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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

not gonna lie — if Donny had bombed Iran last night, I was going to take a mental health break today

myhoopbabies's avatar

I feel like we're all in an abusive relationship. This feels like abuse.

Eva's avatar

100% We should sue him for emotional trauma

Bob Bowden's avatar

A rape is in progress, and you and I and over 8 billion other human beings are the victims. Please do not refer to it as a “relationship”

Lady Emsworth's avatar

Yep.

"NOW see what you made him do. . .!"

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

We're being terrorized, more than abuse. At this point, I really don't care about airport security anymore.

Tom Woods's avatar

The world is being terrorized by Republican Evangelicals!!!

Victoria Wilson's avatar

Yes it is cruel and unusual punishment and I do not want my good name associated with this heartless bastard.Like someone else said, this cannot go on until the mid-terms.We The People want action NOW!

Leu2500's avatar

He's an adjudicated abuser. it is an abusive relationship.

michellefromchicago's avatar

Trump‘s only real talent is his ability to abuse literally millions of people all at the same time

Mike Hammer's avatar

Unless you’re a heterosexual white Christian male, you’re probably right.

Deb Pierce's avatar

Myhoopbabies: that's because this IS abuse! He's abusing us all, and enjoying it immensely. It's as though he's raping the entire nation. Ugh.

devourerofpancakes's avatar

This feels like living in crazytown.

Linda Weide's avatar

I think everyone should take a day off from Trump, which I have mostly been doing today.

Victoria Wilson's avatar

I think there would have been a whole lot of people taking mental health days or just checking out completely for an undetermined time.I don’t know about others but yesterday for me was about as bad as it gets concerning Little Donnie F F and I have had it up to here with him.I just called my 2 Senators 10 times in one hour.I heard that gets a call noticed but I am not holding my breath.

Miselle's avatar

I called all four of Thune's offices asking him to do to Trump what the GOP senators did to Nixon back in the day. Midterms and impeachment isn't quick enough, and the cholesterol isn't either.

P123Sunny's avatar

Now THAT’S a game plan! WTG

Eva's avatar

I called my GOP Trump ass kissing rep and actually spoke to someone in the Tucson office, told them he needs to grow a spine. Also called Mark Kelly, my Senator, then later saw that he was on Jen Psaki. I know both he and Gallego do what they can.

Frank's avatar

I don’t know. Gallego is getting kind of wishy-washy regarding ICE.

PEACE, LOVE, RESIST's avatar

I called around 20 Republican senators last night. Not my own. I think the call volume was waaay up yesterday and it is my expectation that these dolts understand that Americans have had enough. He needs to go. Now.

CA Productions/Carol Ann's avatar

Of course they are still on vacation, again.

rlritt's avatar

Really? I wouldn't think that they care if you weren't one of their voters.

Martha Howell's avatar

Even if you are. I called Ron Johnson, and once his aide confirmed I live in Madison he responded with something about <sneer> people in *Madison* who don't have the right priorities.</sneer>. They basically write everyone who lives in WI's cities off. Republicans do not believe they represent all of us.

rlritt's avatar

That is unbelievable. I guess they are not you representatives then.

Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

Ordinarily that is the case, but this particular time is not ordinary.

rlritt's avatar

I email my Senators and Congressman. I usually get a response to my concern (probably from an aide. But a response none the less. Yesterday I sent an email about the Iran fiasco and got a response from my congressman and one senator within a few hours, and an email today from the other senator.

Joanne Rossmassler Fritz's avatar

I email mine all the time. Always get a thoughtful response from my Dem Representative, rarely get a response from my Republican Senator, and sometimes get a response from Fetterman, which mostly contradicts what he does in Congress!

devourerofpancakes's avatar

I get form letters from my D senator and bupkis from my R senator.

Stranger Than Friction's avatar

In less than a month, Americans can take part in the May 1st general work strike. On that day, don't shop, don't buy anything, don't work (unless you must). Use that time to write or call your Congress critters. Donate to or work for candidates who are opposed to this regime (don't trust republicans, though), and some of those might be going up against politicians (either in primaries or the general in November) who have failed to stand up. Check your voter registration status or register to vote. Track down the forms of ID they will probably demand to prove you are you and you are a citizen who can vote. The SAVE Act might be out, but it's like the undead and it might rise from its grave this year.

Denise Donaldson's avatar

I called both my POS GOP senators, neither of whom gives a rat's ass about his constituents or the country. One's D.C. mailbox was full (wonder why?), so I had to call another office. Called Thune and Johnson, too. For some strange reason <not>, J. Divan's voicemail message was directing people to the White House comments line, which in turn said to send an email. I kinda got the idea they don't want to hear from us. Huh.

Suki Herr's avatar

As were we all.

BTW Was Donald planning on bombing Iran while his VP was in Hungary? May have the timing wrong, just wondering?

Mary Sundberg's avatar

JD should be called a traitor. Imagine if Obama or Biden had their VP doing that.

Suki Herr's avatar

I always bristle at “Trump derangement syndrome”

That’s not the derangement syndrome causing problems.

We had a serviceable agreement with Iran. If not for “Obama derangement syndrome”which many voters felt&Trump’s white hot jealousy of Obama we might not be here.

Eva's avatar

The only derangement syndrome are the deranged idiots who still support him. I hate that term too.

BigDaddy52's avatar

Vance became a traitor long before he sold himself to Peter Thiel to get elected to the Senate.

Denise Donaldson's avatar

Yep. Those of us Ohioans who are sane have known that for quite a while.

J Hardy Carroll's avatar

Vance called him from the podium and the call went straight to voicemail. No lie.

Bob's avatar

But he called back to tell everyone that he “loves Viktor.” And Don Jr. was in Bosnia yesterday, schmoozing with the Serbian separatists, who want to carve off the part of Bosnia they live in to be come part of Serbia. They tried that 34 years ago and killed thousands in a genocide because living with Croats, Muslims and others is too much of a burden.

If there’s a fascist regime in the world, the Trump Crime Family can’t be far away.

J Hardy Carroll's avatar

In the old days they would be pinning medals and ribbons on one another until they looked like gaudy Christmas trees, but now it's just giant bribes in crypto (plus Escobar-sized bricks of blow for Junior). Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić would be right at home with these assholes. 100,000 people were killed in Bosnia between 1992 and 1995.

HI2thDoc's avatar

A stray Tomahawk or Cruise missile happens to rub out ol' JD by mistake? Oops.

CA Productions/Carol Ann's avatar

Orban is their dictator of choice and using his playbook to turn Ameica into and Autocratic Shit Hole.

Bob's avatar

The core mission of Project 2025.

Leu2500's avatar

no, you have the timing right. vance is in Hungary to try to help Orbann get reelected.

RZolu's avatar

Well, he DID try to have his last VP killed on Jan 6th...why not this one?

rlritt's avatar

All our allies are disgusted with Vance who is in Hungary gushing over Orban.

LJ's avatar

He wanted to hang Pence. Oops I mean the visitors to the Capitol in January 6 wanted to hang him.

Outdoorluvr's avatar

Yep. Same way he was watching his insurrectors on TV while they were setting up the noose platform for VP Pence.

SeekingReason's avatar

Jeff, I think we all would have been contacting friends in Mexico & Canada and packing for a visit.

Kay-El's avatar

I’d be taking a trip to the market to stock up on non-perishables.

Caroline (PDX)'s avatar

I've been doing that since the election.

Kay-El's avatar

I’ve had an emergency kit for years. Once a year I replenish it.

Beth's avatar

Basically, I was mental health breaking all day long - I didn't get shit done except for doom-scrolling

Eva's avatar

Same! and I had a lot to do

Cheri Collins's avatar

Same here, Beth. Even checking from 8pm on. 💁🏻

Miselle's avatar

Jeff, once again I ask you to consider starting a GoFundMe to raise a reward for the first journalist to take up your challenge. It would grow faster than any GoFundMe EVER. Gee--anyone know how a multi-national GoFundMe would work--can it accept dollars, euros, yen, etc. all at once?

The winner would never have to work again.

And for once INSTEAD of chewing my nails, waiting to see Demento drops nukes and starts WW3, the entire world can watch EVERY (insert bad word!) PRESSER to see "will TODAY be the day?!" 😁🙏🏼

Kim Steeves's avatar

I would actually bet on that!!!!!

Miselle's avatar

I'm sure Vegas could get that going, but my intention is to award the first journalist to ask Trump the Tiedrich question.

Kim Steeves's avatar

That is what I would be betting on, "Is today the day" and or "who shall it be?"

I would also contribute to your Go fund me. Sorry for the misunderstanding! LOL

Jean Jacoby's avatar

Or just make sure you don't live anywhere near a large cities especially DC, power plant, military installation, major airport, transportation hubs, battery or chip factory, Texas, Florida, or any US submarine ports.

Diane Findley's avatar

I'm dreading the Fourth of July in general but especially here in Philadelphia. What are we celebrating, anyway? Our country is gone. Yes, we're still here but we certainly aren't the same country. I wonder if it will ever come back....probably not in my lifetime.

Eva's avatar

WE haven't flown our flag or celebrated since that man took office. There's nothing to celebrate. I do want to get a flag that blends the Mexican and the American flag, just to be a pain in the ass...I'm of Mexican descent

Alison Taufer's avatar

I agree. There is nothing to celebrate. We’ve been eating tacos or Italian sausage and peppers on Fourth of July for the last 10 years, just as a big F*** you. We also read Frederick Douglass’ 1852 speech, “What to the Slave, is the Fourth of July?” This year, we are going to draw the drapes and binge on French movies all day. I’m not Mexican, but half my family is, and I grew up in Occupied Mexico. The racism and bigotry in this country has always been sickening, but under Trump it has been cultivated and celebrated to a truly nauseating degree.

Sue Martin's avatar

Same here, Eva. I took down my flag when the unthinkable happened. I replaced it with a big LGBTQ+ Ally Flag that flies proudly from my front porch. This is in support of my trans grandson, my lesbian sister, my gay neighbors, and everyone who is being persecuted by these MAGA Monsters. And like so many of y'all, yesterday was stressful as hell with constant doom scrolling. Today I'm going to spend the day playing with my six foster kittens and napping. Fuck DJT in the ass with a prickly pear!

Richard Von Busack's avatar

I like those flags--we see them a lot on Cinco de Mayo here in California's Richmond--

BluDotInARedSewer's avatar

Hang it upside down. And in tatters. Like our country.

CA Productions/Carol Ann's avatar

Sadly I live twenty minutes from Mara-shit-Hole.

PAUL's avatar

That's plenty close to fart in that general direction.

Leu2500's avatar

actually, it's better to live near those. get vaporized when the nuke is dropped.

Noel's avatar

I'm so glad I got the fuck out of Texas.

Kimberly's avatar

You should have seen my brunch yesterday since I thought it would be my last.

Eva's avatar

You and me and everyone else...I was seriously sitting here thinking, well, we're cooked.

maybe next time we all just ignore him since we know he's an energy vampire who thrives on the attention.

Bren M's avatar

If the rest of the world had started bombing us in return we’d have gotten permanent mental health breaks.

Gary D's avatar

When you gag up madness like "an entire civilization will die tonight," you had to wonder if he was starting to review the nuclear codes - and if Hegseth has corrupted the top brass at the Pentagon sufficiently enough to follow through. Then - the world would need a mental health break - and we'd wake up to a new world at that point. And wonder if "Republicans" were still OK with it.

Leu2500's avatar

neither the felon nor SecDrunk wrote that. neither waxes philosophical. & the felon can't use proper grammar, punctuation, etc. & if you saw SecDrunk this AM, it just reinforces that he didn't write it.

I want to know who is the Stephen Miller of Iran in the admin. cause that's who wrote it.

Gary D's avatar

I'd tend to agree save the fact that such a ridiculous statement was a monumental political blunder - and Miller is cunning as a pit viper. I can't imagine anyone outside of Trump thinking that projecting himself as a psychotic mass murderer was worth the shock value. But to your point - you can't tell the psychopaths without a scorecard.

Denise Donaldson's avatar

Agree---Dump didn't write it, so who's pulling the strings? Somebody waaayyyy back behind the curtain is making the decisions here.

Sharon C Storm's avatar

I was married to a malignant narcissist for 22 years. Back then, men had all the power. I couldn’t even have my own bank account. I feel the same way now as I felt back then.

Cwalker's avatar

You would not have been alone. The entire world would have joined you.

Donna Woods's avatar

I would have done the same. My anxiety was high yesterday.

DonP's avatar

If he had, I think we'd ALL be taking a mental health break today.

Ann Anderson's avatar

A morning meditation to calm and ground you in these difficult times:

Sit with your back straight and eyes closed. Picture a beautiful meadow. Birds are chirping. A fawn grazes. Donald Trump enters wandering aimlessly. Two uniformed men follow, rip off his toupe and drag him away by his overly long red tie. He is placed in a cell and fed baloney sandwiches on white bread for the rest of his miserable life.

Now slowly return to the present and have a great day!

SeekingReason's avatar

Ann, Thank you for that much needed break, but I was headed toward a slightly different ending to make myself happier! 🤔😁

Cyndi's avatar

One suggestion.

Demented Donnie comes wandering in, collapses, and the garbage men come and take him away?

SeekingReason's avatar

He would be considered toxic waste so not sure trash haulers could take him. 😁

Jan Moon's avatar

I'd like to see him either go into the compactor or a shredder.

Cathy 98280's avatar

Hmm. And what might that be?

SeekingReason's avatar

Cathy, I have a feeling you guessed it.

Leigh Hamilton's avatar

You guys keep teasing me with a good time.

HI2thDoc's avatar

We're doing PG-13 today with innuendo

Leigh Hamilton's avatar

Love that, "PG-13 with innuendo". Can I borrow it?

Leigh Hamilton's avatar

Feed him SPAM, cold, raw with no fork out of the can.

HI2thDoc's avatar

An insult to SPAM. Sorry, Hormel. SPAM deserves better

Deborah Hunter's avatar

Actually it doesn't.

Lady Emsworth's avatar

Excuse ME! - that's how I LIKE to eat my spam - with a jar of honey pickles as a side.

Leigh Hamilton's avatar

I could get behind a jar of honey pickles.

Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

Best meditation ever!

Susan Niemann's avatar

I like it! Thanks Ann.

Leu2500's avatar

not baloney sandwiches. salad.

Ann Anderson's avatar

Feel free to customize your visualizations, people.

myhoopbabies's avatar

Find out his food allergies then feed him that.

PAUL's avatar

Nah, he'd like the baloney. Make him eat tofu and kale sammiches.

Beth Bohon's avatar

Love it. Great meditation!!!

San's avatar

Trash Truck Donnie

michellefromchicago's avatar

Brava!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Jean D Lachowicz's avatar

I'm pretty sure this is all about one thing only: MONEY. The unrelenting chaos is generating inconceivable amounts of money for donald and his cronies playing the financial markets and playing the completely unregulated crypto and betting underbelly markets. Up is down, down is up, bad is good, good is bad....

Bonnie Boyce's avatar

A lot of tRump adjacent diques made millions on the market manipulation just this morning

HI2thDoc's avatar

Sounds like when he found out the Iranians are gonna levy that $million(s) toll his filthy lucre detector went off and he started down that "joint venture" fever dream rabbit hole.

Susan Niemann's avatar

Completely agree.

arne link's avatar

That is the truth. Everytime he does this there is immense insider trading. Read Zev Shalev for details

rlritt's avatar

Bingo!!! If the congress cuts off the spigot and he and his family and friends cant get rich anymore that will be the day he will resign.

devourerofpancakes's avatar

Trump isn't going to see a dime of Iran's money but Putin might. Hmmm.

Neal Stiffelman's avatar

So much of all this comes down to his stupidity.

And his constant lying. I’ve found that—as Dashiell Hammett noted in The Thin Man—those who lie most often and routinely are most easily tricked by lies. Netanyahu’s lies ensnared this moron and the weakness by everyone around him permitted this. All this. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: fuck.

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

The hilarious notion that Iran would form a joint-venture with the U.S. to toll tankers in the Hormuz Strait is just more deranged magical-thinking. I read this morning that we sent tons of weapons to some unknown entities in Iran at the start of the war, thinking Iranians would use them to revolt against the regime. Instead, they said "Don't mind if we do" and kept them all to aim at us.

Christine Zepka's avatar

I see your fuck, and raise my two fucks!!

Ann Panda's avatar

Wisconsinite here. That is the most we've ever had from Ron Johnson in the years he's been taking up space on our dime. He does not even bother to answer calls or emails. He doesn't even have a staffer answering the phone. Totally useless and corrupt.

HI2thDoc's avatar

Don't forget about the time he spent the Fourth of July in Russia in 2018, ostensibly to warn Russia not to interfere in the 2018 election. I call bullshit. All who went on that trip were rethuglicans who kowtow to trump, and they know he was elected because of Russian help.

Richard's avatar

Yes 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

Sadly Wisconsin had the chance to remove two years ago and blew it. My condolences.

Antoinette Powell's avatar

We could have had Russ Feingold.

Denise Donaldson's avatar

I mourn your loss of Senator Feingold. He's the best.

Leu2500's avatar

I saw you guys elected another dem to your state supreme court last night. Have a majority until at least 2030.

Lady Emsworth's avatar

BAsically it was a case of "Trump says "This is what I want to do!" and his admin all say "Uh, ok, Sir! We're with you!"

Joy's avatar

Fellow Badger here. I’m not surprised. I would much rather he not respond at all to my letters rather than send his “Thank you for your message and I will work tirelessly blah blah blah…” With RonJohn it’s all about the money.

Denise Donaldson's avatar

That's what Moreno says here in Ohio. Never any response to the issue. I ended up blocking his messages.

devourerofpancakes's avatar

But what about his telephone town halls where he spews nonsense? Do those count for nothing? (narrator: they count for nothing).

rlritt's avatar

Thats disgusting. I'm glad my representatives always respond even if its only coming from an aide. They address my issue specifically, which means someone is reading it.

Mary Greenwald's avatar

But he is re-elected by Wisconsin Voters!

arne link's avatar

Maybe there is election fuckery?

devourerofpancakes's avatar

The republican part of WI openly bragged about suppressing the vote in Milwaukee, biggest city with the most black constituents, during RoJo's last senate election.

Kathleen Weber's avatar

⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️Guess what!⁉️⁉️⁉️ The New York Times put out enlightening article about the run up to Trump's war on Iran. Apparently, he was told all the potential pitfalls but insisted on going ahead. For gift Link, click here.

https://kathleenweber.substack.com/p/gift-link-how-trump-took-the-us-to

Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

yeah, I saw that yesterday. everyone should read it

HI2thDoc's avatar

The blustering bully did say

He would blow a civilization away

But six hours later

His braggadocio did crater

Oh wait, it was TACO Tuesday

Scott Gilbert's avatar

Of course he was told. That's why he didn't attack Iran his first term, aside from still having grownups in the room.

Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

Did the gray lady accidentally commit a journalism?

HI2thDoc's avatar

If they did, it's a good bet it was accidental

HI2thDoc's avatar

His unique combination of obstinacy, stupidity, and greed are beyond description.

Who else but the sovereign of snooze

Can ignore, mistake, and confuse

That his stupid aggressions

Would not force Iranian concessions

But that they would close the Strait of Hormuz

Lady Emsworth's avatar

Basically it was a case of "Trump says "This is what I want to do!" and his admin all say "Uh, ok, Sir! We're with you!"

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Evidently War Pig Pete said they were offered a number of strategic diplomatic solutions to avoid war and ignored them because "It's more fun to shoot things."

rlritt's avatar

"Of all the foreign policy challenges Mr. Trump had confronted across two presidencies, Iran stood apart" This sentence totally sane washes Trump. It sounds as if he has an in depth understanding of the foreign challenges facing the US. He does not and never did. He only believes what last person said to him.

Kathleen Weber's avatar

Agreed. Trump would have had to have had at least 20 functioning brain cells for that sentence to reflect reality.

Unity In Defiance's avatar

Trump: “Hop in losers! We’re going losing!!”

God I hate this fucking timeline…

Scott Gilbert's avatar

"fuck you, you fucking fuck. you don’t get a cookie." But you CAN have two dolls and five pencils.

Troll Slayer's avatar

Operation Epic Blunder

vorpal 🚫♔'s avatar

Operation AIPAC Fury

djw's avatar

Or AIPAC FUBAR

vorpal 🚫♔'s avatar

stolen, not mine, but I'm keeping the trophy

Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

And James Comey can go fuck himself all the way back to 2016. He handed Trump the presidency with that bogus investigation into Hillary’s emails, just weeks before the election. How did that work out for old Jimmy? About the same way it did for the rest of us.

Leigh Hamilton's avatar

And I understand Comey was investigating Trump's association with Putin and Epstein over global money laundering, espionage, and sex and drug trafficking with 14 other co-conspirators. That investigation was separate from the routine "Epstein Pedo Files" that are still not released. And then Comey wants redemption from the public. I don't think that day will come for him.

Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

He’s on a long list of people who should never see redemption.

Leigh Hamilton's avatar

I couldn't agree more. I fantasize about where this country would be if Hillary had won. Perfect? That's never going to happen. Better? Undeniably.

HI2thDoc's avatar

He had said that his wife and daughters supported Hillary, so I hope they have given him shit non-stop

Outdoorluvr's avatar

Well, I sure wish his daughter, Maurene (sp?), would sound off about details of her investigations to Epstein... including her reasons for stopping AZ's investigation of Zorro Ranch.

Joyce's avatar

And Fudd Comer has now decreed that Pamnesia Blondi does not need to show up and explain herself, because the subpoena was issued to the Attorney General version of her and she's not the AG anymore. Except the subpoena was, in fact, addressed to just plain ol' Bitch Face Lying Eyes Blondi. Nevertheless, she is currently off the hook.

devourerofpancakes's avatar

And Todd Blanche, personal lawyer turned head of DOJ, says Trump can keep all the documents he supposedly never took? Sad times.

barb's avatar

That’s just fu**ing infuriating. These scum bags keep getting away with their sleazy manipulations.

P123Sunny's avatar

If trump wants to keep this winning streak up, he should just give Cuba Ft. Lauderdale now in exchange for a Havana Peace Prize

@swin24.bsky.social

Cyndi's avatar

Nah, keep them. Cuba can have Mar-a-Lago and Trump Presidential Library Hotel instead.

rlritt's avatar

He would probably prefer Cuba because the newly elected state senator for that district is a Democrat. (And female)

SeekingReason's avatar

P123Sunny, That sounds about right in comparison.

Paula Dean's avatar

Why not Miami? It's largely Cuban and sinking fast.

Mary Sundberg's avatar

If we had had 2 terms with Hillary and 1 with Kamala, we would NEVER be where we are now. You can't convince me other- wise. He is a human wrecking ball.

BigDaddy52's avatar

No. A wrecking ball can be stopped. NOBODY IS COMING TO SAVE US.

SeekingReason's avatar

We will now have our tax dollars go to reparations for an illegal, unnecessary war in Iran, while being told we can’t have health care for all here! Children can’t get breakfast in school here! And there are more dead children whose relatives will want revenge for. And toxins have been spewed into the air and ground. It affects us all to some extent. It is time for removal of the monster and the entire administration!! They’ve crossed the red line 10 times now!

Denise Donaldson's avatar

Reparations??? You really think that will happen? Rump's never paid for anything in his life. Ask E. Jean Carroll.

PunkAtHeart's avatar

It’s a shame he is too physically unwell to ride along in Artemis. They could’ve dropped him off somewhere out past the moon.

Jane's avatar

😂😂😂

Steve Kelly's avatar

There is really no peace possible in this country and on this earth until TACO Donnie Blunderbutt is gone. The sooner the better.

HI2thDoc's avatar

Hahaha, hey "America First" dummies, how d'ya like the cash Demento Donnie just handed to Iran for ransoming the Strait? MIGA, not MAGA.