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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

forgot to mention that you folks all spell better than I do, too

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Openly Fae's avatar

At least you didn't celebrate with an unsolicited dick pic, Republican style!

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Wendy's avatar

It's comments like this that make me celebrate being here. Praise Zeus. Blessed. 🤣🤣🤣

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Morgan OCailleigh's avatar

🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

How fucking true is that !!!

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Martha's avatar

😹😹😹

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Kay-El's avatar

Your spelling doesn’t keep us coming back each day, your wit and f-bombs do.

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RV maxima's avatar

I like all of it; f-bombs, misspellings, typos! The while enchilada! And the commentary!

Thanks Jeff for giving it a shot and not overthinking it but just putting it out there! Because at the time the richest middleaged crybaby had his big spoon out and stirring up Twitter and I was, oh no, we can't lose Jeff's writing!

So glad you did page one and onward. My comment, What he said!!!

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RV maxima's avatar

If you say so

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RV maxima's avatar

Excuse my typos as I am losing my vision so I don't catch them all.

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RV maxima's avatar

No worries. Not trying to make an excuse for myself. I realize how frustrating it must be to read typos. Sorta like having a career in science and listening to morons talk about doing their own research? Hahaha?!

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Carrie Duncan's avatar

Wish I could send you a cake. Love the name you chose in 90 seconds flat (now THAT'S quick-witted), the community you've built here who are hilarious and informed and very fine spellers and way cool, and of course: opening up the present that is your Substack every morning. Happy Birthday to yoooouu!

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Prima Sarcastica's avatar

Jeff, thank YOU for writing these brilliant pieces each day! They are a breath of fresh air wafting over the landfill of news we receive daily. (Also--your spelling is exceptional.)

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Cheryl Fleming's avatar

YOU, Dear Jeff Tiedrich, are helping me and probably countless others from descending into a total hopeless funk. I love your daily rants, cannot live without them. Never stop! 💙

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Babette's avatar

Truth!

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Mary Virginia Hughes's avatar

Doesn’t make us better at anything much

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Randy Woodall's avatar

I don't know about that. I look to you as the authority on the proper spelling of your everlonger description of the orange one. More hyphenated and multisyllabic words every week!

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Steve B's avatar

I have an unhealthy hate for the red squiggly lines under misspelled words, so it's a gift AND a curse.

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Daniel L. Cooper's avatar

No FUCKING way!

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Chris Craddock's avatar

We have the best words too!

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Matilda's avatar

We ain’t got no good grammar however.

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Kerbo's avatar

You can. NOT. Imagine how much I look forward to this little shouty newsy thang every day. Thank YOU for allowing us to see written down and confirming all the scary thoughts swirling around our heads and putting them in such an elegant manner. ❤️

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kdsherpa's avatar

(agree with all except -- "elegant"? LOL!!!)

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Wendy's avatar

I am happy to see you at this location since I quit one of those others. You may have as well, I believe. You are someone's whose comments I enjoy, and I remember your name because each time I see it I think of Mt. Everest.

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kdsherpa's avatar

Thank you! Yes, this is going to be my home now. I can't stomach what Steve has done. He's been manipulating us for quite a while now I see in retrospect. All of those columns on Biden's age -- over and over and over again. All of those pictures of his trip with his son, his dogs? IMHO, it was BS to cover up the arrangements he was making with Phillips. He has changed his stripes many times: repugnicant to (supposedly) Democrat and apparently back to repugnicant again; Christian to Jew; some others I'm forgetting. He has his rages against certain people: John McCain, Maggie Haberman among other, which I always thought was weird -- i.e., borderline behavior from "love them" to "hate them". The group was great, over all, but I'm gone -- as are you and many (most?) others. I don't think I can get back my subscription fee, but I'mma gonna try!

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antlisa1201's avatar

Me too! I quit Steve S. when he started bitching about ppl he had a personal vendetta against. I commented to him that I thought he was above that because he really had a smart and wise way of putting things during Trump's time in office. I respected him, I thought he was fantastic. I also followed Jeff religiously and Asha Rangappa and Politics Girl and Sarah Cooper (she did the lip syncing thing to trumpf's speeches and news interviews- like "How to Medical" etc) she was hilarious but now she's all about advertising her comic career and book deal. Only one who lasted is Jeff, he's the only one I read every day and I love him to bits! I still like Asha and Politics Girl but they depress me, they don't make feel better about all the bullshit going on, just worse, and worried. Anyways

"Happy Happy- Joy-Joy Birthday!"- Ren & Stimpy-- "Drinks-! For all my friends!" -Barfly (Mickey Rourke)

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I like Joyce Vance. She helps me understand some complex legal issues. You were very perceptive to recognize an imbalance in Steve when he began attacking people who, as you say, he had a personal vendetta against. I felt extremely uncomfortable with his attacks on McCain and his daughter and on Maggie Haberman. Someone else reminded me of Harry/Megan.

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Politics Girl is steady, as is Rick Wilson, not cross-promoting here on Jeff's time but it has come up somehow about these folks.

Too many bright comedians just use Xitter to promote their shows and merch. It's too bad, because they have a lot to offer.

One last holdout is Trae Crowder, the "liberal redneck"; he's not co-opted into nothing but self-promotion. So far.

Anyway happy birthday fucking-anniversary, Jeff.

"I don't think you're happy enough..."

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Deb's avatar

You know, I stopped following and listening to him when he went overboard on the Megan/Harry stuff. A little bit was okay, but I didn't see the relevance to any of it to what we were dealing with here.

He pushed really hard for Tim Ryan for the Senate in OH, and I absolutely agreed with him there. Now I wonder whether he was trying to be a Kingmaker and thought that Tim would be his ticket to the WH against Joe. I don't think Tim Ryan, had he won, would have been party to anything like what Phillips is doing!

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kdsherpa's avatar

Very interesting. (You're right about Megan/Harry. I'd forgotten about that.)

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Doc Blase''s avatar

When there was the split with Lincoln Project, that was my canary. The bird said, "ruh-roah."

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Doreen Garza's avatar

May I please ask who Steve is? Because if I’m following him I want to stop!!

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Wendy's avatar

Steve Schmidt, the man who helped usher Sarah Palin into our lives.

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Stephanie Sipe's avatar

It has to be Schmidt. That dude has become (or, always was) so full of himself. I mean, what a wanker.

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Doreen Garza's avatar

I’m going to have to keep looking, I don’t think I am but better to be safe

then sorry!!!

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kdsherpa's avatar

Are you following him?

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Doreen Garza's avatar

No, I am not!! 👏

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Doreen Garza's avatar

I don’t know! How can I find out?

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Cheryl Fleming's avatar

I unsubscribed the damn nanosecond after I read his "announcement" about supporting Dean Phillips. Stopped following him. I won't try to get my money back; it's not worth the hassle for 75 bucks. I can't wait to see Rick Wilson shred him. God, he just made me so angry and I also felt betrayed. Grrr.

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kdsherpa's avatar

Yes. Guess we were "Warned". LOL

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Wendy's avatar

As I've contemplated the situation, I would sum it up by saying that Steve appeared to want to be a moral authority. He wanted to wear an S on his shirt and be praised for saving democracy. In the end, he turned out to be nothing more than a wannabe king maker and shill for the highest bidder. That is how I view it and why I'm going away.

Why is it white men with a lot of money think they are entitled to run for president with barely any governing experience? There are certainly more people who know Dean Phillips' name now than before this stunt.

Judges are supposed to avoid the appearance of impropriety where it could be mistaken for such a thing. (Too bad this isn't a requirement for all in gov't or life.) Steve is protesting the protestations around Harlan Crow while claiming innocence in the vein of tffg, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Bob Menendez, et al. in my never humble viewing of it. What is the technical term? Oh right, twatwaffle.

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kdsherpa's avatar

LOL!

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Doc Blase''s avatar

Twatwaffle for president! Has a nice ring to it.

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kdsherpa's avatar

You were more aware than I. It took that insane post yesterday for me to blow -- although as I said, I'd been feeling increasingly more uncomfortable over time.

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Doc Blase''s avatar

Wilson is $60.

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Randy Woodall's avatar

I have never been a participant in either Twitter -- I mean x -- or Tik Tok. They never sat well with me, and even more so now.

I am happy for the existence of both Jeff's daily report and some other writers on Substack, all of which I only got into about six months ago.

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P.S. My husband is indeed a sherpa from Nepal. Never worked on Chomolungma, (means "Goddess Mother of the World"), however!

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Cheryl Fleming's avatar

Wow!!!! How incredibly awesome!

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Sandy Simmons's avatar

Same! I found Jeff first after a year away from that other place!

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Sandy Parker's avatar

I love elegant..........truth style ☮️

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kdsherpa's avatar

LOL!

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Kerbo's avatar

"elegant" = SATIRE

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kdsherpa's avatar

Indeed!

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Cheryl Fleming's avatar

Good to see you here!!! 😊

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kdsherpa's avatar

I'm already a subscriber with Robert Hubbell, too! I also like his newsletters very much.

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Elena Q. Gerli's avatar

Came here to say this

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Robyn Ruder's avatar

Me too♥️

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Michael Martel's avatar

Love your newsletter. Your snark keeps me going in the crazy world.

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Wendy's avatar

I love being in a place who all speak snark as their native tongue.

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Flower Child's avatar

Happy Fucking Birthday Jeff! You’re hilarious, profane, and spot on every time. Thank you for helping us cope with all the fuckery with humor. You’re the BEST!

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Samantha M's avatar

Speaking as someone who woke up on her birthday in 2016 to the awful news of TFG not losing badly enough — because he never fucking won anything — adding “fucktangle” and “shitweasle” to my vocab ALONE is more than worth my sub. Thank you, Jeff, for your bottomless outrage. ❤️

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Doreen Garza's avatar

Fucktangle and shitweasel are great!! Love them both 🤣

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Karla's avatar

Jeff needs his own dictionary; he creates the BEST words.

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Neal Stiffelman's avatar

It is indeed a real community. Ragtag or scholarly, outraged or... outrageous. JT, you da man.

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Joanne Filipo's avatar

Are you kidding me now? You are why I get out of bed every morning. I had no idea who you were but started reading you and thinking, this guy thinks just like me and uses the same language doing it! 😝 Ever since 2016, The F bomb is my go to, and I thought, being a 70 something grandma I shouldn’t be acting this way, but I do and love every second on here with like minded folks! Happy Birthday to us! And thank you Jeff! You rock!

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Anti fascist's avatar

There was never a better time to use the fuck word with abandon. It’s my fave although i zip it up in front of grandkids. 😉

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Joanne Filipo's avatar

Oh, no no, not in front of my sweet granddaughter. But this grandma, did fill her in on the orange 💩 and how justice was coming for him. I asked her if they were discussing the indictments in current events…..she said they didn’t discuss current events in school….wait, what? And she goes to a good school! 🤔

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Sharon Horton's avatar

Teachers and school board members are already going through a LOT due to the politicizing of education; I'm not surprised that they don't want phone calls and hate emails every evening after discussing the news of the day in school.

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Morgan OCailleigh's avatar

Give her James Fell's Sweary History books. She'll be smarter and better off for it. ♥️

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Wendy's avatar

IKR? If we'd all had interesting history teachers, maybe we really could learn some history and stop repeating it like it's happening for the first time! I wish I had grandkids just so I could read them those books. Adults don't like it when I try and get them to sit in a reading circle on the floor.

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Judy Luchsinger's avatar

Ditto from this 78 year old activist.

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I’m in your age group, Joanne, and I too have colored the air very very blue since 2016. I was never a heavy cusser, and was very careful not to curse around the older English cousins. But I’m afraid to go see them now for fear I won’t be able to rein it in anymore. The bastard’s really fucked up my human relations in more than one way.

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Steve B's avatar

I know what you mean! I used to be a nice person, and now I'm all, FUCK 'EM! Agent Orange has affected us all in some way or another, but at least I'm not in a cult!

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Deb's avatar

You're still a very nice person, Steve! We all are...we're just not fascists, and we love democracy and our country!

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Steve B's avatar

I probably talk too much to "people" online who think that FJB are Joe Biden's initials. You can read the right-wing talking points coming through every time, as if THEY get a newsletter every morning. I'm pulling back from them because it has made me nastier than I wish to be. Someone a few days ago told me that the flag in my avatar was a PedoFlag! What can you possibly do with that but ignore it or fight it? I'm ignoring it more and more. It leads nowhere, ever. Thanks, Deb!

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Deb's avatar

🤗🥰

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Joanne Filipo's avatar

Agreed! I think I may be going to hell for some of my thoughts regarding the Orange turd, like hoping he chokes on a chicken bone, or slips in the bathroom and hits his orange pouf on his golden commode...🤭 but I don’t think of myself as a bad person...only one who is scared to death of what will happen if he doesn’t go to jail.

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SPW's avatar

You may not consider yourself in a cult but I’m in the “I fucking hate trump” cult.

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Steve B's avatar

Spike Lee did an excellent documentary series in 2021 called, "NYC Epicenters: 9/11-2021½." (Also HBO, like "Game Change") In it, when he had to refer to Trump in on-screen graphics, he never used his name and only identified him as "Agent Orange." This is a pretty serious documentary and that came up the first time and I almost fell out of the chair! And he carried it throughout -- I never saw anything like "Donald Trump" onscreen, just "Agent Orange."

I also threaded wrong, so this comment is floating free in the comments! LOL No editing here, I guess.

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Louise's avatar

This 75 year old grandma concurs! For me it feels like I finally have a place where I can express myself freely, Fucks and all. :)

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Doreen Garza's avatar

Yes 😂

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

Congratulations, Jeff! And more importantly, THANK YOU for keeping us informed, while always finding humor in every bat-shit-crazy situation.. We’re all so much better off because of your newsletter and this fabulous community!

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SeekingReason's avatar

Happy Birthday! I am so glad you got the idea to do this Jeff. We get to hear the truth AND laugh often. The only combination that saves sanity. Thank you! Hugs from Chicago!

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Carol Sessler's avatar

I feel and double every “fuck” you write. Your writing is helping to keep me from going completely insane over politics and the world, in general.

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Doreen Garza's avatar

Same here 😂

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Terrified Lib's avatar

Congratulations Jeff!!!! I’m so happy to have you and the gang to help me get through the toxic Years Of Orange Makeup Hell!! Thanks for all the time and effort you put in leading this crew ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

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Doreen Garza's avatar

Oh definitely!!

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Songgirl Kim's avatar

What would we do without your snarky potty mouth, Jeff. My day isn’t complete without reading your newsletter. Congrats to you.

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Karen Leeds's avatar

You write what I am screaming in my head. So thank you!!

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Missi Baker's avatar

You had me at first “fuck”! Your Twitter was the hook, though. 💕 Keep saying what my mother wouldn’t let me say!

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Diana Hembree's avatar

Yes, that was where I first read Jeff's opinions :). Now Twitter is a different landscape, off-putting and hard to wade through...

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Lynn's avatar

I've been gone from Twitter for a year, I found most people I loved on it were also on Substack. Now I never have to deal with Musk Melon's bullshit.

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Missi Baker's avatar

I’m on Threads and moved away from X. Musk=yuk

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Andrea's avatar

I just upgraded to paid today (immediately after unsubscribing from Steve Schmidt's newsletter after he announced he's working on Dean Phillips' campaign, because fuck that guy). Happy to be here!

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Ema's avatar

I unsubscribed today as well and unfollowed Schmidt on Twitter. And yes, Andrea - FUCK that guy! There are so many amazing future Democrat leaders i.e. Buttigieg, Whitmer, Newsom, Goldman, Raskin, Harris, Pritzker, Klobuchar, etc. (too many to list) that will step forward in 2028 but 2024 is NOT the time and another billionaire wannabe is not the one. President Biden has earned the right to finish the job and I, for one, am going to help him do just that!

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I read Steve for free and I get so pissed off that I couldn’t leave comments every time he brought up Biden’s age. (The Bulwark keeps doing this too.) There were LOTS of people who said they were unsubscribing today. As Janet said, check out Rick Wilson. He did a great YouTube on Dean, saying he’s going to regret throwing his hat in the ring. Rick also wrote the books “Everything rump Touches Dies” & “Running Against the Devil”

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I unsubscribed to Steve several

months ago because I unfortunately saw his true colors, his writing on the wall!!!!! Read his essay yesterday, not shocked but horrified !!!

Love Jeff and many thanks!

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RV maxima's avatar

Ditto.

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Judy Luchsinger's avatar

I was shocked at Schmidt, too. He is such an excellent voice against fascism, but he could inadvertently take us into it.

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Morgan OCailleigh's avatar

I don't read Schmidt that often these days. He's really done that???? Fuck him. Talk about hypocrisy....

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I’m hanging with Steve a bit longer Andrea but we shall see. If the newsletter is only about Dean, I’ll leave. 😞

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Andrea's avatar

I'd been thinking of leaving for awhile - I was tired of the Biden/Harris hate - but he completely jumped the shark with this latest move.

This newsletter is way more up my alley anyway.

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I agree on the Biden/Harris hate. I’ll let you know 😀. I might not last more than a day. Take care Andrea!

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Digges 👩🏼‍🏫's avatar

Pull the plug now ! 🙁he’s been heading in that direction for a long time!

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Charlie Austin's avatar

I'm of the same mind.

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Wendy's avatar

Count me among the unsubscribed. He was talking out of both sides of his mouth. All I have to go on is what he says and the actions that back up those words. They stopped synchronizing. I moved on and will not listen to him again. I don't give a benefit of the doubt when your words stop matching your actions especially when you have a previous record of Palin and Schultz.

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Morgan OCailleigh's avatar

Rick's place.... gotcha. (Everyone goes to Rick's...)

Thanks Janet. The ego was getting to me as well.

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Digges 👩🏼‍🏫's avatar

I also unsubscribed to Steve a few months ago. Thanks. I love Rick but didn’t know he had a substack. Will check it out! Thanks!

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I've been reading Rick Wilson for the past month or so and am thisclose to clicking the Upgrade button. I saw his short take-down video of Deam Phillips, and if I were Phillips, I'd be running for the hills! Now, Schmidt is doing his campaign? Yeah, fuck him and that! There has always been, for me, something off-putting about Steve Schmidt. No matter what he was talking about, usually against fascism, etc., it always seemed just a little bit too strident for my tastes -- somewhere along the lines of the lady protesting too much. After getting over the initial kneejerk reaction to Rick Wilson, though, and reading his ETTD book, he seemed to me to be far more sincere in his efforts to take down the Orange Menace. Didn't Schmidt have a falling out with The Lincoln Project too?

In the end, he brought us Sarah Palin, and I have a VERY difficult time forgiving that because of what it lead to. Nicolle Wallace has done penance for that since 2008 and is now a well-respected FORMER Republican on MSNBC, and I have no qualms about her at all anymore. Steve Schmidt made a big production out of leaving the Republican Party and is now campaign manager for a Biden spoiler candidate? Yeah, fuck that guy!

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RV maxima's avatar

I think he needs the $$

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All anybody on that side seems to have left is the "Biden is too old" trope. And, well, I don't much care how old he is -- he's been one of the best presidents of my 65-year lifetime. I hesitate to say he's doing as well or even better than Obama did, but I think I will anyway. Obama had the "problem" of having to be careful of everything he did and said because he was President While Black. Biden doesn't have that problem, so look what the evil in the Republican Party does. It's Hunter, and Ashley, and bank deposits from Joe's brother, and a whole host of bullshit that is meaningless. So, they go to "age." It's bullshit and I can only hope that enough people realize that to re-elect him.

I forgot about the ONE good thing coming from the appearance of Sarah Palin, getting to see Julianne Moore portray her insane ass in "Game Change." I'd even give an honorable mention to Tina Fey! Palin was only good for high drama and comedy. "All of them, Katie. All of them." 🤣🤣🤣

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No, I was never subscribed to him. I was referencing when I'd see him on MSNBC after he left the Dark Side, supposedly, but the story wouldn't surprise me at all.

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RV maxima's avatar

Ditto

I was on month to month with Steve Schmidt and actually wrote to him that although I did appreciate his commentary, "a little goes a long way." And Dean Phillips is my Congressman! Kind of a WTF moment when that announcement came out...

I have liked Dean Phillips as a Congressman but never thought about him in the WH! Such dangerous times... I can't believe the rational vote would go for Trump in 2024 but I guess we have already seen stranger things happening... is this a hedge running Dean? The polls have been rather inaccurate from 2016, forward. So, am I to believe that Trump is really in the lead? Is this primary action a reaction to Trump or something else? And does this just make open labels more likely to run their GOP-type candidate. Can they?

Sheesh...

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RV maxima's avatar

Also, Schmidt is very persuasive in his rhetoric but he is also trying to create the case from flimsy evidence (polls) and fear mongering.

Do we wish for a perfect candidate? Or a younger one or one as charismatic as Obama? Sure. But what we have is a wishing is bs and we have very successful president, now. Opposition groups including a fascist GOP would rather dismantle our government and replace it with project 2025! That is a greater risk than fear of aging. I would rather have 4 more years of Biden, as a steady and experienced statesman over Phillips, who got played and now wants to play us, the voters of any stripe.

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RV maxima's avatar

Agreed!

Phillips; D-Congressman in a past R district, yes.

For President, against his own parry? WTAF and NO! PLEASE....

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Cheryl Fleming's avatar

Rick Wilson is da man. And he'll shred his ex-friend Steve Schmidt right along with Dean Phillips. It'll be delicious.

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Karla's avatar

Happy Substack Birthday! So glad you took a chance. My favorite combination in a human is intelligence and humor, and you nail it every single day... as do the commenters. It’s a great group and I, too, love the positivity.

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