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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

today in Shit That Happened While I Was Busy Writing This Shit—

"Trump chastises oil companies for ‘making too much money’ from his Iran war"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/04/first-thing-trump-chastises-oil-companies-for-making-too-much-money-from-his-iran-war?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

it's too bad substack doesn't allow for images in comments, because this is exactly what the 'heartbreaking: the worst person you know makes an excellent point" meme was made for.

also, fuck that greedy greedhead for saying that someone else is making too much money

SethTriggs's avatar

HE's supposed to be the one grifting, not them! Always got to have a cut for the boss!

john augustine's avatar

tony 'trump' soprano wants big oil to tell him 'where's my juice'?

DJ Headthrob's avatar

Yeah, he definitely wants his "taste." Kick-up to the Big Man.

Miselle's avatar

Seth, we both must have GREAT MINDS because we are thinking alike!

BRAVO sir!

Diana's avatar

It’s with everything Miselle- just follow the money trail and there’s a Trump or a Kushner somewhere close by, right… can’t wait till November ‼️

Robin D's avatar

"A taste" "Everybody's got to eat" in mob parlance.

Diana's avatar

You’re right Seth- we were just talking about that- then tada your post ‼️No wonder the BOSS is mad right…didn’t get his cut‼️Will anyone investigate how he made 2 billion dollars last year? Has any other President other than 45 - 47 made a ton…. 🤔

Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

Jeff, Ill just say it plainly on the Iranian bullshit (because, fuck if I dont write about it constantly).

The Pentagon is running secret star-chamber (remember that movie? I do) hearings to shitcan trans troops — no transcripts, no public, no fucking record. Maj. Kara Corcoran led an infantry platoon in Afghanistan and got voted out five days short of her pension. her lawyer has lost 26 of 27 cases on a budget of eight goddamn dollars. and Pete Hegseth's entire strategic doctrine is "no more dudes in dresses." that's it. that's the fucking American military now.

https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-the-gate-the-strait-the-garden

Sorry, I am just SUPER pissed off today, probably more than Jeff is.

DJ Headthrob's avatar

No Dudes in Dresses . . . from the guy with his own Pentagon Makeup Studio.

Diana's avatar

Right!!! A glam room at the Pentagon- imagine the old school men with brain and experience suddenly finding this out…. Oh my goodness ‼️

Deb's avatar

Heggie, the prince of pampering pricks!

Tess's avatar

Yes! Cripes let people be people and mind your own business!!! Can’t stand the attitudes of these a- holes!!!

rlritt's avatar

Are there really that many transexuals in the Army? That seems like the last place you would go.

Diana's avatar

You’d think right🤔

Miselle's avatar

Methinks he's just mad because his prior $1B cut maybe isn't enough???

And (INSERT THE WE THROW BACK OUR HEADS AND LAUGH MEME) I think it's pretty darn funny that the oil companies thought their "fealty" to the king would keep them from his rath.

Leu2500's avatar

ding ding ding

Robot Bender's avatar

Appeasement never works. Ask Chamberlain.

Suel J's avatar

The jerk has no shame.

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Disingenuous performative BS on his part. He knows the price at the pump is a huge sore spot with his MAGA droolers but whose ham-handed bungling of foreign relations and closing of the Strait of Hormuz drove oil to over $100 barrel? Oil companies are among Shitler's and the GOP's biggest donors.

Cathy Rady's avatar

and he 'gave' them Venezuela

Cyndi's avatar

All that really means is that they failed to give him his cut.

Kim Nesvig's avatar

He’s just angry that anyone is making money without giving him a bigger slice of the action

ERVIN SIVERSON's avatar

Dunce was also extremely pissed that the CEO of Chevron went on a Faux News Sunday show and didn’t give the Dear Leader full credit for saving the oil industry all by himself. What a true malignant narcissist Dunce is.

Martha Howell's avatar

This is exactly what he promised them would happen when he asked them for $1B in campaign money in 2024. He's publicly wringing his hands because he knows he should pretend to care, and he's privately calling them for a cut of the take.

rlritt's avatar

.aybe he wants them to renegotiate his "cut".

Larry Bushard's avatar

What? The fossil fuel companies didn’t let “the boss” dip his beak!

Eric W.'s avatar

"Trump chastises oil companies for ‘making too much money’ from his Iran war"

Gosh, sounds like something a radical leftist Socialist scum would say.....

Richard Von Busack's avatar

Schmannity on Wonkette: “Judge Jeanine is being sent to a farm upstate. Boone’s Farm, to be exact.”

Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

I remember boones farm....very fuzzily and not entirely clearly....and it usually involved a visit to the latrine after copious amounts of consumption.

HI2thDoc's avatar

It caused wicked hangovers, alright

Irascible Ink's avatar

Been there, done that, had the t-shirt.

Richard Von Busack's avatar

Mad Dog 2020! WIne of the century!

All that awful stuff turned up during Operation Intercept.

Susan Jane's avatar

Boone's Farm and Richard's Wild Irish Rose were popular in art school until most people upgraded to Amadeus. And Amadeus bottles made better candle holders.

Sue Martin's avatar

Ahhhh. Boone's Farm Apple Wine! My first official drunk, circa 1967, followed by my first official hangover from hell! And what it does to one's plumbing... That stuff could be used for a colonoscopy clean out! 😉

DJ Headthrob's avatar

Right up there with Tango.

Easterncedar's avatar

Oh gods, not the Tango

Kathleen Weber's avatar

Do you notice that women are decapitated in the Trump administration a lot quicker than the men?

But this couldn't happen to a nicer POS—female division.

Chris Hierholzer's avatar

I remember drinking that shit at a drive in movie and falling out of my truck trying to make it to the bathroom.

arne link's avatar

So funny. We all have memories of our misspent youths.

Butch's avatar

Just your youth? I still do stupid stuff, just slower.

arne link's avatar

Well, at some point one learns to drink responsibly. Stupid stuff still happens but at least one is sober.

Cathy Rady's avatar

or is happily sippin' and snoozin' at home in a recliner

John Foolery's avatar

Boone's Farm, MD 2020, Thunderbird... some all time gas station classics from my youth.

Frosty McGillicuddy's avatar

A hag with the last name of Pirro

Just proved she is worth less than zero,

She lies and deceives

But the court won't believe

Her blather, she's up there with Spiro!

Poor lady with the first name Jeanine

Couldn't lie and had to come clean

'Cause Donny don't like

When you steal his big bike

And this damn MAGA machine!

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HI2thDoc's avatar

A long one from yesterday, but still relevant:

He looked at the pool

As an ego boost tool

He hired an incompetent crony

To paint a liner

He said would be finer

But the reason was shallow and phony

Orange turd chose a hue

Called it American flag blue

That color was much too dark

It caused the water to warm

And grew an algae farm

That became the object of snark

Then the Park Service tried

Hydrogen peroxide

In order to clear the scum

Another bad decision

And lack of precision

From the regime that excels in dumb

As the liner then peeled

Dumb DonOld squealed

That it was because of vandals

He can never admit

His ideas are shit

That's why he has so many scandals

Fatfuck was enraged

So Pirro engaged

In an unjust legal action

She endeavored to charge

An onlooker at large

For paint liner chip extraction

Right from the start

The case fell apart

The accusation was clearly bogus

For her it was hard

She could be disbarred

For being a vindictive rogus

For adhering to fact

She now may be sacked

But for her that could be good

If she could just see

The truth of ETTD

And escape from the MAGA 'hood

It's always the same

In trump's chaos game

Nothing is ever his fault

He only excels

At lies and bad smells

Stealing and sexual assault

Frosty McGillicuddy's avatar

Man! That is really really really good!!!!

Cathy Rady's avatar

that's a SLAM! :-)

Leigh Hamilton's avatar

You and Frosty have so much talent. If you guys were to publish, I'd buy. Seriously.

TJ's avatar

Damn.. that’s good

john augustine's avatar

hit this one out of the park!

PlasticFish's avatar

> reporter: “are you reconsidering her role?”

> Donny: “you don’t— you’re fake news. don’t ever talk again. you’re fake news, one of the worst in the business. fortunately, nobody watches you.”

She's toast.

HI2thDoc's avatar

If you call out his bullshit

And confront him with facts

He responds with insults

And personal attacks

He can't stand the truth

For him that's no fun

So that overgrown baby

Will turn tail and run

Jayme Wolworth's avatar

I'm beginning to think that he's so twisted he might actually have a little respect for some reporter that asks him "What the fuck is wrong with you???"

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

The only fake news in the room is the endless stream of BS pouring out of his mouth.

Clint Opine's avatar

That reporter was probably politely smiling and nodding through his "speech" at the correspondents' dinner instead of walking out. This is her reward and I'm not sure it's as much respect as she deserves. Welcome to the Donnyverse.

Neal Stiffelman's avatar

Although it seems like a Herculean labor, fatfuck is managing to wrestle decline further every day. And not “Further” as in the banner across Kesey’s bus. I mean towards the inevitable when he appears with his makeup smeared, hair hanging down to his shoulders in back, and without pants.

Suel J's avatar

Lol that conjured up a few images. Trump driving the bus. Holy crap.

Neal Stiffelman's avatar

I reckon that’s next from some AI image generating machine.

rlritt's avatar

Doesn't he gave a body double somewhere?

Cathy Rady's avatar

he tried to hire Thor as his body double, but Odin wasn't having it

SethTriggs's avatar

I say .20 Scaramuccis till she gets the sack. Which coincidentally would be her BAC!

Ann Anderson's avatar

So from this morning's headlines, I gather that Donny screamed at Jeannie for a while and then she left the WH with her lizard tail between her legs but still has her job. For now. Donald will probably stew a bit longer and then can her.

The prefrontal lobe meltdown is the real story, though. We're witnessing this madness and it's hard to believe. We have to make sure the Trump years aren't memory-holed because it's going to be all too easy for MAGA types to claim none of it ever happened.

Nancie's avatar

"The prefrontal lobe meltdown is the real story... it's going to be all too easy for MAGA types to claim none of it ever happened."

Kind of like COVID never happened. Even though over a million people died (mostly confined to the unvaccinated once the vaccine was available), COVID was just another Democratic hoax, a mild cold. And anyone who did die should sue Fauci--just ask Rand Paul.

arne link's avatar

My God, does Rand Paul ever wash his hair? It's disgusting.

Mary Greenwald's avatar

That is "product" to make him look like a teenager. If he did not use product it would be a few oily strand plastered on his noggin!

Deb's avatar

You have exceptional observation! :)

Ann Anderson's avatar

I rest my case.

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

The next Democratic president cannot do what Obama did with Bush or Biden did with Trump. No "turning the page." He or she should instruct the new AG to immediately investigate this maladministration, and to prosecute where the law and the facts call for it. And THEN say the White House will have no further discussions with the DOJ about it.

HI2thDoc's avatar

I'm hoping that she goes back to Fuxed News so she can show that wuss Jesse Watters what having testosterone looks like

Cyndi's avatar

They won't have her back. She is a big part of their settlement with Dominion Voting.

Irascible Ink's avatar

That should send her stumbling over to Tuckems. Two has-been peas in a pod.

Leu2500's avatar

he has 3 things on his calendar today, all closed to the press, then he flies to CA for a couple RNC things. Then to Las Vegas where he makes word-adjacent noises tomorrow b4 flying back to DC.

George A. Polisner's avatar

As always -thank you Jeff.

I tend to think of Pirro as just another distraction from the pedo criminal elect and the hidden Epstein-Trump-Maxwell child abuse and trafficking files, his complete economic incompetence and failures, the blatant firehouse of Trump corruption, and one of the worst examples of such corruption -immunity from IRS audits for Trump, the Trump crime family, and the Trump organization.

Even MAGA must stop and think "gee, if I took care of my tax responsibility under the law, why would I need immunity from audits and investigations?"

This news, like the Epstein-Trump-Maxwell files is a media afterthought -if even that. It should be front, center, and screamed from the rooftops, that this is just another corrupt and illegal scheme from the felon elect.

consciousegalitarian's avatar

I agree with George here. I have more respect for Judge Box o Wine than I do for Sen Cornyn, also an attorney who had been AG of TX. She actually followed the law in this case, finally. Cornyn and his buddy Tillis REALLY folded like umbrellas when handed a worthless piece of paper wherein was the lie that there would not be a J6 slush fund. Blanche was passed out of committee and will likely be the next AG. But sure, let's be mad at her

Carol C's avatar

Why indeed would Trump need immunity from audits and investigations if he paid taxes according to the laws? The Librul Commies hate him and they pay the fake news to smear his wonderful reputation? Because Joe Biden? Because Barack Hussein Obama?

Nothing to do with his past history, including the 34 felony convictions for tax fraud.

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Capitol One cancels all of the Trump enterprise bank accounts for money laundering. Period. And that's it? This has to go to Congress for a formal investigation because the Justice Dept. is cozy with the crook.

rlritt's avatar

Shouldn't this be a bigger deal?

Mary Greenwald's avatar

It is now Obuma. It could have been a misprint, but I doubt it severely!

arne link's avatar

Hussein Obama!

Mary Greenwald's avatar

No. MAGA thinks the IRS is out to get Trump and his Family. Just like they have always been out to get the "little guy". They want everyone to get away with cheating on taxes. . .including Trump & Family

Michelle Togut's avatar

I'll cry no tears for Judge Boxwine. Bitch knew from the get-go that she had no case, but got herself on national TV to viciously and joyously slander David Hearn The lies were self-evident to all sentient beings, which excludes trump. Only when visions of disbarrment, sanctions, or worse began to dance in her alcohol-addled noggin did Boxwine dismiss the charges late last Friday night.

Fuck her for breaking a shit-ton of legal ethics rules she swore to uphold. May Hearn sue her for every red cent she's worth and win.

Tess's avatar

So much shit….(that’s all I have to say for today!).

Miselle's avatar

Says it all, anyhow.

Chris Bame's avatar

The Umbrella GIF was freakin excellent !!

Irna Gadd's avatar

To me it looked like he didn't make an effort to close it. He just left it, assuming someone else will clean up his mess. Someone seems to be changing his diapers & cleaning HIM up, so he's keeping in character (and we all think his character is undesirable)!

Irascible Ink's avatar

I totes saw it in my mind the first I heard that he said that about her. 😆

arne link's avatar

Wow, those freakishly small hands are doing the accordion thing so furiously that they actually generate windmill energy. He hates windmills.

Nancie's avatar

Now I want to see that GIF of the guy that was sitting behind Trump in the speech last week mimicking him!

arne link's avatar

That was wonderful. I wonder if he was later arrested?

JML's avatar

I enjoy your column, of course, but I especially like your memories of Claudia. In case you haven't thought of this, my husband and I keep all of our photos on a computer in the living room and use them as screen savers. We always see parts of our lives pop up on the screen. It even helped me be less mad at my father who died a while back. Claudia was lucky to have someone who loved her so much.

Butch's avatar

Kinda hard to feel any sympathy for Pirro, though, isn't it?

Dana Jae Labrecque's avatar

The photo of undead Stephen, angry-face KKKaroline, some dude I don’t recognize, and Stepford Natalie (she has the exact same look in every photo—methinks she is not human) says a lot about what it feels like in the Oval with DonOLD: it feels like a slow dying.

Cyndi's avatar

Too damned slow IMHO!

Dana Jae Labrecque's avatar

Yes. I agree. But I meant them. Working there is a slow dying. As for their boss, please! Post haste!

Sheila Riley-Callahan's avatar

Seeing Claudia just now confirms I will be having a martini on my deck later today. 🍸🍸

Thanks for the reminder Claudia.

The reporter, Jake Traylor from MS Now (who Trump said nobody watches) is who the ignorant cuss called out yesterday in the oval. He is very good but it’s funny!!! Rumpy didn’t ask him if he ever smiles.

After Attorney ‘Boxwine’ left the oval yesterday there was a picture of a woman wheeling out two boxes and it was reported it was Pirro packing up but who knows.

Making my request to the stars above again today. ⭐️🌟

arne link's avatar

I love how she makes it a meal by having three olives.

Sheila Riley-Callahan's avatar

I usually have 2 blue cheese olives. Today I am going to have 3. 💞💞💞

arne link's avatar

Ooooh, extra protein. Lovely.