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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

for new readers:

the origin of 'sewer clowns' a descriptor for Donny's cabinet secretaries is my post from Nov 23, 2024, "elect a clown, get a circus" —

"yesterday was Day Two of the unwrapping of Donny Convict’s nominees for various Cabinet and White House offices.

for the second day in a row, America was introduced to a whole new cast of toadies, lackies, dipshits, ass-kissers, incompetents, ideologues, and low-wattage empty suits whose current jobs are to look good on Fox News.

basically, America’s getting a clown show — and not a funny ha ha! clown show. nope, we’re getting sewer clowns."

https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/elect-a-clown-get-a-circus

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Bob Bowden's avatar

The head of FEMA is joking about not knowing there’s a hurricane season? That’s as funny as the DefenseSec joking that he’s unaware we have a nuclear arsenal, and the head of Homeland Security joking “what, we were attacked on 9/11?”

Now this is no joke: The Secretary of Education thinks the world is about to be changed in profound and unpredictable ways by A1 Steak Sauce

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Donald Lipkis's avatar

And the Donald uses the same “I’m only joking” excuse when caught in the stupidest of his lies. So they all have a great role model.

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P123Sunny's avatar

Works every time though. Huh. ( It’s almost as if ppl WANT to like him…)

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Bob Bowden's avatar

He hates the people they hate. And he has the power and the will to hurt the people they hate

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BayPoodle's avatar

Every goddamn gaslighting asshole uses “I’m only joking” when called out. My head is about to explode over that shit

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Stranger Than Friction's avatar

Ah yes--"I'm only joking" is the pale pink gauze of fig leaves.

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Linda Weide's avatar

Let us see what FEMA does when Mar-a-lago is reclaimed by the sea!

The money is against that happening, but the environmental conditions are constantly changing, so we shall see.

https://digitaledition.orlandosentinel.com/tribune/article_popover.aspx?guid=19266e1d-6fa9-4b00-b107-eb5ec4c39b28

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Chet Brandt's avatar

When mar-a- shithole gets wiped out by any natural disaster not a penny of federal money should go to repair the roach infested golf motel…fuck him!

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Gently, Jack Jones's avatar

It is indeed a very good steak sauce!

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Irascible Ink's avatar

It's the MAGAfied version of bread and circuses. Minus the bread.

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DJ Headthrob's avatar

And the circuses are like something out of Ray Bradbury's 'Something Wicked This Way Comes.'

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arne link's avatar

That was such a wonderful book.

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Derek Smith's avatar

And a pretty decent movie, too, with Jonathan Pryce as Mr Dark.

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Marycat2021's avatar

They're from Stephen King's book and miniseries "It," and Pennywise the Clown, who lives in the town's sewers.

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

He was such a great writer. I recently re-read that. Hadn't read it since 1960s.

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Wendy🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

Your IT references were beautiful jeff. Id have come into the discussion earlier, but I was running queer history on the https://genxy.io live.

That said, can we celebrate the full on MAGA Civil war thats going on between Musk and MIller?

https://thistleandmoss.com/p/maga-is-in-full-civil-war-nazi-miller

As always jeff, Liked, Restacked, and quoted. Keep up the hard work. You reach more than I do.

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Mary Hall's avatar

Great post Wendy. What I don't understand is that both Eloon and Goebbels Miller are white nationalists, but they are fighting over a BROWN woman. Dafuq? Pick a lane.

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Joyce's avatar

Consider pre-Civil War history: white males, white supremacy, slavery, enslaved women........Racist shits are actually remarkably consistent in their racist shit.

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Jan Moon's avatar

Why quibble over a BROWN woman when we have an ORANGE president? Just wondering . . .

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arne link's avatar

She is supposedly Jewish. She looks very brown to me. IDK.

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Steve Kelly's avatar

They're not eating the dogs and cats. They're eating each other.

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P123Sunny's avatar

Just shows this for what it is: button pressing propaganda- disconnected from ‘real life’ (thx guys ;)!

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Marian Goldsmith's avatar

Great job on your linked post though. I give you credit for most original epithets of the week. Which is a major compliment from a long time fan of Jeff T.

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Derek Smith's avatar

That's a link to a file on your device, Sunny, not a link to a web page.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

Sunny if that is a link it’s not working

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Jeff, be fair !!! WMDs create a great need for EM. There's definitely a connection there! Duh!!!

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Stephen Brady's avatar

Alas he seems to have tapped an endless supply of them!

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Linda Weide's avatar

I love the sewer clown image you use. It fits perfectly!

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

Great stroll down memory lane. Thanks

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Lotsa luck, MAGA Floridiots. FAFO. I only feel sorry for the residents of your Third World child labor promoting slavery denying state who did not vote for this unprecedented stupidity

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kdsherpa's avatar

Yeah, but Charleston, SC is a relatively enlightened place, and we're going to get screwed. Same with NJ.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Yeah, sorry. Just like the rest of the nation who did not vote for this. And the whole gdamned world, for that matter.

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arne link's avatar

Sorry about that. Charleston is a lovely city. I hope you'll be OK.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

After every hurricane season, I'm surprised Charleston is still there.

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DJ Headthrob's avatar

I dunno. Florida's got NOTHING on South Jersey.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Every hurricane season I cross my fingers for Stone Harbor.

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Rick Calegari's avatar

They'll need it and so will all of the other red states that are in the crosshairs of hurricanes. North Carolina got screwed out of $92 million in FEMA money because demented Donnie said it's unwarranted. WTF! If anything is unwarranted, its this brainless felon sitting in the Oval Office stirring up more shit than the local sewage treatment plant. Let's see what happens if a Category 5 hurricane were to hit the bulls eye at Mar a Lardo. Karma is a bitch.

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Dave Drell's avatar

If Mar El Fuckwad got destroyed or damaged - you think Donny-TwoDolls wouldn’t ask for repairs - regardless of FEMA?

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Rick Calegari's avatar

Without a doubt. He would also do a fund raising grift with a coin or some other worthless shit.

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Robert R's avatar

Holy relics from the opened phony graves blew out his new inventory that The Lord sent the storm to reveal to his most faithful flock of true Christian believers! Hallelujah! The Vatican makes all kinds of dough peddling that shit ! Bowel Boy can’t be cut out of a great grift like that !toes finger joints all kinds of profitable body parts !

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

You bet!

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P123Sunny's avatar

You’d think FEMA denials would be front page news…?

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T L Mills's avatar

Wouldn't I enjoy that--although it would be tragic for his surrounding neighbors.

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Rick Calegari's avatar

Agreed. I hardly ever wish this on anyone but a big twister that just zeroed in on the stolen documents capital of the US would also work. No doubt his highly unqualified choice to head FEMA is also a tornado expert.

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

Never did I think I'd long for Brownie "doin' a heck of a job"

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Every year I hope for that...

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Mingo's avatar

They're the ones that committed a stupid by voting for Taco Don. Then there's the the other group that a committed a stupid by deciding not vote at all. There's a special place in hell for both those groups. In the meantime we have a FEMA director that has no experience in emergency management but in WMD's. Maybe he can nuke the hurricanes like the dear leader once suggested. Whoopee, we're all going to die.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Actually, all the director has to do is look at the Red Cross website. I'm pretty sure they have complete instructions for preparations.

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Laurie's avatar

And it’s one, two, three…, 😊😩

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P123Sunny's avatar

Just heard the bottom is dropping out of their real estate market too…?!

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Robert R's avatar

How ironic a thing it would be if Moron Lardo was the sole hit of a category 5 ,ripping up the phony graves and blew out thousands of pages of secret documents for all to see ! You can bet your sweet ass Stumpted would get FEMA THE FBI THE NATIONAL GAURD and any other agency that might save his greasy shit caked ass on that site I’m minutes !

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Susan Niemann's avatar

It's baffling how they can stand there, double down, and keep lying. And how they make decisions that kill people and then nonchalantly go about their fucking day. 🤦‍♀️

The American populace needs to pay attention to the idiots they're electing. I stubbornly cling to the hope that we can be like South Korea and get Democracy back.

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Irascible Ink's avatar

They can do it because 1) there's no consequences and 2) there's no cosequences.

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P123Sunny's avatar

👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆

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Kim Nesvig's avatar

Americans paying attention? That’s probably only going to happen when tens of millions of MAGA fools suddenly notice that they have to move a hospital bed into the living room of their trailer for grandma to die in.

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T L Mills's avatar

And even then, they've been well-trained by the chief clown to blame Biden.

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Kim Nesvig's avatar

The prime directive of all MAGA (as with Trump himself) everything bad is someone else’s fault. that applies to their personal lives, their communities and the world at large. A perverse, happy delusion where no matter how badly you fuck up, you can at least try to put the blame on someone else.

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Phil Burns's avatar

His cult is to fucking oblivious to the truth.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

That is a sobering and scary fact. I'll never understand how humans can be this dumb/hateful/unaware/selfish.... I cant think of the right adjective. Maybe it's all of the above. 🙄

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Phil Burns's avatar

Greed and power. They think they're above everyone else since the key magats were elected by Moscow.

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Lee Ann Vindasius's avatar

Assholes

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P123Sunny's avatar

🦊 provides cover

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Joe Witkowski's avatar

SATANIC

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

"intellectually incompetent"

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Charles Austin's avatar

It is

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Liz and Max the No. 1 Cat's avatar

They will all believe any dumb ass thing that doesn't have even one bit of evidence to back it up, but anything that has piles and piles of evidence to show it's true, they yell, "Fake News". At this point I honestly believe that if the God they profess to believe in came down himself and told them they were wrong, they'd dismiss him as not the "real" God, because of course God agrees with them.

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George in Atlanta's avatar

The populace doesn't "need" to do anything. Their stupidity is bovine. It's really important that they are deeply hurt by all of this, that their children die from preventable disease and their homes are swept into the sea. It's not that they will ever "wake up and do the right thing", it's just that they will be rendered inert and die.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

True. Since 47 has started dragging his tie through his ice cream, Project 2025 has replaced the old dying MAGA cult because its authors and backers control all the wealth. They're predators and they've groomed the populace to exist like prey.

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Kimberly Sandwisch's avatar

Dragging his tie through his ice cream! Love it! 😂😂😂

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Susan Niemann's avatar

😂😂😂 What a waste of ice cream. HA!!

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

Now, George, there is no reason to compare these muthafuckin racist asshole MAGATS with lovely, patient and obedient cows that actually do think things through…sometimes.

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George in Atlanta's avatar

Walt, you're right. I am duly chastised. Those cows produce something useful and don't bother anybody. I don't know what I was thinking.

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Dave Drell's avatar

You used “bovine” as a verb, & that through me off.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

"bovine" is an adjective in that sentence, btw.

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Dave Drell's avatar

Correct ”is” is the verb

My 5th grade English teacher would flunk me!

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

"threw". I guess AI missed it...

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

Thanks, Walt. I was going to make the same comment about cows. ; )

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Wendymae's avatar

They all believe their beloved commandments don't apply to them if they're broken to further their causes.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

Ignorance is bliss

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Charles Austin's avatar

We can and we must!

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Kay-El's avatar

1. Batten down the hatches Florida. You’ll get no help from a guy who doesn’t understand that there are seasons.

2. That head lolling from Elump is creepy but the black eye is chef’s kiss.

3. Love me some Nick Offerman.

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Merc's avatar

Hey sharpie will defend you. If you voted for him, enjoy poverty.

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Megan Ross's avatar

You can bet that if a hurricane hit Mar-A-Lago and caused damage, that TRump would immediately have FEMA down there in West Palm Beach scoping things out.

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T L Mills's avatar

And he'd make sure that the lion's share of the FEMA benefits would go right into his very deep pockets...and Mar-A-Lago would just keep getting more broken and shabby by the day.

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Joe Witkowski's avatar

And scooping shit out to avoid shitting up all the classified documents next to the golden toilets

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Barbara Ferrara's avatar

To be fair, he’s probably googling Gulf of America instead of Gulf of Mexico and not finding an historical record of past seasons.

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J.R.'s avatar

I thought it was The Gulf of Taco now! 😂

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Gina's avatar

that would satisfy both America and Mexico

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Susan Niemann's avatar

😂😂😂

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Alison Parker's avatar

FFS I've never lived for one day outside of California and even my temperate-climate-that's-never-seen-a-hurricane-dwelling ass knows about hurricane season.

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Gina's avatar

I don't even live in your country and we don't have hurricanes - and I know about hurricane season

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

I lived through about four when I lived in MA and NJ before I was 11, and I'll take them over earthquakes, for which there is no warning. (I've lived in CA since 1961.)

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Alison Parker's avatar

Okay, but we don't have "earthquake season" or something where we know there will be multiple quakes every year. How many major quakes have there been in your time here? By "major" I mean ones that cause severe damage and loss of life. Very few. The vast majority of quakes are too small to even feel, and of the ones you can feel, the vast majority of those are nothingburgers. Like, a 3.0 isn't going to take down a building or a bridge. I can recall maybe four or five in the NorCal area in my just-under-45 years that I would label as "major" as far as damage done.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Four or five? I live in Berkeley, and I only recall one--1989. A section of the Bay Bridge collapsed, some of the Oakland Freeway collapsed, etc. etc. Anything under 5.0 is not major, and we mostly have 3s and an occasional 4. The one in 1989 was centered south of San Jose, at least 60 miles from us, and I actually thought a wall was going to fall off the house. My house is bolted now, and we have earthquake preparations and supplies stashed in safe places for that 6 or 7 on the Hayward Fault, which is only about 60 years overdue. Oh and we bought the house about two miles from the fault. No hills for us. 64 years in Berkeley, Oakland, El Cerrito.

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arne link's avatar

I live a couple of miles from the San Andreas fault. Pfft! Nothing yet.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Yes, there hasn't been a big one on the San Andreas since I've been here. That's not a good sign. The Hayward Fault last had a big earthquake in 1867. It's expected to quake (so to speak) every 100 years, but 1967 was a while ago, and now it's 2025. For some reason, I thought you lived in TX... But the longer it takes, the more time you have to prepare.

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Charles Austin's avatar

"Wabbit season! Duck season!" Oddsfish! The very air abounds in sewer clowns!

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Tess's avatar

Sewer clowns…can we get that in the dictionary please? And…”lie your fucking face off” must be what they promote at cabinet meetings…..ARGH!!

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Aleksander Constantinoropolous's avatar

If FEMA’s new overlord missed the memo on hurricane season, I’m guessing he also thinks “storm surge” is a new energy drink. But let’s be honest—this isn’t just about one man’s blissful ignorance. It’s the entire Sewer Clown ethos: a theology of dumb, baptized in incompetence, confirmed by denial, and resurrected every morning on Fox & Friends.

What’s terrifying isn’t just the idiocy—it’s that we’ve normalized it. We’ve got Nobel laureates warning about deficit detonation, while Holy Mike recites economic fiction like it’s the Sermon on the Debt. Meanwhile, Elon’s “joy” looks suspiciously like the kind you find at Burning Man after licking the wrong toad.

And yet, here we are—governed by punchlines in meat suits. May history remember them not as villains, but as cautionary tales in a chapter titled “Don’t Let This Happen Again.”

Amen and pass the emergency rations.

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PTW's avatar

I’m pretty sure STORM SURGE is a Gatorade flavor.

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MattSMaine's avatar

I find myself frequently on the brink of invoking your self-preservation clause of stepping back from your posts if needed (they’re brilliant…and infuriating at the same time). But I can’t. I just can’t😉.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Yep, Jeff is a major dealer of addictive substances. There ought to be a law...

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Merc's avatar

Like most of the MAGA TRASH GOP, they are low IQ imposters who could never have these jobs without the orange conman working to ruin the nation by installing clowns. Their primary job is to be a social media troll and they don’t really care what happens to their fellow countryman they’re just there for the TV appearances and the government paycheck which they will cash in and use to get on Fox News as a talking head

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DJ Headthrob's avatar

It's almost as if they emulate the Bizarro world and look to pick the absolute worst candidate for every position. You really gotta WORK to find someone equally as inept and clueless as Betsy DeVos. Yet they somehow managed.

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3dEdited

And Trump replaced her with Linda McMahon, who thinks artificial intelligence is A1 steak sauce.

Technological change is accelerating the breakout between countries that do research and are our advanced and those who decide to not fund research. Trump is trying To turn America into the MAGA TRASH PLANET OF THE APES.

Thanks to Dotard Don. The Low IQ whiny entitled MAGA TRASH, and his fascist Evangelical Charlatans, the best companies in the world may be founded in other countries, but don’t worry our kids can work selling Trump merch Or trading Trump scam coins

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Fredi Hensley's avatar

Intellectually, they are all are smarter than trump. And more successful too. Just not as cabinet members.

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Joyce's avatar

I have a small radish growing in my raised bed garden that would qualify as intellectually smarter than Demento, and I would rate it as far more successful than the cabinet members. For one thing, unlike RFK Jr, the sprouting radish has not been eaten by a worm.

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Merc's avatar

They are smart, but they are compliant Trump Eunuchs -Which makes it worse

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Merc's avatar

And Trump replaced her with Linda McMahon, who thinks artificial intelligence is A1 steak sauce.

Technological change is accelerating the breakout between countries that do research and are our advanced and those who decide to not fund research.

Trump is trying To turn America into the MAGA TRASH PLANET OF THE APES. Thanks to him. The best companies in the world may be founded in other countries, but don’t worry our kids can work selling Trump merch Or trading Trump scam coins or valeting cars for Crypto scammers visiting Qatar-A-Lago

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Larry Caringer's avatar

You’re gonna need a new hammer. You keep nailing’ it!

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Phil Burns's avatar

Mjolnir

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Ann Anderson's avatar

Doesn't matter to MAGA how dumb these clowns are. Trump will blame Biden for everything, and they'll believe him.

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Barbara Rengstorff's avatar

Would that be Biden, the robot? How they didn’t get after him with the 25th amendment for that post I’ll never know.

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P123Sunny's avatar

He’s ‘colorful’?

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Ann Anderson's avatar

yep

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Irascible Ink's avatar

BINGO!

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Jacqueline S's avatar

Three cheers for Nick Offerman. Season 1, Ep. 3, (Long, Long Time) of The Last of Us was one of the most beautiful pieces of acting and television I've ever seen. So on a positive note thank you to Nick for that and thank you to Jeff for acknowledging this quality human being.

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Kay-El's avatar

I was thinking about that too when I saw Jeff’s Offerman comment. Possibly one of the best tv episodes ever.

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kdsherpa's avatar

OK. Now I'm REALLY down. I knew that how totally stupid, lazy, and evil the orange sadist's thugs are. But I didn't know these specifics. And to have them listed, one after the other... Sigh, I guess someone has to keep track. Have a nice day, Jeff! :-)

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Phil Burns's avatar

With more tomorrow.

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Brien Marshall's avatar

Given the Chief Clown's propensity for saying that every important decision is gonna be in two weeks or so, we could call him

Two

Weeks

Away

Trump

If only there was some way to shorten that with a handy acromym!

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Megan Ross's avatar

LOL 😂👍

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Deb Martina's avatar

Brilliant 😂

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P123Sunny's avatar

Have NO IDEA why Dems aren’t holding a daily press conference to broadcast - in ALL CAPS - what is going on to the American People. Different Congressperson everyday.

Yet, 🦗🦗🦗. It’s almost like most of them enjoy insider trading, Cadillac health plans and work for the same lobbyists. Huh. Call me crazy

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Megan Ross's avatar

Lots of Dems are holding press conferences and town halls speaking out about this disastrous bill, but the media isn't covering any of their events. They're now TRump State Media outlets and only report about things The Convicted Felon won't sue them over...

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P123Sunny's avatar

Their cherished ‘individual approach’ isn’t working. They need a scheduled OFFICIAL press conference (like Cuomo did during Covid)… srry but it was extremely effective

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

I watched Cuomo's daily COVID briefings from California. Frankly, he was a great governor, IMHO, and he wasn't afraid to punch out Trump's lights, metaphorically speaking. Cuomo had the old school male mandate problem and that was a loaded weapon for his opponents. I don't care about collusion with his brother Chris. For Sanctus' sake, JFK appointed his BROTHER as Attorney General and had a mega case of the p--sy grabbies. Still one of the highest rated presidents in history.

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P123Sunny's avatar

Clearly stated ☑️

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Susan Niemann's avatar

You make a great point.

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Dave Drell's avatar

Correct - my congressman might be in the district talking but few will hear

NATIONAL DAILY EXPOSURE is needed.

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Gina's avatar

could make some ads and PAY for exposure - go on MSNBC

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

“Status quo,” is on the Democratic crest, Sunny.

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P123Sunny's avatar

Sadly (or maybe fortunately) - it’s clearly on display now :/

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