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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

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

New York to Enact Nation’s First Statewide Moratorium on Data Centers

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/nyregion/new-york-data-center-moratorium-hochul.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

as a New Yorker, I say good. we don't need that shit here. or anywhere

Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

Well Fuck , Jeff.

Lindsey Graham is gone, Mitch McConnell is out on medical leave (Meaning he's really dead, and we just dont fucking know it yet, or do we?), and the GOP's response to losing two votes was to discover — live, on camera — that they can no longer count to fifty-one (could they ever?).

Trump says it's "too soon" to name a replacement, which is orange shitspeak for "i already picked one, you fuckers just haven't seen it yet. Fuck you."

They aren't mourning a senator, folks. they're mourning a headcount — the SAVE Act already dead 48 to 50, the first goddamn prayer these ass-ghouls have ever gotten answered.

I hope those bitches cry. I really do.

https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-the-dead-are-eating-the-dead-and-they-still-refuse-to-stop-trump

HI2thDoc's avatar

Mitch McC is looking all too perky

Not as weak and old as he should be

So what are we to think of that damned turkey

Hidden away for weeks where we can't see

Then his handlers, they put out a rosy picture

Of him in a rehab facility

But the GOP just has no moral stricture

They lie to the best of their ability

They can't stop our prying eyes

'Cuz we know how the right wing lies

We thought by now they'd realize

There ain't no way to stop our prying eyes

My oh my you sure try hard to deceive us

That you're ethically devoid's no mystery

And your cultists will never ever believe us

You're the worst regime in our nation's history

You can't stop our prying eyes

'Cuz we know how your bullshit flies

This is how a free nation dies

But still you cannot stop your damning lies

Joanne Rossmassler Fritz's avatar

To the tune of the Eagles’ Lyin’ Eyes?? Excellent, Doc. One of your best.

HH Mohr's avatar

Trying to think what rhymes with taxidermy.

HI2thDoc's avatar

"Taxidermy: When Embalming Just Won't Do"

HH Mohr's avatar

Who will know the difference between him and all the other stuffed white stiffs in DC?

A.J. Madison's avatar

The other stuffed white stiffs can actually appear and vote on legislation. That's the deal with congress, proof of life, if want to cast a vote on a bill.

Cheri Collins's avatar

Try using Jeremy Bentham as a synonym!

HH Mohr's avatar

I had to look up Jeremy Bentham. LOL, you mean we have to keep Mitch around in a cabinet forever? At least the other old dude looked friendly.

HH Mohr's avatar

Yes! Wait, wrong guy.

Bonnie Council's avatar

Perfect!

The fact the McC is “propped up” with what looks like half a dozen pillows tells me all I need to know. Except, how’d they get blue jeans on him? Who wears blue jeans in bed?

DebJS's avatar

The left edge of that pillow case looks like a Goodwill reject. Also, there is no shadow next to his fingers resting on the purported newspaper.

Sandy's avatar

Love it! I sang along!

Susie's avatar

Bravo!!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Neal Stiffelman's avatar

I think he’s been dead for weeks. If the flesh hasn’t yet started to rot they’ll have him lying in the cooler. Of course, that’s just my belief.

Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

He’s more likely lying on a hospital intubated, comatose and brain dead Neal.

Either way, he’s been measured for the dirt nap.

Pam Humphrey's avatar

Nah. He’s on ice somewhere, just waitin’ for August 3.

Ann Anderson's avatar

They can store a body for 3 months or so, I think. Like a Swanson frozen dinner.

rlritt's avatar

Perhaps he's on life support.

HI2thDoc's avatar

He's the first person ever put on death support

Jayme Wolworth's avatar

From the picture they put out he's looking well enough to produce a short video or at least phone it into FOX (not so much) News ffs.

All these "didn't you see the picture of him???" shit heads that will eat up anything his handlers post is maddening.

Doc Blase''s avatar

How could you tell the difference?

Hollie Rood's avatar

Yup. I’m wondering if there is a lottery or betting pool I’ve missed out on as to when it will be announced, with great sadness and shock, that McConnell took an unexpected turn for the worse last night and passed away? Let me know please so that I can get my bet in. I’m thinking we’ll hear something on or around August 4th or 5th, but certainly NOT BEFORE or on that magical August 3rd date that needs to come and go.

DebJS's avatar

Just the fact that it took them this long to come up with a cover story (another fall) in the face of so much speculation is just insulting.

Annette's avatar

Love that line, Wendy . . . "They aren't mourning a senator, they're mourning a headcount." Truer words have never been spoken.

Tess's avatar

Nailed it! Mourning a head count! Your heroes section is good news!

Doc Blase''s avatar

Love ya, WTD, glad you're with us, keep it up!

Virgin Monk Boy's avatar

Every day in Trump’s America feels like someone spun the Big Wheel of Idiocy and landed on “race cars, algae water, international piracy, and Senate nepotism.” People need cheaper groceries, safer streets, working government, clean food, and maybe one single adult in charge, and Donny is over here trying to turn D.C. into a NASCAR fever dream while inventing tolls in international waterways like Captain Bankruptcy of the High Seas. Then Lindsey Graham’s seat gets treated like a family heirloom at a political estate sale. This is not governing. This is a dementia casino with flags.

devourerofpancakes's avatar

Isn't it fairly standard to appoint someone's widow or offspring to a seat when there isn't much time left in office? Lindsey has neither ergo, sister.

US Blues's avatar

Seems crazy either way to appoint any family member to an ELECTED office.

Eileen's avatar

Agreed, I have seen that happen. But that did not happen in California when Senator Feinstein died. We got a competent person.

US Blues's avatar

Donnycon is nothing but pure Id. If an amoral 10 yr old was president these are the things he would do and “think.”

I’m going to turn downtown DC into a cOoL racetrack with cars that go vroom vroom as fast as anyone’s ever seen!

vAnDaLs, sLeEzBaGs, and THUGS and ANTIFA destroyed the reflecting pool not me driving a bunch of cOoL cars on top of it.

Let’s create an absolute disastrous war and when reality catches up, let’s make the world pay for it not me! I’m THE GUARDIAN OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT not the Guardian of Pedophiles.

Hmm. Someone died that I used to easily manipulate. What should I do? I know! What about his sister?! That’s it. I bet she’ll be “easy” too!

🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

Kay-El's avatar

I saw that as crematorium at first. That would work too.

Maria 🇮🇪's avatar

Beat as usual Jeff. Fuckwits stupidity really knows No bounds. How embarrassing, the tire tracks/ Sorry the slash has gotten even Bigger…! Holy God what Is WRONG with that Feckin Eejit??🙈🙈

Hope Ye are taking care Jeff.

Stranger Than Friction's avatar

I had a relative with developing dementia, who died two years ago of a heart attack. She was obsessed with being right about something when clearly her story did not add up. The heightened emotions around that belief stoked her attention to it daily, to the detriment of all who interacted with her. It was a sad end.

Trump reminds me of that behavior, with his need to be the greatest at everything, the smartest man in the room, and so on. He seems obsessed with proving that everything he touches is made magically better than has ever been seen before. This emperor is unaware that we can see his ideas and notions are without clothes. We know what happens when he gets a hold of something. I think they'll keep him alive until he is no longer needed. Just like Moscow Mitch McConnell.

barb's avatar

I think the need to be right, the biggest, the best etc. preceded his dementia.

Stranger Than Friction's avatar

Given that he is a malignant narcissist, and always has been, I agree with you. But the dementia is really exacerbating his defects.

Wendymae's avatar

It's a Russian thing.

Doc Blase''s avatar

Had to impress Fred.

Pebs's avatar

This fellow New Yorker is with you Jeff.

Cheri Collins's avatar

Finally! A bit of good news!

Doc Blase''s avatar

That's not the obit I'm waiting for. That one will be on the front page.

Tess's avatar

Love your Claudia comments!!!!

MORON——the wheel will never stop as long as these idiots are in charge! Great post!

djw's avatar

I love it that you loved her enough to take so many pictures of her. Too many of us just don't.

HI2thDoc's avatar

That idiotic lazy-assed fool

Drove his motorcade through the Pool

That's what damaged the paint

'Cuz it surely ain't

Some mythical box cutting tool

Fastball Fredo's avatar

Kind of f##ks up his Antifa theory, plus the fact these pics will be used as part of the defense of the former Olympian.. Pirro will lose again.. somebody… anybody… bring Janine a box oh whine.. stat..

Mingo's avatar

Box oh whine...LOL.

J Glaspie's avatar

I say we arrest those moronic vandals who left the tire marks.

rlritt's avatar

What's a shame is a poor innocent guy has to defend himself against the crime of vandalizing the pool when he clearly did no such thing.

DebJS's avatar

Hopefully he will win his fees and costs along with dismissal of the trumped-up charges!

Paula Dean's avatar

How many SUV's does it require to take one fat moron to look at the Empty Epstein Swamp-bottom? Each one of those armored tank-cars weighs ... 16 tons!

DuduLovesBubu's avatar

Daddy damaged the pool liner because he was still running the winter snows. When you're president they don't make you take off the studded tires. That's why it's so great being president!

DebJS's avatar

Yikes! It would have been bad enough with the sheer weight of those Beasts!

Paula Dean's avatar

I was being hyperbolic 😉

Mary Lou Williams's avatar

Why? They're just following orders.

DebJS's avatar

Lock 'em up and throw away the key!

Steve in SoCal's avatar

A scuba diver

Cut a 300-yard gash

Then he disappeared

Fastball Fredo's avatar

Kind of similar to Donald’s cranium… it just disappeared.

Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

I watched the video, remember whispering to myself WTF Doc!

Mary Lou Williams's avatar

Why is this fact not widely reported.

Gaily's avatar

I read yesterday that the “gash” was part of the drainage system.

Leu2500's avatar

the felon started his Monday at 1:30. They had cleaned him up pretty well, but they couldn't hide his "slurpiness." Then he did his interview with Hugh Hewitt a couple hours later. Slurpiness had worsened. & then he signed EOs on cam around 6 & made word-adjacent noises. Not only was the slurpiness even more pronounced, you could notice the droop of the right side of his mouth. from his stroke(s).

The slurpiness is significant because it indicates that his ability to automatically swallow has deteriorated. Poor swallowing ability can lead to aspiration pneumonia, a major cause of death for dementia patients.

Vicki Bruning's avatar

"Word adjacent noises," perfect ❤️

Natalia Lincoln's avatar

Well, he’ll have to spit then.

Doc Blase''s avatar

"aspiration pneumonia."

Delicious!

DebJS's avatar

That would be such a shame.

Marian Vitale's avatar

It's a shame this asshole has never eaten a salad in his life, because explosive diarrhea would be such a satisfying way for him to go.

devourerofpancakes's avatar

Wait the explosive diarrhea is coming from the salads? But I just ate a salad. AAAIIEEEEE! If only there was a government agency that could tell me if this was an issue in my area.

Lucinda Stone's avatar

They say to cook the potentially contaminated items, ok… but then you’re eating dead bugs…. 😱

devourerofpancakes's avatar

No problem. RFK, jr can tell me if my food is contaminated just by looking at it right?

DebJS's avatar

Yeeaahh that new bag of "organic" romaine hearts (Kroger brand) in my fridge is going out with the next garbage pickup. So much for my taco salad plans.

Doc Blase''s avatar

Better than the live ones, maybe?

Tonya Browning's avatar

🤣🤣🤣🤣 it really would!!

Cathy 98280's avatar

Wouldn’t want to be in the Oval when THAT happens!

Polly Sears's avatar

Whew . Who will ask T why he drove over the RP, and, did all the damage? Reporters need to keep (or start) asking questions-again and again!

DebJS's avatar

"Mr. President - Why did you think it was a good idea to drive your motorcade through the Reflecting Pool right after the blue sealant paint was applied?"

"Who are you with? You're fake news. You such a bad reporter. What a stupid question. Wait till I sue your paper for billions of dollars. Next!"

DebJS's avatar

Maybe if they slip some shredded lettuce into a TACO?

Marian Vitale's avatar

I don't think he eats Mexican food, but that's just a wild guess lol

Doc Blase''s avatar

LOL'd LOUD on that one. Oh shit!

David Simpson's avatar

Nothing says the Trump crime family is in charge of the economy like fecal parisites on our fresh produce… 🤦‍♂️🙄

rlritt's avatar

Thats what happens when you indescrimnatly fire agricultural/ food inspectors who could enforce laws.

Lisa Bieber's avatar

Trump crime family-fecal parasites-nice justaposition!

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

RFK Jr. is probably in his glory. Fecal (and roadkill) parasites to him are like escargot to the French, a real delicacy. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger, eh?

Neal Stiffelman's avatar

I imagine that Marco sees attacking the International Criminal Court is a more popular stance than launching an invasion of Cuba, but the Viceroy of Venezuela will never be prez. Never. His self-destruction has only begun. Same with Uday and Qusay. And every feckin’ one of these feckin’ grifting traitors. Every feckin’ piece of shite that crawled out from behind the cupboards thinking the lights would stay dim.

Every. Feckin’. One.

michellefromchicago's avatar

Gosh – – who would ever have thought that driving a fleet of 7000-pound armored SUVs across a freshly painted surface might damage the paint? Will wonders never cease!

Susan Kemp's avatar

I’ve been saying that for weeks and the new pix seem to prove it right. Even if that wasn’t the sole cause of the damage, it is almost certainly a factor. Poring in gallons of industrial strength peroxide, a known paint stripper, to try to kill the algae probably was the coup de grâce.

I just saw on MTN that the company hired to paint sealant on the reflecting pool is a business that coats the beds of pickup trucks. Evidently the appropriately named Greenwater Services was hired just for the nano-bubble circulation system, which they last installed in a stretch of the Tijuana river, against protests from the environmental scientists from the nearby Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The equipment was washed away. Why am I not surprised.

Doc Blase''s avatar

Nano horse pucky. "bubble" my butt.

Susan Kemp's avatar

I think you’re probably right.

Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

Can Lady Lindsey’s sister even list the three branches of government and their functions? Because if not, she’s perfectly qualified to serve as a Republican Senator.

rlritt's avatar

The only requirement for a Republican senator these days is to do as your told, and learn to use a rubber stamp.

HI2thDoc's avatar

What a coincidence. The same as for a SCOTUS Injustice!

Lisa Bieber's avatar

I don't know much about her, but I suspect she lacks the required demonic evil.

DebJS's avatar

Likely in for a few cool million$ and leave when the next Senator is sworn in.

Bob Bowden's avatar

And if not, she’s also perfectly qualified to serve as the Tommy Tuberville Professor of Political Science at Trump University

devourerofpancakes's avatar

She might end up just abstaining from votes from now until she's out of office.

Dana Jae Labrecque's avatar

Haha, Stephanie. Not where I thought you were going with question…I laughed out loud.

Harold Miller's avatar

Meanwhile ICE continues to commit cold blooded murder on the streets of America.

The Boston Massacre served as a catalyst to foment the American Revolution, yet

we currently have an ongoing massacre of both citizens (Renee Goode, Alex Pretti)

and both legal and also undocumented immigrants. These are people who have spent

their lives contributing to our economy and the progress of our country!

THIS EVIL DESTRUCTION OF LIVES MUST STOP!

J Hardy Carroll's avatar

Once Trump has a taste of this "I'll just appoint my friends to the Senate" he will never let it go. Seriously, anyone who votes Republican at this point has to be brain-dead. My fear is if there are still enough working parts in the broken-ass election system to allow us to shift course. If we can't, we are fucked.

Mary Lou Williams's avatar

Is there any money left in the US Treasury?

Lucy Conner's avatar

Excellent question!

Doc Blase''s avatar

There hasn't been any since Bill Clinton balanced the budget. We're f'n broke and in debt to maybe 40 Trillion dollars.

So, no.

Wendymae's avatar

Some congressional magat has already proposed eliminating direct election of senators and going back to having them appointed by the state houses, just like the good ol' days when no one questioned your racism.

J Hardy Carroll's avatar

Repeal of the 17th amendment, which was ratified in 1912 at the tail end of the gilded age. You want to see a machine, look into the Tammany ring, the Pendergast machine that produced Truman, or everybody's favorite, Huey Long. This sort of shittt backroom dealing is as American as any other bullshit we do.

Wendymae's avatar

Yep. I described it instead of saying "repeal of the 17th amendment" in case anyone had to look it up. Which I would have to do, since I evidently don't have the brain capacity to remember these things.

J Hardy Carroll's avatar

Ha! Clearly you do. I had to look it up when I first came up with it, and then me being me looked up a bunch of other shit. We’re in times without any precedent I can think of, but that doesn’t mean I’ll give up trying!

Kristen's avatar

What a wonderful photo; made me cry (only a bit). We continue to love and admire you from the Southern Hemisphere Jeff, even though we’re crying a bit too about Sam Neill.

Maria 🇮🇪's avatar

Yeah us too Kristen. Sam was born in Co Tyrone Ireland. Sad he’s gone…

Susan Jane's avatar

He was a beautiful man.

SethTriggs's avatar

The deference in the political and legal systems to the champions of the unreconstructed is easily apparent here. All these people have unlimited license to play in our faces.

Let's take back power from the unreconstructed this fall. Make sure you're an ACTIVE voter and you jump your voter suppression hoops NOW so you're not caught out in November.

Eva's avatar

I don’t have any problem with Graham’s sister. She’ll do what Lindsey did but with far less power. It’s not like SC was going to appoint a NON Trumper. At least she’ll probably be harmless. At best, maybe her background in advocacy will come in handy.

The rest is utter and total garbage. We can see NO GASH. We can see RACING IN DC is a danger to the public, infrastructure, and the drivers themselves. What a fucking joke

Diana's avatar

He likes his carnivals, wrestling at the White House - now racing ??

Destroying the East Wing, the Rose Garden now filled with yellow umbrellas , without any roses plus the Epstein Dance Hall - oh and those pictures and tacky gold everywhere! All this in one year… let’s vote in November to stop this madness! It’s time for adults in DC !

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

Starting on the afternoon of January 20, 2029 the next president should appoint someone to be in charge of removing all of low IQ Trump's "improvements" to the White House.

zuzu's avatar

I have a feeling that will be the next First Lady's or First Gentleman's project. Wouldn't you want to be known as the FL/FG who restored Jackie's Rose Garden and brought the WH back to its stately glory?

Bonus points if you worked with the relevant commissions and Congress to get plans approved for rebuilding the East Wing. Maybe even adding an appropriately-sized ballroom just to stick the knife in.

Doc Blase''s avatar

Supreme Court; then everything else.

Susan Kemp's avatar

It’ll take a big team, especially since people go in to redo the Oval Office between the time the outgoing president leaves and the incoming president arrives. I’d be happy to volunteer to remove that tacky gold leaf.

Doc Blase''s avatar

Pete Buttigieg can handle it quite nicely.

Suel J's avatar

And why is this shit coming to Washington? Is Trump extending his horror of a "birthday" celebration?

Lady Emsworth's avatar

The neighbors didn't want him to do it at mar a lagoon. . .

PTW's avatar

It is Bread and Circuses, minus the bread.

zuzu's avatar

Exactly. It's no different than when Jean Carnahan was appointed to serve the first year or so of Mel's term after he posthumously defeated John Ashcroft.

It's five months, only two of which the Senate will effectively be in session. Lindsey's staff will be doing the work and directing her votes. Anyone who was appointed to that position would be in the same boat.

Let's all remember that Lindsey was up for re-election in November, and there now has to be a special primary on the Republican side. Unlike Maine, which has a July 27 deadline to name a candidate and can't possibly put together a primary, South Carolina has until August 11 to name a candidate. So they have just about enough time to get a primary together. Darline is not going to be throwing her hat in the ring, so the governor doesn't have to worry about giving a boost to one of the primary candidates, most of whom already ran in the primary for governor or one of the House races. Yes, he's doing Trump's bidding, but it's highly likely that he would have chosen her anyway -- this is the much-younger sister that Lindsey raised after their parents died, and adopted so she could get his military benefits. They're very close. She knows his staff, and they know the ropes, so her lack of experience doesn't really matter that much. She's a nonpolitical pick in a highly-political environment who will step aside in January.

Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

I don't either. As I noted elsewhere, presumably Lindsey Graham's staff will stay on. Since Graham was running for re-election and assuredly wasn't going to get deposed, the staff won't have been looking for other gigs. Now they have some breathing room.

rlritt's avatar

I doubt even MAGA doesn't believe that.

george  campbell's avatar

Several more distractions from talking about the Epstein files .

Dave Drell's avatar

Extracting tolls…. this clown show is extracting mental tolls on all of us. The stupidity never stops.

Susan Niemann's avatar

I LOVE that you all take so many candid photos... of each other! Beautiful!

"GUARDIAN OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT" I'd order a Tshirt. 🤣🤣

Seriously, we're being punished, arent we? We'll never have a reasonably decent human being as a president again. *sigh

rlritt's avatar

True, I will never complain about a any reasonably adequate President again as long as he doesn't break the law.

Jeanne Leduc's avatar

If we ever return to a semi-lawful country.

rlritt's avatar

From your mouth to God's ears.

Kay-El's avatar

We might get one if we wish real hard and click our heels 3 times.

Paula Dean's avatar

Heck, why not go all the way and declare himself GUARDIAN OF THE GALAXY! I'd love to watch Groot - who has a better vocabulary - twist trumple-thin-skin into a pretzel! Even Baby Groot could kick his double-wide trailer. For a moment or two, donny could call himself Star Lord....🤣

"I am Groot".