Joemala: Episode 88

by | Nov 2, 2022 | Joemala | 271 comments

 

“WHERE’S NANCY!” Joe screamed. He slammed his hammer down on the Resolute desk and a can of Diet Coke shot upwards and buried itself into the ceiling.

“Who gave him a HAMMER?!?” Finnegan yelled. “You all know hammers get him aroused!”

“It wasn’t me,” Kamala said, holding one of her shoes, readying to throw it.

“It’s never you, is it?” Dr. Jill Biden rhetoricalized.

“WHERE IS NANCY! I NEED NANCY!” Joe screamed. He threw the hammer at the window behind the desk. It bounced off the armored glass and dropped to the floor.

“Nancy’s in San Francisco,” Finnegan said.

“I’m not buying it, Jack!” Joe was only wearing underwear and he had hiked them up to his gray-haired nipples.

“Why is he just in his underwear?” Kamala asked as Joe swayed back and forth.

“He wanted to trick-or-treat as my Dad for Halloween,” Finnegan said.

“Underwear. Hammer. Screaming about Nancy Pelosi,” Dr. Biden, Ed.D said. “I think it’s more likely that he thinks he’s DeBarge.”

“Depape, Grandma,” Finnegan said. “DeBarge is a band.”

“Who would name a band after a barge?” Kamala asked.

“Is that really important right now?” Finnegan snapped.

“Tripledemic!” a robotic voice filled with feedback screeched. Tony’s isolation pod, now little more than a smooth white egg, was carried into the Oval Office by a large naked man whose skin glistened with seed oil.

“Joe has the tripledemic: flu, COVID and RSV,” Tony voicebox squawked.

“Then vaccinate him again!” Dr. Grandma said.

“We can’t!” Tony said. “Lump! Put me down!” Tony’s egg landed on the floor with a heavy thud.

“Gentle, Lump, gentle,” Tony crooned.

“He has to be on for tonight,” Dr. Jill Babysitter said. “He has to really sparkle!”

“No!” Tony said in his angry toaster oven voice. “You must look at the most recent set of x-rays!”

One of the walls of the Oval Office rolled back and a medical scene was added. Lithe figures all in black turned on a projector strapped to an AV cart and slipped away. Joe’s skull at 10x lit up an entire wall.

“Look here,” Tony crackled, a laser pointer stabbing out from the egg. It circled around Joe’s brain case.

“This can’t be right!” Kamala said, not looking up from her phone.

“What am I looking at?” Dr. Jill asked.

“It’s Grandpa’s brain,” Finnegan said in a loud stage whisper.

“I know that!” Jill snapped.

“Ladies…” Tony said. “As you can see, Joe’s brain is one gigantic blood clot at this point.”

Everyone, including Joe, gasped. Joe had no idea why he gasped but gasp he did.

“Him brain no look good,” Fetterlump grunted as he began to play with himself. “Pee-pee slippy,” he added.

Kamala cried out, “Midterms!” and fainted like an inbred goat.

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271 Comments

  1. Ozymandias

    Niiiice.
    Our entire political establishment does feel like some bizarre version of Wandavision.

    • Ozymandias

      And that’s how you First.

  2. The Late P Brooks

    Well

    done.

    • juris imprudent

      Can’t.. even… say…. what….. part…….. was………. best.

      • hayeksplosives

        “fainted like an inbred goat” is right up there,

      • Swiss Servator

        “No!” Tony said in his angry toaster oven voice.

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        “Pee-Pee slippy!”

      • juris imprudent

        You are all proving my point, thank you.

  3. The Other Kevin

    Good thing I last ate more than an hour ago. I like how today the oval office is more of a mess than usual, which is probably the case in real life now that the elections are a week away.

  4. The Late P Brooks

    “DeBarge is a band.”

    I thought she was a famous figure from the French Revolution.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      No you’re thinking of Defarge.

      FWIW El Debarge was the band.

      Kamala cried out, “Midterms!” and fainted like an inbred goat.
      That’s how you end an article.

      • Lackadaisical

        Yup, perfect ending.

    • Ted S.

      WHERE’S NANCY, he said, and smiled in his special way.

  5. R.J.

    “Pee-pee slippy!”

    Priceless.

    • rhywun

      🤢🤮

    • Tundra

      The seed oil was a nice and timely touch.

  6. Tundra

    Kamala cried out, “Midterms!” and fainted like an inbred goat.

    Flawless.

  7. Not Adahn

    He slammedhis hammer down on the Resolute desk and a can of Diet Coke shot upwards and buried itself into the ceiling.

    Starts immediately with the action!

  8. Bobarian LMD

    Nice surprise visit by Fetterlump.

    When does the Clot get a speaking role?

    The Clot and the Hairplugs.

    • R.J.

      Clot and the Lump!

      • SugarFree

        That’s the children’s cartoon.

      • Nephilium

        Clotty and the Lump.

        Clotty and the Lump.

        One lies a lot, the other’s insane.

        They’re Democratic pols.

        Their brains have some holes

        Before each vote is won

        Their plans will be undone.

      • juris imprudent

        *golf claps*

      • SugarFree

        yesyesyes

      • Lackadaisical

        Nice!

        You and cprm need to Collab.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Narf!

      • Ownbestenemy

        Scene fade in
        Clotty is seen administering another booster
        Lump is massaging his own ever-growing mass on his neck

        Clotty: “gee Lump, what are we going to do tonight?”
        Lump: “same thing we do every night Clotty, try to take over the world”

        Don’t even need to change some of the dialog

      • Bobarian LMD

        Animation by Ralph Steadman

  9. Not Adahn

    One of the walls of the Oval Office rolled back and a medical scene was added. Lithe figures all in black turned on a projector strapped to an AV cart and slipped away.

    I cannot wait for the further adventures of the White House Stagehands Guild.

  10. DEG

    He slammedhis hammer down on the Resolute desk and a can of Diet Coke shot upwards and buried itself into the ceiling.

    Leftover Diet Coke?

    I like how Jill Biden’s name changes each time it is mentioned.

    Time for lunch.

    • Not Adahn

      Yup, it’s the little bits of continuity that give Jomala its verisimilitude.

    • R.J.

      “Republicans sub.. subvert our democracy!
      Nancy sexy person! Paul taps that! Not gay! Rumors wrong!
      Vote Team Blooooo!”

    • The Other Kevin

      “Biden’s speech will be delivered from Capitol Hill because, ‘that’s where there was an attempt to subvert our democracy,’ White House official says”

      Breathtaking and defiant, akin to Bush’s speech at ground zero. Surely THIS will unify the nation against the Red Menace!

      Side note: Biden is, and always has been, absolutely terrible at politics. Being a slick bull shitter only get you so far.

      • Q Continuum

        It will get you tens of millions in ill-gotten gains and the Office of the President.

        I’m clearly in the wrong business.

      • Sean

        Clearly.

      • db

        Does he retain enough sentience yet that it could possibly be his own idea rather than that of a crazy staffer?

      • The Other Kevin

        I guess we’ll find out, mostly by the staging, and also by him completely contradicting himself the next day when he’s not reading from a teleprompter.

      • Lackadaisical

        Don’t worry ‘white house’ will set him straight the day after that.

      • R.J.

        If it is Biden’s idea, the speech will be even worse. He is a petty, vindictive asshat (apologies to Certified Public Asshat).
        He has spend most of his career threatening people. And he will come off even worse on his own than with guidance. Nothing he could say would improve the chances of the democrats. He can only make things worse. Just astounding that anyone is letting him talk right now.

      • juris imprudent

        That’s how you know the panic has set in.

      • Nephilium

        Or that they plan to pin the red wave on Biden, and then 25th him to put Kamala in charge. Just let him keep talking in front of the cameras, and let the cameras roll. Considering there’s media stories now about Biden’s issues with lies and talking in public coming out now, that’s the way I’m leaning.

      • UnCivilServant

        If she’s no longer needed for tiebreaker votes, it would make sense. The confirmation hearings on the new VP would show whether the new senators have any spines.

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        She only had to come in after the midterms, and she is able to have a 10 year presidency*, I believe.

        *if the greater horrors approve, that is.

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        No, this has all the hallmarks of DR. Frau BIDEN, ED. BSR. IBD. She Wolf of the DNC.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Technically correct, the Capitol is where democracy has been subverted, although it wasn’t an attempt and not what he means.

    • Gender Traitor

      Will they put up leftover Halloween decorations to create that creepily Reich-reminiscent proudly patriotic ambience like they did for his Philly speech?

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        What with all the dead people voting now, they have Leni Riefenstahl on speed dial.

      • Mojeaux

        now

        Dead people have been voting since voting was a thing.

    • Urthona

      Jesus Christ, that guy is fascist.

      There’s been a weird trend recently where Twitter is now fact checking Biden.

      He’s lied 47 times in the past 3 days, and they’ve caught like 4 of them. It’s pretty refreshing.

      Maybe he’ll go under the bus if there’s truly a red wave.

      • Tonio

        They’ll shuffle him out in late January so Kamala can finish his term, then serve two full terms of her own.

      • Q Continuum

        “A Decade of Kamala”…

        Telenovela or porn?

      • Ownbestenemy

        There’s a difference?

      • Q Continuum

        Given how stacked a lot of those TN actresses are, I wish there weren’t…

      • Bobarian LMD

        The amount of gagging involved?

      • rhywun

        The eighth circle of hell.

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        Snuff film.

      • kinnath

        Kamala cannot win an election.

      • juris imprudent

        Yeah, she’s the Gerald Ford of the Democratic Party. You can make her VP, but she can’t win the Presidency.

      • Lackadaisical

        *looks at fetterlump*

        Don’t be so sure.

      • SugarFree

        Kamala and Fetterlump would be a hot ticket. He spouts gibberish and she demonically cackles at him.

      • Sean

        Pitch it to Netflix.

      • juris imprudent

        Wouldn’t that just be a Minions remake?

      • kinnath

        Nope. The minions are pretty basic slapstick humor. Mildly amusing with an occasionally moment of brilliance.

        Kamalump is just pure cringe.

      • Not Adahn

        Couldn’t we just reanimate the corpses of Laurel and Hardy?

      • Swiss Servator

        It’s true! It’s true! The White House has made it clear.
        The climate must be perfect all the year.

        A law was made a distant moon ago here:
        July and August cannot be too hot.
        And there’s an EPA limit to the snow here
        In Kamalump.
        The winter is forbidden till December
        And exits March the second on the dot.
        By Executive Order, summer lingers through September
        In Kamalump.
        Kamalump! Kamalump!
        I know it sounds a bit bizarre,
        But in Kamalump, Kamalump
        That’s how conditions are.
        The rain may never fall till after sundown.
        By eight, the morning fog must disappear.
        In short, there’s simply not
        A more congenial spot
        For happily-Green New Deal-ing than here
        In Kamalump.

        Kamalump! Kamalump!
        I know it gives a person pause,
        But in Kamalump, Kamalump
        Those are the legal laws.
        The snow may never slush upon the hillside.
        By nine p.m. the moonlight must appear.
        In short, there’s simply not
        A more congenial spot
        For happily-EO’ing than here
        In Kamalump.

      • Not Adahn

        Along the shore the cloud waves break,
        The twin suns sink behind the lake,
        The shadows lengthen
        In Kamalump.

        Strange is the night where black stars rise,
        And strange moons circle through the skies,
        But stranger still is
        Lost Kamalump.

        Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
        Where flap the tatters of the King,
        Must die unheard in
        Dim Kamalump.

        Song of my soul, my voice is dead,
        Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
        Shall dry and die in
        Lost Kamalump.

      • kinnath

        Kamalump

        I have finally contributed to the Glib culture.

      • rhywun

        Kamalalump scans better in my head. 🤷🏻‍♂️

      • kinnath

        The combination must scan to the female’s name: See also: Bennifer.

      • kinnath

        She isn’t even running yet, and everyone hates her.

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        /Looks at 2020, looks back at kinnath.

      • kinnath

        VPs to not win elections. They are the baggage that comes with the President.

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        And Ballot box stuffing is the baggage that comes with Joe.

    • Rat on a train

      What is that speech?
      Can I watch?
      No, they might shoot us.
      The Democrats have collapsed.
      Then the election is over?
      Soon.
      But what is that speech?
      Panic.

    • Rebel Scum

      They must be planning a massive amount of fraud.

      The president is scheduled to speak at 7 p.m. ET at the Columbus Club in Union Station, where he will address “the threat of election deniers and those who seek to undermine faith in voting and democracy,” according to a DNC advisory.

      I have zero faith in voting. The US is not a democracy. And I consider the current US government to be entirely illegitimate.

      • hayeksplosives

        Unfortunately the latest polls show GOP winning AZ, NV, PA, and GA, so now they know exactly where to target.

        I’m reading 2000 Mules, and it goes into great detail of surveillance footage of the mules dropping off small batches of ballots at up to 10-20 different ballot drop boxes. They are very organized in spreading it out thin.

        On the Georgia runoff election, the mules are suddenly wearing rubber gloves as they drop off ballots. That was after some officials vowed to check for forensic evidence of fraud.

    • juris imprudent

      Cooke, dog-piling.

      I am habitually soft on politicians who make verbal mistakes. They travel constantly, and talk incessantly, and are bound at some point to forget which city they’re in or say “57 states” or what you will. But, as Will points out, Biden says flatly untrue things so often now that one can only conclude that “even adequacy is in his past.”

      Alternatively, one can conclude that Biden is a stone-cold liar. But one has to pick one of those two: Senile, or fabulist. Choose.

      • Spartacus

        I disagree: he is definitely both.
        And I expect to hear something about Jan 6 And The Threat To Democracy every fifteen minutes for the next seven days.

      • Mojeaux

        In our political ads, I have heard NOTHING about Jan 6. The right pounds inflation, taxes, and men in women’s sports. The left pounds abortion.

        It’s a joke since the left says, “Keep women and girls safe,” with regard to abortion, but are all too willing to throw women and girls under the bus with regard to women’s sports.

      • Gender Traitor

        +1 spiked volleyball

      • Mojeaux

        RIGHT?!

  11. db

    “Slippy”

    For the Yinzer win

    • Michael Malaise

      Fetterlump’s a chiseler.

  12. Tonio

    “He wanted to trick-or-treat as my Dad for Halloween”

    He’s there even when he’s not there.

  13. WTF

    “Tripledemic!” a robotic voice filled with feedback screeched. Tony’s isolation pod, now little more than a smooth white egg, was carried into the Oval Office by a large naked man whose skin glistened with seed oil.

    That was the line that got me really laughing. Love the appearance of Fetterlump.
    Well done!

    • R.J.

      I love Sugar Free’s Fetterlump so much I am doing a movie post about it tomorrow.

      • WTF

        Nice!

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        The Blob?

      • R.J.

        “Basket Case”

        https://tubitv.com/movies/490129/basket-case?start=true

        “A young man carrying a big basket that contains his extremely deformed, formerly conjoined twin brother seeks vengeance on the doctors who separated them against their will.”

    • Swiss Servator

      SEEDOILZZZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      • WTF

        STEVE SMITH RAPESEEDOILZZZ!!!!!

      • Swiss Servator

        STEVE SMITH RAPE OIL OUT OF SEED!

      • WTF

        This thread made me think of a roaring STEVE SMITH trying to catch a squealing Fetterlump coated in slippy SEEDOIL.
        SugarFree has permanently warped my mind.

      • R.J.

        This time only, the dildo of conse

      • R.J.

        This time only, the dildo of conse

      • R.J.

        Wha happened?

      • Nephilium

        RJ:

        CandleJa…

      • Bobarian LMD

        There will be consequences.

      • SugarFree

        Dr. Pimple Popper vs. The Lump

        What secrets does it hold?

      • Q Continuum

        Plot twist: when she pops the Lump, alien Lump-semen flies out and impregnates her with Cthulhu.

      • Q Continuum

        …which she then can’t abort because of RETHUGLIKKKAN uterine slavery.

      • SugarFree

        Uterine? She gets face-pregnant.

      • WTF

        *vomits into trash bin by desk*

      • Bobarian LMD

        It grows right there on her neck.

      • R.J.

        Yes! Like biting into the wrong octopus at a sushi bar!

    • juris imprudent

      first division team

      Sure, but still, Newcastle.

  14. Fourscore

    “I’m not buying it, Jack!” Joe was only wearing underwear and he had hiked them up to his gray-haired nipples”

    C’mon, SF, that’s hitting pretty close to home. Made me laugh though.

    Thanks again for a touch of WH reality

  15. kinnath

    Such a pleasant experience compared to last week.

  16. Q Continuum

    “a large naked man whose skin glistened with seed oil”

    Was it… (wait for it…) RAPEseed oil?

    • Swiss Servator

      STEVE SMITH FIND OUT. BY FIND OUT, MEAN…

      • juris imprudent

        THAT EXPLAIN LUMP. FILLED WITH STEVE SMITH JIZZ.

  17. The Late P Brooks

    It’s conspiracy theories all the way down

    The conspiracy theories also cloud the fact that the attack on Pelosi is an incident of far-right domestic terrorism, says Erin Miller, who manages the Global Terrorism Database at the University of Maryland. She is concerned that the conspiracies can be a path to radicalization, especially as the country heads into another polarized election.

    “It’s just part of a broader effort to … demonize others and to cast others in a negative light,” Miller says.

    If this were anything but a right wing terror plot, we wouldn’t be able to demonize those crazy Republicans and bathe their side in negativity.

    And god knows that’s completely unacceptable.

    • juris imprudent

      an incident of far-right domestic terrorism

      No, not YOUR conspiracy theory dammit, this is OUR conspiracy theory!

      • Lackadaisical

        Christ, the progjection is insane.

        Just like there is no left-wing authoritarianism, there is only right-wing political violence. Fuck these propagandists posing as academics.

      • R C Dean

        And its a fact, dammit. A FACT, YOU HEAR ME!

    • Q Continuum

      The amazing part to me is that the vast majority of these propagandists sold their souls for next-to-nothing. I’d bet these “analysts” at NGOs and “journalists” at online-only publications don’t get paid more than $40K/year. I guess they get most of their reward from temporarily filling that gaping chasm of missing purpose and meaning Hoffer-style.

      • EvilSheldon

        If they’re anything like the NGOs I’m familiar with, they’re getting way more than 40k/year.

      • Gustave Lytton

        At the middle and top, but a lot of them rely on low paid staffers for their clerical work. You’ll make up for it down the road! And contacts!

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        All the Vassar grads need to get jobs somehow.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        As Victor Frankl noticed there is a human drive for having a meaning in life. A sense that they are part of something bigger than themselves. Some people find it in religion. Some in family. Some in politics. Fascism and many other -isms are built on that. That is what they sold their soul for.

    • Rebel Scum

      the fact that the attack on Pelosi is an incident of far-right domestic terrorism

      Objectively. False.

    • rhywun

      says asserts Erin Miller, without evidence

  18. Lackadaisical

    “seed oil.”

    The scariest part.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    those who seek to undermine faith in voting and democracy

    “I voted for hope and change, and all I got was the same old bullshit wrapped up in racial identity politics. Voting is a scam.”

  20. The Late P Brooks

    Joe and Kamala die tragically in a co-ordinated right wing terrorbomber attack. President Pelosi powers through her grief to impose martial law. Mass arrests, seizures of businesses and assets follow. America, baby! A golden age dawns.

    • Nephilium

      The first shots are fired in Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago, and New York City, but the locals were unaware it was anything special at the time.

      • juris imprudent

        “Is it the weekend already?”

      • Plisade

        Good one!

    • PieInTheSky

      I think the high population density make people feel more dependent on the behavior of others and want it more controlled/regulated. furthermore, you don’t know those people, you don’t trust them etc. If you live rural you dont care for building regs, if you walk on the sidewalk beneath a skyscraper you think that should be regulated not to fall on me and crush me. this leads to mroe government more interests etc

      • UnCivilServant

        So what you’re saying is we need to crack down on cities?

      • Lackadaisical

        I think both can be true.

      • R C Dean

        One describes what draws the swarms of bureaucrats and grifters, the other describes how the population is conned into going along.

    • R.J.

      I liked it. I wonder if there is always a baseline of grift or theft, such as it’s always at 5% and so it just seems so much larger in cities. Or if the percentage actually climbs dramatically as population density increases. Either way, it points out, there are two ways to make money. One, provide value or two, steal.

  21. PieInTheSky

    the last line got me

  22. Rebel Scum

    I’ve seen this movie.

    On October 16, 2022, the Doncaster to Melbourne flight didn’t quite go as planned. Flight BY564 was operated by a roughly nine year old Dreamliner with the registration code G-TUIB. As the plane completed its transatlantic crossing, the first officer became incapacitated, apparently due to food poisoning (yep, like that scene in “Airplane!”).

    • Grosspatzer

      Piloted by a nine year old Dreamer would be a great flick.

    • Bobarian LMD

      First Officer Roger Murdock and Captain Clarence Oveur?

    • Swiss Servator

      Please, please tell me someone told the remaining pilot “Good luck, we’re all counting on you.”

      • rhywun

        Surely, you must be joking.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        I’m not and don’t call me Shirley.

    • juris imprudent

      For those not familiar with Melbourne, that’s near Orlando, and the airport has been sued by the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority for trying to market itself as an Orlando airport.

      I don’t remember that part from the movie.

      • Spartacus

        That Melbourne? They have direct flights from Doncaster now?
        The Melbourne airport I remember barely had a paved runway.
        And it is probably closer to MCO than international drive is.

    • Sensei

      Must have had the fish.

      • The Other Kevin

        It was fish or steak. I had the lasagna.

      • R.J.

        Thankfully food isn’t served on airplanes anymore. Or nut mix. We’re saved!

    • Ted S.

      Zero Hour! is actually a pretty good movie. It’s a shame that it’s more remembered for providing the plot to Airplane! and that any time you watch it you can’t help but think of Airplane!

      • juris imprudent

        Like trying to watch Excalibur after watching Python’s Holy Grail.

      • Gender Traitor

        Or the scene with the blind man in Frankenstein after seeing Young Frankenstein.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        One ☕️ for GT!

  23. hayeksplosives

    White suburban women swing REPUBLICAN by 15 points: New poll shows Democrat support with key group has dropped by 27 POINTS since August – as economic issues have taken priority and abortion has faded

    White women be fickle. Maybe they finally figured out that their lives and their friends’ lives are unaffected by Roe being overturned, but they sure as heck are affected by inflation and grocery prices. And no more weekly manicures!!

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11381551/election-2022-senate-midterm.html

    *EDIT FERRY TO THE RESCUE*

    • Grosspatzer

      Suburban housewives are not the primary demographic for terminating pregnancies? Who knew!

      • Michael Malaise

        They seem to like their kids, as long as there are enough White Claws to keep things carefree.

    • The Other Kevin

      OMG have you seen the price of White Claw?

    • hayeksplosives

      tag closing fail.

      sigh

      *EDIT FERRY HELPS*

      • hayeksplosives

        Thank you, Ferry!! ❤️🌷💕

    • R.J.

      Do you think Biden can make an emotional appeal tonight to them? Or will he fail?

      • Ownbestenemy

        If he or speechwriters attempt, it will be in the form of DOOOOOM! My wife gives two shits about the current Democrat planks and cares that her soaps are up 40%, gas is cutting into profits, food we buy is insane, teens struggling to pay gas money on their own, etc.

        I think a lot of women are in the same boat as her.

      • R.J.

        I was just in Nevada – prices are so bad I don’t know how anybody there eats. I have never seen the like in 56 years.

      • Nephilium

        If you were on the strip, yeah… that’s the tourist tax. It’s amazing how quick the prices drop even a block away.

    • DEG

      “Edit ferry”?

      • UnCivilServant

        Haven’t you seen it before?

      • rhywun

        Someone do the honors.

      • DEG

        It’s the first time I’ve noticed it.

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        Its Bryan’s little brother.

        You know, those weird English names.

      • PutridMeat

        Whatever you do, don’t pay him. In fact, don’t even negotiate a price.

    • Q Continuum

      HE WHO CONTROLS THE MILFS CONTROLS THE WORLD!

  24. Grosspatzer

    Outstanding; I must be getting jaded because this did not ruin my appetite (unlike last week’s installment).

    Suggest a new campaign song for the donkeys:

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z960b14Jlh8

  25. Lackadaisical

    My wife went to the doctor the other day and they found a small growth on her thyroid. I am hoping it’s nothing, but testing is being done… Prayers requested.

    • Grosspatzer

      Request granted. Hang in there.

    • hayeksplosives

      Prayers incoming.

    • Tundra

      I’m praying for you all.

      Good luck, Lack.

    • R.J.

      Praying for your wife’s health

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Incoming. Hope it’s nothing as well.

    • rhywun

      Incoming.

    • Mojeaux

      She has mine.

    • Sensei

      I know several people who have gone through this.

      All have been benign. Hoping the same on your side.

    • PieInTheSky

      hoping everything will be well

    • DEG

      Best wishes.

    • Lackadaisical

      Thanks everyone, I appreciate it.

      • Sean

        Prayers sent.

    • Q Continuum

      Ugh, good vibes sent.

    • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

      On it.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    White suburban women swing REPUBLICAN by 15 points: New poll shows Democrat support with key group has dropped by 27 POINTS since August – as economic issues have taken priority and abortion has faded

    No kidding. They go to the grocery store and the gas station practically every day. Abortion clinics? Not so often.

  27. PieInTheSky

    I am pleased to present the best names in college basketball.

    First Team All-Name Team
    Poohpha Warakulnukroh (UCF)
    Legends Stamps (Florida A&M)
    Supreme Cook (Fairfield)
    Churchill Bounds (Canisius)
    Freds Pauls Bagatskis (Georgia Tech)

    https://mobile.twitter.com/trillydonovan/status/1585614599579131904

    • UnCivilServant

      The “First Team All-Name Team” sounds like a great team. Where’s their home court?

    • juris imprudent
  28. Tundra

    Poor Dave is learning that taking over the LP was the easy part.

    Cat herders, unite!

    • Lackadaisical

      This?

      ‘We should really quit the subtweeting and just have this debate. Present competing visions for the future of the party respectfully and let the members decide. I’m down to do it anytime!’

      Didn’t he already do that part? Specifically, the members decided. He won, now get in gear and get people elected/change minds.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I’m okay with possibility of having the ability to bend Masters ear after giving him a potential 6% boost in voters then fade to nothing after the election.

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        This.

      • Tundra

        💯

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Cat herders have it easy with their laser pointers and all.

  29. hayeksplosives

    I see election “officials” in Pennsylvania are buying themselves some fortification time in advance by announcing they won’t have the results of the election for DAYS after Nov 8.

    This automatic issuance of mail-in ballots needs to GO. If you know you will be gone on election day, you plan in advance and request a ballot. If you can’t be arsed to do that, nor to get dressed and stand in line at the polls, sorry dude; your opinion shouldn’t count.

    • UnCivilServant

      These election officials need to go as well.

    • Tundra

      100%

      No results by midnight = cheating.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Agreed, the chain of custody issues are too many to count.

    • The Other Kevin

      For decades and decades we were somehow able to get the result of 99% of elections the same night. But we’re supposed to believe that’s too complicated now.

      • R C Dean

        “Our election computers are getting another Windows update.”

      • UnCivilServant

        Of course it is, we need to know how many votes to add to our tally!

    • Gustave Lytton

      No late ballots either. Postmarks don’t count. Received by polls close or discard.

      • DEG

        The rule in NH is if the absentee ballot isn’t received by 5 PM on election day, with two very limited exceptions for “emergency services workers” and disabled people that arrive at the polling place before polls close, it isn’t counted.

        Polls cannot close before 7 PM, though there are exceptions for early closing for certain towns (like Dixville Notch) or if every registered voter in town has voted.

    • pistoffnick

      …to get dressed and stand in line at the polls…

      A pair of tighty-whities, a red scarf, a pair of shades, and a cigarette counts as dressed, right? /asking for a friend

      • R C Dean

        I thought it was the shoes that really made the outfit, myself.

    • DEG

      I’m not going to excuse them, but it’s not new.

      Counting for the primary earlier this year took a while. When I was down in PA the weekend after the primary, counties were still counting ballots.

    • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

      I am getting to the point that unless a doctor writes a note, and they it gets notarized, no absentee voting. Period. You have two freaking years to figure it out, or not vote. Your choice.

  30. juris imprudent

    Whoa, and I thought the last Krugman piece was screwey. Not even close. Someone broke the Friedman column generator.

    But much more of this is on China. To appreciate how badly China has lost America, you could start with this question to Beijing: “How is it that you had the biggest, most powerful lobby in Washington — and it didn’t cost you a penny — and yet you blew it?”

    • R C Dean

      How is it that you had the biggest, most powerful lobby in Washington — and it didn’t cost you a penny

      Oh, I think they spent plenty on it. The Bidens alone cashed 8 figure checks from the ChiComs.

    • Lackadaisical

      ‘effective Western-made vaccines’

      Sure Jan.

      ‘China, for instance, still holds almost $1 trillion of U.S. Treasury debt’

      Why should that bother me? That should bother China.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Tommy’s just pissed that he doesn’t get free Chinese rentboys on his trips to Beijing anymore.

    • Homple

      “Was it the meltdown of the world’s sixth-largest economy, Britain, fueled in part by its reckless 2020 exit from the European Union?

      I had to pause at that and re-calibrate my eyeballs.

      • R C Dean

        I thought it was fueled mostly by lack of fuel.

  31. Aloysious

    “Him brain no look good,” Fetterlump grunted as he began to play with himself. “Pee-pee slippy,” he added.

    Kamala cried out, “Midterms!” and fainted like an inbred goat.

    Fetterlump, masturbation, and inbred goats in two sentences. That’s a hat trick.

    • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

      Truly a Triple-Double.

      • DEG

        I read that as Triple-D, as in DDD.

  32. juris imprudent

    Liz commits the final cut in her ritual death.

    Representative Liz Cheney (R., Wyo.) commended Speaker Nancy Pelosi for being a “tremendous leader” during a Tuesday interview, and predicted Republicans would damage the country should they reclaim a House majority in next week’s midterm elections.

    Here’s the thing you vacuous whore – there will be no more love from the Dems once you are out of office, and you’ve clearly burned every bridge that could’ve led you back into Republican good graces. So enjoy your lonely, lonely exile – you have no place to call home anymore.

      • juris imprudent

        No one, they’re going to let her die painfully and slowly.

  33. Mojeaux

    I have been driving all fucking morning and now I have to go out again. I wouldn’t hate it so much if it didn’t require a bra.

    • PieInTheSky

      if you get breast implants you will no longer need a bra… just thinking outside the box

      • Mojeaux

        I am happy with my B cup. I need a lift, not implants.

      • PieInTheSky

        But is Q happy. Did you think about poor Q?

      • Mojeaux

        I’ve seen Mrs. Q’s post-baby pre-baby-weight bustline. I think he’ll be all right.

      • Q Continuum

        Won’t someone think about me?!

      • UnCivilServant

        I figure you can manage for yourself.

      • Mojeaux

        If his right hand won’t do it, his left might.

    • Gender Traitor

      I wouldn’t hate it so much if it didn’t require a bra.

      Pro tip: Especially now that the weather’s getting cooler, woven flannel shirts, especially with strategically-placed pockets, are your friends.

      • Gender Traitor

        (…ideally in plaid or any busy print.)

      • Mojeaux

        Hmmmm…. I might have to ponder on that a spell.

      • Gender Traitor

        I’m pretty certain no one can C what I’m not wearing, so I’d bet you can B confident you’d get by. 😉

      • whiz

        I know that’s code for something … if only I could figure out what it is.

      • Ownbestenemy

        My wife strategically utilizes hoodies this time of year

      • Gender Traitor

        👍

  34. PieInTheSky

    watching university challenge, there wee 3 questions of recognizing animals in names of US baseball teams and I got all 3. The Cambridge team got 0 but what was disappointing when the clue was about a type of fish they guessed dolphins… I mean really… the other clues were about brightly colored thick billed songbirds and a venomous reptile.

    • Swiss Servator

      Marlins, Cardinals and Diamondbacks?

      • PieInTheSky

        bingo

      • PieInTheSky

        the only other fish I could think of is Rays but it was not that

      • PieInTheSky

        the team guessed blue jays, dolphins and alligators

      • Mojeaux

        Well, they know what a reptile is, anyway.

        Blue jays are corvids.

      • Lackadaisical

        And from Canada, so do they even count?

        Dolphins are the wrong sport on top of everything else.

      • R.J.

        “Go Corvids!” Has a nice ring to it. Good sports team name.

      • Mojeaux

        Blue Jays, Ravens … I don’t think they’ll go with Crows or Magpies.

      • Michael Malaise

        Magpies?

        Newcastle United!

      • UnCivilServant

        “But they’re both Passerines!”

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        And bats are Romanian!

      • Q Continuum

        Sounds racist.

      • PieInTheSky

        I mean in Romanian crow is the most used slur for POC

      • Not Adahn

        I did not know Dumbo was popular there.

      • Not Adahn

        Venomous gators?

      • Mojeaux

        I said they at least knew a gator was a reptile, not that it’s not venomous.

      • Swiss Servator

        …until we get OMWC and Mad Scientist on the job!

      • UnCivilServant

        Sure, Why not?

        /Supervillain

      • R C Dean

        What, no frickin’ laser beams on their heads?

    • PieInTheSky

      heh

  35. Sensei

    And markets did not like the Fed commentary…

    It will be interesting to see what that plus Brandon’s comments do to the market tomorrow.

  36. Tres Cool

    WRT to Fetterman, has anyone assigned him his theme music?