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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

uh oh. I sent this out without remembering to check if I didn't accidentally call Iran Iraq somewhere in the text

Bob Bowden's avatar

That’s okay; Once last week I accidentally capitalized the “t” in tRump’s name, and for penance a priest instructed me to go watch Hail Mary

Robin Barfoot's avatar

I refuse to capitolized anything in trump's name. I have my autocorrect trained to never capitolize it! He deserves all the disrespect we can give him.

Sharon C Storm's avatar

I call him ‘the felon’. No one has ever asked who I meant.

Robert Eckert's avatar

I call him Dumb Antichrist. Nobody ever asks who I mean, either.

Bob Bowden's avatar

My fave is “Orange Shitler”

Carlye Hooten's avatar

Me too! 😂😂 and ditto. Sometimes it's the Felon-In-Chief.

P.P.'s avatar

I also refuse to capitalize his name. But my all time favorite is still Weasel Headed Fucknugget. Thanks, Scotts. Hmph. Turns out I know exactly what to capitalize.

Carlye Hooten's avatar

Good one! Fucknugget for short 🤣🤣❣️

Mrs Moore's avatar

I always call him our so-called president. Ever since his very first months in office when he called a judge in Washington State a so-called judge for ruling against him (the Muslim ban)

Runfastandwin's avatar

I like metamucillini...or tangeranus...

Theresa Breach's avatar

We just refer to him as The Convict

Hollie Rood's avatar

I capitalize RUMP in his name bc it comes from the back end of a cow conjuring up “ass” in my mind despite it not quite being that. That said, given his propensity to call ppl pig, piggy and other nasty immature, ignorant names, I’ve come to think of his name being 🍊🤡🐖y POS

PEACE, LOVE, RESIST's avatar

I haven’t capitalized his name for about ten years, but nowadays you can say, “man, what an idiot” or “he’s a pedophile” or “is he dead yet” and everyone knows who you’re talking about.

Kristy Kanen's avatar

tr💩mp , it's my go to.

celeste k.'s avatar

I used to refuse to type his name, but since he's always doing some dumb shit, it's kind of hard to avoid. I only capitalize those I respect. He's not one of them.

Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

celeste: I spell it with an 'f' in front: frump. OR drumpf, the original family name which he clearly hates (imagine him trying to put THAT up on any building, lol) John Oliver began the whole: 'let's make donald 'drumpf' again', which some people probably didn't quite get. Otherwise it's just he or him - and not surprisingly, EVERYONE knows exactly who I/we mean, no need for further explanation. The neediest, most moronic child on our Planet is THE most repulsive and despised individual. Funny how that works?

AKRebel's avatar

I won't even type his name at all. He's shitler to me.

cablecargal's avatar

I only call him by his real name, Drumpf. He is not President to me.

Pam Humphrey's avatar

I just go with Dimwit Donnie or Donnie Dimwit. (I like the variety.) Of course, everyone knows who that is.

Nora's avatar

I call him dumpy and everyone seems to know who that is. he does not deserve upper case anything, ever, not even his much anticipated obit.

Bonnie Council's avatar

Me too! I never capitalize his name ever ever ever! He doesn't deserve a capital T, much less the time it takes to make that extra key stroke.

kdsherpa's avatar

Since the Fall of 2016, I have only written/said his name as "the orange sadist." I added a middle name this past Spring: "the orange pedophilic sadist."

AuntTeeFa's avatar

More apropos to label it the actual “fall” of 2016. And yet he still continues to pursue the bottom under his guidance, a bottomless pit

Dave the Spot-on Moron's avatar

I refuse to use his name. He doesn’t deserve that bare minimum of human decency.

kdsherpa's avatar

Agree with you completely. He shares nothing in common with human beings.

David A Pitock's avatar

I like orange pendejo personally.

Stephen Brady's avatar

I have been typing it 'tRump' since 2016. And I swore I would never use the word 'President' next to his.

Leigh Hamilton's avatar

I never use its name in the same sentence as prez....

He's not a president. We need to stop calling him that.

Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

THIS, Leigh! I love certain hosts on MSNow. Either keep them on - even as background 'noise' while doing other stuff (or my smooth jazz music) although I do absorb what's going on most often. Late night Stephanie Ruehle is very sharp and savvy - about business matters/the stock market. Her guests are usually very good. Her ONE 'drives me wild' habit is of talking about 'the president' ad nauseam, but never in a pejorative way. Now Nicolle Wallace - a former republican who worked FOR George Bush (the 1st) came over to our side and is an all-in anti-frumpist, uses his full name only with just enough disdain to make it clear what she thinks - and I doubt has EVER called him 'president'. Her show is HUGE: 2 hours 4-6 Eastern time 'Deadline White House'. She and Rachel are always in sync and a recent podcast she did of her 'The best people' with Alex Wagner was fall down funny as they let loose about him.

Ole Anderson's avatar

How was it? That bad, huh.

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Lisa Bieber's avatar

Hail Mary is an idiom which comes from a particular football play. It was the title of the book the movie was based on.

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

Excellent book AND movie.

Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

That 'Hail Mary' toss by a Quarterback has always been THE one move I find most exciting about American Football (gotta distinguish it from the football I grew up with but is now quaintly referred to as soccer). As most Brits say: how does a sport where the ball is rarely ever KICKED but is THROWN come to be called 'foot'-ball instead of the game where the players spend ALL of their time KICKING the ball with their feet?

Skepticat's avatar

I'd also been using a lowercase t, but now it's Chump. Of course, we could use his actual family name—Drumpf.

Carol Jacobson's avatar

I usually refer to him as the orange anus but when I type his name I refuse to capitalize it.

Juli's avatar

Have not capitalized since 2016!! Solidarity!!

Jane S.'s avatar

when I was in high school, and Carter was president, my father refused to read any section of the newspaper that had news that involved Carter. That was around the time that USA Today started and he LOVED that paper because it was color-coded so it made it easier for him to pick and choose.

Whenever I'm tempted to take up the habit of not using Trump's name or fooling around with it, I worry that I'm turning into my father. He hated Carter but Carter was still in the office of the Presidency. I hate Trump but yeah he's still fucking up the country. I make no bones about how much I detest him, but I force myself to acknowledge that he's there and he may have actually won the 2024 election.

Each to their own. xxoo

Denise Donaldson's avatar

I don't believe for a nanosecond that he actually won in 2024.

Jane S.'s avatar

You're probably right but I'm already so angry that I try not to dwell on that part.

DebJS's avatar

Curious - did your father ever give Carter some credit for any of the many good things he did especially after leaving office?

Jane S.'s avatar

Not. At. All. It was like proof of his manhood that he would only see things in black and white. Thinking back, I don't even know what he did read in the newspaper because he thought all sports other than indy car racing was for pussies.

Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

Aaah. Even MORE reason not to liken yourself to him. IF he'd had a solidly good reason to despise Jimmy Carter (a truly good man if there ever was one), you could make that comparison to your disdain for frump but no. Your separate 'reasons' don't at all compare or converge. THIS one's a monster so YOU have good reason. Forget what your Dad did back then. MY uber-religious (thought she was jesus) mother, took to believing every. single. nutty story in The National Enquirer cooked up by David Pecker and would (if she'd lived past 2016) have become THE most avid frump worshipper because HER narcissism and hate could fill the entire Planet. I decided long ago to become NOTHING like her and worked hard to be her complete opposite. The sole 'lesson' to learn from your Dad is NOT to judge a man without knowing all of the facts and truth. You are assuredly not doing so with the current orange fuckstain occupying our Oval Office who STILL imagines that he's 'beaten Iran into submission' without a single thought of the lives lost. Aaargh.

Marc Panaye's avatar

I had to watch Hail Mary too Bob.

And didn't she perform superbly on stage two for our pleasure?

Kay-El's avatar

If you did, I didn’t catch it. My eyes would have automatically corrected it.

kdsherpa's avatar

I believe you, Kay-El!

Punkette's avatar

Jeff, Iraq has joined the war now - its Popular Mobilization Forces are supporting Iran. Oy vey!

https://www.turkiyetoday.com/region/has-iraq-joined-war-against-us-and-israel-3216837?s=1

Mary Hall's avatar

I'm so old that I remember when Iran and Iraq were mortal enemies.

The enemy of my enemy ...

Chris Hierholzer's avatar

We supported Iraq during the Iran Iraq war. Nothing makes any sense anymore. Nobody won. They just licked their wounds and started over again.....with our help again.

Stephen Schiff's avatar

Said support included provision of capabilities for the fabrication and utilization of chemical weapons,which Saddam used to kill thousands of Iranians. Cheeze, why don't they love us?

(And of course when we turned on Iraq, we accused them of having chemical weapons as part of their WMD program. It isn't just the Orange Turd who has no memory.)

Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

Was just going to ask that: 'Don't they hate each other'? Wow. the demented old narcissist has sure stirred up a hornet's nest - but he deserves HIS own head embedded deeply into it - NOT ours!

Robert Eckert's avatar

Ayatollah Khomeini and Saddam Hussein were mortal enemies, but the majority of the Iraqi population is Shi'ite and was always more sympathetic to Iran than to the Hussein regime.

devourerofpancakes's avatar

I think we bombed them first.

rlritt's avatar

Trump has always had a magical way of bringing people together.

I may hate you, but no where near as much as I hate Trump.

SPW's avatar

👀🤯 🤬🤬🤬‼️.

Stranger Than Friction's avatar

Jeff, I'm not worried about you or your writing. I read your writing every day, man! You're keeping my spirits up just by living your truth and writing it down. THANK YOU.

I do worry about how many USA military people will be harmed in this war, killed in this war. I worry just as much if not more for people who are trying to live their lives in the Middle East, and I'm greatly saddened by those who have been killed.

Finally, I worry that not enough Americans care enough to make sure they are registered to vote, know where they are to go to the polls, and will plan their transportation and other needs to get it done and make it count! I worry that people will be caught by surprise if mail-in and early voting gets taken away or left up in the air by the courts during this election, or the Pedo POTUS gets his wish and the SAVE Act becomes law. Last time there were Elon Musk-ovites meddling in swing states, bomb threats closing polls on 2024 Election Day...in other words, evil shenanigans. I hope everyone everywhere who cares will seek out the sensible advice and the facts and makes everyone else know about them, right up to election day.

zuzu's avatar
Mar 25Edited

Thune does NOT want to get rid of the filibuster. They've already said the quiet part out loud: the filibuster helps the GOP more than it helps the Democrats. It helps them when they're out of power to stop Democratic legislation from going through, but even more importantly, it helps them when they're in power by letting them vote for stupid legislation knowing that the Dems will put a stop to their stupid, harmful ideas and not let them go into effect. They still get credit with the rubes for their vote and get saved by the Dems from the consequences of their pandering because of the filibuster.

If they change the rules to get rid of it, they'll have to start acting more responsibly, and that's going to draw primary challengers.

rlritt's avatar

Dont forget they just said ICE in airports are training for patrolling the election polls.

Nora's avatar

Knowing that dumpy will be forcing Ice on us at the polls, I long for the days when our neighborhood poll was populated by 80- 95 year old poll workers. They did their jobs perfectly, but always had the heat turned up to boiling in the room where you voted. You quickly cast your vote and high tailed it out of there to breathe fresh air at a normal temperature. Ice and all their unnecessary gear, it would be a pleasure to watch them pass out or fall asleep standing up in the heated confines.

AmericanHistoryGeek's avatar

Yes! I remember this too. And a great idea for whoever is monitoring that thermostat.

Our Election Day mantra: Enter -Vote -Exit 💙🗳️🚪

Bonnie Council's avatar

Judging by the number of people who drive past our protests (still 3/week) staring at us, or straight ahead, like they have no idea what's going on, I too worry that too many are going to be caught by surprise if mail-in & early voting is taken away. I also worry that they have no idea about the SAVE act turmoil & what could happen if it passes. It's just scary to realize how little attention many, many people are paying to what's happening all around them that will affect them profoundly, whether they vote or not.

DebJS's avatar

If the SAVE Act is passed I hope we have Democratic supporting lawyers ready to file a lawsuit challenging its constitutionality. That could tie it up in the courts until after the November elections.

Linda Weide's avatar

I am hoping that just as more people are joining Indivisible groups and going to No Kings Rallies that they are also going to be more inclined to vote. Here are rallies around the world.

https://lindaweide.substack.com/p/no-kings-no-tyrants-no-dictators?r=f0qfn

Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

I found TWO fairly near where I live! That's never been the case before, so it should be hopefully enough to talk hubby into driving me there (I no longer drive due to my eye issues/resultant migraines - especially lately). I'm going to TRY to be there. They're running from 12-2 and the other from 1 - 3, so it might be nice to attend both. The big problem is being able to stand for any real lengths of time since my own back has been pretty brutally painful lately (I just don't show it outwardly). It makes me shorter-tempered than I'd usually be, so if one of those ice thugs did anything I'd be apt to do/say 'something' THEY just might regret. ;)

Linda Weide's avatar

People understand the economy better now, because they realize it was not the worst it could get under Biden, that this is even worse. I am a Deweyan teacher, and Dewey believed that experience is the best teacher. It is something some of us could Imagine, but other need to go through Donald Trump HE-- Again, to remember that chaos is less fun than it sounds. Particularly if you are in the US military and deciding if you should die like the girls in the Iranian school, or bail on the military as a conscientious objector, which I hear 1000s have been calling and wanting to be. They don't believe in the war. The news must have gotten to them that they are going to die to make MSB happy and Trump richer.

I am posting a list of all of the No Kings, No Tyrants, No Dictators rallies Abroad, which will end up being one huge global anti war rally on Saturday.

https://lindaweide.substack.com/p/no-kings-no-tyrants-no-dictators?r=f0qfn

DebJS's avatar

Hopefully, some are realizing it was bad under Biden because he inherited an incompetent mess from trump and that took some time to turn things around, and it was turning around albeit slowly.

Linda Weide's avatar

Yes. It is bad for poor people if it takes years to just stabilize the middle class, and then you go on to those who need even more help, because you build the structures to do it. I always said to people who say, "It cannot get worse" that "Oh yes it can!" Here we are seeing that for people who were struggling, most are struggling more. It does take time to turn things around for the good, but not for the bad as we see with Trump. It is easier to destroy than to rebuild.

We need to all get out there on Saturday. I will be out even though we expect rain. People will be out all over the world. Here is a list of places.

https://lindaweide.substack.com/p/no-kings-no-tyrants-no-dictators?r=f0qfn

Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

I'm SO GLAD you posted this, DEB. It took Joe Biden nearly a year with his head down working nonstop to even TRY to fix a fraction of the economic disaster left behind by the fuckwit who hadn't expected anyone else to SEE what he'd done! He fully expected he'd get to stay in place which is why all the shitfuckery of 2021 continued - he KNEW what Biden would see - and then have to take on to fix. No one EVER gives President Biden credit for so many great things he did to turn it all around: the CHIPS Act, Infrastructure Act (as bridges, tunnels and roads were and now are again falling apart and not ONE dime is spent on those - but frump needs his 'ballroom' - oh yeah! Joe Biden also deeply believed his son's brain cancer had happened due to exposure to burn pits so worked for THOSE and all of the Vets who'd likewise been exposed to toxic idiocies as well as the rest of our war-time Veterans. I truly am sick of those who insult and put him down when they have NO IDEA that he spent his first two years working on everything important and which drove him- those of our soldiers who'd been horribly injured and died (the 'suckers and 'losers' according to frump)- not out cheating at golf which is costing us taxpayers MILLIONS just so demento can get his fake-azz trophies. I'm pretty sure it was Noel Casler who explained how that worked: frump would open a 'new' golf club THEN take Melania to golf the first game with him (she doesn't golf). Naturally he'd 'win' - ergo have 'the best score' and be in first place (however that works - I know nothing about it). THEN he'd stay in first as 'Owner' of the club and first to score. Noel does a far better job of explaining how frump ALWAYS cheats - even cheating when he played against Tiger Woods, something about always casually dropping a ball from his pocket very close to the hole - when everyone had SEEN his go into the sand or water - but speeding to the next on his golf cart so by the time the others walked there his ball had 'magically' appeared right on the green. YET no one ever calls him out on it! Methinks it'd be a hilariously terrific idea for the democrats to mock up a trophy (just like holy mike did today) presented to the golfer-in-cheat for a lifetime of getting away with cheating at golf - and everything else to fuck over the American People.

Troll Slayer's avatar

Nah, you didn’t

Kathleen Weber's avatar

Jeff's flying blind but he landed the plane anyway! I'd like to see all the Rambo movies remade with Jeff in the starring role!

Joanne Rossmassler Fritz's avatar

You're fine! I've worked in publishing, and copyediting comes naturally to me. If you'd accidentally called Iran Iraq I would have noticed (but I would have forgiven you too!).

Dianne Topping's avatar

Kegsbreath really needs to be committed. All of these cowards need to have someone they care about, go to the frontline, so they can experience the reality of war. Let’s start with Barron. 🤬🇦🇺

DebJS's avatar

I'm seeing the signs that he is doing too much PR damage and too much "showboating" - which never ends well for the likes of him.

Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

NO worries, even if you did. Something popped into my head the first day fuckwit told us there was no war...he'd WON the wasn't war...our troops better get ready for 'boots on the ground' for this 'no war', blabbity blah blah. What IF this entire thing was a prank pulled on him by a couple of high-schoolers? Wouldn't that be downright fucking hilarious? After all - Stephanie Ruehle (I've just mentioned her in another post about MS Now) told about how she'd JUST been able to call the PERSONAL PHONE of 'the president' while sitting in her vehicle with her 12yr old beside her. She was so surprised that he'd picked up the phone! Subsequent to this, OTHER reporters discovered that his PERSONAL NUMBER was easily obtainable and also made calls - some he took, some not (I guess those of the 'piggy' ones)? How EASY would it have been for anyone tech or computer savvy to get through - pretend they were 'the' top Iranian 'guy in charge' to offer him a trillion dollar 'prize'? Does anyone here think he WOULDN'T fall for it all while Khameini's son (whose entire family was killed by frump/piss-drunk petey's WAR missiles) is laughing himself silly at their stupidity AND planning revenge? Idea No. 2: IF this chucklehead continues this 'don't call it a war' stupidity, then let's send ALL of the so-called 'ICE agents' now standing around like temu-outfitted morons with their faces uncovered in our Airports TO Iran as 'first line of attack' since they're SO good at firing their guns and bring back the National Guard to assist the TSA who can be paid the salaries those Ice thugs no longer need since they'll be overseas enjoying Iranian hospitality? Am I a problem solver or what?!

DebJS's avatar

Excellent idea!!!

SPW's avatar

No worries. I’m sure I read it the way it was meant to be. My 79 year old brain is still functioning when it comes to your posts Jeff.

DR Darke's avatar

"uh oh. I sent this out without remembering to check if I didn't accidentally call Iran Iraq somewhere in the text"

Blame it on Trump—he's certainly done it more than once!

Maria 🇮🇪's avatar

Jeff, when we were young, my Dad called my younger Sister’s Iran and Iraq-as they fought So much! A “funny” memory as our youngest Sister is no longer with us@52…

Thinking of Ye Always💚

Julie's avatar

I am reading this right now, and I am CRYING, it’s so hilarious and skewering and just so RIGHT ON. We all love you so much, Jeff. You’re the best, and we all laugh and cry with you 💙💙💙

Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

Indubitably! Every word of this, Julie!

Richard Von Busack's avatar

Jeez, for the millionth time, I wish our slave-flogging founding fathers hadn’t been colonialist planters who failed to see the virtue of a time-tested parliamentary system. We could have a vote of no confidence, like, tomorrow. Instead we have to wait 8 months

J Hardy Carroll's avatar

The system was designed to fail, then be revised. Nobody anticipated this, but they sure as fuck should have. "What if everybody is for sale all the time, and nobody has any money but a few hundred people?" was not something Jefferson anticipated. We also didn't execute the confederated for treason, so we didn't do that to Trump either.

P123Sunny's avatar

yeesh 🎯⁉️

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Totally with you on that, Richard. Instead of a more viable structure for democratic governance, we have a winner(cheater)-takes-all system. And an Electoral College comprised of randos whom no one knows. And a Supreme Court that acts like Lords and has elevated an idiot to mad God-King immunity.

Mary Hall's avatar

And a US Senate that gives low population states outsized power. Wyoming has <1M people and California has nearly 40M people yet each get two Senators. Fkin' rip-off!

John Ryan(PA)'s avatar

More than just Wyoming. It's time to work on equal representation. That fix was made at the beginning of the 20th century and compounded by time. Now it's a joke......the Dakotas?? Montana???? Alaska??????

zuzu's avatar

No, the problem is not the Senate. It's designed to be like that. The problem is that the House has stayed the same size since 1913 and its size was capped at 435 via the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929. Probably not surprisingly, this was the work of rural Congressmen afraid of losing power to urban colleagues as populations began to shift.

That's led to incredible distortions in the number of people represented by each House member, with some districts having multiples of the number of other districts. Here's more: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/05/31/u-s-population-keeps-growing-but-house-of-representatives-is-same-size-as-in-taft-era/

Richard Von Busack's avatar

Reforming this nigh-100 year old mess would be a good way to get the current century started at last. As would be adding a few Supreme Court justices and statehood for Puerto Rico. Dead skeleton hand of the slave-whippers has America by the balls.

Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

I've been yelling about getting SCOTUS back to 13 for AGES now. It worked at 13 - a GOOD number. Who reduced it to 9? Now THEY get all worked up at the idea of 13 as if that was an impossible number? NO, it was 13 before and should be again- brings in disparate opinions and no little group of bought and paid for partisans controlling the entire Court. The ONLY problem I see in 'fixing this mess' in this 21st Century is that it just might be credited/attributed to the fuckwit as if it was all his idea - and I don't think my heart or soul could stand seeing statues to this unutterable moron springing up everywhere.

Robert Eckert's avatar

No, the Senate is in its current shape because the late 19th century Republicans gerrymandered the whole country by chopping up the West into numerous small-population states, with the explicit purpose of giving the Republicans extra votes in the Senate and better chances in the Electoral College (we know this was the purpose behind the creations of Idaho and Wyoming, and the division of Dakota into two, because Republicans at the time said so openly).

Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Mary,I don’t know how that system was originally scammed but it truly needs revision!

Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

YES! And hopefully in history books written long before THIS timeline - people need to be aware that 'google' or even wikipedia isn't always a reliable source of information! We're raising a nation of people who have NO IDEA how to do their own research and simply quote wikipedia (the entries therein are written by people with opinions, no?). REAL sources: encyclopedias, history books (not written by magats but real historians) would be a good place to start, and libraries are THE place to start IN at zero cost.

Joe Witkowski's avatar

But alas, Amy Coney Island Barrett hates tRump. Perhaps she finally realized that her Catholic male counterpart justices are all Trumpian criminals lining their pockets like the mafia boss who appointed them?

https://l.smartnews.com/p-7pmQ2LVC/t1rmBp

Steve Kelly's avatar

I understand it to now be the UNSupreme Cult.

Mary Hall's avatar

I refer to them as the Extreme Court, but I like Extreme Cult even better.

Janet's avatar

“Taco Supreme” Court!!!! 🌮

Dan Boss's avatar

Would a parliamentary approach maybe mean we’d always get leaders who were responsible and qualified and rational ? Oh wait ! - look who we have for leader of our House. Also, no confidence is great but it’s still a vote. Maybe lowering the threshold for impeachment to 60%?

SPW's avatar

Talking about the Parliamentary system of government, does anyone remember what all Great Britain went thru with their wild variety of PM’s after Brexit? Yikes!

Robert Eckert's avatar

The parliamentary system was not really "time-tested" at that time. The notion of a "Prime Minister" chosen by a majority of the Parliament and only nominally appointed by the Crown began to form under George I, but under George III the Crown repeatedly insisted on choosing ministers who did not have such majority backing, and prosecuting members of Parliament who criticized the government.

Richard Von Busack's avatar

To be fair, though, the parliament in Iceland has been there an eon.

Carlye Hooten's avatar

Or we could have a 3-party system with three reasonably functional parties. The Founders apparently didn't have much faith in a 2-party government (although I don't know why exactly they decided to go with the current formation). I've thought for years that we needed a viable third party.

Speaking of, have you noticed that in a mid-term year, THERE'S NO SIGN OF THIRD PARTY CANDIDATES? AT ALL?

Which means that Independents pretty much exist to funnel votes away from the Democrats.

Richard Von Busack's avatar

What do you think of Richard Hofstader's comment: "Third parties are like bees. They sting and they die."

Richard Von Busack's avatar

Oh, lovely, I’m in San Jose’s Japantown where some knob has marked up chalk messages for the Green Party knob who is running for governor. They never learn. Brainworms fools them, Tulsi fools them…never do they learn

Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

November can’t come soon enough! And to make sure I can vote, I’ve got my passport out, and am searching through my shit for my birth certificate, marriage license, third grade art projects, lost baby teeth, hospital bracelet, blood donation card and the report from my last mammogram.

Martha Howell's avatar

I believe you have to have produced at least 3 children for the Homeland before your husband is allowed to place your Family Vote.

Susie's avatar

Ouch. So scary true.

Barbara Ferrara's avatar

Whew! I have 4, (but no husband, so screwed anyway)

Sue Pemberton's avatar

Don't forget your umbilical cord.

Miselle's avatar

🤣🤣Thank you for that well needed chuckle!!

Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

You’re welcome! Let me know if there’s anything else I need!

Jan Moon's avatar

Better have your bra size handy.

Linda McCaughey's avatar

Damn. Haven't worn one since the sixties!

Mary de Ridder's avatar

😅😂😂😂😅

Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

Oh shit! Thanks for the reminder. I thought the mammo report would be good enough.

Lisa K. Obrien's avatar

You’ll need the date of your last period.

Linda McCaughey's avatar

Oh, dear. That could be potentially incriminating....

Linda McCaughey's avatar

Fortunately, I still have the receipt for maternity care from the hospital where I was born in 1945!

Karlene Escriba's avatar

Linda, I have the canceled check my dad wrote to the hospital when I was born! 1958 (My mom saved everything 🤣)

Linda McCaughey's avatar

Back then, new moms and babies stayed in the maternity ward for a week after baby was born. Total cost for everything, including delivery, was $82.35.

Robert Eckert's avatar

My stepfather was born on 3/3/33, the last day of the Hoover Administration. All the banks in Ohio were closed (as was the case in most of the country) and the hospital wouldn't let them take the baby home until they paid the bill (I doubt they would get away with that today). So his dad had to go home and pour out all the coins in the jelly jars to come up with the $15.

Dave Drell's avatar

Unreal- this is what happens in an uncontrolled capitalist system- everything goes up in price, year after year after year.

Greed and materialism are killing us all.

PollyP's avatar

I was born on an Air Force base in 1951. If Mom hadn't got that epidural, I would have been free. Instead there was a charge of $7.50. My mom kept the receipt too.

Grace Kennedy's avatar

Leave your vaccination records at home.

Ralph Roberts's avatar

Damn, Will that civics course I took high school disqualify me from voting?

Joe Witkowski's avatar

I doubt that anyone in this clown car cabinet could pass the civics course I completed in eighth grade Catholic school

Joy's avatar

Oh, thank you for this! I would have forgotten the mammogram results!

Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

Of course! Anything I can do to help sister out!

Joe Witkowski's avatar

You forgot your Christian Nationalist Christo-Fascist baptismal certificate and your ticket stub to Peter Thiel’s Antichrist seminar next to Vatican City. 🤦‍♂️

Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

Do I need the originals, or will they accept photocopies?

Joe Witkowski's avatar

Originals, but a crucifix and garlic are viable substitutes

Diana's avatar

Stephanie you are going to be fully prepared ~ love it ♥️

Karen Hall's avatar

🤣🤣🤣👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

HI2thDoc's avatar

Bloodthirsty macho idjits

Love their war-fighting widgets

This unlawful incursion

Is an Epstein diversion

By the rapist with too short digits

Cathy Wray's avatar

Wow, this beats all other poems!!

Fastball Fredo's avatar

Bravo👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

HI2thDoc's avatar

Fredo, you're a man I admire

For never seeming to tire

Of repeatedly engaging

Those who MAGA's enraging

The Epstein pal's rabid golf choir

Dave Drell's avatar

Doc on a roll….in some places

it’s Doc in a bagel

HI2thDoc's avatar

As long as there’s mayo I’m good on either a roll or a bagel

Fastball Fredo's avatar

Many thanks my friend…

Richard's avatar

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Cheryl ODonnell's avatar

Dumpy and Kegsbreath prove every day that they are still playing toy soldiers, since they cannot make the connection that they are sending real human beings off to this unholy war. To them, they just got the giant sized bag o’soldiers to send off for whatever stupid purpose dump fantasizes next.

Susan Niemann's avatar

"Four Ayatollahs Total Landscaping Peace Prize" 😂😂😂😂

"We negotiate with bombs" Disgusting POS.

Pete and Donnie are both dangerously insane.

Bret Stephens is clown. When will it end????

HI2thDoc's avatar

Bret Stephens, whatcha been smoking

We're tired of your Fat Fuck stroking

We'll give you a pass

If you quit smooching his ass

NYT, you must be joking

Susan Niemann's avatar

Ha! 😂😂. Excellent!!!

Mingo's avatar

"We're tired of your Fat Fuck stroking." That goes for all the GOP congress critters, the red hatted haters and poor excuses for journalists. You'd think they're worn out from all that lip puckering and replacing knee pads.

Dave Drell's avatar

Good name for MAGAs

The Red Hatters

aka The Red Haters

Dr J's Sanity Space's avatar

Doc, you aced it again!!😆😆

Kim Nesvig's avatar

“Conservative” writers have a long established tradition of insisting that we are not seeing what we see, not hearing what we hear, and feeling so much better than we feel.

Dana Jae Labrecque's avatar

Spot on, Kim. For decades.

James B's avatar

Kim. This is so good. You just gave me a great idea for my No Kings sign. Thank you! AND ALL OF US BETTER BE GOING!

Mary Hall's avatar

www.nokings.org -- FIND YOUR LOCAL TRIBE AND SHOW UP! We always have a great time hanging out with other patriotic Americans while protecting democracy.

Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

For many years he has been winning the ‘Most Smarmy’ Nobler prize.

SeekingReason's avatar

We have such classy intellectuals in the felon regime. Clown shoes, maxi-pads for the “bullet grazed” ear…🤥, I’d rather be a felon, Russian etc t-shirts. I’m sure they fool everyone around the globe with trump’s stunning messages. 🙄 If it wasn’t so deadly, it might be funny. So let’s get back to EPSTEIN FILES, shall we?

On another note, I truly love the blue and yellow No chart! Such accuracy!

Miselle's avatar

You failed to mention those donning ("don-ning? LOL!) diapers at his rallies.

NP, we got each others' backs here! 😁

SeekingReason's avatar

How could I possibly have left off the classiest donny merch of them all…and the gold gym shoes…oh… the list goes on!😄

Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

It is now equated to the ‘Donner Party’.

Miselle's avatar

Now THAT deserves a 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️🎯

Maggie&Lefty's avatar

I’m wondering, could the blue and yellow signify Ukraine’s NO to Trump and Putin

Clyde Kaplan's avatar

Not only did a democrat flip the Mar-a-Lago district, but Trump voted in that election with a mail-in ballot. Maybe it arrived after Election Day and didn’t get counted.

Polly Sears's avatar

Such hypocrisy. He has voted by mail in ballots for years.

Mary Hall's avatar

The US military has used mail-in voting since the Civil War.

Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Mary, isn’t that the one that ended racism?

Mary Hall's avatar

Well, racism hasn't ended despite what those on the SCOTUS may say. In fact, racism is the beating heart of today's Rethuglican party, and those know-nothings are still fighting the Civil War. If you meant slavery instead of racism, since mail-in voting was done during the Civil War, and the 14th Amendment was ratified after the Civil War IMO the two aren't directly connected, however they may be indirectly connected depending on how the different election results which led to the 14th Amendment. IDK.

Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Loads of it I had hoped it was clear, there was NEVER an end to it!

Carol C's avatar

Douglas, Do I detect sarcasm in you question?

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

See? He was right. He voted by mail (as did Melania and Barron) and the Democrat won!

HI2thDoc's avatar

Is it me or is the ""No, but in yellow" getting smaller?

J Hardy Carroll's avatar

Was it a golden prize, little Donnie? Was it the best prize anyone ever got? Was it a super secret decoder ring in real fourteen carat gold, a major award shaped like Melania's leg?

Did you clap your tiny hands when the nice mullahs sent your special present, this very significant prize, this tremendous gift worth so much money you can’t even count that high without someone from Deutsche Bank helping you move your lips? Did you squeal “they like me, they really like me” while JD Vance nodded along like a bobblehead in the world’s saddest Happy Meal toy?

Tell us again, General Diaperfiller. Iran gave you a present, but it’s a secret, such a big boy secret, oil-and-gas-related, definitely not nuclear, no sir, that’s what you said while coyly giggling that you’re “not going to tell us” what it is, playing wartime show-and-tell with 90 million lives, real lives of human beings (every one of which is better and more moral than you).

It's like the Gong Show except Chuck Barris has a severe concussion. Bragging that the mystery box from Tehran means “we’re dealing with the right people,” as if geopolitics is Let’s Make a Deal. Take a peek behind Door Number Dumbass. You steal secret documents so you can sell them to these people. That much is clear.

I'm guessing it wasn’t a decoder ring and it sure as hell wasn’t a major award. It's your latest scam but this one is stapled to the front of the world economy, wrapped in a bow made of bullshit, and the only thing “tremendous” about it is how loudly you’re announcing that if someone lines your pockets you’ll call any flaming bag of crap on the doorstep a peace offering.

And meanwhile bobblehead Johnson and his minions cede all power to allow this shit show. Their only hope is to get rid of elections, but beyond that there is no plan.

Joe Witkowski's avatar

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse: “Equal parts gangsters and Gong Show”

https://youtu.be/fgVRTZ5eJgI?si=aqzOm_q887CYOhba

David M Marko's avatar

I can just picture Donnie locking himself in the oval office bathroom with his giant sharpie. With his tongue sticking out of the corner of his mouth deciphering his super secret decoder ring. E A T M O R E B I G M A C S.

Carol C's avatar

J Hardy, thank you. That was masterful!

Nancy's avatar

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Brad Yazell's avatar

1. The "prize" was the stock market manipulation grift that occurred Monday morning.

2. Piss Drunk Pete is apparently playing Call Of Duty while the Middle East burns.

3. I am more amazed every day that anyone in this country, no matter how stupid they may be, believes a word that comes out of Donny's mouth. It's truly remarkable.

Polly Sears's avatar

I read that Maggets brains are wired differently from the average person. Has to be true!!!

Dave Drell's avatar

It’s true.(I’m no psychologist, but I play one in my household)

They are in a cult so they can only believe what is good for the cult- never anything negative

Robert Eckert's avatar

And it is traders in the stock market who have huge sums of money at stake who are taking the Dumb Antichrist's spewings as gospel truth. How did these fools and their money ever get together in the first place?

Suki Herr's avatar

When Donald says “a present” was received, either he is lying or the present was for him personally vs the American people.

When(if)Trump is removed from office Pete Hegseth will almost certainly do prison time.

He&Bondi are desperate to keep Trump in power as they know it’s the only way they can continue their way of life.

john augustine's avatar

pardons will be flying like rain

Joe Witkowski's avatar

The Tangerine Tumor, based on newly-exposed documents from the Jack Smith investigation, was trying to profit (of course) from his stolen confidential and secret documents stuffed in the shitters at Mag-a-Lardo.

George A. Polisner's avatar

Thank you Jeff.

Hope to see all of you on Saturday, March 28 for No Kings 3 (https://nokings.org).

In the meantime -here's an excerpt from my latest article "In Our Name" -which is fully aligned with Jeff's commentary, but with a more somber tone:

https://bomdia.substack.com/p/in-our-name

"At the precise moment in history when the complexity and danger of the world demands the most capable, experienced, and morally serious leadership the United States can produce, we have the Trump/Vance Administration.

Trump has not used nuclear weapons -yet. He has, however, unilaterally launched military strikes on Iran without a declaration of war, without a congressional vote, and without a coherent strategy beyond the impulse of a man who abuses power with impunity. He has imposed a naval blockade on Cuba. He attacked Venezuela and kidnapped their contested President and his wife. He has done all of this while the Epstein/Trump/Maxwell files sit largely redacted, obstructed, or possibly destroyed, the credible accusations of rape and the abuse of girls and women buried by his loyalist Pam Bondi, beneath the relentless churn of the next Trump-caused outrage."

Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

the two No Kings nearest me are in Beacon and Mt. Kisco (New York). I haven't decided which to attend.

George A. Polisner's avatar

I'll be among some great folks in Tucson, Arizona (but please, no autographs). https://nokings3-tucson-ov.org/.

Thank you for all you continue to do Jeff!

Derek Smith's avatar

I'll meet you down in NYC, Jeff. It's just a short hop on Metro North Hudson Line. Be one of hundreds of thousands.

Dr J's Sanity Space's avatar

I’ll be in Columbia MD

Irascible Ink's avatar

I'll be with y'all in spirit. Ain't no way I'm leaving Canada any time before Nov., and that's only if things get so fucked up I have to vote in person.

Post plenty of pics and vids, folks!

Polly Sears's avatar

If I wasn't stuck in rehab, I would be at one. Hope it is GIGANTIC!!!!

George A. Polisner's avatar

I'll carry an extra sign for you Polly -you'll be with all of us -at least virtually.

Suessl's avatar

One Day At A time. Oh wait

PollyP's avatar

As another Polly, I'll wear my special No Kings hat AND carry a sign. One for you and one for me.

Polly Sears's avatar

You are a dear!!! Greatly appreciate your comment!

Sandy's avatar

Congratulations on your recovery!

Neal Stiffelman's avatar

Again with this meshuga. Jesus fucking Christ on a bicycle, as my mother used to say when she read about the Birchers and their antics.

Robert Eckert's avatar

Meshuga is the adjective "crazy"; Meshugenah the noun "crazy person"; Meshugos the abstract noun "craziness"

Dave Drell's avatar

Thanks Robert!

now what s the difference between schlamazel

and schlameil?

Robert Eckert's avatar

The shlamazel is the guy who always knocks over the pitcher of milk. The schlemiel is the guy who always has the pitcher of milk spill all over him.

arne link's avatar

Thank you for clarifying that.

RZolu's avatar

Sadly, Biden got blamed for the financial mess that Fuckface left him from his first regime. And somehow, the idiot won a second term…and continues to fuck up the good economy Biden left him…like any modern Republican president. How DO these republicans-fuck-up-the-economy presidents keep winning elections (Rhetorical question)?

Gordon Berry's avatar

Thanks Jeff - your commentaries make my day every day.

All I ask for Christmas is that "EVERYBODY VOTES"

Carol C's avatar

Vote Blue for your children’s children.

Vote Republican for your boss’s boss.

Brenda Ball's avatar

Love this! I think I found my No Kings sign! Thanks.

Carol C's avatar

I saw it somewhere and thought the same.

Dave Drell's avatar

All I ask for is that the fat fuck is lying in a grave next to the wife he pushed down the stairs!

Punkette's avatar

Bravo, Jeff! 💪🏼💙 I love the smell of GQP desperation in the morning.

Kathleen Weber's avatar

smells like Brett Kavanaugh puke! beer and stomach acid!