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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

I'm not wrong about Donny being missing in action yesterday, am I? I couldn't find -any- video of him, and usually he's impossible to miss

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Susan Niemann's avatar

I think your hunch about a medical event is right. He's getting an IV full of spit and hate.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

That or they are taking out spit and hate for transfer to others, since he has an excess of those.

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Zija Pulp's avatar

Yeah, he’s likely overdosing on his own overload of spit and hate. Those can give you a baaad tummy ache if they don’t siphon off the excess. They’re pumping ketchup into him to balance his whatevers.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

LOL

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Sharon C Storm's avatar

Another small stroke, perhaps? The right side of his mouth (on the rare occasions when it is closed) droops noticeably. I can’t make my mouth do that unless I pull it down with my finger.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

We need a big one!

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Eileen's avatar

The Krakatoa equivalent of strokes, please. And like I've written before, while the bloated orange cheeto is careening mid-stroke, he can land on Miller, then Kegsbreath and crush Couch-fucker and Holy Mike Limp Dick - making it a "stroke of luck" for the country.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Gee, Eileen ... I wish I could have a coffee with you!

"Stroke of luck"! 👏👏👏👏 Perfect!!

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Eileen's avatar

I'll raise my coffee mug eastwards in your honor while I read Jeff's Friday post tomorrow morning!

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

My DREAM Krazy Keystone Kops sans Uniforms, scenario :)

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Zija Pulp's avatar

It would be impolite to disagree with you, so I’ll go with your big stroke.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

🤣🤣

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Cat Cafe's avatar

Like Zija Pulp, purely out of courtesy and deference, I agree with you

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steve robertshaw's avatar

I'll repeat a comment I made last week, and maybe every week to come: We need a massive stroke, and we need it now.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

I second that, Steve! Like...five minutes ago.🙏

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T L Mills's avatar

And when the pumpkin pie hole is not closed--which is just about always--he's holding it in a odd way.

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Mwfeiger's avatar

I disagree. Fat Fungus 47 has not one cc left to fill up with more spit and hate. Maybe it's just an IV of pureed hamburgers?

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

An IV of bile.

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Rick in CO's avatar

Or hamberders...

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Zija Pulp's avatar

Even pureed hamburger might bust him. Could it be residue of Aquanet?

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Susan Niemann's avatar

🤣🤣👍🏻👍🏻

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Probably being pumped with “H” under RFK Jr. directions!

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DJ Headthrob's avatar

With a soupcon of saltpeter.

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Mary's avatar

ISO ways to panic his base every time is goes AWOL - even for a. minute…..

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Maria 🇮🇪's avatar

He Doesn’t need an IV for that Susan.

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

Don’t worry, Uncle Jeff. Trump was just trying to rest from the side effects of his windmill cancer, so he swallowed a few tablets of aceta-whatever, chased it down with some bleach, and then opened up the giant faucet up in Canada, filled up his Keurig, and brewed himself a large cup of covfefe.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

LOL!!

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Lin Talbot-Koehl's avatar

PERFECT!! 🤣

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William Burke's avatar

😂👏👍

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Ellen H's avatar

This is perfect 🤩

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Greg Sandman's avatar

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Charles Austin's avatar

😂😂😂

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Linda Weide's avatar

Maybe walking slowly on stairs made him keel over. He is unwell, and they have to pump him full of drugs like they did Hitler to get him to make another public appearance.

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Leigh Hamilton's avatar

Awww. I send him Clots and Stairs.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Brilliant!

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Joanne Beck's avatar

Now that reminds me of a Randi Rainbow song "Thoughts and Prayers" only we can now replace it with new lyrics! Thank you!

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cablecargal's avatar

Love it!!

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Pam Humphrey's avatar

Excellent! I’m stealing that.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

😂😂😂

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Lisa's avatar

Fantastic!:)

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Christine Zepka's avatar

🥳

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Nancy's avatar

and blueberries.

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Mps's avatar

Perfection

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Claudia Montague Wheatley's avatar

Maybe he actually tried to do the Obama Bop, and almost Ivana'ed* himself.

*FWIW I am deeply suspicious about that death. Her NDA just about to expire just before the 2024 election, and she decided to use the spiral stairs instead of the elevator she always used? Tell me another one.

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joanne g murphy's avatar

Yes! And to navigate a twisty, for-decorative purposes-only spiral staircase in high heels with a cup of hot coffee? Why?

Hmmm.....

And she was cremated, so why were four pallbearers struggling with her coffin? What was buried in her grave besides her ashes??

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Jayme Wolworth's avatar

There were actually 10!!! pallbearers. It was full of Top Secret docs and I will die on that hill.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

THAT I do remember - and came to the same conclusion. She wasn't big OR tall at the end of her life. Small and frail. AND then supposedly cremated? MY guess at the time was that she was actually in a decorative urn on her daughter's mantel and that SO HEAVY casket was stuffed full of the missing classified documents he pretended was her just so he could call that fucking golf course 'a cemetery' and get a tax deduction! While people get hot and bothered about the 'disrespect' to her grave, the frumps are laughing because she's never BEEN there and THEY think it's all a huge joke ON the public, never questioning exactly HOW or WHY she died.

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Lynn Van Haren's avatar

More classified documents

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

Cremains are surprisingly heavy, but still.

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Joseph Luongo's avatar

Her death. That fireman in Butler, Pa., and the kid who shot him. The million Americans who died from Covid because of his bumbling, apathy and mishandling. And the millions who will die because of the termination of USAID. The”man” has no respect for human life. This is a guy who, as a five year old, used to throw rocks at baby strollers

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Yarnartist's avatar

He was 5? I thought he was older, like 8 or 9. However, after seeing him in action since January, I might have guessed 25. Or maybe he still does it.

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Rosemary Orlandi's avatar

what kind of relationship did Ivana have with her kids ? were they ok with planting her on a fucking golf course?

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

They're BAD SEEDS.

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Claudia Montague Wheatley's avatar

I thought it was a good relationship.

I remember seeing a photo of Ivanka coming out of the church after the funeral. She looked shocked and scared.

I wonder if Ivana's kids wonder about her death, too. And are scared that if they ask Daddy any questions, they might be next.

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Zija Pulp's avatar

Friends think I’m nuts but the timing of her death, his wrangling all the details, and where she was buried (might as well been in a municipal landfill) was all bizarre. His ex-wife?!? The kids didn’t have the balls to tell him to fuck off?! It’s disgusting. If nothing els, she was their mother.

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Patricia Williamson's avatar

They never visit her grave or put any flowers on it. I give my Mother and Sister-in-Law flowers every Mother's Day. That whole family must not have any love for each other.

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Zija Pulp's avatar

Well, that doesn’t surprise me. I bet Trumpy would be jealous of any of the kids putting flowers on her grave. He would take it as an insult even though he did no parenting; everything for that guy is a contest in which he MUST WIN. On top of it, could they even find her grave? It’s pretty inconspicuous.

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

I think if they exhumed her, they’d find those misting classified docs.

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Flower Child's avatar

Totally agree

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Nancy Eadie Larkin's avatar

That was his go-to plan when Marla came up pregnant. Since he didn’t use that card then, he used it for the Ex.

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Joanne Beck's avatar

Oh I am sure orange anus had someone push her down her stairs.

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Linda Weide's avatar

And she had recently been bragging in the media about how she had steered Trump to success. I have to say, I thought "defenestration" even though it wasn't a window, but because it is a Putin sort of method.

The children did not seem to have a suspicious bone in their bodies about it, or they are coldhearted and don't care.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Cold hearted is correct Linda!

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Claudia Montague Wheatley's avatar

Or scared to death of Daddy, thinking if they showed any suspicion they might be next.

I'd be terrified if I thought my father did something like that—and he wasn't president of the United States, with ties to mobsters and former NYPD commissioners.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

THIS is the first I'm hearing about a purely decorative spiral staircase? I've always assumed it was a regular 'normal' (for them anyway) staircase! I fell down my own brand new solid oak 36" wide stairs and nearly broke my stupid neck, bouncing off both walls as I went down all 14 steps, courtesy of my much-too-old Dr. Scholl sandals which were falling off my feet and did, just as I hurried off the FIRST step. (I'd been rushing to get my harmonica to play Happy Birthday to my sister over the phone - yup, the same one I'm estranged from) as hubby spoke to her upstairs. So, I didn't overly question Ivana's admittedly suspicious death until later. But SPIRAL stairs~IN high heels? NO!

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Claudia Montague Wheatley's avatar

I've never heard that it was decorative, just that it was pretty hard to negotiate safely, which is why Ivana used the elevator instead.

"I fell down my own brand new solid oak 36" wide stairs and nearly broke my stupid neck" which could happen to any of us who still have our old Dr. Scholls. And a harmonica.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

I'm thinking of a Lovecraftian scenario where he's actually been dead for a while and they're using chemicals to make him appear animated so they can use him as a puppet

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L Turner's avatar

A puppet isn’t that stupid.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

A side effect of the chemical animation

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Evelyn Freitas's avatar

“The Lurker in the Oval”

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Katherine P Duncan's avatar

Appreciate the Lovecraft reference; I feel we are living in Lovecraftian times.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Are the Old Ones looking on and saying, nah, this world is too fucked up for us to invade?

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

But Lovecraft didn't have AI, or a MEDBED.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Neither do we, as far as medbeds go. Science fiction. Some MAGA chud plagiarized the plot of Elysium, starring Matt Damon

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bruce somers's avatar

Weekend at Dummies?

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Good to see ya, Bruce

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Christine Zepka's avatar

Isn’t he already a reject 2025 puppet?!

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

Weekend at Bernie's updated?

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

How much longer …,.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

Christinatalkst did a good one about his 'new coin' which is 'supposed to be' a 1776-2026 coin with (as she describes) his fat face on one side and his 'arm upraised fight, fight fight' bullshit on the other. HER take is that 1) WE don't put out coins with living subjects on them; and 2) doing so seems to have him 'willing his ending into existence'? She's TOO funny, though - and must be heard to fully appreciate all of it, especially about the butter, lard and especially 'margarine'. Between Jeff in the morning and then Christinatalkst I walk around with a grin most days (only getting PISSED OFF in the Evenings (when finally getting around to the real fuckery of the day - such as AMERICAN CITIZENS IN CHICAGO being invaded by a fucking 'ice' army rappelling from fucking helicopters to attack/invade them in the middle of the night, ZIP-TIEING little NAKED CHILDREN TOGETHER and dragging them out of their beds INTO the Street, then tossing ALL of their household goods and clothes into the hallways of their apartment building 'just because'!) A 67yr old Black Citizen reported ALL of his electronics STOLEN BY them when he returned to his apartment after being kept zip-tied and lying on the cold concrete for THREE HOURS by these fucking THUGS!) Phew, rant over for the moment.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Leaving a crowd of real soldiers aghast, head in hands, shaking their heads, likely sent his sorry ass off the deep end!

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Zija Pulp's avatar

I’m so glad you brought that up! I’m surprised he didn’t mention the leather soles on his shoes, which was his excuse when he had to ask the Army colonel to help him walk down the slightest incline at an outdoor speech he gave. I’ll never forget his itty-bitty steps. You think it’s all the drugs he takes that messes with his balance or the lifts in his shoes?

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

Unsure if it's in use any longer but I remember that was once called 'mincing' down that ramp, especially since he had the Army Colonel's arm to lean on, FFS. At the time, for me it was ALL to do with his stupid, narcissistic lifts - as if ANYONE buys that he's '6'3", lol but now? I'd suggest it's his rapid decline on his way to meet that big red SATAN as depicted by SouthPark (not that I believe in a Hell OR 'heaven'). For him? It'll just be a nothingness of sheer, unadulterated misery - and worms. One gets what one deserves, as one has lived. Innocents and good people deserve meadows, gorgeous flowers (and fauna) and beautiful, everlasting dreams.

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Leigh Hamilton's avatar

When you've been stroking out w/dementia (mother and mother-in-law) you have good days and bad. Eventually the bad win. With all the ankle swelling, dementia, cognitive issues he could be in late-stage congestive heart failure.

A girl can dream.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

🤞🤞🤞🤞

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Cheryl Steiger's avatar

What you said!

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

His health is definitely in deep decline, unfortunately he has the best medical team, keeping his cretinous ass from being measured for the dirt nap Leigh!

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Fastball Fredo's avatar

Maybe he’s preparing for Yom Kippur with the family… you know loading up on McDonald's cheeseburgers to fast today.

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

Or more likely, getting ready to tell us we just need to get over synagogue shootings.

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Mirla G. Raz's avatar

Don't give him to us Jews! It's bad enough that we have Ivanka and Jared.

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Lauralite's avatar

Embarrassing, isn't it?

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skangirl's avatar

BACON cheeseburgers!

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Mingo's avatar

Those cheeseburger better be kosher beef.

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Joel's avatar

It’s a CHEESEburger! Kosher beef? That’s like George Carlin asking why the physician sanitizes the arm of someone about to get a lethal injection!

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

OXYMORONS !

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Patricia Gomes's avatar

Fat chance!

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Jan Moon's avatar

I don't give one flying fuck what happens to him. I just want him gone. And his little vampire, too.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

For gawd’s sake, Jeff, he’s spending his time in his Med Bed, getting a new right hand and some major ankle slimming.

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Joanne Beck's avatar

hahahahahahaha

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Runfastandwin's avatar

Hopefully he's gone for good this time.

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joanne g murphy's avatar

It reminds me of an old joke. A fortuneteller on the boardwalk tells a man, "Trump will die on a Jewish holiday..."

"Which Jewish holiday?" the man asks, intrigued.

"Any day Trump dies will be a Jewish holiday!"

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Linda McCaughey's avatar

Even if he is, the Repugs will make a skin suit out of him for Nosferatu to wear, just like Silence of the Lambs, so the faithful won't know.

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BayPoodle's avatar

Ew. But also 🎯

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Chris Hierholzer's avatar

They'll just keep him on ice till he really stinks the place up. Maybe a large refrigerator cart in the Rose Garden?

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Joyce's avatar

He already stinks up the place--no one's going to notice. Except that he FINALLY SHUT UP.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Marty's avatar

🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

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Melinda Morrell's avatar

As to Trump's whereabouts, I think they're having to give him rest for a few days. They need time to pump him full of whatever it is they are using to keep him going. That is a ploy of diminishing returns, I am sure, because I think Humpty Trumpty is in really bad shape. (my mom, who had serious cardiac issues, looked tired like that the last 6 months of her life). I wonder if he's going to make an appearance before the weekend?

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zuzu's avatar

He was soooo subdued and slow on Tuesday. Something is up.

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Jan Moon's avatar

Something is up and it's not his IQ.

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Sheila D's avatar

I'm thinking his IQ of 73 is now higher than his heart rate! Good times!

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steve robertshaw's avatar

That was great!

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Jane's avatar

And short of breath

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Rhesus's avatar

He's unwell. Could be extremely unwell.

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Joyce's avatar

One hopes. There's always hope.

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Zija Pulp's avatar

But you know what? That low-energy worked to his advantage. At the end of his talk with the Generals et al. whatever he said came out so slowly that it sounded sinister!

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Carl Selfe's avatar

This is critical to national security. Stop what you are doing and if you are a flag officer, be in Quantico pronto to hear the TOP TWO civilian leaders of the U.S. military establish new instructions.

https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/omg-no-bopping?r=3m1bs

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Leu2500's avatar

That’s what Brian Karem is reporting.

You can tell if he’s been to the West Wing/Oval Office because the Marine guard is standing outside while he’s there. The reporters can observe this; it was reported on during Trump’s 1st term.

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Mary Greenwald's avatar

I think he was in a video playing "Mexican Music" wearing a sombrero while Schumer and Jeffries were having a press event. Still missing, but on video.

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Joanne Beck's avatar

Congestive heart failure. Waiting on the Grim Reaper.

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Ann Anderson's avatar

Well, MAGA Mike, since you missed it, here's the review: The generals have nicknamed the two dipshits Fat Man and Little Boy for how hard they bombed. In second place is Fattysburg Address.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Historical note, Fat Man and Little Boy were the names of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They definitely bombed!

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Fattysburg Address. 👏👏👏👏👏👏

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Suzn Sez's avatar

I wish just once I could come up with a smackdown like that.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Same!!😆

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Will Gerard's avatar

One thing that might (relatively speaking) unify the country: We're all getting front-row seats to the shitshow being run by the shitheads. No one is going to benefit from this -- contrary to the conventional wisdom that it's all part of the 2025 plan, etc. -- and it's not a good thing for any president to be pissing off generals to the nth degree.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Can’t imagine any of them taking orders from this psychopathic wastrel!

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Lady Emsworth's avatar

Please, please, PLEASE tell me that's true! I know the Generals weren't allowed to clap or boo or anything - but what are they saying behind closed doors?

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Chet Brandt's avatar

“This president is out of his fucking mind!”

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Absofuckinglutely Chet!

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J.R.'s avatar

😂😂😂

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David Selditz's avatar

OHHHHHHHH YEAHHHHHH!!!! May I use this?

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Ann Anderson's avatar

Sure

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Adroitly said Ann!

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Troll Slayer's avatar

GOLD!

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Susan Niemann's avatar

"go fuck a couch." The ultimate order. 😂😂😂

Why does it feel like we're swirling down the drain???

Madeline Dean was my rep when in lived in Pennsylvania and she keeps her head down, communicates with her constituents and does the work. I was so proud to see her take on Holy Mike. She's very smart and truly dedicated.

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Dave Drell's avatar

Can’t she just punch him right in his kisser when he blatantly lies like that?

No, I don’t advocate violence except for these lying, scumbag, Republicon douchebags who drag this country down with their constant bullshitting!!!

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

I think a mere tongue lashing and a tap on the forehead might knock this little weasel out Dave!

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Dave Drell's avatar

Yes, I think you are right!

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Cathy 98280's avatar

It’s exactly what I said out loud when he showed up on my tv screen, and I bet I wasn’t the only one.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

Is Justa Dick a " beardo " like Peg Pigsweat scolded ? Does he " PT " ? How many pull ups can he do ? Everyone knows a solid punch can take down a drone or missle.🙄 Biceps win wars just like the name Dept of War will stop wars. 🤪 No women ! Because they're SO NOT GAY.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

Speaking of...according to one specific instagram account, one man announced to Holy Mike that IF he didn't seat Grijalda to her RIGHTFULLY WON (by FORTY POINTS) seat by last night, he planned to release Mikey's 'Grindr' account facts. Today I see ALL kinds of gay allusions about Holy Mike, Marco Rubio and on and on and on. ALL supposed 'closeted' and now panicked. Oh PLEASE let this be true. I'm not the least bit homophobic and truly DO have gay friends who feel the same way about this. What I am is RAGINGLY PISSED OFF at any gay person who deliberately attacks/votes against and harms OTHER gay people purely to hide their OWN LIVES! Don't want to come out of the closet? Sit the fuck down and shut the fuck UP WHILE 'doing no harm'!

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

PREACH !

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

Thank you, Kristy! I often do, even when I seemingly don't have that 'right'. But if not an ally, then who?

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Christine Zepka's avatar

I’m in PA, but she isn’t my rep. I’m stuck in trumplican territory 🤢🤬

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Susan Niemann's avatar

I know the part of the state you must be in... *sigh 😪

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Christine Zepka's avatar

It is depressing to say the least!

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Jennifer's avatar

They shut down the government to keep the Epstein files under wrap. And there's a guy on Tiktok, now crowdfunding for lawyer fees, who claims he just turned over Holy Mike's Grindr profile and IP address. I don't expect much to come of that because nothing comes of anything but... a gal can dream.

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Joyce's avatar

I usually like to make $2 win bets on longshots, but, in Holy Brother Mike's case--I'd say the odds are 6/5 that he's in the Epstein Files, and I'll bet $20 on it.

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Songgirl Kim's avatar

I stand with JB Pritzker - 25th Amendment now.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

I'm glad he got that out in the open. JB is a good governor, too.

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Songgirl Kim's avatar

Yes he is, and I’d almost hate to see him run for president.

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zuzu's avatar

I’d hate to lose him as governor, but we could use his calm, steady competence in the big job.

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Cheryl from Maryland's avatar

I'm in Maryland; I went to the UofC in the early 1980s, so I know the Chicago South Side. My spouse and I took public transportation or walked all over the City; yeah, we took precautions (limited # of credit cards; took a small amount of cash), but that didn't stop us. Current GOP thoughts re Chicago show they are ignorant, bigoted, COWARDS.

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Cheryl Steiger's avatar

I’m in Chicago and I agree.

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Yarnartist's avatar

The only thing making Chicago unsafe right now is ICE.

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Songgirl Kim's avatar

I know! It’s disgusting! They’re walking along Michigan Ave, they’re walking along the Riverwalk, they’re on motor boats on the river with their guns.

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Yarnartist's avatar

😭 Many days I just wake up and cry. I’m so frustrated because I can’t HURT them!

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jcali129's avatar

Holy Mike: "I didnt see it".

The well rehearsed Rethug line to deflect from everything and anything.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Apparently, he didn't see the assassination of the Minnesota Assembly member and husband or the Mormons in Ohio either.

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Dave Drell's avatar

Touché !

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Carrie Duncan's avatar

How can the third-in-line for POTUS consistently and repeatedly admit he is so very ill-informed when each admission proves him wholly unfit for his job? And journalists should be answering "I didn't see/hear/read it" with an incredulous, "Why not??"

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Carrie Duncan's avatar

Ugh, I just answered my own question: in a kakistocracy, that's a feature not a bug.

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Joyce's avatar

Exactly: the guy must spend 22 hours a day under his desk with a blanket over his head, according to his own "I don't know"; "I didn't hear"; "I didn't see"; "I haven't read"; "I didn't watch" responses.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

are we sure that isn't frump's desk? - the one with the 'blanket over mikey's head'? That COULD take time recovering from....ugh, puke. Enquiring minds and all that. ;)

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

Call it the Sgt. Schultz response: “I know no-thing!”

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

I used to love Hogan’s Heroes

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Ditto Walt, the cast, and writing was amazing!

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

'Nozzing'. I LOVED Sgt. Schultz (spelled differently from hubby's surname). My father-in-law hailed from Altburg, Germany with a similar accent as did my husband who came here as a little boy. His sounds more 'Bronx'. We're BOTH originally 'furriners', unfortunately the exact 'mix' as frump's ancestry. Scottish Mother, German father. It disgusts both of us to the umpteenth degree to be aware of this.

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Cyndi's avatar

We won't hold it against you! :-)

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P123Sunny's avatar

And just like that: it’s accepted as a response…

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jcali129's avatar

Frustrating to say the least.

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Paw—Paw from PA's avatar

He didn’t see a thing, like Gym Jordan

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jcali129's avatar

They're all scum.

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Fastball Fredo's avatar

Jeff, I’m just sick and tired of being sick and tired from all the chaos, all the lies, all the humiliation America is receiving from around the world, and listening to Donald and his sycophants daily… Losing our empathy=losing our democracy daily. Best to all on this holiest of days for the Jewish community if you celebrate.

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Karen Scofield's avatar

As bad as things are, Jeff, you can always make me laugh. You have a wonderful gift, Thanks for sharing it, and will reStack ASAP 💯👍

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Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

Im not long left on substack (going to BeeHiiv), Uncle Jeff, but Ill still drop my daily contribs.

https://thistleandmoss.com/p/the-shutdown-dicksuck-trump-burns

The shitshow just gets worse and worse.

And then the motherfucker der preznit posts racist bullshit memes. Can it get worse? or can he just hurry up and die.

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

why the move to beehiiv?

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Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

I need more features, Im honestly banning MAGA and Nazi accounts left and right on my pub, and the spammer comments are just getting to be too much. Also The Live sessions are unstable, and have issues. I am also ok with paying for a product up front to get support, because beehiiv actually gives a decent support model on the paid product model. And My sister (who is a marketing exec advised me to consider it or ConvertKit, so I went with Hiiv instead).

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Totally understandable. Haven't you started your new job?

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Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

I am indeed finally back in DevSecOps daily work

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Good Morning Walt? How is Oregon this morning? Raining in the Bay Area!!!

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David Skoglund's avatar

Rainy

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

I don't watch commercial channels any more. Wunderground doesn't tell me where the rain comes from. Is it a failing hurricane from the south? Or I suppose it could be very warm from Alaska. It's so muggy it's like a Pineapple Express..

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Kate's avatar

I am so grateful that I had the opportunity to move to Sweden over 20 years ago. Because this fucking government in the US now and the fucking monster who is clearly insane is despicable. If it didn’t cost $2500 I would renouncing my citizenship tomorrow. Although I probably couldn’t because they shut the government down the fucking Republicans. But I have never been so mortified and I never thought I would be ashamed to be in America to me right now being called an American is an insult. My political beliefs have caused rift in my family. We are five siblings and one of them is a huge Maga cultist. Who has threatened to kill me because of what I’ve said about January 6? I’d be curious to know what he thinks about that stupid meeting with the generals that the demented idiot and the drunk held. And I feel very bad for every single person who got out and voted for Harris. But I have zero sympathy for the Trump voters. I don’t give a fuck if every farmer loses their farm they overwhelmingly voted for this shit. Let them lose their farms their homes their families. I don’t care that there is no possible way for me to care less. And while it pisses me off that he’s bailed out Argentina. I find some poetic justice in the fact that they have turned around screwed over US in our farmers and sold there so he needs to China. I cannot wait to open a magnum and champagne and toast to the death of Donald Trump subhuman monster he is.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Kate, I'm right there with ya. Looking at a relocation, possibly to Spain. I can barely stand to live among the cultists. The IQ of Americans has to be at an all time low. 🤦‍♀️

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Kate's avatar

The idiot keeps calling Democrats Low IQ. Every accusation is a confession. It’s not even the IQ that bothers me the most. It’s the lack of empathy and concern for others. Ay so many levels. Immigrants shocked that they have family being deported. Muslim Americans who thought this would be better than Biden. Farmers who seem shocked. And they only care now because it affects them. What is wrong with people?!

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Susan Niemann's avatar

KATE! Yes... the lack of empathy and concern for others is frightening. The racism is breathtaking in this country. It's like if they needed a kidney to stay alive, and the only one available was from an immigrant or a black person, they'd probably refuse it. I swear to God these fucking people are hateful. And I have "friend" who continues to rant about how the Muslim's are trying to take over London and cities in Michigan. WTAF!!!???

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Christine Zepka's avatar

Because every fucking fuck voted for what they thought, would be in their best interests. They did not care about “others”. F. A. F. O. MFERS!!

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

" Smart people don't like me. "

* DJT ( The J stands for Jenius 😉🤣 )

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J.R.'s avatar

Me too 🥂

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Save yourself and do what you must, I am out but haven’t burned my passport, yet.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

I'm too poor to move or fix my leaking roof. I moved SIX times in one year. I'm stuck, my only escape would be suicide.

And nobody would would even be inconvenienced.

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

You have moved 6 times so you are set, you already have gotten rid of all the shit you don’t need, for many that in itself keeps people paralyzed.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

Oh I've accumulated a housefull of shit I inherited.

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Mps's avatar

🥺🥺

Not true

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

My truth.

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

So have we but we did it, get a dumpster and have it delivered where you want it they should leave it there until you’re ready then dump it. You’ll be surprised at all the crap you really don’t need or even want. Parents memorabilia was there’s let it go keep only what is truly your memories. That goes a long way. Where do you live now?

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

I'm in So Cal. The San Fernando Valley.I have younger sisters I'm not close with. I'm the oldest person in my small family. I have the most family memorabilia.

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Who nominated you to carry all the crap nobody else has the room for, in my family it was me and that’s when the dumpster rolled out. My dentist a Latina has a green card and is in Irvine visiting her daughter, I told her do not go! But she did and so far I haven’t heard anything.

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Victoria Wilson's avatar

Not only is Donnie FF the butt of many jokes among Americans and the entire world, the American people are too and I am pretty sick of being embarrassed daily. Holy Mike can F straight off.

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Joe Witkowski's avatar

Where are those GRINDR screen shots of Holy Mike Ned Flanders Johnson?? Today is Thursday.

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Carrie Duncan's avatar

Swearing in was scheduled for 10/7 by Wed., when Congress is in session (which sounds like some fuckery is afoot e.g., calling for the Epstein discharge petition vote BEFORE swearing in Grijalva). FL reps were sworn in within 24 hours on 4/2/25; AZ gets different treatment. Taxation without representation.

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Leu2500's avatar

With a reporter being vetted. The tik tok guy doesn’t have press protection if he releases them, but a reporter will (think pentagon papers, etc)

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Gina's avatar

wouldn't count on any press protection under current regime

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P123Sunny's avatar

The death & legal threats scared off the dude apparently- he turned the stuff over to a journalist who has more legal protections to vett everything (Mike looked noticeably more relaxed today…)

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Joyce's avatar

Holy Brother Mike doesn't look more relaxed so much as he seems to be morphing into Jeff Sessions. That photo of him at the top of the page has those Keelber (ie, Kee-eviler) elf vibes to it.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

I KNOW! I'm anxiously awaiting those! 😂😂

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

I love it Neddy The Holy Johnson, I think he sees an attractive sofa and is jealous because he wants the SOFAKING attention and special kind of lovin’.

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Kate's avatar

Dear holy Mike, I have something to say to you which you can take in context or out of context. Either way is good with me. What I have to say is this go fuck yourself. Fuck all the way off. Frankly, fuck off and die. That is about all that you’re good for. And I hope and pray there is an afterlife that there is a hell. Because if there is you will get to enjoy eternity burning and fucking hell and you’ll still be able to suck Donnie’s teeny tiny little cock at the same time for eternity, so again fuck all the way off. Take that, however the hell you want it.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

I don’t think he can hear you.

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

I love it Neddy The Holy Johnson, I think he sees an attractive sofa and is jealous because he wants the SOFAKING attention and special kind of lovin’.

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SethTriggs's avatar

I just have to come back because I can't let this go, and it's about Jizzy Divan and his blood libel about immigrants, blaming undocumented people for long lines in the hospital. He knows better but he knows that his entire intellectually bankrupt ethnonationalist racist party needs to demonize minorities.

But that he does this, given the racial and ethnic background of his wife and kids, is beyond foul. I maintain that he loves them less than the pricktator "loves" his sons. And his wife is surely a "Pick Me!" cosigning this.

Understand something; none of the racists baying for the blood of immigrants actually care about their legality. The "legality" is just a fig leaf to hide that the actual problem is the immigrants are of a race they hate. And when these racists are worked up into a frothing mob, they won't care that Jizzy's wife and kids are citizens. They have brown skin and thus they are 'immigrants.' And they would be harmed too.

He vaults over Darth Cheney as one of our most repulsive, hateful Vice Presidents ever. He's the Nancy Mace of Vice Presidents—he's mean, stupid and fake.

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Claudia Montague Wheatley's avatar

Holy Moses: “I run the House."

No you don't, Mike. You run errands for Donnie Demento and his merry band of billionaire donors.

As Speaker of the side of Congress charged with oversight of the Executive, and third in line for the presidency, it's part of your job to know what's going on with the military. But you somehow missed the Pete & Donnie show at Quantico Tuesday? Didn't even have a staffer watch and brief you?

What WERE you doing then, Mike? Should we check your son's porn-monitoring app?

It's hard to imagine what else you do with your time, since it's definitely not leadership of any sort.

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Dave Drell's avatar

What he was doing? figuring out ways to answer tough questions put before him, and squirming out of the bad position he is in - always defending Herr Donny Dachau!

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Brenda Doherty's avatar

Look for a grainy picture soon of a propped up Trump on a golf cart at a distance!

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Leu2500's avatar

Bad look to gold while the government is shutdown.

One of the worst things (for him) during the 18/18 shutdown was that he couldn’t spend weekends at Mar a lago golfing. Had to stay in DC.

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Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

'weekend at Bernie's' part deux?

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