TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2026
"Unrecognizable" speaks: Yesterday, at 5:06 p.m., Jesse Watters was discussing a possible approach to the enriched uranium believed to be stored deep under Iran's co-called Pickaxe Mountain.
Here's what the gentleman said:
WATTERS (4/20/26): Now, the one site we haven't hit is Pickaxe Mountain because they have tunnels underneath there that are 2,000 feet deeper than at Fordow. And now there's discussions about using toxic chemicals in there, spraying it so it's inhospitable for about a hundred years.
Is some such proposal under discussion? We have no idea. But two minutes later, up jumped co-host Greg Gutfeld with his standard "cable news" shtick.
Sadly but inevitably, here's what the cable star said:
GUTFELD: What's this spray thing? I'm curious.
WATTERS: So it's like this horrible agent that you spray deep inside the tunnel that no man can go in for a hundred years.
GUTFELD: I think it's called "the Nadler vaccine?"
WATTERS: I think that's what they called it.
DANA PERINO: They're looking for approval for it now. It's being tested in the lab?
GUTFELD: Yeah, they've been collecting the flatulence of Jerry Nadler for ten years just for this moment.
WATTERS: Yes. It's a WMD!
The little guy can't help himself. For the record, this is part of the "American exceptionalism" which gets discussed, around the clock, on the Fox News Channel.
For the record, The Five is our flailing nation's most-watched "cable news" program. Gutfeld is 61 years old, but this truly seems to be who and what he is.
Simply put, he refuses to quit his astounding obsession with Rep. Nadler's (imagined) bathroom practices. Even now, at 61, he can't let his inanity go.
Perino played her standard part. To our ear, she seemed to be pretending that this all made perfect sense.
Why is Jerry Nadler a target of Gutfeld/Watters when he is retiring?
ReplyDelete"Longtime Democratic Representative Jerry Nadler (NY-12) announced on September 2, 2025, that he will not seek re-election in 2026, marking the end of his 34-year congressional career. Citing the need for "generational change," the 78-year-old former House Judiciary Chair is retiring after more than 50 years in public service."
Will right wingers think this is a serious new weapon and start bragging about it, and how it is going to turn things around for Trump in Iran?
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like this is a repeat of an old show, since Nadler announced his retirement in 2025 and there was concern about renewed activity at Pickaxe mountain in 2025. Is it possible that Somerby was watching a rerun and didn't realize it?
"Is it possible that Somerby was watching a rerun..."?
DeleteClick the link and find out.
No thank you. I have a vow never to watch Fox. If you know it was not a rerun, why not just say so?
Delete4:14
DeleteStay focused now. No one here, including Bob, has said he watched a rerun. You're the only one.
"Is it possible that Somerby was watching a rerun and didn't realize it?"
"I never watch Fox," you sob. Too bad, punk guess you'll never be able to answer you're own stupid-ass question.
Leroy
Fox has been re-running the same shit show since 1995 FFS.
DeleteThis is the lamest defense of Somerby I've ever read.
DeleteI believe mental health experts should weigh in on Gutfeld and delve into his childhood so that we might express the proper pity for him.
ReplyDeleteSomerby tried that once. He didn't have the facts to do it properly, so he has just hinted ever since.
Delete"TEHRAN (The Borowitz Report)—In a major setback for Donald J. Trump, on Monday Iran announced that the Strait of Hormuz will be closed the next two years for renovations.
ReplyDeleteThe Strait of Hormuz board, packed with cronies of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, also approved a plan to put Khamenei’s name on the renovated waterway.
“The Khamenei Strait of Hormuz will be the biggest and most beautiful trade chokepoint EVER!” the ayatollah announced in a social media post.
In the same post, he indicated that the renovated strait would have a “world-class toll booth” fitted with marble armrests “unlike anything ever done or seen before!”
"WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Amid allegations of heavy drinking, FBI Director Kash Patel is hoping to seem sober by scheduling a joint appearance with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, sources close to Patel revealed on Tuesday.
ReplyDelete“I need to hold a press conference with Pete after he’s been on an epic bender,” Patel reportedly told his staff. “If you can’t find him, get Jeanine Pirro.”
Appearing with Hegseth carries with it certain risks, however, as Pentagon staffers have reported that merely standing next to him has made them drunk.
But Patel told sources he is desperate to “do anything” to save his job, sobbing, “I can’t go back to flying coach.”
There are a lot of parallels between Somerby's life and Trump's life, beyond that they are the same age:
ReplyDelete1. Somerby seems to feel that he didn't get help as a young boy, when his father died (he was 8). He has described an affinity between young Trump and young Tucker Carlson and other "lost boys" who didn't get help.
2. Somerby has described Gutfeld as someone who perhaps didn't get help in youth, given that he now behaves badly as an adult. That is why he keeps mentioning that Gutfeld is 61 years old, as if he is acting out childishly due to early trauma.
3. Oddly, Somerby has had a habit of mentioning the ages of various journalists who he has criticized, and where they went to school, as if that explains why they did something wrong.
4. Somerby was shipped off to CA for high school (living with an Aunt). It seems likely that Somerby was being a pain in the ass, much as the young Trump was, when he was sent off to military school. Somerby describes that as failing to give Trump the help he needed, even though such private schools are often seen as an expensive form of help for troubled youth.
5. Somerby refused to go to Harvard, until (the story goes) his mother threatened to disinherit him. Then he picked the most useless major possible (philosophy), failed as many courses as he could get away with without flunking out (there was a war on), to spite his mother. Trump went to college but he paid others to do his coursework for him, like Somerby learning as little as possible.
6. It was difficult for Somerby to make new friends at Harvard, so he tried to fit in by adopting all things Southern, to be like his roomies Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore. Meanwhile, Trump made friends among the mob bosses while he learned the construction business. He served an apprenticeship to Roy Cohn, the mobbiest of them all.
7. With the draft extended and an inability to do grad school (due to his low gpa), Somerby joined Teach for America and agreed to work in the inner city of Baltimore. He showed his contempt for his mother (and inherent laziness) by studying no developmental psychology and taking no teaching classes in college, so he was entirely unprepared. He passed the classroom time showing inappropriate movies to 4th graders (Forgotten Village). Donald Trump similarly avoided the war/draft by getting a note from his doctor. Somerby no doubt resented his mother for not getting him a similar fraudulent note.
8. Like Trump, Somerby inherited after his mother's death and used the money to support himself in standup comedy until his retirement. Trump contnued to pretend to be a businessman until the Russians recruited him to run for president. At that point, Somerby and Trump converged, Somerby became a Republican and began writing excuses for Trump's many failures, while advancing right wing memes on his blog (formerly dedicated to Al Gore).
So, it is no wonder that Somerby is Trump's biggest fan online. They are brothers under the skin. Somerby has himself said "there but for fortune go I" which suggests he is aware of the similarities in their lives. The main difference is that Somerby has never had the money to buy a Slovenian rent-a-wife, so he has contented himself with merely disliking women, displaying a mirror of Trump's own contempt for women. He perhaps feels justified in this, given that both Trump and Somerby were abandoned by their mothers.
I think Somerby would do this job puffing up Trump online, even if he were not being paid.
You need a friend to tell you: You have an unhealthy obsession with Somerby.
DeleteSlabification!
DeleteYou've outdone yourself this time, Slabby. Why don't you write a novel? You know, keep your fingers going. And you get what I mean by "going", right?
Leroy
Somerby is the one writing yet another post about Gutfeld.
DeleteAnother similarity between Somerby and Trump is that they are both narcissists. Trump loves performing on stage but has nothing to say, just like Somerby.
DeleteAlso, both are in poor health. Both are declining cognitively. I doubt either one can drive a car. Trump has never read a book whereas Somerby hasn't read a new book in decades. Both Somerby and Trump watch Fox 24/7. Both like beautiful women a little on the young side and feel empathy for guys like Epstein. No doubt Somerby wonders what trauma Epstein experienced as a young boy and would urge pity for him, if he were still alive. After all, Epstein's psychological problems obviously weren't addressed, even if he didn't have schizophrenia. He must have been a nice guy to have so many friends, amirite?
It's much more likely, Somerby has always been a misogynist. Unlike Somerby (and 4:09), I don't care to uncover WHY someone is a piece of shit.
Delete5:04 - I would bet that you have written ten times as many posts about Somerby as Somerby has written about Gutfeld.
DeleteI'm disappointed in the media not discussing Gutfeld's idiotic TV show, nor Somerby's cogniitive decline.
Deleteand small matters related to the war – and his triumphant claims about supposed Iranian concessions that we just can’t assume are based in reality:"
ReplyDeleteOne can debate whether it was right to stop Iran's nuclear ambitions by military means. But, once that decision was made, a complicate muddle was inevitable. Start with Iran's historic cheating and dissimulation. Add uncertainty as to who is calling the shots. Add Iran's willingness to attack civilian targets anywhere - in international waters, in neutral countries. Anywhere. And the inevitable uncertainty of war.
ReplyDeleteHow would you deal with this situation if you were President? IMO someone who honestly wrestles with the question will be more sympathetic to Trump's shifting strategies his wild threats along with his overly optimistic comments. Given all the uncertainties, it doesn't seem unreasonable to try a bunch of different things.
Trump critics generally evade the question. One common evasion is to say they wouldn't be in that situation. Another popular evasion is to ignore the question and describe things one wouldn't do. A third evasion is to blame Trump for abrogating a past treaty, that may or may not have been working. Of course, that's no answer. Whether Trump was right or wrong to abrogate that agreement, that agreement is gone. The President has to take action based on today's reality.
I invite commenters here to explain how they would handle the war with Iran today if they were in Trump's shoes.
BTW Trump just announced a continuation of the cease fire. This contradicts what his people have been saying. Do you agree with the cease fire extension?
DeleteTrump should never have been president. That was the surest way to prevent war with Iran. Leaving Biden in the presidency.
DeleteYou’re a fucking asshole, dickhead. They had no nuclear ambitions jacksss, and the only thing we did was convince them they need nukes
Delete"One can debate whether it was right to stop Iran's nuclear ambitions by military means."
DeleteGood, because I'm on the side that Trump only attacked Iran because he's a moron who doesn't understand anything about the job bigots elected him to.
Let's keep the debate going Davey.
"How would you deal with this situation if you were President?"
DeleteI would negotiate a treaty with Iran with inspections built-in and incentives for Iran to comply. We could call it--I don't know--something like the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
How does that sound?
If I were the President of Iran, I wouldn't attack a military superpower, like the USA, just because of their President's historic cheating and dissimulation. But Trump's history of attacking fishermen anywhere in the world, to distract from his being on page after page after page the Epstein Files, probably made this war inevitable.
DeleteNow that we are in it, there is no need to discuss the federal deficit, because this war will in no way give a leg-up to a person whop isn't a white male, so no reason to bring the deficit up.
Hector - Would you be satisfied to get an agreement like the prior one? An agreement that permitted Iran to cheat and secretly enrich enough uranium to make several atomic bombs? And, if you wanted a stronger agreement, how would you get it?
DeleteI assume you're aware that the IRGC negotiators say that any agreement would permit to develop nuclear weapons, and that this provision is not negotiable. How would you persuade them to change their stance?
100 bucks says if the media ever explained the reason why 87 million people voted for a man with the emotional and intellectual capacity of a three-year old to be President of the United States of America (bigotry), he'd start complaining about that, too.
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