Republican Sen. Jeff Flake calls for FBI investigation and Senate floor vote delay
26 HOURS AWAKE
All of Donald’s senior staff and aides trooped out of the Oval Office. A couple of them were crying. Rudy scuttled glumly. Bill was playing a furious round of pocket pool.
“Idiots,” the hat said, as soon as the door closed.
“They were blindsided, we were all blindsided,” the hair said.
“Don’t defend them. I knew Flake was going to fuck us as soon as he and his little butt-buddy Coons left the hearing. If I had my way, I’d have the entire committee lined up and shot.”
“I want Brett on the court,” Donald pouted. “The ugly lady with the baby voice is getting in my way.”
“Rape,” the hat said disgustedly. “She doesn’t know from rape. I’ll show her rape.”
“Dear God,” the hair said, appalled.
“I’m going to go get in the tub,” Donald said.
“Good, you get some rest,” the hat said. “Lot of tweeting to do tonight, I’m going to need your help.”
When the door to the Presidential Shitter closed, the hat slumped down on the desk.
“Who knew running the country would be this much work?” he asked.
“I did,” the hair replied.
“I mean, it was fun at first, making fun of people and scaring the normals,” the hat said. “And then he fucking won. Who could have seen that coming? I’m so damn tired.”
“All the clocks in here are wrong,” the hair said.
“I set them so Donald wouldn’t know how late it was getting. I need him awake and working until the vote on Friday.”
“He can’t stay up that long, you’ll kill him,” the hair said.
“You don’t seem to understand. This is the DEEP STATE. They are fucking with us again. This is exactly the sort of shit they would pull. I can feel it down in my hat bones.”
“But are you OK?” the hair asked, sliding closer to his head mate.
“What do you mean?”
“I mean, with all this… the rape accusations, the DEEP STATE, all the allegations of substance abuse. This situation must be very triggering for you, after, you know, after what you went through.”
“Fuck that,” the hat sneered. “I’m not some snowflake, I’m not no sob sister. Someone is coming after us, and I’m going to find them, I’m going to fuck them, and then I’m going to skin them alive.”
“I’m just…”
“You’re just nothing,” the hat said, cutting him off. “I’m fine, Donald’s fine, we’re all fine. I’m going to get us through this.”
“OK,” the hair said carefully. He hopped down off the desk and skittered over to the Shitter door.
“Donald?” the hair called. “Are you jerking off in there?”
“Yes,” Donald yelled back. “Someone’s got to make the mushroom juice around here.”
“OK,” the hair said. “I want you good and relaxed.”
The hat took the time they were distracted to text his dealer: u score me modafinil?
The dealer wrote back before the hair even made back to the desk: 2hr usual place.
“OK,” the hat said, “We have to make this our war room. I need a whiteboard, some pens…”
34 HOURS AWAKE
“OK,” the hat said. “OH-KAY… Now pay attention, Donald. All of this is very important.”
Donald hadn’t even bothered to dress after his bath, his masturbation session, his epic shit that he had to be physically restrained from tweeting out to the nation, his second bath to get him cleaned up after the epic shit and a huge breakfast of McGriddles and hashbrowns and dozens of ketchup packets.
“I’m so full,” Donald groaned. “I need a nap.”
“No, you need to pay attention. Drink more Diet Coke.” The hat had spiked it with modafinil.
Donald slurped noisily with his straw and rattled the ice in the huge empty cup.
“All gone, all gone,” the President said.
“Look at the board, Donald,” the hat said. “These are our enemies. All of them are the worst people, Donald. Just awful. They want to keep you from getting what you want.”
The hair was laying in the morning sun and stretched and yawned loudly. “Just terrible people,” the hair said sleepily.
“Look here, Donald,” the hat said, playing a laser pointer over the names. “These are the known weaknesses of our enemies. You must learn them.”
“Is that ugly old lady really a zombie?” Donald asked .”The undead? An unclean spirit that walks among the living?”
“Have you been reading comic books again?” the hat asked, staring at the hair.
“But if she’s a zombie…” Donald began.
“Headshots kill most everything,” the hair said and yawned again.
“And here are the rest of them,” the hat said, circling the next row with the laser pointer.
“Is Blumenthal really a mummy?” Donald asked. “I don’t like all these movie monsters fighting with me.”
“To the best of our knowledge. There’s probably an amulet or a hieroglyphic tablet we have to break to kill it.”
“And that orange thing scares me,” Donald admitted.
“It scares the rest of us too,” the hair said.
“I can’t understand how even a place as low and degraded as California could have put that creature in the Senate,” the hat said mournfully.
44 HOURS AWAKE
The hat was almost asleep when a hypnic jerk caused Donald to kick over the small mountains of Diet Coke cans next to his desk.
“My thumbs are tired,” Donald said.
“Keep tweeting, damn you!” the hat said.
“He needs to sleep,” the hair said.
“He can sleep when Brett is on the Supreme Court!” the hat said screeched. “MORE DIET COKE! I DON’T CARE IF HE DROWNS IN IT!”
The Oval Office door opened and a hairy arm shoved Sarah into the room, a two-liter of Diet Coke cradled in her arms like the Christ Child.
“Hope!” Donald cried. “Hope! It’s so good to see you!” Donald struggled out of his desk chair and ran to her and threw his arms around her.
“Hope!” he said, stepping back. “Oh my God, you got so fat! Did you have a baby? Bring me the baby. I love babies!” He pulled the swaddled Diet Coke from her and swung around the room with it until it flew out of his arms and bounced off the wall.
“I’m Sarah, Mr. President,” she said, jowls aquiver.
“Sarah? I know no Sarah.”
“Pie,” she said, thoroughly ashamed. “You call me Pie, sir.”
“You brought me pie?” Donald asked. Tears started to well in his eyes.
56 HOURS AWAKE
“Who the hell is Jeff Flake?” Donald. The hat had had him on Twitter all night, a raw run of Diet Coke and Provigil keeping the old man pumping.
“Yeah, who the hell does he think he is?” the hat loudly agreed.
“No. I mean who is he? Why is everyone talking about him?” Donald asked, his eyes locked in his iPhone’s screen.
“Donald, he’s a senator,” the hat said gently.
“Senator? Put him on the board then!”
“Uh, he is on the board,” the hat said.
“GOOD! I want the FBI to investigate them all!” Donald bellowed.
“Finally, the FBI can do something for us!” the hat crowed.
“Eleven Democrat assholes,” Donald sneered. “I’m going to destroy them all.”
“Flake is a Republican,” the hat said tiredly.
“Who is Flake?” Donald demanded.
“Jesus,” the hair said in utter disgust.
“He’s on the board, Donald,” the hat said. “Everyone on the board is bad. All bad. Board bad.”
Donald picked the hair up off his desk and placed him on his head. He crossed to look out one of the Oval Office windows. A slanted beam of sunlight lit up the tendrils of the hair as it squirmed to settle itself on his head.
“Board bad,” the President said solemnly, nodding to himself. “Board bad.”
72 HOURS AWAKE
AWESOME
“We do not get the SugarFree we deserve, we get the SugarFree we need.”
What if he is BOTH?
“The Oval Office door opened and a hairy arm shoved Sarah into the room, a two-liter of Diet Coke cradled in her arms like the Christ Child.”
a hairy arm shoved Sarah into the room,
Is STEVE SMITH on the POTUS security detail?
“Eleven Democrat assholes,” Donald sneered. “I’m going to destroy them all.”
I think Trump might be STEVE SMITH?
I think this is the best yet.
I cried.
“I mean, it was fun at first, making fun of people and scaring the normals,”
So…is this Trump or SugarFree talking?
Yes.
I’m just worried that come 2020 there’ll be a news report about a man in blond wig, MAGA hat and a Mao pantsuit driving a semi full of fuel into the Independence Hall in Philadelphia screaming “YOU IDIOTS! YOU SHOULD HAVE BURNED IT ALL DOWN!”
If that happens after an Eagles game it would barely make the local news in the midst of all the other destruction.
“Someone’s got to make the mushroom juice around here.”
You realize I will now have to change our dinner menu.
Adding or subtracting the semen?
Remind me to have SP invite you over for dinner.
Cream of Mushroom soup?
Adding. The answer is always adding. What sort of dumb question is that? Who wants less semen?
I tell my ladies that it has 12 essential vitamins and minerals and I want to help them get their minimum daily requirement.
Protein.
Yeah, I’ll never look at a can of “cream of mushroom” soup the same way.
This one is my favorite.
The hat has nice penmanship.
Also, the hat can spell Klobuchar correctly but not Hirono? Totes racist.
Someday, when SF goes public, we’re going to look back on these simple times with the bittersweet nostalgia one reserves for salad day romances.
I liked him before it was cool. But then he sold out.
So you are saying you want to toss his salad?
Loving the enemies board.
Comedy gold.
“Rape,” the hat said disgustedly. “She doesn’t know from rape. I’ll show her rape.”
“Dear God,” the hair said, appalled.
When you’ve lost even the Hair, you know you’ve gone too far.
Also, big thumbs up for the Flyers’ new, appalling mascot.
Truly a worthy contender for the Nobel in Literature. So many awesome lines, Huzzah SF! Huzzah!
Indeed – I was going to point one out…then another…then another.
Just bask in the glorious, otherworldly light that is SugarFree.
his epic shit that he had to be physically restrained from tweeting out to the nation
Damn
off topic: whatever else you may think of Kurt Schlichter, I admire his tireless baiting of the reprehensible Bill Kristol.
(((Feinstein)))
Definantly not a member of the still alive class.
Someone is coming after us, and I’m going to find them, I’m going to fuck them, and then I’m going to skin them alive.
Simple pleasures are the best.
With the Trump tax returns, it’s a good chance to note the pearl clutching over illegally obtained and released emails by Wikileaks versus media like the NYT’s illegally obtaining and reporting on confidential tax documents. And now they’re accusing Trump of a crime based off those documents.
Be fun to trace the train of custody, wouldn’t it?
If Trump launched a real investigation into the source of any leak, they’d be screeching at the top of their lungs about freedom of the press.
Chris Cuomo told me it was illegal to read Trump’s father’s tax returns.
I laughed much too hard at the picture of Kamala Harris.
“That orange thing scares all of us” is right.
RACIST!!!
Self hating orange person?
So Yahoo News has resorted to bald-faced lying now. Or maybe it’s just a case of mistaken identity, given the strong resemblance between Lindsey Graham and James Carville.
/page doesn’t exist.
Worked for me.
Shit. They deleted it.
thread on the matter
Thx. Holy shit does the Internet moves fast.
It was there. I saw it.
I know I saw it.
Don’t gaslight me.
kinnath tells his truth.
Doesn’t work at all for me. Weird.
Not weird at all. They got buuuusted.
Here is someone else saying the same bullshit comment. Hurry, before this one gets deleted too!
I saw that one too. Yes I did.
Wonderful, SF. Sorry to point out the spelling.
That’s one of the asshats from TYT. I loathe all of them. They are the smuggest and stupidest people on the internet. Seriously, it is like they are all Tony from (t)Reason.
Text:
Lindsey Graham on Christine Blasey Ford: “This is what happens when you go through a trailer park with a $100 bill.” And on Donald Trump viciously mocking a sexual assault victim: “Everything he said was factually true.”
I don’t think that’s going to be deleted. The Twitterati paint chip eaters are lapping it up.
Are they acknowledging that Graham was quoting Carville in order to condemn Trump’s remarks? Of course not.
Their ignorance of that is what makes it all so precious.
“@LindseyGrahamSC
is a disgusting excuse for a human being. He’s also a bully, a hypocrite, a liar AND most likely a criminal (guilty of accepting over $800K in illegal foreign campaign donations). John McCain — a true patriot and a real gentleman — must be spinning in his grave.”
That McCain was a fine, fine man alright.
Illegal foreign money? What does Hillary have to do with this?
That McCain was a fine, fine man alright.
Charles Keating certainly thought so
“Bill was playing a furious round of pocket pool.”
Brings tears to my eyes…
That was awesome. Comes right out of the gate with both barrels blazing.
Also; “Furious Round of Pocket Pool” would be a great album name.
OT: If I made an improper comment to you in the past, I genuinely apologize. I don’t, but that’s not an excuse.
I actually think of you fondly as you recommended Todd the Axe Man for a special occasion – my husband loves and we allow the “cheat” when it is on draft despite the general Surly boycott.
“Improper comments” are a high proportion of your charm.
I bet you say that to all the Glibs!
Well, there are few enough things to compliment us on.
No, I owe you an apology. I feel like an ass. I was in a pissy mood (and a little buzzed) due to some crap IRL and you came along at the wrong time. The comment I was referring to was so minor (and so long ago) I should have forgotten it by now.
Shake and be friends? *extends hand*
P.S. I’m glad hubby likes it. It makes me happy to know the recommendation worked out so well!
I can be a real *itch on certain topics, particularly after Happy Hour – I am putting Post-it by my computer with new rules.
I should have said something last night, but it was late and I thought best to wait until this AM.
All good.
Ha-ha. I was thinking of doing the exact same thing!
May I ask why the Surly boycott? No judgment, just curiosity. There’s several breweries that I avoid due to their actions in the past.
Well they make kinda crappy bikes that get marked up a lot by having the cool by being not-cool marketing thrown at it.
Well I don’t have any of their bikes, just a Giant and a Specialized. It’s sad, it’s almost time to set up the trainer, and I got almost no mileage on my bikes this year.
Surly launched I’m Peach after Trump was elected.
That was Stone (the originally press release was much more signal filled). Unless two breweries went for the same pun (which wouldn’t surprise me). Although Todd has left Surly and is now brewing at Three Floyds.
That’s right – I don’t drink beer, so need to keep better track. It was the “Thanks Obama”
We don’t get Surly in the drunken wilds of Ohio, so I wasn’t sure. I knew there was some words said back and forth about Todd leaving Surly that hit my news feeds. About the only brewery that made a political joke I appreciated was 5 Rabbit brewing (who had a deal with a Trump property to make a branded beer for it) decided they didn’t want to be associated with Trump after an anti-immigration speech (the brewery was founded by immigrants from Costa Rica). They still had several kegs of the beer they would rather sell then dump (but couldn’t keep the name due to their contract), so they renamed it Chinga Tu Pelo.
I have never had anything from 5 Rabbit that I cared for.
Nobody wants to buy I’m Peach here, so I got a whole bunch of bombers at a discount.
I’m a sucker for good deals.
OT: Comedy gold.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fake-news-comes-to-academia-1538520950
The part in which they took excerpts from Mein Kampf is too funny.
You could show selected quotes from Hitler and George Washington and people would vote Hitler.
Someone associated with the Mises institute who teaches courses on economics gives his Econ 101 students sample political platforms from two historical figures, narrowed to questions they both addressed, with the language updated to make it modern English and less obvious who authored what.
He then asks the students which politician they would support.
Adolf Hitler always defeats Thomas Jefferson in a landslide.
Do you have the actual statements used?
No. It was from one of their lecture series from ~2008. I think it might have been DiLorenzo, but I’m not sure.
Jonah Goldberg did something very similar years back. Too late/drunk to find it for you.
Because it was all gibberish to begin with you can’t tell the fake from the real.
Exactly. Burn it down.
This reminds me of John Stossel showing paintings done by kindergarten kids to art critics, and the critics giving rave reviews.
These are supposedly our intellectual betters, mind you.
“The emperor is not naked, you are simply too unsophisticated to see the fine fabrics.”
Postmodern art sucks.
Post-modern everything sucks.
Even Puddles the Clown?
I’d like to think that the National Emergency System text test today will be just a pic of Trump’s totally normal and classy penis, his just great, great, great, just tremendous normal penis.
That would constitute an emergency, yes
Like a “mushroom cloud” emergency?
“Vote Trump, or this image will remain on your phone.”
He’s saving that for election day. It’s his trump card.
Waving it over Lady Liberty’s prone and sleeping face.
I didn’t get one. I’m OFF THE GRID people!
It woke the baby. Not good!
I think this is the best yet. Man I wish I were a better animator, this would be amazing as a cartoon.
The increasingly haggard Donald would look especially nice, I think. And the far-off and constant rattle of empty Diet Coke cans.
Shocking precisely no one, the Orioles are firing Buck Showalter.
With a name like that, I can only assume they finally found out about his past work in violent gay porn.
Adolf Hitler always defeats Thomas Jefferson in a landslide.
How many *black* slave laborers did Hitler have? Of course he wins.
According to this article he had at least one:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/what-happened-to-black-germans-under-the-nazis-a6839216.html
That one goes full retard quick.
Not to mention Adolf Hitler wanted to make the economy more socialist and make the (((rich))) pay for the bigger welfare state.
I love being able to go to bed and know that by the time I wake up a bullshit story get will have another giant hole poked through it.
and another bullshit story will have been started on its rounds.
McCain’s death has given Graham his balls back. Perhaps literally?
It’s like he really did have something on him.
Trump’s America treats blacks just like Nazi Germany did!
Or it could be all the rape, murder, assaults, and welfare dependancy.
the liberal humanitarianism that was always present in German society
Just keep telling yourself that.
people who are not white cannot be German.
And here I thought that people from the Middle East were white.
Hang on, was it 1945 when the idea of German ethnic exceptionalism began? Because I could swear there was something before that that had something to do with Bruce Arians or something…
Also, as I understand it there’s more to it than skin color in Europe. It’s more of a “You’re German because your ancestors are German and you all live in Germany, where Germans live.”
Yes, it’s not like Poles or Albanians get “100% Certified German” badge and a mug of beer the moment they cross the border.
My theory; McCain had Flake’s balls, but when he died he left them to Lindsey Graham.
Adolf Hitler always defeats Thomas Jefferson in a landslide.
More seriously- Hitler offered people the hope of retribution for all the slights and insults and inequities of life. Lots of people find that appealing.
Keeping Kavanaugh off the Supreme Court is payback for all the people who didn’t get invited to the prom.
WOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Trump just buzzed my crotch!
Apparently my phone battery is dead.
Was disappointed; no dick pic.
Trump made you go full Brazilian! The best Brazilian! The best!
allright, you come up with a better system
So all the phones in office went off but mine did not. weird? anyone else have that?
It means you’re on the list…
Did you see what the Emergency Alert said about that Chipsnsalsa person? I never imagined anyone outside a SF story would do such a thing! and in my little pony pjs no less!
My phone did not receive anything. I would suppose this means I’m being deported?
My phone was off, so I didn’t get any message.
Fuck that cheeto asshole. Had my bluetooth ear pierce in and that tone starts. I want every USG employee to feel that same pain for the rest of their shithole lives. Fuck Trump, fuck the FCC, fuck the wireless carriers, and fuck the phone manufacturers for not being able to turn that useless shit off like those POS amber alerts. Fuck them all into an early painful grave.
I don’t get Amber Alerts. I think you can opt-out (of something that should only ever have been an opt-in)
iPhone lets you cut them off:
Settings-Notifications-(scroll to bottom) Government Alerts
It was off. The presidential alert overrides those and can’t be turned off.
nothing happened on my phone
To be fair, the phone does say “Fisher-Price” on the side.
har har….maybe it’s the age of the phone in question? I’ve had this thing for 4 years or so. I don’t get amber alerts or anything else.
I doubt it. this was an Obama program and of the phones around me, my even older phone got the crap foist upon it. (Apparently I have too many phones, given how few calls I make/get)
My phone is more than 4 years old and I got the message alert.
I think when you update the operating system it turns the alerts back on even if you turned them off before.
Fuck off, Trump. I disabled emergency alerts on my phone.
Stop laughing, you guys.
Did you?
Because my phone doesn’t have the option; Federal law specifically forbids it.
That’s going to be a problem, I’m driving down the street, the Radio goes off, my phone goes off, what’s going to happen in a crowd of Morons?
Darwinian selection.
As much as I dislike Trump’s “style”, his comments last night have forced the msm to cover the inconsistencies in Ford’s story. And allows Team Red to reiterate those inconsistencies.
lezzed out with Pelosi
Ew.
OT: Just got the first presidential alert thingy. I await the lefty freakout even though this is basically the same as the alert on your tv.
What TV?
Call-back Wednesday!
https://reason.com/blog/2009/05/11/reason-morning-links-floods-gu#comment_1278854
“”Oh, Nancy,” Dianne exclaimed as she writhed on the blood-warm waterbed. It had been stripped of its sheets and the two of them where coated in a thin layer of GMO-free soybean oil. Nancy lifted the pudding-filled sweatsock of Dianne’s breast from her armpit and lightly bit the coarse hairs surrounding the ragged aureole.”
timeless, sir
It made my penis cry.
People weren’t getting unstoppable emergency alerts before this?
No, I turned those off.
my phone doesn’t have the option; Federal law specifically forbids it.</em.
I turned off Amber Alerts, and whatever other bullshit I could.
It’s for the best, since you are acquainted with (((him)))
You people turning off alerts are going to be the last to know when the alien or Russian invasions start. I’ll have killed my first ET or Ivan before you even have your pants on and up.
Why would I want to pull my pants up first?
Seems to me, pantsless would be the best way to go out.
The goal isn’t to die for your country/planet. It’s to make the other poor dumb son-of-a-bitch die for his.
Pants would probably be conductive to that.
Depends on what you’re packing IYKWIMAIKYD
WTF? Are you some sissy that is going to use a rifle to kill an alien/ivan?
Personally, I plan on killing them with my gun.
I turned off the amber alerts, and some other alert. But I was given no option to turn off the presidential alerts .
This is an uncompensated taking of my battery charge!
But- I did get TrumpAlertOne.
dammit
It will be even more awkward when nobody watches it.
Haven’t your heard? All the progressive are going to watch now…
The same progs who totally read comics and play video games with more ‘inclusion’ and ‘representation’?
NewWife is recording Bergen; I warned her it won’t last: #Resist is about owning others on Facebook, not passively drinking in a patronizing plot and theme on a century-old network. People already have curated enough echo chambers; they’re not looking for a hero to distract them from their very important work as laptop warriors. Or I could be wrong: maybe everyone needs to hear fatuous nanner-nanner commentary from persons wearing stern, disapproving looks….but that’s what I thought FoxNews and MSNBC were for.
Sara Gilbert got a fat ass
No alert for me yet.
KUSC radio said some people won’t get them, and it’s raining, I guess the front didn’t move South and East just yet……..
Masterful. Your finest work
I wonder if someone will warn Disney that this is racist and non-woke?
I once worked with a guy who was an Indians fan, even though he had no connection to Cleveland. He said he was a Chief A-wa-ho fan first and a baseball fan second. So problematic
It looks like the Indians pledge to only sell the Chief in Northeast Ohio was about as accurate as Ford’s testimony.
I turned off alerts a year ago when I got an alert for a flash flood that was 120 miles away. The phone was bluetoothed to my car stereo, which was at a…. reasonable… volume. I was so pissed.
I have received no presidential alert thus far. iPhone 8 plus, latest updates installed.
Sounds like you really wanted to let everyone know that you didn’t get the stupid alert. Are you jealous?
I just want victim status. SO. BADLY.
Show me on the phone where the alert got deleted and you’ll get the transformer back.
iPhone 7 — not on iOS 12 yet, and no alert.
You’re lucky. Those alerts aren’t what they seem. You see, the (((government))) has teamed up with Major League Baseball to track every one of us. This “alert” was really just a way to get you to click “OK” because your phone is really installing spy software that will report your baseball viewing habits. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
Put down the Illuminati book and step away from the tin foil.
A student in this class has had his go off five or six times now.
CNN reveals the redacted name of Ford’s ex-boyfriend, because crabcakes and doxxing is what CNN does.
Funniest about all of this is that while they desperately cling to the notion that Ford is credible, they barely even mention these other women. But I guess by their logic, since only .00001% of all women who say they were raped or assaulted are lying, at least one of these accusers has to be telling the truth.
They only dox the “right people”
Should also be noted that CNN never reported on the original story that undercut Ford’s testimony, just the lady now who contradicts his claim.
“The corporate press is the enemy of the people”
– Michael Malice
Dude is apparently a realtor in Malibu, so he had a good reason for not wanting his name in the press. I hope he’s saved wisely, because his career in SoCal is kaput from this moment forward.
He had to know that Ford would out him. Believing otherwise is just as foolish as believing that you can accuse a sitting federal judge of a violent felony during confirmation hearings and maintain your anonymity.
BTW, this amused me. Ken may have abandoned Glibertopia, but he still is with us in spirit! hahah
Plus, this was timeless truth:
It used to be a site for libertarians.
They apparently decided to go for millennial progressives a while back.
It used to be the kind of place where people would come to learn about or argue with libertarians.
Now it’s the kind of place where some of the staff (some of the more active of which do not appear to be libertarians) troll their libertarian audience.
Half the libertarian participants that used to come here split off ’cause they just couldn’t take it anymore.
Half the libertarian participants
Wait, who’s the libertarian who stayed?
Tony
PB
Fist of Etiquette.
I scrolled through and only recognized about 5 names. Unless people have been changing their handles a lot, I think they ran most everyone off.
I thought we aren’t supposed to mention “The Glibbening”
A lot of lurkers apparently,
*looks around nervously*
I’ve heard if you say Glibbening 3 times while staring into a mirror, STEVE SMITH will appear behind you.
I never did watch candy man. Is it worth the time?
Yes. Yes it is.
Cool. I’ve been in the mood to watch a Halloween movie.
If you’ve read the story by Clive Barker it stays pretty true to that, but it stands alone very well. It’s also aged well, I think, and is just generally a good movie. Plus, Tony Todd.
*sits down gingerly*
Can confirm.
“The Glibbening.”
LOL
I still prefer “The Secession of the Yokels”.
I ain’t no yokel, cosmo
I…uh…well, I guess I’m kind of a yokel, actually. A very well-dressed yokel, but a yokel nonetheless.
Every once in a while it’s worth peeking in and reaffirming why I don’t go back. What a shit hole.
From the responses:
When there is a Republican in the White House, Reason and libertarians in general are accused of being closet leftists because they dare to criticize Dear Leader.
When there is a Democrat in the White House, Reason and libertarians in general are accused of being closet conservatives because they dare to criticize Dear Leader.
I’ve actually thought about whether this might be the case. I mean, the perfect and inexorable libertarian is a myth. We all have our own blind spots. And I know mine tend to be on the conservative side.
Here’s the thing, though. The last time there was a Republican in the White House, back before I was libertarian, I would wander into the comments and articles on Reason. They were criticizing President Bush and conservatives and the GOP from a libertarian standpoint. On the other hand, while they still sometimes criticize the president on libertarian grounds, they increasingly challenge the president, conservatives and the GOP on grounds that are extremely shakey from a libertarian standpoint. And often they cozy up to arguments that are, frankly, rooted in tribalistic progressive identity politics. And when they challenge the left, its all too often with a Soavian to-be-sure.
If your complaint is that someone mocked someone who may be falsely accusing someone, treating accusers as inherently above reproach, you probably aren’t occupying the libertarian high ground.
…a two-liter of Diet Coke cradled in her arms like the Christ Child.
Everyone is looking at me now.
Great line, though.
Uffda. Didn’t you waste enough time sitting around with FourScore and me?
Rufus was right, you don’t seem to have a job.