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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.

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...

Sharon C Storm's avatar

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

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

Theresa Breach's avatar

We just refer to him as The Convict

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.

Kristy Kanen's avatar

tr💩mp , it's my go to.

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

Ole Anderson's avatar

How was it? That bad, huh.

Megan Ross's avatar

Hail Mary sounds absolutely ridiculous. Hollyweird just keeps getting more weird!🤣

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.

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.

Carol Jacobson's avatar

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

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.

devourerofpancakes's avatar

I think we bombed them first.

SPW's avatar

👀🤯 🤬🤬🤬‼️.

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!).

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
43mEdited

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.

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

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!

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.

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/

Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

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

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.

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%?

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.

Sue Pemberton's avatar

Don't forget your umbilical cord.

Jane's avatar

😂😂😂

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.

Mary de Ridder's avatar

😅😂😂😂😅

Linda McCaughey's avatar

Damn. Haven't worn one since the sixties!

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

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.

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.

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

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

Grace Kennedy's avatar

Leave your vaccination records at home.

Diana's avatar

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

Karen Hall's avatar

🤣🤣🤣👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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

Cathy Wray's avatar

Good one!! 😆

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.

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
3hEdited

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

Richard's avatar

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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!

Maggie&Lefty's avatar

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

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 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️🎯

HI2thDoc's avatar

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

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?

Carol C's avatar

Douglas, Do I detect sarcasm in you question?

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.

Joe Witkowski's avatar

He did this week

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

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

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.

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

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.

Nancy's avatar

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Carol C's avatar

J Hardy, thank you. That was masterful!

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

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

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!

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)?

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!

Punkette's avatar

Lol! Yuck 🤢

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.

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!