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Rita Parker's avatar

Explain to me why Project 25 creators hate any kind of help for seniors. Medicare negotiating drug prices is a God send. It's no skin off their fucking noses. They'll still be billionaires. Evil has infected everyone and everything on their side.

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Bryan Sean McKown's avatar

Got that right Rita Parker.

That exact topic "Evil" was discussed on Brandy X Lee's forensic psychiatrist community last week. Dr. Lee is the ex-Yale Professor famous for her lectures here & abroad on political violence.

Dr Lee's topic this morning was "The Urgent Need for a Life Affirming World Order".

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T L Mills's avatar

Yeah, I was wondering that myself. Don't these MAGA-repubs have aged relatives and constituents who are older citizens...????

I guess it must be because we are no longer wage slaves contributing to their wealth, so we must die.

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Rita Parker's avatar

That's how I feel and these old, white Trumpers don't get it. They're too worried about woke bullshit.

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Carol Stanton (FL)'s avatar

Have been hoping for a weather event to keep this inauguration from having " the biggest crowd ever". The move inside is step one. Now we need a roaring blizzard that will paralyze DC( easily done) and shut down utilies... no heat, no light, just a dark little room with himself, Mel, Elon and Roberts..... no parade, no balls ( redundant) .....the smallest, darkest inauguration ever!!

Climate Change is our friend on Jan 20!

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Susan Linehan's avatar

The Bigliest Crowd Ever will have to shiver outside. All the rich folks get heat. The cult? They get frostbite.

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Bryan Sean McKown's avatar

Carol got it right; the Bigliest crowd should shiver inside a darkened rotunda.

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Vague Craig's avatar

Monday evening headlines?

"Polar Vortex Creates DC Doucheberg"

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Fay Reid's avatar

Thanks anyway, Tom, for a dreary report. I have no intention of watching, listening to or reading about the incoming douche bag, pretend to be president.

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arne link's avatar

I will be flying my pirate flag on Monday. It's ready to go.

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Susan Linehan's avatar

Actually, "From the Department of Keep On Truckin’ Till You Can’t" Should be from the Department of "We don't really give a fuck about the deficit." Because letting Medicare negotiate drug prices SAVES the government money. Opposition to allowing this, or repealing the law that allows it, is pure unadulterated hypocrisy. "Cutting" Medicare hurts people; cutting the prices the government has to pay helps both people AND the government fisc. But, but, but--what will those Big Pharma donors do??

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Judith Matlock's avatar

If Big Pharma won't negotiate, no more R and D subsidies. Citizens invest on the front end, and the investor class reaps all the profits on the back end. Duh!!

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Kent Anderson's avatar

I wrote this yesterday on Zuckerliebook (I've added a few comments and names since then): Does Malignant Orange not realize that Voight made one good movie in his entire career where he played a boring sportscaster named Joe Buck (or a gay gigolo, take your pick) and was last seen getting shot at the end of 'Ray Donovan.' Or that Gibson peaked in 1983 with 'Tim' and 'The Year of Living Dangerously,' and Stallone has played the same character for 50 years? Where's Scott Biao and Kirk Cameron, not to mention Janine Turner and Penelope Ann Miller as well? Also, Tim Allen, Tom Selleck, Rick Harrison, Carrie Underwood and John Cena all feel left out.

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JOE P's avatar

Wow, there’s the longest list of has beens ever including the ‘star’ of the show !

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Susan Linehan's avatar

The thing about ambassadors is, they aren't much use if the place they are ambassadors TO just ignores them.

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Kent Anderson's avatar

I have no idea what you're trying to point out.

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Susan Linehan's avatar

That calling someone an "ambassador" doesn't mean squat. But way too many people will think, for good or ill, that this is some sort of blessing.

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arne link's avatar

Well, they get to live a sweet, paid-for life in a nice place. I'm thinking Greece or Paris. It's a gift, that's all. They do nothing.

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Kent Anderson's avatar

Thanks for the clarification.

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JDinTX's avatar

The Z team. Can’t get much more low life than that.

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Vague Craig's avatar

I quite enjoyed Voight in the far-fetched mid '80s movie "Runaway Train" with a young Eric Robert's. I think the director said "Just be yourself, John".

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Kent Anderson's avatar

Eric Roberts. Julia's brother.

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Vague Craig's avatar

Yes. He would have been 29 when the film was being made.

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Bryan Sean McKown's avatar

The Top Google Search after Biden's funeral speech was ... Who is Ollie Garc?

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TCinLA's avatar

I laughed out loud.

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JDinTX's avatar

Needed that

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Maggie's avatar

Seriously? You have be making that up! Thats way way beyond stoopid!

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Maggie's avatar

I just finished watching Lawrence O'Donnell's Oval Office interview with Pres. Biden.

It was really interesting - sort of like two friends sitting and talking. I'm sure faux news will nitpick it apart, but then they are nitpicks and that's what they do. I did and do disagree with the whole Gaza issue (with Biden) but he's an actual decent human - and considering what we all will have to live with (hopefully) for the next four years - boy, will he be missed.

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Kathy's avatar

In an effort to broaden its appeal, the Washington Post has changed its slogan from “Democracy Dies in Darkness” to“Riveting Storytelling for All of America.” The following are six runner-up slogans that were in strong contention:

The Kid Rock of Newspapers

Every Subscription Comes With Free Trump Bible

All the News by Writers Who Haven’t Quit

News? Fuck Yeah!

Ten Millionth Subscriber Gets to Ride in Bezos’s Rocket

Release the Kraken

Andy Borowitz: https://open.substack.com/pub/contrarian/p/new-wapo-slogan-the-runners-up?

Those MAGA’s should suck it up and BLB ! ( Be Like Bernie)

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/nov/30/bernie-sanders-mittens-viral-biden-inaugu-brendan-smialowskis-best-photograph

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Barbara Stikker's avatar

I had no idea Hollywood is a foreign country. Nothing like three old white actors, two of them irrelevant has beens, to act as Trump’s representatives.

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Maggie's avatar

Three white MALE OLDER actors!

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Judith Matlock's avatar

Yup, and like 45/47 their old tough guy posturing is pathetic to behold. They can't get out of their own way. All of this means they'll each receive a Medal of Freedom, so why not Gary Busey? (Good grief, what have we become?)

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Judith Matlock's avatar

So Bessent is already threatening that if we don't give all the money to the ultrarich the country will end in calamity. The tiny lady with the gray hair and Joe have us doing just fine, but the threats are a way to cover their arses when their greed plunges us into a Greece-like austerity. Turning logic on its head is how they roll, and the magas just look at each other, one of them nods, and soon they're all nodding as though they actually know what's going on. One of our jobs is to keep reporting on all the good outcomes from the Biden administration. Have them in print everywhere, including postcards (Remember hard copies?) to Dems in congress who helped make it happen. That way the babbling dustball-headed Svengali won't be able to alter our history.

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JDinTX's avatar

Too many horrors for me to address without losing my sanity. Yes, I knew most of this, but the tsunami of evil has drowned me for tonight…

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Judith Matlock's avatar

Rest and return. Stay in the fight, all, because you'll like yourself for it knowing that you are trying to save something precious for the young and their young just as our parents did for us. I will make as many tiny cuts to this administration as my subversive mind can conjure. These guys have guns to our heads, so it's duck, grab, twist, and pull time.

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JDinTX's avatar

and yet I rise, as must we all

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Ed Estlow's avatar

Please help me understand why Trump wants/needs Special Envoys / Ambassadors to Hollywood. I’m not all that sure why any President would, but especially him. Jes’ not trackin’ on that one.

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