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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

The video of Pete KegStand is even better than the GIF, because it shows his swagger leading up to his castration. I had to watch it three times to fully take in the glory of it all.

Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

I had completely forgotten that Flippy McCrushnuts first appeared as a Week In Stupid entry

Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

Oh, it’s definitely the gift that keeps on giving—and the GIF that keeps on GIFing! Wishing a happy and healthy New Year to you, Mrs. Spouse and the rest of your family, as well as this fabulous community!

Jan Moon's avatar

It's absolutely Best of Show for 2025.

Hollie Rood's avatar

👏👏Right back at ya Stephanie! Happy New Year 🎉

Unity In Defiance's avatar

Oh no! The master nutcracker GIF reigned supreme this year — maybe the only “highlight” of 2025.

Hollie Rood's avatar

I don’t know how many times I watched Flippy McCrushnuts and laugh like it was the first time I saw it before I actually saw the pain he inflicted on himself all over his face. THAT just made/makes the entire GIFt more funny and entertaining. I did especially enjoy today’s video.

Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

DJT jr, could also be called a nutcracker he just uses his lower jaw.

Susan K.'s avatar

very nice, Robert

Bonnie Council's avatar

Definitely better with music. That music.

Cheryl Seybert's avatar

If I could only stop laughing when this pops up!😂😂😂

Kevin Rice's avatar

It's just proof that MAGA likes the arts. They just take the title a bit too literally. Also, the song Charlie is playing is Highway to Hell.

Mary Greenwald's avatar

I did too. What I noticed: all the suits with him are laughing at him! Good going guys!!

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Susan Keefer's avatar

Happy New Year everyone, but not to Secretary of Defense Flippy McCrushnuts! 😂🥂🍾🎉

Melinda Morrell's avatar

I wish the fighter pilot that had Pete Kegbreath as a passenger would have done so many barrell rolls & climbs and dives that ol' Petey would have thrown up his socks. THAT would be newsworty

Joyce's avatar

And broadcast the audio of his shrieks of terror: how high can he go (especially after the glorious up-close encounter with the skateboard)?

Charles Austin's avatar

Mezzo Soprano.😂😂😂

Mark Gottschalk's avatar

He wanted to sing castrato!!

Jan Moon's avatar

There's always the Vienna Boys' Choir.

Jill Palethorpe's avatar

Fallen out of the plane would be better.

Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Ejection seat would have been fun, the follies of Piss Drunk Pete sounds like a good film Jill!

Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

I dig the idea Melinda, however having having a drunk seated behind you blowing chunks doesn’t sound appealing!

Mingo's avatar

Warrior boy Kegstand probably didn't know how lethal a skateboard could be. Happy New Year and have a drink on me.

Susan Niemann's avatar

Stuck in Chicago because of flight delays, eating stale Raisin Bran in a crappy hotel and STILL. I’m laughing hysterically. 😂 the Nutcracker and Jeff have saved my spirit. Happy new year, all you excellent liberal scum I’ve come to know and love. 🤣🤣.

Sharon C Storm's avatar

Right back at you, Susan! I hope you get home soon. Stale Raisin Bran sounds terrible.

Susan Niemann's avatar

Happy new year Sharon. I didn’t expect the end of my trip to be this much of an adventure 😂. Hugs!

Dave Drell's avatar

Go to Unis or Duos pizza restaurant if you are stuck downtown. if near Ohare, you can always enjoy the skeazy strip clubs around there… just saying!

Bob's avatar

Might be able to get Malnati’s delivered.

Sharon C Storm's avatar

Happy New Year, Susan! Hugs to you too. 🥰

Joe Witkowski's avatar

Raisins & Hegseth’s nuts - eerie similarity?

Tess's avatar

Yes…the weather has been NOT “so delightful!!” Safe travels!

Susan Niemann's avatar

I’ll say! Yikes! But I didn’t die soooo… I could sleep for a week tho! 😴😴

Bob's avatar

I was flying from BWI to California and flight was canceled because of weather. It was November. I though about trying to go the hotel across from the terminal at O’Hare and try to crash in the lobby, but didn’t. Tried to sleep in the airport. Not happening when they’re cleaning the floors.

Bob's avatar

Those hotels on Mannheim Road are terrible.

verne's avatar

don't be disparagin' don stephens efforts in rosemont

Bob's avatar

I was referring to south of Rosemont.

Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Not my favorite either Bob, Blackstone they are not!

Bob's avatar
Jan 1Edited

Way back in 2014, my brother and I were moving my parents from Penn. in January. We had to wait out the moving truck. Can’t recall which hotel, but it was Hilton owned. It was a fucking ice box. We opted to move to the Double Tree in Skokie.

Runfastandwin's avatar

still better than stale rice krispies amirite

Dana Jae Labrecque's avatar

OMG! Stuck in Chicago! Get a hotdog and chuck that Raisin Bran at ICE.

Susan Niemann's avatar

Right!?!? But listen…right now I’m actually ON A PLANE! 🤞. I need to get the hell outta here before I decide to rent an apartment. 😂😂

Dana Jae Labrecque's avatar

Chicago is freaking awesome!

Susan Niemann's avatar

It IS a great city... I wish it had been under different circumstances! 😂😂

Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

If you dig jazz and blues it’s one hell of a town!

verne's avatar

don't forget poi dog pondering!!!!

great food too. it's been a long time since i left but arun's, ina's, frontera, the berghoff, are a few that come to mind.

i loved it when don stephens attempted the gambling ship in rosemont only to be undone by those pesky waste haulers mob ties

Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Nice, haven’t seen them since I was a kid… Midway or O’Hare, guess I’d rather be at either, than shoving 2” of ice with 6” of snow on top around here! You’re probably thinking about why you didn’t extend your visa, touring the rest of the beautiful places on this spinning stone. Welcome back to the chaos and fuckery you left for a while, Feliz ano novo!!

Susan Niemann's avatar

You bet. My reentry has been the stark reminder of why I left. 😂

Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

There’s a bit of paperwork required, but I can usually find a ton of places to hang my hat, when I leave this ghetto!

Dan Beach's avatar

Ain't travel a delight these days? Raisin Bran is a pretty good cure for everything, especially a layover into the unknown. I hope your travels are safe and completed soon. Happy New Year.

Susan Niemann's avatar

Ha!! Life was so nice in Spain too. Here’s hoping I get on the next flight outta Chicago-or I’ll rent an apartment till spring! 😂

Charles Austin's avatar

I was afraid that the snow monster would get you.😂😂

Susan Niemann's avatar

I thought I put you in charge of weather control Charlie! 😂😂

Tess's avatar

Happy New Year everyone! Let’s hope 2026 brings back democracy and peace all over the world. Love this substack Jeff!

William Burke's avatar

I second that emotion. All I can say at this point in our national implosion is thank God for Tiedrich.

Bob Bowden's avatar

I hope the last minute I have on Earth in this shitty timeline is spent wearing plastic glasses staring up at the ceiling viewing a 3D projection of Pete Kegstand flipping that glorious skateboard into his own nuts

Joe Witkowski's avatar

Can some hacker infiltrate the large TV in Kegstand’s Pentagon Beauty Parlor with that streaming video of The Raisincracker?

Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

2025 was a real fucker, lets hope for a better 26 Tess

HI2thDoc's avatar

Thanks, Jeff, for the slog through the quagmire of stupid in 2025, courtesy of the kooks, rummies, and assholes on the right. The skateboard to the nuts is now a standard, as should be the MAGA self-eye-macer. Happy New Year, everyone, and we can hold out hope that somehow 2026 will be less stupid.

HI2thDoc's avatar

Whar all the Iowa voters who keep electing Grassley yet whined about Joe Biden's age?

Joyce's avatar

It seems obvious to me that Grassley is, in fact, dead--everything he says and does is simply the result of lingering neurons firing their last gasps.

HI2thDoc's avatar

Well, voting for a dead guy is just so fucking stupid

arne link's avatar

It's pretty crazy. When he finally goes to the spirit in the sky will they reelect him in absentia? We'll have to wait and see.

Joe Witkowski's avatar

I hope Assley goes in an Abrahamic flaming charity straight to hell.

Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

For 649years, that’s his age we can’t prove he wasn’t born right there at the Capital.

Unity In Defiance's avatar

Charlie Kirk was a grifter first and foremost — and if we lived in biblical times he’d have been stoned in the town square for selling snake oil to the people.

His “lord God” was money all the way — which is why Erikkka Kirk jumped right in there to continue the grift before his body was even cold.

Cathy Rady's avatar

hmmm - and here I'd been thinking that Charlie Kirk's body was cold well before he'd even died.

Joe Witkowski's avatar

If you think it is “disrespectful” to watch streaming video of his actual demise, just watch the season one finale of *YOUR HONOR* on Netflix. The kid playing Adam Desiato (Judge Michael Desiato’s son) does it pretty realistically.

Joanne Rossmassler Fritz's avatar

Thank you, Jeff, for this entire three-part recap of a Year in Stupid. It’s most fitting (and satisfying) to include our favorite Nutcracker gif. Happy New Year to you, Ms Spouse, and everyone in this fan community!

Sarah_Goldflies_Herrle's avatar

Happy new year to all us Radical Left Scum!🍾🥂

Jeff, thanks for all you do keeping us sane through the shit timeline we’re living through.

AuntTeeFa's avatar

Another banger~

especially October 1

Can’t ever get enough of watching a sweaty day drinker in a skin tight suit change his voice five octaves by pretending that he’s Tony Hawk

All these losers!! and to think you’ve only scratched the surface

Apparently we’re made of tougher stuff than we believe we are to have survived it all

Poor Freddie Mercury looks pretty anguished being a member of that opening act

Happy, healthy, prosperous new year to all!🥂

Dana Jae Labrecque's avatar

Your first paragraph!

\( ̄▽ ̄)/

Scott Gilbert's avatar

By the way, now that Iwona B. Horyn is actively working for Trump, she's only using her initials.

She is now known as I. B. Horyn.

DrBDH's avatar

You mean she achieved her horyn goal?

SethTriggs's avatar

This MAGA death cult is really chock full of weirdos innit?

Love the look back. Enjoy the New Year! And look out for one another.

Beth's avatar

Just when I thought I was taking all the bat-shittery in stride, I see a RECREATION OF WHERE KIRK WAS SHOT AND THEY ARE TAKING PICTURES THERE? What kind of TOTALLY FUCKED UP people are these? OMG. OMG. OMG.

Susan Niemann's avatar

I was floored when I saw that too. WTF is wrong with them!?😳

Beth's avatar

Just incredible. And the people in the pic appear to be smiling. At least they're not recreating the shot, I guess. Small things to be thankful for.

DuduLovesBubu's avatar

I thought that display could be used for the MAGA equivalent of the mile high club.

Beth's avatar

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

PTW's avatar

What do you bet they are charging a fee to get your picture taken there? The grift never ends.

Dana Jae Labrecque's avatar

Total fucking shameless loons.

No disrespect to the aquatic birds. But like them, I’d like to dive 10-feet down in the Bay about now to drown out the sounds of lunacy.

Bob's avatar
Dec 31Edited

Happy New Year to all us Radical Left Lunatics! Thank you for you attention to this matter!

Hannah's avatar

Here's to a better year!

Just a few more hours and we try again. Happy New Year and let's get this one right.

Steve Ruis's avatar

Don't let Trump see that Simon Hedge's post (Kirk with Jesus and Queen band members) because he would have to accept that as proof that gays go to heaven!