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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

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

"Trump officials planned to mark 2.7 million living people as dead, whistleblower claims"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/05/doge-planned-falsely-mark-27-million-people-dead-whistleblower-says/

"A former Social Security executive said the plan, which was not carried out, would have used a death database to pressure immigrants to leave the country."

what. in the actual. fuck

Tonya Browning's avatar

On LBC, the host explained that the reason Donny is plastering his name all over everything is because he knows no one will once he’s dead!

How many more years of this shit? I can’t take much more, & I don’t even live there anymore!!

Keep posting pictures of Claudia, or not. That’s up to you & what you want to do. This is your Substack, & if they don’t like it, tough!! Many of us do like seeing the pics.

Tracey's avatar

I love the pictures of Claudia!

Wendymae's avatar

To that dude I say MORE CLAUDIA!

Jan Moon's avatar

I have noticed more of these dudes trolling their way onto more of these posts. The best thing is to ignore them because if you respond it gives them more power in a very sick way. I will defend to the death their right to vomit out all their gibberish. But I don't have to read or respond to it.

Wendymae, I agree: DON'T STOP THE CLAUDIA!!!

Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

Clearly I'M far less polite than you all. I say FUCK him if he doesn't like to see the photos. Here's a simple solution for him: DON'T LOOK AT THEM if they 'bother' him so much. Sheesh, what IS it with some people - and no, he isn't a 'gentleman' anymore than they're 'ladies'...the magat Karens who scream their own nastiness expecting us all to go along with what THEY want. Fuck 'em too. WE love seeing your photos of Claudia and Katie AND you for that matter, since you all put a human face to the writing we so enjoy (by the way, that California view from the restaurant is sublime!) If HE doesn't like it - too bad. I suspect Jan is right - they're trolls, trying to throw you off your game.

TBM's avatar

I was just coming here to say that the "gentleman*" can fuck aright off and then keep fucking off until he fucks all the way off to fuckbeckistan and then fuck off with all the other fuck ups and fuck offs that inhabit that fucking place.

*By gentleman I mean fucking fuck headed dumb fuck.

michellefromchicago's avatar

Correct. Feeding the trolls is a bad idea. It just makes them fat and meaner.

Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

true, but sometimes I don't mind taking on trolls just because they are so 'trollish and troll-able' and usually fox viewers. It's fun confusing them with actual facts about donny demento.

Wendymae's avatar

My first impulse was to say fuck that guy but thought I'd be more polite today.

Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

You ARE more polite (and clearly nicer) than me too. ;) I still say fuck'im. Maybe I just LIKE saying 'fuck'im'? What's he going to do, write it back to me?

Cathy Rady's avatar

Agreed! I just wonder what crawled up that guy's ass.

Cathy Rady's avatar

and of you too, Jeff!

Annette's avatar

I agree; I'm a new subscriber and I say, publish a whole freakin' post on Claudia. It's apparent to even Stevie Wonder that this woman means the world to you and I, for one, appreciate you sharing that with us. It's not something you'd see from, oh . . . I don't know . . . say, Preznit Fuckwit, about any of his spouses. I hope that all these memories help comfort you in your loss. That is what is most important.

Susan Davis's avatar

We will paint his image on fire hydrants

Maybe on toilet bowl seats.

On the outside of Dumpsters.

On dog poop bags .

We will remember him.

Lucy Conner's avatar

Exactly! 👏👏👏

Susan Davis's avatar

We will paint his image on fire hydrants

Maybe on toilet bowl seats.

On the outside of Dumpsters.

On dog poop bags .

We will remember him.

David A Pitock's avatar

Yeah , but it means more clean up to take all of tRumps crap down again.

US Blues's avatar

OMG 😳

And F$&K the ALL CAPS guy. Keep the photos coming please.

kdsherpa's avatar

Better yet -- block him?

Jessica Sitton's avatar

Exactly what I was gonna say.

SethTriggs's avatar

I'm not a lawyer but that actually seems like a human rights violation. That's got to be one way of making people stateless.

Mike Hammer's avatar

The day Trump was born was a human rights violation.

Andrea Fruggiero's avatar

Yeah, I saw a comment that said his seed should have been swallowed! ;o)

Bob's avatar

All monetary assets frozen, IDs are void.

wisewebwoman's avatar

Exactly, as per modelled by Nazi Germany. Nail on head.

Em Risert's avatar

Coming soon to registered Democrats...

Bob's avatar

I wouldn’t put anything past Miller.

Kay-El's avatar

““Information sharing across agencies is essential to identify who is in our country, including violent criminals, determine what public safety and terror threats may exist so we can neutralize them, and identify what public benefits these aliens are using at taxpayer expense,””

“Neutralize” is a bit ominous to use here. Especially since it’s been shown that undocumented people don’t receive SS benefits.

Grateful that two other whistleblowers also have chimed in about Do(d)ge(y) activities by our government.

HI2thDoc's avatar

I so wanna see those DOGE incel twinks prosecuted and incarcerated for their fuckery. Better pray you all get minimum security, you crooked jerkoffs

Susanna Reilly's avatar

”Federal pounding-in-the-a** prison” for DOGErs!

HI2thDoc's avatar

Even if it doesn't happen, I hope they have nightmares about it and they regret their malfeasance

Rick's avatar

they may need to pray theyre put in the shu -- cant imagine theyd win any popularity contests in mainstream

Bob's avatar

Some of them might be quite popular.

Mike Hammer's avatar

There will be hell to pay.

HI2thDoc's avatar

Popcorn! Get yer popcorn!

Robert Eckert's avatar

Big Balls in particular should be castrated

Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Just die is the answer. That’s the plan but wasn’t that always I mean like birth-death. They have made it clear but hurry up and die is the real wish….Bidens are funny because they are Irish! He sure looks like his Pa.

Bob's avatar

Back in the Bush II years, it was about starving old people.

Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

I never felt it was fair to attack Hunter for his addictions. He was a very small boy when he was IN a major MVA which killed his mother and sister and seriously injured his older brother Beau and himself. People/children react to serious injury and trauma differently - some have a very difficult time coming to terms with that kind of loss. How DARE cokey mcsniffles (frump, jr.) who had ZERO cause to become an addict, other than be the son of the worst fucker in the world (well, I guess that does count - except he was raised by his mother along with his siblings)...to attack Hunter and make the lying claim that Hunter used Nepotism to get ahead. THIS from the singularly UNFIT and UNqualified to even walk into our WH addict who used HIS Nepo connections to get BILLIONS from his fuckwit daddy's pals. He went further - having the audacity to claim that the purported drugs found in the visitors' area of the WH belonged to Hunter? - a man who's been clean for SEVEN years and is very happy about maintaining his sobriety. Isn't it written that addicts/alcoholics support and help each other? Does Jr. truly imagine that we'll buy that he's 'all done with' his and we'll accept him as permanently clean from now on - enough so he can throw his magat hat in the ring when his idiot daddy kicks the bucket?

Satchuralman's avatar

More Claudia please...

Beth Bohon's avatar

O. M. G. My brain hurts. What the actual fuck, indeed!!

Joe Bacon's avatar

Don't forget that Sleazy E's Peter Pan Posse copied the data from Social Security's systems and put it on another server that wasn't secure. The data included people's social security numbers, date of birth addresses along with other personally identifiable information...and that data is on the dark web. A clear violation of the Privacy Act but of course Sleazy E's Peter Pan Posse won't be held responsible for that...

Bob's avatar

Where’s Capt. Hook when you need him?

Lady Emsworth's avatar

Or the Crocodile. . .

Kevin Rice's avatar

He's out hooking. With Iwona.

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

The entire basis for the $1.776 billion thug fund proposed for J6 Capitol trashers is that tax forms were released by a contractor for 400+ administration employees, including Trump. So the contractor goes unpunished to this day, per Simpering Scott Bessent in his hearing exchange with Sen. Whitehouse. These hyposcrites can go swallow Hunter's hog trouser, after MTG is done with it.

Carol C's avatar

The contractor was punished with a jail sentence.

JoJoRa's avatar

Charles Edward Littlejohn was sentenced to 5 years in prison, a $5,000 fine and 3 years of supervised released. He leaked more then 7,600 tax records of the very wealthy

Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

I cant touch hunter biden, but I also cant imagine what hes going through.

https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-the-burning-ledger-and-the-green-that-keeps-coming-back#what-did-orange-shit-pantser-do

Here is the machinery. The diaper-don posted election-fraud fan fiction in all caps while six of his own senators — Collins, Murkowski, Sullivan, Husted, Moran, Tillis — peeled off to block his 90,000-square-foot vanity ballroom and his $1.776 billion "anti-weaponization" slush fund for MAGA loyalists. Every one fell short of sixty votes. But they're on the record now, and the record is a cliff edge.

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

I keep reading "at least they're on the record now" following Congress' failures to stop MAGA crimes. Will that actually count for jack shit one day?

Bob's avatar
Jun 5Edited

Next time some J6 jackass cries about being debanked, they can fuck all the way off to Fouckoffistan.

NEAL O'CONNOR's avatar

I used to work at Social Security. What the president proposes would kill off living individuals in a bureaucratic sense, making it impossible to work or pay taxes or receive and governmental benefits. It would be a nightmare for the SS Administration and for the affected persons.

Sue Martin's avatar

This has Nosferatu McGoebbel's bloody, necrotic fingerprints all over it. Fuck him, and, oh yeah, fuck all caps guy too...up their asses...sideways...with a prickly pear! And definitely keep the Daily Claudia and Katie pix coming!! 💕

Cathy Rady's avatar

that would have totally skewed the census

and since immigrants are included in the residency counts that determine how many US House Reps each state is entitled to

this would be just one more effort to fuck up our democratic entitlement to fair and equal representation

Zija Pulp's avatar

This prompted me to say to my hubs that I wish someone would line up Miller and Vought in front of a firing squad. (In truth, I’m against the death penalty.) Who comes up with these cruel ideas and why? Ignore the crank who opined to drop Daily Claudia. I love them and feel blessed that you would share her with us. Well, holding my breath that we Mainers have a weekend free of salacious news about Graham Platner.

T L Mills's avatar

Pine Tree Results is funded by a PAC of Susan Collins...The New York Times hates progressives...they both want to kill Platner's lead and his candidacy before next Tuesday--the day of primary voting. That way the idiots who comprise Dem leadership will have their precious centrist candidate and Susie will roll right over Janet. The latest crap about Platner is generated by a conservative activist chick whom he dated something like a decade ago. Think there might be some exaggeration involved? I certainly do. The progressive candidates in this campaign are being attacked from both the left and the right with the most scurrilous lies and I don't think it's by accident that they all seem to have the same script.

Permian Extinction's avatar

Just tell me when he's dead.

Stephen Schiff's avatar

I can see how the Orange Turd could think that the Lincoln Memorial faces West. From the West you'd be able to see Lincoln's back side if you had x-ray vision. Ann we all know that the Orange Turd doesn't know his head from his ass.

Susan B's avatar

Who is the malcontent who says no more Ms Spouse!! Seriously! And speaking of pics that's a beautiful one of Hunter and his Dad. Happy for him & his family to be 7 years clean!

Susan Niemann's avatar

"No More Daily Claudia"? F that guy. Lovely photos-keep them coming!

Hunter is now on Substack! What a journey he has made. I honestly had no idea he was that funny, either. Good for him and to hell with anyone who would speak ill of him.

Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

don't worry. the 'no more' guy has been outvoted

Miselle's avatar

I vote for daily Claudia, too!

Pamela Gross's avatar

Yes!!! If anything, more daily Claudia!

Jessica Moats's avatar

I was coming to say THIS!

2Cats2Furious's avatar

I hereby demand that you continue with the Daily Claudia posts. They are a soothing balm for my soul in these horrific times. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

PollyP's avatar

2 Cats, you speak for so many of us. I feel my tangled nerves relax when we get our daily, lovely Claudia photos.

Eric Williams's avatar

You forgot to put that IN ALL CAPS!

Connie's avatar

Your “daily Claudia” encouraged me to revisit photo albums I hadn’t been able to open since my husband’s death eight months ago. Thank you …happy to see the photos will continue

Jan Moon's avatar

Photographs are magical. Reliving moments that loved ones' photographs produce is almost like having them among us.

Jewel1954's avatar

The “no more guy” is a bummer☹️

Kim Nesvig's avatar

No more “no more guy”!

Lisa Bieber's avatar

You said it so much more politely than I could!

Cheri Collins's avatar

Good! Hey ‘No More Claudia’ guy: Fuck all the way off into the Marianas Trench! Jeff, many of us would be delighted to have Claudia photos be a permanent feature. ❤️❤️❤️

Deb Pierce's avatar

I love the Daily Claudia! I'm glad the "no more guy" got outvoted -- what a bozo he is. It's sad that no one loves him as much as Claudia loved you.

Marian Vitale's avatar

I thought you were going to say "outed" which would also be good. Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with people?

Maria 🇮🇪's avatar

Glad to hear it Jeff. He can Fuck all the way off sideways gobshite! No words for Fuckwit today… he does my head in. Love the Claudia photos, as long as it Isn’t too much for Ye to deal with. 💚

Lynne Murphy's avatar

WHAT KIND OF PERSON WOULD EVEN SCREAM THAT ?

cablecargal's avatar

MORE DAILY CLAUDIA (and Katie)!!

BuffaloGal's avatar

Here’s another vote for More Daily Claudia! Even better than More Cowbells! 🤣 (We give away our age in so many ways!)

Robert Eckert's avatar

Didn't even get a second on his motion!

Anne's avatar

Came here to say this. Because yes, F that guy. I look forward to the Daily Claudia! <3

Mary B Dietrick's avatar

Please keep up the daily Claudia. It helps keep things in perspective.

Cordeliane's avatar

Yup. Reminds us that living for love (or the idea or memory of love) is a great way to live.

P123Sunny's avatar

He can skip at the end FFS… geezus

SeekingReason's avatar

Agree..I love to get to the photos after a fat dose of reality. It’s turning into a Pavlov’s Dog thing…I want to punch an orange felon in the face, and then the Claudia photos appear and all is good.

P123Sunny's avatar

What do you call it when you dismantle and diffuse 🧐

Julia O's avatar

Hey "no more daily Claudia" guy, you ugly as sin paper weight: don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way over to fuckoffistan.

Some of us are barely surviving out here, and we need Jeff. So even if the vast majority of us didn't already love Daily Claudia (which we do), Jeff can add whatever the fuck he wants to keep himself going, which helps keep the rest of us going.

Seriously, fuck off, you old toilet plunger.

Lady Emsworth's avatar

"You old toilet plunger!"

😂😂😂

That's a keeper! Thanks!

Linda Wade's avatar

Yes! We have a winner!

Jane's avatar

👏👏👏👏😂😂

P123Sunny's avatar

😃 WAY to have Jeff’s BACK

TBM's avatar

I meant to say "fuckoffistan".

Should have read your reply first before posting this

https://jefftiedrich.substack.com/p/social-media-star-hunter-biden-has?r=2k15g&utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=271670628

PS and imma steal "old toilet plunger"

Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

No one is being forced to look at the photos of Claudia, any more than they're being forced to buy one of Hunter's paintings.

Charles Scoville's avatar

We are all messed up in our own ways, and I have to applaud anyone who finds their way out of the darkness.

Nancy Booth's avatar

I say MORE CLAUDIA!!

P123Sunny's avatar

He has more qualifications that the current occupant ever did. Just omg

KellyG's avatar

If you haven't seen Hunter's interview with Andrew Callagan last year, it's definitely worth watching. I'd never really heard him speak, other than at the kangaroo court hearings the Republicans dragged him in for (where he wanted to speak publicly but they didn't want him to). Anyway, it's good to see someone fighting back with humor and wit. Disarms the morons every time, even if they're too stupid to know it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBbkt2vYC4M

Molly Blue Dawn's avatar

I just subscribed to his Substack! Thanks for the tip!

And I'm already looking forward to tomorrow's Daily Claudia!

Punkette's avatar

Oooh Susan, thanks for telling us! Gonna sign up for Hunter’s Substack right now. 😄

Frank Nuts's avatar

👍. Totally. Get em Susan!

Sharlene McLean's avatar

I absolutely love the Daily Claudias!

Courtney Crandall's avatar

Yes! MORE DAILY CLAUDIA!!

Donna Marie's avatar

Some of your chosen Claudia pixs give off "NO fucks to give" look. And I fucken love it!

SethTriggs's avatar

Good for him!

Wait a second...Jake Tapper is going after Jill Biden, who is not even a politician. Fuck that guy. And I note too that a lot of these media swamp creatures were basically silent about the fact that right wing actors were *torturing* Ashley Biden. Remember the circus they did about her stolen diary?

So many pieces of shit, paid $$$$ to not only be professionally credulous, but also to be unspeakable, unjust pests.

Gilded Age 2.0. I wouldn't recommend having that kind of era again!

P123Sunny's avatar

Missing for days, won’t release his full list of meds - fell asleep on camera AGAIN - yet today’s WaPo headline: “How Rump is Remaking DC in His Own Image”… meanwhile “Congress Quietly Moves to Merge US and I Z ray el MILITARIES”.

Totally normal stuff. And we sit around praying for a random blood clot or something something ?!$

They’re laughing all the way to (their bunkers)…

SethTriggs's avatar

Ah you see, Murc's Law is Cruise Control for Cool (and Clicks!).

I am waiting for the day, I'm going to order me a sushi boat!

devourerofpancakes's avatar

Jake Tapper has lost the plot and needs to retire to a nice farm somewhere.

Joe Bacon's avatar

Jake Tapper is nothing more than just another Presstitute in the absolutely useless Trump asskissing DC Press Corpse.

Brigitte Morris's avatar

Love that term. The 60 Minutes murder has shown what happens to true journalists. Read Dan Rather's Steady Substack afterwards, it's heartbreaking.

DebJS's avatar

Thanks, I'll do that (I subscribe to Dan Rather's substack).

Rick's avatar

This is Joe Bacon's word. And it's a beauty. Im just a plagiarist.

Joe Bacon's avatar

Feel free to use it because it is precisely what those GOP Stenographers are!

devourerofpancakes's avatar

That doesn't absolve Tapper of his failure to call out Trump's deterioration as much as he called out Biden's health.

HI2thDoc's avatar

Haha, shall we refer to Tapper as Brick Tamland now?

devourerofpancakes's avatar

That was a brilliant comparison.

HI2thDoc's avatar

Hunter has wit, which drumpf and his demon spawn have never been accused of having

SethTriggs's avatar

Someone said former addicts often just don't sugarcoat things (as they've come back from the brink of losing it all), and we get to see this unvarnished honesty. Honestly, Hunter seems like a fairly affable guy who made a bunch of fuckups, but crucially took accountability for them.

HI2thDoc's avatar

Hunter has more intestinal fortitude and honesty than drumpf, his trophy wife, and all of his crime family put together.

rlritt's avatar

He's counting MAGA folks to keep him a float. Can't believe that they even care. Sad, pathetic journalist searching for a scandal.

rlritt's avatar

What kind of a ruse?

I dont care, because I dont need files to tell me he is sleazy ass grabber.

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

Read the article. I'm posting these links in response to the insane accusations that Tapper is pro-Trump.

P123Sunny's avatar

Well he HAS picked a side. It’s all very intentional imo

P123Sunny's avatar

in a corporate / career kinda way

DrBDH's avatar

The one unwanted pets retire to.

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

The one Bari Weiss is destined for?

DebJS's avatar

Excuse me if I'm misremembering, but wasn't Tapper one of the two moderators-in-name-only for the "disastrous" trump-biden debate? Where the mic-off for the other guy when it's not his turn rule let trump run rampant over Biden while he was attempting to answer the questions asked, like being in a tornado with shit flying every which way trying not to get mortally wounded.

And wtf?! Going after former First Lady Dr. Jill Biden - really? If he ever had an ounce of compassion, decency, or humanity, he sold it to the Antichrist currently occupying and remaking Washington DC into his own gaudy, substanceless image that nobody voted for the most.

(confirmed it was Tapper and Dana Bash)

Richard Dorset's avatar

It drives me completely crazy that these fucked up and/or coked up Trump shoe shiners and MAGA keyboard warriors can get away with doing or saying any lie, any smear, any hateful utterance and suffer no consequences. But, if any Democrat, or Biden defender or family member says anything, well it’s the end of the world. As for Jake Tapper, going after Jill Biden is his audition for one of the vacant seats on 60 minutes. And, it just occurred to me, hasn’t Trump shoe shiner become a white job?

Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

Does anyone recall Tapper's savage review of the Melania documentary? I'm trying to find it and it seems to be missing.

Joe Bacon's avatar

Just wait till Junior Ellison puts Bari Weiss in charge of CNN...and she fires that GAWDLESS Liberal Jake Tapper...

wisewebwoman's avatar

What a low-lying toad Tapper is. I stopped watching him along with the Moaning Duo Joe and whatshername. Slimy creatures. But Tapper had a new low with attacking the former first lady for speaking her truth. Joe could still kick asses while The Fat Felon snores in full view of the press and sycophants. Sleepy Joe indeed.

LJ's avatar

Does anyone know if young JT suffered a rebuke from Joe? It seems very personal to me.

SethTriggs's avatar

Now that you mention it, I am starting to wonder too. Some of these people absolutely lose the plot from the tiniest of slights.

Kim Nesvig's avatar

My guess is that tapper is hoping to retain a well compensated regime once Bari takes over CNN.

Mike Hammer's avatar

That was a journalistic obscenity.

Carl Babcock's avatar

As a recovering addict myself (8 years, 6 months clean) I respect the fuck out of what Hunter is doing. A big part of recovery is owning up to your faults, and for some of us that means making jokes about ourselves. His ability to be self-deprecating while defending his family and smacking down the MAGA assholes is inspiring. I, personally, need voices like his to keep me from relapsing to drown out all of the ugliness I hear everyday.

serenity's avatar

That's super hard work and you did it. Congratulations.

Lynn Van Haren's avatar

Congratulations! It’s hard work. I’m happy you defeated addiction

Carl Babcock's avatar

Thank you, but the battle isn't over. There are days when I would kill for a bump, nights when I wake up in a cold sweat from a dream of using. Recovery is never over, the work goes on forever. I accept that I out myself in this position, and no one is to blame for it but me; but I do appreciate the support wherever I find it, and do my best to support others in this situation.

Mike Basile's avatar

Congratulations, Carl and congratulations, Hunter! For me, 16 years clean from drugs, 8 and a half years sober from alcohol. The alcohol was much harder for me. You are absolutely correct - recovery is never over and the work goes on forever. Continued success to you both, gentlemen, and to all who travel this journey.

Rick's avatar

hadnt considered dreams of using -- that has to be hard -- glad you have support -- i am a supporter of many, incl friends and family -- consider myself very lucky -- glad you are hanging in there

Robert Eckert's avatar

what's terrible is waking up from a drinking dream and still being in that fuzzy state where you think the dream really happened and oh God now what do I do?

Rebecca's avatar

Congratulations on doing such hard work! Making a daily decision to not use shows the strength you have.

Crystal M's avatar

Congratulations on your sobriety, Carl. My brother has been clean and sober since February 13, 1984. NA saved his life. Keep moving forward. It can be done. I have faith in you.

Jane's avatar

Congratulations Carl!

Jeanne Leduc's avatar

Congratulations!!

Tracey Johnson's avatar

Big congrats to you!

Robert Eckert's avatar

23 years sober here: keep going, it gets better

Cindi Lynch's avatar

Hooray for Hunter! And please keep posting the daily Claudia!

George in Atlanta's avatar

"No more daily Claudia"?

Allow me to channel my inner Jeff from the days of yore:

Fuck that fucking fuck all the way to the edge of the fucking universe, then fuck all the way back here for a nice big bowl of steaming fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pamela Van Sickle's avatar

Agreed George in Atlanta!

Outdoorluvr's avatar

It appears that trump may be having a gender identity crisis, always referring to himself as "They". Perhaps he should send himself to one of those conversion therapy centers.

DrBDH's avatar

I first read that as “conversation therapy centers” and thought “That’s not all he needs fixed.”

Deborah Hunter's avatar

One which pronoun he uses? Is asshole a pronoun?

Neal Stiffelman's avatar

Those photographs of Claudia et famille always make my day, and you’ve shared especially fine ones today.

George A. Polisner's avatar

Thank you Jeff,

I appreciate Hunter Biden. He's not trying to build a Gaza beach resort on top of slaughtered families. He's not trying to build a resort in Iran on top of dead schoolchildren. He's not being protested in Albania. He's not being questioned for billions of dollars of loans from countries he's being direct to "on official United States" business.

Also, if anyone is interested in a "feel good" story I recently wrote about our present freefall into corrupt fascism (it's free, and according to trusted friends and advocates, with at least 3 times that!)

https://bomdia.substack.com/p/the-architecture-of-despair

Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

But he's threatening the world by making paintings, which no one is forced to buy.

George A. Polisner's avatar

Good point Anastasia, he’s simply following in the artistic footsteps of former President George W. Bush.

Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

George Bush is causing no harm by spending his days painting and hanging out with his cat (according to an article I read.) I only wish he had discovered painting earlier, like before 2000.

George A. Polisner's avatar

So true. The nation could benefit by the distribution of paint by numbers kits to this Administration and six members of the Roberts Court.

Joe Bacon's avatar

And Oh My Gawd...Hunter has a demonic foot long wang in his pants!

George A. Polisner's avatar

Subway got in trouble for advertising their not quite foot long subs as, well, you know.

Karen Yaholnitsky's avatar

I read your story. Very well written.

George A. Polisner's avatar

Thank you Karen! I blame Heather Cox RIchardson and Jeff Tiedrich for provoking my long form snark-filled articles about our freefall into dystopia -and, perhaps more importantly, what we can do to stop it (or at least slow it down).

Ian M.'s avatar

Own it, bro. Don’t go putting in Heather Cox Richardson in there. She’s 99% snark-free.

George A. Polisner's avatar

You’re right Ian. The snark attacks are all mine. 🦈

Ian M.'s avatar

And the writing is compelling. In fact—so far—I’m still getting more déjà vu than snark. As a public health professional with a rural focus, you have nailed what the current admin and neo-liberal policies have done e to our nation, especially the rural parts. I weep for the future.

HI2thDoc's avatar

If the left can convince rural voters that they have been and continue to be royally harmed by conservatives, their future may start improving

insert_something_creative's avatar

Very well written and thought provoking!

Chad Self's avatar

No more Daily Claudia? That guy can fuck all the way off. I love having Daily Ms Spouse as a palette cleanser after reading about all of the fuckery Trump is up to. Not to put too fine a point on it, but I LOVE DAILY CLAUDIA! Your love for her is beautiful.

Frosty McGillicuddy's avatar

The corporate media mistaken

Treat Democrats like they're old bacon

Or rotten old ham

While they continue the scam

Of GOP - no hints that they're fakin'!

But November is coming real soon

And Republican hairy-assed goons

Will pay the sweet piper

As Drumpf craps in his diapers

Oh God! What a bunch of buffoons!!!

HI2thDoc's avatar

Don Jr is pathetic and sad

He continues his crime family's fad

They find most appealing

Corruption and stealing

And unlike him Hunter is loved by his Dad

Frosty McGillicuddy's avatar

Ohhhh!! That is a smart one and one of your best!!

Pamela Van Sickle's avatar

Wow Doc! Great👏👏

Cathy Wray's avatar

hairy assed goons , hahaha!!

Pamela Van Sickle's avatar

Great Frosty!👏👏👏👏

Clyde Kaplan's avatar

If anyone deserves to be compensated for the weaponization of government, it’s Hunter Biden.

DebJS's avatar

Amen to that!

devourerofpancakes's avatar

Promenade: A public place for such walking. Which already exists in front of the Lincoln memorial. Jesus, somebody has to stop him.

Lady Emsworth's avatar

"They wanna call it the Trump promenade. but I dunno"

If it's "The Trump Promenade" you'll only be allowed to use it if you're on a golf trolley - he never walks anywhere.

Jane's avatar

He rarely stands up

anymore

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

He can barely sit up anymore from the looks of him slouching over with his eyes open for a snooze during that Oval Orifice meeting. The castratis in his cabinet and Congress know what they're seeing with their own lying eyes.

devourerofpancakes's avatar

And it will be painted bright blue.

J Hardy Carroll's avatar

Go Hunter. He's flawed, but what the hell does he have to lose at this point?

I was awfully fond of Onion Joe Biden shirtlessly waxing his Trans Am in front of the White House and going onto the roof to smoke a jay with a "cool" Secret Service agent who wouldn't "nark him out to the old man." It was super funny to imagine somebody so tastelessly exploiting his position to get chicks and party.

You see where I am going with this. Not even Bob Zemeckis's worst depictions of the vulgar Biff Tannen came close to just how awful this entire situation is.

We seem to have two choices: walking around in a state of constant rage and anxiety about almost everything, or numbing ourselves so we don't think about it while we pretend somehow this won't affect us. Every time I sign into anything with a .gov URL I can safely assume my data is being stolen, sold, and tracked. I can assume that I am on a variety of lists because, tiny cog that I am, I have consistently stood against this regime.

I am exhausted and overwhelmed. It just goes on and on without a let-up. Maybe I need to go walk in the woods for a while.

Sister Artemis's avatar

"I was awfully fond of Onion Joe Biden shirtlessly waxing his Trans Am in front of the White House and going onto the roof to smoke a jay with a "cool" Secret Service agent who wouldn't "nark him out to the old man." ..."

I loved this too, and it worked because it played into the "nice, funny, relaxed, cool" personality we could already see in Ol' Handsome Joe.

Trump and his entourage will NEVER have that foundation to build on for gentle rib-poking.

DrBDH's avatar

All they had to do was put the aviator glasses on Joe and he looked cool as hell. With Trump they have to give him muscles and machine guns and he still looks like nightmare.

P123Sunny's avatar

Ppl are ok with flawed… just airbrush over top (can even be sloppy!) and we’re good to go… So long as it’s not some goody 2-shoes A student-woman who reminds someone of a school mar’m with (wait for it:) STANDARDS 💀

P123Sunny's avatar

Also ‘caring about others’ is still not trending… gotta stick with 1500% self-absorption for another 2-3 cycles AT LEAST

Lucy Horton's avatar

Jeff, thanks for going to bat for Hunter! I read his memoir, and have a lot of sympathy for him. I suspect the head injury that he suffered as a child is related to his addiction disorder. I have so much respect for him for getting sober and turning his life around. And fuck Jake Tapper. Joe Biden woke up every day thinking about what he could do to make American lives better.

DebJS's avatar

Exactly right! And the despicable republicans in congress (Comer, Jordan et al.) spent nearly his entire term insinuating and "investigating" fabricated corruption by Joe, Hunter, and family. Aided and abetted by FOX et al.

Ann Anderson's avatar

I might have said don't commit any stupidities but then I remembered which country I'm in. I hope Hunter Biden does run for something so I can vote for him out of spite. Joking aside, anyone that funny and self-aware deserves consideration.

Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

Well, the Washington Post this week proposed with a straight face that Don Jr. was a potential candidate for president in 2028. Of course that has to do with their thin field. They list Rubio and Vance as frontrunners and in the second tier, they're so desperate they have general categories such as "an anti-Trump." And Don Jr.

rlritt's avatar

Trump said he wants his son to be the next President. Watch him knife Vance in the back.

Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

Yeah but he also just said Vance and Rubio would be a great ticket so it depends on what day. What he really wants is to delude himself into believing he'll live forever, and get a third term ... and a fourth, and a fifth.

Lynn Van Haren's avatar

I truly believe that will be the case. The tRump family is not going to give up the grifting! Don Jr will be the Republican candidate in 2028

Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

I'm betting he will not be. He totally lacks the qualities Trump has fictitiously created for himself, and he's a minefield of crimes and personal failings that he doesn't have his father's magic to make go away. His grift is 100% dependent on his FATHER being president. He couldn't do it on his own.

Jane's avatar

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