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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: if you see any "photos" of fencing or a tarp around the Reflecting Pool, DO NOT BE FOOLED. they are AI-generated slop, which is the last thing we need right now

Stephen Schiff's avatar

I love you & Mrs Spouse, Jeff BUT you left out the EPSTEIN FILES which IMHO are the motivation for 99% of everything the Orange Turd has been doing.

Never

forget

the crimes

and

the VICTIMS!

Mary Hall's avatar

THIS! THIS! THIS!

Kay-El's avatar

But it is pretty funny and I wouldn’t put it past Pumpkin Head to do it à la Kennedy Center

Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

that's why I almost fell for it and almost used it as the header image for the post — because it's totally believable

Megan Ross's avatar

Holy shit. Is there anything true coming out of TRump's pie hole or Clown Car Cabinet anymore?! No.

Joe Witkowski's avatar

You heard Maggie Habermann and Jonathan Swan on both Jon Stewart’s and Lawrence O’Donnell’s programs: *ASSUME EVERYTHING HE SAYS IS A FUCKING LIE!*

My book just arrived. Devouring it

devourerofpancakes's avatar

Please donate it to a library or something after you read it. I do not want to give Habermann money for sitting on important information.

Joe Witkowski's avatar

They updated the book/manuscript right up to their last interview with Trump in March or April (the final chapter). I’m not sure they sat on it, even though I loathe the fucking NY Times.

Barbara McQuade’s “The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government” is also very good.

devourerofpancakes's avatar

Really? I'm not sure I can handle either book right now. I need a breezy beach read to stave off the madness.

Mary Hall's avatar

I'm currently rereading my ancient copy of "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac, which launched the Beat Generation in the 1950s. After that I will reread my ancient copy of "Steal This Book" by Abbie Hoffman.

Kevin Rice's avatar

I suggest "I'd Rather We Got the Casinos (and Other Black Thoughts)" by Larry Wilmore. It's a hilarious collection of essays and is exactly what it sounds like. I read the whole thing on a flight to the DR last year. Excellent, and very easy to read.

Deb Pierce's avatar

Devourer, I don't want to give Maggie Habermann any $$ either; she was a *major* factor in torpedoing Hillary Clinton's candidacy over her emails. If Hillary had been elected, we wouldn't be here, suffering with Orange Monster. So I don't think I'll be buying the Habermann/Swan book, either.

Joe Witkowski's avatar

Whether anyone buys it or not, as discussed between Lawrence O’Donnell and former Associate AG Andrew Weissmann, the documentation and accuracy of White House discussions in the book - pretty much unrefuted by this maladministration - will be used by defendants to demonstrate vindictive prosecutions by Orange Hitler’s justice department.

From that perspective, think beyond yourselves.

cablecargal's avatar

That's a fabulous idea. I hated giving her any money but I really wanted to read it. Normally, I wait on the library's waiting list but I was weak!

Giving it away will at least make me feel slightly better.

(Although I do like Jonathan Swan.)

SPW's avatar

I have it downloaded. It’s on my To Do list.

Richard Von Busack's avatar

They've got us where they want us, to be just like Russia: "Everything is possible and nothing is true."

Megan Ross's avatar

What truly blows my mind is, that people still believe them. It's insane.

Joe Witkowski's avatar

So are almost 80 million voters in this shithole country

Eskaveeda's avatar

Was there ever?

Jeanne Leduc's avatar

Anymore? Never has been!

Paula Dean's avatar

That story he told about the guy whose wife suddenly thinks he's a financial wizard? He used the same story during his first attempt at preznidating. Almost exactly the same. The only difference is the husband didn't decide he didn't like his wife anymore at the end of the fantasy. The first version had the wife - trump tells this part in a ridiculous high-pitched voice - " oh honey I'm so proud of you! I used to think you were bad at investing, but now I see you're a genius! I love you so much! " It was just as stupidly fake as the new one.

Dave Drell's avatar

It’s as phony as he is.

Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

Uncle Jeff, This is not an adequate use of AI. Sorta like as we all remember, the AI Image of Trump Flying the Poopy plane. That too was an equally useless piece of shit...literally.

For those who dont remember

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XEIigNbPWx8

SPW's avatar

“TRUMP IS NOT A SOURCE”-Belle of the Ranch(https://youtu.be/gwYxYEXd8nY?si=hhgV-rK7N84yu2FS).

Elizabeth Ratkovich's avatar

I thought I was reading a magabot post yesterday about the Texas protesters being found guilty of domestic terrorism and sentenced to much longer prison terms than the J6 insurrectionists, but sadly it’s the fucking truth. I really hate this timeline and November 3rd can’t come soon enough for me to keep me from losing my sanity.

Beezerbomb's avatar

Christ...why do people do stupid fucking things like this? Like we don't have enough of a problem regarding believability with news stories, especially online...

Megan Ross's avatar

Personally, I'd like to get back to the releasing of the Epstein files. I don't really give a shit about the Reflecting Pool right now. Yes, it's a debacle, and it's a real mess, but there are powerful men being protected by these files not being released. These mthrfkrs need to be held accountable. Thanks.

Victoria Wilson's avatar

Yes, I agree.The reflecting pool debacle, the Kennedy Center bullsh*t, the war( it is a war) in Iran and most of the other hog slop that Little Donnie FF and company throw out there are smokescreens to keep us from demanding the release of the Epstein files which is THE story of the most hideous child sex ring and cover up in the history of our country imfo.

Kimberly Sandwisch's avatar

👍👍👍👍👍

Ann Anderson's avatar

This is off-topic, but I'm so grateful to the World Cup even though I have no interest in the sport, because visitors have reminded me that there's more going on in America than Fuckwit and his stupidity and incompetence. Europeans, in particular, are wowed and surprised. Favorites so far are Costco, Walmart, air conditioning, ranch dressing, yellow school buses, marching bands, flyovers, the scenery (from anywhere), portion sizes, free refills and general friendliness. Enjoy this beautiful summer day and remember that it's a big wide wonderful world, love is forever and Trump is temporary.

HI2thDoc's avatar
4hEdited

After FIFA super Swiss suckup Infantino gave Fat Bastard that ridiculous "FIFA Peace Prize," I was completely dismissive and derisory of the WC. But hearing that the fans from some of the Commonwealth nations are trolling Demented DonOld, why, it's a redemption! And these fans have shown us how to keep him from showing up and sullying our sporting events: boo the shit out of him and chant insults. Word is his handlers don't want him to attend certain matches where the fans will call him pedo and other accurate monikers

Deb's avatar

Sadly Fifa “king” is allowing the bloated obstacle of a human being be the one to give the WC trophy to winning athletes😳

HI2thDoc's avatar

In that case I hope it's the Iranian team that wins

Deb's avatar

Karma is dragging her feet. May Iran soccer team do well!

Deb's avatar

Wouldn’t that be the best?

Jeanne Leduc's avatar

Think he'll try to keep it? I do.

Deb's avatar

Some peon is creating a knockoff version, I hope😳

JoJoRa's avatar

I am sure he won't hand the trophy to the winner; especially if it is gold! He will keep it for himself and believe that he won it.

Jan Moon's avatar

He doesn't have the capacity to award anything. He'll probably tie the trophy around his neck and kill him.

Joyce's avatar

Also remember that Donnie Demento is--and always has been--incapable of enjoying such things (which is why he's hellbent on destroying all of it).

I feel the same as you--I've no interest in soccer/football, but I am enjoying the hell out of the fans enjoying the hell out of everything. Once Demento is finally dead, the first thing the restored USAid program should do, before settling down to the serious work, is send Solo cups and ranch dressing overseas.

Ann Anderson's avatar

Sounds like a plan. :-)

Anne Murray 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿's avatar

Boston and the Tartan Army (Scottish fans) seem to have got on very well!

MC_Neville's avatar

So right, the nation is pretty awesome but the current troll admin is atrocious. Our Euro friends know this, and their pisstakes are exceptional. That line by Gary Oldman in Slow Horses describing a certain bathroom activity as 'taking a Donald' is a good example.

Susan Niemann's avatar

Thanks for that 💙💙

Stranger Than Friction's avatar

What I want is the RWNJ conservative/christo-fascist/white supremacist/Project 202x weirdo stranglehold on our country to be broken. I want billionaires and the trillionaire to be dealt with legally, such that we don't have that extreme an income disparity in our country any more. They wrecked our nation and want to carve it up into their fiefdoms. We MUST prevail, or we're going to lose this country for decades, if not forever.

And YES, RELEASE ALL OF THE EPSTEIN FILES, UNREDACTED.

Dr J's Sanity Space's avatar

Ann: It is indeed uplifting to see the Tartan Army in Boston, then Miami, all the joy, merrymaking & shenanigans! Comments about the US & the hospitality were just joyful…

Deb's avatar

Soccer is such a fun sport. The camaraderie between teams and countries gives my sad heart a lift

Stranger Than Friction's avatar

Ted Lasso season 4, featuring a woman's team, will arrive on streaming in early August, soccer fans!

Easterncedar's avatar

Thanks for that!

Susie's avatar

I agree so so hard! I’m even watching the games so I can see some joy! Never cared about soccer, but I am a big fan of this whole experience! ⚽️👏🏻🥰

Susan Niemann's avatar

Outstanding and complete summary of our demise. One thing is missing tho… he has also destroyed our sanity. Blood pressures are rising and morale is plummeting.

Gee, Ms. Spouse was a really beautiful lady-I just love the photos.

Try to have a good day everyone. ✌️

HI2thDoc's avatar

To anyone not in the cult, it is clear that this lifelong fuckup, this walking embodiment of the Seven Deadly Sins, this sociopathic, predatory, infantile narcissist breaks everything he can get his grubby, short fingered hands on. This is bad beyond belief. To add to the unprecedented destruction of America and the world, the party of predator protectors has completely abrogated their roles to act as the necessary checks and balances on just this type of destructive authoritarianism. The party of family values, less government, fiscal responsibility, the Constitution, freedom, law and order, all their self-aggrandizing descriptors, embraces him and facilitates his malfeasance. We already know he is beyond evil and terrible. Everyone who does not oppose him is culpable as well. They must pay for their actions.

Tish Grier's avatar

Oh but you should head them on the local level! The disaster that the Big Bullshit Bill has brought to municipalities across the country with humungous cuts to states which they pass along to towns has caused towns like mine that never raise property taxes to raise property taxes. But the problem isn't the BBB. Oh no. The problem is the previous mayor under a different prez who built a new school and improved road safety. How dare that mayor make our schools better!! How dare our roads be safer!! And how dare our muni employees HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE!! OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!! So now the MAGAts have us spending $8k on a recount of the override vote, have sowed rumors that our voting machines are broken and are gearing up to say we have "voter fraud." They are blasting the tired meme of "Lincoln was a Republican" and "Save our Seniors from losing their homes." But will NOT admit, even when presented with legit graphs and charts, that the BBB caused the shitstorm of higher property taxes. As it was designed to do ..

And this, my friends is the real "trickle down economics.". The rot starts as the head, as they say. And it's true. We're smelling it right about now.

HI2thDoc's avatar

"All politics is local." The question is, do the voters place the blame on the right people/party

Stranger Than Friction's avatar

Also, Putin and Bibi must go

Susie's avatar

Goddamn, Doc. Excellent frickin synopsis of his awfulness. And that of his cult. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

Did that big, muscly cop have tears in his eyes when he thanked Donny?

Megan Ross's avatar

And, I'm sure that the cop called TRump "sir" a dozen times... 😉

JoJoRa's avatar

His wife is made to look the "loser". They are all such misogynistic POS

Joyce's avatar

Let's note the parallel to Demento's own domestic life: Melania is just about to serve him with divorce papers, because he's such a bankrupt moron, in 2016, and then the useless waste of carbon wins the election--beginning a 10-year binge of ripping off the United States. She sticks around, because suddenly her pre-nup is worth more.......and Demento doesn't seem to like her very much.

Dave Drell's avatar

Right on target,Joyce 🚨🚨🚨

Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

If that even happened.

Lisa Bieber's avatar

See accompanying pie chart

HI2thDoc's avatar

No matter how many times Jeff uses that pie chart, it never fails to bring a much needed smile to my face

Megan Ross's avatar

That's why I added the wink emoji. 😉

Chris Hierholzer's avatar

Trump was talking about the cops sweaty junk.

David M Marko's avatar

The give away was the use of the word "sir". Anytime the mango mussolini employs someone addressing him as "sir" you know it's unadulterated bullshit. The convolution of his fever dreams and reality is breathtaking.

wisewebwoman's avatar

And as if he has any genuine conversations with working class people??

David M Marko's avatar

The people he actually despises.

Dave Drell's avatar

He screws over working class people!

Beth's avatar

DAMN IT, I had forgotten all about the Rose Garden, and now I'm pissed off about that again, too.

Chris Hierholzer's avatar

It's was a nice picture.

George A. Polisner's avatar

Thank you Jeff,

I used a term "manufactured exhaustion" in my most recent article "The Architecture of Corruption." The criminal elect and his merry band of corrupt incompetent sociopaths create so much chaos with a firehose of lies, corruption, lawlessness, abuse of power, and failure, even your latest is absent a mention of the Epstein-Trump-Maxwell files. News aggregators over the last several days have not talked about the tarp, the complete failure in Iran, Trump's grifted jet (and its near billion dollar price tag we pay for as taxpayers), and so much more. We are living in the middle of Naomi Klein's "Shock Doctrine."

HI2thDoc's avatar
4hEdited

Corporate consolidation, an inevitable product of American laissez-faire capitalism and avarice, has finally reached the media sphere after previously invading the retail, food production, durable goods, energy and healthcare spaces. So now what we are told is controlled by an unprecedentedly small number of entities. Even more alarming, when the oligarch owners are bending over for the dictator, "encouraged" by the FCC's threats of censorship, the formerly sacrosanct free press, expressly enshrined by the founders in the First Amendment, has gone the way of the dodo. Welcome to the Sovietesque States of What Used to be America.

Dave Drell's avatar

You’re rampaging today Doc!

Don’t stop- ever! Fuck these toadies!

Mary Hall's avatar

"... We are living in the middle of Naomi Klein's "Shock Doctrine." Because in chaos THEY CAN STEAL.

George A. Polisner's avatar

So true Mary. Under the cover of chaos -they blatantly steal all they can. Whether it’s the criminal elect and his corrupt family, the insatiable greed of billionaires who want more wealth, or the political party they’ve bought and paid for who want more power -as they steal from the treasury, from democracy, and our future.

Helen Stajninger's avatar

Exactly right Mr Polisner.

Sheila Riley-Callahan's avatar

First of all, today’s Daily Claudia are the best ones yet (if that is possible). I can’t take how adorable she is and the one with her loving husband knocked it out of the park. Dang with huge hearts 💕💞🩷on the side.

Donny Dirtbag is so grotesque and embarrassing he truly leaves me without speech. I am being honest here when I say I don’t understand why he is allowed to continue this dumbfuckery (JT) without consequences. Take the tarp off the Kennedy Center NOW. Stop destroying our house and monuments NOW. Release the Epstein Files NOW. Every single freaking day it is more of his nonsense and zero consequences.

If any of us destroyed the monuments or the White House or if our names were in Epstein Files, our asses would be hauled off and put in jail. But him, nada! In fact his empty skull is probably thinking of his next score.

Damn him and all the voiceless idiots who protect him.

Natalia Lincoln's avatar

I remember “Donnie Rotten”! Lead singer of the Pedex Pistols, whose greatest hit was “Anarchy in the Pre-K”, right?

Sheila Riley-Callahan's avatar

I didn’t know the Pedex Pistols.

Natalia Lincoln's avatar

Yeah, the Sex Pistols stole their band name.

Joe Witkowski's avatar

This current maladministration could use +•*PEDEX* as a contraction for *PEDOPHILE SEX*…

Sheila Riley-Callahan's avatar

I changed his name to Donny Dirtbag. 🤣

AuntTeeFa's avatar

Agreed, photos over the top in love and devotion department 🥺

devourerofpancakes's avatar

TBF the only thing going right for Donald is destroying the federal work force. If my job were on the line I would probably hug a pillow and keep telling myself to hold it together for another two years.

Sheila Riley-Callahan's avatar

I should have put (JT) after the word ‘dumbfuckery.’ I borrowed it. 😁 (I fix it)

Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

See Jeff, where we have gotten is what I call the Fart of the Squeal. Because that is what it is.

https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-the-art-of-the-deal-is-really-the-fart-of-the-squeal

That is the foreign policy of the United States, typed at the volume of a man losing an argument with a parking meter — all-caps, three exclamation points, signed like a ransom note. It worked exactly as bluster works: Iranian negotiators, meeting U.S. diplomats in Switzerland to finalize a deal, walked out after the tirade. The dealmaker blew his own load on his own deal, with his own thumbs, and he looks like a shit swizzling wank-knocker.

HI2thDoc's avatar

His book was called the Art of the Deal

But the ghostwriter said it tweren't real

Where he truly excels

Between tweeting and yells

Is to whine, cast blame, and squeal

HI2thDoc's avatar
3hEdited

Thank you, kind lady, but unfortunately it doesn't have the cachet of the immortal

"Ferris Bueller, you're my hero!"

Fastball Fredo's avatar

Yes, Yes and Yes… Doc another insight to bring the light into our darkness… TY😀

Lauralite's avatar

"Fart of the squeal" Thank you for that.

Lauralite's avatar

And your best is very, very good.

Helen Stajninger's avatar

I am glad you brought up driving across the pool with SUV’s. Just one very important cause of damage to the reflecting pool that Trump won’t acknowledge. Or the media!

And thank you for your Claudia pictures. The love you shared is a real reason to smile.

devourerofpancakes's avatar

I still don't get that bit of flex. What was the point? Who is impressed? Even his dumb base can't be impressed that he drove over the reflecting pool.

Traci Joseph's avatar

I prefer “pocket Nazi” for Bovino

HI2thDoc's avatar

From a couple of weeks ago:

Bovino the mini storm trooper

Is a MAGA racist so super

That short Nazi knob

Needs a new job

Make him trump's pooper scooper

Jane's avatar

😂😂😂👏👏👏

Nancy's avatar

I LOVED “actual bite-size Nazi”! 🤣🤣🤣

cablecargal's avatar

Me, too!

And that picture of you and Claudia is amazing!

AuntTeeFa's avatar

Micro-Nazi works too

wisewebwoman's avatar

Enshittification is how he deals with the USA and the world at large. Everything he touches is enshittified. He has no taste. He is vulgar. And worst of all, he imagines himself the epitome of good taste and class by smearing gold paint on all he surveys. He is the world's biggest joke, parading around in his diaper and his limited grasp of political savvy. And his punctured hands are on the buttons, his cankles on the throttle.

Jacqueline Gindler's avatar

Enshittification. My new favorite word. Thanks. And thanks uncle Jeff for another in a (sadly) long series of excellent posts documenting our national nightmare. Thank you.

Dave Drell's avatar

It all comes down to his narcissism - on the order of Mr.Everest of Narcissism- the likes we hope never shall we see again. It’s the overriding factor of all his flaws and his cruelty.

heydave56's avatar

Uncle Jeff, this was an exceptional column!

kdsherpa's avatar

The picture of you and Claudia is like peeking into a couple's private life, and realizing how completely they love each other. Beautiful. I feel happy looking at it. Thank you for sharing that.

Susie's avatar

Right?! We should all have someone who looks at us the way Jeff looks at his Claudia. So beautiful. 💜