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Pat Byrnes is a long-time cartoonist for The New Yorker, illustrator, humorist, and winner of the National Cartoonist Society’s Silver Reuben. Previous careers include voice actor, ad copywriter, and aerospace engineer.
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“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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Stephen examines the fallout from the Oval Office blowup between President Trump and President Zelensky, where the Ukrainian leader insisted this is not a game while the American leader played to the TV cameras in an unprecedented scene that was celebrated in Russia’s capital.
jon ‘s take and more
Jon Stewart dives into the Oval Office meeting between Trump, Vance, and Zelenskyy, which shocked viewers more than John Cena’s heel-turn. Plus, Jon calls bulls**t on Elon Musk’s challenge to an interview.
Kari Lake appointed to Voice of America. I hate whoever is responsible for appointing Merrick garland.
Days after an explosive meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the assistance halted in a bid to pressure Kyiv to engage in peace talks with Russia.
you had a visitor Mr. S, i’m rallying at the crab if necessary
unrelated:
Son submits two weeks’ worth of activities to the DOGE
. Solved and didn’t solve the Schrödinger’s cat experiment.
. When I hear a bell, I feed Pavlov’s dog.
. Halfway through solving Pi.
. Planned to prepare my presentation on procrastinate.
. Started a rubber band. Band broke.
. Put a Flashlight into Dark Matter
. Worked on, why does matter exist? So far, Beer is involved.
. Discussed How Did Life Began? Best answer so far – There was a cosmic Fart.
. was progressing on Is the Universe Truly Infinite? Ran out of measuring tape.
. Was interrupted on how many licks does it take to get the center of a lollypop – the world may never know.
Cover by Jeff Greenfield.
Who also wrote THE PEOPLE’S CHOICE.
An interesting little tome much in the same way as are the great books by Jim Lehrer, like WHITE WIDOW about The Bus and The Bus Drivers.
“There was a cosmic Fart” speaking of farts, Jamie, how fitting it would be for collective, gigantic and especially smelly farts to pervade the house chamber tonight as relevant responses during DODO’s sotu spiel. if members must show up at least they need to speak up and do so appropriately.
Mozilla Firefox browser comes through again. Look through the labels of this screen shot I just took. Someone at Firefox does not like twit being x, but the one labeled “x” does not show the twit bird. Pretty good poking the scrap heap.
some real people hurting stories that may have an effect on a few (and it only takes a few – 4 or 5 – to turn the tables) in GOPer congress:
I hate whoever is responsible for appointing Merrick garland.
It was Moscow Mitch.
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Craig, has been no problem for me with staying logged in.
“Martin O’Malley, the former commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA), said Monday the recent cuts made by tech billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) at the agency could result in the “collapse” of the Social Security system “within the next 30 to 90 days.”
Warning of these interruptions, Malley said, “people should start saving now.”
Saving what?
Remember Biden’s SOTU when Republicans promised not to touch Social Security or Medicare/Medicaid? Ah, but these are RussoRepublicans and they want to collapse the systems and rebuild the US as a dictatorship…because they think they are safe. Дураки!
“The law’s effective date is retroactive to January 2024, so beneficiaries may get a one-time retroactive payment that could amount to thousands of dollars and higher monthly benefits starting this year.”
I guess if your SS reduced due to a pension, you might get an extra bump that you could save….if your SS shows up at all.
If it does, get cash and stick it a tin can & bury it in the yard.
“Ultimately, you’re going to see the system collapse and an interruption of benefits,” O’Malley told CNBC of the DOGE cuts. “I believe you will see that within the next 30 to 90 days.”
“While Trump promised not to cut Social Security benefits during his presidential campaign, the blueprint budget recently approved by Republicans in Congress and DOGE’s proposed cuts to the SSA, which handles the program, have raised concerns over the future of Social Security.”
“DOGE’s attempts to streamline operations are already having a profound impact on the Social Security administration, which announced last week that it had closed down its Office of Transformation while putting staff on administrative leave.”
“O’Malley said that DOGE’s cuts have already led to significant system outages that may increase over time until the system “collapses” and the agency is unable to continue processing payments to beneficiaries.”
Anon – Idiots!
Everyone, please call your three idiots in DC, because they are either complicit or sitting on their hands.
Today’s script: Get rid of the unelected, foreign agent, Elon Musk; DOGE needs to stop all activities & rehire all of the federal workers they fired, which was illegal; protect Social Security, and take spending cuts to Medicaid off of the table. 202-224-3121
“The Trump administration will use this night to rewrite reality—downplaying the harm they’ve caused and deflecting from the real crises facing our communities. Meanwhile, too many elected officials will sit quietly, giving the spectacle legitimacy. We’re here to challenge that.”
OK, so Rep. Jasmine Crockett is not sitting on her hands, especially today. Here is counter-programming on SOTU day, and it started at midnight…although the livestream is just spinning, at the moment.
Enemy of the Earth
New Republican Plan: The best thing we can do right now is hide from our constituents.
Got through to two of my three idiots; one voicemail & one staffer. The third, who is the biggest idiot, had a full voicemail box, so will try this afternoon, then send an email if it’s still full. This is the RussoRepublican idiot whose staffer laughed at my concerns yesterday. She thinks she is safe, poor child.
The TikTok astrologers are showing volatility now, but WWIII amps up in April, 2026 – and then something big happens 7/11/26 because of a Mars transit. Check out all of those Ares, god of war (Aries ♈️) placements.
Magafederates think they finally defeating the Union, too dumb to realize the South goes down too.
“Donald, this is a very dumb thing to do.” – Justin Trudeau on starting a trade war. Or, as Trump’s first secretary of state Rex Tillerson said, “He’s a fucking moron”
Will this still happen? Will countries boycott the US? Will stadiums in Canada and Mexico be full, and those in the US empty with the exception of locals who don’t care that much about soccer?
Two years later, the US is to host the summer Olympics in LA.
Will the world boycott? Will the YS even be allowed to compete?
IDK, Ivy.
Is he going to broadcast to the world that US is definitely acting post-constitutionally?
Is he going to tell us free speech and protests are now suspended?
Is he going to try to put folks in a huge land mass under martial law by means of a much smaller military/police force to citizenry, especially since the military sees veterans’ benefits being cut?
I will watch Slotkin’s response. “Wild Robot” is in queue as counter-programming to SOTU.
It’s absolutely perfect for Dems to have a former CIA analyst respond to Agent Krasnov’s confession tonight.
Does tRUMPutin’s demand for “NO MASKS!” apply to n@zis, too! Crimes? Free speech is now a crime? Time for someone to step up and do what should’ve been done years ago.
The protests are getting furious. Rocky Mountain National Park is closed for the upcoming summer months, lack of staff. Protests in my beloved sacred Yosemite . (I have been twice.)
I wonder how many US generals are thinking, at least privately, when will we have a coup d’etat? We need one.
Kash Patel, MMA fighters training FBI agents, and he wants to move FBI HQ to Las Vegas , Nevada. Hegseth has ceased all ops to monitor Russia in all forms via cyberspace.
We are in the shit, and as Pete Seeger sang, “and the damn fool says to march on.” All hail Keir Starmer, Leader of the Free World.
Poobah, Lists both my desktop and phone as active, but I had to log in on my phone this morning. Could be that i hadn’t used it yesterday – just checked, looks like that is the case. Since I generally don’t know whether I’m coming or going, it’s no surprise I couldn’t remember which device I accessed the site on last.
BID, great questions about FIFA and the Olympics. I’d be inclined to trip on over to Philly to catch a match or two, but I’d guess it would be a long shot to see Mexico or Canada there.
Going to the deep end, where he often goes, he will declare martial law and be dictator for life.
“NSFW Float Roasts Donald Trump With ‘MAGA’ Testicles At German Carnival”
“Top Trump ally Elon Musk was also depicted as a poop-spewing Napoleon-eque figure.”
…and so much more!
The world both hates tRUMPutin and is laughing at tRUMPsky.
BB – Local police in small towns going after their neighbors & probably families? There’s a town in this county with about 5,000 people & 2 cops. The US is a huge landmass. The people outnumber the military and police by quite a lot. Many of those people are armed to the teeth, and not just with deer rifles or ARs. (If this happens, MAGA will be surprised when the 2nd Amendment is shredded with the rest of the US Constitution. It’s easier declared than done, here. Probably quite few disgruntled, active military wondering what will happen to their promised benefits, when they see a foreign-born chaos agent taking away their futures. Reserved and retired have most likely had enough of the Russian agent, Krasnov. He might want to borrow a kid from Elon to carry around as a human shield, because what didn’t actually happen in Butler, might happen now.
just because they’re incompetent doesn’t mean they won’t try
funny how Patel wants fbi hq where HE lives
laziness + arrogance, what a credit to the nation 🤮
Painted Work Trucks—That’s a sign of a great economy—
Sign of economy cooling down: “Ladder For Sale”
97-year-old joins hundreds at Rocky Mountain National Park protest
Hundreds of people gathered at the entrance of Rocky Mountain National Park Saturday morning to protest recent layoffs affecting national park employees.
Would Vlad take out Agents Krasnov and/or Musk to instigate a crisis here? Well, a bigger crisis.
you know he wants bitch-boy for Prez
Representative Jasmine Crockett of Texas will not have a guest at tonight’s SOTU…because folks do not want to give their Social Security numbers to get clearance to attend. The Krasnov administration can not be trusted.
MAGAts won’t follow JD, just like I’d expect Hegseth’s own troops to frag him as soon as look at him.
“I don’t start a tariff war, but we’re going to win this tariff war,” he said, adding, “If they want to try to annihilate Ontario, I will do everything—including cut off their energy with a smile on my face, and I’m encouraging every other province to do the same.”
Ford added: “They rely on our energy. They need to feel the pain.”
“In an NBC interview on Monday, Ford said Canadian energy kept “the lights on for 1.5 million homes and manufacturing [facilities] in New York, in Michigan and in Minnesota.”
I would urge Canada to do that immediately. Cut it for SOTU, so viewership goes down.
“In the early hours of Tuesday morning, an image began circulating online of the entrance sign at Trump National Golf Club Washington in Sterling, Virginia—except something was different. The name had been altered, and in bold letters, it read: “Fat Nixon.”
“Trump has long been dubbed “Fat Nixon” by critics, particularly because of his paranoia, criminality, and obsessive need for revenge. Like Nixon, Trump sees the presidency not as a public service but as a means of self-preservation.
The difference is Nixon, in the face of overwhelming evidence, had the shred of dignity to resign. Trump, on the other hand, would never, ever admit fault or defeat thanks to his overt narcissism.”
Agent Orange is much worse (and fatter) than Nixon, and this is so much worse than Watergate.
“Donald Trump has ordered that swathes of America’s forests be felled for timber, evading rules to protect endangered species while doing so and raising the prospect of chainsaws razing some of the most ecologically important trees in the US.”
“The president, in an executive order, has demanded an expansion in tree cutting across 280m acres (113m hectares) of national forests and other public lands, claiming that “heavy-handed federal policies” have made America reliant on foreign imports of timber.”
“This Trump executive order is the most blatant attempt in American history by a president to hand over federal public lands to the logging industry,” said Chad Hanson, wildfire scientist at the John Muir Project.”
“What’s worse, the executive order is built on a lie, as Trump falsely claims that more logging will curb wildfires and protect communities, while the overwhelming weight of evidence shows exactly the opposite.”
toldja
guess who loves our national parks?
everyone but the billionaires
impeach, depose, rebuild
Pogo, good sign your devices are listed. Anytime a new device is used we should only have to log in once, and this new plugin keeps us logged in for 365 days unless it’s not used again during that time. Each time we log in starts the 365 day clock on that device. Seems to me WordPress ought to make this the default setting instead of having to buy a special plugin for it, so it better work.
this is literally the plot of Lord of the rings
Saruman wasn’t the good guy
neither was Sauron
you dumb incels
Some Dems are going to the SOTU, some not.
At what point do those that go, turn their backs on him or get up and leave?
When he says he’s abandoned NATO?
When he says all our money is his money & it’s all going to crypto?
It doesn’t sound like there’s a consensus among Dems (surprise), but those that go need to figure out what the red line is tonight.
“Exclusive: US and Ukraine prepare to sign minerals deal on Tuesday, sources say”
“President Donald Trump has told his advisers that he wants to announce the agreement in his address to Congress Tuesday evening, three of the sources said, cautioning that the deal had yet to be signed and the situation could change.”
“Our meeting in Washington, at the White House on Friday, did not go the way it was supposed to be,” Zelenskiy said in his post. “Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer.”
“It was unclear if the deal has changed. The deal that was to be signed last week included no explicit security guarantees for Ukraine but gave the U.S. access to revenues from Ukraine’s natural resources. It also envisaged the Ukrainian government contributing 50% of future monetization of any state-owned natural resources to a U.S.-Ukraine managed reconstruction investment fund.”
Fuuuuh! Don’t do it! because tRUMPutin will never keep their part of the bargain!
JD Vance has been accused of profiting off of what has been labeled the “Uber of U.S. farmland,” but what exactly do these accusations really mean?
“…Vance seems to have no qualms about profiting off of a company that helps foreign investors buy U.S. land — something I’m sure many Republican voters, particularly the rural working class from which Vance came, and that he describes in his memoir Hillbilly Elegy, would certainly have an issue with.”
Well, if farmers are going to lose their land for pennies on the dollar to foreign investor groups. Is JD Vance’s Acretrader, then maybe illegally fired federal employees should work for foreign states & be sellouts like the entire RussoRepublican Party.
Does anyone other than Trump understand why we’re in a trade war with Canada? Does he?
Craig,
We used to be able to do a simple copy/paste for images. Now I have to do a save download and then use the add image. A also copied links don’t display without copy/paste part or are the article. Just more cumbersome.
“Vaccine manufacturers would have to waive indemnity from lawsuits for injuries stemming from vaccines under a bill advancing in the Iowa Senate.
Sen. Doug Campbell, R-Mason City, at a subcommittee hearing Monday moved to heavily amend Senate File 360, under which healthcare professionals would have faced a simple misdemeanor and $500 fine for administering gene-based vaccines.”
Idiots
Out
Walking
Around
FFS, I’ve had 7 mRNA vaccines. Glad I’m not in Iowa, but this will spread like stupidity virus.
As the hour draws nigh, I realize this will be too painful for me to watch.
(I got that new CBS soap opera I’m already behind on.)
Craig – it is because of all the fentynal crossing the border, tons going to Canada, ounce coming to America. It is because of all the people with pigment crossing the border, hundreds to Canada, a few to America. It is because Canada is taking advantage of the U.S., not sure about what though. It is because krasnov thinks that tariffs will make someone, not exactly sure who though, will sign Canada over as one big state. Krasnov is bonkers and allowed to roam free.
I quit watching any of the joint sessions with a repub/magat doing the talk, starting with the village idiot rabble rousing to invade countries.
Sturge, are you still looking for the shortcut to posting You-tubes? It’s pretty much the same as the method you once showed me. Copy the Url, then paste it into a comment box.
I was never able to post memes or photos before, and I may still not be doing it right, but the new system to add them on is working okay for me.
OK, so everything this fucking guy says is outrageous or a lie or both so I’m not going to get caught up in the provocation, tonight
Will listen just so I know if I should start boarding up windows
I’m relying on y’all to be my filter.
How long before Wall Street decides he can’t be trusted and enough is enough? Soon I hope, and they will get the hook. The Apprentice got cancelled.
How tonight pans out: Trump departs the White House at 8:30 p.m., accompanied by Melania. They’ll arrive at the Capitol at 8:40 p.m., where lawmakers from both chambers will have resumed business in the House a few minutes before. … The president is due to make his address at 9:10 p.m., per the White House schedule. … And terrifyingly for those of us who cherish early bedtimes, he’s not planning to leave the Capitol until 11:20 p.m. … First-term Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) will deliver the Democrats’ official response.
First-term Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) will deliver the Democrats’ official response.
Since he’s obviously planning to make that go past everybody’s bedtime, has any opposition party ever bucked tradition and jumped the gun with their speech first? That would be fun.
Is your homeowners insurance going through the roof?
Shop around, it can make a difference. My current insurance went from $1200 to $1900. I contacted a local independent agent and he found me the same coverage for $1000. I learned with my rental properties that every 3 years you need to shop around because that is when they start finding reasons to raise your rate. I think they hope like the boiling frog you won’t notice.
Jack
i feel obligated to listen or watch but not only do i not want that in my ears or eyes but two hours of his insane rambling and lying?
hoping any illegal orders are disobeyed
I’ll catch the lowlight reel tomorrow.
If he announces withdrawal from NATO, anyone worth their salt should stand & boot scoot out the door.
Russian warship go f&ck yourself!
AOC. has some sort of thing during the event. She’s not going.
AOC: Cortez @aoc.bsky.social
· 6h
I’m not going to the Joint Address. I will be live posting and chatting with you all here instead. Then going on IG Live after
She also says gopers are going in early to sit on the Democratic side so the applause is not one sided. (No assigned seats).
Thanks, Sturge. I will follow AOC. She’s reporting Repugs are squatting in Dem seats:
“Already hearing that Republican members have been showing up to the House floor trying to take up the Dem side seats for the joint address 💀”
”If it doesn’t sort out, be aware you may see applause on both sides of the aisle but they may be GOP”
I’m glad AOC is doing her livestream in real time. We can’t wait till Tooth Fairy Time to get a Dem response.
Decided can’t watch that much evil ignorance. Will get commentary tomorrow
“Dow Drops 1300 Points in Two Days Amid Trump Trade War”
OK, sorry to ask this ( I can’t believe I’m asking this) is there anywhere I can watch the shit show when there’s somebody up in the corner of the screen fact checking the bullshit that’s gonna come out of the dumbass’s mouth? I hope that’s not too harsh./s
We’ll look back, I pray, and see this as the “high point” of this presidency. Everything else will be down and out.
The Thousand Day Reich.
AOC is smart to be somewhere else
these nazis are disgusting
american dream surging, stock market tanking
get it Dems
fuck you speaker johnson
nazis
hold decorum while we steal your country
LYING MOTHERFUCKER.
big baby in chief like all his followers, wahhh wahhh
lol free speech is back but only in english and kick that guy out for speaking
lol trillions
holy racism batman
how dare money be used to benefit black people
Delusional muthafucker.
he means his Saudi and Russian buddies
meet your new neighbors: the guy who dismembers journalists and next door the guy who pushes people out of windows
Buy the new 2026 Avtovaz, designed in Russia, made in USA
Wonder if he’s re-hashing all these bullshit lies about 150 year olds getting Social Security so he has an excuse to cut Social Security
when economics is a religion
Poobah, shhhh.
can’t wait for all that American grown coffee
lol 40 foster children, how lucrative
saying the quiet part out loud that that revenge porn bill is going to be used to target political enemies on his behalf
lol he’s really confusing the racists right now
so far has missed all his deportation quotas, less than Biden
respect the cops except when i encourage you to beat them
is this the SotU or an episode of Nancy Grace?
i’ll let the hacks over at the late shows handle these jokes
Toxic chemicals are bad, must all now be manufactured here
yeah, they say you’re perfect the way God made you as long as He made you the way they like
lol not a nice place to work, we’re taking it back
Russians were killed because they invaded a sovereign nation
unprovoked
in violation of a ceasefire they signed
lol he finally tried to say that name
why did God not save Corey Comperatore
we’re going to cut waste and plant a flag on Mars
credit where due, a lot of shit that’s hard to argue about over the water-cooler, you should probably not do that anyway
ok that’s my public service for the week 🫡
impeach depose rebuild 🇺🇸
Let the debunking begin on the wall to wall lies.
😀
Slotkin’s address really would have been more effective before
i suppose it can be reposted
not bad
That was the trashiest, most nakedly partisan, divisive and deceitful SOU I ever saw. Telling how much his pundits are attacking Dems instead of praising him.
Slotkin response: “As a Cold War kid, I’m thankful it was Reagan and not Trump in office in the 1980s. Trump would have lost us the Cold War.”
As the Maga Turns is the soap opera we need to see.
I hate this place and I really hate this timeline.
There’s a blizzard here.
hideous creature
Just watched a clip of tRUMPutin introducing Elon Musk. “DOGE, headed by Elon Musk.” What about Amy Gleason? Did she not come back from her Mexican vacation? Does she exist? Is her name now on the lawsuits against DOGE, instead of Elon’s name?
NEW THREAD
I just couldn’t watch, so I didn’t. Heard it all before.
Fuck him and the whores he rode in on.
Stephen examines the fallout from the Oval Office blowup between President Trump and President Zelensky, where the Ukrainian leader insisted this is not a game while the American leader played to the TV cameras in an unprecedented scene that was celebrated in Russia’s capital.
jon ‘s take and more
Jon Stewart dives into the Oval Office meeting between Trump, Vance, and Zelenskyy, which shocked viewers more than John Cena’s heel-turn. Plus, Jon calls bulls**t on Elon Musk’s challenge to an interview.
Kari Lake appointed to Voice of America. I hate whoever is responsible for appointing Merrick garland.
Ukrainians grapple with consequences of Trump’s pause on military aid
all the above just a prelude to tonight
https://image.caglecartoons.com/293414/600/trump-joint-address-to-congress.png
Attribution: Trump Joint Address To Congress by R.J. Matson, Portland, ME
Been-a-Dick Donald.
kudos to sturge!
Just one kudo, please……I’m on a diet.
Sturg, sorry but that one deserves more than one kudo. Let’s call this one an accolade so you can stay on your diet. Been-a-dick Donald. Brilliant.
Pogeaux.
Poobah, your permanent log in fix was temporary.
embeds work now though and the page builds faster
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BmFNoQkN23w&pp=ygUVQmF5dGxlIG9mIHRoZXJtb3B5bGFl
cut them off at the pass.
you had a visitor Mr. S, i’m rallying at the crab if necessary
unrelated:
Son submits two weeks’ worth of activities to the DOGE
. Solved and didn’t solve the Schrödinger’s cat experiment.
. When I hear a bell, I feed Pavlov’s dog.
. Halfway through solving Pi.
. Planned to prepare my presentation on procrastinate.
. Started a rubber band. Band broke.
. Put a Flashlight into Dark Matter
. Worked on, why does matter exist? So far, Beer is involved.
. Discussed How Did Life Began? Best answer so far – There was a cosmic Fart.
. was progressing on Is the Universe Truly Infinite? Ran out of measuring tape.
. Was interrupted on how many licks does it take to get the center of a lollypop – the world may never know.
Cover by Jeff Greenfield.
Who also wrote THE PEOPLE’S CHOICE.
An interesting little tome much in the same way as are the great books by Jim Lehrer, like WHITE WIDOW about The Bus and The Bus Drivers.
“There was a cosmic Fart”
speaking of farts, Jamie, how fitting it would be for collective, gigantic and especially smelly farts to pervade the house chamber tonight as relevant responses during DODO’s sotu spiel. if members must show up at least they need to speak up and do so appropriately.
Mozilla Firefox browser comes through again. Look through the labels of this screen shot I just took. Someone at Firefox does not like twit being x, but the one labeled “x” does not show the twit bird. Pretty good poking the scrap heap.
some real people hurting stories that may have an effect on a few (and it only takes a few – 4 or 5 – to turn the tables) in GOPer congress:
Federal layoffs hit the deep-red, rural US west: ‘Our public lands are under threat’ | Trump administration | The Guardian
i’m concerned for South Korea
Smerconish. Who do you support?
Ukraine 93.61% (13,493 votes)
Russia 0.47% (68 votes)
Neither 5.92% (853 votes)
It was Moscow Mitch.
Pogo, go to your profile (click “Howdy, Pogo” at top right) and scroll down profile page to see if your device is registered as active under “Active Logins – WP Persistent Login”. Let me know if it isn’t, but my admin page shows you on the list for permanent login. Each of your devices needs one new login since I installed the plugin yesterday, and then you shouldn’t get logged out anymore.
Craig, has been no problem for me with staying logged in.
No hablo inglés.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5173332-social-security-cuts-risk-collapse/
DOGE cuts could soon trigger Social Security system ‘collapse’
“Martin O’Malley, the former commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA), said Monday the recent cuts made by tech billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) at the agency could result in the “collapse” of the Social Security system “within the next 30 to 90 days.”
Warning of these interruptions, Malley said, “people should start saving now.”
Saving what?
Remember Biden’s SOTU when Republicans promised not to touch Social Security or Medicare/Medicaid? Ah, but these are RussoRepublicans and they want to collapse the systems and rebuild the US as a dictatorship…because they think they are safe. Дураки!
what’s dooraki mean
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2025/03/04/social-security-fairness-act-taxes/80579609007/
“Millions of Americans will receive a little extra Social Security money soon, but advisers warn it may also mean a little extra taxes.”
“The Social Security Fairness Act eliminates the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO), which reduce Social Security benefits for about 3.2 million public-sector retirees who also receive pension income.”
“The law’s effective date is retroactive to January 2024, so beneficiaries may get a one-time retroactive payment that could amount to thousands of dollars and higher monthly benefits starting this year.”
I guess if your SS reduced due to a pension, you might get an extra bump that you could save….if your SS shows up at all.
If it does, get cash and stick it a tin can & bury it in the yard.
nvm i see now, lol
Carol Kaye of The Wrecking Crew on bsss.
https://www.newsweek.com/social-security-benefits-could-face-interruption-within-30-days-2039144
“Ultimately, you’re going to see the system collapse and an interruption of benefits,” O’Malley told CNBC of the DOGE cuts. “I believe you will see that within the next 30 to 90 days.”
“While Trump promised not to cut Social Security benefits during his presidential campaign, the blueprint budget recently approved by Republicans in Congress and DOGE’s proposed cuts to the SSA, which handles the program, have raised concerns over the future of Social Security.”
“DOGE’s attempts to streamline operations are already having a profound impact on the Social Security administration, which announced last week that it had closed down its Office of Transformation while putting staff on administrative leave.”
“In another press release issued last week, the agency announced plans to cut its workforce of about 57,000 by about 7,000 employees. These cuts come at the same time as the SSA is already facing a staffing shortage.”
“O’Malley said that DOGE’s cuts have already led to significant system outages that may increase over time until the system “collapses” and the agency is unable to continue processing payments to beneficiaries.”
Anon – Idiots!
Everyone, please call your three idiots in DC, because they are either complicit or sitting on their hands.
Today’s script: Get rid of the unelected, foreign agent, Elon Musk; DOGE needs to stop all activities & rehire all of the federal workers they fired, which was illegal; protect Social Security, and take spending cuts to Medicaid off of the table. 202-224-3121
The lady knew what for.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wichita_Lineman
no indication here on what that theramin-sounding thing is
keep doing you BiD, you’re my most trusted source in news atm 🫡
Anon – Eitheg you overestimate me, or that’s an incredibly sad statement about legacy news outlets.
Same here. ✔️
Crisis clarifies your acuity, have faith in yourself🫡
https://stateofthepeople.media/
“The Trump administration will use this night to rewrite reality—downplaying the harm they’ve caused and deflecting from the real crises facing our communities. Meanwhile, too many elected officials will sit quietly, giving the spectacle legitimacy. We’re here to challenge that.”
OK, so Rep. Jasmine Crockett is not sitting on her hands, especially today. Here is counter-programming on SOTU day, and it started at midnight…although the livestream is just spinning, at the moment.
Enemy of the Earth
New Republican Plan: The best thing we can do right now is hide from our constituents.
Got through to two of my three idiots; one voicemail & one staffer. The third, who is the biggest idiot, had a full voicemail box, so will try this afternoon, then send an email if it’s still full. This is the RussoRepublican idiot whose staffer laughed at my concerns yesterday. She thinks she is safe, poor child.
The TikTok astrologers are showing volatility now, but WWIII amps up in April, 2026 – and then something big happens 7/11/26 because of a Mars transit. Check out all of those Ares, god of war (Aries ♈️) placements.
Magafederates think they finally defeating the Union, too dumb to realize the South goes down too.
today’s meme…
Trump’s emerging dictatorship is like what science fiction writer William Gibson once said, “The future is already here. It’s just unevenly distributed”
https://trailmix.cc/home/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/9edb9778-c36c-45ad-9915-91b3d0b89627.jpg
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/stock-market-today-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-wipe-out-trump-led-gains-as-tariff-sell-off-continues-154218096.html
“US markets eliminated all of their post-election gains as stocks deepened their sell-off with fresh tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China now officially in effect.”
What, pray tell, is an “illegal” protest?
meme #2…
“Donald, this is a very dumb thing to do.” – Justin Trudeau on starting a trade war. Or, as Trump’s first secretary of state Rex Tillerson said, “He’s a fucking moron”
Maybe Dodo means to read us the Riot Act.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot_Act
FIFA host cities for 2026:
Will this still happen? Will countries boycott the US? Will stadiums in Canada and Mexico be full, and those in the US empty with the exception of locals who don’t care that much about soccer?
Two years later, the US is to host the summer Olympics in LA.
Will the world boycott? Will the YS even be allowed to compete?
IDK, Ivy.
Is he going to broadcast to the world that US is definitely acting post-constitutionally?
Is he going to tell us free speech and protests are now suspended?
Is he going to try to put folks in a huge land mass under martial law by means of a much smaller military/police force to citizenry, especially since the military sees veterans’ benefits being cut?
https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/michigan/2025/02/28/michigan-elissa-slotkin-state-of-the-union-response-bio-donald-trump/80832870007/
I will watch Slotkin’s response. “Wild Robot” is in queue as counter-programming to SOTU.
It’s absolutely perfect for Dems to have a former CIA analyst respond to Agent Krasnov’s confession tonight.
Does tRUMPutin’s demand for “NO MASKS!” apply to n@zis, too! Crimes? Free speech is now a crime? Time for someone to step up and do what should’ve been done years ago.
The protests are getting furious. Rocky Mountain National Park is closed for the upcoming summer months, lack of staff. Protests in my beloved sacred Yosemite . (I have been twice.)
I wonder how many US generals are thinking, at least privately, when will we have a coup d’etat? We need one.
Kash Patel, MMA fighters training FBI agents, and he wants to move FBI HQ to Las Vegas , Nevada. Hegseth has ceased all ops to monitor Russia in all forms via cyberspace.
We are in the shit, and as Pete Seeger sang, “and the damn fool says to march on.” All hail Keir Starmer, Leader of the Free World.
Poobah, Lists both my desktop and phone as active, but I had to log in on my phone this morning. Could be that i hadn’t used it yesterday – just checked, looks like that is the case. Since I generally don’t know whether I’m coming or going, it’s no surprise I couldn’t remember which device I accessed the site on last.
BID, great questions about FIFA and the Olympics. I’d be inclined to trip on over to Philly to catch a match or two, but I’d guess it would be a long shot to see Mexico or Canada there.
Going to the deep end, where he often goes, he will declare martial law and be dictator for life.
Fredericksburg, by gum.
1862
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nJodzkWBjDk&pp=ygUXQmF0dGxlIG9mIGZyZWRyaWNrc2J1cmc%3D
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-carnival-floats-dusseldorf-germany_n_67c6d1f6e4b03c5688a78d1d
“NSFW Float Roasts Donald Trump With ‘MAGA’ Testicles At German Carnival”
“Top Trump ally Elon Musk was also depicted as a poop-spewing Napoleon-eque figure.”
…and so much more!
The world both hates tRUMPutin and is laughing at tRUMPsky.
BB – Local police in small towns going after their neighbors & probably families? There’s a town in this county with about 5,000 people & 2 cops. The US is a huge landmass. The people outnumber the military and police by quite a lot. Many of those people are armed to the teeth, and not just with deer rifles or ARs. (If this happens, MAGA will be surprised when the 2nd Amendment is shredded with the rest of the US Constitution. It’s easier declared than done, here. Probably quite few disgruntled, active military wondering what will happen to their promised benefits, when they see a foreign-born chaos agent taking away their futures. Reserved and retired have most likely had enough of the Russian agent, Krasnov. He might want to borrow a kid from Elon to carry around as a human shield, because what didn’t actually happen in Butler, might happen now.
just because they’re incompetent doesn’t mean they won’t try
funny how Patel wants fbi hq where HE lives
laziness + arrogance, what a credit to the nation 🤮
Painted Work Trucks—That’s a sign of a great economy—
Sign of economy cooling down:
“Ladder For Sale”
Would Vlad take out Agents Krasnov and/or Musk to instigate a crisis here? Well, a bigger crisis.
you know he wants bitch-boy for Prez
Representative Jasmine Crockett of Texas will not have a guest at tonight’s SOTU…because folks do not want to give their Social Security numbers to get clearance to attend. The Krasnov administration can not be trusted.
MAGAts won’t follow JD, just like I’d expect Hegseth’s own troops to frag him as soon as look at him.
https://www.newsweek.com/canada-cut-off-electricity-us-states-need-feel-pain-2039125
“I don’t start a tariff war, but we’re going to win this tariff war,” he said, adding, “If they want to try to annihilate Ontario, I will do everything—including cut off their energy with a smile on my face, and I’m encouraging every other province to do the same.”
Ford added: “They rely on our energy. They need to feel the pain.”
“In an NBC interview on Monday, Ford said Canadian energy kept “the lights on for 1.5 million homes and manufacturing [facilities] in New York, in Michigan and in Minnesota.”
I would urge Canada to do that immediately. Cut it for SOTU, so viewership goes down.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/4/white-house-says-fired-veterans-among-federal-workers-perhaps-fit/
“The White House on Tuesday said the thousands of military veterans laid off as part of government downsizing were perhaps “not fit” to have a job.”
https://www.thealtmedia.com/p/vandal-strikes-trump-national-golf
“In the early hours of Tuesday morning, an image began circulating online of the entrance sign at Trump National Golf Club Washington in Sterling, Virginia—except something was different. The name had been altered, and in bold letters, it read: “Fat Nixon.”
“Trump has long been dubbed “Fat Nixon” by critics, particularly because of his paranoia, criminality, and obsessive need for revenge. Like Nixon, Trump sees the presidency not as a public service but as a means of self-preservation.
The difference is Nixon, in the face of overwhelming evidence, had the shred of dignity to resign. Trump, on the other hand, would never, ever admit fault or defeat thanks to his overt narcissism.”
Agent Orange is much worse (and fatter) than Nixon, and this is so much worse than Watergate.
BB – What happened to Putin’s terminal illness?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/trump-national-forest-executive-order
“Donald Trump has ordered that swathes of America’s forests be felled for timber, evading rules to protect endangered species while doing so and raising the prospect of chainsaws razing some of the most ecologically important trees in the US.”
“The president, in an executive order, has demanded an expansion in tree cutting across 280m acres (113m hectares) of national forests and other public lands, claiming that “heavy-handed federal policies” have made America reliant on foreign imports of timber.”
“This Trump executive order is the most blatant attempt in American history by a president to hand over federal public lands to the logging industry,” said Chad Hanson, wildfire scientist at the John Muir Project.”
“What’s worse, the executive order is built on a lie, as Trump falsely claims that more logging will curb wildfires and protect communities, while the overwhelming weight of evidence shows exactly the opposite.”
toldja
guess who loves our national parks?
everyone but the billionaires
impeach, depose, rebuild
Pogo, good sign your devices are listed. Anytime a new device is used we should only have to log in once, and this new plugin keeps us logged in for 365 days unless it’s not used again during that time. Each time we log in starts the 365 day clock on that device. Seems to me WordPress ought to make this the default setting instead of having to buy a special plugin for it, so it better work.
this is literally the plot of Lord of the rings
Saruman wasn’t the good guy
neither was Sauron
you dumb incels
Some Dems are going to the SOTU, some not.
At what point do those that go, turn their backs on him or get up and leave?
When he says he’s abandoned NATO?
When he says all our money is his money & it’s all going to crypto?
It doesn’t sound like there’s a consensus among Dems (surprise), but those that go need to figure out what the red line is tonight.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-ukraine-prepare-sign-minerals-deal-tuesday-sources-say-2025-03-04/
“Exclusive: US and Ukraine prepare to sign minerals deal on Tuesday, sources say”
“President Donald Trump has told his advisers that he wants to announce the agreement in his address to Congress Tuesday evening, three of the sources said, cautioning that the deal had yet to be signed and the situation could change.”
“Our meeting in Washington, at the White House on Friday, did not go the way it was supposed to be,” Zelenskiy said in his post. “Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer.”
“It was unclear if the deal has changed. The deal that was to be signed last week included no explicit security guarantees for Ukraine but gave the U.S. access to revenues from Ukraine’s natural resources. It also envisaged the Ukrainian government contributing 50% of future monetization of any state-owned natural resources to a U.S.-Ukraine managed reconstruction investment fund.”
Fuuuuh! Don’t do it! because tRUMPutin will never keep their part of the bargain!
https://wegotthiscovered.com/news/is-jd-vance-really-profiting-off-of-the-uber-of-u-s-farmland-acretrader-explained/
JD Vance has been accused of profiting off of what has been labeled the “Uber of U.S. farmland,” but what exactly do these accusations really mean?
“…Vance seems to have no qualms about profiting off of a company that helps foreign investors buy U.S. land — something I’m sure many Republican voters, particularly the rural working class from which Vance came, and that he describes in his memoir Hillbilly Elegy, would certainly have an issue with.”
Well, if farmers are going to lose their land for pennies on the dollar to foreign investor groups. Is JD Vance’s Acretrader, then maybe illegally fired federal employees should work for foreign states & be sellouts like the entire RussoRepublican Party.
Does anyone other than Trump understand why we’re in a trade war with Canada? Does he?
Craig,
We used to be able to do a simple copy/paste for images. Now I have to do a save download and then use the add image. A also copied links don’t display without copy/paste part or are the article. Just more cumbersome.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/04/iowa-bill-vaccine-makers-would-have-to-waive-indemnity-from-injury-lawsuits/81160412007/
“Vaccine manufacturers would have to waive indemnity from lawsuits for injuries stemming from vaccines under a bill advancing in the Iowa Senate.
Sen. Doug Campbell, R-Mason City, at a subcommittee hearing Monday moved to heavily amend Senate File 360, under which healthcare professionals would have faced a simple misdemeanor and $500 fine for administering gene-based vaccines.”
Idiots
Out
Walking
Around
FFS, I’ve had 7 mRNA vaccines. Glad I’m not in Iowa, but this will spread like stupidity virus.
As the hour draws nigh, I realize this will be too painful for me to watch.
(I got that new CBS soap opera I’m already behind on.)
Craig –
it is because of all the fentynal crossing the border, tons going to Canada, ounce coming to America. It is because of all the people with pigment crossing the border, hundreds to Canada, a few to America. It is because Canada is taking advantage of the U.S., not sure about what though. It is because krasnov thinks that tariffs will make someone, not exactly sure who though, will sign Canada over as one big state.Krasnov is bonkers and allowed to roam free.I quit watching any of the joint sessions with a repub/magat doing the talk, starting with the village idiot rabble rousing to invade countries.
Sturge, are you still looking for the shortcut to posting You-tubes? It’s pretty much the same as the method you once showed me. Copy the Url, then paste it into a comment box.
I was never able to post memes or photos before, and I may still not be doing it right, but the new system to add them on is working okay for me.
OK, so everything this fucking guy says is outrageous or a lie or both so I’m not going to get caught up in the provocation, tonight
Will listen just so I know if I should start boarding up windows
I’m relying on y’all to be my filter.
How long before Wall Street decides he can’t be trusted and enough is enough? Soon I hope, and they will get the hook. The Apprentice got cancelled.
printable Bingo cards for tonight – if you do watch the cesspool stirring party.
https://www.politico.com/playbook
Since he’s obviously planning to make that go past everybody’s bedtime, has any opposition party ever bucked tradition and jumped the gun with their speech first?
That would be fun.
Is your homeowners insurance going through the roof?
Shop around, it can make a difference. My current insurance went from $1200 to $1900. I contacted a local independent agent and he found me the same coverage for $1000. I learned with my rental properties that every 3 years you need to shop around because that is when they start finding reasons to raise your rate. I think they hope like the boiling frog you won’t notice.
Jack
i feel obligated to listen or watch but not only do i not want that in my ears or eyes but two hours of his insane rambling and lying?
hoping any illegal orders are disobeyed
I’ll catch the lowlight reel tomorrow.
If he announces withdrawal from NATO, anyone worth their salt should stand & boot scoot out the door.
Russian warship go f&ck yourself!
AOC. has some sort of thing during the event. She’s not going.
AOC:
Cortez @aoc.bsky.social
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6h
I’m not going to the Joint Address. I will be live posting and chatting with you all here instead. Then going on IG Live after
She also says gopers are going in early to sit on the Democratic side so the applause is not one sided. (No assigned seats).
Thanks, Sturge. I will follow AOC. She’s reporting Repugs are squatting in Dem seats:
“Already hearing that Republican members have been showing up to the House floor trying to take up the Dem side seats for the joint address 💀”
”If it doesn’t sort out, be aware you may see applause on both sides of the aisle but they may be GOP”
I’m glad AOC is doing her livestream in real time. We can’t wait till Tooth Fairy Time to get a Dem response.
Decided can’t watch that much evil ignorance. Will get commentary tomorrow
https://www.newsweek.com/dow-drops-1300-points-two-days-amid-trump-trade-war-2039596
“Dow Drops 1300 Points in Two Days Amid Trump Trade War”
OK, sorry to ask this ( I can’t believe I’m asking this) is there anywhere I can watch the shit show when there’s somebody up in the corner of the screen fact checking the bullshit that’s gonna come out of the dumbass’s mouth? I hope that’s not too harsh./s
We’ll look back, I pray, and see this as the “high point” of this presidency. Everything else will be down and out.
The Thousand Day Reich.
AOC is smart to be somewhere else
these nazis are disgusting
american dream surging, stock market tanking
get it Dems
fuck you speaker johnson
nazis
hold decorum while we steal your country
LYING MOTHERFUCKER.
big baby in chief like all his followers, wahhh wahhh
lol free speech is back but only in english and kick that guy out for speaking
lol trillions
holy racism batman
how dare money be used to benefit black people
Delusional muthafucker.
he means his Saudi and Russian buddies
meet your new neighbors: the guy who dismembers journalists and next door the guy who pushes people out of windows
NPR to the rescue. https://www.npr.org/2025/03/04/g-s1-50488/trump-congress-joint-address-fact-check
“days of rule by unelected bureaucrats are over, except Elon”
Do snakes like Mike Johnson shed their skins once or twice a year, or is it more.
Trump is spreading lies tonight to undermine Social Security. “Online Posts Misconstrue Data on Social Security” Numbers https://www.factcheck.org/2025/02/online-posts-misconstrue-data-on-social-security-numbers/
Buy the new 2026 Avtovaz, designed in Russia, made in USA
Wonder if he’s re-hashing all these bullshit lies about 150 year olds getting Social Security so he has an excuse to cut Social Security
when economics is a religion
Poobah, shhhh.
can’t wait for all that American grown coffee
lol 40 foster children, how lucrative
saying the quiet part out loud that that revenge porn bill is going to be used to target political enemies on his behalf
lol he’s really confusing the racists right now
so far has missed all his deportation quotas, less than Biden
respect the cops except when i encourage you to beat them
is this the SotU or an episode of Nancy Grace?
i’ll let the hacks over at the late shows handle these jokes
Toxic chemicals are bad, must all now be manufactured here
yeah, they say you’re perfect the way God made you as long as He made you the way they like
lol not a nice place to work, we’re taking it back
Russians were killed because they invaded a sovereign nation
unprovoked
in violation of a ceasefire they signed
lol he finally tried to say that name
why did God not save Corey Comperatore
we’re going to cut waste and plant a flag on Mars
credit where due, a lot of shit that’s hard to argue about over the water-cooler, you should probably not do that anyway
ok that’s my public service for the week 🫡
impeach depose rebuild 🇺🇸
Let the debunking begin on the wall to wall lies.
😀
Slotkin’s address really would have been more effective before
i suppose it can be reposted
not bad
That was the trashiest, most nakedly partisan, divisive and deceitful SOU I ever saw. Telling how much his pundits are attacking Dems instead of praising him.
Slotkin response: “As a Cold War kid, I’m thankful it was Reagan and not Trump in office in the 1980s. Trump would have lost us the Cold War.”
As the Maga Turns is the soap opera we need to see.
I hate this place and I really hate this timeline.
There’s a blizzard here.
hideous creature
Just watched a clip of tRUMPutin introducing Elon Musk. “DOGE, headed by Elon Musk.” What about Amy Gleason? Did she not come back from her Mexican vacation? Does she exist? Is her name now on the lawsuits against DOGE, instead of Elon’s name?
NEW THREAD
I just couldn’t watch, so I didn’t. Heard it all before.
Fuck him and the whores he rode in on.