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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

today in Shit That Happened While I Was Busy Writing This Shit—

zip. nada. bupkis. there's not a single news notification on my phone right now. not the NYTimes, not the WaPo, not the Guardian, not the BBC, not Al Jazeera.

it's the Monday before labor day. get ready for a very slow news week.

Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

if only Milo could get deported every day. now THAT would be a news week

Jayme Wolworth's avatar

Speaking of Milo. Why was he sent directly to the UK and not given a taste of one of our fine detention centers on his way out like every other illegal immigrant has been subjected to?

Mingo's avatar

You know the answer. It's because of the color of his skin.

consciousegalitarian's avatar

And/or sent to a country where he had never lived, like Liberia? I'm sure it's just a coincidence since the Supreme Court tells us we live in a post systemic racism society

DJ Headthrob's avatar

Go to Cecot, Milo. Go directly to Cecot. Do not pass DC. Do not pay for a pardon.

DJ Headthrob's avatar

Not a News Week . . . a GOOD NEWS Week (with apologies to Hedgehoppers Anonymous.

Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

https://thistleandmoss.com/p/mental-health-day

Id like to think that like you jeff, I take mental health days.

Today, which is a day that comes for me only once a year, I do just that. Take a mental health day.

Please keep up the hard work. I cant do it today. Today (every year actually) is usually the day I wake up convincing myself to give up, and by the end of the day, Ive talked myself out of it.

Thank you everyone.

Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

happy birthday, Wendy!

HH Mohr's avatar

Enjoy your birthday!

Tess's avatar

Happy birthday! You deserve a day- or more- of rest!

Kathleen Weber's avatar

READ THIS!!!

The inimitable Daniel Barcuff reports that MAGA has exhausted itself in Vermont. We are going to OUTLIVE TRUMP!!!

https://dbarkhuff.substack.com/cp/213537111

Kathleen Weber's avatar

I want Claudia's striped knee socks!! uh!

Nancie's avatar

Now, what the fuck is this even supposed to depict? (reference to imposing Trump post with rustic flag in background).

I think it's to distract from all those side views showing his well wrapped butt.

Brad Yazell's avatar

Let's hope it's a slow news week. I'm worn out.

Marian Vitale's avatar

One of the funniest (and most telling) things about the unhinged love letters from the Diaper Nurse was seeing The random Use of capital Letters...

Virgin Monk Boy's avatar

Leadership faces a spiritual choice: serve reality or manufacture a flattering hallucination. Mamdani sends plumbers to fix parks. Trump posts an AI war victory over an island that remains stubbornly unsmithereened. One treats government as public service; the other treats it as a dementia-themed fan-fiction account with nuclear weapons. The terrifying part isn’t merely that Trump shares fake footage. It’s that nobody around him seems brave enough to ask whether he knows it’s fake.

Stephen Schiff's avatar

It's because they have their own definition of "fake": If it serves their purposes, it's not; otherwise it is. Objective reality is beyond their comprehension.

rlritt's avatar

Sadly they think there propaganda stills stirs lots of people. Most if us are bored or embarrassed about it.

However there are smart, bad people behind his nonsense who need to be exposed.

Mingo's avatar

People are over government being unresponsive to their needs, especially when we pay taxes to support the services we rely on. I'm angry that the GOP in Congress had their spines removed at birth and can't stand up to Fat Donnie to protect the citizens from his tyrannical, impotent edicts.

Leu2500's avatar

He's deep into dementia. He doesn't know.

David M Marko's avatar

I am of the opinion that these outrageous posts from Chunky Cheung and Harpy Harp (Pumpkinhead doesn't have the acuity to manufacture any of these) are just trolling to get the left all lathered up. They probably high five each other after posting this shit. "This one will get 'em!" The main objective, though, is to distract form the obvious dumpster fire of this administration.

SethTriggs's avatar

The protection that America's Pilonidal Cyst gets from Murc's Law is astounding. Could you imagine what the media (and Democrats) would be doing to Joe Biden if he had been on an all-night slopbucket rampage? And this on top of the ridiculous renaming things? Actually IS there another world leader (well as far as we can call APC a national leader. Cult leader, but not national) who posts nothing but fact-free screeds and AI slop?

As it happens, New York has an Ontario County. Is APC going to demand that gets renamed too?

Steve in SoCal's avatar

Google couldn't wait to change "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America". I hope the next President issues an EO renaming it to "Lake Google Sucks" 🖕

rlritt's avatar

Let's start calling Google, Trump's ass. They are identical when it comes to the bullshit coming from it.

Neal Stiffelman's avatar

Hey, you managed to get this posted without a photo of Trey Gowdy. His haircut alone is post-worthy! And watching his expression as fatfuck tells him how “clean” his parents were. Dyn-O-Mite!

Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

Trey Gowdy is the kid from Deliverance, all grown up, and I have the photographic proof: https://x.com/itsJeffTiedrich/status/1098248197280022529

US Blues's avatar

I’m totally fine with a slow news week. Shit is exhausting and depressing. Thanks for the laughs, Jeff! Keep ‘em coming!

Susan Niemann's avatar

Canada needs to make us a province and end our suffering.

Cutting down the cherry trees has me wildly pissed off. Well, so does everything else.

Awesome pics of Ms. Spouse! 🥰

rlritt's avatar

I know!! Who would cut down cherry trees. Trump cannot stand anything that people love, that existed without his permission. That's why he he is tearing down the White House. And the oligharchs, who helped him to power, don't care because it is taking all the attention from them and their misdeeds.

Susan Niemann's avatar

You are so right. It just makes me sick.

Frank's avatar

I’m trying to figure out how Illinois could be annexed since it isn’t on the border and Wisconsin is purple at best.

Susan Niemann's avatar

Good question. Maybe America is just too big.

Jayme Wolworth's avatar

Good news everyone. Prostitution and Bestiality are no longer disqualifiers to work for the FBI. FFS

rlritt's avatar

Or be President.

Leu2500's avatar

the felon doesn't show up to "work" Monday until 2. So I guess the human binkie is keeping him entertained while he undergoes dialysis or whatever treatment he needs time to recover from.

michellefromchicago's avatar

I’m no expert on economics or the petroleum markets or, for that matter, a whole lot of other stuff, but if Trump really did blow up Kharg Island real good, wouldn’t the price of oil shoot up straight to the moon?

Richard's avatar

I agree with you 100%! Great photo’s of Claudia!

HI2thDoc's avatar

The predator 'shroom

Loves bombs going boom

AI wishful thinking

But our military is shrinking

And Iran will be his doom

Claudia Classon's avatar

I sure hope this is a slow news week...for you, Jeff, as well as the rest of us. It will give us a few moments to contemplate glaciers melting and wiping out Nepalese villages, torrential rains flooding the Grand Canyon, tornadoes in NJ, endless heatwaves in Europe, and all the other natural disasters that have been happening this summer. It's like Mother Earth is trying to clean house, and we're the dust bunnies that need to go.

Lisa Bieber's avatar

Grand Renamer of Water? Battle of Tattered Flag? It's a coffee spittin' Monday! Thank you, Sir.

Tracy Blackburn's avatar

Natty and Daddy are so proud of destroying America and walking away from the smoking rubble into the setting sun.

Richard Dorset's avatar

Mayor Mamdani gets it and rational Dem office holders should get it also. It’s not good enough to simply pass a law. It’s equally important to then have a plan and take concrete and systematic steps to implement the law. Creature of Washington that he was, Joe Biden didn’t pay attention to the second part of the equation. Dems touted the laws and forgot the iron rule of politics, if people didn’t see and feel the benefits, it didn’t happen. This is why Dems should choose as their Presidential candidate someone who had already been a chief executive, of their state. Yes, we need a Governor this time because they have been in an office that demands accountability