Morning thoughts on the ominous dismissal of Eric Adams's indictment, Elon's highly visible conquest of the Oval Office, and Trump's pathetic attempt to become an artist
Absolutely, his brood has curious names, his eldest changed hers as she transitioned. Thanks for your wisdom, sharing and bringing a smile during a fascist-thieving autogolpe Greg!!
I keep hoping Pope Frank will take out his excommunication pen and excommunicate the hell out of Marco Rubio. Remember Rubio was at one time one of the architects of a comprehensive immigration bill that he then abandoned. Now he’s running a concentration camp at Gitmo. WTAF.
And JD Vance. Isn’t he supposed to be Catholic now? And while the Pope is at it , I hope he excommunicates the Catholics on the Supreme Court and Leonard Leo et al…
Oh, I'd love for him to exco the whole lot of these hateful traitors: Rubio, Vance, Leo, Thomas, etc. Francis is old and unwell. But he IS someone in power standing up to these people.
I am old enough to remember when JFK was running for President and how so many people said a Catholic could never be elected . Now they are running the whole show, WTF? I say this as a lapsed Catholic and big fan of Pope Francis.
Democracy Labs created this 15 min podcast (with AI) from Danielle Sassoon's resignation letter. It's an engaging conversation between two 'people' that explains the "significant revolt against it took place today in New York City and Washington, D.C., when at least six prosecutors resigned in protest after Emil Bove III, the acting deputy attorney general of the Department of Justice, ordered them to dismiss corruption charges against New York City mayor Eric Adams."
Profile in courage: Danielle Sassoon stands up against Trump weaponization of justice system (Podcast)
You're funny. I was cracking up. We need humor to help with the morning gut punch. Fucking aye, as we say here in Minnesota. The Pro-Apartheid Fascist coup is in full swing. I loved watching that little shit wipe his snot on Shitpants desk. There's a picture of Shitpants watching him do that. He looks like he wants to strangle him. 😅 Apartheid Musk is the fall guy. Shitpants will say, "I don't know who he is. I never met him." It's amazes me how many of his peeps will break the law for him and go to jail.
Shitpants is running things like a mob boss. Which he reached that aspiration decades ago. Actually, his father was directly tied to the Mafia. His captains and soldiers are the American Oligarchs Gang. There was another name in the Mafia for asskissers, the cigarette holder. My grandfather was a cigarette holder. I have experience with thugs. Thank goodness for therapy. King Shitpants is a straight up thug. No brains. Just a thug.
TGIF🎉🎉🎉…and once again, a woman (Danielle Sassoon) has stepped up and shown more balls than the entire GOP. Would love it if Adams gets thrown out by Hochul and his replacement gives a yuge middle finger to the whole ICE deal Adams made. Donny getting played, again. Rest up folks and then join in any in-person demonstrations you can.
Strother Martin wailing to the night sky over Valence's body: Libertyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.
American westerns show most every form of oligarchy and how it is overcome. Of course, you must have a hero, every Grecian knows that, despite him being flawed and particularly emotionally non-expressive until pushed. Plenty of prairie scum shouting to the night. And the oligarchical rep from north of the picket wire, a barely defined place somewhere 'up there' that is extremely powerful and abounding with bad intentions, with whips and guns and the will to use them.
So, who are our heroes in this governmental saga of grand theft of money and liberty, however ironic as they may be? Who has the aim and strength to use truth to dislodge some of the most audacious liars in our history? Because truth now is the real weapon, sharpened every day with the lies and transgressions coming from the Oval Office.
The VIN, spot-on hilarious. O'Donnell made me tear up. My MAGA associate (who, before he commandeered Rump, despised Husk), "Yeah, I saw people saying that stuff, but I watched the video, and I don't see it." This from an MFA person. I'll just leave that there. Thank you for deserving the Kennedy Center before it became a circus tent. Happy Valtentine's Day. May the self-appointented Artiste and President X draw a pair of hearts.
“They’re all thieves. That’s all they are. Fascists are all thieves. And that’s all they care about is money and power, in that order”
About covers it, but you left out the addiction to adulation, they have to be big shots.
They’re trying to scare people out of the country, grab the real estate and whatever else they can get. More farmers and manufacturers will be forced to sell out cheap. Workers will lose jobs, get paid less, and have less benefits , if any at all. Prices will keep going up, mostly due to gouging and tariffs. They want to grab social security, but have no clue about how mean and cranky a few million old people with nothing else left to lose could get. We do outnumber them, and probably all that is needed is to have real boycotts and strikes, ongoing, not just a day here and there.
In some of those old western movies the people locked arms and stood their ground. I’m not a big fan of that genre, so tonight I’ll be watching “The Darkest Hour”, Gary Oldman as Churchill, again. It works for me. Love to see a list of movies that give this kind of inspiration. Seems like a good time for it.
I like the Video Friday "column!" I'm a ridiculously voracious reader, but I'm also partial to video, so mixing it up like this is good. Here's what I don't get about the Eric Adams thing: Trump and Co are VERY political, and anything to the left of full fascism is anathema to them, so why drop the Eric Adams case? For NYC "immigration reform?" I suppose if Adams did everything he was accused of it's not out of the realm of possibility, but it seems so weird!
Mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson (whose name I just had to look up because it completely escaped me! LOL), is supposed to appear before Comer's "committee" next week to talk about the sanctuary city status of Chicago. I have to wonder if he'll muscle under to these fiends too. Luckily, I don't live within the Chicago city limits, and at the first opportunity, will get out of Cook County too. That mission creep is coming, I fear. Pretty soon, the whole county will be paying for Chicago's mismanagement, but that's another comment.
I'm LOVING your book, Greg. I don't know what it is about reading columns I've already read (and remember, unlike Brandon Johnson's name) in book form that brings with it a different experience, but it is. The ominous use of dates and how long before or after the election is a nice touch too! Enjoying it immensely!
Thanks, Steve! I'm glad the book works as a book...and thanks for mentioning the "one day after the election" dating. That was a late addition and I think it helps a lot in grounding where in time I was when writing. At least, that was my hope. I was pleased when that came to me.
God knows what else Adams will do on Trump's behalf. Or Erdogan's. What a shit-show. I'm hoping Delgado's "he must go" was a shot across the bow, and they are giving him a few days to resign with honor before Hochul ends him. Which she has the authority to do.
You’re an outstanding human being! Funny thing happened to us in Udaipur this afternoon, the chatter at the tailor shop about tRump is that he’s an unserious degenerate who can’t be trusted. Go figure how embarrassing!
Oh, just bought your latest book it’ll be there when we arrive home
Made me laugh uncontrollably, until tears of rage sprung out of my face:
"He’s sitting behind the Resolute Desk, but he’s sitting on the cuck chair."
and
"He’s named after like a VIN number of a Cybertruck."
If this wasn't so deadly serious, I'd still be laughing.
Ha! Thanks. It can be both serious and funny, because it IS funny.
X Æ A-Xii
CPS should have been summoned as soon as they filed the birth certificate paperwork...
Absolutely, his brood has curious names, his eldest changed hers as she transitioned. Thanks for your wisdom, sharing and bringing a smile during a fascist-thieving autogolpe Greg!!
Only the recent ones, when he went into full eugenics mode.
What do people call him, X? He's going to get SO MUCH SHIT in school. Musk is a moron, and I thought North West was bad!
They call him X.
I like her name because one day she will write a memoir and the cover will say: "North by North West."
I keep hoping Pope Frank will take out his excommunication pen and excommunicate the hell out of Marco Rubio. Remember Rubio was at one time one of the architects of a comprehensive immigration bill that he then abandoned. Now he’s running a concentration camp at Gitmo. WTAF.
And JD Vance. Isn’t he supposed to be Catholic now? And while the Pope is at it , I hope he excommunicates the Catholics on the Supreme Court and Leonard Leo et al…
that too!
Vance is pushing for Lenoard Leo for Pope
Oh, I'd love for him to exco the whole lot of these hateful traitors: Rubio, Vance, Leo, Thomas, etc. Francis is old and unwell. But he IS someone in power standing up to these people.
I am old enough to remember when JFK was running for President and how so many people said a Catholic could never be elected . Now they are running the whole show, WTF? I say this as a lapsed Catholic and big fan of Pope Francis.
The Leo crew are Catholic in the way the Taliban are Muslim.
YES!
Democracy Labs created this 15 min podcast (with AI) from Danielle Sassoon's resignation letter. It's an engaging conversation between two 'people' that explains the "significant revolt against it took place today in New York City and Washington, D.C., when at least six prosecutors resigned in protest after Emil Bove III, the acting deputy attorney general of the Department of Justice, ordered them to dismiss corruption charges against New York City mayor Eric Adams."
Profile in courage: Danielle Sassoon stands up against Trump weaponization of justice system (Podcast)
https://thedemlabs.org/2025/02/14/danielle-sassoon-against-trump-weaponization-of-justice-podcast/
Thanks, Deepak!
You're funny. I was cracking up. We need humor to help with the morning gut punch. Fucking aye, as we say here in Minnesota. The Pro-Apartheid Fascist coup is in full swing. I loved watching that little shit wipe his snot on Shitpants desk. There's a picture of Shitpants watching him do that. He looks like he wants to strangle him. 😅 Apartheid Musk is the fall guy. Shitpants will say, "I don't know who he is. I never met him." It's amazes me how many of his peeps will break the law for him and go to jail.
Shitpants is running things like a mob boss. Which he reached that aspiration decades ago. Actually, his father was directly tied to the Mafia. His captains and soldiers are the American Oligarchs Gang. There was another name in the Mafia for asskissers, the cigarette holder. My grandfather was a cigarette holder. I have experience with thugs. Thank goodness for therapy. King Shitpants is a straight up thug. No brains. Just a thug.
OMG cigarette holder! I've never heard that before and I LOVE it!
Thanks, Lisa!
TGIF🎉🎉🎉…and once again, a woman (Danielle Sassoon) has stepped up and shown more balls than the entire GOP. Would love it if Adams gets thrown out by Hochul and his replacement gives a yuge middle finger to the whole ICE deal Adams made. Donny getting played, again. Rest up folks and then join in any in-person demonstrations you can.
It does always seem to be the women doing the leading. I hope we remember this when we get our democracy back and put women in positions of power.
I think Lt Gov Delgado (who was once in my kitchen) tweeting that Adams has to step down is a shot across the bow. If Adams refuses, Hochul will move.
Vita brevis ars longa.
Trump will be dead and buried (soon I hope)but art is forever.
Amen to that.
Liberty Valence.
Strother Martin wailing to the night sky over Valence's body: Libertyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.
American westerns show most every form of oligarchy and how it is overcome. Of course, you must have a hero, every Grecian knows that, despite him being flawed and particularly emotionally non-expressive until pushed. Plenty of prairie scum shouting to the night. And the oligarchical rep from north of the picket wire, a barely defined place somewhere 'up there' that is extremely powerful and abounding with bad intentions, with whips and guns and the will to use them.
So, who are our heroes in this governmental saga of grand theft of money and liberty, however ironic as they may be? Who has the aim and strength to use truth to dislodge some of the most audacious liars in our history? Because truth now is the real weapon, sharpened every day with the lies and transgressions coming from the Oval Office.
UNFORGIVEN, to your point, is a movie about democracy v. monarchy. And of course Clint wound up being a right winger somehow...
The VIN, spot-on hilarious. O'Donnell made me tear up. My MAGA associate (who, before he commandeered Rump, despised Husk), "Yeah, I saw people saying that stuff, but I watched the video, and I don't see it." This from an MFA person. I'll just leave that there. Thank you for deserving the Kennedy Center before it became a circus tent. Happy Valtentine's Day. May the self-appointented Artiste and President X draw a pair of hearts.
Thanks, Maureen.
Do you think the MFA really doesn't know, or does know and doesn't want to admit to you or himself that he's been very wrong the whole time?
Trump voters are now leaning about the
"Lepoards eating their faces."
Adrain Bott 2015
I said learning??
Not quickly enough. Not until the nose and the cheeks are already gone.
Loved your humor in this piece, thank you!
Thanks, Julie!
“They’re all thieves. That’s all they are. Fascists are all thieves. And that’s all they care about is money and power, in that order”
About covers it, but you left out the addiction to adulation, they have to be big shots.
They’re trying to scare people out of the country, grab the real estate and whatever else they can get. More farmers and manufacturers will be forced to sell out cheap. Workers will lose jobs, get paid less, and have less benefits , if any at all. Prices will keep going up, mostly due to gouging and tariffs. They want to grab social security, but have no clue about how mean and cranky a few million old people with nothing else left to lose could get. We do outnumber them, and probably all that is needed is to have real boycotts and strikes, ongoing, not just a day here and there.
In some of those old western movies the people locked arms and stood their ground. I’m not a big fan of that genre, so tonight I’ll be watching “The Darkest Hour”, Gary Oldman as Churchill, again. It works for me. Love to see a list of movies that give this kind of inspiration. Seems like a good time for it.
I never saw Darkest Hour, and I should. I love me some Churchill, and I love me some Gary Oldman.
It's so dumb, what they're doing...destroying all value from what they take, because without the people they might as well move to Mars now.
I like the Video Friday "column!" I'm a ridiculously voracious reader, but I'm also partial to video, so mixing it up like this is good. Here's what I don't get about the Eric Adams thing: Trump and Co are VERY political, and anything to the left of full fascism is anathema to them, so why drop the Eric Adams case? For NYC "immigration reform?" I suppose if Adams did everything he was accused of it's not out of the realm of possibility, but it seems so weird!
Mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson (whose name I just had to look up because it completely escaped me! LOL), is supposed to appear before Comer's "committee" next week to talk about the sanctuary city status of Chicago. I have to wonder if he'll muscle under to these fiends too. Luckily, I don't live within the Chicago city limits, and at the first opportunity, will get out of Cook County too. That mission creep is coming, I fear. Pretty soon, the whole county will be paying for Chicago's mismanagement, but that's another comment.
I'm LOVING your book, Greg. I don't know what it is about reading columns I've already read (and remember, unlike Brandon Johnson's name) in book form that brings with it a different experience, but it is. The ominous use of dates and how long before or after the election is a nice touch too! Enjoying it immensely!
Thanks, Steve! I'm glad the book works as a book...and thanks for mentioning the "one day after the election" dating. That was a late addition and I think it helps a lot in grounding where in time I was when writing. At least, that was my hope. I was pleased when that came to me.
God knows what else Adams will do on Trump's behalf. Or Erdogan's. What a shit-show. I'm hoping Delgado's "he must go" was a shot across the bow, and they are giving him a few days to resign with honor before Hochul ends him. Which she has the authority to do.
"resign with honor." I just literally LOLed. I'm not just saying I did. That tickled me.
Prevailing in sunny Florida. T’will be over soon enough. Billserle.com
You’re an outstanding human being! Funny thing happened to us in Udaipur this afternoon, the chatter at the tailor shop about tRump is that he’s an unserious degenerate who can’t be trusted. Go figure how embarrassing!
Oh, just bought your latest book it’ll be there when we arrive home