NEW YORK (AP) — Jules Feiffer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and writer whose prolific output ranged from a long-running comic strip to plays, screenplays and children’s books, died Friday. He was 95 and, true to his seemingly tireless form, published his last book just four months ago.
[…]
Artistically limber, Feiffer hopscotched among numerous forms of expression, chronicling the curiosity of childhood, urban angst and other societal currents. To each he brought a sharp wit and acute observations of the personal and political relations that defined his readers’ lives.
As Feiffer explained to the Chicago Tribune in 2002, his work dealt with “communication and the breakdown thereof, between men and women, parents and children, a government and its citizens, and the individual not dealing so well with authority.”
Feiffer won the United States’ most prominent awards in journalism and filmmaking, taking home a 1986 Pulitzer Prize for his cartoons and “Munro,” an animated short film he wrote, won a 1961 Academy Award. The Library of Congress held a retrospective of his work in 1996.
“My goal is to make people think, to make them feel and, along the way, to make them smile if not laugh,” Feiffer told the South Florida Sun Sentinel in 1998. “Humor seems to me one of the best ways of espousing ideas. It gets people to listen with their guard down.”
[…]
“It’s hard to remember what hypocrisy looked like before Jules Feiffer sketched it,” ….
[continues with nods to all his work from ‘toons to books to plays and movies, a true artist of his age]
stephen on our recent times, an age of even more hostility and hypocrisy than Feiffer could ever imagine:
On the first day of President Trump’s second term he pardoned the Jan 6 rioters, gutted America’s climate policies, raised the price of insulin and pulled out of the World Health Organization. Elsewhere, presidential advisor Elon Musk is doing damage control after making an apparent Nazi salute at Trump’s inauguration celebration.
We are on day two of another round with President Donald Trump, he has a new official portrait, they have already redecorated the Oval Office, Musk has been badgering team Trump to give him an office in the West Wing, Biden left a letter for Trump that he only discovered after a reporter pointed it out, he has signed more than a hundred executive orders and actions, he celebrated at his many inaugural balls with performances from Billy Ray Cyrus and the Village People, he got mad at church after the Bishop dared to bring the teachings of Jesus into things, and a shocking Inauguration Edition of Lie Witness News.
Police union that endorsed Trump blasts Jan. 6 pardons:
“Allowing those convicted of these crimes to be released early diminishes accountability and devalues the sacrifices made by courageous law enforcement officers and their families”
Sickening.
Former Capitol Hill.Police Sergeant Aquilino Gonell posted this on Bluesky — his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of “Justice” notification saying “The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections.”
Each defendant assaulted him.
My guess is the last time a “nasty woman” talked to him like that it was Melania telling him contract fulfilled. No more grabbing, no more mouth touching, no more anything. Just show time in front of cameras. AND, the real reason she is moved into the WH is so he can’t bring in pros, she is going to have him celibate for the next few years.
Pogo, i added editing options for mobile devices, assume that’s where you’re having trouble with quotations. They’re disabled by default in this system because sometimes these options don’t work well on phones, so let me know what happens with enabling them.
Sprinkles Stuff
1 month ago
He released them all because he’s too lazy to review and sign individual pardons
BB……that’s exactly what I was thinking when I saw the photo of the “kissus hat interrupts”
“This is as close as you’ll ever get again,” she whispered as the hat blocked that kiss.
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde’s compassionate sermon at the National Prayer Service in DC perfectly exposed MAGA Christians’ hateful heresy.
Honestly, I feel sorry for people who want to be both Christian and MAGA, who think they can be devoted to Jesus and to Donald Trump simultaneously, who labor under the false assumption that their bastardized, territorial, self-centered white nationalist GOP version of Christianity is remotely of God.
And I know that the actual words of Jesus are the most triggering of any they could be faced with, and so the ugliness these words generate aren’t surprising and neither is their scalding rage toward those of us who regularly share those words with them.
MAGA friends out there, I’m not saying this white Republican theocracy built on power, exclusion, and subjugation that you’re tethered to is anti-Jesus, and that you’re failing him by worshipping someone like Donald Trump.
Bishop Budde isn’t saying that, either.
Jesus is saying that.
If you have a problem with that, take it up with him.
Some have tried to claim Adolf only released J6ers because Biden pardoned Hunter. Nope! Adolf always said he would, campaigned on it with their choir’s soundtrack at rallies. MAGAts are not the law & order party, they are the THEIR-law-and-order party.
Just more of their gaslighting, like we didn’t see what Elon did, but if we did it’s because he’s on the spectrum. Nope! He’s high-functioning (and seems to function high, so maybe the party drugs will get him), and he does big, media events for his taxpayer-subsidized companies. He knew what he was doing, he did it twice, the crowd cheered, and he/they/we know what it meant.
Are the so-Christians going to stay silent while he continues to do what Jesus would not do, and criticize those who speak Jesus’ true message? Of course they won’t make a peep. It’s a cult of Christo-fascists.
Is anybody looking into Adolf’s multiple claims that Elon rigged the election for him?
Is anything Adolf has done since he took the oath to uphold the US Constitution an impeachable offense?
Does Adolf realize that not touching the Bible during the oath does not mean anything?
How long before embassies leave/kick us out, put travel restrictions on Elon, hated-inked Hegseth, and other assorted nutzis?
Anonymous
1 month ago
We can also stop pretending American Christianity is about anything other than exclusion, you can stop appealing to their hypocrisy, they don’t care
About exclusion—and burning people when they can get away with it.
Just try and tell me that Speaker Johnson wouldn’t throw the first match. He’d have a Super Sized box of Diamond Brand Kitchen matches. Strike anywhere.
If the 2nd coming of Christ came to Trumperica, he’d be an undocumented immigrant and they’d throw him in a holding cell to await deportation with the other brown-skinned folk, as per official state policy
Sprinkles Stuff
1 month ago
Trying to reason with people who are by definition unreasonable, will, i posit, be an unfruitful endeavor
I avoided posting Edgar’s birthday on Sunday, we were already sufficiently anxiety-ridden (the Ravens lost.) But his thoughts are still with me. The essence of his quote is we lose our minds in the attempt to rationalize the irrational.
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”– Edgar Allan Poe
“Within hours of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the new administration took down the Spanish-language version of the official White House website.”
“The site—currently https://www.whitehouse.gov/es/—now gives users an “Error 404” message. It also included a “Go Home” button that directed viewers to a page featuring a video montage of Trump in his first term and on the campaign trail. The button was later updated to read “Go To Home Page”.
“Trump removed the Spanish version of the page in 2017. At that time, White House officials said they would reinstate it. President Joe Biden reinstated the page in 2021.”
Whelp, time to use recognizable Spanish words like si, por favor and adios to those MAGAts roaming around Walmart looking for cheap eggs.
Actually Poobah, I was doing the comments yesterday that were the source of the issue from my desktop at work. But let’s see what’s shakin’.
In a memo to Justice Department employees, acting deputy attorney general Emil Bove wrote that the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution and other legal authorities, “require state and local actors to comply with the Executive Branch’s immigration enforcement initiatives.”
“Federal law prohibits state and local actors from resisting, obstructing, and otherwise failing to comply with lawful immigration-related commands,” wrote Bove, a former federal prosecutor who spent recent years in private practice and was one of Donald Trump’s defense lawyers in his criminal cases.
Still acting up. If I paste a single paragraph in, AOK. If I paste 2 paragraphs in, it doesn’t include the first as a quote. This is from a Windows based Desktop. But not to worry – I’ve got the fix wired and it takes 2 seconds.
Bove ordered U.S. attorneys’ offices nationwide to “investigate incidents involving any such misconduct for potential prosecution,” including for harboring an immigrant in the United States illegally, failing to share information about a person’s immigration status with the federal government and conspiracy — crimes that carry potential prison terms upon conviction.
Any refusals to prosecute someone for “resistance, obstruction or other noncompliance” with commands or requests from U.S. immigration officers will be sent to the Justice Departmentas an “urgent” report, the memo says.
Bove’s directive, which responds to executive orders Trump signed on his first day in office Monday, is likely to face fierce blowback from legal advocacy groups and officials in cities and states led by Democrats. Those jurisdictions tussled with Trump over the issue during his first term.
Pogo, my experience with our new format is that each separate paragraph in a section you are quoting needs to get its own “quote designation.” I may or may not be making sense with that, or it may not be your issue. But I just try to proofread through and check for quotes on everything I want to see inside the quotation.
Ivy, that’s the way to describe it. Last one I posted required a quote click for each paragraph. I can live with that rather easily. I’ll give it a real test sometime and try to post lyrics to a song.
1984 has finally arrived and the Orwellian speak begins. NYT
President Trump on Wednesday revoked a 60-year-old executive order banning discrimination in hiring practices in the federal government, his latest action aimed at gutting diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
His order, which the White House called “the most important federal civil rights measure in decades,” revokes Executive Order 11246 signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965. It prohibited discriminatory practices in hiring and employment in government contracting and asserted the government’s commitment to affirmative action.
Notice that only the last line was picked up when I hit the quote symbol then pasted the lyrics into the comment.
Now here it is pasted without appearance codes
Highlight, Copy, Paste into Word, without codes, copy. Hit Quote button, Paste.
[Verse 1]
Yesterday
All my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they’re here to stay
Oh, I believe in yesterday
[Verse 2]
Suddenly
I’m not half the man I used to be
There’s a shadow hanging over me
Oh, yesterday came suddenly
[Bridge]
Why she had to go
I don’t know, she wouldn’t say
I said something wrong
Now I long for yesterday
[Verse 3]
Yesterday
Love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away
Oh, I believe in yesterday
[Bridge]
Why she had to go
I don’t know, she wouldn’t say
I said something wrong
Now I long for yesterday
Same result.
Now the easy way:
Highlight, Copy, Paste into Word without codes, copy. Paste, Hit Quote button.
I heard thru the grapevine that the Nazi salute is the pinned tweet on Smuk’s titter x account. You know, like he’s real proud of it. Like he really actually factually IS a Nazi or something.
And wants you to know it.
chocolate soldier with his precious little naziboy salute.
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Sprinkle Stuff
1 month ago
yeah it’s probably a good idea to take things at face value with these schmucks, going forward
Well, we’re one week away from one of the least celebrated holidays on the calendar (depending on which calendar you follow) Lunar New Year. 1/29/2025 is the first day of the year of the snake. Make sure to stock up on provisions for the celebration, but make sure you don’t jinx yourself by violating the “No washing clothes or hair or bathing” guidelines. Don’t piss off the Water God on the 29th and 30th of January.- his two day birthday. The Confusius Institute for Scotland (University of Edinburgh) lays out the dos and don’ts:
The pervasive taboos:
Don’t say unlucky words like “death”, “illness” or “loss” because if you use these words during the festival, they will follow you the whole year.
Don’t break porcelain or glass.
Don’t scold children. If you scold your kids during the Spring Festival, they will become naughty and will need to be scolded for the whole year.
Don’t grieve or you will be sad all the time.
Do not get your hair cut. It is considered a curse on your uncle.
Don’t press for payment of debt.
On New Year’s eve:
Do not eat fish head or tail. “Fish” has the same pronunciation as “abundance” in Chinese, so if you leave some fish on New Year’s Eve till the next day, it means you will always have enough wealth to spend for the next year. Similarly, your rice jar should not be empty on New Year’s Eve. It should be full to ensure that you will not encounter any hunger next year.
You are not supposed to go to bed early on New Year’s Eve. On the contrary, you should stay up late and alert in order to keep the “Sui” monster away.
On the first day of the lunar year:
Chinese people consider New Year’s Day a very important day. There are many taboos on this day.
No washing clothes or hair or bathing. The first and second day of the lunar year is the birthday of the “Water God”, so you are not supposed to use water to show respect for the Water God.
No sweeping the floor or taking out rubbish. If you do so, you are carrying your fortune out.
No eating porridge. In old times, only poor families would eat porridge, so in order to gather wealth in the coming year, do not eat porridge.
Do not urge someone to get out of bed. If you are urged out of bed on the first morning, it means that you will be rushed the whole year.
Do not give New Year’s greetings to someone still in the bed. Doing so might lead to that person lying in bed sick for the whole year.
Avoid using needles, knives or scissors on the first day. These items may cause bleeding. Blood is considered unlucky.
Do not take an afternoon nap. Napping on New Year’s Day indicates laziness for the next year.
Married women are not supposed to visit their parents’ home. They can only go there on the second or the third day.
When giving lucky money as a gift, the amount should be an even number rather than an odd number. Even numbers are supposed to be lucky numbers.
Younger people should bow to older people, and when they do so, the posture of their hands is very important. The left hand should cover the right fist as “left” was supposed to be more respectful in ancient China. The opposite posture is used to show respect to the dead.
On the fourth day of the lunar year:
The fourth day is the day when the Kitchen God returns to one’s house. People are not supposed to go out on that day. They should stay at home to prepare sacrificial offerings to welcome the Kitchen God back. See our story on the Kitchen God at:https://www.confuciusinstitute.ac.uk/fortune-god-kitchen-god-door-god/
On the fifth day of the lunar year:
Only from the fifth day of the New Year are people finally allowed to take out rubbish and sweep the floors. On this day, the rubbish and dust turn into “symbols of poverty”, so cleaning the house means to expel “poverty”. On this day, people are also supposed to receive the God of Fortune, so traders worship the God of Fortune and reopen their businesses.
And where better to get information about a Chinese celebration than Scotland?
The most famous images of Deng’s Texas tour are from the Simonton Roundup Rodeo Arena, in a small town West of Houston, where he donned a cowboy hat, drank beer, and was presented with a 1500-pound Brahman Bull, bizarrely nicknamed Mr. Sugarato 860.
The “shock and awe” carpet bombing of the federal government is working right now. There are dictates from the WH/2025 going out, but due to stupidity and ignorance the so called Executive Orders are full of errors, incomplete requirements and screwed up concepts. The workers are supposed to be returning to the office, many do not have an office, at the same time they are supposed to be doing the hunt for people who hate sfb. And, all who were involved with DEI or equality or are not white male, are supposed to be on paid leave until fired.
I am an example of dei, I was hired under a hire the disabled program. I checked off a lot of boxes, disabled, female, veteran, and LGBT. I was expected to just sit and fill a space. That is until they realized I could do things, including my job. I even developed an important program that covers all plant and plant material imported into the U.S. But, I think that I would have been put on leave and fired today if I was not retired.
I’m organizing my recipes and building a Trail Feed page in case anyone would like to contribute their favorite recipe. Post here in comments or email to me..
They already got rid of AA (not the 12-step one which the entire new cabinet needs from the top on down). Now they’re purging DEI. They will run through the entire alphabet. It was always ironic to me that Uncle Clarence was head of the EEOC.
Craig – on my What-Me website I have many of my favorite recipes. I add them as I cook them, actually after I cook them a few times to get what I like on the plate. Many are recipes that I grew up cooking with my grandmothers. The recipes that are on my maternal linage are from farm life. I have not included the necessary steps for preparing your chicken, cow or pig to become involved in a recipe.
I have had issues with rogue police actions for many years. I now state I am outraged at the pardons and commutations of the J6 terrorist-insurrectionists I think of the late Brian Sicknick and Michael Fanone today, and frequently. What do you think is in the head of QAnon Shaman.who by now has purchased “some motherfucking guns”? He is hunting for Trump’s perceived enemies, what else can it be? Hunting seasons are long gone.
Probably need some Great Depression & WWII rations era foods. My great-aunt said they has a lot of raisin pie during rationing. By the way, the new administration is never giving any rations. Hopefully, the garden will produce enough for us and deer. There are so many persimmon trees here. I may have to learn to like them. Maybe fruit leather. Watching a lot of foragers on YouTube Tube. The oak tree grew two, enormous mushrooms. They are oyster mushrooms and we should’ve eaten them.
If tariffs go into effect on February 1st, you’ve got a week and a half to stock up. Of course, retailers will take full advantage a jack up prices in advance.
Okay folks, here is a note from a few minutes ago:
Hey family,
This is not a post I wanted to make today. As of 5:00 p.m. Eastern time today I have been placed on indefinite administrative leave leading to what I can only assume will be a removal from service within the next 60 to 90 days. This is because I worked in the USDA Office of the chief diversity and inclusion officer, even though I’d been reassigned to the foreign agricultural service as of December 28th. At least nine other people from that office, including some others from the office of human resources management received this notice today. In addition, as you may have seen this afternoon, the department was required to send out a notice from the office of personnel management regarding the dismantling of dei offices and encouraging individuals to report any work being done that can be construed as deia or under a different name and attempt to circumvent these rules. I encourage everyone to be very cautious moving forward in what you say or messages you send over agency equipment that can be attributed to DEIA. I do not want to see any of you in the same position. I will not be taking this lying down and have already begun to explore legal actions and ways in which I can amplify my story and that of all the others so that the American people can see exactly how this administration is targeting employees who are simply doing their jobs working towards what’s right and ensuring equal access for everyone by being the same type of bullies we’re fighting against. In the coming weeks, I’ll be working with the rest of our executive team to be prepared for transition in leadership as I will not be eligible to serve as an officer in the event that I’m removed from federal service. Each of us on the board will continue to do everything we can every day to ensure our LGBTQI+ family at USDA can come to work without fear of being who they are or of reprisal for doing their job in a fair and equitable manner. It has been one of the greatest honors of my career to serve you all in ensuring USDA is a safe and welcoming place to work. We may be in store for some rough waters but we will come out the other side stronger.
Remember that the people who are being forced to carry out these punitive orders have little or no choice, they are pained, and they know their own time to the chopping block is nigh.
I always remembered Donna Brazile saying her mother said always to focus on the recipe, not the ingredients. When I once had a chance encounter with her in a hotel lobby, I got to thank her in person for the inspiration. Did she ever smile at that!
“CBS 58 weather reporter Sam Kuffel is out after criticizing Elon Musk arm gesture”
“A Milwaukee TV weather forecaster has been dropped by her station one day after she criticized Elon Musk on social media for his straight-arm gesture that many have likened to a Nazi salute.”
I guess CBS, and/or its affiliate, is run by n@zi sympathizers.
“Farm workers ditch shifts amid ICE raid fears as food prices set to skyrocket”
“Around 75% of immigrant farm workers in Bakersfield, California, ditched their shifts after Trump ramped up his threats by removing protections against ICE raids in “sensitive areas,” including schools and workplaces.”
“The ongoing protests reflect wider discontent with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s increasingly autocratic rule. Vucic formally says he wants to steer Serbia toward European Union membership but he has faced accusations of curbing democratic freedoms rather than advancing them”
I guess our media doesn’t want this on the nightly news, giving anyone ideas.
“Defying government orders to start the new semester, many teachers across Serbia have refused to hold classes in support of ongoing student protests while lawyers and actors are also taking strike action.”
“Students have been blockading university buildings in Serbia for almost two months after an attack on protesters in front of the Belgrade Faculty of Dramatic Arts on November 22.
Unlike rfkjr, we haven’t heard any reporting that Pete H. has been to rehab and working a program. Have these reports been suppressed? Does or does not Fixed News have an EAP for their employees who need real help? Yes, it’s supposed to anonymous, but there are times. Like now. If his blackout binge days are behind him, he needs to convince people better than he has. In his own words.
Abuser, alcoholic, yt supremacist tattoos, fiscally inept. Those things should be disqualifying. But if they aren’t enough for you, this is the big one: Hegseth is not qualified to do the job. Even if he was a tea-sipping, clean-skinned, nice guy…he’s not qualified.
Had a bit of a go ‘round here about n@zis, including Pete’s ink. After I refused to give Elon any grace (he does speaking events for his taxpayer-funded companies and knew his audience and what he was doing), I was met with gaslighting; they said they just go through life trying to see the good in everyone. Uh, no they don’t, as evidenced by their take on Biden, Harris, etc. I just suggested they pay attention. They know, though, so it’s really upsetting that they want to be a n@zi apologist.
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Sprinkle Stuff
30 days ago
You need to steam these discussions, BiD
…’net’s hottest new dramedy!
Sprinkle Stuff
30 days ago
You guys don’t thinking giving an abusive drunk the military is a good idea?
Sprinkle Stuff
30 days ago
Everything’s gonna be FINE
🫥
Sprinkle Stuff
30 days ago
It would be immoral to not oppose every one of these appointments, tooth and nail
Sprinkle Stuff
30 days ago
Dems need leaders to be on record to be able to say “i told you so” because that’s the world we live in
Sprinkle Stuff
30 days ago
You wouldn’t give a drunk the keys to your car, why the FUCK would you give one THE MILITARY?
Sprinkle Stuff
30 days ago
Pardon me.
Does seem like an issue worth screaming about
Do you realize if Trump watched Cartoon Network instead of FuxNews he would have nominated Bojack Horseman to something?
Sprinkle Stuff
30 days ago
Joanna Gaines was one channel-flip from being Secretary of the Interior
So it was no surprise when the word dropped. In a terse meeting that lasted just minutes — no questions, please — they were told to pack up and go home. Stay off your email and await further instructions, they were told, and some of you will be invited to apply for your old positions.
“It’s hard to overstate how transformative to cartooning Jules’s early work was,” Garry Trudeau, creator of the comic strip “Doonesbury,” wrote in an email. “By stripping down the art to a sequence of elegant, repetitive images, he found a way to convey astonishingly sophisticated ideas without distraction. No balloons, no screens, no backgrounds, no panels, just simple line drawings and the flow of bright, witty dialogue.”
“Like ‘Peanuts,’” Mr. Trudeau added, “‘Feiffer’ reflected his generation’s obsession with psychology and the examined life. In ‘Feiffer’s’ world, the mind was a war zone, and the protagonist was usually his own worst enemy. And no subject was off the table — not politics, sex, religion or war. I’d never seen anything remotely like it, and it set me and many others on a path toward a new kind of comics.”
“Feiffer” was anthologized many times. “Sick, Sick, Sick: A Guide to Non-Confident Living” was a best seller in 1958. Other collections of his work included “Passionella and Other Stories” (1959), “The Explainers” (1960, reprinted in 2008) and “Hold Me!” (1962).
Jules Feiffer, acclaimed cartoonist and writer, dies at 95 | PBS News
his work made us think… sometimes sigh and sometimes cry.
stephen on our recent times, an age of even more hostility and hypocrisy than Feiffer could ever imagine:
On the first day of President Trump’s second term he pardoned the Jan 6 rioters, gutted America’s climate policies, raised the price of insulin and pulled out of the World Health Organization. Elsewhere, presidential advisor Elon Musk is doing damage control after making an apparent Nazi salute at Trump’s inauguration celebration.
and kimmel’s take
We are on day two of another round with President Donald Trump, he has a new official portrait, they have already redecorated the Oval Office, Musk has been badgering team Trump to give him an office in the West Wing, Biden left a letter for Trump that he only discovered after a reporter pointed it out, he has signed more than a hundred executive orders and actions, he celebrated at his many inaugural balls with performances from Billy Ray Cyrus and the Village People, he got mad at church after the Bishop dared to bring the teachings of Jesus into things, and a shocking Inauguration Edition of Lie Witness News.
Even the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board is stunned: “This is a rotten message from a President about political violence done on his behalf”
Police union that endorsed Trump blasts Jan. 6 pardons:
https://fop.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/pr-20250121-joint-statement-on-pardons.pdf
Sickening.
Former Capitol Hill.Police Sergeant Aquilino Gonell posted this on Bluesky — his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of “Justice” notification saying “The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections.”
Each defendant assaulted him.
Trump insults indigenous with going back on the Denali name change
Why is Denali being renamed to Mount McKinley by President Trump? – NBC Chicago
Quoting Jesus really pisses him off.
Tax all churches then
The most petty, fragile man in a world of petty, fragile men
My guess is the last time a “nasty woman” talked to him like that it was Melania telling him contract fulfilled. No more grabbing, no more mouth touching, no more anything. Just show time in front of cameras. AND, the real reason she is moved into the WH is so he can’t bring in pros, she is going to have him celibate for the next few years.
There IS NO EQUIVALENCY between Biden forced to pardon his family from a vengeful monster and Trump pardoning cop beaters.
he could have pardoned the violent cop-beaters before he left office in 2020 but didn’t want to admit he encouraged them
FUCK IT seems to be the business model of this presidency.
— Read on AXIOS
Pogo, i added editing options for mobile devices, assume that’s where you’re having trouble with quotations. They’re disabled by default in this system because sometimes these options don’t work well on phones, so let me know what happens with enabling them.
He released them all because he’s too lazy to review and sign individual pardons
in re Feiffer cartoon.
Moe-rality
BB……that’s exactly what I was thinking when I saw the photo of the “kissus hat interrupts”
“This is as close as you’ll ever get again,” she whispered as the hat blocked that kiss.
https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/maga-christianity-is-anti-jesus-just?
Some have tried to claim Adolf only released J6ers because Biden pardoned Hunter. Nope! Adolf always said he would, campaigned on it with their choir’s soundtrack at rallies. MAGAts are not the law & order party, they are the THEIR-law-and-order party.
Just more of their gaslighting, like we didn’t see what Elon did, but if we did it’s because he’s on the spectrum. Nope! He’s high-functioning (and seems to function high, so maybe the party drugs will get him), and he does big, media events for his taxpayer-subsidized companies. He knew what he was doing, he did it twice, the crowd cheered, and he/they/we know what it meant.
Are the so-Christians going to stay silent while he continues to do what Jesus would not do, and criticize those who speak Jesus’ true message? Of course they won’t make a peep. It’s a cult of Christo-fascists.
Is anybody looking into Adolf’s multiple claims that Elon rigged the election for him?
Is anything Adolf has done since he took the oath to uphold the US Constitution an impeachable offense?
Does Adolf realize that not touching the Bible during the oath does not mean anything?
How long before embassies leave/kick us out, put travel restrictions on Elon, hated-inked Hegseth, and other assorted nutzis?
We can also stop pretending American Christianity is about anything other than exclusion, you can stop appealing to their hypocrisy, they don’t care
About exclusion—and burning people when they can get away with it.
Just try and tell me that Speaker Johnson wouldn’t throw the first match. He’d have a Super Sized box of Diamond Brand Kitchen matches. Strike anywhere.
today’s meme…
If the 2nd coming of Christ came to Trumperica, he’d be an undocumented immigrant and they’d throw him in a holding cell to await deportation with the other brown-skinned folk, as per official state policy
Trying to reason with people who are by definition unreasonable, will, i posit, be an unfruitful endeavor
FF’s natural affinity is with law breakers and oath violators. They’re his peeps. The rest of the population is cannon fodder.
i’m Team JD, now, in sincerity
Sorry i had to be cheap, Mr. VP, was trying to win an election. You did it, too 🤝
Hey Olbermann, run for something, fuck that podcast that i enjoy thanks to Sturgeone turning me on to it 🫡
…starting to get mad that you haven’t already, now that i think about it, maybe it was YOU the whole goddamned time!
speaks sports, way with women, political but not a politician, built-in audience, used to rancor, incites rancor
you’re ticking a lot of boxes, Sir
I avoided posting Edgar’s birthday on Sunday, we were already sufficiently anxiety-ridden (the Ravens lost.) But his thoughts are still with me. The essence of his quote is we lose our minds in the attempt to rationalize the irrational.
I recognized at the outset a Department of Fatherland Security was our first step toward the legalization of fascism.
meme #2…
The arm is less an issue than the fascist face.
i played the clip for a few people and asked “what does that look like to you” and to a person they said “uh, a nazi salute?”
he loves making in-jokes for the online incels
https://time.com/7209047/trump-white-house-spanish-website-lacasablanca/
“Within hours of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the new administration took down the Spanish-language version of the official White House website.”
“The site—currently https://www.whitehouse.gov/es/—now gives users an “Error 404” message. It also included a “Go Home” button that directed viewers to a page featuring a video montage of Trump in his first term and on the campaign trail. The button was later updated to read “Go To Home Page”.
“Trump removed the Spanish version of the page in 2017. At that time, White House officials said they would reinstate it. President Joe Biden reinstated the page in 2021.”
Whelp, time to use recognizable Spanish words like si, por favor and adios to those MAGAts roaming around Walmart looking for cheap eggs.
Actually Poobah, I was doing the comments yesterday that were the source of the issue from my desktop at work. But let’s see what’s shakin’.
Still acting up. If I paste a single paragraph in, AOK. If I paste 2 paragraphs in, it doesn’t include the first as a quote. This is from a Windows based Desktop. But not to worry – I’ve got the fix wired and it takes 2 seconds.
Continuing from the foregoing quote from WaPo:
Chilling shit, that.
MAGAts can scream foul if they like but Nazis think it was a Nazi salute, so mission accomplished.
Pogo, my experience with our new format is that each separate paragraph in a section you are quoting needs to get its own “quote designation.” I may or may not be making sense with that, or it may not be your issue. But I just try to proofread through and check for quotes on everything I want to see inside the quotation.
Pogo, I can’t duplicate that problem. Any text I highlight converts to a quote box even if in separate paragraphs.
Ivy, that’s the way to describe it. Last one I posted required a quote click for each paragraph. I can live with that rather easily. I’ll give it a real test sometime and try to post lyrics to a song.
Well, Poobah, I wouldn’t worry about it. Like I said – it’s a 2 second fix and I’m good with that.
Got it – I can just paste and highlight the entire intended quote and click the quote mark, et voila. Easy peasy.
I’ll try that too. Thanks for sharing. I’m still a slow learner and a quick forgetter.
1984 has finally arrived and the Orwellian speak begins. NYT
Why not just go with the original?
― George Orwell, 1984
Or better yet…
Same source.
FF is a day late in resurrecting Orwell on the 75th anniversary of his death.
So you can see what’s happening….Let’s do this a couple or three ways and see what happens here. Source – Lennon & McCartney (as if you didn’t know)
Highlight, Copy, Hit Quote button, Paste.
[Verse 1]
Yesterday
All my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they’re here to stay
Oh, I believe in yesterday
[Verse 2]
Suddenly
I’m not half the man I used to be
There’s a shadow hanging over me
Oh, yesterday came suddenly
[Bridge]
Why she had to go
I don’t know, she wouldn’t say
I said something wrong
Now I long for yesterday
[Verse 3]
Yesterday
Love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away
Oh, I believe in yesterday
[Bridge]
Why she had to go
I don’t know, she wouldn’t say
I said something wrong
Notice that only the last line was picked up when I hit the quote symbol then pasted the lyrics into the comment.
Now here it is pasted without appearance codes
Highlight, Copy, Paste into Word, without codes, copy. Hit Quote button, Paste.
[Verse 1]
Yesterday
All my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they’re here to stay
Oh, I believe in yesterday
[Verse 2]
Suddenly
I’m not half the man I used to be
There’s a shadow hanging over me
Oh, yesterday came suddenly
[Bridge]
Why she had to go
I don’t know, she wouldn’t say
I said something wrong
Now I long for yesterday
[Verse 3]
Yesterday
Love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away
Oh, I believe in yesterday
[Bridge]
Why she had to go
I don’t know, she wouldn’t say
I said something wrong
Same result.
Now the easy way:
Highlight, Copy, Paste into Word without codes, copy. Paste, Hit Quote button.
I heard thru the grapevine that the Nazi salute is the pinned tweet on Smuk’s titter x account. You know, like he’s real proud of it. Like he really actually factually IS a Nazi or something.
And wants you to know it.
chocolate soldier with his precious little naziboy salute.
yeah it’s probably a good idea to take things at face value with these schmucks, going forward
Well, we’re one week away from one of the least celebrated holidays on the calendar (depending on which calendar you follow) Lunar New Year. 1/29/2025 is the first day of the year of the snake. Make sure to stock up on provisions for the celebration, but make sure you don’t jinx yourself by violating the “No washing clothes or hair or bathing” guidelines. Don’t piss off the Water God on the 29th and 30th of January.- his two day birthday. The Confusius Institute for Scotland (University of Edinburgh) lays out the dos and don’ts:
And where better to get information about a Chinese celebration than Scotland?
Who they kiddin?
Sturg, they kiddin’ themselves if they think they’re kidding anyone (other than the rubes of course).
Oh my….i may have accidentally given a nazi salute while on television!
Pogo, afraid we already blew it on the bad new year karma. Pogroms will be happening, not parades.
Reminiscing about the visit to my old neighborhood by Deng Xiaoping got me looking up a part of Chinese history I know barely anything about.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution
https://cafe.com/article/the-honeymoon-will-continue-china-houston-and-the-euphoria-of-1979/
It occurs to me two F’s are not enough, it has to be four: FFFF. None of the words repeat.
The “shock and awe” carpet bombing of the federal government is working right now. There are dictates from the WH/2025 going out, but due to stupidity and ignorance the so called Executive Orders are full of errors, incomplete requirements and screwed up concepts. The workers are supposed to be returning to the office, many do not have an office, at the same time they are supposed to be doing the hunt for people who hate sfb. And, all who were involved with DEI or equality or are not white male, are supposed to be on paid leave until fired.
I am an example of dei, I was hired under a hire the disabled program. I checked off a lot of boxes, disabled, female, veteran, and LGBT. I was expected to just sit and fill a space. That is until they realized I could do things, including my job. I even developed an important program that covers all plant and plant material imported into the U.S. But, I think that I would have been put on leave and fired today if I was not retired.
Send Your Recipes
I’m organizing my recipes and building a Trail Feed page in case anyone would like to contribute their favorite recipe. Post here in comments or email to me..
help@craigcrawford.com
They already got rid of AA (not the 12-step one which the entire new cabinet needs from the top on down). Now they’re purging DEI. They will run through the entire alphabet. It was always ironic to me that Uncle Clarence was head of the EEOC.
Craig – on my What-Me website I have many of my favorite recipes. I add them as I cook them, actually after I cook them a few times to get what I like on the plate. Many are recipes that I grew up cooking with my grandmothers. The recipes that are on my maternal linage are from farm life. I have not included the necessary steps for preparing your chicken, cow or pig to become involved in a recipe.
There might still be more to learn about our predicament from William Shirer’s book.
I have had issues with rogue police actions for many years. I now state I am outraged at the pardons and commutations of the J6 terrorist-insurrectionists I think of the late Brian Sicknick and Michael Fanone today, and frequently. What do you think is in the head of QAnon Shaman.who by now has purchased “some motherfucking guns”? He is hunting for Trump’s perceived enemies, what else can it be? Hunting seasons are long gone.
Thanks BB. I’ll check out your recipes
Probably need some Great Depression & WWII rations era foods. My great-aunt said they has a lot of raisin pie during rationing. By the way, the new administration is never giving any rations. Hopefully, the garden will produce enough for us and deer. There are so many persimmon trees here. I may have to learn to like them. Maybe fruit leather. Watching a lot of foragers on YouTube Tube. The oak tree grew two, enormous mushrooms. They are oyster mushrooms and we should’ve eaten them.
If tariffs go into effect on February 1st, you’ve got a week and a half to stock up. Of course, retailers will take full advantage a jack up prices in advance.
How long before the pardoned traitors go after witnesses, judges, family members?
Fascist captured media purging Trump detractors.. “CNN plans to lay off hundreds of employees, cut costs; NBC plots firings” https://nypost.com/2025/01/22/media/cnn-nbc-news-planning-mass-layoffs-report/
Okay folks, here is a note from a few minutes ago:
Hey family,
This is not a post I wanted to make today. As of 5:00 p.m. Eastern time today I have been placed on indefinite administrative leave leading to what I can only assume will be a removal from service within the next 60 to 90 days. This is because I worked in the USDA Office of the chief diversity and inclusion officer, even though I’d been reassigned to the foreign agricultural service as of December 28th. At least nine other people from that office, including some others from the office of human resources management received this notice today. In addition, as you may have seen this afternoon, the department was required to send out a notice from the office of personnel management regarding the dismantling of dei offices and encouraging individuals to report any work being done that can be construed as deia or under a different name and attempt to circumvent these rules. I encourage everyone to be very cautious moving forward in what you say or messages you send over agency equipment that can be attributed to DEIA. I do not want to see any of you in the same position. I will not be taking this lying down and have already begun to explore legal actions and ways in which I can amplify my story and that of all the others so that the American people can see exactly how this administration is targeting employees who are simply doing their jobs working towards what’s right and ensuring equal access for everyone by being the same type of bullies we’re fighting against. In the coming weeks, I’ll be working with the rest of our executive team to be prepared for transition in leadership as I will not be eligible to serve as an officer in the event that I’m removed from federal service. Each of us on the board will continue to do everything we can every day to ensure our LGBTQI+ family at USDA can come to work without fear of being who they are or of reprisal for doing their job in a fair and equitable manner. It has been one of the greatest honors of my career to serve you all in ensuring USDA is a safe and welcoming place to work. We may be in store for some rough waters but we will come out the other side stronger.
Remember that the people who are being forced to carry out these punitive orders have little or no choice, they are pained, and they know their own time to the chopping block is nigh.
I always remembered Donna Brazile saying her mother said always to focus on the recipe, not the ingredients. When I once had a chance encounter with her in a hotel lobby, I got to thank her in person for the inspiration. Did she ever smile at that!
If you’re STILL a Trumper, you are trauma-bonded to an abuser.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2025/01/22/cbs-58s-sam-kuffel-is-out-after-criticizing-elon-musk-arm-gesture/77883983007/
“CBS 58 weather reporter Sam Kuffel is out after criticizing Elon Musk arm gesture”
“A Milwaukee TV weather forecaster has been dropped by her station one day after she criticized Elon Musk on social media for his straight-arm gesture that many have likened to a Nazi salute.”
I guess CBS, and/or its affiliate, is run by n@zi sympathizers.
https://www.the-express.com/news/us-news/161317/farm-workers-ice-raids-food-prices
“Farm workers ditch shifts amid ICE raid fears as food prices set to skyrocket”
“Around 75% of immigrant farm workers in Bakersfield, California, ditched their shifts after Trump ramped up his threats by removing protections against ICE raids in “sensitive areas,” including schools and workplaces.”
CBS also fired Tom and Dick Smothers and Dan Rather.……. Fuck CBS.
Soft on crime.
https://apnews.com/article/serbia-students-protest-constitution-court-roof-collapse-e323d94de6b1d058cb97d8669d2f224b
“The ongoing protests reflect wider discontent with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s increasingly autocratic rule. Vucic formally says he wants to steer Serbia toward European Union membership but he has faced accusations of curbing democratic freedoms rather than advancing them”
I guess our media doesn’t want this on the nightly news, giving anyone ideas.
https://balkaninsight.com/2025/01/20/serbian-teachers-strike-as-support-for-student-protests-grows/
“Defying government orders to start the new semester, many teachers across Serbia have refused to hold classes in support of ongoing student protests while lawyers and actors are also taking strike action.”
“Students have been blockading university buildings in Serbia for almost two months after an attack on protesters in front of the Belgrade Faculty of Dramatic Arts on November 22.
BB, is that your note? This is happening to you?
Maybe Trump is a Marxist and trying to collapse capitalism
Unlike rfkjr, we haven’t heard any reporting that Pete H. has been to rehab and working a program. Have these reports been suppressed? Does or does not Fixed News have an EAP for their employees who need real help? Yes, it’s supposed to anonymous, but there are times. Like now. If his blackout binge days are behind him, he needs to convince people better than he has. In his own words.
Amends does not defend.
No one believes empty promises.
Abuser, alcoholic, yt supremacist tattoos, fiscally inept. Those things should be disqualifying. But if they aren’t enough for you, this is the big one: Hegseth is not qualified to do the job. Even if he was a tea-sipping, clean-skinned, nice guy…he’s not qualified.
Had a bit of a go ‘round here about n@zis, including Pete’s ink. After I refused to give Elon any grace (he does speaking events for his taxpayer-funded companies and knew his audience and what he was doing), I was met with gaslighting; they said they just go through life trying to see the good in everyone. Uh, no they don’t, as evidenced by their take on Biden, Harris, etc. I just suggested they pay attention. They know, though, so it’s really upsetting that they want to be a n@zi apologist.
You need to steam these discussions, BiD
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You guys don’t thinking giving an abusive drunk the military is a good idea?
Everything’s gonna be FINE
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It would be immoral to not oppose every one of these appointments, tooth and nail
Dems need leaders to be on record to be able to say “i told you so” because that’s the world we live in
You wouldn’t give a drunk the keys to your car, why the FUCK would you give one THE MILITARY?
Pardon me.
Does seem like an issue worth screaming about
Do you realize if Trump watched Cartoon Network instead of FuxNews he would have nominated Bojack Horseman to something?
Joanna Gaines was one channel-flip from being Secretary of the Interior
(such a good joke 😎)
Tools included.
Google “list of US Presidents” – it can’t be trusted. They’ve removed Biden.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/us/politics/trump-biden-white-house-nsc.html
…to bookend Pat’s start to our trail day:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/arts/jules-feiffer-dead.html
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