Springtime in Vermont always seems to include a mama and some cubs wandering through the back yard these days. Mama is always quick to turn and head back to the woods when she sees and hears us yelling at her. Sometimes she has to come back for the cubs, who are like "Oh hey! Wanna play with us?"
This reads like the opening scene where the villain’s own henchmen start quietly edging toward the exits. Nobody’s grown a conscience. They’re just doing the math. When even the usual moral contortionists start pretending Grandpa wandered off on his own, you know the spell is weakening. Not repentance. Risk management. Fascism doesn’t end with an apology. It ends with allies suddenly discovering they “barely knew the guy.”
Republicans might not have a moral compass or be able to sniff a wisp of corruption right under their nose, but they have an unerring instinct for survival. They were floundering until they invited the Dixiecrats to get even with the Damnyankees up North by joining them. The ordinary Southerner has yet to benefit from this, but the Solid (white) South has yet to get the joke. MAGAhats are the last best hope of the GOP. But weaning them off Trump might be be a non-starter. His purpose for existence is almost over for them. All he has to do is block the midterms and the next election. Then he can become a foundational part of his ballroom. The next Veep will have a headstart on maintaining the status quo by undoing his most egregious damages.
those two are made for each other....a crackhead and a ...well, you all can fill in the blanks.... though she may be a very nice person....but....marrying Jr. .....one has to question her moral compass....so I'm sticking with more trash being added to the stench of this family circle.
The GOP must be wondering...3 more years? How do we get rid of this guy, who will hang around our necks like a rotting albatross. Well, not to mention Valkyrie ( the July 44 bomb plot) cuz we don't want no martyrs...how about a buy out? Gonna be steep kids, cuz he's so dumb he might not realise the crypto- scam is looking dated, as is Bitcoin.
Ten billion? Oh for heaven's sakes, what are youse. tire kickers?
You want El Supremo, the Maximum Leader, the Maga Cult pope to retire? Napoleon got a better deal than that, plus a whole island (shoulda stayed there)
No kids. Prob gonna have be a hundred of the B big ones. Maybe bundle this with a threat to impeach, LIKE YOU COULD HAVE done before ( listening Mitch?)
Expensive? NO! Cheep. He costs the economy ten billion a week. Tariffs throw sand into the transmission known as the economy. You don't need 37 dolls, but one would be nice and here is no US toy industry (ex niches). Maybe more important, there is no US apparel industry (ex niches)
Telling your kid only one doll.. mmm...but one shoe?
Once again, the lizard people attempted to insert themselves into a very normal event (Santa's Chrstimas Eve ride) and fuck it up beyond all recognition with their stupid, stupid politics.
IMHO Shitler wouldn’t have been anything more useful to Russia than a ruble launderer if it hadn’t been for corporate media platforming him nationally with that shitty “reality” show.
Guys, I'm upset. That story about the Nazis getting arrested in Arkansas? The leader of that group is from MY town. I want to get the word out about him. I tried my local newspaper, only to find out it's been taken over by USA Today. AI answers the phone when you call, and hangs up on you if you try to reach the newsroom. So I went to the online edition, and I emailed several reporters about it, but who knows. Then I remembered I had a reddit account, and tried posting about it there, but it was rejected. I don't do social media, I haven't used reddit in years. How can I get the word out about this? I want that guy to be humiliated and lose his job like those jackasses from Charlottesville.
"The group calls itself Blood Tribe and was founded in 2022 by former United States Marine and tattoo artist Christopher Pohlhaus. The group, dressed in red and black, carry flags with swastikas and chant white supremacist slogans as they disrupt pro-LGBTQ+ events and rally in different states. The group helped spread the racist rumor that Haitian immigrants were eating cats and dogs in Springfield, Ohio, before the 2024 election. The Southern Poverty Law Center describes Blood Tribe as a white supremacist group that is unabashed about its admiration of Adolf Hitler."
I thought the lyrics were "reds, whites and wine." He must have been thinking of Deej:
"Christmas didn’t really need saving, but former President Donald Trump is — again — claiming he did it anyway. He revived the annual lie when prompted during an interview on Newsmax with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R), who insisted that “America had gone through a long period where people quit saying ‘Merry Christmas.’” Trump claimed that, before his campaign, the country had “started with this woke” trend that made it “embarrassing for stores to say ‘Merry Christmas.’”
“They’d use reds and they’d use whites and snow but they wouldn’t say ‘Merry Christmas,’” he claimed. “When I started campaigning I said, ‘You’re going to say “Merry Christmas” again,’ and now people are saying it.”"
My buddy, a Little Feat and also Firesign Theater fan, once got a job interview at a company located at the intersection of the Antelope Freeway with the road from Tehachapi to Tonopah. I thought it was his destiny, but it was not to be.
Snow cubs! Your hed gif info: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/snow-cubs
And sharp, pointy meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/5185cd09-6cd8-4bd4-9055-b96697f68365?utm_source=share
Mama Bear needs some re-cub-ery time!
Mama bear doing yoga while baby bears frolic. My heart is in uplift mode.
“Boy, I can bearly keep up with these kids!”
Former Chicagoite - yay Cubs!
Springtime in Vermont always seems to include a mama and some cubs wandering through the back yard these days. Mama is always quick to turn and head back to the woods when she sees and hears us yelling at her. Sometimes she has to come back for the cubs, who are like "Oh hey! Wanna play with us?"
Hello from a fellow V'mawntah!
With Christmas Eve a week away
I think of those who've passed
Watching grizzly cubs at play
Tells me that time moves fast
Enjoy the time with those you love
It seems good never lasts.
Fate's a gamble for us all
Uncertain dice get cast.
But the future has a different view
Who knows what it may hold
Merry Christmas to all here
And to those you dearly hold.
Better days may well hold sway
As the wise have always told.
Stay strong and loving in your hearts
Fate smiles upon the bold.
Lovely, I had to reach for a kleenex.
The Reiner family's losses, Brown U. students and others were on my mind.
This is one of the most beautiful things you've written, my sweet friend. Thank you!
Yes!!!
As always, thanks.
Aww! This is lovely!
I miss those we've lost, some I've only known through being here.
Never feed your cubs honey before nap time.
Did they have the bear necessities?
Those simple bear necessities?
What do I, me personally, have in common with people and cultures scattered through time and geography?
A deep and practically spiritual fascination with bears.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYfemLzDg6E
All the white horses are still in bed... but not these guys!
There's an entire short story captured in that there gif - plot line, character development, dramatic tension, the whole thing. <chef's kiss>
Bear babby zoomies! I love how bears grab their feet and roll over.
Snowbirds?
No.
Snowbears!
"MOM! MOM! MOM! MOM! MOM! MOM! Come play with us!!!"
"Calgon, take me away."
Everybody lurvs a snow day!
<i>Listen to (Tori Amos') version of Eminem’s “‘97 Bonnie & Clyde,” it’s kinda scary!</i>
'Scary' don't do it justice. It's absolutely chilling.
This reads like the opening scene where the villain’s own henchmen start quietly edging toward the exits. Nobody’s grown a conscience. They’re just doing the math. When even the usual moral contortionists start pretending Grandpa wandered off on his own, you know the spell is weakening. Not repentance. Risk management. Fascism doesn’t end with an apology. It ends with allies suddenly discovering they “barely knew the guy.”
Republicans might not have a moral compass or be able to sniff a wisp of corruption right under their nose, but they have an unerring instinct for survival. They were floundering until they invited the Dixiecrats to get even with the Damnyankees up North by joining them. The ordinary Southerner has yet to benefit from this, but the Solid (white) South has yet to get the joke. MAGAhats are the last best hope of the GOP. But weaning them off Trump might be be a non-starter. His purpose for existence is almost over for them. All he has to do is block the midterms and the next election. Then he can become a foundational part of his ballroom. The next Veep will have a headstart on maintaining the status quo by undoing his most egregious damages.
A common holiday scene. Mom's tired. The kids have the zoomies.
those two are made for each other....a crackhead and a ...well, you all can fill in the blanks.... though she may be a very nice person....but....marrying Jr. .....one has to question her moral compass....so I'm sticking with more trash being added to the stench of this family circle.
The GOP must be wondering...3 more years? How do we get rid of this guy, who will hang around our necks like a rotting albatross. Well, not to mention Valkyrie ( the July 44 bomb plot) cuz we don't want no martyrs...how about a buy out? Gonna be steep kids, cuz he's so dumb he might not realise the crypto- scam is looking dated, as is Bitcoin.
Ten billion? Oh for heaven's sakes, what are youse. tire kickers?
You want El Supremo, the Maximum Leader, the Maga Cult pope to retire? Napoleon got a better deal than that, plus a whole island (shoulda stayed there)
No kids. Prob gonna have be a hundred of the B big ones. Maybe bundle this with a threat to impeach, LIKE YOU COULD HAVE done before ( listening Mitch?)
Expensive? NO! Cheep. He costs the economy ten billion a week. Tariffs throw sand into the transmission known as the economy. You don't need 37 dolls, but one would be nice and here is no US toy industry (ex niches). Maybe more important, there is no US apparel industry (ex niches)
Telling your kid only one doll.. mmm...but one shoe?
Once again, the lizard people attempted to insert themselves into a very normal event (Santa's Chrstimas Eve ride) and fuck it up beyond all recognition with their stupid, stupid politics.
Has anyone given Grindr Mike a chance to say he hasn’t seen Pedo’s tweet yet?
He's still busy not seeing the Rob Reiner truth.
𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦’𝘴 𝘢 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵: 𝘋𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘥 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘯’𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘜𝘚 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘪𝘧 𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘯’𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘙𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘢’𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦’𝘴 𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩.
IMHO Shitler wouldn’t have been anything more useful to Russia than a ruble launderer if it hadn’t been for corporate media platforming him nationally with that shitty “reality” show.
Thought I heard a scream of incandescent rage coming from Athens.
Guys, I'm upset. That story about the Nazis getting arrested in Arkansas? The leader of that group is from MY town. I want to get the word out about him. I tried my local newspaper, only to find out it's been taken over by USA Today. AI answers the phone when you call, and hangs up on you if you try to reach the newsroom. So I went to the online edition, and I emailed several reporters about it, but who knows. Then I remembered I had a reddit account, and tried posting about it there, but it was rejected. I don't do social media, I haven't used reddit in years. How can I get the word out about this? I want that guy to be humiliated and lose his job like those jackasses from Charlottesville.
https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2025/12/12/here-are-the-names-of-the-neo-nazis-who-rallied-at-a-little-rock-civil-rights-site-on-saturday
"The group calls itself Blood Tribe and was founded in 2022 by former United States Marine and tattoo artist Christopher Pohlhaus. The group, dressed in red and black, carry flags with swastikas and chant white supremacist slogans as they disrupt pro-LGBTQ+ events and rally in different states. The group helped spread the racist rumor that Haitian immigrants were eating cats and dogs in Springfield, Ohio, before the 2024 election. The Southern Poverty Law Center describes Blood Tribe as a white supremacist group that is unabashed about its admiration of Adolf Hitler."
Unfortunately, social media is often the only way to get through to media groups anymore.
I thought the lyrics were "reds, whites and wine." He must have been thinking of Deej:
"Christmas didn’t really need saving, but former President Donald Trump is — again — claiming he did it anyway. He revived the annual lie when prompted during an interview on Newsmax with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R), who insisted that “America had gone through a long period where people quit saying ‘Merry Christmas.’” Trump claimed that, before his campaign, the country had “started with this woke” trend that made it “embarrassing for stores to say ‘Merry Christmas.’”
“They’d use reds and they’d use whites and snow but they wouldn’t say ‘Merry Christmas,’” he claimed. “When I started campaigning I said, ‘You’re going to say “Merry Christmas” again,’ and now people are saying it.”"
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-war-on-christmas_n_61bbc054e4b0a3722475b6a8
It’s Little Feat. I saw them live; great show!
And if you give me ... weed, whites, and wine
And you show me a sign, I'll be willin'
To be movin'
My buddy, a Little Feat and also Firesign Theater fan, once got a job interview at a company located at the intersection of the Antelope Freeway with the road from Tehachapi to Tonopah. I thought it was his destiny, but it was not to be.
Well YOU try to hibernate with that shit goin' on!
I thought Junior was engaged to Kimberley Guilfoyle.
She was packed off to Greece as our ambassador, early in the year when Junior got tired of her.
Ah right - good deal for her (Greece! Not having to deal with Junior!) not so good deal for Greece...
The Greek people were rightly horrified.
"Memphian" It seems like it should be one Memphi, several Memphis ...