“Get me a balloon, Daddy! I want a balloon!”
Joe looks down at his small son, a motherless 7-year-old demanding a toy, red in the face, tantrum brewing.
“The big balloon!” Hunter says, pointing at the sky.
Joe’s vision swims and an adult Hunter stands before him. “You shot it down good, Daddy,” this scrofulous Hunter says, his sweet child’s voice now a raspy croak.
“I shot it down?” Joe asks. “I’m sorry.”
“It was a good thing, Daddy,” Hunter says, his adult voice now coming from a 2-year-old covered in blood, his face lit up in the red and blue of the rotating police lights.
“You have to sit down now,” a pretty young woman says, materializing beside him. She is smiling and her hands are warm on his arm. Joe feels blood trickling into his penis. There is a chair. Joe sits in it and the Oval Office floods in around him.
“We have a lot to do to get him ready for tonight,” Finnegan says to Hunter.
“He’ll be fine,” Hunter says, scratching himself absently. “Dark Brandon rises.”
“Who?” Joe asks, his hand straying to his tie but finding only the neck of a hospital gown.
“He’s sundowning at 10am nowadays,” Finnegan said quietly. “We have to get his neuroleptic levels up, change his blood, over-oxygenate him, change his filters and maybe install new feet before tonight. I don’t have time for this today.”
Joe watched as Jill began to dance with Hunter, 13 and angry, ravaged by puberty. “You want to know how to dance, don’t you?” she asks as she pulls him to her and pushes him away.
“Why do I even have to go to this stupid dance anyway?” Hunter asks sullenly.
“You want to meet girls, dontcha?” Joe hears himself ask.
Laughing, Beau rabbit punches the smaller boy in the kidney and then runs away.
“Stop it,” Jill says, turning back into Finnegan. “I don’t have time for your fucking shit today!”
“You shouldn’t talk to my son that way,” Joe tells Finnegan as he is strapped to a gurney. “You’re the only mother the boy has now.”
“He’s been using that as an excuse my entire life,” Finnegan says. “I just want a normal father.”
“I am a normal father!” Hunter insists, pulling an enormous joint from the folds of his ladies’ scarf.
“I think you are a great father, Beau,” Joe says feebly.
“I’m Hunter!” the blood-drenched 2-year-old screams. “Beau’s the dead one!”
“Beau is dead?” Joe asks, fat tears forming in his eyes.
“We need to begin the transfusion,” Finnegan said from behind a huge ficus.
“I am not a ficus,” she continues. “I am just standing behind one.”
scrofulous
having a diseased run-down appearance. : morally contaminated.
My brain is full. Can I have the rest of the day off?
Clearly not, you have to reorganize and delete excess content.
The lower case ‘a’…
Scrofula are lymph nodes infected with tuberculosis. Scrofulous is a beautiful word, and very fitting here.
I…I can see that all running through Pudding Cup’s deteriorating mind.
He does an excellent job of portraying a confused mind.
^This.
The Method Presidency.
“…maybe install new feet before tonight.”
I guess this is only available to the rich and powerful, and not the rest of us serfs?
That was my first LOL line.
I could use at least one new foot. I assume it’s a non-voluntary donor for the elite?
Kaleidoscopic reality.
SF borrowing from the Bee?
Never! SF’s Universe is much better than the Star Wars one.
..better?
I never had gastrointestinal issues after watching the three Star Wars movies.
Sure, if you stop at 3. The Hat and Hair were the original trilogy.
We’re reaching the odd numbered Star Trek movie level now.
Absolutely. Disney will never destroy Sugar Free’s creation! I hope!
I’d sell out for Disney money. Just rub it all over my body.
They probably would.
As directed by???
Disney’s usual method of dealing with content creators is to give them a contract that says “we can copy your work and not pay you for it and you can’t sue.” You won’t see any money from them.
That is why the Aquabats refused to sign.
Whore.
Whatever, the best preparations still didn’t make the old man coherent.
The medics can’t cure every illness. Give Pfizer a little more time, 60-90 days, and they could have Ol’ Joe purring like a kitten. Too bad the other guy is retired
At least we escaped the Frau Doktor Doctor JilldenxSecond Gentleman copulation scene.
That’s next week.
Even numbered Star Trek movie.
That was…disturbing.
All the more so because it’s probably accurate.
That was amazing.
Well, normal for a Biden…
I might be tripping.
Obligatory.
Also helpful
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ecK6Xx8BCIE
Mindtrip
Trippin
I am disappoint there were no comments about the Ron Jeremy article in the am linx mentioning that he is 69.
He looked awful in court. I wonder if that was built up, just told him to not shave for months or if he was really wandering around like that? It made a strong case for mental institution over trial.
I had thought he was already ruled non compos mentos.
“You are fresh and full of life!”
This made me squint.
He’s prepping for a 2024 presidential run.
Ron Jeremy in ’24. “Lets make it harder for everyone!”
“She’s partly right, if poverty is viewed as a relative difference in affluence, rather than on an absolute scale.”
Regarding capitalism causing poverty.
I would say the most meaningful way to measure poverty is to use marginal utility of say, food, housing etc. To people of old versus people today. In absolute dollars the difference might be more now, but in real outcomes there is very little support for the idea that poverty arises out of capitalism.
You assume the ranting commies understand the concept of marginal utility.
The people feeding them talking points might, but their goals are not improvement, and the people you have to deal with are unable to think their way out of a box painted on the floor.
I have photographs of not too distant relatives outside their sod house. I’ve also visited my wife’s family whose neighbors live in a hut. I’ve lived in modern American poverty. It is luxurious in comparison.
Here’s the way it was explained to me by an enlightened prog:
It doesn’t matter at all that a middle class person in the USA today is richer than the richest kings of 1000 years ago. All that matters is that Elon Musk is even more richer compared to you. So capitalism is bad. Wrap your mind around that, if you can.
Access to products and services that did not exist 1000 years ago doesn’t mean we are richer.
I can’t afford to build a wall around Constantinople.
Constantinople is not yours. Can you afford to build a wall around your yard?
I have no yard, so no.
Hmmmm.
Have built? No.
Buy the materials? Probably.
Buy the materials and hire dudes from the Home Depot parking lot to assist me with building within a reasonable amount of time? Much less likely.
I’m assuming to actually put up a wall you need to first dig and build foundations?
Well, if you want the walls to remain standing.
You could plop them on top of the dirt, but they’d shift and fall down as the weather undermines them.
Yeah, I’d need to rent a backhoe then.
If there’s any slope to your yard, you may want to look into installing a dry well or similar drainage feature at the low end so that water doesn’t pool at the base of the wall.
A French drain would be good also.
Neither could the Byzantines or they would have repelled the Muslim invaders.
Their walls did repel them multiple times.
Some damn fool guard left the gate open for them in the 1400s.
Getting sacked by the Papists didn’t help with their readiness either.
We were invited over, and this is all the thanks we get…
The real problem was becoming so weak the Arabs could ever conquer the greater part of the empire in the first place.
The Plague of Justinian did a number on their readiness.
‘Plague of Justinian’
Clearly the wrath of God for not accepting the Pope as best among equals.
Don’t give the state department any more ideas on how to waste our money.
Unless we’re going to be doing circumvellation for our upcoming conquest. I’m sure we’re could do it.
And after I typed it all up I saw the ‘I’. Damn.
“Access to products and services that did not exist 1000 years ago doesn’t mean we are richer.”
Yes, yes it does mean exactly that.
Tell that to the king of 1000 years ago, who doesn’t have a computer and internet with access to all the information that exists in the world and the ability to talk to his friends at the speed of light no matter where they are at in the world. And who has to protect the last of his rotting meat from the barbarian hordes who are surrounding his castle right at this moment. His castle that does not have electric lighting, AC or heat, or even indoor plumbing or running water. Hell, the poor bastard does not even have free Pr0n. Yeah, you are more rich than that guy, a LOT more rich.
Your history of hydrology needs work. While the poor kings of the northwest were dealing with wells, the richest kings definately had indoor plumbing and running water. And internet smut is a poor substitute for having your pick of partners.
Heck, I think your understanding of the middle ages is lacking.
But one could get all of the hot tavern wenches one desired for naught but a bawdy song played on the lute and a flagon of mead. That’s got to be worth quite a bit.
Logical.
Poverty == Envy.
Envy is bad.
:. Poverty is bad.
Ah yes, the ‘if I just eat a few more cupcakes I won’t have all these sinful desires’ line of thinking.
It’s just envy, disguised with some disingenuous phony moralizing.
Oh I can wrap my mind around that. It’s the conclusion I come to that they don’t like.
That you have an oddly scarf-shaped noggin?
Something is seriously wrong in the multiverse. I read this entire article while eating lunch. And not even a mild gag reflex occurred. Wednesday’s is dying, dying I tell you, the end is nigh!
I lived dangerously by eating a machaca burrito for breakfast.
I missed this story last week. Garland is gearing up to steal the frozen Russian assets. Illegal and probably unconstitutional (letter of attainder) but they’re going to do it. Our media didn’t seem to care. The Chinese did.
https://www.pressreader.com/china/global-times/20230206/281603834618799
Lira breaks it down. This will make the dollar less desirable due to our arbitrary theft.
https://youtu.be/vWHmGnHW0V0
And we’ll clap and cheer until the inevitable blowback at which time we’ll whine like little girls. The hubris is astounding.
The article certainly has a certain point of view.
Sure it does. And there may be counter arguments but nobody here seems to care. People like Lira looking for a safe haven for their savings will now avoid the American dollar since we might steal their money if we decide we don’t like the passport they hold.
The US is just giving them weapons. No, the money will feed Z-yy’s hooker bill.
Hmm, somehow missed the story that we blew up Nordstream with the help of also stands to benefit by screwing Germany Norway. Maybe the Russians will team up with the Germans to invade Scandinavia now (just joking but holy hell was that a stupid move). That’s the most irresponsible thing we’ve done since Vietnam, just crazy really.
The more I think about it the more crazy it sounds. We’re largely safe, but there are about a billion ways for the Russians to exact some payback from Norway.
Nasty shit, no matter how you look at it. These people are unhinged.
The Russians can also cause trouble in US occupied Syria and in Iraq and the Mideast in general through Iran. I suspected the Brits, who have what seems to be an irrational investment in this war, but this doesn’t surprise me either.
Aren’t our Baltic allies still on the Russian power grid?
They’ve started by burning down our chicken farms.
All I’ve seen as evidence there is “Anonymous Sources”.*
I need better evidence than that.
*If one of the articles running around had anything else, it was one I haven’t read.
True, one does have to be skeptical when anonymous sources are cited but this would be a helluva big revelation to have to walk back.
Well, there’s also logic, as in “who benefits, and also has the means to do it”.
That’s more of a sanity check that leads to some potential actors being excluded.
Do I think we are damn fool enough to have done something so stupid? It’s a possibility. Is there evidence enough for me to say I’m convinced we did it? Not yet.
*Two days from now, divers investigating the site find an “I did this!” Biden gas pump sticker on the underside of the pipe.
Biden and Nuland both said it was gonna be taken out. A week ago there were a bunch of articles foreshadowing what dropped today. It’s like clockwork.
Well, the sources could be always be lying, but with Seymour Hersh I have little doubt that they exist, and are in positions where they could or should know the truth.
Why are we disregarding the “poorly shut down, poorly restarted, clathrates go BOOM explanation?
I’m not.
I’m just waiting for information.
Doesn’t fit the anti-narrative
Helping hands
For their part, European nations are already developing their own subsidy scheme to prevent a feared migration of EU manufacturing to the U.S., where energy costs are lower and states are standing by with sweeteners to dish out. After meeting with U.S. officials, the ministers said the need for Europe to respond with its own subsidy package is clearer than ever.
“One conclusion we have to draw from the meetings,” Le Maire said, is that “we see the absolute necessity for Europe to arrive at the definition and implementation of a European green tech plan.”
U.S. officials have encouraged the EU to boost its own industries, often noting there is ample room in the market for widespread government support for clean energy.
A Treasury Department readout of the meeting said Yellen stressed the need for innovation and development of technology “on both sides of the Atlantic to speed the transition to green energy and meet our collective climate goals.”
How can businesses ever attain society’s goals without government guidance?
And I bet the trains will run on time.
“implementation of a European green tech plan” ∉ “scheme to prevent a feared migration of EU manufacturing to the U.S.”
OFFS! The world economy is going to shit; I know, let’s throw money at the “green” fraud.
JFC the world really is this stupid, isn’t it?
All I’ve seen as evidence there is “Anonymous Sources”.*
I need better evidence than that.
The vehemence of the denials is confirmation enough.
I may be predisposed to assume the absolute worst about our Top Men and Women.
And yet they will still surprise you by being even worse than you imagined.
I agree with The Other Kevin on that.
Wow, I don’t think I’ve ever been quoted from another thread.
But that line of thinking is serving me well lately.
I see many reasons that we probably did it but would like to see actual evidence.
I had the same thought about the election.
I remember seeing a lot of things that appeared shady, and when the immediate reaction of the corporate press was THE MOST SECURE ELECTION IN HISTORY, I was convinced they got away with it.
Proof:
https://i.etsystatic.com/26854597/r/il/c11770/3308947881/il_1140xN.3308947881_ozsf.jpg
Victoria Nuland gloating over it a couple weeks ago is very circumstantial evidence. But it was disgusting enough to earn her a spot in Sugarfree’s world.
I don’t doubt we did it, but i would like to have something stronger to show my mom, she is 100% certain the Russians did it.
I don’t know what evidence would sway her, she has proven remarkable at ignoring and deflecting things that go against what she sees on CNN*.
*I wish I was making that up, but when she switched to DirecTV from Dish, she was asking me channel numbers and said she only watches CNN and MSNBC.
I asked about Fox and her direct quote was “I can’t watch that; those people are crazy”.
Bail. You could have Biden admitting it under oath and she won’t believe it. My parents are exactly the same. When the bombs start going off they will be like “I just can’t believe the government would do that!”
My mom is the other side of the spectrum. Hannity all day, all the time. My dad will just say “This is why I still vote for Goldwater”.
Did you ask her why he wears a CIA pin on his lapel?
Because he graduated from the Culinary Institute of America!
/sarc
I don’t try to talk about this stuff with her, but she knows if she asks me a question, I will answer it.
I am better about it than I used to be, but it still makes my teeth itch.
This dude I know writes a column on Fridays. Really helpful for this very thing 😉
Not sure how the AM Links are going to help.
Sometimes I need to do a better job of following my own philosophy.
Now that we can go OT:
Next meetup in the Bearded Hobbit tour is on February 12th, 11:00 AM to 2:30 PM.
It will be at The Lazy Dog in Plano, 8401 Preston Road, Plano TX 75024.
“Now that we can go OT:”
Now? Dood, you went OT so long ago that I thought this was afternoon links already.
Yeah. That and posting for an hour in the dead thread. Appears I am starting a trend for myself.
Are those two screwing now? Didn’t they do some weird parody photo op too?
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/what-the-hell-was-kyrsten-sinema-wearing/
Robbie wins:
https://twitter.com/RobbieTheFire/status/1623318045413236736
I can’t find it now, but somebody photo-shopped “Hulkamania” on that yellow monstrosity.
Reminds me of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTKhw-v5h2I
Mittens and Sinema? Wouldn’t his holy underwear get in the way?
Kind of ridiculous but she’s a fairly cute little plumper so I’ll let it slide.
It’s not flattering, but still would.
Seconded.
I assume she was shuffling around like Morticia Addams in that thing.
Even the most warmongering of sites are now reporting on it:
I did that!
I usually check out PJ a lot, but one day this week they had three articles with the word “BOMBSHELL” in the title. Get a thesaurus.
Seems like they were duds.
They would be OK if they could get their tongues out of Zelensky’s behind for a few minutes.
I just assumed that was true from the beginning, based on the pretty solid track record of every “conspiracy theory” from the last (pick a number) years turning out to be true.
#MeToo
Der Spiegel isn’t covering it yet. No surprises there, they’re fully in on the war.
Nope, appears to be zero coverage in the German dailies for today. Maybe tomorrow.
Tomorrow’s FAZ is not yet available on Kindle. It should be within the next couple of hours. The Kindle edition appears before you see anything on their website.
Pretty bizarre with the US basically declaring economic war on Germany.
It seems we control a lot of the foreign press.
The only Norwegian coverage I could find was short and had this:
From 2014:
Condoleezza Rice, discussing “changing Europe’s structure of energy”.
For some reason, I keep reading her first name as ‘Condosleeza’
IRS: “We made rules so complicated we can’t figure them out.” https://www.whio.com/news/trending/irs-tells-millions-hold-off-filing-income-tax-returns/ZXSZXM2LPBBFNDNX6VB3XY5J3M/
Real reason: “We sent all your money to Ukraine. No refunds this year.”
Cashier: That’ll be $9.52.
Customer: Here’s a $20
Cashier: Here’s your change.
Customer: This is $5.48. You should have given me back a $10, not a five.
Cashier: Oh, sorry. Here you go.
Customer: This is only $3 dollars, where’s the rest?
Cashier: No, that’s correct. You had to pay full tax on the amount I over charged you.
Only in the world of government.
We consider change as part of your income.
I asked about Fox and her direct quote was “I can’t watch that; those people are crazy”.
She’s not wrong.
She’s not wrong there, but her saying that after saying she would only watch CNN and MSNBC made my eyes roll a little.
She’s not wrong there, but her saying that after saying she would only watch CNN and MSNBC made my eyes roll a little.
She needs a bigger tent. A does not exclude B.
*They’re all crazy.
I can’t watch any of them.
I used to like Stossel and The Independents>, but since they aren’t on there is nothing I like.
I tried Kennedy, but I can only handle her in small doses.
I seem to get most of my news here.
I can’t get my news here, this is much too biased a source.
True, but it’s a good crazy.
I vote “foe”.
This is surreal.
How did it go with the family in NC?
It went.
😟
Fruitse
This is only going to work for a subset of people. It does fit my generation perfectly. I wouldn’t likely do it, but I’d consider it. Problem is I’ve owned two Chrysler products and don’t really feel the need for a third in my lifetime…
New Jeep Grand Wagoneer Finally Gets Woodgrain Option With Aftermarket Kit
Wood not.
We had a red Dodge Caravan with that shit when I was a little kid. Looked stupid then, looks even stupider now.
Yeah, that looks terrible.
No.
I’m glad I clicked the PJ link because this heartwarming video showed up elsewhere on the page.
https://twitter.com/TansuYegen/status/1621730772670349313?s=20&t=lC_4_faoIjCBtWmtRb-wag
Awww…
Why isn’t the dog wearing a mask?
/asked half of America
Awwww.
Great minds think alike.
From the comment section of Scott Alexander’s substack:
I lived in SLC for 6 years. It does not sound like it’s changed for the better.
This isn’t California like, oh there’s a Whole Foods in SLC, it’s like your Uber driver is a gay purple-manicured Brony. You might see a couple Mormon wards/churches and I’m sure there’s still a few but the number of Pride flags and BLM/Science signs in front of every other house let’s you know this is California turf.
So, they fucking wrecked another city. Lovely.
They are like cockroaches. See a good thing, go shit all over it. I clicked and saw the Detroit post. With no irony talking about what a mess it is.
Funny; that’s exactly why I left California.
I tapped out but the sense I got was “it’s nice until us Californians turn it into California”.
Sounds like SLC is going to suck in very short order.
I saw one of those Grand Wagoneers in the wild last fall. I thought it was a Suburban until I noticed the nameplate. Another giant station wagon.
$100K station wagon
I prefer the stretch Grand Cherokee. Similar interior space, better handling and gas mileage. Easier to park too.
Yet another installment that I find very difficult to masturbate to.
Just difficult?