“They are just going to keep trying until they kill you, Donald,” the hat said, as grave and serious as he ever managed to be.
“Barron will be alone,” the hair said, agreeing. “He will grow up without a father.”
“They fear me being President again,” Donald said.
“They should,” the hat said. “It is much safer to be feared than loved, as the Italian said.”
“Is it safer in this case?” the hair asked.
“Don’t be such a fag,” the hat shot back. “Fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.”
“Stop quoting Machiavelli,” the hair said.
Loud footsteps approached down the hallway outside his office and Barron burst through the door. He ran to his father and wrapped him in a hug.
“I’m fine,” Donald said, patting his enormous son on his back.
“They tried to kill you again,” he said. The boy had been crying.
“He never even got off a shot,” Donald said.
“Mother told me,” Barron said. “I was so afraid.”
“After they lose a debate, they try to have me killed,” Donald said matter-of-factly.
“You must cancel the rest of the debates, Father.”
“No, that’s letting them win.”
“But…”
“If they succeed, it will be up to you to avenge me,” Donald said.
“Christ, you can’t put that on the boy,” the hair whispered.
“Quit being a fag,” the hat said. “The boy has to be tough. What if they take a shot at him as well?”
“You sure throw the word fag around a lot for someone that has a man inside them much of the day.”
“What the fuck do you mean by that? I’m no fag.”
“You get heads inserted into you: you are the receptive partner, a concavity. You are either a woman or a gay man.”
“Yeah, well, well…”
“You are thinking about getting that big head inserted in you, aren’t you? Like an itch you need scratched, an ache, maybe.”
“Yeah, well, who is getting inserted? You, you, you fag,” the hat said in triumph.
“Better a top than a bottom,” the hair said.
They began to wrestle on top of Donald’s head.
“I’m trying to have a moment here,” Donald growled.
First First Firstin’ on heaven’s door…
ooh ooh ooh… I know this one.
Taylor Swift?
Wrestling is gay.
Greco-Roman wrestling especially.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t0SKm2uoKX4
I would have been disappointed by any other link. Well done.
Especially wrestling with Brylcreem.
You only say that because my balls were on your chin when you passed out…
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=triangle+choke&atb=v353-1&iax=images&ia=images
The precedent has been established. If Trump gets bumped off, Vance steps in. That’s why the media have been slaving night and day to impugn and vilify him. The cackling word salad commie doesn’t have a prayer of beating Vance.
That precedent only applies to Dems. Look at RFK. You can’t remove a name from the ballot. Oh, dead Trump won? Well, not alive so goes to the next highest EC winner. Welcome Madame President.
That sounds disturbingly plausible.
You might want to read the Constitution.
Why? Nobody else has.
Any attempt to not rubber stamp the anointed results is insurrection. Are you an insurrectionist, TedS?
Ted, do you have a link or something? I’ve been wondering how this would play out if they do manage to grease Trump now that it’s too late to replace him on the ballots.
The constitution has rules for when the President-Elect dies. What happens before the election is not covered.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/07/17/presidential-candidate-death-during-campaign/74402360007/
For the GOP, Republican National Committee members would vote by delegation to select a candidate. The delegates would possibly be recalled to vote in person
Where it starts to get difficult is if a candidate dies or becomes incapacitated after states have already begun to print ballots. By early September, ballots are being printed and sent out to comply with federal laws ensuring that Americans living overseas, including members of the military, get a chance to vote.
“Different states have different rules for how to replace candidates and when,” Greene said.
Even if it is too late to remove a name from ballots, the Democrats and Republicans would name a new nominee as their standard-bearer.
Fortier said it’s important to remember that when people cast a vote, they aren’t voting for a candidate, but for electors who will vote for their preferred party in the Electoral College.
Clear as mud.
As far as I can guess. Trump’s name stays on the ballot.
The repubs nominate a new candidate.
The electors vote for the new candidate.
It’s 50 state elections. You are voting for elector, not a candidate. Same as it ever was.
I was thinking of Rat’s comment about how if the voters elect dead Trump, the VP-elect becomes President on inauguration day.
Specifically, it’s in the 20th Amendment. (I had to look that up; I thought it might be in 25A or 12A.)
There is a difference between candidate dying before the election and president-elect dying after the election.
The whole interchange is marvelous! Bravo!
Absolutely, I second this!
If I may ask, can you incorporate Diddy in a future episode? He seems like he would fit right in with Kamala.
He probably has fit right in with Kamala. IYKWIM.
Sure they’ll kill him. Probably one of those “Republicans for Harris” who are convinced Trump will tear up the constitution.
How do they think he can “tear up the constitution?” Will he order the Pentagon to have troops arrest all Democrats?
Surround the White House with tanks and APCs and dare anyone to remove him? Convince Congress to appoint him King for life (what’s he have, another six or so years lifespan?) I don’t see how an American president can become a dictator overnight given all the checks and balances, unless through a military coup which had almost complete support from the highest rank officers.
I don’t see how an American president can become a dictator overnight given all the checks and balances, unless through a military coup which had almost complete support from the highest rank officers.
All it takes is a pen and a phone.
And the right team.
By some definitions, there has already been a coup. A sort of bureaucratic one, where the executive branch has been effectively taken over by misc. bureaucrats. There isn’t a single figurehead dictator, because there is no need for one.
Congress is demonstrably helpless (even though it theoretically has the power) to do anything about this. SCOTUS has made a few feeble swats at the problem, but it’s basically institutionally incapable of doing anything meaningful.
It’s snippets like this that reveal the extratemporal entity behind the Hat façade.
Look at you with that fancy c. What a fag.
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That one isn’t so bad. It’s not French.
The Hat is still my favorite character. And thanks to CPRM I can hear the voice while I read.
Nice episode, SF!
Blackberry got burned.
https://x.com/deceleratedlife/status/1835015047015174570
Rug burn?
Pager burn?
Too soon! Think of all the terrorist sensibilities
Stupid Trump, always obsessing about race
“I think it’s very important to not operate from the assumption that Black men are in anybody’s pocket,” Harris said in a sit-down interview with a panel from the National Association of Black Journalists. “I’m working to earn the vote, not assuming I’m going to have it because I am Black.”
A new poll by the civil rights group NAACP released Friday found that more than a quarter of Black men under 50 years old support Trump over Harris.
To win those votes, Harris is focused on an economic argument. At NABJ, she described embarking on an “economic opportunity tour focused on Black men” earlier this year, before she was a candidate for president.
She’s going to legalize heroin?
I’m going to Hell, ain’t I?
“I have a track record of keeping Black men employed back when I was CA AG”
Black men do not support women or black women. They resent Harris more than any white guys you’ll meet who aren’t card carrying members of the Klan.
They lined up in droves to vote for Obama. They sucked it up and supposedly voted in even greater numbers for Biden after his “you aint black” remarks.
Making license plates?
It’s telling that the Democrat candidate has to “earn” the vote of a segment of the population that has, for decades, reliably voted for one party. She’s also visiting states she really shouldn’t have to. No way internal polling matches what you see on the “news”.
Her own campaign lit that signal a couple weeks ago about internals being weak…it’s just the legacy media ignored it
There is a reason she is advertising in New York, of all places.
“To win those votes, Harris is focused on an economic argument.”
Well, we’re waiting…
She is?!
Less racially black than Obama.
I do enjoy the Democrats going back to their roots and embracing the one-drop rule again.
Ordinarily that would be game over for her, but I bet she has 99.9% of the female vote so maybe it’s a wash.
There is also the matter of how few Black men can even register to vote due to felonies, those that can that even bother, and the poor turn-out on Election day.
It’s just like the youth vote. Every election they are going to save the Democrats and they just never turn out.
I’ve never received anything resembling an explanation why a felony conviction is a life sentence, rights wise.
I mean, haven’t you paid your dues to “society?”
Now do gun rights for ex-felons.
I’m sure when the *cough* ballots are counted, the number of them for Harris in predominantly black urban precincts will be nearly 100%. Possibly higher.
She’s also visiting states she really shouldn’t have to.
Two interpretations
1) she needs to work to hold on to deep blue states
2) its the 2024 equivalent of Biden hiding in the basement in 2020
It’s #2 with a sprinkle of carefully curated locations where my guess her campaign knows her support is high-ish
My guess is that it is keeping to safe locations; saying “see I am out in public”; letting the press continue to gaslight the nation; the fortifying the election good and hard.
Sure…That’s why they’re bussing in “supporters”.
this election is 100% going to hinge on turn-out. That why she is hitting solid blue states so hard. Voter apathy will kill the Democrats, it seems to matter less for Trump, mostly because his voters are vote for him in most cases, not just any Republican heading the ticket.
Sky-high turnout in solid blue states won’t affect the EC math.
No, but big turnouts at her appearances make the aura of inevitability over the election fraud.
Sky-high turnout in solid blue states won’t affect the EC math.
Haven’t a handful of states decreed that their electoral college votes will go to the winner of the popular vote regardless of what the results in the state are?
3) Their internal polling is not painting a great picture, and they plan to juice the popular vote in order to whinge about the Electoral College.
This is probably far too optimistic.
Well now Israel* is just showing off
“Several blasts took place simultaneously, Hashem said, similar to what happened on Tuesday. “But this time, it was mostly walkie-talkies or radios [that exploded],” he said, adding that reports suggested that solar devices and some batteries in cars also exploded.”
The car and/or home solar system is a bit….not buying it.
Yeah…that’s a no from me too.
You don’t think they were powering their car and home solar system on pager power?
Maybe they have a battery death ray in orbit, able to strike anything battery powered.
*Tinfoil hat crinkles and breathes like a living thing
Mossad is the logical first assumption, but it could be any of a number of intelligence operations. It certainly allows the MSM to focus on this and not the IC-assisted assassination attempt.
Shhhhhh. Don’t wreck the ending for everyone.
Youtube finally feeds me something of value
AC/DC covering On Broadway
Cool link, bro!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVDzbGsAXHw
There are so many reasons the dems should get crushed this election.
And yet, my black heart knows that the election is rigged beyond repair.
If it makes you feel any better the upcoming hot war is gonna make most of this worry moot.
That is why my heart is black.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlBnjAp643Q
thanks SF
I’ll second that. Great tuneage.
2022 “Red Wave” says “Hi.”
BY RED WAVE MEAN…
Communism.
Communism isn’t coming in any wave. It is an insidious slow disease that creeps in when we allow envy and irresponsible behavior to fester in our culture.
Red Wave.
It is an insidious slow disease that creeps in when we allow envy and irresponsible behavior to fester in our culture.
The syphilis of societal organization?
It’s that time of year. Time for Congress to pass a cr instead of a budget and for Thomas Massie to call them out.
https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1836454307622703347
Absolute stud.
And nothing else happened.
I wouldn’t say nothing happened. We did get closer to a debt crisis that will wreck our economy.
That’s the spirit!
Another $2T in debt this FY. Can we get to $3T?
Sadly, when the camera pulls out at the end of his rant, it looks like he’s talking to a mostly empty room.
‘Apolitical’ Fed Slashes Rates By 50bps With Stocks & Home-Prices At Record Highs
Wheeeeeeeee!
Over/under on how high the additional inflation will increase my grocery bill. I needed to go on a diet anyway.
I’m surprised. I thought Powell was more of an inflation hawk than that, and had the rest of the Fed on board.
This makes Wall Street happy, but won’t do shit about high prices and Americans losing jobs on net. I doubt it affects the election at all.
I’m with RC on this.
Just what I was waiting on. Sub 5% refi, here I come!
act fast
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/18/teamsters-favor-trump-harris-endorsement-00179879
Teamsters members heavily favor Trump over Harris ahead of union endorsement decision
The union said it expects to announce whether to endorse either candidate later in the day, but General President Sean O’Brien said earlier this week the polling of its membership would be a key consideration.
Former President Donald Trump leads Vice President Kamala Harris nearly two-to-one among Teamsters members, according to survey data the union released Wednesday as it considers an endorsement in the presidential race.
Close to 60 percent of members who participated in an electronic poll said they supported Trump, compared to 34 percent who backed Harris. A separate survey conducted via phone similarly had Trump up big: 58 percent to 31 percent.
fascists, one and all.
Maybe the rank-and-file has figured out that, for the Dems, “pro-union” means “pro-union-organization/leadership” not “pro-union member”.
I’ve seen reports that the Teamsters are just going to not endorse a candidate this year rather than endorsing literal Hitlan.
R C Dean:
Rank and File
Teamsters are just going to not endorse a candidate
But the message will be the same.
Teamsters members heavily favor Trump over Harris ahead of union endorsement decision
Whoopsie. I read somewhere else that the Teamsters are now planning not to endorse anyone. Pussies.
Lol. I just wanted to reiterate what my friend kinnath said.
(refresh, you moron)