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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

actually I'm jealous of Heather Cox Richardson, because she gets away with giving her posts headlines such as 'October 21, 2025'

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

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

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Joanne Filipo's avatar

Ummmm, she’s a woman! No offense! 😬

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

I'm willing to accept that answer

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

It doesn't apply to me. I try to be in bed by 10

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CAM from 🇨🇦's avatar

A woman who’s a few years older than uncle Jeff. 😆

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SeekingReason's avatar

👍🏼😄

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

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.

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Susan Jane's avatar

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!

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

when do you sleep?

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Susan Jane's avatar

SLEEP?!!!

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

That was my IMMEDIATE response as well. LOVE it!

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Leigh Hamilton's avatar

No one really sleeps during this regime. Not that relaxing kind where you wake up without feeling injured.

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Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

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.

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Susan Jane's avatar

Outside?

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

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.

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Tess's avatar

I haven’t had an email in over a month! What is it with substack??!!!!

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Joanne Filipo's avatar

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…🤨

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

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. ;)

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Bob Bowden's avatar

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

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Steve Kelly's avatar

Does Jo Jo from Jerz write in the afternoon? She writes really well!

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

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.

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Lynell(VA by way of MD&DC)'s avatar

Is she on BlueSky or still Twitter?

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cablecargal's avatar

She's on BlueSky as "JoJofromJerz" and her substack is "https://substack.com/@jojofromjerz"

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cablecargal's avatar

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!

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PlasticFish's avatar

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.

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Cyndi's avatar

Check out Joyce Vance or Robert Reich for the in between slot...

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CAM from 🇨🇦's avatar

Great description Bob! May I use it with appropriate reference.

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Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

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.

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Joe Witkowski's avatar

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.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

I worry about you.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Bet ya she schedules them. You could do the same if needed.

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Valerie's avatar

I don't know how you stay up til 11!

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

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. :)

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Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

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.

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Leslie Goodman-Malamuth's avatar

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.

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Leigh Hamilton's avatar

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.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

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.

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Joe Witkowski's avatar

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.

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Leslie Goodman-Malamuth's avatar

“Man-chowder piping”!

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Cheryl Seybert's avatar

😂😂😂

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Doug Wright's avatar

Hahahaha!

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Chris Hierholzer's avatar

Maybe in the next life you and Heather can switch roles.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

She’s wonderful, but she’s not at all funny like you are, Jeffy.

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Susan Jane's avatar

But that makes for a good balance. This is a high wire we're walking on, after all.

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Susan K.'s avatar

Jeff, I’m sure Heather’s stuff is great, but political satire is what I like/need most and you’re the best!

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Leigh Hamilton's avatar

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.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

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.

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Lorraine Morton's avatar

😆😆😆

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SeekingReason's avatar

😀

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Valerie's avatar

Lol

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Abigail Norling's avatar

HA!

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JOEL's avatar

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!

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P123Sunny's avatar

« MAKE LYING WRONG AGAIN »

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Bob Bowden's avatar

Make having an ounce of integrity, a morsel of self respect and a tiny tidbit of compassion for someone other than yourself great again

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P123Sunny's avatar

And make ‘kindness NOT a weakness’ again :/

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BluDotInARedSewer's avatar

where do i buy THAT t-shirt?

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🌷IntheHalloftheMtnKing's avatar

Too many narcissists in government.

They can't handle the truth!

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P123Sunny's avatar

Maybe the lack of term limits AND lax insider trading laws ATTRACT the wrong ppl…!?!?

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Tom Clements's avatar

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?

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P123Sunny's avatar

THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS

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John Sherwood's avatar

Trump has hollowed out the press corps. There’s no one left to ask these questions.

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P123Sunny's avatar

Plus - since he’s been on the National stage for 10+ years - the younger reporters will subconsciously consider him ‘successful’… thx SCOTUS :/

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JOEL's avatar

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. "

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Tom Clements's avatar

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.

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David M Marko's avatar

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.

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Tom Clements's avatar

Agree David, she is so smug and arrogant, with sarcastic answers like "your Mom did." Perfectly in the Trump mold though.

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SeekingReason's avatar

The word “un-truths” is as horrendous as it gets.

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Gina's avatar

like unaliving someone

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

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?

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arne link's avatar

I just hate that stupid word.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

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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Charles Austin's avatar

👍👍

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Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

Call his lies what they are: "fake news."

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

JOEL: gotta say, I FUCKING LOVE THIS!

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PlasticFish's avatar

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.

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Ann Anderson's avatar

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.

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Joyce's avatar

Every time I feel as if I'm exhausted and I just can't take any more.....I say to myself, "John Lewis."

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Ellen H's avatar

Or Ukraine.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

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!

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Richard Von Busack's avatar

Maybe neither Trump nor Putin will survive the winter

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Thanks for the reminder. John Lewis. 💙💙

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Wendymae's avatar

I go to French resistance or Brits during WWII.

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Leigh Hamilton's avatar

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

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

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

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.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

Personal hero of mine, along with 'good trouble'. NEVER forget that making GOOD TROUBLE was his.

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Cyndi's avatar

Amen!

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P123Sunny's avatar

aaaand just like that *we’re not talking abt the 8+M EPIC PROTEST in his ‘honor’*… the RCohn ‘churn’ + SBannon ‘flood the zone’ continues, unabated … 🫤 (that said NO ONE is dropping the Epstein File issue🤗)‼️

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

WE are - everywhere else!

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Susan Niemann's avatar

"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?

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Charles Austin's avatar

There's more Bondo in those women's faces than a 72 Impala.😂😂

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Stephen Brady's avatar

Why I call Pam Bondi 'The Bondo Bimbo'.

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Leigh Hamilton's avatar

Or to be certain everyone knows to whom you are referring: Bimbo Bondi.

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Stephen Brady's avatar

True that!

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

Bondo Bondi Bimbo?

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Nightmaher's avatar

Too funny Charles!

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Jan Moon's avatar

Are they women?

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mary's avatar

I wasn't at all sure.

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Norma's avatar

lol 😂

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Susan Niemann's avatar

LOL! 😂😂😂😂

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Claudia Classon's avatar

Thanks for the education…I had to look up what bondo is! Hah.

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Mingo's avatar

Are you sure those are women? They look like drag queens to me. I've seen better ones on Ru Paul's show.

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Marie Drozdis's avatar

The ones on the Will Grant show are prettier. OT, but I love Bon-bon.

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Sharon C Storm's avatar

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

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Sue Martin's avatar

Me too! These gals never have to worry about falling down and breaking a hip. They'd just bounce!!🥳😆

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george  campbell's avatar

At least they don’t appear to be 14 year olds from in town.

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Susan Jane's avatar

That's the goal though.

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SeekingReason's avatar

I was thinking those faces were AI…is that an actual picture?

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Its real. They have the "Mara Lago" face down. So nasty.

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Chris Hierholzer's avatar

I think the Sirens are kinda cute in a weird kinda adolescent way.

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Norma's avatar

They look like they’re ready to go to a scary Halloween party 🤪

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

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.

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David M Marko's avatar

"Housewives of Mar-A-Lago coming up next on VH1"

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Joe Witkowski's avatar

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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Susan Niemann's avatar

👏👏👏👏👏👏

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PEACE, LOVE, RESIST's avatar

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.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

They look like cartoon characters. 😂😂

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

THAT'S what I was thinking but couldn't quite 'get it'. Thank you. Betty and Veronica from the old Archie comics?

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Right! Though Betty and Veronica were far more beautiful! 🤣

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

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.

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

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!

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Joyce's avatar

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.

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Wendymae's avatar

The easy part though is that the red hatted rubes believe it all.

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Lin Talbot-Koehl's avatar

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.

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Leslie Goodman-Malamuth's avatar

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.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

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.

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Leslie Goodman-Malamuth's avatar

I’ll go your bail, if I hadn’t already fought alongside.

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Babe Paley's avatar

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.

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

that's an awesome idea

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Babe Paley's avatar

And then they should be required to carry them. If not, why not?

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Leslie Goodman-Malamuth's avatar

The GOP/MAGA goody bags given to the giddy senators display the pubic John Hancock in gold.

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SeekingReason's avatar

😂

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Joyce's avatar

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?

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Cheryl Seybert's avatar

I came here to ask that same question!! Holy Mike Johnson are you in those files too??

RELEASE THE UNEDITED EPSTEIN FILES!!😡🤬😤😡🤬😤

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Sharon C Storm's avatar

With only the victim’s names redacted.

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Cheryl Seybert's avatar

I can agree with you on no victim names shone! And could comer fudd also be in there along with Jimmy Jordan?

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Joyce's avatar

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.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

I don't think many Congressmen actually had the rank to be in those circles-- but a lot of their campaign donors did.

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Cyndi's avatar

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!

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SeekingReason's avatar

‼️

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Dayna Keiser's avatar

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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Cheryl Seybert's avatar

I can agree with you on no victim names shown! And could comer fudd also be in there along with Jimmy Jordan?

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Kay-El's avatar

That merch bag is filled with all of Trump’s failed ventures. The rot isn’t just coming from the steaks.

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

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.

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Kay-El's avatar

Lol, I believe it. I hope you won big in other ways.

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

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.

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Polly Sears's avatar

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?

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Leslie Goodman-Malamuth's avatar

King’s horses, king’s men. We’ll rebuild the East Wing, but we’ll never forget.

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Jan Moon's avatar

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.

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BluDotInARedSewer's avatar

luckily the plans exist for it and lots of photos but it won’t be the same.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

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.

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Lisa's avatar

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.

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Leu2500's avatar

Check out the work they did on the White House during the Truman admin.

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Dayna Keiser's avatar

I bet Truman got Congressional approval first as Taft and Teddy Roosevelt did.

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Dayna Keiser's avatar

I bet Truman got Congressional approval first as Taft and Teddy Roosevelt did.

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PEACE, LOVE, RESIST's avatar

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.

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Scott Gilbert's avatar

The Daily Jeffy is just fucking BRUTAL today!

If only the subjects of these nut-kicks would read it, and get their nuts kicked.

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P123Sunny's avatar

*STAY BRUTAL, JEFF!*

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John Sherwood's avatar

It does seem that withholding the Epstein files is the only policy the GOP is firmly committed to.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

That and tax breaks for the mega-rich. Free Riders vs. Freedom Riders. Let history be the judge.

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eliza james's avatar

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?

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george  campbell's avatar

Do the swag bags contain photocopies of his legally issued building and demolition permits from the Washington DC Department Department of Buildings ?

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Leu2500's avatar

It’s not even full. It’s maybe 1/3 full.

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Elliot Blinder's avatar

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.

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Karen Leeds's avatar

Remember when that scenario was just a joke told by late night comedians? Hilarious, right? 🥲

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Polly Sears's avatar

Time for the Orange Humpty Dumpty to have a great fall.

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Mark Slattery's avatar

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.

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