It's telling that no Republicans want to join a group that champions reason-based policy, church-state separation, and freedom of thought. One would think they are against such things.
They are against these things. Their gods are authoritarian and dictatorial monsters. They grow up being told Big Brotrhe er, god, is watching. It is judging every thought, word, action and dream constantly. It is total mind-fuck.
Good news, especially in the light of all the religious craziness going on on the other side of the aisle. Welcome, Ms. Friedman! We're glad you joined us!
Here is a copy of my message to Jeff Tiedrich, was important to get this message out to save the GOPpers should your guy "donnie" proceed with his plan to adopt Canada as his 51st state.
Attention all GOPpers!
Poor fucking demented Donny, pleading for Canada to become his 51st State ....... What?
Has he or his minions not thought this out?
What would 'merica look like with 51 states, the latest one even larger than all the other 50 combined ...... What
The first step for your new state is to State-Divide (verb), a new process to fix BIG problems. Canada would of course be state-divided into a bunch of states, if done using geographical criteria the 10 provinces and 3 territories would shake down to at least 8 states.
8 states ....... that means 16 new senators ........ What?
Camera pans to live meeting in the GOP senate subcommittee: "16 new senators ......... from Canadas ......... they're all commies!" There goes any chance of a GOPper majority ...... ever.
Camera pans to live meeting of GOP house subcommittee: "Somebody call Trump, we need a riot at the gates to stop the voting, we can't win anything."
Not only are most of them socialists (by 'mercan standards) most are also atheists ........ What?
If any Friendly Atheist knows a ranking GOPper you might want to give them a heads up.
Thank you for that, of course it's a distraction, now the American public must know that in this matter too, your president is unfit to govern. I have no access to public media, Hemant is the closest I could find. However, this is another clue to the fact that Trump is clueless. Gracias.
To this day, Americans still think we never lost a war before Vietnam. They seem to forget about this bit of history. And the Civil War? Southern-based Americans sure lost that one.
Larry is right that Trump is engaging in political theater.
You are right that Canada becoming 3-6 states would give the Dems a massive legislative advantage.
But what you forget is, *even if* Trump's wildest dreams came true, the GOP controlled Congress would likely make it into a territory with no legislative voting representation. After all, the US already has a few of those, what's a few more? Basically, Republicans would turn it into one or more giant Washington DCs.
And if you counter that Canada would never agree to that, well they'd never agree to becoming part of the US at all, so this whole fantastic scenario assumes a hostile takeover where Canada has no say in how it turns out. So...nonvoting territory or territories it would be.
Brought my son to the Orson Welles in Cambridge MA in the 1970s to see Beauty and the Beast (1946 film) by Cocteau. Didn't realize we missed it by a day. We were subjected to "The 10 most wanted Looney Tunes." That's a LOT of Looney Tunes, he asked to leave halfway through the 2nd cartoon.
First I "liked" your post, but then I thought about it. I just can't like it. I can't like the possibility of people being harassed because they don't believe the same as the rest does.
I really really worry for all the people who now are targeted by TYG and his owner EM and their minions. This is people who get off by scaring children, nonbinary people, women, homoswxuals and anyone they can harassing.
And violent, must not forget violent. The Rednecks will resort to violence on the flimsiest of reasons. They expect deference, respect and obedience from those they think are inferior, and to question or show any resistance to their (in their mind) god given position is just enough of a reason to set them off. Rednecks think that white (read European descent), straight (read heterosexual, only female/male), Christian (read evangelical, maybe other Protestant sect are accepted), conservative (read fascism), Republicans are the only one with god given rights (read Human Rights and civil liberties). All others are fit to be used, abused, and killed (on a whim or in their minds a just cause), and not to be held responsible or accountable for their actions towards others.
I don't know how common it is for kids to carry IDs today (what with security in schools tightening in the wake of our unending murder spree epidemic), but I didn't carry a photo ID on my person until I got my learner's permit from the DMV. I have my doubts that the sort of goons who'd go along with orders like these are the sort who'd diligently check IDs in any case.
I have a niece and a nephew who have Mexican ancestry and a Hispanic last name from the other side of the family, and their skin is 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 brown enough to be noticeably 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳. They live in a red state. Restful sleep is a thing of the past, I think.
I'm pretty sure the states still don't issue photo IDs to anyone under the age of 15 1/2. Kids may carry a School ID with their photos, but schools don't currently check immigration documents. (And that tends to be older kids, AIUI) And so far, he hasn't been able to revoke birthright citizenship, so he's going to terrorize children who are U.S. citizens.
Even if we accepted his assertion that illegal immigration is a war, targeting children is a war crime. I'd love to see him arrested for setting foot in Europe for example.
You know he’ll ignore it, I know he’ll ignore it but we shouldn’t let it go. We need to demand we do our best to keep the Universal Declaration of Human Rights a priority. He’s already managed to break a few in his first few days.
Most schools have student IDs, starting pretty young, I think the intermediate school had them (5-6th grades). Not that those are prof of citizenship.
Regarding who they’re detaining and harassing — yesterday I heard about a raid that held a US Army veteran. They did not believe his military documentation was real. They did release him eventually, but if you think these demands for documents will not affect you, you have another think coming. If you have dark hair, your pale skin can be ignored because some Mexicans are pale. Blonde hair, Mexicans are blonde too. Or they dye their hair or bleached their skin to avoid the ICE, whatever it takes to justify the detention. And who’s to say they’re stopping with Hispanic/latino people? It will be a requirement to provide documents everywhere for everyone. Your MAGAt hat won’t protect you. Maybe the face Trump tat, but then more likely they’ll tattoo the unwanted rather than themselves. Are we ready, folks?
Let's start with probable cause. Millions of U.S. citizens are 3rd-4th generation Latinx. Large parts of the country used to belong to Mexico and were settled by Latinx.
As I recall, the Catholic church has a long history of offering sanctuary. I wonder if ICE/CBP have the balls to go into a church with guns drawn and bring the weight of the entire Catholic church down on their heads.
(C'mon, they have to be good for something besides harboring pedophiles)
CFC has not one Republican in its ranks. I'd like to think that after Trump's tirade against Rev. Budde the other day that at least one Republican who isn't a complete MAGAt would finally step up and join.
All of the Republicans who'd have had the backbone to defy Dear Leader are either dead, or their careers in politics are. What's left of that party is a putrid, shambling corpse with no will of its own, nor any sense of ethics and decency.
… NBC is reporting that Mexico refused permission prior to takeoff to a request by a US military flight with deported migrants to land in their country yesterday, which resulted in the flight being canceled. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said she opposes Trump’s attempt to take “unilateral actions” to deport migrants, and will not give consent for any US flights to land in her country unless the deportations have been coordinated with her government.
… Scottish comic Steve Blair: “Trump’s furious, because as a Bishop, Budde can move as far as she wants diagonally, but as a Russian pawn he can only move one square at a time.”
Trump would be call emperor asshole, or supreme asshole for life, asshole for eternity, asshole king of kings, ruler of all assholes in America and around the world, the flying monkey’s asshole and co., etc. Please add others to the list!
OT, but ever notice how the same people who justify deportations of even non-dangerous illegal immigrants (including children) based on how they cause overcrowding in schools, in emergency rooms, etc. are the same folks who are crowing about how underpopulated America (and the world) is and that people need to have more babies?
The station I'm listening to right now just played Don Henley's "The End of the Innocence." Recorded during the Reagan Years but still applies to Trump...
It's telling that no Republicans want to join a group that champions reason-based policy, church-state separation, and freedom of thought. One would think they are against such things.
They are against these things. Their gods are authoritarian and dictatorial monsters. They grow up being told Big Brotrhe er, god, is watching. It is judging every thought, word, action and dream constantly. It is total mind-fuck.
Against? More like allergic.
Allergic like vampires to wooden stakes.
Good news, especially in the light of all the religious craziness going on on the other side of the aisle. Welcome, Ms. Friedman! We're glad you joined us!
Hemant.
Here is a copy of my message to Jeff Tiedrich, was important to get this message out to save the GOPpers should your guy "donnie" proceed with his plan to adopt Canada as his 51st state.
Attention all GOPpers!
Poor fucking demented Donny, pleading for Canada to become his 51st State ....... What?
Has he or his minions not thought this out?
What would 'merica look like with 51 states, the latest one even larger than all the other 50 combined ...... What
The first step for your new state is to State-Divide (verb), a new process to fix BIG problems. Canada would of course be state-divided into a bunch of states, if done using geographical criteria the 10 provinces and 3 territories would shake down to at least 8 states.
8 states ....... that means 16 new senators ........ What?
Camera pans to live meeting in the GOP senate subcommittee: "16 new senators ......... from Canadas ......... they're all commies!" There goes any chance of a GOPper majority ...... ever.
Camera pans to live meeting of GOP house subcommittee: "Somebody call Trump, we need a riot at the gates to stop the voting, we can't win anything."
Not only are most of them socialists (by 'mercan standards) most are also atheists ........ What?
If any Friendly Atheist knows a ranking GOPper you might want to give them a heads up.
From a kind gentle Canadian atheist
The US is not going to annex Canada. It's a distraction.
Thank you for that, of course it's a distraction, now the American public must know that in this matter too, your president is unfit to govern. I have no access to public media, Hemant is the closest I could find. However, this is another clue to the fact that Trump is clueless. Gracias.
America tried invading Canada before. It didn’t go so well for the United States. :)
Something about the White House being on fire, IIRC.
That was one the consequences.
To this day, Americans still think we never lost a war before Vietnam. They seem to forget about this bit of history. And the Civil War? Southern-based Americans sure lost that one.
I’m not sure anyone wins a civil war. You survive it and try to put the pieces back together according to the vision of the ones who didn’t give up.
Of course, this generation may soon have first hand experience.
...and the Library of Congress: that was unforgivable.
I don't get what you are writing about. Please enlighten me.
As if the magats known their history!
Larry is right that Trump is engaging in political theater.
You are right that Canada becoming 3-6 states would give the Dems a massive legislative advantage.
But what you forget is, *even if* Trump's wildest dreams came true, the GOP controlled Congress would likely make it into a territory with no legislative voting representation. After all, the US already has a few of those, what's a few more? Basically, Republicans would turn it into one or more giant Washington DCs.
And if you counter that Canada would never agree to that, well they'd never agree to becoming part of the US at all, so this whole fantastic scenario assumes a hostile takeover where Canada has no say in how it turns out. So...nonvoting territory or territories it would be.
They have trump-humpers in Canada too, mostly in the prairies.
Today is opening night!!! I will likely not be on much for the rest of the day, I need to keep running lines during any free time I get.
Here’s a link to the theater if you are interested in donating and there will be a live streaming 2/8/25, so look out for that.
https://bstonline.org/
Hemant totally needs to do a streaming watch party.
https://64.media.tumblr.com/caf2ae81854f7b96b6e4ae70513d2016/tumblr_n9utucMpAd1ro8ysbo1_500.gif
🎵It's time to play the music. It's time to light the lights...🎵
Can I say, "Break a leg?" 😁
Only if you do it with gusto!
And if Gusto can't make it? Belt it out, anyway!
How about with Guido?
The ticket prices are great – the airfare's a bit much though.😇
In my case, it’ll be the deportation fine that’ll kill me.
You'll have to wait for the show to go on tour. You probably won't see Val though. The big stars usually aren't part of the touring company.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-t8PngHgWY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlU07Zz8wxk
Well, sure. I mean. who here DIDN'T get their introduction to classical musical/opera from that Oscar-winning rabbit?
I've never gone to see "The Barber of Seville" because I always figured it couldn't be any better than the Bugs Bunny version.
And I wouldn’t be able to attend Wagnerian opera without hearing Elmer Fudd singing 🎵Bwuuunnhilde, my wuuuuuv…🎵
🤣
🎶"Kill the Wabbit, kill the wabbit."🎶
Yep, by the time I heard the commercial for "hooked on classics" I knew most of them, just not the names.
Brought my son to the Orson Welles in Cambridge MA in the 1970s to see Beauty and the Beast (1946 film) by Cocteau. Didn't realize we missed it by a day. We were subjected to "The 10 most wanted Looney Tunes." That's a LOT of Looney Tunes, he asked to leave halfway through the 2nd cartoon.
"Break a leg toots!"
🎵Another opening, another show...🎵
22 members who will end up cussed at, vilified, threatened with physical harm to them and their familis by people claiming a "loving" jesus.
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First I "liked" your post, but then I thought about it. I just can't like it. I can't like the possibility of people being harassed because they don't believe the same as the rest does.
Unfortunately, that’s reality now.
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I really really worry for all the people who now are targeted by TYG and his owner EM and their minions. This is people who get off by scaring children, nonbinary people, women, homoswxuals and anyone they can harassing.
Religious superstitions began as groups to protect one's group against any other group. Today we see that is still the case
The Trumpistani Tribe are even more religiously superstitious than most.
And violent, must not forget violent. The Rednecks will resort to violence on the flimsiest of reasons. They expect deference, respect and obedience from those they think are inferior, and to question or show any resistance to their (in their mind) god given position is just enough of a reason to set them off. Rednecks think that white (read European descent), straight (read heterosexual, only female/male), Christian (read evangelical, maybe other Protestant sect are accepted), conservative (read fascism), Republicans are the only one with god given rights (read Human Rights and civil liberties). All others are fit to be used, abused, and killed (on a whim or in their minds a just cause), and not to be held responsible or accountable for their actions towards others.
Yep, like in the article I posted yesterday: 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐄𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐈𝐬 𝐒𝐨 𝐂𝐫𝐮𝐞𝐥.
https://theologyandthecity.com/2018/03/12/why-white-evangelicalism-is-so-cruel/
Nothing says "we're the good guys!" like using federal agents to lay ambushes for schoolchildren, amirite?
"Vere are your papers?" 6-year-olds having to carry proof of citizenship, if they can find a document that will actually be accepted.
I don't know how common it is for kids to carry IDs today (what with security in schools tightening in the wake of our unending murder spree epidemic), but I didn't carry a photo ID on my person until I got my learner's permit from the DMV. I have my doubts that the sort of goons who'd go along with orders like these are the sort who'd diligently check IDs in any case.
I have a niece and a nephew who have Mexican ancestry and a Hispanic last name from the other side of the family, and their skin is 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 brown enough to be noticeably 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳. They live in a red state. Restful sleep is a thing of the past, I think.
I'm pretty sure the states still don't issue photo IDs to anyone under the age of 15 1/2. Kids may carry a School ID with their photos, but schools don't currently check immigration documents. (And that tends to be older kids, AIUI) And so far, he hasn't been able to revoke birthright citizenship, so he's going to terrorize children who are U.S. citizens.
Even if we accepted his assertion that illegal immigration is a war, targeting children is a war crime. I'd love to see him arrested for setting foot in Europe for example.
You know he’ll ignore it, I know he’ll ignore it but we shouldn’t let it go. We need to demand we do our best to keep the Universal Declaration of Human Rights a priority. He’s already managed to break a few in his first few days.
https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights
It took him days? I thought they would have pushed him to break them in hours.
Most schools have student IDs, starting pretty young, I think the intermediate school had them (5-6th grades). Not that those are prof of citizenship.
Regarding who they’re detaining and harassing — yesterday I heard about a raid that held a US Army veteran. They did not believe his military documentation was real. They did release him eventually, but if you think these demands for documents will not affect you, you have another think coming. If you have dark hair, your pale skin can be ignored because some Mexicans are pale. Blonde hair, Mexicans are blonde too. Or they dye their hair or bleached their skin to avoid the ICE, whatever it takes to justify the detention. And who’s to say they’re stopping with Hispanic/latino people? It will be a requirement to provide documents everywhere for everyone. Your MAGAt hat won’t protect you. Maybe the face Trump tat, but then more likely they’ll tattoo the unwanted rather than themselves. Are we ready, folks?
IIRC, the last time they did a public roundup like this, they very nearly deported the CEO of either BMW or Mercedes, I forget which.
A German national.
Because like a sane person, he wasn’t carrying his passport with him at all times.
The fucking Trumpistanis and their legion are fucking out of their tiny little fucking minds.
Can you say, "Due process," boys and girls? I KNEW that you could!
Let's start with probable cause. Millions of U.S. citizens are 3rd-4th generation Latinx. Large parts of the country used to belong to Mexico and were settled by Latinx.
I had questions after looking at that pic, so I went digging a bit. Here's the AP story on it:
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-enforcement-sensitive-locations-trump-ab0d2d2652e9df696f14410ebb52a1fc
As I recall, the Catholic church has a long history of offering sanctuary. I wonder if ICE/CBP have the balls to go into a church with guns drawn and bring the weight of the entire Catholic church down on their heads.
(C'mon, they have to be good for something besides harboring pedophiles)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6JgnDxV7ObU&t=77
The lights really are going out in Massachusetts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgxjcIqCpRM
CFC has not one Republican in its ranks. I'd like to think that after Trump's tirade against Rev. Budde the other day that at least one Republican who isn't a complete MAGAt would finally step up and join.
All of the Republicans who'd have had the backbone to defy Dear Leader are either dead, or their careers in politics are. What's left of that party is a putrid, shambling corpse with no will of its own, nor any sense of ethics and decency.
That is about as likely as my cat reading books to me, saving me eyestrain.
Are there winged horses flying over your Seattle?
Seattle is a saddle for sea horses.
Republicans who aren't complete MAGAts? I don't think there are any left.
I had to edit my post when I realized I'd started off by saying what you said the way you said it. Sorry for the unintentional copycat.
Do you often hallucinate like this?
I am a murkan.
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OT - Gee who didn't see this coming
… NBC is reporting that Mexico refused permission prior to takeoff to a request by a US military flight with deported migrants to land in their country yesterday, which resulted in the flight being canceled. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said she opposes Trump’s attempt to take “unilateral actions” to deport migrants, and will not give consent for any US flights to land in her country unless the deportations have been coordinated with her government.
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-56-12425
OT - Hee hee
… Scottish comic Steve Blair: “Trump’s furious, because as a Bishop, Budde can move as far as she wants diagonally, but as a Russian pawn he can only move one square at a time.”
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-56-12425
Anti-trans people are still commenting on the last trans post. As if I'm going to go back there and reply.😁
Got one yesterday. Thought about replying but I'm not going to argue on a 6 day old article with someone who futzes with the truth.
That's what they used to do at Wonkette. Wait until a post was dead, and have the last word with their stinky effluent sliming the post.
I've gotten several, all from the same person. Nothing of substance.
I also got two upvotes from an article back in August.
I noticed that one of the anti-trans people commented here today. In fact, they were the first to post on this article. They got 3 upvotes.
Buckner has been around awhile.
Yeah, I noticed that too.
I got one just yesterday. They sure have one-track minds.
I sent the transphobe's comment right into "Delete" unanswered.
they are going full nazi, scary
https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/jan/23/tennesssee-republican-womens-group-cites-hitler/
249 years was a nice run for a democracy.
You can't be a democracy unless you give women the vote. :)
249 years without a monarch. :)
King Potatohead.
Trump would be call emperor asshole, or supreme asshole for life, asshole for eternity, asshole king of kings, ruler of all assholes in America and around the world, the flying monkey’s asshole and co., etc. Please add others to the list!
Seen on that site that allows memes
THEY FINALLY SAID IT ALOUD.
THEY voted for this. I DID NOT.
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Fearless and brave?
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Assuming he's an xtian, he doesn't fear his god. He has a tattoo.
The above is a private post. Try this link same imaage.
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OT, but ever notice how the same people who justify deportations of even non-dangerous illegal immigrants (including children) based on how they cause overcrowding in schools, in emergency rooms, etc. are the same folks who are crowing about how underpopulated America (and the world) is and that people need to have more babies?
More white babies.
zackly
Hypocrisy is a feature, not a bug.
OT
The station I'm listening to right now just played Don Henley's "The End of the Innocence." Recorded during the Reagan Years but still applies to Trump...
"O' beautiful, for spacious skies
But now those skies are threatening
They're beating plowshares into swords
For this tired old man that we elected king..."
5 days in, and the Dude's already violated the Constitution (14th Amendment).
The Insurrectionist in Chief violated it when he was sworn in.
reports trump ending FEMA
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-demands-california-voter-id-163755090.html
He's that "domestic enemy" we were told about in the Oath of Office.
He's so hellbent on destroying this country that Homeland Security should be listing him as a domestic terrorist.
Maybe California should stop sending all that tax money to the federal government and put it in their own disaster fund.
He was that eight years ago. He's still that now. He's just gotten worse.
Back then he made the mistake of putting people who still had a smidgen of conscience in them into his cabinet.
Now he has picked people who are completely devoid of any.
The only requirement is loyalty to his smelly diaper-wearing orange ass.
A loyalty he in no way returns.