THIS! And possibly a night-owl like so many of us? Some are, some aren't. I'm awake now - for a few hours, then need a wee 'nap', lol. My entire earlier work life was SO fucked-up it became a pattern; up at 4:30a.m. out at 6. in NYC by 9ish (usually driving), working VERY late - hubby sleeping in the car waiting for me after he'd lost the job where we'd met (fortuitously - he stayed 28 years with his next)... later he'd park IN his new Company's parking garage - getting home 11:30ish, bed by 1a.m (me after Johnny Carson), then up 3-l/2 hours later to do it all again. Somewhere in there the multiple cats were cleaned, fed and taken care of as well. Hubby would sleep the second we got home while I did everything else (dozing on the way home). Worked for us because we were young-er. Now? Not so much, lol - but somehow we're both still kicking. Those WERE the days. I'm so in admiration of those who take stands now, putting themselves out there - like Heather and Jeff.
Your post comes into my inbox in the morning, Lucian's usually drops in the evening, and Heather's arrives sometime after midnight. I read them all within moments of their arrival. They are the markers of my day. I NEED them!
Jeff: WE need YOU to get your much-needed sleep in order to come up with your wonderfully-entertaining and brilliant posts. WE can get by. Don't try to copy our sleepless nights. It won't work for you. Your system isn't wired for it and Mrs. Spouse might bonk you over the head if you tried.
Check your spam or others? I don’t know what happened, but I rarely get emails, and if I do, they are in every possible place, except when’re I want them…🤨
Even with my own AWFUL and fucked-up computer (still to be changed/updated), I get all of Jeff's posts AND the substacks. BUT, I'm on a desktop although I do (now) have a functioning cellphone AND even a newer Ipad I hardly ever use. I admit to being a dinosaur. ;)
I LOVE Jo Jo! I found her on twitter originally - where she's routinely attacked by magats, so I post good things TO her and against them. They try AI'ing her photos - she doesn't give a flying fuck, decimating them point by point.
I am insanely jealous of her ability to... oh fuckit I'm recovering from a bout of the flu and my brain's not hitting on all cylinders, but anyhow she's an awesome writer and always on point.
Jeff, Shes a machine. I mean, when its 2am, Im doomscrolling through tiktok and youtube, voice to texting shit as I listen, then by the morning time, the garbled ass junk that I voice to texted gets "organized" into something presentable, and then posted.
Be careful. Monday the indefatigable truth purveyor, USA Today, reported that doomscrolling while on the can causes hemorrhoids. Sounds like the work of induced-heroin-coma-brain RFK Jr. JHC.
That's around the time when my brain wakes up, LOL. But that's ok, hubby is out for the count then, so I get it. I'm the one awake and looking after the house, dogs, cat and sundry, playing online games (GameDuell from Germany - they speak English), and following up with you. :)
Very nice, Wendy. Wrecking the East Wing, traditional hub of female energy at the White House, he’s also suppressing imagery of the wreckage. The deactivated winkie commits elder abuse, raping the People’s House along with his historic pedophilia.
Well, we have to acknowledge that Melania needs the east wing like, what's that stupid saying, a fish needs a bicycle.
But the history of it; the beauty; the moments...we'll restore them. And then we'll burn that goddamned fucking ballroom to the goddamned fucking ground and I swear I'll pay Planned Parenthood $500.00 for just one 2in x 2in cinder of the place.
I'M surprised she hasn't demanded that the 'ballroom' isn't turned into a gigantic makeup/hair salon just for HER use. But of course, hubby could give a shit about her, since KKKaroline with 'those luscious lips' (ugh, puke) came into his line of sight.
He’s replacing the East Wing with a full building of man chowder piping and manifolds for Peter Thiel, Scott Bessent, Sean Duffy, and JD Vance. The anti-LGBTQ party has to hide their cumqwats from US religious leaders on Orange Hitler’s Religious Liberty Council.
Honestly? HCR brilliantly reports history focusing it vis-a-vis what's happening today. You brilliantly report facts, and entertain, keeping people smiling and informed amidst the rubble. Krugman brilliantly reports and wonks with charts and teaches, explains to dummies like me how the apocalypse is just around the corner. I read all three every day without fail. I comment obnoxiously without fail, too.
You all three have your niches and I gotta tell ya, I couldn't get through a day without you. I love your titles.
Add in Robert Reich who's SO right-on about everything, Jo Jo who keeps me raising my fist in the air, Jasmine Crockett with HER fire (and my other fist in the air), Christinatalkst on Instagram who's ALSO fire- and I can get through a week without imploding. I also watch: Luke Beasley, Adam Mockler, Ben Meiselas (The Meidas Touch), Jack Coaciarella (sp?) Brian Tyler Cohen and some others I'm blanking at the moment and my week is FULL and very, very busy.
Yes! When I can see his feed! There are at least a dozen others whose names and handles I forget but love to watch. Today I saw Aaron Parnas (I get his Instagrams - and yes he's THE Lev Parnas' son and is a REAL Anti-trumper talking about that horrific faked 'shit' video involving Harry Sisson (someone else I see off and on posting). I suspect goebbels/miller/frump are MADLY jealous of Harry's good looks which is why he was the focus of that sick stupidity. I follow as many as possible in the time allotted to such matters. Luckily, I'm a speed demon typist and reader, when my eyes are not behaving wonkily. :)
So many people recommended her to me, but when I started to get her newsletter, I realized that for me it was redundant. She reinforced what we all agree on. I need reports and facts — and humor to get me though the day, which is why this one gets my money, and hers won't.
Totally agree. I think people like her because she says what we're all thinking in eloquent terms but that's not what I need. I need humor desperately.
Yes - which is why Jeff is THE only one I follow financially. I simply can't contribute to all of the others I'd like to - or I'd be broke by the end of the month!
(In advance, please excuse my use of ”French” I am furious with what’s going on!)
Months ago, Jeff Tiedrich, author of the (incredibly awesome) Substack known as “everyone is entitled to my own opinion” issued a challenge to news reporters (and my take is that that challenge extends to all members of the media, whether reporters or not).
“The first reporter to stand up and ask (Trump) --- “What the fuck is wrong with you?” --- should Get a Pulitzer Prize”, says Jeff.
I don’t know of any reporter (or any other member of the media) who has yet done that.
I’d like to add to Jeff’s challenge to reporters (and other members of the media) --- the first reporter to call Trump a liar at a press conference will win a dinner for two, on me. My suggested wording for the question the reporter should ask Trump during a press conference:
“President Trump, you just lied. You lied earlier, and you just lied again. What the fuck is wrong with you?”
Here’s my problem (and I do suspect that others like me, have the same exact problem). I am so tired, so damn tired, so fucking tired of hearing reporters characterize Trump’s lies as “false statements” or “non-truths”, or “misstatements of fact.”
A lie is a lie. A lie is a goddamn fucking lie. It does not need, nor does it warrant, any other characterization!
Please kindly copy and paste this post on other Substacks. Hopefully, reporters (and other members of the media) will stop tip-toeing through the tulips, stop pussyfooting around and call Trump a liar every goddamn time Trump lies!
And what makes it even worse is that after the obvious Trump lie the reporters just nod agreeably and never challenge him or ask a followup. If they're all so scared of him get assigned to another beat. The interview shows are even worse, all politicians, Dems and Repubs both, just follow the same script, ignore the question, say "let's talk about what the American people really care about," and pivot to their same tired talking point. Why do we even have reporters and politicians now?
What I would like to see is when Karoline Nitwit spews out some garbage in a press briefing is for some reporter to stand up, turn around and address the assembled press as to why no one is blowing back on the BS coming from this clown show of an administration.
I wish I was a reporter. Tom, what you said (they do) is infuriating. When I ask a question, I expect an answer. If the other party does not answer the question, I stop them and repeat the question. I do this over and over and over again, l also saying "you did not answer the question. Let me repeat it for you. "
I watched CNN interview Holy Mike and Hakeem in succession last night and neither one would answer a question, just pivots to their talking points which tell us nothing.
the reason that's used on Instagram/tik tok is because they screen and delete posts which use ANY mention of 'kill' 'murder' 'death', etc. So someone came up with 'unalive' instead and 'pew-pew' for gun. Because THAT is disallowed as well. frump can say ANYTHING he wants, but the average citizen/user is censored. Ain't THAT a kick in the head? He just bombed another fishing boat - this one on the PACIFIC side - the man's wife said he was nothing more than a fisherman, but the coward in chief decided they were 'drug smugglers'...of course he did. This pig, who's blowing 8 - 9 now? fishing boats from OTHER COUNTRIES out of the water murdering at least 32 people (probably more now) imagines he deserves a Nobel PEACE prize?
I've been FURIOUS by these 'untruths' 'non-factual' BULLSHIT words for the longest time and even YELL at my Teevee: He's a FUCKING LIAR! Call it what it is: a LIE, you fucking cowards!
Grok says Trump lies. Who am I to doubt Grok? At least Grok isn’t lying about everything. (Personally I am highly offended that Musk stole Grok’s name from Stranger in a Strange Land.) If you’re woke, you grok. I grok.
Donny shits all over us in an AI video then creates actual damage with a backhoe. The People's House will be a monument to graft and the monstrous ego of the worst man on the planet. Every time I think he's maxed out my capacity for disgust... Okay, a couple of bright notes: Robert Reich says the sleeping giant (that's us) is awakening as evidenced by the No Kings turnout. Second, MAGA Mike got served today with a lawsuit filed by the AZ AG. I'm tired, you're tired, everybody's tired, but let's keep fighting.
Yes! You can follow Ukrainian soldiers IN the field on twitter. I do, gives them more of a voice - and they show what's going on in real time - refuting putin and frump's incessant LIES!
I MISS HIS FACE! I miss his VOICE. I think of that lovely man often. HE was the one who spoke to MY heart more than any other from the Civil Rights days, to be truthful. Sigh. WHY do we have to lose all the best ones and 'they' are still here? :'(
Reminds me of Rachel Maddow's documentary film on Andrew Young I saw last week...who was there ON the balcony with him as they heard the shot ring out and he fell. His description of the wound is harrowing. He's now in his 90's, as sharp as ever and as strong a voice as his ever was. What a life. WELL WORTH watching if it's being played somewhere close to you
Oops: It's Andrew Young: 'The Dirty Work'. HE chose the title. Rachel asked why that phrase and he said it was all of the menial work he had to do, scut work, basically. NOT 'dirty' as others would try to have it.
aaaand just like that *we’re not talking abt the 8+M EPIC PROTEST in his ‘honor’*… the ‘churn’ + ‘flood the zone’ continues, unabated … 🫤 (that said NO ONE is dropping the EFile issue🤗)‼️
When and if he is ever forced to leave, guaranteed he will demand repayment for his "improvements" to the White House in the sum of several times whatever it cost with no intent to reimburse any of the donors he solicited for millions each. He'll slap a lien on the property just for spite.
Then that's exactly WHY it should be torn down as suggested. I hadn't thought of that, frankly, thinking it could be used for 'offices', but no - after seeing the MAJOR DAMAGE done to OUR Historic Building, just rip his travesty away and cart off every semblance of this orange POS who tried to destroy OUR history. Fuck him. Let him TRY to 'put a lien' then on the actual White House and see him laughed out of every single Court across the Country. He could be told he has every right to haul away the rubble of that abomination, see how much he can get from the scraps?
When I read the first line about the felon telling Vought about all the women at Mar-A-Lago the first thing I thought about was that picture. I’ve seen it so many times, it’s engraved on my brain . Ewww
Give Russ Vomit’s wife a medal for dumping that Playdough Dick. And a triple-annulment so she is expunged of any proximity to that demonic shred of ratfuck.
The really tragic truth is that these “women” think they look good. I don’t get how obviously botoxed, fillered and surgeried faces is like a thing now. Eww.
Hold on a second! Comer Fudd says none of the evidence they’ve collected implicates Trump? What evidence? I thought they discovered files didn’t exist. I’m so confused!
That's the hard part about being a serial liar. It's so much easier to be truthful: you just have to remember what actually happened, not all the fabrications you invented and which version you told to whom.
I've been saying since his first "term", that his cognitive DECLINE is so rapid, w/ his Ego BALLOONING at a comparable rate, that #Bumblefuck is unable to remember ANYTHING from one day to the next.
I think that, if you showed him a life-sized video of something he said at 12N on Mon, & showed it to him at 12N on *Tues*, he'd DENY IT EVER HAPPENED.
Raping the People’s House, the deactivated winkie commits elder abuse. In trying to suppress images of the destroyed East Wing, hub of female energy in the White House, along with the Epstein files, he desperately conceals evidence of violence against women, from adolescence to beyond the grave.
Well, he made SURE he raped Jackie's Rose Garden first - just to say he did, the disgusting pig! At some point MY rage against this pig is going to explode and I've no idea exactly how it'll make itself known. Perhaps I'll say 'fuck it', become a freelance reporter, walk right up to the orange blob, call him a LYING RAPIST and then ask: 'WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU'? before they haul me away, likely breaking my bones in the process.
Yup! Not too far, Christine! My sister used to live in Columbia, Md. (we're no longer connected, but she moved to Fla. anyway). Her daughter's in Laurel and we're still kind of close. Not too bad of a trip - we used to make it often, although I rarely got to DC, preferring Baltimore Harbor during our weekend visits. We seem to be building our own wee 'fed up to the gills' coalition of women here?
Hey, Thanks, Leslie! I doubt they'd allow ME bail, given all of the FUCK FRUMP things I've posted, but one never knows, but the more, the merrier. Maybe we can travel together. I'll probably need a ride anyway since hubby will look askance on my new 'plan', lolol.
Your husband can scowl and watch the game along with mine. He’s been worried about my clown-shoe-sized digital footprint, reflecting my dislike of this now-deactivated winkie, which dates back to the ‘eighties. Before there was even an Internet, there existed a publicity-mad, NYC regional oddity who…
I will pay $100 for one of the swag bags so that I can draw the armless preteen girl's figure on it with his signature as the pubic hair, just like the great leader did.
If Bill Clinton is in the Epstein Files, the Republicans would've had that on repeat like Kegseth and the skateboard--only not funny.
It's quite an interesting insight into the Republican way of thinking (that probably should be "thinking") and their values ("values") that they believe their NYAH NYAH about Bill Clinton actually affects Democrats' reaction to child rape.
Holy Brother Mike Johnson is so petrified at the idea of releasing the Epstein Files--exactly how many times is his name in there? How many videos of him?
I suspect that a considerable number of Republican members of Congress are in there. And there are a couple of Extreme Court justices that seem likely, especially their fearful leader, John Immunity Roberts.
Mikey isn't in the files. He didn't have the cache to hang with Epstein. Until he became speaker in 2023, he was an unknown backbench congressman no one had heard of. He also has no money.
I am beginning to believe that the majority of the GOP must be in those files. They’re all working so hard to hide them then they must all be complicit.
And who cares? It's been a quarter of a century since Clinton was in the White House and Trump is president NOW. Anyway, even if Clinton sometimes rubbed elbows with Epstein, I'd wager a lot of money he isn't pictured with any underage girls. Clinton had a definite "type" and it wasn't nubile teens. He liked his women zaftig and well-developed. Even his youngest, Monica Lewinsky, had a womanly figure at 21.
I have to say, destruction of the White House has raised my anger meter to a new (never before seen) level. The Bordello can be stripped away, the Rose Club can be dug up and restored to its intended beauty---BUT- HOW CAN THE DESTROYED PART OF THE WHITE HOUSE EVER BE PUT BACK TOGETHER?
I agree. I cried and cried over it. Now, I don't look at the photos. This act of vandalism has somehow rounded a corner I never knew existed. The surrealism is stunning. I don't just want to throw my laptop (my news source) out the window, I want to shove my laptop so far up Prez. Dumfuck's ass it cuts off his tongue. I didn't know I could get this angry.
My bestie called in hysterics to say that the heavy-equipment rape had moved on to the West Wing, and the whole White House was about to collapse. It’s hard to comfort her when I’m just as upset. I saw furniture in one of the demolition photos, so I didn’t mention my fear that the rooms hadn’t been emptied before the carnage began. Nobody saw staffers emerge with their arms full of portraits.
I heard that there aren't any concrete building plans for the big beautiful ballroom yet. Just AI generated mock ups. So essentially I see the open hole covered in billowing plastic drapery blowing and shredding in the winter winds of DC for a very long time. Hope it's chill penetrates the entire WH.
Did anyone think - perhaps the entire IDEA is TO bring it all down? Reduce it to dust with an 'oops'! Just SO this orange POS who fancies himself a 'builder' can put up something far more gaudy and 'palace-like' as HE thinks 'befits' his new, imaginary status? PLEASE tell me I'm imagining this?
Democrats will get a few death threats and cave. The Mar-a-Lago Makeover of the White House and our heritage landmarks will be up to our grandchildren to rectify. I'm waiting for him to pry Lincoln's statue loose from the memorial and place his own pants-shitting ass on that chair.
I’m thinking about the architectural elements that now are in a dumpster. History thrown away. But perhaps Trump is selling off chunks of debris for $59.99 to the cult. Seems like something he’d do.
I'm livid at the arrogance of it. Some people I know were arguing on Facebook about the historical significant or lack thereof of the East wing, but that is beside the point. The post is he just took it on himself to destroy a public building without going through any process to make changes. He should be paying the American people $230 million dollars, not vice versa.
Kay, once a friend won a prize at a construction meeting, anyway it was two tickets for a weekend junket to a trump Atlantic Casino. We got swag bags of pure shit (all from China) I remember a 35mm lense camera, once you look it over you realize what crap it really was I don’t remember the rest of it but it was all pure shit. It was a very long time ago but believe me those bags have nothing but junk in them.
I play ‘craps’ and made 1500usd my buddy probably lost that much he wouldn’t say but if he would have also won it would have told the story of the bankruptcies. With dopey you never know what all chaotic things went on with right-offs and laundering money, mob ties and so on.
Swag bag full of Trump 2028 hats, Trump watches, Trump gold sneakers, a coupon for a free sweet tea at Cracker Barrel, and a Trump phone. Does anyone remember the launch of that big grift?? How many cultists sent in their deposits and are still waiting for their phones? Can this guy just choke on a piece of well done steak already?
The Boss of Everybody doesn't need no stinkin' permits! Mr. Big Time Real Estate Developer knows more about building buildings than anyone who would be issuing permits!
My apologies to all the pacifists out there, but it's ass kicking time. He demolished the fucking White House: THE FUCKING WHITE HOUSE!! Jesus H. Christ!! Every single one of these shitweasels should be stomped into a bloody pile. The aberration of the last two days demonstrates that Donnie and his minions don't give a fuck about anything. Non-violence only works when the opponent can be shamed. These fucks have no shame.
Thinking same, Charles. No amount of grief and suffering humbles them. They hate everything unless it satisfies their twisted thirst for power and money.
Can we stop with the bullshit that taxpayers aren't spending a dime on the ballroom. Cankles gave the millionaires and billionaires enormous tax breaks, and they're giving a fraction back to him.
Exactly! This piece of garbage, known as a President, uses the WH as a cash register. ITS SO BLATANTLY ILLEGAL, when will it end? Is anyone tracking & recording these illegal activities?
I’m sorry, Jeff but there are not enough fucking fucks in today’s essay to account for the destruction of our cherished National Monument. But, maybe its good for you to save some. Because, when Trump decides to paint the whole White House gold, hang his mug shot on it and put his name over the portico, then we will really need more fucking fucks to fuck the new golden Trump House.
actually I'm jealous of Heather Cox Richardson, because she gets away with giving her posts headlines such as 'October 21, 2025'
but I'm truly impressed that she can be writing and posting at 2am. my brain is mush by 11pm every evening. I honestly don't know how she does it
Ummmm, she’s a woman! No offense! 😬
I'm willing to accept that answer
It doesn't apply to me. I try to be in bed by 10
THIS! And possibly a night-owl like so many of us? Some are, some aren't. I'm awake now - for a few hours, then need a wee 'nap', lol. My entire earlier work life was SO fucked-up it became a pattern; up at 4:30a.m. out at 6. in NYC by 9ish (usually driving), working VERY late - hubby sleeping in the car waiting for me after he'd lost the job where we'd met (fortuitously - he stayed 28 years with his next)... later he'd park IN his new Company's parking garage - getting home 11:30ish, bed by 1a.m (me after Johnny Carson), then up 3-l/2 hours later to do it all again. Somewhere in there the multiple cats were cleaned, fed and taken care of as well. Hubby would sleep the second we got home while I did everything else (dozing on the way home). Worked for us because we were young-er. Now? Not so much, lol - but somehow we're both still kicking. Those WERE the days. I'm so in admiration of those who take stands now, putting themselves out there - like Heather and Jeff.
A woman who’s a few years older than uncle Jeff. 😆
👍🏼😄
Your post comes into my inbox in the morning, Lucian's usually drops in the evening, and Heather's arrives sometime after midnight. I read them all within moments of their arrival. They are the markers of my day. I NEED them!
when do you sleep?
No one really sleeps during this regime. Not that relaxing kind where you wake up without feeling injured.
That may explain why I, who used to reliably sleep through the night, am now taking long walks at 1 and 2 in the morning.
Outside?
hey Susanna!
SLEEP?!!!
That was my IMMEDIATE response as well. LOVE it!
Jeff: WE need YOU to get your much-needed sleep in order to come up with your wonderfully-entertaining and brilliant posts. WE can get by. Don't try to copy our sleepless nights. It won't work for you. Your system isn't wired for it and Mrs. Spouse might bonk you over the head if you tried.
I haven’t had an email in over a month! What is it with substack??!!!!
Check your spam or others? I don’t know what happened, but I rarely get emails, and if I do, they are in every possible place, except when’re I want them…🤨
Even with my own AWFUL and fucked-up computer (still to be changed/updated), I get all of Jeff's posts AND the substacks. BUT, I'm on a desktop although I do (now) have a functioning cellphone AND even a newer Ipad I hardly ever use. I admit to being a dinosaur. ;)
Hell yes💯‼️
Same!!
She’s an evening person and you’re a morning person. What we badly need is an afternoon person to complement the two of you.
I’m a one minute of inspiration followed by 12 months of hibernation person
Does Jo Jo from Jerz write in the afternoon? She writes really well!
I LOVE Jo Jo! I found her on twitter originally - where she's routinely attacked by magats, so I post good things TO her and against them. They try AI'ing her photos - she doesn't give a flying fuck, decimating them point by point.
She is a true warrior and takes no sh*t. She does take prisoners though. Love her posts.
Is she on BlueSky or still Twitter?
She's on BlueSky as "JoJofromJerz" and her substack is "https://substack.com/@jojofromjerz"
JoJo rocks.
I am insanely jealous of her ability to... oh fuckit I'm recovering from a bout of the flu and my brain's not hitting on all cylinders, but anyhow she's an awesome writer and always on point.
I just signed up for Jo Jo's writing after reading for free for a long time. She's really good but different than Jeff; I need both!
Check out Joyce Vance or Robert Reich for the in between slot...
Great description Bob! May I use it with appropriate reference.
Feel free to use it, and no reference required. Thanks for asking though, very nice of you!
Thank you.
Jeff, Shes a machine. I mean, when its 2am, Im doomscrolling through tiktok and youtube, voice to texting shit as I listen, then by the morning time, the garbled ass junk that I voice to texted gets "organized" into something presentable, and then posted.
Be careful. Monday the indefatigable truth purveyor, USA Today, reported that doomscrolling while on the can causes hemorrhoids. Sounds like the work of induced-heroin-coma-brain RFK Jr. JHC.
I worry about you.
Oh, so that’s how you do it. I’d try, but I lose the thought by the time I’m ready to finish it. Fuck ADHD.
Bet ya she schedules them. You could do the same if needed.
That's around the time when my brain wakes up, LOL. But that's ok, hubby is out for the count then, so I get it. I'm the one awake and looking after the house, dogs, cat and sundry, playing online games (GameDuell from Germany - they speak English), and following up with you. :)
Same-same. I hardly ever go to bed before 2 AM, and frequently later.
I don't know how you stay up til 11!
Here you go Uncle Jeff, our contrib.
Yes, I fucked up this morning, and wrote West Wing instead of East Wing.
Forgive me oh greater deity of writing that is always fresh and mouthy, Jeff.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/trump-bend-over-west-wing-i-m-giving-you-the-trump-micropenis
I will try harder.
Very nice, Wendy. Wrecking the East Wing, traditional hub of female energy at the White House, he’s also suppressing imagery of the wreckage. The deactivated winkie commits elder abuse, raping the People’s House along with his historic pedophilia.
Well, we have to acknowledge that Melania needs the east wing like, what's that stupid saying, a fish needs a bicycle.
But the history of it; the beauty; the moments...we'll restore them. And then we'll burn that goddamned fucking ballroom to the goddamned fucking ground and I swear I'll pay Planned Parenthood $500.00 for just one 2in x 2in cinder of the place.
I'M surprised she hasn't demanded that the 'ballroom' isn't turned into a gigantic makeup/hair salon just for HER use. But of course, hubby could give a shit about her, since KKKaroline with 'those luscious lips' (ugh, puke) came into his line of sight.
He’s replacing the East Wing with a full building of man chowder piping and manifolds for Peter Thiel, Scott Bessent, Sean Duffy, and JD Vance. The anti-LGBTQ party has to hide their cumqwats from US religious leaders on Orange Hitler’s Religious Liberty Council.
“Man-chowder piping”!
😂😂😂
Hahahaha!
She’s wonderful, but she’s not at all funny like you are, Jeffy.
But that makes for a good balance. This is a high wire we're walking on, after all.
Maybe in the next life you and Heather can switch roles.
Honestly? HCR brilliantly reports history focusing it vis-a-vis what's happening today. You brilliantly report facts, and entertain, keeping people smiling and informed amidst the rubble. Krugman brilliantly reports and wonks with charts and teaches, explains to dummies like me how the apocalypse is just around the corner. I read all three every day without fail. I comment obnoxiously without fail, too.
You all three have your niches and I gotta tell ya, I couldn't get through a day without you. I love your titles.
Add in Robert Reich who's SO right-on about everything, Jo Jo who keeps me raising my fist in the air, Jasmine Crockett with HER fire (and my other fist in the air), Christinatalkst on Instagram who's ALSO fire- and I can get through a week without imploding. I also watch: Luke Beasley, Adam Mockler, Ben Meiselas (The Meidas Touch), Jack Coaciarella (sp?) Brian Tyler Cohen and some others I'm blanking at the moment and my week is FULL and very, very busy.
I watch all those, too, and Tennessee Brando.
Yes! When I can see his feed! There are at least a dozen others whose names and handles I forget but love to watch. Today I saw Aaron Parnas (I get his Instagrams - and yes he's THE Lev Parnas' son and is a REAL Anti-trumper talking about that horrific faked 'shit' video involving Harry Sisson (someone else I see off and on posting). I suspect goebbels/miller/frump are MADLY jealous of Harry's good looks which is why he was the focus of that sick stupidity. I follow as many as possible in the time allotted to such matters. Luckily, I'm a speed demon typist and reader, when my eyes are not behaving wonkily. :)
So many people recommended her to me, but when I started to get her newsletter, I realized that for me it was redundant. She reinforced what we all agree on. I need reports and facts — and humor to get me though the day, which is why this one gets my money, and hers won't.
Jeff, I’m sure Heather’s stuff is great, but political satire is what I like/need most and you’re the best!
Totally agree. I think people like her because she says what we're all thinking in eloquent terms but that's not what I need. I need humor desperately.
Yes - which is why Jeff is THE only one I follow financially. I simply can't contribute to all of the others I'd like to - or I'd be broke by the end of the month!
Plus which, Heather almost always has some item of news that no one else has covered.
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Lol
Your headlines make it easier to find a past article by subject matter.
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I’m posting this on multiple Substacks today.
(In advance, please excuse my use of ”French” I am furious with what’s going on!)
Months ago, Jeff Tiedrich, author of the (incredibly awesome) Substack known as “everyone is entitled to my own opinion” issued a challenge to news reporters (and my take is that that challenge extends to all members of the media, whether reporters or not).
“The first reporter to stand up and ask (Trump) --- “What the fuck is wrong with you?” --- should Get a Pulitzer Prize”, says Jeff.
I don’t know of any reporter (or any other member of the media) who has yet done that.
I’d like to add to Jeff’s challenge to reporters (and other members of the media) --- the first reporter to call Trump a liar at a press conference will win a dinner for two, on me. My suggested wording for the question the reporter should ask Trump during a press conference:
“President Trump, you just lied. You lied earlier, and you just lied again. What the fuck is wrong with you?”
Here’s my problem (and I do suspect that others like me, have the same exact problem). I am so tired, so damn tired, so fucking tired of hearing reporters characterize Trump’s lies as “false statements” or “non-truths”, or “misstatements of fact.”
A lie is a lie. A lie is a goddamn fucking lie. It does not need, nor does it warrant, any other characterization!
Please kindly copy and paste this post on other Substacks. Hopefully, reporters (and other members of the media) will stop tip-toeing through the tulips, stop pussyfooting around and call Trump a liar every goddamn time Trump lies!
« MAKE LYING WRONG AGAIN »
Make having an ounce of integrity, a morsel of self respect and a tiny tidbit of compassion for someone other than yourself great again
And make ‘kindness NOT a weakness’ again :/
where do i buy THAT t-shirt?
Too many narcissists in government.
They can't handle the truth!
Maybe the lack of term limits AND lax insider trading laws ATTRACT the wrong ppl…!?!?
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MAKE LYING CALLED WHAT IT IS AGAIN!
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And what makes it even worse is that after the obvious Trump lie the reporters just nod agreeably and never challenge him or ask a followup. If they're all so scared of him get assigned to another beat. The interview shows are even worse, all politicians, Dems and Repubs both, just follow the same script, ignore the question, say "let's talk about what the American people really care about," and pivot to their same tired talking point. Why do we even have reporters and politicians now?
What I would like to see is when Karoline Nitwit spews out some garbage in a press briefing is for some reporter to stand up, turn around and address the assembled press as to why no one is blowing back on the BS coming from this clown show of an administration.
Agree David, she is so smug and arrogant, with sarcastic answers like "your Mom did." Perfectly in the Trump mold though.
A smug face you would like to smack!
She is every high school's mean girl.
The Germans (of course) have a word for that, Backpfeifengesicht, a face you'd like to punch. J Divan has the same type of smug face.
And then ask “What the fuck is wrong with you?” and win Jeff’s challenge.
Exactly! I thought of that after I posted.
THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS
Trump has hollowed out the press corps. There’s no one left to ask these questions.
Plus - since he’s been on the National stage for 10+ years - the younger reporters will subconsciously consider him ‘successful’…
I wish I was a reporter. Tom, what you said (they do) is infuriating. When I ask a question, I expect an answer. If the other party does not answer the question, I stop them and repeat the question. I do this over and over and over again, l also saying "you did not answer the question. Let me repeat it for you. "
I watched CNN interview Holy Mike and Hakeem in succession last night and neither one would answer a question, just pivots to their talking points which tell us nothing.
The word “un-truths” is as horrendous as it gets.
like unaliving someone
the reason that's used on Instagram/tik tok is because they screen and delete posts which use ANY mention of 'kill' 'murder' 'death', etc. So someone came up with 'unalive' instead and 'pew-pew' for gun. Because THAT is disallowed as well. frump can say ANYTHING he wants, but the average citizen/user is censored. Ain't THAT a kick in the head? He just bombed another fishing boat - this one on the PACIFIC side - the man's wife said he was nothing more than a fisherman, but the coward in chief decided they were 'drug smugglers'...of course he did. This pig, who's blowing 8 - 9 now? fishing boats from OTHER COUNTRIES out of the water murdering at least 32 people (probably more now) imagines he deserves a Nobel PEACE prize?
I just hate that stupid word.
I've been FURIOUS by these 'untruths' 'non-factual' BULLSHIT words for the longest time and even YELL at my Teevee: He's a FUCKING LIAR! Call it what it is: a LIE, you fucking cowards!
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Call his lies what they are: "fake news."
JOEL: gotta say, I FUCKING LOVE THIS!
Thank you
You are most welcome.
Grok says Trump lies. Who am I to doubt Grok? At least Grok isn’t lying about everything. (Personally I am highly offended that Musk stole Grok’s name from Stranger in a Strange Land.) If you’re woke, you grok. I grok.
Alternative Facts, right? Kellyanne Conway started it all
I'm already on record as offering to pay for a bottle of wine to accompany the dinner.
Not too dear in price, please, at least until I find another job.
Donny shits all over us in an AI video then creates actual damage with a backhoe. The People's House will be a monument to graft and the monstrous ego of the worst man on the planet. Every time I think he's maxed out my capacity for disgust... Okay, a couple of bright notes: Robert Reich says the sleeping giant (that's us) is awakening as evidenced by the No Kings turnout. Second, MAGA Mike got served today with a lawsuit filed by the AZ AG. I'm tired, you're tired, everybody's tired, but let's keep fighting.
Every time I feel as if I'm exhausted and I just can't take any more.....I say to myself, "John Lewis."
Or Ukraine.
Yes! You can follow Ukrainian soldiers IN the field on twitter. I do, gives them more of a voice - and they show what's going on in real time - refuting putin and frump's incessant LIES!
Maybe neither Trump nor Putin will survive the winter
SO this, Richard. 'Wouldn't it be Loverly' to quote an old song.
Thanks for the reminder. John Lewis. 💙💙
I MISS HIS FACE! I miss his VOICE. I think of that lovely man often. HE was the one who spoke to MY heart more than any other from the Civil Rights days, to be truthful. Sigh. WHY do we have to lose all the best ones and 'they' are still here? :'(
I go to French resistance or Brits during WWII.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Reminds me of Rachel Maddow's documentary film on Andrew Young I saw last week...who was there ON the balcony with him as they heard the shot ring out and he fell. His description of the wound is harrowing. He's now in his 90's, as sharp as ever and as strong a voice as his ever was. What a life. WELL WORTH watching if it's being played somewhere close to you
Oops: It's Andrew Young: 'The Dirty Work'. HE chose the title. Rachel asked why that phrase and he said it was all of the menial work he had to do, scut work, basically. NOT 'dirty' as others would try to have it.
Personal hero of mine, along with 'good trouble'. NEVER forget that making GOOD TROUBLE was his.
Amen!
aaaand just like that *we’re not talking abt the 8+M EPIC PROTEST in his ‘honor’*… the ‘churn’ + ‘flood the zone’ continues, unabated … 🫤 (that said NO ONE is dropping the EFile issue🤗)‼️
WE are - everywhere else!
When and if he is ever forced to leave, guaranteed he will demand repayment for his "improvements" to the White House in the sum of several times whatever it cost with no intent to reimburse any of the donors he solicited for millions each. He'll slap a lien on the property just for spite.
Then that's exactly WHY it should be torn down as suggested. I hadn't thought of that, frankly, thinking it could be used for 'offices', but no - after seeing the MAJOR DAMAGE done to OUR Historic Building, just rip his travesty away and cart off every semblance of this orange POS who tried to destroy OUR history. Fuck him. Let him TRY to 'put a lien' then on the actual White House and see him laughed out of every single Court across the Country. He could be told he has every right to haul away the rubble of that abomination, see how much he can get from the scraps?
"the Sirens of Motel-a-Lago" Holy Shit... I had forgotten about this picture. GROSS!
Russ Vought, aka Darth Vader. Thats seriously messed up. Good thing his wife left him...and if he has kids, they should change their last names.
The cruelty and corruption is astounding. What's it gonna take to get our country back?
There's more Bondo in those women's faces than a 72 Impala.😂😂
Why I call Pam Bondi 'The Bondo Bimbo'.
Or to be certain everyone knows to whom you are referring: Bimbo Bondi.
True that!
Bondo Bondi Bimbo?
Are they women?
I wasn't at all sure.
They are Replicants
I thought they were the "blow-up" kinds.....
Too funny Charles!
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LOL! 😂😂😂😂
Thanks for the education…I had to look up what bondo is! Hah.
Are you sure those are women? They look like drag queens to me. I've seen better ones on Ru Paul's show.
The ones on the Will Grant show are prettier. OT, but I love Bon-bon.
When I read the first line about the felon telling Vought about all the women at Mar-A-Lago the first thing I thought about was that picture. I’ve seen it so many times, it’s engraved on my brain . Ewww
Me too! These gals never have to worry about falling down and breaking a hip. They'd just bounce!!🥳😆
At least they don’t appear to be 14 year olds from in town.
That's the goal though.
Give Russ Vomit’s wife a medal for dumping that Playdough Dick. And a triple-annulment so she is expunged of any proximity to that demonic shred of ratfuck.
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I was thinking those faces were AI…is that an actual picture?
Its real. They have the "Mara Lago" face down. So nasty.
I have seen faces like that. You almost can't look away.
Oh, I so agree. I think, “how do you go out in public like that!” 😂😂
The really tragic truth is that these “women” think they look good. I don’t get how obviously botoxed, fillered and surgeried faces is like a thing now. Eww.
They look like cartoon characters. 😂😂
THAT'S what I was thinking but couldn't quite 'get it'. Thank you. Betty and Veronica from the old Archie comics?
Right! Though Betty and Veronica were far more beautiful! 🤣
Yes! But donny convict’s brain can’t remember that far back so he wants them to ‘look like’ them so they try - and fail, embarrassingly so.
And who on earth did their makeup? They literally look like clowns.
I think the Sirens are kinda cute in a weird kinda adolescent way.
They look like they’re ready to go to a scary Halloween party 🤪
They're what the prolonged adolescent influencers with the duck lips and fake eyelashes on Tik Tok and Instagram will look like in middle age.
"Housewives of Mar-A-Lago coming up next on VH1"
We are churning in their hate. The demons celebrate with red bags filled with PedoFelonAsshat47 regalia. Ugh.
Hold on a second! Comer Fudd says none of the evidence they’ve collected implicates Trump? What evidence? I thought they discovered files didn’t exist. I’m so confused!
That's the hard part about being a serial liar. It's so much easier to be truthful: you just have to remember what actually happened, not all the fabrications you invented and which version you told to whom.
The easy part though is that the red hatted rubes believe it all.
I've been saying since his first "term", that his cognitive DECLINE is so rapid, w/ his Ego BALLOONING at a comparable rate, that #Bumblefuck is unable to remember ANYTHING from one day to the next.
I think that, if you showed him a life-sized video of something he said at 12N on Mon, & showed it to him at 12N on *Tues*, he'd DENY IT EVER HAPPENED.
He's JUST. THAT. FAR. GONE.
Raping the People’s House, the deactivated winkie commits elder abuse. In trying to suppress images of the destroyed East Wing, hub of female energy in the White House, along with the Epstein files, he desperately conceals evidence of violence against women, from adolescence to beyond the grave.
Well, he made SURE he raped Jackie's Rose Garden first - just to say he did, the disgusting pig! At some point MY rage against this pig is going to explode and I've no idea exactly how it'll make itself known. Perhaps I'll say 'fuck it', become a freelance reporter, walk right up to the orange blob, call him a LYING RAPIST and then ask: 'WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU'? before they haul me away, likely breaking my bones in the process.
Let’s do it together, as I AM at my breaking point. I’m currently “down the road” in Bethesda, MD!🤬
Yup! Not too far, Christine! My sister used to live in Columbia, Md. (we're no longer connected, but she moved to Fla. anyway). Her daughter's in Laurel and we're still kind of close. Not too bad of a trip - we used to make it often, although I rarely got to DC, preferring Baltimore Harbor during our weekend visits. We seem to be building our own wee 'fed up to the gills' coalition of women here?
I’ll go your bail, if I hadn’t already fought alongside.
Hey, Thanks, Leslie! I doubt they'd allow ME bail, given all of the FUCK FRUMP things I've posted, but one never knows, but the more, the merrier. Maybe we can travel together. I'll probably need a ride anyway since hubby will look askance on my new 'plan', lolol.
Your husband can scowl and watch the game along with mine. He’s been worried about my clown-shoe-sized digital footprint, reflecting my dislike of this now-deactivated winkie, which dates back to the ‘eighties. Before there was even an Internet, there existed a publicity-mad, NYC regional oddity who…
I will pay $100 for one of the swag bags so that I can draw the armless preteen girl's figure on it with his signature as the pubic hair, just like the great leader did.
that's an awesome idea
And then they should be required to carry them. If not, why not?
The GOP/MAGA goody bags given to the giddy senators display the pubic John Hancock in gold.
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If Bill Clinton is in the Epstein Files, the Republicans would've had that on repeat like Kegseth and the skateboard--only not funny.
It's quite an interesting insight into the Republican way of thinking (that probably should be "thinking") and their values ("values") that they believe their NYAH NYAH about Bill Clinton actually affects Democrats' reaction to child rape.
Holy Brother Mike Johnson is so petrified at the idea of releasing the Epstein Files--exactly how many times is his name in there? How many videos of him?
I came here to ask that same question!! Holy Mike Johnson are you in those files too??
RELEASE THE UNEDITED EPSTEIN FILES!!😡🤬😤😡🤬😤
With only the victim’s names redacted.
I can agree with you on no victim names shone! And could comer fudd also be in there along with Jimmy Jordan?
I suspect that a considerable number of Republican members of Congress are in there. And there are a couple of Extreme Court justices that seem likely, especially their fearful leader, John Immunity Roberts.
I don't think many Congressmen actually had the rank to be in those circles-- but a lot of their campaign donors did.
I agree 100%
I don't think the congresscritters are all in the files, but I think many or even most of the oligarchs who bought them their seats are!
Agree. Most were beneath Epstein, not in his social circle.
Mikey isn't in the files. He didn't have the cache to hang with Epstein. Until he became speaker in 2023, he was an unknown backbench congressman no one had heard of. He also has no money.
I am beginning to believe that the majority of the GOP must be in those files. They’re all working so hard to hide them then they must all be complicit.
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I can agree with you on no victim names shown! And could comer fudd also be in there along with Jimmy Jordan?
And who cares? It's been a quarter of a century since Clinton was in the White House and Trump is president NOW. Anyway, even if Clinton sometimes rubbed elbows with Epstein, I'd wager a lot of money he isn't pictured with any underage girls. Clinton had a definite "type" and it wasn't nubile teens. He liked his women zaftig and well-developed. Even his youngest, Monica Lewinsky, had a womanly figure at 21.
WITH little BOYS!
I have to say, destruction of the White House has raised my anger meter to a new (never before seen) level. The Bordello can be stripped away, the Rose Club can be dug up and restored to its intended beauty---BUT- HOW CAN THE DESTROYED PART OF THE WHITE HOUSE EVER BE PUT BACK TOGETHER?
King’s horses, king’s men. We’ll rebuild the East Wing, but we’ll never forget.
I agree. I cried and cried over it. Now, I don't look at the photos. This act of vandalism has somehow rounded a corner I never knew existed. The surrealism is stunning. I don't just want to throw my laptop (my news source) out the window, I want to shove my laptop so far up Prez. Dumfuck's ass it cuts off his tongue. I didn't know I could get this angry.
My bestie called in hysterics to say that the heavy-equipment rape had moved on to the West Wing, and the whole White House was about to collapse. It’s hard to comfort her when I’m just as upset. I saw furniture in one of the demolition photos, so I didn’t mention my fear that the rooms hadn’t been emptied before the carnage began. Nobody saw staffers emerge with their arms full of portraits.
I heard that there aren't any concrete building plans for the big beautiful ballroom yet. Just AI generated mock ups. So essentially I see the open hole covered in billowing plastic drapery blowing and shredding in the winter winds of DC for a very long time. Hope it's chill penetrates the entire WH.
Did anyone think - perhaps the entire IDEA is TO bring it all down? Reduce it to dust with an 'oops'! Just SO this orange POS who fancies himself a 'builder' can put up something far more gaudy and 'palace-like' as HE thinks 'befits' his new, imaginary status? PLEASE tell me I'm imagining this?
luckily the plans exist for it and lots of photos but it won’t be the same.
Democrats will get a few death threats and cave. The Mar-a-Lago Makeover of the White House and our heritage landmarks will be up to our grandchildren to rectify. I'm waiting for him to pry Lincoln's statue loose from the memorial and place his own pants-shitting ass on that chair.
I’m thinking about the architectural elements that now are in a dumpster. History thrown away. But perhaps Trump is selling off chunks of debris for $59.99 to the cult. Seems like something he’d do.
Check out the work they did on the White House during the Truman admin.
I bet Truman got Congressional approval first as Taft and Teddy Roosevelt did.
I bet Truman got Congressional approval first as Taft and Teddy Roosevelt did.
I'm livid at the arrogance of it. Some people I know were arguing on Facebook about the historical significant or lack thereof of the East wing, but that is beside the point. The post is he just took it on himself to destroy a public building without going through any process to make changes. He should be paying the American people $230 million dollars, not vice versa.
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The Daily Jeffy is just fucking BRUTAL today!
If only the subjects of these nut-kicks would read it, and get their nuts kicked.
*STAY ON IT JEFF!*
That merch bag is filled with all of Trump’s failed ventures. The rot isn’t just coming from the steaks.
Kay, once a friend won a prize at a construction meeting, anyway it was two tickets for a weekend junket to a trump Atlantic Casino. We got swag bags of pure shit (all from China) I remember a 35mm lense camera, once you look it over you realize what crap it really was I don’t remember the rest of it but it was all pure shit. It was a very long time ago but believe me those bags have nothing but junk in them.
Lol, I believe it. I hope you won big in other ways.
I play ‘craps’ and made 1500usd my buddy probably lost that much he wouldn’t say but if he would have also won it would have told the story of the bankruptcies. With dopey you never know what all chaotic things went on with right-offs and laundering money, mob ties and so on.
Maybe they threw in a bag of Trump Ice
(although by now, of course, it’s a bag of water)
It does seem that withholding the Epstein files is the only policy the GOP is firmly committed to.
That and tax breaks for the mega-rich. Free Riders vs. Freedom Riders. Let history be the judge.
Swag bag full of Trump 2028 hats, Trump watches, Trump gold sneakers, a coupon for a free sweet tea at Cracker Barrel, and a Trump phone. Does anyone remember the launch of that big grift?? How many cultists sent in their deposits and are still waiting for their phones? Can this guy just choke on a piece of well done steak already?
Do the swag bags contain photocopies of his legally issued building and demolition permits from the Washington DC Department Department of Buildings ?
The Boss of Everybody doesn't need no stinkin' permits! Mr. Big Time Real Estate Developer knows more about building buildings than anyone who would be issuing permits!
It’s not even full. It’s maybe 1/3 full.
My apologies to all the pacifists out there, but it's ass kicking time. He demolished the fucking White House: THE FUCKING WHITE HOUSE!! Jesus H. Christ!! Every single one of these shitweasels should be stomped into a bloody pile. The aberration of the last two days demonstrates that Donnie and his minions don't give a fuck about anything. Non-violence only works when the opponent can be shamed. These fucks have no shame.
👏👏👏👏👏👏 It is gut wrenching to see. 😩
Thinking same, Charles. No amount of grief and suffering humbles them. They hate everything unless it satisfies their twisted thirst for power and money.
Can we stop with the bullshit that taxpayers aren't spending a dime on the ballroom. Cankles gave the millionaires and billionaires enormous tax breaks, and they're giving a fraction back to him.
Exactly! This piece of garbage, known as a President, uses the WH as a cash register. ITS SO BLATANTLY ILLEGAL, when will it end? Is anyone tracking & recording these illegal activities?
I’m sorry, Jeff but there are not enough fucking fucks in today’s essay to account for the destruction of our cherished National Monument. But, maybe its good for you to save some. Because, when Trump decides to paint the whole White House gold, hang his mug shot on it and put his name over the portico, then we will really need more fucking fucks to fuck the new golden Trump House.
Remember when that scenario was just a joke told by late night comedians? Hilarious, right? 🥲