A woman in a hot-air balloon is lost, so she shouts to a man below, "Excuse me. I promised a friend I would meet him, but I don't know where I am."
"You're at 31 degrees, 14.57 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude," he replies.
"You must be a Democrat."
"I am. How did you know?"
"Because everything you told me is technically correct, but the information is useless, and I'm still lost. Frankly, you've been no help."
"You must be a Republican."
"Yes. How did you know?"
"You've risen to where you are due to a lot of hot air, you made a promise you couldn't keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. You're in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but somehow, now it's my fault."
❤️Reich❤️ as Dorothy❤️ (in the Wizard of Oz❤️) looks out her bedroom window into the middle of the Giant Tornado that sucked her house a mile high... Alex Jones is floating out there ... Reich:"So, Alex, what do you think of Climate Change now?"
But like his pal, Jeffrey Epstein, Trump likes 'em young, reminding him of his daughter. And the 2 perverts like to take turns with the girls.
And that's what MAGAts voted for: a sexual predator, conman, traitor, pathological liar, megalomaniac, pervert, criminal, malignant sadonarcissist, psychopath & Nazi all rolled in one. Not a single redeeming feature about him except that he's entertaining, which is all that matters to a shocking proportion of Americans.
Clinton didn't rape anyone. A 22 year old woman very willingly gave him oral and saved the stained dress for blackmailing him, or some other crazy reason. The Catholic religion allows oral sex in marriage as stimulation, but not to completion.; weird huh?
Nah! She threw herself at him.that is Not rape.she was old enough. Like so many women surrounding tfg, they want to be close to power. It is , to them, an aphrodisiac
"During his National Service, he was commissioned into the Royal Horse Guards and served in Cyprus, where he was almost killed in a machine gun accident. Annoyed by a fault in the machine gun on his armoured car which he drove frequently, he seized the end of the barrel and shook it, accidentally triggering the mechanism so that the gun fired several bullets through his chest.[3] As a result of his injuries, he lost his spleen, one lung, several ribs, and a finger, and suffered from pain and recurring infections for the rest of his life." Not too gifted in the brain cell department 🙄
In his tome “Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,” William R. Shirer notes that the German (Nazi) government’s takeover of all media in 1933 led to people who in Shirer’s view were well informed and even cosmopolitan, suddenly began spouting the regime’s point of view. Shows that independent journalism such as this blog is of immeasurable value.
Good observation. On Jan.6, 2021, he took direct action; but he can’t try that again if and only if the ban on more than two presidential terms stays in place.
This tie-in between the political wing and the judicial wing of government has convinced many Americans that all justice is political. As the Bible tells us, the crowd at the trial of Jesus chanted to free from prison, “Not this man (Jesus) but Barabbas (a felon).”
Barabbas was a high-ranking insurgent against the Roman occupation, a result of chasing Hannibal around the Mediterranean after the fall of Carthage, when Israel was occupied - and sacked - in the process. It is how the Romans created the Mediterranean empire - moving into an area claiming to be after Hannibal and then staying there. (Presumably, to protect the inhabitants from Hannibal!)
Jeshua - Jesus - was a popular rabbi, a holy man - a heretic from the Sanhedrin POV.
The insurgent fought the Romans.
Jeshua preached to love the enemy - a.k.a, the Romans.
The Romans executed Jeshua after the population chose Barabbas - clearly, to continue fighting the Romans - and then eventually evolved a Roman church, imbued - by the way - with many Roman values. Of course, the Jews then became the traditional enemy! Let that all sink in.
As an arguably parallel scenario, say you're a Gaza Palestinian given the same kind of choice by an Israeli governor. Which would you choose? The heretic or the "terrorist?"
Let me hasten to add:
Don't get me wrong about all that. History renders the Levant an imponderable, about which I have not a single clue on how to ameliorate such historic animosity, and I think the outcome will be bloody and bleak for all participants, as well as anyone anywhere near it all.
Yes, you’re right: there’s no separating justice from politics, from military action, from the values of a population, from history. We live in a complex world.
No! Hillary and Joe are above the law. Joe was not pursed for illegal possession of documents. and Hillary wiped here server while its contents were under subpeona—no action! Then she did what Trump did: misclassified her Steele dossier document financing, registering it as a legal expense. She was fined $8,000 Trump got a felony charge - and eventually a conviction! So yeah! Let's talk about who is above the law... good topic And who gets to say how people get charged under the law too! .
Anyone who has handled classified documents quickly understands the Mickey Mouse nature of the Classified Mentality. Very insignificant factoids are classified; I know this by experience but can’t give you examples because I’d be subject to jail time. But there’s a difference between admitting that you inadvertently included in your library some classified docs versus lying about how you handed them over to the authorities as Drumpf did. The transgressions of Hillary and Biden are kindergarten offenses versus the intentional crimes of traitor Drumpf.
From the Scientific American (I hope you know what that is). Jun 4, 2024 — Personality measures suggest Donald Trump exerts a cult of personality over his followers, people who are psychologically susceptible to his appeal.
He's already violated the 14th Amendment which disqualifies him from assuming office having broken his oath of office, & no one with the authority did anything to stop him, so who will stop him from violating any other amendment? No one!
He has hacked 2024, too. And there is no justice to stop him . He threatens everyone who opposes him. The media genuflect and offer alms in the form of millions of dollars to him for his illegitimate inauguration.
I don't think Trump will act on this right away. Maybe 2 years in, he'll declare an "emergency", suspend the constitution and nominate his son in law or Vance as his successor. He might not get away with it but he'll sure as hell try.
Could be, although I doubt he'll do anything to stop the invasion. He'll have other opportunities to call for a national emergency or martial law, such as civil strife that he'll have provoked.
He had intended to use the insurrection to declare martial law, but there wasn't the Antifa participation they were counting on (& tried to blame), & he chickened out under pressure to call for security to stop the insurrection, & the certification process was resumed that night.
If he's suspending the Constitution, what's to stop him from appointing Musk as his successor? Trump likes Musk better than he likes Vance at this point. Of course, that could change tomorrow. Trump is fickle.
Well the only thing that will stop him is time. Trump is already failing, both mentally and physically. I don’t expect him to finish his term, whether by illness, death or 27th amendment-ed. So that leaves the door open for Vance to never leave.
Anything is possible but seeing the frail and and clearly mentally disabled trump win this time gives an idea about how powerful their propaganda is. Couple that with all their gerrymandering and installing all the secretaries of state who are willing to bring in new electors as needed and/or not certifying their states’ counts if they don’t win…. Not to mention, who do the dems have that can counter all that? It doesn’t look good particularly considering they will have 4 more years to further muck things up.
If we have a free & fair election in 2028. We didn't have one in 2024. And the Democrats didn't put up any resistance or even investigate, let alone call for a recount -- natural responses to an election so rife with suspicious peculiarities -- even though in power. How are they going to manage a fair election out of power? I assume there will still be a show election like they have in Russia & Hungary. Not sure that Putin & Musk will still be in the position or have the inclination to manipulate the election the way they did this time, but there are others involved, such as Thiel, who probably would.
Hopefully not just a bit off topic: In the early 1950s, members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade —2,800 men and women who fought in Spain 1936-38 against the military uprising of Franco, Hitler, and Mussolini against a democratically elected government — were investigated by the secret police force (FBI) of J. Edgar Hoover as “premature anti-fascists.” Many of those volunteers lost their jobs because of the pressure exerted by the secret police. I’m expecting that we can look forward to a similar political cleansing as Drumpf and his minions take the reins of power. God help America.
Went to school with a guy who’s father was part of the Abraham Lincoln gauge in Spain he got called in front of Congress, the McCarthy hearing. When he was asked why he went to Spain enjoying Abraham Lincoln brigade he said he was Jewish and he went to Spain to kill Nazis. He was a colonel in the army at the time that was the end of his questioning and he passed. Finished his career as colonel.
Oh Btw after killing as many Nazis as possible he learned the German army order of battle( how they fought) he got out of Spain back to the USA joined the army and became a colonel and killed even more Nazis. He was well informed about the death camps and the final solution he was a great combat leader and dedicated Nazi killer…
Yes, many members of the Lincoln Brigade went on to serve in WW2. They got to fight Hitler twice. Likewise, members of the Republican Spanish army who fled to France after the Spanish Civil War, joined the French underground’s fight against the occupying Germans.
Here’s some more history. The Abraham Lincoln Brigade WERE actually Communists, and shortly after Franco (relatively) liberated Madrid they absolutely disgraced themselves.
How many of you are aware of the OTHER 1930’s International Brigade?
The Soviet attack on Finland in late 1939 also inspired an International Brigade, with volunteers from all over Europe. Most of the world condemned the Soviets, with one interesting exception: Nazi Germany (Nazi diplomats were instructed to stress the Soviet point of view), the Nazi-Soviet pact being in full swing at the time. The Soviets even combined the playbooks from the Nazi assaults on Poland and Norway into one: Mainila (Gleiwitz) and Quisling (Kuusinen).
The Abraham Lincoln brigade, back in the US, joined in the Soviet-directed Communist campaign “not one dime for Mannerheim” against the Finns.
During the Nazi-Soviet pact the two sides acted as fairly close allies until their Al Capone/Bugs Moran-style fallout in June 1941.
The Soviets continued to run a massive campaign of subversion and espionage against Western countries throughout the war, in fact, June 21, 1941, saw the expulsion of at least one Soviet diplomat from the U.S.
Western Communists were working on the side of the Nazis during the Nazi Soviet Pact. They and their spiritual descendants deserve as little consideration as actual Nazis (plenty more).
McCarthy was right. He could have strangled the deep state in its playpen, with proper support.
Some of the Lincolns were indeed members of the communist party in the USA; others were militant trade-unionists; still others were adventurers. The International Brigades, which consisted of volunteers from at least 50 countries, was a complex army. Yes, there was something called the Comintern, which was run by Stalin, and attempted to spread Soviet-style communism across the globe. But put yourself in the position of the leaders of the legitimately elected government of Spain: when the rebel general Franco, aided by Hitler and Mussolini, staged a bloody coup that lasted for three years and killed 500K people, the only big ally that Spain could find was the USSR, which Spain paid for weapons (Mexico supplied some weapons, too.) No Western democracy stepped forward to help the Republic. Indeed, Roosevelt allowed Texaco to sell oil to Franco on credit. The Republican government was progressive: their 1931 constitution granted rights to women, instituted land reform, and built thousands of public schools. Thanks to help from Hitler and Mussolini, the fascist Franco won the war, and took Spain back to the Middle Ages with the church, aristocracy, and military in charge. All of the American Lincoln volunteers have passed away. Their legacy is located at alba-VALB.org.
You, Shirer and "our" constitutionalists understand fascism and heartless Strongmen. We too easily forget that authoritarians don't care about others. Tocqueville in 1845 hoped that democracy in America would continue b/c the rich would endorse welfare for those who needed help. What Tocqueville suggested that what would guide the rich was spiritual (religion). What was left out is empathy. It's still continuing; for example, the Christian Nationalists are a religion without empathy.
What we have here are cages where wolves plan to harvest us chickens* and 50% of us are not paying sufficient attention. All of us are facing wolves. (1) We must link with those who value democracy. (2) We must observe the wolves in action, and we must avoid becoming chickens. Don't forget that we're not alone and that each of us can act against wolves.
As a child psychiatrist, I understand that the ultimate solution is to raise children with empathy. This will take patience.
It's only of late that we have come to understand the importance of empathy with our children and with our fellows (including those who follow Strongmen).
Thanks, Stan.
You, Shirer and "our" constitutionalists understand fascism and heartless Strongmen. We too easily forget that authoritarians don't care about others. Tocqueville in 1845 hoped that democracy in America would continue b/c the rich would endorse welfare for those who needed help. What Tocqueville suggested that what would guide the rich was spiritual (religion). What was left out is empathy. It's still continuing; for example, the Christian Nationalists are a religion without empathy.
What we have here are cages where wolves plan to harvest us chickens and 50% of us are not paying sufficient attention. All of us are facing wolves. (1) We must link with those who value democracy. (2) We must observe the wolves in action, and we must avoid becoming chickens. Don't forget that we're not alone and that each of us can act against wolves.
As a child psychiatrist, I understand that the ultimate solution is to raise children with empathy. This will take patience.
It's only of late that we have come to understand the importance of empathy with our children and with our fellows (including those who follow Strongmen).
The definition of a true MAGA on display… space lasers are truth and climate change is a conspiracy theory. File their “truths” along with the Comet Pizza” pedophile ring😩
Everybody just gonna post about this shit and do nothing? Trumps a treasonous Russian sympathizer that’s hiring Canadians to steal your social security savings.
I guess if everybody else is gonna be giant pussys. Guess we’ll all watch em go house to house like Nazis looking for Mexican carpenters and agricultural workers, til they come up with a reason to come after you too.
Ima fight everyone of the redhat pussys til I’m out of air and blood. Know it
Where are all those Canadians living, and how many government contracts does Elon have from Ted and how much money from those contracts endorsed rogans podcast?
This is the only reason the Logan act doesn’t work on him. He’s not a U.S. citizen but he’s in charge of all government spending. Seems totally legit I guess. I’m gonna go see if I can’t get kicked in the head by a horse so I too can enjoy oblivion
Musk and Ted Cruz gave up any claim to Canadian citizenship. And both were the progeny of foreigners who quickly abandoned all things Canadian for their own gain. Joe Rogan was born in Newark, NJ. Musk was born in South Africa. Cruz was born in Canada but wasn't here long.
Well we don’t want none of em. They all work for Canada oil
Do you think Elon designed a truck that ugly and dumb and wasn’t trying to sabotage the electric car industry? He got his grants and sold stock. Who cares now?
The best con men never run. They walk away with their victims talkn bout how good of a guy he was…..in today’s terms. They bought the hats, and I’ll be damned if they didn’t come back to buy some ugly ass gold shoes. That’s just for starters. He’s got em hooked by the balls of faith and patriotism. Lmfao
DOGE is a crypto currency. You will be sold the idea that investing your social security money into one of Elons or Trumps crypto will save it and increase it, but it won’t. They will pump and dump it, in true Elon/clump form and the next generation will have zero reason to keep contributing. GenX is the only stand on your own generation in over a century but we seen this shit coming for ever. Just didn’t know it would be so obvious and yet so many would miss it
Read about a man named Jack Abramoff and what he did in the 1970s and 1980s. Pay attention to all the satellite crooks around him. Trump is following the same playbook and no one seems to notice. There's a free movie about him on TUBI (online).
It’s yours. The government saved it for you so you don’t starve if you didn’t generate enough retirement in your working years. Then came Reagan who got a window of opportunity to convince Americans to invest it to grow it. To ensure it would always be there. That investment is still allowed. Trump will smell this opportunity to steal.
I'm a Canadian. Canada is NOT the enemy! As a nation, most of us cannot believe that you allowed misogyny to rule over common sense when you elected this monster.
LOL! The last thing you can expect from Canadians is support for anything Trump/Musk are espousing! We are far too smart to buy into any of this crap! .
The enemy has always been Canada oil trying to use the U.S. without paying. Joe Rogan just a tool. So is Preacher Ted. Elon thinks he’s a master of puppets but his strings are showing
I'm more concerned about Musk's ties to Russia & China. And Trump's ties. And the Russian connections of several other of his Cabinet picks & numerous Republicans in Congress.
Canadian oil is owned and controlled by foreign companies, Almost all our refineries were closed (because the industry was controlled by US companies) Check your facts!
The keystone pipeline should be taxed and charged the same per gallon as the Panama Canal. If it leaks and fucks up our water supply what does money do for us then? Elons cyber truck isn’t ugly enough for me to forget the dream
You are free to go out there and start assassinating billionaires. Nobody is stopping you. Im not going on a murder spree until I have no other choice, personally. But I and millions of others support Luigi and would support you too.
I did hear something about UHC getting a new CEO. I think Luigi is a manipulated moron, but that’s just me. I think until orange stupid replaces Kash Patel with a real cop, nobody will ever investigate the gaslighter/temperature controller. Luigi got used. His life is just as over as his victim.
I’m no Luigi and Canadians ARE NOT SMART.
Joe Rogan is living proof that Canadians fucked trolls at one time. He doesn’t wear socks because of the patch of hair on the tops of his feet. He needs to go his punkass back to the shire.
Sadly, trumpy got this one partly right. If you clear the understory with low impact fires, it prevents the big ones. Native peoples knew this. So you do need rakers, but you would have to pay them. Think the orange one would do that?
I'm aware that is true. I didn't know you raked after a controlled burn. I thought you just let nature take its course, because small lightning caused fires are very common in the West.
In the wet Eastern forests, Native Americans also set fires to keep open clearings in the woods, because they were more productive of berry patches, grazing for deer, and other kinds of food production.
Raking is not what you do, the controlled burn takes care of things. My point was that management takes time and personnel, both of which have costs. Government slashing grifters don't like to pay anyone, so they would be worse than what we have now. Intelligent management takes skilled people, sometimes learned through cultural traditions, sometimes learned via formal or on the job education, and involves political will. You are exactly right about eastern forests, though it was not just deer. Bison and elk were here as well 250-300 years ago.
I absolutely agree with you. I was simply taking raking literally, and you were using it to represent all forms of forest management. And you are also right about the bison and elk. But I still think that Trump believes that forest literally need to be raked. I think you are risking total lack of comprehension if you tell your reader he is even partly right.
What is rather disturbing is that in the Trumpian dystopian times in which we live, the comic strip feels as though it is not satirical humor, it feels as though this is journalistic reporting of an overheard conversation during a MAGA inauguration tailgate party. But, the strip can’t be actually true because I don’t see any AR-15 rifles or other weapons.
We are constantly exposed to things like this, which would be 'funny' in a universe where reason prevailed and truth was respected. Yet they simply come across as a sad example of the almost unbelievable fact that reason and truth are at the top of the endangered lists of today. So much of the general population have been 'dumbed down' as though they were sedated elders in a two-bit retirement home. Who knew Big Brother would turn out to be a South African?
Multiple South Africans as it turns out, Peter Thiel, David Sacks and Musk all came out of Paypal originally and were called the Paypal Mafia even though they sold out long ago.
A woman in a hot-air balloon is lost, so she shouts to a man below, "Excuse me. I promised a friend I would meet him, but I don't know where I am."
"You're at 31 degrees, 14.57 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude," he replies.
"You must be a Democrat."
"I am. How did you know?"
"Because everything you told me is technically correct, but the information is useless, and I'm still lost. Frankly, you've been no help."
"You must be a Republican."
"Yes. How did you know?"
"You've risen to where you are due to a lot of hot air, you made a promise you couldn't keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. You're in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but somehow, now it's my fault."
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Alex:"At least it gets you out in the open air!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO-Kx-2TOg0
https://youtu.be/QHjj5S70kBc?t=3530
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Suicidality will dwarf suicides
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You still have brainfog if you think anybody cares about your spam
LOL
Hmmmm . . . seems like a certain rapist president-elect we all know and abhore . . .
Bill Clinton?
Monica wasn’t raped by Clinton. She was of age, and her actions were consensual. The real dumb ass was Clinton. Shouda gotten a room, Bill.
Clinton was not running for president in 2024. Another red herring. Stop falling for them.
Nice try. I meant Juanita Broaddrick.
And Horrorei can fairly be described as a rapist enabler.
Believe all women, eh?
A master-stroke by the Donald was to invite JB plus three other women wronged by Bill and Hill to one of the debates.
But like his pal, Jeffrey Epstein, Trump likes 'em young, reminding him of his daughter. And the 2 perverts like to take turns with the girls.
And that's what MAGAts voted for: a sexual predator, conman, traitor, pathological liar, megalomaniac, pervert, criminal, malignant sadonarcissist, psychopath & Nazi all rolled in one. Not a single redeeming feature about him except that he's entertaining, which is all that matters to a shocking proportion of Americans.
And . . what about Trump’s “encounter” with E. Jeanne Carol? How is DJT going to legally squirm out of that one?
Easily. The Demshevik lawthingies are just shaking mit up.
Troll!
Um, no, was not infamous while -elect,
not identifiable as a rapist,
and not actually abhorred just as deeply and much.
This is not from a Democrat,
but from the rest of the whole wide world out there.
We don't even do your politics, not just so.
Clinton didn't rape anyone. A 22 year old woman very willingly gave him oral and saved the stained dress for blackmailing him, or some other crazy reason. The Catholic religion allows oral sex in marriage as stimulation, but not to completion.; weird huh?
If our Democrat speaks people refer to him in every reference as a 34 times convicted felon and a convicted rapist, will there be problems?
Nah! She threw herself at him.that is Not rape.she was old enough. Like so many women surrounding tfg, they want to be close to power. It is , to them, an aphrodisiac
„She threw herself at him” - probably true of all the women who’ve just made stuff up about the Donald, hoping for a bite at his fortune.
As the sorely-missed Auberon Waugh out it, Uganda is a hellish place for people like us.
Your hero Auberon Waugh:
"During his National Service, he was commissioned into the Royal Horse Guards and served in Cyprus, where he was almost killed in a machine gun accident. Annoyed by a fault in the machine gun on his armoured car which he drove frequently, he seized the end of the barrel and shook it, accidentally triggering the mechanism so that the gun fired several bullets through his chest.[3] As a result of his injuries, he lost his spleen, one lung, several ribs, and a finger, and suffered from pain and recurring infections for the rest of his life." Not too gifted in the brain cell department 🙄
Oops “put” - bloody prompt
sounds about right.
Such wit!
I find it amusing that it reflects on how communication and responsibility are perceived differently depending on one’s perspective.
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Excellent!!!
This is a good one.
Hilarious... and oh so true!
priceless
Hahahahahahaha! That was priceless! Loved it, Alan!
Very good!
Haven't heard anything like that since the old Microsoft joke.
So true though ,
Exactly!🤪
The Art of Deflection at its highest.
That's brilliant!
In his tome “Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,” William R. Shirer notes that the German (Nazi) government’s takeover of all media in 1933 led to people who in Shirer’s view were well informed and even cosmopolitan, suddenly began spouting the regime’s point of view. Shows that independent journalism such as this blog is of immeasurable value.
Trump has Hitler play book and he running them one by one; how long before he takes direct action to remain in office…
Good observation. On Jan.6, 2021, he took direct action; but he can’t try that again if and only if the ban on more than two presidential terms stays in place.
Well DJT is above the law !!!
Just ask any judge he appointed
This tie-in between the political wing and the judicial wing of government has convinced many Americans that all justice is political. As the Bible tells us, the crowd at the trial of Jesus chanted to free from prison, “Not this man (Jesus) but Barabbas (a felon).”
Barabbas was a high-ranking insurgent against the Roman occupation, a result of chasing Hannibal around the Mediterranean after the fall of Carthage, when Israel was occupied - and sacked - in the process. It is how the Romans created the Mediterranean empire - moving into an area claiming to be after Hannibal and then staying there. (Presumably, to protect the inhabitants from Hannibal!)
Jeshua - Jesus - was a popular rabbi, a holy man - a heretic from the Sanhedrin POV.
The insurgent fought the Romans.
Jeshua preached to love the enemy - a.k.a, the Romans.
The Romans executed Jeshua after the population chose Barabbas - clearly, to continue fighting the Romans - and then eventually evolved a Roman church, imbued - by the way - with many Roman values. Of course, the Jews then became the traditional enemy! Let that all sink in.
As an arguably parallel scenario, say you're a Gaza Palestinian given the same kind of choice by an Israeli governor. Which would you choose? The heretic or the "terrorist?"
Let me hasten to add:
Don't get me wrong about all that. History renders the Levant an imponderable, about which I have not a single clue on how to ameliorate such historic animosity, and I think the outcome will be bloody and bleak for all participants, as well as anyone anywhere near it all.
Yes, you’re right: there’s no separating justice from politics, from military action, from the values of a population, from history. We live in a complex world.
No! Hillary and Joe are above the law. Joe was not pursed for illegal possession of documents. and Hillary wiped here server while its contents were under subpeona—no action! Then she did what Trump did: misclassified her Steele dossier document financing, registering it as a legal expense. She was fined $8,000 Trump got a felony charge - and eventually a conviction! So yeah! Let's talk about who is above the law... good topic And who gets to say how people get charged under the law too! .
Anyone who has handled classified documents quickly understands the Mickey Mouse nature of the Classified Mentality. Very insignificant factoids are classified; I know this by experience but can’t give you examples because I’d be subject to jail time. But there’s a difference between admitting that you inadvertently included in your library some classified docs versus lying about how you handed them over to the authorities as Drumpf did. The transgressions of Hillary and Biden are kindergarten offenses versus the intentional crimes of traitor Drumpf.
Comedic, given that his Alzheimer's and obesity suggests he has less than a year to live! 🙏
Careful what you wish for. JD Vance scares the crap out of me and he would be eligible for another term.
but Shady Vance doesn't have the maga following, right? Johnson will want to impeach him for SOMETHING, so he can be the new king.
Vance could serve out Trump's term and then stand as President for 2 full terms in his own right, just like Nixon did.
We can only hope.
From the Scientific American (I hope you know what that is). Jun 4, 2024 — Personality measures suggest Donald Trump exerts a cult of personality over his followers, people who are psychologically susceptible to his appeal.
He's already violated the 14th Amendment which disqualifies him from assuming office having broken his oath of office, & no one with the authority did anything to stop him, so who will stop him from violating any other amendment? No one!
He has hacked 2024, too. And there is no justice to stop him . He threatens everyone who opposes him. The media genuflect and offer alms in the form of millions of dollars to him for his illegitimate inauguration.
Maybe the SJC will over-turn that ban for the trumpet. One grimy deed deserves another.
If
You mean Herr Miller does, trump doesn't remember anything, he has the attention span of meth-fueled squirrel.
I don't think Trump will act on this right away. Maybe 2 years in, he'll declare an "emergency", suspend the constitution and nominate his son in law or Vance as his successor. He might not get away with it but he'll sure as hell try.
Trump will build his forces and try to change his 4 year job into a lifetime kingship when he has enough followers.
If he dies before 2028, it would mean he was King for his lifetime.
Sounds like trumpet 🎺 speaking from the grave…
He will try when China invades Taiwan. That will be his excuse.
Could be, although I doubt he'll do anything to stop the invasion. He'll have other opportunities to call for a national emergency or martial law, such as civil strife that he'll have provoked.
He had intended to use the insurrection to declare martial law, but there wasn't the Antifa participation they were counting on (& tried to blame), & he chickened out under pressure to call for security to stop the insurrection, & the certification process was resumed that night.
If he's suspending the Constitution, what's to stop him from appointing Musk as his successor? Trump likes Musk better than he likes Vance at this point. Of course, that could change tomorrow. Trump is fickle.
Well the only thing that will stop him is time. Trump is already failing, both mentally and physically. I don’t expect him to finish his term, whether by illness, death or 27th amendment-ed. So that leaves the door open for Vance to never leave.
Vance can be beaten in 2028.
Anything is possible but seeing the frail and and clearly mentally disabled trump win this time gives an idea about how powerful their propaganda is. Couple that with all their gerrymandering and installing all the secretaries of state who are willing to bring in new electors as needed and/or not certifying their states’ counts if they don’t win…. Not to mention, who do the dems have that can counter all that? It doesn’t look good particularly considering they will have 4 more years to further muck things up.
If we have a free & fair election in 2028. We didn't have one in 2024. And the Democrats didn't put up any resistance or even investigate, let alone call for a recount -- natural responses to an election so rife with suspicious peculiarities -- even though in power. How are they going to manage a fair election out of power? I assume there will still be a show election like they have in Russia & Hungary. Not sure that Putin & Musk will still be in the position or have the inclination to manipulate the election the way they did this time, but there are others involved, such as Thiel, who probably would.
He already has, by hacking the election.
He's already using Hitler's suit.
I've been telling people to read that book a lot.
Hopefully not just a bit off topic: In the early 1950s, members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade —2,800 men and women who fought in Spain 1936-38 against the military uprising of Franco, Hitler, and Mussolini against a democratically elected government — were investigated by the secret police force (FBI) of J. Edgar Hoover as “premature anti-fascists.” Many of those volunteers lost their jobs because of the pressure exerted by the secret police. I’m expecting that we can look forward to a similar political cleansing as Drumpf and his minions take the reins of power. God help America.
Went to school with a guy who’s father was part of the Abraham Lincoln gauge in Spain he got called in front of Congress, the McCarthy hearing. When he was asked why he went to Spain enjoying Abraham Lincoln brigade he said he was Jewish and he went to Spain to kill Nazis. He was a colonel in the army at the time that was the end of his questioning and he passed. Finished his career as colonel.
Oh Btw after killing as many Nazis as possible he learned the German army order of battle( how they fought) he got out of Spain back to the USA joined the army and became a colonel and killed even more Nazis. He was well informed about the death camps and the final solution he was a great combat leader and dedicated Nazi killer…
Yes, many members of the Lincoln Brigade went on to serve in WW2. They got to fight Hitler twice. Likewise, members of the Republican Spanish army who fled to France after the Spanish Civil War, joined the French underground’s fight against the occupying Germans.
Those guys and gals were informed of the evil being committed by the Nazis and took action …
Not Talk Action something almost unheard of in today’s political environment.
Thank you - a bit of relevant history for us now.
Not at all. I didn't know that particular little part of history. And I agree that Mango Mussolini will try to do the same.
The original Mussolini supported the Finns in 1939-1940, on the side of the angels actually.
Here’s some more history. The Abraham Lincoln Brigade WERE actually Communists, and shortly after Franco (relatively) liberated Madrid they absolutely disgraced themselves.
How many of you are aware of the OTHER 1930’s International Brigade?
The Soviet attack on Finland in late 1939 also inspired an International Brigade, with volunteers from all over Europe. Most of the world condemned the Soviets, with one interesting exception: Nazi Germany (Nazi diplomats were instructed to stress the Soviet point of view), the Nazi-Soviet pact being in full swing at the time. The Soviets even combined the playbooks from the Nazi assaults on Poland and Norway into one: Mainila (Gleiwitz) and Quisling (Kuusinen).
The Abraham Lincoln brigade, back in the US, joined in the Soviet-directed Communist campaign “not one dime for Mannerheim” against the Finns.
During the Nazi-Soviet pact the two sides acted as fairly close allies until their Al Capone/Bugs Moran-style fallout in June 1941.
The Soviets continued to run a massive campaign of subversion and espionage against Western countries throughout the war, in fact, June 21, 1941, saw the expulsion of at least one Soviet diplomat from the U.S.
Western Communists were working on the side of the Nazis during the Nazi Soviet Pact. They and their spiritual descendants deserve as little consideration as actual Nazis (plenty more).
McCarthy was right. He could have strangled the deep state in its playpen, with proper support.
Some of the Lincolns were indeed members of the communist party in the USA; others were militant trade-unionists; still others were adventurers. The International Brigades, which consisted of volunteers from at least 50 countries, was a complex army. Yes, there was something called the Comintern, which was run by Stalin, and attempted to spread Soviet-style communism across the globe. But put yourself in the position of the leaders of the legitimately elected government of Spain: when the rebel general Franco, aided by Hitler and Mussolini, staged a bloody coup that lasted for three years and killed 500K people, the only big ally that Spain could find was the USSR, which Spain paid for weapons (Mexico supplied some weapons, too.) No Western democracy stepped forward to help the Republic. Indeed, Roosevelt allowed Texaco to sell oil to Franco on credit. The Republican government was progressive: their 1931 constitution granted rights to women, instituted land reform, and built thousands of public schools. Thanks to help from Hitler and Mussolini, the fascist Franco won the war, and took Spain back to the Middle Ages with the church, aristocracy, and military in charge. All of the American Lincoln volunteers have passed away. Their legacy is located at alba-VALB.org.
Thanks, Stan.
You, Shirer and "our" constitutionalists understand fascism and heartless Strongmen. We too easily forget that authoritarians don't care about others. Tocqueville in 1845 hoped that democracy in America would continue b/c the rich would endorse welfare for those who needed help. What Tocqueville suggested that what would guide the rich was spiritual (religion). What was left out is empathy. It's still continuing; for example, the Christian Nationalists are a religion without empathy.
What we have here are cages where wolves plan to harvest us chickens* and 50% of us are not paying sufficient attention. All of us are facing wolves. (1) We must link with those who value democracy. (2) We must observe the wolves in action, and we must avoid becoming chickens. Don't forget that we're not alone and that each of us can act against wolves.
As a child psychiatrist, I understand that the ultimate solution is to raise children with empathy. This will take patience.
It's only of late that we have come to understand the importance of empathy with our children and with our fellows (including those who follow Strongmen).
Thanks, Stan.
You, Shirer and "our" constitutionalists understand fascism and heartless Strongmen. We too easily forget that authoritarians don't care about others. Tocqueville in 1845 hoped that democracy in America would continue b/c the rich would endorse welfare for those who needed help. What Tocqueville suggested that what would guide the rich was spiritual (religion). What was left out is empathy. It's still continuing; for example, the Christian Nationalists are a religion without empathy.
What we have here are cages where wolves plan to harvest us chickens and 50% of us are not paying sufficient attention. All of us are facing wolves. (1) We must link with those who value democracy. (2) We must observe the wolves in action, and we must avoid becoming chickens. Don't forget that we're not alone and that each of us can act against wolves.
As a child psychiatrist, I understand that the ultimate solution is to raise children with empathy. This will take patience.
It's only of late that we have come to understand the importance of empathy with our children and with our fellows (including those who follow Strongmen).
Crazy is always a threat, crazy with money and their dumb but true believers are dangerous to all…
Rich people don’t go to jail.
Hundreds of people buy guns in violation of the law every year some get caught all most all are not given Federal attention.
If they commit a crime a serious felony crime (not tax evasion ) they may get prosecuted.
Hunter Biden was targeted by trump’s loyal republicans why ???
So they could make Trump look less like a security threat and smear Biden’s reputation …
Biden did not try to overthrow the USA Government to stay in office …
Joe Biden kid has a drug problem most Americans use alcohol. He used cocaine..
It was foolish of Joe Biden to state he wouldn’t pardon his son , it passes the Jimmy Carter smell test it was the right thing to do…
Hillary Clinton’s actions are her.
Hillary single handedly destroyed budding wings of the citizens best hope Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
Nothing admirable about her. Bill sold all of our touch labor job to the highest bidder..
I’m so tired of screaming every day at this craziness…..
The rise of the flat earthers.
...and smooth brains.
The definition of a true MAGA on display… space lasers are truth and climate change is a conspiracy theory. File their “truths” along with the Comet Pizza” pedophile ring😩
nikal - and speaking of projection, how many sex offenders are nominated by dumpster for his cabinet?
At this point it seems to be mandatory.
Does it make me a conspiracy theorist to recognize and acknowledge the similarities between Hitler and tRump?
No, it makes you a realist & observant.
Thank you. It also makes me sad… But, trying to keep the vibrations high!
Everybody just gonna post about this shit and do nothing? Trumps a treasonous Russian sympathizer that’s hiring Canadians to steal your social security savings.
I guess if everybody else is gonna be giant pussys. Guess we’ll all watch em go house to house like Nazis looking for Mexican carpenters and agricultural workers, til they come up with a reason to come after you too.
Ima fight everyone of the redhat pussys til I’m out of air and blood. Know it
Canadians stealing SS payments??!!
Elon is Canadian
Joe Rogan is Canadian
Ted Cruz is Canadian
The keystone pipeline is Canadian
It needed support in Texas
Where are all those Canadians living, and how many government contracts does Elon have from Ted and how much money from those contracts endorsed rogans podcast?
It’s not conspiracy, it’s in your face
That’s why they scream conspiracies.
So ya won’t look at them, up in your guts
Elon is South African
Elon is from South Africa with a Canadian national work visa in the United States. Goddamn. You have a computer in your fuckn hands
Actually according to Wikipedia he’s both had dual Canadian and US citizenship
Canadian speaking. And we don't wan him!
Double unnaturalized.
Peter Thiel is a South African, David Sachs is too. . .
All mining families too, go figure
This is the only reason the Logan act doesn’t work on him. He’s not a U.S. citizen but he’s in charge of all government spending. Seems totally legit I guess. I’m gonna go see if I can’t get kicked in the head by a horse so I too can enjoy oblivion
Musk and Ted Cruz gave up any claim to Canadian citizenship. And both were the progeny of foreigners who quickly abandoned all things Canadian for their own gain. Joe Rogan was born in Newark, NJ. Musk was born in South Africa. Cruz was born in Canada but wasn't here long.
Well we don’t want none of em. They all work for Canada oil
Do you think Elon designed a truck that ugly and dumb and wasn’t trying to sabotage the electric car industry? He got his grants and sold stock. Who cares now?
DUH! Canadian oil is all controlled by US companies.
*Elon is an illegal South Affican alien! 🤣🤣🤣
Joe Rogan is not Canadian. Elon and Ted have roots in Canada.
And we don't want to have anything to do with either of them. They are anathema to everything Canadian.
They’re all Canadian
Wrong om all counts. Do your research.
They’re all Canadians, do your goddamned research
The best con men never run. They walk away with their victims talkn bout how good of a guy he was…..in today’s terms. They bought the hats, and I’ll be damned if they didn’t come back to buy some ugly ass gold shoes. That’s just for starters. He’s got em hooked by the balls of faith and patriotism. Lmfao
DOGE is a crypto currency. You will be sold the idea that investing your social security money into one of Elons or Trumps crypto will save it and increase it, but it won’t. They will pump and dump it, in true Elon/clump form and the next generation will have zero reason to keep contributing. GenX is the only stand on your own generation in over a century but we seen this shit coming for ever. Just didn’t know it would be so obvious and yet so many would miss it
Read about a man named Jack Abramoff and what he did in the 1970s and 1980s. Pay attention to all the satellite crooks around him. Trump is following the same playbook and no one seems to notice. There's a free movie about him on TUBI (online).
I get what you're saying, except there's no choice in having SS deducted from payroll, so that confuses me a bit.
It’s yours. The government saved it for you so you don’t starve if you didn’t generate enough retirement in your working years. Then came Reagan who got a window of opportunity to convince Americans to invest it to grow it. To ensure it would always be there. That investment is still allowed. Trump will smell this opportunity to steal.
Yes, of course he will. Evil is too mild a word for him and his cronies.
My question also, thanks.
I'm a Canadian. Canada is NOT the enemy! As a nation, most of us cannot believe that you allowed misogyny to rule over common sense when you elected this monster.
I wish Canadians actually ran Canada then. Same as you wish Americans ran America
LOL! The last thing you can expect from Canadians is support for anything Trump/Musk are espousing! We are far too smart to buy into any of this crap! .
The enemy has always been Canada oil trying to use the U.S. without paying. Joe Rogan just a tool. So is Preacher Ted. Elon thinks he’s a master of puppets but his strings are showing
I'm more concerned about Musk's ties to Russia & China. And Trump's ties. And the Russian connections of several other of his Cabinet picks & numerous Republicans in Congress.
Canadian oil is owned and controlled by foreign companies, Almost all our refineries were closed (because the industry was controlled by US companies) Check your facts!
The keystone pipeline should be taxed and charged the same per gallon as the Panama Canal. If it leaks and fucks up our water supply what does money do for us then? Elons cyber truck isn’t ugly enough for me to forget the dream
You are free to go out there and start assassinating billionaires. Nobody is stopping you. Im not going on a murder spree until I have no other choice, personally. But I and millions of others support Luigi and would support you too.
I did hear something about UHC getting a new CEO. I think Luigi is a manipulated moron, but that’s just me. I think until orange stupid replaces Kash Patel with a real cop, nobody will ever investigate the gaslighter/temperature controller. Luigi got used. His life is just as over as his victim.
I’m no Luigi and Canadians ARE NOT SMART.
Joe Rogan is living proof that Canadians fucked trolls at one time. He doesn’t wear socks because of the patch of hair on the tops of his feet. He needs to go his punkass back to the shire.
Say what? Now the enemy is Canadians?
Those are the Nazis - and today they asked people in the Government as to their loyalty - so the can replace them.
These "things" are up-front about round-filing tis Country as we know it -- because they think we won't do anything about it -- because we haven't.
Getting mad about it isn't going to fix it.
Screaming about it isn't going to fix it.
And just talking about it isn't going to fix it.
This is supposed to be aland governed by Law -- and up till now - everyone agreed on that.
Trump and the MAGAts round-filled that - legally - because too many Democrats sat on their asses this last election:
This Country has been here before -- before 1776 -- so buckle-up / and get set - because it will not be pretty.
It’s not pretty now
Read about Jack Abramoff. Watch this movie: Casino Jack and the United States of Money (2010). lmk what you think.
Space lasers get really hot!! And the Jewish ones are off the chart!!
But remember? Last time, Trump said it was because they didn't rake the forest enough.
I'd bet he's never been in a forest in his life.
nope. When his ball goes in the woods on a golf course, he just drops another one on the fairway.
Sadly, trumpy got this one partly right. If you clear the understory with low impact fires, it prevents the big ones. Native peoples knew this. So you do need rakers, but you would have to pay them. Think the orange one would do that?
I'm aware that is true. I didn't know you raked after a controlled burn. I thought you just let nature take its course, because small lightning caused fires are very common in the West.
In the wet Eastern forests, Native Americans also set fires to keep open clearings in the woods, because they were more productive of berry patches, grazing for deer, and other kinds of food production.
Raking is not what you do, the controlled burn takes care of things. My point was that management takes time and personnel, both of which have costs. Government slashing grifters don't like to pay anyone, so they would be worse than what we have now. Intelligent management takes skilled people, sometimes learned through cultural traditions, sometimes learned via formal or on the job education, and involves political will. You are exactly right about eastern forests, though it was not just deer. Bison and elk were here as well 250-300 years ago.
I absolutely agree with you. I was simply taking raking literally, and you were using it to represent all forms of forest management. And you are also right about the bison and elk. But I still think that Trump believes that forest literally need to be raked. I think you are risking total lack of comprehension if you tell your reader he is even partly right.
“MTG it’s Amish space lasers that’s what caused the fire in LA”
“Trump is working on deporting Undocumented Amish aliens”
What is rather disturbing is that in the Trumpian dystopian times in which we live, the comic strip feels as though it is not satirical humor, it feels as though this is journalistic reporting of an overheard conversation during a MAGA inauguration tailgate party. But, the strip can’t be actually true because I don’t see any AR-15 rifles or other weapons.
Thanks, I hate it. 🙃
We are constantly exposed to things like this, which would be 'funny' in a universe where reason prevailed and truth was respected. Yet they simply come across as a sad example of the almost unbelievable fact that reason and truth are at the top of the endangered lists of today. So much of the general population have been 'dumbed down' as though they were sedated elders in a two-bit retirement home. Who knew Big Brother would turn out to be a South African?
Multiple South Africans as it turns out, Peter Thiel, David Sacks and Musk all came out of Paypal originally and were called the Paypal Mafia even though they sold out long ago.
Yes, it's true, again; it is possible to laugh, cry, and rage at the same time!
But this joke is real.
What's really sad is that thinking actually exists.