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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

this is a public service announcement: please do not email me to tell me that I swear too much (yes, people actually do this), because I will reply with "what the fuck are you talking about"

Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

It’s been said that people who swear a lot have higher than average IQ’s. I’m not sure if that’s actually true, but I’m choosing do believe it, because that makes me a fucking Einstein. 🤣 But seriously, your swearing is one of my favorite features. It makes me feel like I can drop all the f-bombs I want in the comments. And if ever there was a time in history for that, I think it’s now. Keep it up. If people don’t like it, they can check to see if Mike Pence offers a subscription on Substack.

Kathleen Weber's avatar

I must protest, because apparently you haven't met many MAGA-heads. they fuckin' swear too. But the words like Jeff's slow hand a lot better.

Kristy Kanen's avatar

They know cuss words, but otherwise their vocabularies are dismal.

Lynne Murphy's avatar

Pence doesn’t swear because “mother” won’t let him.

Karla's avatar

You said exactly what I thought (except the Mike Pence part which hadn’t crossed my mind). You should probably be afraid that you think like me but at least we’re thinkers.

Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

If we’ve learned anything over the past 8 years, it’s that there are hoards of people who’ve retired from thinking.

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

Or never learned how-to in the first place.

Karla's avatar

Isn’t THAT the truth!

Betsy L's avatar

Studies have shown - seriously - that swearing has an analgesic effect. Swearing a lot after stubbing your toe or burning your hand taking a pan out of the oven lessens the pain.

JENNIFER's avatar

Swear away! Who the fuck actually cares ... if they don't like, they don't have to read your posts. It's still a free country.

Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

foulmouthed fuckery is not everyone's cuppa, and I respect that — but I always want to ask these people, "did you not read one post before you signed up to be on the email list?"

Val's avatar

A million years ago, I was the parent who drove the car full of teenagers to concerts. Green Day was performing, it wasn't bad because I really liked that music and still do. That was the very day the supreme court had given us BUSH as president. Green Day front man Billy Joel was quite pissed, I was right there with him. He lead the whole arena in the biggest screaming FUCK BUSH I'd ever been a part of...went on for maybe 5 minutes....I became aware I was the only "adult" in the section who was standing and screaming....My "adult" voice said screw you and screamed even louder....Best use of FUCK ever, until I discovered Jeff.

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

You got to see the amazing Billie Joe Armstrong? (Who is still hot at 50 + BTW) I'm so jelly!

"Basket Case" is still on my play list as is "American Idiot"!

Val's avatar

Natalie At almost 72 Green Day is still among one of my favorites.

Kay-El's avatar

Same. Saw them when American Idiot came out, can sing nearly every song. Took my kids to see the play. We loved it.

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

How wonderful! Now I have to watch the video, it is so powerful!

Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Seriously, who doesn’t enjoy foul mouth fuckery coupled with witty repartee?

Kate's avatar

Fuck ‘em, they can unsubscribe! I as a paid subscriber LIVE FOR THE EXPLETIVES.

Ransom Rideout's avatar

The more the merrier, and baby, do we fukin' need some merryment.

FUKM if thayz got no humor in their veins!

Kay-El's avatar

Fuckity bye to those with a stick up their ass.

Deb's avatar

I lived in the city of SF and worked in the Financial District when Kamala was DA. I saw her at certain events and in certain settings. I DO NOT KNOW HER. But, I've heard her speak in settings where she knew she was among women who would not be quoting her or running to the nearest journalist, and she not only uses f-bombs fluently, I had to laugh the other night when I agreed with Rick Wilson and others that she came "this close" to calling shit bag a mother-fucker during the debate when she said 'this" and then had to make a long pause and finally finished with "former president". I'd bet everything I have she was ready to let it fly, and somehow got it back in her mouth!

I would also bet that she reads Jeff...maybe she can't get to it regularly, but I can't believe that somebody doesn't get his gems into her, because she, just like us, would love them!!!!

JENNIFER's avatar

As Henry Drummond said in the Movie Inherit The Wind: "I don't swear just for the hell of it. Language is a poor enough means of communication. I think we should use all the words we've got. Besides, there are damn few words anyone understands."

Rick A.'s avatar

Jeff, I have mentioned before I am not a fan of swearing, but that was before the last 9 years. The absolute stupidity and mendacity and pure cruelty and evil of Trump and his cult demand your response. You are the man!

Kathleen Weber's avatar

When Trump was convicted and you wrote that post that consisted of several thousand ha ha ha, I wrote a comment saying I hope soon you can write a post that consists of nothing but fuck fuck fuck. If people wander into a place where they're uncomfortable, it's their job to wander right back out of it.

Ole Anderson's avatar

That day will be Nov. 5 if Fat Boy sneaks in again because of useless lazy fuckers who didn’t bother to vote.

Dr J's Sanity Space's avatar

Credit to some social media source: “you can be good to all people, but it does not mean all people will be good to you”. Helps me when dealing with a moron..

Mingo's avatar

Fucking A, that's why I signed up.

Becky Gibson's avatar

You know, I first noticed Jeff on Twitter several years back, and it was love at first read! I realize “some people” have a thing about “bad words”, but they can either take themselves away again, or fuck off all the way to Fuckoffistan, their choice. If you hang around with us, there’s going to be colorful language used on a daily basis, so either get over yourself or get gone. I wouldn’t miss even one day of Jeff’s commentary, because it keeps me sane! Thanks, Jeff, for holding us together!!!

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

They are fucking puritans who have no problem with racism, hate, and violence but expletives? Then they turn into pearl-clutchers!

Stephen Schiff's avatar

Actually, when dealing with MAGAt cultists the vocabulary of English explitives is inadequate to describe the depths of their depravity. Besides that it's all those motherfuckers understand.

Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

Jeff, you take foul-mouthed fuckery and turn it into an art form.

Yarnartist's avatar

Profanity is a sign of high IQ. Fuckin’ A.

meryl selig's avatar

Hahah! Free speech! You don’t like the sound? Walk away. Don’t listen. Change the channel

Abigail Norling's avatar

We think you swear just right!

SuNew's avatar

Jeff is the Goldilocks of “fucks”. 🤣

Matthew Tarpy's avatar

Jesus, it's like your whole fucking brand. Also never change, and maybe increase the F-bomb drop rate.

Also, I subscribed just to make this comment and will keep the sub going.

Kathleen Weber's avatar

Well fuckin' welcome aboard!

Richard Von Busack's avatar

“Shit fire and piss matches/ fuck a duck and see what hatches/ fuck a duck and duck a pigeon/ go to church and get religion.”—Alexander Poop

Richard Von Busack's avatar

How did you know! Jesus, now I want to install pornographic Burma Shave signs all over America’s Empty Quarter!

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

I would so watch that happen!

Rick Calegari's avatar

Fuck them all. These delusional GOP assholes again have nothing of substance regarding the obvious outcome of the debate. Laura Loser and the rest of the manic support mechanism will never learn that their rapidly declining leader is beyond damage control and a proposed second debate would only result in a repeat performance.

Kristy Kanen's avatar

Science says- People who swear are more fucking HONEST . DAMN STRAIGHT !

MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

And also, smarter. I read that somewhere on the Internet one time. Must be true.

HI2thDoc's avatar

There are times and situations where nothing suffices like a good swear. trump definitely brings that out

Susan Niemann's avatar

Your style of writing is perfect-I believe you are the George Carlin of our time. Never change-you’re a breath of fresh air!

Ransom Rideout's avatar

I guess you can say that because I sure can't smell his breath from my computer screeem.

Rick Calegari's avatar

Complete with laughs and facts.

SeekingReason's avatar

There is no alternate word besides fuck when referring to the orange deadly seditionist-inciter, 34-count FELON & RAPIST. What language are they proposing if they’re complaining about it? Do they want you to extend an olive branch to Fascists? I like your appropriate language Jeff!

Mindy OkayIloveyoubyebye's avatar

This isn't Little House on the Prairie. FUCK them.

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

And that was actually libertarian propaganda Laura's daughter Rose, was an Ayn Rand acolyte and told her to write her story as the "proud, independent farmer who took no gov't help." When they took gov't help their entire lives.

Mindy OkayIloveyoubyebye's avatar

Absolutely. Homesteading was a government benefit, although it was serious work. There were a lot of shady things in that family. Through my adoptive mother, I'm faintly related to them, which is funny since I'm a little more than half Native American, and racist Ma hated us. 😂

P123Sunny's avatar

“Your skin has to be *this thick* 🤏 to read this Substack”…😅

Brad Yazell's avatar

Tell those fuckoffs emailing you to fuck straight the fuck off.

Ann Anderson's avatar

You swear just the right amount, which is to say a fuckwad.

Susan Keefer's avatar

As my dear late husband use to say: “Fuck the fucking fuckers!” 🥰

P123Sunny's avatar

We can fk’n email you…????😃‼️⁉️

Cassandra Here's avatar

Fuck that. We love the fuck out of it. I’m an old retired English teacher who loves the fullness of the language. Use it, have fun with it, and as Twain observed, it’s all in the rhythm. [Livy, tired of Twain’s swearing came to him swearing up a storm. Twain replied, Livy, you’ve got all the words right, but the rhythm all wrong. — paraphrased]

Alison Parker's avatar

Asking why the moderators only fact-checked Trump and not Harris is like asking why the police only arrested the guy in the bank wearing a ski mask and carrying a bag of cash and not the people laying flat on the floor with their eyes covered.

bruce somers's avatar

My local CBS affiliate did their little fact-checking,they call it the 'Verify Report', it's usually a deep-dive into internet rumors and and gossip,and conspiracy theories, yesterday's was 'Does Kamala Harris flip-flop on issues?' What the actual fuck you fucking clowns!!! Stop wasting my fucking time calling yourselfs 'news' or 'journalists',piss off!!! Fuckity fuck,fuckity fuck fuck,you fuckers!!!

Dave Drell's avatar

She might flip-flop on issues….duh every damn politician does at some point. But the FUCKING KING OF FLIP-FLOPS. was on stage with her-

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

It's not a flip-flop if they change their mind based on new information though, evolving opinions are a sign of intelligence, not that those dipshits would understand. Now a flip-flop would be when the "day-glow chaos demon" misspeaks and says something his donors don't agree with, and he takes it all back the next day, as he so frequently does.

Deanna Belli's avatar

By now he’s just a flop, right?

Charles Austin's avatar

Fuckin'a bubba!!😂😂

Cathy 98280's avatar

Bruce, I am curious - is your CBS affiliate owned by Sinclair???

bruce somers's avatar

No,it's called the 'Tegna Group', it's been a CBS affiliate forever,it's billionaire owner was involved in the USC student cheating scandal,and was supposed to relinquish majority control of the company,but I don't know the status of that.

Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

‘Verify Report Report’ anyway I don’t listen or read their bullshit but does it have any redeeming value?

bruce somers's avatar

Not a bit,it's 3 minutes of fact-checking viral tweets and internet memes,if you need to fact-check them,you probably have brain worms.

HI2thDoc's avatar

You just summed up the cult mentality of detachment from reality

SPW's avatar

Great analogy. The factcheck count was trump 33, Harris 1 in an hour and a half. Kamala just did not FUCK UP like titty man baby did.

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

🎯She studied And knows her shit!

Michael Baker's avatar

Perfect! I've used other analogies but this one is much better.

Donatella  Dillon's avatar

👏👏👏😂😂😂🙌

meryl selig's avatar

Perfect analogy!! Thx

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

Yes, they obviously are that stupid!

Cat Cafe's avatar

YES. Perfectly put.

Cindy Watter's avatar

Those earrings, my fashionable friends (all two of you) are from the Tiffany Hardwear collection and cost less than $900. Freshwater pearls and sterling silver.

Beth Moss Mahar's avatar

But what I want to know is what do these dipshits think was being said to her through the magic earpiece? Who was on the other end? And when did she ever appear as though she was listening to anyone other than von shitzinpants or the moderators? She was a trial attorney for fuck sake, we think on our feet every single workday.

Marie Martin's avatar

They don’t know what intelligence looks like. They’ve decided that the orange idiot is intelligent, so that’s their “bar”, their comparison. Truly. They’ve lost perspective, if they’ve ever had it.

Susie in OH's avatar

No. Actually, it is another racist, misogynistic attempt at saying a black woman could not have so brilliantly taken down that lying bag of pus it out help in real time.

Geoff Anderson's avatar

This. And sadly, this is why the election is going to be a nail biter, the level of misogyny and racism in the electorate is off the fucking charts.

Monnina's avatar

Unfortunately true. However, this fact is also one reason why Harris wiped the floor with Trump in the televised debate. Misogyny and racism act to blind those embodying them. To such individuals Harris is invisible. All they see when they look at her is a projection of their hatred and bigotry. All she has to do is become a calm mirror. Embodying the goddess Medusa with the mask of hate that they have projected on to her staring right back at them. Guaranteed to freeze them with reflected terror.

Ole Anderson's avatar

trump is a stupid persons idea of a smart man

Lynne Atwell's avatar

Trump supporters are shallow people. They are incapable of thinking for themselves.

Kristy Kanen's avatar

Little Donnie CRAPPEDTHEBED, couldn't look directly at Kamala, because he would turn into a pillar of salt, scratch that, SHIT

Dark Phoenix's avatar

EVERY TIME Trump has debated, his cult members have claimed both that the opponents got all the questions ahead of time AND that someone was talking to Trump's opponents via microphone, because they truly believe that only Donald has the power to go out there and say things they aren't told by someone 5 seconds before. It's embarrassing... To them.

mark rubin's avatar

Hey you remembered person, man, woman, camera, TV in that "intelligence" test you took, you can remember 5 things you sorry sack of crap. BTW the questions are always the same - Economy, women's rights, abortion, the border, tax cuts for your golfing buddies, you know all the stuff you're against if it helps the middle class.

Robert Eckert's avatar

I read what the five words actually were on that cognitive-decline test he took. Three of them were Face, Velvet, and Church: I don't remember what the other two were because it's been years since I saw that. Trump was not able to recall a single one of the words, one day afterward.

Dave Drell's avatar

Somewhere i saw this comment: the questions are always the same: economy; abortion; foreign stuff; etc.

What’s the big issue here? Oh, it’s just that LDFF can’t handle responses to

questions about issues… because he is

unprepared!

Tardigret's avatar

And how could she have repeated what someone was saying so quickly and fluently?

Cindy Watter's avatar

They don't understand how clever she is. Yes, she thinks on her feet and she pays attention what is being said. That is huge! Many people just plan their next riposte, but she responded to DT's comments.

Alan Albert's avatar

I believe earbuds are worn inside the ear. Otherwise, everyone can hear what's being said unless the Dems have invented a cunning new super secret technology.

Beth Moss Mahar's avatar

Good point. It's always a contradiction- dems are evil geniuses but at the same time not bright enough to answerdebate questions without assistance.

Bob Bowden's avatar

You know what’s really fucking amazing is how the voice in Kamala’s earrings took over from the get-go, commanding her to walk over to Donald’s podium and hypnotize him into cowering behind it like a scared-shitless rabbit protecting his undersized carrot.

P123Sunny's avatar

‘Gold-plated toilet says what!?’ 😏

meryl selig's avatar

Thx for the retail intel! Love that. The wingnuts believe that Team Kamala rigged them somehow, regardless.

On a divergent note: did we see footage of the drone show in Phila on debate night? Pls check out the video … one of the displays depicted wind blowing Donny’s Dynel headpiece off. Masterful!!!!!

Susie's avatar

His cult members have to come up with reasons why she wiped the floor with him. They will say anything to deflect from the fact that he's fucking batshit crazy and is incapable of hiding it. They seem to especially love the James Bond-style mic-in-the-earrings/radio signals/Vulcan mind-meld bullshit. I would laugh if the magats weren't so fucking scary.

arne link's avatar

Well, yeah but they cost extra with the little radio receivers built in. Don't you know/

Karen Barrett's avatar

Moskowitz is very funny but I think there has been too much focus on how cleverly Harris goaded Donnie into losing his shit (like it was hard…) and not enough on how prepared, poised, personable, persuasive, and PRESIDENTIAL she was.

Dark Phoenix's avatar

Media: Kamala Harris showed up at the debate and needled Donald Trump into embarrassing himself!

Fact: The Harris team spent two weeks not only planning to do this in the debate, but also needling him in the runup. Why else would you run a crowd size commercial on Fox News a few days before the debate? That video was made for an audience of one.

Karen Barrett's avatar

And there’s been too much focus on that, at the expense of acknowledging the substance she presented.

George A. Polisner's avatar

Thanks Jeff. It saddens me to see Naomi Wolf claiming a former prosecutor and District Attorney (with plenty of trial experience) would be "inept" in a debate. Her perspectives and insights seem to be unmoored and have drifted far from reality.

On another note, I'm not sure if your readers can help me begin an effort to find a cure for Factose Intolerance. You might be more familiar with the scientific term for Factose Intolerance:

MAGA-FI-16 or the new variant: MAGA-FI-24.

While willful ignorance can be treated with books about science, philosophy, economics, and ethics, and turning off Fox "News" there is no known cure for MAGA-FI.

Please help if you can.

Please help find a cure before it's too late.

Rick Calegari's avatar

Might have to be treated as a chronic condition until the source of the variant is gone and can't mutate.

Dave Drell's avatar

The cure : inject bleach

Patricia Gomes's avatar

I’d rather stick a fluorescent light up their asses. A 3 foot long one.

George A. Polisner's avatar

I thought The Cure: Fascination Street. :)

Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

I’ll do it if you do it, ready? You first…

Betsy L's avatar

Have you tried ivermectin?

Susan P Thatcher's avatar

"Sir, Sir," they whimper with tears in their eyes, " please let us sell your suit and tie from the debate, Sir" they beg. "It was beautiful, how you unwove your arguments,and evaded those gotcha yes and no questions." (Snivel. Sound of nose blowing) "Abdul says you won 133%, and he's going to write about it. Oh, Sir, Sir, please take our money."

Eileen's avatar

Abdul!!! Fucking hilarious. 😆 You know people who are really named Abdul are getting ribbed and having a good laugh. Was it you? Were you chin wagging with the Donald? Just priceless.

Susan Keefer's avatar

🚨BREAKING: Republican strategist Karl Rove has BLASTED Donald Trump's disastrous debate performance, saying “There’s no putting lipstick on this pig. Trump was crushed by a woman he previously dismissed as ‘dumb as a rock.’ Which raises the question: What does that make him?”

Marybeth Maloy Gebauer's avatar

Loved that line, but I was fuming at his comment: "He did an even worse job prosecuting the argument that she’s a far-left politician out of sync with America’s values." The whack job Project 2025 and MAGA assholes -- they are the ones out of sync.

Dave Drell's avatar

now you’re insulting rocks

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

Rove is an evil prick, but he's not stupid.

Cathy 98280's avatar

That’s awesome! Thanks for telling us!!!

Sharon C Storm's avatar

I’m a great grandma, and I fucking love your fucking blog. I swear I’ve said fuck 1000 times more in the past nine years than ever before in my life. All of it caused by the fucking GOP and tfg.

Mindi H's avatar

Until I found Jeff on Substack and Twitter I had no idea how like-minded folks found an answer to the insanity around us.

Cathy 98280's avatar

Me, too, Sharon!!! :)

Mark Carlson's avatar

Come November 6th, you're gonna need to order a cargo ship full of binkies. Great fucking column, Jeff. Oops. I mean frickin'.

Michelle Vancura's avatar

Yesterday I was listening to some interviewers from MSNBC who spoke with undecided voters after the debate. Most of the people who were interviewed were still undecided. How the fuck can ANYONE still be undecided after listening to that cluster fuck Trump???!!! Please, help me understand!!!

Derek Smith's avatar

You have a working brain. The ones still undecided, well, not so working.

spoonbridgecherry's avatar

"is it the butler? the pool boy? Nosferatu? is it Melania?"

Hahahahaha! Hah!

Amy Blamey's avatar

I 100% believe he's banging Loomer. Or as the idiot king would put it 115% sure.

Elizabeth's avatar

How can any woman have sexual relations with an orange bean bag that smells of armpit and 💩 and 2-day old cheeseburger garbage?

meryl selig's avatar

This is how rumors start…. But count me in. Jeff underscored that she has the right aesthetic for a Trumpette/Cult Vixen. Plasticized wherever there’s skin that can be injected, sculpted and tucked.

M.T. Kelly's avatar

Let's see if we can make it as big as couchfuck mcgeee

Amy Blamey's avatar

Lol, Couchfuck McGee is in a league of it's own.

Patricia Gomes's avatar

I nominate Justadickvance. Thanks to Jeff !

Marie Martin's avatar

Does he have anything to bang with?

Always the last to know.

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

According to Stormy, it was just a tiny mushroom back then, when he still could find it. I suspect like belly buttons it is an "innie" by now.

Cathy 98280's avatar

Stormy told us he has a “mushroom!”

Marcie's avatar

They are both so gross. What does he do with the diaper?

Tardigret's avatar

I think there are many bags of silicone out there vying to be the next Mrs Trump, barf

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

They call themselves "(s)trumpettes.

Dave Drell's avatar

Excuse me Amy - class is in session:

It’s 107%

Thank you!

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

He probably thinks he is, she just fakes it.

Mindy OkayIloveyoubyebye's avatar

Anyone else still riding the joyous blue wave known as Harris/Walz? FUCK the morons who keep saying the honeymoon is over. It's just begun. 🌊

Vicki Sandness's avatar

I love the way you write including the swear words. It’s honest and perfectly describes the situation we are in. Keep it coming.

Vicki Sandness's avatar

And your writing makes me laugh. It’s the only way I can read news about the old orange man.

Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

What in the actual fuck is wrong with these people? How can half the country be this stupid? Or crazy? Or both?

meryl selig's avatar

Stephanie: half the country is either natively stupid or ignorant/uneducated.

MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

And racist. Never underestimate how racist this country is. It’s always been this way; it’s just that in 2016, Donald gave them permission to come out from under their rocks.

Michael Baker's avatar

It's not half the country. It's 70 percent of registered Republicans, minus those smart enough to know it's bullshit but it fits their way of thinking. For the rest, the other Republicans, "Independents" and a few Democrats. It's a combination of racism, misogyny, cultural, and delusions that Republicans are actually better for the economy.

Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

You are correct. If we abandoned the electoral college and went with the popular vote, the GOP would never win another presidential election.

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

That, my friend, is why they will never let that happen.

Richard Von Busack's avatar

We’re gonna have to start buying binkies by the gross! My goodness, what a fuckton of bawling diaper babies! And stop with the fucking swears! We should meet this fucklecade of Republican shitassed cocktweakery with more demure language.