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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

yes, I know, 'hitlerjugend' ends with a d, and I omitted the d when I coined 'trumpenjugen.' I just like it better that way, and I get to spell it any way I want, since I made it up.

but I also know I'll get at least one email taking me to task for the misspelling, because the internet never disappoints

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Bob Bowden's avatar

An extra letter’s optional: Stephen Nosferatu wants U.S. children to be uninformed. Take away the second “n” and they’ll be uniformed, too. Voilà!

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Rick Calegari's avatar

I pity Miller's poor kids having to be raised by that coffin dwelling demon. The Fourth Reich promoting dickhead says he wants to rid schools of "communist ideology". So in other words, let's teach the kids the basics of fascism, heel- clicking and art of goosestepping while flushing democracy right down the shitter. Hopefully at some point, there could be a very special place in the big house for this very sick creature and it won't be the cell block with the inmates sporting swastika. tattoos.

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Kathy's avatar

OMG! He has CHILDREN? Someone pro-created with him more than once?! Ick!! 🥴

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Rick Calegari's avatar

Yup and his wife must be just as bad as he is.

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Antoinette Powell's avatar

Indeed. Katie Miller, co-Rump sycophant.

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Timothy Reid's avatar

hahahahaha ... hilarious, Kathy ... thank you.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

What communist ideology is he talking about? The only communists I know of today are Putin, t, and friends (Miller!).

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Susan Linehan's avatar

He pulls that out all the time. No reporter will ask what he MEANS by it; what specific communist ideology is being taught in schools. He will say "woke" to which the only response is "that's another adjective; I'm looking for a noun. Name the thing that is teaching kids communist ideology and how that thing thus teaches it.

No reporter will ask this, because they are afraid they will get AP'd. (I can make up new words, too).

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Lydia's avatar

Good one Susan!

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Rick Calegari's avatar

Interesting considering nazis and communists aren't known for sharing the same views.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Yes, but these days they don't understand the differences.

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Mary Hall's avatar

The bottom line with all of the isms is "anti-democracy".

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Bill Corbett's avatar

Remember who he is speaking too.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

His wife is just as evil.

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Doreen Garza's avatar

Agree 💯

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Well, not being allowed on the big plane is a little bit different than seeing your pink slip on X, as in Trump 1.0. Now, Waltz can tell all those shithole countries right to their faces exactly what trump thinks of them.

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Nancy Potter's avatar

The barred from the plane routine is another Trump classic - He doesn't have the guts to tell Waltz to his face that he's fired, some poor flunky has to do it by telling him he's not allowed on the plane. Didn't Spicer get the same treatment?

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Bill Corbett's avatar

Two doll chicken shit.

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Rick Calegari's avatar

Exactly

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1dEdited

Didn’t he fire Comey the same way?Left him stranded on a tarmac in CA or NV to find his own way home.

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

Yep.

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Marycat2021's avatar

I remember Trump fired James Comey (or was it Anthony Scaramucci?) by telling Fox News, and Comey saw it while watching TV. Trump the tough guy never fires people personally; he's too big of a coward.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Jeff, don't you get it? If you only get 38 virgins, it just means you spend more time fucking your two dolls, which are programmed to fake orgasm the minute you walk in the room.

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Bob Bowden's avatar

Pro tip for women in tRumpWorld: Fake an orgasm the moment the man enters the room. He’ll turn around and go brag about his prowess. Meanwhile, he hasn’t touched you. That’s a Win-Win

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Now that's primo advice !!!

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Grace Kennedy's avatar

That didn’t work for Elise Stefanik. Now dumb shit Waltz gets the good job.

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SPW's avatar

😝 That’s a mighty tall ask.

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

👏🏼👏🏼😂😂

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Wendymae's avatar

I think he should just keep it as "Hitler Youth". To him it's not the same because it's in English.

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

He (rump) should NOT be messing with our youth.

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Veronica von Bernath Morra's avatar

I agree. Especially since he was BFF with Jeffy Epstein!!

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Bob Bowden's avatar

Or leering at them in the Miss USA dressing room

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Marycat2021's avatar

Or opening another version of "Trump Modeling"

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Janan Broadbent's avatar

💯with you, Jeff, I get annoyed with the people who raise issues about spelling. Not in a column like this. You’re not writing a dissertation or a thesis ffs!

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

Plus, it’s just rude to come to someone else’s page and critique their writing. It forces me, as a writer, to critique their critique, but it’s not really rude to be rude to someone who’s being rude.

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Mary Hall's avatar

And it's nice to be nice to the nice. Also too, even editors have editors.

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Phil Burns's avatar

Spelling doesn't matter if you get the idea out to the reader.

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

"typos get the reader involved."

know who said that to me? Andy Fucking Warhol. I shit you not

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Mary A. Rose's avatar

That sounds like something John Waters would say.

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Mary Hall's avatar

I have done a fair bit of editing my life and that is one of the best things I have ever read. Andy Fucking Warhol. I am going to work that story into a conversation this weekend.

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T L Mills's avatar

omg, I love it!

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Robert Eckert's avatar

Sure it wasn't George Santos?

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Doc Blase''s avatar

It was Santos Claus. The Christmas elf that steals your identity and is a total drag.

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Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

Like probably every other copyeditor who ever worked for a newspaper, I once left the "l" out of "public" -- on the front page, just above the fold. Spelling matters.

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Mary Hall's avatar

Oy! I bet you sold a lot of newspapers that day. Hopefully enough time has passed that it's funny to you now. There's an episode of "Schitt's Creek" (excellent show BTW) where Alexis gets her certificate in 'Pubic Relations' from the local community college.

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Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

It was pretty funny even at the time. <g> And a couple of others got to share the glory: the reporter who wrote the story and the news editor who didn't catch it either. We all knew that things fall through the cracks in the rush to deadline, but most of them aren't this epic.

My personal worst was not noticing that a "not" was missing from the verdict in a high-profile local trial. The accused was found NOT guilty and the "not" was missing, again on page 1. Oops. This is why many newspapers use "guilty" and "innocent" instead of "guilty" and "not guilty." "Not guilty" is too easy to screw up.

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Mary Hall's avatar

My husband worked for a Seattle newspaper for 43 years (in the business office). We have great respect for those in journalism.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

It absolutely does matter ! If a person is a bad speller, I assume they're not that smart, or can't be bothered to use Spellchecker. Also, the differences in THERE , THEIR , THEY'RE, seems to be very difficult for some.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

I get the idea that bad spellers are lazy thinkers

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Susan Burgess's avatar

. . . and the d on the end isn’t as good anyway. It doesn’t look right.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

THESIS 🤣

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Wendy's avatar

I tend to agree. Artistic license right?

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

I think, as a third anniversary gift to your readers, you should put together a thesaurus containing all of the words and phrases you’ve coined. That way, when we’re tired of using old, hackneyed descriptions in our daily lives, we can tap into your more colorful language. Actually, it doesn’t even need to be a gift. I’d pay good money for “Uncle Jeff’s Book of Quotations.”

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Ole Anderson's avatar

Absolutely agree!

Fuckity Bye Bye for now. How that rolls off the tongue 👅!!

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

Yeah, that’s one of my faves!

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Susan Keefer's avatar

For history buffs, there is a book worth reading: ‘Education for Death, the making of the Nazi’ by Gregor Ziemer 1941, Oxford University Press. Mr. Ziemer taught at the American School in Berlin, Germany. The book is a first hand account of how Hitler changed children’s education in Germany. Is this America’s future?

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Heather Collins's avatar

Just sent a note to myself to check this out, thanks for the recommendation!

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KiminMN's avatar

I usually don't notice spelling or grammar issues, but there is one that bugs me- it's Tim WALZ and Mike WALTZ. I've been seeing it in a lot of comments lately :)

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Mary Hall's avatar

Mike Waltz will be gone from the news cycle soon enough and I believe we have not seen the last of Tim Walz.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

"Jugend" is the abstract noun "youth" but "Jungen" (what you actually wrote) is the plural "boys" so it works too.

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Heather Collins's avatar

This is awesome, thank you Robert Eckert for an enlightening comment! (I know zero German.)

I'm a spelling freak, which doesn't mean I never misspell anything, but it really interests me because it so often points toward etymology that's fun to think about.

I try to reserve my criticism of spelling and grammar for pompous asses who try to come off as smarter than they are while being nasty to other commentators.

But to me that stuff does matter.

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Ole Anderson's avatar

‘Pompous Asses who try to come off as smarter than they are ‘

Every accusation is a confession

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Heather Collins's avatar

Ha ha, Ole, don't bait me or I'll have to tell you the "a" in "asses" shouldn't be capitalized. :D

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Ole Anderson's avatar

I’m blaming autocorrect for that one. But maybe it knows more than I do and thought it was justified in this instance.

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Nunya's avatar

Are ANY dolls currently manufactured in the USA?

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Mary Hall's avatar

Sure. On an Amish farm in Ohio. They are made from corn husks.

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Nunya's avatar

😁

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

American Girls was. They are closing.

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Nunya's avatar

I never had an American Girl doll (way after my time), but they were really nice dolls and the accessories were amazing. Still, only children of people with lots of disposable income could have them. I once worked for a small company where the owner’s wife would bring her daughter to work and they would leave the office for a trip to the American Girl store. Then they would come back and show off their purchases to all the employees whose children could only dream of having toys like that. It was kind of disgusting. But it’s a shame the company is closing.

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Doc Blase''s avatar

Melanoma, or however you spell it.

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Doc Blase''s avatar

Now, on the third hand, a youth group is a Jugendgruppe, so a group of Dumpty future cannon fodder bio-robots could be a Beschissene Jugendgruppe (?)

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Victoria Wilson's avatar

That’s a shame that spelling police follow you so closely.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

Shame on you, for saying that.

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Diana Heritage's avatar

Purely pathetic

Dark image of Titanic with this bloviating blow horn at the helm.

Hope we’re not doomed but it sure looks like a very real possibility.

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Alison Parker's avatar

"a total lack of zero leadership"

Ummmmmmmmmmm. Does he realize he just complimented Biden? Watch those double negatives, Mikey!

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Lisa's avatar

Yes! I had to read it a couple of times to validate my own interpretation of the double negative. Geez, I'm starting to gaslight myself......

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Kay's avatar

Me too!

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Marguerite Foster's avatar

You’re not alone!

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Doreen Garza's avatar

😆

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Bob Bowden's avatar

Based on your great comment a couple days ago, you’re going to be our next Pope. You can rewrite Genesis: “There was nothing, so God created a total lack of zero.”

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Michael Guenon's avatar

I read it to my wife and she laughed. That these “Sewer Clowns” still have followers only verifies that we are all circling the drain.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

Well we're not lacking for zero leadership now! We're going to have so much zero, you'll get tired of all the zero.

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Ellen McKenzie's avatar

Excellent point!!!!

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insert_something_creative's avatar

That immediately stood out to me too!

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ginnyr's avatar

I saw that too!

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Debra Slater's avatar

I was gonna say the same thing!

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Susan Niemann's avatar

"you only get two dolls, and you only get 38 virgins." 😂😂😂

MAKE IT STOP. Is it me or does every day get crazier?

I cant believe lightning didnt strike him during that so called Prayer Business.

Mr. Rubio is gonna need some serious energy drinks to get all his shit done.😜

Tim Walz tossed out a tweet that said: "Mike Walz has left the chat".

THAT was brilliant trolling.

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Stephen Brady's avatar

I am very concerned about this scarcity in the virgins supply. Has Donnie diverted them to Merde á Lardo? And why isn't he firing his sewer clowns on Xitter any more? Is it a sign that he and President Musk are on the outs? Enquiring minds want to know!

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

Is ‘virgin’ the same as ‘incel’? Because if so, I’d bet the Donnie administration is replete with virgins.

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Stephen Brady's avatar

Incel is short for 'involuntarily celebate', so I think so. But if Stephen Goebbles Miller can find a woman willing to sleep in the same bed with him, maybe there is hope for the others?

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

Throwing up in my mouth a little.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

And incredibly, Katie his wife, is a nice looking, and was a seemingly normal person. She used to work for Pence.

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T L Mills's avatar

yeah, but she's still a nasty far-right-winger. It just "shows to go ya" that there's a goose for every gander. But, dear goddess, what a toxic household. I feel very very sorry for those kids.

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Stephen Brady's avatar

They will never have any chance to be normal.

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

That pretty much makes sense. Two different kinds of purity. Ugh .

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Zija Pulp's avatar

If you’re TRULY worried about the dwindling virgin supply, you must get in touch with Susan Collins who’ll write a strongly worded statement.

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Doreen Garza's avatar

Ya right

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Susan Niemann's avatar

LOL!!

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Karen Hall's avatar

🤣🤣🤣

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Susan Niemann's avatar

😂😂 All valid questions!

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arne link's avatar

I am very fond of Tim Walz. He brings the calm and normal that we need right now. Also, he has a razor wit. If he had run with Kamala as Veep they would have won. Well, except that the whole voting thing was not fair and honest.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

He is definitely a down to earth, decent human. I hope we havent heard the last of him yet.

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Mary A. Rose's avatar

I love Tim. We have to keep him.

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

Marco is probably drinking whatever Hegseth is having, about now. 🍸🍹🥂🍻

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

Rubio is working more jobs than a Haitian immigrant.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

🤣🤣. Truth!!

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EFS's avatar

"A total lack of zero leadership"

= strong leadership. At least to those of us fluent in English.

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

I know. a lot of times I let those things pass without commenting on them because there's no smooth way to work it into the narrative.

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Michael M's avatar

Everything about this administration is sik [sic].

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

That’s why we’re here, Jeff, to pick up the slack.

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Irascible Ink's avatar

😂 Right?

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EFS's avatar

You distill so much craziness for us though🧡

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Susan P Thatcher's avatar

Stephen Miller is a Nazi twerp. He is a genuine twerp, knows it, and it makes him bitter. Uncle Jeff, feel free to used the label.

Trump waited until Day 101 to fire Waltz. Didn't want it in the 100.

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Stranger Than Friction's avatar

My favorite nickname for Miller is Peewee German (not mine, it's been popping up in many places).

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Michael M's avatar

Jeff's "Nosferatu McGoebbels" takes the cake for me. Says it all, with imagery. Though Peewee German is a close second.

If he could be extracted from Trump's rear, it would be fun to see what nickname Trump would saddle him with. It would be childish, inaccurate, and not clever, and would say more about Trump than Miller, but would be fun to see.

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Susan P Thatcher's avatar

Brilliant, but object bringing thevlate great Paul Ruebens into a discussion of the Nazi Twerp.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

He was a sweetheart. RIP Paul Reubens

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AddaGurl's avatar

I’m more fond (or is it fonder?) of the term “used-up, second-hand douche-bag” for him but I must admit that Peewee German rolls off the tongue. 😂

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insert_something_creative's avatar

I'm a bit partial to the nickname "Santa Monica Fascist" but Peewee German is great too.

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Doreen Garza's avatar

😂😂

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Lisa's avatar

The Daily Show did an excellent deep dive into Miller's past. Even with their comedic takes, it is truly horrifying what kind of evil is within him.

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Susan P Thatcher's avatar

I agree. And I saw that piece. Himmler and Goebbels were also twerps. So was their boss. Embittered, entitled twerps are dangerous.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

He's been a toxic POS since his Santa Monica High racist shenanigans .

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Lisa's avatar

They showed that, and it was nauseating.

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

Jewish Nazi and a “shanda” to Jews everywhere! His own family, other than his equally deplorable wife, have disowned him.

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Roberto's avatar

Peewee German and his frau reportedly sleep in separate coffins.

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Rick in CO's avatar

Excellent post! Made me lol for real.

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steve robertshaw's avatar

This one may require an x-ray of my funny bone - I think it sustained a hairline fracture!

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Mary A. Rose's avatar

But he doesn't cry like Leon does.Mike Waltz wasn't really fired. He just got put in a different department.

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Susan P Thatcher's avatar

To make it look like he wasn't fired. At least, he lasted l9ngercthan Mike Flynn did in the job.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

As frightening as your entire column was, Jeff, the most terrifying phrase was when Obergruppenfuhrer Miller said, "I'm the parent of young children."

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Susan Niemann's avatar

I caught that too. He has three.... those poor kids.

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Lady Emsworth's avatar

I wonder if they look as traumatised as the Kegsbreath kids. . .

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

There's a photo of tr💩mp jr. with his kids, they look traumatized & miserable.

I'll post it now.

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

They have three now?? They’re creating the Aryan race just like Elon. Ugh! SAVE THE CHILDREN needs to be notified

Immediately!!

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

Yes Miller’s kids. They will either identify with him or rebel to the opposite. This is what happens. Look at Trump. His dad was horrid. He exhibited behavior to frump which told trump in distinct terms how stupid he was. We are living with the result.

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2dEdited

1. Waiting to see how Waltz will fuck up being an AmbASSador. Love how he got shitcanned. It’s the only thing Agent Orange is good at.

2. Give me a fucking break. If Nosferatu thinks plenty of shit on Amazon doesn’t come from China he’s even dumber than I thought.

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Dave Drell's avatar

It’s at least 35% - but that’s Amazon’s propaganda - I think it’s closer to 50% of actual units sold - not necessarily dollars

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arne link's avatar

I agree. It's probably more than fifty percent. If I were KKKKaroline I would say more than 110%.

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steve robertshaw's avatar

She reserves those numbers for praising her Dear Leader and future sugar daddy.

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Nancy Potter's avatar

There's no chance of any Trump appointee being any kind of effective UN Ambassador, since they have to follow Trump's and Rubio's orders. And Trump won't care because he thinks he runs the world and the UN is just a distraction, if not a fifth column.

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Duhrew's avatar

Mike Waltz quote "total lack of zero leadership" equates to TOTAL LEADERSHIP ... not only AHOLES, but actual Imbeciles...

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Neal Stiffelman's avatar

We need Drew Friedman to capture this.

Sadly Don Martin [MAD] isn’t around anymore. Nor Otto Dix.

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Dave Drell's avatar

Do you recall seeing the Friedman cartoon on Ernest Borgnine & Ethel Merman? Hilarious

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Fredi Hensley's avatar

Thanks for providing a lsugh today.

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Susan Burgess's avatar

You consider that cartoon funny? Please explain it to me why that is funny.

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Pam Humphrey's avatar

It’s not…

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

It's not, & the story I heard is not either.

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Neal Stiffelman's avatar

Classic.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

Ohh,I have such a nasty Hollywood story about Borgnine & Merman. 😳

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Fran Bull's avatar

I'd add Honore Daumier to the mix. Accent over the E.😆

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Mingo's avatar

I fully expected Pam Blondi to crawl under the table to fellate Donnie Two Dolls in her effusiveness to please him. Sycophants is an understatement.

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PTW's avatar

That happened AFTERWARD. (donnie would have been sleeping through all the glorious tributes if it occurred BEFORE or DURING the cabinet meeting.)

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steve robertshaw's avatar

Pretty soon I"m wondering if she'll have to push KKKaroline aside to reach those dangling dingles. Trump sure seems to like him some young blondes

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Megan Ross's avatar

Just another day in TRumplandia. The shit show never ends with TRump's Clown Car Cabinet... Ugh. Please make it stop.🤪

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Liz and Max the No. 1 Cat's avatar

Americans will be willing to pay more for American made products? Get real. The whole reason Wal-Mart and Amazon exist is because Americans didn't want to pay more. They wanted mass produced cheap shit rather than more expensive hand made stuff. Oh, we can get it cheaper from China? Sign me up, bro. I had this argument with my brother-in-law years ago. He said why should I pay $12.00 for a hammer at a local hardware store when I can get for $6.00 at Wal-Mart. I said because that $6.00 hammer will fall apart in 6 months and you'll have to buy another one and now you've spent $12.00 that you could have spent at the local hardware store in the first place and gotten a hammer that would last for several years. Hell, I have hammers that I've had for over 40 years that I got well before our town had a Wal-Mart or Amazon existed.

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Dave Drell's avatar

This postLuz& Max, converge with my

mantra about Drumpf:

He’s dumber than a bag of HAMMERS.

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Chris Ortolano's avatar

"... in the last four years the world experienced a total lack of zero leadership under Biden..."

"a TOTAL LACK of ZERO leadership under Biden" That is kind of like a double negative, so he is, in fact, saying that the world actually HAD leadership under Biden. Though I don't really think the treason weasel or his ass kissers caught it.

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Phil Burns's avatar

Which one has the intelligent to catch it.

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

You know, a lot of this whole thing is about having intelligence or not having it.

They (the duh’s) KNOW or at least understand they don’t quite have it and throw bombs at those who do.

Our educational system favored the already had it. Much repair in that area could do our world a little of good. Too little too late. But it would be so reparative to relook at how we teach.

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Cyndi Merrill's avatar

I would suggest, instead, a good hard look at the chemicals sprayed, poured, dumped, and buried in the rural parts of the country.

Pesticide exposure in very young children is linked to lower and slower brain development, for example.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

But wait, are the duh's rs or MAGAs? Both? The same? Because I'd like to switch my terminology for both to duh's.

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steve robertshaw's avatar

Love it! The "Duh" Party! Can see it now - "Florida, a majority "Duh" state, just outlawed the teaching of the atomic theory in public schools because too many elements had unpaired electrons and were seen as 'too frisky' by the religious right to be exposed to children". ......... "Duh Party primary voters must bring evidence of TrumpCoin holdings in order to cast a vote in the "Duh" primary".

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arne link's avatar

We need Readin', Writin', and Rithmatic. Maybe add a little history and geography and some training in practical things like Kookin'.

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T L Mills's avatar

We're all stocked up with "kooks" already, thanks.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Arne, you have it down. Probably everyone our age got more out of those 7th grade classes for everyone in cooking (inc. nutrition) and sewing and woodworking and metalworking.

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Fredi Hensley's avatar

But not by the dumbest bunnies in the hutch. We really need some great educators. I think we can import them from Finland.

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Rick Calegari's avatar

Probably none of the above.

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Chris Ortolano's avatar

ZERO! 🤣🤣

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Robert Eckert's avatar

Who was the Trump appointee who gushed that "you've made America a force not to be reckoned with"?

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Maybe Waltz was speaking the Drumpf American Dialect

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Chris Ortolano's avatar

Yeah, talking out his ASS!

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

The tr💩mp American dialect is

LOGORRHEA.

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James Starr's avatar

So many things to turn back and walk back when America becomes America again one day. Not sure if I'll see that in my lifetime. These are very dark days. And only 3 yrs and 8 months to go for another "chance" to take back America.

I now live in Los Angeles. But just came back from a 2 week round trip vacation to visit my folks in deep red Texas. They're somewhat sane compared to others in their toxic state.

But it got worse. I road-tripped down to deep east Texas near the Louisiana state line where I grew up to visit my childhood memory lane. I also, dare i say it, attended a rodeo in Lufkin, Texas where the rodeo announcer told everyone to get ready to "listen to the best song in the entire world". That was followed by pre-recorded version of the national anthem during the opening ceremony.

Play it if you want. It's by far NOT the best song in the world FFS... the brainwashing is rampant in the deep red states. I walked out of that place after 45 minutes. It was too much

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

Someone should have advised you to not go near Texas. 😜

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James Starr's avatar

Don’t worry - I went at my own peril and knew the risks

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Carl Selfe's avatar

Protests were great. The judge’s assault on the AEA will be atmospheric precedence. My problem: Deficit spending is blooming. That is on steriods and Republicans offer us only wool for our eyes. Maybe we should not look.

https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/over-budget-chaos?r=3m1bs

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NEAL O'CONNOR's avatar

The leadership sees no other way. Trump and the Republicans have no problem with deficit spending especially when tax cuts for wealthy donors are the end. Deficit spending is bipartisan, with the GOP blowing money on tax cuts and military excess, while Democrats try to eradicate income inequality and discrimination. Democrats will direct money to programs that help citizens and the World's suffering.

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Mary Hall's avatar

What pisses me off is that I have watched Rethuglicans since fking Reagan drain our coffers and run up the credit card for stupid, pointless wars of aggression and tax cuts for the rich. NOTHING ELSE! We have NOTHING to show for their decades of reckless spending. Meanwhile, China has been investing in its people and infrastructure and is currently kicking our ass. I hate what Rethuglicans have done to my country. Reverse Robinhood.

Thom Hartmann has had an ongoing challenge for years now whereby he asks that someone tell him one piece of legislation sponsored by a Republican in the last 40 years that actually helped the poor or middle-class. No takers because there isn't any.

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Nancy Potter's avatar

They need deficit spending so that when any Democrat suggests spending money to actually help the American people, R's can scream about The Deficit.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Great reference! And look at the surplus! Clinton at his finest!

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

"Pulling the wool over their eyes."

That's how the used to Shanghai uncooperative sailors.

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Susan Kemp's avatar

Oh, Jeff, what would we do without you! Trumpenjugen is as priceless as it is scary.

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