I’m posting this latest missive from Jeff Tiedrich because it made me laugh out loud. I once again apologize for his generous use of words I don’t allow on this site. But he uses the F word to make you laugh and to emphasize his point. The next four years will give him plenty to work with. I subscribe to his blog. You should consider doing so.
He writes:
as another stupid week comes to a close here in America, let’s look back at some of the highlights.
monday: who would Jesus infect
it’s been a hot minute, so let’s check in on America’s new christofascist overlords. here’s newly-elected Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita.
“with your help, together, we will make Indiana a truly free state … where we can raise our children as God intended, without interference by woke schools, doctors or courts … where we are no longer vaxxed or masked.”
sure, absolutely. it’s a well-known fact that Jesus was all about spreading preventable diseases. it’s right there in the Sermon on the Mount: blessed are the science-deniers, for they will choke to death on their own infectious mucus.
I’m no scholar, but I’m pretty sure that there’s nothing in the Bible about vaccinations — but as long as we’re going to adhere to “God’s intentions,” here’s one he’s pretty specific about.
if you wear linen and wool at the same time, you should be fucking slaughtered.
Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.
that’s good old Leviticus 19:19. now here’s Leviticus 19:27.
Ye shall not round off the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
what do you have to say for yourself, Todd, you infidel? because it looks to me like you’re definitely marring the corners of thy beard.
that’s what I love about these cristofascist hypocrites. they cherry-pick the Bible to prove whatever oppressive notion they want to inflict on the rest of us — but when it comes to actually adhering to the laws that are right there in the Bible, it’s fucking crickets.
tuesday: hly fcking sht, lern hw to fcking spel

Tuesday was Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing, and Senate Republicans brought all the props out in support of his candidacy — because nothing says I’m a serious legislator whose issues should be taken seriously more thanmisspelling the word military.
in their own defense, Senate Republicans had been out all night getting hammered with Piss-Drunk Pete, and were too hung over the next morning to notice.
wednesday: I download Supreme Court decisions for the idiocy
during oral arguments regarding a Texas law requiring age verification in order to access porn sites, Fishin’ Trip Sammy Alito raised a cogent question.

“Justice Alito is asking if websites like Pornhub have ‘essays, modern day Gore Vidal, stuff like that’ like the old Playboy.”
um, who wants to tell him?

I suppose on the one hand, it’s admirable that Steal Stoppin’ Sammy should be so ignorant of the online porn experience that he’d ask such a ludicrous question — but on the other hand: why the fuck are ancient white men allowed to rule on technologies they’re too out-of-touch to understand?

remember the old “the internet is a series of tubes” meme? here’s where it came from: an old white man who had no clue what he was gibbering about.
back in 2006, Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was railing against streaming services. he wanted to shut them down. he was convinced they were going to break the internet — because, as he explained it, the internet is “a series of tubes.” here is exactly what Senator Stevens said.
“And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes. And if you don’t understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it’s going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.”
these people should not be setting policy affecting millions of Americans. they should be enjoying a nice, hot cup of shut the fuck up in a managed care facility.
oh, and for the record, “I download porn for the articles” is a joke I made twelve years ago.

you’re welcome.
thursday: mirth of an abomination
oh frabjous day, the toxic incels are at it again.

pro tip: posting shit like this is proof you’ve failed as a human being.
also, can you fucking idiots get your stories straight?
just two weeks ago, the Space Nazi was extolling the virtues of c-sections — promising that if women would opt out of giving birth the old-fashioned way, all of us could have brains as big as his.

“There are certainly other factors at play, but heavy use of c-sections allows for a larger brain, as brain size has historically been limited by birth canal diameter.”
so which is it, incels?
friday: stand back, Rand Paul’s about to say something stupid
while writing these daily posts, there’s a line find myself I using over and over: “it’s so easy to solve all the world’s problems when you have no fucking clue what you’re talking about.” the reason I keep repeating it, is because Republicans keep proving it’s true.
here’s failed wig model Rand Paul, explaining how he knows more about water management than all the water managers.
“I see these homes burning and I’m like wow, if they just had a generator and a hose, you start sucking the water out of the The Pacific Ocean. but you can do more than that. you can pump it and put it in cisterns up in the hills a mile or two in. why don’t they take the ocean water and put it in cisterns have a bunch of water ready when a wildfire shows up? once again, bad local government.”
hey everybody, Rand Paul just invented reservoirs. that’s some Nobel Prizewinning stuff right there.
this fucking arrogant asshole, lecturing Los Angeles on why don’t you just have reservoirs?
you nincompoop, Los Angeles has reservoirs. plenty of them. and they were all full when the fires started. that’s not the issue. Rand Paul is conveniently forgetting about the part where LA was dealing with literal hurricanes made out of fire that were too massive and fast-moving to control or contain — by any fire department, anywhere.

talking out of your ass from the floor of the Senate is easy. actually dealing with problems is hard — and Republicans are proving it every day.
saturday: ?
hey, it’s still morning as I sit here writing this. but give it time, I guarantee you that some dipshit wingnut is going to do something stupid before the day is over. you can set your watch to it.
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This didn’t make me laugh — it incensed me that our political “leaders” are so utterly ignorant and that a disturbed billionaire has control of a widely-read social media outlet…and that there is such widespread ignorance in our general population which spells doom for our republic.
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Elon is a pro-natalist. He wants women (white) to have more babies. He has fathered 12. Will probably father more. Easy for him.
But Elon recommends caesareans to make babies smarter, like him. But this procedure limits women’s bodies for future pregnancies.
Also, science does NOT support his claim that babies born by C-section are smarter.
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For the record.
Here’s Mad Musks extended fascist family.
Children with Justine Wilson
Children with Grimes
Children with Shivon Zilis
Musk has said that he believes in the “pronatalist” movement, which advocates for having many children. He has also said that he’s trying to increase the number of children he has with whoever will accept his DN
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Decades ago c sections were over used. The pendulum swung in the opposite direction and some women who had a mismatch between birth canal size and baby head size had to endure inappropriate delays before they could get a c section. One size fits all is lousy medicine. Mother Nature doesn’t always get it right. Stress on the baby because the obstetrician regards the mother as a failure if a c section is needed is lousy medicine. Sometimes female doulas and female obstetricians can be just as cruel as the incels.
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“He has also said that he’s trying to increase the number of children he has with whoever will accept his DN”
Sounds like a typical guy thinking with his dick and looking to get laid.
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Quikwrit: “widespread ignorance in our general population”
I’m setting the record straight.
77,303,568 votes (49.8%) — That is the number of ignorant voters that voted for FELON47. That is 22% of the US population. Are they really part of the general population or do they live in the FOX-MAGA bubble, which may be worse than being old-fashioned ignorant? Those who live in the FOX-MAGA bubble are willingly ignorant and dumber than dumb.
The next number voted for Kamala Harris.
75,019,230 votes (48.3%)
Now for the population of the United States.
More than 335,000,000
How many are biological or statutory children (under 18)?
73,000,000
How do we label those who were eligible to vote who didn’t — are they ignorant or have the tuned out?
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Certainly not ignorant. They have decided that the USA two party system to vote as both parties are captured by the monied interests and don’t give a damn about those of us with little wealth or monies.
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No, it’s far more stupid than that for most of them.
Occam’s Razor.
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Not sure what Occam’s Razor (yes, I know what that term seems to mean) has to do with people deciding not to vote because the political system does not allow for candidates that might induce them to vote. Please explain, thanks.
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Trump voters mostly are motivated by putting a strongman in power who will eliminate those pesky things like constitutional protections or responsive government.
They like an ignoramus who, as they fantasize they themselves would do, will punish those they disagree with, or simply don’t like. They don’t want anyone who disagrees with them to achieve political power, just as a schoolyard bully doesn’t like it when a teacher or other staff member stops him behaving as he does.
They don’t really care about parties as such. A Democratic Trump who does what the actual Trump does would be just fine with them, irrespective of party.
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Thank you.
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Hey, I wouldn’t leave you hangin’!
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Yeah, especially “DEI in our MILTARY”. I can only shout so much as the doctor said it has affected my health. But complete morons. I was born and raised in California and each summer we typically get the Santa Anas that drive our fire danger to RED ALERT. We get Spare the Air Alerts daily. This was a complete anomaly. Helicopters do not fly in 100 mile per hour winds. We have been in drought conditions for many years and I feel water rationing will be in effect again this summer. So obtuse as they sit behind their desks from far away. From the Delta smelt https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Fishes/Delta-Smelt#:~:text=is%20also%20concentrated.-,Species%20Status,opens%20in%20new%20tab)). to the CA Aqueduct system https://www.watereducation.org/aquapedia/california-aqueduct Growing up in Northern CA, all my life it was “stop sending our water to SoCal” but the aqueduct delivers and our reservoirs are full. They might want to read their science books and educate themselves on fire science like all our firefighters. Oh and how water pressure works. So obtuse, but yet have all the answers. ERRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGH! My wife and I are fearful of what lies ahead and the most vulnerable people will not be served.
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When it comes to FELON47’s leadership style. there is no THEY.
There’s only him. He is a malignant narcissist and an extreme micromanager (all of his business life and probably before that when he was a child and adolescent) and everyone else that works for him or supports him are lemmings who are supposed to keep their mouths shut, or nod and tell him how great he is, and then do what he tells them even if it means jumping off a cliff.
Trump is using his lies about the LA wildfire storm as a potential political weapon to rally his MAGA hate troops to go after Newsom, who is on the sociopath’s hit list of enemies to get rid of first.
FELON47 doesn’t’ care about the truth and his dumber than dumb MAGA cult, doesn’t care either.
He tells his fascist storm troopers that Newsom is responsible for the wildfires, and they will believe it without question.
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Diane: I see it as giving back some of the attitudinal “stuff” that people in our camp get from Trump every day. I mean, think of Gavin Newsom and his Trumpism. But NO ONE likes to be the object of that kind of ire. So: just a little taste of Back at Ya, like having your name changed to sound like an abomination.
Well, . . . maybe not so “little.” Hats off, then everyone bow (and don’t forget to send bags of money.)
(I laughed out loud when I got to the picture of the kitty in the tube.) He was probably using “tube” as a metaphor, but who cares.
BTW–I watched Ron Paul in Congress yesterday–where I got the distinct impression that Mr. Paul was just now getting the fact that GUESS WHAT, Mr. Paul . . . Donald Trump doesn’t want your job–just the power that goes along with it. Welcome to fascism. Maybe when you get all that sand out of your ears, you will start putting a stop to it without feeling like you’ve been transformed into a woke democrat. CBK
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WIth raids beginning (seriously sick and inhumane), maybe we need some comic relief, albeit real.
I hope Lorne Michaels (SNL)* and Peter Segal (Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me) read these. The days of the Sarah Palin parodies are no longer funny. Can’t distinguish the parody from the reality so it’s just more bad news.
Reading/hearing these guys’ actual statements and realizing they’re funny, stupid AND REAL should wake up some people how bad this is. Maybe? At least a little?
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ROFL!! I particularly liked, no wait, I loved most of it. Alito’s question about Pornhub made me long for the old Mad Magazine feature “Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions.” And Rand Paul!! There is something especially hilarious about delivering an idiotic pronouncement in a manner suggesting you think precious jewels fall from your mouth as you speak. (I am now trying tune out unbidden images of some poor schmuck standing on the beach with a compressor and garden hose, catching fire as he tries to douse the inferno.) Have the nurse hand Rand a steaming cup of STFU.
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Thanks, Ginny. Jeff’s humor cracks me up. I did love that MAD feature too.
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BETHREE: Someone who tried a garden hose said the wind was so bad, all the water came back on him and never even got to the ground. I get the impression that Rand Paul thinks everything in his head–and ONLY that–constitutes all there is in the world.
In his Congressional talk the other day, I got the impression he is just now realizing that Trump wants to take away all of the power vested in Congress, including Rand Paul’s. Where’s he been?
It’s like that famous anecdote about getting the attention of that mule–first you have to hit him in the head. CBK
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This is why the Congress was structured to be the most powerful branch of government.
Right now, they are the one institution that can curb Trump.
I am less than sanguine about their willingness to do so…
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jsrtheta: Well, from watching Rand Paul, he has been oblivious to the fact that Trump was subverting the power of Congress–Paul’s power included.
Paul is okay with Trump screwing over everyone else, but not HIM. CBK
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Paul is a fool.
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I remember his BS by contracting Covid and not wearing a mask but still breathing on everyone. This guy is obtuse. https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/rand-paul-spreads-covid-lies-risking-lives-in-low-vaccination-rate-kentucky/
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He’s always been a wack job, just like his father.
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That’s why Dems must win both houses of Congress in 2026.
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I’m seriously beginning to doubt this whole “1 man/1vote” thing. Particularly when the current majority party is a pack of rubes and ignorami.
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jsrtheta: . . . you think? CBK
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Elon actually SAID that about C-sections?
Thr level of ignorance is frightening.
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