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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

today in Shit That Happened While I Was Busy Writing This Shit— apparently we're bombing Iran again.

"US launches ‘self-defense’ strikes against Iran amid stalled talks"

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/01/us-strikes-iran-stalled-talks-00944084

remember: none of this would be necessary if the Dems would stop chirping

SethTriggs's avatar

The Straits of Schrödinger are a wild place!

HI2thDoc's avatar

Schrodinger's Strait

And its indeterminate state

Is because those two tools

Are reckless fools

Who caused this Hegseth Trumpgate

wisewebwoman's avatar

Epstein Trumpgate? 😊

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HI2thDoc's avatar

This one is a repeat from a month ago. No surprise that the Quagmire of Hormuz is unchanged since then.

Doc Blase''s avatar

The Schrödinger-Epstein Möbius strip of fools.

Unity In Defiance's avatar

Well maybe Iran just had a case of “the yips” and Donnie had to react.

Jk we’re in hell and not much we can do about it but just scream FUCK into the ether I supposed…

Leigh Hamilton's avatar

I'm no longer screaming into the ether - I'm inhaling as deeply as I can.

A.J. Madison's avatar

I'm not a violent man, mostly because I'm not very good at it. But OMG am I angry at KingTinyDick and more importantly the GQP greedhead scumbags. My wife has told me to stop screaming in the house, fair enuf, she deserves a calm place to live. I have these fantasies where I & like minded folk have managed against all odds, kidnap KingDickless, with a forklift I guess, and have tied him to a chair. Then I & my cohorts pummel him with insults. If he tries to not listen, we get out a bullhorn and put it up to one of his ears.

Carol JLH's avatar

A.J. Madison, please count me in as "like minded folk" who would go all in on this caper.

Chris Hierholzer's avatar

Inhaling deeply for 10 years is starting to hurt.

HI2thDoc's avatar

It's done wonders for lung capacity the world over

rlritt's avatar

...into a paper bag.

Cheri Collins's avatar

I just wish I were . . . I’m having a surgery in a week and a half, and am really looking forward to the anaesthetic.

Chris Hierholzer's avatar

I've had a lot of surgery and the anaesthetic is true bliss. I always thought its the closest thing to death but you do wake up and the circus in DC is still in full swing unfortunately.

Susan Niemann's avatar

a case of the yips. LOL! Thats it! 😂

Kim Nesvig's avatar

There is a simple and measurable explanation. Predicatably, Dumbass Jerk Trump announce progress toward another imaginary ceasefire. Like clockwork, Oil futures dropped to $90. And just like how many times in the past 3 months, the supposed ceasefire is punctuated with bombing. Anyone want to bet whether trump and/or his family took a position in the market right before the announcement? It’s no wonder DJT thinks we are all dumb. It’s as though he was elected to manipulate the markets to his personal advantage.

rlritt's avatar

Absolutly, 100% sure that's case.

A.J. Madison's avatar

Wait until his offspring & cohorts discover that ill-gotten gains are still stolen assets. Dem & other professional & patriotic prosecutors are going to litigate the shit out of the Drimpf crime family for decades.

Betsy L's avatar

Iran announced a few hours later that it wasn't even going to talk until Israel stops bombing Lebanon.

Paula Dean's avatar

Are SCREAMING YIPS a thing? If not, I'm inventing them immediately. Also SCREAMING CHIRPS. 😱 and there goes my glassware.

Joyce's avatar

I think you just invented two new snack foods.

Paula Dean's avatar

😂😂😂 and they're high fiber and calorie free! In fact, they burn calories! May even improve your mental health!

Joyce's avatar

Might have a little spice in them. Especially the SCREAMING YIPS

Bob Dunn's avatar

Screaming Yips have nuts

Chirps don't

DebJS's avatar

I got that one!

Stephen Brady's avatar

His 2 tweets had some complete sentences... Do you suppose his new Ivanka look-alike is sitting at his side emitting this crap all night?

HI2thDoc's avatar

The disturbingly devoted Harp

Must not have a sense of smell that's sharp

In this entire regime

It sure does seem

That every "job" is a LARP

rlritt's avatar

Im sure she is. The grammar in the texts are better than anything that comes from his mouth. He probably dictates them to her. Or maybe he records his rants, and she rewrites them.

Denise Donaldson's avatar

Somebody other than Donnie Demento has been emitting them since his second inauguration, or shortly thereafter.

DebJS's avatar

Dan Scavino has recently come up as another aide who is very close to DL and has been for a long time.

Dan Scavino - Wikipedia

Dan Scavino ... Daniel Joseph Scavino Jr. (born January 14, 1976) is an American political advisor and former golf club manager who has served as the director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office since October 2025 and the White House deputy chief of staff since January 2025.

Denise Donaldson's avatar

Oh, the pardon recommender? Yep, another shameless toady. Makes sense.

Doc Blase''s avatar

Wouldn't mind a dentist-office tank of N2O about now.

Tonya Browning's avatar

Did you see that there was a nonpartisan, nonprofit group created by Congress in 2016 via a bipartisan congressional caucus with more than 350 members called America250 that were planning the semiquincentennial celebration, but Trump & his MAGA loyalist circumvented Congress & created their own planning committee & called it “Freedom 250”? It’s designed to make money, & Trump’s personal business is now trademarking the term “Trump 250” with a logo that looks very similar to America250’s logo. The Trump Organization has filed several trademark applications in connection with America’s 250th anniversary celebration. Anyway it’s all spelled out, with links, in Robert Reich’s Substack. I think Trump went to Roger Stone con artist call instead of learning math & English or one damn thing about business!

Leu2500's avatar

Bipartisan commission or not, I was always going to ignore the 250th anniversary after the felon was reelected. I'm old enough to remember the Bicentennial, & this feels nothing like that did.

Betsy L's avatar

I think we should have a do-over. 2031 will mark the 250th anniversary of Washington's victory over Cornwallis at Yorktown. We can call that the beginning of the US. After all, if Cornwallis hadn't surrendered, the Declaration of Independence wouldn't mean zip.

Ed's avatar

Borowitz said that Trump's America250 performers have now been reduced to Marco Rubio playing a kazoo. Rubio said that he'd blow anything Trump wanted.

AuntTeeFa's avatar

The Art of the Grift

SPW's avatar

Yep. That’s why people got so confused at first. I learned it from this guy https://youtube.com/shorts/yD3DP4JHMwY?si=nwJwqcVco3esCzSc

KellyG's avatar

It’s even worse. We’re paying for all of it and the real organization is being squeezed out. https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/america-250-shortfall-freedom-250-interior-funds

Tina Zep's avatar

That is utterly disgusting.

devourerofpancakes's avatar

So, talks are going well then?

Robert Eckert's avatar

US: "Boom!"

Iran: "Pew pew pew!"

Susan P Thatcher's avatar

"Why do you make us hit you?"

Robyn's avatar

Hey Jeff,

Not that you’ll ever see this but, thank you for everything you do. Reading your articles is about the only manner of staying up to date that I can stand at this point. You have an exceptional talent for making horrible fucking shit consumable — like sugar coated gruel. Having apparently reached maximum mental maturity in the 3rd grade, I also immensely enjoy the occasional potty humor.

If I was in your time zone (I’m in CA) and able to get my lazy ass out of bed as early as you do, I’d offer to amateurishly edit your posts for free. Gee, doesn’t that sound enticing? lol Not that you aren’t doing a pretty awesome job self-editing on your own.

Anyhow, you’re the best. Hang in their friend.

-Robyn (just some rando on the internet)

Tonya Browning's avatar

I’d edit his posts too for free, & it’s 3 to 4 in the afternoon for me when they come in. I have to wait all day to read his new Substack post, & believe me, I’m looking for it about 3 pm & refreshing constantly.

I had a friend ask me today if I’d hear more about Trump if I were back home, & I told her, “Oh God yes!” Though I hear about him MORE THAN enough here across the pond! I then went off on a tangent & was getting angrier & angrier telling her specifically how he’s conned people. She ended up changing the subject, & the subject was the things I’m making right now. Instantly, my mood flipped. 😆

Ginny Hall's avatar

I wondered when he said Dems chirp if he was confused with tweet. He knows it's something that birds do...

Denise Donaldson's avatar

Ahh! The answer appears! Yep, bet you're right.

AuntTeeFa's avatar

The nadcracker was overseas-per several vids-sweating his ass off, either superdrunk or coming down from it trying to pump up the WARRIORS with a peptalk that probably boomeranged back in his fervor

He seems to have carte ToddBlanche to call for strikes.

Don’t you just love all the war crimes stacking up for when this coup of our country is extinguished and justice returns?

Richard Von Busack's avatar

Cue up “Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep” by Middle of the Road. Those aren’t birdies, Daffy Don, that’s the squeaking of the bats in your belfry.

rlritt's avatar

Heaven help us, we have a moron in charge. Can't we just sail away and call it a win? Fox News will spin it as a victory. Trump can even have a parade. We don't care. We just need to leave and stop spending money on losing cause.

Joyce's avatar

And maybe we can send an apology bouquet to the Iranian people. In the immortal words of Emily Litella: "Never mind."

Barbara Vasile's avatar

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: invoking Colin Robinson in conjunction with Kevin Hasset is brilliant.

Cheri Collins's avatar

Yes, indeed it is!

Linda Weide's avatar

I am sure that we will be told by Trump's henchmen that this is just going to help the credit card debt. Attacking Iran will help keep the credit card companies stable.

Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Jeff, it’s plain to me the chirping is getting to your broader mentalities. You posted all fotos (not including Claudia) of the nauseating assholes from tv land where lies are like the flies that are always buzzing dopey’s pantalones. I don’t miss Kudlow half drunk half dementia riddled and the next half is the Laffer Curve that was Rocket Ronnie’s BIGGEST lie. He is no economist not even close but trickle down is what scares the girls standing nearby when dear leader shakes his leg and they exit immediately.

Frosty McGillicuddy's avatar

There once was a Hasset named Kevin

Who Drumpf thought descended from heaven

"We see increased stress

Never mind it's a mess

I'm buyin' a 7-11!"

And then there's this Bessent name of Scott

An egomaniacal twat

"A limited spike

In inflation I like

I'm a have and you fucks are have nots!"

If you like what you just read, please subscribe to my Substack. I would like to reach 100 followers. And it's for free!

HI2thDoc's avatar

One of your best, Frosty!

HI2thDoc's avatar

Darn, since you used twat already, I'll have to look elsewhere for rhymes with Scott😂. Here goes:

Soybean Scott

You entitled snot

You deserve to get

The same as Marie Antoinette

That would cheer the masses a lot

Frosty McGillicuddy's avatar

Scott and snot are perfect, Doc!

SPW's avatar

Just went and did it Frosty 😊.

Ann Anderson's avatar

I don't know about you, but I am so relieved that the credit card companies are in good shape. These idiots are writing ad copy for Democrats.

Leigh Hamilton's avatar

ME TOO! I was in bed last night tossing and turning over the possibility that credit card companies aren't fleecing its customers with interest rates high enough to keep them in yachts. We should send a big thank you to all those who are forced to use their credit cards to feed their kids.

Paula Dean's avatar

Maybe they're doing well enough to lower interest rates from 29.99%???

Fat chance!

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Wouldn't it be peachy if the uber-rich were taxed at a 29.99% rate? However, even that wouldn't bring down our 31 trillion dollar national debt. Living on other people's borrowed money is how the plutocrats roll.

SeekingReason's avatar

Ann, the trump humpers always focus on the good stuff! I know when I pay more for groceries, it means I’m doing great financially! 🤥😵‍💫😵‍💫🙄 The Felon admin sees happy rainbows where a worker is getting crushed by a two ton weight.

Having Ken Paxton bragging about being as scandal plagued as the Felon is a bonus! Put a pin the calendar to mark the day where a truth fell out of a trump-humper’s mouth. 😳

Sandy's avatar

Trump-humpers!!! Hahahahaha!

SeekingReason's avatar

Frequently used on Thom Hartmann 😄

Unity In Defiance's avatar

Hassett and Soybean Scott are useful trolls — they’ve sold their souls a long time ago all for that gelatinous orange blob.

And for what? He’s decaying and short circuiting left and right these days — being hidden in some basement with his iPhone and crappy app to keep him busy.

That blood clot is coming soon, and then these sycophants will have a well deserved reckoning for all the damage they’ve done.

May we NEVER forget their faces or the shit they rained down upon us. May they NEVER have a moment of peace and be heckled everywhere they go.

Sue Martin's avatar

Rooting for that glorious day when The Little Blood Clot That Could finally makes it over the mountain! 🫀⛰️👍

Unity In Defiance's avatar

Haha sounds like you’ve seen my meme ;)

Here it is for anyone that hasn’t seen it yet.

https://bsky.app/profile/unityindefiance.bsky.social/post/3mmhh4iwdd22o

Maria 🇮🇪's avatar

Haha that’s BRILLIANT Unity.

Sue Martin's avatar

LOL 😂 No I hadn't seen it before, but it's perfect!

Joe Witkowski's avatar

Does Bessent’s husband trust him, given how pathologically he lies?

Joyce's avatar

I wonder if he can recognize Soybeans, because I swear to god, I can't tell the difference between him and Hassett. I'm pretty sure there isn't one--the resemblance in the last names is a dead give away that they're the same person.

DeBurgh's avatar

Very good point. Like Dante's Hell there are levels of depravity in this gang. At the top are soul sellers like Blanche, Bessent, Miller, Wiles, Hassett and a chunk of the Cabinet. Who are also in line for criminal conspiracy indictments to steal public funds. The next layer are the "easily expendables" that Donald is trashing from the gang margins. Like squeezing out playdoh from a tightening grip (thanks Adam!)--Massie and Tucker and Marge and Jones and Cornyn and many many more. Former enablers. Now enemies.

All of the "not-stupid" 535 members of Congress are very aware of the blatant $1.7 Billion theft from the Treasury by the Trump Family. Make a list of those Senators and Reps who approve of Trump stealing from their taxpayer constituents. These formerly honorable humans sold out their allegiance to America. They sold their honor to the Trump Family. We can't forget or forgive.

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

I'm all for making them miserable for the rest of their lives, but in terms of prosecutions -- which must happen -- it has to be strictly according to the facts and the law. Nothing like the clownishly corrupt prosecutions currently taking place.

HI2thDoc's avatar

Paxton's retort brings to mind a quip from the always entertaining Charles Barkley. When asked about the difficulties of weight loss, Sir Charles said, you can instead use the "illusion diet." When queried what that entails, Barkley explained that you hang around with people fatter than you so that you look slim by comparison.

Susan Niemann's avatar

🤯 I suppose he has a point.... but now, since he's been doing the shots, he looks like he needs to eat a sandwich. 😂😂

David M Marko's avatar

I had to quit watching the Sunday morning news shows. Just would set my Sunday off in the wrong direction.

It was a beautiful morning, so I put on some music and worked in the garden keeping my blood pressure at a manageable level.

HI2thDoc's avatar

Obvious lies with a smirk are not good for starting the day

PEACE, LOVE, RESIST's avatar

I also did some gardening. It’s exhausting enough to take me through 8 hours of much needed sleep. I stopped watching Sunday shows about 2 years ago. Margaret Brennan was already allowing trump’s goons to lie unchallenged.

Butch's avatar

Not normally a violent person, but I would really, really like to break Hasset's jaw.

arne link's avatar

I would happily restrain him while you do it.

Susan Niemann's avatar

You beat me to it. The smirk on his face....arrrrggghhhhh!!!

Paula Dean's avatar

He's the poster boy for "a face in need of a fist". In the interest of saving the bones in my hand, I'd use a cricket paddle. 🏏 but someone would have to stop me before turning his face into spaghetti sauce.

Susan Niemann's avatar

👏👏👏👏 A cricket paddle. Excellent.

Noel's avatar

With a rusty shovel. If the blunt force trauma doesn't get him, tetanus might.

HI2thDoc's avatar

But then who would bake the Keebler cookies?

wisewebwoman's avatar

OMG I just posted that in a comment. Only mine was a punch on both their jaws. It's truly vomitious.

Jane's avatar

😂😂😂

Debra Dassow's avatar

There was a time when I got myself into a huge credit card hole. I was a single mom, three kids, public school teacher.The $125 a month in child support just didn't cut it. I was able to dig myself out but it was terrifying.

Paula Dean's avatar

It's ridiculously easy for that to happen.

Ginny Hall's avatar

Because the interest is so high you can't pay it and your bill each month, so it just keeps growing.

SPW's avatar

I would suggest to whoever can do so, find a credit union and join it. They are usually safer than the big banks as their boards of directors are elected by the members of the credit union. Their credit cards usually have better interest rates as well. My VISA is currently running at 11.25% for instance.

wisewebwoman's avatar

I had the same thing happen. And out of it all now. I use one CC only and pay every month and I get cash back once a year on all I spend there. PS if you ever work out the cost of a loaf of bread on an unpaid amt on CC it would be 10 times the original payment. Some law should restrain these absolute CC monsters for what they charge in interest.....

Maria 🇮🇪's avatar

Well done Debra. A Very Easy thing to do. We don’t have one now,thankfully the Debit Cards Cover everything a credit card would do. Glad alls well now.

Songgirl Kim's avatar

“It’s a very limited spike”

Yeah, right. I took my 13 & 14 yo grandsons to lunch Saturday to celebrate the end of school year. Same diner, same orders: cheeseburgers, fries, and a pop. $45 - last year it was $35. So much winning.

Mr Mild - BlueVotingBastard💙's avatar

We were going to go out for breakfast after my morning Dr appointment. As we were about to go in I asked Mrs Mild if she had brought her meds, which were already late. She checked her purse and said no.

So we went home where I made avocado toast (avocados are about $1.50) and saved us about $40. Last year it proabably would have been $35 bucks.

Songgirl Kim's avatar

Love my avocados! At Aldi they are 59 cents each. Last month they were 49 cents each.

PTW's avatar

Last Friday my husband and I went to lunch at a local Tex-Mex restaurant. Two iced teas, one smallish soft chicken taco, a lunch-size chicken taco salad, plus the tip = $42.

Songgirl Kim's avatar

Like you, I prefer to frequent the local, independent restaurants and shops. But the prices are getting ridiculous.

Tish Grier's avatar

I figured out that "Freedom 250" thing was a scam, but "pay to play" wasn't on my Trumpistan bingo card! It hit me when people were saying "where the MAGAts at" when it came to the artitsts and i could name several (Jason Alden, for instance.) if this was really "for the people" real acts would have been paid real money to be there. But, no. This was just a big distraction! Because he really wants to get up there and yammer for 250 minutes about how wonderful he is and make disgusting insulting jokes about rape and E.Jean Carroll and whatever shit is rolling around in his head.

Great way for our country to celebrate its 250: held hostage by a foul smelling old fuxkwhit who will do his impression of "Fidel Castro on May Day." Fuck this guy.

Wendymae's avatar

He's gonna just keep all the money that was going to go the performers now so it's a win for him. I wouldn't be surprised if everyone from the UFC assholes to the people constructing his latest abomination is stiffed so he can pocket every cent.

Denise Donaldson's avatar

As I understand it, the performers were supposed to perform for free (somebody correct me if I'm wrong here). Just expenses were to be covered.

Also, I read that UFC is paying for the cage match, in return for promotion rights. In fact, they're already running ads about it. GAG ME!

Susan Marleau Whelan's avatar

This is a great article. I didn't know about the American 250 that had been set up by Congress in 2016. Leave it to Trump to "divert" the majority of the money to his Freedom 250, which is now in shambles.

And where is that money now? Most likely in the swamp rat's pockets. Which where all our of money seems to go lately.

Tish Grier's avatar

Thank, Jeff! Wow, co-opting something our Congress set aside for us... We really can'y have nice things. Oh and these "Freedom 250" assholes had conned the Westfieldn MA police dept into believing their "Freedom Truck" was a bipartisan effort to teach American history. Once they found out it was NOT bipartisan and meant to make money for Trump, the Westfield P.D. cancelled the truck. Which is a bit surprising considering Westfield has a lot of MAGA. But I guess the cops got the note that the community isn't one political party.

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2026/06/01/mass-police-department-cancels-appearance-of-trump-backed-freedom-truck-over-ties-to-right-wing-organization/

Gary D's avatar

Every time I see that leering jack-o-lantern puss on Kevin Hassett, I'm reminded of a line from Lawrence of Arabia:

Auda abu Tayi: "Give thanks to God, Brighton, that when He made you a fool, he gave you a fool's face."

Outside of the Batman comics, have you ever seen such a cartoonish collection of punchable, villainous, fool's faces? The only thing missing from this Cartel of Stupid are the outfits worn by the Joker, Penguin, Riddler and Mr. Freeze. Flat-out surreal.

HI2thDoc's avatar

From a couple of months ago:

Kevin Hassett lies with glee

Or he doesn't know the economy

Whatever the cause

I wish he would pause

And go back to the Keebler Tree

George A. Polisner's avatar

Thank you Jeff.

I'm now working on my next article -it's a "feel good" piece titled "The Architecture of Despair". It addresses the evisceration of vital New Deal programs at a time when labor demand is falling, prices are rising, millions of people are currently or will soon be dealing with food insecurity, and how millions more will lose access to healthcare, intentionally timed after the midterm elections.

It would make a pleasant companion piece for "High prices are good for you, Clean Coal is nutritious and delicious, we're the law and order party, we're close to a peace deal, and we really need the billion dollar ballroom".

HI2thDoc's avatar

Is the subtitle going to be "The Wreckage Caused by the Firehose of Bullshit"?

George A. Polisner's avatar

It was going to be Keynes can’t rescue us now. Yours is far better. :)

Susan Niemann's avatar

"allegedly has a PhD in economics" Allegedly is doing a heavy lift there.

“just sit back and relax, it will all work out well in the end.” I thought the same thing about the girls...JFC he's such a heinous pig.

May this be the week he meets the devil.

BEAUTIFUL Claudia photos. ❤️❤️

Denise Donaldson's avatar

Ditto about the girls. Vomit inducing.

And I'll second your motion about this week.

Neal Stiffelman's avatar

He’s panicking. They’re all panicking. The giggling cretins they send to the Sunday shows are panicking. If Doctor Ronnie hasn’t been getting them lotsa drugs to keep things rolling I’d be amazed.

P123Sunny's avatar

“Fractured Fairytales” for adults… :/

SethTriggs's avatar

These people are so comfortable lying, knowing both that Murc's Law exists...and you also have many people paid $$$$ to be professionally credulous.