I agree wholeheartedly with this. Trump needs guys who will do his work for him, and he needs guys he can kick whenever he feels like it. Jamelle Bouie calls Vance "pigman" because he is so suited to the role of whipping boy.
And if you needed more confirmation of this theory, our old friend Rod Dreher is a champion of Vance. He recognizes a fellow weak-sauce fascist who loves to lick the boots of the tough guys. Vance even gave an opening speech at a Dreher event last night, the launch of a documentary film version of his ironically titled book Live Not By Lies. Not only is every accusation a confession, apparently every book title is as well, lol.
Every Saruman has his Wormtongue. But he finally kicked Worm in the face one too many times and got a knife between the ribs for his troubles. So in these situations, one can always hope.
Also, stealing Flummoxed by Donuts as the name for my 70s Italian disco cover band.
I endorse "flummoxed-by-donuts" as the caption under every photo of JayDee from now on. Alt. versions acceptable: "Donut beflummoxed", Donut-challenged"...
To be serious, I think Vance is some sort of back up for the Elon. I think he was picked to be Musk-y, so to speak, before there was any effort for or interest by Musk to become actively involved in the administration. Now, if something happens and Musk leaves his role, Vance might be something of a Vice Musk. Or maybe if Donny croaks*, Vance can be Musky and the Elon can retire from public service. (*His continued life is of course indisputable proof that the Deep State either doesn't exist or that they're cool with him, your choice.)
OTOH, as our beloved Fuhreress once wore, more or less: "I Don't Give a Fuck, Do U?".
As we know, I can go on with my ancient contempt for the Fuhrer but I have to go now...
Oh, wait; gotta go on: Tuesday's results -- the WI win, the closeness in DeSantistan and Booker's show of some moxie made me as happy as possible.
I've said before, a state party can suck (lookin' at you, New York and Florida) for reasons that have nothing to do with the national party and nothing to do with where the state itself is politically. Hacks get in, hire their hack friends for all the choice jobs, refuse to listen, refuse to learn, force out anyone with even a hint of a new idea, then start systematically destroying even the old ideas, until there are no ideas left. Back in the bad old days, our state party was once convulsed by a debate about yard signs (yes, you read that right, YARD SIGNS). "Signs don't vote" was the hacky slogan the hacks adopted, and they refused to spend a penny of party money on yard signs, claiming it was an "inefficient allocation of resources" because you could by another 0.1% of those TV ads everybody hates with the money.
Anyway, we got out from under the hacks, you can too. I don't know how it was done, I've never followed the internals of the state Dem party (except for The Great Yard Sign Debate) but I know it can be done.
But there’s a reason I try to be clear about which part of the party I’m referencing exactly because there’s the national grift and there are all the state and local parties.
Redward in terms of public opinion, or in terms of elections won and lost? In terms of what the politicians say and do or in terms of what the voters want? I don't need to tell you these are not the same thing.
Also too: I think of the donut-challenged dude as the last one at the table to see who the mark is. This suggests the 3rd-term moment would be easy peasy for His Magasty when the time comes.
And imagine 'Donuts 1, JayDee 0' as taking the reins of the steep date disintegration from Lone Skum. I mean, BigBalls would sneer at JayDee, then take him down one bit at a time just for sport.
I don't see Mr J6 ceding power. If he wants to keep being POTUS past 2028, I refuse to believe any submissive shit will do anything to stop him. And by submissive, I mean approximately everyone with any power.
But if Donny wants to do it with a patina of legitimacy, I see him doing it with a cut out like Putin did. And if he does that, I refuse to see his puppet being some couch rapist unless it's Donny Jr. In any case, not Vance (if that's his real name).
Vance don't bring the cash like Musk. He also is less than likely to keep the digital decimators in line like Lone Skum. His only superpower is he tricked Thiel into tricking Trump into choosing him.
Ever since (some 40-odd years ago) I elucidated to my husband the dreadful sexism of the lone blue female denoted as "Smurfette," he's teased me by appending that feminine diminishment onto otherwise ordinary nouns. So I'm pretty sure the word you're looking for is Fuhrerette.
A teachers union I used to be a member of, the president taught German, at one point she made a decision which someone disgreed with strongly, they said, sarcastically, "Oh, is this how our decisions are made? By the Fuhrer?" And she replied, calmly, "That's FuhrerIN, thank you."
If I recall, one of those elections went from a +30 for the (R) to a +8, so that's a big move. It is Florida, a Democrat will always be fighting an uphill battle.
Roy already had my loyalty for life (or at least my monthly donation), but since he's used the word "fuckface," I will but love him better after death, if possible. From the very beginning of the Trump Era, I've believed that was the best word to describe them all, and if the Democrats had had the guts to use it on every occasion, we wouldn't be in the mess we are now.
Imagine if in the debate Kamala Harris had said, "Look, this man is a fuckface." And when everyone gasped and clutched their pearls, she could have said "Hey, if you don't want to be called a fuckface, don't do fuckface things," and then went on to list all of the fuckface things he does and fuckface things he is.
And when, as would be inevitable, MAGA people started to be vocally proud of being fuckfaces, switch to doubchebag.
A bit of conventional wisdom I've seen in the Intertubes is that the Harris campaign started to lose its wheels when they stopped calling Repubs "weird" and made nice with Liz Cheney.
An acquaintance of mine who claims to be a Democrat (I have my doubts) says the Dems should reach out to *Dick* Cheney -- after all, he stood up to MAGA! I tried to explain to him that all the momentum is with Bernie and AOC. (As for Booker, this same guy says "All he did was talk a long time. So what?")
My absolute favorite case in point: This thing is BAD, a danger to democracy, even! A corrupt system that thwarts the true wishes of the voters! I know, let's continue to call it "Gerrymandering" rather than some more understandable phrase like "district-rigging", because it's SO important to preserve the memory of what a dick Elbridge Gerry was, also your average voter just LOVES puns built on two hundred year old political cartoons.
“Obstructionism” and “obstructionist” make me angry. Politicians who use words like that either don’t know or don’t care about actually communicating with normal people.
Tubby is closer to the Sweet Hereafter than he cares to admit. I don't think he could tolerate the idea of a strong, smart successor. Apres moi, le buffoon.
Great movie. I have a memory of going to a dinner party right after it came out and encountering the other attendees raving about a newly released movie that was just the best evah. I assumed they too had seen TSH, but no. They were talking about Titanic.
Will they acknowledge he's dead? They don't usually give in to reality like that, like losers, like betas, cucked by mere "facts" and "evidence" (like the growing smell of rotting flesh.) I'm betting full-on denial, Putin sends over the best Russian embalmers, an elaborate system of marionette wires is worked out. The easy part is faking his speech, he already sounds like one of those "pull my string" dolls.
We had the same idea--denial that he's even dead--when we wrote The Split--now available as a handsome paperback book! The Confederation of Conservative States of America features an entire enclave dedicated to worship of Trump (and of golf), and none of its denizens is quite sure whether Trump is still alive. This, set roughly 20 years from now.
With AI, Trump could be a Max Headroom corporation forever. It would constantly revile leftist lunatics and make ridiculous demands like claiming all of Niagara Falls and calling it "America Rising".
Reminder that when Trump failed to follow thru on the Jeff Clark appointment/Justice takedown, Pence (and every other minion) saw it for what it was – wimping out. And the message was 'every man/woman for themselves'. Pence was simply taking the safest way out for himself, under the circs.
Not nerve: sinking-ship desertion.
Whether JayDee the Donut Fail could suss that is beyond my remit to parse.
I like how you have delimited your total sentence count re JayDee the Donut-befudddled. From now on you can simply reference that post, sit back and let the rest of us nod respectfully.
Let's be fair, Elon deserves some credit for pushing Crawford over the line with that performance in Green Bay on Sunday night. Dianne Hendricks and Dick Uhlein have given more to Wisconsin Republicans that Elon ever will, and hardly anyone (present company excepted) knows their names, and that's just how they like it. And yeah, the Democrats got their Pritzger and Soros, but only Elon stands up on a stage and proclaims "LOOK AT ME I'M REALLY REALLY RICH DO WHAT I TELL YOU." Which, to my utter incredulity, does not appear to be helpful.
The day before the election, I saw a clip of Brad Schimel saying he didn't like how "they" do these campaigns these days, with all the money, he's just an old-fashioned guy, just likes talkin' to the reg'lar folks and hearing their concerns. Who "they" are was not specified, but I took it as a hopeful sign, a sign of panic even, from a campaign in damage-control mode.
There's lots of horrible things about money in politics that are just everywhere, and done by everybody (bothsides!) and it's discouraging, feels like we have no chance of stopping that stuff.
But then there's this ONE horrible thing done by this ONE guy, and I feel more hopeful after his face-plant that nobody else will be trying the same shit, sticking to other, more traditional forms of corruption.
Can we hope that even Elmo himself might have learned something? Come on, that's takin' it too far.
Damn Roy, it's like you found my letters and read each one out loud.
Me and JD were neighbors. I had an office in Middletown at one point. It's a shit hole,
but not the hopeless, virulent suckhole of poverty it took courage and perseverance to overcome that Jim Dog made it out to be.
My daughter lives in gated community 10 minutes from there.
I'm sorry JD's mom was a Pillbilly. He could have built a life of public service around dealing with that. Going after big pharma and the Sacklers. Genuinely improving people's lives. He could have been a real source of hope and inspiration
I always thought GWBush missed an opportunity in not copping to alcoholism, and using it as a platform to help others. Silly me, Republicans only help themselves.
Tubby never wants to be upstaged or have the camera in any other direction than his. Vance is terrible on camera. I think it's as simple as that. I'm surprised Musk has lasted as long as he has, but I guess being the biggest walking ATM in the world has its perks.
Same thought on Musk, but guessing that Tubby's handlers make sure he sees all the Internet take-downs of Elmo, so he can still feel superior to his "friend."
Just chiming in to say that Vance looked particular dorky in that parka they gave him to wear in Greenland. Usha knew how to rock hers -- leave it open, like a wealthy mom on a January Starbucks run, i.e., like herself -- but JD zipped his all the way up, and ended up looking like a boy whose mother bought him a size-too-large winter coat, because he'll grow into it and be able to wear it next year, too.
Way back when I was a lil' sprog, there was this show on TV called "Marshall Efron's Painless Sunday School", awesome show, gotta see if it's on YouTube or something, but ANYWAY it was Biblical stories adapted to kid understanding, like for the tale of Jonah he had a big tub of water and a wind-up whale. One of the episodes was Satan's temptation of Jesus, and in this version Old Scratch was offering McDonald's. What I'm saying is that we seem to be at a point where the "godly" WOULD actually sell their souls to Hell for a lifetime access to Big Macs.
According to what I've seen, "evidence" is tattoos and/or high-end sportsball branded clothing.
This is all some "I witnessed Goody Morrow consorting with a dark man at the crossroads last Sabbath" bullshit. And the media largely seems to be all "consorted with a dark man, huh, sounds plausible I guess".
It's funny because it's hilarious! And true. But Roy, prepare to hear from Jeff Tiedrich's attorneys. Months ago Jeff dubbed Trump "King Fuckface the First." Like minds!
"What they were voting for was a scumbag. They didn’t want to just beat the opposition, they wanted to nullify it entirely by making the leading representative of the nation a selfish, bigoted, ignorant piece of shit."
I agree wholeheartedly with this. Trump needs guys who will do his work for him, and he needs guys he can kick whenever he feels like it. Jamelle Bouie calls Vance "pigman" because he is so suited to the role of whipping boy.
And if you needed more confirmation of this theory, our old friend Rod Dreher is a champion of Vance. He recognizes a fellow weak-sauce fascist who loves to lick the boots of the tough guys. Vance even gave an opening speech at a Dreher event last night, the launch of a documentary film version of his ironically titled book Live Not By Lies. Not only is every accusation a confession, apparently every book title is as well, lol.
I thought (could be wrong) the pigman crack came from this parodic Hillbilly Elegy excerpt -- but I could be wrong: https://x.com/alexL_E_I/status/1812912493167321514
It very well may have originated there. I was referring to an Insta reel Bouie posted a few days ago.
Bouie is very strong on this!
Well, that's confusing, because Rush Limbaugh is "The Pigman".
[touches earpiece] I’m being told Rush Limbaugh is still dead.
Every Saruman has his Wormtongue. But he finally kicked Worm in the face one too many times and got a knife between the ribs for his troubles. So in these situations, one can always hope.
Also, stealing Flummoxed by Donuts as the name for my 70s Italian disco cover band.
I endorse "flummoxed-by-donuts" as the caption under every photo of JayDee from now on. Alt. versions acceptable: "Donut beflummoxed", Donut-challenged"...
Feel free to add as you see fit.
Torus bewildered
Imagine his flummoxation at an everything bagel...
Suspiciously ethnic.
Just imagine the horrifying diversity of the Everything Bagel.
Poppy seeds mixing with sesame? It's disgusting.
Working on signs for Saturday's protest -- FLUMMOXED BY DONUTS is a real contender.
To be serious, I think Vance is some sort of back up for the Elon. I think he was picked to be Musk-y, so to speak, before there was any effort for or interest by Musk to become actively involved in the administration. Now, if something happens and Musk leaves his role, Vance might be something of a Vice Musk. Or maybe if Donny croaks*, Vance can be Musky and the Elon can retire from public service. (*His continued life is of course indisputable proof that the Deep State either doesn't exist or that they're cool with him, your choice.)
OTOH, as our beloved Fuhreress once wore, more or less: "I Don't Give a Fuck, Do U?".
As we know, I can go on with my ancient contempt for the Fuhrer but I have to go now...
Oh, wait; gotta go on: Tuesday's results -- the WI win, the closeness in DeSantistan and Booker's show of some moxie made me as happy as possible.
I'm worried about SteveB's heart this morning – think he can stand it?
This... feeling... the not-sadness, the not-anger, is there a name for it?
Don't tell me YOU're befudddled TOO!?!?
You all did great resisting the Musk bucks.
We should have been so lucky here in NY-17...
(signed) Green With Envy
I've said before, a state party can suck (lookin' at you, New York and Florida) for reasons that have nothing to do with the national party and nothing to do with where the state itself is politically. Hacks get in, hire their hack friends for all the choice jobs, refuse to listen, refuse to learn, force out anyone with even a hint of a new idea, then start systematically destroying even the old ideas, until there are no ideas left. Back in the bad old days, our state party was once convulsed by a debate about yard signs (yes, you read that right, YARD SIGNS). "Signs don't vote" was the hacky slogan the hacks adopted, and they refused to spend a penny of party money on yard signs, claiming it was an "inefficient allocation of resources" because you could by another 0.1% of those TV ads everybody hates with the money.
Anyway, we got out from under the hacks, you can too. I don't know how it was done, I've never followed the internals of the state Dem party (except for The Great Yard Sign Debate) but I know it can be done.
Actually, we’re headed redward here in NY.
But there’s a reason I try to be clear about which part of the party I’m referencing exactly because there’s the national grift and there are all the state and local parties.
Redward in terms of public opinion, or in terms of elections won and lost? In terms of what the politicians say and do or in terms of what the voters want? I don't need to tell you these are not the same thing.
Also too: I think of the donut-challenged dude as the last one at the table to see who the mark is. This suggests the 3rd-term moment would be easy peasy for His Magasty when the time comes.
And imagine 'Donuts 1, JayDee 0' as taking the reins of the steep date disintegration from Lone Skum. I mean, BigBalls would sneer at JayDee, then take him down one bit at a time just for sport.
You give Big Balls too much credit. Any of these clowns would disintegrate on contact with real life.
Was thinking only of his digital acumen – he'd deploy that on the Donut Pawn just for kicks.
Perhaps even on contact with natural light.
Hey, one of them threatened a girl with a knife! Real tough guy, straight outta a Mickey Spillane novel that guy is.
"It was easy."
He's the accident-of-birth Lucky Sperm Club dickhead that constantly whines "Don't you know who I am" even though we all know he's a nobody.
And as always this goes back to Nixon, and his designation of Spiro Agnew as resident bully-boy.
“JayDee” — This is the way.
So I'm the only one who associates those initials with Juvenile Delinquent?
Sophisticates like me call 'em Borstal Boys.
Oh. Like BB Netan'yahoo?
I hear JD and think Boss Hogg. I am an unfortunate product of my upbringing.
Dude, you're being too confusing for me.
I don't see Mr J6 ceding power. If he wants to keep being POTUS past 2028, I refuse to believe any submissive shit will do anything to stop him. And by submissive, I mean approximately everyone with any power.
But if Donny wants to do it with a patina of legitimacy, I see him doing it with a cut out like Putin did. And if he does that, I refuse to see his puppet being some couch rapist unless it's Donny Jr. In any case, not Vance (if that's his real name).
You are correct.
Vance don't bring the cash like Musk. He also is less than likely to keep the digital decimators in line like Lone Skum. His only superpower is he tricked Thiel into tricking Trump into choosing him.
Sorry if my missive above suggested otherwise.
Has nothing to do with money. And his mentor, Thiel, can provide that.
It’s just that the couch raper can’t match the Elon at destruction and insanity.
Sans doubt.
Ever since (some 40-odd years ago) I elucidated to my husband the dreadful sexism of the lone blue female denoted as "Smurfette," he's teased me by appending that feminine diminishment onto otherwise ordinary nouns. So I'm pretty sure the word you're looking for is Fuhrerette.
Danke.
I'd be grateful but I'm sure I was clear enough I don't give a care about the Fuhrerette except as a target of mockery and all deserved disrespect.
BTW, as I've noted, my spouse was personally disrespected by Fake Tubby. Can your husband match that?
Die Führerfrau
Paging Mr. Wagner....
I'd thought of Fuhrerina, then realized it was too much like the kitty chow.
A teachers union I used to be a member of, the president taught German, at one point she made a decision which someone disgreed with strongly, they said, sarcastically, "Oh, is this how our decisions are made? By the Fuhrer?" And she replied, calmly, "That's FuhrerIN, thank you."
Ha! I always wished I could be that quick with the comeback.
The Brits came up with "Hitlerina" and "Attila the Hen" for Margaret Thatcher.
I had not heard "Attila the Hen", that's great!
Well, look at you, all buoyed.
"closeness in DeSantistan" means the Democrats didn't win there? [straightens shoulders] They oughta come up to Wisconsin and see how it's done.
Well, it's easy in Wisconsin – no alligators chasin' prospective voters thru the swamp...
If I recall, one of those elections went from a +30 for the (R) to a +8, so that's a big move. It is Florida, a Democrat will always be fighting an uphill battle.
(Obligatory: https://youtu.be/X-4icaybfBI?si=dW3ew3-fGu3meYfx&t=135 )
Pretty funny how low the uphill battles in Florida actually are. I mean, the highest high point there is 345ft...
Not exactly a climber's paradise, is it?
Unless you get lucky and a sinkhole opens up in your backyard.
Within reality-based reason, yeah, sure.
I have a lot of trouble remembering that it’s important to vote and stuff and that not being a Republican actually justifies a vote…
"(*His continued life is of course indisputable proof that the Deep State either doesn't exist or that they're cool with him, your choice.)"
Alex Jones has been predicting almost daily since the election that they're going to assassinate Schitzenführer ANY DAY NOW.
Yet more proof: Jones is alive.
Usha, once privacy has been attained on the flight back from Greenland:
"You son of a bitch, if you ever do this to me again..."
Trump might just leave the donut-beflummoxed dude's defenestration to her...
Nah, we don't yet understand why, but she's all in.
We understand why.
Soul = sold
*Assumes spiritual essence not in evidence.
Coast-To-Coast Sold
Roy already had my loyalty for life (or at least my monthly donation), but since he's used the word "fuckface," I will but love him better after death, if possible. From the very beginning of the Trump Era, I've believed that was the best word to describe them all, and if the Democrats had had the guts to use it on every occasion, we wouldn't be in the mess we are now.
Imagine if in the debate Kamala Harris had said, "Look, this man is a fuckface." And when everyone gasped and clutched their pearls, she could have said "Hey, if you don't want to be called a fuckface, don't do fuckface things," and then went on to list all of the fuckface things he does and fuckface things he is.
And when, as would be inevitable, MAGA people started to be vocally proud of being fuckfaces, switch to doubchebag.
All the people who never would've voted for her anyway would have clutched their pearls and said "Such language! From a lady!"
You spelled...ah, never mind...
It's only typos that have kept me from world domination.
Type O is a real limiter, yeah...
So common.
Not particularly harsh, and fair.
A bit of conventional wisdom I've seen in the Intertubes is that the Harris campaign started to lose its wheels when they stopped calling Repubs "weird" and made nice with Liz Cheney.
It wasn't rocket surgery. Voters want a fighter.
This reminds me: Pres47 says the F-47 is named...er...numbered...after him. Does this mean that the F-15 is numbered after Jimmy Buchanan?*
HT my friend Ben, who enumerates well.
The Buke!
Only Prez from the great state of Pennsylvania, only bachelor Prez too. Also a nasty piece of work.
Back then a "Doughface" denoted a Northerner with Southern sympathies. Buchanan was very much a "doughface".
"Here ya go, Mr. Lincoln, got that Civil War all warmed up fer ya"
Hi re-election campaign, "Re-Buke '56!"
As long as there aren't headlines reading "Buke Cocky".
Ouch.
An acquaintance of mine who claims to be a Democrat (I have my doubts) says the Dems should reach out to *Dick* Cheney -- after all, he stood up to MAGA! I tried to explain to him that all the momentum is with Bernie and AOC. (As for Booker, this same guy says "All he did was talk a long time. So what?")
Oh, one of THOSE.
For a war criminal, he's a real peach.
"Democrat (I have my doubts)."
aka, NPR listener.
Blunt words and clear naming are so much better and more effective than the arch, ironically distant “The Former Guy” and TFG.
We are Democrats, you will suffer from our obscurity.
My absolute favorite case in point: This thing is BAD, a danger to democracy, even! A corrupt system that thwarts the true wishes of the voters! I know, let's continue to call it "Gerrymandering" rather than some more understandable phrase like "district-rigging", because it's SO important to preserve the memory of what a dick Elbridge Gerry was, also your average voter just LOVES puns built on two hundred year old political cartoons.
"Authoritarianism" and "oligarchy" instead of "dictatorship."
Dictatorship sounds like Elon's new nautical venture.
A.R. Moxon always works "billionaire" into it, "rule by billionaires", "the billionaire system", etc.
“Obstructionism” and “obstructionist” make me angry. Politicians who use words like that either don’t know or don’t care about actually communicating with normal people.
Anyone who says "This raises grave concerns" should be taken out and shot.
To be fair, if we did, it would be correct.
Have you no shame? History will not be kind!
Precisely why I use "Schitzenführer".
Tubby is closer to the Sweet Hereafter than he cares to admit. I don't think he could tolerate the idea of a strong, smart successor. Apres moi, le buffoon.
Eh, The Sweet Hereafter was a good movie. It doesn’t deserve to be associated with Trump.
Great movie. I have a memory of going to a dinner party right after it came out and encountering the other attendees raving about a newly released movie that was just the best evah. I assumed they too had seen TSH, but no. They were talking about Titanic.
Hearted, but OOF.
I eagerly await the AI/Ben Garrison depictions of Tubby on a cloud, in a white robe and maybe holding a harp, looking upon his minions below.
Will they acknowledge he's dead? They don't usually give in to reality like that, like losers, like betas, cucked by mere "facts" and "evidence" (like the growing smell of rotting flesh.) I'm betting full-on denial, Putin sends over the best Russian embalmers, an elaborate system of marionette wires is worked out. The easy part is faking his speech, he already sounds like one of those "pull my string" dolls.
We had the same idea--denial that he's even dead--when we wrote The Split--now available as a handsome paperback book! The Confederation of Conservative States of America features an entire enclave dedicated to worship of Trump (and of golf), and none of its denizens is quite sure whether Trump is still alive. This, set roughly 20 years from now.
What? Where can you get the book? Why, here:
www.exasperatedmedia.com
Of all the people who ever lived, besides Jesus and Elvis, Trump is the one who most deserves to be depicted in paint on velvet.
With AI, Trump could be a Max Headroom corporation forever. It would constantly revile leftist lunatics and make ridiculous demands like claiming all of Niagara Falls and calling it "America Rising".
I think he'd be happy if alla the air was renamed America.
He even wets!
And even more after death.
Or Jon McNaughton. Would it be childish to call him Toilet McNothingtown?
What IS "childish" these days?
Tesla's car names.
Lone Skum's children's names
I look forward to the new Dumbass Reich when we'll all have Elmo-type names.
My new name will be F=G/ma
"Does he want Vance demoralized so that if push came to shove, Vance won’t have the nerve to refuse like Pence did on January 6, 2021?"
Yes.
Reminder that when Trump failed to follow thru on the Jeff Clark appointment/Justice takedown, Pence (and every other minion) saw it for what it was – wimping out. And the message was 'every man/woman for themselves'. Pence was simply taking the safest way out for himself, under the circs.
Not nerve: sinking-ship desertion.
Whether JayDee the Donut Fail could suss that is beyond my remit to parse.
"Demoralized" suggests there was moral in there at some point. Clearly not.
Wait, Trump's running for reelection?
JD Vance is a worthless sack of shit. That’s why Trump picked him.
That’s two more sentences about JD Vance than I ever want to say, now or ever.
Also, Elon’s too stupid to know you can’t buy Wisconsin voters with cash. You need cheese curds and Usinger brats.
You forgot beer.
Grog has the benefit of approval by example of the Founders' election bribe of choice.
Joe BrewPub demands an IPA for his vote.
A bar in Madison perfected the lure: Free Bacon Tuesdays with your beer.
A million bucks, a beer and free bacon and pretty soon yer talkin' real bribes!
I like how you have delimited your total sentence count re JayDee the Donut-befudddled. From now on you can simply reference that post, sit back and let the rest of us nod respectfully.
...and I see now that he is befudddled in 3D. Seems reasonable.
Don't think I've ever seen a typo as well-played as that. Who needs an edit button?
Nah. As I have previously mentioned, it's a defense mechanism, messing with AI's mind.
Let's be fair, Elon deserves some credit for pushing Crawford over the line with that performance in Green Bay on Sunday night. Dianne Hendricks and Dick Uhlein have given more to Wisconsin Republicans that Elon ever will, and hardly anyone (present company excepted) knows their names, and that's just how they like it. And yeah, the Democrats got their Pritzger and Soros, but only Elon stands up on a stage and proclaims "LOOK AT ME I'M REALLY REALLY RICH DO WHAT I TELL YOU." Which, to my utter incredulity, does not appear to be helpful.
The day before the election, I saw a clip of Brad Schimel saying he didn't like how "they" do these campaigns these days, with all the money, he's just an old-fashioned guy, just likes talkin' to the reg'lar folks and hearing their concerns. Who "they" are was not specified, but I took it as a hopeful sign, a sign of panic even, from a campaign in damage-control mode.
Make him spend it all!
Obviously, the cartoonishly-large checks were not large enough. You can't say he won't learn from this defeat.
You mean his repulsive essence is not an asset?
IKR?
The old school secretive billionaires will be there. But it's always good to see new movement on the road to de-Kochification.
There's lots of horrible things about money in politics that are just everywhere, and done by everybody (bothsides!) and it's discouraging, feels like we have no chance of stopping that stuff.
But then there's this ONE horrible thing done by this ONE guy, and I feel more hopeful after his face-plant that nobody else will be trying the same shit, sticking to other, more traditional forms of corruption.
Can we hope that even Elmo himself might have learned something? Come on, that's takin' it too far.
"an aw-shucks-Satan-what-the-hey sort of way"
Damn Roy, it's like you found my letters and read each one out loud.
Me and JD were neighbors. I had an office in Middletown at one point. It's a shit hole,
but not the hopeless, virulent suckhole of poverty it took courage and perseverance to overcome that Jim Dog made it out to be.
My daughter lives in gated community 10 minutes from there.
I'm sorry JD's mom was a Pillbilly. He could have built a life of public service around dealing with that. Going after big pharma and the Sacklers. Genuinely improving people's lives. He could have been a real source of hope and inspiration
for the Appalachian community.
Instead, he's just another shit bird Trumper.
I always thought GWBush missed an opportunity in not copping to alcoholism, and using it as a platform to help others. Silly me, Republicans only help themselves.
Helping themselves to the Treasury, you mean?
The Treasury, the Judiciary, our natural resources, your young daughters and sons...
Thankfully, I am unaffected, spawn-wise.
[music swells]
🎶 Spawn-Free, as free as the wind blows 🎵
Gotta say, this lyric blows too...I stand in abject – Ah Say ABJECT! – dismay that I was the inspiration fer it!
1.5 marks for pillbilly. 0.5 off cause you made me feel dirty for hearting it.
Tubby never wants to be upstaged or have the camera in any other direction than his. Vance is terrible on camera. I think it's as simple as that. I'm surprised Musk has lasted as long as he has, but I guess being the biggest walking ATM in the world has its perks.
Same thought on Musk, but guessing that Tubby's handlers make sure he sees all the Internet take-downs of Elmo, so he can still feel superior to his "friend."
Vance is living proof you can take the hillbilly out of the sister-fucking, but you can’t take the sister-fucking out of the hillbilly.
Hillbillies deserve better representation.
Just chiming in to say that Vance looked particular dorky in that parka they gave him to wear in Greenland. Usha knew how to rock hers -- leave it open, like a wealthy mom on a January Starbucks run, i.e., like herself -- but JD zipped his all the way up, and ended up looking like a boy whose mother bought him a size-too-large winter coat, because he'll grow into it and be able to wear it next year, too.
Imagine having to stuff that kid into a snowsuit every winter day and NOT telling him "Don't come back!"
"willing to sell his soul in an aw-shucks-Satan-what-the-hey sort of way"
GET THEE BEHIND ME - oh, HOW much? Hmmm.
Way back when I was a lil' sprog, there was this show on TV called "Marshall Efron's Painless Sunday School", awesome show, gotta see if it's on YouTube or something, but ANYWAY it was Biblical stories adapted to kid understanding, like for the tale of Jonah he had a big tub of water and a wind-up whale. One of the episodes was Satan's temptation of Jesus, and in this version Old Scratch was offering McDonald's. What I'm saying is that we seem to be at a point where the "godly" WOULD actually sell their souls to Hell for a lifetime access to Big Macs.
Marshall Efron was cool, but I never heard of this one, thanks!
Yeah, fuck that guy. And this sums up how I'm feelin' this mornin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFVxX3RtyhQ
"Leavitt further claimed to have seen evidence that Abrego-Garcia had been convicted of “human trafficking,”
What do they need with "evidence??" A conviction would be a matter of public record.
According to what I've seen, "evidence" is tattoos and/or high-end sportsball branded clothing.
This is all some "I witnessed Goody Morrow consorting with a dark man at the crossroads last Sabbath" bullshit. And the media largely seems to be all "consorted with a dark man, huh, sounds plausible I guess".
Consorting with a Black man (as the Devil). We used to be a proper (lynching) country. (/sarcasm)
It's funny because it's hilarious! And true. But Roy, prepare to hear from Jeff Tiedrich's attorneys. Months ago Jeff dubbed Trump "King Fuckface the First." Like minds!
It's that "the First" that sends a shiver...
No no, Vance is a fuckface, Trump is a scumbag: https://edroso.substack.com/p/goodbye-president-scumbag
"What they were voting for was a scumbag. They didn’t want to just beat the opposition, they wanted to nullify it entirely by making the leading representative of the nation a selfish, bigoted, ignorant piece of shit."
Just to make sure I've got the hierarchy correct: Scumbag is what every Fuckface aspires to be?
I need to consult Burke’s Peerage for American Shitbirds.