The Hat and The Hat: Episode 206

by | Oct 30, 2024 | Hat and Hair | 182 comments

“Maybe just meet her, maybe she’s a really nice girl,” Donald said.

“Father, please no,” Barron said, twisting away from the photograph.

“It falls to you, my son, my only son, to heal the tremendous fracaturers in our country. You’re great, maybe she’ll be great, I dunno, maybe, just go on a date, one date,” Donald said.

“This might be the worst idea you have ever had.” the hair said.

“Jesus Christ, Donald, just, Jesus H. Christ,” the hat said. “The boy is destined to fuck supermodels and make D1 babies, you can’t saddle him with that.”

“Down through the ages, in the, like, super-olden times, princes have had to marry princesses of foreign lands, and they weren’t all lookers,” Donald said.

“Father, I want to be a good son…”

“Vat is this non-sense, Donald?” Meliana said, entering the room like a passing cloud.

“His destiny!” Donald said, grimacing as the boy rushed to hug his mother.

“I don’t want to, mother!” Barron said. “She’s so hideous!”

“Ve vill do nothink, Donald,” she said. “Ve has a life bevond ur politicings.”

“He will be President one day! The best President, the classiest President, the greatest President! If we join the bloodlines, Republican and Democrat, the boy will have The Mandate of Heaven!”

“Bloodlines? Can that thing even have kids?” the hair asked.

“It supposedly has a uterus, but that’s probably only used for abortions,” the hat replied.

“But I would have him travel The King’s Road! I can pass him the office, like easy, like no problem, but he has to have the bipartisan supports.”

“This Harris vill not foundations a dynasty. Ve should marry into the Obavas,” Meliana said. “Zey groom zere dauherter’s vor power.”

Barron howled louder and ran from the room.

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182 Comments

  1. PieInTheSky

    Meliana is right. Barron can have Big Mike for VP.

    • Aloysious

      I think the Trumps should look to tradition.

      Barron should have several wives and many concubines, then found his own merchant town on a river and rule in splendor.

      • SDF-7

        Marry one of Musk’s children (no idea if he has any girls, honestly… I’m not a star watcher) and set up the Barony of Barron on Mars.

      • SugarFree

        “no idea if he has any girls”

        Kinda? But that’s a genetic dead end.

  2. PieInTheSky

    Barron howled louder and ran from the room. – ehm…. racist…

    • Bobarian LMD

      “But Father! She looks like a cross between a truck-driver and the lot lizards that feed off them!”

  3. Aloysious

    I actually feel sorry for Barron.

    Fate worse than death.

    • PieInTheSky

      Oh how would you know you never been dead

      • Common Tater

        Well, how was it for you?

      • Aloysious

        I have experienced la petite Mort many times.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Give him a hand everyone! He just did it himself!

      • slumbrew

        You may not want to shake that hand, however.

  4. PieInTheSky

    the photograph. – also are we not doing trigger warnings?

    • Tonio

      The SugarFree byline *is* your trigger warning.

    • juris imprudent

      The really strange part that SF didn’t even do is the shadow on the wall behind her.

  5. Tundra

    Barron howled louder and ran from the room.

    Poor kid.

    “The boy is destined to fuck supermodels and make D1 babies, you can’t saddle him with that.”

    LOL!

    • Drake

      I agree with the hat.

  6. CPRM

    More terrifying than a Subaru Horror Theater.

  7. DEG

    the hat said. “The boy is destined to fuck supermodels and make D1 babies, you can’t saddle him with that.”

    The Hat is right.

    “This Harris vill not foundations a dynasty. Ve should marry into the Obavas,” Meliana said. “Zey groom zere dauherter’s vor power.”

    Though Melania has a point.

    • Not Adahn

      True.

      What are the sisters looking like these days?

      • SugarFree

        One is fat and smokes, the other mostly stays out of the way of the cameras.

      • Sean

        Wow, they look trashy in that pic.

      • Tundra

        Nice mustaches.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        I wouldn’t be surprised if Sasha and Ella became a thing.

      • SugarFree

        Imagine Big Mike as your mother-in-law.

      • Not Adahn

        One of them like the white meat.

    • PieInTheSky

      *Meliana

  8. The Late P Brooks

    “This might be the worst idea you have ever had.” the hair said.

    Neo-Feudalism!

    Binding warring factions by marriage is a time honored tradition.

  9. Sean

    Unexpected story line.

  10. Spudalicious

    Bwahahahaha!!!

  11. Not Adahn

    “It supposedly has a uterus, but that’s probably only used for abortions,” the hat replied.

    Ayup.

    • R C Dean

      Favorite line.

      • Homple

        Same.

      • Gadfly

        +1

  12. The Late P Brooks

    I was expecting a spider’s eye view of bitter drunken anguish from Kamp Kamala. This is much better.

  13. cyto

    For those who missed it yesterday (and you won’t see this on TV), voter suppression was reported in several areas of Pennsylvania over the last couple of days. Not the perennial race-baiting about there was road construction in the same district, or someone got pulled over on the nearby interstate for speeding. The real deal.

    Several wealthy suburbs had the polls closed at 1pm and police posted to prevent anyone from getting in line. People posted videos on X. The posts attracted community notes saying this was false because the county election website says that polls are open to anyone who is in line before 5:30

    There was also a problem with 77,000 ballots in California.

    Nevada is going to count ballots that come in 3 days after the election, even if they don’t have a postmark or a signature.

    (Insert video of the Sout Park Police Chief in front of a fireworks factory burning down saying “nothing to see here. Move along”)

    • Rat on a train

      Will Lt Drebin do?

      • cyto

        Nice beaver

    • Aloysious

      Let me take the opportunity to manifest the spirit of Ron Bailey: There’s no proof of widespread voter fraud.

      And now I feel dirty.

    • Sean

      I’m at ground zero for the early ballot shenanigans.

    • cyto

      I can’t find it right now, but the day before they were telling everyone to leave a big precinct and go to another location – which turned out to be closed.

      So the lady who posted it told everyone to stay in line, that they were required to allow them to vote if they were in line before the polls close

      She was arrested.

      It is on video.

    • SDF-7

      What’s the California shenanigans? (I’ve got to get mine done probably today… be nice to know if I should look into my alternatives)

      I’d seen the PA troubles (and I can only interpret them as extremely lazy ass staff who think they’ll need 4 hours to process “the line” at the point of cut off… which is insane, granted), but hadn’t heard about the California ones.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I don’t understand why there’s always these huge election lines. Back in the before times when there were actual voting booths here, never waited more than about 10 minutes to do it. Subdivide your voting precincts and open more locations, dummies. It’s not that hard. Yet it persists every election cycle.

      • UnCivilServant

        But that means you need to corrupt more watchers and counters – fewer people, less oversight, more controllable results!

      • rhywun

        I’ve never had to wait more than five minutes, and that includes the times before the Dems implemented their wish-list of cheats. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      • UnCivilServant

        I have – but I also vote at 6 in the morning, so I’m waiting for the polling site to open.

    • juris imprudent

      I thought in person voting was this coming Tuesday. WTF?

      • LCDR_Fish

        Early voting is all in-person (but only one location in my county…hence I can’t do it unless I want to drive 3.5 hours each way) – unless you’re using an absentee ballot.

  14. Rat on a train

    How accurate is the depiction of a Slovenian accent?

    • SugarFree

      Probably way off. I always hear her as a Lady Dracula.

      • SugarFree

        With some Natasha from Rocky & Bullwinkle mixed in.

        “Ve should be out making big trawubble for Squirl un MOOse.”

    • PieInTheSky

      Slovenia is not real just a trick played on Americans

      • The Other Kevin

        How close is it to Slovakian? I have heard that accent a lot.

      • PieInTheSky

        I cannot say accent wise. Probably fairly similar. I dont know much about the slavic talk

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Similar languages. I speak Slovak and can muddle my way around in Slovenia when getting a hotel, ordering food, asking for directions. I think the rhythm of Slovene is different. Slovak puts the emphasis on the first syllable of the word. Slovene puts it on the second to last, probably influenced by Italian. But when they are speaking English, I don’t know that I would know the difference, except that Slovene doesn’t have an H sound as far as I know.

  15. Not Adahn

    I’m guessing Donald doesn’t know that xey exepects xer boyfriends to take it up the butt?

    • The Gunslinger

      Or maybe, Donald and Melania enjoy the same kink that xhey do and Donald wants the boy to know the joy?

      • R C Dean

        Thanks a lot for putting that image in my head.

  16. The Other Kevin

    @LCDR_Fish, she is in Bremerton, right near the base.

    • LCDR_Fish

      Yeah…not sure about that area, but near Navy bases, like off-base Ft Bragg always have the shadier neighborhoods. Hopefully they don’t have any issues and she stays safe.

      • The Other Kevin

        Bremerton seems like a nice little town, little shops, marinas, and golf courses.

        She met with a cop, grabbed some things from her apartment, and is going to stay with another Navy wife in a different location for a few days. There are a lot of Navy families there, and with the ship underway there will be a lot of unescorted women, so hopefully they catch the guy.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Ft Bragg?

        What are you, some kind of racist, dead naming the newly transitioned Ft Liberty?

        And those neighborhoods aren’t “shadier”, they are “diversely lit”.

      • SDF-7

        I know they say most criminals are stupid — but attempting to prey on Navy wives near a major base seems like a really good way to get a Marine “training exercise” in the neighborhood with the local cops looking decidedly the other way.

      • LCDR_Fish

        There are marines guarding the nukes at Bremerton, but not that many normal units stationed up there.

  17. The Late P Brooks

    Ve should marry into the Obavas

    Didn’t somebody link to a paparazzi shot of one of the Obama daughters looking like a bloated homeless person a while back?

  18. The Late P Brooks

    You could hide a lot of needle tracks in those tattoos.

    • Aloysious

      Check her feet.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Between the toes.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        If that is your jam…

  19. Bobarian LMD

    “It supposedly has a uterus, but that’s probably only used for abortions,” the hat replied.

    Choke-snort.

    I believe it would need to start dating non-gay men before it starts having abortions.

    • SugarFree

      Prostate massage can induce ejaculation pretty consistently.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Sounds like a lot of work to get pregnant to get a an abortion?

        Maybe that’s what the tattoos are for, like fuselage marks on a bomber.

      • SugarFree

        Abortion is the feminist worship of Baal, even down to the incineration of “medical waste” to make it a burnt offering.

      • Old Man With Candy

        For you, perhaps. I have an Exit Only sign.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Exit Only sign?

        Tattooed on your lower back?

  20. PieInTheSky

    Early voting is not a thing here seems rather strange

    • UnCivilServant

      It is strange and needs to be abolished.

      • Drake

        Along with mail-in-voting and ballot counting machines.

    • rhywun

      If you had “early voting” the U.S. would condemn your elections as rigged.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    Practicing public health without a license

    Donald Trump has spent a considerable amount of time in recent weeks boasting about plans to give Robert F. Kennedy Jr. an influential position in a possible second term. The former president hasn’t offered specific details, but he’s suggested that Kennedy — a lawyer with no professional background in medicine, science or public health — would work on health care policy in some capacity.

    ——-

    As my MSNBC colleague Zeeshan Aleem recently explained, RFK Jr. “is best known for fringe conspiracy theories tied to vaccines and other medical interventions, such as the belief that antidepressants cause school shootings.”

    What a horrifying prospect. Just keep him away from the EPA.

    • The Other Kevin

      Kennedy has said his main focus will be on getting rid of corruption, so if he even does some of that, we’ll be better off.

    • R C Dean

      Of course, doctors are trained to treat individual patients. “Public health” has nothing to do with treating individual patients.

  22. EvilSheldon

    I read the first two sentences, and had to take a minute to compose myself…

    • Nephilium

      That picture can do that to a person.

  23. Tundra

    “It falls to you, my son, my only son,…

    Just registered. I need more coffee.

  24. Gustave Lytton

    Phew! Was expecting the Clintons not Obamas.

    • Bobarian LMD

      Chelsea has exceeded her sell by date.

      • juris imprudent

        No one thought of Finnegan? Talk about the Atreides-Harkonnen bloodlines & marriage to close the feud.

      • Swiss Servator

        JI has plans…his plans are measured in centuries.

  25. Evan from Evansville

    I start work at this Grifols Biomat plasma center next Tues, and yesterday there was a shooting there. A rather interesting one, IMO. Specifically, the shooter apologizing to others ‘n telling ’em he was only looking for ONE dude along w the non-violent, no-fuss arrest into custody not long after and not far away.

    Longer thoughts at the end of Halloween time post. No news to me yet. I don’t expect my timing to change. I’m gonna do a drive-to in a min. To get reacquainted with the route, and absolutely to scope out how it looks today. I won’t be going in unless an unexpected call dictates such. Hrm. https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2024/10/29/indianapolis-plasma-center-shooting-north-post-road-east-side-grifols-biomat/75920107007/

    • cyto

      “Now listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I’ll sock you in your goddam face, and you’ll stay plastered.”

    • Evan from Evansville

      Love that one. Dude was great. His linguistic mastery is a key reason I love him. We politically (+socially?) agreed on more things than not. It’s been a while. Good to open that box again with fresh ears.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Muh hallowed traditions

    One week from Election Day, the Kalshi market favors Trump by over 30 percentage points — while most political polls show Harris and Trump statistically tied. This misalignment has raised questions about the accuracy of these markets.

    Merkley, the Oregon senator, has opposed Kalshi from the start and proposed a bill in Congress to ban all election betting.

    “Allowing election betting is a huge mistake,” Merkley told NPR. “It turns elections from a place where you exercise your principles to where you exercise your pocketbook. It corrupts our American elections.”

    The polls are dead on. The $2 window is skewed.

    I personally don’t see how a Presidential betting window has anything to do with “hedging” or anything more substantive than taking a flyer on Seabiscuit, but people need convoluted justifications for everything they do.

    • cyto

      Those betting markets were created to harness “the wisdom of the crowd”. Researchers learned that results were better if people had skin in the game.

    • The Other Kevin

      “Americans bet $100 million on Trump v. Harris, but at what cost?”

      $100 million? Just guessing.

      • cyto

        Hahahahaha!

    • B.P.

      “It turns elections from a place where you exercise your principles to where you exercise your pocketbook. It corrupts our American elections.”

      This is the war room! You can’t fight in here!

      • juris imprudent

        Well a Senator would know something about corruption.

      • R C Dean

        “It turns elections from a place where you exercise your principles to where you exercise your pocketbook. Now, I’m introducing a bill to forgive student debt and give every first-time home buyer $25K. Vote for me!”

  27. Suthenboy

    Pie, it’s called cheating. The Dems have worked their fingers to the bone for decades to make elections meaningless.
    Now we have agents of the state preventing people from voting, on video, coercing people on video, and arresting people for trying to vote, on video. In a swing state.
    If they manage to get Kamala into the office no one is going to believe it and a lot of not-democrats are not going to accept it.
    If they really really wanted a civil war what would they do differently?

    • The Other Kevin

      It’s 2024, our country has been around for nearly 250 years, and somehow we can’t figure out how to run a smooth election? In fact, elections have gotten sharply worse in the last decade. Every other country in the world can enact simple safeguards, but for some reason we can’t?

      The only reason for this is that it’s ON PURPOSE.

      • cyto

        A Nazi would say!!

      • trshmnstr

        The only reason for this is that it’s ON PURPOSE.

        They hate you and want you enslaved. They will do whatever they think they can get away with to make it happen.

        Respond accordingly.

  28. J. Frank Parnell

    The boy is destined to fuck supermodels and make D1 babies

    Isn’t Ella a supermodel?

    • Gender Traitor

      I’d sooner use the term “pseudomodel.”

      • SugarFree

        “pseudomodel”

        Boom.

        She was only made a model to mock the concept.

      • R C Dean

        Oh, bravo, GT.

    • SDF-7

      Ella looks more like a partner with Sam coming out of a pathology lab.

  29. Bobarian LMD

    Your Resident Narcissistic Misogynist Rape-Culture Apologist

    “I’m not only the Hat & Hair Club president but I’m also a client.” – SugarFree Sperling.

    • SugarFree

      If you don’t know, that’s what one of Old Man With Candy’s hideous J-Dates called me after he had her read some of my scribblings.

      • Sean

        I didn’t know that.

      • cyto

        Is it Daddy? She called you Daddy, didn’t she?

        Dang. You guys are out there, man…..

      • Gustave Lytton

        Y’all need to set him up with a non-political JAP with daddy issues.

      • SugarFree

        All he has to do is find one that loves me. It really shouldn’t be that hard, I’m quite delightful.

      • Gustave Lytton

        A SF love is very different from that of a square. Very different.

      • db

        Yes, SugarFree is delightful.
        His stories are much better than Cats.
        I’m going to read them again and again.

      • SugarFree

        She resisted all my charms. And I really pop in person. Older women usually love me. It was quite annoying.

      • Old Man With Candy

        She wasn’t J-Date; that was NPR Lady Prime. The one who took a massive dislike to you arrived via Match.com.

      • juris imprudent

        arrived via Match.com

        Oh you have been desperate.

      • Old Man With Candy

        It’s a numbers game.

      • Not Adahn

        in all sincerity: Fetlife.com

  30. The Late P Brooks

    “Now listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I’ll sock you in your goddam face, and you’ll stay plastered.”

    I saw that on live teevee.

    • cyto

      That this is Buckley with his ivy league intellectual affectation makes it extra funny.

      Living in a world where Obama does his pseudo-intellectual Buckley affectation pushes it into another realm of comedy.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    If you don’t know, that’s what one of Old Man With Candy’s hideous J-Dates called me after he had her read some of my scribblings.

    She sounds nice. He sure knows how to pick ’em.

  32. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    I don’t know if it was intentional, but Obava means fear in Slovenian.

    • SugarFree

      Not at all, but I’m happy to hear it. How perfect!

  33. cyto

    The J-date thing makes me want to share a story about my Uber progressive.

    She is a college friend of the wife. I’ve told you about her before. Super-loud, super opinionated, super progressive…. loudly proud of her role as a liberal scold…

    And very racist (something she is blithely unaware of).

    I have only been confronted with racism from a white person once in the last 45 years- significant because I spent 15 of those years in an interracial marriage in the deep south.

    But this woman. Ooh, she tests my Christian ability to turn the other cheek.

    The other day she rode with us to a birthday party, so I was trapped with her for an hour each way. About halfway in she starts opining about the black kids at her daughter’s school. Her daughter has started using urban lingo.

    Our champion of DEI is not having it. She went on for a solid 40 minutes about how terrible black kids are and how she doesn’t want them around her daughter (1st grade)

    I am a pacifist. But it you hear about someone like that accidentally falling out of an SUV on I-95……

    • The Other Kevin

      I can’t even imagine. Mrs. TOK has a cousin who’s like that, she’s a teacher, and she constantly posts lib crap on Facebook. Today it was something about how bad people are for supporting Trump because all he does is lie. I don’t think I could survive 5 minutes in a car with her. Hopefully we skip that family Christmas party this year.

      • Sean

        Tell em you gots the ‘vid.

      • SugarFree

        Mrs. Kevin, the other-other Kevin, as it were.

      • cyto

        “Gots the vid”

        Yeah, she wore a mask the whole time.

        LOL

        She is a walking caricature.

    • Drake

      I would have snuck in some comments about freedom of association, Trump’s desire to abolish the Department of Education, and his support of school choice.

      Would that have frozen up her operating system?

      • cyto

        A thousand percent.

        I only engaged once…. she claimed 5,000 black men were lynched every year.

        When I said that there haven’t been 5,000 people lynched in the last hundred years, she doubled down and said 50,000 black men were lynched every year before the Civil rights movement.

        She has a PhD in this stuff.

        I randomly happened to know that the year with the most lynching in the 20th century was 1900, with 101. And they were not exclusively racial. Lynching used to be a normal way that folks handled business.

    • UnCivilServant

      I at least smirked (twitter doesn’t work from work, so my reaction was to your text)

      • cyto

        I keep picturing a little Biden avatar flying past the entire party, magic microphone held aloft, plunging into the dungeon, chaos erupting around him….

        “LEEEEEEEEROYYYYYY JENKINS!!!”

        (I may be getting a bit punchy… or right joke, right time?)

      • UnCivilServant

        Did he get fried chicken? Or was it ice cream?

      • Aloysious

        Here ya go, UCS. The inciting incident.

      • UnCivilServant

        I remember the incident, I was wondering what food Joe got.

      • Not Adahn

        The Onyxia wipe will never not be hilarious.

    • SugarFree

      I love the idea that he is deliberately doing this stuff to undermine her campaign because they pushed him out, but I’m not sure there’s enough left there to form that sort of plan.

      • cyto

        No chance…. but he is still doing a fine job.

      • Drake

        He’s mean old asshole who keeps you guessing if he’s motivated by malice or dementia.

      • The Other Kevin

        He doesn’t do many press events, so for them to just happen at the worst time is looking like less of an accident.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I get it, pretty funny…also, I really need to start getting out more.

  34. Not Adahn

    Someone let CPRM know:

    Youtube put his latest H&H animation on the front page of my recommendations.

    • cyto

      They know you too well….

    • UnCivilServant

      You go to the front page?

  35. The Late P Brooks

    I’m not sure there’s enough left there to form that sort of plan.

    Bitterness and hate remain when everything else is gone.

  36. The Late P Brooks

    Leaning in to the abyss

    t’s a telling admission from Musk that crashing the economy is all a part of the plan. Experts have repeatedly warned that Trump’s mass deportations on their own would cause damage to critical industries in the U.S., including agriculture, construction, and hospitality.

    Undocumented immigrants most commonly take jobs with longer hours, lower wages, and dangerous working conditions that native-born citizens don’t want, such as housekeeping cleaners, cooks, construction workers, and farm workers. These jobs also won’t have American workers lining up to fill them.

    Trump’s plan to appoint Musk to his administration, possibly to lead a government efficiency task force, could also have negative effects. JD Vance, Trump’s running mate, previously said Musk told him that he plans to look at cuts to government programs like Social Security and the Department of Defense.

    Judging by what happened after Musk gutted Twitter and laid off many of its workers after he purchased the social media company, there are justifiable fears that he would cripple essential government programs. Social Security, for example, is a lifeline to many older Americans, and in fact needs more funding, not less.

    Where do they think they are, Argentina?

    • slumbrew

      Judging by what happened after Musk gutted Twitter and laid off many of its workers after he purchased the social media company…

      You mean “nothing”? It continued to function normally, minus a bunch of deadwood.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Exactly, all he did was trim the unnecessary fat. Let’s get real though, he’d get so much legal pushback that the results won’t be earth changing anyway although we might get some nice mostly symbolic victories.

      • PieInTheSky

        Social Security, for example, is a lifeline to many older Americans, and in fact needs more funding, not less. – endless even…

        See I say start with deporting all criminals, then move from there

    • cyto

      How in the world did they have standing?

    • DEG

      Tom Wolf appointed the judge to fill a vacancy. The judge then ran for the office when the term ended. I found he cross-filed as both a Republican and Democrat, which you can do in PA judicial elections.

  37. The Late P Brooks

    It’s a seller’s market for panty liners

    In these last days before voting concludes, Generals John Kelly, Jim Mattis, and others have warned that Trump is an aspiring fascist—a necessary alarm. But what has also come into sharper focus in the last few weeks is that a second Trump term would inaugurate an American oligarchy.

    The sorry spectacle of leading industrialists, newspaper owners, tech executives, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, and others seeking to ensure their good standing with Trump reflects a blend of cowardice and cupidity. Mark Zuckerberg, whom Trump labeled a “true enemy of the people” as recently as March, and called “Zuckerschmuck,” demonstrated that there are no hard feelings where money and power are concerned. He let it be known that he was moved by Trump’s survival of an assassination attempt:

    Seeing Donald Trump get up after getting shot in the face and pump his fist in the air with the American flag is one of the most badass things I’ve ever seen in my life. On some level as an American, it’s like hard to not get kind of emotional about that spirit and that fight, and I think that that’s why a lot of people like the guy.

    The problem is not so much that Trump is creating an oligarchy; he’s usurping the one which currently exists.

    All this boohooing about fascism studiously avoids any economic references because people might get wise that the country is currently well along the road to being a fascist state.

  38. The Late P Brooks

    See I say start with deporting all criminals, then move from there

    Who will run the government?

  39. The Late P Brooks

    Boeing can’t compete with him. Nor can NASA, which was recently obliged to go hat in hand to Musk to launch a rescue operation for two stranded astronauts on the International Space Station. Economics blogger Noah Smith notes that “Without this one Musk company, America would be lagging far behind China in the space race. But with SpaceX included, the U.S. is far ahead of China.” Space X won a $1.8 billion classified contract with the Pentagon in 2021. Without Space X, the United States would be unable to launch most of NASA’s and the Pentagon’s rockets.

    NASA’s gross incompetence and abject failure to perform are Musk’s fault.

    • cyto

      Left out…. SpaceX is saving the US Taxpayer hundreds of millions of dollars over traditional contractors.

      We used to pay ULA a billion dollars a year to maintain “launch readiness” in case they needed to launch a military satellite on short notice.

      SpaceX doesn’t ask for a billion dollars and their normal cadence can accommodate those national security payloads with less notice.

      Thank you, SpaceX

  40. The Late P Brooks

    And Musk owns X (Twitter), whose global influence persists despite Musk’s decision to open it to fascists, antisemites, and assorted disinformation peddlers.

    And yet, somehow, your ravings are allowed to continue.

    • cyto

      The lack of self awareness on that one is spectacular.

      Vance defenistrating Tapper over the laptop misinformation campaign was just one epic example.

      • R C Dean

        “We just reported on the FBI investigation!”

        Sure, bub. Your reporting was nothing but “the FBI is investigating something that was deemed to merit an investigation based on [checks notes] media reports.”

  41. SugarFree

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