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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

programming note: towards the bottom of yesterday's post, I reposted a "Trump vs Musk" meme that was two people having a fistfight. if I'd looked closely enough, I would have seen that the photo was of a man punching out a woman. ugh. just fucking ugh. I'm mortified that this had to be pointed out to me, and I've deleted the photo. sorry, everyone!

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DrBDH's avatar

Your apology is a thousand times more sincere than Joni Ernst’s. If you were a Republican you would’ve blamed your eagle-eyed readers of being woke virus infected libtards.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

But the woke virus must be a hoax, because COVID is.

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Pere Ubu's avatar

MAGA is eagerly working as we speak to see if ivermectin will, indeed, cure woke mind virus

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HI2thDoc's avatar

At the very least those folks will be de-wormed

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

According to my bestie, who has an old high school friend that lives in MAGAland Tenn. they are taking it to ward off cancer, now. She said Oh? That's interesting. (she no longer attempts to try and explain reality to them.)

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P123Sunny's avatar

But ‘libs were owned’ in the filming of that apology… still priceless apparently 🙄

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Andrew's avatar

This is how an adult handles a mistake, no matter how inadvertent. The sewer clowns would double down on it.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

Thank you, Jeff.

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Kimberly Sandwisch's avatar

I actually thought it was 2 women fighting! Though, I guess, violence is never the way to go. But part of me would like, no love, to see trumpy & musky go at it! Think it’d be more slap fight than anything!?

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

two women is what I thought, too. still, a dumb choice to use that pic

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Linda Suzanne Reincke -Woods's avatar

Well, we all make mistakes. We're not perfect like the Orange POS.

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

Thank you for your apology.

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Ralph Roberts's avatar

Maybe a pissing match

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

See Ann Telnaes cartoon, from two days ago.

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Abigail Norling's avatar

I thjought it was two women too!

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Wendy🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

Jeff, I respect vividly your laurels and your self-awareness.

I covered KKKaroline today, in our morning edition post.

https://thistleandmoss.com/p/kkkaroline-leavitt-blowjob-queen

(My self awareness says, I did not perhaps title the post all that well).

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cablecargal's avatar

Fantastic read!

I knew nothing about KKKaroline except that she oozed hatred and condescension. Her face is so punchable.

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DR Darke's avatar

It's nasty but fair, given Donald Trump ONLY considers women worthwhile based on how much he wants to fuck them, so the women who work for him play up to that.

The women in Trump's orbit don't DESERVE anything that resembles the fair return you'd give any other woman, because they've made their bed, and now must sleep in it....

Some years back when Ann Coulter said something so hypocritical and disgusting that I and a friend of my then-wife mocked it, she got angry at both of us for "insulting women!". We both pointed out it's not a woman, it's Ann Coulter, who slaps women every chance she gets, and who deserves to be slapped back when she's caught out in sleazy behavior.

I feel the same way about Karoline Leavitt, Pam Bondi, Marjorie Taylor Green, and every OTHER Leggy Blonde Republican.

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A.J. Madison's avatar

Jeff mentions that we're in the stupidest possible timeline. While the GQP has its share of dolts, I'm sure many of them are pretend idiots, or will plead willful ignorance, because to understand what is happening would mean that you like violence towards women, or would blow your alibi on ripping off your constituents in service of giant corporations that are raping the earth.

Is pretending to be stupid any different that actually being stupid? Guess it depends on how much richer a GQP office holder is than when sworn in for the first term. Considering Marge 3 Toes is $220 Million richer, I'm thinking she's got brains enough to cash in bigly. AFAIC, its an act, and she just relies on saying the most idiotic, unedited bullshit, which is classic MAGA politics, behind closed doors its clear she's screaming show me the money.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Greene has a feral cunning, mixed with a high school mean girl ethos. My mother would have diagnosed her as "a case of arrested development".

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Cheri Collins's avatar

I had wondered about that choice.Apology accepted.

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arne link's avatar

Love ya, Jeff.

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AddaGurl's avatar

Well Jeff, now I am just going to have to apply for a gubmint job just so I can write four scorching essays and be unhired by King FuckFace II. 😖

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Amy T. Cortner's avatar

That's what I thought. Thanks for removing it!

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Phil Burns's avatar

Either way one of them is a p*ssy.

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Marycat2021's avatar

My late cousin was mentally disabled and his level was similar to the young man you featured recently in one of your posts. It was highly offensive and in terrible taste yet you never apologized for it. I canceled my subscription. You really need to think before you write.

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CAM from 🇨🇦's avatar

If you were so offended that you cancelled your subscription, why are we being subjected to this very public personal admonishment of Jeff. I would have thought that if you were so upset, you would have closed the book on “everyone is entitled to my own opinion”.

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Lamorindalinda's avatar

How are you able to comment if you cancelled your subscription? Color me skeptical.

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Dave Drell's avatar

there’s no refunds - so once her subscription ran out ( monthly or yearly) she would not be able to leave comments

up to that point she can comment

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

“I canceled my subscription, yet here I still am, to tell you that I canceled my subscription.”

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Marycat2021's avatar

Fuck you

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Lorraine Parish's avatar

no fuck you and please keep your holier than now attitude to yourself.

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

Have you ever made a mistake, Marycat? Many of us have mental illness in our families. Mistakes by us are constantly made. Jeff had the temerity to admit to his. The picture wasn’t meant to trigger a rabid response. The problem I had with it was that it featured two Black people which was a big mistake. I am certain that Jeff is banging his head against the wall for using it. He removed it which is better than the Repubs impeaching TRUMP twice!

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HI2thDoc's avatar

In my experience Jeff is apologetic when he unintentionally insults someone not deserving of his ridicule.

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

I came back to say I don't know why people dumped on you for having an opinion. Not everyone here is nice.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

Now we have a playbook. When the phony ICE agents abduct somebody, immediately march en masse to the home of the nearest MAGAT-in-Charge and demand their release. We know it works, make it so.

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

well, we know it works in New York State, anyway. but you're right, the tactic needs to be tried everywhere

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Phil Burns's avatar

It was tried in Chicago recently but nothing happened yet.

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arne link's avatar

When they did it recently in a San Diego restaurant people poured out of neighboring buildings immediately. The gestapo was only able to get four guys and the rest were let go. This stupid policy of disappearing people from their work is going to hit restaurants really hard. Everyone knows who's working back in the kitchen and it ain't Magats.

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Phil Burns's avatar

It happened here recently. Cops did nothing and why the fuck does ICE have 'Police' on their uniforms...THEY'RE NOT COPS!!!

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

No but they might be criminals, if the article I read saying the republicans voted to hire the insurrectionists as ICE is true.

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Phil Burns's avatar

I saw an article on facebook where the gop blocked a bill prohibiting J6ers from being in politics or working for the government but orange hitler pardoned them so it doesn't matter.

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Phil Burns's avatar

Still have it?

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

Phil, all of that fake “Police” gear is being sold by Jeff Bezos on Amazon.

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Phil Burns's avatar

I know.

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Ralph Roberts's avatar

Or Gestapo

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Phil Burns's avatar

They're closer to the gestapo.

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Patricia Williamson's avatar

Some protests against ICE in Southern California have turned violent; throwing things at ICE and being arrested. This worries me. I know they are angry, but being destructive will cause Trump to react in a bad way.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

Patricia, I don’t doubt what you say is true. How else will we stop them, though? I hope we are not talking Borg and “resistance is futile.”

They will not stop. The law will be ignored (i.e. the Supremes last 9-0 vote) and people will continue to be sent to camps, or worse.

We must resist.

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Lorraine Parish's avatar

agree

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

Loved that that pushback happened in San Diego, arne. The video I saw was priceless, especially the guy following the ICE thugs, shouting, "Fucking cowards!"

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Wendymae's avatar

Now they're using teargas, flash bang grenades, pepper spray and arrests. (LA yesterday)

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Phil Burns's avatar

That's fucking bullshit!!! Were the protestors armed or getting violent? Probably not...ICE and the dog killer are pushing their limits!!!

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Wendymae's avatar

No and they also arrested (after sending to the hospital with a head injury) the head of California's SEIU, David Huerta. ICE did a full on military style raid.

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Phil Burns's avatar

I saw that on our local news. ICE is out of control and must be stopped!!! HOMAN AND GNOME CAN PISS OFF!!!

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Phil, in my life, you can be walking down the street, carrying your school books and notebooks, all along with no one else in sight, and a police car will pull up beside you with a pepper sprayer in the back window, and they pepper sprayed me. It took three hours before my face stopped being bright red, not to mention the irritation the pepper spray caused. February 1969. It's one thing when you're 18, another thing when you're 75, which I am now, and why I think old people shouldn't go to demonstrations.

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Phil Burns's avatar

I'm sorry that happened to you but I can't just sit back and watch.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

In San Diego, they said they used flashbangs to "keep the crowds back." In the video I saw, the crowds weren't pushing in, even befire the thugs launched the grenades.

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Wendymae's avatar

That's what it looks like in LA now too. Miller is calling it an insurrection and FF is sending in 2000 troops. JFC.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

Just saw that. "JFC" is right!

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Rick Calegari's avatar

Those thugs will eventually show up everywhere.

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Phil Burns's avatar

They were here last week and they were here in January but didn't take anyone. I think some of those idiots are wannabe thugs...like the militia morons that dress up like real soldiers only they wear unofficial BDUs...like these guys do.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

Who did they picket, Phil?

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

Thanks for the link. You know, one of these days cops are going to have to make a decision. Are we supporting the fascists, or the citizens of America? Police standing around “keeping the peace” while people are disappeared by phony ICE agents ain’t gonna cut it.

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Dave Drell's avatar

Mayor Johnson (Chicago) needs to communicate to the police- tell these ICE NOT IN OUR TOWN- and don’t let them grab people off the city streets. even if they threaten the police with “Federal Jurusdiction “ crap. hold that line solid

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Phil Burns's avatar

Feds have priority unfortunately. They do need to do something than let Noem's gestapo get away with that bullshit. Did you know there's a commercial with her telling immigrants to register then leave and they can return another time?

https://youtu.be/vHV73nsnQBU?si=8QUvonqypA-bX6UR

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Lorraine Parish's avatar

it is big time in Los Angeles today

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Mombeka's avatar

There was another video of some people in a neighborhood forcing the ICE agents away from their neighbors by surrounding the neighbors in a protective circle and screaming SHAME! SHAME! SHAME! at the ICE agents until the backed off and left. We all need to step up and protect our neighbors who are at risk.

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Diane Rose Halstead's avatar

That was in San Diego I think. It was awesome!

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Douglas's avatar

California's are stepping up! Another reason to love Cali. And if D denies Cali their funding grants, Cali should NOT send tax dollars to DC.....for 50 years the blue Dem states have been funding the TAKER states....Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and many others. it's BULLSHIT.

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arne link's avatar

It was. That's what we have to do.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Actually, people in San Diego swarmed out of a restaurant where ICE was attempting to arrest workers, pointing their fingers and loudly chanting "Shame, Shame!" They kept backing up the ICErs and finally the ICErs broke and got into their trucks and drove away. California does it right! Point your fingers and shout "Shame, Shame!"

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arne link's avatar

That reaction made me so proud. Good people everywhere must push back hard. Meanwhile, our Governor seems to be going to the dark side.

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Susan P Thatcher's avatar

Every immigration lawyer in the US should be working to get these people on a legal footing.

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Mombeka's avatar

I know of an immigration attorney in his eighties right here in Hawaii who goes to work every day and won’t think of retiring because of the fascist take over of the United States government. There’s plenty of folks out there working for next to nothing to help immigrants. The rest of us need to recognize and support their efforts.

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

We have a Livermore man abducted by ICE this week. Whose house would we visit? We are all Dems. That is why this abduction is so crazy. Has a family, son in high school, works at Wente Winery, where my husband and I worked …. Doesn’t make sense

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arne link's avatar

Don't you just love the irony? These people who supposedly live on welfare and food stamps have full-time jobs for thirty or more years? Wow.

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Lisa's avatar

Yep and all the "illegals" getting accused of bilking our system and getting rounded up at their place of EMPLOYMENT for god's sake. The irony, it hurts.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

Yeah, I think there are going to be situations like yours, Terri. Where do we go? Who do we picket? But, when we do have a target, let’s get after it.

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Douglas's avatar

God bless him. It keeps him young too!

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Susan P Thatcher's avatar

There's a plausible theory that these kidnappers are Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.

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Susan K.'s avatar

Love the name “President Yap Yap”! Jeff is sooo clever - with many daily posts, he’s still coming up with new, fresh, insightful & hilarious content

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Lynn Van Haren's avatar

The horror of having protestors show up at your fucking LAKE HOUSE!

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Rick Calegari's avatar

It was reported this morning that ICE was at the Vons market in our old neighborhood in Thousand Oaks. My wife and I went over there to check it out and fortunately, there was no sign of those brownshirt shitweasels.There were several people sitting in lawn chairs in various spots around the parking but one person said they didn't show up. Could've been a nasty rumor that someone started on social media but it's still way too close to home.

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shee-rah's avatar

ICE showed up in Paramount. Met with protests. Saw this on MSNBC.

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FTrump And FPutin Too's avatar

I missed that. It seems that this news is shown once and not broadcast even on cable, again.

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Kay-El's avatar

1. Isn’t a lake house where creepy things happen in horror movies? And Tom Homan is a creep. Do the math.

2. I think Grassley is the real robot. No one could live as long as that asshole. However, his parts are rusted and there are no spare ones for a machine that old and out of date.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

Grassley and The Turtle 🐢 MUST be related.

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

Grassley is McConnell's great-grandfather

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Jeanne Leduc's avatar

🤣🤣🤣

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Dave Drell's avatar

And they keep electing him, c’mon Iowa, get a grip on reality. he prob snoozes in his office when not shoveling shit with his pig farmers.

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

Please cut the guy some slack. He never recovered from the trauma of witnessing Lincoln's assassination.

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Pere Ubu's avatar

Not to mention the trauma of that meteor killing the dinosaurs. I'm sure he remembers that in his nightmares.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Yes, it killed all of his relatives!

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

🖐️🎤

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Charles Austin's avatar

😂😂😂

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Karlene Escriba's avatar

🤣🤣🤣

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Karen Livolsi's avatar

👆🏻

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Maggie&Lefty's avatar

Hell yeah!

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Mary Greenwald's avatar

Grassley has not shoveled pig shit nor furrowed a row with a tractor since before he was elected to Congress. Nor has any of his "family" that gets subsidies. Iowans love guys like Trump and Grassley. They admire grifters. That is why they vote for Joni and Donnie.

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Nancy Lent Lanoue's avatar

😂

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Both excellent points Kay-EI!!

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Douglas's avatar

Homan is 6 months from a coronary....hes a fat ass.

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David A Pitock's avatar

Or zombie 🧟‍♀️

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

The irony of Joni Ernst’s bringing up “Jesus Christ, Lord and Savior” right after her sarcastic crack about the Tooth Fairy is like self-trolling. WTF is wrong with her?

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

We now know - most assuredly - why the Republicons have remained mute during the fascist takeover of our country. Whenever they do open their fetid pie holes, sewage like Joni Ernst’s words spew out.

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Dave Drell's avatar

Hate to tell Ernst this, but: YOUR GOD IS NOT SAVING YOU! YOU USE HIS NAME IN VAIN!

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

Plus she blasphemed my Lord and Savior, the Tooth Fairy.

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Douglas's avatar

The tooth Fairy is a socialist!! Giving money to those takers who haven't earned it! 😅🤣

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

Hey, I don’t know about you, but I got 25 cents for every tooth I put under my pillow.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Well played Mz!!

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

I know right! He's dating my lord and savior The Flying Spaghetti Monster!

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

Except in my personal chosen mythology, the Tooth Fairy is a she.

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Charles Austin's avatar

😂😂😂

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

😂😂😂

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arne link's avatar

It would be great if she would join her "Lord and Savior", and soon.

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Doreen Dalesandro's avatar

She's a fucking maggot, that's what's wrong with her. The party of no empathy.

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Douglas's avatar

Dominions Christians believe that the poor, minorities & ALL Democrats must die so the true Christians can assume power. Fact. Its a very dangerous movement....and naturally Democrats pretend it doesnt exist.

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Bob Bowden's avatar

There are over 69,000 ICD-10 dignosis codes, take your pick

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

She's cracking under the pressure.

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Bob Bowden's avatar

She’s cracking under the pressure of shutting down her mind and obediently following orders, like all other (R)s?

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J.R.'s avatar

“I’ve uncovered the human mind” is my favorite today, Jeff.

🤯😂 Who knew?

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Phil Burns's avatar

So did Hannibal Lector when he ate Krendler's frontal lobe in Hannibal.

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Dave Drell's avatar

Here we go again with Hannibal L and Drumpf - he thinks he’s real !

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Phil Burns's avatar

No no, I was just making a comment about him uncovering a brain and I did mention the movie.

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Chris Hierholzer's avatar

I'd like to take a look inside.

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Diane J's avatar

Now we have proof positive of the reason why the Republicans have been attacking the educational system all these years-voters are dumb as fuck, and now we have a regime where a requirement to write an essay of loyalty to an anti-American, anti-democracy domestic terrorist group is being required.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Another nugget in this week's stupidity lineup is Trump's hiring of 22-year-old professional intern Thomas Fugate to run the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Center at DHS. The latest zero quals puppet groomed by the Heritage Foundation, where he's got daddies.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

So young, and yet so unctuous.

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arne link's avatar

Have you seen that noxious nose-picker? God help us. This administration wants a terror attack so that they can impose martial law. Could anything be clearer? I'm sure they are interviewing potential Muslim terrorists as we speak.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

They might also be positioning this little diaperload to mow down protestors, which they've labeled Domestic Terrorists (and excludes Proud Boys, etc.). His boss is Kristi Noem.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

Exactly what I've been fearing, arne.

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Jan Moon's avatar

And let's not forget Edward Coristine (Big Balls) who is now a senior advisor at DOGE. I think he's 19.

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Douglas's avatar

Fugate is just babysitting it's demise. 70% of that outfit has been axed. When the 3 Percenters, Proud Boys and white nationalists do their thing, there will be no one to sound the alarm or help us..

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

I have been shouting how fucking STUPID repugs are for my whole life. They cover their vapidness with idiotic statements thinking they are fooling us into thinking how brilliant and “learned” they are. Think Trump. Isn’t that him to a T?

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Nancy Lent Lanoue's avatar

Yes, Diane .Too bad nobody caught the drowning of our public education system.

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Mary Greenwald's avatar

When we give States and local communities the right to decide what is taught in Public Schools we are assured that uneducated PARENTS will demand that the Bible is taught in all classes and that nothing may be taught that is more than they "learned". Non-biblical Science and higher Math is always suspect.

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Mary Greenwald's avatar

I can guarantee that Donnie will not be reading the essays. They will let AI check out the musings of those desperate to work for Donnie.

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

Oh it is when Trump talks unfettered by constant overview His ignorance stupidly and brain deterioration cannot be monitored.

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Neal Stiffelman's avatar

Too many targets. Many too many. You’re hoeing a rock-strewn row, brother. Make sure to stay hydrated.

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

a lot of this week's stupid is going to spill over into tomorrow's post, there was that much of it

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Dave Drell's avatar

So much garbage, not enough receptacles.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

I was frankly surprised that MTG spelled it rein rather than rain

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Doreen Dalesandro's avatar

Someone with more than 2 brain cells must have written it for her🤓

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

That's what they have aides for.

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Charles Austin's avatar

They're struggling to translate legislation into Neanderthal cave paintings.

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Nancy Lent Lanoue's avatar

Keep ‘em coming, Jeff. You make my news day. A real antidote for rotting from the putrid nonsense emitting from these ( cue echoing , gravelly voice) “creatures from the crypt”

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Neal Stiffelman's avatar

Ah reckons so.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

Is that an “Outlaw Josie Wales” reference, Neal?

“If you get those holes to leaking, I’m gonna whoop you with a knotted plow line.”

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Neal Stiffelman's avatar

Never watched it. But I lived in farm country for a time.

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Doreen Dalesandro's avatar

It's hard to keep up. Analogous to signs I've seen at protests: So much wrong, so little cardboard.

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Bob Bowden's avatar

The next gush of stupidity will erupt as reliably as Old Faithful

https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/photosmultimedia/webcams.htm

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Kate's avatar

Not only is the auto pen not illegal, there is no Constitutional requirement that pardons be in writing. Which means there is no requirement they be signed.

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Pere Ubu's avatar

Christ, if Tacoführer could supposedly declassify documents with his mind, why the hell couldn't Biden just THINK "pardoned"?

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Kate's avatar

Orange Shitler did uncover and debate the human mind! 😉🤦‍♀️🤣

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Susan P Thatcher's avatar

Re: 3 Toes and States Rights: we've tried it TWICE and both efforts were spectacular failures (Articles of Confederation and Confederacy). The states of the Confederacy started fighting their government out of the gate, kept it up through the Civil War, withholding troops and materiel (NC hanging onto 90,000 uniforms, I think GA kept troops back. Fat lot of good it did to stop Sherman). Those who scream states' rights are like teenagers screaming "You're not the boss of me," and demanding the car keys and an allowance, no questions asked.

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Lorraine Tingler's avatar

How LOW can these creeps go? I am so depressed about the ovbious IQ level of at least half of all Americans. Joni Ernst should be buried in the cemetary she was desecrating with her stupid "apology". Really! When will enough truly be enough? I am totally dispirited about the amount of hate that lives in our country. And yet, the beat goes on.

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

I can’t get over how totally dumb our elected rupug reps are.

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Ronald P YYZ's avatar

Actually, I think I could write a few thousand words advocating for eliminating the penny. But I’m Canadian, we already did that years ago

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Maggie&Lefty's avatar

I also admire how Canadians label the bathrooms, NUTS and NO NUTS

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Lisa's avatar

Why aren’t there age limits for serving in congress? How about the presidency? There are 7 congressmen born in the 40s. Grassley was born in 33! 65 is our de facto retirement age. Why the hell are these ancient artifacts still in congress!?

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Jeanne Leduc's avatar

Because their stupid ass constituents don't bother to pay attention, they go in the booth, look at the ballot:"oh I've heard that name before" , fill in the circle.

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Pere Ubu's avatar

Same way Tacoführer is staffing the (mis) Administration.

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Betsy L's avatar

Because having experienced politicians in office is, more often than not, a good thing. Yes, Grassley's old, but so is Nancy Pelosi. Yet she's venerated by Dems and Grassley's condemned by them. Vice-versa by Republicans. I agree that he's an idiot, but putting age limits on public service is short-sighted. We need politicians who are experienced.

My husband's 66, retired army officer, works as a contractor advising the Special Operations Command on weapons of mass destruction and counter-IED training. Nobody's said a word to him about retiring because his knowledge is so valuable, and very few people in the US have his experience. He loves what he does, and has no plans to retire. It's the same with politicians.

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Dave Drell's avatar

But he’s 66 Grassley is 92-

Pelosi & experience or not, 90 should be the limit.

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Gina's avatar

normally nature has 90 as some kind of upper limit (eek, I'm 89), but congress is some kind of bariatric chamber or something and its denizens live forever

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

I'm 73 & I'm just fine, mentally, thank you 🤔

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Lisa's avatar

I’m not just talking about Grassley. 66 is not old. I’m 71 and could likely do better than Bobblehead or Sporkfoot. 90 is too old. Schumer is 74 and the most he can do is write a strongly worded letter! Experience sometimes brings complacency. To become president you have to be 35. Maybe 80 is too old to be in congress.

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Douglas's avatar

Grassley is rolling in money as he gets a healthy salary as a Senator....and the best health care on the planet.

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Pere Ubu's avatar

And why is so much of the GOP made up of pre-adolescents?

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Lisa's avatar

Pre-adolescents can’t vote. Hopefully they’ll be smarter before they can!

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Pere Ubu's avatar

Well, I was referring to their mental age, not physical, and physical age is unfortunately what determines voting qualification.

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Peaceful Mary T.'s avatar

Jeff, I loved your essay! You probably won't get the job, but I loved it anyway. :)

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Tama2U's avatar

The absurdity, the stupidity, the evil and the insanity all wrapped up in a taco wrap.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

Definitely a “soft” taco, Tama.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

A Taco de Caca

SANCTUS CACA !

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

Make it “supreme.”

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

Roll it in glitter ✨️ !

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PollyP's avatar

Spray it gold.

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Walt Svirsky's avatar

😂😂😂

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Tama2U's avatar

I think Joni Ernst would pair best with the corn tortilla. 🌮

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Lady Emsworth's avatar

If trump could de-classify those documents found in his bathroom just by thinking about them, Joe sure as shit could pardon people using an autopen.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Haha, 316 six year Senate terms is almost two millennia, which makes Grassley a Biblical era character. Fitting since his ideas are distinctly archaic.

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