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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

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

inflation is out of control, up to its highest level in two years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cde56g80xp5o

Unity In Defiance's avatar

For the GOP it wasn’t enough that we couldn’t afford to be homeowners anymore — they had to be sure we needed to go out weekly selling our plasma for gas money.

Next goal for the GOP is harvesting our organs for groceries.

P123Sunny's avatar

And yet he STILL has approval ratings ‘over zero’… smdh

Denise Donaldson's avatar

Read yesterday that, yes, he does have a looney tunes base, BUT it's shrinking. His worshippers have decreased 6% so far this year.

So even though his approval rating should be in large negative numbers, the frenzy might be wearing off a bit.

To those 6%, I say, no, you don't get a pat on the back.

Carthago Delenda Est's avatar

Well, if it helps, Melanoma's ratings are currently -12. Lowest ever for any First Lady.

I feel good about that. In a schadenfreude sort of way.

Denise Donaldson's avatar

So, Rump's cult doesn't like the Slovenian goldigger? That's pretty interesting....

P123Sunny's avatar

Weird how followers were also lost through covid, etc. Not to mention age / over time - yet the number is always reported as a solid 31-ish percent…?!

Denise Donaldson's avatar

Well, we know from the Young Republicans' emails that were released last year that there are plenty of 18-to-30-somethings who've joined the cult. Maybe legacy younger-generation members from other groups, as well.

Tonya Browning's avatar

I don’t understand how that is possible, but then I got into a Facebook argument with my cousins neighbor who thinks all his talk about wiping out a civilization was a “tactic”. Jesus, what is wrong with these people? They’d drink the cyanide if Trump offered it!! 🤦🏻‍♀️

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

Everything is wrong with them. It is a fanatical religion that worships trumplethinskin as their messiah.

Belfora's avatar

trumplethinskin! Ohhhhh I am so stealing that!

Tonya Browning's avatar

It’s a cult!! In 2020, I watched a documentary on Jonestown. At the end of it, I was saying “OMG!” I saw similarities with MAGA, & Trump eerily looks like Jim Jones!

PTW's avatar

Same thing my MAGA congressional "representative" said in an interview---"he believes Trump’s rhetoric is a savvy strategic choice to illustrate to them that he was not bluffing."

I was on hold calling his office, then realized I was so angry I thought I might have a stroke. So I hung up. I did email later, for all the good it does to contact these people.

Doc Blase''s avatar

Prussic acid in the face is a "tactic".

Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

There’s a lot of shared ignorance in these quasi united states Sunny!

Ole Anderson's avatar

‘Nobody ever lost a dime overestimating the stupidity of the American public’

PT Barnum

Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

shouldn't that be 'under'estimating?

Ole Anderson's avatar

I’ve heard it both ways. I really should look it up.

Now it will be a brain worm the rest of the day as I try to figure out which is more appropriate. Dagnabbit!

Denise Donaldson's avatar

Maybe because it's impossible to overestimate, so there's no way to lose money on it?

Jan Moon's avatar

The only reason I can think of for the support is a contagious case of head-up-my-ass-and-not-paying-attention. There are literally millions of them around. They line up their beer, their video games, Fox News, and toss critical thinking, association with anyone who doesn't wear a red hat into the dumper. I know some.

Ellyn's avatar

I’m old- and mostly lived my life right on or below the poverty line. I’ve been able to see GOP fuckery for decades because- here I go with the part I dislike about everyone else - sorry- it’s been intimately & personally affecting me for all those decades.

What’s now wild - and super sad- is it seems the majority of Americans have settled down to my net income level and it’s intimately affecting THEM- and it seems they don’t like the GOP fuckery either!!

What a time to be alive! 💕

Bonnie Boyce's avatar

This does seem true. I'm nearly 70...retired 10 years. Professional degree/career. Today I posted my resume on Monster.com

Sooz Hall's avatar

I don’t really “like” what you wrote, but maybe this is better 🤗😍❣️

rlritt's avatar

Hey, that just means you're entrepreneurial.

Unity In Defiance's avatar

lol going all private equity only with our bodies…. This timeline sucks… sigh…

Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

AND then having to put up with this generation's calling you 'a boomer who did nothing to make THEIR lives better'. Ugh. The cluelessness is so beyond.

Frank Nuts's avatar

Would be funny if it wasn’t tragically true.

What a clusterfuck of evil this republican regime is

Marian Vitale's avatar

Shit that happened while you were writing this shit was also Dear Leader posting an actual video of an actual man unaliving an actual woman on TruthSocial. Is THIS "bottom" for the Republicans? Or have we lowered the basement yet again?

HI2thDoc's avatar

They have no bottom.

HI2thDoc's avatar

I just realized this is a semantic paradox of epic proportions. They are assholes who have no bottoms. I’ll see myself out

Irascible Ink's avatar

No worse than "So shut your mouth when speaking about me." Which is actually pretty stellar. I'ma gonna save that one. 😂

Mike Hammer's avatar

Assholes with no bottoms in an interesting image!

Lady Emsworth's avatar

That's beautiful, H12!

Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

I guffawed when I read it - so, a new one for my permanent collection. :)

DuduLovesBubu's avatar

I beg to differ. Lady G fancies himself as quite a bottom.

NEAL O'CONNOR's avatar

When they locate the bottom, they start saying, "Drill, Baby, drill!" There will never be a true bottom to their behavior.

devourerofpancakes's avatar

None of this is presidential so why won't the MSM say so?

Marian Vitale's avatar

Thankfully I moved out of the US in 2015, so I don't have to see US media unless I expressly choose to. I watch YouTube replays of Rachel and Lawrence and otherwise follow Jeff T., Aaron Rupar, HCR, and Aaron Parnas. Much healthier.

Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

Watch Nicolle Wallace's relatively new 'The Best people' interviews (no holds barred). She's had Rachel on, Robert de Niro and all kinds of utterly terrific people. Nicolle herself is one of MY favourites as well as all of those you mention. Also Brian Tyler Cohen, Marc Elias, David Pakman, Luke Beasley...not a one will leave you regretting watching. :)

Marian Vitale's avatar

Oh I like her too. My list wasn’t exhaustive. I also listen to Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin.

Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

Thanks! Wasn't sure. ;) Appreciate the heads up about another I didn't know about! We Elizabeths sure get around, lol. I realize my 'add-on' list was male-heavy but honestly, I DO have a ton of women I listen to and watch. Unsure if you've ever seen/heard of Christinatalkst? She's downright hilarious. From Alabama, so uses baby, honey, mostly not as 'endearments', lol. Calls the fuckwit grandpa dumpypants. She 'brings the tea' several times a day with fairly short clips which keep my own spirits up in between Jeff's posts. People liken her to Betty Boop (she has a bit of that dark hair, big-eyed thing going on, so she has some merchandise making fun of it while having NO compunction about spilling the 'tea' about frump.

Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Our overlord billionaire cabal Devour, they own our media.

Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

MSNow does - every single day!

Runfastandwin's avatar

they are all in on it.

Tonya Browning's avatar

British people are disgusted with him. I often hear “He is no statesman!”

Frank Nuts's avatar

There is no basement Marian….just a bottomless pit….that appears to lead straight to hell

AuntTeeFa's avatar

Take it away Alex Jones

Tonya Browning's avatar

I have to agree with HI2thDoc, they have no bottom!

Carthago Delenda Est's avatar

Why say 'unaliving'? Killing. Murdering. Beating to death with a hammer.

All suitable descriptors.

Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

Sites such as Instagram don't allow words such as murder or killing, so people became creative, came up with 'unaliving' just so their posts could see the light of day. I DO know the pedophiliac monstrosity in our White House didn't show (but don't you look at!) the photo of the little blonde 7yr old standing terrified behind the WHITE male truck driver who'd kidnapped her and was about to rape and murder her? No, THAT he probably searched for a video of to watch 'with glee'. racist pedophiliac rapists gotta do what they gotta do, y'know? I fucking LOATHE him.

Terry's avatar

Tiktok also has many, many restricted words. After awhile, you get used to not only typing their preferred words out, saying them also.

Helen Stajninger's avatar

This is what he wants to do to Melania now? The President is posting this. MSM is quiet on this. The GOP “didn’t see this”. He can’t possibly go lower, can he???

J Glaspie's avatar

He's been doing it every day, and you have to ask???

Helen Stajninger's avatar

True. But the posts are getting more mad ( crazy) by the hour.

J Glaspie's avatar

Someone needs to fit him in a straitjacket, and fast.

MountainBoyMike's avatar

Uncle Jeff, he also announced he is dismantling the US Forest Service...I mean, elon shitstain can't become the world's first trillionaire without a little sacrifice from the American people

Joanne Rossmassler Fritz's avatar

This needs more attention on Substack! (Because you know the mainstream corporate media is ignoring it) The US Forest Service is being destroyed! They're closing all the regional offices and moving the headquarters to Salt Lake City, and what's left of it is being run by billionaire lumber producers! https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-forest-service-a-force-across-rural-america-reorganizes-under-trump

devourerofpancakes's avatar

This is all very bad but in keeping with Trump's extraction at all costs "policy".

Frank Nuts's avatar

OMG Joanne, the grift and graft is so thick I’m suffocating and it’s barely reported on if at all. I’m very disappointed in our media. They’ve totally forgotten what their purpose is. I always believed corruption was newsworthy; but no, now it’s just “Friday”.

DebJS's avatar

As an Oregonian, this is beyond infuriating. They're already targeting our old-growth forests we fought long and hard to protect.

Joanne Rossmassler Fritz's avatar

What a shame! Old-growth trees took hundreds of years to grow. Not easy to replace.

Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

AND which literally clean the very air we breathe! These people (if we can call them that) are SO fucking stupid!

Gaily's avatar

Re the dismantling of the USFS: no mention of how that will affect wildlanf fire fighting. Seems I heard 💩 say at one time “just let it burn”

Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

gaily, probably referring to California under Gavin Newsom - y'know, another on his long list of perceived 'enemies', the fucking fuckwit. Did it ever dawn on him that IF he wasn't such a damned stupid moronic LOSER, he might not have 'enemies'?

MarciaMarciaMarcia's avatar

Thank you for sharing this Joanne. I had heard or had seen snippets of this but this article pulled it all together. If there is anything good left in our country it is a target for trump to ruin. We can hope this gets sidelined like many of his hate projects because some new shiny hate project comes along.

T L Mills's avatar

😱😠🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

Catherine's avatar

Mountain BoyMike thanks to you and Joanne R.F. for bringing this up, this has me gutted, we have to stop it! Alt national parks on Facebook is covering this well and has built a website-their strategy is to call on all brands that get their business from outdoors public lands (our public lands!!!) to help fight this with their influence and lobbying etc-a lot of brands are stepping up to help, so check out that website with various different brands (there's so many, think about it: hiking, backpacking, rock climbing, mountain biking, skiing, paddling, sup boarding, boating, photography, fishing, hunting, rv-ing, camping, 4 wheeling, van-life-on and on) and you can email or social media contact them, we need them all, and all of us to fight this-they are trying to sell the land off, privatize it, ruin it by reckless, destructive extraction companies, shut down scientific research😭. Let's all do what we can-sound the alarms SoS!!! We won't get another chance to save our land!!!

Joanne Rossmassler Fritz's avatar

Yes! Thank you, MountainBoyMike, for bringing it up in the first place. And thank you, Catherine, for the excellent suggestions. You’re so right— we won’t get another chance. Once the forests are chopped down, they’re gone forever. Remember this, everyone! Contact your reps! Demand they stop this! Or sign up with your favorite outdoor brands at Alt National Parks to fight this.

Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

I've been signed up for nearly a decade now with the Native Americans who LIVE within and around the Grand Canyon - to prevent fuckwit from allowing mining for Uranium right up to the Canyon's fragile RIM! The very idea is beyond comprehension...would cause untold damage - for me, the Canyon is my own personal touchstone, becoming so upon my first glance and it's always in my mind so I cannot imagine what it must feel like for those people and wildlife dependent on it for their survival. While I LOATHE him and the family which allowed him to become this mentally deficient monster, I now truly hate him for imagining the Grand Canyon (one of THE Wonders of our World) to be simply a 'toy' for him to defoul and destroy because his pathetic brain just doesn't comprehend its beauty or of the other National Parks which are OURS, belonging to We The People, not him or his greedy oligarchs! I've been to Yosemite - also magnificent and Niagara Falls (of course). Every single one of our special places can NOT be allowed to be mucked with by these know-nothings!

Claudia Montague Wheatley's avatar

Please note that the Biden administration did absolutely nothing wrong when inflation spiked in 2022. Supply chains were still fucked up due to the (Trump-managed) pandemic, then Russia invaded Ukraine.

Whereas every bad economic indicator is directly tied to some fucking insane thing—tariffs, wars—that Donald Trump insisted on doing, because he was always stupid, but now he is stupid AND has late-stage dementia.

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

He's right that we're the "hottest country." But only because we're going to hell.

Joanne Rossmassler Fritz's avatar

Or maybe because the climate crisis is burning up the planet?

Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

he's also turning us into a 'shithole' country, yet his magat cultists can't see it, even while they're circling the drain with him. The stupid, it BURNS!

DebJS's avatar

And has a huge axe to grind because we rejected him resoundingly in 2020.

Wendymae's avatar

And another thing about inflation that pisses me off...this shit about "core inflation" that doesn't include food and gas prices, when those are the prices that are rapidly making our money disappear.

AuntTeeFa's avatar

Thank Ronnie Raygun for that

Denise Donaldson's avatar

That has always passed me off. Most recently, under Biden, the ivory-tower pundits talked about how the economy was doing well because core inflation was down. But food and utility prices never went down. They've been rising steadily since the pandemic began.

Wendymae's avatar

And housing prices never went down. My rent increased 50% between 2021 and '25.

Denise Donaldson's avatar

I hear you. Our grocery bill has almost doubled in the last three years, and utilities have at least doubled. Just for us personally, it doesn't matter if, say, the cost of durable goods hadn't gone up that much before the idiot's tariffs, because we can't afford any big-ticket purchases. Day-to-day expenses are what most of us are worried about.

Wendymae's avatar

I got an oil change the other day and it cost 50% more than last year. Then, feeling much poorer I went to Aldi and all the prices seemed considerable higher. Though I did find some frozen strudels on clearance for just over a buck so I bought 2 just to experience getting a bargain. LOL. They are delicious though.

Zija Pulp's avatar

Speaking of price increases, I got a home heating oil bill the other day: $1,215. Same number of gallons (213 gallons). Rate went up to $5.699/gal. I’ve lived in NE all my life. Never saw a rate like that. Thanks, Donny.

Lucinda Abra's avatar

Zija: Got my propane bill. $2,029. I've lived here in the Hudson Valley for decades and never received an invoice for such a high amount.

Zija Pulp's avatar

I have propane, too—for my washer and dryer, stove, and gas fireplace. Can’t wait to see how much that bill will go up. Gee, ain’t life great! 🤪

Lucinda Abra's avatar

OMG, Zija, prepare yourself. I nearly fell over when I saw the amount due.

devourerofpancakes's avatar

Anyone who has been grocery shopping for the last two years knows this.

Marc Panaye's avatar

But at least little miss Lindsey got her magic bubble wand......

rlritt's avatar

You would think some Trump supporters would be angry about this. Idk if they care.

verne's avatar

wha happened to ''thank you for your attention to this matter?" i'm decisively and strongly missing it...

Eva's avatar

Totally self imposed, nary a killer germ in sight

Phil Weltner's avatar

A hale and hearty FU to all the useless lazydumbasses who couldn't get off their ample backsides to drive to the polling place; and to the buttuglydumbass morons who thought they were voting for cheaper eggs when we'd just emerged from a bird flu epidemic. Y'all got exactly what you wanted.

Mr Mild - BlueVotingBastard💙's avatar

In other shit that happened yesterday: The Guardian - Trump posts graphic viedo of woman’s killing in Florida.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/10/trump-graphic-video-florida-woman-killing

devourerofpancakes's avatar

He has to reignite hatred against immigrants.

Eileen's avatar

Thanks for explaining why he would post a murder.

devourerofpancakes's avatar

Well that and he is a truly horrible person.

Denise Donaldson's avatar

I suspect he's a big fan of snuff films. Maybe even made a couple, for real. That's what he doesn't want to come out on the Epstein files.

Joanne Rossmassler Fritz's avatar

The kicker is, according to the Guardian, the man was born in North Carolina! So he’s not an immigrant.

Lucinda Abra's avatar

I honestly thought the White House created a video of a man killing a woman with a hammer. That is how out of control they are every single day- that a citizen figures it was "just Dump being Dump."

T L Mills's avatar

🤬🤬🤬🤬

AuntTeeFa's avatar

Bankruptcy number seven is it?

Just on the horizon

Robert Eckert's avatar

He's running the country like he runs his businesses

Munchygut's avatar

Yeah, into the ground.

Patricia Williamson's avatar

Shit that happened: Trump's people threatened the Pope which is why he canceled his trip to the USA. I am having a hard time believing how far we have sunk, since Trump has been in Office.

Doreen Dalesandro's avatar

But, Jeff, it's President Obama and Biden's fault🤓🖖

Unity In Defiance's avatar

I really don’t care do you?

That should be the headline for every outlet reporting on her impromptu presser — looking at you New York Times…

PEACE, LOVE, RESIST's avatar

I love how she speaks of her reputation being tarnished. Her reputation is and has been in the shitter for years. Not sure where she gets the idea that anyone thinks highly of her. Jeff is right, it’s so obvious that she married that ugly loud mouthed piece of shit for his money and probably thought it wouldn’t be a long wait to become a widow, based on his horrendous diet. Pictures don’t lie. She can try and talk her way out of what people plainly see with their own eyes, but even the dumbest maga incel can see the truth. She and her “husband” deserve each other. Equally vile.

Kimberly Sandwisch's avatar

Peace, I nearly spit my beverage all over myself when she said her “reputation” was tarnished! 🤣 The first picture that popped into my mind was her posing naked with another model! No judgement here, she was probably doing what she had to do to pay her rent, but, puhleese, don’t worry about a poor reputation! She must think she’s up there with Jackie Kennedy, Jill Biden, & my personal fav, Michelle O!

Mr Mild - BlueVotingBastard💙's avatar

Vanessa Williams was the first Black woman to win the Miss America title.

Her reputation was ruined, and she resigned her title, after Bob Guccione printed nude pictures of her in Penthouse. She was later able to regain her reputation through talent and hard work.

Melania’s got nothing on Vanessa Williams.

Bonnie Boyce's avatar

Kinda agree with ya. Vanessa Williams is my absolute favorite Miss America.

2Cats2Furious's avatar

I loved Ms. Williams on “Ugly Betty.” She was a delight.

PEACE, LOVE, RESIST's avatar

Absolutely! I love the maga women who idolize her and say she’s so elegant and a classic beauty. I can’t get those naked pictures of her out of my mind whenever I see her. And she brags about her accomplishments. What accomplishments would that be? Be best? Seriously?

Teddy Gingerich's avatar

Ever wonder what her son thinks when those photos surface again?

PEACE, LOVE, RESIST's avatar

I’m pretty sure he’s seen them. I just wonder what he thinks about his parents being besties with the world’s most notorious pedophiles and child sex traffickers. How does a kid wrap his head around that and also know that his criminal dad was elected president—twice? The kids gotta be messed up for sure.

AuntTeeFa's avatar

He’s a sociopath in training

arne link's avatar

Some people say that Barron is on the spectrum, not that that's a terrible thing. He certainly gives off a strange vibe. Wasn't he brought home from college not too long ago? Did he fail? Was he threatened? Why?

Stranger Than Friction's avatar

I think Barron Trump just earned mega bucks from insider trading, so he's turning into a chip off the old turd.

T L Mills's avatar

Well, not one of those Trump kids are right in the head.

Stranger Than Friction's avatar

Oh, but that "Christmas in Mordor" decorating she did in Trump 1.0 was, er, something all right.

Maria 🇮🇪's avatar

The Ho isn’t even good enough to lick their boots!

UGH🤢

rlritt's avatar

Really, how does a reputation of a "call girl who snags a rich husband" get tarnished. And if she said nothing ever, I'd respect her more. I get it, she was a poor girl from the soviet block and used her looks to snag rich men. I dont judge, and she actually got a husband. I give her credit where credit is due. But now she should keep her mouth shut and sit by the pool and no one would ever notice her.

PEACE, LOVE, RESIST's avatar

Too late for that. She just put the spotlight on her involvement in the pedo case. I’m betting she was either trafficked herself or saw girls being trafficked.

T L Mills's avatar

I don't 'think' she was trafficked--but I bet money that she knows damn well that Jeffy was a sex trafficker. And, since Jeffy was SUCH a noted connoisseur of females, pretty sure he had a taste or two of Melania before she met Donnie.

Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Poignant rlhitt. Besides the fact that Paolo Zampolli has been the subject of numerous posts by me, and many others for years here.

AuntTeeFa's avatar

He’s a joke. From modeling agent to special envoy.JFC

cablecargal's avatar

Exactly what I was thinking but couldn't have written as eloquently.

Gayna's avatar

For gods sake she was epsteins girl and Trump got her from him. She is and always will be a ho.

Patricia Williamson's avatar

I think the reason for her Statement yesterday is because a book was published and released yesterday in the UK about Prince Andrew and Epstein. She is mentioned in the book. They say Epstein said he had sex with Melania before Trump. She is trying to get ahead of it. Too late.

Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Slovenian Slut Gayna, but I guess who’re is appropriate as well.

CAM from 🇨🇦's avatar

Not spelled like that it isn’t! 😝

Denise Donaldson's avatar

She's obviously had a lot of work done.

HI2thDoc's avatar

I was never a fan of "kidneys" that look like they're made of concrete

John Rumble's avatar

Speaking of Headlines...

The Besos Bumwipe WAPO this morning:

How Trump could still pull out a win in Iran

Do go on, I would love that Trumpsplained to me

Barbara Rengstorff's avatar

I’m thinking she’s seeing the writing on the wall re the Epstein files. If trump is convicted or whatever, she’ll also lose any protection she has being in the White House. For her, if she doesn’t go to jail, she could be deported (most likely) or even meet the same fate as a previous wife. She must not be too smart if she thinks this is all it takes. But then, look who she married.

Unity In Defiance's avatar

I think she’d end up “tripping and falling down the stairs” like wifey number #1 bc Donnie knows—if it comes down to it— she’d sell him down the river faster then you could say “pedo.”

As to her motives, I believe some stuff is about to come surrounding her lawsuit with Micheal Wolfe (due to discovery) and she is trying to get ahead of it.

She — stupidly — thought she could do a statement and come out ahead of it, but she just made a Streisand effect over the whole thing.

She’s as equally stupid and narcissistic as her demented husband. They are a true match made in hell.

Teddy Gingerich's avatar

That entire crime family would sell any or all the others down the river in a heartbeat.

Zija Pulp's avatar

Unity, I definitely agree with you. Something big is going to (or threaten to) come out about Melania from the Wolfe lawsuit. The way she strode assertively to the podium reflected her fear.

For a woman who knows so many languages, I was surprised she couldn’t pronounce “categorize” and “trival,” per Jeff. I thought it was a smart move to drop Maxwell’s first name since there are so many variant pronunciations: Ga-LANE being the correct one, I believe. “The accomplice, Maxwell” is appropriately menacing.

devourerofpancakes's avatar

Under a different administration, maybe, this will all get investigated.

kdsherpa's avatar

"she could be deported (most likely)" I can't stop laughing!!! What a fabulous image!!! Then the question becomes: will Barron be allowed to stay?

Mary Greenwald's avatar

Barron's mother was not a US citizen when he was born. He can go with her and her dad and sister and. . .

kdsherpa's avatar

I definitely care! As Jeff wrote, there may be an unfathomable amount of filth behind the reason for that presser.

SeekingReason's avatar

Unity-That is the perfect headline with her face next to it! 😀

Unity In Defiance's avatar

lol right? Preferably a grump face picture of her where she looks awful.

Outside needs to match the inside—which is rotten to the core, just like her husband.

Denise Donaldson's avatar

When does she NOT look grumpy and awful???

Oh, wait! I've got it---when she has her hat pulled down over her face, doing her floor lamp impression.

Sue Pemberton's avatar

Oh, that's perfect!

Robert Eckert's avatar

She didn't mean to say that email was "trivial": she meant to say it was "drivel"

Ginny K's avatar

Well "G" Maxwell had a special nickname for you, "Sweetpea," and there are many photos of your creepy foursome, and your hubby was Jeff's BFF, so I'm not buying what the First Hooker is selling (no offense to hookers).

Dina's avatar

First Lady of the Evening, if we want to be proper.

EtTuBrutex's avatar

Good one!!! Touché!

Teddy Gingerich's avatar

Any and all of the millions of sex workers are simply people doing what they need to do to survive. Many do sex work because it's a decently paid living for them. None of them are lowlife. Except for the First Whore.

Maria 🇮🇪's avatar

Absolutely Ginny. Everyone Knows what she was/is…. Does she Think(obviously Not) that the proof isn’t out there? 🤪

George A. Polisner's avatar

Thank you Jeff.

I had no idea Melania was doing stand up comedy work now.

(Thought most of her career didn't involve standing up).

Isn't she in the U.S. on a special Epstein Visa?

SeekingReason's avatar

George…Special privilege for the person NOT born here. I suggest immediate deportation and she can take her arrogant son with her. The other offspring must serve time!

George in Atlanta's avatar

I don't think he's arrogant. I don't think he's... anything. Flat aspect, carefully choreographed public appearances, and a general impression that he just ain't... right.

JOE P's avatar

Look at his parents…look at his grandparents…look at his great grandparents…

What are the odds he could be a fine upstanding citizen of the world considering his family’s legacy.

I hope he never escapes the bubble he lives in.

Linda McCaughey's avatar

Betting he will keep a legion of psychiatrists on speed dial throughout his life--good for the economy.

SeekingReason's avatar

I had heard he handled an exchange emergency call very rudely, but emotional calls are excusable from that in such urgent situations. He was raised in an extraordinarily lavish style…this doesn’t usually produce good results. He’s trying to help his dad “connect” with younger voters. I din’t think he’d do that if he was opposed to his father’s treatment of people.

Linda McCaughey's avatar

Barron is an anchor baby.

Mary Greenwald's avatar

So are all the Trump children with the exception of Tiffany.

P123Sunny's avatar

Funny how she didn’t get thousands of reporters’ questions re: Stormy… (compared to HRC / Lewinsky)… interesting

JOE P's avatar

If she took questions it would take 2 weeks to get an a cogent answer that isnt a steamin’ pile of bullshit.

Susan Russell's avatar

“ Declaring victory isn’t the only thing Donny does prematurely.” Love, Stormy

Joanne Rossmassler Fritz's avatar

Supposedly she got in on an Einstein Visa! AKA EB-1, "in theory reserved for people who are highly acclaimed in their field - the government cites Pulitzer, Oscar, and Olympic winners as examples - as well as respected academic researchers and multinational executives." Per the BBC. Here' s a link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43256318

You can't convince me she did anything to deserve it!

Joanne Rossmassler Fritz's avatar

🤣🤣🤣 Or pole dancing?

Frank Nuts's avatar

Except, George, her poles were stationary and there was no vaulting involved

George A. Polisner's avatar

To the best of our knowledge Frank. To the best of our knowledge. :)

Ann Anderson's avatar

The only positive thing Melanie has done is to Streisand Effect the shit out of the Epstein problem. Not random. She feels the walls closing in and she's desperately trying to indemnify herself. Good job distracting from the distraction, Mel, but I really don't care, do u? As far as her reputation goes, that shipped sailed when she married the Dipshit. (Does she not know we've seen the pics and emails? Christ, what a dummy.)

HI2thDoc's avatar

Redux from a couple of weeks ago:

Melania's always been robotic

While her hoosband is openly despotic

A match made in Hell

By some avarice spell

Which MAGA shitheads find hypnotic

Pamela Van Sickle's avatar

Love "hoosband" 😂😂

Richard's avatar

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Frank Nuts's avatar

Doc, if I liked it before then I’m liking it again!

HI2thDoc's avatar

Yes, that limerick was after they showed her and the robot walking out, although to me it was hard to tell them apart

If I was a duck's avatar

And there's STILL gonna be those that will swear upside of tuesday that those photos of her with Donny, Epstein and Maxwell are fake, and the emails are fake, and she has finally, finally spoke up and said so. So done and over this timeline we are living in.

Ole Anderson's avatar

Well, Melanoma herself said ‘this stops Today!’

So how could it be otherwise - our Queen has spoken!

Dina's avatar

I guess when you're a movie star, you can do anything. 😅

Susan Niemann's avatar

oooohhhh Amanda Ungaro! Gurl! Why wait? Let's get you interviewed today. It'll be a ratings blast! 😂😂😂

It's bad enough these people are evil as fuck, but they have to be bumbling doofs as well.

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Amanda's ex really appears to be low-grade mafioso. Recalling Charles Kushner's treatment of his ex. And Ivana's unlikely slip down a flight of stairs. Melania's pre-nup update must have included "make me movie star and best-selling author" but she'll always be skating on ice as long as Shitler lives and breathes.

Susan Niemann's avatar

You bet. It's a whole bunch of lowlife grifters. Melleys reputation is sealed forever.

Deborah Hunter's avatar

Amanda was on a flight on Epstein's jet from Paris to NYC when she was 17 (around 2002). She remembers many other young girls on that flight plus Maxwell. I read this last night. BTW- gas was $5.44/gallon for premium in Vegas yesterday. Was $4.74 on 3/6/26. Actually not the jump I expected. The biggest problem is the price of groceries. Price of eggs? Have no clue. I never eat them.

Susan Niemann's avatar

Amanda has some stories to tell! Gas here in Philly is around $4.19/gallon. Eggs...around $4.99. I went to the grocery yesterday spent $86 and brought home very little. We're rethinking our menus.

cablecargal's avatar

I've been eating a lot of peanut butter & raspberry jam sandwiches. Cheap and easy.

I do add fruit/veges to the plate.

Susan Niemann's avatar

Raspberry jam! YES! I do love a good PBJ!!

Joanne Rossmassler Fritz's avatar

Stock up, everyone! Canned goods, rice, beans. It’s only going to get worse!

https://substack.com/home/post/p-193640517

cablecargal's avatar

My sister and I always said "rice & beans" and we both knew we were talking about retiring early but being happy and eating just rice and beans!

Mr Mild - BlueVotingBastard💙's avatar

We just go out to eat more often, ‘cause the prices at the supermarket are crazy /s

JoJoRa's avatar

We are eating out less than we did last year. Dinner for two (a salad with chicken and a pot roast sandwich) a beer and a glass of wine. With tax and tip it was $96.00! $96 at the grocery store gets you less now but I can still make a few meals with that and include a bottle of wine and a six pack of craft beer.

Mr Mild - BlueVotingBastard💙's avatar

I dropped $55 for breakfast at our local diner the other day. $3.50 each for coffee (all we can drink, and I can drink a lot of coffee), $17 for an omelette (up charges for Gluten Free toast, and mushrooms), $19 for an omelette for me, plus tax and tip.

We like to go out to eat about once a week, but it does get expensive.

cablecargal's avatar

Wow, that's a lot!!!! Those omelettes ('omelets' says Merriam-Webster) must be huge.

Susan Niemann's avatar

Man, I had a Caesar salad with 5 shrimp and a glass of wine and it was $68 in a local Italian eatery. I couldn't believe it! Chinese food is a smarter option. The supermarkets are nuts!!!

Deborah Hunter's avatar

NV always has high gas to begin with.

arne link's avatar

I buy eggs and throw them all away a month later. I really need to stop doing that...

Deborah Hunter's avatar

I only use them when I bake which is pretty much never anymore.

Frank Nuts's avatar

Arne, whatever you do don’t look in my fridge…there’s more than eggs involved

Mike Hammer's avatar

Vacuous souls on a fool’s errand, I’d say! 😂

DRHNola's avatar

That girl is going to wind up unalived. Spill the tea now, don’t wait. The outcome will be the same but spilt tea is your ticket to longevity.

Miselle's avatar

I have a suggestion to end at least some of the madness:

Recruit Barack Obama to negotiate a nuclear treaty with Iran.

Just saying.

Punkette's avatar

Yes! Barack and former SOS, John Kerry.

Mary-Louise Coates's avatar

Jeff -

You missed the kicker that came out on Truth Social last night about 8 pm - Heather Cox Richardson covered it and was truly shocked by it -

Fat Nixon posted a “snuff video” of a man beating a woman to death with a hammer. Maybe AI?

Not sure - but then it was followed by a tirade against Haitians, Joe Biden, the usual suspects.

This piece of non-human garbage that we are calling a president is completely, totally, and utterly insane.

Deborah Hunter's avatar

I also saw that mentioned on X. Maybe a warning to his wife to STFU?

arne link's avatar

I really think that snuff films are Donnie's favorite pass time. I have long wondered if one of the big secrets in the Epstein files, that Donnie participated in one or more of them. It seems clear that he likes to watch violence.

Mary Greenwald's avatar

Not insane! Just a big, fat 4 year old having a hizzy-fit. He has not changed in 74 years. Still the nasty kid his parents refused to correct.

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

79. He turns 80 in June.

Richard's avatar

I agree with you 100%!

CroneEver's avatar

I was wondering where the hell Melania - who apparently is the 2nd stupidest person in the WH, after her orange husband - got the bright idea to tell everyone that she didn't know, never knew, wouldn't know Epstein or Maxwell, etc., etc., etc., despite the fact that we've all seen the pictures of her partying with E&M (new band coming up!), her nude and semi-nude photos which are all over the internet and always have been, have heard all about how Epstein "banged her first", etc., and none of that seemed to bother her. So what cesspit is Amanda Ungaro about to turn into a major volcano that has Melania's knickers in a twist? There is not enough popcorn in the world for this one.

arne link's avatar

I just hope that Amanda Ungaro doesn't decide to suicide herself. Suddenly.

Frank Nuts's avatar

There seems to be slot of that going around doesn’t there Arnie?

Practically an epidemic

EtTuBrutex's avatar

Do they still sell Jiffy Pop? I sure as shit hope so!

HI2thDoc's avatar

In her email to Maxwell: "I cannot wait to go down." Yeah, that's probably got her in with Epstein in the first place

Susie's avatar

I thought the EXACT same thing! 🤣

Martha's avatar

Ethical standards and respect??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 from someone benefiting from frumps complete lack of these🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Frank Nuts's avatar

So true Martha! The irony is titanic

Mike Hammer's avatar

Holy war to cover up Epstein. Threaten genocide by thermonuclear destruction to coverup a bungled war. Back to Epstein again to cover up having lost the war and what he said about blowing up the world. And there goes Melania. What goes around comes around.

Frank Nuts's avatar

Mike you are so right. He is a perpetual Streisand Effect machine.

Too bad we can’t modify it into a perpetual motion machine and make some money off of him

Mike Hammer's avatar

Exactly! He out-Streisand Streisand.

Fastball Fredo's avatar

Jeff, I’m waiting for Mel’s speech today.. I was told it will be in English. Best to All fellow Travelers as Hunter Thompson would conclude his letters.

HI2thDoc's avatar

Melania issues her denial

In her unpronounceable style

She won't stay complacent

About being Epstein adjacent

We will see you at hoosband's trial

Steve in SoCal's avatar

Melania said

That victims should testify

I agree with that

Dina's avatar

I also noticed, though, that she didn't say anything about bringing the perpetrating perverts to justice.

Steve in SoCal's avatar

If the victims speak

That will take care of itself

They'll go to prison

Robert Eckert's avatar

They should testify at criminal trials of the perpetrators

Fastball Fredo's avatar

Doc… most excellent for a fun day Friday🫨🫨🫨🫨

HI2thDoc's avatar

BTW, Fredo, as a "China Hand" have you heard of/read Midnight in Peking by Paul French? A fascinating book about a horrific crime in a tumultuous time in China, just as Japan has invaded China and the warlord-led factions have an uneasy alliance to oppose them. And the ex-pat community adds to all the intrigue.

Fastball Fredo's avatar

Hey Doc, you are amazing to bring up this book and this period of time during the Chinese civil war and Japan taking advantage of the unrest to seize Manchuria setting up its own country as it were. Very few Americans are schooled on the invasion, an invasion that is the origination of WWII, and fewer Americans know about the abject cruelty the Japanese army inflicted on the Chinese population.. Actually this invasion served as a catalyst for Mao, as head of the CCP and Chiang leading the Nationalists to find common ground. Few Americans realize both parties, Communist and Nationalist were birthed by Sun Yat Sen… Organizationally both parties were the same and both had the goals of kicking out the western powers entrenched in the SE region of China and the Japanese. I got to hand it to you Doc and thanks for bringing this essential historical fact out…

Ole Anderson's avatar

You surely love to malign the intelligence of Americans, slow ball. When actually many know all the historical facts of the invasion of Manchuria and China. And the brutal tactics of the invading Japanese troops- rape of Nanking and all that.

And the splitting into two factions- your favorites, the Communists under Mao and the Chiang Kai Shek faction , the Kuo Min Tang

Pardon any spelling errors.

Give us some credit. Lose the ego. You are not some historical savant by a long stretch.

Fastball Fredo's avatar

Same back at u ole. Your wit and intellect are no match for a simple person as myself.. but please go on reciting how puerile, juvenile and lack of knowledge contained in my comments.

HI2thDoc's avatar

It was my affinity for mystery and true crime that led me to the book, but all the historical subplots were fascinating! Paul French wrote another book set in the same timeframe about Shanghai called City of Devils.

Cathy 98280's avatar

👆🤣😂😁😃 THAT was superb, Doc!

Tess's avatar

Wow! That was an excellent shit-filled post today Jeff! Can’t wait for the truth to come out to hear/see reactions from this administration! Have a nice weekend everyone!

SeekingReason's avatar

Melania just got word that they’ve hit the end of the road. So now she must speak about her “innocence” 😂🤣🤥🤥

These people are arrogant to the nth degree!

A thousand pictures of her with Epstein, but hey, she haedly knows who he is!

I hope ICE is being tracked so that each and every one will get deported for supporting a Seditionist/Fascist/Rapist/Pedo. Willing to use tax dollars for this! One last expenditure to remove the rot.

Mr Mild - BlueVotingBastard💙's avatar

Except for Tiffany, all of the Orange Menace’s children were born before their mothers became US citizens. We can start by deporting them, along with Melon.

Deborah Arapa's avatar

Welp, I hope there are no deadly windows or more plane trips wherever Amanda Ungaro has landed.

Mr Mild - BlueVotingBastard💙's avatar

Always stay on the ground floor. Beware of people walking to close with umbrellas when the weather is sunny. Stay on the inside of the sidewalk on busy city streets. Don’t get to close to the tracks when the train pulls into the station. Beware of who you except tea from.

kdsherpa's avatar

PERFECTION! I hope Amanda reads this.

Mr Mild - BlueVotingBastard💙's avatar

Thanks.

I forgot to mention staying away from stairs, but I suppose that’s implied by staying on the ground floor.

kdsherpa's avatar

Yes, I agree that you covered that adequately in your previous advice.

myhoopbabies's avatar

I thought the same thing. Now I really want to know what she knows, so I hope she doesn't get Epsteined.