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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

here's a fun fact. I definitely remember learning that there's no period in "Harry S Truman." apparently whoever taught me that was not entirely wrong, but also entirely wrong.

https://www.trumanlittlewhitehouse.org/key-west/president-truman-biography

"Since the S did not stand for a name, Harry didn’t use a period after it for most of his life. Soon after he was elected president, the editors of the Chicago Style Manual informed Truman that omitting a period after his middle initial was improper grammar and a bad example for America’s youth. From that moment on, the 33rd President signed his name Harry S. Truman or put all the letters in his name together as in Harrys Truman."

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Bob Bowden's avatar

Here’s another fun fact: Today the worthless scribblers of the New York Times regaled us with the headline “Trump Relies on Personal Diplomacy With Putin. The Result Is a Strategic Muddle.”

I consulted my Sanewash-to-English translator and thesaurus and “strategic muddle” is Sanewash for CLUSTERFUCK

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Yes. My version of that thesaurus also says it's a bend over and lube up

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Nevertheless, She Persisted's avatar

well...that's exactly what Trump wants from Putin, to be bent over. Literally. If he hasn't gotten it already. And yes, I am 100% serious.

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Leu2500's avatar

This

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Smile worthy Doc!

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

but what a VILE image! ugh, ugh, ugh - (funny as hell, though - if you turn it into a SouthPark style cartoon)!

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Agreed Elizabeth!

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Linda Weide's avatar

That may be why my friend asked this morning if I was hearing that Putin likes JDVance better than Trump.

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LINDA ADAMS's avatar

Nobody likes JD Vance.

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Linda Weide's avatar

Let us hope that is still true if he replaces Trump in the White House.

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LINDA ADAMS's avatar

I am counting on it. 🤞

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

that should last all of 3 months.

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Garret Fitzgerald's avatar

But Peter Thiel has uses for him.

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Ole Anderson's avatar

Let’s get that thought into trumps head as soon as possible. It will do lasting damage

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Gail (Chicago)'s avatar

“Putin likes” = *whoever or whatever wants to completely dominate - he has no capacity to “like” or “love” anyone or anything. That would require him to experience empathy.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

His allegiance to Aleksandr Dugin is as close to love of a person Vlade will ever have Gail!

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Carol Jacobson's avatar

Why? Does Putin have a couch that needs fucking?

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Linda Weide's avatar

I think everyone who has to deal with Trump at all is weary of him. You see his family avoiding him too. Listening to him drains us, they have more interaction it must be excruciating. JDVance seems desperate to be considered cool in the fascist crowd so he will be easy to manipulate.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

JD is a fraud, I can’t believe his book was so widely read!

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Linda Weide's avatar

I refuse to read it or see the Netflix version. No way to I want to contribute a penny more to his wealth than I have to through my taxes paying his salary to do nothing but lie, cheat and steal along with DT.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Does anyone like JD Linda, aside from his paramour Peter Thiel?

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Linda Weide's avatar

I think so Patrick. I have seen MAGAs interviewed and they stand up for him, so there you go. They must like him enough to vote Trump in knowing that Trump is not really a God and is not really immortal the way that he portrays himself. At least I hope no adult really believes it. He has no charisma though which will mean that he will not do as well as a dictator. His own kind might go after him. It is super hard to protect the president, particularly when most of the competent people are replaced with robotons.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

They’ve been making a strong effort to make him appealing, dubious that the hard core MAGA delusional derps will ever view him as a savior, like they have Trump!

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

vance is SO DESPERATE to be president he'll say and do ANYTHING - to hold onto orange fuckwit's base. Problem is, even THEY can't stand him. They'd be far more likely to vote for Musk - even though they despise their rift...they know he's rich and turned their orange daddy into a real billionaire (after lying about it for so long). You have to forgive my use of 'daddy'...it's what Christinatalkst calls him: 'daddy dumpy pants' and I laff and laff and laff. She's so funny - in the same mode as Julia Sugarbaker (Designing Women). But deadly serious about the pain being caused. Fantastic woman fighter for all of us. Now I also have a distaff person to keep me sane along with my hero Jeff. :)

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Linda Weide's avatar

Also like to point out that I think Hitlers doctor killed him. Hitler was being treated for depression and the guy was using all sorts of quackery including giving him poisons every day. Is Trump's doctor such a quack? Trump is! So is his Sec of Health and Human Services, both of which are non existent now.

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Larry Bushard's avatar

Hitler offed himself with the Red Army only blocks from his Berlin bunker.

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Kay G's avatar

But could they tell Trump an “alternative fact”?

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Zuzu's avatar

He was using a cocktail of what we call today meth and other opioids. Basically he was night as a kite every day and he had his soldiers taking a meth like drug called Pervitin (spelling ?). I watched a documentary about it.

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Linda Weide's avatar

He also gave him toxins like strychnine. Look at this. It is bizarre. Trump is lucky that his quack is not this quack.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15825245/

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Zuzu's avatar

*high as a kite

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Linda Weide's avatar

But also ill from toxins. Strychnine? It is a killer.

https://www.cdc.gov/chemical-emergencies/chemical-fact-sheets/strychnine.html

Just high and in physical agony. I think this is less understood by people. Hitler spent a lot of time in hiding and let his henchmen run things. That is what Trump is doing too. So is JDVance. He is kinda like that.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

The drug known as White Cross, is speed(strychnine) a good rat poison as well IIRC. Never stopped people from taking it!

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

I’ve read this as well ZuZu!

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

If Doctor Ronnie was still around possibly Linda, but he’s been promoted to another lofty position.

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Douglas's avatar

😅🤣.....Cluster**ck!

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Bob Bowden's avatar

In the NYT reader comments under the story, the third commenter said:

“Guys! When you use the words "diplomacy" and "strategic" in reference to Donald Trump, you are misleading your readers. He is no more capable of carrying on diplomacy strategically than a moose can sing Rigoletto…”

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Susan P Thatcher's avatar

The result is Putin gleefully playing the US President like it's "I've Got Your Nose!" and Trump believing it every time. Kruschev was right. Not a shot fired.

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Charles Austin's avatar

👍👍

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Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

I recently had a discussion wherein I found that Truman did not acutally have a middle name, and being the queen of useless information (many have accused me of this), I became morose and sad that I did not know that.

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Sharon C Storm's avatar

As another collector of useless information, I did know about the middle name thing, but then I’m 85, so have had more time than average to amass my useless knowledge.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Sadly Sharon (I’m a tad older) but had the same shared understanding!

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Hollie Rood's avatar

👏👏👏

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NEAL O'CONNOR's avatar

Sometimes, he was called "Harry 'S' for nuthin' Truman." Thank you for explaining the punctuation details of his moniker. Everyone knows "TO ERR IS TRUMAN!"

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Robert Eckert's avatar

"I'll make the Republicans a deal: if they stop telling lies about me, I'll stop telling the truth about them." Still applicable.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Touché Neal!

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Hollie Rood's avatar

No need for feeling morose and sad Wendy. Think of the glass being half full rather than empty with all the useless information you DID/DO know 🤤

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

That’s a “hat and a half,” Kathleen. Interesting website.

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Hollie Rood's avatar

My go to Company when my daughters ( now 40,42&45) were kids😘

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Outdoorluvr's avatar

I didn't know they still existed! Learn something new every day at Jeff's place!

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James Vander Poel's avatar

And it's a Berkshire Hathaway company... who knew Warren Buffett was into this?

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Oriental Trading is a Berkshire Hathaway company?

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Marla's avatar

Ah, Oriental Trading. A perennial source for cheap crap for kid's birthday gift bags. I haven't heard their name for eons. Remember it fondly.

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James Vander Poel's avatar

According to the Web site, Buffett bought it in 2012.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Hmm!

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Cheri Collins's avatar

😳

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Kay G's avatar

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Susan Bauer's avatar

So tariffs? Or no tariffs?

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Just stay away from the cheesehead look and you’re living the dream Kathleen!

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Ellis Weiner's avatar

If only he had suggested everybody use "Harry-Ass Truman."

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Kim Nesvig's avatar

Period or not, Harry was apparently one hell of a negotiator. But then he was in command of the largest military force in history and only nuclear arsenal in existence in mid 1945. In Trump’s parlance, he actually held all the cards.

By contrast Trump is intent on forcing capitulation on Ukraine, despite the continuing and growing evidence that Russia is a failing nation and, as is so often said, doesn’t even have the second best army in Ukraine. Whatever cards Putin still holds seem to be curiously important to Trump.

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Diane Findley's avatar

EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN!

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

The Robert Maxwell triple agent association with Russia is likely what Trump fear’s most…although Russia knows well of Trump’s decades of money laundering in the transnational syndicate Kim!

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John Crowe's avatar

I've been a Trumanophile for decades and never knew about the period added after the "S". I liked the story of no period since the S stood for no name, and I was delighted to keep it that way, as I suspect Harry was. I had an uncle whose name was JB (a Southern thing). During WWII he worked for the Feds, where JB was not understood to be a name. They insisted it had to be J.B. Then they insisted he had to give his full name. He wrote J(only) B(only). Sure enough pay checks were made out to Jonly Bonly.

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Lamorindalinda's avatar

If only a period after an S was the worst bad example for today’s youth!

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Frank Nuts's avatar

Another great read Jeff. Don’t you love how these neo-republicans monkey grind their hypocrisies on their way towards a place in line for the rapture? And when they get to the on ramp they’re like “wat?, where’s my jet pack to get to the first tee on Donnie’s golden golf course?” “Wat?, I’m not in heaven?, I thought all I had to do was say that i absolutely love Donnie’s tiny mushroom pecker, and also Jesus of course, (in that order) and I’d be on the red carpet to Donnie’s glory hole on the back nine”. “Wat happened?…all I see is stained couches and pedophile bodegas; and, by the way is it really hot here or am i just having hot flashes?” “Well at least my buds are all here. Look— there’s Lindsey laying on his belly holding a golf ball between his butt cheeks on the first tee. Who is he holding it for?…is that…adolf?” “Wow, that is not the tee time Lindsey had in mind for his golden retirement”. “And look, there’s Nancy mace at the second tee washing Donnie’s balls. Whoops, she dropped one (good luck finding that sucker)”. “Well at least here I won’t have trouble finding a ride—there’s are clown cars lined up for miles”.

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E. Bennet Dirigo's avatar

Imagine a president being worried about using improper grammar

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Robert Eckert's avatar

Bess Truman was talking to a garden club, and a lady said she was uncomfortable with Truman saying "Money is like manure: when you spread it around it does good, but when it piles up it just stinks" and asked her "Can you get him to say 'fertilizer' instead?"

Bess replied, "You don't know how hard it was to get him to say 'manure'."

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Charles Austin's avatar

😂😂😂

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Hah, that’s amusing as hell E.!

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Patricia Gomes's avatar

A yellow stream from the mushroom ? We know that he likes to piss on people.

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Ole Anderson's avatar

I always assumed that he was the pissee in the pee tapes Kompromat.

But I guess no one really knows other than Vlad.

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Sharon C Storm's avatar

Imho, the ‘p’ in pee tape stands for ‘pedophile’.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

We know he stayed at the Russian National hotel in Red Square, next door to KGB headquarters when he visited the Kremlin with Ivana Ole, dubious anything nefarious was being filmed then. However Trump had visited Moscow to beg Gorbachev for the opportunity to build a Trump tower in Moscow a couple years prior from what I’ve investigated.

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skangirl's avatar

When technology asks for my father's middle name, I use NMI.

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GeorgeC's avatar

What did the "S" stand for?

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

Remember back when Japan negotiated with us at the end of WWII? The only way they said they would negotiate was if we dropped, not one, but TWO atomic bombs on their cities. Those Japanese are hard negotiators and once again, diplomacy wins?

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

Walt, I am the “ glitch “ .There was fraud on my debit card, I had to get a new one & redo all my auto pays, but forgot my beloved Tiedrich, so it's all good now . 💙

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

Welcome back, Kristy.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

TY Walt !

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Sue Fishkin's avatar

Thank you.

All of them are out of Theo fucking minds and the rest of us are suffering.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

Hitler made a deal to put a bullet in his brain, instead of being hung upside down and pissed on like the poor negotiator Mussolini had to settle for. If only Il Duce had read the Art of the Deal!

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Rhesus's avatar

Yeah, they sure had our number.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Is anyone else fucking exhausted from the HOURLY lying of these evil, depraved people?

"Uncle Couchfuck" 😂😂

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Linda Weide's avatar

I just remind myself that however horrid it is for other people, everything Trump is doing right now is to obscure thinking about the Epstein Files.

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Victoria Wilson's avatar

Yes.Agree.I am calling my reps daily demanding the release of those files.I don’t care how much bull pucky he/ they throw at us, We the People and especially the Epstein victims need to know the truth here ( even though we pretty much know that Little Donnie F F is pretty much on every page along with a whole list of wealthy entitled pervs).

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

That water has run under the bridge, I'm afraid. When Lord Dregs said he frankly didn't care if the Epstein files were released, that was the key indicator that they'd been redacted beyond comprehension by DOJ. The originals will never be released. Has anyone published the unredacted Mueller Report?

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

Which is not to say that the “distractions” he’s engineering are not serious issues that are also urgent.

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Linda Weide's avatar

No, I am not saying that. Unfortunately when he needs to distract, he knows how to do it. He just escalates and escalates. The pathetic press just jumps on it too.

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Larry Bushard's avatar

Sorry. Dump is not engineering on his own the distractions. The “distractions” are straight out of the P2025 playbook. Having said that, I want the Epstein files in their entirety because I will bet that a shit ton of the other fascist motherfuckers ruining our country are in there as well!

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

Perhaps I should have said “carrying out” instead of “engineering”?

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Mary Beth Horsington's avatar

I’m not only utterly exhausted, I’m scared and disgusted and incredulous that my country is now an authoritarian shitshow. I’m 70, so I’ll only have to endure it for another decade or so but what about my three daughters and five grandchildren? I’m sick over the thought of it.

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Rick A.'s avatar

Mary Beth, same here. Age 72, with 3 daughters and 6 grandchildren. The insanity, stupidity, cruelty and frankly moral depravity they may have to endure breaks my heart every day.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Me, too...although y daughter married into a very patriarchal, religious family against my hopes...we dont see each other often and never discuss whats happening.

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Mary Beth Horsington's avatar

I’m sorry to hear that, Susan. I can’t imagine your offspring being anything but brilliant and horrified by what the patriarchy is doing.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

I guess I wasn’t a great mom. 🤷‍♀️. She’s smart, got a masters degree and teaches elementary school-but our relationship is almost non existent. At least she’s doing well in life.

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Dana Jae Labrecque's avatar

Sorry to read this, Susan. My one remaining immediate family member, one of three older brothers, is a 70-yr-old, full-blown cult member and former Green Beret who apparently serves the regime as an ICE trainer on the weekends. FFS

"ℂ𝕒𝕝𝕘𝕠𝕟, 𝕥𝕒𝕜𝕖 𝕞𝕖 𝕒𝕨𝕒𝕪!"

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Oh Dana!!! That’s a tough one. 😭. I’m sorry.

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Hannah olufs's avatar

How sad. I'm sorry, it's hard when it family.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

It is… but I know I’m not the only one who has lost family-and friends- to all this. It’s a powerful cult. 😭

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Katrina Nuciforo's avatar

Me too🙈

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

And you could live to 85 plus

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bruce klassen's avatar

I want More, please. Said the masochist

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Susan P Thatcher's avatar

Jesus Howard Christ, yes.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Howard! I always wondered what the H was for. 😂😂

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Susan P Thatcher's avatar

Our Father, who art in Heaven, Howard be Thy Name.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Susan! Hilarious! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Outdoorluvr's avatar

I tried that once in catechism class, thinking I'd get some kids to laugh. Not exactly what I ended up getting 🫤

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Charles Austin's avatar

😂😂😂

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Charles Austin's avatar

I just figure that anything they say is bullshit.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Thats really the safest way to go. Have they EVER told the fucking truth?

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Kay-El's avatar

Of course they’d wear underwear on their head, just like they wore sanitary napkins on their ears and diapers over their pants. 🙄

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Susan Niemann's avatar

THAT'S when I knew for sure these people were all nuts. 😂

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Susan Kemp's avatar

Well, there were women who wore tee shirts that said “trump can grab my ⬇️” that were pretty awful too.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

OMG Yes... I forgot about them, too. WTH is wrong with people!?!

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

I knew they were nuts before that

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Mingo's avatar

Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner here. Of course they would, it's a cult.

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Valerie's avatar

JD knows exactly what he's doing. Hell, so does Rubio. And many other Republican minions. It's one thing and one thing only, power. Pure & simple. They've been at this for fucking decades and they're seeing their fruits flourish now with a ridiculous jackass in the WH. They don't care if they burn the country down in the meantime. They're in charge and they intend to keep it that way. A return to a male dominated, whites only country spewing religious bile. It's their dream. Money & greed rots a person from the inside out. And these people are fucking rotten to the core.

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StacyB's avatar

Well said

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David M Marko's avatar

However, these mental midgets can never temper their lust for more power. History has shown us that this always ends in disaster. They continually believe the majority is behind them even as their support erodes. This engages them on further nefarious power grabs. It may come to civil uprising, but eventually their house of cards will crumble.

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

Love hearing that

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Garret Fitzgerald's avatar

The entire party would rather rule hell than serve in heaven.

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Irene warsaw's avatar

It’s terrifying to know when Satan keels over and dies, we have this other moron to take over .PLEASE LORD HELP US 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

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Ellis Weiner's avatar

Vance is not a moron. He IS an evil, soulless, opportunistic liar. But he's not a moron.

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bruce klassen's avatar

I think it might just fit, I particularly like the ones at the end:

MORON: a stupid person.

fool

oaf

nincompoop

clown

dunce

dolt

dullard

ignoramus

simpleton

idiot

cretin

imbecile

nitwit

halfwit

ninny

dope

dimwit

dumbo

dummy

jerk

nerd

dum-dum

loon

chump

goon

jackass

fathead

blockhead

numbskull

dunderhead

meathead

dipstick

bonehead

chucklehead

clod

goop

knucklehead

lamebrain

pea-brain

pudding-head

thickhead

wooden-head

pinhead

airhead

birdbrain

dumb-bell

donkey

stupe

noodle

muttonhead

noddy

nit

clot

ass

twit

numpty

muppet

plonker

berk

prat

pillock

wally

git

wazzock

divvy

nerk

twerp

twonk

charlie

mug

nyaff

balloon

sumph

gowk

galoot

gobdaw

schmuck

bozo

boob

lamer

schlepper

chowderhead

dumbhead

dumbass

goofball

goof

lummox

dork

klutz

putz

schlemiel

sap

gink

cluck

ding-dong

wiener

weeny

dip

simp

spud

coot

palooka

poop

retardate

squarehead

yo-yo

goofus

clunk

dingleberry

turkey

alec

galah

nong

bogan

poon

boofhead

dingbat

drongo

dill

mompara

tomfool

retard

clodpole

loggerhead

spoony

mooncalf

vulgar slang:

dickhead

fuckwit

fuckhead

shit for brains

dildo

arsehole

arse

dick

tit

tosser

knobhead

twat

wanker

asshole

asshat

gobshite

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Dave Drell's avatar

WOW!🎯🎯🎯

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Mps's avatar

Evil fucker is somehow missing but appropriate

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bruce klassen's avatar

I thought you might have added that one, Mps.

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Diana's avatar

You got every single one!!

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bruce klassen's avatar

I must admit that I cheated Diana. The power of the Internet! But I liked the lineup, so....

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Nancy's avatar

This list! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 Thanks for the laugh, Bruce!

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Dave Drell's avatar

We need Harvey Korman to do that scene with Slim Pickens from Blazing Saddles:

“I need every fool, nincompoop,clown,dunce, dolt,etc…”

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Charles Austin's avatar

Dodo

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

Luv it!!!

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Joan Diehl's avatar

Vance is a dangerous, treacherous SOB. He sold his soul when Peter Thiel came knocking, with a US senators seat on a silver platter. He can’t turn back now. He’s in a catch 22, and he doesn’t know how to successfully play this new game. Yes, Vance is a critical thinker, had great potential, but has compromised all. He should have listed to “Maw Maw”.

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Ellis Weiner's avatar

Agree. He's also fundamentally arrogant. He probably thinks he's talking to two audiences, both of which he's smarter than: the MAGA base, who are mouth-breathing imbeciles, and Donald Trump, who is a mouth-breathing imbecile. So he's not wrong!

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bruce klassen's avatar

It's not just Thiel...Martin Soellner has a whole army behind him lurking in the shadows. Identitarians.

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Garret Fitzgerald's avatar

Peter Thiel made JD's life very very good.

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Shalone's avatar

Exactly ,very frightening

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Douglas's avatar

JD is effing dangerous because he is oh soooo smooth in his rhetoric. He must have taken argumentation and debate classes cause he can BS ANY position.. Actually, the incompetent Dems need to learn this skill.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

I think the incompetent Dems already have the skills to BS their positions, whatever they are. See: Hakeem Jeffries; Chuck Schumer.

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Hannah olufs's avatar

You give him way too much credit. I think he is an idiot. Not smooth.

He can't even argue his own bs position.

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bruce klassen's avatar

he is closely aligned with the identitarians beneath the AfD.

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Abbi's avatar

Magats are stupid/ignorant enough to believe Couchfuck’s rewrite of history. I think the only way they’d follow him as they do their deteriorating cult leader is if he told them to in some sort of biblical sounding way before he dies — and he’s way too narcissistic to do that. Maybe wish thinking?

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

And tell us how Robert E Lee negotiated an end to the Civil War. The deal was Richmond gets burned down and Jeff Davis goes to jail.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

The destruction of our actual history is being replaced by the MAGATY version.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

General Sherman torched Atlanta, and in 1972 when the NHL awarded an expansion franchise to Atlanta, it was nicknamed The Flames before relocating to Calgary, where they retain that.

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J.R.'s avatar

This is new for me 🥳

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Mary Greenwald's avatar

I do wish you and others would get over the idea that a law degree from Yale is somehow recognition of brilliance. It is not. I do not think a Yale Law Degree requires anything more than showing up to class most of the time. It does not require a degree in History. It does not require a degree in Psychology. It does not require a degree in Ethics. It means you graduated from Yale Law School. Look at the other graduates and explain again how they are brilliant: JOSH HAWLEY, JOHN ASHCROFT, GEORGE HW BUSH, GEORGE BUSH, CLARENCE THOMAS, SAMUEL ALITO. Brilliant minds? Educated? No - they are small-minded, fearful little men who must demean those without Yale Law Degrees and must prop themselves up with even more mean and spiteful laws.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Love you for this. Stated perfectly.

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shee-rah's avatar

Did he pass the Bar and actually practice law?

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Outdoorluvr's avatar

I like that. Now do Harvard and Ted Cruz! 🤣

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Greg Conners's avatar

Gotta wonder if Vance made that remark about war intentionally. Maybe he meant "negotiate", as in here a nuke, there a nuke, everywhere a nuke-nuke. Or it could have been routine gaslighting. He is not stupid. What he is, is evil and condescending.

Also a gas-bag like Trump. JD Vance is beatable, but unfortunately we have to look at him first, just like we have been forced to look at Trump over, and over, and over again.

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meryl selig's avatar

Cabbage Patch kid from Bumblefuck Holler

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

Hillbilly Himmler.

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Garret Fitzgerald's avatar

Hillybilly Martin Borman.

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

MAGA Martin.

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Douglas's avatar

👍

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Sooz Hall's avatar

Brilliant alliteration 💗💥💝👏🏻

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HI2thDoc's avatar

And he exploited his humble roots for self promotion while simultaneously throwing his own type under the bus. He showed what an opportunistic, hypocritical POS he is. So many of his family and neighbors were on gubmint assistance, i.e. food stamps, HUD, Medicaid, and now he touts and crows about the Big Billionaire Blowjob Bill that takes that away.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

Well....sorta. He himself had a middle class upbringing. The whole hillbilly thing is an invented schtick.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

The condescension is nauseating. Notice how he always addresses female interviewers by their first name, apparently under the misapprehension that it makes him seem more human and personable. It does not. It makes him sound like a patronizing dick.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

So "JD" stands for Justa Dick. No middle initial.

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Joanne Rossmassler Fritz's avatar

Yep. Readers of The Alt Media voted on that very nickname months ago!

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Melinda's avatar

Nailed it. I wanted to punch him right through the screen.

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Tess's avatar

Couchf***: “trump not trying to focus on nitpicky details…” NO SHIT——He doesn’t focus on anything…well…except women with huge lips and ….hmmm….ya know….and little girls…..and….oh God I’d better stop! I’m losing it! I’m angry…..😡

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Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

Watching MAGAts demonstrate that they literally cannot see the stupidity right in front of their eyes can't help but make me think of the old fairy tale, "The Emperor's New Clothes." After Trump groveled before Putin and claimed a major breakthrough, Russia increased their attacks on Ukraine and their foreign minister dismissed opening negotiations with Zelynskyy.

But then FOX thinks Gym Jordan is an expert how Maxwell "exonerated" Trump, the differences between MAGAtland and Bizarro World seem to be almost non-existent.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Fox is a primary reason America has been dumbed down and radicalized to the point where open fascism and oppression are welcomed by a portion of our citizens

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Rick A.'s avatar

Millions believe Fox is gospel, the literal only truth…….there will be a special place in hell for Murdoch……He is evil…….

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Lisa's avatar

Putin flipped Dotard Donnie (and the US) the flying finger of fuck! He arrived in Alaska knowing nothing would change. His little speech about Russian history in Alaska should be a warning. He was threatening us.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

When Couchfuck was asked how he felt about Russia intentionally bombing a U.S. company in Ukraine (mere days after Putin's meeting with Trump), he just smiled and whined, "War is like this." No retaliation, no sanctions, no threat of Armageddon, as when they were all horny to bunker-bust Iran.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

How much do I love the picture of Mussolini and his cronies hanging by their feet? Now, through the wonders of AI, can we juxtapose our current fascists right alongside of them? Who would we most like to see hanging by their feet (and swollen ankles)?

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Anne Randall's avatar

The whole damn Cabinet.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

All of ‘em, Katie.

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Tom Woods's avatar

The entire Republican Senate and “conservative” Supreme Court.

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TBM's avatar
12hEdited

That Esso Station?

It is now a McDonald's.

I believe that is what the literary types call "foreshadowing"

https://trueadventurestories.com/2020/09/24/mussolini-mcdonalds-milan/?ref=forwardky.com

https://forwardky.com/the-mussolini-mcdonalds/

https://youtu.be/T8GxWeLTfaM?si=RJXG8bMIKTGBF2Es

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Karlene Escriba's avatar

We’re gonna need a bigger fence!

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El Ricardo's avatar

The Intel purchase is indeed socialism, and done by a MAGA movement that is openly nationalist.

So they are nationalist socialists.

Can someone remind me what those two words are in German? If the full translation is too long, maybe there’s a short version that would be simpler?

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Douglas's avatar

Isn't fascism the melding of government AND private business??? The Nazis had some of that.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Douglas, you hit it!

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Douglas's avatar

Most people must know that no?

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Not all the supposed voters in the last election.

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Karen Rockwell's avatar

I believe it's called Corporatism. Mussolini introduced it in Italy.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Scott Bessent, the human dill pickle, promised more purchases like this are on the way. My guts flipped on this one. Pure unadulterated fascism.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Actually, it was WH energy vampire Kevin Hassett who was quoted by the LA Times about the federal government buying stocks in other companies. They're like alter-egos of one another, so who cares?

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Garret Fitzgerald's avatar

I did Not See this coming.

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SethTriggs's avatar

If Little Marco wasn't there, Jizzy Divan would be the emptiest suit in Maladministration 2.0. Listening to this pubic hair golem spew agitprop from his merkin-encased mouth is hard to stomach. I suppose it's just one more bit of evidence that he has no friends, especially ones he hasn't thrown under the bus. Hell, allegedly even his Pick Me! wife is already tired of life with him.

And goodness it's always so awful seeing him slather praise on the pricktator. It's tantamount to someone opening their mouth and thousands upon thousands of cockroach eggs pour out.

But that's the privilege you get when you represent the unreconstructed. You're just going to get this.

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Irascible Ink's avatar

Jizzy Divan! 😂😂😂

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Dave Drell's avatar

He praises the Pricktator, but he’s waiting behind the curtain with the stiletto, waiting for the right time…

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Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

Oh, Jeff, that image was perfect today, because I sat down and basically scheduled out a 12 parter to pick apart the Rockbridge network, and everything attached to it.

Fuck Vance.

https://thistleandmoss.com/p/rockbridge-network-inside-the-fuck

Its gonna be a fun ride for the next 12 days on Wendy the Druid.

as always: liked, Restacked, cross posted, and quoted. Keep up the good fight.

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Tess's avatar

Wendy-that was so informative-thank you! We need this to go everywhere!

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Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

Not for my lack of trying.

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Antoinette Powell's avatar

All is lost.

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Mingo's avatar

I'm in AZ. Where are the retreats held in my state so protests can be organized?

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Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

Im actively working on schedule postings for all of the Rockbridge network data. Once I get a clear picture, Ill drop them onto our pub so you have all that data.

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Mingo's avatar

Thank you for your tenacity.

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Chris Hierholzer's avatar

I think the coked up squirrel was in his head when he was born. It's a rare condition. I forget the medical term. Maybe we should ask Kennedy! He knows everything!!

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Chris Hierholzer's avatar

I do know that the coked up squirrel doesn't fall far from the tree.

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