The shutdown is going to cause mass firing among multiple agencies, and the truth of the matter is Trump won’t be able to avert responsibility because he’s the one steering the GOP into not negotiating over the government shutting down. All the while he is starting to fall apart because he’s trying to attain more and more power, likely because he assumes that it’s not long before the entire country turns against him.
I have to point out that when Ted Cruz came out and said that no person should be prosecuted for free speech, that was a bad sign for Trump
The administration’s rubes were not elevated for skill, integrity, or experience. They were chosen because they would respond as told, sneer when ordered, and parrot whatever falsehood the moment required. Credentials meant nothing; loyalty was everything. In place of statesmen, we got lackeys. Instead of leaders, we got frauds. Sycophantic liars, hand-picked to serve a demented felon. Dallas was not a leftist. Leftists don’t shoot immigrants.
As in - can't tear one's eyes away from an awful freeway crash. Yup. I refer to him as Krazy-eyes Patel. My own mother had those same eyes and she WAS hair-trigger tempered, extremely abusive and yes, KRAZY. HIS reactive and snide nasty temper is barely kept in check - flaring out at questioners recently. He's assuredly a ticking time-bomb imho.
Part of that "flying into a temper" thing is part policy when (not) answering unwelcome questions. That's the new Trump standard: stall, rephrase it as a question you can answer, refuse to answer, fly into a tirade.
She’s unaccountably had a lot of work done, too. Had a perfectly good nose narrowed down to a little sharp blade when contouring could have done the same thing without blocking her airways.
But she probably doesn’t know anyone gay enough or draggy enough to teach her how.
Honestly, how do these base grovelers live with themselves? Have they no pride? No standards? And, how do their families live with them? If I had to claim one of these sycophants as any relation, I'd rather change my name and flee to anywhere far, far away. Sheesh.
Judgement Day was Tuesday and Wednesday (two days because of the backlog). Kind of disappointing really: the judge didn't rule just "took these matters under advisement"
Mine too - back when. Sigh. My Kaya and Kuma (grey/white kitty) adored each other and slept snuggled in each other's arms. Now, my current pup would be the one trying to eat the cat, sadly.
erm, well, they already do--in harmony, in fact--at our house, at least. Maybe re-phrased as blue jays and owls living together...or hyaenas and lions existing in harmony in the same territory
For whom, I'd like to know? I can't see Ted Cruz carrying The Heritage Foundation's water for them given he's got his own Biblical Apocalyptic Agenda that's burning a hole in his head...
I mean, yes, it could be him trying to tack with the changing winds to win another election, as Mary Lou Williams says below—but Ted Cruz, First Amendment Defender? He makes The Artist Formerly Known as "Trump Nazi Elmo" look sincere!
Plausible. Except Trump responds to nothing but the high-pitched weasel voices in his head. Whatever Thune or Johnson say lasts only until he hears from the next person.
that high-pitched voice isn't miller's - or is his own even higher? Hard to tell, lately. That absolute gibberish of 'the steel edges' which will no doubt next become 'the sharpened steel blades meant to decapitate ME, DJT!' as they actively begin a massive hunt for the 'trained escalator-assassin' would be so fucking funny IF it wasn't too damn realistic with this orange fuckwit regime. I actually gave his wife credit for traipsing right up those steps despite her uber-high heels while he plodded fairly well enough behind her, then instead of making it a nice, normal moment, he - as always, turned it into bedlam.
Wendy, love your stuff, I have no quibble with anything here, either factual or forecast. But, the tone implies that Something Can Be Done. No can do. We're full Thelma and Louise now. All your laments about how stupid everybody is conveys nothing but truth, but they're all helpless just like we are. Worrying that the Dems will 'get the blame' is the deep and honored shibboleth of American politics which has allowed the Right to dictate to us. And they absolutely have, and will, until they can't.
Cruz is not as stupid as I thought he was, he just plays it on TV for the rubes in the cheap seats. The number of erstwhile MAGA voices crawling out of the woodwork screaming their terror about state censorship is now legion. Tucker Fucking Swanson Carlson? Are you kidding me? The phrase 'bad for Trump' is quickly losing its meaning. Everything is bad for Trump.
So the chips are falling, they will not be stopped. I'll leave you all with this:
Just as the agencies shut down and the people are weak and exhausted from the traumatic life, someone will attack our country. Could be someone that Trump has tried to cozy up to because he admires them, or it could be rogue terrorists. Either way, WE ARE NOT PREPARED. Europe is not prepared either for Russia's escalations and where ever it might lead, but they are going to start getting prepared. Right now America First means America Alone. That is how Trump likes it. Is that what we want?
Russia is in no position to escalate despite their recent performance art. Ukraine has crippled their oil refineries and pipelines and hit transportation hubs. The gas rationing (2 liters a day per car!) and grocery inflation (10-12%) has finally spurred Russians into protesting in the streets calling for Putin's resignation, unthinkable a couple years ago. Russian forces in Donetsk are moving backwards not forwards for the first time in over a year.
I dunno - I remember watching the train crash at the end of the movie Speed. It just went crashing through one after the other after the other thing and finally went through a wall, flew up into the air and slid sideways down the public street. Nobody stopped it.
The VP has a role to play in the 25th, if I’m not mistaken. JD will get tired of waiting at some point and try to launch a coup before he’s got power consolidated.
Well, actually it has gotten fantastic reviews from Sean Hannity and probably all the other Fox News, News Max and other right wing outlets. Also, I think Lindsay Graham praised it. Since Trump lives in his own delusional little bubble, he probably wouldn't even check other sources. He'll just listen to his cultists and insist they're representative of the whole world. I mean, who's going to tell him if any of the reviews were bad? Unless someone wants to be covered in ketchup, no one dares tell him bad news.
Methinks he fully expected not only cheers but a standing ovation AND calls for him to get the 'noble' peace prize, lololol. When he was met with nothing - it must be 'the sound was turned off, yes - that's the ticket' (old SNL line).
"President Pudding Cup" QUICK! Someone please add that to the list. 😂😂
Yes, fucking nuts doesnt even begin to cover it. It will be interesting to see how many Republicans in Congress are also in the Epstein files because they are going to extraordinary lengths to not release them. Fear not assholes, because you can delay it all you want, but the names WILL eventually be seen.
Did anyone ever realize just how far the rot goes?
You know what is TRULY sad? After the files have finally been released and the names have been named, NOTHING will happen. "Sure, I knew the guy. Even shared a plane with him. But we never pedophiled together."
I don't think it is so much the elected Gods over People that are the concern. It is their mega donors who fear the backlash from exposure. Example: Sarah, Duchess of York.
Jeff, if Congress shuts down over the budget…well I guess there will not be a vote to release the Epstein files… Considering that if Congress were to stay open, the newest elected Dem. from AZ would give them 218 votes to pass the legislation. I’m guessing this is in the MAGAs equation. What is in these files that people are so concerned as not to allow release? What are these people hiding? Best to All
We all know what's in the Epstein Files--the names of all of the child rapists and most of the Republicans in Congress are terrified. Holy Brother Mike Johnson is REALLY determined to hide those files.
I myself would like some more information about the cache of video tapes confiscated from Epstein.
Think of what your worst life experience informed guess might indicate as to why they are choosing to burn The People’s House down rather than allow their release and then be prepared for it to be even darker than that. 🔥
I don't buy that they 'choose' anything. These are lumps of flesh with no agency. They lost that when they first capitulated to Trump. They fully believe they are completely and utterly helpless.
The uber-point is this: nothing matters now. Maybe we can shut the government down and eventually manage a CNTL-ALT-DEL on the whole enterprise. Maybe the Founders' boot ROM can reset us to the 17th Century at least. But all that diddling around the edges with 2026 and 2028 'strategies', or specific votes on anything in particular, is meaningless.
I doubt it can happen like that, though. Way too much damage done, not only to the mechanisms of government, but how much of a beating Americans' self image has taken. All that Civics education I got in High School was bullshit. Can we come back from realizing that we are not exceptional? Dunno. Worth a try, I guess.
I think the only face-saving way out of this morass is to prove that T💩p stole the election, which he and his accomplice Eloon bragged about doing -- "We don't even need your vote. Eloon has the magic computer, etc." and then Eloon wondering how much prison time he would get if T💩p didn't win, and then when the 'girls' were fighting he actually said that without his help the Dems would have the White House, the House, and would be only one vote shy in the Senate.
There is a trial going on right now regarding Rockland County, NY that was initiated by a third-party candidate after he received zero votes and he knew that wasn't accurate. Additionally, there are precincts where Dem. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand won in a landslide, but Kamala received zero votes. The math ain't mathin' as they say. There was much fuckery afoot on election day -- bomb threats, etc.
It's more than no shame--they revel in this. Demento's loyal cult loves that someone as stupid and ignorant as they are can take the world stage and force everyone else to listen to the idiocy, the cruelty, and--most importantly--the virulent racism.
It’s always the racism. and depriving women and people of color of their rights to the full extent of the constitution and amendments. It’s the obliteration of the rule of law, fair play, equality of races and gender in opportunities and equal wages, and they want to take us back to pre-civil war. A bathroom is a just a bathroom. We all need access when we need. Denying bathroom access is just another way of depriving certain people of basic human and civil needs. Pudding Cup however needs to be permanently detained in his own private royal bathroom and locked in, where his foul habits won’t plague anyone else. The world and I suffer from his freedom. Tape his mouth shut, tape his typing little hands together and exile him to Jeffy’s own island, converted to a penal colony of one. With alligators, panthers, poisonous snakes and magnets. Yes, surrounded by magnets and water. No social media access except news-clippings of what the truth has to say about him. He shall be forgotten except as a dark history lesson. Thank you for your attention yadda yadda … same treatment for Stephen Miller in his own hell hole. Please and thank you.
oh noes, not the bagpipes! He'd have assumed the Scots were 'piping him in' as if he's fucking royalty (as he paid to have done when he tore up and destroyed that precious ecological area of Northern Scotland). The greedy 'officials' there who had their hands out imagining he'd actually bring prosperity to them were shafted as ALL are who believe his lies.
Funny that the people who have no shame are the same people who got stuck at the age of 3 to 5, right after being ridiculed and laughed at and shamed. The rest of their lives was dedicated to avoiding being shamed ever again. Maybe that’s what every member of the Trump cult has in common.
I saw clips of that abomination of a speech and there were people laughing at some of the things he said.I couldn’t tell if they were obeying/ laughing in advance or were so taken aback at what they were hearing that they were nervous laughing.Who the hell knows.One thing I know and that is this-I can’t stand to look at him or hear his whiny voice for even a nanosecond.It is worse than fingernails on a chalkboard.
One of the qualities of evil is that it’s repulsive in the extreme and makes people who come across it turn their heads away immediately. I read that someplace.
I also experienced this first hand years ago. I was just walking on a sidewalk. A man was approaching but I gave it no notice. As he was passing by me the hair on the back of my neck started to tingle and I and I was overcome with fear and repulsed in the extreme. If I actually looked at him it would have been just for a split second before looking away. I was really shook and never forgot it. This hasn’t happened before or since although I get a somewhat similar feeling with our, or rather their, president. But in slo mo, and building.
Mitch McConnell lost control of his party to MAGA with his Grim Reaper obstructionist positioning. He now sits staring off into a liminal space, shunned as a worthless old pariah by both parties. Enjoy the view of your oblivion, Mitch.
That experiment has already been run. Focus groups including failing farmers and business owners who were 3x Trump voters state that, though 'disappointed', they do not blame Trump.
We do not and probably cannot know how many of those eligible voters were suppressed by new laws or had their ballots rejected for specious or illegal reasons.
Maybe…on the face of things, however voter suppression appears a factor. No mention of the friendship statue removed in the wee hours of Epstein and Trump holding hands gleefully from he mall is shocking Jeff!
Agreed! Like all the others were Ole, the Epstein/Trump friends forever, bronze plated 12’ one was licensed through the weekend, too bad the park employees dismantled and hauled it away!
I would like to add that of that 35%, its likely that the majority just couldn’t make up their minds. I mean, Trump seemed crazy and criminal, but Fox said he was God’s instrument here on earth, and Kamal was a scary woman/person of color…so the safest bet was to stay home.
Bullshit. He won. Your reasoning is clouded by a far-too-generous view of our fellow citizens. They really are ignorant, nativist, racist pieces of shit. They really did want him back in office in order to do all the things he promised. Their minds really are so fragile that they will believe whatever SkyDaddy shit some huckster screams at them.
Yeah, that too. But there was still manipulation of actual votes. Remember how he kept saying that we didn't need to vote anymore? Remember Elon? Whatever, we are here now. What's done is done and we are suffering for it.
And before he had said vote for me one more time and you will never have to vote again. And if you know trump you know that these atrociously anti democracy statements are true, and he has people actively planning just how to make it reality.
We need to get rid of the Electoral College. That wasn't the only problem this time, he did have more actual votes, but he wouldn't have won in 2016 if we'd had popular vote.
Best chance for correcting it is if somehow in some magical future a majority in House and Senate would propose an increase in House membership to compensate for the massive increases in US population since it was last frozen at 435. But that's unlikely, as the Big 6 underpopulated Republican states - Alaska, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, N.Dakota and S.Dakota - would certainly oppose it (though, I don't know, since they're only 12% of the Senate, it's possible that some huge Repub states, starting with Texas, might actually like the self-serving idea of their state gaining members at the expense of some smaller states, party be damned).
Normal person in that position—who was ambulatory—would have taken the stairs to begin with. Or, when it stopped would have chuckled and said something like “I could use the exercise!”
I loved that Melania didn’t even care—she just ran up the stairs without a glance back.
Hoping he would gas out at the top and tumble backwards down the entire escalator, making all the pre nups and nda’s she signed moot. Big Pay Day for Slovenia’s most successful export ! Her most fervent dream!
We got to come up with a better word than Embarrassing. He is so far beyond it. We’ve been embarrassed for a decade now. The CULT is immune to what it means to be embarrassed.
I was just writing the letter to the world in my head last night when I realized it’s been over a decade of The Donvict to which we’ve been subjected!!! Uuugggggghhhhhhh. 🤬😡🤬😡🤬😡🤬😡🤬
My BlueAnon theory is this guy was hired to smoke the browns, then to tie up loose ends, the regime smoked him. The suicide angle is just another goddamn lie.
Let's coax him onto a ferris wheel that will stop with him at the tippy top. We can leave him there for the remainder of his term, or expiration date. Whichever comes first. Goddamn this shit to fucking hell!
Because Trump mouthanus is circling the drain over the shut down and everything else, and it’s a big game of chicken as to what’s gonna happen with the shutdown https://thistleandmoss.com/p/the-trump-shutdown-the-ultimate-bukkake
The shutdown is going to cause mass firing among multiple agencies, and the truth of the matter is Trump won’t be able to avert responsibility because he’s the one steering the GOP into not negotiating over the government shutting down. All the while he is starting to fall apart because he’s trying to attain more and more power, likely because he assumes that it’s not long before the entire country turns against him.
I have to point out that when Ted Cruz came out and said that no person should be prosecuted for free speech, that was a bad sign for Trump
The administration’s rubes were not elevated for skill, integrity, or experience. They were chosen because they would respond as told, sneer when ordered, and parrot whatever falsehood the moment required. Credentials meant nothing; loyalty was everything. In place of statesmen, we got lackeys. Instead of leaders, we got frauds. Sycophantic liars, hand-picked to serve a demented felon. Dallas was not a leftist. Leftists don’t shoot immigrants.
https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/rights-hate-unmatched?r=3m1bs
Don't forget "Looks good on-camera."
Excuse me. Have you seen Kash Patel?
Notable exception but telegenic in his own freaky way.
None of them look good on camera.
Well, yes, but I should have clarified that we're talking about the Fox standard.
Or anywhere else.
Kash is like a train wreck. Horrifying but you can't look away.
Yes I can. He creeps me out.
oops, just wrote similarly - about a car-wreck. Hadn't seen yours first. Great minds? ;)
Kash is looking away and at you and a thousand yards down the road all at the same time.
As in - can't tear one's eyes away from an awful freeway crash. Yup. I refer to him as Krazy-eyes Patel. My own mother had those same eyes and she WAS hair-trigger tempered, extremely abusive and yes, KRAZY. HIS reactive and snide nasty temper is barely kept in check - flaring out at questioners recently. He's assuredly a ticking time-bomb imho.
Part of that "flying into a temper" thing is part policy when (not) answering unwelcome questions. That's the new Trump standard: stall, rephrase it as a question you can answer, refuse to answer, fly into a tirade.
If you're the bad guy in a Stephen King movie.
Hahahaha!!!
LOL
😄😄😄🤪
But then Hot Lips Leavitt looks pretty sometimes, until she opens them.
She's great at pursing her lips and turning her head from potential naysayers.
She’s unaccountably had a lot of work done, too. Had a perfectly good nose narrowed down to a little sharp blade when contouring could have done the same thing without blocking her airways.
But she probably doesn’t know anyone gay enough or draggy enough to teach her how.
Honestly, how do these base grovelers live with themselves? Have they no pride? No standards? And, how do their families live with them? If I had to claim one of these sycophants as any relation, I'd rather change my name and flee to anywhere far, far away. Sheesh.
When Cruz actually makes sense and comes down on the side of what's right, it's not long before cats and dogs will be living together
Judgement Day! Unless they haven't already been eaten by starving Haitians.
Judgement Day was Tuesday and Wednesday (two days because of the backlog). Kind of disappointing really: the judge didn't rule just "took these matters under advisement"
So noted. Sweet Meteor Of Death, hear our plea!
A nice meteor strike would be pretty cool right now.
Preferably a smallish one (not as big as the one that created the Chicxulub crater, please) in a direct strike on Whitey's House.
...and be a great distraction from The Epstein Files....
Cats and dogs living together is old news in my house.
Mine too - back when. Sigh. My Kaya and Kuma (grey/white kitty) adored each other and slept snuggled in each other's arms. Now, my current pup would be the one trying to eat the cat, sadly.
erm, well, they already do--in harmony, in fact--at our house, at least. Maybe re-phrased as blue jays and owls living together...or hyaenas and lions existing in harmony in the same territory
It’s a Bill Murray line from the original Ghostbusters
Mass hysteria!
"It’s a Bill Murray line from the original Ghostbusters"
It's an old saw about how unlikely something is, "When dogs and cats live together", based on their supposed natural antipathy for one another.
Murray either improvised it or Dan Ackroyd wrote it for him to say.
Knowing Murray he probably ad- libbed it
"That's right, this man has no dick."
I can’t believe I actually recently agreed with MTG, Tucker Carlson and Ted Cruz😆
If that’s not the signs of a pending rapture…. 😳😀
The political horseshoe is now a pretzel.
I believe that's the MTG family tree...
Savage. Shots fired!
It's a sign of the pork-a-lips.
I think that also shows just how paid off they must be to play the batshit crazy game for tv.
No, they agreed with YOU.
They agreed with you.
"when Ted Cruz came out and said that no person should be prosecuted for free speech, that was a bad sign for Trump"
I know, right? Chickenshit Ted Cruz actually stood up for once and said, "What Donald Trump has done is wrong"?
And so did Fucker Tarlson?
How long will this cold snap in Hell last, do you suppose...?
It's Kayfabe...
For whom, I'd like to know? I can't see Ted Cruz carrying The Heritage Foundation's water for them given he's got his own Biblical Apocalyptic Agenda that's burning a hole in his head...
I mean, yes, it could be him trying to tack with the changing winds to win another election, as Mary Lou Williams says below—but Ted Cruz, First Amendment Defender? He makes The Artist Formerly Known as "Trump Nazi Elmo" look sincere!
Don't get too excited as Cruz stuck his finger in the political wind.
"Don't get too excited as Cruz stuck his finger in the political wind."
Oh, I'm sure of THAT! It's just I'm wondering why he suddenly thinks he can take a swing at Trump without it blowing back on him bigly.... 🤔
The gop is in control of the federal government- there should be no shut down. Of course it's to fire people. Their rubes eat it up.
its actually thune and johnson who told chump not to negotiate
Plausible. Except Trump responds to nothing but the high-pitched weasel voices in his head. Whatever Thune or Johnson say lasts only until he hears from the next person.
that high-pitched voice isn't miller's - or is his own even higher? Hard to tell, lately. That absolute gibberish of 'the steel edges' which will no doubt next become 'the sharpened steel blades meant to decapitate ME, DJT!' as they actively begin a massive hunt for the 'trained escalator-assassin' would be so fucking funny IF it wasn't too damn realistic with this orange fuckwit regime. I actually gave his wife credit for traipsing right up those steps despite her uber-high heels while he plodded fairly well enough behind her, then instead of making it a nice, normal moment, he - as always, turned it into bedlam.
Wendy, love your stuff, I have no quibble with anything here, either factual or forecast. But, the tone implies that Something Can Be Done. No can do. We're full Thelma and Louise now. All your laments about how stupid everybody is conveys nothing but truth, but they're all helpless just like we are. Worrying that the Dems will 'get the blame' is the deep and honored shibboleth of American politics which has allowed the Right to dictate to us. And they absolutely have, and will, until they can't.
Cruz is not as stupid as I thought he was, he just plays it on TV for the rubes in the cheap seats. The number of erstwhile MAGA voices crawling out of the woodwork screaming their terror about state censorship is now legion. Tucker Fucking Swanson Carlson? Are you kidding me? The phrase 'bad for Trump' is quickly losing its meaning. Everything is bad for Trump.
So the chips are falling, they will not be stopped. I'll leave you all with this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/StanleyKubrick/comments/1gchng7/major_kong_rides_the_bomb_dr_strangelove_or_how_i/?
See you on the other side. I hope.
Massive civil disobedience and shut the country down with strikes...2 Months and Trumpolini is done!
Just need 59 more signs like it.
The worms are beginning to turn....
Just as the agencies shut down and the people are weak and exhausted from the traumatic life, someone will attack our country. Could be someone that Trump has tried to cozy up to because he admires them, or it could be rogue terrorists. Either way, WE ARE NOT PREPARED. Europe is not prepared either for Russia's escalations and where ever it might lead, but they are going to start getting prepared. Right now America First means America Alone. That is how Trump likes it. Is that what we want?
https://lindaweide.substack.com/p/hybrid-warfare-what-is-it-leading?r=f0qfn
Russia is in no position to escalate despite their recent performance art. Ukraine has crippled their oil refineries and pipelines and hit transportation hubs. The gas rationing (2 liters a day per car!) and grocery inflation (10-12%) has finally spurred Russians into protesting in the streets calling for Putin's resignation, unthinkable a couple years ago. Russian forces in Donetsk are moving backwards not forwards for the first time in over a year.
Could the shutdown be the best boycott? What would be different from a general strike? Painful yes, but worse than doge?
Just asking.
Outstanding work today, JT.
Jeff Tiedrich rocks !!!
(Neal, too.)
Nah. But I do have the occasional moment of something like clarity.
Neal, don't argue with me!
Alright. Shucks.
Release the fucking:
• Epstein
• Homan
Files!!
. . . And the Aileen Cannon files. And the attempted Trump assassination in Butler files. And the 2024 voting files.
“The Speech has gotten fantastic reviews”. He’s nuts.
seriously, Donny should be 25th Amendmented just for making that claim
I dunno, Jeff. What's one more lie when you've already told some thirty thousand?
Bet it's more like 60,000 by now. And that's counting lies that are repeated as just one lie each.
shouldn't it be at least 40,000 by now?
I dunno - I remember watching the train crash at the end of the movie Speed. It just went crashing through one after the other after the other thing and finally went through a wall, flew up into the air and slid sideways down the public street. Nobody stopped it.
Perfect analogy.
But he surrounded himself with incompetent sycophants who would never 25th amendment him .
The VP has a role to play in the 25th, if I’m not mistaken. JD will get tired of waiting at some point and try to launch a coup before he’s got power consolidated.
They’ll stab each other in the back.
He's not only demented but delusional. Just like his approval numbers are somewhere north of 90%.
He seemed nice . . .
Well, actually it has gotten fantastic reviews from Sean Hannity and probably all the other Fox News, News Max and other right wing outlets. Also, I think Lindsay Graham praised it. Since Trump lives in his own delusional little bubble, he probably wouldn't even check other sources. He'll just listen to his cultists and insist they're representative of the whole world. I mean, who's going to tell him if any of the reviews were bad? Unless someone wants to be covered in ketchup, no one dares tell him bad news.
Gosh, Miss Lindsay was extravagant in his praise. What do they have on that old Queen?
Worst kept secret in DC.
Fantastical in its awfulness though.
💯‼️
Well, it’s certainly gotten reviews 😆
He decided the sound must have been off when he got to the end of his bloviating and the entire UN didn't erupt in cheers.
Methinks he fully expected not only cheers but a standing ovation AND calls for him to get the 'noble' peace prize, lololol. When he was met with nothing - it must be 'the sound was turned off, yes - that's the ticket' (old SNL line).
Delusional!!!
"fantastic" in the original sense of "in a fantasy"
"President Pudding Cup" QUICK! Someone please add that to the list. 😂😂
Yes, fucking nuts doesnt even begin to cover it. It will be interesting to see how many Republicans in Congress are also in the Epstein files because they are going to extraordinary lengths to not release them. Fear not assholes, because you can delay it all you want, but the names WILL eventually be seen.
Did anyone ever realize just how far the rot goes?
What a time to be alive. 🤦♀️
You know what is TRULY sad? After the files have finally been released and the names have been named, NOTHING will happen. "Sure, I knew the guy. Even shared a plane with him. But we never pedophiled together."
Maybe. But I'd like to believe in Karma.
As they say, Karma's only a bitch if you are, but here we just need to believe the women. They are compiling their own list.
I don't think it is so much the elected Gods over People that are the concern. It is their mega donors who fear the backlash from exposure. Example: Sarah, Duchess of York.
Good point.
Jeff, if Congress shuts down over the budget…well I guess there will not be a vote to release the Epstein files… Considering that if Congress were to stay open, the newest elected Dem. from AZ would give them 218 votes to pass the legislation. I’m guessing this is in the MAGAs equation. What is in these files that people are so concerned as not to allow release? What are these people hiding? Best to All
We all know what's in the Epstein Files--the names of all of the child rapists and most of the Republicans in Congress are terrified. Holy Brother Mike Johnson is REALLY determined to hide those files.
I myself would like some more information about the cache of video tapes confiscated from Epstein.
Think of what your worst life experience informed guess might indicate as to why they are choosing to burn The People’s House down rather than allow their release and then be prepared for it to be even darker than that. 🔥
They tortured children!
I don't buy that they 'choose' anything. These are lumps of flesh with no agency. They lost that when they first capitulated to Trump. They fully believe they are completely and utterly helpless.
I read that they already shut down voting on the 29th and 30th so that they couldn't vote on the resolution to release the files.
I'm travelling in early October. I hope the Air Traffic Controllers are still working at that time.
Shit. I am traveling then too, with my son. I hadn’t put that together. 🤞🏽 but dim hopes for you and for me and for all of us
The uber-point is this: nothing matters now. Maybe we can shut the government down and eventually manage a CNTL-ALT-DEL on the whole enterprise. Maybe the Founders' boot ROM can reset us to the 17th Century at least. But all that diddling around the edges with 2026 and 2028 'strategies', or specific votes on anything in particular, is meaningless.
I doubt it can happen like that, though. Way too much damage done, not only to the mechanisms of government, but how much of a beating Americans' self image has taken. All that Civics education I got in High School was bullshit. Can we come back from realizing that we are not exceptional? Dunno. Worth a try, I guess.
I think the only face-saving way out of this morass is to prove that T💩p stole the election, which he and his accomplice Eloon bragged about doing -- "We don't even need your vote. Eloon has the magic computer, etc." and then Eloon wondering how much prison time he would get if T💩p didn't win, and then when the 'girls' were fighting he actually said that without his help the Dems would have the White House, the House, and would be only one vote shy in the Senate.
There is a trial going on right now regarding Rockland County, NY that was initiated by a third-party candidate after he received zero votes and he knew that wasn't accurate. Additionally, there are precincts where Dem. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand won in a landslide, but Kamala received zero votes. The math ain't mathin' as they say. There was much fuckery afoot on election day -- bomb threats, etc.
You’re absolutely right.
What about those bomb threats?? Driving people away from their poling places. The odd results you mentioned.
I’m glad someone is challenging it. Too many odd occurrences.
A third of this country will never be embarrassed because it’s clear that they have absolutely no shame.
It's more than no shame--they revel in this. Demento's loyal cult loves that someone as stupid and ignorant as they are can take the world stage and force everyone else to listen to the idiocy, the cruelty, and--most importantly--the virulent racism.
It’s always the racism. and depriving women and people of color of their rights to the full extent of the constitution and amendments. It’s the obliteration of the rule of law, fair play, equality of races and gender in opportunities and equal wages, and they want to take us back to pre-civil war. A bathroom is a just a bathroom. We all need access when we need. Denying bathroom access is just another way of depriving certain people of basic human and civil needs. Pudding Cup however needs to be permanently detained in his own private royal bathroom and locked in, where his foul habits won’t plague anyone else. The world and I suffer from his freedom. Tape his mouth shut, tape his typing little hands together and exile him to Jeffy’s own island, converted to a penal colony of one. With alligators, panthers, poisonous snakes and magnets. Yes, surrounded by magnets and water. No social media access except news-clippings of what the truth has to say about him. He shall be forgotten except as a dark history lesson. Thank you for your attention yadda yadda … same treatment for Stephen Miller in his own hell hole. Please and thank you.
A dream plan...but I like it.
LOVE this - my own fantasy dream, except I'd add a few nastier touches.
Honestly, when his 15 minutes were up, someone should have just gone up to him and said, "Your time is up, you need to leave now".
That would be hazardous duty.
They should just have turned off the mike.
Didn’t he whine it was broken? Maybe that’s why his speech was such a great success 🤷♀️
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Or play music that kept getting progressively louder.
Bagpipes! That's the ticket.
I like how you think, arne.
oh noes, not the bagpipes! He'd have assumed the Scots were 'piping him in' as if he's fucking royalty (as he paid to have done when he tore up and destroyed that precious ecological area of Northern Scotland). The greedy 'officials' there who had their hands out imagining he'd actually bring prosperity to them were shafted as ALL are who believe his lies.
That is precisely what makes these idiots so dangerous.
Funny that the people who have no shame are the same people who got stuck at the age of 3 to 5, right after being ridiculed and laughed at and shamed. The rest of their lives was dedicated to avoiding being shamed ever again. Maybe that’s what every member of the Trump cult has in common.
I saw clips of that abomination of a speech and there were people laughing at some of the things he said.I couldn’t tell if they were obeying/ laughing in advance or were so taken aback at what they were hearing that they were nervous laughing.Who the hell knows.One thing I know and that is this-I can’t stand to look at him or hear his whiny voice for even a nanosecond.It is worse than fingernails on a chalkboard.
One of the qualities of evil is that it’s repulsive in the extreme and makes people who come across it turn their heads away immediately. I read that someplace.
I also experienced this first hand years ago. I was just walking on a sidewalk. A man was approaching but I gave it no notice. As he was passing by me the hair on the back of my neck started to tingle and I and I was overcome with fear and repulsed in the extreme. If I actually looked at him it would have been just for a split second before looking away. I was really shook and never forgot it. This hasn’t happened before or since although I get a somewhat similar feeling with our, or rather their, president. But in slo mo, and building.
When 70% of us know that shit for brains Trump is a fucking disaster, then how the hell did he get elected again⁉️
35% of us didn't vote
75,019,230 Voted for Harris
77,303,568 Voted for Shit for Brains
89,278,948 eligible voters DID NOT VOTE
Assholes.
When they are losing their rights, medical care access, food, and liberty itself, will they realize it's their own fault? I have my doubts
Mitch McConnell lost control of his party to MAGA with his Grim Reaper obstructionist positioning. He now sits staring off into a liminal space, shunned as a worthless old pariah by both parties. Enjoy the view of your oblivion, Mitch.
But Mitch left us a SCOTUS that will continue to Magatize this country for the next 20 years.
The gift that keeps on giving.
The John Roberts' SCOTUS will go down as the worst in history.
That experiment has already been run. Focus groups including failing farmers and business owners who were 3x Trump voters state that, though 'disappointed', they do not blame Trump.
Irredeemably stupid
They are obstinate old fuckers who will never confess that they were wrong.
Nah. They will blame Biden, or Hilary.
One note, in all fairness.
We do not and probably cannot know how many of those eligible voters were suppressed by new laws or had their ballots rejected for specious or illegal reasons.
You’re right, however based on data, a singular person had suppressed over 1000 ballots.
google gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won. What are you going to do about it before 2026 elections? Think about it. Identify the suppressed votes,
organize and reregister those voters.
Well stated.
Maybe…on the face of things, however voter suppression appears a factor. No mention of the friendship statue removed in the wee hours of Epstein and Trump holding hands gleefully from he mall is shocking Jeff!
Isn't that called theft?
Indeed Judy!
But You knew that statue would not last a nano second before being carted off to the incinerator
Agreed! Like all the others were Ole, the Epstein/Trump friends forever, bronze plated 12’ one was licensed through the weekend, too bad the park employees dismantled and hauled it away!
That was not cheap to construct. They should have been allowed to remove it themselves when the permit expired.
I’m sure there are rules in place now disallowing any trump criticism.
One more chink in our Free Speech Rights.
I would like to add that of that 35%, its likely that the majority just couldn’t make up their minds. I mean, Trump seemed crazy and criminal, but Fox said he was God’s instrument here on earth, and Kamal was a scary woman/person of color…so the safest bet was to stay home.
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Exactly, and so very frustrating!
Who laughed. 😱
It was not a fair and honest election. There was "fuckery" as Jeff would say. There are so many statistical anomalies. He did not actually win.
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Bullshit. He won. Your reasoning is clouded by a far-too-generous view of our fellow citizens. They really are ignorant, nativist, racist pieces of shit. They really did want him back in office in order to do all the things he promised. Their minds really are so fragile that they will believe whatever SkyDaddy shit some huckster screams at them.
Yeah, that too. But there was still manipulation of actual votes. Remember how he kept saying that we didn't need to vote anymore? Remember Elon? Whatever, we are here now. What's done is done and we are suffering for it.
They both came out and practically bragged about having manipulated the vote.
Yep. He said he had all the votes he needed.
And before he had said vote for me one more time and you will never have to vote again. And if you know trump you know that these atrociously anti democracy statements are true, and he has people actively planning just how to make it reality.
I’ll agree to much of that George, until further evidence of a hack eerily similar to Diesalgate is available!
Russian Tail was evident in late electronic vote, never in mail in, or early voting ballots…hmm!
We need to get rid of the Electoral College. That wasn't the only problem this time, he did have more actual votes, but he wouldn't have won in 2016 if we'd had popular vote.
Been saying that for years Ginny, racism is the reason it exists!
No offense Ginny - but people, please stop with “ getting rid of the EC”
of course we should - But it will NEVER EVER HAPPEN, as long as there are 50 states in the Union as many will turn it down, it will never go away.
The popular vote movement has made some solid progress…saying never, was also said about fascism, yet here we are!
Best chance for correcting it is if somehow in some magical future a majority in House and Senate would propose an increase in House membership to compensate for the massive increases in US population since it was last frozen at 435. But that's unlikely, as the Big 6 underpopulated Republican states - Alaska, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, N.Dakota and S.Dakota - would certainly oppose it (though, I don't know, since they're only 12% of the Senate, it's possible that some huge Repub states, starting with Texas, might actually like the self-serving idea of their state gaining members at the expense of some smaller states, party be damned).
Sadly, you're not wrong. The less-populous states won't want to give up their outsized power. But we can dream.
Where do you get 70? The polls consistently show his popularity hovering around 40%. The real question is, How can 40% of the voters be so fucked up?
Every day he does something idiotic, and every day I lose more faith in the ability of cholesterol to hold people accountable.
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Normal person in that position—who was ambulatory—would have taken the stairs to begin with. Or, when it stopped would have chuckled and said something like “I could use the exercise!”
I loved that Melania didn’t even care—she just ran up the stairs without a glance back.
Oh, there was a glance, she gave Grumpa the side eye
And then she jogged away
Hoping he would gas out at the top and tumble backwards down the entire escalator, making all the pre nups and nda’s she signed moot. Big Pay Day for Slovenia’s most successful export ! Her most fervent dream!
And if the sound wasn't on in the room, wouldn't someone, maybe even Malania speak up and say something?
Why would she want to hear him 😆
Exactly!!!
Isn’t there an elevator?!?!?! The poor baby…
He is fond of escalators. They allow everyone to gaze upon his beauty. An elevator doesn't do that.
Oh that’s right!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
LOL!!
She looked like the robot she is, reprogramming herself to take the stairs.
I do admire her ability to stand or sit for long periods without showing any signs of humanity or life, just epic stillness. It's a little eerie
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Her soul is comatose if not dead.
Mannequin Melania
She wanted to get away from him because he stank.
Has the videographer been sent to Sudan? Or over to Dallas with the sharpie to write on some bullets?
This is so exhausting
We got to come up with a better word than Embarrassing. He is so far beyond it. We’ve been embarrassed for a decade now. The CULT is immune to what it means to be embarrassed.
How about ‘mortifying’? That works better.
I’d like to add humiliating 😔
I was just going to suggest that. Good thing I saw your comment first!
I saw a comment yesterday somewhere wondering if the fall of the Roman empire was this embarrassing. It gave me a brief chuckle over our fate.
I was just writing the letter to the world in my head last night when I realized it’s been over a decade of The Donvict to which we’ve been subjected!!! Uuugggggghhhhhhh. 🤬😡🤬😡🤬😡🤬😡🤬
Think how long it will take to get all the STENCH removed!!!
Right?!!!? JFC. 🙄😡🤬
Appalling
And then we had more bullet shells with “writing”
on it. I would like to nominate Kash Patel for “this week in stupid” Wednesday’s entry.
And if you were anti-ICE why kill detainees and not ICE guys?
For realz, it makes no sense. I suspect it was one of Kristi’s special agents .
My BlueAnon theory is this guy was hired to smoke the browns, then to tie up loose ends, the regime smoked him. The suicide angle is just another goddamn lie.
It's strange how frequently that happens...
I'm loving me some Kash right now. In the moment, no one is doing more damage to the Regime. Except Donny his own self.
The Walk of Fame correction memes were prize winners.
Let's coax him onto a ferris wheel that will stop with him at the tippy top. We can leave him there for the remainder of his term, or expiration date. Whichever comes first. Goddamn this shit to fucking hell!
How 'bout stopping one of those rollercoasters that does an inverted loop and leave him hanging there for awhile?
With no cell phone and his mouth taped shut. We would send him thoughts and prayers of course.
Thoughts and prayers tattoos on my knuckles….
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