“Hold still!” Finnegan said sharply.
“I don’t wanna ‘nother shot!’ Joe said.
“Stop squirming,” Finnegan said. “Don’t make me tell Dr. Grandma that you are being bad.”
Joe slumped down and turned a little to present his arms to her. She jabbed him quickly and he sucked air in through his teeth.
“See?” she said, pulling the needle out, “We’re all done.”
“I still don’t like it,” Joe said, pulling his dress suit over his wifebeater, hiding the wrinkled skin of his old man tits.
“Your sixth booster is a very important one. You want to be safe until your seventh booster right before Christmas.”
“I never get to do anything fun,” Joe said.
“Well, what is it you want to do?” Finnegan asked, stripping off her PPE and dropping it in the biohazard collection bin.
“I want to go downstairs,” Joe said.
“I’m not going to do that, Grandpa,” she said. “I have to draw the line somewhere. Maybe Jen is around.”
“No, downstairs!” Joe said, pointing at the floor.
“The tunnels? We are not going down in the tunnels. They say they’ve cleaned them out but it is still really gross down there.”
“What about the lounge?” Joe wheedled. “It’s the Presidential Lounge and you told me just this morning that I was President so that lounge is mine.”
“We filled in the spunk dungeon with concrete,” Finnegan said.
“No!’ Joe cried.
*****
“See? I told you a nice walk would be nice,” Finnegan said, supporting Joe as he ambled stiff-legged through the White House corridors.
“These decorations are hideous,” Joe muttered.
“Dr. Grandma picked them all out,” Finnegan said.
“They are wonderful, just magical,” Joe said.
“Finnegan?” Karine called, “Do you have some time for me this afternoon?”
“Of course, Karine,” she replied.
The petite Black woman came up to Finnegan and Joe, barely looking at them as she worked her smartphone.
“Who is this?” Joe asked, grinning vacuously.
“This is Karine, Grandpa,” Finnegan said. “She is going to take over as Press Secretary after Jen leaves.”
“Strawberry is leaving?!?” Joe asked.
“I’ve told you this, Grandpa,” Finnegan said evenly.
“Is she not happy? Was someone mean to my Strawberry?”
“No, Grandpa,” Finnegan said. She put her arm around his waist and pulled him to her, holding him upright, burying his face in her hair.
“I’ll just need a few short statements from him, maybe a gun control soundbite for the new school shooting,” Karine said.
“Do you realize that she’s a Negro?” Joe whispered loudly into Finnegan’s hair.
“Don’t talk like that, Grandpa,” Finnegan whispered.
“Why was she even let in here? I mean, it’s the WHITE HOUSE,” he said hoarsely. “It’s not the BLACK HOUSE.”
“I’m sorry, Karine,” Finnegan said.
“Uh-huh,” Karine said, and walked away.
“Spunk Dungeon” is the name of my new mathcore project.
Someone jizzed in the datalake again.
Sounds like a sticky problem.
“We filled in the spunk dungeon with concrete,” Finnegan said.
Point of order… You don’t have to fill those in, just leave the door open and they dry solid.
Not JFK’s…
I love that he is scared of “Dr. Grandma”.
First laugh and it kept getting better. Another home run, SF
The tables are turned.
I think it was EvilSheldon that first wondered that Biden might have smacked around his wife and kids. Dr. Jill is getting revenge.
I’m on that train too. There are similarities to how Biden acts when he gets angry to how a guy who used to beat up a relative of mine got angry.
“Why was she even let in here? I mean, it’s the WHITE HOUSE,” he said hoarsely. “It’s not the BLACK HOUSE.”
Legit LOL!
All I could think of was “…have you lost your mind? Can’t you see that woman is a ni?”
What, did you say the woman is near?
Somebody’s gonna have to go back and git a shotload a’ dimes.
“Why was she even let in here? I mean, it’s the WHITE HOUSE,” he said hoarsely. “It’s not the BLACK HOUSE.”
Paging Kamala. Kamala to the courtesy desk, please
Is that true?
Shouldn’t be surprised, but she seemed less likable and informed than strawberry, and that’s hard to do.
I could be wrong in this assessment, I haven’t seen her many times.
It hasn’t been confirmed yet, but it seems likely.
She’s said she’s leaving in the next year already.
https://www.businessinsider.com/jen-psaki-step-down-as-biden-press-secretary-next-year-2021-5
I guess I should have read the comments before I commented.
Strawberry is going, Blackberry arrives to fill the gap.
*polite applause*
At least you didn’t say “to get them out of a jam”
*preemptively narrows gaze*
Now I’m jelly that Fourscore got a narrow gaze for a pun he didn’t even make.
I know right?
It seems berry wrong to me.
Saints preserve us!
Of course if Strawberry isn’t canned under pressure she may spoil.
Quis oculi ipsos ocules?
I’m glad you marmalade that out for us.
“The tunnels? We are not going down in the tunnels. They say they’ve cleaned them out but it is still really gross down there.”
WANNAFUD?
No sir, no I don’t, not at all.
Why am I picturing the horse from Ren and Stimpy?
Remarkable likeness. He could be my brother.
I’m tho glad I thtick to the Hat and the Hair, I want nothing to do with thith rathitht ath old white guy. He thoundth like a damn dirty Mexican!
He’s a Methican? Apparently needs more meth ’cause it doesn’t seem to be doing much. Once a month ain’t cuttin’ it.
“Finnegan asked, stripping off her PPE”
You’re just toying with us here, Sug.
If it has zippers over the nipples, it’s probably not ‘protective’…
Speaking of White House Christmas decorations, the DOCTOR Jill ones are up and the news report tease on my smartphone made sure to note “and how they compare to Melanie Trump’s decorations.”
Fox had something on their noon show yesterday about comparing CNN/CBS/MSNBCs coverage of the decorations vice how the covered Melania’s.
Think Gutfeld had started the discussion.
Like tires in the ’70s. All biased.
I could not care less about the decorations, but the reactions are telling.
Just like how many time was Michelle Obama called beautiful compared to Melania?
To anyone with eyes it’s not even close, but to the corporate media, it’s not even close, but oppisite from relity.
Don’t forget just how stylish M.O. was/is compared to the literal professional model…
and how they compare to Melanie Trump’s decorations.
Melania’s were actually good?
I think hers were the first time I had heard any real mention of them.
That was because they were universally reviled by the corporate press.
I’m sure they weren’t any worse or better than any other ones on average.
She tastes like strawberries.
Needs more global warming scam.
Holy shit.
Trigger warning for dog lovers.
At least he didn’t shoot it.
What the fuck?
Roids will do that.
Malice is right.
If a worker had done that, you would show the video to the company. Then you would get an apology and the guy would probably be fired.
Odds that the cops ignore any complaint?
I’d sue the fuck out of the guy.
If I were a cop in this environment, I would quit and start a private security company. Video like that would be awesome for marketing to well-to-do suburban city councils.
No way a private contractor kicks the shit out of a customer’s dog.
Like this guy?
If he was a worker, of course.
What can you do when it’s a cop? The poor man probably wasn’t trained to not kick the shit out of dogs posing no threat.
The dog was backing away, no threat. The first kick was completely unnecessary, and the rest were just pure mean. That’s just pure animal cruelty. I’d get his name, file a criminal complaint against him, contact the local news with the footage, sue him in civil court, whatever else I could do to get him fired and make his life a living hell. What a scumbag.
That would be a reasonable start.
And it would probably have an affect.
Many people care more about dogs than their fellow humans.
Only because they have better experiences with dogs than other humans.
Crap like this is why I tend to tune out the complaints in libertarian circles about cops pulling people over to give them free turkeys. Yes, it’s a stupid stunt and shouldn’t delude anyone into bootlicking the cops. But, in the scope of things to complain about the police for, giving away turkeys is somewhere just slightly more important than flies’ dingleberries.
Cops pulling people over to give them Thanksgiving turkeys is propaganda to get people to ignore or make excuses for shit like this.
Yes, it’s stupid propaganda. I agree. And in the scale of what bothers me, the stupid propaganda or the shit like this it’s meant to get people to ignore? The former doesn’t even move the meter.
This gets back to the discussion yesterday about where the line to push back is.
The world needs some cranks to point out to the media that they’re pushing propaganda, even in a “mild” case like this. In this case, I’m willing to be one of those cranks.
(Remember, I’m the one who pointed out this two years ago.)
Nah. Cops pulling people over to give them turkeys is an excuse to fish for vehicle equipment violations, expired tags/no insurance, and weed.
Well, if the wife were to witness that we’d have a pair of cop balls to hang on the Christmas tree.
The primary issue for me is that his behavior towards the animal is a big tell on how he would interact with a human given no chance of repercussions.
That guy is itching to put a beatdown on somebody, I guarantee it.
The strange part is that the cops showed up at all. What with a fresh batch of Dunkin’ Donuts right from the oven available.
Judas Priest, lets not go back down there.
Elon, bringing the heat.
No TW – not a Twitter link. Y’all should stop linking to that cesspool.
Amen!
Wrong.
I’m gonna miss it when Malice and Smith and Elon and Kelly and Massie get the boot.
Also this.
This was in the sidebar.
That’s great.
My fave from this week’s ep.
Cop came in this morning for some breakfast sandwiches. I handed them over with my usual smiling “Thank you!” to anyone who hands me money.
Wokester leaned over to me and hissed, “I hope he dies!”
“I cooked them pretty normally.”
You could’ve said he will, some day. As will you.
Dammit!
Great minds, JI. Great minds.
Damn. I know I wouldn’t have thought of that had I been in that situation, but damn, that is wonderful.
Wokester leaned over to me and hissed, “I hope he dies!”
Harmony and understanding
Sympathy and trust abounding
No more falsehoods or derisions
Golden living dreams of visions
“So… food poisoning at the least!”
“Oh, he will. We all will, someday. Including you.”
Ah, technically you beat me to it by a minute.
Never mind, that was your response, which was still damn quick.
“I hope he dies!”
Your spit is poisonous?
Venomous.
/pedant
I’m sorry sean, but Mexi is correct. this would be an ingestable rather than injectable toxin
What happens when you inject the toxin into something that is then injested? A poisonous venom? A venomous poison?
All I know is someone is going to…
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2149529-this-snake-knows-how-toxic-it-is-and-fights-only-when-armed/
How neat is that?
Very.
https://www.science.org.au/curious/people-medicine/poison-vs-venom
Deferring to the experts (Australians):
Also, I guess I was wrong here. Poisonous spit, it is.
Damn.
*goes back to injecting bleach*
A bonus mid-week Tales From the Woke!
WTF? What kind of a person hopes some rando who walks in off the street dies based on their profession? Like, really? That’s unhinged, even to suggest it.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/michigan-high-school-shooter-used-gun-likely-purchased-by-dad-on-black-friday
Quite specific there.
Factory Spec or customized? Any accessories? What brand of ammo?
They made a huge deal on the news about the weapon before this actual identification, scarily announcing it was a “semiautomatic” handgun!!!! Wow, those are so out of the ordinary.
They are trying to Sauer people on handguns.
Yup. They are dying to Sig lawyers on the industry, too.
That’s guaranteed to rack up a Schweizerische gaze.
I mean, it is the type of gun that only sells when it is on sale.
Older Sig P-Series fanboys hate in it because its plastic. Younger shooters hate it because its DA/SA and heavy as hell for a plastic gun.
#fakenews
Admitted P-series fanboy here, and I have one in .40. Import with the Ilaflon finish, it’s a decent pistol.
Weirdly, it came with an orange plastic training barrel as an extra.
OT – Sotomayor’s questions and comments about medical advances not being germane to the abortion debate and how she doesn’t believe fetal response indicates pain is bloody sickening.
baby murder is an article of faith for her.
she doesn’t believe fetal response indicates pain
I wonder if judicial response indicates pain?
What does it mean then?
Guess you have to be a “wise Latina” to decipher it.
You are never going to get people on the left to admit that they’ve supported genocide no matter what evidence is found.
I see others wishing you a Happy Birthday and I haven’t yet.
Happy Birthday!
Happy B-Day!
You are wrong sir, you are most certainly a bunch of junior high brats. Both sides of the aisle.
“Please, please good fellows, do not bicker and fight. Remember our charge, to lose in a way that retains our positions!”
“Gentlemen, there is no fighting in the War Room!”
Doesn’t sound at all like junior high, no way.
Scene recreated
Fun fact, Nancy Mace was my representative before I left SC. Just for a few months, but still.
Also, the democrat she unseated was possibly the most moderate Dem in the house.
Looks like DeWine is aware that he’s not very well liked by most of the Republicans in the state:
Reversing past veto threat, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signs ‘Business Fairness Act’
For those who don’t want to read, the law allows businesses deemed “non-essential” to stay open as long as they follow the rules for imposed for “essential” businesses. The law is amazingly brief.
Our Governor Landwhale (D-Comorbidity) seems happy to have us COMMANDED TO MASK forever. He re-imposed his royal order late in August, and here we are…the only idiots this side of the Rockies with such an idiotic policy.
That dude looks like a union/mafia boss.
Shocking that he would be the governor.
Our Gov tied us to the CDC..completely handing off state sovereignty in that regard…I am not really sure which is worse.
There’s a couple other bills that are working through the statehouse that will be interesting to see if DeWine signs them. Two gun freedom laws, and one putting restrictions on companies putting a vaccine mandate in place (it prohibits mandates on not fully approved vaccines; it provides broad exemptions; and allows for antibody/prior COVID infections as a substitute). The gun bills passed, and I believe are waiting on DeWine. The vaccine mandate bill is being debated in the Ohio Senate.
Mayor Out-the-Door here imposed another “suggestion” for all indoor spaces. I have no plans to follow it in my daily routine which basically means “grocery stores” and “liquor stores”.
“Dr. Grandma”. It’s things like this that make we want to believe SF has a mic planted in the WH. I so want this to be true.
Apologies, if this has made the rounds.
Arizona cop fatally shoots man in wheelchair nine times in the back: video
I don’t know where to start, but I’m sure folks will find a way to read whatever their personal hot button issue into this.
“He should have shot the tires out.”
That’s why I come here.
I was thinking of the Seinfeld where George gets the Rascal and he is trying to run away. It doesn’t go fast enough so he picks up the chair and starts running with it.
The Butter Shave
He’s white, so no one will care, but the cop did get fired.
How long before another jurisdiction hires him?
ATF was already on the horn before he got fired.
That actually surprised me.
I wonder if it was because he was doing private security. If he was on the clock for the city I’m wondering if he gets more union protection.
The actual guy on the clock didn’t pull his trigger.
We’re not even doing euphemisms any more, are we?
He was in uniform wasn’t he? He has to be on the clock for that, right?
I suspect they could have contained him…his desire to commit seppuku by cop aside.
They could have just shot the knife out of his hand, like in the movies.
Heck, just grab the back of the chair and he most likely slides off, onto the ground. But I guess the mag dump was easier.
My personal hot button issue is marksmanship. Did Ossifer Wal-Mart fire nine times and score nine hits? Or did he burn a magazine and only connect with half?
Right, nine shots. How much softer a target do you need?
Nine shots with a Wal-Mart team member directly in front of the wheelchair guy….good job folks…good job.
?
“He kept accelerating away from me so I was in fear of my life!”
It’s coming right for us! – South Park
“He was heading right away from us!”
*checks skin pigment of involved parties*
“Good shoot.” ///The Left
The officer, Ryan Remington
That’s not a real name.
The “victim” was named Richard Richards.
“Do you realize that she’s a Negro?” Joe whispered loudly into Finnegan’s hair.
But she’s bright, clean and well spoken.
That’s storybook, man.
Dang, beat me to it.
pulling his dress suit over his wifebeater, hiding the wrinkled skin of his old man tits.
🙂
“We filled in the spunk dungeon with concrete,” Finnegan said.
🙁
“Strawberry is leaving?!?” Joe asked.
I haven’t paid attention. Is this based on real events or just in-universe from that last episode where Psaki got it on with the unvaccinated intern?
Strawberry is leaving, but they haven’t named a replacement yet.
Karine seems a logical frontrunner, unlikable and uninformed.
Worked for the VP slot.
So you’re saying Joe has a type?
If there is anything that characterizes his entire team, it is “unlikable and uninformed”.