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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

today in Shit That Happened While I Was Busy Writing This Shit—

oh look, ICE just shot and killed another person in Maine.

https://www.wmtw.com/article/significant-police-presence-pool-street-biddeford-maine/71917201

fucking ghouls

Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

so while Graham is still dead (and has not been resurrected yet, did someone push the stone away from his grave yet? Because I am half expecting it).

Then Mitch the Bitch— the walking filibuster, the man who bricked up a supreme court seat for a year like a gargoyle guarding an empty chair — crawls out of a hospital bed to announce he's still technically alive. Which I don't believe for a second.

Fuck him, he and Graham can go hang out.

https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-mcconnell-ai-image-released-lindsey-graham-still-dead

Jeff, keep resting, some of us can do the lifting too.

HI2thDoc's avatar

That photo screams fake. His complexion and general appearance are too hale compared to how he has looked for at least a couple of years; why is he not wearing a hospital gown; the blue side of the "bed" to his left looks more like a chair; where are the mechanical devices on the wall behind him usually seen in hospital rooms, notably the oxygen source; and as Jeff pointed out, if he had only had a fall, why the 911 call saying that CPR was in progress? Of course, if it turns out that McConnell's handlers, Thune, Barrasso, and Jennings have lied, I expect no repercussions since the Guardians of Predators party lies continually and with aplomb.

Coleen M's avatar

Saw where newspaper photo was analyzed and it was a Boston Red Sox photo from 2024.

HI2thDoc's avatar

Internet sleuths, do your thing

Linda Weide's avatar

Someone posted on a chat yesterday, "two down, one to go."

Ginny Hall's avatar

It's a photo of Chris Hacopian while he was playing for the Aggies. It matches the version that is on the Wapo internet page from Sunday, along with an article about him. https://wapo.st/4fbEvaW

HI2thDoc's avatar

Yeah, that photo was attributed to the July 12, 2026 WaPo, so at least if it's a faked photo they got the date of the newspaper correct. But it still looks contrived.

Teri Springer's avatar

It was PROVIDED to the WaPo....not taken by one of their photographers. Not unless he had a wayback machine. Was his name Sherman?

Ginny Hall's avatar

They're claiming "rehab center," so it won't look like a hospital room. I don't believe the photo either, but if he's somewhere for "rehab," that is more like a nursing home. I wonder when his wife came home.

HI2thDoc's avatar

Thanks for the clarification. Although even in a rehab facility the patients don't wear blue jeans and button down shirts

Ginny Hall's avatar

You're right. More like sweat pants or gym shorts and tshirts. Things that are easy to get on and off and allow easy movement during therapy. And he should look worse, not younger and well-rested, if he has just recovered from pneumonia.

Teri Springer's avatar

And like he's had his hair colored, a facelift and cheek fillers.

Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

But that m’effer has enough money to rehab at home or at a luxurious place. That photo is fake. His handlers want to keep their jobs and get paid with our money. I read where his daughter deleted all of her social media accounts. They are all liars.

Teri Springer's avatar

She was reported back in the US on July 7th.

Brian Riley's avatar

I don't think that photo is more believable than anybody else, but the interesting issue to me is this is turning us all into conspiracy theorists, and I'm not really sure how I feel about that.

At some level it really doesn't matter to me what condition McConnell is in, none of this is going to get the SAVE act passed which is important, and Trump seems to be moving to plan C for screwing up the midterms.

But as far as old Mitch, either he is going to take another wheel chair ride into the Senate at some point, or he'll have a "massive downturn" because obviously nobody is intent on telling us what his current condition is.

What are the odds on Polymarket at the moment, and why does it seem strange to me no news source has bothered to ask since they are generally keen on the subject...

HI2thDoc's avatar

I know what you mean about the conspiracy theory adjacency. But in this case, it's all too fishy and deliberately obscured. And whenever it's the GOP, you know there's malfeasance and ulterior motives involved.

SethTriggs's avatar

This is part of the problem with being ruled by narcissists, because in the end they challenge you to believe them or your own lying eyes. Also like narcissists in general, they lie like they breathe in order to keep control. And "fog of war" is also an exceptional means of control.

Suel J's avatar

Totally fake. What Bullshit

devourerofpancakes's avatar

IME, rehabilitation centers don't have all that stuff. And people are generally in clothes not gowns. That said, I don't believe this photo or the claim that his is out of the hospital and in a rehabilitation center. This party lies too much for any statement to be taken at face value.

Joanne Rossmassler Fritz's avatar

Of course it's fake! He looks at least ten years younger, if not twenty!

Karen Yaholnitsky's avatar

I saw a post this morning from Demark that showed the Picture of McConnell with his wife sitting in their backyard the only thing different was his wife's hand on his arm, and the hospital background. Why can't someone blow this farce our of the water before Aug. 3?

Jane's avatar

Totally agree!

Mingo's avatar

He's too pink. Yeah, where is the oxygen?

Sharzi A's avatar

I had three AI's check out the picture and all three said there was no watermark on them that would indicate they are AI's. But they also said there could be other programs used. They all said it's inconclusive.. but.. we all know they love those doctored pictures.

Teri Springer's avatar

It's an actual photo. It's just that it's OLD. Like 10-12 YEARS old.

SethTriggs's avatar

Now knowing that he looks younger in that pic of him in the hospital bed, I'm going "HUH?"

Given Murc's Law and the deference in the political and legal systems to the unreconstructed, these people have complete license to play in our faces. They lie like they breathe. I won't accept anything less than McConnell doing a live press conference.

Paula Dean's avatar

"look, I just got off the phone with Lindsey Graham. we chatted for about 20 minutes." And Miss Lindsey promised me a joint press conference with Bitch-Glitch-Mitch was scheduled for this afternoon! Elvis will be doing the interview, if his flight from Atlantis - with Amelia Earhart piloting - lands on time.

HI2thDoc's avatar

😂😂😂 Darn. I thought Elvis might hitch a ride on the Jersey Devil or Mothman.

Tess's avatar
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Absolutely Wendy! Agree!!!!! DAR vote was great news as your heroes section!

Kay-El's avatar

Gotta love this sentence: “Biddeford Police Chief JoAnn Fisk told Maine's Total Coverage that this was not her department's investigation and that her department was only investigating.” 🤔

devourerofpancakes's avatar

Syntax. Word choice. These are things that don't matter anymore.

Susan Niemann's avatar

OMG! You beat me to it. WUT??

Diana's avatar

I’m from Maine, graduated from Biddeford High School in 1976- so this really hits home! I know exactly where this senseless murder took place- not that far from the Police Station!

This is too much to comprehend- we were glued to find out more information from Minneapolis and couldn’t believe this was happening in the U.S.- but yes it’s only getting worse - detention centers ad sending people to other countries… Susan Collins better get involved in this latest murder- that’s what it is!

When it hits home- the feelings are totally different- I am just sad‼️

HI2thDoc's avatar

The king is dead. Long live the king!

Eva's avatar

Mother fucking militia

Joyce's avatar

Untrained, violent, moronic, racist sadists handed a massive arsenal and told to get busy indulging their filthy fantasies.

HI2thDoc's avatar

A years-long Kristallnacht

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

By an army of Kyle Rittenhouses.

BigDaddy52's avatar

trump's private....

AuntTeeFa's avatar

Wonder how many executions Miller put in his quota

Jeanne Leduc's avatar

MURDERED, not killed.

Anne Leonard's avatar

I was just going to suggest that even though it's rather old news now, you mention the City of Houston as a hero of the day. I've called Houston home for nearly 40 years, and the city is the very antithesis of Texas (one of the most liberal places I've lived -- and therefore often a target of our abhorrent state government). From US representatives to city officials to the people marching in the streets (in unbearable heat and humidity -- I've escaped to the mountains of NM), everyone is demanding justice. Salgado's murder has had me bummed for nearly a week and now the great people of Maine get to experience the anguish.

Chris Hierholzer's avatar

He looks kind of alive. I counted his fingers and there are 5. So there's that...

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Mitch looks brain-dead, even in the enhanced/fake rosy image. The 3,000 mile stare.

SethTriggs's avatar

Low-rent Sturmabteilung wilding out like the millions of Americans wanted...they are doing the ethnic cleansing America's Pilonidal Cyst promised.

Stephen Schiff's avatar

Someone please explain how his wife returned so quickly from China and why she went there in the first place.

If the picture is AI, then modest congratulations are in order for rendering a hand with five finger. Sentience is close at hand. /s

Teri Springer's avatar

She's been back since July 7th. And that is not AI nor is it photoshopped. It IS, however, an old photo. Neither of them look like this now.

Linda Weide's avatar

Buh-bye Lindsey!

Cathy Wray's avatar

When will ICE receive its karma?

Virgin Monk Boy's avatar

The thing about Lindsey Graham’s legacy is that the punchline was never really the death. It was the long public autopsy that came before it. Here was a man who could correctly diagnose Trump as a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot, then somehow spend the next decade acting like the diagnosis came with a loyalty oath. He was not a statesman. He was a weather vane in a navy suit, spinning toward the nearest strongman, donor class, camera, or grand jury exit sign. So yes, cue the Monty Python parrot routine. But the real ex-senator was moral courage, and it died in Lindsey long before Lindsey did.

Gary Moeller's avatar

Lindsey Graham died of chronic, untreatable hypocrisy!

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

I remember him as one of the House managers of the Clinton impeachment and how he was in tears when the Senate acquitted him. I never associated him with "moral courage."

Ann Anderson's avatar

LIndsey Graham never wasted an opportunity to waste an opportunity. He could have made this country better. He could have made the lives of millions better. He chose golf with the Fuckwit. Fuck you, Lindsey. I hope John McCain is kicking your ass from one end of the universe to the other.

Joyce's avatar

Miss Graham was never interested in making the lives of anyone else better. His whole reason for existence was to serve himself. I will play armchair psychiatrist and theorize that, in order to protect his closeted life, he sought to ally himself with any power, using that associated power and his influence with it to hide whatever deep, dark secrets he was hiding.

Ann Anderson's avatar

All the while pickled in alcohol. Sad person, sad life, bad news for the rest of us.

Mary Greenwald's avatar

He was in love with Trump. Whether Trump reciprocated, we will never know unless there is a Graham Diary waiting to be found in his estate.

HI2thDoc's avatar
2hEdited

Yes, something big happened on that golf outing that turned Graham into a trump ball licker. Must be something kompromat related.

Graham cracker, we knew ye too well

Bending over for trump was your tell

You didn't even disdain

When he insulted McCain

Enjoy your MAGA-fueled Hell

Susan Niemann's avatar

Agree....the blackmail musta been really good. And there was plenty of it, I'm sure.

rlritt's avatar

He didnt need blackmail, he just needed to see which way his constuents' wind blew.

Jayme Wolworth's avatar

His NDA's are no good anymore. I'm wondering if all the rumors were true. We shall see.

Fastball Fredo's avatar

Doc …..Graham Cracker… man, that’s f***ing gold..👏🏻 you win the internets today my friend… gold I tell ya…🫨🫨🫨

Richard's avatar

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Mingo's avatar

Donnie must have many pictures of people with their pants down.

Jane's avatar

🤣🤣🤣

Fastball Fredo's avatar

Jeff, DC has very competent law enforcement which includes detectives, investigators and medical examiners. Detectives who specialize in at home deaths, deaths that occur naturally at home such as folks with long term issues such as cancer or let’s say a history of heart issues. DC detectives also specialize in murders- homicides in various degrees. All this to say DC has a very competent law enforcement team ….My question….Why involve the FBI? What can they accomplish that Metropolitan Police Department cannot? IMHO it seems that FBI is present at the scene to “clean up on isle 1”. Clean up any sordid details that are located in Graham’s residence.. a black book or a list off Grinder or wipe his computer… It’s all rather strange, but no stranger than the way Mitch’s health event is being described. Best to All Fellow Travelers..

HI2thDoc's avatar

Hmmm, the flooring in the residence is being changed or already has been by now. Why?

Joyce's avatar

Most likely because he bled all over the place--when the aorta bursts, it's a bloody event.

HI2thDoc's avatar

That was attributed to Graham. And usually a burst aneurysm or a dissection of the aorta is an internal event.

Joyce's avatar
2hEdited

My father died of an aortic aneurysm: I can verify to you that it is not solely an internal event. And his situation was not as catastrophic as the description is of Miss LG's.

HI2thDoc's avatar

I did not read the description of Graham's event. I suppose if chest compressions are performed, blood would extravasate through the mouth. I have no firsthand knowledge and yield to your experience.

arne link's avatar

Oh, where does the blood come out? Don't they just bleed into the stomach?Asking for a friend.

Joanne Rossmassler Fritz's avatar

If it's a brain aneurysm that doesn't seal itself (as mine did), it comes out the ear, Arne. For an aortic rupture, though, I'm not sure, but there would have been a lot of vomit.

Susan Niemann's avatar

YIKES! I'm glad you're ok, Joanne.

arne link's avatar

Sorry for asking. It's pretty gross. I'm so glad that your aneurysm healed itself. I hope my question didn't trigger bad memories.

Joanne Rossmassler Fritz's avatar

No worries. I'm used to it now. But remember when John Ritter died of an aortic aneurysm? He thought he had the flu because he was vomiting continually.

Joe Witkowski's avatar

Removing all traces of man chowder

Richard Von Busack's avatar

After having rewatching Michael Clayton recently, I sure hope they check the spaces between the late lamented senator's toes.

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Seriously. Trump took the occasion to make Lindsey's death all about himself, but what happens now to the "formula for peace between Ukraine and Russia", the plan worked out with Zelensky that Graham was beaming about? Into the crapper?

Joanne Rossmassler Fritz's avatar

For those of us who haven't seen it, what was between his toes? Thanks.

Major Kong's avatar

Needle marks from where the assassins injected a prescription drug into a character. Made it look like a suicide.

Teresa G's avatar

FBI is posturing. Patel got called to the whitehouse late last week

He was on the tarmac going to watch his “girlfriend “ in a concert or something similar.

He is doing the cya, see how impotent I am routine. No not a typo.

Cathy Wray's avatar

Wow, Teresa, missing that "r" really changes the definition!!! haha!!

Major Kong's avatar

I wondered about the FBI too.

George A. Polisner's avatar

Thank you Jeff.

Let me reflect on all the good things Graham did over the past few years.

[ ].

Now waiting patiently for Schrödinger’s Mitch.

Ginny Hall's avatar

Robert Reich did list a few. He supported a path to citizenship for Dreamers; in 2013 he supported a bipartisan immigration bill that passed the Senate and failed in House; and he strongly supported Ukraine against Trump's buddy. He didn't vote for Trump in 2016, and he spoke against Jan 6. But he has no backbone, and he ended up supporting Trump in this term while the most egregious things were happening. So on net he was very, very bad.

Jean Jacoby's avatar

Too many skeletons rattling around in Lindsey's closet.

Mary Greenwald's avatar

That was Graham 10 years ago. Whether it was his pickled brain or his bromance with Trump, searching for good deeds by Graham is a non-starter. When a murderer is caught, the family tries to put a good spin on his life. The rest of us look to the latest deed. Graham had 10 years of bad deeds. That culminates his life.

devourerofpancakes's avatar

The problem is, he supported the Trump regime and never took a real stand after Trump won office.

AuntTeeFa's avatar

Lindsey and Mitch are responsible for Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.

May they rot in peas

Lee Saloutos's avatar

As well as many other aspects of our current shitstorm..

Susan Niemann's avatar

Oh! More Monty Python. Thats such a brilliant piece and this is a perfect use for it here!

I can imagine they're keeping Mitch locked up in a cooler somewhere until the time is right to say, ohhhh Poor Mitch. he succumbed to his injury last night. The blatant lying and corruption in our government is off the charts. 🙄

And yeah, I need to see him actually speak cause the photo is fishy as hell.

arne link's avatar

I would gladly check myself into the hospital if doing so would take three years off my appearance. It would be a bargain.

Joyce's avatar

Well, if you go to school, you can get a free sex change, so it can't be too difficult for a hospital to turn back the hands of time. Although--teachers can do gender reassignment surgery in a single afternoon, so AM Johnny can go home as PM Sally; I wonder why it takes a full hospital staff a whole month to chip a couple of years off Moscow Mitch.

Susan Niemann's avatar

😂😂😂 Ah yes...science is doing remarkable things! HA!

Cathy Wray's avatar

Joyce, excellent!!

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

Ever see the movie "Seconds?"

rlritt's avatar

He could actually be on life support. In which case, his wife would have to agree to take him off it. Hence the fast getaway to China, I'm sure paid for by concerned colleagues.

Jane's avatar

Was thinking the same thing

Kay-El's avatar

“Lyndsey” was one of Trump’s most loyal puppets until he wasn’t, then he was. I wonder who was manipulating those strings.

Chief Panty Sniffer Mace should run just to lose again.

Susan Niemann's avatar

She should run to lose...cant that bitch take hint? Good grief. 🙄

Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

I’m shocked that Mace did so poorly. Apparently, being able to add “Capitol bathroom attendant” to one’s resume isn’t the flex we thought it was.

Susan Niemann's avatar

She's just so crazy... she comes across as way too over the top.

Major Kong's avatar

I was surprised also. She came in fifth.

Richard's avatar

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Tess's avatar

Well we certainly can’t believe anything we see from the “media” these days. Every report looks to be a doctored up lie-as you infer! Can we please get some sanity back in America??? Claudia looks very relaxed and lovely. ❤️. Hope everyone has a peaceful week…….(sure Jan!) 🤷🏻‍♀️

MountainBoyMike's avatar

Uncle Jeff, a quick search of that picture turned up this:

The photo of Senator Mitch McConnell in a red plaid shirt with his wife, Elaine Chao, was originally taken in March 2023 during his recovery and physical rehabilitation for a concussion and rib fracture

Susan Niemann's avatar

THANK YOU! Google Images? I was going to go there next!

MountainBoyMike's avatar

I just googled the description of the pic and that's what came up...I had read yesterday that the pic was confirmed to be from a few years ago

Joanne Rossmassler Fritz's avatar

Thank you. Only 3 years ago? Why does he look ten years younger?

MountainBoyMike's avatar

maybe his conscience finally caught up with him

arne link's avatar

That photo is obviously AI. Why do all the news outlets report it as if it's real? Oh, why ask why?

DuduLovesBubu's avatar

Even those pricks at Meidas Touch were acting like that photo was legit as I fucking launched a string of profanities at their reporting. How fucking hard is it to say we're looking into the authenticity of this report put out by his office. Fucking Republicans lie about EVERYTHING!

Kiera Stroup's avatar

Mitch is dead. These people are rapacious liars and can fuck directly off. Hell is getting crowded, but I’m sure they can squeeze in one more.

HI2thDoc's avatar

When you're finally dead, asshole Mitch

Go straight to Hell without a hitch

You wielded your authority

To harm every minority

And only help the rich

Cathy Wray's avatar

Great poetry!!🎖

Frosty McGillicuddy's avatar

TO THE TUNE OF "OKLAHOMA..."

Mar-a-Lago

Where corruption bounces off the walls

And a Botoxed face

Gets a warm embrace

With secrets hidden in the stalls!

Mar-a-Lago

Where Junior inhales all his coke

And Donny deems

His rancid schemes

Will make everyone but him go broke!

The place smells of feces and dead feet

And run by an obese orange cheat

So when we say FUCK!

A yippee yip eye yay!

FUCK!

PLEASE GO TO HELL!

MAR-A-LAGO

Oh F-U-C-K Y-O-U

MAR-A-LAGO

FUCK YOU!

This is the original song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGXu0j6QDJ8 The tune starts about 40 seconds in.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

A parody most excellent

Of MAGA bull excrement

And shallowness, treason, and scams

Frosty, you're lit

This would be a hit

Broadway resistance jams!

Susan Niemann's avatar

HA! You two need to go on the road! So good! 👏👏👏👏

Susan Marleau Whelan's avatar

Thanks for letting me know what the tune was. It helped me sing along with it.😀

Lee Saloutos's avatar

Wonderful [modified for the situation] quote: “Sure, Mitch McConnell was evil, but don’t forget that Lindsey Graham did everything he did, only backwards and in high heels.” Originally said about Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Attribution: https://www.reelclassics.com/Actresses/Ginger/ginger-article2.htm

WildKnitter's avatar

Hilarious, as usual! I actually put Mitch’s “proof of life” photo through some AI detector and it said it was “21% Real.” I’ve seen other people surmise that this is probably a real picture(s) of them both, but from about five years ago, cobbled together with a hospital bed to look “authentic.”

HI2thDoc's avatar

Haha, too bad AI didn't relabel it "proof of death warmed over"

Susan Niemann's avatar

🤣🤣🤣🤣

arne link's avatar

See where his hand is resting on the recent newspaper? There is a little halo where his finger lies. That is a tell, or so I'm told. At least the people who prepared this farce didn't go with the six fingers thing.

rlritt's avatar

Really? How do they do that? Im complety ignorant when it comes to computerized fake photos.

WildKnitter's avatar

You can go into any AI application (like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Claude, etc.) and prompt it to create a picture of a person. These people probably asked for a picture of Mitch and his wife. They could have then asked for the picture to include a newspaper for the current date. Basically, you give the AI prompts (hospical room, etc.) until you arrive at the image you want.

rlritt's avatar

Wow, so esay.

arne link's avatar

Sorry, I don't know how it's done. Someone else here showed that it was a newspaper from 2024.