Wednesday Afternoon SugarLinks – I thought about you while the radio played

by | Jan 22, 2025 | I Am Lame | 197 comments

Trump Brings Back ‘Diet Coke Button’ At The Oval Office.

As Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office for his second, non-consecutive term, so did the highly popular Diet Coke button, which the US President uses to order his favourite beverage.

Inside a wooden box, the red button was seen on Trump’s resolute desk after his inauguration ceremony on January 20, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Whenever pressed, the button notifies the butlers at the White House that a Diet Coke is needed at the Oval Office. Trump’s predecessor, Joe Biden, removed the button from the office in 2021.

USA! USA! USA!


YEAAAAAH, BROTHER!


“All your works will be thrown over, your lands asunder. Washington DC will be haunted by the desert owl and the screech owl, the great owl and the raven. For my Father will measure that land carefully; he will measure it for chaos and destruction.”


This was almost today’s Hat and Hair.


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197 Comments

    • juris imprudent

      Fortunately not a very populated area.

  1. SDF-7

    Trump reads that and shouts out “Bend over Doug! Verbal contract!” (yeah yeah — the wife can’t lock the husband in… it is funnier this way, okay?)

    • juris imprudent

      So as it was written, so shall it be!

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Does that make Kamala a sex trafficker?

      • kinnath

        cuck?

      • SugarFree

        Oh, she’d sit in the hotel room chair to watch Doug getting railed. (Donald don’t bottom for anyone.)

      • Tonio

        More like a Domme whoring out her little sissy bitch, for the lulz.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Naw, Kamala has no future so Doug ain’t gonna take no more guff from her. She’s gonna get the Emhoff Special Slap now.

      It will be like when Blondie told Tuco that he won’t ever be worth a big bounty again.

    • SDF-7

      Not normally the sort of gossip I’d give the time of day — but in the context of her putting him to other uses here, this is kind of funny.

  2. kinnath

    We dodged a bullet on the Harris quote

    • Evan from Evansville

      Oh, it’ll rear its head majestically, soon enough.

      “It” can mean many things, here. So can every other word. Patience! Tumescence before the froth! Honestly, I can’t wait. What a tragically poor choice of words for her. Tragically comedic, like beating a c̵l̵o̵w̵n̵ ̵p̵o̵l̵i̵t̵i̵c̵i̵a̵n̵ ̵c̵u̵n̵t̵ cunte with a baseball bat.

  3. The Other Kevin

    That’s a great song, one I don’t hear very often.

    I’m listening to Ron Paul’s Liberty Report, he’s fangirling over Trump. I guess *IT’S HAPPENING* for real this time.

    • Tundra

      That says something. I’m troubled about the cartel thing, but otherwise he’s proceeding as if he means it this time.

    • SugarFree

      The entire Valley Girl soundtrack is full of great songs. And the movie itself is in my top ten.

      • Tundra

        We have the DVD and it gets broken out with some regularity.

      • SugarFree

        I have the flipper DVD, where one side is wide screen and the other is 4:3. It’s like an artifact from a lost civilization.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I have a lot of those. 😳 Still work fine.

      • SugarFree

        DVDs have been surprisingly durable. And almost none of Laser rot that plagued Laserdisc. (DVD delamination is usually due to bad storage conditions.)

      • Nephilium

        SugarFree:

        True. I’ve only had a handful of commercial DVD’s stop reading. The older DVDR/DVDRW discs failed at a much higher rate.

      • SugarFree

        There are DVDR/W that are more stable, but the format is pretty much dead for extended data storage.

      • slumbrew

        Or I could refresh and see SugarFree’s comment.

      • rhywun

        Damn, another classic.

        I’ve never seen that movie. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • rhywun

      great song

      +1

  4. The Late P Brooks

    I wonder if Barron has any athletic ability. It would be hilarious to see a sitting President’s son playing defensive end for a college football team.

    • Nephilium

      Defensive end? Make him the QB, and get the Secret Service coaching the refs on roughing calls.

      • UnCivilServant

        I get a “Golf and Tennis” vibe off the guy

    • Tundra

      Soccer player I believe.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Soccer, really? I played, and was on the tall side at 5’7″.

      • rhywun

        lol that would be short these days, at least in this country. Same as tennis, the average has gone through the roof.

    • Grumbletarian

      Barron will be the Gregor Clegane of the House of Trump.

      • Spudalicious

        That’s Gawd Emperor Barron to you.

      • Spudalicious

        null

    • rhywun

      He looks more suited to basketball, I would think.

    • SarumanTheGreat

      With his height, basketball. Doesn’t really have the build for football.

    • Evan from Evansville

      Were he Obama’s kid, the film would already be in fucking post-production.
      In it, I’d love to see Barack Jr forced to use the shotgun over and over to save the day. He’d be carried off the field a champion, all to bolstering cheers from the crowd. It’d be fun to see Lefties chanting for firearm ownership and their proper use in formation.

  5. Tundra

    Ahhh, great memories of Valley Girl. What a terrific movie and that song still holds up wonderfully.

    Thanks, SF!

  6. The Late P Brooks

    Whenever pressed, the button notifies the butlers at the White House that a Diet Coke is needed at the Oval Office.

    I wonder if they are kept at a specified temperature.

    • SugarFree

      While I favor Coke Zero, on both I think the key is to have them at the temp where about a third of it turns to slush when you crack the can. (That’s how I keep my office fridge.)

      • rhywun

        What on earth is the difference between Diet ___ and ___ Zero? Other than marketing?

      • UnCivilServant

        Flavor.

        Zero tastes more like sugar coke. Diet is its own taste.

    • Tundra

      Just a degree or two above freezing.

      • Don escaped Memphis

        when I drove a truck for Coke we were told 34 sells more

  7. UnCivilServant

    Just applied for a passport renewal.

    Took longer to get a good picture from the guy at CVS than to file the paperwork.

    The picture isn’t good, but it’s valid. Maybe if it were of a less ugly potato faced mug.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Its ok, some Bobs are better looking than others, not your fault

    • pistoffnick (370HSSV)

      Just applied for a passport renewal.

      Takin’ the North-West passage to Honey Harvest this year?

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m debating a lot of things. But having a valid passport keeps options open.

    • Tundra

      I didn’t smile in mine and I had just gotten a haircut. My wife said I looked like an Eastern Bloc spy.

      • Fourscore

        Remembers meeting Tundra for the first time…

      • Pope Jimbo

        Tundra begging for the full body cavity search …

      • Sean

        Sounds like she was fishing for some role playing.

      • UnCivilServant

        Niet, border guards love Roubles and apple cake.

      • The Other Kevin

        I could totally see that LOL

      • R C Dean

        In the 90s/early ‘00s I still had a head of black hair and a full beard. My driver’s license photo came out . . . swarthy. After 9/11, more than one person said there was no way they were letting me on a plane looking like that.

      • Evan from Evansville

        That spurned dirty thoughts of Eastern spies in me, as well…

        I am excited to get a new passport photo, but I have to wait 18 months. My pic is just…dreadful. Embarrassingly so. Yuckers. I *did* recently get a new driver’s ID and my visage greatly pleases me. Just a face of seething contempt. Don’t know what ‘inspired’ it, but I’m pleased it came about. I *am* dreadful at posing.

  8. Shpip

    All your works will be thrown over, your lands asunder.

    If God went full Old Testament on Washington, DC, Jericho-style, do we commence rescue and recovery operations or just give thanks to the Almighty and quit while we’re ahead?

    • SugarFree

      I figure it be like Sodom and Gomorrah, basically nuked. The whole point would be no survivors.

      • SDF-7

        Rubio would survive, though — he’s a pillar of proposed SALT III treaty negotiations.

      • UnCivilServant

        I thought that was why California was on Fire…

  9. The Late P Brooks

    Oh, the humanity!

    Having more federal employees work from the office has long been a focus of Republicans.

    “Service backlogs and delays, unanswered phone calls and emails, and no-show appointments are harming the health, lives, and aspirations of Americans,” Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst wrote in a report released late last year.

    In that report, Ernst claimed that only 6% of federal workers work in-person full time, while one-third work fully remotely.

    Something something phony baloney jobs.

  10. The Late P Brooks

    The entire Valley Girl soundtrack is full of great songs. And the movie itself is in my top ten.

    It’s like totally tripindicular, dude.

    • Pope Jimbo

      In high school we didn’t get MTV until our senior year. When we were juniors, we’d religiously watch Night Tracks on TBS. Night Tracks was basically a 2 hour show of videos just like MTV would be.

      I say that to set up why anyone in my high school would giggle and mock the Plimsouls.

      One weekend we were watching Night Tracks and they kept hyping a song by the Plimsouls. Us prairie skulkers had never heard of the Plimsouls before so we kept waiting and waiting. I don’t know what song it was, but it was underwhelming and from then on the Plimsouls were a running joke in my school.

  11. Shpip

    You can have California-style governance, or you can have the other kind.

    Choose wisely.

    • SDF-7

      I’m still hoping once we’re out of the Trump Effect, DeSantis will get a shot at the national chair. JD has looked really good since being selected Veep — but Ron’s proven competence working within a political system for some time now. He just evidently didn’t have the spark to even vaguely compete with The Big Orange.

      But yeah — if I could swap him for Hair Gel, I certainly would. Unfortunately, I’m decidedly in a minority voting bloc in Kahlifornia.

    • kinnath

      that’s a lot of fucking snow

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      But… but then we wouldn’t have gay porn in the school libraries though?!

  12. The Late P Brooks

    Trump has long argued that his administration should have greater flexibility in appointing people who will faithfully carry out his agenda and firing those who won’t.

    That’s grotesque.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Does that guy think he’s the head of the executive branch or something?

      • The Other Kevin

        It’s the duty of everyone in an executive branch agency to strongly oppose anything a Republican president does, in a completely neutral and nonpartisan way.

  13. Pope Jimbo

    Uffda. A school administrator shows some discretion and now local cops want him charged because he didn’t respect their authority!

    In late November, Golden Valley police were dispatched to a call at Robbinsdale Academy Highview on a report of two juvenile students fighting in a bathroom, with one of the teenagers using brass knuckles.

    Golden Valley Police Chief Virgil Green told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS that possession of brass knuckles in a school is a felony in Minnesota.

    Green said Assistant Principal Patrick Burrage did not take the situation seriously with his officers on the scene.

    “And, it was not taken that seriously. We let them know that this is a felony,” said Green.

    Green said Burrage did not inform officers that the brass knuckles were in the school, and later in the week, police got a search warrant for the school, and that’s when the brass knuckles were discovered in the desk drawer of Assistant Principal Burrage.

    I’d love to know more about the students and the fight. The loser of the fight did get a concussion and need some stitches.

    Did the vice principal cover things up because they were a couple knuckleheads who were mostly OK kids and didn’t need a felony on their record? Or was the kid with the knuckles from a “protected class”?

    • Name's BEAM. *James* BEAM.

      The kid with the knuckles is lucky he didn’t accidentally kill the other kid. Those things are serious shit.

      • Nephilium

        Any head injury can be dangerous. There was a big to do locally when a fight between two drunks outside a bar ended with one guy falling, hitting his head, and dying. I think it eventually went for involuntary manslaughter.

      • R C Dean

        They outlawed them in AZ after somebody got killed in Phoenix by some dumbass kids (from a “good” neighborhood and “good” families) on one of their wilding sprees, which were apparently not infrequent.

      • Evan from Evansville

        *Unblinking eyes firmly fixed. Walks backwards. Disappears through hedges.*

      • EvilSheldon

        Knuckledusters are deadly force by themselves. If someone attacked me with knucks, I’d bypass the OC and grappling and go right to shooting them.

    • Ted S.

      Do they actually have five eyewitnesses?

  14. slumbrew

    I think I’m having an ocular migraine – I’m getting auras / kaleidoscope vision, albeit mostly in one eye it seems.

    I don’t care for it.

    At what point should I get concerned?

    • Sean

      Right now, IMO.*

      *I’m not an optician.

    • slumbrew

      Fading already, I think. So I’ve got that going for me.

    • Tundra

      Ay head shots lately? Falls?

      • slumbrew

        Nope. Just had some sort of cold/sore throat start up so maybe related.

        Or just entropy reminding me that the cold, cold grave awaits us all.

        One of those two.

      • Tundra

        Definitely one of the two.

        You might try some real dramamine.

      • R.J.

        Advil Migraine clears those up before you have to go lie down in a dark room. Very effective. I suffer from those periodically, during Spring.

      • rhywun

        *rubs eyes*

        I read that as “Avril Lavigne”.

    • slumbrew

      I get an AARP card in the mail and I start falling apart.

      • creech

        You ain’t seen nothing yet.

      • Tundra

        buh buh buh baby?

    • SDF-7

      Depends on what you mean by “concerned”. Would I take a Claritin (because mine are allergy triggered) and some Advil right now to try to stave it off? Yeah.

      Would it concern me beyond that (or worst case spending some time puking up my guts if it gets really bad)? No… but I get these quite often. Been fighting one through this past weekend, in fact. I blame the almond orchards around me.

      Hope it is transitory and you get through it, Slumbrew.

      • slumbrew

        Already just about gone, thankfully.

        I know people get these all the time, just concerning as a newbie.

      • SDF-7

        Understandable. They’re really fun when you’re driving across the country too — because then you’re split between worrying you’ll get a blind spot and hit something or you’ll have to stop on the side of the highway and puke your guts out. Yay! (Fortunately, once I hit Utah or around Flagstaff (I-80 vs. I-40) the air quality gets a lot better and I tend to be okay).

        Glad yours is dying down… not something I wish on anyone else.

      • Tundra

        Mine was vertigo for awhile. That was scary as hell.

        Happily it appears to not like the altitude here.

      • slumbrew

        Ugh, I had vertigo for a while last year. That sucks.

        Worse was for a friends wedding – had vertigo in the morning, cleared up that evening, spent the evening drinking way too much wine.

        Next morning, vertigo back with a vengeance – wine hangover and vertigo are a terrible combination.

        The Epley maneuver did seem to help.

    • The Other Kevin

      About 10 years ago I started having those. It really freaked me out. Then I found out those are migraine symptoms, and you can have that happen without a headache. At the time I was at a very stressful job, so I had them every few days, now it’s only once a year or so. I’m not currently dead, so for me it was appropriate to not be concerned.

      • SDF-7

        If you were currently dead and posting updates — I think we’d be the ones who would have to be concerned.

        Then again… there’s Pie — and he seems relatively harmless for an undead…. so maybe not.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        If TOK was currently dead, but still posting updates, I would ask him who his political party connection was.

      • R.J.

        He’d switch to democrat, like everyone else who dies.

    • Spudalicious

      I have those occasionally. They’re not dangerous. Do you have high blood pressure?

      • slumbrew

        Borderline and 120/80 on meds. 

      • Spudalicious

        Being sick might have spiked your pressure a bit. They typically last about 20 minutes followed by a dull headache for a few hours that nothing fixes.

      • slumbrew

        It _does_ seem to be following that path.

        Thanks, Spud!

      • Spudalicious

        No prob. If it starts recurring, give your doc a call.

    • EvilSheldon

      Dude, you won’t fucking believe this, but I just, like this morning, got out of the hospital for this. I went to the eye doctor Monday for a floater in my vision, from there straight to the ER when my blood pressure nearly broke the machine. I admitted with something like 270/150.

      Have I ever mentioned how much I hate hospitals?

      If your blood pressure is managed and they’re not recurrent, probably not dangerous, but they can be a sign of high inter-cranial pressure, which is never good. So, I dunno. My best advice is, “Please don’t die.”

      • rhywun

        Yikes! Welcome back.

      • Sean

        Damn dude!

        I go annually for an eye check up. Almost every year they remind me that any sudden changes in vision should be checked asap.

      • Grumbletarian

        Whoa, surprised your eyes weren’t as bugged out as Adam Schiff’s.

      • slumbrew

        Yow! Glad you’re doing OK.

        I suspect Spud was right – BP spike due to illness (damn Legoland).

        Feeling fine now.

  15. pan fried wylie

    morning thread RE: retasking fed DEI staff…

    Pope Jimbo on January 22, 2025 at 9:14 am
    How about we put them all on stationary bikes all day? We could harvest electricity and call it a green energy project.

    Giant hamster wheels. Otherwise, Yes.

  16. rhywun

    Holy shit, hearing some quotes from the woke lady bishop lecturing of Donald.

    “Lesbians and trannies are scared for their lives…”

    “And the people who pick your vegetables and wash your dishes…” (Jobs Americans won’t do, I guess.) And on and on.

    What a cunte.

    • SDF-7

      She definitely put the piss in Episcopalian.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Scared for their lives because of scaremongers like her.

    • Tundra

      Could we get the trannies to pick the vegetables?

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Sorry, they only pick genders.

      • Tundra

        HEY-O!

      • Pope Jimbo

        Too hard to shift the trannies into agricultural work.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        Do you have to double-clutch them or something?

      • SugarFree

        Frequent dilation breaks are an issue.

      • rhywun

        Frequent dilation breaks are an issue.

        *shudder*

      • Mojeaux

        Frequent dilation breaks

        🤢

        Still can’t figure how Bro1 can tell me with a straight face that transpeople are a fraction of a fraction of a percentage of the population when he’s batting 1.000 on his kids.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I stirred up a family email thread.

      All of them were gushing over how brave and wonderful the sermon was. They were also all pulling for the Bills to get to the Super Bowl.

      Normally, I mind my own business, but they went a bit too far today. They were all hoping that the lady bishop would be safe. Worried that some MAGA person would hurt her.

      So I replied all with “TRUMP AND CHIEFS!!! WHOOOOO!”.

      Only one reply so far that said “completely disagree, but whatever”

      • rhywun

        Ask if any of them have young daughters in sports or live in an area where huge amounts of their tax dollars are being given to freeloaders just for showing up.

      • Pope Jimbo

        rhywunsy:

        Nope, all old coots. The only way they’d ever turn on the proggies/trannies/illegals is if they tried to cut their SS.

      • Tundra

        Reminds me of my family. Completely insulated from the consequences of their preferred policies.

        I like to ask them why they hate my children.

      • slumbrew

        She seems like a good egg:

        “If any of you are ever feeling bad about yourself or embarrassed about something you did in your past…Go watch my old reality tv shows on VH1 .
        I guarantee you will feel better about your lives.”

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        “I’m gonna marry a Brady!” 🎶 (or was it “bag a”?)

      • slumbrew

        I believe it was ‘marry’ – which she indeed did. For a while.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Bless her, I liked her. CK, Jane Wiedlin, Verne Troyer, da Brat, Chyna. Memorable.

    • SDF-7

      True — but I have to say that I agree with the Liekitisn’t user as well.

    • The Other Kevin

      I talked to my mom today, and she wanted me to ask our BP friend if the border was really closed, or if it’s just Trump saying things. Coincidentally, he’s in town and on his way to my house right now, so I can ask him in person. Although he hasn’t been to work this week, so I might know more than he does.

    • slumbrew

      Wow.

      I do have a friend who’s here illegally (Brazilian, tons in this area); I’m hopeful that they’re really focusing on the “asylum seekers” and not the ones quietly just working and paying taxes. He’s a net contributor.

      I don’t blame him for taking a gamble, all those years ago, but he knew it was a gamble. It’d suck if he got bounced but it was always a possibility.

      • Tundra

        If the dumb cocksuckers hadn’t opened the borders and flooded the NGOs with money your pal would have likely spent the rest of his life here. I hope they overlook him.

      • slumbrew

        Yep, although having no clear legal status does suck – he had a relationship end because of the uncertainty; do you want to get married and have kids with someone who might get tossed out of the country? The marriage wouldn’t be an automatic green card since he was here illegally.

        He’s been talking to lawyers for years but the only real option is to go back to Brazil and try to get in through the front door, which we all know is fucking terrible.

        High walls, wide gates, please already.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        I don’t really blame them for coming to work and taking a chance. I’d probably try to do the same if I were in their shoes. But they should go into it knowing there’s a risk of being kicked out, which is what happens when you break the law. Or at least that’s what should happen.

        I think the main focus is on those who are committing other crimes, because who in their right minds would be against deporting those?

      • The Other Kevin

        The other day Mrs. TOK said the same, there are people here illegally, but working and trying to make a living, and she hopes they don’t get sent home.

        The whole thing is just evil. They told people to get on an app and fill something out, then they’d get a free plane ride into the US, food, a place to stay, and cash. I can’t really blame them for trusting the US government and taking that offer. How could they know the Biden admin was just another cartel?

      • slumbrew

        Yeah, he’s hopeful he can quietly keep doing his thing but I don’t get the feeling he thinks it would be “unfair” if he had to go back.

        He took his shot. I’m still hoping it works out.

      • Tundra

        I’m still freaked out about the number of missing kids.

        I wish Trump would sign an EO banning the NGOs.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Every time I’d have some family member go on a rant about illegal immigration, I’d tell them that they have no idea how fucked INS (now ICE) was. It would be 100% dysfunctional except that a few vindictive assholes sometimes do rouse themselves to fuck over someone for some slight.

        After the last 4 years, though, I agree that something has to be done. We have way too many “asylum seekers” now. It isn’t like your buddy who has been working quietly and obeying the law. Also not getting cash cards and free housing/health care.

        Trump would be smart to skim the cream of the illegal crop and deport them first. Next, I’d start cutting off all the $$ and a lot more would self deport. Theoretically after that all that would be left are illegals who are paying their own way and not getting in trouble with the law.

      • SugarFree

        I’ve seen the figure that 1.2 million people whose asylum claims were turned down and are under order to leave the US have not self-deported or been deported by ICE.

      • rhywun

        I’d probably try to do the same if I were in their shoes.

        Maybe because we’re just used to the extremely lax enforcement here – in almost every other country it’s no joke.

      • rhywun

        I think the main focus is on those who are committing other crimes, because who in their right minds would be against deporting those?

        lol Are you new in this country?

      • rhywun

        people here illegally, but working and trying to make a living, and she hopes they don’t get sent home

        Maybe I’m the odd one out here but I don’t really have any sympathy.

        I’ve been in a similar situation in not-USA and it would just not have tempted me to ignore their laws in this matter. And if I did, I would expect to get tossed in reasonably short order.

      • R C Dean

        I’m in kind of a high walls, closed gates mood for at least a few years. Until we get everybody we can find who is here illegally out (sorry about your Brazilian pal, but no), anyway. Then we can think about the only purpose of immigration policy that should count: “what immigration contributes to the general welfare (in the old sense) of American citizens”.

      • rhywun

        start cutting off all the $$ and a lot more would self deport

        Wishful thinking IMHO.

        In four or eight years the Dems will be back in power and spraying tax dollars all over the place again.

      • juris imprudent

        I wish Trump would sign an EO banning the NGOs.

        Zero out the budget on anything going to them. That’ll sort ’em out.

      • slumbrew

        Counselor, if it helps he’s one of the best bartenders I’ve ever met. Fantastic palate, charming and fast. His drink creations were top-notch.

        He’s wasting his skills with his landscaping business. What’s he thinking, creating jobs and being his own boss?

  17. J. Frank Parnell

    Me: I’d like to print this page of black text.
    Printer: Sorry, I’m out of yellow.
    Me: I just need black ink, which you have plenty of.
    Printer: Sorry, I’m out of yellow.
    Me: Ok, fine. *replaces yellow cartridge* Now please print my page.
    Printer: I don’t have any cyan, either.
    Me: Seriously? *replaces cyan* Can we print this page using only black ink now?
    Printer: Fuck you, where’s my magenta, bitch.

    Anyways, I was finally able to print a page of black text after replacing all the color inks.

    • Tundra

      Mine will let me “temporarily” print black only. But you have to hit the option each print job. Aggravating third world problem for sure.

    • slumbrew

      Just have your orphans produce an illuminated manuscript.

    • trshmnstr

      I just bought one of those ink tank printers after the color laser printer decided to stop running. No errors, no nothing. It would just churn for 20 minutes and then shut down. I think it’s the aftermarket toner cartridges, but I’m not gambling $150 on getting name brand cartridges for a 12 year old printer when I can get a new printer with 2 years of ink for $200

    • slumbrew

      It’s Happening!

      • R.J.

        “Smokahontas” is my new favorite commenter name.

  18. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    Regarding the EO about birthright citizenship, I like simple rules, so I would prefer to keep birthright citizenship. But I don’t like how it has been abused to allow a bunch of illegal immigrants to come here, have anchor babies who can then bring in the whole family through chain migration. I don’t think the EO will survive a court challenge, and maybe Trump doesn’t expect it to. Maybe he’s using it as another bargaining chip if/when there is a bill to enforce the border.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I’d rather stop chain migration that birthright citizenship.

      Especially for H1B visa holders who become citizens. Fine, you can stay, but your family doesn’t get any preferential treatment.

      • rhywun

        I’d rather stop chain migration that birthright citizenship.

        Same. We share “birthright citizenship” with most of the New World, but “chain migration” is only a thing due to a generosity that is probably unique to the US.

      • UnCivilServant

        My answer is “If you want to reunite with your family, you can go to them”

        My cistern of generosity has been drained.

    • R C Dean

      If you had any idea now many Mexican women run for the border in their 8th month, you would change your mind about birthright citizenship. Hell, there were people running businesses to bring pregnant Chinese women over and put them in hotels until they squirted out a newly minted American citizen.

      If you aren’t a citizen (or maybe a permanent legal resident), having a kid here shouldn’t mean anything immigration or citizenship-wise.

    • UnCivilServant

      I dislike the granting to even legal permanant residents. At least one citizen parent is my simple rule.

      If your parents are legal, you can apply to naturalize like any other immigrant.

      Of course, I have harsher standards for who can gain permanant legal status as well.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Love Big Brother

    New Hampshire resident Jason Riddle, who admitted to entering the Capitol on Jan. 6, drinking from an open bottle of wine and stealing a book from the Senate Parliamentarian office, pleaded guilty to theft of government property and illegally protesting inside the Capitol. He was sentenced in April 2022 to 90 days in prison.

    Riddle was struggling with alcohol at the time, and part of his probation included mandatory alcoholic treatment. The Navy veteran said he is grateful for his arrest.

    “I am guilty of the crimes I have committed and accept the consequences,” he told ABC News. “It is thanks to those consequences I now have a happy and fruitful existence.”

    At the time of his arrest, Riddle said he was an “obsessor” of Trump’s.

    “I don’t need to obsess over a narcissistic bully to feel better about myself,” Riddle said. “Trump can shove his pardon up his a–.”

    Converts make the best cult members.

    • rhywun

      OFFS!

      Never change, The MSM. All propaganda, all the time.

  20. trshmnstr

    I wish this were actually true, it would be maximally entertaining.

    “BREAKING: Vladimir Putin is reportedly seeking to have Anthony Fauci EXTRADITED to Russia to face COVID-era ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ Charges as part of a Deal to end the War in Ukraine.”

    https://x.com/CilComLFC/status/1882176131820028101

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      I vote Da!

    • Spudalicious

      I can get behind that.

    • The Gunslinger

      Please, please, please make this happen Donald.

    • Sean

      I’ll be in my bunk.

    • R C Dean

      “Sure, Vlad. Could we throw in Birx as well?”

  21. Mojeaux

    The worst kinds of Wordle.

    Wordle 1,313 4/6

    ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
    ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
    ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    • rhywun

      I got it in three and not so many green squares but I can’t figure out how to copy the result. Maybe you need an account?

      • rhywun

        *bleargh*

        Wordle 1,313 3/6

        ⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜
        🟩🟩🟨🟨⬜
        🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    • The Hyperbole

      Wordle 1,313 2/6*

      🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

  22. Evan from Evansville

    I’m looking around for jobs and was told to look at universities in the Indy area. Well, I found one that succinctly demonstrates all that’s wrong with education in America. This is “Baby shoes for sale. Never Worn.,” territory.

    𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲
    Marian University
    Indianapolis, IN

    WhyTF is a uni spending on fucking literacy?! Shitty high schools suck, yes! But even then! How/Why do ya get into uni BEFORE you can fucking read?!?! Ah! I do know the answer is grift, but Christ.

    • Drake

      Yep. We have people in college who wouldn’t have qualified for a high school diploma 30 years ago.

    • Grumbletarian

      “Today, class, we begin a deep dive into the lives of Dick and Jane. Why did their dog, Spot, feel the need to run so much? Likely because Spot knew Dick was a white supremacist and was trying to escape! Run, Spot! Run!”

    • R.J.

      You should apply for it. This could be great.

    • rhywun

      Local Big U is where I would look if I lost current (remote) job. It would be something in IT so hopefully I could avoid all that’s wrong with education.

  23. Mojeaux

    Tomorrow I have to juggle getting Mom discharged from hospice and admitted into home health without overlapping Medicare, getting Mom’s hospital bed ripped right out from under her until home health brings another one, or fucking up her vendors’ deliveries.

    I haven’t done shit like this since I was dispatching delivery trucks all over the metro.

  24. rhywun

    US men’s euro-ball live on TNT for anyone who cares. USA! USA!

    Can we lose to Costa Rica – again?

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Si se puede!

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        If one can, one can.

  25. KK, Plump & Unfiltered

    It’s 7pm. Just signed out of work, purging QUILTBAG and DEI from our website

    • R C Dean

      Would this be the best day you’ve had in this job?

      • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

        It would have been, except the utter disorganized clear-as-mud chaotic instructions and the whole working 12 hours thing.

        But not only did I have the pleasure of removing the DEI main page, I also got to remove the QUILTBAG Policy and Gender Equity Policy pages.

      • rhywun

        I also got to remove the QUILTBAG Policy and Gender Equity Policy pages.

        So hateful I can’t even.

      • R.J.

        Deleted with EXTREME PREJUDICE!

  26. KK, Plump & Unfiltered

    The ability to shower with impunity in extremely hot water for extended periods in sub-20-degree weather is a gift. Best $800 I ever spent (on the tankless heater)

    • rhywun

      Wait… so with everyone supposedly returning to the office, their real estate is still two-thirds vacant?

      • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

        There’s a hiring freeze, and there will be significant attrition. Plus a gigantic chunk of onsite Fed people are contractors, and we’re (so far) not obligated to return like the Civil Service

      • Ownbestenemy

        I can only speak to FAA HQ and Las Vegas, but when 2021-2022 came around there was a lot of “Give me the reason to pull the trigger” on retirement and we never back-filled.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Oh the ‘one reason’ was the we didn’t force you-forced shot. Biden Admin didn’t want to ever admit it and Trump surely doesn’t want to, but Biden’s decree dumped* a lot of folks who probably still had 5-10 years left before civil service retirement.

        *Quickly offset by hiring the BS DEI ranks is my theory. Sorta like cash-for-clunkers in the fed workforce.