if that weighs heavily on you, please take the advice I give in the Inauguration Day post I wrote one year ago today: "practice self-care. it’s okay to step away from the news for a day."
I think that is great advice. The authoritarian playbook is non stop chaos to overwhelm and shut us down. We need to remember the game they are playing so we don't become pawns.
I think I speak for many here Jeff when I say, be sure to follow your own advice as well! If you need a day to step away, do it, we all would fully understand. Just send a quick sentence or two to let us know so we don't worry in your absence is all!
I second your suggesting. Great one! Yes, Jeff. We k own how difficult your life is. You pour your heart and soul into your posts. Take a mental health day off. It will feel great. This nurse highly recommends it!
Oh yes. I could even be happy seeing his nose blackened and teeth knocked out in lieu of his teeny, tiny cojones, once in a while. Anyone ever gif that?
Being here with Jeff's brilliance, humour and all of the rest of you good people is MY therapy (never went to a real therapist though I likely should've)...but it is what it is. Humour, especially someone who can make ME laugh through pain - is far more effective. Finding like-minded folk who feel the same is all I really need.
Do you know what else is brilliant about the baby video?
Pissed off baby is sitting on the shithole Continent of Africa, which is absorbing all of his ass blasts. Because Donnie shit-canned USAID Africans are dying by the hundreds of thousands. The giant baby is literally crushing the life out of the people of Africa.
The baby in the video is cute! He cries in protest, as if he knows he isn’t in charge, Mom is. He doesn’t rage and throw ketchup bottles like the infantile elderly and demented thug who somehow is still the U.S. president.
Thanks for pointing out he is sitting on Africa, Kathleen. Trump has no use for any people who are not white and rich and suck up to him. Forgot to add male.
Yup - he definitely despises women, mostly black women who prove they're more intelligent than him and have beaten him in Court. I'm suddenly getting a free subscription (no idea why) to Vanity Fair and this month's (came today) featured his crew: a CLOSEUP of Leavitt and her pores, a goebbels/miller named 'the zealot' and some more I couldn't look at. WHY on earth would they be featured? I also mentioned a group of intelligent legal black women the demented fuckwit hates the most but somehow omitted Fani Willis of Georgia. Remember his uber-sleazy way of talking about her the man he repeatedly called her 'loooover'? UGH. Not only do I now believe he has a thing for little boys, I think he might also have 'a thing' for black women too. Maybe his deepest resentment is of not being born on a Plantation down South where he could do what he wanted as massa's son with his slaves. Could THAT be what Epstein 'Island' was partly about? I'd put nothing past this sleazebag of an amoral creep.
The estimated total toll, if there isn't any intervention, is 17 MILLION deaths due to Musk's psychotic stoppage of USAID. Musk should be prosecuted by the ICC. I know, he did it under "orders" or so we are to understand, but he did it for personal reasons too.
Waking up at 4AM in the morning because you can't sleep because you're wondering what your batshit crazy president has been texting over night, isn't exactly normal.
I have visions of steam coming out your ears, like a cartoon character, as you read the latest antics your crazy pants president has been texting on his failing app.
Mind you, having said the above, what is normal these days in your f**ked up country.
I think there is more normality in Toon town these days,, than in the White house. That's all for now folks.
I suspect most of us know this - only want to remind you that none of us will leave IF you ever need to take the occasional day off just to recharge. When I heard that HORRID voice of the fuckwit claiming (again) that 'no one was ever treated as horribly as me' it made me want to puke. The moron doesn't KNOW that we've actually had Presidents assassinated? Perhaps that's what gave him or his handlers the idea to stage an attempt - to garner 'sympathy'? When I saw him flinch then react against the 'deathly' binder clip (granted it WAS large, but certainly not enough to fucking KILL him!), then toss the prepared pages to the floor because 'how dare it offend the king'(!) I couldn't help lauaghing, hoping South Park or someone else would draw him holding up a tiny finger gripped by a gigantic clip while bleeding profusely - all while screaming 'fight, fight, fight'. We SO need to keep making fun of the big, dumb cowardly orange pumpkin baby.
If it weren’t for this vile wastrels fuckery, and organized protests to attend. There’s many a small towns, warm sunny beach I could be found, never in this country though Paula…
Me too! My boyfriend doesn’t understand my interest in listening to any of it. If he hears anything resembling news he just leaves the room. No words just off to play chess or putter around - anything but the “noise.” He says, ‘let me know if he died or is in prison’.
I know you are making a joke, but I just had to get my two cents worth in here. I’m a pescatarian, but I’ve had some pretty delicious vegan food and yes, vegans may live longer.
Yeah, it's a joke, but to us unrestricted omnivores, it's also kinda true. That being said, pescatarians, vegetarians, and vegans have much lower rates of cardiovascular disease and cancer, which are the top two killers in America. Hopefully ICE does not usurp that ranking.
The video clips I DID hear (only from some of our respected sources), showed him literally gasping for air - making this weird noise one could hear in the silence. I have this feeling he isn't long for this world and KNOWS IT - but is too narcissistic and malignantly obsessed with his 'forever-ness' that he won't accept any fatal diagnosis. There was that complete silence from the Davos audience noted by others - I heard the lack of response too - as well as the genuine warm reaction to Charney.
Awww, come on. I'm not a vegan, just a vegetarian. But my diet is mostly fresh fruits and vegetables — and a little bit of high-quality dark chocolate every day. (Chocolate is one of my essential food groups.)
Came close! His fucking plane had an 'emergency' and was forced to return to base! One of the young YouTubers I watch kept trying to stop himself from motioning with his fingers just 'howclose' we were, then shaking his head no, then doing it again. It was a funny bit. Of course 'never leave it alone' Leavitt made some stupid-ass comment about it being 'a good thing' he was going to get his special gift jet from Qattar. Ugh. How about asking US the American Tax Payers if WE want to spend (what is it now $2Billion?) to retrofit that flying bordello for his wanna-be majesty first? Short answer? NO~let him buy his own fucking plane. (since it won't be ready until he's gone, it isn't OUR tab to pay!)
It's worth pointing out that at least half the stress of these times is caused, not by Trump or his vile administration, but by frustration and rage at how others are failing to adequately address them, i.e., the mainstream media, House and Senate Republicans, the feckless Democratic leadership, the Supreme Court, and corporate America.
The "mainstream" media is at the top of my shitlist and has been since summer 2024 when they did a relentless hit job on Joe Biden (who is still completely coherent and in control of his mental faculties — I've listened to several of his recent speeches) but hardly mentioned Donny's obvious decline. And still rarely do.
I’ve seen a couple of police-ICE confrontations that didn’t end well for the goon squad Lisa, at Renee Goods memorial. Damn right it’s cold, ICE hasn’t ever been subjected to these temperatures. Although my hands were damn numb after helping with a snowball/foul smelling balloon toss.
The balloons were urine filled with a few likely human. ICE has to wash their own gear, deer pee is nasty. Come down to the twin cities, only a few people in the crowd were assaulted by the goon squad. There is a bounty for arrests but detainees have said it’s brief. Unless they are illegal …
America's work strike begins at 2pm Eastern TODAY and is just for today. The people behind the original 2017 women's march are asking for a work strike. IF you can do so responsibly, for example, you're not needed in a hospital or fire station.
Unfortunately, with my broken ankle, I can't even get out of my third floor apartment let alone walk to a protest. Also I heard the Women's March was involved in this one and they are on my hit list for their anti-semitism and Bernie Bro-ism. And I haven't heard from the local people who typically lead the protests here.
Have you heard about the man these fucking 'border patrol agents' raided, literally broke down his front door SANS warrant, giving him no reason whatsoever to attack his home, dragging him out into the Minnesota frigidity wearing only boxer shorts and crocs (why he wears crocs in these temps are purely his business...I never have so maybe they're comfy?) Nevertheless, there seems to be some possibility that he's a friend of Mayor Frey who spoke up against the orange fuckwit so has - as normal, incurred his wrath, bringing it down on his family, friends and acquaintances as well. The difference is - this man is in his late 50''s (at the very least), they asked for his 'papers' - he told them they were in the pther room after which they lost interest in said papers. before dragging him (handcuffed) out into the frigid 12degrees. The idea was probably to kill him since once they'd 'arrested' him, taken him down to wherever (a precinct I suppose() he was then finally released after some hours. Oh, his son did give him a blanket to put around his shoulders otherwise he'd have been naked. The second attack was on a young black woman (one of several) 'seized' by 'agents' and questioned for her papers despite explaining that she's an American Citizen. Not only that but she was an OFF-DUTY-POLICE OFFICER targeted due to her skin colour. Luckily her Police Chief now is fully aware of these occurrences and is absolutely outraged. Will it help? Who knows. We might just see a 3-way inter-agency 'war': our own military against our own National Guard with our own Police Force, all of whom will have different 'orders' and answer to different 'bosses'. Ugh.
You never mentioned the $47 he asked his MAGA base to donate within 30 minutes of receiving his email, so that the radical left didn't win the 2026 mid term elections. Apparently he sent it on the 12 Jan.
By the way, I think the American people do need to do something about this batshit crazy president. His actions are becoming more and more erratic and unhinged.
And I think you need to take a step back from your daily blogs, as he is making you more and more unhinged 👍😁
Jeff, I believe you are incredibly HINGED (would that be the complete opposite of unhinged?). Please stay hinged, o guru of “hingement.” Anyone who still supports any part of Trump or his corrupt government can rightfully claim the title UNHINGED.
Michael... take your advice elsewhere. Jeff Tiedrich is providing valuable commentary that his subscribers look forward to. Your audacity in calling him unhinged is breathtaking...and completely unwarranted. Go away.
I was joking Susan. Although the batshit crazy stuff Trump does, does seem to rile Jeff up no end. I can tell when I'm reading his posts. I can imagine steam coming out of his ears as he reads the latest installment of what the bat shit crazy president has been upto.
Get the fuck off this site. You're using the exact language of an abuser. "I was only kidding, but I had to do it because..." Jeff can take care of himself - of that I have no doubt - but the rest of us need your bullshit like we need a sharp stick in the eye. No, you weren't joking.
Jeff buoys us up with humor, intelligence and truth. You're just a fucking asshole. Sorry I gave you the benefit of the doubt. Suck my balls, dickhead.
Sorry, but.....that is a bit unhinged. Not every attempt by someone to be funny with the written word, no facial cues or tone of voice to help stress you're not being serious, is going to connect. I'm giving this dude the benefit of the doubt. Why not take someone at their word?
Ooooh, another. Are you taking donny-the-fuckwit-preznit 'at his word' when you see the batshit craziness being spewed from HIS crappy app in the middle of the night? OR when he 'takes' an actual Nobel Peace Prize Recipient's Medal claiming he's keeping it - even after having it 'splained to him how that's not how it works? Do you take 'his word' that he's 'ended 8 PLUS WARS'?! Can you name one? Sorry, not sorry, but this isn't funny anymore. There ARE places one can go to express their magat viewpoints and leanings. Invading Jeff's substack AIN'T one of them, damnit!
The last thing Jeff is doing is being 'driven crazy' by following/reporting on/commenting on/analyzing the orange pissant. IN fact, he's keeping ALL of those who follow him and his Substack sane. There were only a couple of very painful days when he wasn't sure he could bring himself to 'be funny'. Anyone here can write their own, post their own 'take' on Davos, Epstein files, frump, Greenland, Iceland, the big cube of ice or whatever. The fact that Jeff keeps us laughing and commiserating with him AND each other is extremely helpful and logical - AND as so many have mentioned and specified, keeps them emotionally and mentally healthy and sane. For ANYONE to buy into the utter bullshit of frump's own invented 'tds' crap while calling Jeff 'unhinged' is beyond insulting. They think differently? Go write their own 'take' somewhere else. What I see is someone with almost no followers who's hijacking Jeff's popular page for his own 'opinion' and then being supported by other 'dudes' who either have no idea exactly what those who follow Jeff are about here OR have nefarious purposes.
WTF, Michael Rawlins? (I'm repeating myself). What do you MEAN 'I can tell when I'm reading his posts'? Are you daft as well as somewhere in Donny's magical mystery world too? THIS is Jeff's Substack and HE WRITES IT! WE READ it and respond - or not. YOUR response was stupid - and contrary to public (or any) opinion ever heard or read here. IF you don't wish to read Jeff's 'opinion' then WTF are you doing here? Did you take a turn onto a roundabout and never figure out your way off? GTFOOH. Listen - I was once British too - but I've lived here and been American long enough to have forgotten how things work over there. Only due to the utter stupidity of the orange turnip do I have even an inkling of who YOUR heads of State are now - when he insults them and few respond. WE didn't choose that moron, Putin and Musk did, pulling a fast one on us normal Americans (not the magat cultists who fell for his scams). YOU have zero clue how things work here in America so please don't pretend you have the slightest. WE here despise the mad orange wanna-be ruler more than humanly possible, but Jeff no more than most of us. He's just a better writer - and a whole lot funnier. 'Tis why we gravitate to HIS posts on HIS Substack--precisely because we agree with and think similarly. IF you don't, and I've just got through reading some idiotic idea (past post) by you that frump being presiDUNCE (how I refer to him) is somehow a 'good thing' (I suspect because it suits YOUR best interests, not ours) that we ALL despise frump here, then get out, plain and simple. There are plenty of morons to follow and comment on. IN fact, some of THEM picked a blithering idiot to 'run' this Country. WE certainly didn't. You seem unable to differentiate between us. 'tds' is an invented term BY frump and his followers to describe US who despise him but in fact fits THEM to a tee. Jeff's isn't for you, methinks. You took a wrong turn somewhere east of hell - a place called mar-a-lardo. Leigh nailed it absolutely.
Actually, Jeff, Everyone is entitled to YOUR opinion!!! we love what you do,,,and I get it about it being the therapy. I send out daily memes, pics, or cartoons. That is my therapy!
My guess is he's shocked by the crazy daily events that you are notating and writing about, and perhaps thinks you're exaggerating. Of course trump is unhinged from reality and you are simply reporting on his actions. He certainly isn't hearing about these daily insanities on Fox Noise or right wing YouTube podcasts after all.
I was amazed at all the relatively straight news sites such as Meidas Report that initially thought Donny's post about how he needed Greenland because since he didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize he was justified in starting wars was satire.I realized this was exactly my type of thinking in 5th grade, when I was 9. I really don't like having sa president who thinks on the level of a resentful 9-year-old.
I did not understand that he thought you are unhinged and saying crazy things, just that having to monitor and describe Trump's could drive anyone crazy considering he's the President. It makes me feel unhinged.
I just realized it was YOU who wrote this! Otherwise it made no sense...I believe I responded a bit vociferously, defending your substack. Question for me is 'why'? Why does he get to have that kind of an opinion when - it clearly flies in the face of anything ANY of us feel or think or imagine - here? If you've read his 'opinion piece' about 'why he thinks it might be a good idea to have had frump as president' you might think differently...or not. Either way, to me it sucked eggs and smacked of a new version of their way of invading/taking away another of our 'great spaces' - one more method to ruin and to 'distract', throwing even more shit at the wall to see what sticks? There are still worthwhile and listenable voices left despite so much negativity tossed our way hoping we'll give up/collapse - it IS heartening to realize more are speaking out LOUDLY while refusing to be cowed and while accepting that this specific one is yours, it's pretty much a 'sacred space to most of us because you're so courageous. I've mentioned Jack Cochiarelli (sp?) - he did a GREAT Youtube vid the other day. The Meidas Touch Brothers and Brian Michael Cohen, Aaron Parnas (Lev's son) - most of whose language is getting a wee bit looser while they become more humorous and braver. It's a BIG tent - I know you can all fit. That does my heart good, simply wishing for more distaff voices of the younger variety. There are certainly older ones like mine and so many more well-read and well-spoken women here, but I'm far too tired to carry on, so hoping for some seriously funny young women coming along to give their input. Btw - I assumed that you were kicking people out who crossed your personal line regardless of status? Would expect no less. Anyway, I don't expect ANYONE to dare refer to you as 'unhinged'. That's seriously a WTF' moment and I reacted exactly as Leigh did..
I assume you're trying to be funny re: Jeff being unhinged. You might want to clarify.
You're long on profiling and pointing, but woefully short on suggestions. Americans are now at the stage of getting the brains blown out, their heads blown off (bc "shot in the face" seems rather quaint now) and tear gassed, abducted, dragged from their homes...So please, tell us what to do. We're all ears.
Specifically, Michael, what would YOU do to remove Trump?
What we can do about his unfitness for office? Write or call our federal Senators and House Representatives, demanding that *they* ask Trump's Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment. Also impeach his ass. Neither is likely while Republicans control the media, the House, the Senate, and the Cabinet. Not to mention the SCOTUS. If we rebel with weapons, Trump will invoke the Insurrection Act. Then he becomes an open dictator with his own private army and a military that will not intervene, as opposed to an undeclared dictator with his own private army and a military that has not refused to follow illegal orders.
Yes, I write to my representatives even though they are Democrats because they need to know we are concerned and that we are watching what our watching what they are doing.
I had problems with anxiety every time trump was in the news during his first term. Now it is so much worse I had to ask my doctor for a prescription of lamotrigine. The constant daily 20/7 verbal diarrhea from the Chaos King is just too much to handle.
Jacqueline: It's easier for me: I immediately turn to my Smooth Jazz 'Impressions' TV Station, turn it up loud enough to make it count, then relax with the music I love. I will NOT listen to that horrid voice no matter what 'channel' he's on. Later on, when I have on Nicolle Wallace or Rachel Maddow - or Lawrence O'Donnell from MS Now, IF they play 'clips' from his blathering bullshit, I'll lower the volume and listen ONLY if they're dissecting what's going on. It makes it far more palatable in tiny 'bites'. I had more than enough during his first term and have warned my husband that I will NOT hear that voice, so if HE wants to listen to it - he'd better figure out a way: go outside, upstairs, or wherever, because I won't be responsible for my actions. ;) I've no idea what that medicine is which you mentioned but I take others so probably couldn't anyway. Hope this helps.
Let the first Sunday of the month be that day. This is from the Chaos Computer Club of Hamburg, Germany.
"Together with many other organizations, the Chaos Computer Club is calling for a Digital Independence Day: On the first Sunday of every month, we switch from big tech platforms to free, local, or simply less problematic alternatives. In many cities, CCC volunteers provide advice and support.
Enough is enough.
Europe is in the stranglehold of Big Tech. The platforms don't care about our laws, they are undermining our democracy and thus our freedom. The Trump administration and its tech billionaire allies are not afraid to blackmail us through these dependencies. The federal government seems like a deer in the headlights and doesn't even dare to leave X. So we have to take the lead. If we switch together, we can leverage the network effect.
The power and potential for abuse of “social” media is impressively demonstrated by the example of Twitter: After purchasing it, Elon Musk fundamentally changed the platform in a very short time. Structures for fact-checking and respectful exchange were dismantled, reach was shifted, and progressive voices were suppressed.
Despite a massive loss of trust, X remains socially influential: political accounts give the service legitimacy, media quotes strengthen its relevance and reach. This reach is increasingly being used to spread exclusion and disinformation and to exert targeted political influence.
The EU recently imposed a penalty on X for failing to comply with basic requirements of the Digital Services Act (DSA), which is designed to counteract the dangers of power concentration. Since then, X has miraculously increased the reach of EU-critical voices, and Elon Musk has even called for the dissolution of the EU. A few days later, a travel ban was imposed on former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton, who played a key role in shaping the DSA, as well as on representatives of HateAid, which systematically reports illegal content such as hate speech, incitement, and sedition for review and removal under the DSA.
This escalation shows that this is no longer just about a platform, but about influencing public debate, democratic processes, and the European rule of law.
And X is not an isolated case. Commercial centralized “social media” optimize for attention and dependency—often with proven harmful consequences, especially for young people.
Of course, laws that have been enacted for our protection must be enforced. But it is also up to us to turn our backs on platforms that harm us or even oppose our democracy so radically.
With AI, the concentration of power continues to grow
Centralized “social” media analyze our relationships and interests in order to use the findings as profitably as possible for advertising marketing or political influence.
Artificial intelligence reinforces this trend: ever-increasing amounts of data can be evaluated, used automatically, and exploited economically.
Cloud services are also increasingly treating user data as a raw material—not least to further deepen dependencies.
We are the network
WhatsApp, Instagram, X, and Facebook are worth billions. Their real value is us—the users.
Of course, it's not always easy to opt out: school classes, circles of friends, political debates—many things seem to be tied to individual platforms. But this is precisely where our common opportunity lies: if we consciously use the network effect instead of letting it shackle us, we can break new ground.
Digital Independence Day
At the 39th Chaos Communication Congress, author Marc-Uwe Kling calls for a Digital Independence Day.
On the first Sunday of every month, we take a step together toward the better side of the internet. We show that alternatives work, and we bring our friends and acquaintances along with us. And to let more people know about it, we use new and old social media to share our experiences.
“It's not just the switch that's important, we also need to talk about it afterwards. The best thing to do is to brag about how we freed ourselves from a big tech service. #DIDit,” said Marc-Uwe Kling.
The campaign page of the initiative, which is supported by many other organizations, collects switch recipes.
Some moves need to be prepared: finding new networks, keeping contacts, adjusting habits. In many cities, CCC volunteers are on hand to provide experience, advice, and practical support:
We help with the move from Windows 10 to more secure alternatives, from WhatsApp to a suitable messenger, and from Gmail to a trustworthy provider.
The first Digital Independence Day workshops will take place on January 4.
All regular events—including those of many other partner organizations—are collected on the central event platform termine.di.day. Supporters and groups can independently create and maintain events there.
The platform is provided on a voluntary basis by Chaostreff Flensburg."
There’s a kids game called Perfection where you have to get different shaped blocks in the correct shaped slots before the timer runs out. When the timer goes off the pieces spring out and scatter.
I’ve been braced trying to anticipate what he might do before time ran out and he triggered again.
That’s how I’ve felt since he declared he would run again. And it was made clear that the first time wasn’t just a fluke.
Dinner diplomacy sounds terrific! Ask me, M. Macron! I will fix everything! Seriously, I don’t know why anyone invites DT anywhere. It’s not like he’s the leader of the free world anymore. I run into people who say “I didn’t know it would be like this” and it’s as if my face is frozen in a permanent eye-roll.
I see your waterproof chairs and I’ll raise you a drop-down
Cage, not tall enough for him to stand up. Then drop a soundproof paneled box around it. Because we’re civilized we’ll drop in a bottle water and spare extra-large diaper, trash can and wet wipes. Air-lift that container to a black site over the deep blue sea. Repeat with each of his cronies down to Michael Johnson and a few trump cocksuckers in congress. Force all cabinet members and staff to resign and be tossed indefinitely into detention centers. Then sing Happy Birthday America! No tariffs! Free healthcare! Food for all! Hold democratic elections. Elect democrat. Repeal every executive order and rescind all pardons by the past autocrat. Celebrate! Let freedom ring 🎶
Well, to be fair, NOBODY knew it would be like THIS, because this is beyond imagining and beyond catastrophizing. Those of us with, you know, eyes and ears, knew it would be a shit show, but the form of that debacle was unclear. It’s like Dan Aykroyd thinking up the Stat Puft Marshmallow Man as the form of their destruction. Frankly, I’d take a one-hundred-foot-tall marshmallow stalking the streets over this demented bozo of a motherfucker. So yeah, we knew, but this? This is far worse. Fuck DJT, fuck ICE, and most of all fuck these cowardly little Republicans whose mouths are too attached to dear leader’s ass to sound the alarm.
When over the weekend Ted Cruz was defending Trump's lust for Greenland in an interview, I wanted the reporter to say, "And what does your ugly wife think about you now kissing the ass of the man who insulted her?"
Many of us did read Project 2025, and were properly alarmed. So, sure, much of what’s happening was there, but it's the capriciousness that's so outrageous. Dear leader has a whim and it's off to the races.
Those of us whose parents and extended family endured (most of them not surviving) the Holocaust, knew EXACTLY how it was going to go, back in 2015. We tried to warn people. we know where it goes from here, too, by the way, and we're still trying to warn people.
FUCK stephen miller since he's the vicious little prick 'architect' of most of the insanity AND he sells it to his orange turnip 'boss', telling him it's HIS idea. That's HIS 'talent'. It's why the frump 'no one ever knew about this before' or the like. Because miller tells him it's all something frump has just thought up - and of course he's so desperate to believe he's really a 'genius' he falls for it then spews it out.
Classic denialism of something no one could have missed. When the Allies liberated the Nazi death camps, General Eisenhower told his unit commanders to go grab the German civilians from the nearby towns to help care for the survivors and bury the dead. The uniform response from said civilians, when shown the ghastly conditions and unimaginable suffering that was inflicted upon innocent people? "We didn't know."
I asked my father how Hitler was allowed to do his thing, his answer was also, "we had no way of knowing! He also said the world would not have believed this could happen.
But there are immigrants living dangerous and horrible conditions in Central America. Yet we are powerless to stop it. Thugs in Minneapolis are attacking people and killing people without any consequences and not just arresting illegal immigrants. And Trump administration says that they a legally able to shoot unarmed people. Im not able to head out to Minneapolis to rescue people. Its well documented and yet 20% of people who are Republicans think thats fine.
There were people who got word of what was happening in Europe and tried to alert everyone else, but they were branded as hysterics and anyway, there was so much overt antisemitism back then that I think many leaders didn’t care. And we didn’t have modern communications then. Oh, and we have holocaust deniers today!
That's actually a really good idea. You know he would be so pissed off if he stopped being invited places, even Europe despite all of the shit he talks about them. The biggest malignant narcissist on earth needs to be the center of attention at all times and the world should start straight up ignoring him.
Reporter: "What do you think about the [latest fucking crazy thing] said/done by President Trump?"
Any head of state/diplomat/whoever: "I'm sorry, who is that? Oh right, that lunatic from America. He really seems to be seriously mentally and physically unwell. Next question."
The only downside is who the fuck knows what he'd do in retaliation at this point.
It's like Denmark writing a letter to trump saying the Oscar for Best International Feature Film should've gone to The Girl with the Needle, so you should let us buy Guam.
" I'll put a 200% tariff on his wines and champagnes" - Canada and the rest of the world will gladly replace any lost sales of French wine - we stopped buying California and Oregon wine months ago.
When is he going to learn that other countries are not 13 year old girls?
I saw Macron's speech this morning, I suggest watching it. I hope what he said in that speech he says to Donnie DumDum's face.
Although, I think Macron would be much more successful if he led the charge in hosting a blanket party against Donnie--throw a blanket over his head and then he and all the leaders beat him with 3 day old baguettes until he cries Uncle.
Susan, my dear, I’m getting a little concerned over your constant laughing responses to the comments, but do keep it up. Those grinning icons say it all. 😂🤣😆
I'd prefer they beat him with French cheese wheels placed in a pillowcase. Leave as many bruises on that bastard's face as humanly possible plus 2 black eyes. Let Caroline Lyingvitt explain that one.
Awhile back, I saw a meme that said, “Replacing Trump with Vance is like shitting your pants and changing your shirt.” I agreed with it at the time, but now I realize anyone with two partiality functioning brain cells would be an improvement. They need to 25A the shit out of him now.
Well Congress could, but not this collection of craven MAGAt cowards. I would support impeaching Noem to try get every Republican on the record who supports Gestapo Barbie.
Not sure if dignified attendees at Davos would do that . BUT , Congress will attend the SOTU speech soon and they can invite a guest. The precedent has been established by Republicans during Obama's speech when a Rep yelled out " you lie " MTG and Bobert carried on that tradition against Biden . Maybe this year it won't be a Rep yelling out corrections but someone's guest , or many guests , who get to scream shit out loud.
Truthfully you can’t run fast but I get it. My dog hates the wind but thinks he can outrun it also he he bites the air while running. Crazy fucker, just had to swear.
I’m sure Trump actually believes that Norway controls the Nobel prize. He thinks they’re doing the same thing as he does when he says the DOJ is doing whatever it’s going to do and he knows nothing about it.
He is incompetent and deranged. Every day he has access to the nuclear "football" is a day no rational person can rest. Here's what I recently wrote about the worsening situation and the complete fecklessness of his GOP apologists and enablers:
"Trump’s volatility, malignant narcissism, and governing incompetence, enabled by an ethically compromised Roberts Court and a feckless, GOP-controlled Congress, will leave lasting damage on the United States and the world. Trump voters, along with those who opted out under the comforting fiction that “both sides are the same,” effectively handed him the taxpayer treasury and the nation’s credit card. He is now managing public funds exactly as he managed his own ventures, through recklessness, self-dealing, fraud, corruption, and failure, repeating the pattern that led to multiple bankruptcies and the dissolution of his so-called charitable foundation."
"He is now managing public funds exactly as he managed his own ventures, through recklessness, self-dealing, fraud, corruption, and failure, repeating the pattern that led to multiple bankruptcies and the dissolution of his so-called charitable foundation."
And yet Mr. Trump won the popular vote last election . Maybe there in no saving us from ourselves .
Thank you George. It’s why I consider large-scale protests so important. Enough of the GOP must understand that their leader is unifying Independents and Non-affiliated voters with Democratic candidates and the clock is ticking toward midterms.
This is well-beyond any policy disagreement. This is potentially catastrophic and preventable.
Extortion, bribery, murder, grifting, lawlessness…our government is one big mafia family. Join my club or I’ll put a 200% tariff on your best export. Oh, and don’t forget the membership fee. 1 billion. Pay up motherfuckers.
That sleazy old motherfucker has cost me more sleep than anyone else I can think of. I've been saying for months, HE'S CRAZY AND NEEDS TO BE REMOVED NOW! And, nobody will listen to someone like me. I knew the raving maniac didn't belong in the White House to begin with, I sure as fuck didn't vote for him. I've NEVER voted for him. But, shit's gettin' real deep, and someone better step the fuck up and DO something about this unhinged sonuvabitch
Trump's popularity among Republican voters is only slightly flagging, and the 25th Amendment and Impeachment are not viable options. So it will take a skeet shooter who can do better than nick ears to deliver the nation.
You know what I find both amusing and somewhat terrifying about Donnie Dimwit's obsession with Greenland? It's his followers. Not the ones in government, but his base, the influencers and podcasters, or just everyday "fanboys" on the internet. Up until a few months ago, and maybe even still, these people couldn't have found Greenland on a map if it were outlined in flashing neon lights. Now, they're experts in the history and geopolitical strategic importance of Greenland. They haven't given one single independent thought to what the implications are, it's just "my boy Donnie said it, so I'll go along with it no matter what."
The USA has a ratified treaty with Denmark recognising their overall sovereignty in Greenland. The Supremacy clause in the US Constitution makes all treaties ratified by Congress (as this one was) enforceable in law.
Just talking about taking over Greenland is as illegal as anything else Trump & his Maladministration have done.
Never mind impeachment, just arrest the sonofabitch.
Of course nobody will.
But the treaty allows for military bases. Lots of them. If it was about countering security threats, the USA could station the whole army, navy & air force in Greenland and, providing the diplomatic nineties were observed, Greenland & Denmark would wave you in.
If it is just about the minerals, and assuming the technical difficulties of mining underneath permanent Ice sheets can be overcome, I'm sure the Danes & Greenlanders would be more than happy to give favourable access to the corporations of a close military and political ally (as the US was until about the time it looked like the Epstein files might have to be released. What happened to them, by the way? Or has Bannon's "flood the zone with shit" strategy worked yet again?)
So why the big thing about America having to own Greenland? Is it just what you get when you elect as President a man whose whole life has been a series of real estate deals (mostly failed ones at that)?
It's just his ego, isn't it? He wants it and refuses to be denied and will set the world on fire rather than be told "no".
This is what i find most upsetting about every terrifying and outrageous thing that's happened in our country over the past year. The fact that so many Americans voted for this and still blindly or maybe not so blindly still support this administration is the most disturbing part of it all.
And support the horrors of ICE. So often, reading comments other places on social media, I can clearly see who would be the Nazis relishing in running and working at the death camps.
Who are these ghouls and why are they so inhumane..
To the surprise of no one, electing the mentally ill rotting pumpkin with lizard eyes for a second time was a suicide pact. Steve Schmidt on Republicans, “everyone on the Titanic who got in a lifeboat before midnight went on to lead long, happy lives. Those who waited until after midnight wound up floating in the North Atlantic frozen stiff.”
Those that are clinging to Trump's rotting corpse will find their political careers in the shitter, but most will go on to be consultants and lobbyists and such, so they won't lose any sleep. The grift that keeps on grifting.
The great question is WHY our Congress is allowing this to continue. Are they in the Epstein files? Scared they wont get reelected? Scared they might fall out of a window in a 30 story building? I mean, I don't even know what it means to be a Republican anymore. Conservative? Hardly. More like bigots protecting billionaires.
Donny's been preznit for exactly one year.
if that weighs heavily on you, please take the advice I give in the Inauguration Day post I wrote one year ago today: "practice self-care. it’s okay to step away from the news for a day."
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/a-dark-day-in-america
I think that is great advice. The authoritarian playbook is non stop chaos to overwhelm and shut us down. We need to remember the game they are playing so we don't become pawns.
I think I speak for many here Jeff when I say, be sure to follow your own advice as well! If you need a day to step away, do it, we all would fully understand. Just send a quick sentence or two to let us know so we don't worry in your absence is all!
I second your suggesting. Great one! Yes, Jeff. We k own how difficult your life is. You pour your heart and soul into your posts. Take a mental health day off. It will feel great. This nurse highly recommends it!
folks, I promise you all that I'm okay. writing this shit every day is my therapy
Reading this stuff (it ain't shit) is my therapy, too.
I'd feel better if we had a Hegseth 'nad knackering .gif right about now.
Ditto.
Oh yes. I could even be happy seeing his nose blackened and teeth knocked out in lieu of his teeny, tiny cojones, once in a while. Anyone ever gif that?
Thank you for letting us know. We care and are concerned.These are unusually difficult and stressful times.
Thank God.....it is cheaper than a therapist's couch!
Reading it is my therapy!
Being here with Jeff's brilliance, humour and all of the rest of you good people is MY therapy (never went to a real therapist though I likely should've)...but it is what it is. Humour, especially someone who can make ME laugh through pain - is far more effective. Finding like-minded folk who feel the same is all I really need.
reading this shit every day is mine. thank you bud!
welll … ok then.
Do you know what else is brilliant about the baby video?
Pissed off baby is sitting on the shithole Continent of Africa, which is absorbing all of his ass blasts. Because Donnie shit-canned USAID Africans are dying by the hundreds of thousands. The giant baby is literally crushing the life out of the people of Africa.
The baby in the video is cute! He cries in protest, as if he knows he isn’t in charge, Mom is. He doesn’t rage and throw ketchup bottles like the infantile elderly and demented thug who somehow is still the U.S. president.
Thanks for pointing out he is sitting on Africa, Kathleen. Trump has no use for any people who are not white and rich and suck up to him. Forgot to add male.
Yup - he definitely despises women, mostly black women who prove they're more intelligent than him and have beaten him in Court. I'm suddenly getting a free subscription (no idea why) to Vanity Fair and this month's (came today) featured his crew: a CLOSEUP of Leavitt and her pores, a goebbels/miller named 'the zealot' and some more I couldn't look at. WHY on earth would they be featured? I also mentioned a group of intelligent legal black women the demented fuckwit hates the most but somehow omitted Fani Willis of Georgia. Remember his uber-sleazy way of talking about her the man he repeatedly called her 'loooover'? UGH. Not only do I now believe he has a thing for little boys, I think he might also have 'a thing' for black women too. Maybe his deepest resentment is of not being born on a Plantation down South where he could do what he wanted as massa's son with his slaves. Could THAT be what Epstein 'Island' was partly about? I'd put nothing past this sleazebag of an amoral creep.
The estimated total toll, if there isn't any intervention, is 17 MILLION deaths due to Musk's psychotic stoppage of USAID. Musk should be prosecuted by the ICC. I know, he did it under "orders" or so we are to understand, but he did it for personal reasons too.
Reading it is my therapy because we need a big dose of humor and ridicule.
Waking up at 4AM in the morning because you can't sleep because you're wondering what your batshit crazy president has been texting over night, isn't exactly normal.
I have visions of steam coming out your ears, like a cartoon character, as you read the latest antics your crazy pants president has been texting on his failing app.
Mind you, having said the above, what is normal these days in your f**ked up country.
I think there is more normality in Toon town these days,, than in the White house. That's all for now folks.
Gimme gimme Shock Treatment!
Howling at the moon is decent therapy Jeff… sayin’…
And your writings and research are therapy for your readers .
I suspect most of us know this - only want to remind you that none of us will leave IF you ever need to take the occasional day off just to recharge. When I heard that HORRID voice of the fuckwit claiming (again) that 'no one was ever treated as horribly as me' it made me want to puke. The moron doesn't KNOW that we've actually had Presidents assassinated? Perhaps that's what gave him or his handlers the idea to stage an attempt - to garner 'sympathy'? When I saw him flinch then react against the 'deathly' binder clip (granted it WAS large, but certainly not enough to fucking KILL him!), then toss the prepared pages to the floor because 'how dare it offend the king'(!) I couldn't help lauaghing, hoping South Park or someone else would draw him holding up a tiny finger gripped by a gigantic clip while bleeding profusely - all while screaming 'fight, fight, fight'. We SO need to keep making fun of the big, dumb cowardly orange pumpkin baby.
This nurse does too
Of course you do! We understand!
If you follow Paul Krugman, there are days when he posts just a short note.
And often, those have a lot of subtle meaning.
Paul has always been excellent, love the music posts following his post!
So do Joyce Vance and Heather Cox Richardson.
Like today...
Yes. This!!! 💜💜💜
Agreed, Jeff!!
See my post below about Big Tech free Sundays.
The longest year of my life.
Ditto. I'm ready to retire from life....wake me up when the iDJiT is locked up in a secure dementia unit.
Along with all of his wackadoo minions
Will do, but you misspelled CECOT.
If it weren’t for this vile wastrels fuckery, and organized protests to attend. There’s many a small towns, warm sunny beach I could be found, never in this country though Paula…
Me too! My boyfriend doesn’t understand my interest in listening to any of it. If he hears anything resembling news he just leaves the room. No words just off to play chess or putter around - anything but the “noise.” He says, ‘let me know if he died or is in prison’.
Sorta like what they say about vegans: you don't live longer, it just tastes that way
I know you are making a joke, but I just had to get my two cents worth in here. I’m a pescatarian, but I’ve had some pretty delicious vegan food and yes, vegans may live longer.
Yeah, it's a joke, but to us unrestricted omnivores, it's also kinda true. That being said, pescatarians, vegetarians, and vegans have much lower rates of cardiovascular disease and cancer, which are the top two killers in America. Hopefully ICE does not usurp that ranking.
And given Donny's diet—not even high-quality meat and lots of processed junk—I'm not surprised he's in such bad shape.
The video clips I DID hear (only from some of our respected sources), showed him literally gasping for air - making this weird noise one could hear in the silence. I have this feeling he isn't long for this world and KNOWS IT - but is too narcissistic and malignantly obsessed with his 'forever-ness' that he won't accept any fatal diagnosis. There was that complete silence from the Davos audience noted by others - I heard the lack of response too - as well as the genuine warm reaction to Charney.
Fish are loaded with mercury and their swim bladders are choked with a micro plastic slurry which is rapidly working its way up the food chain.
Put some lemon on that fish. It’ll go down easier.
As a meat eater...... that's funny!!!
Awww, come on. I'm not a vegan, just a vegetarian. But my diet is mostly fresh fruits and vegetables — and a little bit of high-quality dark chocolate every day. (Chocolate is one of my essential food groups.)
That’s funny!!
😂😂😂
Don’t worry. Only three more to go. 🙄😩
I'll take bets on that! I doubt very much he'll make it 3 more years alive, let alone in office!
One yr ago today, I predicted that #Bumblefuck wouldn't last *18 MOS* in office.
Every day, I'm more & more convinced that I WAS RIGHT.
Sounds good to me Lin!
Eighteen more MINUTES is too long.
That comment sounds a bit like the movie “They Shoot Horses Don’t They” …mind you I never saw it, but I remember the previews 🫣
one of hollywood's greatest films
Feels that way doesn’t it Kay?
Worst year of my life and all dopey’s fault too.
Hopefully the shortest year of his.
Maybe a miracle will happen tonight and we'll read in the morning that he has kicked the bucket!
Came close! His fucking plane had an 'emergency' and was forced to return to base! One of the young YouTubers I watch kept trying to stop himself from motioning with his fingers just 'howclose' we were, then shaking his head no, then doing it again. It was a funny bit. Of course 'never leave it alone' Leavitt made some stupid-ass comment about it being 'a good thing' he was going to get his special gift jet from Qattar. Ugh. How about asking US the American Tax Payers if WE want to spend (what is it now $2Billion?) to retrofit that flying bordello for his wanna-be majesty first? Short answer? NO~let him buy his own fucking plane. (since it won't be ready until he's gone, it isn't OUR tab to pay!)
Covid (2020) was also very, very long
Yes, it was. The only good thing about it was retiring at the end of the year.
Absolutely 💯
When you wrote this a year ago, we all knew it would be bad. But nobody could have predicted HOW bad.
This is about what I expected, except I thought the economic collapse would have started already.
Has it only been a year?
I’ve been aging faster than Bilbo Baggins without the ring.
Yes. Definitely yes.
It's worth pointing out that at least half the stress of these times is caused, not by Trump or his vile administration, but by frustration and rage at how others are failing to adequately address them, i.e., the mainstream media, House and Senate Republicans, the feckless Democratic leadership, the Supreme Court, and corporate America.
The "mainstream" media is at the top of my shitlist and has been since summer 2024 when they did a relentless hit job on Joe Biden (who is still completely coherent and in control of his mental faculties — I've listened to several of his recent speeches) but hardly mentioned Donny's obvious decline. And still rarely do.
Thank you, Ellis. May we stay angry and not slide (further ) into learned helplessness.
Testify.
OK Today. Tomorrow we must be at every protest. Even in 20 degree Chicago weather.
Excellent Mary, living in the twin towns I know…bundle up, be loud and enjoy the energy… it’s best to keep moving as well.
I’ve seen a couple of police-ICE confrontations that didn’t end well for the goon squad Lisa, at Renee Goods memorial. Damn right it’s cold, ICE hasn’t ever been subjected to these temperatures. Although my hands were damn numb after helping with a snowball/foul smelling balloon toss.
Patrick, water balls and snowballs!! Very creative!!! lol !!!! How I'd like to be lobbing those!!
The balloons were urine filled with a few likely human. ICE has to wash their own gear, deer pee is nasty. Come down to the twin cities, only a few people in the crowd were assaulted by the goon squad. There is a bounty for arrests but detainees have said it’s brief. Unless they are illegal …
America's work strike begins at 2pm Eastern TODAY and is just for today. The people behind the original 2017 women's march are asking for a work strike. IF you can do so responsibly, for example, you're not needed in a hospital or fire station.
This is the first I heard about. Is it national?
Unfortunately, with my broken ankle, I can't even get out of my third floor apartment let alone walk to a protest. Also I heard the Women's March was involved in this one and they are on my hit list for their anti-semitism and Bernie Bro-ism. And I haven't heard from the local people who typically lead the protests here.
Have you heard about the man these fucking 'border patrol agents' raided, literally broke down his front door SANS warrant, giving him no reason whatsoever to attack his home, dragging him out into the Minnesota frigidity wearing only boxer shorts and crocs (why he wears crocs in these temps are purely his business...I never have so maybe they're comfy?) Nevertheless, there seems to be some possibility that he's a friend of Mayor Frey who spoke up against the orange fuckwit so has - as normal, incurred his wrath, bringing it down on his family, friends and acquaintances as well. The difference is - this man is in his late 50''s (at the very least), they asked for his 'papers' - he told them they were in the pther room after which they lost interest in said papers. before dragging him (handcuffed) out into the frigid 12degrees. The idea was probably to kill him since once they'd 'arrested' him, taken him down to wherever (a precinct I suppose() he was then finally released after some hours. Oh, his son did give him a blanket to put around his shoulders otherwise he'd have been naked. The second attack was on a young black woman (one of several) 'seized' by 'agents' and questioned for her papers despite explaining that she's an American Citizen. Not only that but she was an OFF-DUTY-POLICE OFFICER targeted due to her skin colour. Luckily her Police Chief now is fully aware of these occurrences and is absolutely outraged. Will it help? Who knows. We might just see a 3-way inter-agency 'war': our own military against our own National Guard with our own Police Force, all of whom will have different 'orders' and answer to different 'bosses'. Ugh.
Not stepping away today. I’m going out and protesting this mother f*cker! ✊
Practice self care (in your pants!).
You never mentioned the $47 he asked his MAGA base to donate within 30 minutes of receiving his email, so that the radical left didn't win the 2026 mid term elections. Apparently he sent it on the 12 Jan.
By the way, I think the American people do need to do something about this batshit crazy president. His actions are becoming more and more erratic and unhinged.
And I think you need to take a step back from your daily blogs, as he is making you more and more unhinged 👍😁
wait — me? I'm unhinged? how so?
If you're "unhinged" then we all are unhinged because your writing keeps us happy every day!
Unfair assessment by Michael - I am here Jeff - checking everyone for mental health at no charge 😬😬😬😬
Unhinged.....AND you have TDS!! 😂🤪............kidding of course.
Jeff, I believe you are incredibly HINGED (would that be the complete opposite of unhinged?). Please stay hinged, o guru of “hingement.” Anyone who still supports any part of Trump or his corrupt government can rightfully claim the title UNHINGED.
I'D like to know that too - WTF? If YOU'RE unhinged, then some of us are WAAAAY out in left field.
I disagree...I read the posts every day and no, Jeff, you are not unhinged. Please keep doing what you're doing the way you are doing it!
Michael... take your advice elsewhere. Jeff Tiedrich is providing valuable commentary that his subscribers look forward to. Your audacity in calling him unhinged is breathtaking...and completely unwarranted. Go away.
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Ditto!
I was joking Susan. Although the batshit crazy stuff Trump does, does seem to rile Jeff up no end. I can tell when I'm reading his posts. I can imagine steam coming out of his ears as he reads the latest installment of what the bat shit crazy president has been upto.
Thats how I understood your post.
Get the fuck off this site. You're using the exact language of an abuser. "I was only kidding, but I had to do it because..." Jeff can take care of himself - of that I have no doubt - but the rest of us need your bullshit like we need a sharp stick in the eye. No, you weren't joking.
Jeff buoys us up with humor, intelligence and truth. You're just a fucking asshole. Sorry I gave you the benefit of the doubt. Suck my balls, dickhead.
And I'm totally hinged.
Sorry, but.....that is a bit unhinged. Not every attempt by someone to be funny with the written word, no facial cues or tone of voice to help stress you're not being serious, is going to connect. I'm giving this dude the benefit of the doubt. Why not take someone at their word?
Ooooh, another. Are you taking donny-the-fuckwit-preznit 'at his word' when you see the batshit craziness being spewed from HIS crappy app in the middle of the night? OR when he 'takes' an actual Nobel Peace Prize Recipient's Medal claiming he's keeping it - even after having it 'splained to him how that's not how it works? Do you take 'his word' that he's 'ended 8 PLUS WARS'?! Can you name one? Sorry, not sorry, but this isn't funny anymore. There ARE places one can go to express their magat viewpoints and leanings. Invading Jeff's substack AIN'T one of them, damnit!
I think just Following Trump's crazy behavior is driving him crazy. Its certainly driving me crazy.
The last thing Jeff is doing is being 'driven crazy' by following/reporting on/commenting on/analyzing the orange pissant. IN fact, he's keeping ALL of those who follow him and his Substack sane. There were only a couple of very painful days when he wasn't sure he could bring himself to 'be funny'. Anyone here can write their own, post their own 'take' on Davos, Epstein files, frump, Greenland, Iceland, the big cube of ice or whatever. The fact that Jeff keeps us laughing and commiserating with him AND each other is extremely helpful and logical - AND as so many have mentioned and specified, keeps them emotionally and mentally healthy and sane. For ANYONE to buy into the utter bullshit of frump's own invented 'tds' crap while calling Jeff 'unhinged' is beyond insulting. They think differently? Go write their own 'take' somewhere else. What I see is someone with almost no followers who's hijacking Jeff's popular page for his own 'opinion' and then being supported by other 'dudes' who either have no idea exactly what those who follow Jeff are about here OR have nefarious purposes.
WTF, Michael Rawlins? (I'm repeating myself). What do you MEAN 'I can tell when I'm reading his posts'? Are you daft as well as somewhere in Donny's magical mystery world too? THIS is Jeff's Substack and HE WRITES IT! WE READ it and respond - or not. YOUR response was stupid - and contrary to public (or any) opinion ever heard or read here. IF you don't wish to read Jeff's 'opinion' then WTF are you doing here? Did you take a turn onto a roundabout and never figure out your way off? GTFOOH. Listen - I was once British too - but I've lived here and been American long enough to have forgotten how things work over there. Only due to the utter stupidity of the orange turnip do I have even an inkling of who YOUR heads of State are now - when he insults them and few respond. WE didn't choose that moron, Putin and Musk did, pulling a fast one on us normal Americans (not the magat cultists who fell for his scams). YOU have zero clue how things work here in America so please don't pretend you have the slightest. WE here despise the mad orange wanna-be ruler more than humanly possible, but Jeff no more than most of us. He's just a better writer - and a whole lot funnier. 'Tis why we gravitate to HIS posts on HIS Substack--precisely because we agree with and think similarly. IF you don't, and I've just got through reading some idiotic idea (past post) by you that frump being presiDUNCE (how I refer to him) is somehow a 'good thing' (I suspect because it suits YOUR best interests, not ours) that we ALL despise frump here, then get out, plain and simple. There are plenty of morons to follow and comment on. IN fact, some of THEM picked a blithering idiot to 'run' this Country. WE certainly didn't. You seem unable to differentiate between us. 'tds' is an invented term BY frump and his followers to describe US who despise him but in fact fits THEM to a tee. Jeff's isn't for you, methinks. You took a wrong turn somewhere east of hell - a place called mar-a-lardo. Leigh nailed it absolutely.
Reporting unhinged behavior does not make one unhinged.
FUCKITY BYE ! Jeff does NOT need your lame advice .You're new here,
& I don't appreciate your mansplaining.
🚫 BLOCKED
no, it's ok — Michael gets to have an opinion. I'm just curious what his reasoning is
Actually, Jeff, Everyone is entitled to YOUR opinion!!! we love what you do,,,and I get it about it being the therapy. I send out daily memes, pics, or cartoons. That is my therapy!
My guess is he's shocked by the crazy daily events that you are notating and writing about, and perhaps thinks you're exaggerating. Of course trump is unhinged from reality and you are simply reporting on his actions. He certainly isn't hearing about these daily insanities on Fox Noise or right wing YouTube podcasts after all.
I was amazed at all the relatively straight news sites such as Meidas Report that initially thought Donny's post about how he needed Greenland because since he didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize he was justified in starting wars was satire.I realized this was exactly my type of thinking in 5th grade, when I was 9. I really don't like having sa president who thinks on the level of a resentful 9-year-old.
Very generous of you, Jeff. You'll allow me to not be so.
I did not understand that he thought you are unhinged and saying crazy things, just that having to monitor and describe Trump's could drive anyone crazy considering he's the President. It makes me feel unhinged.
I just realized it was YOU who wrote this! Otherwise it made no sense...I believe I responded a bit vociferously, defending your substack. Question for me is 'why'? Why does he get to have that kind of an opinion when - it clearly flies in the face of anything ANY of us feel or think or imagine - here? If you've read his 'opinion piece' about 'why he thinks it might be a good idea to have had frump as president' you might think differently...or not. Either way, to me it sucked eggs and smacked of a new version of their way of invading/taking away another of our 'great spaces' - one more method to ruin and to 'distract', throwing even more shit at the wall to see what sticks? There are still worthwhile and listenable voices left despite so much negativity tossed our way hoping we'll give up/collapse - it IS heartening to realize more are speaking out LOUDLY while refusing to be cowed and while accepting that this specific one is yours, it's pretty much a 'sacred space to most of us because you're so courageous. I've mentioned Jack Cochiarelli (sp?) - he did a GREAT Youtube vid the other day. The Meidas Touch Brothers and Brian Michael Cohen, Aaron Parnas (Lev's son) - most of whose language is getting a wee bit looser while they become more humorous and braver. It's a BIG tent - I know you can all fit. That does my heart good, simply wishing for more distaff voices of the younger variety. There are certainly older ones like mine and so many more well-read and well-spoken women here, but I'm far too tired to carry on, so hoping for some seriously funny young women coming along to give their input. Btw - I assumed that you were kicking people out who crossed your personal line regardless of status? Would expect no less. Anyway, I don't expect ANYONE to dare refer to you as 'unhinged'. That's seriously a WTF' moment and I reacted exactly as Leigh did..
Wow you're really taking this too seriously and personally.
I assume you're trying to be funny re: Jeff being unhinged. You might want to clarify.
You're long on profiling and pointing, but woefully short on suggestions. Americans are now at the stage of getting the brains blown out, their heads blown off (bc "shot in the face" seems rather quaint now) and tear gassed, abducted, dragged from their homes...So please, tell us what to do. We're all ears.
Specifically, Michael, what would YOU do to remove Trump?
This👍
What we can do about his unfitness for office? Write or call our federal Senators and House Representatives, demanding that *they* ask Trump's Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment. Also impeach his ass. Neither is likely while Republicans control the media, the House, the Senate, and the Cabinet. Not to mention the SCOTUS. If we rebel with weapons, Trump will invoke the Insurrection Act. Then he becomes an open dictator with his own private army and a military that will not intervene, as opposed to an undeclared dictator with his own private army and a military that has not refused to follow illegal orders.
Yes, I write to my representatives even though they are Democrats because they need to know we are concerned and that we are watching what our watching what they are doing.
Dd they tell you that Donny specifically looked for your name on his donor list and didn't see it and was disappointed? I got that mail a few times.
What the fuck are you talking about??
Huh???
I had problems with anxiety every time trump was in the news during his first term. Now it is so much worse I had to ask my doctor for a prescription of lamotrigine. The constant daily 20/7 verbal diarrhea from the Chaos King is just too much to handle.
Jacqueline: It's easier for me: I immediately turn to my Smooth Jazz 'Impressions' TV Station, turn it up loud enough to make it count, then relax with the music I love. I will NOT listen to that horrid voice no matter what 'channel' he's on. Later on, when I have on Nicolle Wallace or Rachel Maddow - or Lawrence O'Donnell from MS Now, IF they play 'clips' from his blathering bullshit, I'll lower the volume and listen ONLY if they're dissecting what's going on. It makes it far more palatable in tiny 'bites'. I had more than enough during his first term and have warned my husband that I will NOT hear that voice, so if HE wants to listen to it - he'd better figure out a way: go outside, upstairs, or wherever, because I won't be responsible for my actions. ;) I've no idea what that medicine is which you mentioned but I take others so probably couldn't anyway. Hope this helps.
That is sage advice and for you too!
Let the first Sunday of the month be that day. This is from the Chaos Computer Club of Hamburg, Germany.
"Together with many other organizations, the Chaos Computer Club is calling for a Digital Independence Day: On the first Sunday of every month, we switch from big tech platforms to free, local, or simply less problematic alternatives. In many cities, CCC volunteers provide advice and support.
Enough is enough.
Europe is in the stranglehold of Big Tech. The platforms don't care about our laws, they are undermining our democracy and thus our freedom. The Trump administration and its tech billionaire allies are not afraid to blackmail us through these dependencies. The federal government seems like a deer in the headlights and doesn't even dare to leave X. So we have to take the lead. If we switch together, we can leverage the network effect.
The power and potential for abuse of “social” media is impressively demonstrated by the example of Twitter: After purchasing it, Elon Musk fundamentally changed the platform in a very short time. Structures for fact-checking and respectful exchange were dismantled, reach was shifted, and progressive voices were suppressed.
Despite a massive loss of trust, X remains socially influential: political accounts give the service legitimacy, media quotes strengthen its relevance and reach. This reach is increasingly being used to spread exclusion and disinformation and to exert targeted political influence.
The EU recently imposed a penalty on X for failing to comply with basic requirements of the Digital Services Act (DSA), which is designed to counteract the dangers of power concentration. Since then, X has miraculously increased the reach of EU-critical voices, and Elon Musk has even called for the dissolution of the EU. A few days later, a travel ban was imposed on former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton, who played a key role in shaping the DSA, as well as on representatives of HateAid, which systematically reports illegal content such as hate speech, incitement, and sedition for review and removal under the DSA.
This escalation shows that this is no longer just about a platform, but about influencing public debate, democratic processes, and the European rule of law.
And X is not an isolated case. Commercial centralized “social media” optimize for attention and dependency—often with proven harmful consequences, especially for young people.
Of course, laws that have been enacted for our protection must be enforced. But it is also up to us to turn our backs on platforms that harm us or even oppose our democracy so radically.
With AI, the concentration of power continues to grow
Centralized “social” media analyze our relationships and interests in order to use the findings as profitably as possible for advertising marketing or political influence.
Artificial intelligence reinforces this trend: ever-increasing amounts of data can be evaluated, used automatically, and exploited economically.
Cloud services are also increasingly treating user data as a raw material—not least to further deepen dependencies.
We are the network
WhatsApp, Instagram, X, and Facebook are worth billions. Their real value is us—the users.
Of course, it's not always easy to opt out: school classes, circles of friends, political debates—many things seem to be tied to individual platforms. But this is precisely where our common opportunity lies: if we consciously use the network effect instead of letting it shackle us, we can break new ground.
Digital Independence Day
At the 39th Chaos Communication Congress, author Marc-Uwe Kling calls for a Digital Independence Day.
On the first Sunday of every month, we take a step together toward the better side of the internet. We show that alternatives work, and we bring our friends and acquaintances along with us. And to let more people know about it, we use new and old social media to share our experiences.
“It's not just the switch that's important, we also need to talk about it afterwards. The best thing to do is to brag about how we freed ourselves from a big tech service. #DIDit,” said Marc-Uwe Kling.
The campaign page of the initiative, which is supported by many other organizations, collects switch recipes.
Some moves need to be prepared: finding new networks, keeping contacts, adjusting habits. In many cities, CCC volunteers are on hand to provide experience, advice, and practical support:
We help with the move from Windows 10 to more secure alternatives, from WhatsApp to a suitable messenger, and from Gmail to a trustworthy provider.
The first Digital Independence Day workshops will take place on January 4.
All regular events—including those of many other partner organizations—are collected on the central event platform termine.di.day. Supporters and groups can independently create and maintain events there.
The platform is provided on a voluntary basis by Chaostreff Flensburg."
There’s a kids game called Perfection where you have to get different shaped blocks in the correct shaped slots before the timer runs out. When the timer goes off the pieces spring out and scatter.
I’ve been braced trying to anticipate what he might do before time ran out and he triggered again.
That’s how I’ve felt since he declared he would run again. And it was made clear that the first time wasn’t just a fluke.
Dinner diplomacy sounds terrific! Ask me, M. Macron! I will fix everything! Seriously, I don’t know why anyone invites DT anywhere. It’s not like he’s the leader of the free world anymore. I run into people who say “I didn’t know it would be like this” and it’s as if my face is frozen in a permanent eye-roll.
And they need to put towels on the good chairs.
And DT wouldn’t appreciate the French cooking, anyway, so I should go instead.
They’ll just name every menu item a la Hamburger and he’ll eat it.
Speaking of did he leave the hamburglar and her hat at home or was she part of the euuuuge contingent they were sending?
🤣🤣🤣
"Hamberder"
With ketchup.
Waterproof ones, like you use in a crib.
I see your waterproof chairs and I’ll raise you a drop-down
Cage, not tall enough for him to stand up. Then drop a soundproof paneled box around it. Because we’re civilized we’ll drop in a bottle water and spare extra-large diaper, trash can and wet wipes. Air-lift that container to a black site over the deep blue sea. Repeat with each of his cronies down to Michael Johnson and a few trump cocksuckers in congress. Force all cabinet members and staff to resign and be tossed indefinitely into detention centers. Then sing Happy Birthday America! No tariffs! Free healthcare! Food for all! Hold democratic elections. Elect democrat. Repeal every executive order and rescind all pardons by the past autocrat. Celebrate! Let freedom ring 🎶
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Good point Grace!
Better yet, those mattress protectors with plastic covers…
Well, to be fair, NOBODY knew it would be like THIS, because this is beyond imagining and beyond catastrophizing. Those of us with, you know, eyes and ears, knew it would be a shit show, but the form of that debacle was unclear. It’s like Dan Aykroyd thinking up the Stat Puft Marshmallow Man as the form of their destruction. Frankly, I’d take a one-hundred-foot-tall marshmallow stalking the streets over this demented bozo of a motherfucker. So yeah, we knew, but this? This is far worse. Fuck DJT, fuck ICE, and most of all fuck these cowardly little Republicans whose mouths are too attached to dear leader’s ass to sound the alarm.
When over the weekend Ted Cruz was defending Trump's lust for Greenland in an interview, I wanted the reporter to say, "And what does your ugly wife think about you now kissing the ass of the man who insulted her?"
Ohh, that's well thought out and would make that prick stop right in his tracks. Well done:)
I wonder what's in it for him. Can't see Our Teddy doing anything without some benefit for himself.
The 2025 plan was available, but in our short attention span society most people weren’t able to get through it.
Many of us did read Project 2025, and were properly alarmed. So, sure, much of what’s happening was there, but it's the capriciousness that's so outrageous. Dear leader has a whim and it's off to the races.
Project 2025 failed to include a chapter on taking the Nobel Peace Prize by force.
But perhaps the new Board of Peace will make it their mission to dismantle the Nobel Committee . . . and also the Norwegian govt while they're at it.
In sense it did. It describes a unitary executive with no limits to his power.
True dat Cindy, everyone I spoke to about reading it, replied Trump would never do that…
The 25 plan was sickening to read. I couldn’t take it.
The creators of the plan made it that repulsive on purpose .
There are abridged versions.
Yes, but we’re talking about a mass of people who can just about absorb a meme. The ability to concentrate on a long piece has fallen off a cliff.
It was all written down in Project 2025. Naturally, the f*cking idiot Democrats didnt read it & formulate a response.
If memory serves, our Democratic candidate for president warned us and the media mocked her.
Keenan Thompson held up a copy at the Democratic National Convention and warned us about it. Sheesh.
It's the f*cking idiot Republicans! They could have stopped this but didn't.
mainstream media did a piss-poor job of recapping and reporting it for public consumption
The only one who explained chapters was Ali Velchi...he would bring copy to his show and explain chapters of it...he had dozens of tabs in the.doc....
I seem to recall Keenan Thompson bringing it on stage, & talking about it
at the Dem Convention or am I confabulating ? 😳
How are they not responding?
Those of us whose parents and extended family endured (most of them not surviving) the Holocaust, knew EXACTLY how it was going to go, back in 2015. We tried to warn people. we know where it goes from here, too, by the way, and we're still trying to warn people.
Also, RELEASE FULL UNREDACTED EPSTEIN FILES!
🎯
FUCK stephen miller since he's the vicious little prick 'architect' of most of the insanity AND he sells it to his orange turnip 'boss', telling him it's HIS idea. That's HIS 'talent'. It's why the frump 'no one ever knew about this before' or the like. Because miller tells him it's all something frump has just thought up - and of course he's so desperate to believe he's really a 'genius' he falls for it then spews it out.
Macron should tell him that macaroons are named after him. That oughta make Orange Fat Bastard jealous
Recipe idea for Trumparoons: bullshit mixed with crackers, bananas, and nuts and then only half-baked
That is so spot on, HI2thDoc🤣🤣🤣🤣 You deserve the Nobel Prize for Humor 😊 And, as I am a very fine woman, I formally award the prize to you🤓🖖🏻
Then unlike preznit pedophile I will support your administration
👍👍🤓🖖
HA!
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Another thing to put tariffs on; macaroons!
it's ANOTHER monkey see monkey do MAGA explanation ... 'i didn't know'
Mike Johnson is all three monkeys rolled into one: "I didn't see that. I didn't hear that. I didn't say that." Seems to be working for his circus.
Sargent Schultz?
Holy Mike : the human participation trophy .
That name for Mike Johnson was a gem created by Rick Wilson .
I truly don't know how he rationalizes any of this to himself.
Classic denialism of something no one could have missed. When the Allies liberated the Nazi death camps, General Eisenhower told his unit commanders to go grab the German civilians from the nearby towns to help care for the survivors and bury the dead. The uniform response from said civilians, when shown the ghastly conditions and unimaginable suffering that was inflicted upon innocent people? "We didn't know."
I asked my father how Hitler was allowed to do his thing, his answer was also, "we had no way of knowing! He also said the world would not have believed this could happen.
"All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."--often attributed to Edmund Burke
But there are immigrants living dangerous and horrible conditions in Central America. Yet we are powerless to stop it. Thugs in Minneapolis are attacking people and killing people without any consequences and not just arresting illegal immigrants. And Trump administration says that they a legally able to shoot unarmed people. Im not able to head out to Minneapolis to rescue people. Its well documented and yet 20% of people who are Republicans think thats fine.
Oh sure they didn’t know. That is what happens when you bury your fuckin head to reality. What is what I see all around me.
There were people who got word of what was happening in Europe and tried to alert everyone else, but they were branded as hysterics and anyway, there was so much overt antisemitism back then that I think many leaders didn’t care. And we didn’t have modern communications then. Oh, and we have holocaust deniers today!
That's actually a really good idea. You know he would be so pissed off if he stopped being invited places, even Europe despite all of the shit he talks about them. The biggest malignant narcissist on earth needs to be the center of attention at all times and the world should start straight up ignoring him.
Reporter: "What do you think about the [latest fucking crazy thing] said/done by President Trump?"
Any head of state/diplomat/whoever: "I'm sorry, who is that? Oh right, that lunatic from America. He really seems to be seriously mentally and physically unwell. Next question."
The only downside is who the fuck knows what he'd do in retaliation at this point.
Deep-down he's a coward, so he'd take it out on some small, poor city or country instead.
100%. They are going after gardeners and day laborers instead of violent criminals for the same reason.
I also wonder why he is invited and why dignitaries even bother go to the bordello.
lol
Permanent eye role
I get that feeling too
So many stupid, oblivious, people, or liars, we fucking knew and told them!
It's like Denmark writing a letter to trump saying the Oscar for Best International Feature Film should've gone to The Girl with the Needle, so you should let us buy Guam.
that's actually an analogy I meant and then forgot to include in my post!
But will MELANIA get the Oscar for best
documentary ? 🤣
Talk about audacity...she's the queen of grifting!
And the queen of concubines.😂😂
Its a living.
Cue Eye roll!!!
Not this year. It's a 2026 release.
How CONVENIENT, I guess no other documentaries after hers , will be able to surpass the MAGNIFICENCE of MELANIA 🤣
Hahaha!! Good one, Kristy!
" I'll put a 200% tariff on his wines and champagnes" - Canada and the rest of the world will gladly replace any lost sales of French wine - we stopped buying California and Oregon wine months ago.
And if you won't sell it to us, we'll just take it.
You should it would point out ‘bad policy ramifications’.
When is he going to learn that other countries are not 13 year old girls?
I saw Macron's speech this morning, I suggest watching it. I hope what he said in that speech he says to Donnie DumDum's face.
Although, I think Macron would be much more successful if he led the charge in hosting a blanket party against Donnie--throw a blanket over his head and then he and all the leaders beat him with 3 day old baguettes until he cries Uncle.
Blanket parties were always reserved for bullies, we never used baguette’s though… a tad messy… although if frozen…
LOL
Susan, my dear, I’m getting a little concerned over your constant laughing responses to the comments, but do keep it up. Those grinning icons say it all. 😂🤣😆
I have nothing else to offer but a laugh!
Hear ya loud and clear !!!
I'd prefer they beat him with French cheese wheels placed in a pillowcase. Leave as many bruises on that bastard's face as humanly possible plus 2 black eyes. Let Caroline Lyingvitt explain that one.
After receiving the beating, he’d sit down eat the cheese.
😂😂😂
Awhile back, I saw a meme that said, “Replacing Trump with Vance is like shitting your pants and changing your shirt.” I agreed with it at the time, but now I realize anyone with two partiality functioning brain cells would be an improvement. They need to 25A the shit out of him now.
READ the 25th amendment. It's not going to happen with THIS Cabinet of idiots and bootlickers.
Daniel, wouldn’t it be nice if the citizens were able to impeach the entire maladministration 🤔 🤓🖖🏻
Well Congress could, but not this collection of craven MAGAt cowards. I would support impeaching Noem to try get every Republican on the record who supports Gestapo Barbie.
Exactly Daniel.
Get rid of trump then deal with the Divan Defiler.
Take the rest of Trumps enabling cabal with him, would be more beneficial to the republic Stephanie.
😂😂😂😂
FUK THE HILLBILLY!
Also trump has a cult following... Jd has no command against either party.
Will jd condemn trump in the future?
What a huge embarrassment!
I hope someone shouts “pedophile protector” at him in Davos!
Pedo actor is more accurate
That too😂
Not sure if dignified attendees at Davos would do that . BUT , Congress will attend the SOTU speech soon and they can invite a guest. The precedent has been established by Republicans during Obama's speech when a Rep yelled out " you lie " MTG and Bobert carried on that tradition against Biden . Maybe this year it won't be a Rep yelling out corrections but someone's guest , or many guests , who get to scream shit out loud.
That baby meme....bahahaha!!!!
Board of “Piece of S***” is more likely what he is in charge of. (I know-I shouldn’t swear…..it just comes out!)🤷🏻♀️
please don't swear. you'd never catch me swearing
Whatthefuckever
Swearing is the only release
Thanks to my hatred of twatwaffle, I talk uglier than I ever have in my life. But, you're right. It's a form of release
BAHWAHAHA! nope - no swearing here! (wut th'fuk is dishit?)
Maybe if I'm running really fast & swearing ?
😂😂
Truthfully you can’t run fast but I get it. My dog hates the wind but thinks he can outrun it also he he bites the air while running. Crazy fucker, just had to swear.
Well, fuck you, Jeff. I never in my fucking life said fuck until I started reading your fucking posts🤓🖖🏻
Lol! 😝
😂😂😂😂😂
OhfuckingK, Jeff
FUK TRUMP!
Free country still Tess, no need to apologize.
I’m sure Trump actually believes that Norway controls the Nobel prize. He thinks they’re doing the same thing as he does when he says the DOJ is doing whatever it’s going to do and he knows nothing about it.
Thank you Jeff.
He is incompetent and deranged. Every day he has access to the nuclear "football" is a day no rational person can rest. Here's what I recently wrote about the worsening situation and the complete fecklessness of his GOP apologists and enablers:
"Trump’s volatility, malignant narcissism, and governing incompetence, enabled by an ethically compromised Roberts Court and a feckless, GOP-controlled Congress, will leave lasting damage on the United States and the world. Trump voters, along with those who opted out under the comforting fiction that “both sides are the same,” effectively handed him the taxpayer treasury and the nation’s credit card. He is now managing public funds exactly as he managed his own ventures, through recklessness, self-dealing, fraud, corruption, and failure, repeating the pattern that led to multiple bankruptcies and the dissolution of his so-called charitable foundation."
Excerpted from: https://bomdia.substack.com/p/life-after-trump (the article is free and worth at least twice that!)
Trump was never a successful businessman. He merely played one on a TV game show.
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL has sent advisories concerning the fascist takeover
You speak the truth .
"He is now managing public funds exactly as he managed his own ventures, through recklessness, self-dealing, fraud, corruption, and failure, repeating the pattern that led to multiple bankruptcies and the dissolution of his so-called charitable foundation."
And yet Mr. Trump won the popular vote last election . Maybe there in no saving us from ourselves .
Thank you George. It’s why I consider large-scale protests so important. Enough of the GOP must understand that their leader is unifying Independents and Non-affiliated voters with Democratic candidates and the clock is ticking toward midterms.
This is well-beyond any policy disagreement. This is potentially catastrophic and preventable.
Once we led the free world. Now we are its enemy.
Extortion, bribery, murder, grifting, lawlessness…our government is one big mafia family. Join my club or I’ll put a 200% tariff on your best export. Oh, and don’t forget the membership fee. 1 billion. Pay up motherfuckers.
PEACE, agent orange thinks he’s making European countries an offer they can’t refuse. He’ll be fucking surprised😡
That sleazy old motherfucker has cost me more sleep than anyone else I can think of. I've been saying for months, HE'S CRAZY AND NEEDS TO BE REMOVED NOW! And, nobody will listen to someone like me. I knew the raving maniac didn't belong in the White House to begin with, I sure as fuck didn't vote for him. I've NEVER voted for him. But, shit's gettin' real deep, and someone better step the fuck up and DO something about this unhinged sonuvabitch
Thank you Jeff. On point, as usual
Trump's popularity among Republican voters is only slightly flagging, and the 25th Amendment and Impeachment are not viable options. So it will take a skeet shooter who can do better than nick ears to deliver the nation.
Hey....I used to be a pretty good skeet shooter....if only my vision was better...dammit
You know what I find both amusing and somewhat terrifying about Donnie Dimwit's obsession with Greenland? It's his followers. Not the ones in government, but his base, the influencers and podcasters, or just everyday "fanboys" on the internet. Up until a few months ago, and maybe even still, these people couldn't have found Greenland on a map if it were outlined in flashing neon lights. Now, they're experts in the history and geopolitical strategic importance of Greenland. They haven't given one single independent thought to what the implications are, it's just "my boy Donnie said it, so I'll go along with it no matter what."
I believe his obsession with Greenland is because he's only seen it on a Mercator map and believes it's the size of Africa.
A TV analyst noted that among the rare earth minerals underlying Greenland's tundra there is also a huge cache of GOLD. So there we have it.
Under a 1 mile deep ice shelf.
Let him dig it then leave him there.
😂😂
If the minerals and gold were worth mining, it would be happening already. This has not occurred to businessman Trump.
The USA has a ratified treaty with Denmark recognising their overall sovereignty in Greenland. The Supremacy clause in the US Constitution makes all treaties ratified by Congress (as this one was) enforceable in law.
Just talking about taking over Greenland is as illegal as anything else Trump & his Maladministration have done.
Never mind impeachment, just arrest the sonofabitch.
Of course nobody will.
But the treaty allows for military bases. Lots of them. If it was about countering security threats, the USA could station the whole army, navy & air force in Greenland and, providing the diplomatic nineties were observed, Greenland & Denmark would wave you in.
If it is just about the minerals, and assuming the technical difficulties of mining underneath permanent Ice sheets can be overcome, I'm sure the Danes & Greenlanders would be more than happy to give favourable access to the corporations of a close military and political ally (as the US was until about the time it looked like the Epstein files might have to be released. What happened to them, by the way? Or has Bannon's "flood the zone with shit" strategy worked yet again?)
So why the big thing about America having to own Greenland? Is it just what you get when you elect as President a man whose whole life has been a series of real estate deals (mostly failed ones at that)?
It's just his ego, isn't it? He wants it and refuses to be denied and will set the world on fire rather than be told "no".
As noted in the video posted by Jeff.
This is what i find most upsetting about every terrifying and outrageous thing that's happened in our country over the past year. The fact that so many Americans voted for this and still blindly or maybe not so blindly still support this administration is the most disturbing part of it all.
And support the horrors of ICE. So often, reading comments other places on social media, I can clearly see who would be the Nazis relishing in running and working at the death camps.
Who are these ghouls and why are they so inhumane..
Sadly , you are exactly correct .
jim jones
To the surprise of no one, electing the mentally ill rotting pumpkin with lizard eyes for a second time was a suicide pact. Steve Schmidt on Republicans, “everyone on the Titanic who got in a lifeboat before midnight went on to lead long, happy lives. Those who waited until after midnight wound up floating in the North Atlantic frozen stiff.”
This is so much worse; At least the Titanic had beautiful live music
Those that are clinging to Trump's rotting corpse will find their political careers in the shitter, but most will go on to be consultants and lobbyists and such, so they won't lose any sleep. The grift that keeps on grifting.
The great question is WHY our Congress is allowing this to continue. Are they in the Epstein files? Scared they wont get reelected? Scared they might fall out of a window in a 30 story building? I mean, I don't even know what it means to be a Republican anymore. Conservative? Hardly. More like bigots protecting billionaires.
I grew up with 4H, now it's 4B. Bigots Bought By Billionaires.
Well said! 👏👏. (My grandmother taught 4H classes!)
and pedophiles
Yes...absolutely.