I just have to take a break. I return to wondering why so many of my fellow beings would choose to vote for this mess and this sad, nasty excuse for a man. But had I not written thousands of get-out-the-vote postcards over the past years, I would feel far worse. Action is the antidote to despair. I am holding in my hands right now the tender postcard I received from ARF before the election reassuring me that Haitians do not eat pets. "It was a vicious rumor started by Vance." And now there is Kristi Nome back on deck. To have so much lack of talent or competence in one place is jaw-dropping. Putin must be dancing on tables this afternoon.
It's like being on The Ship of Fools. Coincidentally, I started a new series of sculptures this year. The second, which is a work in progress, is titled "Fool on a Three-Legged Stool." And the band played on...
I'm attempting to "skim" Project 2025 - did have to laugh at this particular paragraph (considering trumps "tariff" claims) I guess no one told him about this section!
"Federal Reserve research shows that the tariffs have cost about 75,000 manufacturing jobs while creating only about 1,000 jobs in the steel industry—not including the effects of the retaliatory tariffs described above.58 Higher steel prices added an average of $250 to the price of new cars, and larger trucks—the vehicle of choice in rural America—were hit even more dramatically.59 Trade is generally a win-win for both participants. Tariffs are a lose-lose-lose game, with the tariff raiser losing affordable goods, the tariff target losing exports, and the tariff raiser losing again from retaliatory tariffs. Tariffs also have an additional overlooked hidden cost: Companies redirect resources to dodge tariffs by redesigning products, switching to more expensive suppliers, using lower-quality materials, and lobbying. This might be good for lawyers, but it is bad for the economy. These resources could have been used instead to make a better product more cheaply."
Thats one view - then Navarro spouts his belief - kind of the opposite.
Seems like theres a very great deal of bureaucracy AND rules & regulations (not the current ones). Also noticed a few "rules" to prevent the president from doing certain things. Bet trump didnt know that.
Bwahhhhh. I needed a huge laugh. Your headline ! As they say on the Champs Elysees. l’exactitue . My husband just walked in. Huge headphones, bourbon old fashioned in hand , steering away news. Netflix Diplomat. The ripest today . Matt Gaetz . As they say. No one can make this s##t up. Keep em coming 🌟
Well, Mike Davis got trumped by Matt Gaetz. Best way to stop the trafficking probe is to make him be the investigator. No need to waste a pardon.
As for Noem: The new motto of Dept of Homeland Security is going to be: "We're shooting the dogs. We're shooting the cats. We're shooting the pets of the people who live here."
Susan, as in, “I’m from the Dakotas, we have a rich history of slaughtering buffalo to starve out the indigenous peoples; it worked then, it’ll work tomorrow. ‘Murika!! Heil Trump”
And in Gaza, the absence of buffalo means having to slaughter buildings and the economy and anyone trying to bring in help so that the same starvation thing works.
All the stuff about inflation is just nonsense. Trump got elected because of his promises to hurt people. Give me a choice between the allegedly open border and Trump’s policy of separating families and putting kinds in cages, and I’ll go with the porous border. The sanctimonious left who were rightfully horrified about the destruction of Gaza will be even more so when that idiot Hickabee, I’ll leave it at hickabe, takes charge
If you think that;s bad, this afternoon the trumpster/dumpster announed the most lame brain attorney in the US, Matt Gaetz will be our brand, spanking new Attorney General. And still expect to see jd in the wizard's chair on or soon after July 20, 2025
Damn, I thought he would resurrect Rudy G. So many LGBs to choose from (lying, greedy bastards). The thing that keeps me stirred up is how fast they plan to institute this mess. They plan it so that the midterms will be only in our dreams. Poor Joe, he had a worse day than any I have had. At least BBC America doesn’t show his putrid image when they talk about him. Well, not all the time.
I have read that the money making enterprise called the prison/industrial complex is feeling delighted by the thought of internment camps which they expect to build (or build out from their prison enterprises around the country) - their stock prices have shot through the roof. Think of it! The newest reports are of a repeal of DC home rule, and the administration taking over the city/the "president" in control of the DC National Guard, the end of all elected offices - of course - there will be no state. The DC home rule act was established in 1973!!! But the head of the Federal gov't has lots of power to take over and federalize the DC police. Yes - right out in plain view knowing that stopping such things have always depended on honorable people - or people with some morality - not being in charge in the first place. It was the framers who feared the demagogues within - why? Because they knew that tendency within their own hearts. Let's face it - T Jefferson was a kind of demagogue himself. They all wanted the power to do what they wanted for the reasons they wanted to do it - hang the checks and balances. Try it and see if it sticks. So over the years every president, even so called "good" ones have strengthened their own power without considering the consequences further out. So here we are with as William Kristol calls them - the Vichy government. Gabbard - a russian "girlfriend" (as per Timothy Snyder) as head of National Intelligence! You have to be kidding - and she called herself a democrat before she went full throat magat. The stink reaches not just to high heaven but all over the US - a nasty green cloud of farts and worse. It will take years to shovel it all away. And behind the constant shit spilling out everyday, is the intention to keep us all distracted from Project 2025 and the demons putting that little piece of fascism into the cocktail mix. Do you suppose there are certain gop voters beginning to ask whether they might "cure" their ballots, now that they can see that there is more than ketchup being thrown at the walls? Hm...
Don't know about you all, but I can't wait for the confirmation hearings. I'm hoping that the Democrats and the press have their ducks in some sort of alignment.
Try dealing with the new cleaning lady, who just turned my house into the place I would invite outsiders to come visit, a real peach she is, and as she left, she told me she voted for Trump. So I looked around my really nice place, and said "yeah, okay." And made sure she's coming back next month.
Like I said the other day, at some point there may be a place for some reflection on message and messenger. She had her reasons and some are valid. In ‘16 my housekeeper, newly minted citizen asked me what I thought. First I apologized for this having to be her first vote, then told her to think of it as a choice between a root canal or four wisdom tooth extraction. Without Novocain. After three of these I’m running out of teeth.
I’ll tell you one thing we can agree on. Judging from the campaign expenditure reports, along with the Bulwark and other never-trumpers, looks like the “professional campaign consultants” (aka leeches) clambered on board and made out like bandits. Ghastly squandering of funds. $1,000,000,000 spent and I’m still getting requests. I thought that shit only happened to republican campaigns. Don’t bother sending ‘em back. They’re yours now.
I just have to take a break. I return to wondering why so many of my fellow beings would choose to vote for this mess and this sad, nasty excuse for a man. But had I not written thousands of get-out-the-vote postcards over the past years, I would feel far worse. Action is the antidote to despair. I am holding in my hands right now the tender postcard I received from ARF before the election reassuring me that Haitians do not eat pets. "It was a vicious rumor started by Vance." And now there is Kristi Nome back on deck. To have so much lack of talent or competence in one place is jaw-dropping. Putin must be dancing on tables this afternoon.
You can believe that he is. The leash is firmly attached.
It's like being on The Ship of Fools. Coincidentally, I started a new series of sculptures this year. The second, which is a work in progress, is titled "Fool on a Three-Legged Stool." And the band played on...
Wish you could post a pic of that. And we are indeed the ship of fools. Write that down…
Matt Gaetz as Attorney General. WTAF.
He's just messing with us now.
I'm attempting to "skim" Project 2025 - did have to laugh at this particular paragraph (considering trumps "tariff" claims) I guess no one told him about this section!
"Federal Reserve research shows that the tariffs have cost about 75,000 manufacturing jobs while creating only about 1,000 jobs in the steel industry—not including the effects of the retaliatory tariffs described above.58 Higher steel prices added an average of $250 to the price of new cars, and larger trucks—the vehicle of choice in rural America—were hit even more dramatically.59 Trade is generally a win-win for both participants. Tariffs are a lose-lose-lose game, with the tariff raiser losing affordable goods, the tariff target losing exports, and the tariff raiser losing again from retaliatory tariffs. Tariffs also have an additional overlooked hidden cost: Companies redirect resources to dodge tariffs by redesigning products, switching to more expensive suppliers, using lower-quality materials, and lobbying. This might be good for lawyers, but it is bad for the economy. These resources could have been used instead to make a better product more cheaply."
Page 801 - the whole tariff info just wipes out doofus & his spouting off about them!
Thats one view - then Navarro spouts his belief - kind of the opposite.
Seems like theres a very great deal of bureaucracy AND rules & regulations (not the current ones). Also noticed a few "rules" to prevent the president from doing certain things. Bet trump didnt know that.
Need to quit and watch some actual entertainment!
As Charlie Pierce says, "only the best people" will never not be funny, even as it's terrifying.
Bwahhhhh. I needed a huge laugh. Your headline ! As they say on the Champs Elysees. l’exactitue . My husband just walked in. Huge headphones, bourbon old fashioned in hand , steering away news. Netflix Diplomat. The ripest today . Matt Gaetz . As they say. No one can make this s##t up. Keep em coming 🌟
Departments with huge taxpayer funded budgets and lamebrains at the helms. The Pentagon is an ocean of possibilities for ambitious embezzlers.
Uh-huh.
Thank God for Clarence Thomas. He has our backs. Bump stocks amd 100 round clips are just what the Flounders meant.
Well, Mike Davis got trumped by Matt Gaetz. Best way to stop the trafficking probe is to make him be the investigator. No need to waste a pardon.
As for Noem: The new motto of Dept of Homeland Security is going to be: "We're shooting the dogs. We're shooting the cats. We're shooting the pets of the people who live here."
After Gaetz goes down in flames, Davis will be the "reasonable alternative" Trump names.
grrr
Susan, as in, “I’m from the Dakotas, we have a rich history of slaughtering buffalo to starve out the indigenous peoples; it worked then, it’ll work tomorrow. ‘Murika!! Heil Trump”
And in Gaza, the absence of buffalo means having to slaughter buildings and the economy and anyone trying to bring in help so that the same starvation thing works.
All the stuff about inflation is just nonsense. Trump got elected because of his promises to hurt people. Give me a choice between the allegedly open border and Trump’s policy of separating families and putting kinds in cages, and I’ll go with the porous border. The sanctimonious left who were rightfully horrified about the destruction of Gaza will be even more so when that idiot Hickabee, I’ll leave it at hickabe, takes charge
Oh yeah.
Holy Mother Of The Flying Spaghetti Monster we're all going to die!!!
If you think that;s bad, this afternoon the trumpster/dumpster announed the most lame brain attorney in the US, Matt Gaetz will be our brand, spanking new Attorney General. And still expect to see jd in the wizard's chair on or soon after July 20, 2025
Damn, I thought he would resurrect Rudy G. So many LGBs to choose from (lying, greedy bastards). The thing that keeps me stirred up is how fast they plan to institute this mess. They plan it so that the midterms will be only in our dreams. Poor Joe, he had a worse day than any I have had. At least BBC America doesn’t show his putrid image when they talk about him. Well, not all the time.
Trump is literally turning the Cabinet Room into a DC Comics villains' lair. I'm surprised he hasn't named Roger Stone to one position or another.
Wait. He just said "hold my diet coke."
Its early - lots of posts to fill yet!
I have read that the money making enterprise called the prison/industrial complex is feeling delighted by the thought of internment camps which they expect to build (or build out from their prison enterprises around the country) - their stock prices have shot through the roof. Think of it! The newest reports are of a repeal of DC home rule, and the administration taking over the city/the "president" in control of the DC National Guard, the end of all elected offices - of course - there will be no state. The DC home rule act was established in 1973!!! But the head of the Federal gov't has lots of power to take over and federalize the DC police. Yes - right out in plain view knowing that stopping such things have always depended on honorable people - or people with some morality - not being in charge in the first place. It was the framers who feared the demagogues within - why? Because they knew that tendency within their own hearts. Let's face it - T Jefferson was a kind of demagogue himself. They all wanted the power to do what they wanted for the reasons they wanted to do it - hang the checks and balances. Try it and see if it sticks. So over the years every president, even so called "good" ones have strengthened their own power without considering the consequences further out. So here we are with as William Kristol calls them - the Vichy government. Gabbard - a russian "girlfriend" (as per Timothy Snyder) as head of National Intelligence! You have to be kidding - and she called herself a democrat before she went full throat magat. The stink reaches not just to high heaven but all over the US - a nasty green cloud of farts and worse. It will take years to shovel it all away. And behind the constant shit spilling out everyday, is the intention to keep us all distracted from Project 2025 and the demons putting that little piece of fascism into the cocktail mix. Do you suppose there are certain gop voters beginning to ask whether they might "cure" their ballots, now that they can see that there is more than ketchup being thrown at the walls? Hm...
Well, I read that the #1 Google search on Nov 5th was "how do I change my vote?"
Jimmy Kimmel reported the same. Also people googling how to immigrate from the US to another country.
Don't know about you all, but I can't wait for the confirmation hearings. I'm hoping that the Democrats and the press have their ducks in some sort of alignment.
Sounds like someone needs to try this:
https://www.drweil.com/health-wellness/body-mind-spirit/stress-anxiety/three-breathing-exercises-and-techniques/
Try dealing with the new cleaning lady, who just turned my house into the place I would invite outsiders to come visit, a real peach she is, and as she left, she told me she voted for Trump. So I looked around my really nice place, and said "yeah, okay." And made sure she's coming back next month.
Like I said the other day, at some point there may be a place for some reflection on message and messenger. She had her reasons and some are valid. In ‘16 my housekeeper, newly minted citizen asked me what I thought. First I apologized for this having to be her first vote, then told her to think of it as a choice between a root canal or four wisdom tooth extraction. Without Novocain. After three of these I’m running out of teeth.
I’ll tell you one thing we can agree on. Judging from the campaign expenditure reports, along with the Bulwark and other never-trumpers, looks like the “professional campaign consultants” (aka leeches) clambered on board and made out like bandits. Ghastly squandering of funds. $1,000,000,000 spent and I’m still getting requests. I thought that shit only happened to republican campaigns. Don’t bother sending ‘em back. They’re yours now.
Total agreement.