The Hat and The Hair: Episode 71

by | Apr 13, 2018 | Hat and Hair, SugarFree | 300 comments

“You really need to stop reading that, you know,” the hair said calmly. “It’s just going to get you upset.”

“Fuck that, fuck you, fuck Comey and fuck everything!” the hat screeched.

“Well, at least Chris Cillizza doesn’t like it. He said much of it was such petty and mean.”

“Chris Cillizza? CHRIS FUCKFACE CILLIZZA?!?” The hat shook with rage and he and his advance copy of A Higher Loyalty fell off the desk.

The hair peered over the side. The hat was still shaking and the book had opened as it fell and embraced him like a lover. “Are you OK?”

“Do I look FUCKING OK?!?”

Donald stormed in, bald and red-faced, the USA hat jammed on his head sideways. “Well, hey there fellas!” it said in a thick drawl.

“Can this day get worse?” the hair muttered.

Sarah waddled in after Donald, a large piece of pie in each hand. Her face was already smeared with sticky-sweet red goo.

“Can’t we keep this from being published? Can I sue him? I have fantastic lawyers. The best lawyers. I want to sue him,” Donald said. He was in a filthy bathrobe that flapped open as he paced the Oval Office.

“I don’t think so, Mr. President,” Sarah said thickly, pie crust spraying out.

“A tariff then. A tariff. Tariffs work great. Look at China. Tariffs have them completely cowed. Cowed? Is that the right word? Cowed? It sounds weird as I keep saying it. Cowed. Cowed. Cowed.”

“Uh, I, uh, I don’t think you can put a, uh, tariff on a book published in the US.”

“Why not?” Donald demanded.

“I’ll have to get back to you on that,” Sarah said and took a huge bite of pie.

“Well, I’m asking you right now,” Donald said.

“You’re gonna,” Sarah paused to swallow, “Have to ask the President about that directly.”

“I AM THE PRESIDENT!” Donald roared. The hat and hair snickered. The USA hat guffawed.

“Sir?” Sarah asked. A goo-slathered cherry fell from one of her pieces of pie and hit the Presidential Seal.

“DIBS!” the hat yelled out.

“What about bombing? Can we just bomb the publisher? They won’t even see it coming… or will they?” Donald leaned on his desk casually and the hair yelped under him.

“I don’t think so, sir,” Sarah said miserably.

“We have time. We won’t need all our bombs for Syria, right? Like we can spare two or three, right?”

“You’ll have to ask General Mattis about that,” she said.

“Mattis. That all anybody says.” His voice went up into a falsetto. “‘Don’t tweet military plans; Mattis wouldn’t like it. Don’t taunt Rocket Man; Mattis wouldn’t like it. Don’t put pics of the Defense Center Codebooks on Instagram for Vlad; Mattis wouldn’t like it.’ I’m so fucking sick of that old fart. What is the use of advisors that won’t tell you to do whatever you want?”

“I don’t know, sir” Sarah mumbled around a mouthful of pie.

“What’s with this?” Donald asked, waving his hands. “What’s with the pie?”

“Sir?” she asked again, cocking her head like a dog.

“The pie. The pie. The pie that you are eating!” Donald pointed the piece of pie in each of her hands.

“I get low blood sugar in the afternoons,” Sarah replied.

“Is your blood sugar low now?” Donald asked sardonically.

“I get low blood sugar in the afternoons,” Sarah said robotically.

“The pie. It’s disgusting. It’s like a cheap set-up for a fat girl joke,” Donald said. “Get rid of it.”

“I wear a size 12,” Sarah said, almost in a whisper. “Size 12 is the average dress size for an American woman.”

“I wouldn’t even watch you piss on a motel bed,” Donald said, sneering.

“Sir?”

The hat coughed theatrically from the floor.

“Not that Melania thinks there is even a 1% chance I’d ever do that,” Donald said rapidly.

“Size 12 is the average dress size for an American woman,” Sarah said again. Tears were streaming down her face, raccooning her eye make-up, mixing dark rivulets into the red on her face.

“Ah like a girl with a little meat on ‘er bones,” the USA hat said.

Sarah broke and ran from the Oval Office, sobbing, her pie-filled hands bobbing up and down.

“Jesus, Donald,” the hair said.

“Thank fucking God,” the hat said. “It was really starting to stink like fat bitch in here.”

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300 Comments

  1. straffinrun

    “Thank fucking God,” the hat said. “It was really starting to stink like fat bitch in here.”

    That tapped into an ol’ factory memory. Thanks a lot.

    • Trigger Hippie

      *recalls an unfortunate seating assignment on a flight fifteen years ago, nods*

  2. Creosote Achilles

    First.

    Also, is Sarah your sublimated desire for sugary treats emerging in your writing?

    • Creosote Achilles

      Or not first. *sad trombone*

  3. straffinrun

    A Higher Loyalty. JFC. I’ve been busy the last few days, so I thought SF made that title up. Loyalty to what?

    • Creosote Achilles

      The deep state, duh.

      • straffinrun

        Maybe we can get Mythical Libertarian Woman to make a mock cover for it.

      • Waterfall Insurance

        I would love that. Her covers are always great.

      • SugarFree

      • Waterfall Insurance

        A Hired Loyalty: Pensions, Piss and Leaks.

      • Brochettaward

        Even the book cover stinks of pompous faux righteousness.

      • straffinrun

        Name in largest font. Perfect.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Yeah, I’ve been busy too, other than popping in here from time to time. Haven’t kept up with current “news”. It feels like trying to jump onto a merry go round that’s already up to speed.

  4. Hyperion

    That’s quite the scowl that girl has there. Is that her pie face, or pee face, or is it her pee pie face? Is that why the Donald keeps her around. Find out in epeesode 2.

  5. Playa Manhattan

    “He was in a filthy bathrobe that flapped open as he paced the Oval Office.”

    I feel like this could have been explored further.

    • Tundra

      Perv.

    • Riven

      There’s always next time

    • Amashi

      I’d like to think that SF was not so preoccupied with whether or not he could that he didn’t stop to think if he should. I’m inclined to think he just missed an opportunity here though.

  6. Brochettaward

    With that piece of shit Comey making the rounds today (god, how great is it that he was shit canned?), I found this bit most entertaining:

    Comey: It’s Possible Trump was with hookers ‘peeking on each other’

    Comey said it was an “almost out-of-body experience” when it came to talking to the then-president-elect about the 35-page dossier compiled by operative Christopher Steele that claimed the Kremlin had a tape of Trump paying prostitutes to urinate on a hotel bed.

    “I was floating above myself, looking down, saying, ‘You’re sitting here, briefing the incoming president of the United States about prostitutes in Moscow,’” Comey recalled.

    He added, “I started to tell him about the allegation was that he had been involved with prostitutes in a hotel in Moscow in 2013 during the visit for the Miss Universe pageant and that the Russians had filmed the episode, and he interrupted very defensively and started talking about it, you know, ‘Do I look like a guy who needs hookers?’”

    He acts like in this instance that Trump was the problem, and not his political enemies who came up with the bogus story and the FBI which took them seriously. Like, you assholes invented the story with the help of Dem political operatives, but now you want to act like he’s to blame and hold him in disdain for it. Trump made them do it!

    More to the point, the media has learned little. Comey even less. That story breaking was the most damaging thing to happen to the entire Russian narrative because most people took one look at it and just laughed and thought it was fucking retarded. And now you have Comey’s pompous and fraudulent ass out there saying it’s “possible.” I mean, it’s also possible Obama fucked a horse. I can’t disprove that one, either.

    Trump paying prostitutes to piss on a mattress out of spite isn’t out of the realm of possibility to me (Obama fucking a horse is probably slightly less likely). But I don’t know, I’m crazy. I think if we’re going to start talking about how something is “possible” (implying that it could be true here), then you should have, I don’t know, some god damn evidence first. They have none. Trump acting indignantly to a story coming from the FBI doesn’t make Trump look bad. It makes the FBI and that fuck Comey look bad.

    • Brochettaward

      I didn’t even read Sugarfree’s story. I’m just fucking topical.

      • CPRM

        Everything is possible, not much is probable.

    • straffinrun

      Former head of the premier law enforcement agency In. The. World. wrote a tell all book about people who are currently under investigation. This is just unreal.

      • Brochettaward

        I’m not drunk enough for this world.

      • Brochettaward

        And I’m trying.

      • Amashi

        I’m failing today, but I generally succeed. I’ll be lucky to make 60, but it might be worth.

      • Waterfall Insurance

        Seriously he went to south by southwest as a performer. If this is what all of those qualifications amount to, we are getting ripped off. I could do just as bad of a job as he did and write two books for half what he got paid.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Famous But Incompetent

    • Gustave Lytton

      Comey hasn’t denied being fucked by a horse either, as far as I know.

      • MikeS

        But I did hear he made Rudolph give him a hoof job.

      • MikeS

        lol

        Rusty/Ursula/Ariel
        ‏ @ursula_cat

        which furry weirdo lovingly sculpted rudolf’s ass

      • trshmnstr

        What about Donner and Blitzen?

      • straffinrun

        Mike and trsh look a little loopy now.

      • MikeS

        Who’s leg did Gustave hump to get a completely unnecessary edit?

        This is “exhibit A” why we do not need an edit button.

      • Gustave Lytton

        What edit? I wrote the thing and I’m missing what was fixed.

      • MikeS

        “Comey” used to be “Comet”

      • Gustave Lytton

        Dammit!

      • Gustave Lytton

        And just for the record, I humped no leg.

  7. DEG

    “The pie. The pie. The pie that you are eating!” Donald pointed the piece of pie in each of her hands.

    She should have brought enough for everyone.

    • Ted S.

      Free Willy, the beer that uses whale meat, sounds more interesting.

    • straffinrun

      Should have a picture of Adam taking a bite out of the apple on it.

    • Nephilium

      A well made Kolsch is a wonderful thing. I hit up a couple stops on the Summit County beer trail tonight, one was disappointing, the other wasn’t bad, but really overcharged for a growler fill ($20 for a Pils, and I had brought my own growler).

      • DEG

        That is a bit pricey.

      • Nephilium

        Yeah… most places will sell a fill for between $8-$15 based on the ABV of the beer. I ordered it before I saw the price menu hanging on the wall. It was also the first place where they weighed my growler after filling it. It’s not likely that I’ll be going back to that place for a growler fill any time soon.

      • MikeS

        What in the world is the weigh-in for?

      • DEG

        Yeah, that weigh-in sounds odd. I can’t think of why the place would weigh a growler.

      • Nephilium

        I can’t think of a good reason, but it may be to confirm they only gave 64 oz. of beer out. But if you’re that concerned about 4-5 oz. of beer either way, you’ve got other troubles.

  8. CPRM

    I don’t care what Pan says; I like USA Hat.

    • Tundra

      You know, it would be kind of cool for an expert cartoonist to include the USA Hat in an episode…

      • CPRM

        We need to find an expert cartoonist to find out.

    • Pan Zagloba

      So you’re not in fact the greatest American ever born.

      You are instead The Devil, who often lures men with sweet promises and gifts, then reveals his true nature later on.

  9. MikeS

    A music icon, struck down.

    “Although I can still hear a little, one on one, and on the phone, I can’t hear music well enough to sing. The lower frequencies distort violently making it impossible to find pitch,” Huey Lewis said. “I’ve been to the House Ear Institute, the Stanford Ear Institute, and the Mayo Clinic, hoping to find an answer. The doctors believe I have Meniere’s disease and have agreed that I can’t perform until I improve.”

    He issued an apology to fans that he had to cancel all of his future shows.

    • Tundra

      Link?

      My hearing is totally fucked. 50 years of rock n roll, power tools, shooting, etc. has taken the toll.

      Youngsters: wear hearing protection! All the fucking time!

      • DEG

        I found this one.

        Sad. They had some good songs.

      • MikeS

        I didn’t bother because it’s

        a) a very short article
        b) too local

        But just for you

      • Tundra

        Thank you.

        I love that guy. Taking a bar band to the big time is no easy feat.

        I want a new drug!

      • KSuellington

        I also have great love for Huey Lewis and the News.

        His success was likely helped though by the pact that he made with the devil.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        ^ this times 1000, I’m as Fucked as you are Tundra

  10. Ownbestenemy

    I want a Friday night to myself and the MIL goes and fucks it up. Scotch with the FIL at dinner might make up for up.

    • SugarFree

      When they ask what you are reading, oblige them.

      • Ownbestenemy

        The FIL is great. A bit out there…thinks everything is a government ploy to take away our freedoms. A good guy. MIL thinks Michelle Obama has a dick. I love the family I married into.

      • MikeS

        A bit out there…thinks everything is a government ploy to take away our freedoms.

        You have a strange definition of “out there.”

      • Ownbestenemy

        You are right…its his delivery I think otherwise it is spot on.

      • Lachowsky

        Out there is code for spot on.

    • Pan Zagloba

      Just offer to say Grace, then read the story out loud.

  11. Spudalicious

    Nice. That one was loaded pretty full. Almost as full as Sarah’s mouth full of pie. I like pie.

    • straffinrun

      The pic is of pumpkin pie, but I’m pretty sure she was eating cherry pie in the story. Raises deep questions.

      • DEG

        Chocolate pecan pie sounds delicious.

      • jesse.in.mb

        Always thought I hated the taste of walnuts and pecans. Was in a situation where it would’ve been impolite to turn a praline cheesecake down, and it turned out I’m just allergic to them, and actually like the way they taste quite a bit…I’ve never had pecan pie.

      • DEG

        That is a terrible allergy to have.

      • jesse.in.mb

        I think I was happier thinking I was just a picky jerk telling people I was allergic so I didn’t have to eat them.

      • Ted S.

        I thought *I* was the picky jerk around here.

      • MikeS

        Oh, you still are.

      • SugarFree

        It’s OK. Also known as Derby or May Day pie in Kentucky. I don’t really care for it. A finely made pecan pie is a balance of flavor and texture. A handful of chocolate chips thrown into the pie goo–that usually don’t even melt–adds nothing for my taste.

      • Spudalicious

        I’m kind of a purist when it comes to pecan pie. And yes, the custard/pecan ratio has to be just right, as does the sugar level in the custard.

      • straffinrun

        Forgot about that. Point given. Still, there are no cherries in that pie, either.

      • Spudalicious

        So SF screwed the pooch on the pie?

      • SugarFree

        That pie was last Thanksgiving. Sarah eats many types of pie. She contains multitudes (of pies.)

  12. Heroic Mulatto

    “Size 12 is the average dress size for an American woman,” Sarah said again. Tears were streaming down her face, raccooning her eye make-up, mixing dark rivulets into the red on her face.

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  13. Juvenile Bluster

    Hey now. I’m the only one here allowed to reference degenerate anime.

    • Heroic Mulatto

      Says who?

    • Juvenile Bluster

      Says me.

      Lucoa is an excellent choice for a Glib anime mascot

    • Heroic Mulatto

      Someone should create a Glib-chan.

    • Amashi

      To re-iterate: “Your amateur American anime’artist’ were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.” If they do it should def be “Glib-tan” though, just for the extra cringe.

    • Caput Lupinum

      Challenge accepted.

    • DEG

      TOPMEN!

    • Rhywun

      LOL those are great

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Great find Ted!

  14. Rhywun

    OT: Anyone else notice this “ESPN+” horseshit? This is like the third network in the last year to offload content that used to be included in my cable subscription onto an extra-pay streaming service. Motherfuckers! Cable keeps complaining about people leaving gee I wonder why that is.

    • Ted S.

      The NHL app doesn’t have the audio for the playoff games, as far as I can tell.

      They say you can listen to the Devils games at wfan.com, but nooooooo, they wanted to download ANOTHER FUCKING APP and waste space on my phone with it. I’d much rather listen streaming from a site or, for podcasts, an RSS feed with downloadable MP3s.

      • Rhywun

        I’m not aware of ESPN showing any hockey? Every game I watch is on either one of the MSG’s or the Hockey Network. For now.

      • Rhywun

        Or NBC Sports. Which started charging extra for English soccer but apparently not yet hockey.

      • Ted S.

        Fox Sports relegated one of the CL quarterfinals in each leg to their pay streaming service. You’ll recall I was pissed they did it to Bayern.

      • Ted S.

        ESPN doesn’t. But I like to listen to the games.

      • Ted S.

        The NHL app has all (as far as I can tell) the live audio during the regular season, but now that it’s the playoffs? Nope!

        Radio.com was actually streaming the game so I could listen to it from the browser on my smartphone while I was at my desktop computer.

      • Rhywun

        Ah. How quaint 🙂

    • leonadasiv

      Awesome.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      What an Asshole “statement of fact” oh Look at me all Factual me Smart!!

      • C. Anacreon

        He is right that there’s just as many Thursday the 12ths as Friday the 13ths.
        That’s Nobel-worthy stuff there.

    • Rasilio

      One part of that which everyone seems to miss is that Polio was cured a few years before he was born. He never would have used “awesome” to describe that vaccine because he has no memory of a world without it

      • Amashi

        He should also probably be ignored when talking about astrophysics, but as fortune has it almost everyone is ignored when talking about astrophysics, whether they deserve it or not, so no worries.

  15. Lachowsky

    Holy Springtime fellow Glibs.

    I drove through hail, wind, and rain so hard this afternoon that I couldn’t see the road. The same storm system dropped a tornado about 3 miles from house. Ah, the lovely annual Arkansas tradition of hoping that your house isn’t smashed by a tornado. Good times.

    Also, good work SF. I like this one.

    • Nephilium

      This week has been strange. Yesterday and today we were in the 80’s with sun. Saturday and Sunday are supposed to be in the 70’s with thunderstorms. Monday, there’s a chance of snow.

      • mindyourbusiness

        Here in our corner of the Midwest we had an 80-degree day…to be followed by snow tomorrow. Great excuse to shirk on the yard work.

      • Amashi

        The forecasts here have been… volatile. As recently as three days ago they thought it would be sunny and 75 here tomorrow, and OK after that. Now it’s supposed to be low 50s tomorrow with below-freezing highs and freezing rain on Sunday. Eliot was right, and Chaucer can go fuck himself. There’s nothing spoote about the coming week as far as I can tell. I was promised some soote, and I want some soote.

    • Rhywun

      80 degrees in NYC today. Sixties now… beautiful! Back to the thirties by Monday.

    • Lachowsky

      It’s been a wierd spring so far. The end of last week saw Temps in the upper twenties and snow flurries. It’s been around 80 the past few days. The strong thunderstorms today are the most normal spring weather we have had so far.

      The tornado that system dropped apparently went up to mountainburg and dam aged 160 structures. No fatalities. That is good.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      So, Thumper Tustin doesn’t work for me eh?

    • MikeS

      So…they’re all lying?

    • Rhywun

      I like to tell everyone I grew up (partially) on Bonesteel Street.

    • Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

      That channel seems to find the ugliest/most unappealing porn stars. And, while the work doesn’t necessarily correlate with intelligence, many of them just seem dumber than advertised.

    • straffinrun

      His other tweet, “Impeachment day after tomorrow”.

      • Just Say'n

        Trump broke him

      • SugarFree

        Just in case you didn’t know what I was referencing… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFzHwD9xiqM

        I had a The Exploited t-shirt at one point; where it went I’ll never know. Some girl probably stole it.

      • Amashi

        Was constantly in the rotation for me at 14, along with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TJmF1Lo5fU (no offense intended to NYC homosexuals, who Fear clearly wanted to disarm.) And “Beef Bologna” is a classic of American rock and roll.

        Of course when I was _late_ 14 I’d started to think that “The Gun Club” was a much better and unmissable band in the same vein.

    • SugarFree

      “You cowardly bastard! You’re not the voice of the people! The people speak through me! It came to me while I slept– my destiny. I must get up now and fulfill my destiny! Put your hand on that, or I’ll hack it off! Do it!”

    • Just Say'n

      “Oh shit, we freedom’d that guy right in half”

      “And that little girl is exploding with freedom!”

      It’s working! We won the battle for hearts and minds- they’re spattered all over Damascus!

      #merica

      • Heroic Mulatto

        Remember when folks said Trump would be different?

      • Chipwooder

        In these troubled times, we cling to whatever illusory scraps of hope we can.

        I’m not proud.

      • Pomp

        I remember when he was a crypto isolationist to some even after frothing at the mouth and threatening to “knock the shit out of ISIS”

        Until he ordered the bombing of Syria

        Then he wanted put of Syria

        Then he wanted to bomb them again

        This guy is quite the isolationist, not a globalist. Amirite?

      • Heroic Mulatto

        This is all just a bargaining tactic for when he meets Kim.

        Art of the Deal!

      • Ted S.

        And if you disagreed with that you were horrid?

      • Heroic Mulatto

        Pepperidge Farm remembers.

      • Ted S.

        Somewhere on the Internet there’s Pepperidge Farm porn.

      • DEG

        Not on pornhub.

  16. Lachowsky

    I have been busy as hell the past few days. So, catching up today, I hear we are going to bomb the Syrians because the Syrians gassed the other syrians.

    Fucking morons. I see absolutely no upside to this. none.

    • Just Say'n

      Why do you hate freedom so much, Lach?

    • SugarFree

      We are currently doing it. Trump just got done rambling on TV.

      • Lachowsky

        Great. I hate our government. I’m guessing this is one of those humanitarian bombings? It’s like these people have no souls.

      • Rhywun

        “This is going to hurt me more than it hurts you.”

      • SugarFree

        It is being reported now that it is not just a couple of missiles. A second wave of bombing is starting.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Let’s have a War, Jack up the Dow Jones
        Let’s have a War, blame it on the middle class,
        Let’s have a War, Kill a homeowner,
        Let’s have a War, give guns to the Queers!

      • Chipwooder

        Kill a homeowner is from Disconnected, not Let’s Have a War

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I just listened to it, so……

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I suck, you are right
        /hangs drunken head in Clouds of poison gas

      • Just Say'n

        They speak a weird language and their skin is tanned. It’s all good, man. Mass genocide is totally woke so long as it trolls Putin, so says the Left. And Bill Kristol is happy. Why can’t you be happy for Bill Kristol?

      • Lachowsky

        Ah, yes.

        Killing foreigners. One thing the left and the right can always agree on. I expect glowing coverage of this.

      • MikeS

        And John McCain…maybe he’ll be so happy it kills him!

      • MikeS

        Is that Hair Of The Dog?

      • The Hyperbole

        Yeah, BP brought them up in the afternoon links, and I remembered how cool that cover was.

      • C. Anacreon

        Son of a bitch!

      • trshmnstr

        *rhythmic sounds of skin-to-skin contact*

        Yaaassssssss, we go boom-boom on the brownies!! My frahnds, join in my celebration!

        *switches to his other hand and continues masturbating to night vision video of Damascus*

      • Pomp

        Bill Kristol nutted into a sock

      • DEG

        Fuck.

    • Rhywun

      America shrugs and eats another pie.

      • Just Say'n

        What kind of pie?

      • MikeS

        Romanian

      • Just Say'n

        And so “pie” is being used as a metaphor? Because I might go for some Romanian pie

      • MikeS

        It’s bloody delicious.

  17. Juvenile Bluster

    Nice to see Trump’s foreign policy is just as shitty as his predecessors.

    • Just Say'n

      Once he picked Bolton, the course of action was pretty much sealed

      • Rhywun

        Christ, what assholes.

      • Just Say'n

        Yes

      • C. Anacreon

        But will this get people distracted from Stormy and the Comey interview this weekend?
        Wouldn’t be the first time a Prez has bombed to get everyone distracted.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        We couldn’t have gotten a better gov than this, We deserve it, good and hard…..

      • Ted S.

        Don’t blame me; I voted third party.

      • Pomp

        Rocky de la Fuente, wasn’t it?

      • Lachowsky

        If voting made a difference, they would never let us do it .

    • The Hyperbole

      He’s a hugely successful businessman who tells it like it is and isn’t a politically correct wimp, he’s going to drain the swamp and build a wall and bring back all the jobs China snuck over here and stole from us. A few useless wars is a small price to pay.

      • Just Say'n

        YES! Fuck human lives- we’re owning the progs! We’re going to freedom the shit out of Syria!

        #merica

      • The Hyperbole

        That’s ‘human bodies’ now.

      • Just Say'n

        I believe you are correct, sir

    • Chipwooder

      I mean, I was hopeful that it wouldn’t be, but cmon – we always knew this day would eventually come.

  18. Spudalicious

    Pray that we didn’t just start WWlll.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      WE didn’t, we just decided to stick our Collective nose in the current troubles

      • straffinrun

        True. Russia will blink before it gets too bad. Isn’t it great that we are counting on Putin not too be the insane one?

      • DEG

        I hope you are right.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I read something like that today, me i like Putin in a Dr. Evil kind of way, and he is worried his super Duper Defense missile systems won’t work, and he won’t get Export sales, and then has a Sad…..

      • Spudalicious

        Lyndsey Graham is very pleased, which means I am very much not.

      • Pomp

        Lindsey Graham nutted into a dirty sock

      • Just Say'n

        Do you think they gave him a heads-up before the bombing so he could climax as they were being dropped?

      • Pomp

        He probably paid extra for some hot live PPV. So much more satisfying than scrambled Spice Channel.

      • Chipwooder

        “Look, look! If you can saying, you can totally see a JDAM eviscerating a house through the snow!”

      • Chipwooder

        If you can SQUINT…..fuck you autocorrect

      • Spudalicious

        All he’s missing is a reach around from McCain.

      • C. Anacreon

        Just think, he could have ridden on the missile himself, like Slim Pickens.

    • westernsloper

      According to Putin it started awhile ago but nobody wanted to admit it except him. This might seal the deal. Who knows.

  19. Lachowsky

    Also, Congress is a giant pile of shit for not getting rid of the AUMF a decade ago. There was a time in this country when the president couldn’t just go about starting wars whenever he felt like it.

    • Just Say'n

      Neither party wants to stop a president from waging illegal wars. It’s unconscionable

      • Pomp

        For to do so makes one a “Wacko Bird”

        Seriously, who ever took that decrepit old prick’s pejorative to heart anyway?

      • Just Say'n

        I guess a lot of members of Congress. Bipartisanship

      • Pomp

        Wacko Bird!

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      When? pre 1974? maybe…..

  20. Juvenile Bluster

    Thomas Massie
    ‏Verified account @RepThomasMassie

    I haven’t read France’s or Britain’s “Constitution,” but I’ve read ours and no where in it is Presidential authority to strike Syria.

    Justin Amash
    ‏Verified account @justinamash

    These offensive strikes against Syria are unconstitutional, illegal, and reckless. The next speaker of the House must reclaim congressional war powers as prescribed in Article I of the Constitution. @SpeakerRyan has completely abdicated one of his most important responsibilities.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Like Ryan was the first… Piss off pseudo Lib…..

    • Chipwooder

      *standing ovation*

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I’m in a Fucking bad mood over this, and for once, so is my Wife. Massie, Amash, Loud voices in the Wilderness, signifying nothing…..

      • Chipwooder

        Better than there being no voices in opposition. Cold comfort but beats complete despair.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        And the Senate Murdered Caesar, no Bodies, no problem, Like i said, I’m fed up, sorry to be all shit about it

      • C. Anacreon

        Isn’t it the Ides of April?

      • Pomp

        You don’t understand Trump realpolitik. That was BEFORE claims of a few dozen bodies foaming at the mouth from possible, unconfirmed chlorine bombs. Besides, Trump’s never been a fiscal conservative. #MAGA

  21. Yusef drives a Kia

    Anyone remember the Invasion Caravan? That entire story started with ONE Buzzfeed story about ONE Activist doing something He does every Year. Fast Forward…
    Several Different News services are reporting that, AGAIN, the whole Dead kid and Gas attacks were staged, and Our Gov. Backs the White Helmet groups that staged it. And We are in Syria Why? Congress ignoring their FUCKING JOB! and not declaring War, The Republic is Lost, I’m Afraid……

  22. Yusef drives a Kia

    OTOH, the William Tell Overture, Hell Yes!

  23. Playa Manhattan

    God dammit! We need to be more like Euro….

    Oh.

    • Pomp

      The West likes a little tantrum bombing. It’s a collective moral imperative.

    • Just Say'n

      Whenever they mention our “partners” I laugh. It’s cute that France likes to pretend.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Closer than the Canadians, only one or two U.S. Refueling stops away

      • Playa Manhattan

        They catered the affair.

      • Swiss Servator

        Hey now…In 1997, in Sarajevo, I got Sunday breakfast at a location the French were running…I hadn’t eaten that well in…decades.

    • Pomp

      MotherFUCKER, stop spending my money on this shit. Take your social security payments and bankroll your own mercenary force. Cocksucker.

  24. Pomp

    Charles Krauthammer nutted into a soiled silk dress sock

    • Just Say'n

      Classy

  25. Derpetologist

    Spot the Not: James Comey

    1. Destiny’s powerful hand has made the bed of my future, and it’s up to me to lie in it.

    2. For me, law school was a time of joy and hope.

    3. The Internet is the most dangerous parking lot imaginable.

    4. We investigate in secret so that we don’t smear innocent people.

    5. Our obligation is to refuse to let bad win, to refuse to let evil hold the field.

    6. I’m a big fan of the rule of law.

    • Chipwooder

      1 is too hackneyed even for Comey

      • Derpetologist

        Good job. That one is from The Tick.

        “And so, may Evil beware and may Good dress warmly and eat plenty of fresh vegetables.”

    • Just Say'n

      3

    • C. Anacreon

      6

  26. straffinrun

    Example number ten gazillion of “But the Childrunz!”. Dead kid washes up on a beach? School shooting? Chlorine/Sarin attack? Vagina march in DC? Trump’s vulgar language? Etc. Etc. Always with the media flashing pics or telling stories about the childrunz getting abused, harmed, victimized if it serves the correct narrative. Dead kids from USA! bombs? Kid crying over his parent’s casket after the parent is left defenseless after commun sense gun control? Kids raped in Rotherham? Kid whose dad loses his job based on false rape allegations? Can’t have pictures of these in the news.

    • Pomp

      I have it on good authority that you hate children, straff

      • straffinrun

        True. Point stands, though.

  27. Lachowsky

    Ironic, today I recieved in the mail my copy of Fool’s errand that I ordered last week. Quite fitting.

    • Pomp

      Sounds like rain on your wedding day. Or perhaps the free advice that you’ve already paid good money for. Or dare I even suggest 10,000 spoons, when all you needed to compete your table setting was a single knife?

      • slumbrew

        God dammmmm it – now I have an earworm.

      • Pomp

        Much respect to Dave Coulier.

      • slumbrew

        I’ve fallen into a weird place where I keep picturing Alan Tudyk when I read “Dave Coulier”. Tudyk isn’t even Canadian.

      • Playa Manhattan

        That’s not ironic. Irony is when you led an anti-knife campaign, only to have your life saved by one.

        That song should be called “Isn’t it annoying”

      • Pomp

        Sounds like the good advice that one just decided not to take after all.

      • Playa Manhattan

        I’m not drunk, but I’m not not drunk.

        Could you dumb it down a shade?

      • MikeS

        And isn’t it ironic… don’t you think
        It’s like rain on your wedding day
        It’s a free ride when you’ve already paid
        It’s the good advice that you just didn’t take
        Who would’ve thought… it figures

      • Playa Manhattan

        Oh, I hate that song.

      • Amashi

        I’ve always thought there ought to be a term for calling un-ironic things ironic as Morisette does. ‘Moronic’ is the obvious portmanteau but I’m afraid the word is already in use. Still- “isn’t it moronic, don’t you think” has a certain ring to it.

        Just in case anyone was wondering, there’s nothing ironic about an insect in a glass of wine, That’s at worst unfortunate and at best a source of protein.

        As for having ten thousand forks when all you need s a knife… I’m pretty sure I could trade ten thousand forks for a knife.

        And then there’s crashing airliners.. OK, not going there.

      • Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

        and at best a source of protein.

        Or, Zika.

        Now, If that happened at some kind of benefit-mixer to help eradicate diseases in Africa…

      • Ted S.

        But could you trade 10,000 spoons for a knife?

      • Derpetologist

        It’s like a black fly in your chardonnay, that was specifically purchased to repel black flies.

        There. Now that’s ironic.

    • mikey

      A great read. Though,I don’t think “enjoyable” is the right word.

  28. straffinrun

    Is it Ironic that song isn’t actually ironic despite its title.

    • The Hyperbole

      Yes, but how the song has now become the iconic example of non-irony is ironic so full circle…what once was shall always be and so on and so forth…

      • Nephilium

        Irony.

        The one true description.

    • Just Say'n

      Are you recycling non sequiturs from the 90’s?

      • Just Say'n

        What’s the deal with Ovaltine?

      • MikeS

        A crummy commercial? Son of a bitch.

      • Just Say'n

        Why do they call it Ovaltine? The jar is round. The mug is round. They should call it ’roundtine’

      • MikeS

        Wikipedia knows all:

        Ovaltine was developed in Bern, Switzerland, where it is known by its original name, Ovomaltine (from ovum, Latin for “egg,” and malt, which were originally its main ingredients). Soon after its invention, the factory moved out to the village of Neuenegg, a few kilometres west of Bern, where it is still produced.

        Ovomaltine was exported to Britain in 1909; a misspelling of the name on the trademark registration application[citation needed] led to the name being shortened to Ovaltine in English-speaking markets. A factory was built in Kings Langley, which exported it to the United States as well. By 1915, Ovaltine was being manufactured in Villa Park, Illinois, for the U.S. market. Ovaltine was later manufactured in Peterborough, Ontario for distribution in Canada.[2][3]

      • Just Say'n

        They didn’t have all that information in the Seinfeld episode

      • C. Anacreon

        No mention of Little Orphan Annie?

      • Gustave Lytton

        More Ovaltine, please!

      • Ted S.

        OMWC would do her.

      • straffinrun

        I came up with this idea that people could come up with the same idea even though they’d never interacted. Parallel thinking.

      • Just Say'n

        I agree

      • Playa Manhattan

        Yes. Let’s bomb an aspirin factory.

      • straffinrun

        I’m not wearing flannel again.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        But it’s so soft and cozy though.

      • Just Say'n

        What about cargo pants from the late 90’s?

      • Playa Manhattan

        FYI those never went out of style

      • Lachowsky

        I wear cargo shorts all the time. And I look good in them.

      • Playa Manhattan

        #MeToo

        You don’t cover up legs that look this good.

      • straffinrun

        Depends what’s in the pockets. Dave Matthews CD?

      • KSuellington

        The CDs go in the pleather fanny pack.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Something About the Millennium El Camino?

      • Gustave Lytton

        What if God was one of us glibs?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Just a slob like all of us?

      • Amashi

        It would explain a lot, actually.

  29. Not an Economist

    Sad end to a sick story.

    • Pomp

      Sloopy linked to that story about them weeks ago. What a massive head shaker.

      • Not an Economist

        Well it got worse from the story Sloopy linked. The biological father killed his daughter, their child, and his daughter’s adoptive father. And then killed himself when the police caught up to them.

  30. J. Frank Parnell

    “That should be ME bombing Syria!!!” /Hillary Clinton finishing her second bottle of chardonnay and throwing the glass at the wall

    • Chafed

      LOL.

    • Akira

      I will truly lose my shit if I hear a “progressive” whining about Trump bombing Syria.

  31. CPRM

    supposed to get 10-20 inches of snow this weekend. Fuck winter.

    • commodious spittoon

      I’d been blasting AC for days this week, then Friday morning was driving to work in flurries of snow.

    • Chafed

      Where?

    • Don Escaped Texas

      I get your weather eight hours later.

    • The Hyperbole

      Unsolicited criticism. The hat looks better in ¾ profile like in the page header. When he’s straight on something seems off, maybe the eyes are too big.

  32. Mad Scientist

    YOU COVETETH MY ICE CREAM BAR!

    • Chafed

      It does look delicious.

    • Amashi

      Ever get that feeling of deja deja vu?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Is that upthread, did I fuck that up? My bad if I did.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Are you saying you want to gnaw on me? I’m sure we could arrange a meet up.

      • Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

        Well, I do cling tenaciously to buttocks…

        I think it may be HM’s influence.

    • Amashi

      Fine fowl move before the moon
      Cluck, manatee, cluck.

      You with the synthetic eye, mind burning from Tyre until the modern calls out the end. Imperial Purple? Dress yourself as such.

  33. straffinrun

    -May said there was “no practicable alternative” to the use of force against Assad.-

    Sure there was. You could’ve went and fucked yourself instead.