Per HCR: 'This afternoon, Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) took the floor of the Senate to hold it through the night “to protest Trump’s grave threats to democracy.” He said: “We cannot pretend this is normal.”'
LOL! Well, if the Rethuglicans still want to hang on to that beloved old piece of shit from Jim Crow (and even before, apparently), they deserve what they get. ;)
On the other hand, if we "abuse" it so often they decide to ditch it once and for all... :D
I cannot believe they feel so comfortable letting him destroy us thinking there wll be some big reward for them. Fools don't seem to grasp that he only cares about himself & they'll end up like the rest of us.
Unfortunately, he still has a steadfast base. These people do Olympic level mental gymnastics to rationalize every single thing he does. They are still parroting the lie that Donald won in a landslide and the majority of the US population wants this. This morning I provided one of those geniuses on Reddit with a math lesson to prove not only did he not win in a landslide, he didn't get half of the votes cast, and only 31.9% of the voting population supported him.
His diehard cultists are drowning in the kool-aid. I honestly believe they are beyond help... their brains are irreparably fractured.
From what I hear, Harris was right behind him by about 1.2% of the vote. So, either the difference was due to apathy (and DAMN their eyes >:-/), or cheating, or both.
Considering how slim a margin it was, I'm thinking mostly cheating. X-P
Still, if half of those sitting on their damn thumbs had actually voted at some point (and here in California, we do Olympic level voting ease maneuvers! :D), we wouldn't be in this shit-storm, no matter how much he'd cheated. X-P
There has been evidence brought forward that indicates he cheated. Then the words out of his own mouth, "Elon really knows those voting machines." I don't know if he did or didn't, I am not a fan of conspiracy theories... but I can't believe people didn't turn out. The race was very close. But until people in more powerful positions do something about it, this is where we will be.
I've been saying that for weeks. If everyone, with the exception of emergency, medical, and utilities, refused to work and protested we could demand a change. It would work.
My hubby's job was considered "essential" even during COVID, so he had to go out anyway. He caught it twice (once at work, once from a friend whose idiot co-worker had come in sick and passed it around; I caught that one...), and he's convinced his lungs have never been the same since. :-/
His oh-so-essential job? Being a copy machine repairman. X-P
I'm sorry you both got Covid. I don't think that is a very essential job in a pandemic. His job is important, just not in those circumstances. I'm sorry his lungs were impacted so badly. My husband and I were both essential. My husband has ACOPD and he's had covid twice. The last time really messed up him. It sucks that it is here with us forever now.
Gee, I wonder what would happen if Americans against the Trump regime decided not to pay their taxes come this April just like the entitled wealthy. Trump has decimated the IRS. If all Americans did this, my guess is the IRS would not be able to do too much. Hmmm. Just wondering.
How about this then: everyone should request an extension (which would go to October) to file their taxes? This would mean very few people filing taxes for six months?
Thank you. You are awesome. I can't believe this is happening but there are pictures. So sad. Yes, war is coming
I can't help but think it's time for a revolution! My redneck cousin calls me a radical.bi thanked him. I like being a radical. So be it. Just call me Che Sidney.
I’ve been called “radical” by some of my Trump-worshiping, MAGA relatives. The Christian Nationalists among them have called me “apostate“.
I’m a gay, Episcopalian socialist. If that makes me “radical“, then I’m guilty as charged and it’s a term I wear with pride.
The Jesus I believe in would not be overturning money tables in the Temple, at this point. No: if Donald Trump were a high priest, Jesus would be taking a wrecking ball to the Temple, with Trump still in the Temple!
Yesterday I contacted my MAGAt legislators—both Senators and Representative—and asked why they were not voicing outrage about DJTs desecration of the White House. The one emailed response I got came from what I assume to be Charlie Brown’s teacher—mwah, mwah, mwah…..These people are apparently too busy performing a colonoscopy on their leader to even be aware of what’s happening next door. The scary part is that the rot goes clear thru. Even at the bottom of the roots there is nothing but rot and decay.
Every day crap like this happens, I thank God here that I live in a part of California where everything is gloriously Blue, even our state level reps and senators. :)
French farmers in particular have a handle on strikes/closedowns/protests. They drive their tractors with trailers overbrimming with whatever vegetable is to hand: potatoes, onions and so forth. And dump their loads in town. Think of the White House surrounded by mountains of soybeans. Of course, I'm not sure that US agribiz would do this. But there are enough individual farmers who would be delighted to contribute: think of soybeans that can't be sold because of tariffs that are ruining farmers.
I read a post from American ranchers angry about the Argentinian bailout saying that they still support tRump but want their money, too. WTF?!!! How brain dead do they have to be? They should be bringing their butchered meat to the White House to rot like the festering leaders inside. What the hell is going on in their pea brains?
Who's not buying our rice? Our wheat, our vegetables? The total senseless dismantling of our worldwide trade market by an idiot who doesn't understand how a tariff functions means more US crops being unsaleable. And should therefor mean more crops available to distribute to the masses of hungry casualties of the unhealthy despot's cruelty.
It is wrong to waste food. It should be donated to food closets and senior centers and kids who aren't getting school lunches, and humane human services providers...
Big BBQ outside the unemployment office every Tuesday!!
Barbecue (or Bar-Be-Que), from the Spanish "barbacoa" from the Taino "barabicu" for the frames that meat was smoked on. The French name for it was "boucan" and anyone who made their living smoking meat and selling it to passing sailors in the Caribbean was called a "boucanier," which is where we get "buccaneer" (= pirate) from, presumably once they realized there was more money in getting it directly. ;)
And yeah; if we're not gonna get paid for our meat, grain, produce, etc., might as well donate it. :-/
Or hell, sell it HERE, instead of spending fuel shipping it overseas; for some fancy restaurants and supermarkets, being able to slap a "locally grown! :D" label on it would be worth it in higher prices for the ranchers to charge.
Thanks for the etymology lesson! I love words, and you gave a little pop of pleasure to my day!
Beyond that: I remember farmers pouring milk out into the gutters when I was a kid, though I don't remember the exact circumstances of the strike. But I do remember having a long talk with my mom about ethics, economics, our human responsibility to feed the hungry rather than waste it over an issue of profit, and what our government's responsibility was to take care of the needs of We the People... I sure miss my mom...
That thing is so effing ugly. It ruins the symmetry of the entire building. I will vote for whoever runs on a platform of vowing to raze the ballroom and restore the Rose Garden to a ROSE GARDEN.
It's not going to be a ballroom. He can't dance; he just twitches to YMCA. It's going to be The Rump's personal showroom, where he can rant for hours to a captive drugged paid audience.
Alcohol and sugar affect the brain profoundly. So he'll probably have free alcohol to dull people's intelligence and bribe them to attend. And the food will be laced with loads of sugar to trigger diabetic semi-coma in a lot of them, too.
I'm pissed! I hope first that it takes way too long to construct this massive ballroom (for what? it isn't Mar-a-Lago). So it won't take a whole lot of work to tear it down and restore the East Wing to it's original glory. It is, after all supposed to be "The People's White House" and I would be willing to bet that a good 75% of the American people would NOT have condoned this had they been asked! Oh and btw "HE" WON'T be able to take it with him anyway and won't be done until he's out.
The ballroom is just the start. If he had his way the whole White Arse would be encrusted with huuuuuge palatial suites for his DJT Dynasty, all the children and grand children and great grand children who will rule the land (and are practising on bits of it now). A Palace for an Empirate. Not to forget the five-storey ruby-encrusted gold-plated white marble MacDonalds, the source of all their meals.
You truly aren't lying about this one Bronwyn! I don't think it's going to go that far because the Nation is outraged already, but who knows. I'm pissed!
Rumour has it that one of the main drivers of this "renovation" is actually the bunker underneath. They're probably digging a pit large enough to duplicate the entire white house volume so that come the revolution The Rump and his entire toadyship can live indefinitely in its white marble gold-bedappled innards, at least until they all off themselves as martyrs.
I have many a T-shirt I could wear to vote, but I just wear a more generic one if I go into an actual polling place. I haven't for years, since in California, we believe in vote-by-mail and automagically send out ballots to every eligible citizen, and I mail them in whenever I can get the chance. :)
Even if those THIRTY-FOUR FELONIES he's been duly convicted of had only 1 year of service in jail for each, if he got impeached in 2026 and had to serve, he'd be...carry the one...113 years old by the time he got out. ;)
Per HCR: 'This afternoon, Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) took the floor of the Senate to hold it through the night “to protest Trump’s grave threats to democracy.” He said: “We cannot pretend this is normal.”'
No shit.
Still going, Jocelyn. I started watching the coverage at 5 a.m. Learning a lot of history, including the origin of the word filibuster.
LOL! Well, if the Rethuglicans still want to hang on to that beloved old piece of shit from Jim Crow (and even before, apparently), they deserve what they get. ;)
On the other hand, if we "abuse" it so often they decide to ditch it once and for all... :D
That's OUR house, you dammit!
I cannot believe they feel so comfortable letting him destroy us thinking there wll be some big reward for them. Fools don't seem to grasp that he only cares about himself & they'll end up like the rest of us.
This photo sums up what Donald Trump has done to America.
He is a pariah who has earned the hate and disdain of every American.
Unfortunately, he still has a steadfast base. These people do Olympic level mental gymnastics to rationalize every single thing he does. They are still parroting the lie that Donald won in a landslide and the majority of the US population wants this. This morning I provided one of those geniuses on Reddit with a math lesson to prove not only did he not win in a landslide, he didn't get half of the votes cast, and only 31.9% of the voting population supported him.
His diehard cultists are drowning in the kool-aid. I honestly believe they are beyond help... their brains are irreparably fractured.
From what I hear, Harris was right behind him by about 1.2% of the vote. So, either the difference was due to apathy (and DAMN their eyes >:-/), or cheating, or both.
Considering how slim a margin it was, I'm thinking mostly cheating. X-P
Still, if half of those sitting on their damn thumbs had actually voted at some point (and here in California, we do Olympic level voting ease maneuvers! :D), we wouldn't be in this shit-storm, no matter how much he'd cheated. X-P
There has been evidence brought forward that indicates he cheated. Then the words out of his own mouth, "Elon really knows those voting machines." I don't know if he did or didn't, I am not a fan of conspiracy theories... but I can't believe people didn't turn out. The race was very close. But until people in more powerful positions do something about it, this is where we will be.
I live in a small town outside Ann Arbor, MI. We are protesting every Friday. EVERY FRIDAY
That’s the way it Should be
Someone mentioned that we should do it like the French - shut things down until something happens. WE just need to organize!
I've been saying that for weeks. If everyone, with the exception of emergency, medical, and utilities, refused to work and protested we could demand a change. It would work.
My hubby's job was considered "essential" even during COVID, so he had to go out anyway. He caught it twice (once at work, once from a friend whose idiot co-worker had come in sick and passed it around; I caught that one...), and he's convinced his lungs have never been the same since. :-/
His oh-so-essential job? Being a copy machine repairman. X-P
I'm sorry you both got Covid. I don't think that is a very essential job in a pandemic. His job is important, just not in those circumstances. I'm sorry his lungs were impacted so badly. My husband and I were both essential. My husband has ACOPD and he's had covid twice. The last time really messed up him. It sucks that it is here with us forever now.
So are folks in our city! :)
I've only been out with them the once, but plan on doing so again, soon. :)
Gee, I wonder what would happen if Americans against the Trump regime decided not to pay their taxes come this April just like the entitled wealthy. Trump has decimated the IRS. If all Americans did this, my guess is the IRS would not be able to do too much. Hmmm. Just wondering.
Problem is for people like me who get a small refund, the withholding has to change ASAP.
How about this then: everyone should request an extension (which would go to October) to file their taxes? This would mean very few people filing taxes for six months?
I like it!
Heh; all they have to do is be in states with natural disasters, which won't be hard. X-P
We got an extension here in southern California, all of us (I think; definitely the folks in L.A. County), because of the wildfires. :-/
We were lucky, my family; there are others who lost everything, including all their tax stuff for last year, so... :-/
Thank you. You are awesome. I can't believe this is happening but there are pictures. So sad. Yes, war is coming
I can't help but think it's time for a revolution! My redneck cousin calls me a radical.bi thanked him. I like being a radical. So be it. Just call me Che Sidney.
S'truth
Sidney S RN
I’ve been called “radical” by some of my Trump-worshiping, MAGA relatives. The Christian Nationalists among them have called me “apostate“.
I’m a gay, Episcopalian socialist. If that makes me “radical“, then I’m guilty as charged and it’s a term I wear with pride.
The Jesus I believe in would not be overturning money tables in the Temple, at this point. No: if Donald Trump were a high priest, Jesus would be taking a wrecking ball to the Temple, with Trump still in the Temple!
God, You are the paper bag to my panic attack. Thanks for being You.
oh the jet thing was on purpose?
i just thought his diaper was full. fuckem up Lord!
Yesterday I contacted my MAGAt legislators—both Senators and Representative—and asked why they were not voicing outrage about DJTs desecration of the White House. The one emailed response I got came from what I assume to be Charlie Brown’s teacher—mwah, mwah, mwah…..These people are apparently too busy performing a colonoscopy on their leader to even be aware of what’s happening next door. The scary part is that the rot goes clear thru. Even at the bottom of the roots there is nothing but rot and decay.
Every day crap like this happens, I thank God here that I live in a part of California where everything is gloriously Blue, even our state level reps and senators. :)
French farmers in particular have a handle on strikes/closedowns/protests. They drive their tractors with trailers overbrimming with whatever vegetable is to hand: potatoes, onions and so forth. And dump their loads in town. Think of the White House surrounded by mountains of soybeans. Of course, I'm not sure that US agribiz would do this. But there are enough individual farmers who would be delighted to contribute: think of soybeans that can't be sold because of tariffs that are ruining farmers.
I read a post from American ranchers angry about the Argentinian bailout saying that they still support tRump but want their money, too. WTF?!!! How brain dead do they have to be? They should be bringing their butchered meat to the White House to rot like the festering leaders inside. What the hell is going on in their pea brains?
Who's not buying our rice? Our wheat, our vegetables? The total senseless dismantling of our worldwide trade market by an idiot who doesn't understand how a tariff functions means more US crops being unsaleable. And should therefor mean more crops available to distribute to the masses of hungry casualties of the unhealthy despot's cruelty.
You're right. My anger got the best of me.
Then why the hell don't they just sell it TO AMERICANS HERE?! >:-/ I still don't get that!!
Food waste seems so wrong tho I understand the concept.
It is wrong to waste food. It should be donated to food closets and senior centers and kids who aren't getting school lunches, and humane human services providers...
Big BBQ outside the unemployment office every Tuesday!!
France must have similar needs. And in what city is the BBQ?
Barbecue (or Bar-Be-Que), from the Spanish "barbacoa" from the Taino "barabicu" for the frames that meat was smoked on. The French name for it was "boucan" and anyone who made their living smoking meat and selling it to passing sailors in the Caribbean was called a "boucanier," which is where we get "buccaneer" (= pirate) from, presumably once they realized there was more money in getting it directly. ;)
And yeah; if we're not gonna get paid for our meat, grain, produce, etc., might as well donate it. :-/
Or hell, sell it HERE, instead of spending fuel shipping it overseas; for some fancy restaurants and supermarkets, being able to slap a "locally grown! :D" label on it would be worth it in higher prices for the ranchers to charge.
Thanks for the etymology lesson! I love words, and you gave a little pop of pleasure to my day!
Beyond that: I remember farmers pouring milk out into the gutters when I was a kid, though I don't remember the exact circumstances of the strike. But I do remember having a long talk with my mom about ethics, economics, our human responsibility to feed the hungry rather than waste it over an issue of profit, and what our government's responsibility was to take care of the needs of We the People... I sure miss my mom...
That thing is so effing ugly. It ruins the symmetry of the entire building. I will vote for whoever runs on a platform of vowing to raze the ballroom and restore the Rose Garden to a ROSE GARDEN.
It's not going to be a ballroom. He can't dance; he just twitches to YMCA. It's going to be The Rump's personal showroom, where he can rant for hours to a captive drugged paid audience.
They won't even have to be drugged, if they're all on the same page as he is. X-P
Alcohol and sugar affect the brain profoundly. So he'll probably have free alcohol to dull people's intelligence and bribe them to attend. And the food will be laced with loads of sugar to trigger diabetic semi-coma in a lot of them, too.
I'm pissed! I hope first that it takes way too long to construct this massive ballroom (for what? it isn't Mar-a-Lago). So it won't take a whole lot of work to tear it down and restore the East Wing to it's original glory. It is, after all supposed to be "The People's White House" and I would be willing to bet that a good 75% of the American people would NOT have condoned this had they been asked! Oh and btw "HE" WON'T be able to take it with him anyway and won't be done until he's out.
I don't think they will let you bring ballrooms and jets to hell with you.
Good One Jennifer I truly LOVE this one!
The ballroom is just the start. If he had his way the whole White Arse would be encrusted with huuuuuge palatial suites for his DJT Dynasty, all the children and grand children and great grand children who will rule the land (and are practising on bits of it now). A Palace for an Empirate. Not to forget the five-storey ruby-encrusted gold-plated white marble MacDonalds, the source of all their meals.
You truly aren't lying about this one Bronwyn! I don't think it's going to go that far because the Nation is outraged already, but who knows. I'm pissed!
Rumour has it that one of the main drivers of this "renovation" is actually the bunker underneath. They're probably digging a pit large enough to duplicate the entire white house volume so that come the revolution The Rump and his entire toadyship can live indefinitely in its white marble gold-bedappled innards, at least until they all off themselves as martyrs.
Dear God: the next NO KINGS action is at our local polling place on Nov. 4. just sayin'...
Be careful; you have to stay a certain distance away from an actual polling place with anything overtly political (it's called "electioneering" and is apparently a big no-no, but it varies by state: https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/electioneering-prohibitions). :-/
I have many a T-shirt I could wear to vote, but I just wear a more generic one if I go into an actual polling place. I haven't for years, since in California, we believe in vote-by-mail and automagically send out ballots to every eligible citizen, and I mail them in whenever I can get the chance. :)
Thank You God. Great article. Photo’s are Heartbreaking & I’m Irish! Such Desecration….
Righteous trouble. Defiance till death!!
People are saying Dementia Donnie is so very Small and Sad…
Dementia Donnie likes to pretend he’s a King so he feels more like a Big Boy…
Poor Donnie, now he’s having a Tantrum and breaking things like a Toddler would do…
Dementia Donnie needs a BIG Time Out!!!
🇺🇸🫡🇺🇸
Even if those THIRTY-FOUR FELONIES he's been duly convicted of had only 1 year of service in jail for each, if he got impeached in 2026 and had to serve, he'd be...carry the one...113 years old by the time he got out. ;)