Showing posts with label positives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label positives. Show all posts

Monday, September 8, 2025

Why So Quiet?


There was a period a week or so ago that was eerily quiet. There were no rumblings from Mr. Diarrhea Mouth. No calls to Faux News. No helicopter-pad press conferences. No word salad. No ambushes of foreign dignitaries. And his not-tweets were sensical, spelled properly, and with proper punctuation. Something was going on.

It was so weird. People were speculating that he was dead. If only!

Finally, he emerged to make an Important Announcement in the Oval Office.

Here he is, surrounded by the Stepford Cabinet.


The eyes. They are dead inside.

Unfortunately, Diaper Don looked and sounded like his normal. He was his normal orange. No signs of a stroke. The only thing amiss was his hair was not to its usual every-piece-plastered-in-place. 

I guess the rotting hand cannot grasp a comb.






The substance of his announcement was equally mussed.

The press was notified. Cameras were turned on. The whole nation gathered. We turned on our televisions. News channels at the ready, anxiously waiting for 45 minutes' delay.

Yeah, we're moving Space Force to Huntsville.

Yawnsville!

Who cares?! 

It was obviously just a proof of life video, though he claimed "I didn't hear" – I mean, "I heard" – I mean – "I didn't hear" about the rumors of his timely demise.

Anyway, he's alive and (his version of) "well." 

For now, we just have to dream. And we can enjoy the memes that came out of all the speculation. I didn't have the time to find them myself, so here is one of my favorite creators (and I recently learned she is a SLP!!) with the ones she compiled. 

It wasn't quiet at the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament Final
Da Baby was boo'd incessantly. 


By the way, did you notice that many seats are empty? Why? Because when the Orange Selfish One decided to attend, additional security measures needed to be implemented. Longer lines followed, and people were stuck in line instead of watching the tennis tournament that they paid hundreds of dollars to watch. 

Epstein survivors speak out
Several survivors, plus Virginia Giuffre's brother and some of the survivors' pro-bono attorneys, held a press conference and shared a smidge of their pain. They called for justice in their support of a bill co-sponsored across the aisle by Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif). Empty Gee was also on hand. 

Notably, they said that they are compiling their own list. Here's survivor Lisa Phillips speaking. She definitely retook some power as she announced that many survivors are getting together and compiling their own client list, by survivors for survivors. A half smile, a twinkle in her eye, and I can just see IQ47 shitting his already-full diaper.


BELIEVE THE WOMEN! They need justice. 

The more The Liar-in-Cheat digs in to the "hoax" hoax, the more we understand that he is deeply involved. We want accountability. These women and the nation need to understand what happened. Keep the pressure on Congress to release the files! 

What if Bill Clinton is on the list?! the MAGAts cry. 

And I answer: what if? Then he gets brought to justice. We don't want him or any of the other perpetrators protected, BECAUSE WE AREN'T IN A CULT!

The toad Nancy Mace made it about herself. She met with some of the survivors and was seen leaving the meeting in tears. 

She is a survivor of sexual assault, so I understand that she was triggered. Horribly, she has suffered a trauma. I wouldn't wish that for anyone, and my heart goes out to her.

If she showed humility and compassion all the time and felt deeply for all people who have been victimized, demonized, and dehumanized, I might feel for her more. 

And it's just gross that after you broadcast that you had a "full panic attack," bringing attention to yourself and away from the survivors, the next day you are complicit in protecting the Assaulter-in-Chief, writing on not-Twitter, "President Trump is the one who banned Jeffrey Epstein from Mar-a-Lago. President Trump is the one who cooperated with the feds to get this guy. President Trump is the one who is COMMITTED to protecting women and kids."

Please. Woman, you need some therapy. Congress is not the place for you.  

House Speaker Mike Johnson, aka AssKissy McLickspittle, tried to say that the Traitor Tot was a FBI informant for the Epstein affair.

What - so now it's not a hoax?!

Li'l Johnson had to walk back his comments when he realized that an informant is usually one who is mired in the shit they are tattling about and are subject to investigation and charges regardless of their informant status. 

House Democrats released that birthday card that The Groper-in-Chief sent to Epstein in 2003. It's as gross as you thought it would be. 


What is the secret, Donnie? I'm sure the files will tell us. We need to see them.

I can't help but that think that his core base of supporters – young men – will just whoop and high five about this shit. 


What America is Not
Add to the list of atrocities that do not jive with our image of a Nation of Laws.

Marmalade Mussolini ordered a missile attack on a supposed drug-running boat in the Caribbean Sea. Eleven souls were obliterated. No attempts to stop the boat. No arrests. No evidence. No trials. Just straight to executions.

The Executioner-in-Chief claimed that the boat out of Venezuela was running "a lot of drugs" by so-called "narcoterrorists" on behalf of the Tren de Aragua gang. 

Ok, so now the president can murder people at will and get away with it? Well, it's not Fifth Avenue, but yeah. The Supreme Court said as much last year. 

This is not normal. This is not legal. This is not OK. 


National Guard News
Gavin Newsom estimated that sending the troops to Los Angeles cost about $120 million. The deployment in Washington, D.C. is bound to be pricey as well. Experts estimate that it costs us about $1 million per day to have the troops there.

And yet, the NG troops in D.C. have been reduced to picking up trash. I don't know if this is what he meant when the Orange Menace said they were going to "clean up the streets." 


I heard that about 300 guardsmen and women are still in LA. I wonder.... my kitty litter needs sifting. Can I get a couple troops over?

Needless to say, morale is low.

Speaking of the National Guard
California got a win when a court ruled that Dumpy's use of the National Guard goes against the Posse Comitatus Act

Another Court Win
California got a win when an appeals court ruled that most of his tariffs are illegal. They ruled that the power to levy tariffs lies with the legistlative branch, and SCROTUS overstepped his bounds. 

Of course, he immediately called on his buddies on the Supreme Court to quickly overturn that decision, pressuring them by saying that disallowing tariffs "would be a total disaster for the Country” and “would literally destroy the United States of America." We can guess what SCOTUS will do.

Marco Rubio is a hurtin' unit
Doesn't he look so happy to have sold his soul? It's a Stepford life for him!


ICE Raids Hyundai Plant 
This week a huge ICE raid was made on a Hyundai manufacturing plant in Georgia. About 475 people, mostly Korean nationals, were detained. 

Hyundai invests billions in the United States.

What part of "bring back manufacturing to the U.S.A." is this again? So, all 475 of those South Koreans making batteries were rapists, murders, and drug smugglers?

Needless to say, South Korea is not real happy about the situation and things got tense.

After some high-level diplomatic talks, the governments of Korea and the U.S. decided that the Korean nationals that were detained would be sent home and would not be held in a concentration camp. 

The Weak Jobs Report
More not-so-good economic news came out. Jobs not only were not added in the expected numbers, but jobs were lost in certain sectors. 

Hmmmm. Wonder why? It couldn't be tariff uncertainties and nervousness about the future of the economy, could it? 

Sleepy Don is trying to explain away the numbers, of course (see, for example, the chart he presented below in the Dementia section).




HHS Secretary WormBrain and Covid vaccines
Dennis Goris

The CDC, the agency entrusted with ensuring our health and well being (what better use for a government than ensuring the health of its citizens?) is in shambles. RFK fired the head of the agency after she refused to rubber stamp his wackadoo ideas on vaccines. 

A whole 17-member vaccine advisory board was summarily dismissed by this man who was a heroin addict for years; whose brain was half-eaten by a worm; and who purposefully let dead whale juice rain down on his children, whose heads were covered by plastic bags with a mouth hole cut out, as they sped down the I-95. 

Covid vaccine recommendations are an absolute mess. RFK Jr has disallowed people to get the vaccine. Unless you are over 65 or with a chronic condition. ...I think? Or unless you can get a doctor to write a prescription? ...Maybe? Or unless you live in one of the blue states that are fighting back and allowing anyone to get one? ...Does that sound right? 

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This mess of a human being faced the U.S. Senate this week and they let him have it, even Rethugs like Sen. Bill Cassidy from Louisiana, who is a physician. His scathing comments, along with our usual hero Senators like Bernie (VT), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (MA), and Sen. Ben Ray Lujan (NM), are in the snippet below:



The Department of Waaaaah!

King Coward rebranded the Department of Defense back to the Department of War, which was its name until after WWII. 

Way to make a case for your Nobel Peace Prize, ya moron!

Colonel Cosplay posted the below. Here we are again. The President of The United States of America, waging war on our own cities.

WTAF.
He better be careful. Squatting like that can put real pressure on cankles! Not to mention bone spurs!


Your regular reminder that we have been fighting this fight for decades 
From "The Keeper of the Flame" (1944). We won against fascism before; we'll do it again.


Dementia Don
  • Your regular reminder that Dear Leader is deteriorating fast:


  • More evidence of the rapidly accelerating dementia: Have you noticed that he is reverting to real estate talk more these days? He has framed big problems in real estate terms for a long time (remember his development plan for a devastated Gaza?) 
Lately he's been perseverating on all things real estate: he bathers about grass and ceilings and marble, bringing up the subject when it doesn't have anything to do with anything.

This is also a hallmark of dementia. A person with dementia will talk about a topic that they know a lot about and that was very important to them. Remember: old memories last a long time in people with dementia. He will be able to hold on to all of his real estate development knowledge better than he can recall and talk about current issues.

  • How much jail time does one get for taking a flag to his shit-stained bed? 


  • Weak jobs report? Well, just look at this chart. Pretty amazing. All new numbers!! 
OK?


It's Feeling Dictatory In Here

Laughingstock
I meant to share this months ago when it was fresh, but it got missed. He is the laughingstock of the world:



I give up.
 
Good News from the Courts

  • According to Just Security's legal tracker, of the 397 court cases filed so far against the regime, about a third of them have had rulings in the plantiff's favor, blocking the regime in whole or in part. 
Hang in there, resisters, and keep donating to legal organizations that bring these lawsuits, like the ACLU.

Bad News from the Courts
In an emergency docket ruling, SCOTUS gave the go-ahead for indiscriminate ICE raids in Los Angeles to continue, as unconstitutional as they are. Of course they did.

SCOTUS will be back in regular session next month, ready to put more pages of the Constitution through that big Constitution-sized shredder.

Some Positives
  • This voter:

  • #Truth.
  • There was a massive protest in Washington D.C. The churches rang their bells in solidarity. Beautiful!

  • Another physician group bucks the CDC
After the American Academy of Pediatrics went against the CDC and recommended Covid vaccines for children, the American Academy of Family Physicians recommended the vaccine for all adults, children, and pregnant people. 


Release the Epstein Files! No one is Forgetting!




Gary Huck


Nick Anderson


Clay Bennett



LSR Feels This Every Day:
Ivan Ehlers

October 18: No Kings Day


Mark your calendar and find your signs! We're protesting again next month. Let's make good trouble!


Meme Dump
Clay Jones





Mike Luckovich

Clay Bennett



















Thursday, July 3, 2025

"Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong."

Here we are, another Independence Day, another sinking feeling. Another year of questions, "Do I even celebrate?"

And once more, I entreat you: YES! Celebrate!

"Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong." – James Bryce

This year seems like the most dire yet. Our human rights are being stripped away. Brown people – citizens and migrants alike – are being snatched up by masked men; concentration camps are being built (you can't convince me that "Alligator Alcatraz" is not); billionaires are being exalted and enriched beyond comprehension at the expense of everyone else, but especially the needy; there is a war on women; LGBTQ lives are being upended; the "leader" of our country and the most powerful man in the world is rapidly decompensating in his dementia; the regime is filled with incompetent boot-lickers; our checks and balances are broken, with SCOTUS and Congress making a man a king. All that is emerging from the current regime is soundly un-American.

It is, in a word, disgusting.

It is hard to be patriotic.

But I submit: being disgusted and outraged is patriotic! The reason you feel outraged, disgusted, and less-than-patriotic is because you instill the very hope and the values that are at our base. We must not abandon American ideals now! We must, now more than ever, embrace the standards that have driven America since July 4, 1776. 

The reason we are so dismayed is because we love the country. We love its ideals, the promise of a more perfect union. We are proud when we are the envy of the world and that everyone wants to be here. We love the idea that if we keep moving forward, it will only get better. 

Those ideals are the ones to elevate this Fourth of July. Our hopes for our country have not gone away. If we let our hope disappear, then where are we? Hold the hope and put it on display tomorrow.
We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness—That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed....

Dig deep. Find that kind of patriotism that means supporting the country's potential, its best, its promise. We know that over the last 249 years, we've made great progress. We can't give up now; there is much work to be done. 

Patriotism means hope.
Patriotism means optimism.
Patriotism means participation.
Patriotism means effort.
Patriotism means resilience.
Patriotism means dissent.
Patriotism means resistance.

What does patriotism mean to you?

Why must we be Patriotic? Because it's hard.
“Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty. No kind of life is worth leading if it is always an easy life. I know that your life is hard; I know that your work is hard; and hardest of all for those of you who have the highest trained consciences, and who therefore feel always how much you ought to do. I know your work is hard, and that is why I congratulate you with all my heart. I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life; I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”
– Theodore Roosevelt, American Ideals: And Other Essays, Social and Political

So, please! Enjoy your hotdogs and watermelon tomorrow. Engage in meaningful celebrations. Spend time with friends and family. Let your heart swell as you watch the fireworks. 

Put out your flag and wear the red, white, and blue. Fly your flag for the potential it holds. It is powerful symbolism. Do not hand it over to those who would pervert it. Really? We're going to turn our flag over to the MAGAtS who "love the country" so much that they would overthrow the government? 

No. Reclaim the flag. The shame is on the other side. (David Bowie, "Heroes")

Engage in some introspection and self-care. Dig down and find your strength as individuals so that we can, together, lift America out of this pit. America is filled with great people – we can bring it back out of the abyss!

As Adlai Stevenson II said, "Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime." 

And so, let us be steadily patriotic today, and tomorrow, and the day after that. Let us support the country all the time, even when the government doesn't deserve it. It is our patriotism that WILL save the United States of America.

“Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.” – John Lewis


Dave Granlund





Go Team Resistance! Get in some good trouble!

Editing in a late addition. Anne Lamott wrote this piece for the Fourth of July. It's as if she were in my head. Please read.



Saturday, June 14, 2025

"In America, the law is the king." - Thomas Paine (1776)

The streets were alive with the sound of We the People!

Today on Flag Day we celebrated the fact that we are not ruled by kings, but by laws. This year marks 249 years of this truth. We ain't about to change now.

And celebrate we did. Millions showed up across the country. 

Here in Santa Barbara, the demonstration was organized along the beachfront. The sidewalk was packed for a solid mile and a half. I estimated 5,000 protesters, but the Santa Barbara Independent claims about 12,000, possibly up to 18,000! If we apply the 3.5% rule, Santa Barbara more than came through! Can you say upwards of 10% of the population?!

Babies, children, young adults, middle-agers, and grannies of all colors and types came together. There was joy, there was anger, there was humor, and there was ridicule. The protest was 100% peaceful. I literally got the chills more than once at the amazing unity of thousands of people. It felt like an important moment. 

It was a kick running into so many friends, too! Joyful hugs! I had a hard time connecting with the friend I wanted to stand with. The cell networks were overwhelmed and signals were not to be had. Other friends I found out had been there when I saw their pics on social media. 

Here are a few photos and videos.



I met up with several friends!
























A couple signs that I loved but I didn't get a picture of:
  • One that read "They're eating our checks. They're eating our balances."
  • One guy that held up a pocket U.S. Constitution booklet as his protest sign.

My signs:





I walked for three miles roundtrip. There were protesters the whole darn way! It was packed; I can't tell you how many people I bumped in the head with my sign! People were feeling festive and friendly.

I was out there for almost two hours. Here is four minutes.


Here's one local media's account: EdHat Santa Barbara.
And another: Noozhawk

Millions showed up at about 2,000 events held coast to coast. I would love to know the total number! Early reports say around 11 million. This is more than double the 5 million in April's Hands Off demonstrations, and very close to the 3.5% that can move the needle! 

It was amazing to see the crowds across the country. 

Here's national coverage by UPI
And photos from NBC News


I heard someone else had a parade. I'm not paying it any attention other than to mock it. I heard that thunderstorms and rain were possible in Washington D.C. I don't know if it rained on his parade, but I hope so. Like I said, I'm paying it no mind. 






A 2018 cartoon from my fave cartoonist (now retired). Tom Toles


Ed Wexler

Adam Zyglis



Ann Telnaes

Steve Sack


Dan Wasserman





Lastly, a favorite flag quote: 

“I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag” – Craig Washington