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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

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

"McConnell was loaded into ambulance on a stretcher, according to eyewitness and new video"

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/10/politics/mitch-mcconnell-video-stretcher-ambulance

oh yeah, he's dead or brain-dead, one or the other

Linda Weide's avatar

I am thinking dead-dead which would encompass brain dead. Now, I agree with someone that says Andy Beshear needs to pay a visit before August 3, after which it will be too late to replace him.

I just love the way you love your wife. I love the humanity of your photos of her. We need more humanity. Thank you.

Cathy Rady's avatar

We love the Claudia pictures . . . it seems like in the first few weeks following her death, it may have been difficult and painful for Jeff to be looking through them to post.

But pretty soon he realized that he was sharing his Ms. Spouse photos with a community who wants very much to join him in recognizing and celebrating her wit and intelligence and her very interesting and creative life.

A touch of decency, humanity and joy.

In contrast to the god-awful shitpile that trump and his minions are dishing out.

Bill Corbett's avatar

You know he's given me a whole new reason to snap a picture of my wife when she isn't looking, she doesn't like to be photographed, so there that. I find myself doing it when I can without her noticing.

And a shout out thanks to Jeff on that.

BDBoop's avatar

This makes me very happy. Too many of us will leave their children with only memories, and nothing physical to remember us by.

Beezerbomb's avatar

Beautifully said. Ms. Spouse was a rare guest star in Jeff's columns before, and the few tidbits we got always made me curious to learn more about this interesting lady, especially her wit. I'm sad that she has passed, and the world seems a lesser place without her, but it's all the more reason to celebrate all that she was.

Cathy Rady's avatar

Especially since she was both a wonderful friend and also a Badass!

Anne's avatar

hey - McConnell being out means one less republican in the Senate. I'm good with that. Let's not replace him with another Republican who can actually vote.

Pam Humphrey's avatar

Yep. He’s dead. He’s a goner. Filed and forgotten.

Jan Moon's avatar

Yeah but, an ambulance to where? And are we sure he's not just UN-dead, like live bat Miller?

Steve in SoCal's avatar

"McConnell’s 'health did not warrant an immediate return [by his wife] to the U.S.'”

I guess if someone's dead, why bother

Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

Did you not know jeff, Trump said Platner didnt rape anybody.

The Emotionless DickSwaddled Support President of these United States looked at a camera and mused that a woman accusing a man of rape might just be a fucking liar (E Jean Carroll are you listening?) — the same man he'd called a fuck pig four weeks earlier, back when the pig was useful. The heat is real. The cruelty is a choice.

https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-trump-said-platner-didn-t-rape-anybody-like-trump-never-raped-anybody-righ

Linda Weide's avatar

Trump belongs to the rather large group of men in the world who view women and girls down to little girls, as existing a the whim of men, and therefore there is no such thing as rape, just taking what you want.

Susan Jane's avatar

They view women and girls as appliances.

Pam Humphrey's avatar

…more like toys, things to play with, things to enjoy until they get old … or broken.

Eva's avatar

That’s the mantra of the GOP. They hate women

HI2thDoc's avatar

Keep talking, loudmouthed rage baby, and defame E. Jean again so she can haul your fat ass back into court for another few million. Haha.

Steve in SoCal's avatar

I love that EJC said she'd donate the judgment dough to stuff Trump hates, something like TST did with Alito: https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/supreme-courtship

HI2thDoc's avatar

She's an awesome lady

Beezerbomb's avatar

Oh please...oh please...

Tess's avatar

Love the Heroes and Bright Signals section…

Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

Yeah, thats the positives I try to write in our dailies so that it at least gives us hope.

Tess's avatar

and thank you for that!!

Bill Corbett's avatar

But of course, he did.

Wendy OConnor's avatar

He's definitely not taking 20 minute phone calls.

Suel J's avatar

I don't think they realized the ridiculous twenty minutes is a long effing time

Bob Bowden's avatar

The only thing with Mitch that lasts 20 minutes is the interval between ventilator-pumps

arne link's avatar

Rick Wilson says he has insider info that he is alive but that his actual condition is unknown to the insider. He could be brain dead and on life support, like Schrodinger's cat.

Steve in SoCal's avatar

Alive and dead as long as you don't look inside the box, right? haha

Actually, that sounds more like Stephen Miller 🦇

Suel J's avatar

If they are just keeping his body alive that's disgusting in unimaginable ways. If you have ever been an ICU nurse you know.

Cathy Rady's avatar

I've heard that they begin to rot and smell.

Joyce's avatar

I see no difference. Between now and 10 years ago.....

Steve in SoCal's avatar

You should really get some sort of prize for that 🏆

Claudia Montague Wheatley's avatar

"The neighbor said they learned from another eyewitness who saw the individual’s face that the person on the stretcher was McConnell and he was not wearing an oxygen mask."

The first responders didn't seem to be in much of a hurry, either. Like they had basically given up on him already.

Bill Corbett's avatar

The first responders were probably democrats. 🤣

DuduLovesBubu's avatar

Now now, if MAGA catches wind of that, Mitchgate will explode across the MAGAVerse.

Steve in SoCal's avatar

O₂ doesn't help much if you're dead

Jean Jacoby's avatar

How about the pinch test? Were there coins over his eyes? That's usually a clue. Was there a strong smell of air freshener around the stretcher? Like I commented before, not merely dead but most sincerely dead?

Rita Rosson's avatar

They weren't moving fast, as if not making any effort to keep working on him...

Anne's avatar

Plus side - one less Republican vote in the Senate as long as he's theoretically alive!

Eva's avatar

Normally I’d say have a little respect but no. Mitch inflicted this SC and this idiot of a president on us. I hope someone outs him as dead soon so they can stop playing this little game of weekend at Bernie’s

Andrea Jennings's avatar

Maybe he is pining for the fjords…

Virgin Monk Boy's avatar

The “Lewinsky Room” full of MAGA hats and Florsheims is the whole presidency in miniature: a tacky little gift shop inside a national nervous breakdown. Foreign leaders are workshopping texts in toddler syntax, renaming ceasefires “stop the killing,” calling sanctions “tariffs,” and trying not to trigger the man who might throw a tablet because Zoom hurt his feelings. This is not diplomacy. It is global babysitting with nuclear risk. America sent the world a president, and the world had to learn hostage negotiation, brand management, and daycare voice.

HI2thDoc's avatar

Are there cigars in the Lewinsky Room?

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

What a gratuitously snide act to impress a German delegation that gives zero shits about Clinton or Lewinsky. Shitler has regressed to the hopelessly evil teen stage that got him packed off to military reform school.

HI2thDoc's avatar

I wonder if Monica can sue him for defamation

San's avatar

He never grew out of junior high school mentality to begin with

arne link's avatar

Undoubtedly. They are a potential source of revenue.

Irascible Ink's avatar

Yep. I can't fucking stand it. I get the strategy, but it's not going to help. I really hope Mark Carney doesn't stoop to this level. Canada needs all hands and elbows on deck. Per Charlie Angus, we're still in danger of being annexed by a meth lab. Holy shit.

https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/trumps-threat-to-canada-is-deadly?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=ubvcb

Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

There goes US hockey just wait until they meet, the gloves will fly.

Blake Russell's avatar

Love ya', brotha, hope you have an excellent weekend!

😎👍🌊🌊☮️💯

Bill Corbett's avatar

You know that's probably the first thing he wanted to know about the white house in his first stay, "where's the room Bill got his blowjob."

Wondering Woman's avatar

We’re basically a nuclear-armed laughingstock at this point with a spoiled toddler at the helm.

Kay-El's avatar

1. McConnell is most sincerely dead.

2. Donny is most sincerely demented

3. World leaders most sincerely mocking Trump is most sincerely funny

Wendy OConnor's avatar

No lies detected. 😎

Susan Niemann's avatar

👏👏👏👏

Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Kay, Easy as 1 2 3, and I love the EU mocking now they are trying to be as non-sensical as dear fuckhead and for the educated folks it helps them try out being insane for a laugh and a learning experience. Another one brain dead, they are dropping like flies.

Mike Hammer's avatar

Jeff, speaking of Monica ….

Monica Lewinsky walks in to the dry cleaners. The old man behind the counter is hard of hearing and doesn’t understand her request so he says “come again” Monika responds.. “No, this time it’s mustard”.

Susan Niemann's avatar

HOLY CRAP! 😂😂😂😂😂

Ellyn's avatar

😂😂😂😂

Outdoorluvr's avatar

No oxygen on a heart attack victim who was allegedly given CPR? Doesn't sound right to me. Something is fishy, so... nothing new with republicans.

HI2thDoc's avatar

He was already a veggie. No need for oxygen, just watering on occasion

Dave Drell's avatar

“just waterin on occasion “. hilarious- turtles love water

arne link's avatar

The ambulance attendants were certainly in no hurry. Maybe they were woke?

Bill Corbett's avatar

You mean democrats? 🤣

Tess's avatar

Beautiful Claudia pics Jeff ❤️ Yes…a laughing stock we are…have a nice weekend everyone and let’s hope we get to pop our champagne SOON! 😊

George A. Polisner's avatar

Thank you Jeff.

I'm grateful for the memories of Claudia that you share.

Everyday I think perhaps we've hit the floor in the basement and that it would be impossible for the criminally corrupt organization leading our nation to sink lower (and take all of us with them). The Roberts Court continues to greenlight every anti-democracy tool in the pedo criminal elect's toolbox. Today, the firing of the bipartisan Election Assistance Commission (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/us/politics/trump-fires-election-assistance-commission-members.html).

The it's not a war closing the Strait of Hormuz again. Greenland, Cuba, and now Spain in the sights of the criminal elect. A DOJ still breaking the law by not releasing the Epstein Trump Maxwell files (remember when pedophilia and abuse used to be frowned upon?) ICE back to murder and mass arrests. Mitch McConnell now appearing daily as Schrödinger's cat. And let's make sure we give Mitch the same respect he provided for Justice Ginsburg when he announced there will be a Senate vote on a nominee two hours after her passing. F-him.

I'm disgusted beyond belief while clinging to the hope that the 80 million plus eligible voters who did not vote in 2024 (or were precluded from doing so (https://bomdia.substack.com/p/the-architecture-of-voter-suppression), understand this is our very last chance to hold this group of incompetent corrupt sociopaths accountable for crimes against all of us and humanity.

Whew -thanks everyone. I feel (slightly) better now.

HI2thDoc's avatar
2hEdited

From the other day. To the tune of Ruby Tuesday:

He has done so much to harm this land

The voters of his state don't understand

Fed Fox right wing crap

Turned into MAGA saps

They won't believe

They've been deceived

Goodbye, Mitch McConnell

You played your crooked games so well

When you croak we hope

You go straight down to hell

He spent his many years in Washington

Trying to stop good from being done

He did his evil best

To grow this MAGA mess

Progress subdued and now we're screwed

Goodbye, Mitch McConnell

Heard you're just a veggie now

When you croak it's overdue

and take trump with you

George A. Polisner's avatar

Excellent -thank you. I can almost hear Mick and Keith now!

Karen Hall's avatar

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Pam Humphrey's avatar

Still more brilliance!

Heather Horning Mohr's avatar

Thank you, Jeff, and thank you, George.

We never hit bottom with this regime, with new distractions every day. What’s next? We need smart leaders to anticipate unprecedented evil from “it” & company. “it” might re-create a worse version of the “Patriot” Act, which attempted to take away our rights of privacy, free speech and dissent in the wake of 911, to support war.

We CAN demonstrate.

We CAN call our Representatives.

We CAN support the ACLU, which legally fights for our rights.

For now, we can still VOTE!

And encourage young people to take part. It’s theirs to inherit.

Thanks for letting me rant. Love you guys.

George A. Polisner's avatar

Thank you Heather! It’s been said we are stronger together. We’re louder together too!

Tess's avatar

❤️ ❤️ Hang in there George!!

Marian Vitale's avatar

The Florsheim shoes crack me up every time. He may as well have given them Buster Browns from Thom McAnn. (And his dog, Tige. Man, I'm old.)

Sooz Hall's avatar

Did you put your feet in the magic machine that showed your bones??!! I loved that 🎊🎉🥰

arne link's avatar

That thing was awesome.

Ellyn's avatar

Me too 🤗

Good thing we have Uncle Jeff.

Allan Voorhis's avatar

Considering the daily avalanche of trumpshit that we are subjected to, I commend everyone, including myself, who has avoided becoming a day drinker.

Gail Dragoo's avatar

I wouldn’t put it past these ghouls to leave McConnell in a freezer until August 3. Even more vile would be if he’s on life support, rotting in the ICU. Oh and by the way, his wife is a piece of work, too.

Suel J's avatar

Vile is mild. This is the lowest grossest thing. I hope it's not true.

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

If Trump kicks it before the end of his term, the Mitch horror could be a rehearsal.

Ann Anderson's avatar

Well, shoot, now I have a fantasy of sailing my tablet across the room and hitting Donny in the neck, just like OddJob in Goldfinger. Tacky enough that he has a Lewinsky room, but the Florsheims take it to a whole other level of kitsch. This administration is a fucking nightmare.

HI2thDoc's avatar

MAGA stooge KKKarolying Leavitt will spin this as him inventing a new Olympic sport, the trumptoss.

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

Back in his first term I was among the people who thought that the Trump presidency was the most elaborate performance art ever created by comedian Andy Kaufman.

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

My favorite Kaufman skit was his lip-synching to "Mighty Mouse." He also did a great Elvis, so yeah, I can see Trump.

Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Kitsch, is dopey’s taste well it’s not taste so much as telling us the condition of his brain.

HI2thDoc's avatar

His beautiful pool is always on his addled mind. Is it because it's an extremely visible symbol of his myriad fuckups?

One reason for Pirro to try

And blame some other guy

Is only to connive

About Donny's dumb drive

Before the paint was dry

HI2thDoc's avatar
2hEdited

Maybe I didn't gaze at you

Quite as often as I should

Maybe that guy I hired to paint you

Was just no fucking good

That stupid shade of blue I chose

I was too ignorant to know

Was gonna warm you up so much

And cause all that algae to grow

You are always on my mind,

You are always on my mind

Pam Humphrey's avatar

OMG! You’re killin’ me today. This one is just beautiful. I’m wiping away tears.

HI2thDoc's avatar

Yeah, but my apologies to Outlaw Willie

Michael Johnson's avatar

Fantastic post - as usual.

Thanks!

P. Skinner's avatar

Maybe the first head of a nation to stand up and asks Trump, "What the fuck is wrong with you?" should receive a FIFA Peace Prize?

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

It's not like FIFA will have to suck up to him after July 19.

Mary Greenwald's avatar

Donny does not care if devices cost money. He has never paid for one. We pay or someone gives him theirs! But only the gold ones.

Maria Devereux's avatar

The acedote about the MAGA merch also reveals Trump's infuriatingly condescending misogynism. The world leaders' little ladies, who have nothing better to do, can make themselves useful and sell the merch for their men, and especially for King Don- biggest ape of them all.