I read that post now for the first time. Boy, that video from Barry Mathews should be broadcasted to all who have an opinion not worth noting about transgender people.
And the picture of you in a hammock with that beautiful kitty is great!!
Joyce, you’ve got cats pegged. I’ve had them my whole life. They mostly all think they’re the most wonderful things to ever live; and, you know what — they’re right.
When I was a baby my mom said a stray cat came into our tiny war era bungalow and jumped up in my crib and laid down next to me. My mom thought it was cute and mentioned it to a friend who told her to chase it off because it might smother me or give me scarlet fever. So my mom chased it off and then regretted doing it the rest of her life. If that friend was alive today I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if she was an anti- vaxer.
All of my cats have come to me through the Cat Distribution System. I have never made the selection, even at the animal shelter (twice): the cats have all made the decision, based on orders from Feline Headquarters.
Here's the secret--they're all the same cat. Positively the same cat! When they "die" they go back to some secret cat vortex, choose a new pelt and new druthers, then come right back to us. I should have learned this from Three Lives of Thomasina. Who knows what the point of the whole exercise is, perhaps just to make us cherish them more. Just like their imitation of human babies when its chowtime.
My current furball roommate will ONLY eat dry kibble. She won't touch canned or pouched food or any variety of treats. I've never had a cat like this. (I was told that it's okay as long as also has access to water.)
I've got a cat like that as well. He ate canned food for the first six months of his life, then decided he only wanted kibble. He's five now and seems fine.
It's OK, it's best not to tamper with these mysteries. The world is not ready to learn the truth of the cat conspiracy. And now, a documentary on the dangers of catnip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3scQ0wq5zLE
I love his white nose! I currently have 7! cats! I’ve probably had 20 neutered & found homes for some, some went back to the wild. I don’t know why people don’t fix their cats. Somehow they find my house. Luckily no one has ‘sprayed’ or peed. I have a heated outdoor house for them if they prefer to stay outside.🙄
What an awesome cat! I love that kitty and that’s the first time I’ve seen him!. We have a cat like him — different look, same beingness. We’re so lucky to have him — all 20+ pounds of him.
R.i.P. Tenchi. You did your job — you made humans happy. Well done!
I'm glad you got out this way for a little of that douceur de vivre. I don't drink much chard because the wife detests the buttery kinds, but we'll bathe in pinot grigio going arp arp arp like a pair of seals.
What a treat to see your family enjoying my neck of the woods in Sonoma! I live in the Bay Area and grew up going there with my family. There are so many great wineries, and I’d also recommend Little Vineyards and Gundlach Bundschu Winery.
I and my mrs spouse used to spend real quality time at our friends place ‘The Russian River Hunting Lodge’ just up the hill from Guernsville. What great Chardonnay country there! Also, one of the strangest places to people watch, trust me.
We need all the Chardonnay we can get, because the items you have available to choose for This Week In Stupid seem to be getting progressively stupider and stupider as time marches on
Great pictures! I used to take my mom out to Bodega Bay once a month for lunch at The Tides (she lived in Santa Rosa). We even met Tippi Hedren out there once!
Thanks for the tip! I will when I have a spare nearly £40. If I get the wee flat with the lovely garden that I’m hoping to get, and this house sells quickly, I may just treat myself with a glass or bottle on a balmy summer's evening. If the summer comes back, that is🤞
The little boy under the don't rain gay on me cartoon is the gayest kid I've ever seen, and Trump does an awful lot of commenting on other dudes' anatomies. Just sayin.
To call Nancy Mace is crazy is to do her an injustice. She's a whole other original order of crazy so let's pay some respect. I'm astounded at how many voters don't see the cray.
This had better be the stupidest timeline because if it gets any dumber than this...
Nowhere like South Crackerlina. Check-your-pants nancy, lickspittle lindsey, uncle tim scott, butt-nuzzling ralph norman, ad nauseum. A cavalcade of deplorables....
Yeah, that was some shit. I vandalized it with a comment. I want that little confederate toady out of office, so whatever works, but I doubt Miss L. was at one of those Indian gatherings where they all sit around and chant "Kill for the love of Kali! Death is sweet!"
Oh, I understood that. I'm just pointing out the likelihood that lynch might somehow beat him. This is that kind of state. 'We're tired of lindsey, let's pick someone worse.'
Damn his hide for taking down our beautiful Confederate generals!! Man, how far right do you have to go to criticize that shit weasel's 'liberal' record?
My favorite is that she's blaming South Carolina's shitty roads for her flat tire, when she voted AGAINST Biden's Infrastructure Act, and she had all the time in the world to siphon money off for her state, but didn't. I agree with Jeff. She needs to go back to bathroom patrol duty: at least there sooner or later someone will give her a swirly.
I grew up and currently live in the Chicago area, The Pothole Center of the Motoring Universe, and I’m not always light-footed. I have NEVER blown a tire, much less two. I call bullshit.
Everyone who knows how to spell knows that dumb is spelled with a b! When Donny says, “a lot of people don’t know that”, it’s code for “I didn’t know that until a second ago!” DumBest president in American history!!!!
There is no President even close to his stupidity- none. It’s such a special honor to be as stupid and dum(b) as him, that the Smithsonian will assign a third sub basement hallway as “Dumb President Wing”
Hopes and prayers for the blood clot. 🙏 I can't believe they let him out in public when he has obviously lost ALL his filters. His off-script remarks are getting a little "gay" for MAGA, aren't they? They're going to accuse him of being a six gendered vegan soon.
With apologies to Martin Luther King, I HAVE A DREAM:
I would pay good money to subscribe to a Substack, or YouTube channel, or heck!--buy a paper subscription to someone who creates the following:
We NEED a clear resource ofnevery bit of legislation in Congress: who sponsors the bill, what it means, and HOW EACH PERSON VOTES. Let's see who puts up the stupid things like a Trump $250 bill, for example. And then when there are votes that HURT Americans, let's see WHO votes for them. Make it as simple as the kindergarten props that the team makes for Trump (like his earth is bigger than moon one, LOL!) so even the most addled brained MAGA understands.
Seeing how much "work" is done in Congress in this session, never mind on a magazine. They don't do enough to fill a pamphlet.
▪ Border czar dispatched to clean up a new DHS secretary's wreckage ▪ Pentagon quietly flags an "ally" at the highest spy-threat tier ▪ Seven states sue over a billion-dollar payout to kill a wind farm
Seriously...I mean, that photoshop was WAAAAY outta the ballpark, so bad. I hope people can see the obvious. That they feel the need to do stupid stuff like this is astounding.
Welcome to Idiocracy! More stupid people living here now than those who don't require nonstop entertainment in lieu of critical thinking (such hard work!). No wonder the oligarchs have such blatant contempt for the masses.
And in court those crack 4th string attorneys argued that if Donald wishes to remove our Statute of Liberty, he has the privilege of doing so.. So tell me, is this a move by a king or dictator?
And replace Emma Lazarus's verse with his own: " Send me your money, your crypto, your gifts of cash! I sell gold sneakers, bibles, the T1 phone is a smash! I'll lie to you constantly, but have no fear! I'll tell you always just what you want to hear!"
Do, you nailed my friend.. Apparently the judge in this case had stern words for those DOJ attorneys, and wants to sanction them for ….lying… DOJ wants to hire newly minted attorneys and are offering a signing bonus… It’s estimated that close to 40% have quit so far… when u are relegated to offering signing bonuses I’d say you are toast…
Most know that signing on under Blanche is career suicide, so the pitch should also include "Before you reject our signing bonus outright, have a sip of this here Flavor Aid."
"After listening to a lengthy explanation of an order that would expand the number of federal employees who can be fired by him, Trump still didn’t quite understand.
'And the reason for this was, what? Whose idea was that?' he said.”
“The stupid it burns” seems to have inspired these mugs to turn it into a challenge. Even among the examples you shared today it’s awfully tough to choose who’s offered the dumbest. I guess—eliminate Nancy Mace because she’s always done the same bit with the vandalism and taking credit for whatever she’s opposed—the blond family keeping safe from the rainbow under their umbrella, although fatfuck waving a printout of that ridiculous chart of the reflecting pool next to skyscrapers is impressively stupid.
Bodega Bay is a few hours west of where I live. It's where my husband and like to vacation. It has that nice "The Birds" movie vibe. Big Sur is also a favorite place of ours.
I have a sinus infection. My head feels like Winnie The Pooh, stuffed with fluff. I'm so used to telling people that I live east of San Francisco that saying east comes automatically. I will correct it.
pro tip: I wholeheartedly endorse Sonoma-Cutrer Russian River Estates Chardonnay. it's one of my favorite wines
I'll have one with you, my friend! I just discovered your blog a few weeks ago.
Lotsa love, rock on!
You are joining a community of rare intellect and wit, and also humility
and brains.
And incredible sensitivity. 🤣🤣🤣
and humanity
You will enjoy this SO much- welcome aboard‼️
He's a rare wit!
What took u so long Heather😜
Welcome🥰
He has a blog???
Tenchi Is perfectly aware that he's the handsomest cat that has ever lived. 🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈
But he doesn't hold that against us.
there's another pic of Tenchi at the top of this post: https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/sunday-open-chat-and-on-the-22nd
oh god, back when I bragged about posting TWENTY-TWO WHOLE DAYS IN A ROW
I read that post now for the first time. Boy, that video from Barry Mathews should be broadcasted to all who have an opinion not worth noting about transgender people.
And the picture of you in a hammock with that beautiful kitty is great!!
He was a looker Jeff, and very comfortable in his own skin, er fur.
I’m very sorry for that loss also. You had him for a good long time which can make the loss a little harder.
All hail Tenchi!
what a gorgeous body! the cat's pretty swell too. love the claudia pixs
All cats are aware of this fact: each one of them is the handsomest/the most beautiful. Every other cat is the one that is lacking.
Tenchi was obviously A Very Good Boy. And gorgeous.
Joyce, you’ve got cats pegged. I’ve had them my whole life. They mostly all think they’re the most wonderful things to ever live; and, you know what — they’re right.
When I was a baby my mom said a stray cat came into our tiny war era bungalow and jumped up in my crib and laid down next to me. My mom thought it was cute and mentioned it to a friend who told her to chase it off because it might smother me or give me scarlet fever. So my mom chased it off and then regretted doing it the rest of her life. If that friend was alive today I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if she was an anti- vaxer.
All of my cats have come to me through the Cat Distribution System. I have never made the selection, even at the animal shelter (twice): the cats have all made the decision, based on orders from Feline Headquarters.
Here's the secret--they're all the same cat. Positively the same cat! When they "die" they go back to some secret cat vortex, choose a new pelt and new druthers, then come right back to us. I should have learned this from Three Lives of Thomasina. Who knows what the point of the whole exercise is, perhaps just to make us cherish them more. Just like their imitation of human babies when its chowtime.
I've had three cats over the course of my life and they were definitely not the same cat. Your mileage obviously varies.
My current furball roommate will ONLY eat dry kibble. She won't touch canned or pouched food or any variety of treats. I've never had a cat like this. (I was told that it's okay as long as also has access to water.)
I've got a cat like that as well. He ate canned food for the first six months of his life, then decided he only wanted kibble. He's five now and seems fine.
It's OK, it's best not to tamper with these mysteries. The world is not ready to learn the truth of the cat conspiracy. And now, a documentary on the dangers of catnip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3scQ0wq5zLE
I love his white nose! I currently have 7! cats! I’ve probably had 20 neutered & found homes for some, some went back to the wild. I don’t know why people don’t fix their cats. Somehow they find my house. Luckily no one has ‘sprayed’ or peed. I have a heated outdoor house for them if they prefer to stay outside.🙄
Cats were worshipped as gods in ancient Egypt. They've never forgotten it.
(they’ve just gone dormant…’for now’)…
What an awesome cat! I love that kitty and that’s the first time I’ve seen him!. We have a cat like him — different look, same beingness. We’re so lucky to have him — all 20+ pounds of him.
R.i.P. Tenchi. You did your job — you made humans happy. Well done!
Yay for Katie and Claudia pics. It looks like a good scene.
mirrassou wines - Their pinot happens to be my favorite. Can usually get it by bottle and glass at most local italian spots.
I'm glad you got out this way for a little of that douceur de vivre. I don't drink much chard because the wife detests the buttery kinds, but we'll bathe in pinot grigio going arp arp arp like a pair of seals.
I’ll be out that way in a couple of weeks and sip one in your honor
What a treat to see your family enjoying my neck of the woods in Sonoma! I live in the Bay Area and grew up going there with my family. There are so many great wineries, and I’d also recommend Little Vineyards and Gundlach Bundschu Winery.
I and my mrs spouse used to spend real quality time at our friends place ‘The Russian River Hunting Lodge’ just up the hill from Guernsville. What great Chardonnay country there! Also, one of the strangest places to people watch, trust me.
Bodega Bay, Dillon’s Beach and Tomales Bay/Pt. Reyes awesome beautiful unique places all within about 20 miles of each other.
I could’ve met you all there! I live only about an hour away. We used to camp on the Bodega Dunes many moons ago. Sweet pics of Claudia and Katie.
Preznit is as much a mess as his diapers.
We need all the Chardonnay we can get, because the items you have available to choose for This Week In Stupid seem to be getting progressively stupider and stupider as time marches on
Product placement, Jeff? (tbh it eventually finds us *all* in 🇺🇸💀)
Vacationing in Bodega Bay and not a bird in sight? Good thing, with all those goodies on the table. Loving the Claudia photos. Thanks for sharing.
Great pictures! I used to take my mom out to Bodega Bay once a month for lunch at The Tides (she lived in Santa Rosa). We even met Tippi Hedren out there once!
Thanks for the tip! I will when I have a spare nearly £40. If I get the wee flat with the lovely garden that I’m hoping to get, and this house sells quickly, I may just treat myself with a glass or bottle on a balmy summer's evening. If the summer comes back, that is🤞
The little boy under the don't rain gay on me cartoon is the gayest kid I've ever seen, and Trump does an awful lot of commenting on other dudes' anatomies. Just sayin.
To call Nancy Mace is crazy is to do her an injustice. She's a whole other original order of crazy so let's pay some respect. I'm astounded at how many voters don't see the cray.
This had better be the stupidest timeline because if it gets any dumber than this...
I believe we are seeing the average American IQ drop in real time............😖
You're not wrong.
The oligarchs and republicans (what’s the diff) want the population dumbed down to be more easily controlled and accepting of disinformation.
It’s working. Job well done…assholes
A project decades in the making.
Nowhere like South Crackerlina. Check-your-pants nancy, lickspittle lindsey, uncle tim scott, butt-nuzzling ralph norman, ad nauseum. A cavalcade of deplorables....
Good riddance to ya, Mace
So concerned with your own face
Obsessed with bathroom gender
While being a predator defender
In the House you're a waste of space
Predator Defender…love it
Inspecting genitalia in public restrooms MUST be the lowest of lowest jobs on planet earth and Mace does it. Beyond ick
and well deserving vomit 🤮
This just in from South Carolina: an anti-Lindsay Graham ad... from the right!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiTl21eWuKY
Yeah, that was some shit. I vandalized it with a comment. I want that little confederate toady out of office, so whatever works, but I doubt Miss L. was at one of those Indian gatherings where they all sit around and chant "Kill for the love of Kali! Death is sweet!"
Lynch or Reddy won't be any improvement
Vote Annie!
That wasn't an endorsement on my part. I just thought it was a bizarre take on Graham.
Oh, I understood that. I'm just pointing out the likelihood that lynch might somehow beat him. This is that kind of state. 'We're tired of lindsey, let's pick someone worse.'
Damn his hide for taking down our beautiful Confederate generals!! Man, how far right do you have to go to criticize that shit weasel's 'liberal' record?
I know. It's jaw dropping. The MAGAtverse is where Ronald Reagan is denounced as a RINO.
Great ad! Let them do our work for us!
I believe with all my dense brain we will see the end of the Mace face.
My favorite is that she's blaming South Carolina's shitty roads for her flat tire, when she voted AGAINST Biden's Infrastructure Act, and she had all the time in the world to siphon money off for her state, but didn't. I agree with Jeff. She needs to go back to bathroom patrol duty: at least there sooner or later someone will give her a swirly.
Haha too if those shitty roads are in her own district. Too busy hate mongering and grandstanding too get funds for yer constituents, Mace?
To which, Doc, she replies “Constituents?” “What’s that?” “Who cares about constituents — I’m in this for myself!”
And yet, her dumbed down constituents will buy her bullshit and vote for her again because “transgenders!!!” and “REASONS!!!”
Pardon my yawn — it’s so tiresome.
I thought the same thing about the kid.
That poor kid is headed for conversion camp someday
When he was in bed, his dad put all three hands on him. Ya don't come back from that!!
Maybe his lesbian sisters will rescue him.
I grew up and currently live in the Chicago area, The Pothole Center of the Motoring Universe, and I’m not always light-footed. I have NEVER blown a tire, much less two. I call bullshit.
Everyone who knows how to spell knows that dumb is spelled with a b! When Donny says, “a lot of people don’t know that”, it’s code for “I didn’t know that until a second ago!” DumBest president in American history!!!!
hopefully he stops launching bomms every which way for no goddamned reason
There is no President even close to his stupidity- none. It’s such a special honor to be as stupid and dum(b) as him, that the Smithsonian will assign a third sub basement hallway as “Dumb President Wing”
EVERYTHING in the regime is nonsense. A cartoon.
"That's the way life goes". "What the hell do I have to be here for?”
I can't believe they continue to allow him out to say reprehensible shit like this.
Nancy Mace is just a loon...🤦♀️
The blood clot is taking its sweet time...I'd like to see some progress.
Beautiful photos that inspire us all.... thanks. ❤️❤️
The blood clot is being reviewed by Aileen Cannon and we’ll have her answer in late November 2026.
😂😂😂
Hopes and prayers for the blood clot. 🙏 I can't believe they let him out in public when he has obviously lost ALL his filters. His off-script remarks are getting a little "gay" for MAGA, aren't they? They're going to accuse him of being a six gendered vegan soon.
He came to WI to campaign, and the headline in Madison's paper was about him fan-boying about Joe Thomas' thighs 😄
Any minute now. And then, we drink.
🤞🤞🤞🤞 🥂🥂
Drink —— heavily! Like there’s no tomorrow!
Yep, Rogers is a MAGA yutz
With fake bulk and non-extant cuts
GOP loves AI muscles
Another of their favorite hustles
Voters, please reject this putz
I live in Michigan and I’m not voting for him. Two years ago he ran for the US Senate and lost. I know all about him. He’s a MAGA idiot!
😂😂😂👏👏👏
With apologies to Martin Luther King, I HAVE A DREAM:
I would pay good money to subscribe to a Substack, or YouTube channel, or heck!--buy a paper subscription to someone who creates the following:
We NEED a clear resource ofnevery bit of legislation in Congress: who sponsors the bill, what it means, and HOW EACH PERSON VOTES. Let's see who puts up the stupid things like a Trump $250 bill, for example. And then when there are votes that HURT Americans, let's see WHO votes for them. Make it as simple as the kindergarten props that the team makes for Trump (like his earth is bigger than moon one, LOL!) so even the most addled brained MAGA understands.
Seeing how much "work" is done in Congress in this session, never mind on a magazine. They don't do enough to fill a pamphlet.
He's just farting out AI portraits of himself like a 10-year-old with a new toy. God ahmighty.
BTW - lovely vacation pics. I'm glad you keep your wife in our collective memory.
PLEASE don't stop giving us a daily Claudia!! We love seeing her in all her beauty, and can share in your sorrow at her departure.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-burning-hands-cool-clay
He’s a dumbass incoherent fuck now Jeff
▪ Border czar dispatched to clean up a new DHS secretary's wreckage ▪ Pentagon quietly flags an "ally" at the highest spy-threat tier ▪ Seven states sue over a billion-dollar payout to kill a wind farm
The photoshopped Republican candidate had me on the floor.
It's a nice balm with just the concentrated suck and torture the unreconstructed party visits upon us.
What's the status of the Straits of Schrödinger now, I wonder?
Seriously...I mean, that photoshop was WAAAAY outta the ballpark, so bad. I hope people can see the obvious. That they feel the need to do stupid stuff like this is astounding.
Welcome to Idiocracy! More stupid people living here now than those who don't require nonstop entertainment in lieu of critical thinking (such hard work!). No wonder the oligarchs have such blatant contempt for the masses.
You said it Sharon. Americans show their ignorance constantly.
Trump in WI trying to boost Tom Tiffany and Derrick Van Orden…BARF!!! So much stupid this week Jeff-thanks for the stupid well-written summaries!!
Van Orden is a piece of work. Maybe the felons endorsement will be the end of that career!
Embarrassed WI 03 constitute here. DVO is the worst.
And in court those crack 4th string attorneys argued that if Donald wishes to remove our Statute of Liberty, he has the privilege of doing so.. So tell me, is this a move by a king or dictator?
He prolly wants to replace Lady Liberty with an oversized replica of that fist-pumping gilded effigy outside his golf course in FL.
And replace Emma Lazarus's verse with his own: " Send me your money, your crypto, your gifts of cash! I sell gold sneakers, bibles, the T1 phone is a smash! I'll lie to you constantly, but have no fear! I'll tell you always just what you want to hear!"
Do, you nailed my friend.. Apparently the judge in this case had stern words for those DOJ attorneys, and wants to sanction them for ….lying… DOJ wants to hire newly minted attorneys and are offering a signing bonus… It’s estimated that close to 40% have quit so far… when u are relegated to offering signing bonuses I’d say you are toast…
Most know that signing on under Blanche is career suicide, so the pitch should also include "Before you reject our signing bonus outright, have a sip of this here Flavor Aid."
HAHAHA
"After listening to a lengthy explanation of an order that would expand the number of federal employees who can be fired by him, Trump still didn’t quite understand.
'And the reason for this was, what? Whose idea was that?' he said.”
From Justin Glawe, "Public Notice", 6/6/26
Ignorant, stupid, and evil are no way to go through life.
Dean Wormer: "Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son."
For those who want to see the whole article about how Trump's brain is turning into tapioca:
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-cognitive-impairment
“The stupid it burns” seems to have inspired these mugs to turn it into a challenge. Even among the examples you shared today it’s awfully tough to choose who’s offered the dumbest. I guess—eliminate Nancy Mace because she’s always done the same bit with the vandalism and taking credit for whatever she’s opposed—the blond family keeping safe from the rainbow under their umbrella, although fatfuck waving a printout of that ridiculous chart of the reflecting pool next to skyscrapers is impressively stupid.
I hereby award you the gold star prize of side aching hilarity today. I’m still wiping the tears of laughter away. You have a gift my friend.
Bodega Bay is a few hours west of where I live. It's where my husband and like to vacation. It has that nice "The Birds" movie vibe. Big Sur is also a favorite place of ours.
A few hours east? Do you live in Hawaii?
The other east.
aka west?
My question as well!
I have a sinus infection. My head feels like Winnie The Pooh, stuffed with fluff. I'm so used to telling people that I live east of San Francisco that saying east comes automatically. I will correct it.
I've become part of this week in stupid.