oh by the way — happy third-and-a-half birthday to us. this substack of ours got its start on October 28, 2022. thanks to all of you for making the comment section a wonderful community. you folks fucking rule
I actually like my psychiatrist, Dr. Rahman "Noodles", because he is zen, like a smiling Buddha. He is uniquely able to quiet my usual hysterical panic and rage over current events by nodding, smiling, agreeing with me, and reminding me that I can't do much about it, but maybe I can do something about how I spend my time and energy....
Which is super annoying and frustrating.
Thank God for Dr. Jeff! Thank ALL the gods for my fellow 'patients' hanging out with me in the 'waiting room'. I appreciate you, and am terribly grateful that we don't join hands and recite the Serenity Prayer, but rant and vent the daily steam of our pressure cooker existence in THIS:The Worst Timeline Ever! The Rule of King Jabberwock.
Jeff, you keep me sane. Your rants are more creative and satisfying than anything I could come up with and you manage to make me laugh, hard, every single morning. Thanks for the rants and the giggles. And I agree, this community is a blast! We're all in the quagmire together!
Yay you, Jeff! Where would we be without you? The world would be a much darker place, if possible, if you weren't in it helping us mop our spewed coffee from our laptop screens. We looove you! 🤣🤣🤣
Oh my goodness- I’ve choked with laughter- tea flying everywhere on me and our house- I’ve finally wised up and read his posts after my morning cuppa‼️
Only three and a half years? It seems like Jeff has been there for us forever, keeping us relatively sane. Happy anniversary and a half to Jeff and all our Peeps.
I've made very good friends in this community (had dinner with one of them last night, in fact!) This is an excellent group of people...Thanks for bringing us all together!
Back at ya, babe! You fucking rule, Jeff! I know I'm speaking for plenty of us when I say, you've made life under the stress of the Orange Malignancy bearable. You're giving many of us a voice in this shithole we got cheated into, lied into, pulled kicking and screaming into. We're behind you all the way, and just like we count on your voice to swear and rage through the day, you can count on us, our support ❤️❤️🤬!
I love this place as it keeps me sane, knowing that I am not insane by being outraged, frustrated, etc., by what I read and see happening to our country. That so many folks feel the same helps me day to day immensely. What a timeline to grow up in and retire in, eh? Whoda thought?
Bravo, Jeff. I've been with you at least 2 years and I can't get my day started without my Jeff Fix. I tell every liberal-thinking person I know about your substack and I do warn the "pure" ones that your profanity is top notch. I fuckin' LOVE cussing!!
Kimmel is under Donnie and Mel's skin like a tick. Donor MAGA sings from the same hymnal, but as Rick Wilson pointed out today, rank and file MAGA is waking up to $4 gallon gasoline. Good luck with your Versailles, Donald.
As a gay man I find nothing more offensive and reprehensible than a closeted (closeted with the fucking door way ajar) gay man making life miserable for other LGBTQIA+ persons - so have a t him.
Thanks for this comment. Had a woman on Blue Sky chastise me for calling him "Miss Lindsay." To her it was an insult to women, everywhere. She did take it back after seeing where so many refer to him as "miss." And why.
He is just so "meh." One of the worst in this current crop of massively insane imposters. Have heard many first hand stories about Graham, with most about his craven obsession with money - other's personal wealth.
Not gay, but do have many very close friends in the "community," and my gaydar registers pretty high with Mike Johnson - or as the very funny Oklahoma hosts of the IHIP podcast call him - "Grindr Mike Johnson." The man has had a deep and well documented obsession with homosexuality since high school. And he has been "making life miserable for other LGBTQIA+ persons" for many years. It's insultingly wrong. Wrong he was ever given the power he now abuses at every turn. And sad he cannot accept who he actually is.
Thanks again for your comment. Absolutely helps when "having at him!"
I think the "adopted" young boys that he and Gaetz brought into their lives were a screaming red flag that these men were liars about their sexual preference. I'm a boomer, so back in the day most gays stayed in the closet. Not so now. I don't think the majority of people care anymore. Live and let live. The ones who are so homophobic - it's all projection. It's usually men who talk this way. I don't recall too many homophobic women that were secretly lesbians. Goes along with the famous quote from Hamlet about protesting too much. Like many things in life, it's the cover up that does you in.
Read that as well- as a mother of a gay child I am very sensitive to all things that hurt her- especially this hiding behind their “ religion “ b*llsh*t ‼️
Up over $4/gallon (or close to $5 if the gas station is near the highway) in the Merrimack and Nashoba Valleys of Massachusetts. Diesel is over $6 in lots of towns.
Glad we bought a hybrid CR-V, in the spring and summer we get over 40 mpg.
‘Taint cheap down here in Panamá where I am either and prices are somewhat controlled. They are allowed to adjust them every Friday at midnight but when you pay by the liter, last I looked, regular was well over $4.00/gal. Diesel is ridiculous.
Here in Georgia it's around $3.65 but Kemp took away the state tax so now we support the don't you dare call it a war by losing much needed revenue. This savings is set to expire on May 19 and when it jumps it will get their attention. Oil is back to $100 a barrel today.
I saw a video of the Good Liars asking a MAGAt if he liked Taylor Swift, and the guy said he couldn’t stand her, she should stick to singing and keep her nose out of politics, blah blah blah. Then the Good Liar asked if he liked Kid Rock; I don’t think I need to tell you what the MAGAt said, but it was stupid. 😂
And yet, he manages to waddle from his golf cart, parked on the green, to wherever he's going to make his putt (let the jokes begin!). That's gotta be at least 8 or 10 feet, right? How many drugs does he have to take to be able to do that?
The most current reason for the Kimmel Rage is because he tried to get him canceled and FAILED bigly. The more Trump whines about him, the more popular he becomes.
Yikes! I top up every time I go past Costco because I know it's only going to be a higher price the next time I roll by. Gas is the only reason I belong to Costco.
Oh, yes. I do buy the lamb chops. They are so nice and fresh. I don't like the chicken. It tastes too much of whatever fluid they soak it in to make it weigh more.
I hope ABC and Disney don’t cave. This shit is terrible. They should file a lawsuit against Brendan Carr and the FCC for political persecution and First Amendment infringement.
Seems like Donnie’s bunker fetish is not going to go away anytime soon. In that case give him a German Luger to finish the job even though legally he’s not allowed to own a gun as a felon. Just the nuclear codes.
I marvel that the Holy Founders of this country had come fresh off fighting in a revolution against a pissing-purple mad king and yet never believed a mad president -- a stark raving out-of-control tyrant -- was feasible.
I can see it. English citizens had no choice about George III. That being the case, the Founders never thought for a minute that voters would willingly ELECT a crazy person; they gave the citizenry more credit. Although, for the record, I have my doubts about 2016 and absolutely don't believe he won in '24.
Thank you for your comment. I've been asking this question for years. He would be hard pressed to find a good job with all his convictions, bankruptcies, stealing from charities, etc. How is it okay to be president? The job application needs to be updated to weed out felons. I can't believe the general public is dumber than it was 250 years ago. So sad 🥺
Oh yeah, I believe it. I’ve been around for quite awhile (not 250 years!) and people seem to have gotten progressively stupider over my lifetime. More obnoxiously religious, too. Probably not a coincidence.
They aren’t dumber. In the colonial era, only men who owned land could vote. And the current regime wants to take us right back there. However, the framers also had ideals and honor, at least about this Republic they envisioned. 👹
Trump repeatedly insisted that the Military and unarmed others have wanted a ballroom for 150 years. (Presumably they didnt anticipate drones and bulletproof glass in 1876). Has anyone in the press ever bothered to ask when and who among the military or civilian leaders has EVER suggested the need for a ballroom room?
I was curious so, as a lazy person, I asked Google Gemini to provide such a list. Here’s the answer: (Bear in mind, Gemini is AI, and AI is prone to mistakes.)
There are no historical records of any U.S. President or military leader calling for the construction of a dedicated ballroom on the grounds of the United States Capitol.
While the Capitol has hosted countless inaugural balls and gala events, these have traditionally been held within existing spaces—such as the Statuary Hall or the Rotunda—or at external venues like the Smithsonian buildings, the Pension Building (now the National Building Museum), or local hotels. The focus of Capitol grounds development has historically remained on legislative functions, judicial space, and public park design (notably the work of Frederick Law Olmsted), rather than the addition of social or ceremonial dance halls.
I'm sure that, after the battle of the airfields during the American Revolution, George and the boys had a long chat about how vital it was, first thing after the British surrender, to get going on a ballroom. And don't get me started on how pissed Eisenhower was about no ballroom by June 5: he was bitter about that for the duration of his presidency.
It thinks you're asking about a ballroom attached to the Capitol building, not one attached to the White House. Maybe someone has talked about a ballroom at the White House, although I don't know of anybody.
Why do some women find it necessary to destroy their faces and bloat their boobs? Lauren Sanchez and those two now-gargoyles are U G L Y. (I understand they *think* doing so will entice men.) It’s one of the saddest things I can imagine.
I agree wholeheartedly. They are insecure about their looks so they opt for boob jobs and plastic surgery to help improve their self-image. Just pathetic!
Is the extreme plastic surgery to improve their self-image, or to signal to the world that they are really rich and can spend unknown sums on this disfiguring result? Some of them, like Laura Loomer and Sanchez, I would cross the street out of fear if I ever saw a creature like that on the streets of my small Vermont town.
And the good news: the Met Gala ticket prices are dropping thanks to boycott of Bezos' sponsorship!
And all that cosmetic surgery, that already looks bizarre and plasticky, is *not* going to age well. Maybe Lauren is okay with that, though. Maybe she figures even if the marriage only lasts a year or two before Hubbers trades her in, she'll get a nice, fat settlement in the divorce, and in the meantime, she'll get to travel in (crass, gaudy) luxury.
Under my morbid fascination with why anyone would disfigure herself the way Lauren Sanchez has, is deep sadness for how empty she must feel, if this is what she thinks she has to do to be loved. Compare and contrast Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez with George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin.
I think it would be prudent to demand trump not go golfing or to wrestling matches or super bowls anymore. It’s just not safe. Maybe a bullet proof assisted living facility would be the safest choice. A lot cheaper than a ballroom.
I’m all for building Donnie a safe room, not too large because every visitor (especially JD Vance) is a potential assassin. Donnie can live out the rest of his term in there and if he passes away, voilà - it’s an instant mausoleum
Agreed Bob, it should be small I think the right word is cell, I hope his cell is tiny and he is alone so his bullshit can flow freely to only him you would think it would make him sick but he will be busy writing Mein Narcissism (love of me).
A matter of national security, huh? Are we all gonna squeeze into the Epstein dance hall shoulder to shoulder — the entire nation — is that where we’re all gonna stay secure? In the Epstein dance hall???
If Lindsay Graham would just kindly shut the fuck up and shove himself back into a closet — which he never gets out of again— we’d all be better off for it.
I’d rather there be public toilets all over every American city, public electric vehicle charging stations along all American roads, full meals on every US Navy vessel, well maintained public transportation in every American city, properly maintained public schools, … (fill in the blanks). Trump is so infatuated with symbolism he can’t appreciate how transformative public infrastructure improvements can be the legacy he seeks. Symbols do not need to be useless.
We need decent roads and freeways. Just some basic repairs would be welcome. If you have ever driven into France from another country, you know that the roads are instantly pristine. It's quite amazing.
Ontario has worse freeze/thaw cycles than Michigan, and Toronto has a lot more traffic than Detroit, but every time I go over to Canada I am amazed how much better their roads are. And you don't encounter road construction lane closures except when they have a crew working 24 hours to fix the road (yes, I've found such work going on past midnight when I was coming back late).
Douglas, excellent point that symbols need not be useless. The public toilets, in particular, could have gold lettering with Dear Leader’s name, which should make him proud.
If tRump’s Arch does get built, I would hope the next administration does gifts us with its destruction. I’m thinking of the scene from “Trial at Nuremberg” where there’s a shot of the Nazi eagle being blown up.
I don't think it's a matter of his not being able to appreciate---although he can't, of course---but rather, he only wants his legacy to be exactly what his narcissistic brain dictates it be. His has no interest whatsoever in public improvements, because they help other people, not him. Other people are worthless to him.
The proof that it wasn't staged is the proof that the Butler, PA incident WAS staged. The security and secret service did the exact opposite of their actions in Butler. At the WHCD they got him on the ground and hustled out immediately while heavily armed tactical personnel surrounded the stage. In Butler they propped him up so he could raise his fist while they raised an American flag behind him for a photo op with minimal security.
It was fun to see him fall on his face when they attempted to hustle him out. You can see the SS trying to haul his enormous bulk up. I wish there had been better camera coverage but it's pretty clear what happened.
Talk show hosts are comparing Trump's stumbling face plant with Vance's choreographed "Dancing with the Stars" twirl out of his chair into the waiting arms of his SS escorts.
That's a very interesting comparison. I do think it is important to remind everyone that security acted exactly as they should have and no one, other than security and the shooter, was remotely in any danger. It was an entire floor away.
And could someone, anyone in that room maybe think about what it is like to live in neighborhoods where shots are fired a lot? Where you don't have constant security? Or nah is that too much of a stretch of the imagination?
David: But then, there is the issue of why were security standards lower at the dinner? I did not find it reassuring to see a photo of Melanoma and the mentalist with a horrified look on their faces while the moron was smiling at the moment of shots fired..
No, the warning email went out ten minutes before the shooting (Cole had it preset to go out at that time; and of course his parents called their local police, not having the number of Secret Service in DC handy, and it took a little while to relay). The security failure was already noted in Cole's email: he was amazed he could bring an arsenal into the hotel where the President, VP, half the Cabinet etc. was going to be in a couple days, and there were no blockades to stop him moving around the hotel until that magnetometer just one staircase away from the gathering. If he hadn't tripped and fallen I think he would have had a good shot, given how slothfully the Dumb Antichrist moved.
Imagine if Julia Roberts had done a bad Eastern European accent, and Richard Gere had been replaced by Joe Spinnel in a blonde wig…. it might have been called “Pretty Voooman”
"welcome to life in the United States of Utter Fucking Embarrassment."
That is the TRUTH. Every damned day a bigger eye roll than the next.
Will these Maga imbeciles EVER wake up and figure this out. that they're being conned?
It's exhausting. And just wait...betcha gas gets up to $5 a gallon soon. Wonder what the farmers are gonna say about their dear leader when diesel gets up to $8? 🤦♀️
I live in the Boston area, but I haven't been driving for years - and I use Uber to get to the hospital where my doctors are, about every 3 months - so I have no idea what gas prices are. I will be making the trip to Cambridge on May 11th, and I will look at the gas stations I pass, prices should be interesting by then!
MAGA does not care about the con. As long as they can hate everyone not white and male they will be MAGA. If gas and food is more expensive, that is OK. The pay-off is worth it. Spewing hate is cathartic.
Thanks, Jeff. Regarding Dumpty’s “private ballroom donors,” I saved this info from CREW (Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington) last November 26th:
From: CREW HQ
The 37 donors bankrolling Trump’s ballroom:
Altria Group, Inc.
Amazon
Apple
Booz Allen Hamilton
Caterpillar, Inc.
Coinbase
Comcast Corporation
J. Pepe and Emilia Fanjul
Hard Rock International
Google
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin
Meta Platforms
Micron Technology
Microsoft
NextEra Energy, Inc.
Palantir Technologies Inc.
Ripple
Reynolds American
T-Mobile
Tether America
Union Pacific Railroad
Adelson Family Foundation
Stefan E. Brodie
Betty Wold Johnson Foundation
Charles and Marissa Cascarilla
Edward and Shari Glazer
Harold Hamm
Benjamin Leon Jr.
The Lutnick Family
The Laura & Isaac Perlmutter Foundation
Stephen A. Schwarzman
Konstantin Sokolov
Kelly Loeffler and Jeff Sprecher
Paolo Tiramani
Cameron Winklevoss
Tyler Winklevoss
Let us (CREW) tell you about this list: It’s the 37 donors to President Trump’s White House ballroom — and according to our friends at Public Citizen, two-thirds of the corporate donors on this list have federal contracts.
That's an enormous ethics issue that can't be ignored.
President Trump has made it crystal clear that the White House ballroom is a top priority. And it sure looks like these multi-million-dollar donations are helping corporate donors buy influence.
Here’s the kicker: These corporate donors’ government contracts were worth nearly $43 billion just last year and almost $279 billion over the past five years. One company alone has raked in more than $190 billion.
Many of them are also facing major federal investigations — antitrust, labor violations and SEC cases — involving some of the biggest names in tech, defense and finance.
So when these billionaires and federal contractors bankroll presidential vanity projects, they aren’t doing it out of kindness. They’re buying access. They’re buying influence. And it sure seems like they’re expecting something in return.
CREW believes that our government should serve the people — not just powerful and wealthy interests like these ballroom donors.
That is the GD truth. Bezos could pay for the entire ballroom with money lost in his couch cushions. If Trump wants a ballroom so bad why not hit up those over paid frat boys?
oh by the way — happy third-and-a-half birthday to us. this substack of ours got its start on October 28, 2022. thanks to all of you for making the comment section a wonderful community. you folks fucking rule
I LOVE this community! I’ve been here 3 years and 1 month!! YAY!!!
Me, too. It's way less expensive than a psychiatrist and a lot more fun.
I actually like my psychiatrist, Dr. Rahman "Noodles", because he is zen, like a smiling Buddha. He is uniquely able to quiet my usual hysterical panic and rage over current events by nodding, smiling, agreeing with me, and reminding me that I can't do much about it, but maybe I can do something about how I spend my time and energy....
Which is super annoying and frustrating.
Thank God for Dr. Jeff! Thank ALL the gods for my fellow 'patients' hanging out with me in the 'waiting room'. I appreciate you, and am terribly grateful that we don't join hands and recite the Serenity Prayer, but rant and vent the daily steam of our pressure cooker existence in THIS:The Worst Timeline Ever! The Rule of King Jabberwock.
Jeff, you keep me sane. Your rants are more creative and satisfying than anything I could come up with and you manage to make me laugh, hard, every single morning. Thanks for the rants and the giggles. And I agree, this community is a blast! We're all in the quagmire together!
Fun!? This place is a riot!
Yes! Thank you Jeff! You crack me up, which helps keep me from cracking up…..
Definitely!
You hit the nail on the head with your comment- same here for us - then we send it to various family members ‼️
Keeps us sane and laughing- which is much needed ‼️
Well said!!
Exactly!
We get you, even when you aren’t joking. Maybe especially then.
same, here
Congratulations 🎉
Discovering you on Substack and joining this awesome community is one of the best things ever‼️
Yay you, Jeff! Where would we be without you? The world would be a much darker place, if possible, if you weren't in it helping us mop our spewed coffee from our laptop screens. We looove you! 🤣🤣🤣
600%!!!
Oh my goodness- I’ve choked with laughter- tea flying everywhere on me and our house- I’ve finally wised up and read his posts after my morning cuppa‼️
💯‼️
Only three and a half years? It seems like Jeff has been there for us forever, keeping us relatively sane. Happy anniversary and a half to Jeff and all our Peeps.
We know we rule ;) but thanks for the reminder! And a big thank you for showing up daily to feed us!
I've made very good friends in this community (had dinner with one of them last night, in fact!) This is an excellent group of people...Thanks for bringing us all together!
Extremely cool
Awwww that’s great‼️😊
Back at ya, babe! You fucking rule, Jeff! I know I'm speaking for plenty of us when I say, you've made life under the stress of the Orange Malignancy bearable. You're giving many of us a voice in this shithole we got cheated into, lied into, pulled kicking and screaming into. We're behind you all the way, and just like we count on your voice to swear and rage through the day, you can count on us, our support ❤️❤️🤬!
So happy to be here! It's so good for my sanity and morale.
You could use some merchandise. I'd proudly wear it, and hope to see other Jeffites in the wild.
Same!!!
This community of people make these days livable. Truly!!! Happy Birthday to us. 🎈🎈
Love this community!
We only rule 'cuz you ROCK, Jeff! We are, I must say, the coolest Substack community.
Yes, we are. Only funny and intelligent people here.
I followed you over from Real Twitter. Wow. Tempus Fugit.
Me too!
I love this place as it keeps me sane, knowing that I am not insane by being outraged, frustrated, etc., by what I read and see happening to our country. That so many folks feel the same helps me day to day immensely. What a timeline to grow up in and retire in, eh? Whoda thought?
Bravo, Jeff. I've been with you at least 2 years and I can't get my day started without my Jeff Fix. I tell every liberal-thinking person I know about your substack and I do warn the "pure" ones that your profanity is top notch. I fuckin' LOVE cussing!!
Loved your post 🤭
I say this at every opportunity: Jeff Tiedrich is a national treasure.
BEST JOB I EVER HAD
Wishing you many happy returns!
Kimmel is under Donnie and Mel's skin like a tick. Donor MAGA sings from the same hymnal, but as Rick Wilson pointed out today, rank and file MAGA is waking up to $4 gallon gasoline. Good luck with your Versailles, Donald.
Did you see where Rick called Lindsey Graham Lady Lindsey, Dutchess of the Downlow? That was quite funny and made me think of Jeff's way with words.
I did. I was thinking about Linds and wondering how he lives with himself, and I think the answer is 90-proof.
All of them live with themselves with 90-proof!
Ann -- Also, denial is a river in Egypt!
See below
There’s nothing below. Now what do I do?😵💫
I ask myself that every day
😆
Chuckling 🤭 here- thanks Ann ‼️
Linds certainly looks like that's his refuge.
As a gay man I find nothing more offensive and reprehensible than a closeted (closeted with the fucking door way ajar) gay man making life miserable for other LGBTQIA+ persons - so have a t him.
Thanks for this comment. Had a woman on Blue Sky chastise me for calling him "Miss Lindsay." To her it was an insult to women, everywhere. She did take it back after seeing where so many refer to him as "miss." And why.
He is just so "meh." One of the worst in this current crop of massively insane imposters. Have heard many first hand stories about Graham, with most about his craven obsession with money - other's personal wealth.
Not gay, but do have many very close friends in the "community," and my gaydar registers pretty high with Mike Johnson - or as the very funny Oklahoma hosts of the IHIP podcast call him - "Grindr Mike Johnson." The man has had a deep and well documented obsession with homosexuality since high school. And he has been "making life miserable for other LGBTQIA+ persons" for many years. It's insultingly wrong. Wrong he was ever given the power he now abuses at every turn. And sad he cannot accept who he actually is.
Thanks again for your comment. Absolutely helps when "having at him!"
I think the "adopted" young boys that he and Gaetz brought into their lives were a screaming red flag that these men were liars about their sexual preference. I'm a boomer, so back in the day most gays stayed in the closet. Not so now. I don't think the majority of people care anymore. Live and let live. The ones who are so homophobic - it's all projection. It's usually men who talk this way. I don't recall too many homophobic women that were secretly lesbians. Goes along with the famous quote from Hamlet about protesting too much. Like many things in life, it's the cover up that does you in.
I love my lesbian friends. They will fix your garage door or garden gate for free. Who else would do that for you?
It's been scientifically proven that homophobes are often closeted, self-loathing homosexuals themselves.
Read that as well- as a mother of a gay child I am very sensitive to all things that hurt her- especially this hiding behind their “ religion “ b*llsh*t ‼️
Gay child mom here too. Those bastards have been at it since Ray-gun.
The minute I hear someone is religious, I immediately think they are exactly who they pretend not to be.
Have you ever seen them in the same room together? Hmmmm? I'm not saying and I'm not not saying, but I'm just saying.
🤣🤣🤣
And watch the price of "groceries" (an old-fashioned word) go up thanks to the increased costs for oil and fertilizer.
I see what you did … 😂😂😂
$6/gallon where I live. :(
About $5.00 USD here in Montreal, and that's with a federal gas tax cut of 10 cents per liter. (Yes, Dad, who's preznit DOES affect me.🤬)
Just hit 4$ around me and I am in fly over country. I can't imagine how high it is on the elite coasts.
CT here. I bought the Donny pointing, saying “I did this” stickers to put on gas pumps.
Awesome.
Between $4 and 5 here in suburban Portland OR.
Makes me even more thankful not to have a car and to live across the street from the max!
I love the max!
It just hit a bit over $4 a gallon here in Downeast Maine.
saw $3.97 in Detroit
Up over $4/gallon (or close to $5 if the gas station is near the highway) in the Merrimack and Nashoba Valleys of Massachusetts. Diesel is over $6 in lots of towns.
Glad we bought a hybrid CR-V, in the spring and summer we get over 40 mpg.
‘Taint cheap down here in Panamá where I am either and prices are somewhat controlled. They are allowed to adjust them every Friday at midnight but when you pay by the liter, last I looked, regular was well over $4.00/gal. Diesel is ridiculous.
I'm in. AZ visiting for a month and it's $4.90 a gal here!
Same!! I'm in CA also and I've decided never to leave the house again. Too expensive!!
I feel ya.
Likewise. West coast. CA.
Diesel is over $7 in the Seattle area. So happy to drive an electric car!
yikes
Here in Georgia it's around $3.65 but Kemp took away the state tax so now we support the don't you dare call it a war by losing much needed revenue. This savings is set to expire on May 19 and when it jumps it will get their attention. Oil is back to $100 a barrel today.
Gees…‼️
Love to see that! Same way that Taylor Swift gets under MAGA skin.
I saw a video of the Good Liars asking a MAGAt if he liked Taylor Swift, and the guy said he couldn’t stand her, she should stick to singing and keep her nose out of politics, blah blah blah. Then the Good Liar asked if he liked Kid Rock; I don’t think I need to tell you what the MAGAt said, but it was stupid. 😂
I don’t believe it. Nobody REALLY likes Kid Rock!
Just called my idiot congressman to say I’m against any ridiculous monuments to the ego of Donald Trump. He’ll he gone in 2 years anyway
Thanks for doing that. With any luck, he'll be gone sooner.
As long as he's ambulatory, we're stuck with him. With dementia, once the legs go and a walker or wheelchair is needed, it's over.
Lord, hear our prayer.
🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Well, you saw him take two steps and then fall down on Saturday night at the Washington Hilton! It won't be long now.....
And yet, he manages to waddle from his golf cart, parked on the green, to wherever he's going to make his putt (let the jokes begin!). That's gotta be at least 8 or 10 feet, right? How many drugs does he have to take to be able to do that?
🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼
🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼
Hoping a lot sooner, by the looks of him!
The most current reason for the Kimmel Rage is because he tried to get him canceled and FAILED bigly. The more Trump whines about him, the more popular he becomes.
I paid $5.89 a gallon yesterday. Yeah. California taxes and all.
Yikes! I top up every time I go past Costco because I know it's only going to be a higher price the next time I roll by. Gas is the only reason I belong to Costco.
Dont eat the rotisserie chicken. 😆
We line up for that $5 chicken. How do you think we can afford the $6 gas? And the occasional $36 per pound steak.
I mention it only because of reports of salmonella. When I get to go, I load up on Lamb Chops!!
Oh, yes. I do buy the lamb chops. They are so nice and fresh. I don't like the chicken. It tastes too much of whatever fluid they soak it in to make it weigh more.
I would never do that, but thanks for the tip.
Holy shit. 😳
I hope ABC and Disney don’t cave. This shit is terrible. They should file a lawsuit against Brendan Carr and the FCC for political persecution and First Amendment infringement.
Perhaps the tick is carrying alpha gal. That’s the end of Big Macs.
You mean *RANK AND FOUL* MAGA
Melania probably loves Jimmy Kimmel. She definitely did not write that screed- it was probably Miller, the acting president.
I'm hoping Kimmel gives them Lyme disease then, the both of them.
There’s still a cadre of hardcore cult members on Elon’s Nazi Bar who claim the war is going great. They claim only Democrats say it’s failing.
Can’t possibly compare with Versailles Ann, look at the guff that this connard yeets out his faux design Annie mouth, he’s such a fraud!
$4.19/gallon at my costco gas pump this morning
$4.88 today where I live....
Seems like Donnie’s bunker fetish is not going to go away anytime soon. In that case give him a German Luger to finish the job even though legally he’s not allowed to own a gun as a felon. Just the nuclear codes.
Wow Mike. Thanks for pointing out that irony! How hard is it to come up with a law saying a felon can’t be president.
I guess our founders couldn’t conceive that we would be stupid enough to elect a criminal to be president.
They’re not rolling over in their graves — they’re sobbing uncontrollably.
I marvel that the Holy Founders of this country had come fresh off fighting in a revolution against a pissing-purple mad king and yet never believed a mad president -- a stark raving out-of-control tyrant -- was feasible.
I can see it. English citizens had no choice about George III. That being the case, the Founders never thought for a minute that voters would willingly ELECT a crazy person; they gave the citizenry more credit. Although, for the record, I have my doubts about 2016 and absolutely don't believe he won in '24.
They did anticipate it. What they didn’t think of was that the Congress and Senate would abdicate their power and responsibility 👹
Thank you for your comment. I've been asking this question for years. He would be hard pressed to find a good job with all his convictions, bankruptcies, stealing from charities, etc. How is it okay to be president? The job application needs to be updated to weed out felons. I can't believe the general public is dumber than it was 250 years ago. So sad 🥺
Oh yeah, I believe it. I’ve been around for quite awhile (not 250 years!) and people seem to have gotten progressively stupider over my lifetime. More obnoxiously religious, too. Probably not a coincidence.
They aren’t dumber. In the colonial era, only men who owned land could vote. And the current regime wants to take us right back there. However, the framers also had ideals and honor, at least about this Republic they envisioned. 👹
Maybe burning witches at the stake will make a comeback
Now there’s an oxymoron for ya’!
Makes no sense right❓Really hard on the nerves‼️
Trump repeatedly insisted that the Military and unarmed others have wanted a ballroom for 150 years. (Presumably they didnt anticipate drones and bulletproof glass in 1876). Has anyone in the press ever bothered to ask when and who among the military or civilian leaders has EVER suggested the need for a ballroom room?
I was curious so, as a lazy person, I asked Google Gemini to provide such a list. Here’s the answer: (Bear in mind, Gemini is AI, and AI is prone to mistakes.)
There are no historical records of any U.S. President or military leader calling for the construction of a dedicated ballroom on the grounds of the United States Capitol.
While the Capitol has hosted countless inaugural balls and gala events, these have traditionally been held within existing spaces—such as the Statuary Hall or the Rotunda—or at external venues like the Smithsonian buildings, the Pension Building (now the National Building Museum), or local hotels. The focus of Capitol grounds development has historically remained on legislative functions, judicial space, and public park design (notably the work of Frederick Law Olmsted), rather than the addition of social or ceremonial dance halls.
Even AI knows nearly every claim he proudly asserts is either enormously exaggerated or an outright lie
Sometimes you have to give AI Kudos despite misgivings
Color us suprised!😉
I'm sure that, after the battle of the airfields during the American Revolution, George and the boys had a long chat about how vital it was, first thing after the British surrender, to get going on a ballroom. And don't get me started on how pissed Eisenhower was about no ballroom by June 5: he was bitter about that for the duration of his presidency.
Joyce, I haven’t thought of all that segment of the career liar but it did make me laugh he is so damn dumb!!!
Try asking again with the "White House" instead of the Capitol. They are a mile and a half apart as the crow flies.
It thinks you're asking about a ballroom attached to the Capitol building, not one attached to the White House. Maybe someone has talked about a ballroom at the White House, although I don't know of anybody.
“you know, people like Jeff Bezos and his personal flotation device.” You are so fucking funny, Jeff! I love your posts. ❤️
Why do some women find it necessary to destroy their faces and bloat their boobs? Lauren Sanchez and those two now-gargoyles are U G L Y. (I understand they *think* doing so will entice men.) It’s one of the saddest things I can imagine.
They look like 🤡. I fucking hate clowns.
Clowns should make you happy. These woman make me sad.
Me, too, Paula. Poltergeist … shudder …😳
Or "IT"!
I agree wholeheartedly. They are insecure about their looks so they opt for boob jobs and plastic surgery to help improve their self-image. Just pathetic!
Is the extreme plastic surgery to improve their self-image, or to signal to the world that they are really rich and can spend unknown sums on this disfiguring result? Some of them, like Laura Loomer and Sanchez, I would cross the street out of fear if I ever saw a creature like that on the streets of my small Vermont town.
And the good news: the Met Gala ticket prices are dropping thanks to boycott of Bezos' sponsorship!
I don’t think they’re insecure, just delusional.
That’s what I think these women are insecure and they divert you with well diversions.
They look like gargoyles.
Gargoyles with hag hair.
Gargoyles in wigs!
They look like vampires to me, especially Sanchez, pneumatic boobs aside.
And all that cosmetic surgery, that already looks bizarre and plasticky, is *not* going to age well. Maybe Lauren is okay with that, though. Maybe she figures even if the marriage only lasts a year or two before Hubbers trades her in, she'll get a nice, fat settlement in the divorce, and in the meantime, she'll get to travel in (crass, gaudy) luxury.
My favorite line in the piece. She just looks so fucking ridiculous. Does she realize?
Or have a mirror❓
Under my morbid fascination with why anyone would disfigure herself the way Lauren Sanchez has, is deep sadness for how empty she must feel, if this is what she thinks she has to do to be loved. Compare and contrast Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez with George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin.
Yup💯! A full-on LOL 😅😂 and an opportunity to be thankful. Thankful my coffee was on the table next to me and not going down my throat
Chefs kiss
♥️♥️
I laughed so hard I cried at that line. Brilliant, hilarious Jeff! We love you!
His personal flotation devise looks like a blow-up doll in the face. Gross!
Now why aren’t the fucking journalists reporting about ALL the OPEN SPACES trump has been…YOU, Jeff are the best! These crazy a-holes drive me nuts.
From a couple of months ago:
Bari Weiss
You're just a trice
An unserious hack
A MAGA flack
When you're gone it'll be nice
Ain't that the truth!👏👏👏👏
I think it would be prudent to demand trump not go golfing or to wrestling matches or super bowls anymore. It’s just not safe. Maybe a bullet proof assisted living facility would be the safest choice. A lot cheaper than a ballroom.
Awesome 😎
Excellent idea 💡
I’m all for building Donnie a safe room, not too large because every visitor (especially JD Vance) is a potential assassin. Donnie can live out the rest of his term in there and if he passes away, voilà - it’s an instant mausoleum
He needs a padded room right now
Agreed Bob, it should be small I think the right word is cell, I hope his cell is tiny and he is alone so his bullshit can flow freely to only him you would think it would make him sick but he will be busy writing Mein Narcissism (love of me).
They're useless!
A matter of national security, huh? Are we all gonna squeeze into the Epstein dance hall shoulder to shoulder — the entire nation — is that where we’re all gonna stay secure? In the Epstein dance hall???
If Lindsay Graham would just kindly shut the fuck up and shove himself back into a closet — which he never gets out of again— we’d all be better off for it.
I hope he loses his election. He needs to retire to Disneyland. 🙄
Yes! Am making another donation to Lindsey’s Dem challenger, pediatrician Dr. Annie Andrews. https://drannieandrews.com/
And his grindr account needs to be leaked.
He needs to retire to a 6’x6’ padded room
I’d rather there be public toilets all over every American city, public electric vehicle charging stations along all American roads, full meals on every US Navy vessel, well maintained public transportation in every American city, properly maintained public schools, … (fill in the blanks). Trump is so infatuated with symbolism he can’t appreciate how transformative public infrastructure improvements can be the legacy he seeks. Symbols do not need to be useless.
We need decent roads and freeways. Just some basic repairs would be welcome. If you have ever driven into France from another country, you know that the roads are instantly pristine. It's quite amazing.
Or Sweden..or Denmark..etc....
Ontario has worse freeze/thaw cycles than Michigan, and Toronto has a lot more traffic than Detroit, but every time I go over to Canada I am amazed how much better their roads are. And you don't encounter road construction lane closures except when they have a crew working 24 hours to fix the road (yes, I've found such work going on past midnight when I was coming back late).
In the USA the returnable for cash bottles and cans make s big dent in roadside trash
Douglas, excellent point that symbols need not be useless. The public toilets, in particular, could have gold lettering with Dear Leader’s name, which should make him proud.
Trump Toilets for everyone! What a wonderful idea.
His name inscribed in gold INSIDE each bowl!
Beautiful!
He’s a malignant narcissistic psychopath with NO integrity or intelligence to recognize symbols do not need to be useless.
If tRump’s Arch does get built, I would hope the next administration does gifts us with its destruction. I’m thinking of the scene from “Trial at Nuremberg” where there’s a shot of the Nazi eagle being blown up.
I don't think it's a matter of his not being able to appreciate---although he can't, of course---but rather, he only wants his legacy to be exactly what his narcissistic brain dictates it be. His has no interest whatsoever in public improvements, because they help other people, not him. Other people are worthless to him.
What is the best evidence that the gun incident at the correspondents dinner wasn’t staged? No one put an insider bet on Kalshi or Polymarket.
The proof that it wasn't staged is the proof that the Butler, PA incident WAS staged. The security and secret service did the exact opposite of their actions in Butler. At the WHCD they got him on the ground and hustled out immediately while heavily armed tactical personnel surrounded the stage. In Butler they propped him up so he could raise his fist while they raised an American flag behind him for a photo op with minimal security.
It was fun to see him fall on his face when they attempted to hustle him out. You can see the SS trying to haul his enormous bulk up. I wish there had been better camera coverage but it's pretty clear what happened.
Talk show hosts are comparing Trump's stumbling face plant with Vance's choreographed "Dancing with the Stars" twirl out of his chair into the waiting arms of his SS escorts.
That's a very interesting comparison. I do think it is important to remind everyone that security acted exactly as they should have and no one, other than security and the shooter, was remotely in any danger. It was an entire floor away.
And could someone, anyone in that room maybe think about what it is like to live in neighborhoods where shots are fired a lot? Where you don't have constant security? Or nah is that too much of a stretch of the imagination?
David: But then, there is the issue of why were security standards lower at the dinner? I did not find it reassuring to see a photo of Melanoma and the mentalist with a horrified look on their faces while the moron was smiling at the moment of shots fired..
Yes! That struck me, too. Too demented to recognize a potential danger, or knowledge that a plan was working? 💁🏻
Because it was planned and he knew it?
Perhaps?
I’m going with Smelly Melly, some of that must get into your clothes don’t you think.
They did not get him on the ground---he took two steps and fell--then they hoisted him up and rushed him out!
Anybody have a connection to a clip of that shit-show? I haven’t seen any of the act.
👆☑️
I thought it was staged the minute it started!
Excellent deduction, score.
Now hearing they were forewarned - then pulled back security and ‘let it happen’… hence the prepared response and overall chill reaction(?) Hybrid :/
No, the warning email went out ten minutes before the shooting (Cole had it preset to go out at that time; and of course his parents called their local police, not having the number of Secret Service in DC handy, and it took a little while to relay). The security failure was already noted in Cole's email: he was amazed he could bring an arsenal into the hotel where the President, VP, half the Cabinet etc. was going to be in a couple days, and there were no blockades to stop him moving around the hotel until that magnetometer just one staircase away from the gathering. If he hadn't tripped and fallen I think he would have had a good shot, given how slothfully the Dumb Antichrist moved.
Guy guys guys - we're missing a true American Success Story - from East European Whore to the White House.😂😂😂
Imagine if Julia Roberts had done a bad Eastern European accent, and Richard Gere had been replaced by Joe Spinnel in a blonde wig…. it might have been called “Pretty Voooman”
LOL
Love it 😅😅😅
Or "Petty Woman."
Da Ho from Slo is on the Go.
😆
😆
😂🤣😂!
Dems must campaign on all the billions of wasted taxpayer dollars Dumpf & Co. have spent, including the Epstein Dance Hall. It's the Economy, stupid.
Absolutely, they need to be as loud as possible in highlighting all of the corruption, waste and abuses going on.
The people are pissed off. Why do you think Republicans are planning to implement the SAVE (Trump from impeachment act) without the votes?
If you have a Republican senator start emailing them everyday saying NO to the SAVE act which will fix the elections for Trump.
Donny needs a ballroom like he needs another hole in his head. Too soon?
😂😂😂 I see what you did there.
"welcome to life in the United States of Utter Fucking Embarrassment."
That is the TRUTH. Every damned day a bigger eye roll than the next.
Will these Maga imbeciles EVER wake up and figure this out. that they're being conned?
It's exhausting. And just wait...betcha gas gets up to $5 a gallon soon. Wonder what the farmers are gonna say about their dear leader when diesel gets up to $8? 🤦♀️
Gas was over $5 at Costco on Thursday. It's probably higher today. Diesel was $7 at Shell, which is always higher than any other gas station.
When I go back to rural Missouri in about 10 days, I’ll be very interested to see what it is…
I am a coastal elite. Ha, ha, ha. We have lots of taxes on gas.
I live in the Boston area, but I haven't been driving for years - and I use Uber to get to the hospital where my doctors are, about every 3 months - so I have no idea what gas prices are. I will be making the trip to Cambridge on May 11th, and I will look at the gas stations I pass, prices should be interesting by then!
MAGA does not care about the con. As long as they can hate everyone not white and male they will be MAGA. If gas and food is more expensive, that is OK. The pay-off is worth it. Spewing hate is cathartic.
It's a small price to pay for 'murrican greatness.
Will the repugs ever figure out they are being conned?
No. Waaaaay too dumb.
It’s over $6 in California right now. 🙄
WOW!! This is alllllll screwed up.
Lushy Lindsey, the warmongering elf
Had best leave his booze on the shelf
It's easy to posit
All that time in the closet
Has made him hate himself
A Two for Tuesday for ol' Linds:
SC's senator, a used-to-be-blond
Of Shitler is confusingly fond
Warmonger Graham
Loves cheering for mayhem
He should stick to his bubble wand
👏👏👏👏👏
😂😂😂
Hahaha 😆
A couple keepers Doc!
Really nice!
Congratulations, Jeff. I'm very happy to be a part of a community of decency, kindness, and humor.
Thanks, Jeff. Regarding Dumpty’s “private ballroom donors,” I saved this info from CREW (Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington) last November 26th:
From: CREW HQ
The 37 donors bankrolling Trump’s ballroom:
Altria Group, Inc.
Amazon
Apple
Booz Allen Hamilton
Caterpillar, Inc.
Coinbase
Comcast Corporation
J. Pepe and Emilia Fanjul
Hard Rock International
Google
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin
Meta Platforms
Micron Technology
Microsoft
NextEra Energy, Inc.
Palantir Technologies Inc.
Ripple
Reynolds American
T-Mobile
Tether America
Union Pacific Railroad
Adelson Family Foundation
Stefan E. Brodie
Betty Wold Johnson Foundation
Charles and Marissa Cascarilla
Edward and Shari Glazer
Harold Hamm
Benjamin Leon Jr.
The Lutnick Family
The Laura & Isaac Perlmutter Foundation
Stephen A. Schwarzman
Konstantin Sokolov
Kelly Loeffler and Jeff Sprecher
Paolo Tiramani
Cameron Winklevoss
Tyler Winklevoss
Let us (CREW) tell you about this list: It’s the 37 donors to President Trump’s White House ballroom — and according to our friends at Public Citizen, two-thirds of the corporate donors on this list have federal contracts.
That's an enormous ethics issue that can't be ignored.
President Trump has made it crystal clear that the White House ballroom is a top priority. And it sure looks like these multi-million-dollar donations are helping corporate donors buy influence.
Here’s the kicker: These corporate donors’ government contracts were worth nearly $43 billion just last year and almost $279 billion over the past five years. One company alone has raked in more than $190 billion.
Many of them are also facing major federal investigations — antitrust, labor violations and SEC cases — involving some of the biggest names in tech, defense and finance.
So when these billionaires and federal contractors bankroll presidential vanity projects, they aren’t doing it out of kindness. They’re buying access. They’re buying influence. And it sure seems like they’re expecting something in return.
CREW believes that our government should serve the people — not just powerful and wealthy interests like these ballroom donors.
That is the GD truth. Bezos could pay for the entire ballroom with money lost in his couch cushions. If Trump wants a ballroom so bad why not hit up those over paid frat boys?
They have bought our country. 😝😞😵💫🥲😂😅🧐
Hard Rock?? Say it ain't so!
Show us the money!