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1. Said this yesterday about Vance’s shitty comment but bears repeating:

My mom, who was of that generation, was totally accepting of a trans family member. Guess that answers Vance’s question.

2. Since when do batteries cause electrocution? Would someone please give Trump a hairdryer to take into the bathtub? That might explain the difference to him.

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I love that idea!! Once the bathtub is filled, hand him the blow dryer & then yell “Donald!! A shark is coming”

Supposedly he’s terrified of sharks

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Battery. Shark. Whichever gets the job done most efficiently.

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Whoa, wait. Didn't he say a couple of months ago that once a battery gets wet, it's dead? So how can it electrocute him if the water deactivated it? Why am I asking questions as if Trump's brain hasn't glitched a thousand time between that statement and this weekend?

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Back then he thought magnets were inactivated if they got wet. Now he thinks a DC battery will electrocute you if submerged. He just keeps 'em comin'!

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Hey, he is a genius by proxy to an uncle that taught at .MIT, don't you know!

Go figure.

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Would MIT be the

Make Believe Institute of Trump ,That MIT ?

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Taught him the word "nuclear" and everything! He can almost spell it!

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This is what happens when what is left of one’s brain is a neuron connected by 2 spirochetes.

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YES, INDEED!!!

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What’s quicker?😊😊😊😊

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What I cannot get over is as Trump is saying he prefers electrocution to the shark, some guy behind him is nodding in agreement and looking over at a friend who is nodding in agreement too. Are they even having anything between their ears. Or picturing the chances of surviving electrocution in the water, over a shark attack.

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🤣

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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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And rise from the dead 3 days later! Put it to the test.

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😄😂

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but that might cause him to jump out of the tub. we might not want to be there

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Trump needs to go back to 1st and second grade. He also needs to learn about run on sentences.

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That's assuming that he went to first and second grade in the first place.

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I'm sure he did, but he probably wasn't paying attention. Same at Whaton. How do you graduate from Wharton and still be an economic illiterate?

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He didn't graduate from the Wharton School of Business - he took a few classes there (maybe?) while "earning" a degree at University of Pennsylvania. As for grade school, I think that was the time when he hit a music teacher (a woman, of course), in the face. He was born a stupid sociopath.

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And his parents sent him to military school after that. Hence, the I know more than the Generals…

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Military school for someone his age is otherwise known as "reform school" for the sociopathic children of wealth.

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No, he went to NY Military Academy for high school--it a high school you send your kid to when you are rich and you don't know how to handle the juvenile delinquent!

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It's called the Fred Trump endowment.

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He did not graduate from Wharton (the School of Business). He never was admitted to the Wharton School of Business. He went to Fordham, then transferred to U. Penn, where he studied the hotel business or something like that; the undergraduate division that offers those courses is called "Wharton College" (like, for example at Cal Berkeley, there's a "College of Engineering," a "College of Letters and Science" and so forth). All undergraduate. And I am literally certain that he paid other students to do his work & take his tests. I believe one of his former professors was quoted as saying he was "the stupidest student he had ever had." So of course, his endless claim that he "went to Wharton" is like me claiming I have a degree from Harvard because I once walked through Harvard Yard.

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His niece said that his sister Mary did all of his homework for him.

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I remember that quote. Trump has llved up to that judgment.

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I think I read an article about this a couple years ago. The bottom line was his daddy paid for his degree, I was not surprised. He truly is stupid; and, as we all know, stupidity cannot be fixed.

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No, but you can recognize it by its hat...

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Without a doubt.

😂

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One of his Professors at U PENN called him the dumbest student he ever had.

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Pay people to take all your tests for you.

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By someone paying for his degree?

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He got an undergraduate degree from Wharton, not an MBA. One of his professors there said he was the dumbest student he'd ever had in his entire teaching career! Fred, Sr. bought him his degree!

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I'm sure they had to pay extra tuition to take him.

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He was throwing rocks at the other kids.

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Part of what got his ass shipped to military school.

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He was a mean little shit, by all accounts. He still is.

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How about learning about run-on, nonsensical paragraphs? He’s a perfect example of a wasted mind.

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Learning about? He INVENTED them! Along with electricity and boats. Nobody even knew about sharks until he brought them up. The best sharks.

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Can't waste something you never had...

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He needs to NOT be anywhere near the nuclear codes!

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he’s completely mastered run-on sentences and run-on lies.

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That stable genius who can say the letters M, I and T in their proper sequence (to prove he's a stable genius) might want to learn the difference between the letters AC and DC. Electrocution! Jesus......

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His MAGA supporters don’t know the difference either

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But does he know what the letters stand for? He never went to MIT and just because an uncle did doesn’t make him smart, he’s as dumb as that rag on his head . I wonder if he goes to jail, will they allow him to keep his hair ?

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Ooh, he needs a buzz !

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Direct current can electrocute.

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Battery voltage not nearly high enough to disperse significant current into a body of water.

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It’s amperage that matters, not voltage

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Of course. Voltage is the potential energy that can be generated, current is the actual "flow" of that energy, and the amount of current depends on the voltage and the system resistance (Ohm's law). For a current (amperage) high enough to interfere with the electrical conduction of a heart, the voltage has to be significant because the resistance in our skin is quite high. It's lower when wet, but then you have to consider the resistance of each millimeter of water between a still functioning battery and the object. Bottom line : trump is talking about batteries. This scenario is absurd.

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It’s jaw-dropping absurd

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My father was repair officer on a sub-tender. I saw 1.5 v batteries as big as oil drums. They were extremely dangerous

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JD Vance is smarter than Donald. But not by much. He dishonors himself by insulting the honorable. Biden was doing his job. Attacking fascism and upholding freedom.

Wonder what Eisenhower would say about JD's and Donald's insults of the President of the United States. Indefensible! Let's remind the MAGAs that Dwight D Eisenhower, Supreme General of the Armed Forces and President of the United States. And Leader of the GOP from 1952 to 1960. Was ANTIFA.

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No epithets match up to Vance’s repulsiveness

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He sees himself as the Veep Creep.

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He has a beard.

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🏆 Your idea deserves an award!! Um, is it ok if someone puts a shark in the tub at the same time as his tiny hands grab the hairdryer?

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Perfect

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Wow! My mom too! What a coincidence 😉

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😂

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😂😂

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And boats with the heaviest fu$king diesel engines aren’t sinking. Boats are known for taking on huge weight and not sinking? Is he on drugs? Sounds really serious. The heat might get him.

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in some circles “boat” means “submarine” or, i suppose, small craft. Large surface vessels are “ships”

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The only problem with this scenario, trump doesn’t take baths or showers, evidently… based on people in proximity to him who have been overcome by his stink. Trump reeks.

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Yes, he wears a special cologne: Eau de Repel

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😂

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btw, popular science project these days is making a battery using a potato (https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project-ideas/Energy_p010/energy-power/potato-battery)

Tell him he needs to be careful of fries lest they conspire to electrocute him.

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That’s hilarious

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The idea that is is Trump in one of his more lucid mom we nts...

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I’ll deliver the hair dryer to him!

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Make it the highest wattage possible!

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If connected well enough, any battery larger than your fist can stop your heart.

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😂😂😂

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What kind of boat has he been on?? Batteries that sink. Deep batteries. Batteries that electrocute people.

I was amazed that he somehow “knew” that water conducts electricity… no no no. I think I am attributing his “knowing” this to his having real info. It was random that this made sense. One phrase, a few words, out of his outpouring of pre-compost verbal spewage

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Ah, great! I been going “WHAR MY TIEDRICH! WHAR!” in a Yosemite Sam voice all morning.

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I was going into TDS (Tiedrich Withdrawl Syndrome).

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one of these days I might actually take a day off, just saying

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Face it, Jeff - you are an Essential Worker.

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The remaining sane people of this country understand how tough it is to glean humor from these greedy sick bucks. Thank you. By the way , you read aloud well!

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They autocorrected bucks! I tried for an f.

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SF airport and United (if that’s what you flew) is a blackhole of suckiness. I could regale you about flights from SFO to Reno (last leg of many flights home) cancelled or delayed, as we wait hour-by-hour to see if we are flying home. Easier to just rent a car and drive over the Sierra, while luggage goes on its merry way to somewhere sometime. A cancelled flight out of SFO meant that my husband missed his conference in Germany where he was scheduled to speak. So he cancelled the rest of his flight and tried to book a flight home. Yeah? That’ll be $495 for a 60-minute flight. Arguments ensued.

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I just book 'em then have Ciitibank whack it. 9 times out of 10 United doesn't even respond.

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If that happened to me, an ass whipping would ensue.

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Sounds as fun as Dallas Ft Worth to MSP....worse if you started in Florida ( yearly corporate meeting & European leadership loved Florida). Yep, happily retired.

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Wait.. I need my Tiedrich fix every single day.. if I have to see that MangoMussolini every single damn day on every single news feed then I need Jeff’s writing to keep me sane.. cause I’ll end up in jail for assault and battery of some F’d up MAGAt Moron..

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I know the feeling.

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You absolutely should do that on the regular. We will survive.

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Shhhhhhhhhhhh...........

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Haha..nope. I’m retired and won’t begrudge anyone their hard earned days off.

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Well said 👏

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Hopefully at the end of November after Biden wins and the dust settles. You deserve a nice long vacation!

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Ahhh… love you Jeff! We’ve all been conditioned to look for you before noon. You’ll need a day to rest up. We will need your take on The Alito recording … it sounds like a scandal in the making. See The Dworkin Report. 🤦‍♀️

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Yes. The Dworkin Report today was a bombshell. I am thankful to Lauren Windsor and her spot-on voice.

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Rest up. We can wait. Travel is increasingly difficult, and reading the crap you do for us sucks energy. So rest, rest, read something funny.

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