I was torn in loyalty with Sheri and her Romper Room. But I rarely missed the Captain and Mr. Greenjeans. The kids nowadays have no idea what they're missing. A lot of really great cartoon shows as well.
I watchd both in my youth, as they were on different channels. I never saw Mr. Rogers, as he was always on PBS, and we had no PBS - thank the lord- in my town when I was young.
Faithful Captain Kangaroo viewer, too! Loved the principle players, of course, and fondly remember Tom Terrific and Manfred the Wonder dog plus the fascinating drawing hand.
The so called Republicans in the Senate that make up the “leadership” of the party in that once august body are nothing other than craven, feckless, and venal eunuchs who also suffer from TDS and use that forum as a platform to thwart the will of the electorate.
South Dakota has to step up like us Texans and rid the Senate of Thune. Cornyn will be retired soon. It wouldn't have mattered if the Trumpster had supported him. We've had enough of his type.
The 'republican' leaders in the Texas state House. I think the Speaker. Rep Brian Harrison(TX) has explained it several times on Bannon's show; many of the leaders are democrats that ran as republicans. They are endorsed by democrats and vote their way was well. It is disgusting, actually.
The Texas state legislature seems to me a puzzle palace of cross-stitched loyalties. Like the CIA, to paraphrase Jeremiah, the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. Who can know it?
Here is the scary part for me as the Left has targeted Tejas for 30 years now: Here in MN the communist democrat minority that rules is openly flaunting it and now will be punished in some ways for their crimes. In Tejas, deception is still the modus operandi and that needs to stop quickly there or we are in serious trouble overall. The fact that our great Texans recently outlawed Sharia Law in the state is a great sign as 42 mosques have built in the last two years alone.
Cornyn is one of the 8 or so anti-American First GOPe senators that is disgusting. Good to see several of them leaving: Thombalina Tillis, Cassidy, and now Cornyn.
Most low info voters there would never go along with it. Very tough to do unless someone gets caught with their hand in the cookie jar like a certain NJ senator.
Someone told me once, with certain people it’s better to have them inside the tent peeing out than outside the tent peeing in. Expect Mr Cronyin to go away mad, and do some damage from outside the tent. He knows lots of ways to hurt Trump.
i agree. all talk and no walk. all of them. even the supposedly good guys. i can name eleven off the top of my 78 year old balding head that have been talking for years, even decades and never get anything accomplished. just stop with the jokes and make america great again.
They are just showing their true colors. Trump is the mirror of truth as he has exposed so many pretending to be on our side who were playing for the other side the entire time. One by one, they stick their heads up out of their holes and thinking they have a shot at Trump, they gleefully fire in his direction. They inevitably miss and he puts the spotlight right on them. Thune has always been a Deep State plant and operative as has Cornyn, Tillis, Cassidy, and the hag from Alaska. They always oppose our true agenda, and now Trump has made them forget their masks and show us clearly who they are. They are now toast, but they don't care if we all are toast and plan to take us down with them. I hope this is an awakening for a lot of complacent Republican supporters.
The 2 party system of the 20th Century IS dead. Has been for a long time. Look at the Dems turned into full communists. They get it. Wrong! But they get it. The old Republican Party cannot take them on. These old farts have no fight in them. No vision for the future other than their pockets. They have no idea that politics has changed. They ignore the fact that they need to get out of the way. RETIRE!
MAGA Party is where we’ve gone. Younger, savvy, well spoken individuals ready, willing and able to challenge the system and the liberals. Not capitulate like the Rs of the last 40 years have done.
“Venal eunuchs.” Love it! Since Karens have captured most of our institutions, either American masculinity reasserts itself to deal with our enemies, or we’re all lost. Anger is a prelude to courage. But there’s so little on display, much of it suppressed by the media.
The feminization of our culture carries disastrous consequences for our beloved country. Any wonder why our birth rates have sunk so low? Feelings be damned. Is morality so out of fashion as a casualty of “democracy” and mob rule? Always darkest before the dawn, but just because it’s pitch black outside doesn’t signal the approach of dawn.
Without a god and without a master, as Albert Camus asserted, the weight of days is endless. And so, God being out of style for so many, the choice is one of a master.
As the Irish poet Brendan Behan once wrote, “Fight, fight against the dying of the light, do not go gently into that good night.”
Christendom is dead, but Christ lives. May the good Lord help us all.
“President Trump should call them on it and go ahead with 28 recess appointments and dare them to sue. The Supreme Court needs to decide if Senate’s dodge around the Constitution through a pro forma recess is illegal or not.’
The huge decision from SCOTUS is coming soon regarding birthright citizenship. The SCOTUS will insanely rule that if you are born on our soil, regardless of the jurisdiction being foreign, you are an American citizen. They WILL rule that way - guaranteed. It will be the death of us, but 6 of those justices don't have the brain to realize it and just want to screw Trump. Thomas and Alito will write brilliant dissents explaining how this is a fatal mistake but it will be to no avail. China is fraudulently birthing 100,000 Chinese on our soil every year by design, and then they return to China. When they are older they can return to America and bring the rest of their families with them.
But the Justices will gleefully shoot holes in our lifeboat just to sink Trump.
I can't read their minds, but given the number of wins Trump has had, I think he wins this 5-4. Roberts may decide to be on the winning side making it a 6-3.
I could be wrong, it's possible that Barrett goes squishy and joins with the commie gals and the eunuch Roberts.
As we go into another solemn Memorial Day thanking the soldiers who have kept this country alive and safe, perhaps our President can release some Memes on Truth Social illustrating our Senate Republicans - especially Thune - as deserters on the battle field. Traitors. Filthy cowards.
Good point. I have used that analogy often of Republicans as the soldiers who are fighting for us as all being a pack of deserters. When you reflect on the stakes and how cavalierly quislings like Thune regard the survival of our fragile republic, I think they all are fully deserving of the same punishments provided to deserters in time of battle.
fox news refuses to hold thune and his senate to account. they spend endless hours and days covering the democrats, mostly an election that doesn't occur for 2 1/2 years. if i had a choice between pulling the trap door on thune or anyone else on the planet, thune would go down.
i used to be a level headed manager of 200+ employees. resolving issues, problems, agendas, disputes and putting out fires by the hour...for thirty years. now what is happening to my country makes my blood boil and i can't seem to get a handle on the idea that i should no longer care.
We're just being hit with the normal fight or flight reflex. The people we count on to fight for us refuse to, and we can't run away because it is our lives. This causes a great deal of angst and stress. I despise Republicans much more than I do Democrats. Democrats never pretend to be my friend. Thune will look us right in the eye and smile at us telling us to trust him. Then he pats you on the back while he twists the knife in deeper. Something has to give because these fake Republicans clearly are not on our side.
And that begs the obvious question - Why is Thune determined to prevent Trump from making recess appointments? There is no other reason for his games with "technically" keeping open session when clearly they are in recess. I've said that right from the start with this tall white poser that he was a Deep State defender and protector. The Military Industrial Complex, aka the Deep State, owns and controls the Republican Party and just frames us as the loyal opposition. They always make sure we can never actually win. Well, those days are coming to an end one way or the other.
The best news is that it makes it very clear that Thune should not be majority leader. He's been mediocre at best. With luck, some of the new people coming in will vote against him and let someone who actually believes what most Republicans believe lead the way.
The best news would be his resignation from the Senate and replacement by someone who will support Trump.
The fact that the Senate leadership race was between Cornyn and Thune speaks volumes about this late stage republic.
The NRSC spent three decades recruiting a wretched and vile caucus that delivered on every priority except for the Republican electorate. They despise us more than the Democrat radicals across the aisle because we get upset about “no name given” CDLs wrecking on the interstate and immunity for Moderna.
The good news is that next year Tillis will be gone, Cassidy will be gone, McConnell will be gone. If polls hold up, Cornyn will be gone. Curtis is running for Utah governor. I am rooting for Collins despite everything. She does represent a very liberal state.
If the Reps hold the Senate, perhaps there can be a replacement. If not, run a primary against Thune and REALLY run one against Murkowsky.
I do not know how our Don manages to remain humorous about these events. I suppose his reaction is of a kind with gallows humor. I appreciate it but no longer seem to be able to enjoy it as I once did. A kind of pall has descended on me, like that I imagine descended on the inhabitants of Rome in the early Fifth Century when it was sacked serially by the Goths and Vandals before the last official Emperor was overthrown by Odoacer or like that of the residents of Constantinople around year 1452. I suppose another reading of Edward Gibbon is not really the picker-upper I need right now. Sigh. Oh well, pip-pip and cheerio, good people. I think I hear the strains of "Nearer My God To Thee" in the background, but by all means, let us keep dancing here on the lido deck. Everything is fine, just fine.
You're probably right about avoiding some reading material, though I haven't read Gibbon.
If I were feeling this way, I'd go back and read the most recent 20 coffee & covid articles.
That column is a great complement to Don's - I now read both every morning. Together they provide all the good perspective that one can easily lose when delving in the weeds of the horror that is today's left.
We faithfully read the same 2 columns plus the periodic wonderful commentary from Promethean Action - Susan Kokinda and Barbara Boyd do an excellent job of describing what's really happening
There is much to be distressed over with the politics of the enemies of Trump 2.0. If there is one good thing emerging from it (as evidenced by this week's primaries) is that the deep state is being uncovered before our eyes and voters are not accepting it. Before it was conspiracy theory. Today, it is tangible corruption and sitting in front of us. It includes the RINOs who I (we) just accepted as minor annoyances in years' past, but now see they are in lockstep with the rest of the 'machine' of destruction. They are following a well-designed plan.
I believe voters' anger will be reflected in upcoming elections if we can keep the spotlight on the elected hypocrites who say they are 'honored' to be in public service when they are just sucking us dry and lying about everything.
Action is always a good response to discouragement. Taking action helps us realize we do have power, we do have "agency".
Remember, it has always been part of the "psyops" to convince us we are outnumbered and it is hopeless. The momentum of this country has shifted into our favor, and this is huge. Evil often knows that it can't defeat us, therefore it tries to trick us into surrendering.
You are right, TPG. They are "...to convince us we're outnumbered." But I fully believe we are not. We are just buried with propaganda and hear it repeated everywhere we go, even via friends, family and neighbors. But for me, the sanity, reason and deep common sense of commenters here, Childers, Mead, and others that escape me at the moment, tell me I am not alone, though it feels like surrounded. Believe it or not, God is on our side. Faith, hope & love.
I know exactly how you feel. Our side has done such a poor job of inculcating our progeny on the greatness of our system, but also understanding that as Reagan said, Freedom is always only one generation away from extinction. The cultural Marxists have successfully weakened the glue holding us together in our identifying as Americans and being proud to be part of America. When these worthless clowns realize what they have wasted, it will be too late.
Congressional Republican "leadership" needs to sober up. There is a Very Good Reason that in wartime they shoot traitors first - and if anyone believes this nation is not in a war for its very survival, I would advise him to do a simple thought experiment: what happens to the country if the Democrats get national control?
If you didn’t tell me Colbert was gone I’d never have known. What an insufferable body part. And speaking of insufferable body parts, “The World’s Greatest Deliberative Body” doesn’t seem to deliberate much these days. Trump, among his other list of things to do, needs to figure out how to break Thune, and soon. This is why I’m not a registered Republican - if the party was just useless it would be one thing. In their current incarnation I’d more likely enjoy seeing PDJT treat them like he did the former leaders of Iran. The Dims too for that matter.
I don't watch any of those shows, Colbert, Kimmel, The View, MSDNC, etc, and never have. I don't watch them because I don't want anything to do with them. But then Fox News, Newsmax, and just about every radio talk show I listen to seem hellbent on telling me every single day what those morons are doing and saying. I DON'T CARE, which is why I DON'T watch them in the first place. You stupid media people give them more publicity than they are able to attract on their own. Ignore them and let them rot away and dry up.
I also read yesterday that in a closed door GOP Senate meeting, 20 GOP senators voiced their opposition to that 2B weaponization fund that Trump proposed to pay victims of the DOJ. These "Thune Loons" believed the DEM's & MSM lies that J6 was an insurrection.
Loon Grassley evidently refused to vote PDJT's way on something recently because he still completely believes J6ers intended to kill him personally.
He needs to be locked in a room with the Cowboy Logic folks on RAV until he figures out reality.
I actually don't listen to them much because all they ever talk about is J6, and I followed everything about it already. However, I give them great credit - nothing beats their knowledge and passion on the topic.
Sen. Kevin Cramer: "Politically speaking, he added, the fund is “unexplainable. That’s the problem.”
Sen. Mitch McConnell: “So the nation’s top law enforcement official is asking for a slush fund to pay people who assault cops? Utterly stupid, morally wrong; take your pick".
Senator Thom Tillis: “I think it’s stupid on stilts. When you take money from me to give to a purpose I vehemently disagree with, that’s tyranny.”
The Turtle is the worst here. Someone needs to school him about the woman who was beaten to death by a cop in an alley next to the Capitol - I know her name was Boyland but blanking on the first name right now, maybe Rosemary?
DC Metropolitan Police Officer Lila Morris (Badge Number 5869) is identified in multiple reports and videos as the officer who struck Rosanne Boyland with a baton and a stick while Boyland lay unconscious on the Capitol steps on January 6, 2021.
And she didn't just "strike" Rosanne Boyland, she beat her viciously and vigorously with visible hatred. It wasn't a police-type crowd control action, it was way beyond that--she was venting anger and hatred on Rosanne. It was shocking and unmistakable to see.
Well, THOM, you take money from me for things I vehemently disagree with, that makes it tyranny, right? Oh, I forgot how smart all you senators are . . . NOT!
Aaaaand, despite all we witness of these miscreants behavior, and though it will cause our stomachs to churn to do so, EVERYONE MIST VOTE RED this November.
These buffoons who currently make up our Congress are still the lesser of the two evils that inhabit that building in DC.
It may suck to have to pull the lever for them, but if we do not, our suffering will be compounded to utterly indescribable levels should the Democrats regain power.
God often requires us to do hard things. This will be one them, if we want to have any chance of continuing this Revolution to save our country. Get out and Vote Red and bring as many people with you as humanly possible. We cannot afford to be complacent or to quit. Those are not options when the price is losing your freedom and your kids future forever.
This election rests on We, the People’s shoulders. Save our country and vote Red!
I am so lucky that even in blueMA I have a good reason this year not only to vote red, but to help as much as possible with local campaigns, especially for the governor's race. No nose holding at all - our candidates all the way down the ballot are very good.
Sadly, the people I know in nearby Maine will have no chance but to nose-hold again for Collins.
But PDJT's agenda is the only path to avoiding disaster. I stick with him.
Thune has proved to this NoDak. farm boy S.Dak. truly may be the land of sunshine and sunflowers but is the land of sons of bitches as Thune crawls under the porch licking his balls PDJT kicked. We used to get rid of egg sucking dogs but now PETA exists to save them. Let the MAGA/MAHA base prove they voted for PDJT with pride while holding their noses over down ticket options.
Time to turn PETA into People Eating Tasty Animals! I think the Deep State knows to go into our small states where they can artificially prop up their pre-selected candidate and easily get him/her elected. Think the Cheneys in Wyoming. There's fewer people in the entire state of Wyoming than in most of our mid-sized cities. We have been gamed for many years by the neutering of Republicans by the Deep State. I'm convinced they own and control at least 10% of the Republicans in both the House and the Senate.
I'll miss Colbert about as much as I would miss Maddow which is about as much as I would miss having shingles.
OH, and I was one of those viewers of Captain Kangaroo with Mr. Greenjeans. Those were the good days. The cars were amazing in that era too (1960's).
I've had shingles. I'd rather have another dose of shingles than watch even one episode of either of those losers shows.
Same
Ouch!
Same. Don’t forget Bunny Rabbit snagging fresh carrots. Who says watching too much TV rots your brain?!
The only TV our young grandkids watch is Looney Tunes
Bunny Rabbit was a lot like Bugs. He always had the upper hand.
You give shingles a bad name, sir.
You'll probably be able to hop down to Havana in a month or two and buy one of those amazing cars.
If it opens up, I'd love to visit before it is turned into what much of the Caribbean has become (ie junky tourist site).
I was torn in loyalty with Sheri and her Romper Room. But I rarely missed the Captain and Mr. Greenjeans. The kids nowadays have no idea what they're missing. A lot of really great cartoon shows as well.
I watchd both in my youth, as they were on different channels. I never saw Mr. Rogers, as he was always on PBS, and we had no PBS - thank the lord- in my town when I was young.
Road Runner ,Daffy Duck and Tom & Jerry were my heroes !!
I can’t tell you how much this made me laugh. Thank you!
I loved the Captain and every one of his cohorts.
Faithful Captain Kangaroo viewer, too! Loved the principle players, of course, and fondly remember Tom Terrific and Manfred the Wonder dog plus the fascinating drawing hand.
Loved Captain Kangaroo!
Him and Mr. Rogers. Electric company, distant 3rd place.
I was watching it in the 50s. I was 3 years old when the show debuted in 1955.
soul sister
Me too. The music is what I remember most, especially this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO_UpAaltQc
1950s here.
Never watched him. Or her
If they ran re-runs the kids of today would love them as we did.
The so called Republicans in the Senate that make up the “leadership” of the party in that once august body are nothing other than craven, feckless, and venal eunuchs who also suffer from TDS and use that forum as a platform to thwart the will of the electorate.
South Dakota has to step up like us Texans and rid the Senate of Thune. Cornyn will be retired soon. It wouldn't have mattered if the Trumpster had supported him. We've had enough of his type.
Kristi shot the wrong dog Jake.
If she can get rid of her Tranny husband she would make a good Senate candidate.
she's the town bicycle.
Owww !
One thing to remember in your great state is that your republican leadership is corrupt. Fighting Paxton and endorsing Talarico is very troublesome.
Wait. Who endorsed Talarico?
The 'republican' leaders in the Texas state House. I think the Speaker. Rep Brian Harrison(TX) has explained it several times on Bannon's show; many of the leaders are democrats that ran as republicans. They are endorsed by democrats and vote their way was well. It is disgusting, actually.
The Texas state legislature seems to me a puzzle palace of cross-stitched loyalties. Like the CIA, to paraphrase Jeremiah, the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. Who can know it?
Here is the scary part for me as the Left has targeted Tejas for 30 years now: Here in MN the communist democrat minority that rules is openly flaunting it and now will be punished in some ways for their crimes. In Tejas, deception is still the modus operandi and that needs to stop quickly there or we are in serious trouble overall. The fact that our great Texans recently outlawed Sharia Law in the state is a great sign as 42 mosques have built in the last two years alone.
omg, I missed that. Cant vote there anyway but I usually catch that stuff.
i'm awaiting ms belle's response.
Cornyn is very troublesome too. Talarico is an empty suit like most dem candidates. Don't believe polls or the MSM.
Cornyn is one of the 8 or so anti-American First GOPe senators that is disgusting. Good to see several of them leaving: Thombalina Tillis, Cassidy, and now Cornyn.
Wonder if they have valise room for Miss Lindsay and Capito ??
Talarico seems to have been hatched in Area 51, living proof that there are aliens among us.
IIRC some state constitutions allow them to recall a Senator they dislike. I wonder if South Dakota has that.
Most low info voters there would never go along with it. Very tough to do unless someone gets caught with their hand in the cookie jar like a certain NJ senator.
I believe thune is retiring.
Unfortunately not Thune but chicken shit Tillis and old Freeze Frame Mc Chyna.
Tomorrow, I hope!
i grok'd that and it says he has never stated that. his currant term runs through 2029.
Thanks. My mistake
i wish it were true....
McConnel is retiring-thankfully
Someone told me once, with certain people it’s better to have them inside the tent peeing out than outside the tent peeing in. Expect Mr Cronyin to go away mad, and do some damage from outside the tent. He knows lots of ways to hurt Trump.
i agree. all talk and no walk. all of them. even the supposedly good guys. i can name eleven off the top of my 78 year old balding head that have been talking for years, even decades and never get anything accomplished. just stop with the jokes and make america great again.
jim jordan...ohio
john kennedy...louisiana
marsha blackburn...tennessee
sue collins...maine
lisa murkowski...alaska
tom cotton...arkansas
chuck grassley...iowa
josh hawley...missouri
hal rogers...kentucky
lauren boebert...colorado
nancy mace...south carolina
useless!
Lindsey Graham
barf...
John Kennedy has actually gotten a few good things through. Like the Senate doesnt get paid if they shut stuff down.
Marsha Blackburn? You better give me chapter and verse on that one, me bucko.
What’s she ever done for MAGA?
zip.
I thought she was running for governor.
The Board of Directors at the Congressional Country Club. Every one of them.
They are just showing their true colors. Trump is the mirror of truth as he has exposed so many pretending to be on our side who were playing for the other side the entire time. One by one, they stick their heads up out of their holes and thinking they have a shot at Trump, they gleefully fire in his direction. They inevitably miss and he puts the spotlight right on them. Thune has always been a Deep State plant and operative as has Cornyn, Tillis, Cassidy, and the hag from Alaska. They always oppose our true agenda, and now Trump has made them forget their masks and show us clearly who they are. They are now toast, but they don't care if we all are toast and plan to take us down with them. I hope this is an awakening for a lot of complacent Republican supporters.
The 2 party system of the 20th Century IS dead. Has been for a long time. Look at the Dems turned into full communists. They get it. Wrong! But they get it. The old Republican Party cannot take them on. These old farts have no fight in them. No vision for the future other than their pockets. They have no idea that politics has changed. They ignore the fact that they need to get out of the way. RETIRE!
MAGA Party is where we’ve gone. Younger, savvy, well spoken individuals ready, willing and able to challenge the system and the liberals. Not capitulate like the Rs of the last 40 years have done.
“Venal eunuchs.” Love it! Since Karens have captured most of our institutions, either American masculinity reasserts itself to deal with our enemies, or we’re all lost. Anger is a prelude to courage. But there’s so little on display, much of it suppressed by the media.
The feminization of our culture carries disastrous consequences for our beloved country. Any wonder why our birth rates have sunk so low? Feelings be damned. Is morality so out of fashion as a casualty of “democracy” and mob rule? Always darkest before the dawn, but just because it’s pitch black outside doesn’t signal the approach of dawn.
Without a god and without a master, as Albert Camus asserted, the weight of days is endless. And so, God being out of style for so many, the choice is one of a master.
As the Irish poet Brendan Behan once wrote, “Fight, fight against the dying of the light, do not go gently into that good night.”
Christendom is dead, but Christ lives. May the good Lord help us all.
Indeed Bill, this nation needs a Christian revival that doesn’t include so called Christians like T.Carlson.
"...craven, feckless, and venal eunuchs." You win the internet today, sir!
“President Trump should call them on it and go ahead with 28 recess appointments and dare them to sue. The Supreme Court needs to decide if Senate’s dodge around the Constitution through a pro forma recess is illegal or not.’
YES! YES!! and YES!!!
this supreme court would punt and trump would lose.
I think Trump would win 5 to 4, split along party lines.
I agree. Some of them appear to be dusting off the Constitution.
The decision on no more racial redistricting is an earthquake that will slowly pull what's left of the Dim party under into the abyss.
The huge decision from SCOTUS is coming soon regarding birthright citizenship. The SCOTUS will insanely rule that if you are born on our soil, regardless of the jurisdiction being foreign, you are an American citizen. They WILL rule that way - guaranteed. It will be the death of us, but 6 of those justices don't have the brain to realize it and just want to screw Trump. Thomas and Alito will write brilliant dissents explaining how this is a fatal mistake but it will be to no avail. China is fraudulently birthing 100,000 Chinese on our soil every year by design, and then they return to China. When they are older they can return to America and bring the rest of their families with them.
But the Justices will gleefully shoot holes in our lifeboat just to sink Trump.
I can't read their minds, but given the number of wins Trump has had, I think he wins this 5-4. Roberts may decide to be on the winning side making it a 6-3.
I could be wrong, it's possible that Barrett goes squishy and joins with the commie gals and the eunuch Roberts.
Forget the Chinese. They are a shrinking culture as well. It's the Muslims who will take over here.
I doubt that ; although it may come down to shootin' before it's over .
As we go into another solemn Memorial Day thanking the soldiers who have kept this country alive and safe, perhaps our President can release some Memes on Truth Social illustrating our Senate Republicans - especially Thune - as deserters on the battle field. Traitors. Filthy cowards.
Good point. I have used that analogy often of Republicans as the soldiers who are fighting for us as all being a pack of deserters. When you reflect on the stakes and how cavalierly quislings like Thune regard the survival of our fragile republic, I think they all are fully deserving of the same punishments provided to deserters in time of battle.
Treason by omission.
Spot on. 🎯
fox news refuses to hold thune and his senate to account. they spend endless hours and days covering the democrats, mostly an election that doesn't occur for 2 1/2 years. if i had a choice between pulling the trap door on thune or anyone else on the planet, thune would go down.
i used to be a level headed manager of 200+ employees. resolving issues, problems, agendas, disputes and putting out fires by the hour...for thirty years. now what is happening to my country makes my blood boil and i can't seem to get a handle on the idea that i should no longer care.
my tolerance is low ...and dropping.
We're just being hit with the normal fight or flight reflex. The people we count on to fight for us refuse to, and we can't run away because it is our lives. This causes a great deal of angst and stress. I despise Republicans much more than I do Democrats. Democrats never pretend to be my friend. Thune will look us right in the eye and smile at us telling us to trust him. Then he pats you on the back while he twists the knife in deeper. Something has to give because these fake Republicans clearly are not on our side.
yup. at least the donks tell us they want to kill us. the gop plays games.
Clearly on their side. Getting richer every day.
It all boils down to keeping the parasitic leeches feeding on the blood money taxpayers pay into the trough under duress while they grift and dine.
Don't think PDJT isn't completely aware and acting ; he may be waiting for a predetermined moment .
Amen, brother! Clean up the Senate.
Agree ; get away from a few patriots and all they are good for is a different perspective ( spin ) .
I agree completely that PDJT should break that recess logjam.
They've been keeping a fake quorum going for both of his presidencies. It's a total scam!
And that begs the obvious question - Why is Thune determined to prevent Trump from making recess appointments? There is no other reason for his games with "technically" keeping open session when clearly they are in recess. I've said that right from the start with this tall white poser that he was a Deep State defender and protector. The Military Industrial Complex, aka the Deep State, owns and controls the Republican Party and just frames us as the loyal opposition. They always make sure we can never actually win. Well, those days are coming to an end one way or the other.
He’s mad about Trump acting his boy John Croynin.
“Obamanauts” -“Obamanaughts”
There, fixed it!
Thank you for the edification, Neera. Naught means zero, nothing which is what they amount to.
Both are good 'uns.
Fitting since Barry's last name begins with a Zero.
Hence my ozero references J.R..
Obamanuts
The best news is that it makes it very clear that Thune should not be majority leader. He's been mediocre at best. With luck, some of the new people coming in will vote against him and let someone who actually believes what most Republicans believe lead the way.
The best news would be his resignation from the Senate and replacement by someone who will support Trump.
The fact that the Senate leadership race was between Cornyn and Thune speaks volumes about this late stage republic.
The NRSC spent three decades recruiting a wretched and vile caucus that delivered on every priority except for the Republican electorate. They despise us more than the Democrat radicals across the aisle because we get upset about “no name given” CDLs wrecking on the interstate and immunity for Moderna.
The good news is that next year Tillis will be gone, Cassidy will be gone, McConnell will be gone. If polls hold up, Cornyn will be gone. Curtis is running for Utah governor. I am rooting for Collins despite everything. She does represent a very liberal state.
If the Reps hold the Senate, perhaps there can be a replacement. If not, run a primary against Thune and REALLY run one against Murkowsky.
She was a "rank-choiced" electee. SHould be vulnerable.
We can only pray. She also has a reputation as being remarkably unlikeable.
I do not know how our Don manages to remain humorous about these events. I suppose his reaction is of a kind with gallows humor. I appreciate it but no longer seem to be able to enjoy it as I once did. A kind of pall has descended on me, like that I imagine descended on the inhabitants of Rome in the early Fifth Century when it was sacked serially by the Goths and Vandals before the last official Emperor was overthrown by Odoacer or like that of the residents of Constantinople around year 1452. I suppose another reading of Edward Gibbon is not really the picker-upper I need right now. Sigh. Oh well, pip-pip and cheerio, good people. I think I hear the strains of "Nearer My God To Thee" in the background, but by all means, let us keep dancing here on the lido deck. Everything is fine, just fine.
In GOD we trust Steve.
Hmm.
You're probably right about avoiding some reading material, though I haven't read Gibbon.
If I were feeling this way, I'd go back and read the most recent 20 coffee & covid articles.
That column is a great complement to Don's - I now read both every morning. Together they provide all the good perspective that one can easily lose when delving in the weeds of the horror that is today's left.
We faithfully read the same 2 columns plus the periodic wonderful commentary from Promethean Action - Susan Kokinda and Barbara Boyd do an excellent job of describing what's really happening
Edward Gibbon—Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
There is much to be distressed over with the politics of the enemies of Trump 2.0. If there is one good thing emerging from it (as evidenced by this week's primaries) is that the deep state is being uncovered before our eyes and voters are not accepting it. Before it was conspiracy theory. Today, it is tangible corruption and sitting in front of us. It includes the RINOs who I (we) just accepted as minor annoyances in years' past, but now see they are in lockstep with the rest of the 'machine' of destruction. They are following a well-designed plan.
I believe voters' anger will be reflected in upcoming elections if we can keep the spotlight on the elected hypocrites who say they are 'honored' to be in public service when they are just sucking us dry and lying about everything.
I think we all agree Congress is the biggest part of our republic's problems .
By a mile.
Fixing to find out if one with God is a majority, I guess.
Take heart, Steve. Maybe a walk in the woods is in order? It always renews my soul.
I read Gibbon's masterpiece, and did not find it a spellbinder. But of course, he wrote for a different kind of audience.
Action is always a good response to discouragement. Taking action helps us realize we do have power, we do have "agency".
Remember, it has always been part of the "psyops" to convince us we are outnumbered and it is hopeless. The momentum of this country has shifted into our favor, and this is huge. Evil often knows that it can't defeat us, therefore it tries to trick us into surrendering.
You are right, TPG. They are "...to convince us we're outnumbered." But I fully believe we are not. We are just buried with propaganda and hear it repeated everywhere we go, even via friends, family and neighbors. But for me, the sanity, reason and deep common sense of commenters here, Childers, Mead, and others that escape me at the moment, tell me I am not alone, though it feels like surrounded. Believe it or not, God is on our side. Faith, hope & love.
I know exactly how you feel. Our side has done such a poor job of inculcating our progeny on the greatness of our system, but also understanding that as Reagan said, Freedom is always only one generation away from extinction. The cultural Marxists have successfully weakened the glue holding us together in our identifying as Americans and being proud to be part of America. When these worthless clowns realize what they have wasted, it will be too late.
Congressional Republican "leadership" needs to sober up. There is a Very Good Reason that in wartime they shoot traitors first - and if anyone believes this nation is not in a war for its very survival, I would advise him to do a simple thought experiment: what happens to the country if the Democrats get national control?
Good point.
If you didn’t tell me Colbert was gone I’d never have known. What an insufferable body part. And speaking of insufferable body parts, “The World’s Greatest Deliberative Body” doesn’t seem to deliberate much these days. Trump, among his other list of things to do, needs to figure out how to break Thune, and soon. This is why I’m not a registered Republican - if the party was just useless it would be one thing. In their current incarnation I’d more likely enjoy seeing PDJT treat them like he did the former leaders of Iran. The Dims too for that matter.
I don't watch any of those shows, Colbert, Kimmel, The View, MSDNC, etc, and never have. I don't watch them because I don't want anything to do with them. But then Fox News, Newsmax, and just about every radio talk show I listen to seem hellbent on telling me every single day what those morons are doing and saying. I DON'T CARE, which is why I DON'T watch them in the first place. You stupid media people give them more publicity than they are able to attract on their own. Ignore them and let them rot away and dry up.
I also read yesterday that in a closed door GOP Senate meeting, 20 GOP senators voiced their opposition to that 2B weaponization fund that Trump proposed to pay victims of the DOJ. These "Thune Loons" believed the DEM's & MSM lies that J6 was an insurrection.
I love the term Thune's Loons! That's a keeper.
Loon Grassley evidently refused to vote PDJT's way on something recently because he still completely believes J6ers intended to kill him personally.
He needs to be locked in a room with the Cowboy Logic folks on RAV until he figures out reality.
I actually don't listen to them much because all they ever talk about is J6, and I followed everything about it already. However, I give them great credit - nothing beats their knowledge and passion on the topic.
Some comments at that GOP senate meeting:
Sen. Kevin Cramer: "Politically speaking, he added, the fund is “unexplainable. That’s the problem.”
Sen. Mitch McConnell: “So the nation’s top law enforcement official is asking for a slush fund to pay people who assault cops? Utterly stupid, morally wrong; take your pick".
Senator Thom Tillis: “I think it’s stupid on stilts. When you take money from me to give to a purpose I vehemently disagree with, that’s tyranny.”
Wow. Thanks, missed this.
Loons indeed!
The Turtle is the worst here. Someone needs to school him about the woman who was beaten to death by a cop in an alley next to the Capitol - I know her name was Boyland but blanking on the first name right now, maybe Rosemary?
Yes - that was Rosanne Boyland
DC Metropolitan Police Officer Lila Morris (Badge Number 5869) is identified in multiple reports and videos as the officer who struck Rosanne Boyland with a baton and a stick while Boyland lay unconscious on the Capitol steps on January 6, 2021.
And she didn't just "strike" Rosanne Boyland, she beat her viciously and vigorously with visible hatred. It wasn't a police-type crowd control action, it was way beyond that--she was venting anger and hatred on Rosanne. It was shocking and unmistakable to see.
Yes - I saw that sickening video clip. "Police Brutality" only applies when a leftie is butt hurt.
Well, THOM, you take money from me for things I vehemently disagree with, that makes it tyranny, right? Oh, I forgot how smart all you senators are . . . NOT!
What a bunch of hooey ! Sounds like a bunch of Dims ; claiming someone else is guilty of their personal sins .
I think the GOP Senators are addicted to the excellent baked goods Grassley’s office provides. It’s hard to beat the allure of a cookie!
Aaaaand, despite all we witness of these miscreants behavior, and though it will cause our stomachs to churn to do so, EVERYONE MIST VOTE RED this November.
These buffoons who currently make up our Congress are still the lesser of the two evils that inhabit that building in DC.
It may suck to have to pull the lever for them, but if we do not, our suffering will be compounded to utterly indescribable levels should the Democrats regain power.
God often requires us to do hard things. This will be one them, if we want to have any chance of continuing this Revolution to save our country. Get out and Vote Red and bring as many people with you as humanly possible. We cannot afford to be complacent or to quit. Those are not options when the price is losing your freedom and your kids future forever.
This election rests on We, the People’s shoulders. Save our country and vote Red!
You nailed it!
I am so lucky that even in blueMA I have a good reason this year not only to vote red, but to help as much as possible with local campaigns, especially for the governor's race. No nose holding at all - our candidates all the way down the ballot are very good.
Sadly, the people I know in nearby Maine will have no chance but to nose-hold again for Collins.
But PDJT's agenda is the only path to avoiding disaster. I stick with him.
Thune has had over a year to do something and has done squat.
He hasn't even done diddley-squat for the people who elected him.
How long can the will of the majority be thwarted? Thune, Starmer, Carney and Macron are testing the limits. Slowly, we approach FO time.
Can't get soon enough for them.
Thune has proved to this NoDak. farm boy S.Dak. truly may be the land of sunshine and sunflowers but is the land of sons of bitches as Thune crawls under the porch licking his balls PDJT kicked. We used to get rid of egg sucking dogs but now PETA exists to save them. Let the MAGA/MAHA base prove they voted for PDJT with pride while holding their noses over down ticket options.
Time to turn PETA into People Eating Tasty Animals! I think the Deep State knows to go into our small states where they can artificially prop up their pre-selected candidate and easily get him/her elected. Think the Cheneys in Wyoming. There's fewer people in the entire state of Wyoming than in most of our mid-sized cities. We have been gamed for many years by the neutering of Republicans by the Deep State. I'm convinced they own and control at least 10% of the Republicans in both the House and the Senate.