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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

you might think that I'd actually give myself a morning off, but no. because I'm a compulsive fool, I'm already writing tomorrow's piece, tentatively titled 'some fucking idiot in Asia'

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Mark Slattery's avatar

'some fucking idiot in Asia'

Great! Now I have to wait until tomorrow to find out who it is.

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Tess's avatar

hahaha

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CJ Bair's avatar

Hahaha!!!

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P123Sunny's avatar

😂🤣

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Nancy's avatar

😂😂

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Dr J's Sanity Space's avatar

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Carol Jacobson's avatar

That comment wins the award for today!

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Abigail Norling's avatar

Ours, I'm guessing?

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Diana-Sedona's avatar

😂😂😂😂.

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Dayna Keiser's avatar

🤣😂🤣😂

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Charles Austin's avatar

😂😂😂

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Anna B's avatar

It's just that there are so many to choose from ...

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Karen Branstetter's avatar

Like Friday cliff hanger day on soap operas. LOL My sister is so hooked on them that she almost breaks out in a sweat over having to wait for Monday to find out what happened.

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patti sepich's avatar

Can’t imagine who 😉

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Diane J's avatar

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Maria 🇮🇪's avatar

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣PMSL Mark!🤪

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Denise's avatar

Yaas … our local idiot wanders in Asia embarrassing himself and the whole of the You Ess A. 😵‍💫

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PEACE, LOVE, RESIST's avatar

The “dancing” was horrendously embarrassing!!! God, he looked like he was having a seizure or something.

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Robin D's avatar

Hopefully he was 🙏

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Karlene Escriba's avatar

🤣🤣that’s what I came to say!

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Robin D's avatar

😂😂😂

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Abigail Norling's avatar

He really thinks he looks just like Travolta in Grease!

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Ethereal Fairy's avatar

Sadly his delusional cultist think so too. One posted a shopped meme with his head on Travolta's body recently.

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T L Mills's avatar

Oh, dear Goddess...how effing gross is that!!!!!!! Blech. Trump is just so unbelievably juvenile.

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Ethereal Fairy's avatar

They also had a teenage Melania on it it was disgusting.

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Sharon C Storm's avatar

🤣😂

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Andrew's avatar

He looks like Travolta in grease.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

In his GIANT striatum. His MRI confirmed that he's a PSYCHOPATH.

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Cats 🐈🐈‍⬛'s avatar

Me thinks he is just grease.

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Abigail Norling's avatar

He looks like Travolta in Gotti!

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AuntTeeFa's avatar

Just the grease part

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Pam Humphrey's avatar

Just came on here to beg you to post a video of the idiot dancing in Malaysia, Jeff. The most embarrassing thing I’ve ever seen. A whole crowd dancing along with him in what was a sad attempt to keep him from making a fool of himself.

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Chet Brandt's avatar

That was drumph’s “jerking off two elephants “ dance as per someone wittier than I….thanks Uncle Jeff!

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DJ Headthrob's avatar

There are rumors coming out of DC that the man has suffered a stroke. It might explain the "dancing."

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meryl selig's avatar

We could only wish it was a seizure

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Joe Witkowski's avatar

Seizure = wishful thinking

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Rosemary Orlandi's avatar

If only !

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Juli's avatar

If only

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

Do we know for a fact that he wasn’t?

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LJ's avatar

Just think how his diaper felt!

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T L Mills's avatar

It would have been far better if he had. Just sayin'.

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Judith Fleming's avatar

Dancing? Oh, no. I missed it...not his usual jacking off two guys at the same time??

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DR JAGC's avatar

Seriously WTF was that? Imagine if Obama, Biden, Hillary, or Kamala “danced” like that. Or could be so easily placated with a red carpet and a band.

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DJ Headthrob's avatar

"Marco . . . Marco . . . where are ya, Fatso?

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Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

Here, I waded through Stroke Victim Trump's Asia visit Jeff.

Enjoy.

https://thistleandmoss.com/p/trump-has-had-a-stroke-yes-this-is-happening

Shocker: Trump really has had a stroke.

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Mingo's avatar

"We're conducting an autopsy on a still walking corpse". Perfect. I still hold the thought that his bout of the first generation of COVID did indeed damage his vascular system. Along with his other co-comorbidities he is a walking corpse. Come on blood clots, do your best.

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Joe Witkowski's avatar

McDonald’s and KFC did what Covid couldn’t.

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Mingo's avatar

COVID really dealt many people a bad hand. But for him I have no pity. He gets the best of health care while cutting most Americans access to health care.

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

The press asked him why he’d had an MRI, and he said something along the lines of, “I don’t know. I didn’t ask.”

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Joyce's avatar

Same approach he takes when President Nosferatu shoves another piece of paper under his nose, to sign off on another way to cause mass suffering.

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

Yeah it’s amazing how the man who pretends to know more about everything than anyone, claims to know nothing about anything when it suits him.

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Dave Drell's avatar

He can claim he knows more about everything, but we all know he knows NOTHING about everything!

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PEACE, LOVE, RESIST's avatar

As long as it was “perfect”, as if he had control over the results like his cognitive dementia test, that’s all that matters in his pinball head.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Perfect image of his arterial plaque and how close he is to another stroke or a heart attack.

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Robin D's avatar

🙏

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Maui Wahine's avatar

Someone tell him about the magnets in the MRI machine!

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DJ Headthrob's avatar

He's ok with it. Unless the machine is under water.

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Robin D's avatar

A man who had his doctor's office burgled because he didn't want his records to show he was on hair growing medication, walks blindly into an MRI and doesn't ask why. But it was "the perfect MRI. Nobody had a perfect MRI like me".🤔

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DJ Headthrob's avatar

How's he gonna cover-up that lobotomy?

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Robin D's avatar

Whatever is on his head is like a "chia pet" at this point. I guess whoever takes care of the orange skin and the concealer on his hand can cover up any scar Lol.

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Abigail Norling's avatar

Because he is fucking falling apart and Miller doesn't want to lose his puppet!

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Jane's avatar

He said it was perfect also

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

🙄

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Lin Talbot-Koehl's avatar

Typical.

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Anne Randall's avatar

I read it. Terrifying. But they have more colorful descriptions of Trump than Jo from Jersey and that’s saying something.

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Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

Oh I love to deface Trump anytime I can

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Anne Randall's avatar

You do it so well!

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Kip McSherry's avatar

I love Jo Jo, too!!

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Tess's avatar

Great detailed report Wendy!

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Kay-El's avatar

Excellent column Wendy. Besides all the weirdness you detailed, the picture of half Trump’s face drooping was a huge red flag and admitting he had a MRI confirmed it.

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Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

Yeah its kind of hard to DENY it when its right there staring you in the FACE.

see what I did there?

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Kay-El's avatar

Lol, yes, yes, I did.

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Nancy Potter's avatar

That was a remarkably comprehensive analysis. I have wondered for the past week if the ballroom project was something his Miller and Vought came up with: give him a project he likes and is familiar with, building, while they proceed with the functions that require a well-functioning brain. Leavitt said the ballroom is his chief concern these days. Also, I've wondered if the MRI he took was an fMRI, which measures brain function.

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DJ Headthrob's avatar

You're assuming there is an actual functioning brain. Several people have posted that he seems to be slurring his words and is less-articulate now. ARTICULATE? In what universe?

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Robin D's avatar

Geez...those two are especially repulsive and are so pathetic. From day one with all of them, Elon on down, .it's been Revenge of the Nerds on steroids. Where these damaged, lonely, abused boys become the abusers. with money intersected with power, no matter what they look like, watch out. Donnie is exhibit A, and he has beautiful Mar-a-lago women for Russel Vought and his hypocrital ilk, but what he also has, that none of the others do, is IMMUNITY....and pardon power.and his fingers on our treasury like it's his ATM and SCOTUS 🙄 Brain-function or not, they could hide him like the Wizard of Oz. Even Nancy Reagan ran the country for a bit, but he still has to be "in the seat". JD is so close he can taste it. I doubt I'll be alive by then, but one day when it all comes out, I wish I could see the exposes of those with the loudest, most sulfureous mouths. Find out everything about these low-lives. What you say is absolutely true, Nancy.🎯 Keep him occupied while they destroy this country and the world while no-one else is looking. Distract. Delay. Deflect. I don't think they care if the MRI shows him flat-lining...they need his body for more time. Horrifying thought 😱

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Karen Branstetter's avatar

He can brand his name all over the world for all I care! DON'T BRAND OUR SACRED WHITE HOUSE ass hat!!!

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T L Mills's avatar

I for one haven't even a whisper of a doubt. You could easily see it in his face...now you can hear it in his voice and his inability to complete a sentence or even a thought.

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Susie's avatar

Holy shit, Wendy. Just, wow. 😳😳😳😳😳😳

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Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

Yep you know what it’s like ?

It’s like THAT

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DebPer's avatar

Humpty Trumpty sat on a wall…

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George in Atlanta's avatar

Huh, Wendy always brings it. Very thorough. I'm convinced, and I don't convince easy.

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Leigh Hamilton's avatar

Tried to subscribe, but am in perpetual "Subscribing" status. Login won't work for me either. I'll try later.

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Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

Check your substack DMs, LH. Ive taken care of it. :)

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Barbara Laman's avatar

Omg. I tried to read that to husband, but I laughed so hard I couldn’t. So I had to send him the link.

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Linda Weide's avatar

Jeff, reading your column each day makes my life better. I really appreciate your voice. It helps me to face the demons running our country and our world with the disdain they are due.

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steve robertshaw's avatar

Amen. Your comment bears repeating.

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Beth's avatar

Yes! This is the only thing I never miss reading. Makes me laugh.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

Exactly this.

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Crystal Hartley's avatar

Yes indeed.

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CroneEver's avatar

You mean the idiot who's running around in a stupid blue suit saying China's going to sign off on a deal by the end of the week?

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Maggie&Lefty's avatar

Ya mean 2 weeks, don’cha?

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DJ Headthrob's avatar

Same time we see that Health Plan.

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kerbo's avatar

AND he will have solved 3 more wars in the meantime!

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Brenda Doherty's avatar

Netanyahu bombed Gaza today. Not looking good for Peace in the Middle East!

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DJ Headthrob's avatar

Orange Jabba couldn't even stop the war between the Jets and Sharks.

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P123Sunny's avatar

(ahem): *two weeks*

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michellefromchicago's avatar

Ah, yes, the mythical "two weeks," which has been getting a real workout for years. If Two Weeks ever does materialize, it will be riding in on a unicorn.

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P123Sunny's avatar

Well put!

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Nancy Potter's avatar

Not to mention all the "plans" and "agreements" which are actually "outlines" of a plan or agreement.

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DJ Headthrob's avatar

Right up there with those "Binders of Women."

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DJ Headthrob's avatar

To quote CCR, "Two weeks never comes."

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Margaret Carreiro's avatar

Perfect!

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Kevin Rice's avatar

Great. Now Jeff will always be writing 24 hours in advance, so all the news will be 24 hours late. It's like Tiedrich Daylight Time, and it won't be until March or so when we are all finally caught back up with Tiedrich Savings Time. And that pattern really screws with livestock feeding patterns. Thanks, Obama!

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Jace Johnson's avatar

"Thanks, Obama " had me laughing out loud in the line at the post office.

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Margaret Carreiro's avatar

Love it!

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Nancy's avatar

😂😂😂

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Maria 🇮🇪's avatar

Thanks Obama! Oh Kevin 🤣🤣🤣

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Nina Nelson's avatar

Ugh, and I’ve already cringed at the bootlicking media’s mention of his “signature dance moves.” 🤮Why are people accepting this as normal behavior???

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kerbo's avatar

Awwww, just think of all the lil Halloweeners of Magats dressed like him doing that dance down the streets….

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Teri Gelini's avatar

🤮🤮

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Ole Anderson's avatar

Miming jacking off two Giraffes at once is a ‘signature dance move’

In whose nightmare?!?

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P123Sunny's avatar

I know - it’s like he’s a dear, elderly uncle…

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George A. Polisner's avatar

I feel certain you will help us equate "A concept of a (Healthcare) Plan" with a "Framework of a Trade Deal" -which seems to be the legacy media's favorite distraction from the release of the Epstein/Trump Pedofiles, and Mike "lil" Johnson's shutdown.

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P123Sunny's avatar

But Joe Biden’s ‘cognitive vibe’ was concrete news …every damn day

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P123Sunny's avatar

(From Parkhomenko/Youngman):

So in today’s opening note we’d like to write a letter to Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson. Here is that letter…

Dear Fuckheads,

Where the hell did you bitches go? You told us presidential health was the most important thing for journalists in D.C. to cover and then you scurried up Trump’s orange ass and disappeared forever. Was it just Joe Biden’s health that was so fucking important to cover? Is that because he and his fans didn’t threaten and scare the shit out of you? Y’all were so goddamn high and mighty and opinionated when you were shitting all over Joe. Why so quiet now, chickenshits? We were gonna write you to ask you to do your fucking jobs, but we changed our minds. Instead we’re just sending this as an invitation to kiss our asses… Assholes.

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Teri Gelini's avatar

PERFECT!

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Charles Austin's avatar

Excellent! 👍👍

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P123Sunny's avatar

No comparison. When Biden so much as tripped, it was a week-long story. When Trump has no idea where he is and drifts off mid-event— media silence.

This isn’t the first time. What’s up?

- @owillis.bsky.social

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Dan Parker's avatar

Keep going Jeff! Thanks for your voice!!!

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Virgin Monk Boy's avatar

Blessed be the ones who mistake obsession for purpose and end up being right.

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kerbo's avatar

He invented a reason to get the hell outta Dodge while all the noise and dirt and destruction is going on. (No, not THAT destruction, I’m talking about the East Wing here).

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Neal Stiffelman's avatar

Lemme guess… well, Hegseth’s lost another bunch of aircraft into the briny drink, but it’s awfully hard to top a guy who brags about getting a perfect score on his dementia screening and having the best-looking MRI anyone ever seen. And what’s his deal with magnets?

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Kim Steeves's avatar

I guess as long as there was no water involved, he could handle the magnets!

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

He learned the M in MRI stood for "magnetic" and that stuck to his gray matter like a child's magnet to a refrigerator.

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Charles Austin's avatar

That's it.

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J Hardy Carroll's avatar

Japan plays a long game. Remember how embarrassing it was for the Shogun to have to come to Dewey when he steamed into the bay and pointed his guns at the city? How about when Hirohito had to have a personal visit with MacArthur after Japan was more or less incinerated?

Putting Trump on Japanese TV more than makes up for these humiliations.

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Janet DeDonato's avatar

I love reading what you write. It’s the only thing currently keeping me sane. So thank you! And the name of your newsletter is perfect.

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Chris Hierholzer's avatar

Translating is a real treat in Asia! We only send our best business man! Next week he'll declare war on Asia.

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Robin D's avatar

🤣😂 In the doctor’s office trying to stifle my laugh. It’s not working LOL

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Tess's avatar

Happy fucking birthday Jeff!😁 I look forward to this every single day!!!!! Thank you for being here - and yes- this group is great!!!🎉🎉

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Dayna Keiser's avatar

Ditto

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Jax's avatar

Happy birthday to us!!!! Thank you, Jeff, for giving us your daily read. I don't think I could get through this nightmare without your wit and sarcasm!

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Lynne Murphy's avatar

Ditto

When I found this Eric Clapton look a like during Covid I knew good karma had come my way.

Thank you Ms Spouse for sharing this witty man with all of us. Forever grateful 🙏♥️

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CJ Bair's avatar

Exactly!!

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Stephen Brady's avatar

Jeff - you have become a must-read part of my mornings. It gives me a chance to laugh and smirk at things which are otherwise too dark to dwell on. ‘Never guessed you’d become part of people’s support and mental health community did you? Good on you!

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

I literally have tens of thousands of unread emails in my inbox. But none of them are Jeff’s.

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Susan's avatar

Me too, thousands of unread emails, but always Jeff's. I'm new to this community, and happy to be here. Literally.

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Debbie's avatar

Happy birthday!! Thank you for your writing, your comic relief, and all the time you put into your work. I truly appreciate reading your posts daily! 🎂🥳

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KellyG's avatar

Happy birthday to us all! I don’t know what we’d do without you and each other, but mainly you. You make listening to the orange felon almost tolerable when I listen with this: ‘how is Jeff going to present this fucking moronic thing?’ Thanks for everything you do, you truly make a difference.

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

Happy birthday to this amazing newsletter, and congratulations to you, Jeff, for not just finding the words (and the energy) to write about this hell scape on a daily basis, but for finding the humor in it as well. I can honestly say, this community you’ve created has been such a comfort to me. Your subscribers have made me laugh, feel less alone, and far more sane. Thank you for doing what you do! 🥰

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Nancy's avatar

What Stephanie said! Thank you, Jeff! You make every morning better!

And I absolutely LOVE the title of your substack! It alone makes me laugh again and again. ❤️

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Bonnie Council's avatar

Happy Third!!! I wasn’t here at the beginning, and I actually hate to say it, but it was that atrocity in our White House that led me to you & this group, but now, even if I don’t show up every day, this is like my twelve step group. I cannot imagine surviving the torment without you, & everyone here. Happy third!! 🎉

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Denise's avatar

Thanks for keeping us sane and entertained while skewering the FCK out of the f*ckery!!! 🙌🏽

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Monnina's avatar

Had to come out of hiding for this. Three years. Seems both shorter and longer. Shorter for the support, longer riding the descent into MAGA Hell. The cheapest and best group therapy ever.

Long may it thrive and thank you to Jeff, spouse and all who contribute here 🐈‍⬛

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AxolotlFriend's avatar

I came out of hiding too! Jeff’s right, the comments are great here!! Congratulations to us as a community for being awesome.

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Herbert Schaffner's avatar

Jeff, Mark Twain would love your work--and I see you how that way--a pissed off Twain who's had enough of the MAGA nightmare. Never let up -- keep blowing up the bs!

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Papa Sitta's avatar

HAPPY THREE YEARS JEFF!

Glad to be on board!

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Kathy E Gattuso's avatar

Happy 3rd Birthday !!!!

Love this column. Look forward to getting it every day. I'm happy to be a paid subscriber. You make me laugh every day when there's really not much to laugh about. Keep up the good work and say hello to Mrs Spouse for me. Life with you must be a lot of fun. 😊

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1dEdited

I'm super grateful to you, Jeff. For your wit, your humor, your SANITY. And this may sound weird, or maybe not, but for your profanity. When everyone else was so calm and trying to stay so normal in this insane world, you were the only one shouting from rooftops how fucked up it all is. This substack is a catharsis that has kept me, and I'm sure countless others, from having our minds go "fuckity bye bye."

Thank you, Jeff. Happy Three and here's to hoping that by next year, we have something truly happy to celebrate and a grave to dance on. Did I say that out loud? (cough)

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Joyce's avatar

The red shoes are on standby. Every morning, as the coffee brews, my first inquiry of the day is, "Is he dead yet?" Since I have not yet had the opportunity to wear my red shoes, I then rely on Jeff for my sanity support.

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Mary Hall's avatar

I'm putting up Christmas lights no matter what time of year, opening something bubbly and, dancing in front of my fidiot MAGAt neighbor's house.

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Lynne Murphy's avatar

I’ll be stomping my clogs doing the Irish jig 🍀

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Nancy's avatar

😂😂

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Susie's avatar

Hear hear! I fucking love this comment because it’s exactly how I fucking feel!!! 🤣👏🏻🤣👏🏻🤣👏🏻

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Theresa Breach's avatar

Happy Birthday Jeff and Mrs. Spouse !

The most asked question in our home is , “Is Jeff in ?”

We’ve learnt so much about US government and politics from this site and we’ve laughed and commiserated with you all

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Mary Hall's avatar

The best thing I hear every morning is, "Jeff's up!"

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Theresa Breach's avatar

That’s funny

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Phyllis Provenzano's avatar

Thank you. Jeff. You make me laugh as well as inform me of what is going on in this upside-down world we live in now.

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