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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

at 2,023 words, I think this is my longest post yet. sorry to dump so much on you on a Sunday morning, but it all had to be told

Tess's avatar

Don’t be sorry-it is a great post! Since when don’t elected officials know MATH?? Jesus….obviously dementia and the rest of the GOP/Maggots are complicit in destroying our economy. R E S I S T! Thanks Jeff!

SethTriggs's avatar

When you serve the unreconstructed you don't have to know things. That is how you get people like Three Names Greene, Shouty Jordan and co. holding seats.

Susan Niemann's avatar

It's excellent and we read every word.

Bob Bowden's avatar

Jeff apologizing for writing too many words is like Monet being sorry for painting so many water lillies, or Shakespeare begging forgiveness for writing so many damn plays

Susan Niemann's avatar

That’s a great analogy! 👏👏👏

George in Atlanta's avatar

The king DID admonish Mozart for using "too many notes". So he's in good company.

Karen Hall's avatar

We sure do read every word. Excellent as usual. Nauseating in places, but still … Brava, Joellyn!

Hollie Rood's avatar

👍Always, with glorious Easter eggs to find😆

MountainBoyMike's avatar

dude, Ima gonna say this every time you apologize for long posts....we LOVE the long posts, cause we love the way you frame this shit...it helps us maintain the diminishing sanity we are all experiencing these days, and shit gonna get way worse before it gets any better in this country...so write on my dude, write that shit that helps us smile a little in the face of literal insanity!...thank you for your attention to this matter

SethTriggs's avatar

I appreciate it. More words = higher dosage of truth.

Neal Stiffelman's avatar

I believe you’ve written longer posts. This one didn’t feel long at all. Barely scratched the surface, but that’d take Clark Kent’s typing speed.

meryl selig's avatar

Sunday mornings are made for reading. This post was perfect. The billboard from Birmingham (surprise!!) should be replicated throughout the country

TBM's avatar

I am originally from the ‘ham. That took balls.

Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

I was just going to write that - and with a name like Joellyn you know she's a real Country girl who's telling her truth and who's FED UP with the bull-sheet.

Bonnie Council's avatar

What part? I grew up in West End. Ours was one of those two high schools in the news, people (parents & students) shouting horrible stuff at the very few of us white students who continued to go to classes amidst the boycotts. Imagine the fear of the two black kids.

TBM's avatar

Woodlawn. Class of 1978

I was lucky enough to be there in the 1970s a time one of my all time favorite teachers describes as the “glory days”.

As Ms. Goree said there was a brief glimpse of what could have been.

Brave lady. Didn’t know it at the time but she marched w/Dr. King.

https://www.al.com/news/2015/10/beyond_the_movie_the_50_year_s.html

https://bcriohp.org/ohms-viewer/viewer.php?cachefile=CGoree1998.xml

Bonnie Council's avatar

Wow. Great articles. Woodlawn definitely did better than West End (I was Class of ‘65), which, in the end, did not survive at all. Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

TBM's avatar

Well for a while. White flight hurt Woodlawn cause white parents didn’t want to share w/black kids. And there were some ugly scenes at Woodlawn for sure google images Woodlawn integration and you will see what I mean , but they were ancient history as far as I was concerned when I got there in 1974 as a 14 year old freshman.

Linda Weide's avatar

We should also be donating money to the campaign to gerrymander blue states to counter the red state gerrymandering Trump is insisting on, and donate to Every State Blue. https://everystateblue.org/

I just got an ask from Newsom today for money to fight gerrymander fire with gerrymander fire.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/01/gavin-newsom-special-election-california-redistricting

longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

California has a fair commission (three Democrats, three Republicans, and three independents who have been registered as independents for at least 10 consecutive years) that is elected by voters to create districts every 10 years for the state. It has worked very well for 20 years. The legislature or courts cannot change it. It can only be changed by another initiative. I don't understand why Gavin is doing this, since the current commission does not gerrymander. I guess I'll find out more later, but until then, I will just support him for president.

Sarah #1's avatar

Gavin is putting this forward as a method to fight back against the corrupt MAGATS doing anything they can to grab and keep power in their hands. His point is that allowing them to get away with this shit and continuing to keep to the straight and narrow ISN”T WORKING. The state of California has its own power to STOP their destruction of our democracy. What capacity do we actually have to intervene? This is his suggestion.

longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

I understand, but we control the magas in our state. The red counties and percentage of the population in California is lower than it used to be, especially since San Diego switched from red to blue. A lot of magas whined that California is too expensive, but if illegals can make it here, anyone can. California provides MediCal to everyone who needs it, so it's not like medical care is too expensive (if your income is minimal, it's $1 a month.) And in the Bay Area, the weather is great. This initiative was written by a public interest group, and unless Gavin's proposal is supported by them, I don't support it at this time.

Sarah #1's avatar

We aren’t just concerned about MAGA in this state. Democrats are in a battle to take back our democracy and protect the people. We need to fight fire with fire. Since the McCarthy hearings in the 1950’s the Republicans have been playing dirty and have used tricks and lies to win. Now they have us in a death grip. They are, literally, taking innocent people off the streets and into concentration camps. The resistance during Hitler didn’t ’follow rules’, they did what was necessary to save as many lives as possible. That’s where we are.

Walt Svirsky's avatar

Jeff, I would like a 2000% discount on my subscription.

Please send my checks to:

4242 Hardscrabble Road

Puddletown, Orygun

Thanks, brother!

George in Atlanta's avatar

Me too. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Outdoorluvr's avatar

Who cares about long posts, when Mike Lindell is zipping down the highway rage-screeching on video, without actually driving the car from behind the wheel? Same way that demento donnie is running this country, I guess, so it's all good. 🙄

tfkreference's avatar

I still wanted more! (As I do every day.)

Stephen Brady's avatar

You write - I read. I was not counting words. Great post!

TBM's avatar

Dude every day I start frantically refreshing substack shortly before 11:00 a.m. to see what Uncle Jeff’s opinion is. After all I am entitled to it. As are we all.

Mary Hall's avatar

It was brilliant as always. Like my protest sign reads: Too much sh!t to list on one sign.

Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

When will the guys with the straight jacket show up??

T L Mills's avatar

No worries, Jeff. it all needs to be said. Yup. Trump is clearly a Soviet socialist radical right-winger at heart. Or something. Truax has hit it right on the nose: Trump is in "cognitive decline". Yep...and with all the evidence you cite, it's really difficult to see how anybody could miss it.

I may be way out in left field, but I believe Vance may already be organizing a little "come to Jeebus" meeting with Cabinet members. I don't know how he'll get Trump out--with or without the 25th A.--but I wouldn't bet against it happening...somehow.

arne link's avatar

I'm pretty sure he is plotting with Theil. It was always the plan that he would take over after Trump had ruined everything. The plan seems to be working very well.

Elizabeth Schulz's avatar

I've been thinking and posting elsewhere similar to this for a while. Great minds? ;) It seems obvious that greedy vance/holy mike are jostling for what they imagine is their chance for 'power' while goebbels/miller might already have in play (with Jared or Jr.) his own blindly ambitious 'takeover' plot. miller is especially blind to his own multitude of shortcomings and might see himself as a fitting 'shitler' type.

Cyndi's avatar

That's what I think might save the midterms for democracy.

The infighting to be next is going to be "huuuge". It will tear MAGA apart. The Tangerine TACO has guaranteed that the cult has no next Dear Leader.

Time to get more 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿

Denise Donaldson's avatar

Oh, I think you're spot on, T L. I suspect JD's recent visit to Murdoch to kiss the ring is part of the plan. Have thought all along that Rump's shelf life was already determined before Election Day.

Annie's avatar

I always look forward to reading your posts - they are a refreshing dose of reality. It is scary to think that all of the government numbers are now going to be suspect because the word is out that your job can be at risk for reporting reality🙄

Susan K.'s avatar

Dump it on us, Jeff!

HI2thDoc's avatar

I for one are waiting until I can go to him (with tears in my eyes) and say, Sir! Sir! Thank you for bringing drug prices down 500, 600, 1000%! Now big pharma pays me to take my pills! 💊

Mingo's avatar

In that case I'm going to need more drugs. Bigger, more powerful drugs to endure this shit show. Especially in light of Taco Don putting a sexual predator named Lawrence Taylor, in charge of a children's fitness program. Donnie is color blind when it comes to crime.

Lady Emsworth's avatar

I'm astonished that appointment of Lawrence Taylor hasn't made more headlines. He raped a 16 year old girl - and trump is still being questioned about Epstein. Trump says he's been "friends with Taylor for years" - ANOTHER sex offender that he's had long term ties with. And now he's appointed this guy to be in a job involving children? And Taylor himself even says "I don't know why, or what I'm supposed to do. . ."

Makes you wonder if Lawrence wasn't given the job to keep him quiet. . .

Mingo's avatar

It's all so disgraceful and disgusting. It's an endless stream of gaslighting and bullshit. But I keep doing my part to fight this assault against values and decency. That's all Taco Don does is assault.

Liz and Max the No. 1 Cat's avatar

I'm already taking 5 prescription medications and my doctor is talking about adding a sixth. At this rate I'll be fucking rich.

HI2thDoc's avatar

Thank you President Drumpf, when that happens. Which is never

Cyndi's avatar

Nah. He sees color. As long as it's green.

ynot1965's avatar

As I like to say, 'better living through pharmacopia'!

Ronald P YYZ's avatar

Will getting a 1000% price reduction and paid to take your meds count as a “job” and therefore boost the numbers for trump?

Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

That could be confabulated to be so.

Sooz Hall's avatar

Brilliant insight! Be careful or they’ll try to hire you for the BLS🤣

Rick Calegari's avatar

Just like when Dump immediately wiped out Biden's $35.00 cap on insulin. Dear Cheater could give two shits about lowering drug prices or anything else that's for the good of the American people. His handlers just keep writing the script, he blurts out the shit and the useless fucks of the press just treat like it's another normal day.

HI2thDoc's avatar

Who knew so many were so good at swallowing bullshit

Walt Svirsky's avatar

They live among us, Doc. Every third person is a fucking MAGAT.

Mary Hall's avatar

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Zija Pulp's avatar

Watching the Newsmax “journo” listen to Pres. “My Uncle Was an MIT Prof” talk about lowering drug prices by 1,000% (right after he said we were paying 10 times more than European countries), I couldn’t help imagining Jonathan Swan in his place, and what a different outcome it would be.

Runfastandwin's avatar

useless fucks exactly right

Anne DePalma's avatar

As Josh Johnson so aptly put it, if this happened, the healthcare CEO would have shot Luigi!

Susan Niemann's avatar

An uneducated electorate is being led to slaughter. What that bastard did to the Rose Garden makes me sick.

The felon exposed our ugly and ignorant underbelly. " President Scramblebrains" will just get worse and worse...maybe KKKaroline will be there to adjust his bib and wipe the drool.

I hate it here.

meryl selig's avatar

Susan: I keep convincing myself that the Rose Garden can be restored. Concrete can be jackhammered and the same types of roses can be planted … newer bushes but they will grow. Gardens can be created, or in this case, recreated.

The other things he’s destroyed… intangible and complex…. Will not be rebuilt so easily

PEACE, LOVE, RESIST's avatar

I read that they’re limestone blocks that can be removed. Maybe when trump is gone they can construct a limestone outhouse at his presidential library. It could double as his mausoleum.

Joan Eisenstodt's avatar

Is the golden ballroom being built on top of that? And if so where will the pressers be held? When Melania had the roses taken out in T1, it was horrible. This is far worse.

I was on the conference planning side of the hospitality industry for 50 years retiring in 2024. Renderings of the ballroom show a totally dysfunctional space. Bet caterer access, access for disabled people, will not work. But he said it was too hard for women in heels to walk on grass! Where will the Easter Egg Roll be held? Amidst the golden chairs.

I loathe every part of those in charge. SCOTUS may be far worse.

Hollie Rood's avatar

I’m right there with you Joan. My head after only 7 very long miserable months ➡️🤯⁉️

Joan Eisenstodt's avatar

It makes time go so slowly, doesn't it? We measure it all by the months left and they feel like a million years. Were it not for Substacks, I'm unsure how I'd cope!

Hollie Rood's avatar

Definitely 💯It helps keep me sane knowing I’m not alone

Robert Eckert's avatar

We thought the Covid year moved slowly. This is agony.

george  campbell's avatar

Can we all plant Roses in protest ? . That's my plan . Roses will be gone from the storied Rose Garden but blooming all over America .

Joan Eisenstodt's avatar

OOOH a plant-in. I love the idea. Where shall we?

george  campbell's avatar

Nope . the limestone blocks in the Rose Garden will not belong to Donald , Put them in storage , restore the Rose Garden , have a contest to decide what to do with the limestone .

Cathy 98280's avatar

I like the above mentioned Trump mausoleum - perhaps next to the first tee at Bedminster? Then it could really be considered a cemetery! (He better NEVER BE BURIED AT ARLINGTON!!! 😡😡😡)

KP Johnson Austin, TX's avatar

Sell chunks to the highest bidders.

Jill Palethorpe's avatar

Gardeners! Start planting roses now (own root, preferably, not grafted) plant in large containers and care for relentlessly. When that obscenity that covers the lawn is dug up we will need a people's garden of beautiful blooms to replace it.

Chris Hierholzer's avatar

I can't think that far ahead Meryl.

Walt Svirsky's avatar

Do they really think their own children will escape the apocalypse? The planet is in free fall and the MAGATS are looking under our sofa cushions to make sure they steal it all.

As Justin McAfee so brilliantly stated, their behavior is “like a junkie selling his last heirloom.”

Mingo's avatar

Perhaps KKKaroline can change his diaper after his blowouts.

arne link's avatar

IT's a known fact that she likes older men, like a lot older. Close to death, maybe.

Dave Drell's avatar

Who da fuck marries someone 30 years older? Money grabbers or daddy replacements!

Bob's avatar

KKKaroline Electra Lievitt

Cathy 98280's avatar

Apparently she was preggers when they wed. (Kinda tells you about her type of religion - sex before marriage?😳😂😂😂)

Walt Svirsky's avatar

I believe her husband was in his 30’s when she was a youth.

Robert Eckert's avatar

when she was a toddler you mean

T L Mills's avatar

Perhaps? I think she should be made to do so--just to atone for her shameless lies and mean girl attitude.

Charles Austin's avatar

Her face should be rubbed in it

Walt Svirsky's avatar

That should be on Pay Per View. Shitler could make millions in crypto!

Walt Svirsky's avatar

KKKaroline doesn’t do manual labor. She has people of color for that.

Lady Emsworth's avatar

No, fairs fair, Susan - I understand that since trump heard all the complaints about the Rose Garden, he's decided to get it painted green.

Instead of having it gold plated on the tax payers dime. . .

Walt Svirsky's avatar

I’m surprised it’s not a putting green, really.

Chris Hierholzer's avatar

That's what roll up astroturf is for. I'm sure its included in the price.

Richard's avatar

The destruction of the Rose Garden makes me sick too - and I think that’s the point (am I being paranoid). While not at the level of concentration camps and economic collapse, gratuitous destruction of something nice is a gut punch that leaves one incredulous, nauseous, less resilient and more vulnerable to the other stuff.

Chris Hierholzer's avatar

I call it the TMI virus. Its a common virus with no vaccine in our modern times. Even chicken soup won't help.

Steve Kelly's avatar

Agreed. Seems like somewhere in all this, America died. But then, Everything Trump Touches Dies.

Lenore Sherriff's avatar

It is getting really awful 😢

Kathleen Weber's avatar

Mad King Donnie won't rest until he's reduced all of our incomes by eleventy hundred percent! There will be new paper in the land— Drumpf -$100 bills.

Marian Goldsmith's avatar

And raised his again by a jillion million percent. Or is it a jillion zillion gold eagles?

Peggy Hendrickson's avatar

Great post, Jeff! Thanks again! Unfortunately, I learned a new word today - confabulation. I have been seeing it in my husband for a while now, and I can assure you that there is no way to convince a confabulator that he is confabulating. Trump is a huge danger to all humanity at this stage in the game. There will never be a rational decision under him because he is unable to do anything besides destroy or consume.

george  campbell's avatar

Donald's narratives sound like Grampa Simpson .

Neal Stiffelman's avatar

Maybe he can get his caddy to run the department. Or Hassett could learn to caddy; it’s the job he’s always auditioning for.

Fastball Fredo's avatar

Every time I see that Hassett idiot talk I think… how much more of a dunce and stooge can this guy get.. I’m sure he hasn’t reached the bottom yet.. I can’t wait for him to do his impression of a N. Korean tv anchor.. maybe get him to cry with a sir story about Donald.

Pere Ubu's avatar

There's definitely something evil behind that smile he always has.

Chris Hierholzer's avatar

No, I think he's honestly clueless Pere.

Robert Eckert's avatar

Evil and clueless are not mutually exclusive.

T L Mills's avatar

He's a smarmy suck-up and I positively loathe his smug face.

Neal Stiffelman's avatar

I’m sure if we scoured the records we’d find it quickly.

steve robertshaw's avatar

Hell, he's a step down from Stephen Moore from trump's first term - and I didn't think that was possible!

george  campbell's avatar

He is a useful idiot .

SethTriggs's avatar

A few reasons they can't. One important reason is that the Democratic warnings they pooh-poohed and ridiculed would be shown to be correct. There is no clout—nor are there clicks to be had—from listening to Democrats. Additionally, Murc's Law says that only Democrats may face accountability, so covering the pricktator's gibbering accurately is a violation.

Let us also not forget, these media owners want those juicy, juicy Republican tax cuts and regulatory capture to allow their mergers for $$$$. You cannot get that unless you fete the pricktator and show that the mad godking emperor has no clothes.

Susan P Thatcher's avatar

Thought 1) Bullshit Barbie's lips don't actually move because they're Botoxed to hell and gone. Zero expression, and say it fast before someone yells, "Bullshit" Thought 2) the drains for that concrete monstrosity are America flags. So besides humping flags, he's pouring runoff through them. This man is not a patriot.

Rick Calegari's avatar

Only for show and when there's a camera in the vicinity.

Wendy OConnor's avatar

Everything is fine is my daily confabulation.

Kay-El's avatar

1. I was good at pinball in my youth. I still have most of my brains. This is not a confabulation.

2. Biden’s economy was roaring. Donny’s is snoring.

Chris Hierholzer's avatar

The pinball picture really resonated.

Cheryl Seybert's avatar

Yes it did!! It needs to be used more often when donny speaks!!

Dr J's Sanity Space's avatar

Orange Moron’s sexual impulsivity goes waaaay back- they let you do it is the rationalization for it, sick all around but Truax piece is spot on

meryl selig's avatar

How long til Truax gets axed?

Dr J's Sanity Space's avatar

I wasn’t familiar with him, but at the bottom, I read that he’s an R lawyer. Not that that is any guarantee of not being axed. Like all of us on this site, one gets to a point of having had enough crap & then act remindful of possible consequences

Susan P Thatcher's avatar

And he thinks of himself as a star. I'm sure he was the moving power to give him a star on the Walk of Fame

Lady Emsworth's avatar

Steve Moore's face when he heard those job numbers - he looked eactly like chimp who has had a banana waved in front of him - and then taken away.

David Skoglund's avatar

Steven Moore is a chucklehead loser!

Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

I couldn’t believe he is still around and being listened to! Missing is the worst mouth on Wall Street Larry Kudlow who is not an economist but plays one on fox. What’s the Laffer Curve say about the drip down economy? There is a case of confabulation.

HI2thDoc's avatar

100%, Jeff. ‘Murikkka is now replicating the propagandized Soviet experience, apropos because the pedophilic preznut’s idol is a former Soviet apparatchik. But how sad, infuriating, pathetic, and tragic that we willingly gave our freedoms away by electing the liars and crooks of the Murikkkan Fascist Party

Walt Svirsky's avatar

Did we? Current research using that thing called “Math” disputes the so-called election results. The truth is starting to be revealed. That’s why Shitler and his MAGAT goons are moving quickly to STEAL IT ALL. Kamala really won, but we all lost anyway.

HI2thDoc's avatar

The question is, with that dictator contaminating all branches government and those crooked quislings in Congress and the courts, will the true results be revealed? And can those results be enforced?

Walt Svirsky's avatar

That worries me, too, Doc. That may be why things are moving slowly, cautiously. Those analysts are going to want documentable proof before they stick their necks in Shitler’s noose.

Lady Emsworth's avatar

Turns out, the sewer drain gratings on that new WH patio are tiny replicas of the US flag.

I shit you not.

The symbolism is off the charts. . .

Cheryl Seybert's avatar

OMG! That is absolutely disgusting! He has no taste at all!!

arne link's avatar

OMG. And, we get to walk on (or piss on) the presidential seal at the corners. How special.

Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

It looks like that in the winter with snow why not have both.

MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

He thought it would add a nice patriotic touch.

Carl Selfe's avatar

Now is our moment—take action against this harmful government. They are:

• Covering up a pedophile ring.

• Ignoring court orders.

• Spreading corruption.

The poor, the needy, and children are being abused—by our government. Healthcare, already a broken system, was canceled for 13 million. Take to the streets!

We must protest outright crooks and the pedophiles. They will start shooting us. Untrained ICE agents will shoot us. Protest until we go down or we oust these tyrants.

I made 54 protest signs to aid protest groups. I will make many more to share. You will see something different in these signs! Help yourself to this second batch, and share them as far as you can.

https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/more-free-protest-signs?r=3m1bs

Tess's avatar

I protested yesterday with about 100 people in central WI…some trumper started yelling at part of the group and called them “delusional.” When a protester tried to respond-he shouted louder…as did the protester. Trumper went home and called the police! lol The police officer talked to the protesters trumper was yelling at…said we had a call and had to investigate….then left peacefully. Never a dull moment!

T L Mills's avatar

We are given a what to do at a protest rally sheet...and #1 is to never engage with the "opposition". They may be trying to provoke the rally into becoming violent--or using the excuse of some pushback to become violent themselves. Violence is the polar opposite of the purpose of the protest rallies.

arne link's avatar

Wow, that's a bit scary. I'm glad it all worked out safely.

Richard's avatar

I agree with you 100%! Btw, there is different types of Alzheimer’s Disease or dementia. My mother was diagnosed with it in 2008 and she passed away in 2010. In a span of two years. I saw what it did to her. Speaking of the Rose Garden. Remember, President Nixon’s daughter was married in the Rose Garden in 1971. It was a huge wedding and it was televised. My parents and I watched it. I was 10 years old. With the past former Presidents. The Rose Garden was off limits. Well, Melania(the bitch) tore up the section five years ago.

Richard's avatar

Btw, kudos to the person having the billboard sign put up in Alabama.!

Mary Hall's avatar

I wish we could post memes here. I have one of Jackie Kennedy saying, "That hooker did what to my rose garden?"

Richard's avatar

I agree with you! Well, the Rose Garden section at the White House was started many years ago way before I was born. Jackie Kennedy had the Rose Garden expanded. I need to Google about the history when they started the Rose Garden.

C8675309's avatar

The destruction of the rose garden symbolizes everything doesn’t it Smdh