The national debut of "Who's Sorry Now?" created a magical moment for Connie Francis

Francis has said that she recorded it at the insistence of her father, who was convinced it stood a chance of becoming a hit because it was a song adults already knew and that teenagers would dance to if it had a contemporary arrangement.

Francis did not like the song and argued about it with her father heatedly, delaying the recording of the two other songs during the session so much that she thought no time was left on the continuously running recording tape. Her father insisted, though, and when the recording "Who's Sorry Now?" was finished, only a few seconds remained on the tape.

The single seemed to go unnoticed like all previous releases, just as Francis had predicted, but on January 1, 1958, it debuted on Dick Clark's American Bandstand. Francis watched the show and wrote in her diary:

MAGA Dad's Father's Day gift, 2025

Middle-aged coworker, never votes, doesn't follow politics, doesn't talk politics, and definitely not at work.

I hadn't seen her since last week. Today she told me she could tell her dad didn't like his Father's Day gift. She said it was so obvious that her boyfriend noticed it independently of her.

It was a Trump mug. "And he likes Trump. He's voted for him every time."

MAGA dad didn't want the Trump mug. Daughter doesn't know why. I'm not going to tell her.

I had a disturbing encounter with a MAGA customer last night

First, a couple of details before I tell you what he said:

He was calm and friendly the whole time, with nothing sinister or threatening about his tone or body language. That's what made it all so much more disturbing. He seemed to think what he said was completely reasonable.

Also, I live in a dark blue state where this kind of encounter is already rare.

Also, while it's difficult to get fired where I work, the one thing you can never do is show gross disrespect to a customer. So other than telling him who I voted for, and that I'm a never-Trumper, I stayed calm and let him spout this insanity. I knew that if I took him on, it would escalate quickly (I know the limits of my own temper) and that I could easily find myself out of a job.

The conversation began with him asking how I was handling the election, and I told him I was stressed to my limit and couldn't wait untll it was over.

He replied, "Well, it will be over soon, one or the other side will win, and then everyone will be able to calm down."

And then:

"But unless Trump wins in a landslide, we'll know the Democrats rigged the election. Anything other than a Trump landslide, and there's going to be hell to pay. And the Republicans are not going to just passively sit by and let it happen, like they did in 2020. This time, they'll be out for revenge. The Democrats better not steal it again."

He said all that in such a reasonable tone, it was as if he was describing how water always runs downhill or how time always moves forward.

This was an hour before the end of my last shift before the election. A month ago I scheduled Monday the 4th through Thursday the 7th off for myself, just to try to avoid some of the election craziness.

I calmly explained that I'm voting for Kamala, I'm a never-Trumper, and I would vote for anyone who ran against Trump. I knew that if I went further than that, I would end up yelling at him, calling him a fucking idiot, and asking him whether he was evil or stupid.

So I made it though my shift without getting fired, and now I have four days off. But I had trouble sleeping last night, thinking about this disturbing conversation.

Almost asleep and then jolted awake by this question:

What is to stop the left from raising enough money to simply PAY the right-wing Supreme Court justices to reinstate Roe vs. Wade?

I was jolted awake because of what a stupid idea it seemed to be. And now I can't think of why it wouldn't work.

My alarm is set for 6 am Monday-Friday to watch Truth Social's stock fall

I live on the West Coast so I have to get up at 6 am to watch the financial carnage as it happens.

Here are the closing figures for Truth Social since it went public. I have not been disappointed:

TH 3/28 $61.96
FR 3/29 holiday

MO 4/1 $48.66
TU 4/2 $51.60
WE 4/3 $48.81
TH 4/4 $46.15
FR 4/5 $40.59

MO 4/8 $37.17
TU 4/9 $37.47
WE 4/10 $34.26
TH 4/11 $32.41

Because it lost $54 million last year and has no strategy for turning that around, I plan to watch it go to zero.

https://ir.tmtgcorp.com/stock-quote/

Watch TMTG drop as it happens (link)

I've been watching it drop every few minutes. It's now down more than 26%

https://ir.tmtgcorp.com/stock-quote/

At this rate it will take 25+ years for Trump's GoFundMe account to pay his NY judgment

Trump owes $454,156,783

His GoFundMe account has been raising an average of $160,500 a day

But interest is accruing at the rate of over $111,000 a day

$160,500 - $111,000 = $49,500

So in practical terms the account is actually raising about $49,500 a day

At this rate it will take 9,175 days to pay off the principle

That's over 25 years

He'll be 102 years old by then

ChatGPT: "Write a 16-line, 4-verse poem about Donald Trump getting indicted"

The first paragraph of "My Christmas Gift to Myself: Pride"

Freeper reactions to TFG's superhero cards...