I can't believe I fell for it while reading it but gradually it permeated...hey it's April first! This just shows how nutty bananas the guy is .. anything seems possible. Except, alas, he really is mentally unstable, but it isn't funny. However, I am glad that prof. Reich still has a sense of humor!!! It helps me, and I am sure, others, to not go crazy or fall into despair ourselves Ay ay ay, caramba ....
I must admit while I read this I kept thinking. Can he really be this stupid? I was strongly leaning towards a weary analysis of what the effects of this will be when I got to the last paragraph. Whew!! Professor Reich you made me laugh at the whole world and myself included! I guess we are just watching and worrying over every little thing,because who knows with this guy at the helm!?!
I was worrying about all the people whose birthdays would be missed, as well as having great concerns and other ways. It seems that making orders is not legal, and neither is the end result of the joke legal. Thank goodness it was a joke! I was also worried about the voting places being open today as I read, until realization hit.
Professor Reich can indeed tickle your funny bone! If you need something to calm your Zin, Elizabeth, go to Scott Dworkin's substack. Every day he writes about good things happening that aren't good for the orange man and musk-rat. I enjoy his posts.
Thanks Peggy and keep the faith, all you kindred spirits out there! It doesn't seem it sometimes, but there are more of us than those who are misguided. Peace and love and keep your sense of humor, Dr. Reich !
Thanks for sharing this -- I did not know about it, just signed up, and its great to learn about the better news eg that Musk was heckled in Green Bay and much more. Bravo!
Aye, professor, hee, hee, herr drump knows all sees all! With 30-day months for a change of pace, we in Wisconsin in 30 years could experience blizzards in july!
What a hoot. Trae Crowder is one of my fav YouTubers to catch and watch, especially when he does a commentary from his car. And I've traveled to many of the locals he brings up in his show, like Bucksnort TN, a whistlestop on the way to Nashville.
70 something million people said R*P$ is no big deal. They are ok with it. They are fine with putting a R*P$ST in the Oval Office. Women don't matter. It is fine. What was she wearing???
HE SLAMMED E JEAN CARROLL AGAINST A WALL, HELD HER THERE, AND JAMMED HIS FINGERS UP HER VAGINA.
THAT IS WHAT HE IS.
70 SOMETHING MILLION PEOPLE ARE OK WITH THAT, AND ALSO THAT HE FAKE BLOW-JOBBED A MICROPHONE, BRAGGED 10 YEARS AGO TO "GRAB" ME "BY" MY PRIVATES, "EXAMINE" PAGEANT COMPETITORS WHILE THEY ARE NUDE......
A thought just crossed my mind. Wouldn't it be a terrible, terrible thing if some upstart yegg egged "The Beast" as Ras-Putin's Bitch's motorcade drove by? Just a thought! I just thought I'd share it.
All kidding aside. An actual astonishing thing is occurring in the Senate through the night here. Dem Senators appear to be holding non-stop talking to the American people about the upside-down farce we are in. Here’s a link a LFAA commenter directed people to. MSM does seem to have anything about it. https://www.booker.senate.gov/live
ABC - Anything But Courage. Word search for “Booker” failed to bring up Booker’s marathon speech.
CBS - Constant B* S*. Word search for “Booker” same as ABC.
NBC - No Broadcasting Credibility. Also same as ABC and CBS.
Sad but apparently true. Past, traditional political tactics aren’t breaking through the sound and fury Trump constantly whips up to get his way. Democrats are going to have to try something new. Maybe personal, on the ground, face to face appearances with voters/ people that bypasses national news and heads straight to local news where they make appearances? Labor intensive and probably expensive but maybe necessary?
Cut, copy and paste! I do that and send this kind of news to all of my friends asking them to share it with all of their friends. MSM may bow and kiss the orange man's ass, but true journalists like Maddow, 1440, Bowers and others will happily share this type of news.
Yup, I saw Booker speaking--he was going to go as long as he could. I wonder how long he held out? Anyone know? He's a great guy. We need more like him!
Update! Last I heard this morning, he had been there 15 hours; plus, got a few others to speak too! I assume he maybe sleeping now? It's 11:05 am CDT for me.
MLRGRMI - I saw it mentioned in the Guardian and I am impressed that he is still going but encouraged by the other democrats who are helping him continue.
Also saw an article about a deadline of April 14th to get your new social security id requirements done. I don’t know how to post links but you have to either go in person or get a mysocialsecurity account created. I don’t get social security currently because of my previous employment but I know that a lot of other people do. Just FYI for those who need to know.
A few days ago, I mentioned here to start being skeptical of GDP numbers, since Ras-Putin's Bitch ordered that the government input to the GDP equation be eliminated.
A few months ago, I posted about alleged job opportunities and "ghost" or "Phantom" jobs. A new discussion with a good retrospective discusses the same thing. The message here is that any numbers concerning job opportunities under this administration are most likely a patent lie:
"Troublemaker, disobedient, rule-breaker, pest, menace, scalawag, agitator, firebrand, rabble-rouser." These are just a few of the adjectives used to describe Donald Trump. How could anyone choose to support a man who sees the constitution as a detriment to progress. The fact that Trump is entertaining the idea of running for a third term shows his disregard for the basic rules our forefathers put in place to ensure a mad man couldn't never gain control of our government. Well, how shocked they all would be if they could see their beloved constitution lying in shreds upon the floor of our Democracy. Donald Trump is a corrupt example of what can happen when the truth becomes something to hide from. 4-5-25, let's hear the roar.
Not as far as I can see. Trump is demented (google TRUMP DEMENTIA) so he cannot tolerate anyone sane enough to make him look bad. He's retarded, he cannot tolerate anyone intelligent enough to make him look like anything but the very stable genius he imagines himself to be.
They're fascists and they've whole hearted embraced the fascist agenda, that's their reality, turn the country into an autocracy. That includes all elected republicans - what other conclusion can one reach after these traitors have 100% rubber stamped all those muttonheads in trump's cabinet (+musk) who are dismantling the country.
Thank you for your excellent commentary. In full realization that what I am about to say is obnoxiously petty and beside the main point of your astute observation and, therefore, correspondingly unimportant, I am compelled ( yes, it is a compulsion!) to point out that the well-chosen series of words in your opening sentence are, with the exception of “disobedient,” actually NOUNS, not adjectives. Thanks to the indomitable force of habit, the former language teacher in me cannot rid herself of the frightful red correction pencil that is invisibly attached to her, regardless of what she is reading.😵💫(It has also just scribbled in the margin of this reply, “terrible run-on sentences”!)
Please forgive my just having fun with language this morning: it’s my way of trying to bring some levity to the horribly depressing awareness of Trump’s 2nd term.
Scared me! Whew! Did anyone watch the Booker-Murphy marathon--so awesome! It's 1:10 am and they and I are still going strong. Looking forward to April 5th!
Susan, with help from subscribers here and on other substacks, all of us can cut, copy and paste and send that fabulous marathon to our friends and ask them to share it with their friends. Everyone needs to see it! It is awesome!
I can think of so many absolutely horrible things that should be named for him, but right now I need to use the trump as my stomach is trumped. Also, I have to take out the trump for the trump-men to pick up!
Ummmm, sir. Excuse me sir. But was that a wise idea? We know he can’t take a joke. It’s just the kind of asinine me-ishness that he is absolutely capable of. He would start it as a distraction like Greenland and Canada and then suddenly decide it is another one of his brilliant ideas. Anyone who renames the Gulf of Mexico is capable of any batshit crazy ideas.
Mike, if they so much as come close to Mt. Rushmore, the protesters will probably chain themselves to the base! There would be such a huge angry blowback! I cannot even think about his smarmy orange face next to the faces of true American leaders! Ugh!
I hate to be a wet blanket, Dr. Reich, but this is so not funny. I actually believed you until I got to the bottom of the page. I don't know about everybody else, but I am SO-O-O-O Trumped out! I WISH I NEVER HAD TO HEAR THAT NAME E-E-E-EH-V-E-R, EVER, EVER, EVER AGAIN!
They want to exhaust us to all their ideas and to make us feel numb so there's no fight left. The GOP knows trumps idiotic rants are a great distraction.
Love it — didn’t know, RR, that you have a Borowitz-like sense of humor…also called ghetto humor or Galgen Humor. You should do a guest post on the Borowitz Report!! “Happy” April 1!!
Sadly, this is all too plausible!
I totally fell for it. But you hit the point on the head!
I can't believe I fell for it while reading it but gradually it permeated...hey it's April first! This just shows how nutty bananas the guy is .. anything seems possible. Except, alas, he really is mentally unstable, but it isn't funny. However, I am glad that prof. Reich still has a sense of humor!!! It helps me, and I am sure, others, to not go crazy or fall into despair ourselves Ay ay ay, caramba ....
I must admit while I read this I kept thinking. Can he really be this stupid? I was strongly leaning towards a weary analysis of what the effects of this will be when I got to the last paragraph. Whew!! Professor Reich you made me laugh at the whole world and myself included! I guess we are just watching and worrying over every little thing,because who knows with this guy at the helm!?!
I was worrying about all the people whose birthdays would be missed, as well as having great concerns and other ways. It seems that making orders is not legal, and neither is the end result of the joke legal. Thank goodness it was a joke! I was also worried about the voting places being open today as I read, until realization hit.
But then again, they will never get older. Could be mixed blessings.
JP, I was just glad when the months with 31 days were mentioned as giving up a day, May was missed. That means I still had my birthday. Ha!
Wonderful, Ruth, that you still had your birthday! Thanks for sharing!
Professor Reich can indeed tickle your funny bone! If you need something to calm your Zin, Elizabeth, go to Scott Dworkin's substack. Every day he writes about good things happening that aren't good for the orange man and musk-rat. I enjoy his posts.
Thanks Peggy and keep the faith, all you kindred spirits out there! It doesn't seem it sometimes, but there are more of us than those who are misguided. Peace and love and keep your sense of humor, Dr. Reich !
Thanks for sharing this -- I did not know about it, just signed up, and its great to learn about the better news eg that Musk was heckled in Green Bay and much more. Bravo!
Aye, professor, hee, hee, herr drump knows all sees all! With 30-day months for a change of pace, we in Wisconsin in 30 years could experience blizzards in july!
Ja, dat kould be aktually, Herr D'rum--ff!!
While the humor iron is hot, I highly recommend this stand-up offering from "The Liberal Redneck":
https://youtu.be/VULUOEy-Ro8?si=5yROgJq-OwVqzEuT
DZK, what a hoot! Trash Daddy is hilarious! Totally enjoyed that! Thank you!
What a hoot. Trae Crowder is one of my fav YouTubers to catch and watch, especially when he does a commentary from his car. And I've traveled to many of the locals he brings up in his show, like Bucksnort TN, a whistlestop on the way to Nashville.
Thankyouthankyou! Haven't even gone there yet, but that guy!
Hey, he's funny!
Sublime treat! Thank you, DZK.
👍
Hilarious, one of my favorites !
Thank you.
Make beastiality legal! Yee haw!
👍
❤️ Trey!
Yep, I fell for it too. Obviously the point.
70 something million people said R*P$ is no big deal. They are ok with it. They are fine with putting a R*P$ST in the Oval Office. Women don't matter. It is fine. What was she wearing???
HE SLAMMED E JEAN CARROLL AGAINST A WALL, HELD HER THERE, AND JAMMED HIS FINGERS UP HER VAGINA.
THAT IS WHAT HE IS.
70 SOMETHING MILLION PEOPLE ARE OK WITH THAT, AND ALSO THAT HE FAKE BLOW-JOBBED A MICROPHONE, BRAGGED 10 YEARS AGO TO "GRAB" ME "BY" MY PRIVATES, "EXAMINE" PAGEANT COMPETITORS WHILE THEY ARE NUDE......
FUCK THIS.
A thought just crossed my mind. Wouldn't it be a terrible, terrible thing if some upstart yegg egged "The Beast" as Ras-Putin's Bitch's motorcade drove by? Just a thought! I just thought I'd share it.
All kidding aside. An actual astonishing thing is occurring in the Senate through the night here. Dem Senators appear to be holding non-stop talking to the American people about the upside-down farce we are in. Here’s a link a LFAA commenter directed people to. MSM does seem to have anything about it. https://www.booker.senate.gov/live
ABC - Anything But Courage. Word search for “Booker” failed to bring up Booker’s marathon speech.
CBS - Constant B* S*. Word search for “Booker” same as ABC.
NBC - No Broadcasting Credibility. Also same as ABC and CBS.
Sad but apparently true. Past, traditional political tactics aren’t breaking through the sound and fury Trump constantly whips up to get his way. Democrats are going to have to try something new. Maybe personal, on the ground, face to face appearances with voters/ people that bypasses national news and heads straight to local news where they make appearances? Labor intensive and probably expensive but maybe necessary?
Cut, copy and paste! I do that and send this kind of news to all of my friends asking them to share it with all of their friends. MSM may bow and kiss the orange man's ass, but true journalists like Maddow, 1440, Bowers and others will happily share this type of news.
CALL THEM ! Seriously. Ask for national news editors. Here is great list to have on hand: https://fair.org/take-action-now/media-contact-list/. MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD!!
ABC National News, you can reach them via email at news.tips@abc.com or by phone at (212) 456-2828.
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CBS Call as many as you can https://www.cbsnews.com/executive-team/
212-975-4321
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Just tsp on or click on the site. It comes up instantly.
Too late for that.
Still talking? I started listening when he started. Had to sleep 6 hours later. He's an inspiration!!!
WOW! He is very powerful! I listened and liked what he had to say! So soft spoken but so strong. Thank you, MLRGRMI, for sharing.
Yup, I saw Booker speaking--he was going to go as long as he could. I wonder how long he held out? Anyone know? He's a great guy. We need more like him!
Update! Last I heard this morning, he had been there 15 hours; plus, got a few others to speak too! I assume he maybe sleeping now? It's 11:05 am CDT for me.
MLRGRMI - I saw it mentioned in the Guardian and I am impressed that he is still going but encouraged by the other democrats who are helping him continue.
Also saw an article about a deadline of April 14th to get your new social security id requirements done. I don’t know how to post links but you have to either go in person or get a mysocialsecurity account created. I don’t get social security currently because of my previous employment but I know that a lot of other people do. Just FYI for those who need to know.
Is this another April Fools Day joke,?
ML RGRMI, thank you so much for this site!
TY
Thanks for this link.
I fell for it 🙄
Just what I was about to say. I hope it doesn't give Trump any ideas.
Exactly what I thought!
Don't give him ideas...
https://www.mobilize.us/wisdems/event/749814/
Make calls now for Susan Crawford for Wisconsin Supreme Court. Get out the Dem vote!
Her election could prove crucial in the next national election. And mid-terms. And, this is no joke.
Narcissistically, plausible!
Yes!!!!
It stopped my heart for a second!
I thought it was!
Along the lines of an all too plausible a joke:
A few days ago, I mentioned here to start being skeptical of GDP numbers, since Ras-Putin's Bitch ordered that the government input to the GDP equation be eliminated.
A few months ago, I posted about alleged job opportunities and "ghost" or "Phantom" jobs. A new discussion with a good retrospective discusses the same thing. The message here is that any numbers concerning job opportunities under this administration are most likely a patent lie:
https://youtu.be/DG102Dh2k9k?si=_rswGBKpwj0xQpwQ
Yes, good comment.
"Troublemaker, disobedient, rule-breaker, pest, menace, scalawag, agitator, firebrand, rabble-rouser." These are just a few of the adjectives used to describe Donald Trump. How could anyone choose to support a man who sees the constitution as a detriment to progress. The fact that Trump is entertaining the idea of running for a third term shows his disregard for the basic rules our forefathers put in place to ensure a mad man couldn't never gain control of our government. Well, how shocked they all would be if they could see their beloved constitution lying in shreds upon the floor of our Democracy. Donald Trump is a corrupt example of what can happen when the truth becomes something to hide from. 4-5-25, let's hear the roar.
Is any one of Trump’s gang living in reality?
Not as far as I can see. Trump is demented (google TRUMP DEMENTIA) so he cannot tolerate anyone sane enough to make him look bad. He's retarded, he cannot tolerate anyone intelligent enough to make him look like anything but the very stable genius he imagines himself to be.
They're fascists and they've whole hearted embraced the fascist agenda, that's their reality, turn the country into an autocracy. That includes all elected republicans - what other conclusion can one reach after these traitors have 100% rubber stamped all those muttonheads in trump's cabinet (+musk) who are dismantling the country.
Keith--It takes intelligence to understand what reality you live in. The Republicans are lost.
No, absolutely not!
Thank you for your excellent commentary. In full realization that what I am about to say is obnoxiously petty and beside the main point of your astute observation and, therefore, correspondingly unimportant, I am compelled ( yes, it is a compulsion!) to point out that the well-chosen series of words in your opening sentence are, with the exception of “disobedient,” actually NOUNS, not adjectives. Thanks to the indomitable force of habit, the former language teacher in me cannot rid herself of the frightful red correction pencil that is invisibly attached to her, regardless of what she is reading.😵💫(It has also just scribbled in the margin of this reply, “terrible run-on sentences”!)
Please forgive my just having fun with language this morning: it’s my way of trying to bring some levity to the horribly depressing awareness of Trump’s 2nd term.
Thanks for the reminder of the difference between nouns and adjectives. I'm sure I'll whiz the next Jeopary 'Noun vs. Adjective' category. :-)
April Fool, and Fool every month
Paul--Back at ya --
I think they put that out this early so the nation would be distracted from Signalgate.
My adjectives are unpublishable.
R*P$ST IS THE FIRST WORST AND SHOULD BE THE ONLY BECAUSE IT COVERS EVERYTHING ELSE ENTIRELY.
Indeed
The trouble with this post is that it could be true! There is no bottom to how low Trump will go.
Scared me! Whew! Did anyone watch the Booker-Murphy marathon--so awesome! It's 1:10 am and they and I are still going strong. Looking forward to April 5th!
Susan, with help from subscribers here and on other substacks, all of us can cut, copy and paste and send that fabulous marathon to our friends and ask them to share it with their friends. Everyone needs to see it! It is awesome!
Trump is also planning to rename each day of the week to Trump. They will be Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump and Trump. Next come the months.
The only thing that should be named for him is a black hole far out in space.
I can think of so many absolutely horrible things that should be named for him, but right now I need to use the trump as my stomach is trumped. Also, I have to take out the trump for the trump-men to pick up!
A bottomless pit of need here on Earth would do.
Professor Reich: it looks like agent orange took away my birthday. on one hand, i like presents (if they are books) but on the other hand ... meh!
Naughty Robert your playing with our minds I read all the way down to the date at the bottom before I realized this 🤣
Good one. I can see DOGE really cutting out the inefficient 31st day, with Trump's full approval.
Now I'm worried one of his people will read this article and tell him about it!
Exactly! Creating FEAR is the greatest, most effective tool in a dictator’s tool-box!
He won’t get it,
Ummmm, sir. Excuse me sir. But was that a wise idea? We know he can’t take a joke. It’s just the kind of asinine me-ishness that he is absolutely capable of. He would start it as a distraction like Greenland and Canada and then suddenly decide it is another one of his brilliant ideas. Anyone who renames the Gulf of Mexico is capable of any batshit crazy ideas.
Not to say it isn’t a brilliant April Fool’s Day prank. I will bet that for most of us our first thought was not disbelief but aaarrrrgh!!
surely an April Fools Joke? sorry for being so blonde ..... :)
They’re talking Mt. Rushmore so brace yourselves.
Mike, if they so much as come close to Mt. Rushmore, the protesters will probably chain themselves to the base! There would be such a huge angry blowback! I cannot even think about his smarmy orange face next to the faces of true American leaders! Ugh!
Besides, if you try to add to the monument, it would be difficult because the Lincoln piece was challenging the actual rock.
I hate to be a wet blanket, Dr. Reich, but this is so not funny. I actually believed you until I got to the bottom of the page. I don't know about everybody else, but I am SO-O-O-O Trumped out! I WISH I NEVER HAD TO HEAR THAT NAME E-E-E-EH-V-E-R, EVER, EVER, EVER AGAIN!
It’s just Captain Distraction throwing everything he can against the wall.
They want to exhaust us to all their ideas and to make us feel numb so there's no fight left. The GOP knows trumps idiotic rants are a great distraction.
You may have to send a follow up email clarifying the joke - unfortunately, in the lunacy of the moment, surreal is the new real.
But that means 24 fewer days before he's out of office.
Love it — didn’t know, RR, that you have a Borowitz-like sense of humor…also called ghetto humor or Galgen Humor. You should do a guest post on the Borowitz Report!! “Happy” April 1!!