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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

I think I just got stupider from spending four hours writing about all that stupid

Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

I suffer the same stupid Jeff

I have read a lot of unhinged horseshit in my fifty-odd years, but a billionaire warning a megachurch that democratic socialism will leave them with "no nothing" while he guts their food assistance in broad daylight is a special vintage of gaslighting, bottled and aged.

HI2thDoc's avatar
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Fuck Ackman, too. He's a hedge fund billionaire, which means he's conniving, sketchy, and selfish, so of course he's a MAGAt.

Grace Kennedy's avatar

Oh yeah. I’ll root for anyone and anything Ackman is against. What a tool.

SethTriggs's avatar

Every day feels like a century with this moldering, racist carnival barker. This is what it is like being trapped in a relationship with a narcissist.

Cheri Collins's avatar

Yes, exactly, Seth! And I know this from personal experience.

Tess's avatar

Yup! And all you really had to post was….”here is the fucking idiot!” with one sleepy picture…and that would cover everything! Thanks for the laughs and Claudia!!

Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

Thanks for taking one for the team!

michellefromchicago's avatar

But “cosplaying as the front half of a centaur” is absolutely pure gold — my first belly laugh of the day. Thank you, Jeff!

DJ Headthrob's avatar

Do you think he prefers Huggies or Pampers? Depends.

Robert Eckert's avatar

when in reality he is the rear half of a centaur

247kath's avatar

Omg yes I laughed at that one. Imagined any one of his ass lickers as the rear of the centaur😂🤢🤮🤣

Kay-El's avatar

1. I think I “blinked” halfway through this because of all the stupid (kidding of course, I rolled my eyes through the whole fucking Trump mess)

2. Cheers to Mamdani and our new citizens.

3. I’ve always set my a/c to 75-78° because I’m not an energy hog.

Stephen Brady's avatar

I've had mine on 79 since early April when I turned on the AC (SW GA).

Jan Moon's avatar

I recently purchased a Frigidaire portable air conditioner. The instructions tell me to keep it set at 78°. I don't think they're Communists and I don't think Mamdani wrote those instructions. Could be wrong.

Cathy Rady's avatar

the assholes who set their AC's to 68° in the summer will then set their thermostats to 78° in the winter. because they're greedy, entitled, selfish assholes who would then point fingers and screech like crazy if there's a brownout or the grid goes down . . .

cuz it's either Obama's or Biden's fault.

Wondering Woman's avatar

May their energy bills be forever unmanageable

Kevin Rice's avatar

What is this "microwave" you think he's smuggling in his pants? Is that some term like the recently unearthed "grocery"? Or did you really mean RadarRange?

(I LOL'd at that and "all the diapers" sitting in the hotel lobby, so thanks.)

Stephen Brady's avatar

It is one of those bags they put on the back end of the carriage horses in NYC and NOLA.

T L Mills's avatar

okay, that one gave me a laugh!

Cathy Rady's avatar

OK - so now I'm waiting for them to strap a Big Mac 'feed bag' around Trump's neck

and maybe a Diet Coke Beer Hat . . .

along with the catheter he'll certainly need for 'drainage'

because there's only so much moisture that an overloaded 'man diaper' can retain

Theresa Palmer's avatar

I think it's the telephone book he has to carry around so when he sits down he looks "taller." Like lifts in his shoes. I imagine he is shrinking in height and everything collapses to the middle, fat and all! So add a diaper and you have a LOT of "junk in the trunk!"

Eileen's avatar

I think that he’s probably got an appliance pumping his blood for him because he’s so close to the grave.

Denise Donaldson's avatar

My thought was, "I-V bags."

Leu2500's avatar

that's in his chest.

Nora's avatar

I would think the human printer that follows him had the day off. So, that big bag she carries with his diapers, wipes, etc. is strapped to him for safe keeping and obvious reasons.

Linda Weide's avatar

I hope the power goes out for all of these people. I am generating my own energy with solar and a battery mostly in the summer, and I still try not to suck energy up with running washing machine, dishwasher (I only run at night anyway) during a heatwave. It is just common sense.

AuntTeeFa's avatar

Common sense. Of which they have none

drosophilist's avatar

Every Trump speech makes me think of that famous quote from “Billy Madison”:

“All of us are now stupider for having listened to you. I give you no credit, and may God have mercy on your soul.”

Walter's avatar

I can relate just reading it. You reported some really stupid stuff. MAGA doesn't know how to google the info about the George Washington partner's desk but more than happy to shoot off their mouths. and the 78 degrees stuff.. OMG...so stupid.

Susan P Thatcher's avatar

You can recover. Them? They'll go with ivermectin.

BigDaddy52's avatar

Trust me you did not. Though I can understand why you feel that way.

Skepticat's avatar

I think you got smarter, as at least—unlike the purveyors—you know it's stupid, while they think they're brilliant.

Terri Nighswonger's avatar

Being anywhere near the pisshead’s stuff, is like being contaminated with feceshead’s horrid shit and all that goes with it.

Emma Ray's avatar

Well, I like your new descriptive phrase "the f,..ing idiot" gonna adopt that one, thanks, Jeff

Norma's avatar

It was a good one😁

Mike Hammer's avatar

When we were young and living in NY we didn’t have air conditioning but in the winter we never raised the thermostat above 68. I guess my parents were communists.

Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

did you know that those big-ass New York City apartment radiators were deliberately designed to be a huge waste of energy? it's a holdover from the Spanish Flu epidemic of over a hundred years ago.

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/10/945136599/how-spanish-flu-pandemic-changed-home-heat-radiators

"Many pre-war apartment radiators in NYC were deliberately designed to overheat spaces so that tenants could leave their windows wide open to fight infectious diseases. This was the result of the "Fresh Air Movement" during the 1918 flu pandemic, where health boards mandated ventilation to control airborne pathogens."

HI2thDoc's avatar

Funny how we were smarter during that pandemic 108 years ago

Miselle's avatar

May I make a suggestion for people who like to read? Although it is strictly a NON-FICTION book, holy (bad word!) will it scare the (more bad words!) out of you worse than any horror book you can imagine!

"Shall We Wake The President: Two Centuries of Disaster Management by the Oval Office" by Tevi Troy.

I read this early on in COVID and I am NOT JOKING--it literally kept me awake at night and gave me a few nightmares. This is when I FINALLY decided I needed to prepare a "go bag" (which we did).

HI2thDoc's avatar

Is it a Go To Canada bag?

Kimberly Sandwisch's avatar

Thanks! Just requested it at my library!

rlritt's avatar

We didnt have a TV game show host mesmerizing the dim witted.

Leu2500's avatar

Also because of tuberculosis.

Cathy Rady's avatar

Back then they didn't have vaccines or effective treatments for serious diseases that swept thru communities.

And now we have a nutcase like RFK jr trying to take us back to HIS version of the good ol' days

Terri Nighswonger's avatar

These MAGAs are just baby whiners. Worthless.

myhoopbabies's avatar

Can you imagine being such a whiner that you scour social media for content you hate? Who spends their time making fun of a desk?

rlritt's avatar

When I was younger living Chicago we didnt have air conditioning in my old apartment because I was poor. Guess what. I didnt die of the heat. Do people realize how long people lived without air conditioning before it was invented? Its not a death sentence.

Anna Bolique's avatar

You didn't die because you were young and healthy. Older people, infants, and those with health problems died then and still die from the heat.

rlritt's avatar

I lived with my grand parents and they didnt die either. And, although i cant remember, I must have lived through my infancy. My grandmother had stories of working as a secretary and the sweat dripping off her as she took dictation. It didn't kill her though. She did have a box fan that she put in the upstairs hallway, which she swore cooled the whole house. (It did not)

Dave Drell's avatar

A heat wave in the 90’s in Chicago killed a lot of people, mostly elderly.

rlritt's avatar

I'm not saying the heat doesn't kill people, I'm just saying that weather events kill people and we can't always say that is due to malfeasance. People every year in Chicago die from heart attacks from shoveling snow or falling on ice. They also die from tornadoes. People in Fla die from hurricanes. Its sad and regrettable but they are filed ( literally) under Acts of God.

Grace Kennedy's avatar

I read that the first few months ( years?) of a baby’s life are when their bodies learn to regulate temperature. So if they are always in AC or toasty warm it’s actually a disservice to them.

Tracey Johnson's avatar

Right! Heat kills more people globally than cold exposure.

Linda A's avatar

People DO and DID die of heat. But cooling to a reasonable 78-80º is quite different than cooling to 65º.

Valerie's avatar

50 years ago, government notices asking to conserve energy when possible-aka temperatures on hottest of days-was an ask and do what you can or need to only. Same story now. Not demanded, just practical advice-again what you can or need to for your situation. Let’s work together more and pull more people up than fight and tear people down.

rlritt's avatar

Yes, but not most people. We opened the windows, sat outside on the porch.

Linda A's avatar

The dead likely don't care about "most people." And I, too grew up without A/C.

rlritt's avatar

And clearly you're still to tell about how you survived.

Kathleen Weber's avatar

Mike, your parents were fucking rat commie bastards!

Mingo's avatar

Mike, I guess my parents were Communists too. Growing up in western Mass in the 60's nobody had central AC. Just box fans and oscillating fans. No ceiling fans either. Just hot, humid weather. BTW- King Jabba the Hut looks like he's packing on the pounds. Since you're a retired MD is he on prednisone? Other than his poor diet and no exercise why else is he blowing up to the size of a Macy's parade float.

Frosty McGillicuddy's avatar

A damaged man baby in charge

Makes the national debt go real large

What he's done all his life

To his jobs and his wife

With that fat fucking stomach, that barge.

A pig and an empty-souled prick

His black hole of a soul makes us sick

But try to remember

That come this November

With a solid strong swift left wing kick!

HI2thDoc's avatar
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I saw that that lazy-assed fool

Rode his motorcade through the Reflecting Pool

That must have damaged the paint

'Cuz it definitely ain't

Some antifa box-cutting tool

Karlene Escriba's avatar

I love that we have dueling poets!

Pam Humphrey's avatar

Cool, isn’t it?

Pam Humphrey's avatar

Hooray!!! I’m saving this one, Frosty.

skangirl's avatar

The MAGAt whose handle implies she's from Tennessee? How much of her a.c. electricity is cheap because of the socialist FDR Tennessee Valley Authority, which still provides cheap power to the red states so moron MAGAts have electricity to cool their fat asses and charge their "smart" phones so they can post stupid shit?

And it's a fucking "partner desk"--a desk that business partners can share, seated face-to-face.

P.S. Thank you for the Claudia-in-a-Hat pictures. I wish I'd known her.

HI2thDoc's avatar
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The way these idiots lost their shit over the Mayor's suggestion is typical of MAGAts and conservatives in general. a) They only care about themselves and can completely ignore the fact that by preserving the power supply, not only does everyone else's A/C stay on but theirs does too; b) They think a suggestion or appeal is telling them what to do; c) Any idea, regardless of how sensible it is, is COMMUNISM! if they don't agree with it (see vaccines); d) They can cast blame, like the dipshit Pratt, completely dislocated from fact whenever and wherever it's convenient. The grid has been strained by data centers, crypto mining, the crippling of renewable projects by Preznit Windmills Cause Cancer, and the long lead time in constructing power generation of all types. Raising thermostats to 78 degrees can be done right now, ya cretin. e) Even if it's an idea that they themselves have promoted, if a libtard suggests the same, it's bad, dictatorial, communist, socialist, unworkable, etc. These fucking assholes just wear me out.

Mingo's avatar
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I'm outside Phoenix and I keep my thermostat set at 79. I have a smart thermostat that's smarter than most MAGAT's. Lord please give me strength.

Susie's avatar

In Gilbert, AZ and in my old lady apartment it’s set no lower than 80. And I’m cold if it’s set on that. 🙄

Karen Yaholnitsky's avatar

Thank-you for posting the proper name for the desk. I was going to but you did it for me.

skangirl's avatar

As always, I live to serve!

Denise Donaldson's avatar

Great point about the TVA, skangirl. Just one of the many pinko commie programs that FDR set in motion to help people and enrich the country.

Susie's avatar

I love everything about this reply. 😜

Karen S's avatar

Re: Wide load. I saw this comment on Facebook yesterday on that same photo, "I knew he was sitting on the Epstein Files!"

Susan Jane's avatar

Or it could be Mike Johnson under there.

T L Mills's avatar

His arse pokes out bigly; plenty of room there for both Mikey and Lindsey in there.

Nancy Braus's avatar

or Lindsay Graham could be busy kissing the large anatomical rump.

Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Blood pressure alert on little Mikey just seeing his name. Hate is not good for the hater so I need training.

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

How come he can have his fireworks after midnight on July 5 but all the votes MUST be counted on Election Day or it's "cheating?"

Emma Ray's avatar

Good point, Daniel, no fairness in this rule!

Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

Jeff it’s Sunday the 5th

Fuck I’m tired

https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-the-grammar-of-cruelty-and-the-long-work-of-building-anyway

Here is what a sitting president told a room of self-described Christians this week, about his own neighbors: "There will be no food, there will be no housing... there will be no nothing." He was describing what happens if Americans elect people who want them to have healthcare. And that's the whole pitch — vote for us or the guy who wants to freeze your rent will personally starve you. It'd be a masterpiece of projection if the son of a bitch knew he was doing it.

HI2thDoc's avatar

The guy who cannot even speak English as his first language doesn't know "no nothing" is a double negative, meaning there will be something. JFC.

Betsy L's avatar

Ok, double negatives are forbidden now in English, but it wasn't always that way. Chaucer used four negatives in the sentence describing his Knight to emphasize how good he was. And most languages around the world use double negatives.

HI2thDoc's avatar
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I wouldn't say they are forbidden. They are used in casual vernacular and get a pass there, such as Pink Floyd's "We don't need no education." But when trying to make a valid point, grammatical precision would be nice since double negatives change the meaning to the opposite.

Robert Eckert's avatar

"We don't need no education" is an intentional irony, since if they were educated they would know that doesn't mean what they think it means.

Betsy L's avatar

I think it's artificial grammatical precision. Somebody 150 years ago decided that English should be like math. One negative in a sentence means negative. Two negatives cancel each other out. But it's an artificial imposition. As I said, English hasn't always been this way, and most languages around the world use double negatives. Where do you think we got the Bs in "debt" and "doubt"? Not because they organically grew that way as English developed over time. It's because, in the 1700s, some scholars decided that Latin was the greatest language ever, therefore English should be more like Latin. The Latin roots of "debt" and "doubt" had Bs in them, so the English forms should have Bs in themtoo. But we don't pronounce the Bs in those words. They're there because of Latin relics.

Yes, I'm being pedantic, and I loathe Donald Trump too. Yes, he sounds ignorant saying "no nothing." But in this case, on a Sunday morning while I have nothing much better to do, I decided to point out the idiocy of disdain for double negatives in English syntax.

HI2thDoc's avatar

Okay. I take you at your word about the Latin roots and silent letters, which make English a hard language to learn. Look at how many born in America folks can't spell or use proper grammar. My disdain in this case is for him and his ignorance. I am approaching the literal meaning of "no nothing" which means there will be something.

Robert Eckert's avatar

"Where do you think we got the Bs in "debt" and "doubt"? Not because they organically grew that way as English developed over time." Actually the b sound did survive from the Latin root into some English dialects that said "debit" (now treated as a separate word with the minor vowel written; it is not really a separate word because it means the same as just "debt") and "dubit" (does not survive except in "indubitably" as an alternate form of "undoubtedly")

Suzanne Tollefson's avatar

I am impressed you knew this about Chaucer. Shakespeare also used multiple negatives in his plays.

Betsy L's avatar

What can I say? Language and literature nerd here. And 100% on Shakespeare's use of double negatives.

Lucius's avatar

No one ever accused Christians of intelligence. Or self reflection. Or basic human decency.

HI2thDoc's avatar

Only they themselves claim to have a surfeit of all those

Lucius's avatar

And just like their claims to moral authority or…well, moral anything, it's bullshit.

Betsy L's avatar

Oh, Doc, sorry, but I'm going to disagree again. I'm a devout Christian (Episcopalian), and not all Christians claim the high ground on decency and morality. But we try very hard to be self-reflective and decent.

Lucius's avatar

I'm entirely comfortable saying that Christians who don't claim moral authority are vanishingly rare. It's baked into the vast majority of denominations and sects. Including the liberal-ish ones. Most Christians don't notice because it's just as intrinsic to their faith as white supremacy is intrinsic to this useless fucking shithole of a country, but it becomes real obvious once you leave the religion and try having any kind of conversation with Christians.

Self-reflection is, if anything, even rarer.

HI2thDoc's avatar

I have no problem with you and those like you. It's the fakers and hypocrites that think they can tell others what to do that I despise.

Lucius's avatar

They aren't fakers. Hypocritical dipshittery has been Christianity's default state since the beginning. Look up the things people said about Christians before Christianity got powerful enough to genocide it's way across the planet for fun and prophet. It's very enlightening.

Tess's avatar

Wendy-informative post on thistle and moss. I think we are all tired of this fucking mess of an administration!

Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Wendy, I believe it was Nixon (commie nerdowell) that mandated 55 mph to save gas, and the 68f in winter during a time when a/c was not that common people died from heat stroke as well.

Denise Donaldson's avatar

I thought it was Carter with the thermostats...?

Jane S.'s avatar

That's my recollection as well

Denise Donaldson's avatar

I just remember his wearing a sweater in the White House.

Jane S.'s avatar

The original Tan Suit Outrage™

Jayme Wolworth's avatar

Fun Fact: Since 1912 Denmark has marked our Independence Day with a festival to celebrate the friendship between our countries. It's normally the largest event outside of the US. This year they asked that the organizers not invite one US official from the Trump admin because of the tensions mounting from the Greenland fiasco. Once again, we are shunned on the world stage because we have a mad cow wannabe dictator in charge of US. Nice.

8647 and his big ass

Paula Dean's avatar

Separately, or together?

Fastball Fredo's avatar

Jeff, it seems we are getting deeper into the stupid for the past few days, more stupid than usual.. First off, using the term “communist” revived from days of yesteryear in typical Joe McCarthy style. It’s MAGAs new shiny word that they are unable to define. They have no winning issues so they trot out uber patriotic memes and sayings and anyone who opposes their ideology is a “communist”. Second, that sh**show at the capitol, the failed “State Fair”, the baptism tent, all those preachers, people tipping over from the heat, a slap shod excuse for a fair. And finally to top it off, Men with Tiny Penises on display marching around shouting Nazi slogans, dressed in their cute little uniforms so that others could not identify who were in those uniforms.. Calgon… take me away. I hope all fellow travelers had a better 4th than the chuds, Nazis and White supremicists that took over our Capitol yesterday… I’m sure Jefferson Davis would be smiling.

HI2thDoc's avatar

Fredo, this is a redux but I wrote it with your MAGA golfers in mind, way back in February:

Hey MAGA turds

Did you proud anti-nerds

Catch in that garbled and tangled

Speech that he mangled

That lies suffused all his words?

Fastball Fredo's avatar

Beautiful and very relevant today… Hope you enjoyed a peaceful and fun 4th..

Punkette's avatar

Oh great. We are back to the revival of Nazis and the Red Scare. Zzzzzz

Betsy L's avatar

We could use the "Sir, have you no decency?" speech right now.

Fastball Fredo's avatar

And evangelicals running their mouths..

HI2thDoc's avatar

"When fascism comes to America, it will wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."

Attributed to James Waterman Wise Jr., from a speech he gave in the 1930s

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Two hundred masked, marching-in-unison incels carrying flags of defeat and showing off their Fachismo. It was Crazy MAGAT Day on the Mall. I'm sure Shitler knew they were coming.

Punkette's avatar

He probably invited them. 😡

San's avatar

And probably paid them too

Neal Stiffelman's avatar

Have a at least a semi-non-stupid Sunday, everyone! And keep your Antifa scuba gear and Antifa Exacto knives outta that reflecting pool!

Lucius's avatar

Don't tell me what to do.😂

Crystal Hartley's avatar

And don't tell me what NOT to do, goddammit!

Neal Stiffelman's avatar

Kinda getting philosophically deep. Let me consult my Spinoza.

Neal Stiffelman's avatar

Hats off, mate! Outstanding.

Lisa Bieber's avatar

It's the giant invisible pool knives from the Antifa Store that are doing the real damage.

Terri Shepard Kanter's avatar

checking Amazon right now

Kathleen Weber's avatar

The reflecting pool is two feet deep.. Scuba gear?

Neal Stiffelman's avatar

If you have to be cutting that tough rubber, you’re gonna need to stay under. Also to obscure your face from the Flock cameras.

Kathleen Weber's avatar

OK. Face down in the Reflecting Pool with a 15-pound scuba tank on your back sticking up out of the water. You won't be standing up anytime and soon.

How about a MAGA baseball cap with a rubber face of a cabinet member or JD Vance as a disguise. Breathe through snorkel with an American flag attached flying. They'll never figure it out. Your story: “I'm documenting vandalism to the reflecting pool by those rat commie bastards.”

Dave Drell's avatar

All this tomfoolery will make sense soon… I think.

Punkette's avatar

Thanks, Jeff! Great recap. 👏🏼

Letters from God has an awesome photo of a horde of Magats who found shelter from the storm yesterday afternoon in (wait for it) … the African-American History Museum!!! Isn’t that delicious! 💙

Denise Donaldson's avatar

Thanks for that piece of information, Punkette! Made my day.

Punkette's avatar

You are welcome, my sister! Made my day too! 😈

Susie's avatar

Tasty, indeed!!!

HI2thDoc's avatar

Where' missing Mitch

drumpf's Senate bitch

If he had only impeached

We would not have reached

Being driven into this ditch

Mingo's avatar

I'm still sticking with my theory that if he's not already dead, victim of cardiac arrest, then he's comatose on a ventilator someplace. No word on his condition for several weeks. So much secrecy.

Susie's avatar

Excellent! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Kathryn Page's avatar

In addition to everything else that I love about your posts , I particularly love that you took so many pictures of your wife! The connection between the two of you lives on and honestly benefits all of us in my opinion .

Miselle's avatar

Kathryn, I commented a few days ago that it is making me take more random casual photos these days. It occurred to me that I take very few photos of my husband/family except on holidays and birthdays, all posed, and I wouldn't have the wonderful collection of photos that Jeff has. They show the personality of Ms. Spouse, and have inspired me to take more photos.

Kathryn Page's avatar

That is exactly the kind of thing I meant .

Ginny Hall's avatar

Those desks may be what I have known as partner desks, because two people could work at the desk at once, one on each side. The commenters ask whether Mamdani understands how a desk works, but clearly the commenters themselves don't know much about desks.

Ginny Hall's avatar

When he said "we won here every time" he meant that South Dakota went for him in each of three elections. Which is not a surprise. The people of SD also elected Puppy and Goat Killer Kristi Noem as governor.

Pam Humphrey's avatar

Yeah and isn’t there only a couple hundred of them anyway?

Terri Shepard Kanter's avatar

Deeply disappointed that my Jewish Space Laser did not get the credit for the weather in D.C.