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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

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

oh look, Iran just closed the Strait of Hormuz.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/20/world/live-news/iran-war-trump-israel-lebanon?post-id

for those of you keeping score at home, it was open for 0.09 of a scaramucci

Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

Jeff, Let's call it plainly.

Raskin is demanding that all of Orange Shitler's Medications and Doctors Panel be revealed.

Because it taking a doctors panel the size of a baseball team to certify that the president is healthy is in a manner.....fucking bullshit.

We all know it.

https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-trump-is-dying-raskin-wants-proof

kdsherpa's avatar

No, Wendy. TWO baseball teams + 4 backup players.

HI2thDoc's avatar

I'm surprised that he and his stooges can find that many physicians who have completely abandoned their professional ethics

DJ Headthrob's avatar

No shortage of amoral reprobates in MAGA universe.

Tracy S's avatar

I'm not. I'd like to see the size of those bribes!

HI2thDoc's avatar

Benzes, Bimmers, and yachts, oh my!

Bob's avatar

And laundered crypto currency.

Bonnie Council's avatar

I don't think they did find physicians who have abandoned their ethics - I think they are just flat out lying about what the doctors are saying. I mean,we know there are liars in every profession. But at Walter Reed? Highly unlikely. trump and his minions are the ones who are lying. Period.

rlritt's avatar

They only use doctors who will sign a non disclosure agreement.

kdsherpa's avatar

I agree with you 100%.

rlritt's avatar

Oh, don't be surprised. There are 1,000's of plastic surgeons who swear that that their patients look 20 years younger after surgery.

Lin Talbot-Koehl's avatar

And their patients all hang out at Hawk-a-Loogie.

Deborah solleveld's avatar

I love your Claudia picture with all the shades of blue. Such a lovely lady.

arne link's avatar

I particularly liked her answer to the bee house question.

Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

I am not at all terribly familiar with sports ball, this is why I "assume".

Apologies.

kdsherpa's avatar

The reason I know is because Bill Murray grew up in Chicago across the street from a (very funny, herself) patient of mine, and had recently moved to the Charleston area. He is part owner of the local baseball team, The Charleston Riverdogs. He told her that if he just had three more sons, he could have his own baseball team. That's the only reason I know how many players are on a team.

Bob's avatar

Well, a pro team has 40 on the roster. But 22 is enough to field two teams, each with a couple of relief pitchers.

george  campbell's avatar

Actually the team of doctors is the size of a football team that two platoons --eleven on offense , eleven more on defense . The doctors nobody even knows about are the special teams . Who was the doctor he called first when he was admitted for Covid in his first term ? Oh yeah , it was Fauci .

P123Sunny's avatar

🥱 sure launch an investigation that’ll do it

Dana Jae Labrecque's avatar

I’d prefer a strongly-worded letter. Where’s Chuck?

P123Sunny's avatar

I mean wouldn’t we ALL 😏🙄

Chris Hierholzer's avatar

These threats must have him really worried and stuff like that there and stuff.

Linda Weide's avatar

We can sue him for running the country with dementia, and then all his medications have to be revealed in the disclosure.

P123Sunny's avatar

Losing a war against Iran and Algae in the same week.

That's gotta sting.

- Mark Slattery

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

AND being called a liar by the Italian prime minister, a one-time ally.

Donna Marie's avatar

More importantly, a female!

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

She should also call him "low IQ" and "nasty."

rlritt's avatar

A younger, attractive female who is smart. And not one the news bimbos who report on him.

P123Sunny's avatar

You wonder when his senate enablers are going to STOP BACKING HIM UP‼️

barb's avatar

Never is the infuriating answer.

Suel J's avatar

They might want to think about the potential liabilities here. What part of this bag does Congress hold? Are they actively covering up problems that can interfere with his duties? Are they knowingly placing Trump in positions that he cannot handle?? In positions where he will hurt or kill people? It isn't as far fetched as one might like to think. I believe the thinking process about things is a part that is missing, getting shortchanged.

Hollie Rood's avatar

THAT was the best👏👏👏

Cyndi's avatar

I'm with the guy at the Bulwark, it's gotta sting that even a one-celled organism can beat him.

Such a Loser!

P123Sunny's avatar

If you were serious about President-ing it would sting… In Other News, it’s wonderful CIRCUS content, amirite America?🤹‍♂️🎪🇺🇸

Maui Wahine's avatar

Stealing the plot line from War of the Worlds, too!

P123Sunny's avatar

Not one bit is original. EVER

HI2thDoc's avatar

Declare the algal species invasive from another nation so that the ICE thugs descend on the "pond" for some algae ass-kicking.

SethTriggs's avatar

Can algae spend billions of dollars in winnings? Asking for a friend.

Joe Witkowski's avatar

Like Covid, the algae was released by vandals according to the Fucker-Fuhrer

P123Sunny's avatar

👆I mean it just follows

Hollie Rood's avatar

That would prove just how tough and loyal those ass wipes really are🤔🤔🤔🤔

HI2thDoc's avatar

Stormy says Dipshit Don lasted 0.00104 scaramuccis

Renee's avatar

I would have liked Claudia. We are very much alike.

I’m sorry she’s gone. ☹️

Hollie Rood's avatar

Me too. I find myself taking in a big deep soothing breath when I reach Claudia time❤️‍🩹💕

Bob's avatar

Yes, the Strait of Epstein is closed again.

The morons he hired to deal with the algae poured hydrogen peroxide in the pool. A high enough concentration of the stuff strips paint, and obviously, “100-year industrial coating.”

HI2thDoc's avatar

Those darned Iranians are just so crafty

Of course, our "leader" is hindered by a mind that's drafty

Despite his self-aggrandized deal-making toil

Looks like we'll have to use his bullshit for oil

SethTriggs's avatar

The Straits of Schrödinger ensnare us for eternity!!!

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

On The Bulwark yesterday, Retired Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling commented that Trump's and Bibi's idiotic war handed Iran "an economic nuke" with permanent control of the Strait of Hormuz.

DJ Headthrob's avatar

Poor Stormy was under. She can never unsee that.

HI2thDoc's avatar

She was under a bloated orange tub of goo. Good thing it was only 90 seconds, albeit the worst 90 seconds of her life

KP Johnson Austin, TX's avatar

I wonder if he washed after he removed his depends...you know...before he did that quick deed.

myhoopbabies's avatar

Ouch, my brain is begging me to stop reading these comments about the Micropenis in Chief. So gross.

Chris Hierholzer's avatar

She should sue him for making her vomit everyday of her life for remembering his glistening body and that little boner.

DJ Headthrob's avatar

Don't forget the Yeti pubes.

Chris Hierholzer's avatar

The truth will set you free!

Chris Hierholzer's avatar

But first it will piss you off.

Marcia Lavanway's avatar

Bee houses are a good thing. Nesting Bees are great pollinators. Now would be a good time to get one in honor of your loving sweet wife. So sorry for your loss.

Cheri Collins's avatar

Yes, Marcia! I’d like one as a possible alternative to our diligent carpenter bee mamas who are drilling our porch rails to lace.

DeBurgh's avatar

Jeff, you missed this little story. Elon cashed in this week on his $270 million election tampering project to get Donny elected. One quarter of one $Billion to buy control of our government. Directs Donny and Congress to grant his companies Billions in contracts, paid for by American citizens. Then he leverages these ill gotten contracts into $1 Trillion in his pocket. 0.27 of one Billion becomes 1,000 Billions! In three years. Nice return on investment!

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1181412/000162828026036936/spaceexplorationtechnologi.htm

Maui Wahine's avatar

Iʻm shocked shocked shocked. And I am also on #TeamAlgae.

Tina Zep's avatar

Claudia’s answer to you is classic 🥳

George in Atlanta's avatar

I suspect, based on the look she always had in her eye, that she was The Brains Of The Gang. It's not that I don't admire Jeff, but he was in good hands.

Zija Pulp's avatar

Pretty soon there’s going to be a need for fractions of a scaramucci. Maybe there’s 10 Tiedrichs to 1 scaramucci. What do you think?

rlritt's avatar

Why did they close it again?

George in Atlanta's avatar

Egregious dumbfuckery.

Linda Weide's avatar

I think we should stop Trump from posting while "negotiations" are going on. Perhaps put him in his flying Qatari bordello and fly him around until they are over. Of course, it would not be safe given that it would make an excellent target for an Iranian drone.

Meanwhile, Jessie Waters can eat the pickles in his pickle cake and think about what he could be doing if they were penises instead.

Frank's avatar

Just a point of order, but Joe Biden left office on January 20, 2025 at 12 noon Eastern Standard Time. So he’s been out of office just 17 months, not more than two years. It just feels like it has been longer. Hell, it feels like it’s been a decade with the all of the shit that has been showered down on We the People.

Paula Dean's avatar

It's been.....since the end of the last civilization, to be exact.

Cheri Collins's avatar

Perfect observation, Paula!

Barbara Vasile's avatar

I will have to alert my niece, who is a pilot for a major airline, about Trump’s insane idea about pilots asking for raises mid-flight. I am quite certain it is something she’s never considered, so I’m sure she’ll be intrigued.🙄

SethTriggs's avatar

Maladministration 2.0 is making us all experts in time dilation!

Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Call the Planet Police the Earth is moving too fast!!

Sheila Dunlop's avatar

Correct amount of time? “Too damn long!”

Hollie Rood's avatar

T.R.U.T.H. and it sucks BIGLY👿

Ann Anderson's avatar

Jesse Watters is who you hire when you realize that Sean Hannity is over the viewers' heads.

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

Husbands shouldn't go to the supermarket with their wives? That's going to come as a surprise to my son-in-law. Where does Watters get these crazy ideas? Is he a member of the Male Insecurity of the Month club?

Gayna's avatar

How about husbands go to the supermarket by themselves? My husbands does all the grocery shopping thank god.

myhoopbabies's avatar

My husband and I do most things as a team but I thank him for not going grocery shopping at all. We end up with twice the ice cream and half the veggies if he's with me. These statements about what men should and shouldn't do are the height of male insecurity and make Jesse Waters even more detestable, if that's possible.

Lin Talbot-Koehl's avatar

My husband HAS to do all the grocery shopping. We can't fit all the groceries in the car, if we have to wedge them in around my wheelchair.

George in Atlanta's avatar

Do some math. I turn 70 this year, my dad (RIP a long time ago) did ALL the grocery shopping. Right down there at one of the flagship Publix's. Back when dinosaurs ruled the earth.

I thought for a very long time that grocery shopping was Man's Work. Dad was so particular about picking out stuff like the meat that Mom just let him own it before I was born.

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

My daughter doesn't trust him. He forgets which things he tried and didn't like. :)

They're actually quite good as a team.

Teresa G's avatar

My husband does at least 85% of the grocery shopping. He rocks!

Steve in SoCal's avatar

Jesse would be much happier if he embraced his gayness

HI2thDoc's avatar

He and Lindsey need to form a support group

Maui Wahine's avatar

Pickle cake sounds pretty gay to me....just sayʻin.

myhoopbabies's avatar

Gay men would kick him to the curb.

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Maybe when he hits 80 years old, like Trump.

PineTreeState's avatar

Anyone who keeps questioning his sexuality is gay, and he’s in denial. I agree. He would be slightly better if he just embraced his gayness. Like tRump.

HI2thDoc's avatar

Watters is the lightweight equivalent of a human National Enquirer

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

He's the human embodiment of a pickle cake.

Steve in SoCal's avatar

With a bit of Weekly World News

HI2thDoc's avatar

"Amelia Earhart's missing plane found intact in a garage in Sausalito!"

Steve in SoCal's avatar

"Boy Trapped in Refrigerator Eats Own Foot to Survive"

HI2thDoc's avatar

I think I actually saw that one once

Abby From Maine's avatar

As a long time closeted gay man, his head is spinning with notions of what gay is!

Joyce's avatar

Yeah--poor Jesse is terrified that he'll slip and accidentally out himself. What if straight people avoid fudge because it's gay? (Wait--do gays prefer that dessert, or does the dessert itself have a sexual orientation? What if there's trans-fudge????????) What if visiting fudge candy shops is a secret sign amongst the LGBTQ+ culture? Oh, no!!

Jesse must no sleep very well, worrying about all these super important issues.

Pam Humphrey's avatar

Is Jesse Waters or Gaynas’ grocery shoppin’ husband a closeted gay man? I’m so confused.

Phil Weltner's avatar

Groceries - that's an old-fashioned word. Most people don;t know that. And that it has a "b" on the end.

Denise Donaldson's avatar

My husband HAS to come with me---it's the only way he'd get his junk food, 'cause I'd never buy it.

HI2thDoc's avatar

In guys' experiences, those dang shopping carts always steer toward the chip aisle

Denise Donaldson's avatar

It so happens that in the place we always shop, the chip aisle is the first one inside the store. Impossible to escape it. Veggies are at the very back. Obviously, the store owner knows what he's doing.

HI2thDoc's avatar

Like how Costco has all the big screen TVs right inside the entrance

Steve in SoCal's avatar

I went to Costco to get a rotisserie chicken, but came home with a Samsung 83" OLED TV 🤷

Denise Donaldson's avatar

EXACTLY the same thinking! Now, call me sexist, but it seems to me that the rationale must be to appeal to men, because I don't think all that many women feel the need for an extra-large big screen TV.

Cheri Collins's avatar

Idk. The ones here steer toward baked goods and ice cream when my honey is driving . . .

Kim Steeves's avatar

Or by the looks of it, the hardware store, Jeff woulda brought home a bee house if he had not asked Ms. Spouse. Funny shit!!!

Paula Dean's avatar

He's got to be a closet gay. Or, perhaps, just a bitter involuntary celibate. Don't homophobes call gay men 'fudge packers'?

bruce somers's avatar

I'd put the Twinkies and Devil Dogs on the shopping list for kid and I....wife wouldn't get them.

myhoopbabies's avatar

My husband and/or kids would add helpful things to my shopping list like butt scratchers. The list is on my phone now. 😁

michellefromchicago's avatar

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

rlritt's avatar

One should reply to him, "you mean you allow your wife to spend money without your supervision?" That would make his explode.

Grace Kennedy's avatar

Yeah, shocked he’s not worried some other creep will slash his wife’s tires.

George in Atlanta's avatar

No no no. Watters is just asking questions. His question was "what kind of husband...?".

Thanks for asking, Jesse. The answer is: a supportive one that loves his wife and understands the importance of Together Time. Dumbass.

Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

Hannity is such a piece of shit, that honestly, Ann, it's time for that motherfucker to retire. I mean he's been done for a while.

Mary Lou Williams's avatar

I thought he'd moved to Costa Rica that he promised to do when Obama was running the first time.

michellefromchicago's avatar

The “fudge is gay“ stuff is just indescribably idiotic. And what on earth is pickle cake???🤮

Michelle Kenoyer's avatar

I think Jesse is attempting an unfunny joke with a nod to the homophobic slur "fudge-packer," which is really offensive and ugly, but this is par for the course for Fox "News" hosts. He obviously can't come out and say the slur on account of probable FCC violations, but it's not beneath him to hint at it in what he thinks is a clever fashion. Barf.

T L Mills's avatar

"Barf" is very on point. Watters himself makes me want to barf, let alone his stupid tasteless slurjokes against "the gay".

PTW's avatar

I love dill pickles. I also love cake. However.....this is an abomination. A waste of both.

Ms.Katz's avatar

This almost tops Jesse's election insanity: "To be a man and vote for a woman just because she's a woman is either childish—that person has mommy issues—or they are just trying to be accepted by other women ... I heard the scientists say the other day that when a man votes for a woman, he actually transitions into a woman."

Grace Kennedy's avatar

I’ll stick to French’s mustard birthday cake.

T L Mills's avatar

Watters acts so stupidly homophobic that I can't help but wonder if he's closeted...and since when don't couples go grocery shopping together? News to us and we've been doing it for almost 50 years. How else could we get all the groceries into the house in one trip?

Ann Anderson's avatar

Stop wondering. I think you cracked the code.

Tammy Hawkins's avatar

😂 now I look forward to the Daily Claudia! And oddly enough, I want a Bee House. 🧐✌️😉

Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

seeing that old screen shot made me want one, too

Kathleen Weber's avatar

Well, if you bought a bee house AND a birdhouse you could put them next to each other and figure out what the birds and the bees are all about. Just saying.

Bob Bowden's avatar

I think their daughter Katie is proof they achieved some rich experience in those subject areas

Diana's avatar

Funny Kathleen🤭‼️

HI2thDoc's avatar

I like how succinct, concise, and unambiguous Claudia's reply was. Eliminates the universal husband error of "sorry honey, but I didn't understand what you meant."

Kathleen Weber's avatar

At least she didn't say, "More crazy shit from YOU!"

Gina's avatar

I wonder what Ms Spouse would think of all the prospective Claudia Memorial Bee Houses

Kathleen Weber's avatar

AKA “No one ever listens to a word I say!”

arne link's avatar

I truly loved her response. No equivocation, none at all.

Cheri Collins's avatar

I’m in! Now, I’m getting one. 😀

Skepticat's avatar

A Bee House is going to be of my first purchases when I'm back in the States. And one of my first pleasures each day is the Daily Claudia.

Mary Fedoroff's avatar

You should get one. It’s for Mason bees that are the earliest pollinators to emerge in the spring and they are non-stinging.

arne link's avatar

Bees are critical to life on earth, and they need all the support they can get. We should all have bee houses.

Cheri Collins's avatar

Yes, and they hover in front of you, so you can have a pretend conversation. Very likeable. I just keep trying to lure them to another drilling site, not our porch rail. I need a cedar 2x4 I guess. They didn’t go for the pine 💁🏻.

Richard Von Busack's avatar

Never too late. They're our friends even if they sting the shit out of us.

Outdoorluvr's avatar

I've never been stung by a honey bee or bumble bee, despite doing outdoor landscaping for decades. They don't have the badditude common to wasps and hornets - just want to be left alone to do their jobs!

michellefromchicago's avatar

I was stung by a bumblebee once when I was a child, but only because I, was barefoot at the time, stepped on him. Can’t blame him for that. I also was stung repeatedly in the armpit by a yellow jacket. But honeybees have always left me alone, bless them.

Diana Hembree's avatar

Me, too. I used to run barefoot in clover as a small child and was stung by honeybees AND a bumblebee (at different times). It hurt like hell. Eventually I put on shoes....

Cheri Collins's avatar

Same here. I still prefer barefoot, though. 😊

Wendymae's avatar

That's the only bee sting I ever got too! They buzz around me constantly as I garden and I'm glad for the company.

Kathleen Weber's avatar

I hear it depends on what you smell like. I can remember only one bee sting in my entire life when my sister disturbed a nest nearby. I too have spent many a day in the outdoors.

Outdoorluvr's avatar

We must not stink good enough. Works for me!

Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

We had 50 beehives each with over 10,000 individuals that souvenir pictured is something that hornets will claim and own in two days, a honey bee wouldn’t think of going there. Bees are extremely fussy, they could hang off your car bumper overnight one but they want symmetry 6 sided cells not to mention the entrance hole. See it’s locusts for that house.

DJ Headthrob's avatar

Just remember the sage words of Romper Room, "Do bee a good bad and not bee a bad bee."

HI2thDoc's avatar

Sounds like a drinking game

DJ Headthrob's avatar

My late great aunt's favorite joke: What kind of bee give milk? A boobie.

Abby From Maine's avatar

I LOVE that she sent that succinct reply! <3

T L Mills's avatar

Mason and leafcutter bees would love you! (They are solitary cavity nesting bees) Bee good to pollinators!

bruce somers's avatar

One of my first trips with my former wife was to Misquamiquit(D'OH!,no spellcheck is going to fix that) Beach and The Windjammer or thereabouts Uncle Jeff,thx for the memories,and I do believe my daughter also made her first acquaintance with Long Island Sound there also when she was a little tot.

Jerrold Marsh's avatar

A Bee House would be very cool. What you don't want is a Hornet House. Those guys are assholes.

Lin Talbot-Koehl's avatar

Hornets seem to be almost OBSESSIVELY attracted to our second floor south-facing window, in what used to be our son's bedroom. Starting in early spring, & throughout most of the summer, they find a way in there & start building multiple nests.

Oddly enough, I'm the only one w/ enough guts to grab a can of Raid Hot Shot, Crack the windows open enough to get the can in there, blast the shit out of the nests, & slam the windows shut before getting stung. Rinse & repeat, once every damned wk, until the weather gets cold.....SINCE *1985*.

When they finally fall down into the inside of the window sill, I've been seen by my husband & son, standing there, screaming, "DIE, YOU SONS OF BITCHES!!"

Yeah, they think I'm nuts....🤣

Sue Munda's avatar

A long time ago, a friend told me to hang a crumpled brown grocery bag near where they want to build a nest. It looks goofy, everyone asks me, “what the fuck?”, but it works like a charm. Go figure.🤷🏻‍♀️

Lin Talbot-Koehl's avatar

Never heard THAT trick before! Definitely worth a shot....& cheaper than going through multiple cans of Hot Shot every season! 🤔

Sue Munda's avatar

I know it looks ridiculous, but it works. Also, painting under the eaves blue (also painted the front porch ceiling blue). They think it’s the sky. Idk if they think other wasps already built their nest there, or what, but it also keeps wood-boring bees from making holes in the house in that spot.

Julia Grey's avatar

I wonder if that’s the real reason we Southerners are supposed to paint the ceilings of our porches “haint blue”? I was told it was for the superstitious reason of keeping “haints” (ghosts) away, but now I’m thinking….

Outdoorluvr's avatar

The brown paper sacks work great here (Houston area) for the wasps... 3 or 4 varieties ... but NOT for the hornets - also 3 or 4 varieties. Wonder why?

Sue Munda's avatar

*the wood-boring bees. Lol!

Lin Talbot-Koehl's avatar

Our house is made of redwood. It doesn't hold paint, so we had to completely repaint every 2-3 yrs, for about 30 yrs, before we gave up & got siding. Before that, though, we also had a problem w/ bees putting holes in one spot next to the chimney.

Once we got rid of them, what do you think happened next? WOODPECKERS! 🤣

T L Mills's avatar

It mimics a paper wasp nest and other hornets will stay away!

myhoopbabies's avatar

Nice! I'm going to try this.

Mary de Ridder's avatar

Here in Europe they are strictly protected. Last summer we had one in the eaves right outside the bathroom window. We could not open the window!

Tina Zep's avatar

Now that’s hysterical, because I would do the same thing🐝

Prima Sarcastica's avatar

A hornet house would be good on the new Flying Bordello!

Richard Von Busack's avatar

I wonder if that's ever been done. Kind of a fun prank!

Tracy S's avatar

We actually need bee houses for our vanishing bumblebees! They are valuable pollinators and their numbers are plummeting due to competition from non-native honeybees, pesticides and habitat loss.

https://www.bumblebeeconservation.org/a-brief-guide-to-solitary-bee-nest-boxes/

Richard Von Busack's avatar

Gardening is my hobby, so I never spray anything except for water with a few drops of detergent in it, to make the whiteflies and the aphids fuck right off to Ft Fuck Fuckistan.

Lin Talbot-Koehl's avatar

We have TONS of bumblebees around our pond, that live in the tree next to my bedroom back window.

It's SO FUN to watch the babies flying around in the spring, & to watch them pause in front of the window, before zooming away.

As opposed to the hornets that're attracted to the window in my son's old bedroom, that I'm constantly fighting....I LOVE MY BUMBLEBEES!

Sue Munda's avatar

They’re the golden retrievers of the bee world. I love when I see them curled up for beddie-bye in my flowers 🐝

Betsy L's avatar

I'm working on a polinator garden.

Jack Hipple's avatar

The more I see and hear about Claudia, the more I like her!

Martha Howell's avatar

I have one, looks to be the same one as the picture, from Costco maybe 5 years ago. It's way fun. They hatch a couple of times a year. Mud bees.

DebJS's avatar

I want one too! It's what my Backyard Habitat™ is missing. My question is, if I get one will they come? or do I need to buy the Mason bees too?

Mingo's avatar

Wouldn't it have been nice if Shitler had boarded the plane and it took off and disappeared somewhere over the Bermuda Triangle.

Bob Bowden's avatar

If God exists there will be an aborted July 4 flyover that ends with a Captain Sully landing into the algae and peeling paint-laden Reflecting Pool

Dave Drell's avatar

Ahhhh….dreams are what keep us going!

Leu2500's avatar

there's still hope. he's at Camp David for the weekend & there is NO press.

Tina Zep's avatar

Fingers crossed 🤞

Tom Halstead's avatar

Accepting that 747, which he can’t be allowed to keep, and then spending a fortune to improve it to AF One standards, are both crimes for which he would be convicted in a working, Constitutionally constructed democracy.

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

Two very important words in dealing with Trump by the next administration: "civil forfeiture."

Martha Howell's avatar

Do you think my senator, who took Russian money laundered through the NRA via a spy who is currently serving in Russia's Duma, traveled to Moscow on July 4th at Putin's demand and came back saying he didn't think Russia interfered in the election, voted his LLC a huge tax cute, lives in Florida most of the year, and participated in the treasonous False Elector Coup gives a shit about ethics? (Russian Ron Johnson, the white candidate in the last senatorial election in WI.)

rlritt's avatar

Conservatives love Russia. Its fascist and all white. In fact very, very white and very fascist.

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Is anyone checking to see if the Venezuelan oil millions Trump stole and parked in Qatar is being used to refurbish and pay for the Flying Bordello? His superpower is using "other people's money" on doomed-to-fail projects.

Ralph Roberts's avatar

Did we just have the President of the Totally Fucked Up United States spend his Totally Fucked Up Mind on his Totally Fucked Up Social Media account talking about algae in the Totally Fucked Up Reflecting Pool?! We are living in Totally Fucked Up Times with a Totally Fucked Up President.

Mr Mild - BlueVotingBastard💙's avatar

The fact that none of this shit lands on the front page of the NYT, WaPo, WJ, any other major newpaper shows that we do live in a facist regime.

Robert Eckert's avatar

Facism is discrimination on the basis of face

Pam Humphrey's avatar

Dumocrats vandalizing algae into the Reflecting Pool? That damned Obama!

Tina Zep's avatar

As if we dumocrats have nothing better to do 🙄

Diana's avatar

Ralph - say that again faster…🤭‼️

Gina's avatar

TOTALLY FUCKED UP

Jayme Wolworth's avatar

😂😆😂😆😂Former Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino's nascent 2028 presidential campaign suffered a blow when Jacob Engels, a controversial figure tasked with launching the candidate's online presence, was arrested at a budget motel and charged with felony methamphetamine possession.

Only the best for Greg the Clown.

Tina Zep's avatar

The worst of the worst indeed😱

Major Kong's avatar

Engels? Sounds kinda commie.

Jayme Wolworth's avatar

Oh he's a beauty for sure. Search Jacob Engels Hudson WI and the story will come up.

T L Mills's avatar

nah...sounds Marxist.

Neal Stiffelman's avatar

Between Bovino and Vance is barely a slip of paper (and Vance’s fealty to the Thiel gang). I don’t know how we’d handle the end of fatfuck’s presence in our political life, but… I guess it couldn’t hardly be no worser. And the Christofascists and the overlords and the vile cabinet that somehow made it through confirmation. Ain’t gonna be easy, but we shall see it through. What choice do we have?

HI2thDoc's avatar

Only shitbag MAGAts could admire enormous historical shitbags like Hitler and now Vlad the Impaler.

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Their demigod praised the "late, great Hannibal Lecter" numerous times in public. One clinical psychopath adoring another.

Jayme Wolworth's avatar

This Italian newspaper got it right. Lol

An Italian daily newspaper known as Libero Quotidiano issued a scathing attack toward President Donald Trump, calling him a "coglione," which translates to "idiot" in English

Don’t fuck with the women DonOld.

kdsherpa's avatar

Today's column was hilarious! I LOL'd several times. Haven't LOL'd about anything in too long a while.

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

Indeed. It was a bumper crop week for stupid.

Diana's avatar

Feels good doesn’t it? Sometimes it can get messy tho- after taking a gulp of tea and 💥it’s all over the place!! But thank goodness we have Jeff…♥️

Betsy L's avatar

Jeff Tiedrich is responsible for more liquid-snorting-out-the-nose than anybody has ever seen.

kdsherpa's avatar

And LOL yet AGAIN! Thanks Betsy!

kdsherpa's avatar

LOL (again)! Thanks Diana!

HI2thDoc's avatar

Uh, sorry to differ in opinion, Jeff, but Google says Vlad mostly impaled his victims rectally. Damn.

Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

what can I say? the janky six-fingered plagiarism robot gave us two different answers

HI2thDoc's avatar

Which is why all of this gushing over AI is either premature, more techbro greed hype, or both

Tina Zep's avatar

“the janky six-fingered plagiarism robot”, again, is my favorite label for this fucked up AI/chgpt…. Bullshit. The bros know EXACTLY what they are doing!

Richard Von Busack's avatar

"That's gotta hoit!" He's such a simpleton. Do you want Draculas around, half-pint? That's how you get them.

HI2thDoc's avatar

Exactly. No one in their right mind would find anything about Vlad the Impaler admirable. Except a MAGAt

Joyce's avatar

I'm guessing that the teacup Nazi thought that, maybe, he was being too subtle about his sado-masochistic fascist credo, so he had to give everyone a bigger clue: "Vlad the Impaler was totally cool! No immigrants, and the trains ran on time!"

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Wonder if he feels as excited about Vlad the Invader who got more than a few drones up the ass from Zelensky last week.

Betsy L's avatar

Doc, you're right - I didn't want to say anything because I like Jeff - but yes, he (or his minions) forced his victims down onto sharpened stakes through their rectums.

Susan Niemann's avatar

"Do we want a bee house?" 😂😂 Your response is priceless. HA! You guys had the best relationship.... what a smart and beautiful woman.

Is anyone else fighting over depression over all this... maybe yard work will take my mind off the genuinely traumatic state of the country. 🙄

Cyndi's avatar

I've gone back to reading voraciously. Anything that does not remind me of the Great Orange Brown Stain. Anybody else remember Tom Swift Jr.?

george  campbell's avatar

I've never been a soccer fan but the World Cup games in the US have been a gift with the positive energy other countries brought ." Europeans may not like our politics, but they really like our country — and us.

They were nervous about coming to the States for the men’s World Cup matches being held here. Nervous about Border Patrol, nervous about police, nervous about guns.

And they’re going home vowing to return as soon as they can. "

This from Teresa Hanafin at the Boston Globe google it for the whole article . The Scots partied so hard they recruited former NE Patriots Rob Gronkowski and Julian Edelman to join the Tartan Army .

We are not our government --we are better than that .

Joyce's avatar

Kraft, according to a news feature I saw, is hastily producing "TSA-approved" packets of ranch dressing, as our FIFA guests are going bonkers over it as a souvenir.....

Susan Niemann's avatar

That’s very positive. Glad to hear that!!

george  campbell's avatar

If you Google the entire article -fastforward2016@substack.com , it really says a lot about positivity in our culture in spite of our federal government .

Susan Niemann's avatar

Thanks George. I need to read that!

george  campbell's avatar

You are welcome , young lady . USA is beautiful , dignified , intelligent country and we can't succumb to the negativity .

Paula Dean's avatar

I've been reading a ton of fantasy novels inspired by fairytales and Native American mythology. Even there, the evil bad guys remind me of trump. He's literally (ha!) the poster-boy for archetypal evil. There's no escape.

SLS's avatar

I highly recommend the series written by the late Tony Hillerman (and continued, I believe, by his daughter Anne): detective fiction set in the southwest and incorporating indigenous cultural themes.

Paula Dean's avatar

You should give William Kent Krueger a try. His series is set in the Boundary Waters area and focuses on the Anishkinobi Ojibwe tribes. The scenery is almost a main character! I like Hillerman, and also Craig Johnson, but WKK is the most talented author I've read in the genre. Main character of his series is Cork O'Connor - a half Irish/half 'Shinnob' lawman/private eye.

Susan Niemann's avatar

🤦‍♀️. Ranch dressing? Ugh.

Lin Talbot-Koehl's avatar

I'm right there w/ ya! I'd rather eat a 1/2 lb of ANCHOVIES, than one spoonful of ranch! 🤮

Susan Niemann's avatar

Here in Missouri, it seems thats all anyone uses…ranch. 🤮 They even dip their French fries in it!!

Cheri Collins's avatar

Although, I did try it on a Beyond burger, and it wasn’t half bad. 💁🏻

Lynne Murphy's avatar

Watch Obama’s celebration it’s a mood lifter.

Lin Talbot-Koehl's avatar

I watched it live on CSPAN. I was in TEARS during both Michelle & Barack's speeches. And, oh my....watching the entire family boogie down to ❤️ STEVIE!!! ❤️

Gina's avatar

yard work is my solution

Gina's avatar

tho that's only a couple hours per day

HI2thDoc's avatar

When my wife has to pull weeds or lop off branches, she visualizes pruning MAGA from our midst

Cheri Collins's avatar

Ooooo! Good strategy!

Susan Niemann's avatar

That’s good. Creative Visualization. I have my weed trimmer going!!

Pam Humphrey's avatar

I’m just painting loads of vulgar, insulting Donnie Dimwit portraits. I’m obsessed…or crazy.

Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

On certain days my blood pressure gets dangerously high, pumpkin head isn’t the only annoyance it’s a multitude of misc normal things that need your attention same as ever but I for one am dealing with cash flow too, it’s all stressful.

Joe Witkowski's avatar

The Haberman- Swan book delivers Wednesday. The script for the war crimes trials at The Hague for all of these ratfucks.

Cheri Collins's avatar

Yes, that’s what I do, Susan. It’s the only thing that can yank my mind away from the insanity.

BC's avatar

I enjoy your Daily Claudia. It reminds me of my parents' love for each other. So real and heartwarming, at least to me.

HI2thDoc's avatar

"What the world needs now is love sweet love. It's the only thing that there's just too little of"

- Hal David, music by Burt Bacharach

Richard Von Busack's avatar

How much longer can this go on? I guess the answer is, "As long as they keep enabling him and propping him up." Couchy must be on pins and needles waiting for the day, which is why he's laundering his ass in public, trying to appear "moderate" as he pimps for white babies. Couchfucker, those Mexicans are your co-religionists.

DJ Headthrob's avatar

I keep thinking of Lee Dorsey's 'Workin' in a Coal Mine.' "Lord, I am soooooo tired. How long can this go one?"

Lin Talbot-Koehl's avatar

I'd like to see #Bumblefuck workin' in a coal mine.

Richard Von Busack's avatar

Or DEVO's sensational cover version.

arne link's avatar

His wife is brown. Hasn't he noticed that? He's such a phony suck-up.

Richard Von Busack's avatar

He is, as HST said of Nixon, a rat in heat.

WebsterzEdu's avatar

Mrs. Spouse was a very direct speaker. I admire that trait.