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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

public service announcement: I just updated the post because I FORGOT TO MENTION THAT DONNY FELL ASLEEP RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FIGHT!

what the fuck is wrong with me

Margaret MacKenzie's avatar

And we’re surprised? It wouldn’t be a televised spectacle without Sir Snoorzealot.

Linda Weide's avatar

Of course. I am tired today and took a nap because I was up late watching the Rise Up and Sing Out performance last night. Since I am on CEST, it started at 2 am for me, and Patti Smith sang at 3:33 am. I thought that was cool! The People Have the Power. Let us show Trump at the midterms.

Also, Indivisible Abroad is supporting Boycott the US World Cup 2026. I have it posted to my IA group's Mastodon site each day. https://norden.social/@indivisiblebremen

Annette's avatar

there are so many things that happened at the testosterone-fest last night, its hard to remember everything - we forgive you (but heartfelt thanks for the special mention of Hokit; he's a CTE diagnosis waiting to happen, and I couldn't be happier - I know that's not nice or proper to think that way, but his kind of "special" deserves it)

Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

I cherish the thought Annette, most here do as well!

kdsherpa's avatar

Think away, Annette! We're with you.

DeBurgh's avatar

Donny is the Orange Commodus.

Clint Opine's avatar

Emperor Tangeranus

Jayme Wolworth's avatar

TKO in the 5th round.

I am sure that he was just "blinking" again. LOL

SethTriggs's avatar

It's an all you can eat buffet of WTF, I think it's perfectly excusable for you to miss that!

Heather Patrick's avatar

Shocked….I’m just shocked that he fell asleep in public again….🙄🙄🙄

Eskaveeda's avatar

When is he going to choke on his own fumes?

Ruth Ann Orlansky's avatar

Guess he fell asleep counting the millions he made from this latest corrupt spectacle.

Bonnie Council's avatar

I love both your & Mr Reich’s explanation of why we are at this depressing place in American history. It truly does feel like an exercise in futility trying to understand how we got here. Sometimes it feels as if the term “cage match” is going to bring us in a straight line to the Bestiarii “fights” as in Ancient Rome. 😣

Crystal Hartley's avatar

Alas, President Sleepyhead snoozing it up during inopportune public moments is no longer news.

BTW, were there concessions? Not talking about the Iran agreement, talking about food service at the ass-kicking spectacle.

Clytie Rimberg's avatar

That was in fact my first question this morning. Thank you for answering

Tracy S's avatar

Is there a GIF for that? :-D

Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

today in Shit That Happened While I Was Writing This Shit—

Donny Dumbfuck just landed at the G7. this is going to be stupid

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/15/world/live-news/iran-war-g7-summit

Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

Look Jeff It's like this, ok?

https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-concrete-confetti-and-a-cage-match-for-a-fuckwazzle-to-feel-good-on-his-bi

They built a cage on the South Lawn of the people's house and called it fuckin freedom. Seven fights, sixty million dollars, an octagon where the rose garden's quiet used to be — all of it timed to a senile pants-pooping walking bruised-fuckwad's eightieth birthday and sold as the nation's two hundred fiftieth. The grass where children once rolled Easter eggs took a boot heel and a blood spray, live on a streaming service nobody asked for.

Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

Kid's used to roll Easter eggs in that space....and now there's permanent blood spray, sweat, and pain on that lawn.

What in the absolute fuck, Jeff?

Unity In Defiance's avatar

I predict it will be sleepy.

Don Snoreleone was up rage tweeting on his Temu twitter till 4am again after sleeping through his clown party last night.

Marian Vitale's avatar

I can smell him from Amsterdam.

Kathy Wentworth's avatar

Everything he does is stupid dumbfuckery

J Hardy Carroll's avatar

I love the smell of diapers and bronzer in the morning. That smell, that shitty chemical smell... it smells like....victory.

One day this war's gonna end.

AuntTeeFa's avatar

International embarrassment number 47

SethTriggs's avatar

Which world leader is he going to shove out of the way first?

Are there going to be more handshake one-ups? Oh wait, is he going to try it with Mark Carney?

Dave Drell's avatar

G6 + 1 Dumbass Country.

It’s in France- can’t they send an escort service to bring him to The Hague??

Annette's avatar

and he's empowered because he's solved the war he created. I can't wait to see how much we, as a country, gave up for his "victory"

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

And nothing's been "solved." It's just another "ceasefire" while they kick the can down the road.

BluDotInARedSewer's avatar

Israel will be blowing up the cease-fire in 3, 2...1.

Cyndi's avatar

Already bombing in the ceasefire regions.

Whatever else he is, Bibi is predictable.

Lucius's avatar

Oh god. I'm already embarrassed and it hasn't even started yet.

Ruth Ann Orlansky's avatar

Jeff, wouldn't it be nice for a change if you had to try to figure out what would be in your daily posts? Instead, your zone's being flooded with all sorts of shit. Thank you for seeing the humor in some of it, and making it entertaining. This daily post is one of the first things I read every day. You are a treasure.

Bonnie Council's avatar

I’m already embarrassed. 😬 😩

Cheri Collins's avatar

Oh, fuck me 🤦🏻.

Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

yes, I know George W. Bush was president in 2006. just go with my premise

BigDaddy52's avatar

Thought W's election was part of the opening credits, setting up the Idiocracy premise....

Mike Hammer's avatar

A most grotesque celebration by white trash and the decline of America.

Gloria J. Maloney's avatar

I know what you mean, but I know people you may consider to be white trash who are hard working, decent people and a thousand times better than the Trump family.

HI2thDoc's avatar
3hEdited

Hard working, decent people are not trash, though they may struggle economically. What makes him and his crime family trash are their insatiable greed, corruption, heedless and clueless arrogance, cruelty, and unashamed narcissism. Doesn't matter if they live in mansions and defecate in golden commodes. Their character, or lack thereof, is what distinguishes them as the pieces of shit that they are.

BigDaddy52's avatar

Even if we may be poorly educated and misinformed. It's heartbreaking that we can be repeatedly fooled so easily.

HI2thDoc's avatar

One party in 'Murikkka, through their rage baiting, resentment sowing, and Xtianity exploitation, has convinced the disadvantaged to support said party against all rational reason, with the results we see here.

BigDaddy52's avatar

Abetted by the feckless opposition, unfortunately.

Mike Hammer's avatar

Succinct diagnosis!

john augustine's avatar

'It is easier to fool people than to convince them they've been fooled'....Mark Twain

Tish Grier's avatar

EVERYTHING YOU SAID! "White trash" isn't about being poor inasmuch as it is about being what you said. I understood this when I was young and my Black friend Patty's parents called not me but my family white trash. It was my parents racism that shined through and tarred me. It wasn't me. They wanted to protect their daughter from my parents. The racism and misogyny of white trash was once a way for poor whites to be like rich whites and curry their favor. But that isn't the case now. Now we recognize that even wealthy people are white trash -- that includes Musk and Zuckerberg and the Elisons and Bezos. They can walk around with all the expensive gee-gaws they want but deep down they are most at home chewing tobacco, spitting it on their front laws and cursing "n...s" and immigrants and women just like Billy Bo Bob and Cleatus who work at the factory. It's character that makes someone white trash, not economics.

Mike Hammer's avatar

It’s not a socioeconomic issue as much as it is an emotional one. Many scholars point out that fascism in not just subjugation and violence as much as it is a state of mind, the looming threat.

Mike Hammer's avatar

Which is exactly what was celebrated last night. They call it white supremacy and will violently attempt to deny our first amendment rights with their second amendment rights. That’s what it represented in a more “acceptable manner” than white robes and swastikas. But they’re working on that.

michellefromchicago's avatar

As my grandmother used to say, “the only thing worse than white trash is white trash with money.”

Mike Hammer's avatar

You can’t buy class. Donnie is case in point.

Mike Hammer's avatar

I make the distinction between white trash and poor white trash, the latter being those who as you say, is derogatory and are doing their best. Yesterday was a celebration of the former. They call it white supremacy. We can separate the noble poor from the lazy, disgusting and undisciplined middle class.

If it’s too politically incorrect maybe call it White Blight.

US Blues's avatar

Not if they support Donnycon.

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

I can only imagine what so many black individuals are calling Hokit right now for his shitty gratuitous attack on Michelle Obama and "white trash" pales in comparison.

Susan Slesnick's avatar

Why don’t the false macho men just say it out loud “smart lady scares me, me stupid think with penis” 🙄But instead they show their weakness by insults and name calling.

Tish Grier's avatar

All they have are insults and name calling. It's really pathetic. Yet they seem oblivious to how pathetic they look. All i can think to say is "is that all you can come up with? Really? Wow, you sure are some kind of brain trust..." And with a little dig at their Moms because nothing upsets them more than a dig at their moms. Strange how they hate women but worship their Moms.

Dave Drell's avatar

A lot of their moms would be appalled at this behavior.

Merrill's avatar

The Uutimate Fight Club, the ultimate metaphor for Trump's view of his presidency; all scripted theatrics, no substance, all over the top performance for his deplorable base. This birthday stunt definitely puts the decrepit "crown" on his foul, decaying reign of terror and humiliation in America.

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

I won't live to see it but historians will have a lot of explaining to do at how screwed up we are now when the Tricentennial rolls around. Assuming the US survives until then.

Chris Hierholzer's avatar

I miss the real unredacted White House.

Nancy Braus's avatar

There has to be a better term than 'white trash' for 'people' like the trump family, JD Vance, and all their racist buddies- somehow to isolate those with heaps of money and no taste- like those paying upwards of $100,00- for big lips and the rest. My partner calls them 'confederates' but that does not feel derogatory enough.

Cyndi's avatar

Epstein Class.

Or just Fascists.

Neal Stiffelman's avatar

Outta words.

Just… so grateful that you’ve been sharing those photos of Claudia. They are oxygen in these polluted times. Peace, brother.

Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

Yeah I was too. I hated to have to write our daily digest out. So I threw in the usual amount of leveling it out so that the positives in the digest was bigger than the negatives. And then I dug up some pretty pictures to help soothe that pain.

https://thistleandmoss.org/p/wendythedruid/972151101210307139

Mps's avatar

THIS

Everyday

Suki Herr's avatar

I’m going to say something I’ve never said in 74 yrs. If these people can call Michelle Obama a man, I can call Melania a whore.

Margaret MacKenzie's avatar

Yea, but Michelle is not the former and Melania is…well, hum…?

Lady Emsworth's avatar

That was my first thought.

Steve in SoCal's avatar

If Michelle's a man, then I guess that makes me sooo gay

Lois Henry's avatar

If she is a man, all I can say is, ‘Way to go on those two beautiful daughters, dude. How did you do that?’

BluDotInARedSewer's avatar

The rules are the rules. Carry on.

Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

I made a conscious decision not to watch anything related to the shit show on the WH lawn yesterday. I told myself i’d wait for Jeff to cover it and as always, I’m not disappointed.

LORI  D's avatar

Same! I wanted to know how it went, and yes, Jeff came through so we didn't have to. Thanks Jeff!

HI2thDoc's avatar

A parody though he may have been, President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho was much smarter, classier, more honest, and beneficent than our current parody in the WH. Also,

President Camacho didn't conspire with a prolific pedophilic sex trafficker.

Sheila Riley-Callahan's avatar

He probably is already snoozing.

I am not going to mention the shit that was said about Michelle Obama by the swine at the event last night. What I will say is Mrs.Obama is an amazingly brilliant beautiful woman (2 Ivy League degrees) who loves her husband, her family and her country. She and her husband President Obama live inside the turds head every single day and they drive him crazy.

Today I am celebrating Michelle Obama Appreciation Day. 💞💞💞💞💞💞💞

Susan Niemann's avatar

Welp… it only took 10 years to hit the bottom. We’re overachieving! And still great at being stupid.

It’s all a nightmare.

HI2thDoc's avatar

That's the thing about the bottom of an abyss. It's like the future: unreachable. Do not place limits on this group of malevolent crooks. They continue to sink us lower. Every fucking day

David M Marko's avatar

Two and a half more years of this, plus who knows how many years to clean up the stench. It does seem unreachable.

Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

Nightmares end....they dont continue on day in and day out. This might be the longest night terror that's ever been had....just the pure raw feeling of absolute fear and terror.

BigDaddy52's avatar

Don't presume we've hit bottom. Coming elections and aftermaths could be horrific.

Susan Niemann's avatar

Scary stuff. Will we ever be angry enough to stop this? 😭

BigDaddy52's avatar

We're angry enough. Are there enough of us to make it happen? Nobody is coming to save us.

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Use the power of the purse. Boycott Paramount, avoid purchasing from product sponsors of Trumptopia. Fox announced its purchasing Roku streaming, so the channels of free information flow are being choked off. Consumer pushback speaks loudly.

BigDaddy52's avatar

ABC/Disney got a dose when they tried to muzzle Kimmel. Media takeover by trump cronies will skew everything seen or heard by everyone not savvy enough to avoid or understand. Not encouraging.

Susan Niemann's avatar

Good advice. I canceled all of it! PBS is all I watch.

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

JD Vance -- or whatever is name is this week -- claims that gas prices will be coming down thanks to the "peace deal" that isn't. When they don't, how much longer will people give low IQ Trump a pass for Trumpflation?

serenity's avatar

Gas prices by me are already going down and have been for a week. A perverse part of me wanted them to stay high to maximize the pain so that people stayed angry. If they start going down the base is going to see that as "trump fixed the economy!" while forgetting that he was the idiot responsible for starting this war in the first place. Plus tariffs and everything else.

BigDaddy52's avatar

With trumpist oligarchs controlling media, AI spewing fraud and misinformation, we are in for a long slog.

Suel J's avatar

Yes it is. I now have to quell fear off and on every day. I keep it quiet.

Unity In Defiance's avatar

Well, that public display of dumbfuckery wasn’t popular at least with the majority of Americans.

So I will applaud them for their own hubris continuing to fracture even their own kool aid drunk MAGA base.

Polling shows that only 16% approved of the circus erected on the south lawn.

So while the bread and circuses quote about the fall of the Roman Empire isn’t a “repeat” of history it sure as fuck rhymes.

Wendy The Druid 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈's avatar

I had heard that polling said it was 12% of america favored....honestly anything under 20% is believable.

Unity In Defiance's avatar

Yet Obama had the audacity to wear that tan suit… 🙄

Suel J's avatar

He looked fine too.

HI2thDoc's avatar

And had the audacity to be rational and compassionate. Imagine that

counterlife's avatar

That was the cause of the outrage. Envy. He looked so fine.

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

I never understood what that was about.

LORI  D's avatar

Yes he did!!

Terri Nighswonger's avatar

Obama’s tan suit …..THEY WERE SO FUCKING JEALOUS OF HIS GOOD HEALTHY SEXY LOOKS THEY COULDN’T BREATHE. 🎩🦓👓♠️🏴♣️🐈‍⬛🕶️🐦‍⬛🗝️💂‍♂️▪️

AND HE WAS BRILLIANT!!!!

MORE THAN THEY COULD TAKE!

Margaret MacKenzie's avatar

I’d watch Idiocracy again but it would seem like too much of a documentary.

Irascible Ink's avatar

I'd be wishing we were so lucky. 🙄

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

Try watching "Network" now. In 1976 it was an over the top satire. Today it's all too real.

Mary Lou Williams's avatar

And Michele Obama wore sleeveless blouses

Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

And urged people to eat healthy without being a junkie.

Irascible Ink's avatar

And salute with a cup in his right hand, and put his feet up on the Resolute Desk. LORDY, GET ME MY FAINTING COUCH!!!!1!11

Terri Nighswonger's avatar

We should have a black day in honor of ALL the blacks in our country.

WEAR BLACK ALL DAY. CARRY POSTER: YEAH BLACKS!!!

BLACKS BUILT OUR COUNTRY

BLACKS MADE SHITHEADS LIKE TRUMP RICH

BLACKS WERE USED AND ABUSED FOR THE FUN OF RICH WHITES

AND MUCH MORE ……

Peter's avatar

And guess what, not one of these dipshits understands that getting paid in Donnie crypto is worth as much as getting paid in dog shit. Maybe less.

Margaret MacKenzie's avatar

The reply to the Weather Channel has that uncouth slob Steven Chueng written all over it.

Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

What a fat piece of shit he is.

HI2thDoc's avatar

Deport his parents and see how he likes the xenophobic racism that he so enthusiastically embraces and enables.

HI2thDoc's avatar

Steven Cheung

Has a fertilizer tongue

He lies so well

The whole world can tell

He's swallowed trump's diaper dung

Margaret MacKenzie's avatar

Markene, you frequently write what I only think!

Schnauzermom's avatar

I shed angry tears at the sight of the Lincoln Memorial, home to Marian Anderson’s poignant concert (and fuck-you to the DAR), and I Have A Dream, being used to shill energy drinks and nicotine pouches. I refused to watch the homoerotic money grab, but I’ve read that the asshole who shat out the slur against Michelle Obama was so drunk at the weigh-in that he puked all over himself. JFC.

Let’s not forget that we won the Iran War! Iran gets billions, the Strait of Hormuz is still controlled by Iran, and we got…bupkis. The Shart Of The Deal.

David M Marko's avatar

The thing is he will declare how bigly he won this war and Iran is eating out of his hand and how prices will drop like nothing you have ever seen before and the MAGAOTS will eat this shit with a fork.

HI2thDoc's avatar

That greedy idiot ain't no sage

He evokes no love, only hate and rage

And compensates for his lack of testicles

By wasting our money on ridiculous spectacles

Epstein's pal should be locked in a cage

Joanne Rossmassler Fritz's avatar

One of your best, Doc! I love the rhymes, especially testicles and spectacles!

Dave Drell's avatar

Ballz & glasses- who would have thought?

George A. Polisner's avatar

Thank you Jeff.

I've written that we could not have elevated a more incompetent set of sociopathic criminals at the worst possible moment in history. As global conflicts and tensions continue to rise, wealth is concentrated into the hands of a fascist few, and our response to a worsening climate and extreme droughts, fires, floods, mosquitos, and trumpworms is more beautiful coal!, extending tax breaks for the wealthy, bombing Iran, eviscerating access to healthcare and food to those most vulnerable to a rigged economy -well, just grab a Brawndo -because it has electrolytes -that's what plants crave!

And now that the Epstein/Trump war on Iran is over for the 40th time, all eyes are on Cuba as the next point of misdirection from the Epstein/Trump/Maxwell child sex trafficking files.

While the speculative documentary "Idiocracy" captured the freefall of our political system, it did not address the abuse of power, the cruelty, and lawlessness of this criminally corrupt administration.

Even the wonderful pictures and remembrances of Claudia can't save the dark clouds forming on my mood today.

DeBurgh's avatar

Trump is the reincarnation of the Roman emperor Commodus. The comparison lines right up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodus

Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Interesting references to the Marcomannic Wars. Maybe we should hold on to that one ("Marco-manic War") when we inflict ourselves on Cuba next week.

serenity's avatar

Commodus was assassinated by a wrestler? Interesting.

DeBurgh's avatar

Yes, that echoes as well.

Name on buildings. Check.

A weakling posing as a strongman. Check.

Stealing from opponents, followers and citizens. Check.

Vandalizing the currency. Check.

Violent gladiator battles for entertainment and distraction from crimes. Check.

Thin skinned weak coward. Check.

Abused his office and power for personal gain. Check.

Spent public money on huge vanity projects. Check.

Stabbed his supporters in the back. Check.

Controlled Senators with threats and bribes. Check.

Just bright enough to use Bad Faith and fear to stall the good guys. Check

All Hail the Orange Commodus!