These individuals are sick ghouls. We rewatched the movie Civil War the other day. I look forward to the time in some not so distant future where Elmo’s last words echo those of the film’s Trumpist POTUS just before his summary execution by the US military: Don’t let them shoot me…🔥
Not to add a downer but I’m gonna. These fuckers are cutting off a program that gives money to food banks and schools to buy produce from local growers. Last year 40 states had signed up for the program. It costs $1B and they cancelled it. These are the same people who want to force women into having more babies whether they can support them or not. It’s just fucking disgusting watching the (for now) *richest person in the world* (on paper) cutting off these programs.
True story: I have 2 children who became high school teachers. They both had candy bowls on their desks, kids could help themselves. One time, a teenaged boy came for some help after school. He couldn't focus on the work and said he was hungry. She offered him to help himself to candy and he said "do you have any real food?" I am not kidding. She had an apple left over from her own lunch and gave it to him.
She started purchasing bags of apples or oranges to give to kids. This boy WAS getting free breakfasts and lunches, but as my daughter pointed out, he's a growing teen boy. The provided meal wasn't enough for him.
Having worked at all levels of public schools, I am upset with you. The evil is so personal. No policy, no rational. Just revenge, greed and hate for us NPCs (Muskrats name for non participating characters). Yes, he thinks he lives in a video game.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! That makes me want to smack those twits. I wish trump and musk could be forced to go camping together equipped with only a dull Swiss Army knife……..
Naah...cover their heads in honey, then drive them up to the California high desert, find one of the really big red ant piles, attack it with sticks to stir up the little monsters, then jam them headfirst into the pile.
With two hours to go until the stock market in New York closes, the Dow is down another 563 points, so over 3,000 points down since the Orange Rind assumed office. The greatest hopes of some effective (if cynical) Democratic strategists are being realized as Bunky takes us down the rabbit hole of recession - something wicked this way comes.....
doge CREATES WASTE AND FRAUD AND THEN PAYS FOR IT WITH YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICATE BENEFITS. Reichstag moment is quickly approaching and will arrive just in time for July 4th celebration which will mean you can hunker down in your hovel, maybe partake in some government cheese and stay out of sight so you dont get swept up in the purge. THE PURGE will be anybody, citizen, immigrant, alien, and anything that does not conform to the FASCIST agenda the bloviating, delirious, senile, rotting pumkin that has been put in his head by the guy who bought the presidency for next to nothing and then given permission to rape and pillage as much as possible to rid the government of all responsibility to the American people. TICK FUCKING TOCK !
Perfectly executed Doublespeak: "I think when he talks about elimination, I think we’re talking about eliminating the waste, abuse and fraud. And it is true that the Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security make up about 75% of our budget. It’s mandatory spending. We’ve got to find the savings there."
It would be good to get some numbers from the Canadian election - specifically what the expectation was in early January - conservative victory - versus now. You can call that out in your good news section Tom.
But but... isn’t the money in those funds mostly (all?) from our payroll deductions that went into those departments’ trust funds that pay the benefits ?
But trump is going to buy a Tesla (most assuredly with government money, not his own) to show solidarity with Wiley E. Muskrat with a made for reality TV PR photo op. That’ll boost those sagging stock prices, just like his sagging abdominal muscles holding back that ginormous gut…kabuki theatre at its finest(?)…
Does driving’s golf cart around his golf course count? As for riding a tennis cart speed bicycle, I think that’s beyond him. He’d look like a fat naked circus bear on a bike then if he could even mount that bike unaided.
Thank you! I’m considering sending your information regarding the stock market tanking to my financial advisor. For years we’ve avoided politics. I guess it’s time to have ‘the talk’.
Trump, vastly enriching the term yoyo, just undid his new tariffs.
Oh, I've got to beg to differ on "entitlements". The GOP has completely reversed the meaning of that word. Social Security and Medicare ARE entitlements--things you are entitled to--just like a life insurance policy is when the premiums are all paid up. The GOP has long used the term to mean "things people just think they are entitled to but they're wrong" like welfare. What Musk is showing in THAT quote is how thoroughly brainwashed he is.
I wish that Wharton professor had flunked trumP. (the capital P is in honor of benefactor Putin).
From the Department of Healthy Children need good nutrition: the govt has just axed a program that provided funds to schools so they could buy local farm produce for their school lunches instead of processed cheese and crackers, or whatever.
As to Teslas--trump has decided he will do an EO making people who attack Teslas "domestic terrorists." Next up: failure to BUY a Tesla will make you a domestic terrorist., (In a close but not quite there, he said failure to buy one was an illegal boycott. Really)
Rosco: may your plans all make more sense than Elmo's, including the bit about leaving the mouse head on the pillow. Just be sure it isn't a trans mouse.
The winger media is already scrambling to blame what smells like a recession on Biden, which satisfies the Tier One part of the cult. Then it's a matter of lowering expectations for those with a tinge of skepticism in Tier Two maga by broadcasting that there will be tough times--for awhile (as in most of our lifetimes)--before these remarkable tariffs and corrections "bring so much money back to America" that newly rich Americans will be forced to live like the wealthy hedonists they fantasize they will be. I see no epiphanies or possible conversions among the magas I know. Hating the libs is the hill they will die on.
Then there's the online chatter about Trump's aging out, dragging his right leg, bearing reddened hands (blood of dead Ukrainians), using the short stairway on AF One, his ongoing failure to produce his med records, his prolonged deference to Lone Skum, and Couchcuddler creeping up on the inside rail in a way only dreamed of by Mike Pence. Good news? Who knows?
Great piece today Tom, you had me laughing out loud today.
Damn shame about that Tesla stock.
Would someone please hack Tesla and render the vehicles inoperable. You will have the thanks of over half the nation.
My feel-better-for-the-moment activity for today was making a donation for Armored Ambulances in Ukraine. I do feel better!
https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/armored-ambulances-for-ukrainian?r=sqcz0&utm_medium=ios
I LOVE the visual aid. The author should win a Pulitzer
Agreed. The memesters are getting damn good.
Roscoe is divine 🐈⬛
These individuals are sick ghouls. We rewatched the movie Civil War the other day. I look forward to the time in some not so distant future where Elmo’s last words echo those of the film’s Trumpist POTUS just before his summary execution by the US military: Don’t let them shoot me…🔥
Thanks, Tom!
Not to add a downer but I’m gonna. These fuckers are cutting off a program that gives money to food banks and schools to buy produce from local growers. Last year 40 states had signed up for the program. It costs $1B and they cancelled it. These are the same people who want to force women into having more babies whether they can support them or not. It’s just fucking disgusting watching the (for now) *richest person in the world* (on paper) cutting off these programs.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/10/usda-cancels-local-food-purchasing-for-schools-food-banks-00222796
I could scream.
True story: I have 2 children who became high school teachers. They both had candy bowls on their desks, kids could help themselves. One time, a teenaged boy came for some help after school. He couldn't focus on the work and said he was hungry. She offered him to help himself to candy and he said "do you have any real food?" I am not kidding. She had an apple left over from her own lunch and gave it to him.
She started purchasing bags of apples or oranges to give to kids. This boy WAS getting free breakfasts and lunches, but as my daughter pointed out, he's a growing teen boy. The provided meal wasn't enough for him.
Having worked at all levels of public schools, I am upset with you. The evil is so personal. No policy, no rational. Just revenge, greed and hate for us NPCs (Muskrats name for non participating characters). Yes, he thinks he lives in a video game.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! That makes me want to smack those twits. I wish trump and musk could be forced to go camping together equipped with only a dull Swiss Army knife……..
No knife. Just butter them up with honey and send them out, handcuffed, into my bear woods.
Naah...cover their heads in honey, then drive them up to the California high desert, find one of the really big red ant piles, attack it with sticks to stir up the little monsters, then jam them headfirst into the pile.
Just covering their inflated heads with honey would give the weenies the vapors, both being so vain about their hairfur.
They would probably both starve while trying to figure out how to use the Swiss Army knife.
DISLIKE
I hate those fuckers.
Already happened here.
With two hours to go until the stock market in New York closes, the Dow is down another 563 points, so over 3,000 points down since the Orange Rind assumed office. The greatest hopes of some effective (if cynical) Democratic strategists are being realized as Bunky takes us down the rabbit hole of recession - something wicked this way comes.....
That's how you set up a fire sale for later when sellers are desperate.
doge CREATES WASTE AND FRAUD AND THEN PAYS FOR IT WITH YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICATE BENEFITS. Reichstag moment is quickly approaching and will arrive just in time for July 4th celebration which will mean you can hunker down in your hovel, maybe partake in some government cheese and stay out of sight so you dont get swept up in the purge. THE PURGE will be anybody, citizen, immigrant, alien, and anything that does not conform to the FASCIST agenda the bloviating, delirious, senile, rotting pumkin that has been put in his head by the guy who bought the presidency for next to nothing and then given permission to rape and pillage as much as possible to rid the government of all responsibility to the American people. TICK FUCKING TOCK !
Perfectly executed Doublespeak: "I think when he talks about elimination, I think we’re talking about eliminating the waste, abuse and fraud. And it is true that the Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security make up about 75% of our budget. It’s mandatory spending. We’ve got to find the savings there."
It would be good to get some numbers from the Canadian election - specifically what the expectation was in early January - conservative victory - versus now. You can call that out in your good news section Tom.
Liberals are up 5% over the Conservatives, whose leader is seen as "wanting to be Trump in Canada."
But but... isn’t the money in those funds mostly (all?) from our payroll deductions that went into those departments’ trust funds that pay the benefits ?
But trump is going to buy a Tesla (most assuredly with government money, not his own) to show solidarity with Wiley E. Muskrat with a made for reality TV PR photo op. That’ll boost those sagging stock prices, just like his sagging abdominal muscles holding back that ginormous gut…kabuki theatre at its finest(?)…
Is there any evidence that Trump knows how to drive? Joe does, and he can ride a bike too.
Does driving’s golf cart around his golf course count? As for riding a tennis cart speed bicycle, I think that’s beyond him. He’d look like a fat naked circus bear on a bike then if he could even mount that bike unaided.
😆😅🤣
Sandra’s right, you opened with a great graphic. Concise and unequivocal.
Based on our 4 cats, I’m sure Roscoe is plotting and scheming, implementing his plans.
For those with CashApp or PayPal, I would shut those off.
Thank you! I’m considering sending your information regarding the stock market tanking to my financial advisor. For years we’ve avoided politics. I guess it’s time to have ‘the talk’.
Well, I do feel a little better after reading your column today. What's bad for Leon is good for America.
Trump, vastly enriching the term yoyo, just undid his new tariffs.
Oh, I've got to beg to differ on "entitlements". The GOP has completely reversed the meaning of that word. Social Security and Medicare ARE entitlements--things you are entitled to--just like a life insurance policy is when the premiums are all paid up. The GOP has long used the term to mean "things people just think they are entitled to but they're wrong" like welfare. What Musk is showing in THAT quote is how thoroughly brainwashed he is.
I wish that Wharton professor had flunked trumP. (the capital P is in honor of benefactor Putin).
From the Department of Healthy Children need good nutrition: the govt has just axed a program that provided funds to schools so they could buy local farm produce for their school lunches instead of processed cheese and crackers, or whatever.
As to Teslas--trump has decided he will do an EO making people who attack Teslas "domestic terrorists." Next up: failure to BUY a Tesla will make you a domestic terrorist., (In a close but not quite there, he said failure to buy one was an illegal boycott. Really)
Rosco: may your plans all make more sense than Elmo's, including the bit about leaving the mouse head on the pillow. Just be sure it isn't a trans mouse.
The winger media is already scrambling to blame what smells like a recession on Biden, which satisfies the Tier One part of the cult. Then it's a matter of lowering expectations for those with a tinge of skepticism in Tier Two maga by broadcasting that there will be tough times--for awhile (as in most of our lifetimes)--before these remarkable tariffs and corrections "bring so much money back to America" that newly rich Americans will be forced to live like the wealthy hedonists they fantasize they will be. I see no epiphanies or possible conversions among the magas I know. Hating the libs is the hill they will die on.
Then there's the online chatter about Trump's aging out, dragging his right leg, bearing reddened hands (blood of dead Ukrainians), using the short stairway on AF One, his ongoing failure to produce his med records, his prolonged deference to Lone Skum, and Couchcuddler creeping up on the inside rail in a way only dreamed of by Mike Pence. Good news? Who knows?
https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/donald-trump-health-concerns-bruised-hand-golf-club-white-house-125030400846_1.html
putin doesn't need nukes to destroy the us. he's got Trump!