE, even a magat worshiper of that orange pig think and write something so downright DISGUSTING! She'd bought into frump's description of Rob as 'failing' and 'losing his career'. It's so beyond my ken how gullible and downright stupid they are. It's HOW the worthless scribblers still manage to sell their shit..
Simply for entering the 'Food Network's part of this year's entry of the big HGTV's home giveaway FIRST - a really nice house plus a vehicle, btw, for which I usually enter through HGTV THEN Food Network, they sent me a FREE subscription to their Food Network Magazine which had a LOT of really nice recipes. I hardly cook much anymore (been living on Chinese chicken/rice or chicken/noodle soups during this bout of flu or whatever it is I've had) for the last few weeks (Dr's. orders) while feeling much too ill to cook anything other than heating up leftovers in the microwave. One is offered a subscription of course but you might be interested in entering the competition (they won't solicit you unless you specify). In fact I find it rather annoying having to enter my name, address and info each year. BTW - the issue they sent me was the October/November 'big' issue full of scrumptious (if I felt better) potato, sweet potato, stuffing and all kinds of sides and dessert recipes. YUM (at some point I WILL make some of them).
Chris spends ALL his days trying to explain/sanewash what MAGA thinks/does.. Its part of his shtick to be a 'moderate'. He will be one of the guys that will warn Democrats to not 'overreach', to maintain the center (which is now Dems 20 yrd line), to choose a milquetoast presidential candidate to appeal to, ya know, white conservatives who haven't voted for a Dem in like 50 f*cking years. His sidekick Todd is same (as you know)
As American institutions, policies, consumer protections, and social norms are rapidly being rolled back into the 19th century, MSM has made it their mission to vilify progressives as extremists -- but never branding MAGATs as such. Joe Manchin, whose single purpose was to disable the Democratic Party, got away with being labelled a "centrist" his entire career.
Good observations Sharon. Dominating media is an authoritarian maneuver so they CAN label opponents.as extremists. And woeful Dems don't defend themselves...they just act like.MAGA.lite..nThe brain damage occurred during St..Reagan years.
It's absolute arrogance, Chris' comment: "You see, I'm so far above all of you - all of you down there in the fray - that I can see 'the truth' from my intellectual, opinionated tower. It's only those of us who *don't take sides* that see clearly."
They are the most obnoxious people on the planet, and I avoid them successfully. Never invite them to parties.
Also the producers asked government agencies over and over for a comment, and none of them replied. The preposterous idea that you "have" to get a comment from the government to release a piece means the government can kill any story simply by not replying.
PS A hat tip to Journal of the Plague Years and others who shared the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT after it was broadcast in Canada. You can find it here: https://journaloftheplagueyears.substack.com/
I did too - quite a few times in the same post (on his twitter page) BEFORE seeing this post of yours which you wrote long before mine. Apologies, but then, one cannot have too many 'fuck offs' to such a capitulator, can one?
Cilizza is pushing the assumption that it's no big deal for a top manager to apply standards from a previous position to a totally different new position. "Oopsie! I didn't realize timeframes are shorter in TV. I'll get it right next time." If it was just sheer incompetence, it would still be unacceptable. As it is, we can all see that she was sucking up to the orange blob, and Cilizza is the next-level apologist. Gag me!
Well, since I just saw this now...9:30 P.M. on Sunday night, I just did it for you! Told him to fuck straight off SEVERAL times! ON his twitter page (never 'x'). Aah, now I'm beginning to feel a tad better. I just might be getting over this horrid flu after all. We don't expect you to carry ALL the water for us, Jeff. WE need to step in every so often and open our damn MOUTHS when we hear something so fuckingly sycophantically DUMB.
Thanks, as always, Jeff. I feel that the “mass death” part doesn’t get enough attention. From the obvious (cessation of USAID support) to the past (shining just a light up our asses for Covid) to the future (environmental rollbacks, vaccine policy), he has a lot of blood on his hands.
He LOVES the idea of 'blood on his hands'. It helps satisfy his lifelong blood-lust mummy and daddy put a stop to when he deeply and desperately wanted to murder his younger brother they DARED give birth to when they already had such a delightful child as HIM as their youngest son. THIS is how psychotic he is and just how far back it goes.
Sorry, MY flight of fancy - given that he IS such a psychopath...but it's been noted that he UNRELENTINGLY harassed and tormented his then 5yr old brother when HE was 7, so to me (also unrelentingly abused by my then 3-years older sister when I was a toddler all the way up through when I left home at 19), I don't doubt that he HATED, was deeply jealous and resentful of his brother for simply being born (as my sister was of me) and wanted him dead. Why else could he not enjoy him as a playmate/sibling and 'torment' him nonstop? BECAUSE of his behaviour the rest of the family were so fucking fed up with, is when his then older brother dumped an entire dish of mashed potatoes ON his head, instead of putting them on the dinner table, to gales of laughter from everyone in the family. He, the orange fuckwit (although I imagine he was less orange then), was 'humiliated' and has borne a grudge ever since. That was one of Mary Trump's recountings. But just imagine that.
Inflicting death on groups has the effect on MAGA base of normalizing it....which is the purpose when they seek to eradicate Democrats. No guilt. No mercy.
I've gotten it on good authority that 'next' will be those who were naturalized within their own lifetimes, even those who imagine being white will keep them safe. EVEN magats. According to vance's wishes, one will have to 'prove' one's grandparents' 'American citizenship' going back to their generation or even further - which of course leaves me and even my Combat Vet husband out. Just imagine how many of US lifelong Democrats brought here by our parents and Naturalized along with them (as was my husband) who won't be 'acceptable' despite him voting republican for a great part of his life (until Obama). THEN they'll get to regular Democrats who didn't 'vote' the 'right' way.
Yup - shades of goebbels/miller. Self-hating because he was so horrid, other kids made fun of him losing his hair at such an early age SO he had to attack those HE saw as 'the lowest of the low' - janitors, etc. Literally being so obscene as to run for Class President on the premise that the janitors are there to 'pick up our garbage, so why should WE do it'? THIS as he THREW his garbage on the floor FOR the janitors to pick up, much to the chagrin of the decent kids and the enjoyment of the other monstrous ones like him. He figured out how to get the attention he craved - just like frump. He's been a vile piece of shit for his entire life - and is now telling orange POS wat to do. What could possibly go wrong with frump wanting him as his 'new Roy Cohn'? Ach du lieber.
I cancelled well over a year ago. I couldn't tolerate what they did to Clinton and then went bat-shit crazy when they started doing it AGAIN to Harris.
His dementia is so bad, it wont surprise any of us if he takes out his dick out and pisses on the floor. He's a fucking loon. I have completely given up on all legacy media. I watch no network news. They have all stabbed America in the back. Independent journalism is the only avenue for any sort of accuracy. And even then, read from several sources.
I canceled my subscription to Time Magazine, AZ Republic, no longer watch legacy local or national news. I stick to several independent media sources. I put my money where my mouth is and it's not into big corporation's pocket if I can help it. I'm still boycotting Amazon, Target, Walmart and Home Depot They are the problem by enabling this corrupt, cruel regime.
Arne: I experience huge schadenfreude whenever this is mentioned about the a$$hole, but I also feel for those decent guys who might have a tiny dick..What to do if you were born with one? Not everyone turns pathological ...
Was just going to say this. It isn't the 'equipment' but how you use it. N'est-ce-pas? For the FUCKWIT presiDUNCE he has no fucking idea! Yet assumes he's 'king of the world' and no doubt has already looked into having a fake one sewed on. Hopefully by Dr. Oz, LOLOL
How I would love for the camera to catch him doing that… of course, the press would find a way to normalize it. “He accidentally reached into the wrong pocket …”
that's from Jeff - she's adding to it in inimitable style. Brilliantly. And yes, he'd piss all over his shoes (and down his leg) since first he'd have to find it - lost in the huge diaper he wears, pretending it's a codpiece, lol. I might have stolen THAT line from Billy Connolly.
2026: gloves off, elbows up. Yesterday was week 43 of our protests in ruby red Shenandoah County Virginia. We also do a weekly signs of fascism protest.
Kudos to the Eagle attacking! Your takedown of the media is perfect Jeff! I hope all of us continue to boycott the “tv news” and stick to news from independent news reporters on substack!
It's the fact that it's a bald eagle, the symbol of the US, attacking him that makes it so good. That bird was a warning to fight against him and his fascist party, too bad so many didn't take the hint.
In fairness to the voters, they did elect Kamala. There was quantifiable interference in the voting process and the counting. Putin and Musk did their job and they continue to reap their rewards for doing the dictator a solid.
Corporate cowardice! Bill Clinton should have known better than to destroy the rules on media ownership. Those regulations were in place to prevent exactly what we have now, which is the vast majority of media is owned by a very small number of entities. The rest is in the realm of flat earthers and anti-vaxxers.
Clinton was a f*cking neoliberal. He pushed right wing policies that haunt us to this day. The Crime Bill that old fool Biden wore like a crown has been weaponized by the right for decades. I was a big fan of his but realize now what he did.
Accurate. My son is a statistician with a doctorate in criminal justice. He says we're not tough on crime, we're stupid on crime. And he's not very liberal.
That fits. Those 'not very liberal' think we should 'EXECUTE' teenagers who are only suspected of crimes in Central Park based on their youthfulness and skin colour, or haven't you ever heard of frump taking out full page ads calling for the execution of the so-called 'Central Park Five' EVEN AFTER they were released, paid MILLIONS years after they were imprisoned by NY - based primarily on morons like HIM and a very prejudiced police force at the time? One has since become a congressman from Harlem: Yusuf Salaam. The victim in question lived through her attack fortunately and with no remembrance, but frump DID NOT CARE! He wanted these black and Latino youths KILLED anyway, despite there being ZERO evidence against them. WHEN DNA evidence against the REAL perpetrator was found AND he confessed years later AND admitted he committed that grievous act alone (frump claimed the boys MUST have been 'in on it' with him), they were, of course, released. NO huge headlines from the 'right' side of the aisle. Those who're 'not very liberal'! The rest of us knew FULL WELL how young black and latino men were so easily railroaded into false confessions OR threatened & coerced before the system was forced to stop their racial profiling.
Sorry, when you call MY President Joseph R. Biden in THIS safe space (formerly MY President Barack Obama's active VP) an 'old fool' you've lost me as a compatriot. There's ONE 'old fool' we're dealing with, and he's a peculiar shade of orange spackled-on makeup! HE's our problem, not the decent and good man who gave us the Pact Act, the CHIPS Act, walked the UNION LINE with those protesting their jobs going fuckity-bye because of frump and did everything possible for VETERANS! Some of us who are married to, parents of or children of veterans who suffered injuries - or in Joe's case, having a son he believes his brain cancer was caused by BURN PITS HAPPEN to APPRECIATE HIM for those things, AND for putting his head down and working his ass off to try to right the wrongs and the awful mess HE inherited from the fuckwit Preznit (as Jeff calls him)!
In "Network", actor Beatty gives the speech to the rogue newsman, how the news is 'owned' and that there's no democracy but...[names all the biggest corporations]...and foreign countries we are in debt to. It's not new, it just is.
The Clintons and their neo-liberal ilk were the beginning of the true downfall of the Democratic Party. I have despised them since their rise. And as classy, etc. that Obama and Biden were, they continued that direction, ignoring the trends in the party membership that led to Bernie Sanders threatening the Democratic establishment. Both decent men, but far too moderate. I can understand why Obama practiced restraint-Biden had no excuse.
You are 100% correct, the media needs to take much responsibility for the horror we have in charge. I quit the NYT having been a subscriber for decades. I don't think I will ever trust them again.
Larry Ellison, Oracle founder and major stakeholder in Paramount Global, which owns CBS, is another Trump-loving snake whose billions set him on a cloud with the other corporate gods. Bari Weiss, who has crushed CBS News credibility and public trust like rotten fruit, is his vapid tool.
The thing is, NYT and WaPo have real reporters, with real sources. They have both been breaking real (and devastating) stories about the current regime. The editorials and opinions are easily ignored, but real news matters.
As good and decent citizens, we must continue to be outraged by the horrors being visited upon our Nation. When we cease to be outraged this evil will be normalized, and Democracy will end. VOTE! PROTEST! DONATE TO THE; ACLU, THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER,
DEMOCRACY DOCKET SUPPORT JEFF AND OTHERS WHO OPPOSE THIS EVIL.
AND ABOVE ALL; STAY IN THE FIGHT AND REMAIN OUTRAGED!
The problem I have with the ACLU is their full support of Citizens United which got us into this mess. They insist that unlimited spending on campaigns is free speech.
I never tire of the clip where Drumpf runs from the eagle. I think it's better than the nut-smasher. Otherwise, more bad news in a miserable world. I hope we can right our ship eventually.
THIS! Hubby kept focusing on the Eagle, but then I asked him to PLEASE look at frump's face - then played it a few times until he 'got it'. It's HILARIOUS, that look of abject terror! It SO NEEDS to be shown to every single member of our military. Their 'commander in chief', lolol. More like their cadet bone spurs, so dubbed by Tammy Duckworth, the real hero.
I’m surprised the bald eagle didn’t try to nest in what appears to be drump’s hair (or some kind of straw/hay combo woven with maybe some other synthetic substance applied with glue). 🪹🦅😂
Not that all of us intelligent folk would not have been startled and alarmed by a serious predator such as an Eagle, the abject cringing fear demonstrated by Fat Donnie gives us a clear glimpse into the cowardice at his core.
But with that mediocrity Ken Martin leading them they won't do shit and will allow the fascists to get away with everything, again. I find it interesting that Trump has not threatened Garland yet - after all, why would he? Garland was a right-wing stooge.
Books and covers and all that... but still, just to look at Ken Martin does not stir my radical blood. He even *looks* like someone who doesn't want to offend anyone.
What’s maddening here isn’t just that the press got it wrong, it’s how eagerly they kept inventing bedtime stories for adults who were already wide awake and alarmed. The wishcasting wasn’t innocence, it was a reflex, a need to believe that calm language and calls for restraint would somehow summon a conscience where none had shown up before. Watching the same pundits recycle the fantasy that normalization would civilize a narcissist feels less like analysis and more like amnesia.
And every time Democrats are told to be gentle, to heal, to move on, what’s really being protected is the comfort of institutions that don’t want to reckon with how badly they failed. Normalizing fascism isn’t neutrality, it’s participation, and pretending otherwise hasn’t spared anyone the consequences. At some point, refusing to say that out loud stops being prudence and starts being complicity.
Was listening to a couple of seasoned pundits… they had a problem w/ the “I’ve Had It” podcast OKC ladies ‘venturing into politics’… Why? They know as much as anyone(!) They vote. THEY ARE F’n CONCERNED. They are everyday ppl that NEED TO BE HEARD. Afraid they might be ‘inaccurate’???
Some of these guys that trashed Biden (bandwagon!) are slowly backing off. F this SHIT… Too many ivies not enough everyday ppl in the discourse imo.
I've lectured a couple of times at rightwing Hillsdale College (on movies). The last time I was there I was interviewed for the student paper and asked if movie stars should get involved in politics. My reply was: why not? They're citizens, just like anyone else. Clint Eastwood speaks out too. What's wrong with that?
Each of us count as one vote. Whether you are ‘informed’ or not… Those Oklahoma ladies also serve as messengers for a certain part of the electorate who might connect w/them = more engagement.
I mean does JRogan have any formal political training in his background? Or did he just start thinking out loud… just asking questions
We all know what must be done and we know it won’t be easy, or pretty, and we know the lying bullshit that will flow from the media and WE DO NOT FUCKING CARE. WE GONNA DO WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE.
today in Shit That Happened While I Was Writing This Shit:
this just in from the NY Times:
"Are Trump’s Actions Unprecedented? We Asked Historians (Again)."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/22/upshot/trump-presidential-history-survey.html
short answer: YES, OF FUCKING COURSE THEY'RE UNPRECEDENTED
shut the fuck up, New York Times
Just one mistake, Uncle Jeff! The world's MOST PATRIOTIC BALD EAGLE would have gone for the First Felon's beady little eyes!
This remains my all time favorite clip of the orange shit stain. It is a graphic demonstration of the Cowardice that defines him and fills the core of his soul.
If he even has one.
Sweet Nutcracker, RatATat Tate pasted, the Patriotic Eagle--the only video that would shoot to the top would be Major the German shepherd turned loose in the Oval Bordello: we'd find out, on the spot, what speed Donnie Demento is capable of, if truly motivated.
The media always stupidly bombards us with year-in-retrospect images, as if we want to be tortured twice! But I'd relish a segment titled The Year in Jeff's gifs.
You ALL know this really happened, right? I don't know who - but someone was doing a 'segment' on him and HE wanted to show that eagle as if it would denote his (fake-ass) 'patriotism' when those of us who knew, were fully aware he didn't give ONE SHIT about this Country. A true symbol of him then (and now) would be a screenshot of the Studio 54 logo with him standing in the doorway snorting cocaine. EVERYBODY KNEW!
Run, run, faster, faster!!! Everyone doubted him, but I guess Major was actually training for a mission!
😂🤣😂
Love the visual1
He doesn’t.
I would like to see this reposted as much or more than Pete Kegseth’s skateboard-nuts fail! Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Same here, Ole!
He Doesn’t have a Soul Ole,nor Any kinda human emotion. Totally and Utterly Heartless.
I am sure there is no soul since there is no heart!
Which of course he doesn't.
Absolutely. Which says it all about the whole Trumpian, MAGA macho culture. You know, shooting deer with high-powered rifles with fancy scopes at 100 yards and missing, or wounding the animal and then being too lazy to go find it, because that would require exercise and maybe bushwacking through thick grass for 30 minutes.
THE MOST PATRIOTIC BALD EAGLE didn’t finish bitch slapping the First Felon into HELL!
Only because it was chained.
🤞
That's not a 'gif', Kathleen, if that's what you're thinking? It really happened! I saw the original video. HE wanted them to film him with a real, honest-to-goodness AMURRICAN bald eagle on his fucking desk - then the stoopid fuck (after being told NOT to get any closer to this eagle on its perch (you can see its tether AND the microphone at the top left), reaches his DUMBFUCK HAND underneath - WTF was he NOT thinking? That look on his stoopid face has been MY absolute JOY for years, now. I think THIS should be shown to every. single. one. of. our young enlisted military who believe the AI'd version phonied up to make him look like a real 'military guy' in uniform. THEY should be made aware of just how 'pretend strong' he actually is, and what a fucking chicken-shit COWARD! (not to mention his having his daddy pay for a podiatrist to fake bonespurs giving him FIVE deferments while other decent young men answered their Country's call despite being terrified. My husband was one of them: VERY young, VERY sure he wouldn't make it back home but went anyway because that is what one did. He made friends, there. One of them was his wingman as he drove what became his truck in a convoy. The truck immediately behind them on a muddy road was blown up with no survivors.) I still have the photos he took of it and his time there - but didn't see them until years later (after we'd met). I still wonder whose names from that blown-up truck are on 'the wall'.
Kathleen: ALSO meant to add...'or AI'.
My favorite is still ‘The Nutcracker, sweet’!
Or his beady little balls🤣
Or his mushroom dick and Yeti pubes.
I'm betting Eagley from Peacemaker would have nailed him.
Somehow it seems that Fascism experts like Ruth Ben-Ghiat are saying do not normalize Trump, yet the media does not listen to fascism experts it listens to corporate owners who all want to make a buck off of Trump while buddying up to him as well. Yeech! Thanks for reminding me again why I swore off these forms of media and still write complaints to the independent media I do support when I feel they have messed up.
Bingo! The answer is always greed.
Literally J.F.C.
Great topic btw :/ Painful receipts and all
Are Dump’s actions unprecedented? Fuck no. There are very few members of the military left that stormed the beaches on D-Day to battle the German Dump, namely Adolf Hitler. Marcos sold access in the PI via tariffs and embezzled $10 billion from his countrymen. Dump is now ahead of that piker. All the big businesses of the 1930s cooperated with Hitler. Look at the parade of shitweasels in the Oval Office buying access to this orange fuckwitz! We refuse to recognize evil, in fact, we normalize it every day. Doesn’t anyone see the resemblance between today’s ICE thugs and the Gestapo of the 1930s. Wake. The. Fuck. Up!
Amen, Larry.
It is positively infuriating!
WE do, Larry - but every. single. magat. fuckwit I interact with elsewhere REFUSES to accept that their orange HERO has the remotest connection to fascism (that's YOU, tjhey cry) or to Adolph, no matter how painstakingly it might be laid out for their perusal. I can only come to the conclusion that they truly are dumbfucks like their presiDUNCE. They claim that he's never been racist, either. It's SMH time every time.
They may be unprecedented *for a U.S. president* but they didn't come out of nowhere either. The degeneration of the Republican Party has been going on for decades. The end of the Fairness Doctrine, the deterioration of mainstream media, and the Citizens United decision sure didn't help.
So the first round of answers didn’t meet whatever “normalizing” criteria they were looking for? 🙄
A typical asshole move. Asking the same question again and again, hoping for either a different answer or a mistake that can be exploited. Akin to forum shopping -- e.g., ask Dad in the hopes of a different answer than Mom.
Nothing will stop Pinchy Sulzberger and his Presstitute Posse from endlessly kissing Trump's ass.
Presstitue - love it!
I didn't need the fucking New York Times to tell me that water is wet. JHFC
NYT: But is water, in fact, wet? Pundits question Biden's and Democrats' assertions.
One of the wettest we've ever seen from the standpoint of water
Not nearly as wet as it ‘should have been’ under Biden, ppl are saying…
The NYT went to a diner in BumFuck, Iowa, where the three regulars all agreed that the water when Obama and Biden over-regulated it was not actually wet. Once the female Mexican illegals the Democrat party put in charge were fired and sent to Neptune, the water became much wetter. Democrats, in the opinion of the NYT editorial board, should focus far more on this issue by reaching out to voters who are feeling disenfranchised by unwet water.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Yup. Those danged wimmen. Always doing things they were never made for. Gotta keep them in line and doing what their PURPOSE IS, by gawd.
on point...
We have the best water. In the history of the world, no one has had better water. People tell me all the time how great our water is... On and on and on ad nauseum
Even Stallone said so! (Oops, he actually said he wouldn't wash his socks in 'trump water' meant for drinking in wee bottles with that stupid name slapped on them and sold at the golf motel...likely right out of the toilets, but who's counting)? It's his NAME that matters. Stallone's of course, 'cos he's a STAR!
I’d say unprecedented for our current democracy yes — but over the course of time? No, absolutely not.
This is all a VERY predictable arc when looking at it from a Birds Eye view. Even Greek tragedies feature it over and over again.
Right now, we find ourselves in the “nemesis” phase — activated by both gross hubris and overreach on several fronts. The nemesis phase is the downfall.
This regime is not immune. And process and oversight are an accelerant.
Take comfort in that. It sucks to live through, but these overinflated clowns are speed-running their own downfall.
For anyone doubting it, read my piece “Dumbfellas” I deep dive into it there.
There are a lot of similarities between America today and the end of the Roman Empire.
America today = Rome 465AD.
True - I consider that daily. I do keep in mind that the Roman Empire took quite a long time to “end”, which it did in a series of fits and starts. Same with the British Empire.
It took a thousand years for Europe's living standards to return to the same level.
https://youtu.be/Qc7HmhrgTuQ?si=54QQb6BCIHc3yNzo
Their over reaching incompetence is the only thing that sustains me.
I am just thoroughly amazed that Fat Boy or one of his minions hasn’t got their tit caught in the wringer already given the level of their ignorance.
Hubris is the word of the year for 2026. May it finally lead to the downfall of this entire gang of thieves, grifters and scofflaws.
That's because most of the media which provides speedy titwringing for erring Dems with obvious pleasure, seems v-e-r-y s-l-o-w to rev up the same energy for visiting similar wringing on Repubbie tits.
I hope so. in the 3500 year sweep of history this always ends badly.
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Thank you for smacking the hands of all these weak a$$ fools and speaking loud that we are about looking for folks with SPINES to be in Congress next go round.
Alternatively: "Does shit smell and taste bad? We'll find out!"
The word "unprecedented" no longer has any meaning when it comes to Trump
I looked at the headline in your post, and loudly said “Oh, for fuck’s sake!” Didn’t even need to read it.
Me too - BUT couldn't wait to. Everything Jeff writes hits me similarly. HOW on EARTH does he come up with this? For me, somebody vile had written something REALLY awful about Rob Reiner 'deserving' his awful murder and I lost it right there - ranting in writing for a LONG passage about how could ANYONE, even a magat worshiper of that orange pig think and write something so downright DISGUSTING! She'd bought into frump's description of Rob as 'failing' and 'losing his career'. It's so beyond my ken how gullible and downright stupid they are. It's HOW the worthless scribblers still manage to sell their shit..
I have a subscription to the NYT for the recipes. Otherwise, I hate their fucking guts.
haha, me too...and I don't even cook...but there's something about reading recipes and looking at the pictures (a kind of porn?)
I think it is food porn. You got that right.
Simply for entering the 'Food Network's part of this year's entry of the big HGTV's home giveaway FIRST - a really nice house plus a vehicle, btw, for which I usually enter through HGTV THEN Food Network, they sent me a FREE subscription to their Food Network Magazine which had a LOT of really nice recipes. I hardly cook much anymore (been living on Chinese chicken/rice or chicken/noodle soups during this bout of flu or whatever it is I've had) for the last few weeks (Dr's. orders) while feeling much too ill to cook anything other than heating up leftovers in the microwave. One is offered a subscription of course but you might be interested in entering the competition (they won't solicit you unless you specify). In fact I find it rather annoying having to enter my name, address and info each year. BTW - the issue they sent me was the October/November 'big' issue full of scrumptious (if I felt better) potato, sweet potato, stuffing and all kinds of sides and dessert recipes. YUM (at some point I WILL make some of them).
Oops: I MEANT to add that I used to do the NYTimes crossword puzzle but stopped some time ago when they became overly pretentious.
One quick correction. July 18, 2025. 😢
here's a hot take from Chris Cilizza that I ended up not using in today' post.
https://x.com/ChrisCillizza/status/2004968160873578511
"What if Bari Weiss was totally within good journalism standards to want to get a fresh and on-topic comment from the Administration"
shut up, Chris
Why does anyone even read or listen to Chris Cilizza...
I always wanna call him Chris Cialis. 🥸
Or another NSFW name
Chris Cliteasa. It’s Sunday, the day to take a rest from worries about a boss looking over your shoulder
Chris spends ALL his days trying to explain/sanewash what MAGA thinks/does.. Its part of his shtick to be a 'moderate'. He will be one of the guys that will warn Democrats to not 'overreach', to maintain the center (which is now Dems 20 yrd line), to choose a milquetoast presidential candidate to appeal to, ya know, white conservatives who haven't voted for a Dem in like 50 f*cking years. His sidekick Todd is same (as you know)
Sorry--"moderate" is a chickenshit adjective used by fence-straddlers who don't want to end up on anyone's shit list when things get real.
As American institutions, policies, consumer protections, and social norms are rapidly being rolled back into the 19th century, MSM has made it their mission to vilify progressives as extremists -- but never branding MAGATs as such. Joe Manchin, whose single purpose was to disable the Democratic Party, got away with being labelled a "centrist" his entire career.
Good observations Sharon. Dominating media is an authoritarian maneuver so they CAN label opponents.as extremists. And woeful Dems don't defend themselves...they just act like.MAGA.lite..nThe brain damage occurred during St..Reagan years.
So has Susie "Concerned" Collins. And we are getting damned sick of it.
It's absolute arrogance, Chris' comment: "You see, I'm so far above all of you - all of you down there in the fray - that I can see 'the truth' from my intellectual, opinionated tower. It's only those of us who *don't take sides* that see clearly."
They are the most obnoxious people on the planet, and I avoid them successfully. Never invite them to parties.
I just told him to 'fuck off, fuck off, fuck OFF'. Maybe that'll penetrate 'something' especially since he has absolutely NO idea who I am? lolol
We can always count on world class Presstitution from Cillizza!
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That “on topic” comment wouldn’t just be another big fat lie, now would it? 🤔
Also the producers asked government agencies over and over for a comment, and none of them replied. The preposterous idea that you "have" to get a comment from the government to release a piece means the government can kill any story simply by not replying.
PS A hat tip to Journal of the Plague Years and others who shared the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT after it was broadcast in Canada. You can find it here: https://journaloftheplagueyears.substack.com/
May I offer a correction to your response? Shut the fuck up, Chris.
I did too - quite a few times in the same post (on his twitter page) BEFORE seeing this post of yours which you wrote long before mine. Apologies, but then, one cannot have too many 'fuck offs' to such a capitulator, can one?
“Nah B.” (See what I did there?) She was not being a real journalist. She was being the stooge they hired.
Cilizza is pushing the assumption that it's no big deal for a top manager to apply standards from a previous position to a totally different new position. "Oopsie! I didn't realize timeframes are shorter in TV. I'll get it right next time." If it was just sheer incompetence, it would still be unacceptable. As it is, we can all see that she was sucking up to the orange blob, and Cilizza is the next-level apologist. Gag me!
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He’s a certified jerk. There was a time when I respected Klein, Douthat, and Taibbi, but I tend to avoid jackasses once they kick.
Well, since I just saw this now...9:30 P.M. on Sunday night, I just did it for you! Told him to fuck straight off SEVERAL times! ON his twitter page (never 'x'). Aah, now I'm beginning to feel a tad better. I just might be getting over this horrid flu after all. We don't expect you to carry ALL the water for us, Jeff. WE need to step in every so often and open our damn MOUTHS when we hear something so fuckingly sycophantically DUMB.
Thanks, as always, Jeff. I feel that the “mass death” part doesn’t get enough attention. From the obvious (cessation of USAID support) to the past (shining just a light up our asses for Covid) to the future (environmental rollbacks, vaccine policy), he has a lot of blood on his hands.
Me thinks he does not enjoy the day unless he's murdered someone.
That’s true. He does have a lot of blood on his hands.
He LOVES the idea of 'blood on his hands'. It helps satisfy his lifelong blood-lust mummy and daddy put a stop to when he deeply and desperately wanted to murder his younger brother they DARED give birth to when they already had such a delightful child as HIM as their youngest son. THIS is how psychotic he is and just how far back it goes.
I knew he threw rocks at the neighbor’s children but I hadn’t heard that he tried to murder his brother!
Sorry, MY flight of fancy - given that he IS such a psychopath...but it's been noted that he UNRELENTINGLY harassed and tormented his then 5yr old brother when HE was 7, so to me (also unrelentingly abused by my then 3-years older sister when I was a toddler all the way up through when I left home at 19), I don't doubt that he HATED, was deeply jealous and resentful of his brother for simply being born (as my sister was of me) and wanted him dead. Why else could he not enjoy him as a playmate/sibling and 'torment' him nonstop? BECAUSE of his behaviour the rest of the family were so fucking fed up with, is when his then older brother dumped an entire dish of mashed potatoes ON his head, instead of putting them on the dinner table, to gales of laughter from everyone in the family. He, the orange fuckwit (although I imagine he was less orange then), was 'humiliated' and has borne a grudge ever since. That was one of Mary Trump's recountings. But just imagine that.
Inflicting death on groups has the effect on MAGA base of normalizing it....which is the purpose when they seek to eradicate Democrats. No guilt. No mercy.
Somebody (Stalin maybe?) said "One death is a tragedy. A million deaths are a statistic."
Charlie Chaplin in "Monsieur Verdoux": “One murder makes a villain…millions a hero. Numbers sanctify my good friend.”
https://www.charliechaplin.com/en/articles/244-Speech-from-Monsieur-Verdoux
He Is setting the stage by his inflammatory rhetoric.
Democrats will soon be fair game.
I’m waiting to see what the ICE Nazis will be doing on Election Day, 2026.
Poll watching in some manner, no doubt.
I've gotten it on good authority that 'next' will be those who were naturalized within their own lifetimes, even those who imagine being white will keep them safe. EVEN magats. According to vance's wishes, one will have to 'prove' one's grandparents' 'American citizenship' going back to their generation or even further - which of course leaves me and even my Combat Vet husband out. Just imagine how many of US lifelong Democrats brought here by our parents and Naturalized along with them (as was my husband) who won't be 'acceptable' despite him voting republican for a great part of his life (until Obama). THEN they'll get to regular Democrats who didn't 'vote' the 'right' way.
Even Hitler supposedly had Jewish blood 3 generations back. Of course that was kept quiet as it was...'inconvenient'
Yup - shades of goebbels/miller. Self-hating because he was so horrid, other kids made fun of him losing his hair at such an early age SO he had to attack those HE saw as 'the lowest of the low' - janitors, etc. Literally being so obscene as to run for Class President on the premise that the janitors are there to 'pick up our garbage, so why should WE do it'? THIS as he THREW his garbage on the floor FOR the janitors to pick up, much to the chagrin of the decent kids and the enjoyment of the other monstrous ones like him. He figured out how to get the attention he craved - just like frump. He's been a vile piece of shit for his entire life - and is now telling orange POS wat to do. What could possibly go wrong with frump wanting him as his 'new Roy Cohn'? Ach du lieber.
That started early on when Trump started labeling immigrants as “vermin” - straight from the Nazi script.
The sane-washing has literally driven us insane. We need to unfuck this shit up.. cancel what you don’t need, like legacy media.
I cancelled well over a year ago. I couldn't tolerate what they did to Clinton and then went bat-shit crazy when they started doing it AGAIN to Harris.
His dementia is so bad, it wont surprise any of us if he takes out his dick out and pisses on the floor. He's a fucking loon. I have completely given up on all legacy media. I watch no network news. They have all stabbed America in the back. Independent journalism is the only avenue for any sort of accuracy. And even then, read from several sources.
Or fuck it all and move to Lisbon. 🤷🏼♀️
I canceled my subscription to Time Magazine, AZ Republic, no longer watch legacy local or national news. I stick to several independent media sources. I put my money where my mouth is and it's not into big corporation's pocket if I can help it. I'm still boycotting Amazon, Target, Walmart and Home Depot They are the problem by enabling this corrupt, cruel regime.
When I saw his assface on the cover of TIME, that was it.
I had that subscription since 1989. Their loss.
Barking ass mad! As I've said before, NOBODY runs me off my turf!!
OMG Susan! “takes his dick out and pisses on the floor….” 😄😂😂
His dick is reportedly very small. He would be pissing on his shoes. Let that thought sustain you through the rest of your day.
Thanks Arne! 😂😂 It shall! HAHA!
Lol, good call. Unfortunately, he pisses on himself then punishes us for it, all while saying it's something HE gets to be proud of.
I thought he misses on his shoes and blames the Democrats.
He pisses on his shoes, gets some on his hands and doesn’t wash them.
ugh, PUKE!
Arne: I experience huge schadenfreude whenever this is mentioned about the a$$hole, but I also feel for those decent guys who might have a tiny dick..What to do if you were born with one? Not everyone turns pathological ...
Yeah but for those guy, size doesn’t matter. They’re not embarrassed or narcissistic and know what to do with it
Was just going to say this. It isn't the 'equipment' but how you use it. N'est-ce-pas? For the FUCKWIT presiDUNCE he has no fucking idea! Yet assumes he's 'king of the world' and no doubt has already looked into having a fake one sewed on. Hopefully by Dr. Oz, LOLOL
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Hahahaha! Love you, Arne. That movie will be playing in my head all day.
More likely on someone else's shoes.
In proportion with his tiny hands 👐
DAVID! Jeff started it. 🤪
And you know that folks with dementia are libel to say and do anything as the disease progresses. 😂😂😂
New name for “Susan Speaks “;
“He took his dick out and pissed on the floor”.
That should attract new subscribers.
😂 Maybe not the kind I want, though! HAHAH!
Lol, Pam!
😂😂😂 OK. If you think that can increase subscribers, I'll try anything!
Maybe from the PornHub crowd.
Great! 🤣🤣🤣
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How I would love for the camera to catch him doing that… of course, the press would find a way to normalize it. “He accidentally reached into the wrong pocket …”
that's from Jeff - she's adding to it in inimitable style. Brilliantly. And yes, he'd piss all over his shoes (and down his leg) since first he'd have to find it - lost in the huge diaper he wears, pretending it's a codpiece, lol. I might have stolen THAT line from Billy Connolly.
If I hear or read a story 3 times I'm inclined to believe it but the way things are going I'm getting suspicious of my fact checking...
We all know that moment is coming, I've been speculating on how the MSM will attempt to "normalize" it at just Trump being Trump.
MSM is already trying.....
You know his magats would then be whipping theirs out in solidarity. Just like the diaper wearing and ear bandages.
Sadly I think you’re right. Geeze America! Get a clue.
2026: gloves off, elbows up. Yesterday was week 43 of our protests in ruby red Shenandoah County Virginia. We also do a weekly signs of fascism protest.
Kudos to the Eagle attacking! Your takedown of the media is perfect Jeff! I hope all of us continue to boycott the “tv news” and stick to news from independent news reporters on substack!
It's the fact that it's a bald eagle, the symbol of the US, attacking him that makes it so good. That bird was a warning to fight against him and his fascist party, too bad so many didn't take the hint.
In fairness to the voters, they did elect Kamala. There was quantifiable interference in the voting process and the counting. Putin and Musk did their job and they continue to reap their rewards for doing the dictator a solid.
And, they’re getting away with it.
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As we've discussed.😉
Corporate cowardice! Bill Clinton should have known better than to destroy the rules on media ownership. Those regulations were in place to prevent exactly what we have now, which is the vast majority of media is owned by a very small number of entities. The rest is in the realm of flat earthers and anti-vaxxers.
Clinton was a f*cking neoliberal. He pushed right wing policies that haunt us to this day. The Crime Bill that old fool Biden wore like a crown has been weaponized by the right for decades. I was a big fan of his but realize now what he did.
Accurate. My son is a statistician with a doctorate in criminal justice. He says we're not tough on crime, we're stupid on crime. And he's not very liberal.
That fits. Those 'not very liberal' think we should 'EXECUTE' teenagers who are only suspected of crimes in Central Park based on their youthfulness and skin colour, or haven't you ever heard of frump taking out full page ads calling for the execution of the so-called 'Central Park Five' EVEN AFTER they were released, paid MILLIONS years after they were imprisoned by NY - based primarily on morons like HIM and a very prejudiced police force at the time? One has since become a congressman from Harlem: Yusuf Salaam. The victim in question lived through her attack fortunately and with no remembrance, but frump DID NOT CARE! He wanted these black and Latino youths KILLED anyway, despite there being ZERO evidence against them. WHEN DNA evidence against the REAL perpetrator was found AND he confessed years later AND admitted he committed that grievous act alone (frump claimed the boys MUST have been 'in on it' with him), they were, of course, released. NO huge headlines from the 'right' side of the aisle. Those who're 'not very liberal'! The rest of us knew FULL WELL how young black and latino men were so easily railroaded into false confessions OR threatened & coerced before the system was forced to stop their racial profiling.
Sorry, when you call MY President Joseph R. Biden in THIS safe space (formerly MY President Barack Obama's active VP) an 'old fool' you've lost me as a compatriot. There's ONE 'old fool' we're dealing with, and he's a peculiar shade of orange spackled-on makeup! HE's our problem, not the decent and good man who gave us the Pact Act, the CHIPS Act, walked the UNION LINE with those protesting their jobs going fuckity-bye because of frump and did everything possible for VETERANS! Some of us who are married to, parents of or children of veterans who suffered injuries - or in Joe's case, having a son he believes his brain cancer was caused by BURN PITS HAPPEN to APPRECIATE HIM for those things, AND for putting his head down and working his ass off to try to right the wrongs and the awful mess HE inherited from the fuckwit Preznit (as Jeff calls him)!
Im sorry...you are correct
If this is meant for me, thank you.
In "Network", actor Beatty gives the speech to the rogue newsman, how the news is 'owned' and that there's no democracy but...[names all the biggest corporations]...and foreign countries we are in debt to. It's not new, it just is.
Watched it last night. A remarkably prescient film!
Written, acted and directed to perfection
The Clintons and their neo-liberal ilk were the beginning of the true downfall of the Democratic Party. I have despised them since their rise. And as classy, etc. that Obama and Biden were, they continued that direction, ignoring the trends in the party membership that led to Bernie Sanders threatening the Democratic establishment. Both decent men, but far too moderate. I can understand why Obama practiced restraint-Biden had no excuse.
You are 100% correct, the media needs to take much responsibility for the horror we have in charge. I quit the NYT having been a subscriber for decades. I don't think I will ever trust them again.
Same here...and WaPo. I dont need that kind of BS in my life.
When Jen Rubin left wapo that was it for me.
Yup! She's awesome. I'm glad she came to Substack.
Thanks!! I didn't know she is on Substack.
The Contrarian
Instead of Rubin, WaPo now has an “Editorial Board” churning out right-wing AI slop at an unprecedented pace.
It was still a good paper during Trump 1.0, when Marty Baron was EIC. now is trash.
Yep, I dropped both.
Larry Ellison, Oracle founder and major stakeholder in Paramount Global, which owns CBS, is another Trump-loving snake whose billions set him on a cloud with the other corporate gods. Bari Weiss, who has crushed CBS News credibility and public trust like rotten fruit, is his vapid tool.
But - but - Bari says she wants to restore integrity to the media! SMH.
The thing is, NYT and WaPo have real reporters, with real sources. They have both been breaking real (and devastating) stories about the current regime. The editorials and opinions are easily ignored, but real news matters.
Ditto
As good and decent citizens, we must continue to be outraged by the horrors being visited upon our Nation. When we cease to be outraged this evil will be normalized, and Democracy will end. VOTE! PROTEST! DONATE TO THE; ACLU, THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER,
DEMOCRACY DOCKET SUPPORT JEFF AND OTHERS WHO OPPOSE THIS EVIL.
AND ABOVE ALL; STAY IN THE FIGHT AND REMAIN OUTRAGED!
AGREE! Ive been a card carrying member of the ACLU for years.
The problem I have with the ACLU is their full support of Citizens United which got us into this mess. They insist that unlimited spending on campaigns is free speech.
That is a blind spot for sure, but they are still an important part of this fight.
Same
I never tire of the clip where Drumpf runs from the eagle. I think it's better than the nut-smasher. Otherwise, more bad news in a miserable world. I hope we can right our ship eventually.
His face in that clip always cracks me up.
THIS! Hubby kept focusing on the Eagle, but then I asked him to PLEASE look at frump's face - then played it a few times until he 'got it'. It's HILARIOUS, that look of abject terror! It SO NEEDS to be shown to every single member of our military. Their 'commander in chief', lolol. More like their cadet bone spurs, so dubbed by Tammy Duckworth, the real hero.
I agree! I just love watching tRump's face!
He looks terrified and probably had to change his diaper after that encounter. I love it so much.
It's the best!
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I’m surprised the bald eagle didn’t try to nest in what appears to be drump’s hair (or some kind of straw/hay combo woven with maybe some other synthetic substance applied with glue). 🪹🦅😂
That’s as close to the real tRUMP we’ll ever see. A bigly unfiltered, cowardly, scared POS
It’s the Best!
Not that all of us intelligent folk would not have been startled and alarmed by a serious predator such as an Eagle, the abject cringing fear demonstrated by Fat Donnie gives us a clear glimpse into the cowardice at his core.
My favorite trump clip ever!
"Democrats need to extend the olive branch — y’know, in the spirit of healing and unity and all."
Democrats need to find the biggest fucking olive branch they can and use it to beat the shit out of every republinazi they see.
But with that mediocrity Ken Martin leading them they won't do shit and will allow the fascists to get away with everything, again. I find it interesting that Trump has not threatened Garland yet - after all, why would he? Garland was a right-wing stooge.
WRITE! I have several times. People say, of they wont pay attention. But we have to try. 🤷🏼♀️
https://democrats.org/contact-us/
OR
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE
430 South Capitol Street Southeast
Washington, DC 20003
I write, I call, I email. Constantly. I'm fortunate in that I live in a blue state and have two Democratic senators.
So do I and they voted for the crypto bill. Yes, the price of living in California, aka Techlandia. Grrr.
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No, Garland was not. He was mistaken in bending over backwards not to politicize the DOJ, but don't assume everyone you disagree with is the enemy.
He was acting like a judge, when his role was that of prosecutor. He did not do his job.
I don't disagree. That doesn't make him a "rightwing stooge."
Books and covers and all that... but still, just to look at Ken Martin does not stir my radical blood. He even *looks* like someone who doesn't want to offend anyone.
What’s maddening here isn’t just that the press got it wrong, it’s how eagerly they kept inventing bedtime stories for adults who were already wide awake and alarmed. The wishcasting wasn’t innocence, it was a reflex, a need to believe that calm language and calls for restraint would somehow summon a conscience where none had shown up before. Watching the same pundits recycle the fantasy that normalization would civilize a narcissist feels less like analysis and more like amnesia.
And every time Democrats are told to be gentle, to heal, to move on, what’s really being protected is the comfort of institutions that don’t want to reckon with how badly they failed. Normalizing fascism isn’t neutrality, it’s participation, and pretending otherwise hasn’t spared anyone the consequences. At some point, refusing to say that out loud stops being prudence and starts being complicity.
You nailed it, Monk Boy.
And active collusion.
Yes -- seems none of them has ever had to live with a narcissist.
That point was reached a long time ago.
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Was listening to a couple of seasoned pundits… they had a problem w/ the “I’ve Had It” podcast OKC ladies ‘venturing into politics’… Why? They know as much as anyone(!) They vote. THEY ARE F’n CONCERNED. They are everyday ppl that NEED TO BE HEARD. Afraid they might be ‘inaccurate’???
Some of these guys that trashed Biden (bandwagon!) are slowly backing off. F this SHIT… Too many ivies not enough everyday ppl in the discourse imo.
Very well said. It's time that these pundits get their heads out of their a**es and knock off with automatically discounting women.
And then they run around w/hair on fire afterwards asking ‘how did we lose WHITE WOMEN’??? How about listening to them.
(Also: Manufactured Consent is a helluva drug, punditry… careful out there, y’all 🫤)
I've lectured a couple of times at rightwing Hillsdale College (on movies). The last time I was there I was interviewed for the student paper and asked if movie stars should get involved in politics. My reply was: why not? They're citizens, just like anyone else. Clint Eastwood speaks out too. What's wrong with that?
Each of us count as one vote. Whether you are ‘informed’ or not… Those Oklahoma ladies also serve as messengers for a certain part of the electorate who might connect w/them = more engagement.
I mean does JRogan have any formal political training in his background? Or did he just start thinking out loud… just asking questions
We all know what must be done and we know it won’t be easy, or pretty, and we know the lying bullshit that will flow from the media and WE DO NOT FUCKING CARE. WE GONNA DO WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE.
Cancelling my NYT and WaPo subs last year was the best investment I could have made. Never again.
I canceled them both last year too. I get all my news now from independent journalists and The Guardian.
I don’t trust Politico any longer. The Guardian has remained clear eyed and steadfast, fortunately.