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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

okay, technically that house's back yard was the Long Island Sound, but that's not as poetic as 'the fucking ocean'

yes, I'm a Responsible Journalist and Everythingβ„’ who is duty-bound to report the facts, but please let me slide this one time

Wendy The Druid πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸŒˆ's avatar

Jeff, watching the rats leave the sinking ship is the best part of all of this. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-what-burns-and-what-we-plant-in-the-ash

Also I cant stop watching Trumper fall asleep in meetings. Its just too delicious to watch him pass out cold mid meeting.

Bob Bowden's avatar

I can’t wait for the day he falls asleep and fails to wake up, while 77 million Americans insist he’s just taking the greatest nap ever

Joyce's avatar

It'll be a take on the Monty Python Dead Parrot routine.

Hollie Rood's avatar

Brilliant 🀣🀣🀣

Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

Wouldn't it be hilarious for some REALLY BIG GUY to also pick him up, thump him on the counter while exclaiming: 'he's dead, expired, gone to meet his maker...you nailed him to his perch'!

Mps's avatar

Ceased to be

Radio Free Fredbox's avatar

He's pining for Epstein Island!

Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

The Epstein Island Fjords! Epstein obliged - called him 'home'. ;) Now wouldn't THAT be 'loverly'?

KP Johnson Austin, TX's avatar

My new book: "The Longest Blink."

A.J. Madison's avatar

That's how my mother-in-law went. She was on hospice care, which allowed higher doses of morphine. It managed her pain, which also slowed down her heart & lungs. While watching a Hallmark Movie, my wife said, "I don't think she's breathing."

KP Johnson Austin, TX's avatar

That's the way to go...

Cheri Collins's avatar

That would be magnificent, Bob! Not the claims, but the permanent nap live(dead, hee hee) on TV!

Denise Donaldson's avatar

It definitely won't be 77 million, not in 2024 and not when he kicks.

Hollie Rood's avatar

Yeh, he’s exhausted from the excessive blinking

Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

He needed to rest those beady bulgy toady eyes from all the 'blinking'. (I know everyone else calls them piggy eyes and I DO think he's a pig)... but he always resembles a toad's head halfway out of a snake's mouth to me. He was even more orange than usual in this 'interview' and already massively enraged by having to remove his fucking name from the Kennedy Center - so there was NOT going to be a real interview. I do give her credit for continuing to repeat her 'where's the evidence of that'? and 'I'm not crooked' - but I DO so wish she'd also added - 'no, I'M not stupid, look in a mirror if you want stupid, you fucking nasty old fool, I'M done with listening to your bullshit misogynistic insults - go fuck yourself' - then getting up while telling the crew to cut the feed'. It would have driven him NUTS to have her beat him to the punch. Aah, I can dream, can't I?

Hollie Rood's avatar

A beautiful dream we’ve all dreamt about

June Butler's avatar

He's just taking the final loooooooing blink.

Miselle's avatar

I am a Micheal Cohen fan, but I disagree with his insistence that Trump isn't falling asleep. Cohen claims that Trump always does that to focus, and that if he was sleeping, his head would nod or he'd slump.

Wonder if Cohen saw the most recent when Trump is leaning sideways?

Also wonder if there is tapes from Trump 1.0 that show him "concentrating".

If anyone has a link to those, please post them!

EDIT:

I will take the comment from US Blues as a question to me.

I watch Cohen because he is the ONLY political commenter out here who was actually in Trump's circle. I know he had a falling out with Midas Touch because they apparently think Cohen knows more about Epstein than he's letting on about.

IMHO, I believe Cohen doesn't know anything, because I don't think Trump ever considered him worthy of being in the innermost circle. I think Trump probably used Cohen for what he could and considered him expendable. Cohen did jail time and is extremely bitter regarding Trump, but I think he knows Trump better than others who only speculate on Trump's motives.

But as someone else said, to each their own.

US Blues's avatar

F$&k Michael Cohen. Why anyone listens to him, I’ll never know.

arne link's avatar

100%. I also think that Lev Parnas is skeevy. I do not watch either of them, but to each their own. It's still a free country. Kinda.

wisewebwoman's avatar

OMG thank you. I thought I was the only one on the planet that found Lev creepy and changing his stripes to fit the moment. Can't stand him or Cohen. Slimy bastards.

Steve in SoCal's avatar

The whole lot of them is skeevy

arne link's avatar

Except for Jeff and Meidas Touch, and This Will Stand, and a few others, I agree.

Bob's avatar

Just because Sammy The Bull helped put Gotti in prison doesn’t mean he was suddenly not a crooked motherfucker, as shown by his crimes that got him booted out of witness protection.

Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

I believe that Lev Parnas freely admitted to not being a decent person when he was going along for the ride and 'in frump's good graces' at the time. I don't spend any time focusing on him. However, I DO hope you're not confusing what he did and his breaking away from magat-world with his son Aaron? Aaron has proven himself and goes out of his way to post consistently anti-frump and his thugs' stuff WITH the receipts.

Kati Kertesz's avatar

Wow. Didn’t connect the two. I appreciate Aaron’s reporting.

I know personally : just bc you’re related by blood does not make you like them. There’s family I’ve completely cut myself off from bc they’re poison.

MargaretT's avatar

I agree about Lev. I follow Michael Cohen though. My perspective is that he was hired by Trump only a few years after taking an entry level attorney position at a law firm, and initially a young attorney would have welcomed the chance to work with someone that well known. Don't forget that Trump considered himself a Democrat in his younger years, but his racist attitudes later opened the eyes of most people. Michael Cohen strikes me as someone who found himself living comfortably while legal issues in real estate and business law, and sometimes at that stage of life, people compare their number of years until retirement with the number of years it would take to settle in somewhere else. I have no actual knowledge about Cohen in this regard, of course, but as I reached upper middle age in my IT career I would reach have similar musings when I considered whether changing jobs would be worth another initial proving period. I always decided to stay. Cohen suffered quite a lot in his incarceration, which was due to his role with Trump. I can't imagine how he would still feel loyal enough to cover for Trump now.

George in Atlanta's avatar

He's a vile motherfucker. But one that knows some shit because he was in the room for years. We can *not* listen to him when we calculate that he's lying more than he's telling the truth, but his inherent sliminess is not a disqualifying factor. He's a temporarily useful dirtbag.

US Blues's avatar

That’s what people thought about trump and look where that’s gotten us except Putin must be thrilled.

rlritt's avatar

Problem for us is we knew he was a phony conceited liar, but for some reason his followers, Im sorry, voters, thought it was just manly bluster and he'd fight for them. They did not realizes he was spoiled brat who has whining and conniving and getting his own just to shut him up all his life.

Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

I'd appreciate you defining exactly which 'people thought that about trump'? I for one have known just WHAT an awful pig he's been for his entire life and certainly NEVER considered him 'useful' under ANY circumstances AND my Combat Vet husband despised him from day one, so who exactly are the people you mean? Frumpists fell in love with this critter they thought was a 'teevee star' and signed on happily DESPITE his 'grabbing women by their - genitals' even LOVING the idea of him doing that, so it wasn't as though they believed he was a dirtbag. Look at the faked AI crap they gin up for him - as an Astronaut (sans helmet on the Moon), his head on Stallone's body and on and on, EVEN as a general in full combat gear! That one has so enraged every one of the veterans I know! His magat cultists see him as one of them - only very recently as their everyday costs soar and their children just might DIE in his fucking hallucinatory WAR are they possibly beginning to realize he might be the fake-ass stone-cold LIAR those like me told them he was for fucking decades - long before he 'decided' he could steal the WH IF he lied about and trashed everyone else who was fit to serve as President and were too classy to tell him to fuck off. We New Yorkers kicked him the fuck out - which is why he so wants to punish New York, due to his sad little fee-fees being hurt. He never HAD 'enemies', just those of us who knew he was a racist dumbfuck - too stupid to ever be in government. HE created his 'list' out of whole cloth, something most people still don't get.

MaryTR's avatar

Yah, he even screwed Midastouch. They had to remove him.

Wendy The Druid πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸŒˆ's avatar

Probably why blue amp and schecter and schuster still embrace him over at blueamp.co

I revealed their bs game months ago. It’s not hard to buy an email list and upload it into your substack to give you the appearance of 500k in subs ( what blueamp is doing )

Bob's avatar

He was pretty slumped over the other day for his Let’s Bring Back Black Lung dog and asslicker show.

Bonnie Council's avatar

He's either sleeping or shamelessly bored, which is no way for a president to behave during meetings, boring or not.

Outdoorluvr's avatar

Can't stand Cohen and never trusted him, but I don't think trump has been sleeping in these meetings, either. At least, not all the times that people have called attention to. I think he's just displaying total boredom whenever the conversation isn't revolving around HIM.

Denise Donaldson's avatar

Well...he displays that dead-to-the-world posture even when his flunkies are salivating over him, so....

rlritt's avatar

Either way, thats not how you act if you are in a meeting with grown ups. And his head leaning to the side and mouth is drooping, 9 out of 10 he's sleeping.

Outdoorluvr's avatar

Sorry. I didn't realize that any of them are grown-ups!

rlritt's avatar

So when Trumps eyes are closed and his mouth is sagging and his head leans to the side and everyone is ignoring him and carrying a conversation, he is actually concentrating and his steely mind is hyper focusing? Right.

DebJS's avatar

MC also came out recently (before the split with MT) claiming that he felt pressured and coerced into testifying against Trump by Alvin Bragg and Letitia James in the cases against him, and regrets being made their "star witness" against him. This conveniently timed to help bolster trump's efforts to get the felony fraud conviction and business fraud verdict against the Trump Org set aside.

Dave Drell's avatar

Michael Cohen owner of the Mets? Wow, he’s someone who wastes more money than Drumpf!

Kati Kertesz's avatar

Appreciate your POV.

I did read and listen to Cohen. I appreciate his owning his part and having remorse. It shows his humanity.

But I don’t believe at all that trump is β€œconcentrating β€œ. He’s falling asleep bc he’s up all night rage-not-tweeting. Insomnia is a key component of dementia.

I think Cohen knows a lot about the Epstein horror. How could he not. The question is: Why is he trying to save his ass on this?

Suel J's avatar

It's the best. I'll take what I can from this.

Wendy The Druid πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸŒˆ's avatar

it doesnt help the inflation, and the fact that I spent 278 dollars for a weeks worth of groceries yesterday, but it does make things less painful.

Karen Kennedy Weber's avatar

I get it. I'm buying groceries for two households right now, and it's breaking my bank. My youngest son is in a group home, and it's against the law in Florida for the home to buy his groceries. Hence, I'm on the hook for feeding and clothing him.

Rick's avatar

agree re our narcoleptic! also fun to watch the faces of the human props on camera as they pretend there is no stench pervading their olfactories, taking permanent residence in their clothing

Kati Kertesz's avatar

Love that image of the rats leaving … totally describes it.

Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

That SO red face with all that RAGE erupting at Kristin Welker was astonishing to see (although I didn't watch - have only seen the clips). I could NOT have contained myself - if ANYONE - the fucking king of Britain, MBS or anyone had spoken to me like that - regardless of the penalty, I'd have fired back. Being 'professional' means having to call this particularly orange asshole 'sir'? NEVER! The most I could muster would be Mr. as an address. It's disgusting to hear anyone call him 'sir'. Ugh. You're still giving him more credit than I can - I'd allowed age 7 - maybe (given the mashed potatoes dumping on his head bit) but earlier I'd always thought of him as a fucking toddler. Methinks you're more accurate...he's never gotten past that tantrum-throwing toddler stage and still demands his mommy come fix everything for him, even as he hates her - including all women.

Mary Hall's avatar

In case you missed it, TπŸ’©p tore the mic off his lapel, threw it on the floor, and then stepped on it as he was leaving in a huff.

Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

The original clip I saw went by too quickly, BUT Jeff's gif and seeing it here shows that much more clearly. Thank you - appreciate your clarifying it. In my mind I honestly didn't think he was physically capable of 'stomping' - on anything, lol - especially how he looked and behaved in that interview. smdh What a fucking BABY!

myhoopbabies's avatar

Meant to say: Thanks for sharing such gorgeous pictures of a peaceful time with your lovies. Katie has quite a good eye.

myhoopbabies's avatar

I have always been the house finder for our family trips and my favorite was a place on the CA coast called Sea Ranch where, if you're willing to part with many extra dollars, your back yard can be the fucking ocean there also. Epic sunsets.

Kristin H.'s avatar

According to the interwebs, a sound is an ocean or sea inlet, so no need to rescind any poetic license.

MmeRose's avatar

The Long Island Sound is salty and it’s freezing cold, so, as far as I’m concerned, it IS the fucking ocean.

Chris Hierholzer's avatar

When I want to hear the sounds of the beach I go to the grocery store and listen to all the sea gulls in the parking lot while drinking a cold beer.

Cathy Rady's avatar

on your way there pick up an order of french fries and drop a few on the pavement.

You'll get plenty of help knocking off the rest of 'em

Chris Hierholzer's avatar

The dark side of love for seagulls.

Paula's avatar

If we got a bag of dog food the dogs didn't like, my husband would take it to the parking lot of our employer. We were just a mile as the gull flies from Lake Michigan. Indiana version of The Birds wouuld ensue.

Rick's avatar

out east by old lyme, tides flush it well, so it's generally petty clean -- if there are beach closures it's often a result of cormorant poop washing off the rocky islands and shoreline

Chris Hierholzer's avatar

I've heard all I want to hear about poop from the adventures of the Oval Office.

DebJS's avatar

Plus you can't see land on the other side (though it may be hiding behind the clouds).

Miselle's avatar

Uncle Jess--I almost thought SOMEONE was finally taking up your journalistic challenge.

Sigh.

Once again, my hopes dashed.

P123Sunny's avatar

and she was so close

Denise Donaldson's avatar

She did press him, but I don't think she was anywhere near asking what the fuck is wrong with him. And she said nothing when he called her "darling" and patted her on the shoulder (or steadied his balance).

P123Sunny's avatar

I’m giving her props for the word EVIDENCE - loud & clear

Denise Donaldson's avatar

That's a very low bar, though. Kind of a minimal ask, considering.

P123Sunny's avatar

Right… and it took us almost a decade to even get hereβ€¦πŸ˜£

Marian Goldsmith's avatar

I figure she was keeping her temper and trying to be a genuine "professional" which has been hammered into her psyche and on automatic especially when she's on screen. And also thinking consciously or subconsciously about her job, especially consider what just happened at CBS. I mean if you're gonna grandstand in response to the greatest snake oil salesman of our era you have to be prepared to get walloped one way or another and have your dukes up. Let's face it. She seems to have done pretty well considering how many pseudo journalists have completely passed up that kind if opportunity.

Denise Donaldson's avatar

I think she did the bare minimum. And as I said elsewhere, if she's that worried about her job, she shouldn't be where she is. There's no comparison with actual dedicated journalists. And then she walked it all back later, anyway.

I do agree that even that minimal resistance is years overdue.

rlritt's avatar

I like that she said with an annoying voice, I came all the way to Wisconsin to interview you. Although did she really think he would admit to lying?

Bonnie Council's avatar

We live on the Sound (well, walking distance way, not exactly right "on" it) and we just call it "the beach." You're right - your term is much more poetic.

I won't be watching Game 3 tonight, but I'm really hoping we can hear those boos way out here in Westchester County. That would make my day.

Rick's avatar

you shd be able to hear me yelling out my Brooklyn window!

i intend to see what i can stir up among my neighbors -- lotta kids here tho -- nothing past the first quarter

Bethie U's avatar

I would like to know what those pretty colored drinks are sitting next to Claudia in that nifty condiments holder thingy. Does everyone get their own set or do you have to share? She sure picks the best spots!

Jayme Wolworth's avatar

I thought they were cocktails at first but maybe they are candles? Either way, clever and pretty.

Elizabeth George's avatar

Admittedly, at this point so many things puzzle me about Trump that most days I am dizzy with disbelief that he is actually the β€œleader” of our country. But for me the biggest puzzle is: Why the bloody hell can’t he frigging let go of the 2020 election? He β€œwon” in 2024; the SCOTUS gave him immunity from virtually everything; he’s had a Very Happy Time destroying virtually everything that was even moderately decent about the United States. So WHY DOES HE KEEP BLATHERING ABOUT THE 2020 election???? Help me with this, someone. I truly don’t get it.

DebJS's avatar

His poor, fragile ego couldn't accept the fact that he lost, was a loser ("I can't believe I lost to that guy [Biden]" he once said). His niece Mary (a clinical psychologist) explains the psychology and the family history that factored into his extreme and dangerous actions.

rlritt's avatar

Because he is a forking two year old in a creepy old man body who only thinks of himself.

Ben Smyth's avatar

The β€œdo spacesuits come in size roly-poly” paid that forward and then some

P123Sunny's avatar

That said I thought you were a New Jerseyan vs New Yorker, not to nitpick

Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

born in NJ, moved to NY when I was 17, lived in NYC and Westchester County for a total of 52 years and counting. how do the judges rule on that? I will abide by their decision

P123Sunny's avatar

Both states have a legit claim. Those are solid numbers

HI2thDoc's avatar

"Born in Arizona

Moved to Babylonia

King Tut"

-Steve Martin

Bob's avatar

β€œGot a condo made of stone-a”

P123Sunny's avatar

OK getting that song stuck in my head JUST SALVAGED MY DAY - ty!!!

Kevin Rice's avatar

Baby shark, do-do-da-dooo-da-dooo

Cathy Rady's avatar

nothing like an Earworm, I always say say say say say say say say say ...!

P123Sunny's avatar

Always felt if you lived in NYC for even one year - you get the lifelong new yorker card

Wendy The Druid πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸŒˆ's avatar

Jeff, I dont care what anyone says, You are a New Yorker. Through and through.

Forgive my statement if offensive.

P123Sunny's avatar

adding angst and controversy makes the whole thing all the more β€˜Jersey ish’

P123Sunny's avatar

+to complete the picture somebody’s brother-in-law is usually involved ftr

P123Sunny's avatar

NJ used to losing… np

Lolly Schenck's avatar

Local boy makes good. We New Jerseyans claim you as one of our own, dear Jeff!

Sharon C Storm's avatar

As a fellow New Jersian, I agree. Lots of great people came from NJ.

Robert Eckert's avatar

When Boswell first met Dr. Johnson, Johnson asked him where he was from.

"Glasgow."

"That's a good place to be from."

Gently, Jack Jones's avatar

Jeff you represent the best of both states!

Susan Keefer's avatar

You’re a New Yorker, Jeff. I was born in NJ but spent most of my life in the DC area, so I consider myself a Washingtonian.

Marney's avatar

Very wet in terms of big water

Hollie Rood's avatar

Gladly! It looked gorgeous. Reminded me of my Grandparents place when I was young, looking onto the Firth of Clyde and the Isle of Arran . I loved the sounds of the waves and seagulls β™₯️

Cheri Collins's avatar

Even though I’d spend several minutes on the creation of LIS via the glacial meltwater while teaching, stressing that it, indeed, is not the ocean, but a very precious brackish environment, I’ll allow you to slide on this one. Once. 🀣

SPW's avatar

Slide away big guy. You’re allowed and since the LI Sound is salty, doesn’t that count as ocean?

Eskaveeda's avatar

Looks like a lovely place for a holiday. Slide away!

Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

today in Shit That Happened While I Was Busy Writing This Shitβ€”

Israel and Iran are either ceasefiring or not ceasefiring, depending on who you ask

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mnrvi5tpqm24

Kay-El's avatar

I read somewhere that it’s a β€œfragile ceasefire”. I think that’s quite the euphemism when missiles and bombs have been lobbed.

TBM's avatar
Jun 8Edited

IKR. I read that Israel πŸ’£ bombs Gaza killing 8 or Iran lobs missiles at Israel causing air raid alarms to go off β€œthreatening fragile ceasefire.” Yeah β€œthreatening” does a lot of work there. Like Hitler threatened the fragile Molotov Ribbentrop Pact w/Operation Barbarossa.

Oh and Kristen got oh so close to winning Uncle Jeff’s Pulitzer Prize. All she had to do was say β€œI came all

the way to Wisconsin β€”what in the fuck is wrong with you?”

Robert Eckert's avatar

When firing has not actually ceased, it is not a ceasefire.

DebJS's avatar

Trump says it's a ceasefire, so it is a ceasefire - in his pants.

Ralph Roberts's avatar

We are so used to hearing from the sociopathic, pathological liar in the White House that a ceasefire now means continued bombings. Thank you for your lack of attention to this matter.

Rick Walters's avatar

I wonder how explaining to your life partner that you’re practicing β€œfragile monogamy” would go. β€œFragile full-time” to your employer?

Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

Which is pretty much what has been happening for months.

Marian Vitale's avatar

Well, as you know, "ceasefire" means "moderate shooting". WTF is this bizarre timeline we find ourselves living in?

Eskaveeda's avatar

I’ll believe it when it happens with verifiable evidence.

Cheri Collins's avatar

Schroedinger strikes again . . .and doesn’t at the same time.

Cathy Rady's avatar

When WE break the ceasefire the media reports it as 'defensive actions'

When Iran does, the media reports claim that their actions could trigger an 'escalation'

so much for 'Both Sides' reporting

Bob's avatar

Donny or one of his butt-lickers said it’s a ceasefire because they weren’t shooting β€œtoo much” or some such rot. That ain’t what happened yesterday.

TBM's avatar

IKR. I read that Israel πŸ’£ bombs Gaza killing 8 or Iran lobs missles at Israel causing air raid alarms to go off β€œthreatening fragile ceasefire.” Yeah threatening does a lot of work there. Like Hitler threatened the fragile Molotov Ribbentrop Pact w/Operation Barbarossa.

Oh and Kristen got oh so close to winning Uncle Jeff’s Pulitzer Prize. All she had to do was say β€œI came all

the way to Wisconsin β€”what in the fuck is wrong with you?”

Mike Hammer's avatar

Jeff, for clarity I looked up the medical name of this episode. Trump had what is called a narcissistic collapse or implosion. It is a psychological breakdown that occurs when a person with narcissistic personality disorder can no longer maintain their inflated, grandiose self image.the word Trump has a new analogy!

Claudia Classon's avatar

Oh, but β€œcolicky piss baby melts down” is so much more poetic (and true!).

Susan Niemann's avatar

πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

Terri Nighswonger's avatar

I like, β€œRump is a fucking asshole”. Another Fucking Asshole Baby Temper Tantrum.”

myhoopbabies's avatar

I was really rooting for some other kind of collapse. Did you see how red his face got? I also thought he stomped on that microphone on purpose while he was still screeching in her face, but maybe not.

George in Atlanta's avatar

Disagree. I want his collapse to be emotional, mental, spiritual. Physical decline can be woven into the heroic canon they want to create for him. The humiliation of a public, and violent, mental breakdown would redound to weakening the entire MAGA project, something that would benefit us and the world.

Robert Eckert's avatar

We have had so many public breakdowns, and the MAGAts seem unperturbed. What would benefit us and the world the most is if he would just drop dead. Every single day that he is alive, the future prospects for the USA diminish.

George in Atlanta's avatar

Oh no, the effect on MAGA, as it defines itself at any moment, is not what I'm referring to. I'm talking about everybody else. The best outcome we could hope for is that future generations use 'MAGA' as either a curse or as mocking irony. They've earned their place in the list of the most flawed and failed movements created in the modern Western world. The longer Donny drags this out, stinking the place up both literally and metaphorically, the less time they will have to try and salvage whatever credible image they may have had.

His dropping dead would not allow us to substantially accelerate the recovery of the country. That's because 'recovery' means a return to something from before. The US of 2015 is gone, and won't be back. It's even money if 'we' will exist as a single entity in the medium term. We can't unsee what we've seen and unlearn what we've learned. Whatever comes next will be new. He exposed the weaknesses and flaws endemic in representative democracies, and specifically highlighted the results of having an uneducated, disengaged citizenry.

Robert Eckert's avatar

Pete's been talking for a long time about how there is no "again" in this world, and Dems mustn't campaign on a promise to put things back as they were before, because that won't happen for one, and the way things were was not working for a lot of people for another, that's how we got here.

But this work of creating something new cannot begin until Dumb Antichrist is buried. Every day that he survives, the possibilities for what the new America will be get smaller. America will certainly be poorer, less socially cohesive, and forfeit most of its former global interest, but how far the country is diminished still depends on how long the continued ruination goes on.

Edith Brideau's avatar

Could we (or would it be unkind of us to) wish that MAGAs also drop dead in a painful way?

George in Atlanta's avatar

As goes he, so goes MAGA.

Jan Moon's avatar

"just drop dead." Clear, concise, succinct. I'll drink to that.

Denise Donaldson's avatar

I agree with both you and George here, Robert. I can envision the kind of stark raving bonkers episode George is talking about. That is, an incident in which he throws things, tries to throttle the reporter and then trashes the set, starts pounding walls and screaming incoherently, foams at the mouth, yells for his mommy, falls on the floor and has a literal tantrum, and then curls up in a ball, drooling. All in the space of about a minute. There would be no way even MAGA could spin that.

And you're that as long as that doesn't happen, with his death shortly after, our chances fade.

Robert Eckert's avatar

"There would be no way even MAGA could spin that." This is where I differ. MAGAts seem to be impervious to the most insane behavior from him.

Denise Donaldson's avatar

You may be right. I'd be interested to see the explanation. πŸ˜‰

myhoopbabies's avatar

As much as I love your description of said tantrum (so good), I still think these cultists would take it in stride as a justifiable reaction to the out-of-control liberal media. "He's so passionate!"

Denise Donaldson's avatar

That could be. Part of the "shooting someone on 5th Avenue" thing.

Still, if he had a meltdown like that, recorded for all the world to see, and the cultists continued to support him, I'd bet that they'd find their own lives would start to disintegrate. Once you peg the weirdness meter, people start to look at you funny and back away slowly.

Hilary M's avatar

He’s never looked quite as hideous πŸ‘Ή

Natalia Lincoln's avatar

The great thing is, heβ€˜s looking the best he’ll ever look again. It’s all downhill from here.

wisewebwoman's avatar

I was thinking the trowelling of the orange plaster looks about 1" thick.

Terri Nighswonger's avatar

He is always hideous.

barb's avatar

My favorite part of his storming off was when he couldn't stay upright and had to lean on Kristen Welker's arm or would have toppled over. I could only bring myself to watch the very last exchange and cringed having to hear his belligerent, unhinged tirade.

Joyce's avatar

I would have suddenly dipped my shoulder back and away, if I were Ms. Welker. Then again, I would've started the interview with, "What the fuck is wrong with you?" and been dragged away by masked thugs.....

Terri Nighswonger's avatar

Kristen should have let him fall.

Ralph Roberts's avatar

I was hoping for a massive, debilitating stroke, but then I thought, hell no, that might make him coherent.

Kristy Kanen's avatar

I hoped he was gonna have THE BIG ONE !

P123Sunny's avatar

We’ll just gloss over it and keep moving… that’s what we’ve been doing anyway

P123Sunny's avatar

R Congresscritters must be PROUD

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

Mike Johnson didn't see it. He was too busy studying his abridged Bible.

Suel J's avatar

He is blind deaf and dum (b). He's missing a lot of life on purpose.

Rick's avatar

definitely def

P123Sunny's avatar

The umbrella from his brunch cocktail poked him in the eye at that exact moment ppl are saying

DJ Headthrob's avatar

And checking his porn bracelet.

devourerofpancakes's avatar

With the help of congress and most of the press.

P123Sunny's avatar

It’s a club (not exactly breaking news). Guess it’s worth a few uncomfortable moments if your stock trades are quietly piling up millions for your family

Lucius's avatar

So an adult tantrum.

George in Atlanta's avatar

Now THAT's interesting. So, he lost, however briefly his self-image? That's different than smoothly assuring us of implausible scenarios involving 'big strong firefighters with tears in their eyes'. If he has enough crackups like that, could it lead to a full-crisis collapse? A sobbing wreck? Shit himself and have to be carried away? I want to see Stephen Cheung wave that away.

Robert Eckert's avatar

He's shat himself and had to be carried away before.

George in Atlanta's avatar

...even better, they had to evac the room before moving him to avoid further humiliation. Ewwww.

Tish Grier's avatar

It happens when people have advanced dementia and are confronted with facts or anything that doesn't conform to their worldview -- which is usually delusional. The storming off too is a dementia thing. The cabinet meetings of praise are the way dementia patienta are treated too. Because their worldview cant be questioned or fact checked because they lose their shit. On top of being a disgusting narcissist pathological liar, he also has a raging case of dementia.

Joyce's avatar

My mom--who was normally quite calm and cooperative and always up for a good laugh--would occasionally get agitated over some imaginary incident she believed had actually happened. Trying to convince her that everything was fine and nothing had happened only caused her to grow increasingly upset; we quickly learned and changed tactics--we'd offer some sympathetic noises and assure her we'd look into it, so she needn't worry anymore. Change the subject once she was sufficiently soothed.

She wasn't the fucking President of the United States.

Although we'd be a helluva lot better off if she had been.

PEACE, LOVE, RESIST's avatar

Reminds me of the kids I worked with who, instead of doing the math they find difficult, try to stab me in the leg with their pencil. No impulse control, no emotional regulation, just lash out and then act surprised when I tell them I won’t be working with them any longer. I got out of that business but it sure does remind me of that crazy lack of stability to watch trump’s face turn red, talk nonsense over simple questions and then throw his mic on the floor & step on it.

Evelyn Freitas's avatar

Apparently when the price of vehicle fuel skyrockets, narcissistic fuel runs out for the idiot that made that happen.

Merrill's avatar

The "Meet The Press" interview with Trump shows Trump's psychopathic mentality. It is inexplicable to me, but not a small number of Americans believe we are safer if POTUS has the psychopathic tendencies to kill at will. Trump is proving he does as long as the counties are weak and not really a current threat. His interview sounds like Iran poses an existential threat to the US. Remember how Jimmy Carter, a wonderful human, behaved when Iran had hostage leverage over the US. He was willing to damage his presidential image rather than risk the death of a single American.

In Trump's power fantasies, I guess Venezuela posed an existential threat to the US. Maybe Cuba and Greenland? Funny it's not Russia or China. What's left of Trump's mental capacity is a psychopathic pea brain. If the MAGA GOP won't step up, they are complicit in treason.

Denise Donaldson's avatar

Oh, just wait until that implosion hits critical mass. That thought scares me every day.

Unity In Defiance's avatar

How in the world can dear leader attend a Knicks game? Did they build a ballroom to hold the game in?

Is Donnie bringing his own ballroom to stay safe?

michellefromchicago's avatar

He will probably roll into the Garden in a tank, complete with a machine gun turret and approximately one bazillion Secret Service agents

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

Don't forget the drones. Drones like nobody has ever seen.

arne link's avatar

Yeah, cue the drones when the entire venue bursts into a chant of "fuck you Trump".

Terri Nighswonger's avatar

Major Fucker like no one has ever seen.

Dave Drell's avatar

I’ll put money on it that he’s a late cancel- which would screw everyone attending (2 hours early - no bags- no stilettos,etc)

barb's avatar

And how much will his unwanted appearance cost us??

Joe Witkowski's avatar

If he sits with James Dolan and Timothy Cardinal Michael Dolan, three of the biggest phonies in salvation history will be in the same row.

Joe Witkowski's avatar

His own bathroom - a crate of Dependz

HI2thDoc's avatar

He raves and he rants

Evades and then slants

Like his noxious expels

He only excels

At lying and shitting his pants

Sandy's avatar

🀣🀣🀣

arne link's avatar

I have come to believe that he actually likes filling his diaper when people are gathered around him. Like a toddler saying "see what I can do". I'm a big boy now. You have to pay attention to me.

wisewebwoman's avatar

I've known real toddlers do this as a kind of baby power move to show displeasure. First time seeing an adult toddler do it. And we can all see the noses curl around him.

Betsy L's avatar

Well, that and it probably smells terrible, so that people have to either give up access to him or get gassed.

arne link's avatar

That's real power, Baby. Force people to inhale the smell of your shit. Major power move.

Jane's avatar

πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

Jane's avatar

πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

DJ Headthrob's avatar

Wonder if he'll commit a fragrant foul?

HI2thDoc's avatar

Now there's an oxymoron

DJ Headthrob's avatar

More like a noxious basketball redundancy--especially when one considers the subject-at-hand.

HI2thDoc's avatar

I'm waiting for his next scam aimed at his cult stooges, perhaps disposable diapers with the stars and stripes on them. Trumper Dumpers, perhaps.

Frank Nuts's avatar

Unity, β€œwhat a burn, what a sizzle, what a cut!” ( I got that from my cousins when they lived in Oakland CA as I recall β€” not sure if it was a local creation or was national). In any case it acknowledges your Trump take down with a nostalgic memory from my past.

Unity In Defiance's avatar

I like it! Haha! What an original!

DJ Headthrob's avatar

Back in the day those MSG/Penn Station bathrooms were like something from a Fellini film. Seems appropriate.

Sandy's avatar

🀣🀣

Mark Slattery's avatar

I am so hoping for a five-minute (minimum) chant of "FUCK YOU TRUMP" at tonight's game.

Susan Niemann's avatar

Same here! A crowd of protestors were outside of his building in New York chanting that.

Joyce's avatar

When he screwed up the US Open by showing up, the TV folks and/or tournament directors altered the sound feed in the stadium to dampen the boos.

Dave Drell's avatar

I’m betting that will happen here too.

DuduLovesBubu's avatar

I'm hoping for many raised middle fingers immediately under his sky box.

Terri Nighswonger's avatar

Oh YES!! Then chant β€œRemember Mussolini!!!”

Frank Nuts's avatar

LET IT BE SO Mark!

Terri Nighswonger's avatar

Let’s hope!! πŸ€£πŸ˜πŸ˜œβ˜ΊοΈπŸ˜„

Rick's avatar

when MSG is chanting stick your head out the wondow -- youll hear me -- and millions of NYCers -- like Rome during COVID!!!

Dave Drell's avatar

New Yawkers will definitely do that!

Diana's avatar

πŸ’₯πŸ’₯πŸ’₯

Diana's avatar

🀞🀞🀞😬πŸ’₯πŸ’₯πŸ’₯

Fastball Fredo's avatar

Jeff, what is left out of that interview was the fact the entire world saw that spectacle of anger, entitlement, sexism, arrogance plus no intellect whatsoever.. Geesh an utter national embarrassment.

Tish Grier's avatar

And advanced dementia.

Frank Nuts's avatar

Fredo, you think his pr guy is satan? Pretty sure it’s satan β€” wait…he’s Satan β€” sooo… that makes his pr guy β€œsatan’s little helper” (Sam Kinison please don’t sue me for plagiarism from the grave).

Ralph Roberts's avatar

We can hope his lunatic base will join Trump in a collective and massive stroke at his next interview with Kristen Welker.

Jane's avatar

And the Rethuglicans stand with him!

Derek Smith's avatar

So tired of this redneck from Queens. He's ruining this nation, and everything it stands for in the quest for ratings.

devourerofpancakes's avatar

Ruined. We are ruined.

Dana Jae Labrecque's avatar

Ruining the entire globe. Live your life to the fullest right now, my friends. When someone this mentally ill has the nuclear codes, you know that when he knows he’s in his last breathing day he’ll want it to be ours as well.

Tess's avatar

LOVE the Claudia pics (and you and Katie!). I hereby nominate YOU to get an interview with our so-called president of the United States! I would PAY MONEY to see it!! Shit…you could even make it up and write his answers….you wouldn’t even need to meet him!!!!! Great post Jeff!!

Peaceful Mary T.'s avatar

And Jeff could finally ask him that most important question, "What the fuck is wrong with you??, and win himself a Pulitzer Prize!

Susan Niemann's avatar

THAT would be a ratings blast! I'd love to see it. πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

Cheri Collins's avatar

Normally, I don’t tune in to watch these things, but for this! Champagne and popcorn!

Terri Nighswonger's avatar

Jeff interviewing Big Shit. That would be epic. πŸ˜‹

Susan Niemann's avatar

"broadcasting from the set of Hee Haw."

πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ That set the tone for the rest of my week.

Now let's hope his white trash fight gets rained out. I read that a bunch of "A-List" people who were invited and saying 'Nahhhh". And maybe the lawsuit will stop it (doubtful) and MAYBE it will rain and rain some more. 🀞🀞

Fantastic photos. Relaxing and fun and happy. Those martinis looked good! Thanks for sharing.

arne link's avatar

I've never seen a martini round-about before. That may be an idea whose time has come.

Susan Niemann's avatar

Right…I’m down for ordering that!!

Kelly Ann O'Brien's avatar

If it rains, the gnats will multiply!

arne link's avatar

I've heard of killer hornets. Are there killer gnats? I sure hope so.

Joyce's avatar

It's DC--the former wetlands. The gnats, the mosquitoes......98% humidity.......Please let there be an ass-ripping thunderstorm with cloud to ground lightning.

Kelly Ann O'Brien's avatar

Gnats are small flies. Some of them can get bigger and meaner as they continue to live. Some like to bite!

Denise Donaldson's avatar

Organizers said that if there's lightning within a few miles of that cage, no fight.

So let's get those Jewish space lasers on stand-by!

Susan Niemann's avatar

This makes me happy!!!!

Denise Donaldson's avatar

IKR. It would make my week.

Rick's avatar

agree -- hee haw! rowan and martin! i want a tricycle.....

george  campbell's avatar

"Guests are strongly encouraged to arrive at least two hours before tip-off " So , two hours of extra alcohol consumption before the opening jump . What could possibly go wrong there ?

Joyce's avatar

The planned unofficial street party (I guess a sort of tailgate variation) has been banned. That is going to go over soooooo well with New Yorkers.

A talking head on MS-NOW this morning accurately noted, "If there's one thing New Yorkers hate, it's being inconvenienced." Considering that 90% of New Yorkers consider having to WAIT for three seconds after the traffic light goes green for that car in front to move to be an UNFORGIVABLE inconvenience, since 75% of New Yorkers start rolling forward three seconds BEFORE the light goes green, this..........ought to be good.

Sharon C Storm's avatar

They’ll be standing in lines, just like TSA at the airport. They won’t be drinking in the lines.

rlritt's avatar

It will take 2 hours just to clear security for all those people. I feel for them.

J Hardy Carroll's avatar

Thanks Jeff! My favorite moment of this tragedy was the fact he almost fell when he stood up, although the pouty baby tantrum face is a good contender for the Trump 3-dollar bill. This may be the break in the dam, and you may be giving away your WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU prize really soon.

arne link's avatar

We were this close, this close to seeing him faceplant. So close...

rlritt's avatar

She should have stepped back and let him fall.

J Hardy Carroll's avatar

That would have been EPIC

Frank Nuts's avatar

J Hardy, we need more cow bell β€” I mean more narcissistic injury meltdowns till he pops. If he had one a day he’d be gone in a week. Game over.

AuntTeeFa's avatar

Here at Custer Farms, I’m the king that rules the day

Bright green tractor prop, and to match my hair, a yellow bale of hay

But β€œdarling” you’re so mean to me, makes my narcissism ache

So I’ll turn red and call you stupid and say your news is fake

HI2thDoc's avatar

If you call out his bullshit

And confront him with facts

He will respond with insults

And personal attacks

He can't stand the truth

For him that's no fun

So the overgrown baby

Will turn tail and run

Jane's avatar

πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

Mary Sundberg's avatar

Rosie is spot on. He’s a gigantic POS! I hope he’s booed so loud it makes his ears ring!!

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

Better than booing. They should start a chant of "Epstein! Epstein!"

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

Because it should be clear what they're saying, not just a lot of undifferentiated noise.

William's avatar

Impressive meltdown for our disaster of a President and possibly the worst human being in the history of our planet. Question: if and when will the 77 million people who voted for him express their outrage and regret and help get rid of him??? Yes, I know, never.

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

The trolls on X got their marching orders. It was a triumph for Trump and evil Welker didn't show him the respect he deserved for the "privilege" of sitting in his presence.

Cyndi's avatar

Sitting in his stench is punishment enough.

Terri Nighswonger's avatar

William you hit the nail on the head. When will anyone in the proper place express outrage and blast this STUPID asshole and hold him accountable for completely wrecking our planet????

rlritt's avatar

She tried in a polite way and he got up and left. She complained that she came all the way to WI to interview him and he's walking away because he can't take hard questions. It made him look bad that he couldn't answer her questions and ran away away from her.

Frank Nuts's avatar

William, we can Peter Pan it and dream. Sometimes dreams come true.

Deb's avatar

Stupid seems terminal, I fear

Rick's avatar

hey an aggressive strain of terminal works for me -- stage 8 stupid

Frank Nuts's avatar

Deb, terminal can’t come soon enough

rlritt's avatar

A lot of them are disgusted with him.

Denise Donaldson's avatar

I don't believe for a second that 77 million people actually voted for him. But still, good if those who did vote for him do a 180.

Larry Caringer's avatar

He didn’t expect to be asked for evidence by a WOMAN. So much fun to see his face turn red and then literally stumble out of frame. More of this, please!

Frosty McGillicuddy's avatar

Dick Fuckstick is seeing the Knicks

Way far from his midwestern hicks

They'll boo him, they'll cream him

Bend over! They'll ream him!

And then he'll be hittin' the bricks!

"Ungrateful New Yorkers!" He'll yell,

And he'll crap in his poopies, the smell!

"Lock him up!" they'll all say

"Just fuck off, GO AWAY!"

There's a special place for him in hell'

Dave Drell's avatar

So special!

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