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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

in going over a year's worth of 'this week in stupids' to compile this, I was surprised by how many entries aged poorly. during Donny's trials, I kept gloating over how he was going to prison, and I mocked so many lousy candidates running lousy campaigns who ended up winning. ugh

Carl Babcock's avatar

It's not your fault, Jeff. You aren't the only one blindsided by the stupidity of so many fucking people.

Jodi Richard's avatar

Yeah, this year certainly did not turn out in any way a logical person would expect. I turn 60 in 2025…my first four years in my sixties will be tainted by this band of fucking assholes in charge…ugh is right.

nkrempa's avatar

My first four years in my seventies will be the same. Double UGH!

;)

Paula Dean's avatar

Today is my birthday, born on New Year's Eve 1953, I'm now 71. As if it isn't depressing enough to examine the past year and plan for the next one, I'm reminded of how hopeful I felt when Kamala entered the race, and how confident I was that she'd be elected after all the unbelievably awful/embarrassing/shocking and disgusting stunts that tRump pulled (remember him giving a BJ to the microphone? The town hall that devolved into watching him sway and convulse to gag-worthy music? The Nazi Rally at Madison Square?). And now I'm looking ahead to 2025? I have only one resolution: Survive. And one birthday wish: That MAGA will die. Deader than the famous Dead Parrot

Cathy 98280's avatar

I, too, keep thinking about him fellating that mic, and am just gobsmacked that people looked at that and thought, “Yes! I want him to be my president!” He is so completely VULGAR- it’s nauseating.

On a different note, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!🎁🎊🎂🎉

nkrempa's avatar

I must have said that over a hundred times during the campaign. I mean, SRSLY?! They saw that and said "Golly, Bob, howdy! Now THAT'S a real president!"

O.o

Paula Dean's avatar

IK,R? God he's so humiliating.

Ole Anderson's avatar

Dont forget the double jerk off dance move! A Classic.

nkrempa's avatar

As I said elsewhere today, I take comfort in the fact that we're all in the same pot, but that others will be boiling faster than some. As I marinate, I will (God help my blackened soul) enjoy the cries of the MAGAts. :D

PS: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! <3

Teri's avatar

Paula, Happy Birthday! 🎂🎂 2024 was a total #Fail for America. Hope 2025 brings infighting & chaos to keep these bastards occupied

Paula Dean's avatar

Thank you, sweetie 😘

Mary Hall's avatar

Happy birthday Paula! Enjoy your day in the knowledge that Sharky McBatterypants ain't president yet.

longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Happy Birthday Paula. I'll be 75 this year, and I'm sorry to say, it's not getting better.

Paula Dean's avatar

🫣😵‍💫😵😭😱💀=how my days have been feeling.

And thank you, Ellen.

Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

Happy Birthday, Paula!🎂💜! Concentrate on yourself first and then come out punching 🥊 witb the rest of us.

kdsherpa's avatar

Happy Birthday, Paula! Now we're the same age! I share your wish 1,000%!!! Here's to the death of MAGA. And your -- and all of our -- survival.

Teri's avatar

Paula: "Dead Parrot", Monty Python, 5 min. 😂😂 Never watched MP, now on my list! https://youtu.be/4vuW6tQ0218?feature=shared

Paula Dean's avatar

Teri - thank you so much for posting this link. I had a chance to watch it while waiting for my kiddos, and it lifted my mood when I needed it the most.....of course I also ended up watching a few other videos, that happens every time I visit YouTube and can eat up hours of my time - which is why I never go there when I'm supposed to be doing something else. No such thing as "I'll only look for/at one specific thing"....I was in the middle of a Colbert monolog when the family arrived.

(They brought me a Tiramisu cake!)

Ethereal Fairy's avatar

May you get your wish, Happy birthday, may you have all the good things.

Hannah's avatar

Happy birthday Paula 🎉🎉🎉!!!

Teri's avatar

Paula, "dead parrot"? 🦜

Paula Dean's avatar

From the Monty Python skit. If you haven't seen it, it's a MUST! Google it, and it should direct you to the YouTube video. I'd get the link for you, but if I don't get dressed I'll be welcoming my kids in pj's and a rat's nest for hair. MUST. STOP. NOW. ttfn!

Teri's avatar

😂😂😂. 'e's stunned". When buyer bangs dead parrot on counter. 😂😂

Bonnie Council's avatar

Happy Birthday, Paula. I just celebrated my 77th. What's disheartening to me is that I may not live long enough to see us break out of the insanity that seems to have control of our whole country. And, in all these years, I never imagined I'd live to see our precious democracy on the line as it is now.

Cathy 98280's avatar

The first 4 in my 70s was his first term. Now I’m going headlong into my 80s (holy moly!😳) in his second. Ah well, perhaps as I turn 80 in 2 years the house and senate will return to normalcy with massive Democratic wins. (Fingers crossed!)

Dina's avatar

Let's hope that will be your 80th birthday present!

nkrempa's avatar

Oh, golly, I'm so sorry!!! Keeping fingers, toes and other appendages crossed, donating what we can to Democrats, and working after work to elect said Dems. Gonna give it the ol' 'college try' once again! <3

Patricia Williamson's avatar

I'm with you Cathy. I will turn 80 in two years; if I live that long.

Cathy 98280's avatar

Patricia, let’s make a pact/ plan to turn 80 together in 2 years (mine’s November 9th, so quite awhile to go …) and celebrate all the stupid things these eejits in the White House and Congress fail to get done. 🥳🥳🥳

John Crowe's avatar

Tell me about it. I’m just into my 80’s. Never thought we’d be in such a pickle in my old age.

Rick Calegari's avatar

Same here. The outcome of this election continues to be a non-stop haunting shitshow. Those of us who recently turned 70 as well as everyone else can only hope that four more years won't be for the duration and age us more before our time. In the meantime, the folks who give us the bad sane wash news will be exposed to more rancid green clouds in tight spaces from the unfit convicted felon. Happy New Year everybody!

nkrempa's avatar

Aw, GEEZ... just *thinking* about the horror of inhabiting a closed space with the incontinent fucknut makes my stomach turn. Yeah, better them than us and, in the meantime, I can only HOPE that Scott Jennings falls over unconscious from the noxious fumes and cannot appear on CNN ever again! ;

:)

Jodi Richard's avatar

Yep, double UGH!!! I’m sorry.

Mary Beth Horsington's avatar

I turned 70 in October and I am terrified that my twilight years will be all about watching democracy die in front of my eyes.

Linda Fulcher's avatar

I turn 75 in February and I'm as terrified as you are.

Terri Nighswonger's avatar

Think about all the people in their last years of their lives. They could die thinking they that this is the way things are and will be forever more. 😩😫😖🥺🤪😜

Paula Dean's avatar

That is truly tragic!

Hannah's avatar

71 here and it looks like this shit is going to be the last I get to experience. Fuuuuuck.

Ben Zamir's avatar

I hear you, I turned 60 this past June.

Catherine's avatar

My first 4 years in my 50s 😞

Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

Yeah, I think we all underestimated the stupidity of the American voter.

arne link's avatar

I will never, ever believe that he was fairly elected. I'm quite sure there was malfeasance from some outside source. I just can't accept that all Americans are that ignorant.

Hannah's avatar

Russia, Russia, Russia.

PJ Schuster's avatar

I’m with you arne, no one can convince me there weren’t shenanigans going on besides the very obvious ones of voter suppression, voter intimidation, voter challenges, the dozens of bomb threats disrupting the polling places, etc

Denise Donaldson's avatar

I personally don't believe that. I'm convinced that drumpf lost.

Robert Eckert's avatar

That's giving them the benefit of the doubt. Many of them are just stone cold evil.

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Marie Martin's avatar

No visions of sugarplums here. Rather visions of guillotines and Madame Defarge.

Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

The guillotine has been an object of fascination , not that I’d ever care to watch one in action Marie! However, I see your point!

Marie Martin's avatar

Of course I couldn’t either. But verbal release helps a wee bit.

PJ Schuster's avatar

Our Reps, Senators, justices, & CEOs need to think the guillotines may be coming for them. We need to let them understand that we are really, really angry & we are not going to tolerate this moneymaking corruption anymore.

I will be marching for our rights on Jan 18 in a city near me, I hope every one of you here will do the same.

It’s a combination of The Women’s March & The People’s March honoring MLK & the fight for equality for all. Find a march/protest near you. womensmarch.com

Paula Dean's avatar

Knitting and counting....such a lovely lady! She got what she deserved in the end. Karma!

Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Right On Lisa, the willfully ignorant voted against their own interests!

Their hatred of socialism, except for the Uber wealthy appears to be a confusing issue in this country!

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Unregulated media came into vogue as Clinton signed the revised Communications Act. The Telecommunications Act allowed any unlicensed and unregulated Trou du Cul a mouthpiece to broadcast disinformation, propaganda and lunacy, you’ve got their number Lisa!!

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Dina's avatar

I think we're all with you there. I remember waking up a little more joyful every day when I'd hear about how badly things were going for him, naively thinking that "THIS time he's finished!" I've since learned not to set myself up for such disappointment like that again.

steve robertshaw's avatar

You said it! We were, all of us here, very naive about exactly HOW corrupt the big players behind the scenes were, in the federal court systems, Republican-run state court systems (looking at you, Georgia!), and of course in the Republican wing of Congress. Throw in the ineffective and/or corrupt federal regulatory agencies, and the unprincipled owners of our major media, and poor Jeff and the rest of us didn't have a chance at true justice.

Lisa Tantillo's avatar

Excellent points! Adding in Merrick Fucking Garland.

Marie Martin's avatar

Never again. Managing ideas of hope with the reality of this guy’s outcomes challenges just about everything I’m trying to learn about achieving balance being critical to happiness. #KevlarSuitNotTeflon

Linda Weide's avatar

I think you encapsulated why it happened with the so many stupid Americans one.

David Lehnherr's avatar

I'm with you, Jeff. I thought things would turn out differently, too. But I was mislead by a report that Haldol was going to be put in the drinking water of several states, which obviously didn't happen.

HI2thDoc's avatar

Like you, Jeff, most of us on here thought things like he was going to jail, he would be tried on the stolen documents, Kamala would win in a landslide, lotsa sane and rational stuff like that. 2024 really did not go as we thought it would.

Paula Dean's avatar

In fact, things have gone upside down. Maybe even slid into an alternate dimension/reality. A Backwards Universe where dark is light, gravity is sideways, lies are truth, good is evil, and misery is euphoria.

I'm going back to bed. Wake me up in two years so I can reassess the situation, if anyone is still here.

Happy/Horrible New Year!

Karla's avatar

I think we all underestimated just how two tiered our justice system really is.

Viktoria S's avatar

I am surprised you were able to narrow it down - you had so much to choose from. Well done!

kdsherpa's avatar

You have absolutely OUTDONE YOURSELF in this fabulous "Retrospective of 2024". I started howling with laughter at the insane comment of the delusional (to put it kindly) orange sadist thinking he looks like the great Elvis and the photos you posted, and never stopped!! YOU ARE AMAZING!!! Thank you for helping all of us survive this almost-gone year. Praying that you can do the same come the Grim 2025. Wishing you and Mrs. Spouse all the very, very best! (ps, if danny ain't in the closet, i don't know who is. oh, wait. yes I do. it's that obsequious lickspittle Lindsey Graham.)

Carol Jacobson's avatar

I am in awe of the amount of time you must have spent putting this together! You outdid yourself! Happy New Year -if that’s possible.

Stephen Schiff's avatar

The all time greatest, Jeff! Thanks for the laughs.

Marie Martin's avatar

Hat tip to Jeff. That’s was a lot of work, trying to pick the best of the litter of garbage from these clowns. So much material to pick from; so little digital space.

Mombeka's avatar

That’s exactly the point unfortunately. I seem to remember that Dietrich Bonhoeffer famously wrote about how the Nazis came to power not because people were evil, but because they were stupid.

He wrote:

"Upon closer observation, it becomes apparent that every strong upsurge of power in the public sphere, be it of a political or a religious nature, infects a large part of humankind with stupidity".

Abigail Norling's avatar

We're rigiht there with you. Here's to a MUCH better 2025!

Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

happy new year's eve, everyone! Ms Spouse and I will be spending a quiet one at home, and I've long given up trying to stay awake til midnight

Kay-El's avatar

Same. “Gotta feeling ‘25 is gonna be a bad year” (apologies to The Who)

nkrempa's avatar

Dang, I've had that song running through my head all day!!

<3

Happy New Year, dear lady!!

Kay-El's avatar

Same to you, my friend.

nkrempa's avatar

HAPPY NEW YEAR to you & Mrs. Spouse!! May the coming year bring you joy, laughter, love, and more fun poking at the idiots who THINK they rule our world. <3

Brad Yazell's avatar

I actually made it to 11:30 last night. Trying to build up my stamina. Probably be sacked out by 10 tonight.

Happy New Year, Jeff! Thank you for your insight, research and humor.

Stephen Brady's avatar

I’m a morning person… I never make it to midnight on New Year’s Eve.

steve robertshaw's avatar

Jeff and Ms. Spouse: get a dog that reacts to fireworks. Then you won't get a wink of sleep New Years Eve!

Paula Dean's avatar

I was asleep when the ball dropped, but my thoughtful neighbors set off several M80's, or cherry bombs, so I wouldn't miss the Magic Moment: The Start of Armageddon.

Susan Keefer's avatar

Happy New Year’s Eve to you and Mrs. Spouse. 💙

Thank you for keeping me informed and laughing through this last difficult year. 🙏

Thanks in advance for helping us get through this insane coming year.

Dr J's Sanity Space's avatar

Happy new year to you & Ms.Spouse, Jeff! I usually make it to about 10 & then barely hear the fireworks!

Teri's avatar

Jeff, superb 2024 in Stupid!You continually outdo yourself. Happy New Year to you & Ms. Spouse. 🎇🎈🥂🎊🐲🎆🎉🍾

Roberta Austin's avatar

Happy New Year, Jeff! I look forward to your comments in 2025 to help me laugh and keep my sanity.

Terri Nighswonger's avatar

We are going out. But I can assure you we will be home by 9:00.

Tardigret's avatar

I'm wishing you and Ms Spouse and very happy and HEALTHY 2025!

Kay-El's avatar

1. Melon head may hate Orange Fuckwit but she’s stuck with that idiot even from a distance. Money talks

2. I play better miniature golf than Agent Orange plays golf. Not sure he’d be any better at mini.

3. Drag queens punching Nazis is a gift to us all.

Teri's avatar

Kay, if we had a decent press, Nazis getting their asses handed to them by attacking drag queens would have been a week long story.

Susan Niemann's avatar

Whatta wrap up! I forgot all about the Elvis stuff! 😂😂 and THIS is who is going to sit in the Oval Office? Betcha he doesn’t last a year. We can hope.

I know congress wont do anything at the last minute to save us with the 14th amendment-lots of talk about that. I’m stocking up on gummies! Try to have a happy new year everyone!! 💙💙✌️

Mingo's avatar

Did you notice that the 2nd picture of Fat Elvis/Donnie had camel toes? I may be taking my dog's CBD gummies to quell my anxiety about 2025. Not one person I've talked to has said 2025 will be better than 2024. We already know it's a shitshow. It certainly will be a surprise to low IQ/info voters. Will try to have a happy new year, but guaranteed I will fall asleep on the couch after a couple of glasses of bubbly. Thank you Jeff for your wicked sense of humor.

Cathy 98280's avatar

By “camel toes” are you referring to his crotch??? I was trying so hard when I saw that to not laugh out loud and wake my husband!!! (We sleep in a lot.) 😂🤣😂🤣

Mingo's avatar

Yupper. If we were all dogs that's what we'd be looking at.

Susan Niemann's avatar

OMG! Do I dare go back and look?😂. I’ll at least enjoy the stupids who voted for their dictator, crying when they lose everything 🤡

Cathy 98280's avatar

It’s hilarious!!! 😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

Paula Dean's avatar

I must be a dirty old lady, because I zoomed into those suspiciously large bulges straight off! But what the heck, I'm 71 today and deserve a dirty chuckle! 🙃

Mingo's avatar

Ditto Paula. First thing that caught my eyes.

Hannah's avatar

They were kinda hard to miss.

Ole Anderson's avatar

Happy Birthday, Paula. I have certainly been enjoying your comments this past year.

Paula Dean's avatar

What a lovely thing to say! Thank you, Ole, and have a great New Year! (fingers crossed 🤞)

Marie Drozdis's avatar

Don't. It's harmful to your health and to your eyes.

arne link's avatar

Low IQ voters will just be told that it's someone else's fault. You know; Obama, Hilary, Biden, etc. They will cheerfully believe it. So sad.

Ole Anderson's avatar

Kamala could do it on her own. Just refuse to certify the electors because Fat Ass solicited an insurrection against the Federal Govt.

I wish she had the guts to do it. The RepubliCONS would do it in a heartbeat if they had the concrete evidence like she has. Time to stop acting so damn Nice! Look what it gets us.

Paula Dean's avatar

GUMMIES TO THE RESCUE!!!

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Teri's avatar

Lisa, I tried to record Maddow & Lawrence to hear more about former POTUS Jimmy Carter. Showed a 2 hour ALL In (Ali V filling in for Chris), then a 2 hr rerun of Deadline WH. Did Fate think "this good, good man has had enough"? Perhaps his God, Karma, The Universe decided "there's no reason to subject this Godly man to 2025". RIP Jimmy Carter 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🗽🗽

PJ Schuster's avatar

Have you seen the special series that Rachel is doing on the msnbc website called “Public Servants Announcement?” She’s doing an exposé on the cabinet picks starting with Oz & Gabbard

Teri's avatar

I recorded Maddow - Lawrence. Will watch soon.

Teri's avatar

Susan, does your cannabis source have sales? Mine have big sales before & during major holidays. Buy One, Get One Free. Christmas week select brands were 40 percent off! So.Stocked.Up. 😂😂 A membership program too. Purchases earn points, to use on future purchases. Indica Gummies are now high (pun intended) on must always have list: coffee & tp.

Paula Dean's avatar

Teri, can you order online? I live in Boston, so it's legal to mail. My Christmas and birthday $$ is itching to be spent 🙃 💰📦

Teri's avatar

Do you mean mail out of state? Our dispensary allows online orders for pick up. We used to order via phone for local home delivery.

Mary Henson's avatar

It’s feels great going over all of your amazing work from 2024. Thanks for the laughs and the no bullshit take on the fat fuck that is our president elect. God help us all going forward but at least we’ll have you to take the edge off Jeff!

Have a safe and sane NewYears Eve and see you in 2025 my funny ass friend!!

Elaine the Mean Old Feminist's avatar

Jeff, you have helped keep me sane in 2024. Thanks for all the laughs and the ways you made me think. I'm not looking forward to 2025, but at least I have you to make it better.

John Wiederhirn's avatar

In coming year(s), we'll all look back and wonder why the fuck we didn't rise up, and tear down their whole crooked mess while we still had the chance. They won because they were willing to do anything to win. We're losing everything because we weren't.

Worse, then we sat in the water while they built a fire, lit it, and the water got warmer and warmer, talking about it but far too focused on the rules to do anything to stop it.

Dr J's Sanity Space's avatar

South Korea & even Syria put us to shame…

K. D. Guise's avatar

2025 is almost here. Brace yourselves, my friends, because it's going it be the shitshow to end all shitshows. It's going to make this 2024 list look like a charming bedtime story.

Fastball Fredo's avatar

Thanks Jeff, in a sea of dumb fucking MAGAS you provide an island of sanity, intelligence, humor and not putting up with any bat shit crazy from the other side. Best of all, you expose the constant fire hose of lies daily.. So Happy New Year to you and all the rest of fellow travelers..and I promise to release more “Golf with MAGAS” in the new year. 🤡

Dr J's Sanity Space's avatar

HNY Fredo - love your MAGA golf shenanigans!

Tess's avatar

Oh good-(golf with maggots!!)

HP's avatar

The post-election googling is nothing new. The day after the Brexit referendum, the most popular search in the UK was "what if we leave the EU"? I had hoped we weren't that stupid, but deep down I knew better.

Celine's avatar

"Your golf game has never been stronger, and America needs you now more than ever."

🤔 I forget the part in civics class when we learned that America became a global superpower based on (checks notes) the strength of our presidents' golf game?!

Paula Dean's avatar

It's gotta be there somewhere, because every POTUS golfs! Some worse than others.

Linda Weide's avatar

Women of America probably don't know who Nick Fuentes is or care for the most part what happens to him. Who raises these incels? They are all their own kind of stupid cult. Glad they won't be procreating and parenting. The porn industry must be glad too. I assume they are watching men-on-men porn.

Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

Jeff, I don’t kind how you were able to sift through the thousands of stupid things that happened this year and choose the best for each month. But thanks for bringing back MAGA’s greatest hits! I’d actually forgotten about some of them. I shudder to think about the stupidity that this year has in store for us. All I know is that we’d better buckle up! I’m just glad to be riding in your car! Happy and healthy New Year to all!

Derek Smith's avatar

Thanks for the memories. The story about Sporkfoot and that festering meat-sack & her ‘son’ had me howling.

Have a great New Year, etc.

Paula Dean's avatar

Even Brainless Sporkfoot was having trouble keeping a straight face!

Morgan OCailleigh's avatar

<sigh>

What year is it ? Does it matter ?

Fuck.....🙄😬😵‍💫🤷‍♀️

Paula Dean's avatar

Apparently it's the year of 'Mocha Mousse'(aka 'poop'), Pantone's designated color of the year!

arne link's avatar

I know what you mean. It's a strange choice. I think decorating will go dark and darker to match the national mood. No more light and sunshine for awhile.

BARRY GANDER's avatar

Revenge of a cosmic sort is coming: Carter is going to mess up Trump's inauguration!

https://barrygander.substack.com/p/jimmy-subtly-squelches-trump-inauguration

Paula Dean's avatar

Proof that God always has the last word. And the last laugh.

*my personal belief is that Universe =God, and the Universe is always trying to correct imbalances.

BARRY GANDER's avatar

We're sure not as smart as we think we are... LOL