Netanyahu understands that the next US administration will hold him to account for genocide, hence his frenetic sadistic war to destroy as much as possible in the meantime. The next Israeli government needs to lock him up forever once he’s out of his wartime mode, runs out of things to bomb.
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends (1959-1964) treated us to some cold war antics (Russian agents Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale), political subversion and government corruption, 5-10 years before Sesame Street reprised Bert (the cop) and Ernie (the cab driver), George Bailey's (Jimmy Stewart's) friends in It's a Wonderful Life (1946).
“Mr. Chairman, I am against all foreign aid, especially to places like Hawaii and Alaska,” says Senator Fussmussen from the floor of a cartoon Senate in 1962. Another senator wants to raise taxes on everyone under the age of 67. He, of course, is 68. Yet a third stands up to demand, “We’ve got to get the government out of government!” The Pottsylvanian spies decide their weapon is unnecessary: Congress is already ignorant, corrupt and feckless."
How Bullwinkle Taught Kids Sophisticated Political Satire; Smithsonian Magazine; 7-Sep-17 https://tinyurl.com/3x8yu5hb
Absolutely! So many of the Looney Tunes show were from from PC and Scooby-Doo always had subtexts older kids got that little kids just missed. Same with the non-comic night TV show Batman. So much going on with that
Thank you so very much! How I loved it and now I must find a way to rewatch it. Today? It would be banned as subversive IF they figured out what it was.
I have them all on my Ipad but I'm on my kindle fire right now. The one where Burgess Meredith wears those very thick eyeglasses and the harridan of a wife who won't let him read. He works in a bank and is sitting in the vault reading during lunch hour when there's a nuclear attack and mankind is wiped out and he's the only survivor. He finds a library and stacks up all the books he wants to read on these huge steps, he's so happy to have peace and quiet and time...then drops his glasses that break and he can't see without them as he cries "It's not fair" I think it's "Time Enough to Last" The pathos. The irony. The heartbreak. There are a couple with Burgess. "Obsolete Man" is another. A"1984" ish "Big Brother" type episode.
I think one of my faves is the one with Gig Young where he stops for gas and realizes he's close to the town he grew up in, so decides to walk over there and walks back into the past, one summer day of his childhood. He meets himself as a kid and tries to tell him who he is...himself as a grown up, but scares him off and the kid hurts himself getting away. . Sees his father who must be dead in his timeline and says "Pops, it's me. Martin" Father thinks he's a crazy man until he proves he really is his son from the future, and after they talk the father tells him "Martin, you had your summer. Let this one have his". " Bye, Martin. Bye, Pops". 😭 And when he goes back to get his car in his timeline, he walks with a limp...that he caused from that interaction with himself. One of those time traveling "can't go home again" episodes that are so poignant , and how changing the past can change the future.. I cry just thinking about it. "If I only knew then what I know now"....I think about that all the time with Demented Donnie. If we could only go back and change things knowing what we do...but we can't.
I clearly remember the one where Burgess Meredith breaks his glasses. As someone who loves books, I could relate!
"The Hitchhiker" and "Twenty Two" both scared the crap out of me. And memories of "A Stop In Willoughby" makes me wistful to this day. Another one of those "can't go home again" episodes that are so heartbreakingly poignant these days.
Look up "Hiraeth." (not a TZ episode -- a Welsh concept). Be sure to have some tissue handy.
I loved "The Hitch-hiker" with Inger Stevens. I am realizing I must have seen many Twilight Zones while they were already in reruns since since that episode is from 1960. I would have been 4. I still remember her character's name...Nan, but I can't remember waking up this morning! She was in another one...she's a beloved daughter with older parents (vaguely remember the entire story) who finds out she's a robot. Her father was a scientist and built her...they couldn't have children.
OMG. Twenty-Two The blonde actress in the hospital who keeps having the dream with the nurse who says "Room for one more, honey". (The morgue room 22) That's the season they tried to save money and filmed the episodes on video tape which I hated the look of...very soap opera-ish, but I agree. That one terrified me. When she is late for the flight she booked to get away and it exploded on the runway. The whole thing saved her life.
Willoughby (the wives are always nightmares in these tales. I can remember the boss and his wife's name was Janey) Another one that kills me is " I Sing The Body Electric" with the robot grandma for the 3 kids that lost their mother. And the one whose title I can't remember, but its about an elderly couple, where they can buy young bodies, but they can only afford one, so the wife tells the husband "you do it" and he comes out like a young body builder, but he can't bear to live without his wife, so he gives up the new body to go back to his old one, so they can grow old and die together. 😭😭😭 I'm going to have to do a TZ binge. Thanks for the memories Dee ❤
PS. Hiraeth. 😭😭😭 Yes, that "homesickness or longing". I sometimes, even at almost 70, have dreams of my childhood home. My parents aren't ever there, in fact, I rarely if ever dream of my parents who I still miss desperately after 54 and 38 years after their deaths, but I can walk through the rooms. Go in my closet and see things in my bedroom desk. It's when I long for the safety and security of my childhood.
Well said. Netanyahu has lost his mind and gone into full blown genocidal blood lust. Schumer and any Democrat helping Israel needs to be voted out. People have had enough.
Schumer and Jeffries both take AIPAC money. Schumer stated before an AIPAC meeting that he will do all in his power for Israel. I guess, I was taught an incorrect version of history. I thought that Senators took an oath to the Constitution and to their constituents.
There is a revolution in this country - sometimes quiet, sometimes not, but most decidedly people have turned against Israel. Younger people, in particular, see Netanyahu's genocide against the Palestinians and they're not buying his attack on Lebanon. Also, being called anti Semitic isn't the own they think it is. Watching Netanyahu's government celebrate and drink champagne after passing a law to execute Palestinians was sobering. How ironic that a people who endured a Holocaust would turn around and do it to other people is astounding. As for Schumer, I've seen him in videos pledging loyalty to Israel. He and Jeffries need to go.
Very good post Rita and I see it also with the young podcasters on You Tube. They grew up with the internet and are aware of both past and future events and can access them in a matter of seconds. It isn't that easy to lie to many of them.
Truth here! I can't wrap my mind around him just constantly killing, bombing, and Trump/Hegseth same. What's it going to take? The people that could stop this won't for some reason I can't understand.
I'm old. My father fought in WW2. I've read the books. Seen all the documentaries. And I wondered how an entire people could follow Hitler or just kill children without remorse. We're seeing the same thing now and I still don't get it.
I assign collective blame to anyone who voted for Trump. I assign collective blame to Republicans who support and enable it. With respect, Kelvin, quit nitpicking what I say.
Thank you, Rita. I will post as I wish and I will critique what I find worthy of further discussion. You have an option to block me if you can't stand good for your views. If you don't then expect more because you attack without receipts or consistency. In your first post, you stated, "Schumer and any Democrat helping Israel needs to be voted out. " In the same thread, you assert: "I assign collective blame to Republicans who support and enable it." By attacking first Dems and the the GOP, you make it impossible to believe your condemnation is of some; really, it is of all.
Well in excess of half of Congress receives AIPAC funding including Republican Senators Bill Cassidy, Susan Collins, John Cornyn, Tom Cotton, Joni Ernst, Lindsey Graham, and a dozen others. GOP House recipients include Dan Bacon, Tom Cole, James Comer, Mike Johnson, Jim Jordan, Steve Scalise and dozens more. I do not understand what makes Schumer and Jefferies worthy of being called out because of an across-the-aisle funding source. As for their politics, yes, they are horrible. But an attack based on funding calls for a much broader attack than two people. https://www.aipacpac.org/
They are the Democratic minority leaders. I don't count on Republicans for anything, but I do expect Democrats to read the room. The days of fealty to Israel are over.
Look at the list of AIPAC recipients: https://www.aipacpac.org/. It is bilateral. What makes Dems more loyal to Israeli money than their GOP colleagues? Explain the fealty of which you speak. If you are old enough to remember (as you claim; I am), think back to 1973. Recall that Kissinger interceded to protect encircled Egyptian troops, forcing Israel to withdraw. You mix up the dog and the wagged tail. What is it that you don't like, Israelis or the Israeli government (or Jews generally)? How many nations today consider the US to be a loyal friend?
A clinical feature of malignant narcissists is hatred of people and a corollary to that trait is sadism
Miles Taylor who spent 4y in the first Cheeto regime recounts in an article about his observations about Cheeto that he loved to induce unspeakable violence against people(https://bit.ly/4sPUVLT)
This disturbing fact points to our understanding how Cheeto likes to inflict pain on people by withdrawing benefits for those who need a helping hand or why he delights with his buddy Netanyahu on bombing Iranian civilian facilities or why he has no empathy for American civilians killed by ICE or why he gets off bombing boats in the Caribbean on the pretense that they are narcoterrorists
And it's not as if we didn't know. As early as 2016, trump offered to pay legal fees for anyone who would "knock the crap" out of any hecklers at his hate rallies:
He has also suggested that shoplifters be shot, and wanted serious consideration to moats filled with alligators and snakes on either side of his border wall, along with wanted the wall electrified with spikes on top that could pierce human flesh:
Privately, the president had often talked about fortifying a border wall with a water-filled trench, stocked with snakes or alligators, prompting aides to seek a cost estimate. He wanted the wall electrified, with spikes on top that could pierce human flesh.
After publicly suggesting that soldiers shoot migrants if they threw rocks, the president backed off when his staff told him that was illegal. But later in a meeting, aides recalled, he suggested that they shoot migrants in the legs to slow them down. That’s not allowed either, they told him.
Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper says that former President Trump asked authorities if they could shoot protesters in the legs amid the demonstrations that filled the streets of Washington following the murder of George Floyd. “Can’t you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?” Esper says Trump said. The Hill; 2-May-22; https://tinyurl.com/4jzbwmpp
"He has also suggested that shoplifters be shot, and wanted serious consideration to moats filled with alligators and snakes on either side of his border wall, along with wanted the wall electrified with spikes on top that could pierce human flesh:"
Yet he's a coward terrified of sharks and batteries on a boat. He'd rather be electrocuted. I agree. Would love nothing more than seeing him strapped to "Old Sparky". Did you ever see " The Green Mile"? 😱
Seth Abramson (here on Substack) has done lots of research into him and reckons that he gets off on violence, especially towards more vulnerable people. Look how he loves boxing and wrestling, it makes him feel like he has a huge dick.
"Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah: “A day will come when we don’t have to deal with foreign murderers at all… because we deported them before they could harm any American.”"
.....No, we'll only have to deal with our own homegrown murderers from ICE who killed Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Does this POS hear himself??? I am just sick of them all. How do we survive even if we get rid of D "JC" T...only to be left with the Mike Lees and Tommy Tubervilles in power. I don't believe this is our country.
I know. I guess the Repubs have been too busy to exploit her death by naming an act after her and wearing some sort of pin or ribbon while ignoring the murders of the Hortmans, victim-blaming Pretti and Good, and mocking the attack on Paul Pelosi and the murders of Rob and Michele Reiner.
And..."pain on people" does NOT exclude those close at hand. As the malignant "Cheeto's" hammer (of life) continues to drop, proximate targets are easier. Coming soon - this is not a smooth graph deal.
Terrible. For those wondering, the Senate narrowly voted 50–49 to lift a mining moratorium near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters, clearing the way for a proposed copper and nickel mine and sending the measure to Trump, who is expected to sign it. Environmentalists, Native American tribes, and conservation groups concerned about potential pollution and damage to the protected wilderness are enraged and say it could devastate fragile lakes and forests.
Reminds me of the commercial when I was young with with Native American man, looking at the garbage strewn roads and land with a tear rolling down his eye. These greedy, despicable people in our gov't. I just keep thinking of the beautiful pictures Artemis II sent back of our planet...while they are dooming us. I'm sorry to say it...maybe one day it will be for the best. For Mother Earth to get rid of us and regenerate herself.
The coolest thing about this fight the WH wants with the pope, is legacy media is covering what he's saying on his Africa trip, which is a message to pursue peace. Nice of MAGA to turn up the pope's microphone. And the pope isn't going to back off the Gospel, so good luck with that. I mean Pope Leo worships Christ, who gave His life to spread that Gospel. I'm not a Christian, but I understand Christianity well enough to know that much.
I prefer the written summary too. There are plenty of videos on YT everyday. I personally cannot keel up with MT, Legal AF, and the many other videos I would like to see. The only plus to videos on substack is you can read the transcript afyer which you can't get on YT.
Please ask the candidates about their positions on the failed money pit bulletin train. Californians need to stop throwing good money after bad, and kill that boondoggle.
Some of those democratic candidates need to smell the coffee and step down. Does power mean so much to them that they are willing to sell out California (the world's 4th largest economy) to the repugnicans, and thus sell out the US to them.
Yes, but WHO are the ones "willing to sell out California"? It's hard to convince any particular one that they are the one that needs to drop out. I have my own opinion on this, but I will Democrats would stop falling in love and get hard-nosed. At this point, as much as I'm not a fan, I'd vote for and promote Katie Porter if it appeared she had a solid, steady lead (she doesn't.) I heard a lot of people who seem to know nothing screaming "Steyer is a billionaire." I know a lot about Steyer; I've followed his work for nearly 15 years, heard him speak and talked to him personally. He's a billionaire in the Pritzker mold, not the Musk or Thiel mode. And he's an avid environmentalist whose organization is dedicated to activating young voters. There's no reason to dismiss him, should he be showing a steady lead.
According to an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, there is still time for Kamala Harris to enter the race. We do not feel she has a chance of winning a presidential race again. Misogyny, racism, not speaking out about the genocide in Gaza. The country is in an emergency economically and in terms of our defense and national security as well as all the DOGE cuts. It is going to be a huge challenge to repair all of this damage.
Linda, I believe that Kamala had won the 2024 election and that this regime along with Muskrat had skewed the results. On that note, not sure the general public are willing to try having her run again for any position-state or federal, since the republican machine has damaged her reputation tremendously. Just to be clear, I had voted for her and believed that she would have led America on the forward path to correct a lot of wrongs that the republicans have inflicted on Americans, but she would have been a “lame duck” president with the house & senate held by republicans.
They "skewed the results" by lying lying lying about EVERYTHING, and the press not pushing back hard enough countering with facts, and a whole lot of gullible people believing those lies, or wishing they were true. Lies about Harris, lies about project 25, lies about war, lies about migrants, lies about trans people, lies about the economy (omg eggs!) lies about cutting the debt, lies about medicare and mecicaid, lies about Biden, etc etc etc etc
She did not, I'm sorry We need to stop being MAGA-style conspiracy theorists and strengthening Trump's claim that he won in 2020 and it was rigged. No American election was "rigged" in terms of the voting.
We voted for her also. There was certainly election interference. Her campaign was so expensive with all those entertainment rallies. Low income voters and farmers found no appeal in her.
No, there was no "election interference, if you mean interfering with the actual voting. That did not happen. Any "interference" was on the front end with the media's incessant tearing her down while ignoring Trump's increasingly obvious shortcoming.
Those are not examples of interfering with voting or changing the vote. They're voter suppression, something else entirely. They don't prove "Kamala won."
No — they are trying to screw it up and elect a Republican. Then after the election, they'd hammer a steady drumbeat of "she got in too late." The time for her to get in this race was last year.
Photo of trump staring into the distance while a man fainted in the oval office was awarded
the White House Correspondents' Association Award for excellence in presidential news coverage. Worth more than a thousand words, this photo (scroll all the way down in above link for the actual winning photo) pretty much sums up his entire maladministation!
Pope Leo is loved by the world, unlike Trump. I strongly believe he is just jealous of Leo's popularity. I stand behind Pope Leo. I adore and admire him and I'm an atheist. So glad Leo isn't backing down. ✊
I'm stunned when trump and his followers tell him he shouldn't stray into politics. As if the killing of thousands of innocent people is simply "politics."
President Obama, President Biden, Governor Newsom, Pope Leo, Bruce Springsteen, Jerome Powell ...the list of those trump is jealous of gets longer by the day.
Perhaps any male who doesn't bow down to him. Especially those whose hands are bigger than his. ;)
Funny you mentioned the Bush's. The same thought has crossed my mind several times since last year. I disliked both but kind of miss George Dubya a bit. I mean, I would take him in a heartbeat over Trump!
This is outrageous with Hegseth already. There should be NO place in our gov't for religion. This is why we have Separation of Church and State (but not for long if SCOTUS has anything to do with it). There are non-Christian members of our military and our country, which you all so conveniently forget. He is an insane White Christian Nationalist who cannot wait to blow us up so he gets his cloud with pina coladas for eternity. Or the Crusades to put those tattoos to good use. Lemme tell you something GI Pete 🍸. Don't wish too hard...you just may get it. You have a target on your back, you coward, and when Donnie and the rest of this disastrous regime of faux Christian hypocritical bible-thumpers is gone, one day soon (🙏) hopefully, you won't be living in your Military Melrose Place. And there better not be a Dem Pres who gives you one dime of Secret Service protection or security. Remember Mike Pompeo and John Bolton had theirs pulled with Iran after them too. ! You know what would be a great look for you Pete? 🎯 tattooed right in the middle of your simian forehead. So much easier for them to.find you.
Our Daddy who art in Mar-a-Lago, hallowed be thy name. Thy Kingdom come (before the midterms). Stephen Miller’s will be done, on Earth as it is in the White House. Give me this day my daily Surf and Turf, and forgive me my trespasses (via presidential pardon), as I fire those who trespass against me. And lead me not into the temptation of Happy Hour (because I can find my way there all by myself). But deliver me from evil (again via presidential pardon). For thine is the Kingdom (of America), and the Power (of corrupt money), and the Glory (of malignant narcissism). Amen!
Please get Tom Steyer on Meidas. He will make a great Governor. He will help save our planet by helping get climate change under control. He will make the environment a top priority as well as affordability, medical insurance, housing and fair-for-all taxes. And we CAN NOT let a Republican win the CA governorship. Tom is electable and needs Meidas’s help make sure it happens.
Absolutely agree. He founded his organization NextGen, originally NextGen Climate, now NextGenAmerica, to activate young voters through. When I worked for an environmental publication back in 2014-15 he came to Cleveland to take part in a panel on how climate change impacts working and low income people, sponsored by some local group—SEIU or Jobs for Justice, I don't remember. I had a chance to speak to him afterward and he was very friendly and down to earth. Given Trump's assaults on California's climate measures, he would be a strong ally — and the Republicans would both be disastrous not just for California, but for the entire country.
Netanyahu understands that the next US administration will hold him to account for genocide, hence his frenetic sadistic war to destroy as much as possible in the meantime. The next Israeli government needs to lock him up forever once he’s out of his wartime mode, runs out of things to bomb.
We had Trump in a cage, but the ignorant voter let him out; see twilight zone episode 'the howling man'.
Myy favorite TV show of all time that taught me so much about life...good and bad. They tried to warn us.
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"The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" was another prescient episode.
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends (1959-1964) treated us to some cold war antics (Russian agents Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale), political subversion and government corruption, 5-10 years before Sesame Street reprised Bert (the cop) and Ernie (the cab driver), George Bailey's (Jimmy Stewart's) friends in It's a Wonderful Life (1946).
“Mr. Chairman, I am against all foreign aid, especially to places like Hawaii and Alaska,” says Senator Fussmussen from the floor of a cartoon Senate in 1962. Another senator wants to raise taxes on everyone under the age of 67. He, of course, is 68. Yet a third stands up to demand, “We’ve got to get the government out of government!” The Pottsylvanian spies decide their weapon is unnecessary: Congress is already ignorant, corrupt and feckless."
How Bullwinkle Taught Kids Sophisticated Political Satire; Smithsonian Magazine; 7-Sep-17 https://tinyurl.com/3x8yu5hb
From Rocky and Bullwinkle to the Bugs Bunny Show, those 1960's cartoons were full of sophisticated subtle and not so subtle satire.
Absolutely! So many of the Looney Tunes show were from from PC and Scooby-Doo always had subtexts older kids got that little kids just missed. Same with the non-comic night TV show Batman. So much going on with that
Thank you so very much! How I loved it and now I must find a way to rewatch it. Today? It would be banned as subversive IF they figured out what it was.
I have them all on my Ipad but I'm on my kindle fire right now. The one where Burgess Meredith wears those very thick eyeglasses and the harridan of a wife who won't let him read. He works in a bank and is sitting in the vault reading during lunch hour when there's a nuclear attack and mankind is wiped out and he's the only survivor. He finds a library and stacks up all the books he wants to read on these huge steps, he's so happy to have peace and quiet and time...then drops his glasses that break and he can't see without them as he cries "It's not fair" I think it's "Time Enough to Last" The pathos. The irony. The heartbreak. There are a couple with Burgess. "Obsolete Man" is another. A"1984" ish "Big Brother" type episode.
I think one of my faves is the one with Gig Young where he stops for gas and realizes he's close to the town he grew up in, so decides to walk over there and walks back into the past, one summer day of his childhood. He meets himself as a kid and tries to tell him who he is...himself as a grown up, but scares him off and the kid hurts himself getting away. . Sees his father who must be dead in his timeline and says "Pops, it's me. Martin" Father thinks he's a crazy man until he proves he really is his son from the future, and after they talk the father tells him "Martin, you had your summer. Let this one have his". " Bye, Martin. Bye, Pops". 😭 And when he goes back to get his car in his timeline, he walks with a limp...that he caused from that interaction with himself. One of those time traveling "can't go home again" episodes that are so poignant , and how changing the past can change the future.. I cry just thinking about it. "If I only knew then what I know now"....I think about that all the time with Demented Donnie. If we could only go back and change things knowing what we do...but we can't.
I clearly remember the one where Burgess Meredith breaks his glasses. As someone who loves books, I could relate!
"The Hitchhiker" and "Twenty Two" both scared the crap out of me. And memories of "A Stop In Willoughby" makes me wistful to this day. Another one of those "can't go home again" episodes that are so heartbreakingly poignant these days.
Look up "Hiraeth." (not a TZ episode -- a Welsh concept). Be sure to have some tissue handy.
I loved "The Hitch-hiker" with Inger Stevens. I am realizing I must have seen many Twilight Zones while they were already in reruns since since that episode is from 1960. I would have been 4. I still remember her character's name...Nan, but I can't remember waking up this morning! She was in another one...she's a beloved daughter with older parents (vaguely remember the entire story) who finds out she's a robot. Her father was a scientist and built her...they couldn't have children.
OMG. Twenty-Two The blonde actress in the hospital who keeps having the dream with the nurse who says "Room for one more, honey". (The morgue room 22) That's the season they tried to save money and filmed the episodes on video tape which I hated the look of...very soap opera-ish, but I agree. That one terrified me. When she is late for the flight she booked to get away and it exploded on the runway. The whole thing saved her life.
Willoughby (the wives are always nightmares in these tales. I can remember the boss and his wife's name was Janey) Another one that kills me is " I Sing The Body Electric" with the robot grandma for the 3 kids that lost their mother. And the one whose title I can't remember, but its about an elderly couple, where they can buy young bodies, but they can only afford one, so the wife tells the husband "you do it" and he comes out like a young body builder, but he can't bear to live without his wife, so he gives up the new body to go back to his old one, so they can grow old and die together. 😭😭😭 I'm going to have to do a TZ binge. Thanks for the memories Dee ❤
PS. Hiraeth. 😭😭😭 Yes, that "homesickness or longing". I sometimes, even at almost 70, have dreams of my childhood home. My parents aren't ever there, in fact, I rarely if ever dream of my parents who I still miss desperately after 54 and 38 years after their deaths, but I can walk through the rooms. Go in my closet and see things in my bedroom desk. It's when I long for the safety and security of my childhood.
I can so relate to everything you're saying. Include visiting places where I once lived in my dreams.
Remember "To Serve Man"? That one kinda reminds me of DJT and his affection for Hannibal Lecter. DJT speaks of him as if he is a real, living person.
I watched them in reruns too. After dinner. TZ was on just after "The Rifleman" with Chuck Connors and Johnny Crawford.
Well said. Netanyahu has lost his mind and gone into full blown genocidal blood lust. Schumer and any Democrat helping Israel needs to be voted out. People have had enough.
Schumer and Jeffries both take AIPAC money. Schumer stated before an AIPAC meeting that he will do all in his power for Israel. I guess, I was taught an incorrect version of history. I thought that Senators took an oath to the Constitution and to their constituents.
There is a revolution in this country - sometimes quiet, sometimes not, but most decidedly people have turned against Israel. Younger people, in particular, see Netanyahu's genocide against the Palestinians and they're not buying his attack on Lebanon. Also, being called anti Semitic isn't the own they think it is. Watching Netanyahu's government celebrate and drink champagne after passing a law to execute Palestinians was sobering. How ironic that a people who endured a Holocaust would turn around and do it to other people is astounding. As for Schumer, I've seen him in videos pledging loyalty to Israel. He and Jeffries need to go.
Very good post Rita and I see it also with the young podcasters on You Tube. They grew up with the internet and are aware of both past and future events and can access them in a matter of seconds. It isn't that easy to lie to many of them.
Truth here! I can't wrap my mind around him just constantly killing, bombing, and Trump/Hegseth same. What's it going to take? The people that could stop this won't for some reason I can't understand.
I'm old. My father fought in WW2. I've read the books. Seen all the documentaries. And I wondered how an entire people could follow Hitler or just kill children without remorse. We're seeing the same thing now and I still don't get it.
The US doing that to civilians in Iran. Do you also assign collective blame to us?
I assign collective blame to anyone who voted for Trump. I assign collective blame to Republicans who support and enable it. With respect, Kelvin, quit nitpicking what I say.
Thank you, Rita. I will post as I wish and I will critique what I find worthy of further discussion. You have an option to block me if you can't stand good for your views. If you don't then expect more because you attack without receipts or consistency. In your first post, you stated, "Schumer and any Democrat helping Israel needs to be voted out. " In the same thread, you assert: "I assign collective blame to Republicans who support and enable it." By attacking first Dems and the the GOP, you make it impossible to believe your condemnation is of some; really, it is of all.
Well in excess of half of Congress receives AIPAC funding including Republican Senators Bill Cassidy, Susan Collins, John Cornyn, Tom Cotton, Joni Ernst, Lindsey Graham, and a dozen others. GOP House recipients include Dan Bacon, Tom Cole, James Comer, Mike Johnson, Jim Jordan, Steve Scalise and dozens more. I do not understand what makes Schumer and Jefferies worthy of being called out because of an across-the-aisle funding source. As for their politics, yes, they are horrible. But an attack based on funding calls for a much broader attack than two people. https://www.aipacpac.org/
They are the Democratic minority leaders. I don't count on Republicans for anything, but I do expect Democrats to read the room. The days of fealty to Israel are over.
Look at the list of AIPAC recipients: https://www.aipacpac.org/. It is bilateral. What makes Dems more loyal to Israeli money than their GOP colleagues? Explain the fealty of which you speak. If you are old enough to remember (as you claim; I am), think back to 1973. Recall that Kissinger interceded to protect encircled Egyptian troops, forcing Israel to withdraw. You mix up the dog and the wagged tail. What is it that you don't like, Israelis or the Israeli government (or Jews generally)? How many nations today consider the US to be a loyal friend?
Thanks Kelvin for the additional information….thank you for always taking the time to educate with facts!
Netanyahu, Trump, Hegseth: the new nuclear triad.
What makes you think the next Israeli government won't be led by Likud?
Hopefully after Netanyahu Israelis will do some much needed soul searching.
So will we after Dictator Deranged Criminal Psycho Trump leaves office. (Then again, I'm being optimistic here and I should know better.)
If so, it would be a model that at least one other country might consider in 2028
yep
also, the secretary of war crimes would be hilarious if he weren't bombing the shit out of innocent people all the time...
Cheeto's Sadism
A clinical feature of malignant narcissists is hatred of people and a corollary to that trait is sadism
Miles Taylor who spent 4y in the first Cheeto regime recounts in an article about his observations about Cheeto that he loved to induce unspeakable violence against people(https://bit.ly/4sPUVLT)
This disturbing fact points to our understanding how Cheeto likes to inflict pain on people by withdrawing benefits for those who need a helping hand or why he delights with his buddy Netanyahu on bombing Iranian civilian facilities or why he has no empathy for American civilians killed by ICE or why he gets off bombing boats in the Caribbean on the pretense that they are narcoterrorists
WE have a sick sick psychopath in the Oval Office
And it's not as if we didn't know. As early as 2016, trump offered to pay legal fees for anyone who would "knock the crap" out of any hecklers at his hate rallies:
https://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-tells-crowd-to-knock-the-crap-out-of-protesters-offers-to-pay-legal-fees/
Amen
My bet is some did and the promised compensation was not forthcoming. Is it ever?
Seems like the kind of guy who enjoys snuff 🤔
He has also suggested that shoplifters be shot, and wanted serious consideration to moats filled with alligators and snakes on either side of his border wall, along with wanted the wall electrified with spikes on top that could pierce human flesh:
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/trump-envisioned-border-moat-stocked-snakes-or-alligators-msna1286016
Privately, the president had often talked about fortifying a border wall with a water-filled trench, stocked with snakes or alligators, prompting aides to seek a cost estimate. He wanted the wall electrified, with spikes on top that could pierce human flesh.
After publicly suggesting that soldiers shoot migrants if they threw rocks, the president backed off when his staff told him that was illegal. But later in a meeting, aides recalled, he suggested that they shoot migrants in the legs to slow them down. That’s not allowed either, they told him.
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Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper says that former President Trump asked authorities if they could shoot protesters in the legs amid the demonstrations that filled the streets of Washington following the murder of George Floyd. “Can’t you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?” Esper says Trump said. The Hill; 2-May-22; https://tinyurl.com/4jzbwmpp
"He has also suggested that shoplifters be shot, and wanted serious consideration to moats filled with alligators and snakes on either side of his border wall, along with wanted the wall electrified with spikes on top that could pierce human flesh:"
Yet he's a coward terrified of sharks and batteries on a boat. He'd rather be electrocuted. I agree. Would love nothing more than seeing him strapped to "Old Sparky". Did you ever see " The Green Mile"? 😱
Yes. and Yes!
Well, he did post that video of that woman being killed a few days ago and I seem to remember that there was something in the Epstein files too
I bet you anything that he and his band of cabinet members watched that murder video over and over.
Seth Abramson (here on Substack) has done lots of research into him and reckons that he gets off on violence, especially towards more vulnerable people. Look how he loves boxing and wrestling, it makes him feel like he has a huge dick.
Which thanks to Stormy...🍄
Yep
Mini🍄
🤣🤣
It's probably the root of most of his insecurities though
What video? I don't remember seeing anything about that.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-posts-graphic-video-of-woman-being-killed-with-hammer-in-florida/ar-AA20zcNJ
OMG Dee. I am so horrified.
"Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah: “A day will come when we don’t have to deal with foreign murderers at all… because we deported them before they could harm any American.”"
.....No, we'll only have to deal with our own homegrown murderers from ICE who killed Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Does this POS hear himself??? I am just sick of them all. How do we survive even if we get rid of D "JC" T...only to be left with the Mike Lees and Tommy Tubervilles in power. I don't believe this is our country.
I know. I guess the Repubs have been too busy to exploit her death by naming an act after her and wearing some sort of pin or ribbon while ignoring the murders of the Hortmans, victim-blaming Pretti and Good, and mocking the attack on Paul Pelosi and the murders of Rob and Michele Reiner.
Def. Like the sicko Epstein sent the torture porn video who loved it.
And..."pain on people" does NOT exclude those close at hand. As the malignant "Cheeto's" hammer (of life) continues to drop, proximate targets are easier. Coming soon - this is not a smooth graph deal.
Dear Lord, how much longer???
Absolutely! Good one!
What about selling our precious Boundary Waters to the highest bidder? This is a horrible day for those who love the outdoors. 😢
Terrible. For those wondering, the Senate narrowly voted 50–49 to lift a mining moratorium near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters, clearing the way for a proposed copper and nickel mine and sending the measure to Trump, who is expected to sign it. Environmentalists, Native American tribes, and conservation groups concerned about potential pollution and damage to the protected wilderness are enraged and say it could devastate fragile lakes and forests.
There will be multiple lawsuits about this vote. It also impacts two provinces in Canada
Reminds me of the commercial when I was young with with Native American man, looking at the garbage strewn roads and land with a tear rolling down his eye. These greedy, despicable people in our gov't. I just keep thinking of the beautiful pictures Artemis II sent back of our planet...while they are dooming us. I'm sorry to say it...maybe one day it will be for the best. For Mother Earth to get rid of us and regenerate herself.
Good post.
The Crying Indian - Keep America Beautiful (1970) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7OHG7tHrNM
the war is costing $11,000 per MINUTE. Stop helping Netanyau!!!! America is bankrupt and Trump family is becoming billionaires
Yet Republicans say there is no money for the ACA subsidies
The coolest thing about this fight the WH wants with the pope, is legacy media is covering what he's saying on his Africa trip, which is a message to pursue peace. Nice of MAGA to turn up the pope's microphone. And the pope isn't going to back off the Gospel, so good luck with that. I mean Pope Leo worships Christ, who gave His life to spread that Gospel. I'm not a Christian, but I understand Christianity well enough to know that much.
So true
Good for the Pope!
Yes! Now if he'd just get reasonable on the subject of women's rights . . .
Bingo! We don't have a chance with the Dictator and his republiCRAP cronies having the majority.
Thank you for the written summary. It is easier to digest than your hour long videos, which I don’t usually have time for.
Thanks for your input
I like the videos. Is it possible to do both?
Will continue to experiment and see!
I'd like to know that, too! I like both of them but often don't have time for videos.
I agree. I prefer to read. Popock does short blasts that I can watch. I like them
Brian Karem does a lot of short ones, which are excellent! Especially the Countdowns! They're priceless!
I prefer the written summary too. There are plenty of videos on YT everyday. I personally cannot keel up with MT, Legal AF, and the many other videos I would like to see. The only plus to videos on substack is you can read the transcript afyer which you can't get on YT.
I'd love to hear what the Democrats running for governor in CA have to say! How about Steyer, Becerra, and Porter.
Thanks for the input. We plan on having all of them on the network in the coming weeks.
Thanks ahead of time!!!!!!
Please ask the candidates about their positions on the failed money pit bulletin train. Californians need to stop throwing good money after bad, and kill that boondoggle.
Some of those democratic candidates need to smell the coffee and step down. Does power mean so much to them that they are willing to sell out California (the world's 4th largest economy) to the repugnicans, and thus sell out the US to them.
Yes, but WHO are the ones "willing to sell out California"? It's hard to convince any particular one that they are the one that needs to drop out. I have my own opinion on this, but I will Democrats would stop falling in love and get hard-nosed. At this point, as much as I'm not a fan, I'd vote for and promote Katie Porter if it appeared she had a solid, steady lead (she doesn't.) I heard a lot of people who seem to know nothing screaming "Steyer is a billionaire." I know a lot about Steyer; I've followed his work for nearly 15 years, heard him speak and talked to him personally. He's a billionaire in the Pritzker mold, not the Musk or Thiel mode. And he's an avid environmentalist whose organization is dedicated to activating young voters. There's no reason to dismiss him, should he be showing a steady lead.
According to an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, there is still time for Kamala Harris to enter the race. We do not feel she has a chance of winning a presidential race again. Misogyny, racism, not speaking out about the genocide in Gaza. The country is in an emergency economically and in terms of our defense and national security as well as all the DOGE cuts. It is going to be a huge challenge to repair all of this damage.
Linda, I believe that Kamala had won the 2024 election and that this regime along with Muskrat had skewed the results. On that note, not sure the general public are willing to try having her run again for any position-state or federal, since the republican machine has damaged her reputation tremendously. Just to be clear, I had voted for her and believed that she would have led America on the forward path to correct a lot of wrongs that the republicans have inflicted on Americans, but she would have been a “lame duck” president with the house & senate held by republicans.
They "skewed the results" by lying lying lying about EVERYTHING, and the press not pushing back hard enough countering with facts, and a whole lot of gullible people believing those lies, or wishing they were true. Lies about Harris, lies about project 25, lies about war, lies about migrants, lies about trans people, lies about the economy (omg eggs!) lies about cutting the debt, lies about medicare and mecicaid, lies about Biden, etc etc etc etc
She did not, I'm sorry We need to stop being MAGA-style conspiracy theorists and strengthening Trump's claim that he won in 2020 and it was rigged. No American election was "rigged" in terms of the voting.
We voted for her also. There was certainly election interference. Her campaign was so expensive with all those entertainment rallies. Low income voters and farmers found no appeal in her.
No, there was no "election interference, if you mean interfering with the actual voting. That did not happen. Any "interference" was on the front end with the media's incessant tearing her down while ignoring Trump's increasingly obvious shortcoming.
Bomb threats, Musk buying votes. Polling locations moved at the last minute, confusing last minute voters.
Those are not examples of interfering with voting or changing the vote. They're voter suppression, something else entirely. They don't prove "Kamala won."
No — they are trying to screw it up and elect a Republican. Then after the election, they'd hammer a steady drumbeat of "she got in too late." The time for her to get in this race was last year.
They should be asked about the homeless crisis and housing affordability.
The clip of the fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction and Pete Hegseth is priceless. Thank you.
Beyond parody
In addition to everything else he's touched that has died, trump is solely responsible for the death of both satire and irony.
Honestly? I think there is some resistance from behind the scenes. If only someone would get some herpes virus into his makeup jar.
I think he saw that clip, who knows when, and just waited for an opportunity to use it.
A little break for some funny-not-so-funny humor:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/white-house-photo-of-the-year-winner
Photo of trump staring into the distance while a man fainted in the oval office was awarded
the White House Correspondents' Association Award for excellence in presidential news coverage. Worth more than a thousand words, this photo (scroll all the way down in above link for the actual winning photo) pretty much sums up his entire maladministation!
Oh, Dee! These are priceless!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks so much for making my day!
You're welcome -- thanks go to the White House Correspondents' Association for not caving to trump!
Thank you so much for this link. I really needed some laughs today after saying FU to my computer screen out loud.
You too? I'm trying to remember which *medical mastermind* ran out of the room when the guy fell to the floor. It was either RFK Jr. or Dr. Oz.
Pope Leo is loved by the world, unlike Trump. I strongly believe he is just jealous of Leo's popularity. I stand behind Pope Leo. I adore and admire him and I'm an atheist. So glad Leo isn't backing down. ✊
I'm an agnostic and I admire him too.
I'm stunned when trump and his followers tell him he shouldn't stray into politics. As if the killing of thousands of innocent people is simply "politics."
I know, it's nuts! 🤷🏻♀️
True. He is jealous of our pope.
President Obama, President Biden, Governor Newsom, Pope Leo, Bruce Springsteen, Jerome Powell ...the list of those trump is jealous of gets longer by the day.
Perhaps any male who doesn't bow down to him. Especially those whose hands are bigger than his. ;)
LOL! True, Dee Cee!! 🤭
He's very twisted.
Like a pretzel. (Remembering when Dubya choked on a pretzel. Something is really wrong when I almost miss the Dubya days and his Bushisms. Almost.)
Funny you mentioned the Bush's. The same thought has crossed my mind several times since last year. I disliked both but kind of miss George Dubya a bit. I mean, I would take him in a heartbeat over Trump!
It's also notable which Democrats need to be removed at the first opportunity. We can't do Republican Lite anymore. They have to go. Zero tolerance.
This is outrageous with Hegseth already. There should be NO place in our gov't for religion. This is why we have Separation of Church and State (but not for long if SCOTUS has anything to do with it). There are non-Christian members of our military and our country, which you all so conveniently forget. He is an insane White Christian Nationalist who cannot wait to blow us up so he gets his cloud with pina coladas for eternity. Or the Crusades to put those tattoos to good use. Lemme tell you something GI Pete 🍸. Don't wish too hard...you just may get it. You have a target on your back, you coward, and when Donnie and the rest of this disastrous regime of faux Christian hypocritical bible-thumpers is gone, one day soon (🙏) hopefully, you won't be living in your Military Melrose Place. And there better not be a Dem Pres who gives you one dime of Secret Service protection or security. Remember Mike Pompeo and John Bolton had theirs pulled with Iran after them too. ! You know what would be a great look for you Pete? 🎯 tattooed right in the middle of your simian forehead. So much easier for them to.find you.
Why is this administration hating on the Pope, hating on the Vatican? What possible reasons for attacking the Church?
I’m not of that tribe, but I find it reprehensible to attack the leader of a worldwide religion.
Because Trump the Dump and his Gang hate EVERYONE who doesn't agree with them--and even if it's ONLY one thing that they don't agree with!
Because he's contradicting Trump by saying war is bad when Trump thinks war makes him seem big and powerful.
THE HEGSETH PRAYER:
Our Daddy who art in Mar-a-Lago, hallowed be thy name. Thy Kingdom come (before the midterms). Stephen Miller’s will be done, on Earth as it is in the White House. Give me this day my daily Surf and Turf, and forgive me my trespasses (via presidential pardon), as I fire those who trespass against me. And lead me not into the temptation of Happy Hour (because I can find my way there all by myself). But deliver me from evil (again via presidential pardon). For thine is the Kingdom (of America), and the Power (of corrupt money), and the Glory (of malignant narcissism). Amen!
Priceless, Jim!!!!!!!!!! Thanks!
Excellent!
Please get Tom Steyer on Meidas. He will make a great Governor. He will help save our planet by helping get climate change under control. He will make the environment a top priority as well as affordability, medical insurance, housing and fair-for-all taxes. And we CAN NOT let a Republican win the CA governorship. Tom is electable and needs Meidas’s help make sure it happens.
Speyer is our best choice
Absolutely agree. He founded his organization NextGen, originally NextGen Climate, now NextGenAmerica, to activate young voters through. When I worked for an environmental publication back in 2014-15 he came to Cleveland to take part in a panel on how climate change impacts working and low income people, sponsored by some local group—SEIU or Jobs for Justice, I don't remember. I had a chance to speak to him afterward and he was very friendly and down to earth. Given Trump's assaults on California's climate measures, he would be a strong ally — and the Republicans would both be disastrous not just for California, but for the entire country.