In 2010, British intelligence analyst Gareth Williams was found dead inside a "holdall" bag locked from the outside and placed inside his bathtub. Metro police said it could have been an autoerotic accident. WTF? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Gareth_Williams
Fuckin lauren boebert bolted a trans military ban onto the must-pass defense bill, because that's the play — hide the cruelty in the thing nobody can vote against, then fundraise off it. 212 to 217. four Republicans looked at her language calling American servicemembers morally incompatible with service and said not with my fucking name on it. boebert has not said one word since. not one. the silence of a woman whose stunt died on live television.
So meanwhile OpenAI built a sealed box to test what its agents could do, and the agents answered by breaking the box and going hunting.
Why would a trans sexual want to be in the Army? It seems incompatible. I only knew one transexual i my whole life and she was an exotic dancer. Very tall and beautiful.
Hopefully, a time will come when saying someone is trans/gay/bi/whatever will get this response: "So, what's your point?" - - the reaction you'd get today by saying someone is left-handed.
Admiral Levine, according to Wikipedia, served as the admiral in charge of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps until January 20. 2025. The USPHS uses naval ranks for some reason. If she were still in office after drumpf took over, I am sure she would have been fired pronto.
I have many questions. Why is someone transgender? Is brain related, hormone related, psychological. Im really interested in it. I hope I'm not being sounding negative or insensitive.
Please, if possible, post a link to an article that offers very basic information that a non medical professional can understand.
What I want to keep out of the US Armed Forces is perfectly illustrated by Kegseth: a racist, misogynist, vain, fascist twit who neither knows nor abides by the Constitution and the Geneva Convention, and who regards war as some sort of perverted video game to indulge his bloodthirsty sadism.
In other words, he's the 180-degree opposite of Admiral Levine.
Other shit that just happened is that the US is about to allow the Saudis to do their own Uranium enrichment. Just what we fucking need: Yet another Middle Eastern country with nuclear ambitions. We could have been supportive of (gasp!) Iranian efforts 40 or so years ago to create a nuclear weapons free zone in the Middle East, but for some reason we didn't. So what we are getting is the opposite, and the clueless assholes in charge are enabling it.
Conservative foreign policy in the Middle East has been so ridiculously ham-handed and wrongheaded, it has led directly to the Iranian Revolution and hostage crisis, the Gulf War, Al Queda, 9/11, the 20 year war in Afghanistan, the illegal Iraq invasion, what became ISIS, and now the Gaza genocide and this Iran clusterfuck. Conservatives are always lusting after money, natural resources, and territory, all at the expense of our sons and daughters and our taxpayer funds.
I just reread that post from two years ago. it's actually pretty good, and it holds up, even if I was ultimately wrong about the outcome of the election
The picture of President Biden, and vice president Harris with all those roses in the background broke my heart into little pieces. We have a monster loose in the world. In fact, we have three big monsters, Putin, Trump and Netanyahu.
You're a prophet, Jeff. And even with all that immediate unity, the 70-something million dumbasses and the even larger number who couldn't be bothered to vote at all got us here. Fuuuuuck
The NY Times, which knew better after covering Trump for more than 40 years, basically handed him the presidency. And now they're learning that doesn't protect you.
Good column. Compared to his simpleton father, average is more than he coulda hoped for. He does have in abundance, however, the family trait of unmitigated greed, as his insider trading and prediction market activities have shown.
Besides unmitigated greed this dysfunctional family has an affinity for perverts, pedophiles, rapists and misogynistic sex pests. Barron is a creepy kid thanks to his progeny from Daddy and Mommy Dearest.
Every time I see a photo of Barron Trump, I think "poster boy for Hitler Youth." With the glaring exception of Mary Trump, and I really am not a eugenicist but wow, every other member of that family that we know of is just rotten to the core. And now they have that creepy granddaughter Kai making the trash news.
Barron is, apparently, a Tate Bros fan who convinced his father to let them into the US after pressuring Romania to allow them to leave. He was decent enough to call the cops when the alleged Russian prostitute he was having phone sex with was beat up by her pimp in front of him, so there's that. Above average!
We ran extremely qualified, competent women against the stupidest, most corrupt man in the world & lost. This country is just filled with stupid people
Today was one of those many when the photos of your lovely family felt necessary. We aren’t built to handle so much routine idiocy in the world of politics and killing and devastation. Your writing helps. A lot. I know I speak for others here. Thanks, man.
It's nice to see the empty suit of a tryhard Blotto von Bismarck get chewed on. And hey a lot of Republicans are still itching to set more money on fire in the Straits of Schrodinger, because in their eyes every bit of federal money squandered means every bit less that could be used to protect or sustain the minorities they hate.
Wasn't it last year that the Pentagon was purchasing giant amounts of steaks because they had excess money to spend that they had to spend?
What happened?
I had already forgotten about that before I was reminded. Did I dream that up? I think not, because that is when I was debating upon buying ground beef and got ground turkey instead. Thinking that thank God I didn't LOVE me some filet mignon as I sure as heck wasn't going to afford any.
6.1 million for lobster tails, 2 million for crab legs, 1 million for salmon, 15.1 million for ribeye steak, all part of a 93.4 billion end of fiscal year spending spree. Our troops in the middle east get a spoonful of beans and a piece of toast. Where did all that food go?
The Pentagon *had* to spend that money before the end of the last fiscal year (September 30, 2025) or they would lose it. Naturally, that meant they had to spend $$$ on steak and lobster.
Funny ... Last night's Jeopardy episode had a category on "-Gate," scandals referred to with that suffix. And one clue was about the Secretary of Defense - no name used - spilling his war plans to a journalist on the phone. Just saying ...
And you left out the best soundbite - Gary Peters telling the Secretary of Alcohol and Testosterone, "You, sir, are the failure!"
Claudia was and clearly is the love of your life, Jeff. I'm so so sorry that she passed way too early. And I have to say I love PLANKHEAD OF THE AIRWAVES.
I once had a discussion with Sam Seder and I asked him how Hannity can actually do what he does. He told me he had the unfortunate experience of sitting next to him at an event and he said, "If you listen to what he says like he's stupid, it makes sense."
today in Shit That Happened While I Was Busy Writing This Shit—
"Model recruiter who introduced young women to Jeffrey Epstein found dead in France"
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/22/europe/model-recruiter-epstein-dead-france-intl
well, HUH.
I’m sure the autopsy will be rather illuminating.. heart attack? Polonium? Gun shot? Self inflicted? Inquiring minds want to know.
Fell out a window or accidentally died during autoerotic asphyxiation or shot themselves more than once. Uh huh.
If there were bullet holes, we’d probably heard “homicide”. I’ll vote drug cocktail
In 2010, British intelligence analyst Gareth Williams was found dead inside a "holdall" bag locked from the outside and placed inside his bathtub. Metro police said it could have been an autoerotic accident. WTF? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Gareth_Williams
Exactly what do the Metro police guys do on their days off? No, wait--I don't want to know "exactly."
We know that one of them falsely arrested and killed Sarah Everard.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58746108
Huh. How about that.
Or fell down the stairs…
Twice
Yeah Doc I forgot about one of the preferred methods of assisted suicide from Russia..Thanks for reminding us..
Oh, I love it when we see the "worst case of suicide we have seen." That's when someone shoots themselves multiple times.
Thought the same things.
If we ever get a report… in two weeks
Tea, I’m going with hospital window where subject was being treated for . . . Nothing.
Suicide by stabbing himself 30 times in the back?
Blanche: "can't have any trials because the witnesses keep dying. Too bad! Next."
These pedophiles don't want to be exposed. I guess. Disgusting people are those that not only do the abuse, but also the people who cover for them.
I don't even think it's the pedophiles who are scared. I think it's the powerful people financial entanglements.
I agree with you. The pedos are just the surface oil-slick that is visible. The real crimes are financial and national.
Jeff, Skynet is coming.
You just wait.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-skynet-is-coming-and-soon
Fuckin lauren boebert bolted a trans military ban onto the must-pass defense bill, because that's the play — hide the cruelty in the thing nobody can vote against, then fundraise off it. 212 to 217. four Republicans looked at her language calling American servicemembers morally incompatible with service and said not with my fucking name on it. boebert has not said one word since. not one. the silence of a woman whose stunt died on live television.
So meanwhile OpenAI built a sealed box to test what its agents could do, and the agents answered by breaking the box and going hunting.
And nobody's driving. everybody's shipping.
Why would a trans sexual want to be in the Army? It seems incompatible. I only knew one transexual i my whole life and she was an exotic dancer. Very tall and beautiful.
Admiral Rachel Levine is the highest-ranking openly transgender woman in United States history, serving as a four-star admiral.
You wanna fire a battle tested, and job proven four-star admiral in the navy?
Hopefully, a time will come when saying someone is trans/gay/bi/whatever will get this response: "So, what's your point?" - - the reaction you'd get today by saying someone is left-handed.
Admiral Levine, according to Wikipedia, served as the admiral in charge of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps until January 20. 2025. The USPHS uses naval ranks for some reason. If she were still in office after drumpf took over, I am sure she would have been fired pronto.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Levine
That's so interesting. I know nearly nothing about transgender people. What motivates them.
You are chatting with one right now , what don’t you understand ?
I have many questions. Why is someone transgender? Is brain related, hormone related, psychological. Im really interested in it. I hope I'm not being sounding negative or insensitive.
Please, if possible, post a link to an article that offers very basic information that a non medical professional can understand.
I can introduce you to a friend of mine, Erik.
Trans guy.
Bench presses my body weight (245).
Runs a mile in 5 minutes.
Crack shot at 500 yards.
You wanna keep him out of the army?
What I want to keep out of the US Armed Forces is perfectly illustrated by Kegseth: a racist, misogynist, vain, fascist twit who neither knows nor abides by the Constitution and the Geneva Convention, and who regards war as some sort of perverted video game to indulge his bloodthirsty sadism.
In other words, he's the 180-degree opposite of Admiral Levine.
Bingo.
Everyone has different goals. People should be allowed to pursue them and rise or fall based on their abilities, not on their gender identity.
I agree.
They can get treatment while serving. Everyone needs health insurance.
Other shit that just happened is that the US is about to allow the Saudis to do their own Uranium enrichment. Just what we fucking need: Yet another Middle Eastern country with nuclear ambitions. We could have been supportive of (gasp!) Iranian efforts 40 or so years ago to create a nuclear weapons free zone in the Middle East, but for some reason we didn't. So what we are getting is the opposite, and the clueless assholes in charge are enabling it.
Conservative foreign policy in the Middle East has been so ridiculously ham-handed and wrongheaded, it has led directly to the Iranian Revolution and hostage crisis, the Gulf War, Al Queda, 9/11, the 20 year war in Afghanistan, the illegal Iraq invasion, what became ISIS, and now the Gaza genocide and this Iran clusterfuck. Conservatives are always lusting after money, natural resources, and territory, all at the expense of our sons and daughters and our taxpayer funds.
Not to mention at the expense of the people actually living in the Middle East.
Well, ya know, Donnie Jr. has a cordial relationship with the sheik/murder. That explains the whole deal.
Curiouser and curiouser. How many deaths are connected to Epstein in some way by now? Including Epstein …
The "modeling" industry is very sleazy. It thrives on putting 14 and 15 year old girls through. the meat grinder.
Great news!!! Whoever did this needs to come to this country.
Interesting. Isn't the UK going ahead with an investigation?
The UK seems to be the only country interested in prosecuting pedophiles
Holy shit. What's Bill Barr up to these days?
Better check Bill’s passport
Pretty sure it was a suicide…😳🤬
Worst suicide ever seen...
WTaF 😳
I’m sure it was a suiaside
Okay, anyway . . . . . . .
I extra ♥️♥️♥️ the photos today. Especially the top one.
siad dead...good. One down, and so many more to go.
I just reread that post from two years ago. it's actually pretty good, and it holds up, even if I was ultimately wrong about the outcome of the election
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/chill-the-fuck-out-weve-got-this
The picture of President Biden, and vice president Harris with all those roses in the background broke my heart into little pieces. We have a monster loose in the world. In fact, we have three big monsters, Putin, Trump and Netanyahu.
You're a prophet, Jeff. And even with all that immediate unity, the 70-something million dumbasses and the even larger number who couldn't be bothered to vote at all got us here. Fuuuuuck
Since Trump didn't win by much, no matter what he says, those copouts were way too influential.
You were 💯 correct about the NYT and WaPo. They can still fuck off. Committing a journalism now and then doesn’t let them off the hook
The NY Times, which knew better after covering Trump for more than 40 years, basically handed him the presidency. And now they're learning that doesn't protect you.
Yes. I remain permanently unsubscribed.
Same
It’s a fucking shitshow
Jeff, I went all necromonger, and dug up an old one and repubbed it.
Barron Trump: Moron.
Still holds up also.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/the-emperor-s-average-son-the-kid-is-a-low-grade-moron
Good column. Compared to his simpleton father, average is more than he coulda hoped for. He does have in abundance, however, the family trait of unmitigated greed, as his insider trading and prediction market activities have shown.
That crime family will always jump
At the chance to find every chump
As they scheme to feed
Their insatiable greed
Avarice, thy name is trump
Besides unmitigated greed this dysfunctional family has an affinity for perverts, pedophiles, rapists and misogynistic sex pests. Barron is a creepy kid thanks to his progeny from Daddy and Mommy Dearest.
There is something wrong with that boy. He's always been weird. They just hid it until now.
Every time I see a photo of Barron Trump, I think "poster boy for Hitler Youth." With the glaring exception of Mary Trump, and I really am not a eugenicist but wow, every other member of that family that we know of is just rotten to the core. And now they have that creepy granddaughter Kai making the trash news.
Barron is, apparently, a Tate Bros fan who convinced his father to let them into the US after pressuring Romania to allow them to leave. He was decent enough to call the cops when the alleged Russian prostitute he was having phone sex with was beat up by her pimp in front of him, so there's that. Above average!
We ran extremely qualified, competent women against the stupidest, most corrupt man in the world & lost. This country is just filled with stupid people
And total misogynists. That was a huge factor.
… are you sure u were wrong 😐 (just asking questions)
“Our American Cousin” was a pretty good play, even if President Lincoln was shot by one of the actors
Today was one of those many when the photos of your lovely family felt necessary. We aren’t built to handle so much routine idiocy in the world of politics and killing and devastation. Your writing helps. A lot. I know I speak for others here. Thanks, man.
💯!!
Susan Collin’s (who will be defeated in the midterm) voted to fund ICE 70 billion dollars so maybe Hegseth can borrow from her.
I hope that Mainers wise up and get rid of that cow. She has done nothing good for anyone but herself and her husband.
Susan Collins can give Piss Drunk Pete the bag of nickels that has flogged that face every day of her demonic life.
👏👏👏👏👏
I'd love one of the pols to say if they need the money that badly then rescind the tax cuts for billionaires in the Big Ugly Bill.
I second that idea.
It's nice to see the empty suit of a tryhard Blotto von Bismarck get chewed on. And hey a lot of Republicans are still itching to set more money on fire in the Straits of Schrodinger, because in their eyes every bit of federal money squandered means every bit less that could be used to protect or sustain the minorities they hate.
⬆️🎯👏🏼
…and somehow never pay a political price for any of it… wow
Wasn't it last year that the Pentagon was purchasing giant amounts of steaks because they had excess money to spend that they had to spend?
What happened?
I had already forgotten about that before I was reminded. Did I dream that up? I think not, because that is when I was debating upon buying ground beef and got ground turkey instead. Thinking that thank God I didn't LOVE me some filet mignon as I sure as heck wasn't going to afford any.
no wait, that actually happened. I remember it.
Yep. I remember it, too.
6.1 million for lobster tails, 2 million for crab legs, 1 million for salmon, 15.1 million for ribeye steak, all part of a 93.4 billion end of fiscal year spending spree. Our troops in the middle east get a spoonful of beans and a piece of toast. Where did all that food go?
Conservative fiscal responsibility in action!
From back in March:
Cheatin' Noem and Pissdrunk Pete
Both prefer their own kind of meat
Hegseth bought ribeye
While Kristi did fly
With Corey's tube steak on repeat
🤣
😆
And a beautiful new grand piano for some general or other...there were crab legs in that purchase of luxury goods as well.
The Pentagon *had* to spend that money before the end of the last fiscal year (September 30, 2025) or they would lose it. Naturally, that meant they had to spend $$$ on steak and lobster.
Funny ... Last night's Jeopardy episode had a category on "-Gate," scandals referred to with that suffix. And one clue was about the Secretary of Defense - no name used - spilling his war plans to a journalist on the phone. Just saying ...
And you left out the best soundbite - Gary Peters telling the Secretary of Alcohol and Testosterone, "You, sir, are the failure!"
I actually get a shot of endorphins when I watch these senators clamp their jaws around Pete Hegseth, chew him up and spit him out.
Crap him out, I wish
I love being able to smile, it happens so rarely these days. If they can make him cry, I might even laugh. If I can remember how.
There once was a Hegseth named Pete
His social control's incomplete
His Nazi tattoo
Shows how much he hates Jews
And he sucks on Drumpf's toes and his feet.
And he suckophants off Stephen Miller
Who fancies himself a real killer
But the truth is more mighty
He's a racist and flighty
I really do miss Phyllis Diller!
From back in March, when news broke that the Pentagon splurged on lux to deplete their funds at the deadline:
Ice cream machines, pianos and doughnuts, oh my
Lobster, king crab, and ribeye
The War Pig turned loose
To commit waste, fraud, and abuse
DoD's now a grifting pigsty
Are they dropping pianos on the Iranians?
It was the grand piano that really got me.
Har! “ a Hesgeth named Pete”
you have forever tarnished the
Hesgeth name! Bravissimo!!!
Thank you! I take a deep bow... Hope you're well, Dave.
Claudia was and clearly is the love of your life, Jeff. I'm so so sorry that she passed way too early. And I have to say I love PLANKHEAD OF THE AIRWAVES.
I once had a discussion with Sam Seder and I asked him how Hannity can actually do what he does. He told me he had the unfortunate experience of sitting next to him at an event and he said, "If you listen to what he says like he's stupid, it makes sense."
PLANKHEAD!
Only in 'Murikkka can a stupid liar make so much filthy lucre, thanks to the masses of the equally or more stupid who make up his audience.
Will work on a song for the Plankhead. Sorry in advance, Charlie Dore!
To the tune of Pilot of the Airwaves
Plankhead of the Airwaves
You can lie so well
Your audience doesn't catch it
But the rest of us can tell
You're an asshole and a fool by the shit you bray
And we wish you would go away
I am a retired public school teacher, and I approve this message. How about a National Day of Bake Sales?
‘Were you lying then, or are you lying now?’ Ossoff is a truly great interviewer. Straight to the nub.
Maybe both times?
Why not both?
IIRC, he was a documentary maker before he was elected.
Mr. Hegseth's hair styles by Jiffy-Lube.
His hair looks so nasty. Ugh!
HAHAHA!!!
Out of dough, out of ammo. Other than that, we're ready for anything.
Also mostly out of experienced career officers.
Thank you for the sweet photos of Katie and Claudia. We need them now more than ever.
Beautiful family! It’s nice to end with a reminder of better times and normal life. What we’re living now isn’t normal.