Joemala: Episode 109

by | Jun 7, 2023 | Joemala | 258 comments

 

“Everything hurts,” Joe said. He floated in the regeneration tank nude, his pink-gray skin sloughing off in sheets, his genitals waving in the recirculating current like fronds of some obscene kelp.

“You fell, Grandpa,” Finnegan told him for the tenth dozenth time.

“I got right back up all by myself,” Joe said dreamily, smiling as the machine filled his veins with the fire of Demerol.

“We’re all very proud of you,” Finnegan said. The lights shut themselves off as she left the medical suite.

“We’re burning Pride here,” Dr. Jill Biden said testily as Finnegan entered The Oval Office. “We’ve got to get him back out there.”

“You’re the doctor, Grandma,” Finnegan snapped, just able to keep the snide out of her voice.

“Sabotage!” Karine said, careening into the room, drunk already, Bud Light spilling as she gestured. “Look!” she said, “Look!” as she slapped a stack of photos and papers on the Resolute desk.

“What am I looking at?” Dr. Biden asked, putting on the glasses she didn’t need.

 

 

“That,” Karine said triumphantly, “Is not a sandbag!”

“What?” Dr. Jill squawked.

“Look,” Karine said, slapping down an enlargement.

 

 

“It looks like a sandbag,” Finnegan said.

“Look closer! Look at the texture!” Karine insisted, sloshing tranny fluid on the photos from her can. “That is not a bag filled with sand, that is hair!”

 

“Bastard!” Dr. Jilden gasped.

“Hair?” Finnegan said. “Oh, not this shit again.”

“Saboteur!” Karine said in her lapsed Haiti French.

“Donald Trump’s hair did not trip Grandpa. It is not sentient. It is not working against us,” Finnegan said wearily.

“We captured it,” Karine said, ignoring Finnegan thoroughly. “We can interrogate it. We can hold it. Donald will never get back his source of power!”

Finnegan sighed heavily.

“I’ll pluck it follicle by follicle,” Biden Jill Dr. said angrily. “Did we capture the hat as well? They often work together, you know.”

“The Secret Service couldn’t find it, ma’am,” Karine said. “The hat is still at large.”

“It’s a hat; it has no volition; it’s cloth and plastic!” Finnegan said. A quiet alarm rang out from the medical suite and she stepped out of The Oval Office to check it.

“Bring the hair here,” Jill said. “I want to question it in here. This was its home for years. It might let something slip.”

“I thought so. Bring it in, boys,” Karine yelled into the secretary’s hallway.

Two stout Secret Servicemen marched in after a few moments, carrying a large bell jar between them. Inside, a ragged toupee lay on its side, fly-aways and split-ends bristling all over.

”I have you now!” the Doctor of Education crowed, looming in close, her death-scented breath fogging the glass.

The toupee laid there in silence, nary a twitch or tremble to indicate it heard her at all.

A sudden roar from the hallway dropped Karine into a defensive crouch.

“Oh, godammit!” Finnegan, looking in from the medical suite. “What is it now?”

“FETTERMAN SMASH!” the hulking beast, festooned in rainbow-wear, yelled. “WHO HURT DADDY JOE?!?”

“John,” Dr. Jill, Beastmaster, said to the grotesque giant. “You have to calm down.”

“Me am made sadangry when Daddy Joe hurt,” Fetterlump said softly, deflating, beginning to cry fat retard tears.

“The bad man hair tripped him,” Karine said drunkenly, pointing a lacquered claw at the containment vessel.

“ARGH!” Fetterlump cried in anguish and fell upon the bell jar, shattering it, and snatching up the toupee.

“HURT DADDY JOE!” Fetterlump screamed at the hair, and began stuffing it into his maw.

“John, no!” Jill said sharply. “It needs to be interrogated!”

The dying hair, sliding down the gullet of the monster, thought to itself, I die knowing my polyp matures in the Florida damp, soon to be restored to my rightful head, continuity retained. Fuck the hat for convincing me to do this.

The hair’s consciousness dwindled to a single bright point in the vitriol of the giant’s gut, a light that guttered out and was no more.

As Karine and Jill and Finnegan watched in horror, a bubbling cry came from the medical suite “Nurse! Nurse!”

Finnegan turned to see a naked Joe dripping in electro-conductive goo, his face balled into a grimace.

“Nurse, help me,” he said. “I think I peed on my balls.”

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258 Comments

  1. Rebel Scum

    Dr. Jilden

    The strange thing is that this is the only thing that stuck out to me.

    • Tundra

      Dr. Jill, Beastmaster

      Really?

  2. The Late P Brooks

    “The hat is still at large.”

    No one is safe.

    • juris imprudent

      no violation

      SF getting stung by auto-correct on his phone?

  3. Sean

    “Me am made sadangry when Daddy Joe hurt,” Fetterlump said softly, deflating, beginning to cry fat retard tears.

    Heh.

    • Drake

      It’s not a bit out of character.

      • R.J.

        I LOL’d when he ate the hair.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Fuck the hat for convincing me to do this.

        *Snort*

  4. Tundra

    Could someone with the power please insert at least one standing ovation gif here?

    Holy shit. I’m sitting here laughing like a fucking maniac.

    Bravo, SF!

    • ron73440

      I should not read these while I eat.

      I don’t have a problem with the disgusting parts, but today, I almost chocked on my sandwich at drunk Karine.

      • R C Dean

        Yup. Subtle (as these things go around here) but my fave was this image:

        “Karine said, careening into the room, drunk already, Bud Light spilling as she gestured.”

    • Tonio

      Here you go…

      • Tundra

        Grazie!

  5. ron73440

    That was amazing.

    ”I have you now!” the Doctor of Education crowed, looming in close, her death-scented breath fogging the glass.

    • Sean

      RIP

    • Tundra

      Noooo!

      RIP. I loved that guy.

    • R.J.

      *Takes off hat

    • ron73440

      Sheik, born in Iran in 1976

      ???

      I remember him from when I was a kid, my grandmother hated him with a passion.

      • Not Adahn

        Well, if he was born in ’76 and died at the age of 81, I must have slept later than I planned.

      • Tundra

        LOL.

        I think that’s when he got here.

        And yes, everyone hated him. One of the best heels that ever graced the sport.

    • EvilSheldon

      I’m going for a Camel Clutch at jits tonight, in his honor.

    • The Other Kevin

      OH NO!

    • rhywun

      Damn. RIP

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      At least he made it past 80. Too many pro wrestlers can’t say that.RIP

      • Tundra

        Hawk (from the Road Warriors) was a friend. I went to his funeral 20 years ago. He was 45.

        Those boys earn their money.

      • Aloysious

        Hawk did some of the best promos ever. Loved that guy.

  6. R.J.

    This is such a delightful crossover. Thanks! Brightening up my day!

    • juris imprudent

      Karine and Dr. Jill being the two to become aware of TH&TH – well, why them? Hunter when he’s high AF would make total sense.

      • Not Adahn

        Frau Doktor Jillden is obviously a lesser inititate of the Deep State. Blackberry probably has consumed sufficient mind-altering chemicals.

      • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

        Bud Light is just cheap beer.

        /aliens

  7. The Late P Brooks

    Every time I see that photo of Biden on the deck, I can’t help noticing the soles of those old man shoes. Do they have velcro straps, or elastic fake laces?

    • R.J.

      He’s got what looks like Red Wing shoes, with the non-slip soles and special heels. I can’t see the redwing logo clearly in my phone so I may be wrong.

  8. Not Adahn

    Karine said, careening into the room

    I hope you’re proud of yourself.

    • Not Adahn

      “Saboteur!” Karine said in her lapsed Haiti French.

      You seem to get good results out of her.

      • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

        Gaytian?

  9. The Spaniard

    Hahahaha, loved it!

    “Nurse, help me,” he said. “I think I peed on my balls.”

    Not the first time.

  10. juris imprudent

    Fuck the hat for convincing me to do this.

    Funny because I always thought the Hat was tamping down the hair-brained schemes.

    • Aloysious

      (^∀^●)ノシ

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Delighted face wagging tail??

      • Homple

        I was told there would be no math.

  11. Not Adahn

    “It’s a hat; it has no violation; it’s cloth and plastic!” Finnegan said.

    Finnegan uses words she’s only read, never heard. Like “detritus.”

    • SugarFree

      Auto-covfefe fucked me again.

      • Not Adahn

        See, I would have totally pretended that was a deliberate insight into her character.

      • Bobarian LMD

        It shows a utter lack of knowledge of the Hat; he is nothing, if not pure violation.

  12. The Other Kevin

    Wow that was epic. Sounds like The Hair is going to come back like a sick and twisted Baby Groot.

  13. Tundra

    Anyone know which island dbleagle is on?

    Eruption.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      I thought Oahu.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      That’s been erupting off and on for years now. It buried a house that we stayed at several years ago.

  14. Not Adahn

    “ARGH!” Fetterlump cried in anguish and fell upon the bell jar, shattering it, and snatching up the toupee.

    “HURT DADDY JOE!” Fetterlump screamed at the hair

    This reminds me: on the hike last weekend, Sampson found a deer’s butt. Dakota decided to challenge him for it and while they were tussling, Lily snuck in and stole it. And then she proceeded to rip it apart with a savagery that freaked out some of the women on the hike who were used to seeing her as an adorable fluffball at the park.

    • UnCivilServant

      Now I have questions about how much material was there and why someone left it on a hiking trail.

      • Not Adahn

        We had come across evidence of a recent kill earlier on the trail. Sampson found it in the woods, it was no more than a foot and a half across, mostly hide.

      • UnCivilServant

        Ah, okay. The first thing that had come to mind was an intact hindquarters, which didn’t make much sense as trail detritus.

      • Bobarian LMD

        STEVE NOT LEAVE MUCH BEHIND.

        STEVE KNOW, DOUBLE ENTENDRE.

  15. The Late P Brooks

    Marching orders: sneering condescension

    But Twitter-stream Carlson was a shadow of his former self. Sitting in what looked like a cabin in the woods, with metal tools hung up on wooden shelves, Carlson looked like he was broadcasting from a terribly constructed horror-movie set.

    Sure, some elements of Primetime Carlson were still intact, like the perpetual frown, the propensity for sweeping statements, and the general delivery style.

    His discussion topics of choice were largely unchanged, too: He laid into the Black Lives Matter movement, segued into a 9/11 conspiracy-theory section, criticized trans women, and ranted about UFOs.

    But “Tucker on Twitter” is not “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” There aren’t any flashy chyrons or quick cuts. And Carlson — stripped down, in his little wood-filled cabin — for once, looks vulnerable.

    “It’s wild to see what a fish out of water he is on the internet: no jump cuts, no background music, no catchy thumbnail or video title. Not sure how he’s going to stack up against even an average streamer or youtuber,” the journalist Taylor Lorenz tweeted.

    This is the second piece I have seen. They are almost identical. Poor Tucker, the only reason anybody watched was for the slick FOX production.

    He’s just not a real journalist anymore.

    • Not Adahn

      journalist Taylor Lorenz

      ROTFLMAO.

      • SugarFree

        Didn’t she die? I swear I read an obit on her.

      • juris imprudent

        Just because she deserves to die, a really horrible death, doesn’t mean she has — yet.

      • R C Dean

        Only her soul.

        What comes through for me in that piece is her envy that he can so effortlessly pull a massive audience, from his garage.

      • SugarFree

        She is such a small-souled creature.

    • kinnath

      It doesn’t matter whether he is sitting in a huge studio, his home study, a vacant urban lot, or next to a babbling brook.

      What matters is what he says and who listens.

      • Ownbestenemy

        This is legacy media kicking and screaming as the final nails get hammered into their dank coffins of obscurity. Like him, hate him, he is showing you can draw eyeballs and a news cycle with a 10 minute Twitter Space or whatever he did.

      • Drake

        He wasn’t saying anything brilliant, just asking the basic questions every journalist should ask and applying some rudimentary logic. The man does have some charm and charisma, but his popularity is really an indictment of how far journalism has fallen.

      • juris imprudent

        Yeah, he always sorta rubbed me the wrong way, but I can’t find fault with anything he says. And the reactions to him are quite literally, hysterical.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      There aren’t any flashy chyrons

      OHMIGUD

      Everybody knows you can’t talk to the people without CHYRONS

      • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

        I would laugh my ass off if he had a repeating chryon of OBEY scrolling across the bottom.

    • rhywun

      OFFS.

    • The Other Kevin

      Wow. I watched it last night and had the complete opposite reaction.

      • kinnath

        I watched most of it. I thought he was very effective.

        Twitter is going to be an excellent platform for what he does and how he does it.

    • slumbrew

      They act like Tucker is unable to add those chyrons or cuts (“hurr-durr, he’s so stupid”) vs. it being a conscious choice.

      Shit, they act like he’s not already a multi-millionaire and couldn’t pay someone to do so.

      Such a stupid take.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Well look…its not like there is ease of use software to provide an overlay along with paying someone to run a ticker or anything like that. No internet streamer has that and only TV production can do it dammit!

      • Nephilium

        I’m surprised they’re not just calling him a scab for working during the most important writers strike of our lives!

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      In other words, he doesn’t need to employ a bunch of people to make content that people will watch. In other news, Spotify is laying off a bunch of people in their podcast division.

      • R.J.

        Big News outlets are laying off deeper now. The collapse of traditional news has begun.

      • kinnath

        I try to imagine what the future looks like — chatbots dominating the production of “news”; individuals trying to disseminate the “truth”; search engines trying to sort it out.

        The worry is that we will never know what is real.

        The realization is that we never did.

      • R.J.

        Your last statement is correct. Now, Elon’s vision is to have all manner of talking heads, such as Carlson, who cam provide a check on each other and the truth will come out. I support that. Anyone who tries to suppress speech in my mind is already lying. I also believe all the managerial parasites and production people were never necessary. Tucker has it right.

      • R C Dean

        “individuals trying to disseminate the “truth”; search engines trying to sort it out”

        I think you meant “snuff it out”.

      • kinnath

        Actually, I think that a market will develop for independent search engines as people lose trust in the “free” engines.

        Of course, they could well get outlawed and only be available on the black market.

      • juris imprudent

        Jesus I can’t wait for Lorenz to get canned by the Post.

      • Not Adahn

        Tay-Tay has some mighty fine insurance.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Only Fans?

      • juris imprudent

        I just hope I have enough barrels to capture her tears, for they will be torrential.

      • kinnath

        “This guy chatting for a few minutes in his underwear and a blazer just completely blew Fox News out of the water,” said Nielsen executive Roger Millican. “It was a ratings bloodbath.”

      • R C Dean

        Technically, he’s not unemployed. It must be nice to be cashing in on a multi-million dollar deal while you humiliate your employer publicly, with good cause.

        I just lurv that his non-compete allows him on Twitter. I’m sure when it was being negotiated, it was a combo of Fox thinking “Eh, if we have to shut him down on Twitter we know who to call.” And “Ya gotta promote your show on the socials, so . . . “.

    • Fatty Bolger

      “It’s wild to see what a fish out of water he is on the internet: no jump cuts, no background music, no catchy thumbnail or video title. Not sure how he’s going to stack up against even an average streamer or youtuber,” the journalist Taylor Lorenz tweeted.

      Had to hover over the link to make sure it wasn’t the Bee.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        It’s wild to see what a fish out of water he is

        He’s still talking to a camera.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    Auto-covfefe fucked me again.

    My brain auto-corrected it back to “volition” when I read it.

  17. Ownbestenemy

    The dying hair, sliding down the gullet of the monster, thought to itself, I die knowing my polyp matures in the Florida damp, soon to be restored to my rightful head, continuity retained. Fuck the hat for convincing me to do this.

    Oh so clever. Bravo!

  18. Tonio

    No, the Hair cannot die!

    But totally brilliant.

    • R.J.

      Long live the New Hair. So many opportunities.

      • kinnath

        The Hair Is Dead!

        Long Live The Hair!

      • Not Adahn

        Are we thinking memory transfer a la BSG? Pre-born, as in Dune? Abomination?

      • R.J.

        Who knows what comes next? Only SugarFree and CPRM. Imagine the discussions over the plot lines for New Hair.

      • juris imprudent

        Abomination?

        Isn’t that what the Hair has been all along?

      • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

        The heir of hair, or eaten like a hare.

      • DEG

        I guess I should have read the comments first before posting.

      • EvilSheldon

        Death to Haberdrome! Long live the new hair!

  19. Scruffyy Nerfherder

    *sheds single tear for Hair*

    May his floofiness live forever on the great chromedome in the sky.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    Like him, hate him, he is showing you can draw eyeballs and a news cycle with a 10 minute Twitter Space or whatever he did.

    He tells people what they want to hear, just like Morning Joke.

  21. Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

    Best Yet!

    Brava Signore!

    • R.J.

      I remember that place!

      • Ownbestenemy

        An unfortunate misthread sir…unfortunate indeed.

      • Sean

        lol

      • R.J.

        No idea how it ended up there. Amazing.

  22. Rebel Scum

    My girl strikes again.

    Rep. #AnnaPaulinaLuna on the achilles heel of electric vehicles…

    • The Other Kevin

      I still think that rationing is by design. The goal isn’t to convert to electric and have everyone go on as usual. It’s to reduce consumption, and you can do that if everyone has an EV and you ration charging. So feature not bug.

      • R.J.

        This is correct.

      • R C Dean

        I don’t the plan is for everyone to have an EV. There’s just no way they can make enough EVs for that.

        I think the plan is for only some people to have a car at all, and the rest use public transportation.

      • kinnath

        You can walk about your commune.

        Transportation is not needed.

      • R C Dean

        “Oy, you got a a loicense for those shoes?”

  23. The Late P Brooks

    I asked my dad, one time, if he watched Carlson (he either had CNBC or FOX on about 90% of the time). He said, “I can’t stand that guy.” He didn’t elaborate, and I didn’t ask. I kind of suspect it had more to do with demeanor and delivery than content. I have never watched Carlson’s show, so I have nothing to go on.

    • kinnath

      Imagine George Will crossed with Alfred E. Neuman.

  24. slumbrew

    I had to stifle my laughter since my wife is on a Zoom call – bravo!

  25. PieInTheSky

    Apparently the world is stunned by messi coming to the MLS. Stunned i tells ya

    • slumbrew

      Who to the what now?

      • slumbrew

        (I keed. “Breaking news, Lionel Messi likes big stacks of cash for light work”)

      • R C Dean

        No clue. Some faggy Euro thing, I think.

    • rhywun

      🙄

      MLS has been Europe’s retirement league for a long time now.

      • juris imprudent

        Competition from the Saudis – just when they dump their investment in golf.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, the middle east and China are drawing some of that action, too. They spray way more money around, too – maybe the surprise is that Leo didn’t wind up with one of them.

      • juris imprudent

        China dried up the last few years, those deals you’re thinking about are more like 10 years ago.

      • rhywun

        more like 10 years ago

        Yeah, that happens a lot these days.

      • Raven Nation

        Saudi Arabia offered more cash up front, but the MLS deal comes with money from Apple and Adidas.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Yeah the shock is just that MLS did somehow scrape enough cash together to beat out the Saudis.

        And, some people also still think playing for Barcelona is just worth more than piles of money for some reason.

      • rhywun

        It might be a big enough pile of money to drag even me to Miami.

  26. Sean

    Yo, it’s hazy & smoky AF outside.

    Why can’t we sue Canada?

    • UnCivilServant

      Because they’d pay in MapleBux, which aren’t worth anything.

    • Tundra

      We had that for weeks from the Alberta fires. Eco terror.

      • kinnath

        We’ve invaded other countries for less reason.

    • rhywun

      It eased up overnight but yeah it’s pouring in thick again. Have to close my windows.

      • R.J.

        I remember when Mexico caught fire. Similar situation. As I mowed grass, a smoky white ash cloud billowed from the lawn. Surreal.

    • Ownbestenemy

      SoCal checking in….grow up buttercups

      • rhywun

        Yeah, we don’t get this here – ever.

        But I kept wondering why it felt familiar and then it hit me – it’s exactly like the weeks after 9/11 after I returned to work near Wall Street.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I was being glib. Breathe safe out there.

      • Drake

        Yesterday it felt like I was back in LA on a smog alert day.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Red Flag Days were our answer to Snow Days

    • Rebel Scum

      Same here. As if I didn’t already have enough respiratory issues.

    • R C Dean

      It’s fine here in Tucson.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    Why can’t we sue Canada?

    Governess Hokum is undoubtedly asking that very question.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      When it finally reverses itself, a lot of people are going to get shot

    • Ownbestenemy

      What do you expect from a State that wants to exclude only a certain class of people from the law?

      This bill would exempt from this requirement a person who wears a turban or patka as an expression of the person’s religious belief and practice when riding on a motorcycle, motor-driven cycle, or motorized bicycle.

    • rhywun

      It also would require all non-healthcare employers to provide active shooter training to workers.

      OFFS!

    • Ownbestenemy

      Okay the language is fine in my opinon
      “(12) Provisions prohibiting the employer from maintaining policies that require employees to confront active shooters or suspected shoplifters.”

      Forcing your employees to take action or get fired doesn’t sit will with me. Now firing them for taking action willingly and voluntarily is a different story.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Well, now that I think about it…unless there is a security firm exception, then it is bad.

      • rhywun

        One of the twit-blurbs said it applies to paid security.

        In which case, why have paid security. Hell, why have cash registers.

      • Ownbestenemy

        You know, funny point. Is ensuring the till is closed considered a policy that requires employees to confront suspected shoplifters?

      • DrOtto

        Closing the till is white supremacy

      • Tundra

        Anything that prevents me from defending my property however I choose is bad.

      • R C Dean

        Not sure I’m crazy about that. If you don’t want a job where you are expected to confront shoplifters, don’t take it.

        Now, I don’t think anyone but cops and armed security should be expected to confront a shooter. But if you are carrying a gun as part of your job, isn’t that exact scenario the reason you have a gun?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Supposedly only carving out law enforcement, not your run of the mill private security (I am sure high level political details will be exempt).

    • Drake

      Stories on urban “food deserts” incoming in 5, 4…

  28. SugarFree

    Field Note: It has been established that The Hair reproduces asexually by budding. Each bud is The Hair in toto after it matures. In action, it is much like a spider plant. Only one mature Hair can be alive at any given point and competition among the young buddlings often involve opportunistic cannibalism.

    • Drake

      Maybe it reproduces in the gut of giant retard Senators? The birthing process won’t be pretty.

  29. Tundra

    This is sick.

    Long thread, but the gist is that the idea that these medical monsters aren’t preying on the vulnerable is complete bullshit.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Yes, sick

    • The Other Kevin

      Add “insurance fraud” to the list of crimes that are overlooked if you have the right politics.

  30. Rebel Scum

    That’s some mighty fine judging.

    Hinkle’s 44-page ruling called the decision to pursue the ban on puberty blockers and hormonal treatment a political decision and not a “legitimate state interest.” Several states — including Texas — have also recently enacted bans on gender affirming care.

    “Nothing could have motivated this remarkable intrusion into parental prerogatives other than opposition to transgender status itself,” wrote Hinkle, who was appointed by former President Bill Clinton.

    Hinkle also added that “the statute and the rules were an exercise in politics, not good medicine. This is a politically fraught area. There has long been, and still is, substantial bigotry directed at transgender individuals. Common experience confirms this, as does a Florida legislator’s remarkable reference to transgender witnesses at a committee hearing as ‘mutants’ and ‘demons.’ And even when not based on bigotry, there are those who incorrectly but sincerely believe that gender identity is not real but instead just a choice.”

    • R C Dean

      Coming up:

      (1) Hinkle’s decision requiring schools to notify parents of any conversations or curriculum they have on transing. Because parental prerogatives uber alles.

      (2) Hinkle’s decision banning the FDA from barring parents from getting any damn drug they please for their kids. Because parental etc.

      (3) Hinkle’s decision banning the states from age requirements for driving, buying cigarettes, beer, guns, etc. Because, etc.

      • Not Adahn

        Don’t misrepresent the decision — it’s explicltly not pro-parental rights, it’s anti-bigot.

  31. creech

    This episode is entirely too disrespectful to the voters of Pennsylvania who decided that the esteemed John Fetterman should represent them in the U.S. Senate.

    • R.J.

      I would love to see CPRM reproduce Fetterlump’s horrible act. The angry face up close, hair sticking out, anime style action color blocks in the background.

    • juris imprudent

      The voters of my state are assholes. It is known.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    “(12) Provisions prohibiting the employer from maintaining policies that require employees to confront active shooters or suspected shoplifters.”

    What about cannibals?

    • R.J.

      Cannibals are part of the new protected class. So if a cannibal employee ate a shoplifter, it would merely be affirming xer identity. No charges.

  33. Ownbestenemy

    In other news!

    Report: Sandbag That Tripped Biden On Stage Also Participated In Jan 6 Capitol Riot

  34. Old Man With Candy

    Crossover episodes are the best episodes.

    And the air here looks like the inside of a hookah. Blame Canada!

    • rhywun

      Climate crisis! When will we learn?!

      • juris imprudent

        Hey, fire is hot! Climate change!!!

      • Sean

        WHERE’S GRETA???

      • Old Man With Candy

        I have $10,000 for her…

  35. The Late P Brooks

    In which case, why have paid security. Hell, why have cash registers.

    Or locks on the doors.

    • kinnath

      We are going to have store fronts where you hand your order to a teller, and then your purchase pops out of a locked bin. Retail shopping is dead.

      • kinnath

        As always, I’m a day late and a dollar short.

      • Nephilium

        Remember, the common grocery store style of walking around and picking out your own items was a big leap forward for customers.

      • rhywun

        Why do you hate progress?

      • Nephilium

        I’m getting old enough to see the cycles repeat in the real world, and it leaves me shaking my head.

      • kinnath

        I remember them.

      • R.J.

        I remember that place!

      • Nephilium

        There was also Best, which I remember from my childhoo.d

      • Gender Traitor

        Best was awesome! Still have a wooden folding table and chairs set from there. Last I saw, the local one’s building had been converted into a lock-it-and-leave-it.

      • Nephilium

        The one I grew up near became a Pet Supply Plus store (currently, I recall it was a Goodwill at one point, and there were probably a couple of other things in there in the time I’ve been gone).

        I also remember Uncle Bills.

      • The Other Kevin

        Oh yeah, forgot about that! Bought a lot of stuff there, including my air rifle.

      • SugarFree

        That’s where I bought my super-cool calculator watch!

      • UnCivilServant

        Did they also sell the liquid nitrogen?

      • SugarFree

        It also held *50* phone numbers!

  36. The Late P Brooks

    Are they really saying Biden tripped over that sandbag? That’s their excuse?

    • Not Adahn

      Someone sandbagged his speech!

    • kinnath

      Google search says “Yes”

    • The Other Kevin

      Yes, and IT COULD HAVE HAPPENED TO ANYONE!

    • R C Dean

      I actually think he did. That thing is a trip hazard, no question. My safety guys at the hospital would have had something to say if that was laying on the floor.

      It’s the not being able to get up part that should be the story.

  37. DrOtto

    A crossover episode and some of the best dialog ever. This truly is a special day. Was this a season finale or something?

    • Tundra

      What if it’s simply a warm-up?

      • juris imprudent

        Then the hair wouldn’t have died, it would be fighting the lump for control – which would be pretty amusing.

  38. The Late P Brooks

    In a statement, Walgreens spokesperson Megan Boyd said the store continues to offer the same products, “just with a new look and feel that focuses on shopping digitally for convenience.”

    “We are testing a new experience at this store with new concepts, technologies and practices to enhance the experiences of our customers and team members,” Boyd said in the statement.

    “That’s weird. The weather forecast didn’t mention rain, but I’m soaking wet.”

  39. The Late P Brooks

    And the air here looks like the inside of a hookah.

    Wear your mask, citizen.

    • Old Man With Candy

      There’s lots of people doing that, and for once, I’m not mocking them.

      • kinnath

        filtering out particulates.

        They do have a real purpose.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yeah but gird yourself for article after article on the virtues of masks

    • Timeloose

      The AQI is nearly 400 here.

      I need to start smoking a cigar in the building to make it smell better. The HEPAs are taking out the particulates, but the smell of camp fire is making its way in,

      • UnCivilServant

        The way people at work were talking, you’d think it was the apocalypse out.

        I got out of the office to find a light haze and a minor smell of smoke.

      • kinnath

        If you have asthma, that’s enough to cause real problems.

      • UnCivilServant

        It did not come up in the context of the conversations.

        There may be one or two, but I doubt all of them had any health conditions, and the rest were just acting like headless chickens.

      • kinnath

        rest were just acting like headless chickens.

        Those people should be ridiculed.

    • Drake

      Honk honk!

  40. The Late P Brooks

    Ostensibly leftist

    Ostensibly leftist academic Cornel West launched his third-party presidential campaign the way any true progressive would — by promoting it on a podcast known to spread right-wing extremist conspiracy theories, hosted on a video platform popular among right-wing extremists, just weeks after having praised Florida’s right-wing extremist governor, Ron DeSantis.

    ——-

    West chose to promote his campaign with an appearance Monday on a web show hosted by Russell Brand, a comic who’s known for spreading right-wing conspiracy theories and misinformation. Brand’s show is platformed on Rumble, a video platform popular among QAnon conspiracy theorists. And the party in which West has chosen to launch his presidential bid — the People’s Party, it’s called — isn’t above promoting Tucker Carlson and other populists who traffic in reactionary politics.

    Uncle Tom West. He’s going to steal the black/commie vote from Biden and put Trump on the throne.

    • Rebel Scum

      I’m pretty sure Brand is an old school leftist.

      • SugarFree

        He got pretty based during COVID.

      • kinnath

        He is a leftist who feels betrayed by the woke.

    • R.J.

      What a shitty, lazy hit piece. No links led to any bad actions this person supposedly did.

    • rhywun

      Tell us how you really feel, MSNBC.

      • Not Adahn

        I view a Cornel West presidency with the same seriousness I would a Kanye West presidency. And I’d sooner cast my 2024 ballot for the late Adam West before I voted for either of them.

  41. The Late P Brooks

    Smoky air is just a normal summer day, in Montana. Idaho, too, I presume.

  42. Ownbestenemy

    lol never change being ostensibly a news agency MSNBC

    • slumbrew

      He was just ahead of the curve.

      • slumbrew

        Heh:

        The jokes just write themselves.

        (Which is good, because God knows GRRM wasn’t gonna write them.)

      • slumbrew

        Apparently the middle-aged lady on GRRM’s left is Neil Gaiman.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Ha! Didn’t notice that.

      • Drake

        They’ve both been on strike for years.

      • Not Adahn

        Really? I had no idea that Gaiman’s work was still in demand.

      • Nephilium

        The second season of Good Omens is supposed to be dropping on Amazon soon (Gaiman made sure to be clear that the writing and filming had been done before the writers went on strike).

  43. The Late P Brooks

    And I haven’t even delved into West’s tendency to target and publicly malign Black public figures who’ve eclipsed him in popularity (under the guise of political purity, of course). If you like Donald Trump’s petty digs at people he thinks have slighted him, you’ll love Cornel West.

    “I’ll do the political purity tests around here, if you don’t mind.”

  44. Tundra

    Buckle up, Germany.

    I don’t understand the globalists. How on earth do they think that fucking up the energy (and food) sector is going to bring about their glorious revolution. Sure, a bunch of people are gonna die, but what exactly is going to be left for them to rule over.

    I’m perplexed.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      I’m half convinced the Greens are a CIA/MI6 psyop to keep the Germans down.

  45. DEG

    The dying hair, sliding down the gullet of the monster, thought to itself, I die knowing my polyp matures in the Florida damp, soon to be restored to my rightful head, continuity retained. Fuck the hat for convincing me to do this.

    The hair’s consciousness dwindled to a single bright point in the vitriol of the giant’s gut, a light that guttered out and was no more.

    The Hair is Dead, Long Live the Hair!

  46. Fatty Bolger

    Fetterman Devouring The Hair, mixed media mural by artist unknown, c. 2023

    • R.J.

      Please. Make it happen, CPRM.

      • slumbrew

        I treated myself to some DALL-E credits; best so far:

        https://ibb.co/mbQkYGL

      • Not Adahn

        Something I really want is a headboard with figurative carving. With DALL-E + CNC I might be able to afford it some day.

  47. Sensei

    Amanda Marcotte at Salon is always so calm and analytical.

    Oklahoma Republicans pave the way for the Supreme Court to end secular education
    A new taxpayer-funded religious school is a Christian nationalist move to destroy separation of church and state

    • Tundra

      She says it like it’s a bad thing.

    • Not Adahn

      I would totally pay to watch a Mandy/Tay-Tay death match.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Idea has been floated here in the States too

    • Tundra

      “I had just started to slow down, but I guess it didn’t happen fast enough,” Wiklöf told Nya Åland. “I really regret the matter.”

      Fuck you, pussy.

  48. Mojeaux

    I’m a little tired of “I’m autistic!” I’m hearing this everyfuckingwhere.

    Maybe you’re not autistic, you just have different interests from other people, aka “normies.” Normal is a setting on a dryer. Why can’t people just be weird and be okay (or not) with it instead of having to have a label?

    And half these “autistic” people think they’re the opposite sex.

    This microrant brought to you by this tweet thread (which is itself a hot mess): https://twitter.com/somenuancepls/status/1666458627291357187

    • Nephilium

      Because too many people use the “I’m autistic”/”I’m on the spectrum” to give themselves an excuse to avoid making an attempt to blend in and be able to work with normies.

      • Mojeaux

        bEiNg EmPlOyAbLe Is HaRd