I've been following Jeff Tiedrich for a long time and he is so good at calling out the bullshit. He also makes me laugh. Kind of like the laugh I got with 'fine-and-yank-it Jeffrey' LOL!! Yes, the media is a disgrace. They really do let trump get away with murder but god forbid the dems step one toe across the media's BS line and all the pearl clutching begins! FFS I'm glad Biden pardoned Hunter--about time as this was nothing but a political hit job. I hope Biden gives blanket pardons to all the people on the orange turds hit list too before he leaves office and that includes pardoning himself!
Not just the editors-in-chief, but all their swoony commenters who turn out the stuff. Plus, I think we're beyond clutching those pearls (so 19th century). Insertion should be mandated down there. For the men, frontal opening, plizz.
I attribute the brilliance of this to you…the absolute brilliance of Lucian for bringing us to you. Both: what a way with words. Subscribing now to you. Been on the Truscott train for years! (Sorry. I seem to write like an old Wester Union gram.)
His Saturday This Week in Stupid is really outrageously funny, and there's a very loyal community of one upmanship jokes on the side. But really good political analysis and muckraking aside from the humor. I recently became a founding member of Jeff T. just to sustain the cause of humor in these days of the shadows lengthening.....
Well said. The self-righteousness is killing me. What’s funny is we are the only people who read those thinky pieces. Trumpets sure don’t. Jeffrey T should be ashamed of himself. And that goes double for Nate Silver, who never said a peep when Steve Bannon and his ilk got pardons.
Watching the parade of enablers and traitors helps me better understand how people like Hitler, Stalin, and Putin took power. They were helped every step along the way by many collaborators. In Trump's case, the shameless collaborators include the NY Times, the WaPo, 6 of the SCOTUS Justices, way too many Members of Congress, way too many business leaders, etc.
What is happening in South Korea is incredible. Yoon is now saying he will lift martial law. I hope he is arrested and tried for insurrection. Brazil is about to arrest Bolsonaro and charge him with sedition. But we re-elected a traitor.
The Senate Dem caucus just re-elected Schumer, who immediately started bleating about bipartisanship while vowing to stand up for Democratic "values". Senate Dems in the tank now. We are fucked and are really on our own.
WTF! Shumer needs to retire just like the rest of those old fogies (and I'm old too). I am so sick of the senate dems being all like 'we are a deliberative body' BS. Well deliberate the crap you'll get with orange menace you idiots!
I'm old too, so I figure that gives me the right to call them out as the old farts they are. They will not lift a finger to stop Trump. He'll arrest the lot of them and they will be shocked.
And that’s why Dems have trouble winning. No Dem politician is perfect enough for the voters. Repub politicians don’t care, they give their voters something to hate about all their opponents.
When republicans are in the minority, they vow that they’ll block and filibuster every single measure or bill or resolution democrats bring to the floor. When democrats are in the minority, they’re going for bipartisanship. Schumer will be irrelevant come January. Let me know when they’re coming for him.
I just keep thinking about Schumer yukking it up with Trump at the Al Smith Dinner in NYC. Made me really ill. That's when I knew in my gut that Schumer would never fight and will throw us all to the wolves in exchange for protection of his sorry ass.
Yes. But I doubt he'll pay any attention unless you're a donor with big bucks. The Democratic Party needs to be rebuilt from the ground up and the old farts need to go. Their neoliberal bullshit got us into this and they continue to cling to it even now.
I don't know. I've been fighting this battle for almost 60 years and I'm tired and no longer have any answers. I suppose the younger folks will have to organize at the local level and work their way up. It's going to take a long time and a lot of hard work, and I won't live long enough to see it. But I do believe that we will survive this, somehow.
I’m a Tiedrich subscriber. He gets posted on Blue Sky too. The man is genius with words describing trmp, rethuglicans or any other political lowlife that’s crawling around in the swamp. Here is part of one of my favorite posts.
“but in addition to being a quadrice-indicted twice-impeached once-convicted popular-vote-losing adderall-huffing insurrection-leading testimony-ducking judge-threatening lawyer-ignoring witness-tampering day-one-dictatoring disabled-veteran-dishonoring inheritance-squandering rube-fleecing clown-makeup-smearing language-mangling serial-sexual-predating draft-dodging casino-bankrupting butler-bullying daughter-perving hush-money-paying real-estate-scamming bone-spur-faking ketchup-hurling justice-obstructing classified-war-plan-thieving golf-cheating weather-map-defacing horse-paste-promoting paper-towel-flinging race-baiting tax-evading evidence-destroying charity-defrauding money-laundering diaper-filling 88-count fluorescent tangerine felony factory, Donald Trump is a f**king bizarro.”
I think Biden should pardon all of the folks on any MAGA enemies list under the same terms as he pardoned his son, Hunter. Make the pardons broad and deep. MAGA can go pound sand.
Even worse are all of the Dem politicians braying about how Biden is disgracing his office and preventing them from now criticizing Trump when he starts pardoning everyone, starting with the J6 convicts. Dems can only manage to craft a "strongly worded" letter of protest while Demon Don tramples all over the Constitution and any remaining norms. Biden is on the right track here, keep it coming.
Here's what I wrote to Dan Pfeiffer (The Message Box) this morning:
Dan? I usually always begin with a ❤️. Now? On this one? An Oh Please.. more Pearl clutching ( “made it hard for the democrats” wah-wah-wah). When I first read the headline I thought maybe it was the Onion — maybe because 3 generations of my family had just watched the West Wing Shibboleth episode in which CJ manages the pardoning bog the turkey(s). Soon as I learned it was real a little survey popped up in my mail— “Biden was right to pardon his son/ agree/disagree. Hell yeah AGREE! Duh! No moral, political or anything dilemma on my part. TOTALLY the right thing to do. You go, Joe Biden. As far as norms go? The norm of decency, love, fairness, mercy, honor — the timeless stuff- this action embodies ALL that. That’s the man’s legacy. Let’s please NOT join the Dems circular firing squad on this one. I’m with Rep Crockett btw. AND with Raskin and Wikler and the younger fry who are ready to take over. I’m 73.. mom, grandma, boomer, ardent lifelong Dem.
One last thing.. all of you “but he said. “ ( again— oh puleeze and what a fucking double standard) …picture for yourself Hunter in jail for x number of months/years after his father leaves office and folks realize he did nothing to save his son who was the collateral damage of fake-outrage Republican murderous politics. You think that would wear well with ordinary Americans? Think again.
Ya gotta ask yourself, what has happened to our main stream media from the TV news to the "unbiased" newspapers? Where we once were presented with the "just the facts, ma'm, just the facts"- we now have the double standard Lucian so ably presented. As previously discussed, the MSM would have multiple stories of Biden gaffs while ignoring the constant blatant lies of the insurrectionist. WTF? Also as previously written, a few of the steps for a thug to take over a democracy is to control the media, to have voters doubt elections, and have the courts make the criminal deeds of dear leader un-punishable. And Americans have done the aforementioned--- so easy. Sigh.
That's so true, the MSM is cowering in fear thinking their "fairness" will protect them from the Drumpf black shirts. Imagine their shock as they're hauled off to prisons and put out of business.
The oligarchs of America are controlling the press quicker than I thought. Not much is heard from them about the folly of felons introduced for the upcoming administration. We will become the largest banana republic in the world
I've been following Jeff Tiedrich for a long time and he is so good at calling out the bullshit. He also makes me laugh. Kind of like the laugh I got with 'fine-and-yank-it Jeffrey' LOL!! Yes, the media is a disgrace. They really do let trump get away with murder but god forbid the dems step one toe across the media's BS line and all the pearl clutching begins! FFS I'm glad Biden pardoned Hunter--about time as this was nothing but a political hit job. I hope Biden gives blanket pardons to all the people on the orange turds hit list too before he leaves office and that includes pardoning himself!
We should send all the editors-in-chief some (fake) pearls to clutch. 😀
good idea!
Not just the editors-in-chief, but all their swoony commenters who turn out the stuff. Plus, I think we're beyond clutching those pearls (so 19th century). Insertion should be mandated down there. For the men, frontal opening, plizz.
You're absolutely right.
I did feel a twinge (and then some) just writing it. Laughing emoji here.
'grin and yank it'. oops.
You know you can edit your comments? 😉🙂
Click on the three dots to access the feature. 🙂
Only on the web Substack is one able to edit. On mobile, the edit function is unavailable.
It's available on mobile if one isn't using their Ap -- and are using Android. I use it all the time on mobile.
Rather buggy program though they fixed one for me the other day.
Why not - no rules anymore for the felon / rapist why should Biden follow an rules!
Plus, he now has carte blanche (immunity) to do whatever he wants to do....
Amen
https://open.substack.com/pub/meidastouch/p/the-big-reason-why-hunters-pardon?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1wbr1r
Yes, Ron hit the nail on the head for the pardon
Thank You, John.
👍👍
hey, thanks for the shout-out!
I attribute the brilliance of this to you…the absolute brilliance of Lucian for bringing us to you. Both: what a way with words. Subscribing now to you. Been on the Truscott train for years! (Sorry. I seem to write like an old Wester Union gram.)
You are my laugh-out-loud moments of the day with your spot-on commentary. Thanks for keeping it real!
Jeff, you know you’ve hit the big-time if Lucian quotes you!!👏🏼👏🏼
subscribin'
His Saturday This Week in Stupid is really outrageously funny, and there's a very loyal community of one upmanship jokes on the side. But really good political analysis and muckraking aside from the humor. I recently became a founding member of Jeff T. just to sustain the cause of humor in these days of the shadows lengthening.....
Well said. The self-righteousness is killing me. What’s funny is we are the only people who read those thinky pieces. Trumpets sure don’t. Jeffrey T should be ashamed of himself. And that goes double for Nate Silver, who never said a peep when Steve Bannon and his ilk got pardons.
Silver is an asshole--one of those people Lucian talks about with his head so far up his ass he's conversing with his tonsils.
Total fucking asshole!
Isn't Silver working for Peter Thiel these days?
He is.😡😡
Yes Trump pardoned people who belong in prison.
I am so thrilled that Biden pardoned Hunter. It was a fully justifiable pardon. ‘Nuf said.
Yes—my first thought was “Good for you Joe!”
Exactly!
Watching the parade of enablers and traitors helps me better understand how people like Hitler, Stalin, and Putin took power. They were helped every step along the way by many collaborators. In Trump's case, the shameless collaborators include the NY Times, the WaPo, 6 of the SCOTUS Justices, way too many Members of Congress, way too many business leaders, etc.
The horrors just don’t end!!!!!
What is happening in South Korea is incredible. Yoon is now saying he will lift martial law. I hope he is arrested and tried for insurrection. Brazil is about to arrest Bolsonaro and charge him with sedition. But we re-elected a traitor.
One can hardly breathe.
Because we have really really stupid people among us, in our country!
We have really really smart people in this country who voted for Trump because they were OutFoxNewsed. Has to be a law against lying for profit.
Really, the Dems learn absolutely NOTHING!
Everyone should subscribe to Jeff Tiedrich. He is extraordinary. I learn more from him and you than I ever did from the MSM.
The guy is flat brilliant.
And absolutely hilarious.
Done!
The Senate Dem caucus just re-elected Schumer, who immediately started bleating about bipartisanship while vowing to stand up for Democratic "values". Senate Dems in the tank now. We are fucked and are really on our own.
WTF! Shumer needs to retire just like the rest of those old fogies (and I'm old too). I am so sick of the senate dems being all like 'we are a deliberative body' BS. Well deliberate the crap you'll get with orange menace you idiots!
I'm old too, so I figure that gives me the right to call them out as the old farts they are. They will not lift a finger to stop Trump. He'll arrest the lot of them and they will be shocked.
Only Susan Collins will be shocked - Shocked I tell you!
Or maybe just concerned.
My money's on "disappointed"
I am waiting for it!
When she's in jail for betraying her oath to der Fuhrer
Most Senators work for their corporate donors. That’s why they’d never allow a Bernie Sanders presidency.
Sanders killed the assault rifle ban. I like many things about him but he’s not a holy man. No one in politics is.
And that’s why Dems have trouble winning. No Dem politician is perfect enough for the voters. Repub politicians don’t care, they give their voters something to hate about all their opponents.
On target! You hit it about Bernie.
When republicans are in the minority, they vow that they’ll block and filibuster every single measure or bill or resolution democrats bring to the floor. When democrats are in the minority, they’re going for bipartisanship. Schumer will be irrelevant come January. Let me know when they’re coming for him.
We'll never know when they do come for him because the press will already be in jail or the camps.
Dems have done ok over the past 8. Better than I expected.
We really are! I, too am officially OLD, and looked at some of the Congressional hangers-on as useless. Now I think of them as shit-enablers.
I just keep thinking about Schumer yukking it up with Trump at the Al Smith Dinner in NYC. Made me really ill. That's when I knew in my gut that Schumer would never fight and will throw us all to the wolves in exchange for protection of his sorry ass.
Amy Klobuchar should have that job! Chuck is a nice guy who talks softly. Amy goes for the throat.
We need to flood his inbox with protests for as long as he's the leader of Senate Democrats.
Yes. But I doubt he'll pay any attention unless you're a donor with big bucks. The Democratic Party needs to be rebuilt from the ground up and the old farts need to go. Their neoliberal bullshit got us into this and they continue to cling to it even now.
Well once the felon rapist destroys the whole freakin' country we can start from scratch to rebuild it...
I don't know what else to do, Linda. What do you suggest?
I don't know. I've been fighting this battle for almost 60 years and I'm tired and no longer have any answers. I suppose the younger folks will have to organize at the local level and work their way up. It's going to take a long time and a lot of hard work, and I won't live long enough to see it. But I do believe that we will survive this, somehow.
I hope you're right. I hope I live to see it but I'm doubtful.
In agreement of ALL!
I have too!
Dems really need to get rid of Schumer. He's a drag on the party and did little to help Harris/Walz win the election.
Oh fuck.
I’m a Tiedrich subscriber. He gets posted on Blue Sky too. The man is genius with words describing trmp, rethuglicans or any other political lowlife that’s crawling around in the swamp. Here is part of one of my favorite posts.
“but in addition to being a quadrice-indicted twice-impeached once-convicted popular-vote-losing adderall-huffing insurrection-leading testimony-ducking judge-threatening lawyer-ignoring witness-tampering day-one-dictatoring disabled-veteran-dishonoring inheritance-squandering rube-fleecing clown-makeup-smearing language-mangling serial-sexual-predating draft-dodging casino-bankrupting butler-bullying daughter-perving hush-money-paying real-estate-scamming bone-spur-faking ketchup-hurling justice-obstructing classified-war-plan-thieving golf-cheating weather-map-defacing horse-paste-promoting paper-towel-flinging race-baiting tax-evading evidence-destroying charity-defrauding money-laundering diaper-filling 88-count fluorescent tangerine felony factory, Donald Trump is a f**king bizarro.”
Compliments of Jeff Tiedrich
06/17/24
*Very lightly edited for FakeBook post

That was one of my favorites also, SPW! 😁
OMG thank you for this! A wonderful reality check!
I think Biden should pardon all of the folks on any MAGA enemies list under the same terms as he pardoned his son, Hunter. Make the pardons broad and deep. MAGA can go pound sand.
Whoot! Whoot! YES! Thank you! You're on a roll! Again, thank you.
Even worse are all of the Dem politicians braying about how Biden is disgracing his office and preventing them from now criticizing Trump when he starts pardoning everyone, starting with the J6 convicts. Dems can only manage to craft a "strongly worded" letter of protest while Demon Don tramples all over the Constitution and any remaining norms. Biden is on the right track here, keep it coming.
I know. The Dem reaction is astonishing…not in a good way.
Sadly, today's Dems lack "fire in the belly."
https://open.substack.com/pub/meidastouch/p/the-big-reason-why-hunters-pardon?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1wbr1r
Here's what I wrote to Dan Pfeiffer (The Message Box) this morning:
Dan? I usually always begin with a ❤️. Now? On this one? An Oh Please.. more Pearl clutching ( “made it hard for the democrats” wah-wah-wah). When I first read the headline I thought maybe it was the Onion — maybe because 3 generations of my family had just watched the West Wing Shibboleth episode in which CJ manages the pardoning bog the turkey(s). Soon as I learned it was real a little survey popped up in my mail— “Biden was right to pardon his son/ agree/disagree. Hell yeah AGREE! Duh! No moral, political or anything dilemma on my part. TOTALLY the right thing to do. You go, Joe Biden. As far as norms go? The norm of decency, love, fairness, mercy, honor — the timeless stuff- this action embodies ALL that. That’s the man’s legacy. Let’s please NOT join the Dems circular firing squad on this one. I’m with Rep Crockett btw. AND with Raskin and Wikler and the younger fry who are ready to take over. I’m 73.. mom, grandma, boomer, ardent lifelong Dem.
One last thing.. all of you “but he said. “ ( again— oh puleeze and what a fucking double standard) …picture for yourself Hunter in jail for x number of months/years after his father leaves office and folks realize he did nothing to save his son who was the collateral damage of fake-outrage Republican murderous politics. You think that would wear well with ordinary Americans? Think again.
It doesn't wear well with this American, that's for sure.
https://open.substack.com/pub/meidastouch/p/the-big-reason-why-hunters-pardon?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1wbr1r
They’re obeying in advance so the convicted felon won’t shut them down.
He'll shut them down anyway if he can figure out a way to do it. They are a bunch of old fools who live in a dream world and won't face reality.
Ya gotta ask yourself, what has happened to our main stream media from the TV news to the "unbiased" newspapers? Where we once were presented with the "just the facts, ma'm, just the facts"- we now have the double standard Lucian so ably presented. As previously discussed, the MSM would have multiple stories of Biden gaffs while ignoring the constant blatant lies of the insurrectionist. WTF? Also as previously written, a few of the steps for a thug to take over a democracy is to control the media, to have voters doubt elections, and have the courts make the criminal deeds of dear leader un-punishable. And Americans have done the aforementioned--- so easy. Sigh.
That's so true, the MSM is cowering in fear thinking their "fairness" will protect them from the Drumpf black shirts. Imagine their shock as they're hauled off to prisons and put out of business.
right on, Tom
The oligarchs of America are controlling the press quicker than I thought. Not much is heard from them about the folly of felons introduced for the upcoming administration. We will become the largest banana republic in the world