"This trick shot by Mary Tyler Moore was actually made in one take. They had planned for a pool expert to make the shot after cutting away from showing Moore hitting the cue ball. But to everyone's surprise, she actually made the the shot."
The key lesson for Dems is, they have to actually make the shot!
Ever since Reagan, 70% of Americans have either already landed in poverty or are one illness or other unexpected financial hit (or job loss) away from joining the ranks of the impoverished. The party out of power talks a big game, the voters change horses every two or four or six or eight years and then the disgruntled American notices nothing has really changed, or in the case of the GOP — OMG it’s taken a horrific turn for the worse that we never thought possible. Here in PA tRump promised to stop taxing Social Security and tip income and lower grocery bills, and voters now realize that was all pure bullshit to get elected. They’ll now punish tRump at the ballot box until he takes his last breath.
Mandami, if he freezes the rent increases and runs free buses and makes city life a tad more affordable in other ways, will be rewarded with a landslide re-election in four years.
Pres. Obama solved maybe 12% of the 100% screwed up U.S. health insurance disgrace, and it barely got him re-elected but the system remained 88% screwed up while Hillary was taking a smug victory lap.
Dems need to promise big things AND DELIVER ON THEM, the way FDR and Mary Tyler Moore did!
The Key lesson for Dems is those who voted for Cuomo should join the MAGA party where they belong. After all the head MAGA endorsed Cuomo, and he fits right in with their brand. So apparently does Chuck Schumer.
However, let us not get into magical thinking. Dems can only deliver on big things if Republicans do not get in the way. More easily done in states than in the Federal government.
Dems also need to let the Republicans keep shooting themselves in the foot. Soon it will be them shooting themselves in the head as the 2026 elections roll around and we are still in shut down. Every American who can ambulate to the polls to vote should be getting themselves there then to vote out this monstrosity that is not running our country, but is in charge of running it.
Speaking of running the table, there's even more good news from Virginia. In addition to what Jeff reported, we defeated the Repuglicon Attorney General and shifted the margin in the House of Delegates from 51:49 to sixty fucking three to 37. That means, Fuck You, North Carolina: you reapportion to add a MAGA, we'lll reapportion to add a human.
As a North Carolinian we have always professed to being a valley of humility between two mountains of conceit so we have never cared much for Virginians or those from South Kakalaki either. But today I raise my glass high to Virginia!!!
Saw it live in the day. That show and many others I watched religiously. Golden days of sitcom TV (well, there were an awful lot of of racists westerns, but I digress....).
GMTA. My sisters thought they wanted to be saloon girls when they grew up because they were "singers". Never realizing they were highly sanitized sex-workers (like in "Pretty woman" which also had many young girls wanting the same career choice. Kind of like the ones who watch the Karkrashians now.
I love this! I woke up this morning and was able to breathe for the first time since November. And oh, how I remember Mary Tyler Moore and the Dick VanDyke show. That show got me through my childhood. The opening scene, when he trips over the hassock cracked me up every time! Thanks for this today, Jeff 🤗
Last night was more enjoyable! Superstitious just enough, I wasn’t watching returns. Friends tho were sending messages at a grand pace! It feels good. When we show up we win. 2024 is on nonvoters as much as MAGAts.
I chickened out jeff, I didnt write a post, I just dropped a bunch of You are a bunch of Losers gifs, and then Trump's meltdown Post by post (in images) on truthsocial.
Thats all I had in me rage wise, because I was just too fucking happy after last night.
Your stuff is great. You and your body deserve a break and a chance to be happy for a moment. Good news like this is energizing and changes the course of the day. The constant stream of outrage is physically detrimental. ❤️
What is deadly crucial is the 1/3 of NONVOTERS in America. Not until they can be convinced to ACT and vote for sanity and human decency will the needle move in America, otherwise we will continue to be split by 3rds in the voting population. I am slightly giddy, but too old to be convinced that this "mandate" yesterday really means anything. The fight for sanity in America against our white nationalist neighbors, former friends and co-workers, family members, etc, has barely begun. This is a proverbial marathon. Sprints are meaningless. It took 50 years for MAGA to be fed and born. It will NOT go away anytime soon, anymore than 1/3 of Americans (who voted for this evil TWICE) will give up their wet dreams of lasting and permanent Authoritarianism!!!
Perhaps--and call me crazy--but metaphorically dumping shit on his people, bulldozing the White House, and starving actual children aren't as popular with the citizenry as he thought. Who knew???
I think that the destruction of the East Wing hit people right in their memory of the Twin Towers going down which tapped into our memory of Pearl Harbor. That’s some deep genetic shit in American DNA that produces rage. He woke the sleeping giant. Now we just need to get them to vote.
I love that image. Maybe a video montage of Pearl Harbor, Twin Towers, and the East Wing being destroyed could be played on a loop every time DJT posts some of his BS.
One guy exit polled in NJ was quoted as saying something to the effect of "I wasn't planning to vote. Didn't think it matters. But bulldozing part of our White House was just too much. I had to do something."
Not to mention, United Flight 93 that crashed in Pennsylvania but was destined for the White House on 9/11. Heroes averted a disaster and people died that day to save the WH and he just takes a bulldozer to it. Too much. It seems wild, but there is a limit.
Born in Detroit, tho I’ve been in NY for way longer, the Motor City is most definitely in Michigan! Don’t worry about it, Jeff. In all this Blue excitement, your fingers just got too damn excited!
Me? Woke up at 3:30. Checked out the updates. And wept. Then ran around the house, dancing. Then clapping and shouting.
Bets on he'll be threatening to cut off all federal funding for California, New York, and Virginia, after he's banned mail-in voting. I really hope John Roberts and the other five were puking into their porcelain thrones. And will someone hand Schumer Dershowitz's weapon-of-choice after he's done with it?
Preznit Steaming Sack of Shit wants the fillibuster gone so he can jam through all kinds future election fuckery. I especially love his promise to make life a living hell for any Republican Senator who dare oppose their King. Not as good as off with their heads, but I can't say no to Republicans being tormented.
Here in Onondaga County NY, Dems flipped the county legislature winning every election they contested. It's the first time in 50 years! And it happened in spite of an obscene Republican gerrymander. It was an election about Trump and about an out of touch county executive who is pissing away $100M on an aquarium that nobody wants.
When we were depressed after orange man "won", we were accused of all sorts of things and ridiculed for being so hysterical. I love it when the shoe is on the other foot for a change.
That is what I’m going to call ‘grass roots’ move to no king Trump is a liability they must see it now and get rid of him or this just gets better for Democrats!
Yes, there is. The road ahead is long and dangerous and really rough. But wins like this - - just like marches and rallies - - are critical. They remind us that we aren't alone, there is still a light at the end of the tunnel and that the US is filled with really good people whose values and beliefs and actions remain true to the guiding principle of our democratic republic, that all of us, having been created equal, are entitled to the same rights and freedoms and opportunities.
These victories are important as they create more along the way. And when we do win, our goal is to watch everything and make damn certain that it is for the people and not TO the people.
Here in NJ last night all one heard was the song”…hit the road Jack..” and since this was the candidate’s third try at running for governor I say “ three strikes and your out mf’er!”
One thing Mayor-elect Mamdani has NOT said: "Only left-wing lunatics will get free childcare, free rides on buses, and cheap prices in the new subsidized grocery stores. The rest of you MAGAts can go suck it."
It’s a damn good day for democracy. The people showed up, the bullies got bounced, and decency remembered how to dance. Blessed be the ones who still believe ballots beat billionaires.
The Cuomo schadenfreude was delicious, but the real meal was Mamdani proving that you can talk housing, bigotry, and billionaires in the same sentence, and win. Turns out voters don’t need their dignity and their rent split on separate crosstabs.
Wrote about this in my latest. Please share and subscribe:
Watching the results come in last night gave me some hope - but I also worry for how the current regime will react. It could get even uglier before the midterms.
Nice to see a predicted blue wave actually hit the shores!
And, once again - thank you Jeff for your service.
It is inspiring to see a growing majority of people, from the New York Mayoral race to California’s Proposition 50, electing candidates who embrace democracy, justice, and equality, and supporting measures to offset Trump/GOP gerrymandering of Congressional districts.
Between the growing No Kings marches to massive Democratic and Independent voter turnout, every Republican up for reelection in 2026 must now understand they can continue to support Trump’s corrupt, illegal, unconstitutional, and cruel actions as they become more unpopular or embrace justice, force the release of the Epstein/Trump investigation, and hold Trump/Vance, and the Trump Cabinet responsible for their assault on democracy.
does everyone know the story of the Mary Tyler Moore pool shot used at the top of this post?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1h2oq6z/this_trick_shot_by_mary_tyler_moore_was_actually/
"This trick shot by Mary Tyler Moore was actually made in one take. They had planned for a pool expert to make the shot after cutting away from showing Moore hitting the cue ball. But to everyone's surprise, she actually made the the shot."
She was a boss.
The key lesson for Dems is, they have to actually make the shot!
Ever since Reagan, 70% of Americans have either already landed in poverty or are one illness or other unexpected financial hit (or job loss) away from joining the ranks of the impoverished. The party out of power talks a big game, the voters change horses every two or four or six or eight years and then the disgruntled American notices nothing has really changed, or in the case of the GOP — OMG it’s taken a horrific turn for the worse that we never thought possible. Here in PA tRump promised to stop taxing Social Security and tip income and lower grocery bills, and voters now realize that was all pure bullshit to get elected. They’ll now punish tRump at the ballot box until he takes his last breath.
Mandami, if he freezes the rent increases and runs free buses and makes city life a tad more affordable in other ways, will be rewarded with a landslide re-election in four years.
Pres. Obama solved maybe 12% of the 100% screwed up U.S. health insurance disgrace, and it barely got him re-elected but the system remained 88% screwed up while Hillary was taking a smug victory lap.
Dems need to promise big things AND DELIVER ON THEM, the way FDR and Mary Tyler Moore did!
The Key lesson for Dems is those who voted for Cuomo should join the MAGA party where they belong. After all the head MAGA endorsed Cuomo, and he fits right in with their brand. So apparently does Chuck Schumer.
However, let us not get into magical thinking. Dems can only deliver on big things if Republicans do not get in the way. More easily done in states than in the Federal government.
Dems also need to let the Republicans keep shooting themselves in the foot. Soon it will be them shooting themselves in the head as the 2026 elections roll around and we are still in shut down. Every American who can ambulate to the polls to vote should be getting themselves there then to vote out this monstrosity that is not running our country, but is in charge of running it.
Yes.Shoot high and expect to win!
Paw-🎯
I wonder if St.Holly than though Johnson saw the results. Or is he going to pretend people prefer republican shut downs and protecting a pedophile.
Speaking of running the table, there's even more good news from Virginia. In addition to what Jeff reported, we defeated the Repuglicon Attorney General and shifted the margin in the House of Delegates from 51:49 to sixty fucking three to 37. That means, Fuck You, North Carolina: you reapportion to add a MAGA, we'lll reapportion to add a human.
Bring it on!
Holy shit, that's inspirational!!! Well played, VA!! 🏆👏🏻🥂💙
I am so proud of you Virginians. Someone is learning something even if your schools are anti DEI.
As a North Carolinian we have always professed to being a valley of humility between two mountains of conceit so we have never cared much for Virginians or those from South Kakalaki either. But today I raise my glass high to Virginia!!!
Saw it live in the day. That show and many others I watched religiously. Golden days of sitcom TV (well, there were an awful lot of of racists westerns, but I digress....).
The hell?!
Misogynist westerns.
Them too.
Gunsmoke , especially Bonanza, the mother is dead, & all the Cartwright
sons fiances. 😵😵😵😵😵😵😵
GMTA. My sisters thought they wanted to be saloon girls when they grew up because they were "singers". Never realizing they were highly sanitized sex-workers (like in "Pretty woman" which also had many young girls wanting the same career choice. Kind of like the ones who watch the Karkrashians now.
Yep like "Bonanza" where the girlfriends died before the end of the show.
Of course I do jeff. Im old enough to remember.
Its not just you. :)
I love this! I woke up this morning and was able to breathe for the first time since November. And oh, how I remember Mary Tyler Moore and the Dick VanDyke show. That show got me through my childhood. The opening scene, when he trips over the hassock cracked me up every time! Thanks for this today, Jeff 🤗
I love that!!
She (and everyone else) never expected to make the shot
https://youtube.com/shorts/-3kwgEEL_I0
Thank you for that!!! Just goes to show: anything is possible.
Yep, sure do remember it! We watch reruns almost every night. And Fuck yea, we did some big winning yesterday! Fight on, everyone! It is working!
Jeff, this video has the rest of that scene https://youtu.be/GjUXV69MwNU?si=lAzzZx8Ut5IwTPxB
I absolutely love that story
Props to her for that shot.... and props to Dick VanDyke for not breaking character and ruining it! Still love that show!
What I loved was MTM’s reaction… a moment of surprise, followed by that self satisfied strut :)
No shit! What a great story!! Ooohhhhh ROB!!!!!!
🥹
Bingo!
Brava Mary!
this post was a lot more enjoyable to write than the one I wrote a year ago
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/what-the-fuck-america
Last night was more enjoyable! Superstitious just enough, I wasn’t watching returns. Friends tho were sending messages at a grand pace! It feels good. When we show up we win. 2024 is on nonvoters as much as MAGAts.
I chickened out jeff, I didnt write a post, I just dropped a bunch of You are a bunch of Losers gifs, and then Trump's meltdown Post by post (in images) on truthsocial.
Thats all I had in me rage wise, because I was just too fucking happy after last night.
Your stuff is great. You and your body deserve a break and a chance to be happy for a moment. Good news like this is energizing and changes the course of the day. The constant stream of outrage is physically detrimental. ❤️
Prolly feel off-balance
Probably.
The Poeple have spoken.
What is deadly crucial is the 1/3 of NONVOTERS in America. Not until they can be convinced to ACT and vote for sanity and human decency will the needle move in America, otherwise we will continue to be split by 3rds in the voting population. I am slightly giddy, but too old to be convinced that this "mandate" yesterday really means anything. The fight for sanity in America against our white nationalist neighbors, former friends and co-workers, family members, etc, has barely begun. This is a proverbial marathon. Sprints are meaningless. It took 50 years for MAGA to be fed and born. It will NOT go away anytime soon, anymore than 1/3 of Americans (who voted for this evil TWICE) will give up their wet dreams of lasting and permanent Authoritarianism!!!
Fun Fact: In Australia, voting is mandatory.
it's a marthon for sure
Indeed… it feels like OG Jeff was replaced by Santa Jeff today smdh
A well-deserved lonnnnnng time comin’
❤️🤍💙
I just want you to know, Jeff, that as of last night, I knew today’s title was going to be “Fuck Yeah!”
First happy day to wake up in a long time <3
Yes. It’s been a year of grief. Thank you for being here! Couldn’t wait to read today’s post!
This is the best I've felt in a year, especially since I'm moving to VA from FL in January!
Do NOT move to FL.
Forget the wellness check on Dershowitz.
Let’s check to make sure he has lived up to his promise!
And it was a lot more enjoyable to read.
And there are those of us who, to this day, deny his victory.
Perhaps--and call me crazy--but metaphorically dumping shit on his people, bulldozing the White House, and starving actual children aren't as popular with the citizenry as he thought. Who knew???
I think that the destruction of the East Wing hit people right in their memory of the Twin Towers going down which tapped into our memory of Pearl Harbor. That’s some deep genetic shit in American DNA that produces rage. He woke the sleeping giant. Now we just need to get them to vote.
I love that image. Maybe a video montage of Pearl Harbor, Twin Towers, and the East Wing being destroyed could be played on a loop every time DJT posts some of his BS.
😂Love that idea!
Brilliant, Princess!!
Share this awesome idea !
One guy exit polled in NJ was quoted as saying something to the effect of "I wasn't planning to vote. Didn't think it matters. But bulldozing part of our White House was just too much. I had to do something."
Not to mention, United Flight 93 that crashed in Pennsylvania but was destined for the White House on 9/11. Heroes averted a disaster and people died that day to save the WH and he just takes a bulldozer to it. Too much. It seems wild, but there is a limit.
Brilliant analogy.
The only shit Trump was dropping last night was into his own diaper
It is too much. It’s not his fucking house! It’s OUR HOUSE.
Now if just everyone would realize he’s working for our foreign enemies to destroy us from within.
THIS!
Umm, Jeff. I know we all probably celebrated too hard last night. But Detroit is in Michigan, not Illinois.
FUUUUUUCK
Don’t feel bad, Jeff. A reporter I know spelled it “Mowtown.” In the lead. On Page 1.
maybe they have a lot of lawns in Detroit
Oh THAT’s funny said in my best Jack Benny voice!
Ah, well; better than "Mootown" would have been!
😂😂mow town
💀
Aren’t you glad that Substack lets you edit?
There is a Detroit Illinois…and a woman won as Mayor….
It's ok, Jeff. You just did a Trumpism. Happens to the best of us.
Born in Detroit, tho I’ve been in NY for way longer, the Motor City is most definitely in Michigan! Don’t worry about it, Jeff. In all this Blue excitement, your fingers just got too damn excited!
Me? Woke up at 3:30. Checked out the updates. And wept. Then ran around the house, dancing. Then clapping and shouting.
Go Blue!!!
yeah, I didn't want to say anything. Michiganders are unfailingly polite.....
We’ve got a lot of Detroit people in Chicago…we’re with them!
And 2021, not 25 years ago, was the last time two Democrats won statewide in Georgia — Warnock and Ossoff, both pulling out special election wins.
lol
😂 Today, we’re one and the same!
After the last No Kings protest, Trump rage razed the East Wing. Wonder what buffoonish horror today will bring?
good question...maybe have a massive stroke??//
Dear Lord, hear our prayer.
Ooooooh. YES! 🤞🤞🤞
..from your lips
🤞🏻🤞🏻
Bets on he'll be threatening to cut off all federal funding for California, New York, and Virginia, after he's banned mail-in voting. I really hope John Roberts and the other five were puking into their porcelain thrones. And will someone hand Schumer Dershowitz's weapon-of-choice after he's done with it?
Yep, waiting for Dersh to pay up.
Yeah, the clock is ticking.
Good observation. There will be lots of destroyed ketchup bottle in the Oval today
WH is probably being bulldozed as we speak.
He will be taking out more fishing boats and murdering people. FFS
Preznit Steaming Sack of Shit wants the fillibuster gone so he can jam through all kinds future election fuckery. I especially love his promise to make life a living hell for any Republican Senator who dare oppose their King. Not as good as off with their heads, but I can't say no to Republicans being tormented.
War in Venezuela?
For sure. Maybe Mexico, too. Does he know how many service people are Hispanic? Trust me, it's a lot.
Next - West Wing. He’ll turn it into a castle with a throne room. Oops , better watch what I say. Don’t want to give him ideas. 🫢
Here in Onondaga County NY, Dems flipped the county legislature winning every election they contested. It's the first time in 50 years! And it happened in spite of an obscene Republican gerrymander. It was an election about Trump and about an out of touch county executive who is pissing away $100M on an aquarium that nobody wants.
Fantastic news, Peter! 🥳 Well done, Onondaga County! So proud of you! 💙 As Kamala said, When we fight, we WIN!
It's a good start. Pedal to the metal, friends. Let's pry every lever of power out of MAGA's cold, dead hands.
SCOTUS SCROTUMS need to take TARIFF POWER out of Orange Hitler’s ROTTING HANDS!!!! NOW!!
I use the shorter version: SCROTUS
The same people complaining about the election of a social democrat are the ones who elected a demented convicted felon and pedophile.
When we were depressed after orange man "won", we were accused of all sorts of things and ridiculed for being so hysterical. I love it when the shoe is on the other foot for a change.
Why do we need a Big Faucet in California when we can now water our lawns with the tears of MAGATs?
They love to gloat about "liberal tears" so turnabout is fair play.
So right, Mark!
Here is another fun fact courtesy of Senator Chris Murphy. 20 municipalities in CT switched from R to D control last night
That is what I’m going to call ‘grass roots’ move to no king Trump is a liability they must see it now and get rid of him or this just gets better for Democrats!
Douglas..agree!
💙👏🏼💙👏🏼💙 ‼️‼️‼️
“Oh what a night” but there is still A LOT of resisting to do.
Yes, there is. The road ahead is long and dangerous and really rough. But wins like this - - just like marches and rallies - - are critical. They remind us that we aren't alone, there is still a light at the end of the tunnel and that the US is filled with really good people whose values and beliefs and actions remain true to the guiding principle of our democratic republic, that all of us, having been created equal, are entitled to the same rights and freedoms and opportunities.
These victories are important as they create more along the way. And when we do win, our goal is to watch everything and make damn certain that it is for the people and not TO the people.
We the people kicked some ass last night. Let’s keep this momentum going. Fuck Trump
Kay-El That’s the plan! This is just the start!✊🏼
Here in NJ last night all one heard was the song”…hit the road Jack..” and since this was the candidate’s third try at running for governor I say “ three strikes and your out mf’er!”
One thing Mayor-elect Mamdani has NOT said: "Only left-wing lunatics will get free childcare, free rides on buses, and cheap prices in the new subsidized grocery stores. The rest of you MAGAts can go suck it."
It’s a damn good day for democracy. The people showed up, the bullies got bounced, and decency remembered how to dance. Blessed be the ones who still believe ballots beat billionaires.
Hear hear!!!👏🏻🇺🇸👏🏻🇺🇸👏🏻
The Cuomo schadenfreude was delicious, but the real meal was Mamdani proving that you can talk housing, bigotry, and billionaires in the same sentence, and win. Turns out voters don’t need their dignity and their rent split on separate crosstabs.
Wrote about this in my latest. Please share and subscribe:
https://www.stewonthis.com/p/stop-unmarrying-economic-and-social
Watching the results come in last night gave me some hope - but I also worry for how the current regime will react. It could get even uglier before the midterms.
Nice to see a predicted blue wave actually hit the shores!
And, once again - thank you Jeff for your service.
Thank you Jeff.
It is inspiring to see a growing majority of people, from the New York Mayoral race to California’s Proposition 50, electing candidates who embrace democracy, justice, and equality, and supporting measures to offset Trump/GOP gerrymandering of Congressional districts.
Between the growing No Kings marches to massive Democratic and Independent voter turnout, every Republican up for reelection in 2026 must now understand they can continue to support Trump’s corrupt, illegal, unconstitutional, and cruel actions as they become more unpopular or embrace justice, force the release of the Epstein/Trump investigation, and hold Trump/Vance, and the Trump Cabinet responsible for their assault on democracy.