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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

why yes, it was kind of a slow news day. why do you ask?

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

remember when the last two or three weeks before Congress came back to work was called 'the silly season'?

now it's rare when the firehose of batshit relents for a whole 24 hours.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/silly%20season

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Your post today was super-fun though. If this is the Tiedrich version of a summer vacation, I'm down for it.

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Susan P Thatcher's avatar

Shit always happens when "The Daily Show," or more specifically Jon Stewart, is on break.

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Bob's avatar

Colbert is off too. All of New York TV is on vacation in August.

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Michael Johnson's avatar

Has been the best time to visit Manhattan, if one can stand the heat.

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Bob's avatar

Less crowded, I’d bet.

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Bob Bowden's avatar

I’m surprised Nosferatu didn’t “de-woke” the tRump Bible, and modify Matthew 5:9 to read

“Blessed be the Rich Piece of Shit who was dishonest about being a peacemaker along with every other aspect of his destructive life, for he shall successfully lie and cheat his way into Heaven.”

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Janet Amaral's avatar

Yeah, I don't think Nosferatu can actually touch a Bible without getting his hands burned...

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Andrew's avatar

That's why it's pointless to tell him to look in the mirror.

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SethTriggs's avatar

Every slow news day is a reprieve in this shithole country.

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Mary Hall's avatar

Word. I'm going to Canada next week to bask in sanity and politeness for a little while. 🍁

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rlritt's avatar

You should wear a "I DIDN'T VOTE FOR THAT ASSHOLE," T-shirt or button. Everyone will know what you mean.

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

reminds me of a trip I made to Europe back in GWB was president. I felt like I had to apologize to everyone I met

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Mary Hall's avatar

How fked-up is it that war criminal and economy destroyer GWB now seems like a respected elder statesman compared to T💩p? Very.

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Judy McNichols's avatar

Sad commentary, isn't it?

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Katy Lea's avatar

Right? He was a disastrous dipshit, but at least he meant well.

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Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

In 1975 I spent several months hiking and hitchhiking around Britain and Ireland, staying mostly in youth hostels. I ran into several Americans who had Canadian flags on their backpacks. I didn't go that far, but I was pleased every time another traveler or a hostel warden said "You don't *act* like an American."

That made up for the two young women from Arizona I met who didn't realize that Northern Ireland wasn't connected to the British mainland, i.e., you had to take a ferry to get there.

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arne link's avatar

Those were good times.

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Rhesus's avatar

I was in England about that time too. A woman overheard my accent and approached me to apologize for having once stayed in a Trump property.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Ha! I get it I was in Paris when Blow Job Gate hit! Trying explaining that one to the French.

French: what is wrong with the Americans? Mitterand had his love children, and we loved it.

Me: I don't care what he does to relax, I want the man that has a nuclear button to be very relaxed, the last thing I want is for him to be frustrated, and decide to blow up the world.

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rlritt's avatar

Can you believe the Republicans were shocked!

Now apparently cheating, raping teenage girls, and felony convictions are just fine with the moral majority Republicans. Who knew.

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James Starr's avatar

Here in California, when asked 'where are you originally from', I always say, unfortunately, Texas.

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James Starr's avatar

also, " I was born and raised in Texas, but I got out as fast as I could". needs to be on a T-shirt

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Lois Henry's avatar

I was born in Kentucky, but I escaped.

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rlritt's avatar

When we're overseas and people ask us where we're from, we say California. We always get a happy response.

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rlritt's avatar

I felt the same last May when I went to Japan.

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KMD's avatar

We also did a trip to Europe when GWB was president, but fortunately we met a lovely Canadian couple at Logan airport, & believe it or not, the wife had a packet of maple leaf lapel pins in her carryon bag, & she gave me one. I wore it the whole trip, & we just told people we were from Canada! We live in Downeast Maine, so it was only stretching the truth a little, wasn't it? 🤪

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James Starr's avatar

I have a 5X7' Canadian flag inside my apartment. I don't, know it calms me down when I look at it.

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Cheri Collins's avatar

I apologized all through Canada in 2016.

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Mary Hall's avatar

We're going to try and blend in with the good people of Canada. I got my husband a Toronto Blue Jays' baseball cap and t-shirt to wear on our trip.

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rlritt's avatar

Smart. I'm going to British Columbia in a few weeks. I'll get one of those.

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Jenny Daly's avatar

If you're coming to BC, you'll need to get BC Lions or Canucks gear. Toronto stuff will get you scowled at. Yeah, we're polite ... but not THAT polite. LOL (JK, enjoy your trip).

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Are you going to Vancouver Island? I have several places to recommend if you do, I lived there for years.

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

You have room in your suitcase for me?

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Mary Hall's avatar

Sorry hon, I’m just doing carry on.

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T L Mills's avatar

On a trip to our small town--red, of course--in the also red western rural part of the state, we came up behind a local car that had a bumper sticker that read: "Is he dead yet?". When you read that and you know without question to whom it refers...my spouse and I both had a good laugh.

Guess who will NOT get past the Pearly Gates! St. Peter probably has a lever next to his lectern to a trap door that goes to a well polished chute direct to Lucifer's favorite Lake.

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

HA!! Great visual!👏🏼👏🏼

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Katy Lea's avatar

I love it! I'm in Indiana, and I was delighted to see a Tesla with a sticker that said, "I bought this before the plot twist." It's great to find a kindred spirit in MAGAland.

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Maui Wahine's avatar

I was in Vancouver recently and told everyone that we hated Trump. I noticed that there were a lot of Canadian flags hanging from condominium balconies. National pride up there.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Yeah, it never used to be that way. The only time it was that obvious was Canada Day. Still, they are a wonderful place, of "Peace and Good Government". I miss the sanity there, but not the long grey winters.

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Mary Hall's avatar

We live in Palm Springs in the winter and 80% of our condo complex is Canadian. I know a lot of them are selling and/or not coming back because of T💩p. ETTD.

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Judy McNichols's avatar

We were in Germany last month: as we were wondering around in Brandenburg, a German lady was walking towards us; evidently, we looked like American tourists.... Anyway, she came up to us, put her thumbs down and said "No to tRump!" We heartily agreed!

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Andrew's avatar

It's okay. We know. The ones who voted for him typically don't have passports.

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Ellyn's avatar

So true-and actually part of the problem. If you never leave the country you’re extremely susceptible to that propaganda claiming america is the “best country there is”…

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RZolu's avatar

I went to Montreal in June: I wore “I didn’t vote for him” pins in English and French…everyone was very kind…

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Krista Allen's avatar

When I was in Mexico last April, I made sure to emphasize how beautiful the Gulf of MEXICO was.

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Mary Lou Williams's avatar

Lucky you! I wish most of us could escape this daily misery for at least the next 3+ years.

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Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

I wanted to believe that today, but then the USCIS thing happened. more project 2025 shit going down. Just because its not front page doesnt mean that its not still happening.

I think thats one of the reasons why I get more focused on my queer bar stories at the end of the day , those I enjoy actually writing.

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Ann Anderson's avatar

Brother, you said a mouthful.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Trump honestly thinks you get into heaven if you bring God a big enough scalp, like a Nobel prize or something. The worst theology EVER!

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Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

Remember, on the Nobel Prize form there is a question (which when answered in the positive will disqualify you), stating

"Have you ever used the military of your country on your own people?"

Yes, He has.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

He'll lie. He thinks the entire world is as stupid as his base.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Uh oh!

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Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

Exactly. Trump is fucked on the Nobel no matter what.

of course hes gonna lie on the application though, and we all know it.

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Rhesus's avatar

I tend to agree. Still, they gave one to fat Henry......

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

He must have blackmailed the committee or something what an abomination.

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

Thank goodness the board on the Nobel are much brighter and smarter than Donny Convict.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Perhaps we should tell him that, so he never does it again? He'd think he gets a pass, for not knowing that.

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Nancy Potter's avatar

Aren't there some Evangelicals of the group who are willing to lay their hands on Trump who believe it doesn't matter how loathsome you are, and how many kids you've molested in your lifetime, so long as you say the right words about Jesus before you die, you go to heaven? Trump likes that idea, although I think even the Evangelicals believe you can't lie when you say the magic words.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Let's not even go into the delusional and dishonest cult of the MAGA evangelicals

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

That groping thing they do is creepy, I wouldn't want them to touch me.

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Katy Lea's avatar

According to the particular evangelicals I was brought up with, it would only work if he truly repented of his sins and accepted that Jesus was the son of God.

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Nancy Potter's avatar

Well, since Trump previously said that there was nothing he needed to be forgiven for, that option may be closed to him.

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Tom Woods's avatar

He’s counting on a divine dispensation from the Pope if he sells enough Bibles.

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Leu2500's avatar

Not this Pope

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Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

I really tried to to work through the USCIS bullshit. You know this whole "if you are an immigrant to the US and you hate the US , then you cant come to the US" bullshit.

The policy reads like a fuck you to free speech. Honestly.

https://thistleandmoss.com/p/the-constitution-shredding-clusterfuck

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Thank you for this, my spouse is a green card holder (it is actually yellow these days, but you know what I mean.)

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

Well, there was that business about the Texas Fascist party holding Democratic representative Nicole Collier SAY HER NAME hostage in her own office. And how the Fascists subsequently locked up four other women in jail for coming to her defense. For example.

https://substack.com/@michaelfanone/note/p-171489592?r=3rccqg&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

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Andrew's avatar

It should not be "slow news" when these shitstains try to erase history. I recall a time when a free press would have been all over this nazi bullshit.

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Leu2500's avatar

That would be because Trump was soooo busy yesterday. He called into Fox in the morning and signed 1 bill into law late afternoon. (The law actually might be OK)

Today he swears in the US Ambassador to the EU.

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Heather's avatar

Not as slow of a news day as you might think… Rep. in TX still held against her will. DoD begging employees to abandon their jobs to work the border. DC gun laws no longer being enforced. I could go on.

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Katherine P Duncan's avatar

You still did well with it.

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Christine Zepka's avatar

We need one occasionally!!

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Neal Stiffelman's avatar

Yeah, Mapquest’s socials deserve this praise. They’ve been great. Helps remind me there’s more of us—many more—than there ever will of them. And I’m not planning to surrender. Ever.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

I love the part about how roundabouts are a HOAX and European scam.

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arne link's avatar

Isn't that a weird thing to focus on? I suppose they will just grab anything to complain about. Roundabouts are efficient, if you know how to use them.

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Hollie Rood's avatar

💯Although I have to say, where my Mother’s house is in Scotland, there is a HUGE roundabout; the most challenging part is to be sure you are in the correct lane. Of course you say, but in this case, the roundabout traffic is controlled by six sets of traffic lights 🤦‍♀️‼️I kid you not. To add to the “excitement”, there is a fire station just as you approach the roundabout where there are traffic lights. The amazing thing is it operates like a well oiled machine with no accidents 🤗 Trust me, seeing is believing.

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Dr J's Sanity Space's avatar

Because people are used to following laws. Whenever I get back from driving in Europe, I can immediately sense my stress level going up with driving here.

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Hollie Rood's avatar

Definitely! Pretty much no riding in the outside lane unless passing😉

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Mary Lou Williams's avatar

My development has a roundabout and I love it until someone doesn't understand right of way and barges right through which makes it somewhat dangerous.

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Neal Stiffelman's avatar

Yes. Anyone with a developed sense of nuanced wit is always welcome at my table.

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meryl selig's avatar

Mapquest? Totally, entirely derivative of Gavin Newsom’s social parody of TrumpSpeak. Now Newsom’s cleverness has been turned into an instant-cliche.

Zero creativity, Mapquest. Straight up copy-catting. Doesn’t work

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Gina's avatar

oh I dunno - wouldn't mind seeing a deluge of this kind of thing - mock mock mock

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Tom Woods's avatar

Mocking MAGA’s, my new hobby

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meryl selig's avatar

Mocking is terrific. They just need a variation, not straight-up copycatting. It weakens the effectivness.

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Joyce's avatar

It's hilarious, and every single social media post that does the same is also going to be hilarious. If only social media were flooded with more 'copycats' who were equally brutal in imitating Donnie Demento's lunatic screeds........The more the merrier, and the more ludicrous the better.

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Paula Dean's avatar

Totally agree! Mock the 💩 out of tRumPutin! It's the thing that makes him most upset. I also hope this trend continues to spread 🙏. I'd love to see a list of all the things that would keep Tapioca-brain out of Heaven, next to the list of his 'Saintly Acts' - which would be very short indeed! I can't imagine even one thing. I can too easily imagine him getting to Heaven and demanding that he will be God from now on! Telling God: You're Fired!

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Mary Lou Williams's avatar

Thank you for paying attention to this matter. Bring it on.

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Gina's avatar

you don’t appreciate “mapper”?

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Joyce's avatar

"Thank you for your attention to this mapper" was brilliant!

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Hannah olufs's avatar

Humor escapes you.

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OhDonna's avatar

It works!!

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Dr J's Sanity Space's avatar

I disagree - I enjoyed reading it almost as much as Gavin’s..

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Neal Stiffelman's avatar

I believe you’re wrong about this.

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Mary Lou Williams's avatar

Oh yes it does. I hope more creativity in mocking Trump's insane word salads.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

Hey, I laughed. But yeah, the Donny-style tweet is in danger of over-saturation.

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Leu2500's avatar

Every time Trump talks about his mortality - this isn’t the 1st time this year - I always believe that he’s been told his time left is limited. Congestive heart failure? Cancer?

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Zito, Anthony's avatar

Justice?

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Joyce's avatar

My voodoo doll?

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Claudia Classon's avatar

My birthday candle wishes for the past 9 years?

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

Thank you for your service.

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OhDonna's avatar

All my thoughts and prayers…?

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Nancy's avatar

🤣🤣🤣

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T L Mills's avatar

💝💝💝💝💝

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HMorgan's avatar

Mine's been getting quite a workout lately... also, I have to get more for the rest of these vile shits in the administration...

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Grace Kennedy's avatar

My Stephen Miller doll keeps bursting into flames though.

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Chet Brandt's avatar

He is Joseph Goebbels incarnate!

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Charles Austin's avatar

😂😂😂😂

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Mps's avatar

🎯

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Abbi's avatar

Agreed. People who haven’t been religious/spiritual in their lives often focus on what’s next at the end. And while I think Just Dance is more dangerous because more controlled, the personality of a broken door knob isn’t going to hold the cult together.

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spoonbridgecherry's avatar

May it be so.

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J.R.'s avatar

Maybe his dementia will kill him 1st

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

220, 221, whatever it takes.

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Chet Brandt's avatar

Terrific movie—“Mr. Mom”

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bruce klassen's avatar

Instantaneous combustion of toxic, flammable gases.

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

Dumbness?

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insert_something_creative's avatar

That's what I think too, every single time it comes up, and that he knows it. Especially since that might be the most self-aware thing he's said in years, maybe ever? He very much is not doing well in the get-into-heaven race.

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James Starr's avatar

Everyone has an expiration date, and only the universe knows and wont tell

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Chris Hierholzer's avatar

Stupidity?

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Lynne Murphy's avatar

Please

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Susan P Thatcher's avatar

"What kind of loathsome fuckwad complains about slavery being bad?" Ones who want to reinstate it.

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Joyce's avatar

Exactly

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SethTriggs's avatar

"How bad Slavery was," the pricktator carps.

Yep.

This is very important to the foundational principles of MAGA...that is one of the periods of time where America was "great," when Black people were enslaved and certain ethnic groups could get the chop without any accountability. Lynching was a fun family activity. But of course, being called out on the inbuilt advantages that came from having such a brutal system will make people feel...insulted. They believed they have their position in life because they work hard. Learning that a bunch of things you have in your life are because a number of people are systematically disenfranchised (not by you personally and that's a critical thing people deliberately miss to get offended by it)...well that's a shock to the system.

Just as a note for such people. It's not to blame YOU for this. It's to enlist your help to break the system that runs on that and make that system more equitable. That's all that's asked.

It's important for this death cult to make institutions like the Smithsonian knuckle under and remove the contributions of minorities...and anything that centers them. Because if one were to listen to their accounts they would find that the dirty little secret animating America is bigotry. Remember, not all of us had our rights from the launch date. We weren't part of the base package. For example my own rights came as DLC.

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Ann Anderson's avatar

I once had a job that took me to DC for a couple of months. I scoured the Smithsonian. Coolest place.

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Nancy Potter's avatar

During slavery times, most white people did not own slaves, and they were kept in line by the plantation oligarchy with the message that no matter how poor they were, there was one group of people they could consider themselves superior to. So of course, the Southern oligarchs did nothing material for poor whites. Trump subscribes to LBJ's comment that you can keep poor whites poor by telling them they're superior to Black (or Latino) people, and take their wallets while convincing them of that.

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bruce klassen's avatar

I can't resist: Slavery still exists, BIG TIME. We currently count approximately 52,000,000 slaves in this world 2024. In our America there are 1,200,000 modern day slaves, still. Women and children in forced commercial sexual exploitation constitute 78% of victims. Yep, slavery has grown from an estimate of 32,000,000 globally in 2010 to the current number.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

It's time to leave these people on their own. They need their own country. Let's be the ones to secede this time.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

That artwork opening this column is brilliant! 👏👏👏

Thank you for your attention to this MAPPER??? 😂😂😂 THATS Glorious! Thank you Mapquest!

"then it’s hello, Bad Place." HA! It would be sweet if he could just go to the bad place within the hour.

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Gina's avatar

yeah, "mapper"

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Susan Niemann's avatar

So good! 😂😂😂

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Charles Austin's avatar

Why wait an hour?😂😂

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Ya gotta point! How about NOW!

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Songgirl Kim's avatar

Jeff, your newsletters give me hope when I’m feeling overwhelmed, depressed, curled up on the couch eating too much cheap chocolate, and in need of a smile.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

I've given up wine and cut back on cannabis, so my salvation has come down to eating fistfuls of chocolate chips right out of the package. Forget all the other ingredients.

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Kim Steeves's avatar

And who has the time to mix it all and wait for them to cook. I too eat chocolate chips right from the bag, but don't tell anyone!

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

When my son was a little kid, we used to buy a roll of chocolate-chip cookie dough at the store, then take it home and eat it raw. Was I always a perfect mom? Why no, I was not, but then again, we never got botulism or whatever and die from doing so.

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Songgirl Kim's avatar

Eating chocolate releases dopamine! I may try eating chocolate chips!

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Rhesus's avatar

I keep a bar of 100 percent cacao handy. Try to take a bite every day.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Glad I'm not the only one who does that! 😂

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Charles Austin's avatar

😂😂😂

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Nancy's avatar

🤣

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Cheri Collins's avatar

Yes! I melt some with a little canabutter, and eat it with a spoon, too.

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Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

I mean Cheap chocolate isnt bad though right? I love it.

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Songgirl Kim's avatar

Plain M&Ms for me from the dollar store - probably will be the two dollar store in the next few weeks.

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Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

Hershey's Milk chocolate bars (usually the king block size), but they put so much parafin into those things its more waxy than chocolate....but I love em.

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Cheri Collins's avatar

Peanut M&Ms for me.

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Ben Zamir's avatar

I had to give up fistfuls of anything chocolate, due to diabetes, so cannabis it is! CBD gummies keep my head from exploding, though I take them primarily for pain reduction and help with sleeping.

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Bob Dunn's avatar

Yeah, that nighttime neuropathy's a bitch!

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Wendy et al, support the workers who grow cacao. Buy Equal Exchange or Alter Eco. I buy EE tiny candy bars or AE chocolate truffles, usually at Halloween when they go on sale. Those truffles are really incredible and I still have a few left from last Halloween. Unfortunately the candy bars are gone... We drink EE coffee and tea too. The Revolution is here, if you want it.

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DJ Headthrob's avatar

Well, as the boys from Traffic sang, heaven is in your mind. As a former Renaissance scholar I can assure you that when Donny finally shuffles-off this mortal coil he'll be taking the express elevator directly to the seventh or eighth circle of the Inferno (no one is allowed to say "Hell" down below). Figure he has a choice locale in boiling pitch (from all those contractors he stiffed) somewhere Roy Cohn or Rush Limbaugh-adjacent. "Hey, I can see Adolf and Pol Pot from here!" John Prine wrote that your flag decal won't get you into Heaven anymore. Neither will your bogus Nobel, fatso. This is what happens when your thoughtless executive orders condemn, literally, millions to death by starvation and disease. Bon voyage!

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Where he spends Eternity being pegged by both Cohn and Limbaugh

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Doing his two-fisted jerkoff dance!

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DJ Headthrob's avatar

And being forced to read Newsom tweets while staring at a naked portrait of Rosie O'Donnell.

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Charles Austin's avatar

😂😂

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Dave Drell's avatar

Yikes!

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Cathy Wray's avatar

HI2thDoc, I've seen two photos of Trump with Putin where it definitely looks like he's been pegged by putin. I hope so, anyway.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Unless he enjoys it

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Cathy Wray's avatar

😬

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

In Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” the deepest pit of hell is frozen over, with Lucifer His Own Self trapped in the ice. I still remember this from my English-major undergrad days, because I fucking hate ice and snow. Anyway, this is where Donny is headed.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Scott Bessent is beginning to look like an empty ball sack that's been dipped in an ice bath.

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DJ Headthrob's avatar

Dante also wrote that some sinners are so evil that they are already in the Inferno while a demon occupies their earthly bodies.

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Charles Austin's avatar

Dante has a triple reinforced spit just for him.

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Kay-El's avatar

1. Stefanik got booed off stage twice. It’s double the fun of watching her get knocked down a peg….. or two

2. Mapquest gets my undying admiration for their superb performance in trolling an incompetent fuckwit.

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Joyce's avatar

The expression on her face was priceless--she rather resembled her hero when he realized he was being booed at that baseball game....Stepfordanik got quite the ego blow when she stepped out of her sheltered bubble and found out what her constituents think of her.

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Dave Drell's avatar

Do these idiot republicons not understand that 75% of us DESPISE his flabby ass; and if you support him , then we despise you TOO!

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Kay-El's avatar

Richly deserved

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

Watching her slink back was delicious! She read the crowd as they crucified her.

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Gina's avatar

yes & yes

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Susan P Thatcher's avatar

All this "getting into Heaven" horseshit: I'll repeat myself. He knows he's racing the clock, either in longevity or before his brain is fully tapioca. He wants the Nobel while he can still gloat. Obama got a Grammy, too. Has he been whining about that recording he made with the J6 jailbirds? He knows time is running out.

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Mary Hall's avatar

Obama has a Nobel Peace Prize, an Emmy, an Oscar, and two Grammys. T💩p has a loooong way to go to catch up.

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Susan P Thatcher's avatar

That Emmy probably eats at Trump like acid. He competed, never won. And yes, he bitched nonstop.

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Dave Drell's avatar

He has NO artistic talent at all… does he think they hand one out for his tacky interior decorating?

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Susan P Thatcher's avatar

He doesn't understand that they give those to people who do big things for other people.

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arne link's avatar

Lord, hear our prayer.

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Marian Goldsmith's avatar

Plus he wants to look as if he knows what's up. So he grasps at any Pseudo factlets he can spout from um memory. I'm guessing just like he’s always done.

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Darrell Smith's avatar

I had to drive through damn roundabouts in Louisiana this morning. They are not a threat like the Criminal Republican Party is. I refuse to let some dipshit ram WRONG down my throat, and that is what the Criminals in Texas are doing to the Democrats there.

In my nearly 74 years, the American people have always suffered when a Republican was in the White House. We thought Nixon would be as bad as it could get.

Someday those people who call themselves MAGA and are not mental defectives will realize that they are like the followers of Jim Jones and others. Following Trump is a dead end. I don't see any grace or mercy in their future.

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Paula Dean's avatar

EXACTLY!

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Neal Stiffelman's avatar

Yeah, Mapquest’s socials deserve this praise. They’ve been great. Helps remind me there’s more of us—many more—than there ever will of them. And I’m not planning to surrender. Ever.

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meryl selig's avatar

Mapquest totally lifted Newsom’s comms team strategy. Lazy and not original

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Linda Silfven's avatar

To Meryl Selig: What on earth is wrong with you? Sure, MapQuest is following Newsom’s lead--as should we all. The more sarcasm and ridicule heaped on Trump the better. We all know Trump has no sense of humor and can’t stand being laughed at. This clever parody of “Trump Talk” should be imitated far and wide.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Mocking Trump's schtick could be one of the best ways to get him to STFU. Maybe he'll eventually implode like a blocked bowel without his cute outlets.

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Dr J's Sanity Space's avatar

Linda - 💯💯💯💯

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Jenny Daly's avatar

Gotta disagree on this one. I'd love to see that insane all caps, ranting, rambling, self glorifying bullshit style copied by hundreds of accounts, celebrities, politicians, companies .... Flood the internet. Trump will go insane and so will the cult. Fox news will have a stroke. (if we're lucky so will someone else, and he'll find out heaven is a lot hotter than he thought)

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Dana Jae Labrecque's avatar

Short circuit the patriarchy.

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡ – ✧) Here for IT!

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Karen Hall's avatar

In my opinion, I think it’s brilliant and EFFECTIVE. Ooops — I caught the caps bug 🙄😂

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

It’s what the italics- and bold text-deprived have to do to indicate emphasis.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

I miss Discus for that.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

That, and probably nothing else? IIRC.

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Karen Hall's avatar

Exactly!

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Then we should all be lazy. 🙄

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Carol C's avatar

“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.”

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Neal Stiffelman's avatar

I believe they were running their bits before Newsom’s wonderful comms team launched theirs.

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M Lomma's avatar

Most people don't mind being woke vs white christian supremacist. If this president thinks he's going down in history as good, I'm sure he'll end up being the worst president in the history of America. He's pretty much there now.

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arne link's avatar

I hope he will prove to be the worst. Time will tell.

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Dave Drell's avatar

Uh, he’s accomplished that goal in his first term. He will lap the field in “worst of all time”!

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Cessna Bob's avatar

Apparently the dipshit decorator who transformed the White House into a whorehouse doesn't understand the difference between gilded and guilty!!

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Fastball Fredo's avatar

In the breach of Donald’s ranting about slavery and how possibly it wasn’t as terrible as most folks think..well…I will wait for his mouth farts concerning the Holocaust and how it really wasn’t that terrible… it’s only a matter of time folks.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

He was sick the day they taught history at Penn.

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Fastball Fredo's avatar

Hi Doc… I doubt the guy even attended courses based on the facts that he paid folks to take tests for him.. he’s a f*****g joke of a human and prez. I’m very worried that we will not have elections considering he said “vote for me this time and you won’t need to vote in the future”. OY🤡

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Zito, Anthony's avatar

Rewriting history ... high on the totalitarian list. Don't worry about the "coming" Consitutional Crisis, cause it's already past ... worry about the coming Show Trial Crisis.

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