serious question, and I swear I'm not trolling for compliments: are these things getting too long? lately my posts have been 1300 to 1500 words long. today's is over 1700 words. I try to keep them short but there's just so much to talk about every day. are these things starting to bog down under their own weight?
Looking forward to your Saturday edition. The longer the better as far as I am concerned. It is one of the few times I am really laughing hard during the week. Much needed for staying involved with campaigning for Harris, who is fighting for us! Thanks.
I don't usually open the app until evening and Jeff's is usually the first one I read. Sometimes, it's the first good laugh of the day! Last night after reading one stack where you all were talking about George Carlin, I decided to watch some of his videos on YouTube. The ones on Letterman aren't as funny though since he doesn't swear.
No worries, Jeff. You are often the highlight of the day for untold mobs of followers. You make us smart-laugh. We compare notes: "Did you see Tiedrich today?" is often the beginning of yet more laughter. You are the best medicine.
And I love that he points out the problem with the NYT/Sierra poll, other than that they should not be making news but reporting it, is that their poll sucks. When I said I did not believe their poll last winter, the editor instead of publishing my letter, wrote to me trying to convince me it was true, and even he was surprised. So, I asked for him to give me their sampling methodology and their questions. He ignored it. This sort of poll defense happened again, and another millennial, ivy leaguer, mansplainer contacted me, and that is when I gave up on the NYT games and all. I love that Jeff is the only one I have read today that tells us about them oversampling Republicans. That is one of the things they should be telling us, but don't. Jeff tells us though. I love that he is saying if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, it might be a duck.
full disclosure: 99% of the time I do type out the transcripts. today I cut and pasted from Attkisson's web site. to her additional credit, she didn't clean up any of Donny's verbal farts
That answer to her was amazing. He knows he's not answering the question ("I'm just going to go off just for this") but it's a downhill slalom of free-association. Then again, it's not as if any direct answer he'd give would be accurate, true, or credible. Remember the First Rule in Interpreting Trump: Any specific number he gives, about anything, is made up and false.
Meanwhile, the press criticizes Harris for not giving interviews, but doesn't criticize Trump for giving interviews in which he spews lies and gobbledygook.
Yes, lengthy post are problematic in our short attention span new world. Not sure how to condense or weed out newsworthy info. Just keep typing. We’re reading. But my question to you: Do you think the News outlets fear pissing off Douchbag Donnie, incase he’s elected and goes after them? They must have a motive for their lack of integrity. Just asking.
I believe that as well. Another reason the theory of if Trump wins they will 25th amendment him and install JD doesn't work. I don't think they will only because they are cowards and they can never again afford to piss off Trumps base cuz they will never win another election without them. shrug emoji.
They just won't have elections. If the GQP takes either or both houses, and they get him into the WH, Shady will 25th amendment him in a heartbeat, they'll announce the end of elections (probably on the grounds of martial law, which they'll impose for no real reason), and that will be that. With a complicit Extreme Cult and all the rest of the crooks on the judiciary, I'm not sure what we could even do about it.
How are they too dumb to figure out he's going to go after them regardless? They might as well piss him off and at least know they did their jobs. Whatever they do, Donnie Dipshit is going to punish them for what he perceives as not being as slavishly complimentary to him as he thinks they should be.
I once had an extraordinary experience with a cat. Like many cats, this 15 year old kitty was convinced he was starving to death. Before his owner could get the can open in the morning, he would howl like he lived in a concentration camp. One morning, while his owner was struggling to get the can open, I expressed his point of view at length in English. When I finished, the cat let out an emphatic “YAOW!” as if I had spoken for him perfectly.
I am sure you meant nothing with your comment “he would howl like he lived in a concentration camp,” but I think any remaining survivors or children/grandchildren of survivors would be offended by this. There is never a time to refer to the concentration camps in jest.
I felt like today's was pretty short...the exception being trump's word salad answer to the prices question. That sucker was so long, my eyes started to cross halfway.
Keep telling it like it is, Jeff, no matter how long it takes. There's a shortage of truth out there; we can't afford you editing yours.
Answer: No. If there's a section of your post that I'm not interested in reading, I don't read it. (But I usually read the whole thing.) When the election is over, the churn of news will slow and your word count will take care of itself. In the meantime, while we're in the silly season, please write on!
Consider that if today's, for instance, was any shorter, there'd have been no room for the paragraph ..... "this is some Norman Bates shit right there. (what trump said) is what a deranged serial killer tells you just before he chains you to a radiator in a dank basement". I for one would certainly have missed that insight!
No Jeff! They are not too long at all! We love your writing. Write more if you want to. Your posts are the first thing I read in the morning. I've got time. I would gladly read more. You inform me and you make me laugh with your uniquely hilarious and biting humor. I don't know how I could survive these times without you! We love you Jeff! I love you! Thank you so much for all that you do, and never feel that you can't write more!!!!!!
I get constantly interrupted so have to read everything on the web in chunks. I read some of him in the morning and return multiple times during the day and am always glad to find there's more left.
From this embarrassment of riches the media and their special boy provided us, it’s seemingly impossible to extract intelligent commentary. And yet you managed to craft as brilliant an observational piece as we are likely to read all year. Thank you. This is fucking brilliant.
Bonus points for employing “ nitwit”, one of my all time faves.
I would have been so mad about this last week. But Bernie Moreno convinced me as a post-menopausal woman I don’t need to be concerned about reproductive rights. And I heard it straight from Trump himself he wants to take care of me — all of us women. He’s our protector. Vote for him and you get a president AND a guardian to check on you and make sure you don’t get mugged buying a loaf of bread.
I’ve thought about Jimmy Dean Vance’s comments too, and he has a point. I’m here to nurture grandkids. So I’m not mad about the press failing me … I’m grateful for all the white men keeping me on track. What a time to be alive.
(Personally I'm not nearly as afraid of the jackasses spewing this patriarchal bs as I am of the women lapping it up. And they exist ... at least here in the Midwest. Two of them have been my bosses 🤯)
As a 70 year old woman who came into majority with Roe v Wade, it’s incredibly infuriating to know that there are men/politicians that want to take all our hard earned rights away! I don’t want my granddaughters to have less rights and freedoms than l took as a matter of course. How dare that fat, orange POS think I’d want or need him to “protect” me? I can fight my own battles!
These rubes completely miss the irony of men telling women how to feel about ALL OF US being relegated to second-class citizens. As if once our mysterious menstrual cycles disappear we lose our ability to think? Just because they think with their angry little penises doesn’t mean we think with our uteruses.
Three years younger than you, Pamela. I remember when Roe V Wade became the law. Finally, no more back alley abortions. I knew if I needed an abortion, I could get one safely. My husband & I chose not to have children, but we do have cats. And I was a teacher. Vance thinks I don't have any stake in the future. What a dipshit. I have nieces & nephews, & great nieces & nephews who I love so much. I watched Trump to be beaten so soundly on Nov. 5 that we NEVER hear from him again. I just wish MAGA would see through his lies.
Exactly! And thank you, Karen! Me too. Except I have two daughters, and a granddaughter. My oldest daughter is an OB-GYN, and afraid of retribution. FUCK THE REPUBLIKKKANS! SIDEWAYS.
You are so welcome! Absolutely, Carlyle. I don't blame your daughter. How frightening. I am so sick of the fear-mongering & hate being spewed by Trumpiepoo & his cult members. Bring the joy!!!!
And you had a desire to make sure the kids you taught turned out to be good citizens and good people, plus - you did it 25 or more kids at a time! I'd say that's a pretty big stake in this country.
76 here. I came into my majority from the beginning of all this with a a visit to one of Steinam’s first talks at Northridge College in the San Fernando Valley in roughly 1972? I’ve had ups and downs of being engaged with the issues. I was following a very traditional, conventional path at the time and was on very wobbly legs with a lousy husband, practically no resources, lots of low self esteem, and 2 babies. A recipe for reticence to latch onto such lofty ideas of women’s freedoms, if there ever was one.
At 76, I’ve grown into my own and know when someone is pissing on my leg and telling me it’s raining. I can’t believe we’ve not only made such relatively little progress, but are also stepping into the possibility that we are going to lose major, if not all, gained ground.
I remarried with a remarkable man. 45 years of kind, caring, gracious, compassionate intelligence who has always encouraged me to find myself and nurture my own ideas. Yet, I look around at most men running the world and am angry as hell. And this craziness we are now subjected to rather puts me in the same state of mind as Bilbo in the movie when he realized he had to let go of the ring. The thought of that pig believing he’d be doing anything for me other than make me projectile vomit, is ridiculous. And really infuriating.
If women have to look to Trump as our protector, I'd say a lot of us wouldn't think about abortion anymore because we would make permanently and definitely sure we could never get pregnant.
Marvelous!! Except, don't you think that any form of birth control would become illegal -- at least for white women?) I think that rape would no longer be a crime, so how could women, and girls for that matter, protect themselves?
I guess I need to work on my sarcasm game. Sorry for scaring anyone. I’m actually trying to figure out why a single woman buys this crap. I’d say they don’t but I’ve met them.
It's ridiculous. When a voter asks him what the greatest threat to the auto industry in Michigan is and he says a nuclear attack, that should be a front page headline. When a reporter tells him economists say that his plan will raise costs and he says he doesn't need Congress to tax other countries, that should be the lead story everywhere. He's disconnected from reality. The NY Times has turned into what he called them 10 years ago, Fake News.
1. The owners want him re-elected for the tax benefits.
2. After working 44 years in the media industry, I have learned one absolute: NOBODY EVER WENT BROKE UNDERESTIMATING THE INTELLIGENCE OF THE AMERICAN MEDIA. I deal with reporters, PR folks, and public policy people who cannot tell me who Winston Churchill and Nikita Khrushchev were, or the significance of the Gettysburg Address. ("Was that the 'Four Score and Seven Years Ago' speech?") Ask them about Kim Kardashian's nail care line and they can tell you all about it. The Bloated Yam gives a good show.
Oddly, NCAA basketball star Cheryl Miller majored in journalism. A knee injury ended her court career, so she went into coaching, but also as a TV sports reporter for the NBA and the Olympics.
Bloated yam that reeks of rot is another brilliant description of this very disturbed tyrant. Can't wait until his assholiness is no longer the media darling of the shitful press. What will MSM do to grab our attention and those advertising dollars when he's long gone?
It’s old news…read newspaper coverage from the early part of the 20th century. It focused on salacious divorce cases and tawdry murders.
The Daily News scored its greatest scoop when it sneaked a reporter into Sing Sing to cover the first electrocution of a woman in American history. She had combined with her lover to kill her husband.
At the big moment, the reporter raised his right hand to reveal a flash bulb and his right leg to reveal a camera strapped to his ankle, shot the picture of the woman riding the lightning, and ran out of the building before anyone could respond.
In front of the prison was a truck done up as a developer’s tank. The reporter handed the film to a developer, who processed the photo, while the writer batted out his story.
By the time the truck reached the paper’s offices, the photo and story were ready…the photo for the front page, the story for the copy desk and linotype crew.
Linotype. Lordy, it’s been so many decades since I’ve heard that word. (Both my parents worked for newspapers, and the smells from darkrooms and where the papers were printed is part of my DNA.)
The purpose of the NYT/Sienna poll is to bring the polling averages down. Full stop. It’s complete bullshit and has been all year. The methodology is suspect, and the over-sampling of Republicans is a feature, not a bug.
As for the Bribery stunt at the grocery store ... he didn't even get the money into the person's hand. He threw it at them like they were a Puerto Rican hurricane survivor.
I posted a Substack last night because I was furious about the NYT post on Trump being ahead of Harris. No where in the article did they mention the hunters of thousands GenZ’s that have registered, more did they mention that Harris’ favorability numbers are the highest since George W Bush after 9/11. They are completely full of shit. I ask everyone to stop their subscriptions of NYT and WaPo maybe if enough people stop subscribing they will wake the fuck up. I also think we need to let know why we are unsubscribing.
I tried to cancel my NYT subscription but they are practically giving it to me now ($1 per week) so I keep reading it very skeptically. I read much more Substack, but it is good to keep up with the corporate BS that is being spread in the name of fascism. It’s good to know what we are up against.
A real story is that MAGAs seems to be really cruel to people's pets, either their neighbors or their own. We all know Kristi Noam's story, well, now there is Kevin Roberts, which I read in the Guardian.
Apparently the real pet story is these MAGAs and perhaps others if we widen the pet range, and not the Haitians, which is the story Trump and apparently his White Supremacist media friends are running with. And, according to Heather Cox Richardson, Trump told Jews that if they don't vote for him Israel will be toast within 2 years. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/24/project-2025-kevin-roberts-killed-dog
I read the story of Roberts killing the neighbors dog this morning. My god what is the matter with these people? Killing dogs and then bragging over dinner with fellow Universtiy colleagues is beyond madness. The neighbor has corroborated the story about his dog going missing at the time and never finding her.
And, it sounds like the colleagues were shocked and did not ask for details. I was trying to imagine it. I remember when I had my first job out of college, it was a corporate job. Yeech! Anyway, during lunch one of the men who worked in my department was telling us how his brother had come home from "the 'Nam" and done something unspeakable to a cat. He was laughing when he told it and some others laughed too, until I told him that he was sick for laughing and that his brother was really disturbed and needed help. I did not go to sleep that night from the image, and had to call my mom and cry to her on the phone over it. So, I can imagine that I would have had unpleasant words for Kevin Roberts if I had had dinner with him. Of course I would not have, because I do not have the right skin color. Now, because Kevin Roberts did not get help, he has gone on an interview and threatened bloodshed if we complain about them trying to shove Trump, J[uvenile]D[elinquent] Vance, down our throats and their Project 2025. I just had my Project 2025 Book club meeting and Kevin Roberts is one of the devils behind it. He is sick, sick, sick! He should not be running a foundation, let alone trying to tell the rest of us how to live. My friends that I have discussed this with today are all wondering shouldn't he go to jail. Isn't this illegal?
As a normal human being, I can't even imagine such savagery. Only a twisted mind would tell this story multiple times. If I were a guest and someone told this story about themselves I would def leave the premises. Who wants to dine with a monster? He probably fouled your dinner just to get over on you. Run away from such people.
The repugnicant party is currently filled with SADISTS (reminds me of the Bad Old Days when the Southern Democrats were led by the sadistic KKK) and NARCISSISTS. Are there any decent ones left in Congress?
I’ve heard mention of Robert’s shovel incident Linda. Knowing he’s a miserable bleating tosspot is one thing. However, I questioned the validity of stories so heinous as this appears…but he seems fully capable of carrying out malicious behavior of any sort! Thanks for sharing!
Jeff I love your posts and sad when I get to the end. I am guessing but I think this Substack is really an outlet for people whose minds just don’t turn off ever. What we are up against today- we just can’t keep our minds from trying to untangle and mend it. We have as a country come waaay too far with too many blessed souls giving their lives for this country. BIG thanks to you!!!!!🩷🥳👍🇺🇸❤️🥰
The man is disgusting, and I can hardly wait for the day after the election to hear from the media about why they were so wrong. Folks, the latest polls show Harris winning by 65-100 Electoral College votes. ALL the swing states are voting for her. I will describe this better tomorrow... Great article Jeff!
This shit comes from a lot of his supporters, too, that "there weren't any wars happening when Trump was in office!!!!!" which is ridiculous and proves just how little awareness they have of the world, since they seem to think the only conflicts going on are in Ukraine and I/P. There are in fact numerous other ongoing armed conflicts around the world (Myanmar, the Mahgreb, Colombia and Venezuela, Somalia, central Africa, etc). BUT...even just keeping it to Ukraine, yes Donny, you DID have "war with Putin" happening because that evil little gremlin annexed Crimea in 2014. That's why most of us refer to the current war as the "full-scale invasion" or the "re-invasion". Now, that occurred before Trump was elected, but he sure as motherfuck didn't end it, did he? He didn't do a damn thing except, I assume, use Google Translate to text Putin "Please may I lick your ass" or whatever. And the full-scale invasion had absolutely been in the planning stages all during Trump's term. So he and his minions can once again shut their uninformed, dumb-as-dirt mouths.
The Emperor is (to borrow a phrase from "The Avengers") buck ass nude. Yeah, he's old, he doesn't have stamina, he slurs his words, he gets confused. Every fucking word lobbed at Joe Biden, whether true or projection by the Trump campaign, is a solid comment/observation on Stinky. He is physically, emotionally, mentally, and ethically unfit for leadership.if you're taking time to launch multiple gifts in the run up to an election, you deserve to have your ass handed to you.
The billionaires controlling press and social media don't want to pay more in taxes, and word out of the NY Times is that they been instructed to go after Harris
News flash: even if they paid 99%, they'd still be ridiculously wealthy. No sympathy here.
I don’t think it’s too long if it’s on a subject like corporate media. I just want to say, that 100 dollar bill wasn’t even his. He took it from the cash register. …stealing again.
serious question, and I swear I'm not trolling for compliments: are these things getting too long? lately my posts have been 1300 to 1500 words long. today's is over 1700 words. I try to keep them short but there's just so much to talk about every day. are these things starting to bog down under their own weight?
I didn't even get to Olivia Nuzzi, or four other things I'd intended to include in today's post
Looking forward to your Saturday edition. The longer the better as far as I am concerned. It is one of the few times I am really laughing hard during the week. Much needed for staying involved with campaigning for Harris, who is fighting for us! Thanks.
I agree! The longer the better is right! I’m all for more Jeff!
I’m good with longer, as well. More informative, and extra sarcasm is a good thing.
Thank you Jeff. I read your articles every day, and they're not too long for me.
Agreed, so much fun to read. Look forward to it every day. Thanks
I don't usually open the app until evening and Jeff's is usually the first one I read. Sometimes, it's the first good laugh of the day! Last night after reading one stack where you all were talking about George Carlin, I decided to watch some of his videos on YouTube. The ones on Letterman aren't as funny though since he doesn't swear.
No worries, Jeff. You are often the highlight of the day for untold mobs of followers. You make us smart-laugh. We compare notes: "Did you see Tiedrich today?" is often the beginning of yet more laughter. You are the best medicine.
Yes. The laughter!!! So damn important.
Not. Too. Long!!! Keep it coming.
Give us a Special Edition today! Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
Haha!
Love every word. Thank you...
Take as much time as you need, Jeff. You are keeping America sane.
And that's the Truth!!
🎯🎯🎯🎯
Please make them longer.
I have no problem with the length of your posts. I enjoy every word, and since I agree with your ideas, it’s just fine.
Play Typer guy was great on Nuzzi today
Oh, Nuzzi needs to be skewered.
I am fucking sick and tired of the corporate (and conservative) press trying to nothing-burger this.
She's always been a hack
When they're pumping out a firehouse of lies and innuendo, it's tough to keep up with it all.
I look forward to your daily posts like manna from heaven.
And I love that he points out the problem with the NYT/Sierra poll, other than that they should not be making news but reporting it, is that their poll sucks. When I said I did not believe their poll last winter, the editor instead of publishing my letter, wrote to me trying to convince me it was true, and even he was surprised. So, I asked for him to give me their sampling methodology and their questions. He ignored it. This sort of poll defense happened again, and another millennial, ivy leaguer, mansplainer contacted me, and that is when I gave up on the NYT games and all. I love that Jeff is the only one I have read today that tells us about them oversampling Republicans. That is one of the things they should be telling us, but don't. Jeff tells us though. I love that he is saying if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, it might be a duck.
Maybe it's time for morning and evening editions?
LOL! Indeed!
Well Jeff...ya gotta eat....
Definitely not too long!
Tomorrow!!
A little long but awfully hard to pare it down.
Olberman did Nuzzi already this morning. https://youtu.be/R9432q_mSMw?si=Zppm3_gj2-M1VHci
How can you possibly keep them short when there is so much bullshit to share??!!!!
Exactly! The Republitards can fill
volumes & volumes of stuff!
And we, as citizens, truly do need to know it all (nauseating as it is).
The proverbial firehouse "flood the zone". It's getting really intense.
Okay, let’s take another approach…perhaps they are cow-towing to their advertisers? Is this possible?
Yes. But again that is all about $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
An English prof I had back in the day answered that question. "Your article should be like a bikini - enough to cover the subject."
I think you're doing a good job on that.
NO!! I wish you'd write a book everyday. I hate to see your emails end. Keep it up.
No! Love it.
And I’m in awe of the patience it must take to actually type out a transcript of his blathering gibberish. Very impressive focus.
full disclosure: 99% of the time I do type out the transcripts. today I cut and pasted from Attkisson's web site. to her additional credit, she didn't clean up any of Donny's verbal farts
I SO appreciate it. His voice - I. Just. Can’t.
I know. That dead voice is so chilling.
No. Whiny little bitch is not my go-to style.
That answer to her was amazing. He knows he's not answering the question ("I'm just going to go off just for this") but it's a downhill slalom of free-association. Then again, it's not as if any direct answer he'd give would be accurate, true, or credible. Remember the First Rule in Interpreting Trump: Any specific number he gives, about anything, is made up and false.
Meanwhile, the press criticizes Harris for not giving interviews, but doesn't criticize Trump for giving interviews in which he spews lies and gobbledygook.
Whatever u must do! Pls take breaks, hydrate. The BS
Meter seems to rise 100 percent ev day.
Yes, lengthy post are problematic in our short attention span new world. Not sure how to condense or weed out newsworthy info. Just keep typing. We’re reading. But my question to you: Do you think the News outlets fear pissing off Douchbag Donnie, incase he’s elected and goes after them? They must have a motive for their lack of integrity. Just asking.
yes I do think some of what the press is doing is motivated by cowardice
I believe that as well. Another reason the theory of if Trump wins they will 25th amendment him and install JD doesn't work. I don't think they will only because they are cowards and they can never again afford to piss off Trumps base cuz they will never win another election without them. shrug emoji.
They just won't have elections. If the GQP takes either or both houses, and they get him into the WH, Shady will 25th amendment him in a heartbeat, they'll announce the end of elections (probably on the grounds of martial law, which they'll impose for no real reason), and that will be that. With a complicit Extreme Cult and all the rest of the crooks on the judiciary, I'm not sure what we could even do about it.
If Trump "wins" the election, I hope the House will commence impeachment proceedings within the hour after his inauguration.
won't happen...if he wins, we are done. Finished. Gone...
Time to move to Norway or Spain
My son suggested Iceland. Viking blood.
Actually, I have been making inquiries into moving to Quebec or France. (My French is usable.)
I love Norway!
Good luck with that, considering the the maggots are controlling the House.
We MUST win the HOUSE! #3 in line of succession is Majority Leader of House!
It would be a waste of effort unless there were 66 Democrats in the Senate. He's already been impeached twice. It's the conviction that counts.
Subscriptions, afraid of financial failure.
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How are they too dumb to figure out he's going to go after them regardless? They might as well piss him off and at least know they did their jobs. Whatever they do, Donnie Dipshit is going to punish them for what he perceives as not being as slavishly complimentary to him as he thinks they should be.
Press needs to grow guts.
... or quit existing. It's all and only about $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ for the corporate owners.
Definitely not too long. Sometimes not long enough. You’re doing a great job of writing on the overwhelming multitude of crazy that is out there.
Not in my opinion! I'll read it at whatever word count.
No. I enjoy reading your diatribes because they manage to capture exactly what I want to say, but am not eloquent enough to write out.
sofa king with you on this!!!
I once had an extraordinary experience with a cat. Like many cats, this 15 year old kitty was convinced he was starving to death. Before his owner could get the can open in the morning, he would howl like he lived in a concentration camp. One morning, while his owner was struggling to get the can open, I expressed his point of view at length in English. When I finished, the cat let out an emphatic “YAOW!” as if I had spoken for him perfectly.
I am sure you meant nothing with your comment “he would howl like he lived in a concentration camp,” but I think any remaining survivors or children/grandchildren of survivors would be offended by this. There is never a time to refer to the concentration camps in jest.
NO. MORE IS BETTER. YES, I'M YELLING. Sorry.
I felt like today's was pretty short...the exception being trump's word salad answer to the prices question. That sucker was so long, my eyes started to cross halfway.
Keep telling it like it is, Jeff, no matter how long it takes. There's a shortage of truth out there; we can't afford you editing yours.
No, they really bop along and there’s sssoooo much chicanery to write about
Not too long at all! Especially when you have to include 4-5 inches of column space ConOLD’s bull$hit to try to explain what’s going on.
I learn something everyday from your columns and most importantly, you always give us a chance to laugh!
Keep ‘‘em coming!
Answer: No. If there's a section of your post that I'm not interested in reading, I don't read it. (But I usually read the whole thing.) When the election is over, the churn of news will slow and your word count will take care of itself. In the meantime, while we're in the silly season, please write on!
Consider that if today's, for instance, was any shorter, there'd have been no room for the paragraph ..... "this is some Norman Bates shit right there. (what trump said) is what a deranged serial killer tells you just before he chains you to a radiator in a dank basement". I for one would certainly have missed that insight!
Same!! 😈
No Jeff! They are not too long at all! We love your writing. Write more if you want to. Your posts are the first thing I read in the morning. I've got time. I would gladly read more. You inform me and you make me laugh with your uniquely hilarious and biting humor. I don't know how I could survive these times without you! We love you Jeff! I love you! Thank you so much for all that you do, and never feel that you can't write more!!!!!!
I get constantly interrupted so have to read everything on the web in chunks. I read some of him in the morning and return multiple times during the day and am always glad to find there's more left.
From this embarrassment of riches the media and their special boy provided us, it’s seemingly impossible to extract intelligent commentary. And yet you managed to craft as brilliant an observational piece as we are likely to read all year. Thank you. This is fucking brilliant.
Bonus points for employing “ nitwit”, one of my all time faves.
That rant from Trump on inflation is actually the most incoherent I've ever heard. It could be a three year old babbling.
Yes, reading it was revelatory.
We appreciate Jeff asking “Is it too long?”
That’s a question Former Pres. Pussygrabber has never asked!
I would have been so mad about this last week. But Bernie Moreno convinced me as a post-menopausal woman I don’t need to be concerned about reproductive rights. And I heard it straight from Trump himself he wants to take care of me — all of us women. He’s our protector. Vote for him and you get a president AND a guardian to check on you and make sure you don’t get mugged buying a loaf of bread.
I’ve thought about Jimmy Dean Vance’s comments too, and he has a point. I’m here to nurture grandkids. So I’m not mad about the press failing me … I’m grateful for all the white men keeping me on track. What a time to be alive.
(Personally I'm not nearly as afraid of the jackasses spewing this patriarchal bs as I am of the women lapping it up. And they exist ... at least here in the Midwest. Two of them have been my bosses 🤯)
As a 70 year old woman who came into majority with Roe v Wade, it’s incredibly infuriating to know that there are men/politicians that want to take all our hard earned rights away! I don’t want my granddaughters to have less rights and freedoms than l took as a matter of course. How dare that fat, orange POS think I’d want or need him to “protect” me? I can fight my own battles!
These rubes completely miss the irony of men telling women how to feel about ALL OF US being relegated to second-class citizens. As if once our mysterious menstrual cycles disappear we lose our ability to think? Just because they think with their angry little penises doesn’t mean we think with our uteruses.
I like referring to their penis as “an eye peeking out of a bush” 😂
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Three years younger than you, Pamela. I remember when Roe V Wade became the law. Finally, no more back alley abortions. I knew if I needed an abortion, I could get one safely. My husband & I chose not to have children, but we do have cats. And I was a teacher. Vance thinks I don't have any stake in the future. What a dipshit. I have nieces & nephews, & great nieces & nephews who I love so much. I watched Trump to be beaten so soundly on Nov. 5 that we NEVER hear from him again. I just wish MAGA would see through his lies.
Exactly! And thank you, Karen! Me too. Except I have two daughters, and a granddaughter. My oldest daughter is an OB-GYN, and afraid of retribution. FUCK THE REPUBLIKKKANS! SIDEWAYS.
You are so welcome! Absolutely, Carlyle. I don't blame your daughter. How frightening. I am so sick of the fear-mongering & hate being spewed by Trumpiepoo & his cult members. Bring the joy!!!!
And you had a desire to make sure the kids you taught turned out to be good citizens and good people, plus - you did it 25 or more kids at a time! I'd say that's a pretty big stake in this country.
76 here. I came into my majority from the beginning of all this with a a visit to one of Steinam’s first talks at Northridge College in the San Fernando Valley in roughly 1972? I’ve had ups and downs of being engaged with the issues. I was following a very traditional, conventional path at the time and was on very wobbly legs with a lousy husband, practically no resources, lots of low self esteem, and 2 babies. A recipe for reticence to latch onto such lofty ideas of women’s freedoms, if there ever was one.
At 76, I’ve grown into my own and know when someone is pissing on my leg and telling me it’s raining. I can’t believe we’ve not only made such relatively little progress, but are also stepping into the possibility that we are going to lose major, if not all, gained ground.
I remarried with a remarkable man. 45 years of kind, caring, gracious, compassionate intelligence who has always encouraged me to find myself and nurture my own ideas. Yet, I look around at most men running the world and am angry as hell. And this craziness we are now subjected to rather puts me in the same state of mind as Bilbo in the movie when he realized he had to let go of the ring. The thought of that pig believing he’d be doing anything for me other than make me projectile vomit, is ridiculous. And really infuriating.
I’ve had an election-cycle epiphany and realized the wrongness of my woke ways. Pause … not 🤣
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If women have to look to Trump as our protector, I'd say a lot of us wouldn't think about abortion anymore because we would make permanently and definitely sure we could never get pregnant.
I think I'd spontaneously abort if he ever touched me, regardless of being pregnant or not.
Spontaneously go for the straight razor.😡
Marvelous!! Except, don't you think that any form of birth control would become illegal -- at least for white women?) I think that rape would no longer be a crime, so how could women, and girls for that matter, protect themselves?
A nice, brand new pair of razor-sharp Felco 11 pruners will take care of that.
Ah! Great idea! Be sure to spread the word!
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I hope this is sarcasm!!!
Gotta be!
Internalised misogyny is a bitch.
WONDERFUL!!!
Huh? I hope this is a joke.
I guess I need to work on my sarcasm game. Sorry for scaring anyone. I’m actually trying to figure out why a single woman buys this crap. I’d say they don’t but I’ve met them.
I thought you were very clever!
you don’t have to work on your sarcasm game. Only Deborah was confused.
2 have been my sisters 😞😞
It's ridiculous. When a voter asks him what the greatest threat to the auto industry in Michigan is and he says a nuclear attack, that should be a front page headline. When a reporter tells him economists say that his plan will raise costs and he says he doesn't need Congress to tax other countries, that should be the lead story everywhere. He's disconnected from reality. The NY Times has turned into what he called them 10 years ago, Fake News.
They need a "horse race" narrative to maintain readership/viewership.
Exactly Richard, fact being msm is owned by the Uber-wealthy might be in play!
Ya think?
Of course the press is in the tank for him.
1. The owners want him re-elected for the tax benefits.
2. After working 44 years in the media industry, I have learned one absolute: NOBODY EVER WENT BROKE UNDERESTIMATING THE INTELLIGENCE OF THE AMERICAN MEDIA. I deal with reporters, PR folks, and public policy people who cannot tell me who Winston Churchill and Nikita Khrushchev were, or the significance of the Gettysburg Address. ("Was that the 'Four Score and Seven Years Ago' speech?") Ask them about Kim Kardashian's nail care line and they can tell you all about it. The Bloated Yam gives a good show.
They're the over-educated, under-intelligent otherwise-unemployable low achievers of the upper middle class.
Pretty much.
And beauty pageant winners.
Oddly, NCAA basketball star Cheryl Miller majored in journalism. A knee injury ended her court career, so she went into coaching, but also as a TV sports reporter for the NBA and the Olympics.
And she could dunk all over her younger brother.
That part I don't know...not a basketball fan.
I just remember that she prepared herself well for her post-college career and was very cute when I read about her. We're the same age.
Bloated yam that reeks of rot is another brilliant description of this very disturbed tyrant. Can't wait until his assholiness is no longer the media darling of the shitful press. What will MSM do to grab our attention and those advertising dollars when he's long gone?
My wife coined the term.
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That's all some people want, entertainment. It's so sad. How did we let this happen?
It’s old news…read newspaper coverage from the early part of the 20th century. It focused on salacious divorce cases and tawdry murders.
The Daily News scored its greatest scoop when it sneaked a reporter into Sing Sing to cover the first electrocution of a woman in American history. She had combined with her lover to kill her husband.
At the big moment, the reporter raised his right hand to reveal a flash bulb and his right leg to reveal a camera strapped to his ankle, shot the picture of the woman riding the lightning, and ran out of the building before anyone could respond.
In front of the prison was a truck done up as a developer’s tank. The reporter handed the film to a developer, who processed the photo, while the writer batted out his story.
By the time the truck reached the paper’s offices, the photo and story were ready…the photo for the front page, the story for the copy desk and linotype crew.
I need to see that photograph
Google it...I forget the name of the woman.
It's not in good focus, but it's a shocker.
Linotype. Lordy, it’s been so many decades since I’ve heard that word. (Both my parents worked for newspapers, and the smells from darkrooms and where the papers were printed is part of my DNA.)
Grrrr!
The purpose of the NYT/Sienna poll is to bring the polling averages down. Full stop. It’s complete bullshit and has been all year. The methodology is suspect, and the over-sampling of Republicans is a feature, not a bug.
There are zero news organizations I trust.
As for the Bribery stunt at the grocery store ... he didn't even get the money into the person's hand. He threw it at them like they were a Puerto Rican hurricane survivor.
Did you notice that he took the money from someone out of camera? He didn't get it from his own pocket. Typical.
He doesn't put anything in his pocket. He might look fat.
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I posted a Substack last night because I was furious about the NYT post on Trump being ahead of Harris. No where in the article did they mention the hunters of thousands GenZ’s that have registered, more did they mention that Harris’ favorability numbers are the highest since George W Bush after 9/11. They are completely full of shit. I ask everyone to stop their subscriptions of NYT and WaPo maybe if enough people stop subscribing they will wake the fuck up. I also think we need to let know why we are unsubscribing.
I tried to cancel my NYT subscription but they are practically giving it to me now ($1 per week) so I keep reading it very skeptically. I read much more Substack, but it is good to keep up with the corporate BS that is being spread in the name of fascism. It’s good to know what we are up against.
They must be loosing readers if they are offering it for $1 a week.
Here is the Substack I posted last night https://open.substack.com/pub/ilenefischer/p/the-main-stream-media-sucks-and-israel?utm_source=app-post-stats-page&r=jijup&utm_medium=ios
Might backfire and keep ppl vigilant vs complacent???🙏🇺🇸
tRump gives shopper $100.
1: Shopper immediately grabs for the marking pen to check to see if the $100 is counterfeit.
2: Shopper sends $100 bill to lab to analyze for cocaine or Adderall.
3: Shopper purchases $100 worth of paper towels and throws them at tRump.
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A real story is that MAGAs seems to be really cruel to people's pets, either their neighbors or their own. We all know Kristi Noam's story, well, now there is Kevin Roberts, which I read in the Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/24/project-2025-kevin-roberts-killed-dog
Apparently the real pet story is these MAGAs and perhaps others if we widen the pet range, and not the Haitians, which is the story Trump and apparently his White Supremacist media friends are running with. And, according to Heather Cox Richardson, Trump told Jews that if they don't vote for him Israel will be toast within 2 years. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/24/project-2025-kevin-roberts-killed-dog
I read the story of Roberts killing the neighbors dog this morning. My god what is the matter with these people? Killing dogs and then bragging over dinner with fellow Universtiy colleagues is beyond madness. The neighbor has corroborated the story about his dog going missing at the time and never finding her.
And, it sounds like the colleagues were shocked and did not ask for details. I was trying to imagine it. I remember when I had my first job out of college, it was a corporate job. Yeech! Anyway, during lunch one of the men who worked in my department was telling us how his brother had come home from "the 'Nam" and done something unspeakable to a cat. He was laughing when he told it and some others laughed too, until I told him that he was sick for laughing and that his brother was really disturbed and needed help. I did not go to sleep that night from the image, and had to call my mom and cry to her on the phone over it. So, I can imagine that I would have had unpleasant words for Kevin Roberts if I had had dinner with him. Of course I would not have, because I do not have the right skin color. Now, because Kevin Roberts did not get help, he has gone on an interview and threatened bloodshed if we complain about them trying to shove Trump, J[uvenile]D[elinquent] Vance, down our throats and their Project 2025. I just had my Project 2025 Book club meeting and Kevin Roberts is one of the devils behind it. He is sick, sick, sick! He should not be running a foundation, let alone trying to tell the rest of us how to live. My friends that I have discussed this with today are all wondering shouldn't he go to jail. Isn't this illegal?
Robert’s story is more insane, execrable, and fuckery-filled, than Kristi Noem’s. Considering it was the neighbors pet!
The hate filled rage that triggered this connard is not only heinous but should receive further criminal consideration!
Go ahead, Kevin! Try to hurt one of my pets! I'll put your evil ass underneath Hell!😡😡
OMG! Thats horrible. Killing a dog with a shovel? Barbaric.
As a normal human being, I can't even imagine such savagery. Only a twisted mind would tell this story multiple times. If I were a guest and someone told this story about themselves I would def leave the premises. Who wants to dine with a monster? He probably fouled your dinner just to get over on you. Run away from such people.
He is what's called a sadist.
This fucking guy thinks it’s 100+BCE and he’s some sort of gladiator, turn the lions loose!!
As the author of Project 2025, he proves that he definitely wants to bring the US back to 100BC! They are horrifying people.
Vote a huge 💙🌊‼️
Just posted the article about Kevin Roberts, the sadist, on my FB page and on several other pages to which I belong (all pro-democracy).
The repugnicant party is currently filled with SADISTS (reminds me of the Bad Old Days when the Southern Democrats were led by the sadistic KKK) and NARCISSISTS. Are there any decent ones left in Congress?
The Heritage Fund guy killing the neighbors' dog with a shovel for barking is cruel beyond words. All the pet killers are GOP.
Actually, besides being cruel, it was illegal. Property rights, so important, you know. It was not his own dog.
He didn’t explain how Israel would become toast if he weren’t in charge. He doesn’t need to explain, as usually nobody will ask him to.
This is apparently who he was speaking to. He seems to be blaming Israel being annihilated on Democrats.
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/20/g-s1-23859/trump-jewish-voters-israel-election-2024
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/19/trump-jewish-voters-election
I’ve heard mention of Robert’s shovel incident Linda. Knowing he’s a miserable bleating tosspot is one thing. However, I questioned the validity of stories so heinous as this appears…but he seems fully capable of carrying out malicious behavior of any sort! Thanks for sharing!
Patrick, as you see it was from The Guardian. I will assume they did some fact checking.
Yes, it heinous beyond belief. But it is true.
I always read ALL of your words to the end. It’s not your fault that there is so much volume to wade through….
Jeff I love your posts and sad when I get to the end. I am guessing but I think this Substack is really an outlet for people whose minds just don’t turn off ever. What we are up against today- we just can’t keep our minds from trying to untangle and mend it. We have as a country come waaay too far with too many blessed souls giving their lives for this country. BIG thanks to you!!!!!🩷🥳👍🇺🇸❤️🥰
The man is disgusting, and I can hardly wait for the day after the election to hear from the media about why they were so wrong. Folks, the latest polls show Harris winning by 65-100 Electoral College votes. ALL the swing states are voting for her. I will describe this better tomorrow... Great article Jeff!
"We had no war with Putin"
This shit comes from a lot of his supporters, too, that "there weren't any wars happening when Trump was in office!!!!!" which is ridiculous and proves just how little awareness they have of the world, since they seem to think the only conflicts going on are in Ukraine and I/P. There are in fact numerous other ongoing armed conflicts around the world (Myanmar, the Mahgreb, Colombia and Venezuela, Somalia, central Africa, etc). BUT...even just keeping it to Ukraine, yes Donny, you DID have "war with Putin" happening because that evil little gremlin annexed Crimea in 2014. That's why most of us refer to the current war as the "full-scale invasion" or the "re-invasion". Now, that occurred before Trump was elected, but he sure as motherfuck didn't end it, did he? He didn't do a damn thing except, I assume, use Google Translate to text Putin "Please may I lick your ass" or whatever. And the full-scale invasion had absolutely been in the planning stages all during Trump's term. So he and his minions can once again shut their uninformed, dumb-as-dirt mouths.
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Well dug and poignant Alison!!
The Emperor is (to borrow a phrase from "The Avengers") buck ass nude. Yeah, he's old, he doesn't have stamina, he slurs his words, he gets confused. Every fucking word lobbed at Joe Biden, whether true or projection by the Trump campaign, is a solid comment/observation on Stinky. He is physically, emotionally, mentally, and ethically unfit for leadership.if you're taking time to launch multiple gifts in the run up to an election, you deserve to have your ass handed to you.
The billionaires controlling press and social media don't want to pay more in taxes, and word out of the NY Times is that they been instructed to go after Harris
News flash: even if they paid 99%, they'd still be ridiculously wealthy. No sympathy here.
I bow low for you Susan!!
I don’t think it’s too long if it’s on a subject like corporate media. I just want to say, that 100 dollar bill wasn’t even his. He took it from the cash register. …stealing again.
Not sure if he even has a wallet
He wants someone else to pay. "Don't seem to have my wallet on me"
Doesn’t need one when wearing a diaper!