The Hat and The Hair: Episode 74

by | May 2, 2018 | Hat and Hair, SugarFree | 231 comments

 

Trump doctor Harold Bornstein says bodyguard, lawyer ‘raided’ his office, took medical files

 

“Whatever happened to doctor/patient confi-fucking-denti-goddamn-ality?!?” Donald roared. “Bornstein fucked me. He jew-fucked me!”

“Goddamn Jew doctors,” the hat commiserated. “I knew he couldn’t keep his mouth shut. We should have taken him to the park and fostered him.”

“And, and, and look,” Donald stuttered, poking the newspaper story repeatedly. “He says I dictated my health letter to him. He says I told him to say my health was ‘astonishingly excellent.’ That doesn’t even sound like me, right? Right, fellas? Like I would tell him to say I would be the healthiest President ever. I’d never say that. It is 100% absolutely true, but I never tell him to say that. Just because I am the healthiest President ever, that doesn’t mean I would boast about it. I’ve never boasted about anything in my entire life. It’s just not me, right?”

“No, Donald. That’s not you at all,” the hair said in a monotone.

Donald switched from the newspaper to the Diet Coke button and began jabbing it repeatedly.

“Where is it?” Donald asked. “I sent for one twenty minutes ago!”

“You already drank it, Donald,” the hair said.

“Well, I want another!” He continued to push the big red button.

“What’s the matter with you?” the hat asked the hair.

“Just, well, you know,” the hair replied listlessly.

“The Bornstein stuff isn’t your fault, you know.”

“Yes, it is. If it wasn’t for me, we would have had to destroy his files.”

Donald screamed and began to slam his fist into the Diet Coke button.

“The records, sure,” the hat said, “But not the letter. I wrote that.”

“But the doctor would have kept quiet if we hadn’t raided his files.” The hair moaned dramatically.

“He told The Jew Nork Times about the Propecia. What if he had released the files about the amounts Donald was getting? Or told them about those gallon jugs of Rogaine we were getting shipped in from Canada before Obamacare?”

“Fucking Obamacare. I need that stuff. Asshole Chicago fuck fucked things up for everyone,” the hair groused.

“The doctor stuff will blow over,” the hat said.

“What if Mueller subpoenas him? What if they get him under oath?” the hat worried.

“What if, what if, what if…” the hat said. “We’ll deal with it when it happens.”

“No human could be using Propecia and Rogaine in those amounts!” the hair said. “What if they figure out about me? What if this cuts off my food supply?”

“WHERE’S MY DIET COKE?!?” Donald yelled.

“Donald will take care of it,” the hat said.

“I NEED MY DIET COKE!”

The hat sighed contentedly. “He’s got everything under control.”

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231 Comments

  1. Brett L

    “No human could be using Propecia and Rogaine in those amounts!” the hair said. “What if they figure out about me? What if this cuts off my food supply?”

    I love it.

    • MikeS

      Yep. That was awesome.

  2. Hyperion

    What if the rogaine is the Russian brand? That’s how Mueller finally gets him!

  3. Mr Lizard

    “Bornstein said that Trump cut ties with him after he told The New York Times that Trump takes Propecia, a drug for enlarged prostates that is often prescribed to stimulate hair growth in men. Bornstein told the Times that he prescribed Trump drugs for rosacea and high cholesterol as well.”

    Nope no HIPPA violation here but the patient taking custody of his own records without signing a permission slip, that’s a whole lotta federal crime.

    • Hyperion

      “Nope no HIPPA violation here”

      The good doctor is just trying to save our democracy. Rules don’t apply if you’re resisting.

    • R C Dean

      My thought exactly. Unless Donnie Two-Scoops signed a HIPAA authorization form clearing his physician to talk to the NYT, the doc violated HIPAA. There’s no way around that.

      Oh, and HIPAA gives patients the right to get copies of their records from their providers.

  4. Just Say'n

    Remember when that doctor was a ‘kook’, before he said something that could disparage Trump?

    • Hyperion

      He could even supplant Mueller and even Stormy as the top left’s hero now.

      • Q Continuum

        Stormy getting spit-roasted by Mueller and Bornstein. If we could arrange that and film it, we’d be rich from the profits.

      • creech

        Don’t forget Comey.

      • Hyperion

        Comey is like so last week.

      • SugarFree

        “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

      • wdalasio

        Don’t forget Comey.

        Alright. Alright. Mueller and Bornstein can move on to Comey as soon as they’re done with Daniels.

      • R C Dean

        Since I’m pretty sure Comey doesn’t have a dick, I think this is the only way to, err, work him in.

  5. straffinrun

    Trump is an anti semite now? I missed another fucking newscycle. *Kicks pebble*

    • Q Continuum

      He beats up his (((grandchildren))) for Onanistic purposes.

      • straffinrun

        Doesn’t sound kosher. But I don’t know what “kosher” really means.

      • UnCivilServant

        It’s a dietary system that outlaws bacon cheeseburgers for three different reasons!

      • robc

        What is the third?

      • UnCivilServant

        1: Bacon est Verboten

        2: No Dairy and Meat in combination

        3: There is no way to know that beef came from the front half of a kosher-slaughtered cow.

      • Hyperion

        1: Bacon est Verboten

        There goes my dream of converting.

      • UnCivilServant

        4: There’s the possibility that the Rennet used in making the cheese came from a non-kosher source.

        Too many issues. I’m glad I’m not Jewish.

      • Florida Man

        I did a pork chop in my cast iron pan for lunch. Guess I’m out too.

        *claps hands like blackjack dealer, walks away*

      • UnCivilServant

        And then there’s the rules regarding the question whether or not the bread was made exclusively by non-jews, or if there was some participation by an observant Jew. Etc, etc.

      • robc

        #3 doesnt apply to all bacon cheesburgers, as sometimes you know you have kosher ground beef.

        I mean, I don’t, because I don’t care, but if you did care, you could make sure it was kosher before you stuck the cheese and bacon on it.

      • UnCivilServant

        I know, but if you look at the average bacon cheeseburger, the odds that you will manage to score Kosher Beef, Kosher Cheese and a Kosher Bun approach zero.

      • robc

        If I am looking at the cow diagram correctly, the entire tenderloin is out. What a sick religion.

      • SugarFree

        If you care about Kosher beef and cheese, you aren’t eating meat and cheese together in the first place.

        And the only Kosher bacon is beef bacon, which just isn’t bacon.

      • robc

        I know, but if you look at the average bacon cheeseburger, the odds that you will manage to score Kosher Beef, Kosher Cheese and a Kosher Bun approach zero.

        The Kosher bacon would seem to be the bigger issue.

        And the odds arent that low on the other if you intentionally buy packages with the little K on them (or whichever Kosher symbol you choose to use).

        Sure, if you find a random bacon cheeseburger sitting on the ground it probably isnt kosher (ignoring the elephant shaped bacon in the room), but I aint eating floor burger either.

      • UnCivilServant

        @SF It’s a thought experiment by non-Jews to try to grasp the number of ways we violate Jewish dietary laws in a single sitting.

      • SugarFree

        Only four of the seven species of locust in the Judean desert are kosher; sprinkle on a few of the bad ones for crunch.

        And Jews cannot eat owls. Owlburgers!

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m not eating bugs, not even Kosher ones.

      • Old Man With Candy

        If you think the food shit is impenetrably complex, wait until you read up on wine.

      • UnCivilServant

        That’s a depressing thought.

        I should just open the rum on the kitchen table… wait, I have a dentist’s appointment, I need to not be drunk. After that… I have evening work. Dammit!

      • straffinrun

        I’m still not any closer to knowing what “kosher” means. No owl or floor burgers. Big help here.

      • UnCivilServant

        What? You don’t want the Owl floorburger with crispy locust dressing?

      • Chipwooder

        Turkey bacon kosher or not?

      • SugarFree

        straff… Kosher is just all the food rules for observant Jews. 90% is what you can’t eat, the rest is food prep guildlines. The only real curveball is that meat and dairy cannot be served together and it gets very baroque to the point of having separate plates and silverware.

        The big no-nos are pigs and shellfish.

      • UnCivilServant

        Chip, Turkey “Bacon” is a crime against the laws of God and Man.

      • Chipwooder

        Not just shellfish, but anything aquatic that isn’t a fish. In other words, no kosher calamari or octopus.

      • straffinrun

        Nice. Kosher sounds like a pain in the ass. Asia is a helluva lot easier. Lips and bungholes. Side of wasabi.

      • Mad Scientist

        I have a Jewish friend who’s allergic to fish. NO SEAFOOD FOR YOU!

  6. Q Continuum

    Propecia can cause irreversible impotence.

    Just say’n.

    • Just Say'n

      I have no problems with impotence. Just the opposite

      • Just Say'n

        Of which, I partially blame your pictures

  7. Riven

    He jew-fucked me!

    Can someone else volunteer as, um, tribute, or something?

    • Florida Man

      I’m confused and intrigued by this post.

      • Riven

        Ask anyone around here: I’m a big fan of physical Jewish aesthetics. I am an absolute sucker for a good nose. Lol.

      • Florida Man

        Ah, I knew about Jeff, but didn’t realize it applied to the rest of the tribe.

      • Riven

        It absolutely does. The whole tribe is invited over. Standing invitation, anytime.

        For instance, I’m not sure if I want to be with these two women, or if I just want to be them.

        Ilana Glazer

        Alia Shawkat

      • SugarFree

        Why not both?

      • Riven

        This is why you are everyone’s favorite.

      • Florida Man

        They look like the same person. Wait, is it racist I can’t tell them apart?

      • Riven

        Lol! Nah. It’s actually a joke in an episode of Broad City. They’re dating each other, and Ilana is going on at length to a third chick named Abbi about how she can’t quite put her finger on exactly what it is about Alia that she likes so much.

        Then Abbi meets her and points out that they look EXTREMELY similar and Ilana can’t keep dating her anymore–because it’s too weird to her to date herself.

      • Florida Man

        Ah, the clone conundrum, played out in a more acceptable way.

      • Old Man With Candy

        Ahem.

      • Riven

        Hey, you know you’re welcome anytime! It’s not my fault you didn’t want to take me up on the offer for facials yesterday.

      • Old Man With Candy

        Yeah, it was early release at the elementary school so I was pretty drained.

      • Riven

        Well whose fault is that?! You need to learn to pace yourself better.

      • Old Man With Candy

        I’m not the man I once was. And if SP catches me, I won’t even be the man I am now.

      • But Enough About Me

        . . . the offer for facials yesterday . . .

        We really aren’t doing phrasing anymore, are we?

    • Brett L

      So if I’m reading this right, Mexico is fertilizing the Imperial Valley for free?

      • UnCivilServant

        Actually, it’s an attack by the Mexican Bio-warfare division.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Didn’t get close to that filth hole, but the Coachella Canal is pretty nice

    • Drake

      You also shouldn’t be ashamed of the accomplishments of others, particularly those of your ancestors’.

      • straffinrun

        I’m not ashamed or proud of people that aren’t me. I might respect or hate them. Mostly the latter.

      • UnCivilServant

        I am vicariously ashamed of the modern european and embarassed for the modern left.

      • straffinrun

        Sneaky bastard using “vicariously” like that.

      • kinnath

        Children. It’s OK to be proud of your children.

      • UnCivilServant

        Children aren’t Kosher either.

        … wait wrong thread, wrong thread!

      • straffinrun

        Free will applies to children, too. I’ll be proud if I gave my daughter the best chance possible. It’s up to her to take that chance and make herself proud. (Just to be clear, I think we’d have to define “proud” to further this discussion).

      • kinnath

        I’ll go with this one, thought I do respect your point of view.

        https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/proud

        Feeling deep pleasure or satisfaction as a result of one’s own achievements, qualities, or possessions or those of someone with whom one is closely associated.

      • straffinrun

        Getting into gray area with that and delving into Darwinism, to boot. How about your cousin, step child, neighbor kid. It’s too easy to go collectivist if you don’t draw the line at the individual.

      • kinnath

        1st order pride — your own accomplishments

        2nd order pride — the accomplishments of people you have invested a lot of effort in

        One could argue that 2nd order pride is just misplaced 1st order pride.

      • straffinrun

        Good distinction. If it wasn’t 2:45 am, I bet I could find a pointless bone to pick. G’night.

      • trshmnstr

        Does a fluffer get to be proud of a particularly… Conspicuous mast… In a scene even though they werent on screen?

      • MikeS

        Asking for a friend?

      • kinnath

        I always take pride in a job well done.

      • trshmnstr

        Friend…. Orphan… Potayto potahto.

        We may or may not be branching out from salt mining into the entertainment industry.

      • Q Continuum

        Is the orphan the fluffer or the actor? Or is this an all orphan production (directed by you with an iron fist of course).

      • trshmnstr

        It’s like Annie, but the opposite. It’s for the orphans who have aged out of the salt mine rotational program.

  8. Drake

    What a dink doctor and reporter. They complain that “Bornstein said he was not given a form authorizing the release of the records and signed by the president known as a HIPAA release — which is a violation of patient privacy law.”

    But without irony report that..

    Bornstein said that Trump cut ties with him after he told The New York Times that Trump takes Propecia, a drug for enlarged prostates that is often prescribed to stimulate hair growth in men. Bornstein told the Times that he prescribed Trump drugs for rosacea and high cholesterol as well.

    How is the doctor not in deep shit for wiping his ass with HIPAA rules?

    • Hyperion

      He told the NYT something about Trump which they can use to churn out a few dozen hit pieces on Trump, so he’s now deemed totally woke and above the law. He’s now in the super hero resistance club along with Mueller, Comey, McCain, and Stormy the Ho.

    • The Other Kevin

      Do you think people should have worried about obeying laws if they were resisting Hitler? Of course not. Same thing here, they are resisting LITERALLY HITLER again.

      • Drake

        Since I work for a company in the healthcare sector, I must be bitterly clinging to HIPAA due to all that compliance training I’ve been subjected to.

  9. Chipwooder

    It’s not The Hat and the Hair, but this was an amusing comic

    • Hyperion

      Lol, dude just wrecked himself to some state capitalism.

      • straffinrun

        TBF, it wasn’t state capitalism when he started. It was gonna be something byoootiful. I blame gravity.

  10. Q Continuum

    OT: Alexa Analytics report on what searches lead to Glibertarians.com

    Top Keywords from Search Engines

    Which search keywords send traffic to this site?

    Keyword

    Percent of Search Traffic

    1. glibertarians 6.24%
    2. glibertarian 3.89%
    3. gregory hammerlin 1.17%
    4. my sex junk song lyrics 1.01%
    5. fat anime titties 0.59%

    I’m not in the habit of posting anime, but perhaps I need to start giving the people what they want.

    • Florida Man

      Who is Greg hammerlin?

      • gbob

        Drove me nuts. Turns out it’s a copypasta (or whatever the kids call it. It goes;

        “Donald Trump is actually the pseudonym of performance artist Gregory Hammerlin. His work has been described as Indulgent anti-art Neo-Dadaism. The 2016 presidential election was an art piece inspired by American excess. His new work “45th and last” is an exploration of modern internet culture and it’s impact on world politics.”

      • Florida Man

        Thanks

    • The Other Kevin

      That’s Tulpa’s real name.

    • Zunalter

      We are also rank #13 for “lgbtqwerty”

    • Florida Man

      I searched for Hat & Hair and was disappointed that Glibs didn’t pop up.

  11. RAHeinlein

    New York bans “NRA insurance”:

    New York financial regulators on Wednesday said an insurance program for members of the National Rifle Association violates state law, and have imposed a $7 million fine on the broker who arranged it.

    The NRA program allows policyholders to buy policies that cover legal costs in self-defense shootings. The “NRA Carry Guard” program is still being marketed, according to the program’s website, although sales in New York were suspended last fall shortly after the state’s Department of Financial Services launched its probe.

    Maria T. Vullo, New York’s Financial Services Superintendent, said in a news release Wednesday that the investigation concluded that Carry Guard unlawfully provides liability insurance to gun owners for certain acts of intentional wrongdoing. New York state law prohibits that.

    Ms. Vullo said Carry Guard is “an egregious violation of public policy designed to protect all citizens.”

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-bans-nra-insurance-program-and-fines-broker-1525273379

    • Florida Man

      I don’t have this insurance and really had no interest. Now I may have to sign up, damn it.

    • Mad Scientist

      It’s good to know that in New York self-defense is “intentional wrongdoing.”

    • trshmnstr

      Fuck off slaver

    • MikeS

      “Self-defense shooting” = “intentional wrongdoing?” That’s abhorrent.

      • Hyperion

        Abhorrent, but totally the thinking of law makers in all blue states.

      • Q Continuum

        They’re busy trying to catch up to the UK.

      • Hyperion

        And why not, the UK is so far ahead of us backward thinkers, I mean we could have a inbred royal family just like them!

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        So far Ahead, they went right over the Edge…..

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      They’re just trying to make gun ownership as onerous as possible. Sadly not surprising.

    • Suthenboy

      See, this is one of those giant red flags that tells us exactly who these people are. When King Zero voted against self defense as an Illinois Senator I screamed at the top of my lungs – no on listened. It was right there, all the time, right in front of our noses just what that shitweasel is and barely anyone could see it. Don’t believe in self defense? Then you dont believe in the sanctity of the individual and you are a collectivist piece of shit. These fuckers are announcing it to the world. How many will hear it?

      • Hyperion

        Well, in all fairness, neither major party thinks too much of sanctity of the individual. WOD is all you have to know about to see that. Republicans are for the most part pro 2nd and Democrats are almost all against it. But neither of them are pro-liberty, unless you want to count Rand Paul and a handful of the other exceptions to that rule.

      • wdalasio

        ….unless you want to count Rand Paul and a handful of the other exceptions to that rule.

        Your argument is true. But, I will note that the exceptions are almost universally clustered on one side of the aisle. It’s the only reason I can remain a Republican in good conscience.

    • tarran

      Holy shit!

      They just just claimed whole swaths of liability insurance are illegal in NY. For example, medical malpractice insurance.

      Either
      a) this gets overturned by the courts, or
      b) liability insurance stops being a thing in NY, or
      c) the NY courts will create a legal double standard that treats firearm-related liability completely differently than other forms of liability.

      Gosh! Whichever will they choose?!?

      • Q Continuum

        Obviously the FYTW clause in the statutes allows for C as the only reasonable outcome.

      • wdalasio

        Oh, but for some Federal Judge with an absolute desire to be a complete and utter dick to the rest of the ruling class….

    • The Other Kevin

      It sounds like a really good idea until you sit and think about it for 30 seconds. Which would explain the 46%.

    • Hyperion

      For starters, because no one has told them how much it costs. Nothing to worry about though because it costs too much and even Democrats couldn’t pass it if they held all three branches of government again. And of course the real beauty of it is that this harebrained idea is in direct competition with a few of there other harebrained ideas like free college for everyone and single payer healthcare. They would have to pass all 3 at the same time or their nutcase constituency would probably riot and burn down a few cities.

      • wdalasio

        For starters, because no one has told them how much it costs.

        And our political system is bound and determined to insist that Uncle Moneybags will pay for it.

    • RAHeinlein

      WSJ had a decent piece on this today:

      According to the Economic Policy Institute, 39% of the workforce, some 54 million people, now earn $15 an hour or less. All would have an incentive to quit and join the federal program.

      Of course, most wouldn’t because their employers would, grudgingly, raise pay to keep them, then pass the cost on to customers, a de facto inflation tax. Indeed, advocates say the job guarantee accomplishes the same thing as a $15 minimum wage without the job loss.
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      Nonetheless, potentially millions of workers would end up on the federal payroll instead of in the private sector. And there’s the rub. Utopians would argue jobs exist to give people dignity and a decent standard of living. The reality is more mundane: Jobs are how people, as producers, satisfy their needs as consumers. Low-paid work such as brewing coffee, cleaning hotel rooms and flipping hamburgers gets a bad rap but it satisfies a genuine demand: People want coffee, clean hotels and hamburgers.

      A federal make-work program would crowd out many of those private services. Crowding out is fine when the government is providing something more valuable, Roger Farmer and Dmitry Plotnikov, economists at the University of California at Los Angeles, wrote in 2010.

      https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-problem-with-a-federal-jobs-guarantee-hint-its-not-the-price-tag-1525267192

      • Hyperion

        Look, this is just a step on the way to us transforming from this old unfair market system to a new equitable command and control system. You don’t need 20 choices in deodorant anyway, comrade.

    • Suthenboy

      46% of people polled. Uh huh.

      • Hyperion

        Without seeing the actual questions, we can’t even really know what that means.

      • Q Continuum

        “Do you think that everyone should have a job, or are you a child-murdering bigot Deploranazi?”

      • Florida Man

        “Would you rather people work a government job for money or receive welfare for doing nothing?”

      • invisible finger

        Either way, those people are more valuable as Gaines-Burger.

  12. Hyperion

    How exactly is it that our so called institutions of higher learning are still called institutions of higher learning and not mental hospitals?

    WHAT.EVEN.IN.THE.FUCK?

    • trshmnstr

      As always, they conflate masculinity with machismo. Masculinity is The Art Of Manliness (the website). Machismo is a frat bro.

      Their inability to distinguish between the two concepts belies their ignorance on the topic.

      • Hyperion

        They’re mentally ill. Really, there is no other explanation for such nonsense.

      • trshmnstr

        It’s a communicable mental illness. Impressionable people are manipulated by evil/deranged people into believing that all distinctions between people are immoral. Everything else falls from the premise.

      • Q Continuum

        Agree. However, neither is mental illness.

        Being a jerk is not mental illness.

        And to suggest otherwise is an insult to those actually suffering mental illness.

      • wdalasio

        As always, they conflate masculinity with machismo. Masculinity is The Art Of Manliness (the website). Machismo is a frat bro.

        Not quite. Like any other natural force or characteristic, masculinity is something that can be harnessed for positive or negative. Machismo is a (undisciplined, generally ignorant, poorly channeled) form of masculinity. Healthy manhood is taking the same drives and impulses that drive us to pick up a stick and bash Og over the head and channeling them into being the guy that protects Og from the head-basher, build ships to cross the oceans, find cures for diseases, explore the remotest parts of the world, build skyscrapers, and all the rest of the things that we men take pride in.

        What these guys oppose is masculinity, per se. Oh, sure they’re happy to reap its benefits. But, they want to pretend that the guy who does all the awesome stuff is no different than the guy who wants to bash Og’s head in because they fundamentally don’t like the underlying drive for either. All that awesome stuff is something that gives men, as individuals, pride in themselves. And pride in the self is the enemy of submission to the collective will.

        What they don’t get is that, no matter how much they try to repress it, masculinity won’t go away. If it isn’t given the chance to manifest in the building of ships, the exploration of the wilds, the curing of disease, the creation of skyscrapers, etc., that doesn’t mean we’ll have a world of co-operative, in-touch, collaborative, defective women. It means we’ll have a world where that manhood isn’t channeled into healthy, productive forms. And the most vicious of machismo will triumph.

      • SugarFree

        By pretending that masculinity is a social construct, it leads them to think it can be taken apart. Bad axioms lead to stupid conclusions.

    • Brett L

      Were I still a student there, I would put up pictures of the students who ran out and carried the pregnant woman who was shot to cover during the Tower shooting with “This is what masculinity looks like”. And then a second set with the Co-op manager who volunteered to go up with the cop. And then point out that the only “toxic” masculinity on display that day was a guy with a brain tumor.

      • Q Continuum

        Pearls before swine.

    • Drake

      Who was that guy who used to draw cocks in everyone’s mouths?

  13. The Late P Brooks

    Like I would tell him to say I would be the healthiest President ever. I’d never say that. It is 100% absolutely true, but I never tell him to say that. Just because I am the healthiest President ever, that doesn’t mean I would boast about it.

    “That Roosevelt… no not the one in the goddam wheelchair, the other one. The one with the mustache. They talk about how healthy he was. How manly. Hah. I’m in such good health, I make him look like a kid with the rickets.”

  14. CPRM

    At least Donald is hitting the right button today.

  15. The Late P Brooks

    And the only Kosher bacon is beef bacon, which just isn’t bacon.

    Not that I give a flying fuck, but what about turkey bacon (which is also not- I repeat NOT!- bacon)?

    • Hyperion

      “Not that I give a flying fuck, but what about turkey bacon (which is also not- I repeat NOT!- bacon)?”

      The fact that such a thing even exists makes the entire world a worse place.

      • trshmnstr

        It’s kinda like vegan burgers. If you go in expecting a burger, you’ll be sorely disappointed. If you go in expecting a chickpea patty, you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

        Turkey “bacon” is cured turkey strips. If you think of it as bacon, you will cry.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I accidengally bought a turkey Slim Jim the other day, worst thing I’ve ever put in my mouth. My dog wouldn’t eat what was left.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        About 8 years ago, I dropped a can of Pringles on the floor. I had a hound dog that would inhale everything even marginally related to food. She would not touch the spilled out Pringles, just sniffed and turned away. I haven’t eaten them since.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Bella Loves Cheddar cheese Pringles

      • Chipwooder

        I think that’s fair. It’s not bacon, but it’s not bad stuff.

      • Jarflax

        Duck bacon isn’t bad

      • Florida Man

        I like black bean “burgers”.

    • Mad Scientist

      Dogs don’t know it’s not bacon!

  16. commodious spittoon

    Going to bake a tin of flaxseed muffins, may God have mercy. I’ve done an almonds flour crumble, but that was meant to, you know, crumble.

    • Q Continuum

      You know, you can just take ExLax instead.

    • Sean

      Going to bake a tin of flaxseed muffins, may God have mercy. I’ve done an almonds flour crumble, but that was meant to, you know, crumble.

      When I do low carb baking, I usually use a mix of almond flour & ground golden flax seed. I get much better looking muffins if I add a scoop of whey powder (unflavored or vanilla).

    • Florida Man

      2016 was the last time I’m voting. I’m debating showing up to vote no on laws and leaving the Pol choices blank.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I would say LP delenda est but nominating Weld will take care of that if they’re that stupid.

    • Raven Nation

      Someone from the local LP posted on the party’s FB page ridiculing libertarians for not supporting an electable politician like Weld. So I guess all the LP cares about now is winning. Even loose adherence to principles be damned.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Bill Weld electable in a national election? Bullshit.

      • Winston

        Resigned as Governor 20 years ago. Couldn’t defeat Ted Kennedy. Hasn’t really been in the public mind since his resignation so yeah very high-profile.

    • Hyperion

      Just throw in a couple more naked dancing fat guys and we’re really going to be the 3rd big tent.

    • Just Say'n

      The Libertarian Party is more statist than the Republican party on religious liberty, parental rights, and guns now (at least their public statements in support of students marching for gun control).

      There are literally no reasons to ever vote Libertarian (which is not to say that there are compelling reasons to vote Republican).

      If only the Green Party (and maybe the Constitution Party) present a restrained foreign policy position, like what happened in 2016, voting Libertarian would actually be immoral in my view. Let that party day. It serves no point anymore.

      • Just Say'n

        “Let that party die”

      • Winston

        The Libertarian Party is more statist than the Republican party on religious liberty, parental rights, and guns now (at least their public statements in support of students marching for gun control).

        Surprised that it happened before the LP started to win elections.

        Also once you adopt a “big government is bad but what can we do” then how different are you from a Republican? And how statist can you go? Very far I think.

      • tarran

        It serves no point anymore.

        Judd Weiss disagrees, based on his experiences in the 2016 election. He said it serves as a honeypot attracting people with toxic personalities who identify as libertarian.

      • Florida Man

        Lol

      • Chipwooder

        There could be individual LP candidates worth voting for, just as there can be individual Republicans worth voting for (every Democrat, on the other hand, will always be a repugnant piece of shit). The LP as an entity, though? Useless and embarrassing.

      • Chipwooder

        The link was worth clicking for this exchange alone, though.

        Libertymike|5.2.18 @ 1:52PM|#

        BARF ME OUT.

        I’d rather watch Tony fellate Shrike.

        Mr. Gus|5.2.18 @ 2:48PM|#

        Really? Because I can get that for you.

    • Q Continuum

      You’re not gonna vote the Harris/Sanders ticket?

      I mean, we might as well Thelma and Louise it since we’re going down anyway.

  17. The Late P Brooks

    Uh oh, it looks like Americans like Bernie’s dumbass idea to give out guaranteed government jobs-46% favor it.

    What’s funny (in the most not-actually-humorous way imagineable) is that the plan, as described, is essentially a proposal to “create” a nationalized job placement service. Kelly Girl, FTW!

    And, as for the likelihood of people quitting their private sector jobs en masse in order to defect to Bernie Girl, one of the geniuses at The Week pooh-poohs the very insinuation of such an eventuality. So there.

  18. Just Say'n

    https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/991727428606349312

    “Members of Congress nominate President Trump for Noble Peace Prize”

    Screw that. Not only has no peace materialized in Korea, but no government official should ever receive the Noble Peace Prize unless they are exposing the murderous heart of the State. The award already means nothing since President Obama received it for doing literally nothing (other than killing more people overseas with murder robots from the sky).

    This is pure Trump-loving nonsense

    • Raven Nation

      It’s all TEAM for people. The NPP has been shit since at least Arafat winning it.

      • Winston

        Don’t forget Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt…

      • grrizzly

        Theodore Roosevelt got it for the Russo-Japanese peace treaty. Seems appropriate.

      • Ted S.

        But now they can say Trump is a Peace Prize nominee. I’ve seen any number of far-left types whose speaking engagements are advertised in part by saying the person was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, as though that’s supposed to carry great weight.

      • MikeS

        I hereby nominate Ted S. for the Nobel Peace Prize.

        Nobel Peace Prize Nominee will look great on top your blog Ted! You are welcome.

      • grrizzly

        I believe any law school professor can make official Nobel Peace Prize nominations. In other words, the value of the nomination is zero.

      • MikeS

        Hi. I’m MikeS. I’m not a law school professor, but I play one on the internet.

    • Hyperion

      What does it even matter now anyway? They gave one of these things to Trump and he did nothing for peace. The entire thing is a joke. It may not have started out that way, but it is now regardless.

      • Hyperion

        Shit, I meant to say ‘Obama’ not ‘Trump’.

      • DiegoF

        Normally people confuse Obama with George W. Bush, not Trump.

  19. Pan Zagloba

    So…given the way reality keeps trying to outdo SugarFree’s work, leading to him being ever more outrageous, and reality still outdoing, (being a huge fan, I’m hesitant to suggest it, but)….

    Is it perhaps The Time To Stop?

    • Pan Zagloba

      The answer is No.

      Fuck it, we need more Hat & Hair!

      • SugarFree

        It is hard to keep up.

      • Pan Zagloba

        I’m just worried we’re gonna wake up one day and find bare-chested Putin wrestling Mueler on the White House lawn while Trump dives them on a nuke, Slim Pickens-style.

      • Brett L

        Aww, great. Now SF has to find a new ending when the time comes.

    • Hyperion

      My take on that is that Yale and other universities are not happy that they are not the guardians of knowledge that they once were. On prestigious universities like that, there are a whole lot of higher degree owners who think they are a lot smarter than they really are, I can assure you of that. And they probably don’t like the idea that some hillbilly out there somewhere can get online and learn things for free that was once only available to those with enough money to attend a university. Books used to be so expensive that only very wealthy people could afford them. There was a time that reading religious books was only allowed by the high priests of the religion, not by the peasants. It’s just the same old story here, nothing new.

      • Pan Zagloba

        I disagree.

        Yale has been putting up their courses online, for free, including audio (and probably video, but I used them when they were podcasts) for a decade+. They don’t mind if people listen to. They don’t want to be guardians of knowledge.

        They want to be guardians of credentials. You can know and think whatever the hell you want – it’s your degree that determines everything about you.

      • Q Continuum

        + Good Will Hunting

      • R C Dean

        You can know and think whatever the hell you want

        Unfortunately, this is questionable. The universities are getting woke, and being woke means limiting what other people know and making sure they only think the right things.

    • Jarflax

      I think you have it backwards, he doesn’t undermine the West to make money. He makes money so he can undermine the West. Soros isn’t a rent seeker, he is a wannabe dictator.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Lead the 4th Reich?

    • tarran

      Does it ever occur to you guys that witnessing his fellow Jews being trapped in the countries that became part of the Third Reich because nobody would let them immigrate might be what’s motivating his actions?

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Fine think the best of people. What kind of libertarian are you?

      • MikeS

        Has it ever occurred to him to make that claim?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I don’t think ” Yea, I’m Screwing the West over because my People got screwed by them in WWII ” would go over to well

      • DiegoF

        Doesn’t he more or less make it explicitly? Just more tediously and verbosely. Fuck verbose motherfuckers!

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        A reference I believe?

      • Q Continuum

        Not for a Kapo like him.

      • Pan Zagloba

        And if he’d tell me who today’s Third Reich is, I’d accept it as an argument, and start discussing how we can work on saving Jew-equivalents from annihilation.

    • DiegoF

      Probably not a good sign about the amount of time I’ve been spending on the Internet that after “Soros” I read “https://judaismwatch.org.”

    • MikeS

      We need a training video for the people who do shit like this entitled, “Yes, you can kiss my ass.”

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Didn’t they have any of the 1950’s PSAs lying around. I know patriarchy but the SJW’s are neo-puritans anyway. The message should be about the same.
      Also kiss training in the army should be Keep It Simple Stupid training.

      • commodious spittoon

        DON’T DATE ROBOTS.

      • DiegoF

        Survey, Glibs: Madeline Albrightbot, or Hillarybot?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Condi Rice Sexbot!

      • Pan Zagloba

        Hillarybot, as it would double as expert tech support.

      • DiegoF

        Such a smartass. Hillary doesn’t need tech knowledge herself, now that she has dynamic Indians solving problems instead of backwards white Americans who don’t like that they are succeeding less. Of course things didn’t work out so well with Huma before, but that is of course because they are both actually space aliens. John Podesta confirms.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Suicide booth.

      • kinnath

        Dolores will kill your ass.

  20. trshmnstr

    Effing IT. Asked them to fix a junk mail filtering issue. It was sending some of my industry newsletters to the junk folder. The guy fucking nuked Office, including all of my customizations. As a throwaway at the end of the call, I asked whether there was an alternate place where email setting could be stored. “oh yeah! Go here!” 20 seconds later, I found the offending setting that was filtering my messages. I’m gonna really enjoy reconfiguring all my office programs tomorrow…

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Murphy at Work,
      I was going to change a roof top unit on Tues. But they said Rain, so we moved it up until this morning,
      I never rained Yesterday, but it sure did at 6am, right when we were craning the new unit up, Yippee!
      Now I get to go back Thursday to finish, Time is money……….

    • Pan Zagloba

      Yeah, sometimes tech support likes to fuck with people.

      For stuff like that, use Google first – it’s what your tech support person will do 80% of the time he doesn’t know the answer off the top of his head. That is, if he’s not forced to run you down a pre-written decision tree that allows for no deviation from the script.

      • Psycho Effer

        ^This!

        If you are calling the helpdesk, consider yourself fucked.

  21. commodious spittoon

    Muffins turned out okay. Reasonably dense, held together. I made ’em savory with a smattering of spices, whatever I felt like. Served them under soft-boiled eggs. I think I’ll cut with almond flour and whey next time, like Sean suggests.

    • DiegoF

      Aren’t they normally made savory? Like I know there are ones that are cinnamon-raisin or whatever, but usually honey wheat at the sweetest.

      • commodious spittoon

        The recipe I went off of called for a bunch of stevia, cinnamon, and vanilla extract.

      • DiegoF

        Sounds delicious! Now that’s a flavor you definitely don’t get in a box of Thomas’s!

  22. DiegoF

    The most outrageous part of all wasn’t even the poor gun safety. It was the oppressive gender politics. Being protective of your teen daughter around teen boys is no way to relate to the median voters of Georgia, guys. Take it from us here in Middle America, at Slate.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    Being protective of your teen daughter around teen boys is no way to relate to the median voters of Georgia, guys.

    Is this what instigated that Robby tweet from the AM linx?

    • DiegoF

      Ah, this is what happens when I skip a bunch of threads like a loser. Good Lord. You too, Robby? I feel almost like I’m going to have to take his picture off my lifting motivation wallpaper now.

      • Jarflax

        That kind of motivation leads to serious injuries! In your mad drive to not be Robby you are likely to rupture a tendon.

  24. mexican sharpshooter

    “WHERE’S MY DIET COKE?!?” Donald yelled.

    Now I want a Diet Coke.

    • DiegoF

      What, CPRM’s commercial didn’t have you craving one already?

  25. Just Say'n

    Hey, cool links, brah

  26. Spudalicious

    “I knew he couldn’t keep his mouth shut. We should have taken him to the park and fostered him.”

    “fostered” should be capatilized.